Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Today's horoscopes

Michael Lutin is keeping it short: (not a permalink)

TAURUS AND TAURUS RISING

LET THE PROSPECT OF PROSPERITY BE STRONGER THAN SELF-CRITICISM

OR SELF-ABUSE (THE BAD KIND).

SCORPIO AND SCORPIO RISING

A RARE COMBINATION OF THE PASSION OF ADVENTURE
AND THE ADVENTURE OF PASSION.
FEAR NOTHING.

astrobarry:

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Please start getting used to this mushrooming degree of social interactivity. Not only is your increased presence as casual companion, chit-chat partner, brainstorming contributor, friendly devil's advocate, and all-around member of the local chorus continuing to be deeply desired amongst your immediate scene, Taurus, but it's also a sign of things to come. Much of your best luck, in the months ahead, is likely to present itself circumstantially, serendipitously, based upon your stumbling into the place where the right people will just happen to be talking about the right thing at the right time, opening up avenues which otherwise would've been inaccessible to you had someone not happened to made such mention. Of course, none of this will just 'happen' if you don't continually situate yourself in the social environments necessary for such serendipity. Should you feel that faint (or less-than-faint) intuitive sensation of knowing, without rhyme or reason, that you should be out-and-about, joining along, saying yes to the invitation, doing your reading or writing in a local coffeehouse or watering-hole (rather than home, alone, again), please please follow that feeling. Give it a try this week, and repeatedly, for the next year or so.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): A cloud, which has been casting a certain all-encompassing shadow over your view on everything (whether by coloring the facts in too blindingly an either unrealistic or depressive tone), is really starting to lift. And along with it, Scorpio, your feelings on just what's possible for you in the foreseeable future should also be lifting… but only if you actually look out on the horizon, way ahead of where you are right now, and see exactly what it is out there that stirs a giddy excitement in your tum-tum. The biggest danger in how you engage this now-in-effect transition—and, therefore, the biggest threat to that rise in mood that's due you—stems from the possibility of your having become so habituated to this particular filter that you forget to explore your options, resigned to things apparently always continuing along this trajectory (or is it a rut?) they've been on (or stuck in?). Please remember you have choices… many more, perhaps, than you're even aware of. The worst lens through which you could presently view your life is that you're in any way stuck. I would much rather you feel slightly overwhelmed by the possibilities than boxed in by a single circumstance. From the overwhelm, you can begin to hear your heart singing more loudly and clearly once again.

Yeah... I am definitely in that funk that the last one mentions. I am so utterly stuck and overwhelmed that I can't see a way out.

Astrology Zone for Scorpio in June:

Money money money money:

Some signs are a little uncomfortable with dealing with complex, big money deals, but not you, dear Scorpio. You are known for being skilled at making money multiply while you sleep, and others wish they had your talent for these types of things. This all is fortunate, for you have a big money month coming up, so you can use the full extent of those financial talents, and prove to one and all, when it comes to negotiation, you do know exactly what you are doing. It looks like you will leave the month a good deal richer than when you entered it.

The part of your chart that will be brilliantly lit will be your solar eighth house of other people's money, associated with money needed to fund a big dream. Often the individual could not have all the money needed in savings to cover the large outlay you would need for a dream as big as you seem to have in mind. You may want to buy or renovate a house, go for your law degree, or start your own business. Eighth house money is often money associated with a bonus, large commission, mortgage, venture capital, legal settlement insurance payout, credit, and bank loan such as for a home improvement or car loan or as a line of credit, as some examples.

 If you are "shopping" for money, or expect come into money (like a trust fund when you turn 21) this would be the month it would likely happen. You may receive an inheritance that has been tied up in the courts, or receive a sum you applied for, such as for a sizeable tax refund, mortgage, student loan, or infusion of venture capital. Indeed June would be the month where everything financial comes together for you. If anyone owes you money, chances are, you will see that money now, whether you force that payment through the courts, or because the person has the money to pay you and calls you to give it to you.

Well, that would be nice....but I wouldn't practically expect this, you know? I don't have any money to inherit, no tax refund this year...no real reason for anyone to give me money.

This trend will be set in motion at the new moon, June 8, and in the ten days to follow. Be ready with a business plan or other documents to present just a few days after that new moon. In your solar eighth house this month will be the Sun, new moon, energetic, determined Mars (your ruler, giving Mars greater weight), and Jupiter, the great planet of good fortune. The fact that Mars is involved, your ruler, tells me that you may be spending a lot of money this month, but that does not worry me - sometimes you have to spend money to make money.

