Aspects for the week beginning 30 September 2007

Feels like a new era this week: new month, new season, new horizons…This week, we’ll follow the fortunes of 3 characters: the University fresher, the traveller on a late holiday break, and the novelist. We’ll leave behind the hapless office worker at her desk, having a mundane week, sharpening her pencil and resisting the relentless advance of the “paperless office”. She may be back next week. The week revolves around the sliding doors of two aspects this week, and hopefully we’ll cover them in a little more detail than usual. First to present itself is the ever practical Mercury sextile Saturn tomorrow, the door to the mental tone for the week. It’s an aspect which involves attention to detail, bringing its own rewards. Our fresher finds himself in endless registration queues filling in endless forms, but in his newfound maturity knows it brings him ever closer to the serious business of Having Fun. Before meeting those clever debator dudes in Soc Soc, you have to actually join the thing and hand over the money. Next up our tourist: the journey is a chance for a serious catch-up with her travelling companion, and touching down on foreign shores it’s the serious but worthwhile challenge of getting the tongue round those strange-looking vowels in the phrase book, and mastering the local currency to three decimal places. And our novelist? There’s definitely a new chapter to be written, if not a new volume to the trilogy. What a responsibility – you really need to plan in fine detail, even though you’d love to just let it flow. Now it’s volume three you really have to think about getting your message across, and it’s a day to knuckle down. So to sum up generally then, once you have laid down the structures of your week on Monday, you can relax and let things unfold. Emotionally, the climax comes on Wednesday (3rd October) through Venus trine Pluto, the door to the emotional plane. For the fresher, you may find that the posh totty down the corridor (it’s all right, she’s not reading this) is already spoken for back home. But, faint heart never won fair lady, especially if she is majoring in the novels of Jane Austen. The Shirley Valentine abroad meanwhile needs to mark her diary with a heart on Wednesday, as that’s the day she is most likely to have a romantic brush with a stranger, eyes locked across a crowded swimming pool. This may also serve to put into context her relationship with the One she left behind back home. This aspect goes deep, and reveals the secrets of the psyche. She’ll weigh the shallow pool encounter against those deeper waters, and guess which will win….? As for our struggling novelist, it’s time to tackle the thorny question of the sex scene. Remember you ducked out of it in your last trilogy, despite the urgings of your literary agent. It may help to picture your prospective readership and pitch it accordingly: whether it be the Sun readers, broadsheet readers eagerly awaiting their weekly instalment (are there still broadsheets?) or New Age Aspirants ascending to other dimensions…Oh, and we can’t resist a peek at the office worker. What’s she up to? Daydreaming her life away…