Aspects for the week beginning 21 February 2010

Just freshly back from a 100% riveting workshop on Soul Contracts by Judy Hall, I have to report that there have been 2 dings on the Customer Complaints Desk this week.  One (just before I left for the workshop) took me to task over my over-optimistic Sagittarian approach (this is due to Sagittarius also being my Chiron sign as well as my Sun sign, and I heartily apologize if this has caused anyone any extra suffering).  The other complaint was waiting for me on my return and bemoaned my tardiness, with the words “Some of us are paralysed with inactivity and cannot get on with our lives until you have posted”.  Again, I heartily apologize if this has caused anyone any extra suffering.  If you are of the former disposition, please adjust my commentaries to a more pessimistic view, and if you are of the latter disposition then please be assured that you have not missed anything today as we do not have a major aspect. Tomorrow (Monday 22nd) the Sun is aligned with the Fixed Star Fomalhaut, and according to “Starlight Elixirs” by Michael Smulkis and Fred Rubenfeld: “This star has an excellent ability to release addictive states by bringing to consciousness the purpose of addictions.”  If combined with Dabih in the Constellation of Capricorn: “For many people there will be an improved sense of belonging.  This can be a feeling of being able to merge with society and do what is needed, but then being able to easily detach when necessary…Combined with Fomalhaut there can be a reduction of the hold of addictions on people because of these underlying principles.”  The Fixed Stars can be powerful in healing, and I for one will be tuning in tomorrow.  We’re working our way towards a sextile between the Sun in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn on Tuesday 23rd.  I have been finding that Jupiter in Pisces has been making it easier to work in a deeper way, and this aspect will show that graphically.  The other main aspect of the week is Mercury conjunct Neptune on Saturday 27th.  This is an aspect which connects the rational mind (Mercury) with our spiritual pathway and sources of inspiration (Neptune), so that you are able to bring through subtle impressions, step them down and decode them with the rational mind.  They can then be used in the capacity of a spiritual messaging service for such things as writing poetry, mental healing or inspiration in dancing.  The mind may initially perceive the energy as confusion.  Many actors channel whether consciously or unconsciously in their craft (for example Shirley Maclaine), and the arrestingly beautiful Gyllenhaal siblings Jake and Maggie are a case in point.  They both have this conjunction between Mercury and Neptune which means they are guided in their work, and it is a family and probably soul group pattern because it is directly inherited from their father the Film Director and Poet Stephen Gyllenhaal who has the same aspect in his chart and the same distinctive features.  Scorpio Maggie was recently interviewed in the Guardian and shows the mental sensitivity of this conjunction in some of her remarks: “The older I get, the more vulnerable I get” and “I used to think that if I did my very best work, then everybody would love it, but I’ve realised that not everybody thinks the same things are good”.  This aspect can be mentally exhausting and you will want to conserve energy on Saturday for the Sunday, which has the gifts of Sun conjunct Jupiter to be harvested, and a Full Moon in Virgo which is very exacting.  I hope to post another of my interview series soon, as a few of them are nearly complete, and it has been an amazing experience for me – to ask, and receive…