I don't want you to sign papers on the new moon June 8 or make any big applications that day because Mercury in Cancer and Uranus in Aries will be having quite a row off stage on June 8, and that's terrible for seeding new, important ventures. You need a sturdy, happy Mercury, not one involved in a food fight with Uranus when you take your first steps. Sign nothing and buy nothing on June 8.

Food fight?!

 This month, it's clear you are on a mission to develop a pipeline of money, and you know what you are doing. The better you have handled money in the past, the greater this new moon will help you now. All aspects are that way - past actions that you have already made will always provide the platform for your future. You can always improve on what you have already done, too, as everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and we become wiser for having made them.

 That would be nice.

Uranus may be arguing with Mercury but he will be outstandingly helpful to this gracious new moon, something to bear in mind. Gemini energy is very fast energy as it is, and so hold on to your hat, because Uranus brings lightning bolt surprise energy, so when things happen they will jolt you out of your chair, in a good way.

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 It will be imperative that you are ready to act if you do need to find money, for this will be the only new moon of the year to fall in this part of your chart. New moons can move mountains, for they open new paths. As my Little Mom would say (who taught me astrology while I was a teenager and in college), you can have the best planets, such as you've had with Jupiter in your financial house while it toured Gemini since June 2012, but without the proper new moon, it's like seeing a gleaming pot of gold through your binoculars from the other side of a cliff, and being separated from it by a very deep and treacherous ravine, with no clear way to get across. A new moon provides access in a way no other heavenly body can do. When that bridge appears this month, you must be ready to walk over it.

Hmmmmm.

What if you are not looking for any money? Are you left out? Money may find its way to you anyway, which is a nice thought. There is another way things may manifest. You may have surgery, for the eighth house, so lit up, rules transformations through surgery, where your doctor (or dentist) removes the part of you that is hurting you, or fixes something in you, so that you can be well again. Mars is in Gemini, so if you don't absolutely have to have your hand, wrist, shoulder, elbow, or clavicle bones operated on, you may want to wait until the end of July. (Astrologers usually shy away from operations when Mars is touring the part of the body that the sign - Gemini in this case - rules.) If you broke your bone, go ahead, have the surgery. One of the things we soon learn in life is that we can't always have things perfect. Life happens and we go with the flow.

 Oy.

There is more good news! Jupiter is about to move into the wildly compatible sign to yours, Cancer, on June 25 to stay until next year, July 16, 2014! This is the first time in twelve years that Jupiter has visited Cancer, so the benefits to this trend will feel new and exciting.

Moreover, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and that means Jupiter can now express his gifts of good fortune in an exceptionally beneficial, broad way to promote growth and expansion. Jupiter in a cardinal sign allows him a big and wide canvas, pointing goodness north, south, east, and west as far as the eye can see. In fertile Cancer, you can give birth to new ideas, ventures, creative expressions, and important new relationships - including the possibility for one very romantic one that takes sturdy root in your life - and yes, to the idea of giving birth to a baby, too.

Uh....yeah, I don't think so there. New ventures and ideas would be good, but I won't hold my breath on the rest. 

 October-born Scorpios will be the very first to feel the good news, but every Scorpio, of every birthday, will have their turn at this wonderful energy. Jupiter will not retrograde until November 7, so you have an open road ahead, dear Scorpio! (This is exactly the same forecast for you if you have Scorpio rising. You would only know your rising sign if you have had your chart done with your day, month, year, city, and time of birth. The rising sign is the same as the ascendant.)

 And that's why I print Scorpio-only on this one.

Once in Cancer, you will expand your influence overseas, and your thinking will turn from "think local" to "think global." If you have ever wanted to work, live, or study abroad, this would be your time to do it, in the coming nearly thirteen months. Matters related to immigration, passport, citizenship, green card, and visa would become easier to navigate. If you've wanted to sell your goods or services overseas, your wish can now come true - start focusing on that goal. Anything having to do with study or travel will go very well from now on, so if you hope to get a grant or do special research overseas, the world will be your oyster.

