Ahoy Sagittarius and a second shout out to Libra and Scorpio

Good morning critters,

We’re now up to Sagittarius and Sagg rising on the comment project for the annual edition of Planet Waves. This has been a big year for Saggies due to the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune; and for the fact that Pluto has left your sign (and entered Capricorn, your sign of financial resources). What have these recent seasons been like? How are you handling the pace of time, the changes, and the calling to focus your mind? What have your relationships been like? And with Saturn moving through Virgo, your 10th house off profession and reputation, what steps have you taken during late 2008 and 2009 to focus this aspect of your life?

This is also a second shout out to Libra and Scorpio (including ascendants) for comments. Please use those direct links for those signs! The comments section below this entry is for Sagittarius.

Everyone who has contributed so far — these comments have been amazingly helpful at getting a handle on what you’re really going through and how you’re handling your changes and opportunities.

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10 thoughts on “Ahoy Sagittarius and a second shout out to Libra and Scorpio”

  1. Oh baby. It’s been the best of times, and the scariest of times, and the most satisfying of times. I’ve never felt so peaceful being so confused. Maybe it’s because I realised that having to know it all was just another exhausting ego trip which I could gladly forgo.

    At some point during the year, I was reminded that when you are judging, there is no room left for loving. And what you are judging is usually so incidental to anything important, that you can easily let it slide right by without much effort. And then there is so much room left for peace, and breath, and laughter.

    And yes, when the space appears, so does the confusion. Until you decide that space doesn’t need to be filled; it just is.

    Sag Sun; Scorpio Rising; Aquarian Moon and Chiron.

  2. I’m using your question to really look back at this year of intense work. I’m a Libra, Scorpio Rising, Gemini Moon…Venus in Virgo…and I don’t remember what else. I’m fascinated by this stuff, but can never really wrap myself around all the details…I’m the same way about money, reading instruction manuals, doing homework…if I can’t figure it out on my own….well, I can be arrogant (thick-headed), easily distracted and put things off interminably…anyway, this has been quite a year, since 9/08 I wrote a book, mostly while teaching full-time, Joined an artist collective, had a solo and a bunch of group shows, gave a bunch of talks, wrote several grant proposals, co-raised a very challenging adolescent boy, had a significant windfall of money from a late uncle whose politics were 180 degrees opposite from mine, started to finally nest in our home of 5 years and have coped with a very intense internet/laptop addiction. I seem to be online hours and hours everyday, and yet I still accomplish a lot. I’m passionate about my dream group, which is part of what is helping integrate my mind/body, past/present, etc. I’ve resolved the abusive relationship with my mom and can now tell her I love her and she has amazingly discovered, wonder of wonders, that she can tell me the same. Not bad for an old dog learning new tricks. What’s up for me now? I am open to the mystery. I wish my health challenges would stabilize, that my adrenals would stop being fried and my neck pain would quiet. I want more routine for body stuff (meditation, yoga, walking, eating, sleeping) and less rebellion against structures that would inevitably give me more creative juice, more profound thoughts, and less exhaustion. I want more play and spaciousness and less constant work. I want more justice, more awakening, more maturity from the human race…..I feel full of what I am here to do, and am filled with gratitude for the calling that has been mine for years and years, but I am also yearning for that cottage in a village by the Mediterranean, where I can paint, sculpt, collage, make altars for community stories, grow food, feed people, sing and dance with neighbors and travelers, dream and grow old…

  3. Stellium in Sagittarius: Sun, Uranus, South Node, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune. Mostly expressed through the 6th house. (Cancer Rising, Virgo Moon)

    In the final throes of last winter, I had grown increasingly restless with the equilibrium of my life. Once a contractual binding element ended (a remnant of last years Saturn square natal Sun) on the Spring Equinox, I left my job of four years on an international passenger ferry and simultaneously moved out of my studio in downtown Seattle, where I lived alone.

    I sold all of my furniture and put my consolidated belongings in a small storage unit and began traveling, pursuing a series of life goals that I had always wanted to experience.

