Saturn Return Can Bite Me

February Planet Waves

Interesting reading.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Nearly every Taurus I know is struggling with their career. This seems to be a life-theme of your sign. Let’s pretend that has something to do with all the activity in Aquarius, your career house. Going back quite a long way — five years, 10 years, even 15 years, depending on how you count — there’s been constant change, movement and an odd sense of insecurity about what you want to do, or what you ’should be doing’. You’ve had plenty of ideas along the way, some of them excellent, but less in the way of traction or stability. Perhaps you know what you want, not how to make it work for you. Remember that most of our experiences train us to compromise passion and curiosity, or to expect certainty and incontrovertible correctness of the plan. Sure, that happens. More often, we find ourselves involved with events, uncertain where they will lead. Through many such experiments, we can arrive in an interesting place. What you have going on is subtler than either of those usual paths. At the moment, you have a rare perspective (think of it as visual, from a high place) that you didn’t have before. Use it to observe the ways you have been conditioned to not know what you want; to want what others want for you; and to doubt your own ideals, for the sake of others. What would your life be like, if you moved all that out of the way?

Shoot if I know. But good point, that last bit sounds like therapy this week.

Astrology of a spy

Michael Westen's chart. Comparing the charts of famous spies to the birthday supplied via Wikipedia. I'm amused that I have 2 out of 3 spy traits :)

I don't think it's out of character for him to be a Capricorn. The guy LOVES his work. Also note the Uranus coming up right after Pluto here in the first.

Aquarius 4th house

I actually like the description of this. Usually I read something like, "You grew up with hippies in a freewheeling home," and lord knows that was NOT the case with mine.

Finding comfort in detachment. Needing personal space at home. A friendly home life. Living with friends. Living with groups. Living in a commune. Utopian home life. Having an alternate ‘home’ on the internet. Feeling that one came from another planet. Feeling secure in groups. Feeling secure in diverse collections of people. Unstable home life. Rooted in the collective. Experimental at the core. Feeling like an alien at home. Being at home with aliens. Being an illegal alien in the country one calls “home.” A futuristic house. Unconventional real estate purchases. Living in strange places.

Why Obama's term won't be going nearly as well as we wanted

Bummer.

In Obama’s case, the belief in change may have been real enough, but the astrological universe was not on the same page. In fact, it has been downright opposed to many of Obama’s efforts. Literally.

Neptune meanwhile is the universe’s gigantic ‘pause’ button. When Neptune opposes you, there ain’t much you can do. Nothing’s going to happen until Neptune is good and ready for it.

The frustrating thing about a Neptune opposition is that you are ready, or at least you feel ready, to express whatever planet is being opposed. But the universe isn’t. You have to wait for the universe to catch up. You have to wait for the time to be right.

In many cases, a transit from an outer planet indicates that the universe thinks you’re ready to grow when you think you’re ready to stay right where you are. The opposite is the case in a Neptune opposition, at least much of the time. You are ready to grow, but the world you live in isn’t quite ready for you to reach the next stage. Something external has to move into place before you can make your next move.

Thus we get change you have to wait a long time for. Neptune is associated with hope. And hope is the response humans often have when they have to wait for external conditions to change before they can get what they want. Something has to occur that is outside of their control.

For the moment, whatever Obama may have meant when he talked about change, the US or perhaps the world is just not ready for it yet. Change comes much more slowly and in a much more confusing, chaotic, and messy manner than anyone’s natal Uranus would really prefer.

The various people who voted for change they could believe in are probably not liking this one bit. The change they wanted hasn’t come, or somehow or another it seems to have gotten all messed up. It’s going to stay all messed up or nonexistent for virtually all of 2010. People are going to be disappointed with Obama. Obama may be disappointed with Obama, although I doubt his huge ambition will fade much.

The truth is, various planets will be attacking his Venus until 2012, and Neptune will be making him wait for one thing or another for the rest of his term. Some good things will happen in his chart and the truly vicious oppositions of 2009 have faded. But the waiting will continue…

Psychic Dream horoscope this week

Things may not be the way you want them to be, but don't let that bring you down. The Universe is so smart, it has constructed your current problems to force you to overcome things in yourself that already needed attention. You were heading this way anyway, so you might as well make the best of it.

Ouch!

There's no hope for me.

If you're not relationship prone, you're not going to find true love, no matter what transits you have. I don't know why I'm surprised, really, since this should be a giant "duh" to me. I can go years without meeting even one viable prospect (and my creep magnetness is astounding).

Furthermore, having followed many clients’ and friends’ charts’ over the past 40 years, I’ve come to believe that astrology isn’t the best predictor of whether an individual will meet and commit to a partner. HISTORY is a better predictor, and the astrologer who doesn’t get a relationship history from the client is likely to prove inaccurate.

What I’ve observed is that there are relationship-prone people and people who aren’t relationship-prone. The person who isn’t relationship-prone could have transits or progressions that look ideal for love and not meet a soul, much less a soul mate. Relationship-prone people can have either the worst or the most piddling tranits for romance, and they fall head over heels and hook up with a partner. Go figure.

Let’s say you have this client you’ve grown fond of over the years.  She’s single and 30 and has never had a serious relationship, hasn’t even dated for a good long while. So here she is again, and she’s paying you good money to give her some good news in the romance department.  And you look, and by gosh if there isn’t Jupiter transiting the 7th and something  promising happening to Venus, so you both get all excited, thinking this year is IT!  So she comes back a year later, and tells you she didn’t get so much as a wink from a guy in all these months.  And you have to admit, to yourself at least, that there are moments when this job BLOWS, just like any other way of earning a living.

Man, you'd think this woman knows me or something.

Anyway, continuing on to planetary aspects that fuck you for love... on to my usual favorite topic :P Any planet past Jupiter that's tied in to your Venus will screw you, apparently. Uranus means you want independence, Neptune wants merging/codependence, Pluto could go either way, and...

People with Venus-Saturn aspects are gravely reluctant to enter into a partnership for several reasons. For one, they would consider it a binding agreement that entails a lifetime commitment and tremendous responsibility. Second, they are extremely conscious of roles in general and the traditional male-female roles of spouse and parent in particular, and so in committing to a partner they would also be committing to a role that they may or may not wish to fulfill.

Oh dear lord, that is true. I generally fail at gender in life (I'm pretty well divided between yin and yang planets), I'm not macho enough to be a guy and definitely not girly enough to be a woman, and I'm about as nurturing as a piranha. I'm all too well aware, having grown up in a more traditional family, that I'd have to conform to Wife Stereotypes, because everyone would expect me to take the guy's name and be the one who writes out every thank you note and clean and cook the dinner. Really, I want to be married, but to be the husband. I don't want to have to be the wife at all. Yeah, good luck with that...

Back on the not-me side of the equation, Libras are especially fucked because of all the outer planet transits that whacked their suns/Venuses upside the head for the last several decades. Lovely!

Kepler College, RIP

Bummer.

An astrological movie from India

What's Your Rashee?

Moon/Saturn folks

Hard going.

In general, Moon-Saturn is afraid of personal emotional commitment, to avoid grieve. They start worrying when they have feelings for a person. So it is good for a Moon-Saturn person not to feel close and not to care unless the law or parenthood or feelings of guilt make it a necessity. Is that wrong? Is that hard? Is it cruel? Maybe. And yes, it is hard to hit a wall.

Eclipses and the late night folks

The possible forecast.