{"id":1407,"date":"2012-01-01T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:08:10","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-1-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 1 January 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, we are here \u2013 it\u2019s 2012!\u00a0 What have we in store?\u00a0 Is it possible to sense the energy of a year from its first moments \u2013 I am sure there are people who can.\u00a0 I had an email this week from my Mayan Calendar friend O\u2019Douce, talking of Oneness, Change, Miracles and flushing out fear.\u00a0 Another friend Asia Haleem wrote a blog for 2012 last year, taking an astronomical look at events, and coming to a reassuring conclusion (see Mayan Calendar category for further reading). \u00a0\u00a0My mum (who does not subscribe to the Mayan Calendar) remarked that she liked the number 2012, much better than 2011.\u00a0 From the synaesthetic point of view (and I am not a numerologist) I can go along with that: I saw 2011 as a spiky silver grey, but I see 2012 as a double fuschia pink, which may not mean anything.\u00a0 But I think it\u2019s important to be able to feel that it is going to be a good year.\u00a0 It\u2019s important for the hope in your heart to edge past the depressing sets of facts, figures and statistics in the news.\u00a0 The stand-out events of 2011 (and if you need a reminder, read my retrospective blog) were the Arab Spring\/Occupy Movements (Jupiter and Uranus in Aries) and the world-threatening Euro crisis (Uranus square Pluto, ongoing).<\/p>\n

But it is the subject of relationships which is grabbing me, blogwise, this morning.\u00a0 Television scriptwriters brought together two long term relationships\u00a0 last week: \u00a0on Downton Abbey Christmas Day the writer Julian Fellowes brought\u00a0together Matthew and Mary.\u00a0 I for one, was relieved, because I had only\u00a0just started watching it and I have a short fuse for suffering. The chart for 10.59 pm on Christmas night showed this unique television highlight as Virgo rising (emotional holding back, and perfection) close to Mars (desire) trine Moon (heightened emotion). \u00a0Pluto (power) was trine Julian Fellowes\u2019 Saturn (restraint) \u2013 he may have felt coerced into it.\u00a0 On\u00a029th Pip and Estella were brought together on Great Expectations,\u00a0Charles Dickens having produced two possible endings. \u00a0The chart for 9.59 pm showed Mars rising in Virgo again, but with an added karmic feature of the Nodal Axis squaring the Ascendant\/Descendant axis plus Sun conjunct Pluto (it was a dark drama altogether).\u00a0 Posthumously, the North Node was transiting Dickens\u2019 Moon\/Neptune conjunction (a karmic coercion on his sensibilities) and Pluto was squaring his Mars (more coercion \u2013 perhaps the scriptwriters did not consult him, or perhaps his original ending was just plain wrong, I mean give them a break after such difficult lives).\u00a0 Meanwhile in\u00a0“real” showbiz life Katherine Jenkins (who has a difficult conjunction between Mars and Saturn natally) split up with Gethin Jones (currently questioning his love life with Neptune transiting his Venus), and\u00a0Russell Brand (an astrological twin of Angelina Jolie, who is hanging on to Brad Pitt) split up with Katy Perry (a really intensely Scorpionic Scorpio). \u00a0Pluto is transiting Katy\u2019s Jupiter, making this a really intensely Scorpionic time for her, and Saturn is squaring Russell\u2019s Venus, bringing a sad sense of emotional loss.\u00a0 What is the secret of a long term relationship? \u00a0I have been\u00a0married for 38 years but I do not know the answer. I do know that\u00a0sometimes my hubby and I appear to be living in parallel universes, because his setting on the toaster is fine for him, whereas it burns\u00a0my toast.\u00a0 You may recall that on my training in Future Life Progression (much more of that to come this year) he questioned the feasibility of travelling into the future, which is his right, as a Scientist.\u00a0 The subject came up again this week, and the debate continued, with an old friend of mine telling him that time goes round in a loop\u2026Our routine was disrupted by the festivities this week, and we found ourselves watching \u00a0re-runs of Frasier and watching for the first time an American comedy series called \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d.\u00a0 Hubby Mike explained to me that at the time of the big bang, photons were released and these may have created parallel universes.\u00a0 I will keep you updated on the ongoing debate, but meanwhile re-affirm \u00a0my feeling that Future Life Progression contributes to an evolutionary step forward \u2013 I am preparing a new website page on this.<\/p>\n

Today Mercury squares Mars, a day of mild irritation.\u00a0 You may not be feeling at your best as a) You drank too much last night, or b) You stayed up too late, and\/or c) You were awake all night trying to assess the synaesthetics of the numbers of every year since you were born.\u00a0 There were fireworks last night, which at some point fizzled out, and similarly any fireworks today will at some point fizzle out.\u00a0 This is the beginning of 2012 \u2013 could it be symbolic?\u00a0 I think we expect more of the year.\u00a0 As the beginning of the week, it might also be symbolic of the week, because this aspect goes unchallenged until Saturday (7th<\/sup>), so work to refine it: its highest potential is sharpness of mind.\u00a0 On Saturday, Mercury sextiles Saturn, steadying the mind and providing the ability to lay down foundations for those New Year plans and resolutions.\u00a0 This is later backed up by a sextile between Mercury and Neptune (the inspiration strangely coming after the plans are laid down by the solid foundations \u2013 it is as if you need the faith that provides in order to allow the dream to come forth).\u00a0 There is a window around midday where Mercury is at the midpoint of the trine between Saturn and Neptune, when the vision of perfection can really be seen, at the midpoint of the material and the spiritual.\u00a0 This vision may be your future life progression for 2012.<\/p>\n

Live, Love, Laugh and Be Happy!<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n