    I celebrated Beltane with a week at a Radical Faerie sanctuary in Wolf Creek, OR and had my first erotic experiences with other men. Returning to Seattle briefly, I departed with my best friend of 9 years on a road trip to Northern California where we would spend 6 weeks, including my first visit to San Francisco, and a month WWOOFing in Mendocino County. Sumemr Solstice in the Redwoods at a family reunion, and a brief return to Seattle.

    During the tight Jupiter/Neptune/Chiron rx conjunctions in July, I left for India, where I caught the July 22nd Solar Eclipse in the ancient holy city of Benares, overlooking the Ganges River from the rooftop of a Jain Temple. I spent 6 weeks on the subcontinent, from Delhi to Benares, through Nepal, and an incredible week in Mumbai; spending half of the trip traveling alone

    End of August was a rapid change from one extreme environment to another – I left New Delhi for San Francisco, spent 24 hours there, before catching a ride out to Black Rock City, NV where I spent the next 9 days – arriving early to help my friend construct his theme camp and art piece for Burning Man. Returned to SF following the burn, lingered there for a few days, and returning again to Seattle. I spent a little over a week there until the Autumn Equinox – where I headed off to a 10 day silent meditation retreat and had the space to process the previous 6 months. That triple conjunction in Aquarius sure took me for a ride.

    After all of this I was very eager to settle down and sink my roots back into the Earth. (Saturn had a say in this, conjuncting my Moon and IC at 29 & 30 degrees Virgo). Out of money, and slightly indebted to family members, I joined two friends who lived in an apartment and am now happily rooming in the living room, pursuing my goal of building a better foundation by returning to community college this Winter for a bachelors degree.

    As Pluto entered Capricorn (reworking the Moon, IC/MC, and Neptune pattern at the end of mutable signs), I felt a clearer call to restructure the way I handle relationships. Although I’m attractive and congenial, maintaining many healthy friendships (Mars and Venus in Libra – albeit opposite Eris), I have been single for 5 years and without sex for 4. Balancing my queer social, gender, and sexual identities is still a work in progress.

  4. Eric,

    What about Libra & Sag together? I’m a Libra sun. I became deeply infatuated with a Sag in 2009, starting in a dream (May 24th). I’m not sure if the dream led to a heightened sense of awareness, intuition, and other mystical experiences that I’ve opened myself up to in 2009, or if those things led to the dream. Either way…

    This morning I was driving to work and I wished for a sign to guide me. Guide me not to work, but to an answer – the right answer. For many months I have asked the same question, “Should I move on from an unhappy marriage and pursue a possible relationship with this Sag?” Sag-man has no idea how I feel, but I have a feeling the feeling is mutual. There’s definitely an attraction, physical and emotional. But I am not free to explore or express my feelings without being unfaithful. And even though I feel this way, I don’t want Sag-man to be the reason my marriage ends, if it ends. So I ask again, and hope for a sign. And not the kind of vague, frustrating signs I’ve been seeing lately – open to such varying degrees of interpretation – which could mean this or could mean that. I needed something indisputable and doubtless. Does that ever happen? Well, this morning it did.

    I followed the herd of cars on my normal daily commute, moving slower than usual. The sun was just over the horizon – huge and magnificent – and at first I thought the blinding brightness was the reason for the slower traffic. Anyway, I veered, directly facing the sun, squinted, and reached for my sunglasses. I thought of Sag-man, of the sun, and of the poem I had written last night. Still wishing for my personal, unquestionable sign from above, or from wherever, I spoke part of the poem out loud, “He is fire. I am air.” In that instant, from a field on the right side of the road, a great flame arose. Yes it did! I shit you not!! Blazing from a pipeline I have never noticed, in a field I drive past every day, a fiery flame was erupting 30 feet in the air! Unbelievable…indisputable. I gawked, along with a highway full of rubber-neckers, but for a very different reason. So, tell me now, does that ever happen?

    Oh, and here’s the corny-Libra-the-hopeless-romantic poem I wrote last night. Did I mention I’m infatuated…?

