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Cosmic Circumstances
An Astrological Weather Report
By Steven Robins.
December 18, 2006
This year, in rare synchronicity, we have an especially powerful winter solstice, with the moon and sun meeting together at the bottom of our seasonal cycle, heart and soul converging at the ground of new beginnings.
On Monday 12/18, after six months spending its energy going down the cosmic roller coaster, the sun, our soul vitality, meets heavy Pluto at the low ebb in warm, philosophical Sagittarius. The moon, our heart sensitivity, is right behind it, meeting expansive Jupiter and activating Mars there. Early Wednesday the moon meets deep power Pluto, and then, at 6:01am Pacific time Wednesday morning, it aligns with the sun for the Sagittarius new moon, heart blending with soul in resolving passion at the bottom of things.
At 8:39am Pacific time on Wednesday morning we begin this year's powerful solstice shift when the moon leads the way hitting bottom, moving into earthy Capricorn. Then on Thursday 12/21 at 4:23pm Pacific time, just as tension finally breaks between action and wisdom (Mars square Uranus), the sun hits bottom for the year, winter solstice. Heart and soul are now together in grounded renewal and emergence, rebounding in the primal power of constructive Capricorn. After sinking as low as it will go, we celebrate the return of the sun and, from this point forward, the growing light of divine nurturance.
After a year of intensified feeling (Jupiter in Scorpio), we begin a new year of reinforced passion (Saturn in Leo, Jupiter and Pluto in Sagittarius--all fire signs). May the warm, adventurous spirit of the seasonal cycle that starts here bring comfort and fulfillment to us all.
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December 5, 2006
This has been a year of intensified emotion (what we feel). We're now entering a time of reinforced passion (what we express).
At the full moon Monday night, 12/4, the sun (soul) is down at the bottom of things in warm Sagittarius with the moon (heart) built up to the top in mentally-charged Gemini. Tuesday night, 12/5, 10pm Pacific time, the moon goes over the top into flowing feeling (Cancer), kicking off two weeks of powerful release. By Wednesday morning, 12/20, the moon meets the sun at low ebb for the year, the Sagittarius new moon.
On Thursday night, 12/21, 4:23pm Pacific time, at winter solstice, the sun and moon will both have hit bottom, rebounding in the primal constructiveness of Capricorn. A year of passionate adventure begins.
November 17 , 2006
A powerful, possibly historic moment. Both immediate and deep mind are completing their internalizing (Mercury on Friday afternoon, Uranus on Sunday night) just as we've reached the peak of emotional intensity. On Monday, November 20, 2-4 pm Pacific time, sun, moon, and Jupiter all converge in the magnetic vortex of primal feeling, the Scorpio new moon. We must accept nature's imperative and live with the consequences.
November 2, 2006
A concentration of planetary energy has moved into Scorpio, the undeniable magnetism of spirit. In a year when expansive creativity (Jupiter) has been waiting there, this is a peak of emotional intensity, catalyzing the manifestation of underlying nature. The Scorpio full moon on Sunday morning, November 5 is a powerful gateway, aligning us in primal feeling.
A grand cross between powerful forces at the mid-points of the seasons has created intensified elemental tension. Mind (Mercury) is internalizing until the 17th, adding to the depth of the experience. Energy is releasing from grounding in passion (Saturn in Leo) and dreams in awareness ( Neptune in Aquarius). On the 19th, wisdom in vulnerability (Uranus in Pisces) completes months of internalizing. It will support our passage through intense feeling if we accept it.
The full moon, charged with magnetized earth power, goes into big release Wednesday the 8th through the peak passion of the following weekend. There is no holding this back, only giving it the room to break out and remake the world. By the Scorpio new moon on Monday, November 20, forces converge in the power of magnetic bonding to forge a new order rooted in deepest divinity.
