{"id":1427,"date":"2012-01-22T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T12:44:12","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-22-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 22 January 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the time the Costa Concordia ran aground, Uranus was squaring Italy\u2019s Mercury in the 8th<\/sup> House in Cancer (a shock to its coastline).\u00a0 Italy suffered a double shock that day, because on the same day, Italy\u2019s credit rating was downgraded by Standard & Poor (the 8th<\/sup> House also represents financial dealings with others).\u00a0 \u00a0When Silvio Berlusconi departed from office last November, Uranus (extreme change) was also squaring Italy\u2019s Mercury (a challenge to its mindset).\u00a0 The Costa Concordia was originally <\/strong>ordered on 19 January 2004, under a <\/strong>Moon conjunct Pluto trine Mars, which might have raised some Health and Safety issues.\u00a0 Be careful what aspects you order a sailing vessel under, such as a Royal Yacht.\u00a0 But ours is still at the discussion stage, I believe, so no astrological chart to be drawn just yet.\u00a0 On the night that the Costa Concordia ran aground, Venus was on the cusp of Aquarius and Pisces, conjunct with Neptune.\u00a0 Mercury was also conjunct Pluto \u2013 both conjunctions of the deep.\u00a0 There is a sense of fatefulness when the chart of the disaster is compared to the chart of the ordering of the sea vessel: Pluto was opposing the ship\u2019s Saturn (destruction by grounding).\u00a0 What of the role of the Captain, Francesco Schettino?\u00a0 Schettino was born three days before Jonathan Ross in the same year.\u00a0 Ross has now relaunched himself, after a cavalier prank in 2008.\u00a0 It could be the role of their Pluto conjunct the North Node to live on the edge.\u00a0 Of Schettino\u2019s relationship to Italy, his Neptune (carelessness) squares Italy\u2019s Pluto, but it is quite a price to pay for carelessness.\u00a0 Perhaps we will find out more about his state of mind in due course.<\/p>\n

The Sun sextiles Uranus today: A bright start to a bright day.\u00a0 Maybe you slept unexpectedly, contrary to your usual insomnia pattern, and feel re-aligned.\u00a0 The Sun also squares Jupiter, so there is a possibility of overreaching yourself in enthusiastic efforts, e.g. pruning the bushes in the garden.\u00a0 Just know your own boundaries, and those of your neighbours. \u00a0Tomorrow the New Moon occurs in the sign of Aquarius at 2 degrees – Another bright start to another bright day.\u00a0 A time to launch or relaunch social initiatives, and look at life in a new, and perhaps whackier, way.\u00a0 Group consciousness is favoured, and mind-melding.\u00a0 Subsequently, Mercury trines Mars and an energetic trek or fitness drive may be supported by the Universe.\u00a0 If you have strident words to say, you may find clear but inoffensive ways to say them. This time you can set things precisely right, if you have been awkward in your past efforts.\u00a0 On Tuesday (24th<\/sup>) Mars is stationary prior to turning retrograde – having taken two steps forward this week, plans may begin to stall, leaving you only one step forward.\u00a0 The expert on retrogrades Erin Sullivan says of Mars retrograde: \u201cWhen transiting Mars stations and turns retrograde, all externalized drive and focused energy reverses its direction.\u00a0 The daily progress of which one normally takes no note suddenly becomes filled with effort.\u201d\u00a0 As if to illustrate this, Friday (27th<\/sup>) brings a square between Mercury and Saturn, which could bring beaurocratic delays to your documentation, rather like a retrograde Mercury action or non-action, but shorter and sharper and more embodied in a particular event.\u00a0 Plans may take a step backwards but remember if you made the most of the headway early in the week, you are still one step forward from where you were at\u00a0the beginning of the week, the snakes are now behind you and there are a couple of ladders in sight!\u00a0 Mercury then goes into Aquarius in the early evening of Friday, bringing a fresher mental outlook, and stimulating discussion if you are socializing.\u00a0 If you are spending a quiet Friday night in, it is a good time to actively start a new project, rather than sit mesmerized in front of the television (I hope I will be able to walk my talk).\u00a0 Mentally you can turn things around now, because another boost arrives on Saturday (28th<\/sup>) in the shape of Mercury sextile Uranus.\u00a0 Again it\u2019s at tea-time in the U.K., so again more socializing is on the cards, and some of it could be quite electrifying.\u00a0 If \u00a0you are having a traditional tea, it won\u2019t be sedate!\u00a0 If you are having a housewarming party there could be some welcome surprises.\u00a0 And if you are attending a reunion, mentally you will be reeling.\u00a0 Estrangements may be healed.<\/p>\n

In your Dancing on Ice update for this week, the stand out surprisingly wonderful performers of last week (Chico and Matthew Wolferton) have proved elusive in the search for birth dates. Maybe these will emerge as the series continues.\u00a0 Jennifer Ellison, who skated first last Sunday, won the culinary challenge Hell\u2019s Kitchen a few years back in 2004, when Uranus was exactly square to her Uranus.\u00a0 With Sun\/Mars (high energy) opposite natal Jupiter\/Uranus, she relishes a challenge and is a risk taker.\u00a0 She has made a good start, and should do well.<\/p>\n

Veteran fitness guru Rosemary Conley (my age bracket) according to the commentator performed a tortilla wrap (I could manage one in the kitchen).\u00a0 Natally she has Venus conjunct Jupiter, a very sociable feature, and called Dancing on Ice: \u201cThe Most Wonderful Show on Earth\u201d, which is a superlative befitting her Venus\/Jupiter enthusiasm.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever wondered where she gets her inexhaustible energy from \u2013 it\u2019s directly from the Centre of the Galaxy where she has her Sun (she\u2019s a rare creature, and I wish her well in the competition!).\u00a0 Like Jennifer Ellison and Heidi Range, she has the high energy conjunction between Mars and the Sun (it is not that common!).<\/p>\n

Holywood actor Corey Feldman\u00a0 was lagging behind in training \u2013 making 2 films at the same time \u2013 and appeared in the skate off, possibly not for the first time.\u00a0 He has a sensitive chart, with Sun in Cancer square Chiron, and Jupiter conjunct Neptune.\u00a0 His partner Brooke Castile has Moon conjunct Jupiter and\u00a0 the Sun, Chiron and Mercury in Gemini.\u00a0 The pair have their Venuses conjunct, plus his Uranus trines her Sun.\u00a0 Uranus currently trines Corey\u2019s Neptune, so he may be learning personal and impersonal lessons of sensitivity through his participation in the show, whilst multitasking in his film ventures, Uranus stimulating his ability to take on complexity (Neptune) which may not enable him to stay long in the competition.\u00a0 It\u2019s a spinning plate he may not be able to maintain.<\/p>\n

Sebastien Foucan, a French runner specializing in freerunning and parkour, is someone I was unaware of, not being of a sporty disposition.\u00a0 But he seems to have taken the contest by storm, with an unusual twist in that his fierce independence (natally Mercury\/South Node trine Uranus) created distance between him and his skating partner Brianne Delcourt.\u00a0 He performed well, and it is intriguing to see whether he takes note of his partner in his next performance.\u00a0 Philip Schofield said he brought passion to the contest, and this may be his Venus\/Chiron conjunction in Aries, but in many ways he has a private chart.\u00a0 Incidentally, he is a Gemini, and running is the sport most associated with Gemini.\u00a0 I associate ice dancing with Pisces.<\/p>\n

The Week in Bullet Points:<\/p>\n