Saturn Return Can Bite Me

So, I think my mom just found a new boyfriend.

...Yeah.

That's ... weird.

On the one hand, I'm happy for her. God knows she could use a real boyfriend that she actually like, has feelings for (clearly this was never the case with my dad. Poor dad.). And is an actual boyfriend rather than the psuedo-one she's kind of had for the last few years. As long as he's not a jerk, I am totally cool with having a new stepfather. Though having stepsibs would be... interesting when I never had any of the original sort. Hope they're not jerks! 

On the other hand...dude lives in Arizona and we're in NorCal. And he definitely would not be the one who moves in this scenario.

So, yeah. On the one hand I think, "if I move down south, she'll only be 6 hours by car or 45 minutes by plane, that's a lot easier visiting than trying to go back up." On the other hand, I think, if I don't end up moving, my mommy will be very far away and what am I going to do....OH SHIT....

So, yeah.

There's also the ol' feeling of "Yeah, my mom'll get married for the second time long before I even have a shot at marrying for the first," but that's no surprise. My cousins in elementary school will probably get married before I do :P

Anyway, of course I want to check the astrology. And at first I'm thinking, "huh, dude has no Pisces or Virgo", which my dad and the guy Mom's been palling around with for years have and she seems to really like since that's her asc/desc axis, "how's that going to..."

Then I went to the karmic astrology. Mom and I have reversed nodes, and this guy has Mars/Neptune on her south node (my north node). She has Venus on her north, so that's some Venus/Mars there. Their composite chart looks like a giant ugh (tons of squares), but if there's karmic bindings... and she's got Saturn loosely square his nodes.

Hoo boy.

Well, I guess we'll all get along...

She asked me if there was anything going on transitwise for her right now, and tons of planets are going through her seventh house. So there you go.

People are coming unglued

"Are you seeing this too? I am not talking about, Arizona. I am talking people in your personal lives.
"I know a lot of people (and have a lot of clients) with planets 0-15 Cardinal and if their lives have not already exploded in some craptacular fashion, their tension is palpable.

I don't mean to be full of doom. I do think there are positive ways to use all energy but people who are looking for things to even out and smooth out - well you are not going to get that.
I have said this in a few places: Mars and Saturn and Pluto combined is not something to full with. There is no doilies to be found with this combination and we are going to have these planets mashed for then entire month of April. What we are seeing now is prelude for some of us and if you look around, listen around, read around, it's pretty obvious."

Sigh. Well, so far, this has been my 2011:

(a) New Year's was a buttload of drama 'n crazy because my mom suddenly went off the deep end.

(b) My friend's marriage has suddenly gone drama-tastic. She also had a new job interview right in the middle of this drama and I had to calm her down enough to focus on that for 24 hours.

(c) My apartment got flooded.  FOR THE SECOND TIME. At least this time doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as the first, since (a) the flooding only happened for around 2 hours instead of like 12, (b) only flooded 2 out of the 3 main rooms, so when I had to move stuff out it at least could stay in the apartment, (c) this time I have renter's insurance putting me up in a motel, and (d) I probably won't have to be out nearly as long as last time, more like a week or two. But still, how many people have this happen to them in freak upstairs idiot accidents twice? And now I get to worry about if it'll someday happen for a third time just to y'know, be completist.

Yes, that's all in the first 8 days of the year or so. SHEESH.

And right before that, a friend's wife's mom went into hospice.

I have Mercury and Pluto at 14 degrees in cardinal signs, my friend has several planets in Capricorn (including Saturn at 14), her husband has a cardinal moon, my mom has Neptune and Venus in cardinal signs, the friend's wife has moon and Mars in cardinal.

So, YEAH.

 

And finally, the Venus test.

After much debate on the Venus ruler question, she finally did a test for it. I'll be updating this post too.

I tend to think this is a pretty rididculous argument though. Earth is a NEUTRAL PARTY in this thing. We're talking about how the planets go around Earth because we are on it. It should NOT be thrown in as something else to analyze. Ergo, I think Earth shouldn't rule anybody's one sign, thanks. (Speaketh the Taurus who finds this impractical, and I don't think Taurus and Libra are utterly unalike and unable to relate to each other either. If you're gonna go there, why don't you pick on Gemini and Virgo? And even there that isn't utterly out of the question.)