This GT is heading your way with Mercury retrograde. Thus, let it be known in advance that when exact dates are stated, those dates are noted for the GMT of the astrological effect noted, and not guaranteed to be the same date for your local time zone. Anyone e-mailing me about incorrect dates - assuming I made no typos - receives six demerits to satisfy Saturn in Virgo, and if I did make typos, I receive six demerits.
In ten days or so, Mars completes the outbound shadow of his recent retrograde, meaning he passes the degree he occupied when he went retrograde.
Mercury goes direct in but four days. He polishes off his shadow as the last weekend of the month begins, and in the temporal neighborhood of when change-rendering Uranus enters Aries on May 28th, structure sensitive, discipline wrought Saturn returns to prograde motion on the 30th and one day before imagination prone Neptune goes retrograde.
Ever adventurous and magnifying Jupiter enters Aries on June 6th, preceding Mars’ feisty entry into Virgo by one day.
What do you reckon? Are we in for it!? That’s what many forecast, but aren’t we in the for it already? Exploding volcanos. Earthquakes out the Earth’s meridian map’s kazoo. Wild weather. Flooding. Exploding oil wells and their secondary and tertiary natural and human catastrophes. Terrorist bombings and attempted bombings. Political meltdowns. The collapse of economic infrastructures. Corporate greed taints investment opportunities as companies ignore safety, the environment and the fate of humankind. The markets mimic the movements of a desert hare. At the slightest noise, it runs hither and tither for cover, responding to every economic indicator in what appears to be an economic bipolar nature and with dizzying vacillations. Divorce rates are up 20% for users of one Internet social networking icon. You can get tasered for running onto a baseball field. And in my presently pollen-ridden State of Arizona, soon you can be arrested for not having a passport or naturalization papers on your person.
For the upcoming transits, I’m going to stand by Saturn. Saturn looks forward to his ally, Mars, joining him for a brief jaunt in Virgo come June and July. These guys know what they’re doing. If you ask either of them, they’ll report this fact to be true and they note they always do what they do perfectly while traversing this sign. That would be nice. But it seems that as it always happens, applying the unfolding patterns of planets works best.
Imagine the planets convening at a Help the Earth fundraiser. If you seek out Saturn, he’ll cast an over the shoulder glance at Jupiter, complete with as dramatic a head nod and expression of exuberance as Saturn can muster. He says, “See that planet over there? You think he’s afraid? No way. He knows that a wild animal likely picks the lagging member of an expedition party. That’s why he’s always first, especially coming up and going into Aries. He’s got faith. He’s got optimism. And he’s got blind courage. He’s a planetary stud.”
Then Saturn points across the room at a crotchety looking planet, but only when the planet isn’t watching. Saturn goes on, “That’s the cranky Uranus. He’ll yell at kids on the lawn, make bumper stickers that tell you if you’re not doing something good, you’re taking up space, and will yell at you to get out of the way even after he’s passed you by on the highway. You put him together with that cocky Jupiter in Aries, they’ll split atoms, create, invent, solve problems, go places never explored and push for progress no matter what. The pioneers are back”
Then Saturn points to a female goddess with long tresses, her back to his view. With a shiver he reports, “That’s Eris. She’s in Aries, too. If you forget about her, discount her, neglect her or whatever, she’ll bring a heap of discord to you. She’ll climb up somewhere uncomfortable and set up camp. Yeah, she’s the goddess of discord... and exclusion... and of the addiction to status and success. You MUST make friends with her. One time, she and Jupiter got together and reversed the whole order of the solar system, stars and rising of the Sun and Moon to set things right! It was amazing! The Pleiades even wept. Anyway, with Uranus and Jupiter and Eris in tag team, things are fixing to go that way again. Don’t worry about chaos they create. It only needs to last a day, or until consciousness catches onto setting things right.”
Saturn puts on a rather sardonic smile, coming back to engage your eyes more fully than they’ve ever been engaged before. Says he, “So, you going to get the train back on the track or are you going to hide... or worse, be a whiner?”
We all know the answer that any of us would give to Saturn. Maybe with a few simple, but courage rich steps, great progress can be made in advancing the cause of getting the train back on the track.
As Mercury returns to direct motion, set some goals. Create conscious agendas of what you must rally your spirit to fulfill. Define a cause. Write a script as to how the rest of the year is supposed to turn out. Cast yourself as the lead and get into living out the plot you fancy is best for your future.
As Mars clears his retrograde shadow, go back as far as mid-October of last year and review what plans swirled through your mind. Add those to Mercury’s list. Get determined. Strike your flint; find your spark. Muster your pioneering spirit. Summon your psyche for an adventure in consciousness and agree to take on the actions that get things turning out like you want. “On your mark,” but refrain from going off for just a few more persuasive planet effects.
Uranus asks you to become the enlightened fool. Have enough “can do” in your consciousness that your inner indigo noise device naturally and automatically deafens the complaints and fears of the nay sayers.
Saturn spends his last weeks in Virgo urging momentum forward. Now that you have that Mercury-Mars plan, follow it. Ignore no detail. Perform your pre-flight check list. Though boring and usually unnecessary as seen by the insidious veil of laziness, safety and certainty strengthen through the use of a well-executed check list. Still on your mark? Good. “Get set.”
Neptune turns retro asking for one last confidence check. Shake off any doubts, insecurities, fears, worries and negative expectations. He installs just enough of a veil to obscure the results of the future such that one remains inclined to peruse and persist in enacting plans. As it is said, the outcome of the future is obscured so one does not become vain (or bitter), and thus failing to take the action required to actualize the future.
Jupiter checks the security of the train tracks. With the breadth of reach he commands, getting the train back on the track is no problem. He’ll totally support the adventure, especially if he gets that a person has a plan and knows what to do. With the train back on the tracks, one must use...
Mars. “Go!” Go perfectly, persistently and patiently. Here comes the Virgo axiom everyone loves: “Any job worth doing, is worth doing right.” Cut no corners. Ignore no detail. Smooth out burrs and imperfections. Then apply polish. With Jupiter in Aries and Mars in Virgo, it’s time to get on with it, dang it. Many astrologers have noted there are not that many great “make progress” windows this year. Here comes one, so use it... or at least that’s what Jupiter and Mars dare.
Despite the intensity and weirdness of the times, you can get the train back on the tracks. You can create successes even amid the rabid prophecies of doom, gloom, destruction and more, certain to occur this summer. The only things we have to fear are fear itself, a lack of inspiration and/or courage. Create your consciousness-rich plan and get your train out of the station. Include yourself in the world as you make friends with Eris, and get on with it... not because it’s the vogue thing to do, but because it’s the thing to do.
With Jupiter, Uranus and Eris in Aries, remember to always invite Eris to the party. She’ll join in, smile and remind you that a chord of discord might be the ticket to punch if previous plans or destinations do not produce sweeping, evolutionary results.