Aspects for the week beginning 18 July 2010
This is a bread and butter week being served up as an hors d’oeuvres before a massive meal of Jupiter square Pluto and Saturn opposite Uranus early on next week’s menu. Last week’s eclipse brought new twists to old news: Here in the U.K. Robbie Williams re-joining Take That (transiting Neptune trine his Saturn and Uranus, forming a Grand Trine), and Coalition plans to revamp (or dismantle?) the NHS; and in the U.S. twin boosts for Barack Obama with the capping of the oil spill situation, and the pushing forward of financial reforms, both featured on 15 July. Starlight wrote 2 days before on Nancy’s Blog (link on my Contact page) “due to this month’s Jupiter station sextile Obama’s Moon (3Gemini21) and square the US Venus (3Cancer06), as well as semisquare Obama’s Ascendant (18Aquarius03), July is bringing some successes and optimism to our beleaguered president.” Neptune is on Barack Obama’s South Node, a long transit, insinuating oil karma but also speculation about his true character. Tuesday (20th) sees Chiron retrograding back into Aquarius, so healing initiatives may suffer a temporary reversal. Counting Chiron as a planet (poetic licence, it’s an asteroid) that is the first of 3 planets to change signs this week, bringing subtle changes this week to the tone of life. Wednesday (21st) Saturn re-enters Libra, and we mean business in our relationships now (there is no going back to Virgo). Next up on Thursday (22nd) the Sun enters its own sunny sign of Leo, and it’s a good week for Leos to feel their essence. For on Friday (23rd) two favourable aspects to the Sun occur: a sextile with Saturn (stability and creativity combined), and then Sun trine Uranus (having established what the rules are, then bringing intuition into play, and expressing as much creativity as possible within those conditions). A day when much can be achieved. The same day, Jupiter goes stationary prior to retrograde motion, and recent successes or gains will need further research (e.g. if you are on a knitting project you may need to go back and pick up some stitches). Don’t abandon hopes and dreams, you just need to realize what needs tweaking. The week ends on a cliffhanger, for Jupiter is poised to square Pluto on Sunday 25th (power play on a large scale) and the 5th and final pass of Saturn opposite Uranus is about to take place on Monday 26th (a final judgement in politics and health reforms). I will try to blog ahead of these two events, and whether or not I do will be my own personal cliffhanger. Perhaps you also have one you already know about…
http://www.lanawooster.co.uk/blog/2009/10/saturn-in-libra-karmic-dilemmas/
July 18th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I think the line which jumps out at me this week Lana, apart from wondering what the grand trine will mean for me and those around me, is: ” Don’t abandon hopes and dreams, you just need to realize what needs tweaking.” Sometimes we just have to hang on to words like that when seeing a clear way forward is not so easy…. maybe the knowing what to tweak becomes clearer as we dissolve the effort and search to finding it. I thank you as ever… Flick 🙂
July 18th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I’m quite fond of bread and butter, perhaps with a little strawberry jam please. I had an enjoyable eclipse last week, and apart from disturbed sleep, due to our continued warm weather (and compared to the extreme that Dia has to put up with I apologise for grumbling) am not sure what the cliffhanger will be. I’ll look out now I’m forewarned. The 26th is my niece’s birthday, and I am invited to another picnic, at the Rare Breed animal farm, along with her little ones, with cake. I won’t go hungry this week, as if, but thanks Lana for explaining the aspects for me and keeping me excitedly enlightened. Love Sarah.
July 19th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Dear Flick and Sarah
Wishing you both a well-deserved fab week ahead (it can’t be easy, commentating, week after week), thankyou!
As for me, with Jupiter, my ruling planet, turning retrograde I am being sent out of retirement for a few weeks and back to work!
Love
Lana
July 19th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Oh Lana, work?! Bleh.
I read this week’s blog, then read parts of it aloud to Bear, who is labouring on a HUGE project and really getting frustrated with the lack of “traction” he’s gotten on it. So the week was encouraging for him to look forward to, as well as the note about knitting – a reminder to him (and me) to not freak out but rather just step back and look at what we need to re-integrate into our project(s).
On a wonderful side note, the weather here is cooling down this week, the animals & I are poking our heads out of the cocooon of our airconditioned house. The dogs actually romped this morning (yay!)
I’m awaiting the next blog installment, as much to see how your cliffhanger resolves as for any other reason. Have a wonderful week – thank you as always for the insight. (wonder if next week will be when everything over here explodes over the oil spill – there’s a fight brewing between BP and our administration . . . stay tuned!)
July 19th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Went to http://www.lanawooster.co.uk/blog/2010/07/2009/10/saturn-in-libra-karmic-dilemmas/ and read with great interest. Kept thinking of my ex, who is a Libra and darned unhappy with being “nice”, to the point that he sometimes says/does mean things, I’ve observed, just to counteract his innate niceness. At the end of the blog, I looked for the date it was published and choked – it was on his birthday! So a cosmic teeheehee courtesy of my friend Lana! Thank you.
On a side note, neither Bear nor I remember me “popping my cork” around that time, I guess I’m a bad Virgo (bad Virgo, no biscuit).
As always Lana, thank you!
July 20th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Dear Flick
Have just noticed that you seem to have appropriated Robbie Williams’ grand trine for yourself. It may have been the way I put it…! But that’s not a bad conjecture – if you can imagine a grand trine you might be able to call one into being!
Love
Lana
July 20th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Dear Dia
Thanks once again for your letter from America!
I am grateful to you for persevering by following up the Saturn in Libra link – it was an afterthought to include it, but I thought it is worth thinking over again.
Love
Lana
July 20th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I met a Libran in the petshop today, she was most insistent about describing her sense of fairness and balance to me. I mentioned my friend, the Astrologer, but too slow to give her your blog address. If I see her again, I will, love Sarah