Hello It's Astrology Time! readers.  I am back after a busy week and change in schedule.  I just realized how important this blog is to me and hopefully you too.  The deleted entry threw me off to a point where I had  numerous drafts of things I wanted cram in but didn't flesh out.  Anywho.  I have decided to commit to a more regular schedule of updating this blog on a weekly basis.  From now you can expect updates on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  That is my pledge to you which I hope to keep!

Onward!


This week is about solid ideas and how to make them happen.  We have Mars(action), Venus(values, possessions), and Mercury (communications) all in solid earth.  These are the tools which will help you build your dream/idea that I mentioned in the last post.  This past Saturday the Sun moved into the sign of Gemini. Gemini, think of the time of Gemini as your twin who grew up with you and knows all about you and has agreed, questioned, or informed you during all of your decisions.  That is Gemini in a nutshell.  Astrologically Gemini is Mutable(changeable) Air(movement, intent with no visible form) and is associated with twins.  The glyph,    represents the dual nature of man, not so much  masculine feminine duality, but more reflected image in a mirror.  The other analogy I have in mind, is take the first time you looked at yourself in the mirror and moved your right arm, yet in the mirror the left arm are was the one moving.  After you stared so intently it took you a little while to understand that everything is moving in the opposite way from your point of view, yet still its essentially the same movement.  So whats the point in looking at mirror if it essentially still the same image? The perspective and different angle helps to illuminate the image in a seemingly objective view as if you were another person looking at yourself.  From this a person will have a glimpse of how the world could see them.  This helps sometimes and other times can get confusing if you have too much going on in the mirror to focus on(like trying to learn dance moves from a teacher's reflection in a mirror).  That! Is the energy of Gemini.  The other important traits of this sign(not exclusively those born under its Sun) is gathering information, debating issues from different sides, accumulating knowledge, teaching, new technology, being of fickle mind, trickery(God of Thieves, Mercury rules this Sign), young children, the lungs, locomotion of the body, various degree of functional or nonfunctional mental states,  and short travel distances.  Today the Sun is sextile Uranus(sudden movement, higher communications) which is a good aspect for gaining new information or getting important messages.  From our perspective on Earth, it is the Sun visiting the eccentric harbinger of information Uranus.  You probably received interesting info that you are trying hard to process.  Do try put the effort in disseminating the message, he's got something for you. Plus Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury, so you may not get how the message got to you, but that’s okay, Uranus works that way.


Speaking of Gemini and the eternal child, heiress Huguette Clark died yesterday, at the age of 104.  Her assets are reported to be over $100 million dollars.  Her history is she is the last remaining child of Senator Clarke(known white collar crook who stole millions while in his US Senate seat) from a century ago. She has a lot of Gemini in her chart! Her Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto are all in Gemini.  She was a person very much in her head, her whole world was her ideas.  She was an extremely reclusive individual who got through the day by being alone with her extensive doll collection and watching the Flintstones cartoons everyday.  I think she might have has some traumatic experience or some developmental disorder, perhaps even aspergers.  I don't know her exact birth time so I don't know the houses(areas of life) in her chart, but with Venus(values) Neptune(dissolving of boundaries, illusions) in Cancer next to each other, both opposite Uranus(freedom, sudden actions) in Capricorn I have a glimpse of what could have happened.  I think it was something that happened with her parents, she was the daughter of Clarke's significantly younger second wife.  Perhaps the death of her mother or some radical change to her environment caused her to retreat into her own inner world to seek shelter, very Venus Neptune in Cancer.  When I think of Cancer, I  image  how crab retreats into its hard outer shell when frightened by other creatures.  She was put into an arranged marriage to a bankrupt Irish Duke that shortly broke up after a year and which was never consummated.  I imagine lots of people think about what they would do if they had had that sort of wealth and for that matter why didn't she do anything with it?  She did give sizable amounts to charities and hospitals, but always from behind the scene, always kept hidden from public view.  I see how a large fortune could insulate one from the world if a person had no reasons or people to stayed connected with the outside world.  Also with her Mercury(mind) square Saturn(endings, fear) I imagine there were some strong fears she had.  She spent the last 30 years of her life in a hospital.  She was one strange and lonely person, I hope she made an easy transition into the world of spirits, it seems a part of her was already trying to escape. . .

