Message for Week of Saturday 1 through Friday 7 April 2017
We are in a period with both Venus squaring Saturn, until May 9, and the Dark Hermetic Epoch, until May 21 (with Mercury retrograde from April 9 through May 2). This does not have to be horrible but could seem that way for many unless they meet or rise above the challenges. So it is important to try to understand what is going on.
I emphasize Venus in hard aspect with Saturn because in my own life these aspects (mutual aspects affecting the whole human race, not aspects to my personal chart) have shown the hardest emotional phases in my life. Once it was the break-up of a relationship which made me feel like Patsy Cline: "I Fall to Pieces." Other times it was not so dramatic; just a loss of confidence and a feeling of being unloved and unappreciated. But when I realized that this was happening in connection with the Venus-Saturn square, conjunction, or opposition, I started becoming aware of what was going on with others at the same time, and I saw that it was not just my problem!
In fact, part of my problem was that other people were in a foul mood and were projecting their feeling of rejection or frustration onto me. You go walking down the street. You are in a fairly good mood, but someone frowns at you so fiercely that you feel there must be something wrong with you. "What did I do to deserve that?" Then, as if in revenge, you glare fiercely at the next person you see, even though he or she is smiling. "Making fun of me, eh? I'll show you!" And so it goes, the bad moods and feelings of rejection snowballing until somebody gets so angry that there is an "incident," hopefully not a tragic one.
This is all very much observable during these times. Couples struggle harder to endure each other. Bosses and subordinates struggle to keep up civil relations with each other though seething under the surface. The suffering the boss goes through at home with his or her mate makes him so grouchy that he takes it out, unconsciously, on his workers. And vice versa.
Because this happens four times a year, most years, for about 20 days each time (allowing a 10-degree orb which I have seen as essential in this case), we get inured to it, to some degree; yet every time it happens it's the same thing: "What did I do to deserve this? Am I unattractive, do I have a repulsive personality, am I a a failure in every way?"
It can come out also in connection with money, because whether people actually lose money at these times they tend to feel they have less, and so resent expenses and cut back, perhaps, on spending. "Oh, why should I go out to the same old restaurant, where the waiter might treat me like . . . ., the people sitting next to me will be talking about things that drive me crazy, and there is loud music I deplore?" So you spend less on pleasures, perhaps. "Movie? Twenty dollars for popcorn? Forget it!"
If not active displeasure, it can be boredom. "Blah! Same old stuff. What is worth doing?" A good feature of this could be: Hunkering down to work. "Well, nothing much interests me, so why not stay home and proceed with that project (craft, sewing, car repair, music, writing)?" It could be said it is a good aspect for serious endeavors. Since sought-after pleasures taste like ashes, work becomes a pleasure.
At the emotional level, I tend to think of it as the Patsy Cline aspect. Whenever I hear her plaintive songs, I think, "Venus-Saturn problem." But I never tested it out until today, when I looked up her information: Born September 8, 1932. Indeed, Venus is opposite Saturn in her birth-chart by less than 2 degrees, a very tight orb! (Saturn at 28 Capricorn, Venus at 29 Cancer). Cancer itself can be a weepy or emotional sign, so that enhances the pain; yet she was able to make her suffering sweet and comforting, so that many love to listen to her songs as medicine for their own lost-love-pangs. She found out, at a young age, how to work with her horoscope! Kudos to her. When you've got a lemon, make a lemonade. When disappointed in love, sing sad love-songs. It made her an enormous star.
Other factors in her chart gave her charisma, such as Venus conjoined to Mars, with Pluto between them, all three square to Uranus. This can be a peculiar charm. On the last day of her life she performed at three different concerts throughout the day and wore a different knock-out costume at each of them. Then she went off with her manager in his plane, to her (and his) death. The weather was bad and friends encouraged her to go with her in their car, but she said prophetically, "When it's my time to go, it's my time." This could be the fatalism of both Saturn and the moon in Capricorn (probably, though if she was born very early Luna may have been in Sagittarius) together with the Saturn-opposite-Venus aspect we are considering. .
Her chart also has Mars exactly square Uranus, by less than one degree, and this has been known always to astrologers as an accident-prone aspect. Uranus is the planet of air travel. Earlier she had been in a car crash that almost killed her, and had a jagged cut across her forehead--Uranus is in Aries the sign of the head and face in her birth-chart, and square to Mars, the violent aspect. But it is also the aspect of energy and creative activity. Wikipedia says, 'She cultivated a brash and gruff exterior as "one of the boys", befriending male artists as well.' That sounds like Uranus square both Mars and Venus.
A question for those who ponder issues of free will is, "Could she, with better judgment and more caution, have avoided death at the age of 30?" I do not have an answer to that, but would like to think the answer is "Yes." Or perhaps she fulfilled her mission for that lifetime. It is said, I am happy to report, that death for those in the plane was instantaneous.
Welcome to the Patsy Cline April! Not in terms of accidents, although Uranus is again in Aries very close to where it was when she was born, but in terms of Venus-Saturn gloom, sadness, poignance, and sweetly sorrowful comforting, of which she was a master.
The chart for this week includes also helpful trines between Saturn and Uranus plus Mercury, good for mental work. Mars trine Pluto, with both of them sextile Neptune in the soft center, is good for males realizing a spiritual side of their maleness, as warriors accepting their suffering, for example, and rising beyond it to something ineffable. The sun opposite Jupiter suggests religious or political differences which need to be worked out patiently.
{Week of Saturday 1 through Friday 7 April} ^Falling to Pieces (and Putting them Together)^
Cosmic Piper
Data for:
Saturday 1 April 2017
Moon in Gemini
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins today (lasting until Monday mid-morning) ** |
Sunday 2 April 2017
Moon in Gemini--Cancer
|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week continues ** |
/moon goes void-of-course at 7:44a PT | 10:44a ET | 2:44p UT * / |
until it enters Cancer at 11:28a PT | 2:28p ET | 6:28p UT ** |
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