 I'll be honest with you: I don't have a lot of interest in abroad. It's not that I'm a homebody so much as travel is just kind of hard for me to do in general. Look, it took me to age 35 to go on a trip alone to the other end of the state--foreign travel is waaaaaaaaaaay out of my current league and finances. It would take a lot to get me to leave North America, and I don't have the burning desire on my own to save my pennies for years or whatever to go in the first place. If someone gave me a free trip, I'd probably go, but I don't care enough to get off my ass and go alone. And I'm not overly hyped to go to places that are colder climates, where I don't speak the language, where there's skeevy men, etc.

I am apparently quite weird for this.

 Because the ninth house, so lit up for you as of June 25 and in the coming months, will be where all your personal growth will take place, and this house has to do with the taking in of ideas and concepts, as well as giving it out, such as a professor or reporter would do, you will also do well in the publishing and broadcasting fields. Intellectual debate takes place in this house too, so you may be asked to be on a panel in your industry, or write and publish an important book on your viewpoint that gets a lot of attention.

Okay, this is more my thing.

You may feel that after a month of negotiation and financial calculation, you need to get away and the full moon June 23 seems just made for a trip for you - it will also bring those month-long negotiations to a close. This is a very friendly full moon, for Saturn is standing by to lend stability, Pluto will be within touching distance to make you feel powerful and so very satisfied that you got things in your contract "just so," and Neptune will sprinkle this full moon with inspiration and vision. Wow, you can't ask for more!

 Scorpios born October 25, plus or minus five days, will especially love this full moon. If you have a natal planet in your chart at 2 degrees Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, or Pisces, you will benefit, too. Watch to see what happens!

 Yeah...a lot of stuff has been hitting me there lately.

 

This week's horoscope roundup

Michael Lutin:

"SCORPIO AND SCORPIO RISING The transition you are going through is life-changing. Like most members of your noble sign, however, you probably prefer to go it alone, bravely and in private. For you, transformation is actually an ecstatic process and you find such experiences both challenging and uplifting. Your current situation is not Unlike giving birth–the old-fashioned way. For many Scorpios the pain of change is a small price to pay for the orgasmic bliss of heading into the unknown."

What fresh hell "orgasmic bliss" is this, anyway?

TAURUS AND TAURUS RISING

Some people we could mention certainly seem discant, unavailable and even downright harsh and rejecting. That has got to hurt. Even if they do seem hard to read, slow to react and respond, or are intransigent, your best course of action is not retaliation. Generosity is the key. Share what you have. Know that you are rich and can afford to give gifts. Be charitable. You have to much. You have so darned much. Just look at your life. This is true wealth. besdies, who has everything?

Well, distant and unavailable is totally true of late.

AstroBarry is kind of the opposite of this:

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It's high-time to spend the next several moments appreciatively experiencing all the sociable interaction available to you, Taurus, right here in this immediate neighborly environment you've comfortably ensconced yourself in. No need to strive, no need to look far and wide for the next great stimulating mind-opener… as if to discredit the fact that you've, not entirely accidentally, already surrounded yourself with a roster of wacky figures who hold more than enough ideas and opinions and topics for offhand armchair-punditry to keep you stimulated for a while to come. Should you become too compelled by pushing toward the so-called 'big payoffs'—the ideal relationship, the perfect job, the missing link to feeling as if your life finally has meaning—you will completely miss out on the underlying social-connectedness that cradles you into this already-pretty-ideal-if-not-utterly-perfect milieu of people who, even if they don't know you all that well, actually care. What a wild concept, eh? People who you're already acquainted with, who are already around and available to contentedly piss away a few spare hours in your company, actually caring about you… and actually noticing whether or not you are present. Maybe moment-to-moment satisfaction is a lot closer than you think.

Erm....?

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Where in the world are the rising tides of change going to carry you on your next adventure? Accepting the truth of your being, Scorpio, entails acknowledging your soul-need for periodic life-overhauls which, yes, create a lot of stormy perturbations in their wake… but which also, of course, ensure that you are absolutely making the most of your brief time here in this singular incarnation. You're at the dawn of an approaching influx of soul-searching contemplations, arriving at just the right moment to tap into your readiness for another something new: a new location to explore, a new set of ideas to sink your teeth into, a new cast of characters to perform your magical feats alongside, a new scenic hike toward that great goldmine-in-the-hills to set off on. Doesn't that sound exciting? As growth-inspiring a personal opportunity as this next adventure may indeed promise, there's also no denying that, to get from here to there, you'll probably need to deal with at least one very awkward exchange (if not, more likely, several) with someone apt to be displeased by how it'll affect them. No matter what you end up doing, I advise you to begin tackling such looming exchanges as quickly as possible. When the other person tries to characterize it as an interpersonal issue, keep rightfully reframing it as being about your own ongoing—and independent—evolution.

