Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Saturn in Libra: the silence continues

Continued from here and here.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...well, apparently not.

I was pleased to see that John Mayer finally got to release his album (really nice steampunk cover on it too, that's like the prettiest steampunk-y thing I've ever seen) and was going back on tour. And interestingly enough, the time on the clock on the album cover, plus the album title, makes me wonder if he snuck his birth time in there. Would make him a double Sadge in addition to the tons of Libra if it's in the morning, which seems more likely because then he'd have a 10th house Libra stellium and whopping career power.

But it seemed a little tentative somehow, what with the short tour booking...and yeah. Bummer. And oh look, retrograde Saturn going back over the end of the sign again and kicking his sun once again, and then starting all over again in June..ouch.

I was hoping he'd get all fixed up sooner than by the time Saturn leaves Libra in October, but...I guess not? Maybe the poor dude has to go through the whole period of time quiet before he can finally resurface for good. I hope he can finally effing do that sometime.

In other folks-with-Libra news, my aforementioned double Libra friend got in a whopping bus accident while on vacation in December and has been on medical leave for the winter duration. She seems mostly okay, all things considered, but then there's the joys of PTSD and finding a new therapist. So she's having not the best time either. Poor Libras. I want to start a "Save the Libras!" campaign...The other Libra people I know continue to be out of touch, distant, or in the same crap as ever. 

Though the double Libra saw an astrologer recently and got whopping good predictions for her life having massive good change a year and a half from now. As in "right now you're in a dead period of time, but in 3 years you won't recognize your life." Lucky girl. I'd like to get some kind of prediction like that for myself, but I suspect if I ever got a full reading from a pro, mine would not be cheerful and rosy. Which is pretty much why I try to DIY it here.

 

The Sagittarius lunar eclipse and how it literally went for me.

On Thanksgiving night, my laptop was having issues. It's been doing this weird thing where the power would go off if I touched the right side of my laptop, even briefly or accidentally. I had brought it to my aunt's house and was trying to use it on the couch...so it was blowing out a lot. And finally it just refused to turn on any more.

Naturally, I freaked out. The laptop is 3 years old (as of guess when, Thanksgiving) and while it could be in the range of early death, it really shouldn't be yet. But I've had a screen blow out before and I know that's not fixable. It's not like I was likely to find someone to diagnose it over the weekend...should we be trying to immediately do a Black Friday sale to get a new laptop...oh shit! I was thinking that was the second house eclipse issue right there: sudden financial hosing.

But I got lucky. The laptop turned on the next day, and I figured out that it was plugging my ancient mouse into the laptop that was blowing out the power. Without that mouse, it's doing just fine.

As for the actual day, I bizarrely managed to avoid spending money at craft fairs all day long. I bought my mom a ring for Christmas at her request and that was it. Alas, the restraint didn't last at the NEXT DAY's craft fair, mind you, but it was kind of amazing that I didn't really fall "in love" with anything, or buy more alpaca roving the way I did there every year.

Manifestation and the natal chart

So I'm going through the archives of the Practical Astrology podcast and was just listening to this one. While the actual audio of the main segment of this episode is uh, pretty bad (I had my volume cranked as loud as it could get and could still barely hear most of it), the end part is much clearer and talks about how to see what your chart says about the topic.

Tips for checking on how manifestation is for you in your chart. Look at:
1. 9th house = beliefs, principles, laws, what your chart wants to believe in.
2. Jupiter = what can be done effortlessly, given as a gift. Don't have to work for it.
3. Sagittarius = lead yourself or be led into things that can manifest in abundance.
4. Venus = attraction
5. 2nd house = income
6. Taurus = money
7. Squares/oppositions to those in chart = where chart has a conflict about manifesting effortlessly or about money or what you should believe in.
8. Neptune = chart is confused about something and doesn't know what to believe in

As for mine, I'd be great on the manifesting except for, of course, the nasty squares to everything and Neptune being in the 2nd. No wonder I have issues with believing.