Dear Friend and Reader:
That one day break turned into a two day break — I was down in Brooklyn and Manhattan area on adventure, part of which involved spending a lot of time in New York City traffic. I don’t think it’s ever felt so good to get out of my car upstate and take a deep breath of our actually clean air.
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Today we have an aspect not listed on the aspect directory because it involves the Moon. If we listed all the lunar aspects, the list would go on for pages every day. So we skip those here, but on Saturday the Moon makes an exact conjunction, called an occultation, to Mars. If you could see it, it would look like the Moon going over Mars like an eclipse. Occultations can indeed feel like little eclipses.
The occultation occurs just after Mars has entered Leo, leaving Cancer for the first time in many months. Mars was in Cancer through much of the late autumn, winter and early spring because of a retrograde, which keeps it in one part of the sky for about six months. Mars entering Leo is really about Mars moving on into new territory, which translates to new, bold territory of that Mars topic of desire.
The Moon making an occultation emphasizes the ingress of Mars to Leo. Occultations are difficult to interpret in advance. But I’ve seen some odd things occur during them; if you recall, last Tuesday’s Moon conjunct Neptune was an occultation and it was very, very strange. There were a lot of other planets in the configuration, which tends to add intensity.
Last night I pulled an Oracle reading which I’ll add to this entry when I get home to my other computer, where it is. The reading essentially said, now is the time to go from idea to reality; that is, these ideas you/I/we have been having about living more authentically, daring to try new things, or daring to say yes — well, when did you think you were going to get started, anyway? It was a great reading just at the right moment.
Okay – here it is.
March 07, 2003 – Capricorn – Weekly
For all its reputation for adhering to tradition and organization, scratch a Capricorn and you will find an iconoclast and system-buster under their surface. From this point you need to let your imagination, not past precedent, lead the way. On some level you may have lived with a tremendous reluctance to let the world in on the deep changes in your values system that have dominated your life almost as far back as you can remember. But now you have no choice but to begin expressing the ideas that are, by their truth, going to change how you relate to the world. The word, or is it something much larger and less tangible? Look at it this way. The definitions of life that most people around you depend on have never meant less to you. And this truth will benefit everyone.
Below are the weekend’s aspects, including those for Friday. Mercury enters its echo or shadow phase Sunday, beginning an approximately seven week process of Mercury retrograde. Echo phase is like the warmup. Things will be relatively calm for another week or two, then we begin what is called by some astrologers the Mercury storm. I’ll have those dates for you tomorrow, and an expanded version of the Mercury retrograde story in Friday’s edition of Planet Waves Astrology News.
Have a great weekend. I have clients scheduled for most of it, but I plan to be having some extra fun as well.
Friday 09 May 2008
Sun (18+ Taurus) opposite Psyche (18+ Scorpio Rx)
Vesta (9+ Aries) trine Pholus (9+ Sagittarius Rx)
Apollo (25+ Cancer) square Pallas (25+ Aries)
Hidalgo (11+ Scorpio Rx) septile Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Mars (29+ Cancer) quintile Sisyphus (11+ Libra Rx)
Mars (29+ Cancer) sextile Arachne (29+ Virgo Rx)
Ceres (15+ Gemini) quintile Orcus (27+ Leo Rx)
Eros (0+ Gemini) quincunx Pluto (0+ Capricorn Rx)
Chiron (21+ Aquarius) quintile Pholus (9+ Sagittarius Rx)
Vesta (9+ Aries) semisquare Neptune (24+ Aquarius)
Jupiter stations retrograde (22+ Capricorn)
Venus (11+ Taurus) opposite Hidalgo (11+ Scorpio Rx)
Arachne (29+ Virgo Rx) quintile Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Amor (4+ Taurus) quincunx Hylonome (4+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (1+ Gemini) trine M87 (1+ Libra)
Venus (11+ Taurus) semisquare Hades (26+ Gemini)
Amor (4+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Mars (0 Leo) trine Aries Point (0 Aries)
Mars enters Leo (direct)
Venus (11+ Taurus) quincunx Sisyphus (11+ Libra Rx)
Sun (19+ Taurus) trine Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Mercury (10+ Gemini) semisquare Apollo (25+ Cancer)
Saturday 10 May 2008
Mercury (10+ Gemini) semisquare Pallas (25+ Aries)
Venus (11+ Taurus) septile Kronos (3+ Cancer)
Mercury (10+ Gemini) quincunx Hidalgo (10+ Scorpio Rx)
Atlantis (14+ Libra Rx) trine Nessus (14+ Aquarius)
Vesta (9+ Aries) semisquare Admetos (24+ Taurus)
Venus (11+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Galactic Center (26+ Sagittarius)
Mercury (11+ Gemini) trine Sisyphus (11+ Libra Rx)
Eros (1+ Gemini) square Saturn (1+ Virgo)
Amor (4+ Taurus) septile Hades (26+ Gemini)
Sun (20+ Taurus) conjunct Sedna (20+ Taurus)
Ixion (14+ Sagittarius Rx) conjunct Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Sunday 11 May 2008
Mercury (12 Gemini) quintile Aries Point (0 Aries)
Pandora (15 Scorpio Rx) sesquiquadrate Aries Point (0 Aries)
Mars (0+ Leo) quincunx Pluto (0+ Capricorn Rx)
Venus (13+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Juno (28+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (13+ Taurus) septile Uranus (21+ Pisces)
Asbolus (3+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Sun (21+ Taurus) square Chiron (21+ Aquarius)
Pallas (26+ Aries) sextile Hades (26+ Gemini)
Psyche (18+ Scorpio Rx) sesquiquadrate Kronos (3+ Cancer)
Eros (2+ Gemini) semisquare Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Mercury (12+ Gemini) septile Eris (21+ Aries)
Sun (21+ Taurus) septile Aries Point (0+ Aries)
Mars (1+ Leo) sextile M87 (1+ Libra)
Arachne (29+ Virgo Rx) sesquiquadrate Nessus (14+ Aquarius)
Orcus stations direct (27+ Leo)
Venus (14+ Taurus) quincunx Ixion (14+ Sagittarius Rx)