    She is warmed by a fire that has not been lit.
    She feels him in the shadows, at the edge of her dreams.
    He is fire.
    She is air.
    He breathes her.
    They ignite.
    In a timeless rain of embers, branded souls reunite.

    Love,
    KDee

  5. Sag rising, Mars conj. Galactic center in first house, 4th house Aries, 5th house Aries Moon/Venus. In the recent past, Saturn conjuncted my MC and I lost my job. That was over a year ago with no job on the horizon. Despite looking daily and being flexible in what I look at, only 4 interviews during this entire time. During this time I have also moved to a new home (new to me) which I like very much. The planets in Aq are all in my 3rd house. They do not seem to have had much impact on me personally but since they have run amok in the first house (and Moon) of the composite of my relationship chart, its been a long strange trip. I too have cut the ties with my mother – she is an Aq, now in her 80s and still knows how to brutalize people emotionally. One of the truly bright spots in recent planet lineups has been the long retro and direct Venus transit in Aries earlier this year. I started making jewelry more seriously and started selling it. I have had a lot of fun learning new techniques and making things. I am not making much money but I am having fun.

  6. Hi

    I am a sag sun with capricorn rising and an aries moon. These past two years have been the most difficult of my (young) life. It is almost as if I was forced to snap out of it in january 2008. To keep a long story short, 2008 started off with a bad breakup (and still, who’s to say that things are ever over – though I have cut off communication for now) followed by a weight loss of 40 pounds, graduation from grad school, a new apt, a new job, a new dog, a new car, a new wardrobe, new people etc. etc. By Dec of 2008, much that existed in jan of 2008 had been destroyed and replaced. My bed was new, my undies were new, my shoes were new, etc. I had stepped into a foreign world, yet it was my own. I have been in therapy for nearly two years to figure out the roots of overeating, overconsumption, intimacy issues, etc., and of course, most of it stems from the environment in which I grew up (also a mom with NPD). When 2009 happened, I thought that things would be different – nope. Quit the job (it made me depressed and was not what i wanted but at least i listened to myself in the face of a “bad economy) and am now back in school fulltime again.

    I am exhausted with all of this change! Will I ever feel as if things are stable again? Will I ever be able to fully reclaim myself after such a strange childhood? Needless to say, learning how to take care of myself has been TOUGH and SCARY, but I feel a lot stronger today than I ever have, more in charge of myself. Sometimes, though, I feel too free. i feel as if I have attachments, but I don’t (old relationship patterns that won’t go away. I used to think that I had to give all of myself to a friend to feel secure that the relationship really existed). Sometimes, I feel as if I’m isolated from myself, but on other days, I feel as if I am really growing into my skin. I am really trying to establish boundaries with others and learning how to establish healthy friendships while always keeping myself first (loving myself first). It is very hard!

    This has been the largest period of growth in my entire life. I don’t know what awaits me in the future, but intuitively, I feel like things are going to get better.

  7. Recent seasons have been the most lucid, as well as fucked up disconnected shit (at least in awareness). I feel as if I’m right on top of it yet a billion miles away. Time feels as if i’m contained in this infinite bubble, yet everything outside of this flows around in varying speeds, from insanely slow to crazily quick. ..Yet, I don’t care (in any more than distraction sense.) I’m tired. I want off the bullshit so freaking much. Everything/body has altered so much from my perspective, that I’m left with only me to Understand all the shit that goes down in reality, My reality (there is none other). I view people around me as distant cousins or brothers and sisters, not lovers. I long too share Love, and I know that it is first I who will need to Love me. The Hermit #9. Patience!

    Letting Everything go. That’s my single minded focus. There is a cord that extends through my body and anchors to the Universe.. I stepped off of it some time.. I want my cord back. I can’t Live without it. I need it more than anything. It’s all just time-wasting tangent B.S. without it. I must get to it. And I know that with it (even though I know not ‘what’ it is), I will be able to unlock the abilities that have built and matured to this position of ripening upon my personal tree-body. I have a philosophy regarding Trees and Books, the personality types within peoples’ evolutions,.. I’m tired of books.. I need trees (the live interactive soul principle, not some more words that metaphorically illustrate life.. but THAT which actually IS Life. And can share in Real Cosmic Time, not linear illusory creations.)