 Other news,

Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, and his sons were indicted today!  They are being charged with killing unarmed protesters in the 18 day revolt that deposed him from power.  He is coming up on his Uranus Return, which is not that common a transit for people, you have to live to around 84 years old to get it!  A Uranus Return entails freeing oneself from all previous obligations that one had for the past 84 years.  Interesting enough Sun sextile Uranus today, the light of the Sun is shining on him, so any secrets he is hiding will be found out.  He had a recent heart attack and is in detention.  Mercury(news) is conjunct his Sun today with Mars(action) and Venus(values, love) soon to follow.  I am sure he is now very aware of present situation.   He will either choose to fight and live on or he will choose to go. Those going through a Uranus return will either accept it and move on or opt out.   In looking at his chart, it looks like he may fight it out, at the very least to support his sons, since they are also being charged.  Its an end of an era in Egypt.  As I mentioned in my March article about Uranus's movement into Aries, Uranus in Aries marks the time of when the Ottoman Empire fell and Europe demarcated the Middle East.  I believe Mubarak's reign of 30 years, a Saturn cycle, was the end of the dictatorship period of long ago.  Hopefully Egypt will have a better political system and leadership that more closely fit the needs of her people.

Mercury is Direct!!!

Yes Mercury is direct and Time will soon be a more steady, faster and more regular to all of us folks on Earth!

So take a few moments and think of what you learned on Mercury Retrograde and not , yeah it sucked.  Everything that went wrong went wrong just for you! Why? Retrogrades are learning times and most likely you realized something when a frustrating moment happened.  Mercury zooms around pretty fast compared to the other planets that move around our solar system.  So the lessons you learned or problem you were trying to solve will hopefully become apparent to you now.  Mercury's quick rotation and proximity to Earth increases the processing time of what you have learned with this planet.  A planet like Pluto which is on the outter realm of our solar system will have powerful and strong lessons, but for human processing time it takes a lot longer to fully understand what has happened and how you choose to accept it.

Now that Mercury is direct we can actually do something with all that pent up energy we had from all this fire in the sky during the Mercury Retrograde.  Hopefully you had constructive conversations with people and didn't burn too many bridges over miss-communication.  Now instead of us charging blindly like a bull, we can be more direct.  I speak of bulls because we are in the sign of Taurus now and a bull charges semi-blindly due to its poor eye sight.  Bulls charge after things that irritate them or get their attention like red flags or potential mates; regardless that won't really work for us.  Now the bull has on a pair of eye glasses!  Mercury is direct, so we can now see where we are going and start to build some steps toward our goals we started at the beginning of Spring.  

Personal story for me involves Mercury as a messenger and the planets Venus(love, possessions, pleasure) and Uranus(freedom, revolutions, sudden meetings).  Late Friday evening Venus joined Uranus for a bit, creating very sudden, surprising, and hopefully fun incidents.  I have a similar configuration in my chart where these two planets are talking to each other, but you never know what you will get with Uranus.  Uranus is also the higher octave of Mercury, so lots of timing going on.  Friday when applying for a job(Venus) I found on the internet(Uranus) I got a sudden phone call from the company that was handling the applications.  During the phone called he asked if I was interested in taking any classes.  So long story short, I was hit up to take some classes, business classes online, we'll see.  Late Saturday evening my wallet(Venus) was stolen suddenly(Uranus) and I did not realize this till the next morning when I woke up.  The Mercury part is also there in two parts, He is the Patron God of Thieves and He is also a Messenger.  The message I got was I had too much attachment to my wallet and what money means to me, so I have to change my views on what I think money should be used for.

