}August 1-15 Revisited{
Saturday 8 August 2015
Moon in Gemini
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues ** |
until 10:35p PT | 1:35a(Su) ET | 5:35a(Su) UT ***
Sunday 9 August 2015
Moon in Gemini *** Luna's sextiles with Venus and Jupiter, increasing into late evening, and Mars's entrance into Leo could make this a positive, fulfilling or liberating day
Let's talk about the "annular hour" (1/24th of the year) or fortnight of Saturday August 1 through Saturday August 15, 2015. (To make it exactly half you could consider it through noon of the 16th.)
[The following is a revision of what was posted last weekend. I hope you will re-read it because I changed a lot of the language and added to it. I hope it better reveals what may be going on in our lives at present]:
Jupiter square Saturn, from Leo to Scorpio, continues. The assassination of Cecil the Lion was an amazing symbolic depiction of this square. The death (Scorpio) of a noble creature (Leo). That could mean we worry about the "death" or loss of something noble in ourselves. We want to be our most noble self and feel we are partially failing.
It is fascinating how the group consciousness of the human race experiences these astronomical phenomena as such actual symbolic events. At a deeper level, you can save, resurrect, rescue from death or oblivion some very important personage. This is likely to be in your own consciousness, but all consciousnesses are connected. I can think of six or more individuals whose works I am studying who represent the Lion or the King to me, in a spiritual sense (three of them are women), and I am resurrecting them from death in my own consciousness and they are giving me deep rewards in return. For you, this could be a parent or parents or grandparents, or a teacher, special admired friend, or spiritual guide. We have already discussed the deep karmic meaning of this aspect. It requires us to evaluate ourselves and live up to our standards rather than make excuses.
Venus square Saturn, also from Leo to Scorpio, continues (while Venus moves backward apparently). We have discussed this as the "lovelorn" aspect or the sense of a need for loyalty and for facing a "test of the loved one." You may be testing someone or they are testing you. It is also a test of love itself, or of your ability to keep loving when there seem fewer incentives to do so. The fact that Venus is retrograde suggests a "stuckness" in friendship and in relationships. They neither progress nor recede, or appear to recede even if remaining solid.
You may feel you are connecting with people you knew in past lives. Also you may dream of or recall frequently relatives or friends "gone from this world" or from your own world. This is healthy. It allows you to re-experience them and what they meant and still mean to you, in fresh ways which expand your sensibility and understanding. That makes you more capable of experiencing people in your current world with greater depth of understanding and acceptance.
Mercury square Saturn is also in the mix. This is not a bad square. It is a sharpening of the intellect so it can discriminate brilliantly and clearly, developing a crystalline style of thinking. You may find yourself raptly concentrated on solving problems or getting mental tasks accomplished. You could penetrate to the depths of a problem or solve a riddle or decide on a best default strategy for things you are trying to achieve.
With it there is also, within ten degrees, an opposition of both Mercury and Jupiter to Neptune. This could be mystical thinking, an escape into fantasy, but since the square with Saturn is closer it could be a lovely sentiment-flavoring of your solid clear thinking rather than a detraction from it. People are sharing some of their deeper experiences with me, some of them sad or tragic, and that is a Neptune-Jupiter-Venus-Saturn phenomenon. It enables us to experience deeper and more satisfying levels of our souls, and of subtle all-embracing love, better than if we had avoided the difficult issues we feel compelled to share.
The sun, Venus, and Jupiter in Leo are trine Uranus in Aries. This is almost the opposite of the former aspects, and so it complements them. It helps us to feel free. It can be exhilaration. In fire signs, it strengthens our internal sense of who we are and makes us feel we have a right to be what we hope to be at the level of our highest aspiration. It can be intellectual and aesthetic liberty. "Go for it, try it, and no matter what happens you can't lose" is the feeling. I find that this attitude alternates with the more somber or thoughtful ones outlined in previous paragraphs. It is an escape valve but not a delusion. Some special gift, talent or ability of yours can be used and developed no matter what your emotional or moody feelings. By doing the former, you harness some of your moodiness or "love-lornness" as motivation toward accomplishment which compensates you fully.
Mars trine Saturn can be another answer to the squares of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury to that planet. Those three can be very depressing, but the Mars trine says "Just keep on keeping on and you will win over all these temporary obstacles and you will please even your loved ones as well as yourself, so if you feel unloved, keep doing what you do best and perfecting it and somehow that will set you up for better feelings toward and from your loved ones also."
{Monday} {August 1-15 Revisited}
Cosmic Piper
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