Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Saturn arse-kicking

Similarly whatever quadruplicity Saturn is visiting you can be sure that that tribe of signs will be holding weekly group therapy sessions for at least two and a half years to alleviate the pressure.

Astrological freelancing

 Are you cut out for it? I suspect I am not.

The world is crazy, by Michael Lutin

and suddenly that steady
even rhythm that comes across the screen
reveals a weird blip
it's deviation
without which
we would be rational automatons
Pisces stirs your deepest fantasies
and when the Moon is Full in Pisces
lobsters are crawling out of the sea
dogs are baying at the Moon
and you
you
are at the mercy of your own unconscious wishes

PRINT OUT THE MESSAGE
WITHIN THE GREEN STARS
and keep it on your fridge
or in your pocket
for about six months:

*****************************************************

wobble!   wobble!  wobble !

Don't wait for the Earth to shift on its axis.
I'ts not the Earth.
It's YOU.
Me.
All of us.
For the next several months
you will find yourself
wobbling back and forth
from
enthusiastic inspiration
to dark desperation
and back again
from senses of being trapped
and helpless
to
being  fiercely eager and  determined
to win at any situation
from
passive forgiveness
to royal rage
and  back and forth
wobbling
wobbling
wobbling
every time the MOON
or any other planet
touches
Uranus at 29 Pisces
and
the ghost position
of zero degrees Aries
patience and faith
will vie
with the angry urge to act
on your own behalf
and make your own way
such abnormal behavior
is
perfectly normal

This week's Planet Waves

Taurus:

You are close to a breakthrough in a relationship that is dear to your heart, your soul and your libido.

Hubba hubba.... heh. Well, I did have a brain-changing experience this weekend, which I am still freaking REELING about.

Yet you may be wondering why you are so involved,

Hah, you have NO idea. That's where the brain-changing came in.

and why it seems like you have so little influence over the course of events.

Well, that one I know...the timing isn't right yet, or the circumstances.

I suggest rather than getting caught up in the mystery, that you think of your situation as walking down the street, or on a path. You cannot fly, but you can choose where to put your feet. You can walk slower and see the scenery and shop windows. You can walk quicker and move toward a certain location. You have options. It is true that you may feel like you're in too deep, but that's not necessarily true, and what you have is more pleasurable and meaningful than something that you could describe as 'too shallow'. Your destination is water; when you get there, remember to swim.

And that sums it up all very nicely. It's a path, man. And I'm choosing to follow it because not following it sucks! That's the realization I came to this weekend. I am no longer feeling conflicted about it, which is nice. Embrace the insanity!

 

Scorpio:

Are you rebelling against your own sexual energy? Are you maintaining a kind of purity to give you a sense of safety? Or do you simply feel alone in the world? I propose that how you feel about sex describes how you feel about your whole life. You can in fact make a detailed description of your erotic existence and then read it as if you're explaining your feelings about being on the planet. The sense of isolation you may be experiencing will help you break free of someone or something: an attitude, a relationship, an emotional pattern or a sense of being stuck.

Okay, I can't argue with this.

The planets are aligning in such a way that is promising you the experience of being anything but stuck, though it may seem daunting to make that first move. Gather your courage and do what it takes.

O RLY?

And then this week's AstroBarry:

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Instead of trying to rally yourself for a drastic change, ease in. Unfurl gradual alterations that build one upon the other, one day after the next. Should you make excessively dramatic demands of yourself to leap way ahead in just a few massive strides, you're liable to throw yourself off balance. Such wishful attempts to rebuild Rome in a day, Taurus, invite the stubbornly resistant bull to overcompensate for this threat to its predictability… ultimately making it harder to effect the shift in habits you're hoping for, because you're expecting too much progress in too short a time (and perhaps forgetting that Taureans are most successful when granted ample patience). Settle for one modest, though still noteworthy, refinement per day… and let the minor adjustments build on themselves.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Don't try to get anything from any given exchange, other than perhaps a good laugh or two. Release all grips, and relax into a detachment from outcomes.

Yeah...I needed this horoscope last week, 'cause that's what brought on the emotional drama :P

You won't be unprepared to ask 'how high?' once the universe yells 'jump!' Or put another way, Scorpio: You're already essentially 'ready', but the bell just hasn't yet rung. Step back from the starting-line. Take a few moments behind the bleachers, to do what the bad (but not really bad) kids do, blowing off steam and a few punchlines. No need to keep nervously checking. When the time comes, you'll know. Until then, quit hassling yourself. Trust in the cyclical quality of time never to stick you in a quicksand pit of inertia for too long before it spits you back out again and poof! you're no longer stuck. You're burning off the last bits of a destiny already put to bed. Limbo, like those annoyingly drawn-out two hours of waste at Kennedy or O'Hare between flights—still a few moments left to grab a magazine, a burger or a piss before boarding begins.

Heh. Good point.