    Steps, Virgo 10th.. my drawings are crazy eye-candy crap! I’m finally satisfied (happy). I’m still learning the patience (discipline) it takes to sit down for 24 hours straight (freakin’ painful!). Have to get rid of all distractions, and single-mindedly focus upon seeing my creations into real time birth space. I get compensatory offers regularly, I just haven’t worked out the discipline (or psychological issues) necessary to undertake the regularity (or sharing) of expression, this is my personal shit (and I still kinda feel like a whore, within ‘selling’ (I’m getting ‘through’ it quicker and quicker though). I’m almost ready to share!

    Brain’s too scattered.. if I think of more, I’ll write…

    Love ya’ll

    J

  8. http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/klaras-photo/

    I started on this piece (see photo, link above) about a year and a half ago and all this time I have been trying to discover meaning in it. With the passage of time and changing perspective I have been able to find a few (meanings). I knew it was about me identifying with Goya trying to break out through the barriers of his soundless world (he was deaf), I did a lot of stitching (little balls of uncarded wool) earlier in the year (march, april) and then found myself undoing it all (the beautiful pieces didn’t fit together), the tape over mouth is a fairly recent addition – it comes from feeling utterly frustrated – unable to find a way to communicate, not only I couldn’t hear anyone I couldn’t even sing. The pink and green in the hands is like grasping or wanting to create out of love. This morning reading your alt monthly added another layer to my understanding :

    “The emphasis is on unique: there is no model for what you are doing, hence, every agreement must be worked out on an individual basis with friends and colleagues. This is a custom job, not a thing out of a box. It will take longer to establish, and work better.”

    The unique sign above his/my head has been there all along (it was actually meant as a joke – the logo Unique National Collections didn’t come from some museum or art institution as you might expect, but from a logo of a collection agency – needles to say the letter I received from them wasn’t pleasant). I find it funny that I ended up writing to you about this piece ( it is not by any means my favorite one – actually I don’t really like it at all), but now I see it does a pretty good job of recording my feelings/states of mind throughout this year.

    As of last week everything seemed to have changed – feels like the blocks have been removed (or maybe never existed?). I find myself in the middle of an exciting creative project (I’ve sent you an email about it earlier) that I have initiated. It is starting to pick up momentum and requires a lot of cooperation.

    I feel I was almost forced to focus on my career; although I have been making art for the last 20 years plus – I have for the first time fully and consciously chosen to be an artist (no ifs and buts) – to come out of the closet 🙂 I was finally able to accept that role with the understanding that we ought to give/share the biggest/best gift we have. I have been working as a designer thinking it more responsible, I have done a good job and learned a lot, but always felt that I am not giving/using 100% of my abilities. The interesting part is that even though this turning point has been building up to for a couple of years, there was a moment in June when due to a financial crisis I was ready to do anything (work at Microsoft) to help support my family. I was ready to sacrifice/postpone my art-making again, but the moment I let go clinging to it there was an opening – the job offer never materialized, I went on pure faith that it will all work out in the end. I spent the summer physically finishing/building the house and in the fall a flood of ideas came that are starting to manifest in a tons of new artwork and projects (there is a lot of energy coming from many directions, many people coming together – collaborating).

    But the greatest gift from the past two years is a feeling of synthesis – where before I felt I was going (or being pulled) in so many directions, worried about being spread to thin – I am starting to see how the pieces all fit together (and feed each other) and how who I am is reflected in what I do and where and how I live. (it was scary two years ago loosing faith and thinking that the lincoln logs I have been stacking for so many years are meaningless and can be toppled with one swift gesture of a hand – which I actually did, but in the end decided that there is a value in rebuilding).

    On a personal/relationship level: Looking back two years – I went through a lot of changes. I made a lot of mistakes, learned a lot about myself, psychology, religion, philosophy and astrology (when I started reading astrology I didn’t like saturn and pluto, I was afraid of them – now i feel they are my friends). I think some people call it midlife crisis; I almost got divorced, but decided to rebuild in the end which required finding out a lot about myself and finding new place and balance within my relationship(s). I am thankful for the cooperation of those who stuck with me through this.

