As we move through next weekend and into the early part of next week, the lunar north node and Pluto find themselves in the same place in early Capricorn. Perhaps this symbolizes the hurry up and figure out what’s broke and fix it and while you’re at it, remember to tune into those causes, activities and creative aspirations that rock the core of your soul. Simple enough, right? Just another one of those times where the refresh of what means the most to you in life becomes as clear as can be. As well, this is a mind over matter time. If it matters, you mind. If it doesn’t matter, you don’t mind.
With a redefined smattering of mattering, it behooves a human to turn personal attention to November 18th. Within a twenty-four hour window both Jupiter and Venus resume prograde motion - or the normal direct tracking across the ecliptic. That should be good, too, right? It should. To abet this process, keep those things most important to you clearly in mind as you push forward toward larger personal and collective goals. This might be one of those times when people at large gain a sense of what improvement there may be on the global economics track. If the recession is over, why doesn’t it feel like it? If we’re economically back in the healthy zone, why don’t most astrologers schedule a hundred readings a week (maybe, that subsection of humanity is allergic to working more than forty hours a week)? What if, suddenly, things started to feel better economically and as if financial peril did not lurk around the next corner? Would people become more tuned into pursing visions, dreams and aspirations with greater careless abandon? Seems like. Regardless of the economic stats, what if those desperately wanting to explore the whimsical options of life decide to use the combined direct motion of Venus and Jupiter to get on with it? Perhaps it’s important to consider that one of the base words of Capricorn - where the node and Pluto mix it up - is caprus, which remains the root of capricious. Does one dare be one’s carefree and whimsical self?
Sounds nice, but there’s still the reality of getting there from here, especially with all the recent juxtapositions, lingering long term aspects and the overlay of celestial patterns onto the ways of the world.
For the next number of days - call it ten days - Mars in the early degrees of Sagittarius makes contact with a multi-plex of black holes across the Virgo-Sagittarius square. Normally the counsel would be to capture any and all unique ideas coming one’s way with a dedicated 283 seconds of conscious attention applied to the incoming blip. When doing this, one realizes how long and powerful a time four minutes and forty-three seconds can be. That element still remains in play for any and all ideas; however, here we’re dealing with Mars.
With Mars, the vibe of these pulses turns from thinking about something into doing something. Whenever starting out on a task, especially one that fits with inspired agendas, ensure the first step(s) last(s) long enough to make things stick. For example, if one had a strong natal Mars and mixed epoxy to hold a new bathroom fixture in place that intended to support a mirror of some size, one must endure the process of ensuring the proper tack exists with the epoxy elements before letting go. Yes, it’s true! This pattern insists you must be as tacky as necessary for as long as necessary. No, that’s actually not it. The message is to ensure that whatever action is taken, give it ample time to make sure all foundational elements set.
Sometimes this “setting” energy notes the time lag between hearing a concept and being able to wrap around it. Recently while hearing a baseball afficionado spew stats about the odds of a certain team winning the World Series, I listened and having slept through my statistics class, had to chew on it for a few moments for the permutations to become mentally digested. Since the planet in play here is Mars, no doubt an idea bringer wants to rally the troops into immediate action. Good luck with that. Here the issue is not one of “give me a good reason why, “it’s “I need a minute (or four minutes and forty-three seconds) to make sense of the plan.” Try allowing minor delays when dealing with others to bring about synchronization of consciousness, and subsequently unified effort when push comes to shove.
Over the next weeks leading up to the return of Jupiter and Uranus into Aries (January and March respectively), these trends apply. Still, using these aspects does not seem to solve all of the inner stirring. There’s a feeling, vague though it might be, that there’s something out there we must all soon weave into our consciousness. Some now pin it on the recent visibility of Comet Hartley, a short period comet amongst one of a couple hundred such comets. Seems unfair to blame or attribute so much to such a regular visitor. After all, a short period comet is more or less celestial background noise, unless assigning Blue Star or end of the world attributes to anything that comes along. So what is it??