Also later that evening I delivered a tarot deck to a friend of a friend and gave a few readings.  It turned out to be a lovely evening where I was surround by 3 friendly and hospitable women who were fire signs(2 were Aries!). I did not check before hand to see if Venus had moved into Aries, lol I didn't have to!

So this is not all about me, on the train ride home Sunday evening I saw these two European guys flirting with a group of Black and Dominican ladies and a very Venus Uranus moment happened, one wanted to pose with one of the ladies in a picture.  So he did this flashy ridiculous pose while she stood next to him and took a picture.  Venus always like too look pretty and have others know and Uranus brought this sudden event and the higher technology to capture it.

I imagine that more people will be calling and reaching out to you.  Mercury will not be completely up to speed till after the first full week in May, so watch out for a few more "lessons."

Btw go enjoy the Spring Flowers and Trees that are in bloom.  They won't be here long, but enjoy them while you can!

The Transformation Process

Took a small break, but I'm back. The world does keep turning!

I was reading about how in the process of nuclear fission, Uranium turns to Plutonium.  This is indeed a fascinating realization.  

The planet Uranus was discovered in 1781. Uranium was then discovered 8 years later and 8 years is basically the time Uranus spends in a sign. Pluto was discovered in 1930; around the time various scientists were developing a weapon using nuclear power. The discoveries of planets usually follow a pattern, where a major event will affect a large number of people, for good or for ill.  This is sort of how the outer planets of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto work. The energies of these planets greatly influence us and it is sometimes hard to handle, especially when they are in communication with the personal planets in our birth chart.  That's another reason people of all ages can have one these planets in the same sign.  For example, Pluto was in Libra from 1971-1984 and so everyone born in this time frame has Pluto in the same sign.  Regardless of how strong or frequent Pluto is in that group of people's chart, all will have specific experiences and realizations involving Pluto in Libra. The Pluto in Libra generation is about the power and transformative effects of being in relationships. This is a break from the "Pluto in Virgo Generation" in the sense that the "Pluto in Libra Generation" will often have relationships that might seem unconventional to a majority of people from the previous generation.  I believe the challenge is to find what the personal balance in the relationship is. In a sense that is something purely left up to the couple. Power and strength will come from that union the couple has, once they determine what their shared vision is for themselves.

Getting back to the Uranium turning into Plutonium topic: The sequence of events here illustrates the radical change we are suddenly thrust into, an uncomfortable situation in unfamiliar territory and trying to cope. If you succeed in navigating the waters of shifting changes then something must have fundamentally changed in your psyche. It is from that change that the person has gained an important new perspective on life and a strength that they will always keep with them. I believe that is a link Uranus has to Pluto, especially from our perspective on Earth. Pluto, which is considered a dwarf planet now (although whatever astronomers call it, it will not denigrate its importance to astrologers) is the planet of Transformation, Underworld activities (both figuratively and literally), Rebirth, Deep Pathworkings and most importantly Power. Power is something that you have over someone or something or it is something had over you. It is the exploration of Power that puts a person in a power struggle that tests one's mettle. This power struggle is a lot different from a Martian struggle, where it could be as simple as shoving someone out of the way to get a seat on the bus. Pluto's power struggles usually bring up a deeply sensitive memory of how we either were subjugated by another or dominated someone else.  This dynamic influences the decisions we make. An example of Plutonian power struggle would be a child custody battle, in which one parent uses blackmail or coerces a judge to support their side against the other parent. Even after a difficult battle and outcome unknown, it will be an experience that will deeply affect the people involved, including the child.