Hm....well, this is how I am feeling--along with being fucking stumped--of late. Though I fear my transition will just be a lack of transition, as usual.

Silverwheel Astrology:

Scorpio
24th October – 22nd November
Very interesting month for Scorpio; the dynamics of certain situations are complex, yet are likely to symbolise events that unfold smoothly and easily. You are not at the centre of events yet you have a sense of control, and also the awareness that trust in the unknown is essential to success right now. Others provide you with ideas and guidance that you’ve been waiting for but it’s you that turns it all into something you can really work with. From the 25th Jupiter (traditionally about luck and opportunity) is spotlighting your travel and learning chart, meaning the joy is in the journey for the next year or so.

Hmmmm....

Astrological potential

"Everything in astrology can go both ways.  Some people with natal Pluto opposite Mars will become victims, and others, victimizers. A third group of Pluto opposite Mars folks will find the transformative energy and create something exceptional.

Every chart has potential. Astrology can tell you what that potential is, but it cannot tell you how that potential will be used. This is why I ask my clients to tell me what’s happening in their lives, so I can see how they’re using that potential. It’s where theory and real life intersect. In the end, free will reigns supreme. You have a choice (always, always) about how you use what you’ve been given."

Another good article on 12th house synastry

I love this, but did anyone else notice that the first article was deleted? That's a real shame.

This description is kind of funny

"But seriously, i don’t buy that ‘we act like our ascendant early and then do the sun sign’ thing. I mean, there are SO many different aspects of a chart. If you have – for example – Uranus in Scorpio Rising with Mars in Leo square that and on the Midheaven, you know you’re doing that. You’re like a big jungle cat individualistic dakini rocking bit of business."

Well, I have that exact setup she just mentioned and I am all....what am I doing, exactly?!

Algol means you're awful

I have Algol conjunct Venus. Apparently this means that I am horrible and going to end in a horrible manner.

First off, I found this article about Liberace having Sun conjunct Algol.

"I didn't need to look far into Liberace's chart to see the potentially rotten core: Sun conjunct Algol. I said "potentially", because not everyone with Sun conjunct Algol is fated to be a nasty piece of work; other parts of the chart, individual experience, background and circumstance always strongly figure in the mix and could bring about a vastly different personalty from that of Liberace."

Then that article cited this one.

"This star makes vivid, intense people. The freedom-fighter Joan of Arc (Algol conjunct Saturn) was burnt at the stake. The dancer Isadora Duncan (Algol conjunct Pluto) died as her scarf caught in the car rear wheel. The ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn (Algol conjunct Mars) had a husband who was shot in the neck, leaving him paralysed: he had to watch her wonderful movements, himself immobile. John Lennon (Algol conjunct Uranus) was shot in the back. Stephen King (Algol conjunct North Node), master of horror, whose books keep turning into films, nearly died after being run over by a truck, and should have died, but somehow recovered. Heart-throb Johnny Depp (Algol conjunct Venus), had to grapple with a headless fiend in Sleepy Hollow, and found out who Jack the Ripper was, in From Hell."

Um....I'd just like to point out that Johnny Depp's trauma there was ENTIRELY FUCKING FICTIONAL, YOU GUYS. He hasn't been beheaded or shot in the heart yet for realz. Though then it mentions Princess Di as having the same thing....um, yeah.

Then there's the quote from Bernadette Brady:

"Algol represents a strong consuming passion that may devour you with anger and rage. If one can contain an unconscious compulsion to take revenge, and from that passion return a more productive outcome, Algol is one of the most powerful stars in the sky. Whatever planet it affects in your chart will be charged with strong, intense sexual energy that has the potential to be wonderful, of if repressed, to lead to rage or violence."

Oh, joy.

Whoever Diana Rosenberg is, she has a more....cheerful...??? take on it:

"you will not be able to ignore suffering and horror, or brush it aside... The Algol placement on a chart insists upon a confrontation and assimilation of these harsh aspects of human experience in this lifetime. Some of the fixed stars are harsh, yes. But to a purpose. Each defines an area that will be tapped for good or ill; the tests are intense and unavoidable. Algol, like other stars, confers tasks upon us which, if comprehended and accepted, offer great rewards of power and creativity. These stellar challenges are not to be feared, but understood and used in a positive manner."