    One more thing I want to comment on:

    “… we also don’t generally understand or even acknowledge the ways in which political events influence our personal lives.”

    I just recently realized the full extend of this truth – my life is the prime example of how a huge political event (the fall of berlin wall and the whole eastern block) dramatically changed the trajectory of my life. I was born in 1969 Czech Republic. As a college student in 1989 I took part in Velvet Revolution, lived for three month on the university campus (out of jurisdiction of the state police), printing anti-communist newspapers during the day and distributing them into the villages at night. All this was happening during the time of my twentieth birthday (November 26). A few month after the government toppled (in May 90) I was on the plane to New York with one small backpack – my plan was to travel for three month (twenty years later I am still here, in America). It was a step who’s significance I couldn’t foresee at the time. Now I am turning 40 and it seems like another turning point – will see where it lands me this time 🙂

    So wow, I wrote a lot. That one word “unique” really got me going. I hope this helps your research – it’s kind of a lot to share on a blog (so maybe just pick bits and pieces that seem relevant to you).

    Thanks for you insights and guidance,

    k

  9. Re: Scorpio

    My son has a natal Scorpio sun (Pisces moon, Virgo rising).

    Mercury, Mars and Pluto are also in Scorpio.

    North Node in Sagg joins them in the Third House.

    He is 16 now (Oct 26 1993 Northridge CA 2:42AM) so bridging that gap between child and adult.

    August 11, 2008 he shouted “enough” at his abusive father who had held him emotionally and physically captive for years. This was nine years (to the day?!) of the shooting at his summer camp (where he witnessed his best friend and his counselor shot something he has now learned to accept as an event in his life – not the symbol of his life.)

    This past year he has risen above these past events, found some equilibrium, and begun a full-hearted search for his spiritual truth.

    His grasp on reality is astounding, his perceptions of truth we should all pay attention to. I do not know if this is the same with his peer group – but from what I can tell, he is unique is his intuitiveness about people.

    He grapples beneath the surface of his daily life for understanding, knowing that he is different, and has opened himself to finding solid footing (re: his mom – me – teaching him about astrology and spiritual vs religion – we are now “studying” Buddhism because he asked.) He has quietly and resourcefully and very spiritually been searching for his god and establishing a firm value system, one that is benevolent despite his extreme disappointment in people at large.

    His biggest challenge is to remember to find humbleness in himself as he goes through his learning – this is a tough one for him. Because he lives so “under the surface” it is easy for him to “rumble” and rock the boat/s around him.

    But he is shining light now – he broke through a huge barrier one year ago and has been “making the most” if it in a quiet dignified self-exploratory way.

  10. Hi Eric,

    I am a Sagittitude Sun exact conjuct the great attractor with a capi rising.
    I lived through, grew and tranformed during the Pluto in Sag era and it is welcome relief to be through with it, now to have my rising undergoing it now..haha good stuff.
    I am also fully engaged this year in my Uranus opposition with my natal Saturn conjuct chiron in exact opposition of Uranus, Moon, Pluto.
    This year came as a sigh of relief I was able to let go of outmoded relationship karma with my mother -I had been struggling forever to create distance and boundaries with her as she has (NPD) I finaly had to remove her from my life.
    I am now free..first time ever, and taking the time to process how that relationship has affected every aspect of my self concept, relationships, (foremost with myself) work etc.
    It is as if I am brand new, I feel grounded, at peace and so open-really listening to my souls call, following syncronicity.
    I established a better relationship to myself- I have put me first for the first time ever and I feel like I am in a sweet love affair with myself, and quite enjoying the freedom this brings.
    I feel like a new person and am so strong inside and really being with that.
    Everything in my life seems to be changing because I have changed so much inside.
    I started a new bussiness and much I was doing before this I have lost interest in, although I see that those things brought me to this place and time.
    I have begun training in other areas and traveling to Europe and may be teaching there.
    Thank you for your amazingness..

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