For me, I keep waiting for the next update of Kuiper Belt information. With three teams now searching out a previously unsearched region of the sky, surely, there should be more out there. I keep hoping that there’s something significantly large that totally messes with the abomination of the recently declared planetary definition. I mentioned a few GT’s ago that Mike Brown, discoverer of Eris (and so much more) is now searching those southern skies through post-analysis (looking at pictures taken in the recent relative past) and now blogs about his views on the Kuiper Belt and beyond. Lately he’s been blogging about Sedna and why she is in orbit around our Sun with an 11,000 (plus or minus) year orbit. He contends that maybe there was something big out there that hasn’t been found. Big, in this thinking, could be something the size of Earth! Or perhaps, there’s something big out there that hasn’t been found. Then again, maybe it was the influence of our companion star (not that likely) or maybe the gravitational influences of several stars on Sedna over eons. No one knows. But the door is wide open for a new discovery to appear that will again rock the foundation of our understanding of our solar system.
By the way, for those heavily invested in doom and end of the world scary things, the news network in the United States known for keeping fear alive, recently reported that the assessment of the date for the ending of the Mayan Calendar may be miscalculated. Good news is, it ended last month (JUST KIDDING, DO NOT FORWARD AS A FACT). Seriously, the calcs according to Gerardo Aladan of UCSB, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, believes that the suspicions of an end date could be off by 50 to 100 years. And, he does not rule out that it could have already happened. Maybe during the Galactic Alignment of 1999? Maybe during the Venus alignment of 2004 or the one in June of 2012? Of course, with so many Mayan interpreters out there convinced of the precision of December 2012, why even give this a second look?
Last night I was thinking about orbital elements of relatively new planetary bodies and the ongoing updates to them instead of counting sheep. The elements of bodies such as Chiron, Eris, Sedna and others occur on an ongoing basis, as they do for Pluto and Uranus, too. The stark reality is that astrologers could generate a new ephemeris every month on the newer bodies to improve accuracy. Last year’s data is a little off. The data of 2003, 1930, 1846, 1781 is certainly a little off (the years when the more recent, monumental solar system planetary discoveries were made).
It seems in these days when scientific discovery explodes as fast as it does, definitive detailed answers become harder to isolate. The end result is that an attitude of tolerance must be applied. We must learn to tolerate a margin of acceptance - better than the classically defined margin of error. This margin of acceptance permits grasping a major concept or the import of an astronomical discovery without snarling up in subjective detail orientation.
To return to the point of what makes Sedna so strange and when will the Mayan calender end... it doesn’t matter. What matters is engaging the consciousness that Sedna seeks to reveal and to wrap around the consciousness shift that is supposed to be part of the Mayan calendar’s cyclic restart and groove on adding that to personal and collective consciousness. It would be nice if we had the support of a new planetary body that astrologers could accept, wrap around and embrace.
While many will detail next years avant garde rebellious spirit and attribute to Uranus in Aries, I choose to factor in Eris in Aries too. I’ll even add the import of the passage of Jupiter to his own closest contact to the Sun on the same day that he does the same with the closest contact of Makemake to the Sun. And next year we’ll have Jupiter in direct aspect to Uranus and Eris and Haumea. We’ll also have Saturn in direct contact with Eris and Haumea. And let us note that traditional interpretations of doom from Saturn to Uranus and Pluto and Jupiter did not render the end of the world, much to the chagrin of those forecasting the same.
It may seem that we have to deal with the state of the world and use consciousness to steer it into better straits. We now stand awaiting something more... a new thing to be revealed that will fill in many blanks about moving humanity from darker ages more toward enlightenment. Why not include those new elements? Maybe one of the effects of this next short period Mars movement is to look at innovations that stare us in the face and learn how to apply them as tools of consciousness.
Regardless, Venus and Jupiter are about ready to reset traditional agendas. At least, it’s time to shun justifications and rationale as to why things will stay the same especially when invoking new and innovative elements of expanding consciousness. Predict your personal rally for the end of a year that well... lacked and sagged in parts. There’s still time to make something of the weeks ahead and restore clear vision for the pioneering promise of 2011 with Jupiter and Uranus and Eris in Aries all enthusiastically and exuberantly plowing ahead and waiting for none to follow.