Aspects for the week beginning 2 September 2007

Did you find the healing key provided by Mars and Chiron last week? Perhaps it was a symbol, or a philosophical thought. The Mars and Chiron healing effect is still influential this week, so you can still use it, though watch for the philosophical thought or symbol to change form or evolve. The big event of the week, and it’s about 3 hours away as I write, is the entry of Saturn into Virgo. Saturn has been in Leo for the last two and a half years, teaching you something, maybe that when you are feeling frivolous someone else may not be. So for Leos it’s party on dudes, but bearing in mind what came up for you. For Virgos, it’s down to serious business, maybe economies or ecologies. How important is this astrological event in the scheme of things? Diarists flip your pages back to mid-July 2005 when Saturn moved out of Cancer and into Leo: then we had liberated an emotional issue and begun a new test of our creative expression. More dedicated diarists (such as moi) flip back even further to the last time Saturn was in this exact position, to mid-November 1977, and you will have a more accurate picture of what to expect in context of the area of your life which is most involved, though you’ll have moved on and will experience on another level. The significance of this event may be temporarily lost in the maelstrom of squares starting tomorrow (3rd) which form part of a loose Grand Cross in the mutable signs composed of Mars in Gemini, Mercury and the Sun in Virgo, Jupiter and Pluto in Sagittarius and Uranus in Pisces. This could be an initiation for the uninitiated, but certainly we will all have to pull together, and where we have differences put them aside. If anything, the intensity of the Grand Cross was stronger last week, but I didn’t spot it in time (a few people reported feeling intense depression just after the eclipse) – sorry folks! Here’s the breakdown: Mercury squares Pluto early tomorrow morning and if you are travelling make sure you are accompanied by St. Christopher and your travelling Angels. There’s a sextile in the evening between Venus and Mars sandwiched between another two squares: Mars square Uranus earlier in the evening, and Sun square Jupiter in the early hours of Tuesday (4th) morning. For Mars square Uranus read expect the unexpected, including electrical faults. Venus holding hands with Mars brings harmonious cooperation between the sexes. Sun square Jupiter doesn’t mean much harm, but can swing to extremes, so a balance needs to be found. These aspects taken all together mean that events can take over, but hold fast to loyalties and alliances and remember that we are all one. We are all in it together. As Suzuki Roshi once said, in the front of a vegetarian cookbook “We are all friends from past lives”. Wednesday (5th) Mercury enters Libra, and if Wednesday is particularly important in your life, it is a good day for dialogue, and you may have a lot to catch up on. Pluto goes stationary on Friday (7th). It’s been taking a long lingering nostalgic glance at Sagittarius before it moves into Capricorn in January. There is still a lot of co-operation going on between Pluto and Saturn, so any benefits you accrued on August 6th when they were in trine can still work in your life. You may be able to see now what a permanent marker that was for you. Jupiter also sextiles Chiron, and that philosophical tenet or healing symbol can be re-charged. Finally, Venus goes stationary on Saturday (8th) after a few weeks of reuniting us with past loves, picking up personal stitches and seeing how they fit into what we are making of our lives. Pause to look at your handiwork. In the meantime, I am carefully keeping an eye on our two cats who have Saturn transiting their Sun this week…