Aspects for the week beginning 27 December 2009
At the end of 2009 we have Venus, Pluto, Sun, Mercury and the North Node in Capricorn. It’s a sobering sign, but the Sun is always in Capricorn at this time of year, and Mercury and Venus often are. Pluto and the North Node are additional and heavyweight features in Capricorn, and so we are taking serious note of where our individual and collective lives are heading. This will inform our New Year’s resolutions, as well as the Saturn-Uranus opposition and the Saturn-Pluto square. Can anyone still be ungrounded? The coming year does have a fun factor though, in the shape of Jupiter-Uranus, and I would urge you to work with your Inner Clown to formulate at least one fun-factor resolution. If you are unaware of what house this falls in natally, then you can see it as a general new bginning in 2010 which you are working towards now. Astrologers will be blogging about this conjunction, which balances out some of the heavier placements. There are no aspects today, so yesterday’s Mercury retrograde holds full sway. However, I must report that travelling back from Christmas yesterday was not too bad, just a short and sticky patch on the M25. Travel is not always bad when Mercury is retrograde, and it is not always good when Mercury is direct (is it sacreligious to say that?). If there is a theme to the aspects of this week, I would say it is emotional processing, as it is what all the aspects have in common, starting with Venus conjunct Pluto tomorrow (Monday 28th). It is possible that the social and family-orientated interaction of the Christmas period have given you much emotional food for thought to process and digest, and there are various aspects this week to help you or prompt you to do just that. Venus conjunct Pluto digs deep into the psyche, and perhaps someone gave you a thought-provoking book for Christmas to accompany your own personal processing journey: I gave myself “Contented Dementia” by Oliver James (well, no one gave me the Bob Dylan CD…) which is a smoothly-written easy read about a method of coping with Alzheimer’s. If you are going to read or write about such things, might as well make it palatable and hopeful, I conclude. Tuesday (29th) brings a conjunction between Mercury and the Mean North Node, which may show up a literal rendering or accounting of karma, for instance you may find yourself returning an exact favour to someone without thinking about it, retrospectively realizing that’s what it was. It’s also a good time to start a karmic ledger book now, but not for purposes of revenge, just interest (karma has such a dodgy press at the moment, it really needs re-defining). Venus also squares Saturn, so you may be reminded of who or what was loved and lost in 2009. It is the letting go part of the emotional processing, of which the Venus-Pluto conjunction was the intensity of feeling. And there’s more…tension builds up to the Full Moon, a Lunar Eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer on Thursday 31 December. Moon in Cancer is one of the most emotional Moons there is, and an Eclipse is a turning point, so it is a high tide of emotion if not for you then for someone close. If you have been on an emotional roller-coaster throughout the week, or the year, it is time to acknowledge this if you are a pent-up sort, and sit yourself down with a cup of tea and a full box of paper hankies (whilst apologizing to the rainforests). If you have been processing and emoting throughout freely, then you may by now have emptied out enough to focus on your New Year’s Resolutions. Yes, it is time to open your copy of “The Secret” or one of Esther and Jerry Hicks’ books (it doesn’t matter which one)…actually, you don’t need to open it, just have it there with you while you make your list of resolutions, and remember to make one for the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, to express and bring on the lighter side of your life. Happy New Year!
December 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Dear Lana, Thanks for this sobering and yet somehow freeing blog. I am not in my usual habitat as I tap this comment but thousands of miles away in Tennessee where the sun is shining and the skies are blue and the temerpature is much warmer than in the UK, apparently. I can see how the things you’ve talked about will be spot on for me this week. Travelling back to the UK on Thursday, leaving my daughter and grandchildren behind. All high emotional stuff and as we approach that I can feel the build up. However… I am excited about the Jupiter-Uranus conjuction and finding the fun factor in my life… starting with the panto in January! Thanks for all your great blogs in 2009. You have served us all well. Love Flick 🙂
December 27th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I’m not a New Year resolution type, but do aim to make steady improvements where I can, so lots to think about then. It does feel like an emotional processing time to me, definitely. Then there is the new baby due in extended family, any day. I’ll be fascinated to see which day she chooses, but am sneaking a wish here for all to go well, bound to be emotional methinks. Meanwhile Lana, thanks for seeing out the Noughties with your insights, and Best Wishes to the next decade, love Sarah.
December 29th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I wish I had read this BEFORE coming into the office this morning, then perhaps the emotional breakdowns would not have come from so far out of left field [That’s an American saying – means they were a surprise 🙂 ].
For one girl, today was a definite result of having too much to eat, emotionally, at Christmas and her emotional digestion being thoroughly upset. Once I did what I could to help everyone I settled down to paperwork and thought “Hmmm, wonder what Lana said about this week” and there it was.
I’m not much of a New Year’s resolver myself, and I strongly encourage my patients to wait until the Chinese New Year to make promises since they often feel like such failures if they don’t do EVERYHTHING they resolved to do in the heat of the moment on New Year’s Eve, and really – who needs THAT dogging your heels through the winter months?
I don’t think it’s sacrilegious to say that things can go smoothly with Mercury retrograde and bumpily with it direct – for some people the retrograde is their most comfortable and productive time. It’s just that so many folks like to blame Mercury for things going badly (poor Merc, probably feels a little put-upon with that energy coming at him). I found my students often would say “Oh that’s why that went so badly, Mercury was retrograde” and they’d ignore the fact that, while Mercury was direct, they hadn’t laid the necessary groundwork for the thing in question to go well. Not Merc’s fault, but who gets the blame. Of course, since so much DOES go haywire when Mercury is retrograde it’s understandable to blame every little thing on him.
P.S. Flick – Too bad California and Tennessee are so far apart, would have been super to meet you face-to-face. Must be a bit of a culture shock to hit the almost summer like weather there. Here on the left coast it’s been in the 60s to 70s (15 – 20 for y’all in the UK) all holiday.
December 31st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Thank you so much Flick, Sarah, Dia and all who have commented on my blog this year!
Love, Peace and Light to you all for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2010
Lana