Aspects for the week beginning 8 June 2008
How were last week’s aspects for you? After a heady Chiron/North Node conjunction during the week, I collapsed with nervous exhaustion from the Sun/Venus/Retrograde Mercury yesterday in Gemini (the sign of nervous exhaustion). Spent a lot of time last week hovering around the Astrodienst forum, marvelling at all the debates that were going on, but lost for words. Maybe I’ll pick up courage this week. I think we are in for a slightly bumpier ride this week, peeking at my ephemeris. So prepare for a long and challenging blog. Two people asked me for exact degree locations this week, so I have provided a mini-ephemeris (see “Planets starring in this week’s Aspects”). The good news for today is Mercury sextile Mars: some good work is going to come to pass today. Efficiency and mental acuity constitute the order of the day. Lazy Sunday it is not. Tomorrow (Monday 9th) brings a conjunction between Sun and Venus, which is about love in its many forms, the full gamut from conditional to unconditional, whatever you happen to be practising. If it is your birthday, you’ll be able to bring a full and open heart (is that a contradiction in terms?) to the day, and perhaps also the coming year. People will be able to bask in its radiance. By Thursday (12th) however, affairs of the heart are starting to get twisted up by our human limitations, with Venus squaring Uranus. Living the unconditional love dream for three days may have taken you to your personality limits, and you might be thinking “I can’t sustain this”, or “I want to break free”. It’s no good me telling you to keep your heart open if you feel you’ve reached your limit, but maybe I could tell you to lower the cholesterol in your diet to minimize the damage. Taking it one day at a time, look after your heart on Thursday. Friday is the 13th, and I am not superstitious, but there’s another blow to the heart early in the morning, followed by a resuscitation in the early afternoon (UK time, so please adjust if you are reading from other parts of the world). The early-morning aspect is Sun square Uranus, so you could be awoken in a cold sweat from your dreamtime by a shock nightmare, wondering if it was real. There may be electrical dysfunction at breakfast, such as the toaster failing to pop up. Just stand by it for 3 minutes or so, because the spanner is in the works today. The good news is that Venus trines Neptune in the afternoon, which is superb. You still need to spread the low-cholesterol or soya spread on your toast and look after your physical heart, but emotional affairs of the heart will take a turn for the better. You’ll have a text on your mobile to say that it was all a misunderstanding, and that on a higher level there is a total union of Souls. Perfect serenity for lovers. The return to Sagittarius of Pluto on Saturday morning (14th) is a weighty astrological event. Have you been keeping your Pluto-in-Capricorn diary since January? What practical and earth-shattering insights have you learned? Now take out again last year’s Pluto-in-Sagittarius diary. You should have a few pages left, going up to late November this year, to sort out your remaining Pluto-Sagittarius philosophical issues, before reverting back again. Pluto’s re-entry comes early in the morning, so again there may be another important (and what Jung called) numinous dream to enter into your Dream Diary. You may need a bigger bedside table to accommodate all these notebooks, mind. We end the week on a slightly euphoric high, for Saturday evening brings a trine between the Sun and Neptune. Good for the heart, and good for the Soul. I like happy endings, and don’t want to unsettle you, but if when you are tuning in with the divine, you feel a slight sense of unease it’s because of the upcoming Full Moon which will be quite a happening thing.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Dear, dear, dear Lana!!!! Thanks so much for putting my mind at ease regarding my complete and utter exhaustion. I thought it was entirely JET LAG …. capitalised due to the profundity of it! Now I realise it’s Gemini maybe I can live another week! With the heart featuring so heavily this week I hope mine survives – on all levels! Maybe the extra sleep I have had this weekend due to the Sun/Venus/retrograde mecury in Gemini (what a mouthful!) will just protect me enough to get through. Thanks so much for all your insight and YOUR open heart!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Sadly I am not keen on mention of a bumpier ride this week. It cannot be worse than last, yet there is always rewards for these challenges. So perhaps instead of hiding me head under the sand, which was my first thought, I will stick it above the parapet and takes what comes. With as open a Heart as I can muster, and fore warned as ever with your insights too, thanks Lana.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I just want to point out that a trine involving Neptune does not necessarily lead to a “slightly euphoric high” and I speak from experience. Neptune reveals and dissolves both our illusions and our attachments to them which is painful and depressing in effect because we feel powerless to halt the dissolution process. It seems to me that the trine makes Neptune more powerful in its action because we are less able to resist it.
The upside, if we can withstand its action, is a new ability to recognise the truth of who we are and the world around us. One of my guides pointed out that Neptune has the ability to dissolve limitations and boundaries to our perception of reality enabling our awareness to expand and to recognise more clearly the world of maya; glamour and illusion.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I was not anticipating any highs this past weekend, but despite some pain in the process of my illusions being revealed to me before their dissolution, I can report ‘slightly euphoric highs’ which helped me through, both Saturday and Sunday. Also Monday and into today, where I am arrived with wonderful insights, albeit without glamour.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Dear Laura
Several times during the writing of a blog I catch myself thinking “Is this too cheery or too scary?” so I welcome a rise in the level of debate about this issue. Your comment illustrates the complexity and the subtlety of the Neptunian processes, and may help others negotiate them. My own Neptune process crystallized when it transited my Sun, and I sat and wrote a set of zodiac poems over the course of 2 days. So I have come to associate Neptunian transits with a creative partnership with the spirit world. Our individual experiences of a transiting planet can be coloured by the condition of our natal planet, e.g. if we have another planet (say Saturn) in aspect to it, then a transit can at the same time bring up Saturnian issues. My own Neptune remedy is meditation, balancing the energies and re-connecting with spiritual sources. Maybe others will write about their Neptunian experiences. Thanks very much for your contribution.
Love
Lana
June 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
My experience of Neptune chimes more with Laura’s description. On several occasions it’s been a shocking correction of assumptions. From the perspective of distance perhaps a growing experience and I’d have to admit probably for the best in the end, but quite impossible to see that at the time.