Dear Friend and Reader:
As you know, I am passionate about news astrology, and using it as a way to illustrate the personal impact of current events on our private lives.
I’m equally passionate about personal astrology — the kind that helps us figure out where we’re at in life and how to consider our current circumstances. The astrology that helps reveal our life plan, purpose, talents and resources. The astrology that can really, truly help with career, relationships and business.
Even within our wild era, 2014 is no ordinary year — it’s unusual even on the scale of the past 50. We’re now in the peak of the Uranus-Pluto square, a time that will be remembered for its many changes and developments.
Astrology changes the world, influences every personal chart, and touches the experience of every person. How are you handling being on the planet right now? How are you keeping up with the constant need to adapt, to rethink, to confront the unknown? How are you handling the lack of certainty?
I have information that can help you — the results of four months of work, and the latest edition of a 15-year tradition of Planet Waves annual editions.
Our cresting moment is indicated by the presence of Mars within the slow-moving Uranus-Pluto aspect. Mars will soon be retrograde and will make a series of aspects to powerful forces, bringing many things to the front of consciousness. This is what I’m calling The Mars Effect. That term is also a reference to a scientific study that established a connection between someone having a strong Mars and being a star athlete — one of the most helpful scientific studies of astrology ever.
Mars is here to provide energy, to provoke action and to pose deeper questions. Mars is here as a tool for making your potential real. It’s going to be retrograde in Libra, the sign of relationships, which influence every facet of our lives.
In April, there will be an unusual grand cross (Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto in an exact X around the Earth) followed one week later by an eclipse of the Sun in Taurus. Many other events cascade later into the year, including nearly simultaneous Mars-Saturn and Venus-Jupiter conjunctions.
It would be easy for astrologers to make dire predictions about some of these scenarios (those will show up on the Internet in early April or so). This aspect pattern has some shadowy elements, and to be sure, it will present unusual challenges and opportunities.
I have viewed my job as getting underneath the surface level, and to apply the astrology on the most creative dimension, relating it to each of us as individuals.
Since late August, I’ve been exploring the 12 signs and rising signs for 2014, working from the most intimate and personal perspective, using a diversity of astrological tools: classical and modern planets, asteroids, centaurs, Kuiper objects (Pluto, Varuna and others) and some points that are way beyond them — such as Eris and Sedna. These are newly-discovered points I’ve spent nearly half my life researching, developing and applying to astrology.
I’ve been boiling my research down to two recorded readings per sign and rising sign, plus an extended written reading for each of the signs and rising signs. The result is a comprehensive work of applied astrology: The Mars Effect annual edition.
Astrology reveals itself in layers. I’ve learned to do the audio first, working the wheel in the conventional direction — Aries to Pisces. I started with gathering a chart file for each sign, added in the minor planets (with the help of Serennu.com). Then I opened my intuition and recorded the spoken-word portions, two segments per sign.
Then I took a pause — an actual holiday break — did additional research, and wrote the signs in reverse, starting with Aries and heading backwards to Taurus. In the school of astrology taught by Alice A. Bailey, the reverse wheel method gets you closer to the soul level.
The written interpretations go to another depth, focusing on specific, high-energy, challenging or especially unique facets of your astrology.
I view my role as someone that is here to help ease your way, point out opportunities, explain where challenges might arise and help you use them to your benefit. I have set out to inform and motivate you to make the most out of your time and energy.
Reading your rising sign will provide you with two distinct points of view. If your rising sign and Sun sign are the same, then study your opposite sign. My readings also work for Moon signs and they are (I am told) helpful for unintrusively sussing out where your partner is coming from.
Each of these readings has an investment of at least 10 hours of preparation, recording and writing. These readings work within the rarely entered borderland between a good prepared report and a personal consultation.
They are also a study in modern astrology — how to apply and explain the classical and modern factors, and come out with a reading that not only works but that you will refer to all year.
So that is what I’ve been up to. And you have the benefits! As a recent Planet Waves customer, you can access all 12 signs for $79. This counts for free trial members; or those who sign up by calling Chelsea at (206) 567-4455. That is correct: if you have a free trial membership you can get the member discount on all 12 signs.
Individual signs are currently $29.95. Many people who get one end up getting more — a reason to go for the all-12 option.
If you want to upgrade to the All Access Pass, please call Chelsea at (206) 567-4455.