 

97 earthquakes in 24 hours

Whaaaaat?!

Sagittarius eclipse today

Mystic Medusa:

So this Full Moon in Saggo Eclipse is like a circuit-breaker, rut-buster deluxe bit of astro-weirding. Yes radical candor but high chance it is mostly to your self.

And it’s square Neptune so there is also a strong sense of delusions cracking, omg psychological insights unavailable to you during normal transmission and a haute degree of awareness around any addictions.

Moonkissd:

Neptune, like Twelfth House planets, is accompanied by that vague and fuzzy, dazed and confused feeling. If we want to nail down anything, a relationship or health problem, we won’t be able to. We can’t see very far into the future. Nay, we may only barely be able to see the next few feet in front of us.

Sagittarius is the sign of overarching perspective, of the big picture, and Gemini is the sign of information, data, questions and more questions. We may want more information, to have our questions answered, and maybe we even think if we had all the right answers and puzzle pieces in place, the answers would save us. But Neptune, square this “searching for answers” axis, doesn’t work that way.  At this full moon, there is no one right answer, because what’s required in order for our confusing situation to shift is not a solution or answer per se, but an expansion of consciousness. This doesn’t arrive via email, Amazon.com or another person; you can’t clear things up with a big relationship talk, at least not right now. Instead, it’s a sloooow inward process of surrendering and opening. We may want to make a move but feel immobilized, paralyzed, uncertain about the future. At this moment, that’s exactly as it should be. Sometimes the only answer we can trust for sure is, “I don’t know where to go, what to do.”

Oh god, this is so how my life is going right now. It's freaking terrible. Or at least, I am so incredibly sick of being a slow, late, non-bloomer that I could vomit. I'm angry that my prediction didn't fly, and I got told recently that I cannot find true love until I am 40 years old--I specifically have to be older and wiser, with an older man (I have had heinous experiences dating older men and I DON'T WANNA).

I don't want to believe it, but let's face it: that's how my life is going, that's how my astrology goes, and even though I doubt most of what this psychic told me, that's probably the one super true thing in there for sure.

I am definitely not going to know what the hell I'm doing by the end of May. I don't know anything other than here I am, stuck beyond stuck, slow beyond slow. I want out of this, I want out of being me, and I don't know how to do that and don't think I ever will know.

Planet Waves (plus monthly horoscope)

As such it may relate to an old question that’s coming up again. To me that question is: what do you believe in? The answer to this question has more influence than you might think. In many ways our beliefs are the filter through which we perceive very nearly everything.

The problem with beliefs is that they are often driven by security needs rather than by what we perceive as real, or as necessary. If you eat meat, you have to believe that eating meat is OK. If your husband is a staunch conservative, you may need to believe in conservative values in order to meet an emotional or environmental need.

My take on this eclipse is that it (that is, the circumstances it describes) may prompt you to question something you thought was true, or that you thought mattered to you. You may find yourself unable to believe in what you know is not true for you. If you follow that in (as they say in some kinds of therapy) you may find yourself with an actual question on your hands — a question of faith.

Plus monthlies...

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Seen one way, the focus of your life is on communicating your feelings, and slipping into a way of being where that comes more easily than you might expect. By ‘feelings’ I mean your point of view, your desires and the sensation of what it’s like to be alive. By ‘communicate’ I mean with others, though more significantly, with yourself. While I would not want to deny anyone consciousness, it often seems like we live in a world where many people have no idea what they feel, and I would say that most humans would be a lot better off if they did. You may, at first, experience the transits this month as magnification or exaggeration. If so, that’s an invitation to pay closer attention to the nuances and the cycles that seem to run your emotional experience. You still seem to have a disagreement with yourself over something, a potential grudge, judgment or inner dilemma where there may indeed be two sides of the story. If so, I suggest you get those two sides into a discussion, perhaps even a negotiation. Do your best to understand both points of view. Neither is strictly true; neither is incorrect; the two added together don’t tally up to the truth. Yet a new depth of understanding can emerge from an extended inner dialog, particularly if it’s gentle and emotionally grounded. This is as much about what is true as it is how you feel about it. Listen to your mind and your body.

 

Sagittarius eclipse roundup

• astrobarry.
• Big Sky Astrology.
• Aquarius Papers.
• Tracy's Astro Salon.
• Oxford Astrologer.
• Virgo Magic.
• Elsa Elsa
• Libra Seeking Balance.