Oh, hey, another one: this week's Michael Lutin:

TAURUS

You have to work hard now and remain intellectually open to the cultural and philosophical shifts to which you are now challenged to adjust. Your life direction is not as screwed up as it seems.

Woo hoo!

The changes and disappointments you’ve encountered are not the work of a malignant Fate, designed to foil your efforts and destroy your dreams of stability and success.

Sweet!

Proving to loved ones that you are not so rigid and stubborn is hard. Very hard.

Why would I bother? I'm a Bull, man.

SCORPIO

Beside the fact that your body has been driving you nuts and reminding you to take better care of yourself, you seem to be torn between commitments. There’s no sense getting your undies in a bunch over relationships with neighbors and relatives, especially if you can’t manipulate the situation right now. And you cannot. Emotionally your situation is still hyper-complicated and messy. To avoid confusion and worry, stay clean and sober.

Astrologer-talk can be funny.

"I never thought I would write "Oh boy, I'm so glad it's Mercury Retrograde."

Back on topic, this is kind of eerie:

LIBRA Mercury is retrograde in your solar house of the unconscious, stirring dreams, visions, and, in certain cases, hallucinations about the past. Pay attention to these messages, and you'll gather valuable information about what is and isn't true for you.

SCORPIO Mercury facilitates meetings with old friends, and while some of these encounters may feel awkward, for the most part, each one is a chance to see your personal history with greater clarity. So don't be afraid to make contact.

This week's AstroBarry is kinda eerie

Many years from now, when people find this post, it will make far more sense to read than it does now. Sorry about that.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): You're metamorphosing in the shadows, in semi-seclusion. You keep receiving messages, from the marketplace and the universe (and your astrologer), to surrender… to lay low… to consider starting to consider really reconsidering certain pillars of self-definition that were previously so important but are no longer providing you the same foundational solidness… all of which have seemed, for too long a while now, to leave you decidedly unclear on which direction is north (and, for that matter, whether that means you should run toward or away from the compass-pointer). This story will give way to another one, Scorpio, in about four weeks or so—a tale of rebirth, in which your starring role as the valiant reappearing hero will bring you in contact with both new opportunities and enticing echoes from your past—that'll last you through the end of 2010. Yes, that's right: Soon enough, this phase of blasé wanderings and obscured entryways, dizzying standstills and dull clouds of unshakable melancholy opens up into something else. With the promise of this not lasting forever, then, you should have plenty to pin your hopes on… still without knowing much.

I'm not that into general horoscopes in general (who's surprised to hear this on an astrology blog?) because they're not nearly nitpicky/specific/personal enough for my tastes, but sometimes, once in awhile, it does seem dead on to me personally.

Shadow metamorphosis? Yes. Messages to surrender? Yes. Lay low? Eh...more like "the big giant change stuff isn't happening for a few years yet, so chill." Really reconsidering pillars of self-definition...yeah, that's the part that's scary as fuck.

One particular one of mine, which is VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, looks like it's gonna be .... Not because I want it to go or because I have genuinely changed my mind about it, because I have NOT. Unfortunately it's looking more like I'm going to have to be forced to do it in order to serve well, a greater purpose. And the final endgame requires me to do what I've never wanted to do. If I'm to follow the path that I'm told I can't get off of, doing what I don't want to do is apparently a requirement. I have years to go before I'm under the gun about it, mind you, but it's definitely something that, knowing about it ahead of time, I have spent years looking for escape routes from.

Ugh.

Unclear? Yes... I have to say that the "run toward or away from the compass-pointer" is EERILY DEAD ON. Especially this weekend when I was having a meltdown about that. I got offered the opportunity to do something else I said I wasn't going to do... mostly because to me it's a step on the path and even though technically it's not irrevocable-- I'm not setting off the final set of dominoes if I do it-- it's farther along than I've been comfortable doing. I'm still not comfortable doing it. The closer I get to the thing this week, the more I'm going to be shitting bricks about it, and I know darned well how superuncomfortable I am going to be doing it. But... people have been pestering me about it, and even I will admit that if one studies manifestation as much as I have, at some point I actually have to act in accord about the situation. So yeah.

"Valiant REAPPEARING hero?" Oh my. More appropriate than you know.

Oh, and today's Michael Lutin...

Business person, aspiring artist, or lover, you’ve got to make sure you know the difference between fact and fiction. It’s one thing to have inspired dreams, but quite another to hammer them into manifestation. Realizing your fantasies will take not only the sweat of your own brow, but the cooperation of people you have to be sensitive to, whether you feel like it or not. Think long term. It won’t kill you.

That's funny

"Usually, when Uranus is heading up to hit on your Sun, you’d expect a busting out of conventional paradigms and that certainly this would be expressed in a more officially bizarre style of dress. In the case of Lady Gaga, i think she could really only shock or subvert at this point by fanging about in jeans, fit-flops and a skivvy that passed the quick smell test."

Venus and Saturn when you're young

Also, Bristol and Levi.

7th house Uranus transits

And then something to freak about later!

6th house Uranus transits

Still freaking about this.