We anticipate the project being released on Monday night.
Thank you for your trust in me as your astrologer, for your business and for being part of Planet Waves.
Lovingly,
PS — Here are some samples of the written Mars Effect readings, and here are a few audio samples.
Sagittarius glyph for The Mars Effect by Lizanne Webb. Here samples of written Mars Effect readings, and a few audio samples.
“It is like you are sitting in front of me and speaking about my experience of the last three years. Amazing!”
“I am thoroughly enjoying having taken the Planet Waves membership plunge. It’s helping me cut through the Neptune-parked-on-my-moon-Fog.”
Eric, thank you kind sir for your service to the planet! My sample 2014 audio “Mars Effect” for Pisces was so succinct, helpful and inspiring.
Hi —
If you’ve never purchased one of Eric’s annual readings (whether one sign or the whole 12-sign enchilada), I would definitely recommend giving it a try. I’ve often printed mine out (usually Sun and rising sign), taken a highlighter to it, and then at various points during the year take it back out to refresh my memory, see what resonates in a new way or more than the first time, make a little more sense out of the preceding few months, etc. And now there are audio portions, too, which you can download and listen to as many times as you like.
However you do it, below is some feedback from some of our readers/listeners who have been thrilled with past annual editions — and they don’t work for Planet Waves. 😉 (But guess what? I was a reader/subscriber for years before I found a place on the PW editorial team.)
Also, if you have questions about how all this works, feel free to post them in this thread — or you can email Chelsea at chelsea [at] planetwaves [dot] net.
Yours,
Amanda
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“I’m a recent paying subscriber to Planet Waves and decided tonight to try one of the 2013 forecasts. Wow. I was so impressed I bought another one. Yet more Wow. If I had know how good they were, I would have just gone ahead and bought the whole shebang at the subscriber discount. Wow again.”
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“Every single word he said resonated with me. He described everything I have been going through for the last few years. Everything I am going through now… I just wanted to send him a big thank you!!! He really has a gift.”
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“I TRULY like his reading and interpretation; much more comprehensive and insightful than I expected. The way he expresses the information creates an inquiry in my own life and circumstances, which is a great surprise for me. I will be a repeat customer, to be sure.”
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“Tears of joy as I absorb the truth of your interpretation as I am bathed in the bright sun coming over the Golden Gate Bridge on the morning commute! Verifies my experience since the new millennium, celebrates all my hard work, releases me into the beauty, richness and privilege of this time. Love the music — really icing on the cake.”
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“I am blown away!! I have read my sign and rising sign…There is silence between the words… I commend Mr. Eric Francis and the team for such amazing, nourishing work… I am very grateful and gratified.”
Eric, thank you kind sir for your service to the planet! My sample 2014 audio “Mars Effect” for Pisces was so succinct, helpful and inspiring.
I appreciate it very much and look forward to the rest of the reading.
Fellow Piscean,
Christina
Some feedback about LISTEN, last year’s annual readings:
Thank you so much, the reading for Taurus, my Sun sign was spot on!!!! Now, interestingly I will also listen to Aquarius, my rising sign, and Leo, my Moon sign, interesting also this year I have my 2nd Saturn return.
Self actualisation, yes, getting rid of other people’s influences, yes, being a populist and having a vision for a better world, yes! Having a good imagination that is starting to really work for me, yes, relationship stuff, that will be with myself, because, see, I have never really liked my Sun sign (too slow, too this too that, not cool, like Aquarius, or hot like Scorpio (my Saturn position)), so this gift is very unexpected but really welcome. Carry the world and keep things together, yes (even though sometimes, I’d like to just drop it all and fly away, being responsible? very much so, and I often wonder why. .
I like your readings and view on the world.
I hope you are enjoying your guitar lessons.
— AK
Thank you, Eric, for anticipating the “dire predictions” of the dime-a-dozen astrologers and heading them off at the pass. As Robert Hand put it so well (in his book “Planets In Transit”) regarding interpretations of Mars as malefic: “this is not so”. Mars is a resource available to anybody to use for their own good and the good of all. “The Mars Effect” your annual edition for 2014 puts that resource in the hands of anybody willing to to part with the equivalent of five bucks a month. If ever there was an investment sure to show a profitable return, “The Mars Effect” is it.