2006 March : Big Sky AstroBlog

Mar

31

The latest in a long line of renovation nightmares: shoring up our 80-year-old garage, which has been threatening to topple into our neighbor’s yard. Since it’s the nice neighbor and not the one who hates our cats, Jonny is parlaying the recent Solar Eclipse opposed his Saturn (poor guy) to strengthen and support this tenuous structure - a good use of Saturn energy, but not necessarily a fun way to spend your days. He found a pleasant Quaker fellow to give him a hand, however, and the two have been out back for the past couple of days wielding hoists, support beams, a jackhammer, and saws in a valiant attempt to rescue the old dump.

Mars is building up to an opposition with Pluto next week, though so maybe they’ll decide it’s too far gone and just pull it down. It would probably be smarter, in a lot of ways. But we like our old garage. It’s old and crappy and crooked. It goes with our house.

Wait, that didn’t come out right….

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March 31, 2006 | Comments Off

Mar

27

There’s another eclipse this week, this one a solar eclipse at 8.35 Aries early Wednesday morning. What’s been stirring and awakening in your life these past couple of years? Aries is the sign of quickening, or coming alive; somewhere inside you, a seed is trying to push through the earth’s frozen crust after a long winter. The birthing takes place in the house of your chart containing 8.35 Aries, and involves any natal planets between about 4 and 12 of cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn).

This is the conclusion of an Aries/Libra eclipse season that began two years ago. Specifically, this eclipse falls opposite the eclipse point of the October 3, 2005 solar eclipse at 10 Libra. Relationship issues that were raised last fall are ready for review and reconsideration now. But relationships are always a dynamic process of negotiating “me” (Aries) vs. “we” (Libra), and while the October eclipse in Libra focused your attention on others, this Aries eclipse emphasizes the “me” part of the equation. Right now, taking meaningful steps to define and assert yourself as an individual will do far more to improve your personal relationships than trying to figure out what others want you to do or be.

Let’s not take that message as a license to be self-absorbed or insensitive, however. The chart for this eclipse features the Sun and Moon in a sober trine to Saturn in Leo. The work of this eclipse seems to be about proactively assuming individual responsibility (Aries Sun/Moon trine Saturn) for the state of your life, including doing what you can to become a better partner and friend.

Overall, this eclipse should feel relatively benign after the rather horrid March 14 lunar eclipse. That one featured the eclipse point square Pluto, and was the first in the Pisces/Virgo eclipse series that will dominate for the next two years. We’re out of practice with the Pisces/Virgo eclipses - it’s been seven years since our last Pisces/Virgo season ended - so that one was kind of rough, stirring up a compost heap of all kinds of old muck. Alternately, this week’s eclipse is a graduation of sorts; look back at how the landscape of your relationships has changed since 2004, and hopefully it will be with a sense of satisfaction at what you’ve learned and how you’ve grown.

And if not, you’ll get another crack at it all beginning in 2013!

March 27, 2006 | Comments Off

Mar

22

Ugh… what a miserable week for the old bod. First a nasty stomach bug, now a sinus infection. What Virgo lunar eclipse?

Other than that, I can’t complain. (pause for riotous laughter) Okay, so I can complain, but I won’t, because the heat has been turned down just a notch and I’ve been able to catch my breath after pushing full steam ahead for weeks. It really does feel like spring around here, with just enough rain to keep the air clean and nice, nippy days with lots of sun. I’ve actually had time in the past couple of days to get our tax stuff together and drop it off to the accountant, catch up on my invoicing, and do some laundry.

Take it from someone with Mars in Virgo: Nothing makes life seem quite as sweet as clean socks.

March 22, 2006 | Comments Off

Mar

20

More celebration of Virgo’s practical magic in this excellent article at Oculus Divinorum, entitled “From Subservient Secretary to Ritual Priestess.”

It’s easy to forget, in the push to simplify astrology for the masses, to look a little deeper at the signs of the zodiac and what they say about our style of doing things, perhaps more so than the kind of things we do. I am a recovered executive secretary myself (though not exactly subservient - my MC is flanked by Mars and Pluto, which often got me into trouble) with a Virgo midheaven. It’s work I respect, but ultimately it wasn’t right for me (too many Leo planets), even though all the astrology books claimed it was the perfect career choice for a Virgo MC.

While I wouldn’t exactly call myelf a ritual priestess these days, I do find a very Virgo-like satisfaction in work that allows me to help people sort things out - websites, wedding dates, lives. Now, if I could do the same thing in my own office…

March 20, 2006 | Comments Off

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Sign of Leo

Moon sextiles Mercury at
4:20 pm on Jul.5, 2008

Moon opposes Neptune at
5:22 pm on Jul.5, 2008

Moon trines Pluto at
3:05 am on Jul.6, 2008

Moon goes void of course at
3:05 am on Jul.6, 2008

Moon enters Virgo at
4:04 am on Jul.6, 2008

Moon conjuncts Mars at
9:19 am on Jul.6, 2008