{"id":836,"date":"2010-10-31T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-10-31T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T11:24:08","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-31-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 31 October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s aspect Venus sextile Pluto is well-matched for Halloween events.\u00a0 If you found last Tuesday\u2019s Sun sextile Pluto constructive and meaningful, today\u2019s aspect is like a different tone of the same colour.\u00a0 Whereas Sun sextile Pluto was balancing life and death, today\u2019s aspect balances love and death.\u00a0 Our dinner party conversation last night was about Halloween being a U.S. import.\u00a0 Our guests were a few years younger than us, but none of us could remember it being celebrated in the U.K. in our childhoods.\u00a0 Our Yorkshireman remembered they celebrated \u201cMischief Day\u201d (e.g. scrumping apples) which was then replaced at that time of year by Halloween.\u00a0 By the time we had our children, tricking and treating on the Scorpionic date of 31<sup>st<\/sup> October had become a way of life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a natural understanding of Halloween, but as far as I can see it is about our relationship with fear and beliefs about death.\u00a0 We need to become our own Most Haunted mediums or exorcists to negotiate it.\u00a0 There is also an increasing tradition of celebrating the old celtic festival of Samhain merged in with this.\u00a0 Oh well, the supermarkets are staffed by witches and warlocks this weekend, and stocking plenty of scary cakes and jellied objects to sink our teeth into\u2026I might just succumb.\u00a0 Tuesday (2<sup>nd<\/sup> November) is the day of the U.S.A. mid-term elections, and I apologize in advance to the Tea Party in that I am not qualified to speak.\u00a0 But, we are what we read, and like the Observer leader today, I would like to urge patience to give Obama a chance: \u201cFaced with impossible expectations, Obama has done astonishingly well \u2013 on paper.\u00a0 In two gruelling years, he has delivered on three of the five promises he set up as the pillars of his \u2018new foundation\u2019 in a speech of April 2009: healthcare, education reform and financial re-regulation.\u201d\u00a0 The Saturn-Uranus opposition of his election has now morphed into a square between Jupiter\/Uranus and Pluto, more complexity and challenge.\u00a0 He has been up against this Cardinal Climax, for goodness sake.\u00a0 Of course I wouldn\u2019t extend the same understanding to our own P.M. David Cameron, who is not in that league of social idealism, having skipped the Saturn-Uranus opposition and come in on the Jupiter\/Uranus square to Pluto.\u00a0 On Thursday (4<sup>th<\/sup>) Mercury trines Jupiter which is a good day for doing business, and for positive thinking (if you believe in positive thinking, that is).\u00a0 For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and there are current ideologies which point out the disadvantages of positive thinking.\u00a0 For example if employing an affirmation, and if the subconscious backlash is not acknowledged, you might get the opposite effect you were intending.\u00a0 I once affirmed for a part-time job to be not in front of a computer screen, and landed up with a full-time job in front of a computer screen, for instance.\u00a0 But, assuming that you like positive thinking, and it\u2019s for you, it\u2019s the day to do it.\u00a0 On Friday (5<sup>th<\/sup>) Chiron is stationary prior to turning direct, and this favours healing initiatives, and miracle turn-arounds, which might reinforce any positive thinking you may have decided to do on Thursday.\u00a0 Saturday (6<sup>th<\/sup>) brings a New Moon at 13 degrees Scorpio, a good day for intensive psychotherapy whether in a conventional set-up or your own home-grown version. \u00a0And shortly afterwards Mercury squares Neptune as if to test out how well your new psychological structures are holding up, by putting in front of you a litmus test for reality versus illusion.\u00a0 If you feel that positive thinking is not suited to Halloween week, then you can cut your teeth (not just on jellied spiders) on the conjunction of the North Node and Pluto in the month of November.\u00a0 These become conjunct at different times according to whether you take the Mean Node or True Node.\u00a0 If the Mean Node, then 27<sup>th<\/sup> is your date.\u00a0 If the True Node, then the 10<sup>th<\/sup> and the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> are more pertinent, and may be more spiritual in focus.\u00a0 [Quote from hubby: \u201cMy brain is turning to jellied spiders reading this section\u201d] Basically this conjunction provides an intense focus on karmic and psychological challenges (in combination) in one area of your life (depending on which House it occupies in your natal chart).\u00a0 You may already know what that is, even if you do not know your Ascendant.\u00a0 Some deep navel-gazing is called for, seriousness about your karmic mission and the mission of the planet as a whole, and possible past-life researches.\u00a0 If you do not have time for these ruminations, then life is likely to present appropriate challenges anyway on an outward level, so that you can see what this is about.\u00a0 Scary stuff?\u00a0 Ha-ha-ha Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s aspect Venus sextile Pluto is well-matched for Halloween events.\u00a0 If you found last Tuesday\u2019s Sun sextile Pluto constructive and meaningful, today\u2019s aspect is like a different tone of the same colour.\u00a0 Whereas Sun sextile Pluto was balancing life and death, today\u2019s aspect balances love and death.\u00a0 Our dinner party conversation last night was about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph9pin-du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}