The nuclear crisis in Japan has brought up a similar reaction within the people in Tokyo. The Japanese have a history of exercising restraint, whether it be from limiting emotional outbursts and displays of affection to their day to day dealings with others. This jishuku, self-restraint, has increased to high levels, much like the radiation in the area around the reactors. From what I have read, people are walking on eggshells. Even advertisements have slowed their constant cries for attention. People are not going to karaoke, they're canceling Sakura (cherry blossom) festival and watching parties and not socializing with each other. The sudden changes people in Japan face will ultimately bring about a fundamental change in the people. Hopefully this time in the Underworld will help Japan emerge a stronger people. They must deal with their dark history of nuclear energy, both from the tragic Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings to this latest chapter of potential nuclear meltdown. The Japanese have a history of making useful innovations for the world. I hope they will make new strides to find a cleaner and less dangerous source for their energy needs.  If any country can move from 1950's dream of nuclear power to a more stable and safer energy source, I believe Japan can lead the way.

Coming soon: a Mercury Retro update :)

Uranus Burns Hot!

Astrology can be seen and used in many ways.  It can be used for healing, as in delving into the psychological and behavioral patterns we have. It can also be used to help navigate the rocky uncertainties we feel, while alerting us to opportunities that await our acceptance.  Right now I believe it can be used to greater understand  what is currently going on in the world.  For when we have a better understanding of the outside we can also have a better understanding of the inside.

I have been following the recent news about the crisis in Japan, specifically what's happening with the nuclear reactor.  Besides the obvious and immediate danger of the situation, I also see it as a warning, one that is telling us to be cautious in the future use of unstable technology; a technology  we are just getting accustomed to.  Man has a great responsibility for all of the inventions he has made and humans must be responsible for the consequences of  their actions.  Right now  the earth has been holding up a mirror to us, especially to those of us in industrialized nations.  It is saying "look at what is going on, just look, but now feel, hear, see, smell, and know what has been happening."  With December 21st, 2012 approaching and the Earth moving closer in orbit to the Galactic Center(center of our universe) the energy sent to the Earth will increase the vibrations, mainly earthquakes.  It's as if someone is shaking us awake, and that person is the Earth. Someone once said we are the tiny fleas on the back of a giant creature.   I believe also, just like fleas we have been sucking too much blood and causing infections on our vital and omnipotent host.

Let's look now at the direct relationship between Uranus and  the disaster in Japan.

Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth who named it after the recently discovered planet Uranus, which was discovered 8 years earlier by William Herschel (Herschel named Uranus after Greek Sky of creation myths). Uranus is the planet of Radical Change, Rebellion, Higher Electronics, Sudden Insight, Higher Thinking, and New Technologies. 

Uranium is used in the process of creating materials used to make nuclear fission.  The very act is very Uranian and in this destruction of elements we harness the energy to power our cities and homes.  This comes at a cost because in that destruction we also create byproducts that are not found in nature.  These byproducts are hazardous to just about everything living thing on the planet.

Another example, which is appropriate to Uranus in Aries, is the myth of Prometheus, the story of a Titan who stole fire from Gods and gave it to human beings.  Prometheus was punished by Zeus for such a defiant act and was chained to the top of Mount Kaukasos where he had a vulture continually picking at and eating his liver. Zeus made sure his liver regenerated so Prometheus could perpetually feel the pain and remember why he was punished! From fire we have gone through the innovations it can make and now we have advanced to higher technology, electricity.  Many advances and creations were then powered and created with electricity.  From electricity we have come up with various other sources to power our electrical creations, like nuclear power. 

Time to look back at Japan.  The spent uranium fuel rods are overheating and that is wearing down the structural integrity of the containment housing.  If the rods are not cooled down it could cause a meltdown and extremely radioactive waste will be exposed to the environment.  That radioactive waste could cause a disaster to us all, for once introduced to the environment it will not leave for a very long time. It will be a continual and painful reminder,  much like Prometheus's punishment. 

I hope we can heed these signs being shown to us.

Till next time!

Uranus Part Deux

There is a lot going on right now and Uranus moving into Aries is big enough by itself to occupy one's thoughts. Although uttering that phrase aloud in a "non astrological" context might get a few stares. . .

