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An Astrological Weather Report
By Steve Robins
California Astrologer, Steve Robins, has been sharing his unique vision of how the planets affect mankind for the past two decades. Not content to follow the traditional horoscope model, Robins strives to place astral events into an organic context. His insight into the cosmic wisdom that can be gleaned from our solar system’s planetary movements is unlike any other.
For the Week of January 31-February 6, 2005
We're being drawn deeper into the individualizing alignment in awareness that is the emphasis of Aquarius, mid-winter, on our way to the new moon of February 8, this year's seed germination turning point. As we are stripped of everything we can do without, reduced to the fertility of a solitary spark, it can be a challenging experience of isolation under pressure, the purification of our core essence. We must accept this time as a critical part of the seasonal process, a natural distillation that brings renewal and emergence with the coming spring.
This week begins with the moon, heart sensitivity, in Libra, mindfulness of love and harmony. Monday, the moon meets big, expansive Jupiter, this year also in Libra, just as it is slowing to an apparent stop, beginning five months of retrograde — internalizing,deepening. The shift of Mercury and Venus, mind and beauty, from earthy Capricorn to airy Aquarius, also reinforces the intensification of awareness as our underlying emphasis right now. Tuesday and Wednesday, the moon's sensitivity is drawn by the magnetic gravity of Scorpio, a vortex of concentrating emotion. This as the sun, our soul vitality, is reaching the mid-point of winter/Aquarius, and meeting Neptune, the 164-year cycle planet of dreams, deepest feelings, at that same place in the seasonal cycle. It should be a powerful, polarizing moment of tension building and breaking between the sun's vitality isolated in awareness and the moon's sensitivity charged with undeniable feeling.
Thursday and Friday, the emotion released, the heart settles down to the low ebb of the seasonal cycle, Sagittarius, resolving passion. Late Friday, heart sensitivity aligns with deep power and action expression (moon meets Pluto and Mars) dragging down to the ground of things, before hitting bottom Saturday morning and crashing/rebounding in Capricorn's primal earthiness. Sunday morning, impulsive Mars, on its two-year cycle, also shifts into Capricorn, adding its active energy to the moon spirit's empowered constructiveness. We are now on approach to the heart/soul convergence at the center of awareness, the Aquarius new moon, on Tuesday, February 8. That will begin the Year of the Rooster. Get out your colors, the love parade is about to begin.
For the week of January 24-30, 2005
We have entered Aquarius, mid-winter's alignment in awareness. Under the pressure of survival, we are reduced to seed essence. It can feel isolating and lonely, forcing us into our separate corners, but it is a natural part of the seasonal process, preparing us for a new year of fertility's emergence. This year, with big, expansive Jupiter, on its twelve year cycle, in Libra, also emphasizing awareness, the experience is powerfully reinforced. We may not always be comfortable with what it puts us through, but it is good for us and will lead to a rewarding harvest.
This past weekend, the moon, our heart sensitivity, moved into Cancer, emotional release. By Monday afternoon it progresses into Leo, the peak of passion, where it will be full early Tuesday morning. Action and power (Mars and Pluto) are meeting in resolving passion (Sagittarius). Mind and love (Mercury and Venus) are together in earthy constructiveness (Capricorn), tense with creativity and grounding (Jupiter and Saturn). This is an especially powerful full moon week. Our hearts are bursting with demonstrative expression, just as we are being pulled back into our individual places amidst life's interconnectedness. It's a time to accept everything and settle at the heart of it.
Toward the end of the week, as the recently full moon moves into fruitful Virgo, our released passion should have something productive to show for itself. By Saturday night and Sunday, as the moon crosses into Libra's awareness of love and harmony, the Aquarian mentality should reach a kind of utopian inspiration. We are on our way to the mid-winter new moon convergence (February 8), turning point in the process of seed essence alignment, germination, and rebirth. Let's give life a chance to manifest naturally.
For a complete personal astrology package, including descriptive birth chart and daily calendar, with instructions, or an individual reading, contact:
Steven Robins
Cosmic Circumstances
Box 243 Felton, California 95018
831/425-1952
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2005 Year of the
Wood Rooster
The Wood Rooster has much in common with a typically-conservative Capricorn. It craves order, demands a strict budget and crows with delight at children who don’t beg at the top of their lungs in the supermarket. 2005 will be a year in which discipline, organization and general rule-following are rewarded. It is a time to drive the speed limit, avoid spending more than you can afford and, by all means, take care of all those things that are kind-of-a-drag, but once concluded, make your life more orderly.
Order, when imposed from without can make life feel like one is in jail. Order that is self-imposed can be freeing. Who hasn’t experienced the joy that comes with knowing where something is and being able to put your hands on it at a moment’s notice? Okay, maybe not everyone, but it is freeing, trust me on this.
Finances are often tight under influence of the Wood Rooster. It’s not that there won’t be enough to go around. No, if sloth is not one’s favorite deadly sin, there should be no reason to worry about an impending lack of food, shelter or the odd cable channel. It’s just that one may discover that replacing that iPod or Viking range with the newest model isn’t feasible this year — and you didn’t need it anyway. Suzanne White, author of several books on Chinese Astrology, including The New Astrology, claims that 2005 is belt-tightening time because the Wood Rooster demands: "Cutbacks. Reduction of waste. Solid infrastructures. Rebuilding of crumbling ruins. Quality products which last. The military. The system. Banks. Fine Art. Creative projects with redeeming social value."
(Could the call for social value in art portend the end of the reality TV genre? Would you settle for the end of Donald Trump’s public career?)
So mend fences, literally and figuratively, work hard, re-grout your tiles and stay away from shopping malls. Even if you’re not worried about gun-wielding terrorists holding you hostage at the Contempo Casuals store, your credit card bills could easily menace your sense of well-being this year, when the sober energy of 2005 comes home to roost.
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