Here are some updates of things I have noticed. This will be an ongoing post for Uranus events you have seen in the news or have witnessed personally. I believe this will help everyone, including myself learn more about how this transition works. Feel free to post these in the comments section.

Yesterday at 7:52pm, it's a new world world, or a significantly different one than before.


Again I encourage you to send in your own experiences you would like to share.

Here are some I noticed:

Courtney sent me a New York Times article about how 21 priests were let go. This also reminds me of the changing of the nodes, from the Authoritarian that is not to be questioned, to the true teacher and learner. That's a shift. As far as pertaining to Uranus, I see it as leaving the Piscean theme of sacrificing for another and going toward self driven action and concern. I see the shifting nodes I mentioned as part of a way for us to learn, teach, and live from our personal experiences in life instead of relying upon established institutions.  Its about getting to the heart of the matter of what to learn, its not in school text book, but trip to another place where you learned so much.  The Sagittarian experience is gleaming tidbits from others, books, and integrating that into their vast experiences on the roads of life they travel on.  Let your personal observations and experience guide you.

Also when I mention Astrological Signs I speak of the archetype of that sign and its characteristics, not so much the people who have them. If I do, I will clearly state that.

Here are more to add to the list.

Drummer for Alice In Chains died recently.

A friend of mine has a dearly beloved cat who is terminally ill right now.

As of recently a tsunami and earthquake in Japan. Sudden action relating to water, another example.

The Unraveling Times

Uranus Changes Signs!



Uranus: planet of Change, Revolution, Rebellion, Higher Electronics, Freedom, Higher Thinking, Sudden Insights and Sudden Actions.  Uranus was one of the original Gods in Greek Mythology: the father of Kronus who was Zeus's father.  Kronus wanted power and knew the only way to achieve it was to kill his father.  So he slew Uranus and the blood that fell to the Earth became the Titans.  The sudden action of killing his father and the instantaneous birth of the Titans are all very Uranian.



When a planet changes signs it is a big occurrence. The change that is occurring is in the last few degrees of Pisces, which is the sign at the end of the zodiac.  The last few degrees of Pisces are considered extremely unstable.  Therefore when planets fall in those last few degrees they are unstable and erratic. It also signifies major endings for people and events. Even aspects of nature unravel. 



An example of a person unraveling is Charlie Sheen and his behavior this past week.  He spoke of abusing drugs, alcohol and even people in the past.  If one looks at the sign Pisces, which is ruled by Neptune, drugs are one of the lower forms of what Neptune rules. Also ruled by Neptune are Illusions, Dreams, Mergers, Higher Love, the Sea, Oneness with the Universe and the Collective Unconsciousness.  Charlie, much like Uranus, is unraveling. His statements, actions, and overall behavior are erratic and winding down. Charlie might make it or he might not but the point is that once Uranus moves into Aries it’s a whole new cycle. Time to start all over again, back to the beginning of the zodiac: Aries.  Charlie might not be up for such a transition. The nature of Uranus will be even more sudden, yet the actions will be direct.



The Middle East is another example of how the changes in Uranus are sweeping through.  If you look back at the time when the Ottoman Empire fell, the Middle East was in chaos. Several European countries succeeded in partitioning off and occupying lands in the Middle East as well.  This was done because they saw the great wealth of resources in oil and other commodities there. All of this was around the time Uranus was in Aries and that time is coming again!  So all of the artificial demarcation lines that created the current countries are unraveling. There are a lot of ethnic groups, tribes and divisions among even the people in a single country.  People are rising up, seeking freedom and starting revolutions, which is also very Uranian.  They will no longer be a lone voice in a collective of people, but a unique voice, which backs up their ideas with actions.  The Middle East will not be settling down any time soon.



Look to see how Uranus might be changing aspects of your life:  Sudden changes in jobs, breaking off relationships or changes in family structures.  It’s a very unstable time.  Things will smooth out a little on the 11th, but this is only the beginning.


What will you change in this next cycle?