October 20, 2006
We began autumn in a tense crossfire between grounding in passion, expansive emotion, and visionary dreaming. We have moved through love awareness amidst all this catalytic energizing, and now we've reached the culmination. Saturday night, October 21, when moon, sun, Venus, and Mars (heart, soul, beauty, and action) all align in Libra, we will have completed the establishment of a new foundation in love-mindedness. From here we will move into the magnetic spirit of Scorpio, especially powerful this year. The Year of the Dog will reveal its primal truth. For now, let's enjoy a convergence in real love
Virgo - September 6, 2006
Blue Moon - Autumnal Equinox This year we end Virgo, late summer, the way we began it, with a new moon. Friday morning, September 22, the moon aligns with the sun (heart blending with soul) in the convergent resolution of earthy matters (Virgo). From this fruitful foundation and seasonal balance point, sunset for the year, heart and soul will cross together into early autumn, Libra, the romantic color of love-mindedness. A new year's fertility cycle will have begun.
End of summer. Harvest time. Virgo, the season of ripening fruitfulness, the practical consequences of this year's powerful developments.
We are currently living through an intense and historic planetary alignment. Three corners of our elemental cycle are anchored by heavy forces pulling at us from all sides: grounding in peak passion (Saturn in Leo), dreams in peak awareness (Neptune in Aquarius), and creativity in peak emotion (Jupiter in Scorpio). It is both tense and defining, energetically charging us, forcing us into right relationship with the center of our nature.
This year we begin and end Virgo, late summer, with a new moon. On Thursday, September 7, the full moon (heart) is aligned with wisdom (Uranus) in vulnerability (Pisces), releasing a built-up tide from there. That night, the action/expression impulse (Mars) leads the way beyond late summer's earthy practicality (Virgo) into early autumn's love-minded beauty and harmony interest (Libra). The next two weeks should find us gathering the true fruits of our year's toil.
By the time the moon (heart) comes around to align with the sun (soul) for the second time in Virgo (a purple moon) on the 22nd, at autumn equinox, we will have collected our fruitful bounty and adjusted to our new power alignment, setting the ground for the new year's fertility cycle, beginning with Libra, the romance of early autumn. The power of nature is leading us to something better.
Leo - July 24, 2006
We've reached an extremely powerful, historic moment, where underlying nature is heated to the boiling point, ready to break out in volcanic manifestation. In a year where expansive Jupiter, on its 12-year cycle, is at the peak of intense feeling, Scorpio, the centering/grounding influence of Saturn, on its 30-year cycle, is in Leo, anchoring us at the the peak of passion expression. After a first month of summer, Cancer, that saturated us with feeling, now the vitality of the sun moves into the radiant heat of mid-summer, starting with the new moon on Monday night, July 24, heart and soul (moon and sun) aligned in peak passion. The full moon on August 9 is the culminating turning point, the intensified experience of all we are feeling reaching the break-out of undeniable passion manifestation. The power of nature is breaking through the tension of an unhealthy order.
We start the month in the last days of internalizing mind (Mercury retrograde). It will seem to stand still and begin to flow outward again starting Friday night, July 28. We awaken on Tuesday the 25th, after the Leo new moon with heart spirit (moon) now leading the way through passion reinforcement (moon with Saturn in Leo Tuesday night), as love, creativity and wisdom are blending in emotion (Venus, Jupiter and Uranus trine in water signs). Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the fired-up heart pours its spirit into practical fruitfulness (moon in Virgo). Saturday night, with mind in feeling flowing forward again (Mercury in Cancer moving direct), the passion-charged heart (moon) emerges into love-mindedness (Libra).
Tuesday, August 1, and especially Wednesday, the 2nd, heart is magnetized with intense feeling (moon with Jupiter in Scorpio), charged by the passion of the season (square sun and Saturn in Leo). Friday and Saturday we settle down, warm, heavy, restless, with the moon in Sagittarius, the low ebb of our seasonal cycle. Late Saturday night the passionate heart hits bottom, rebounding off the ground with primal power (moon in Capricorn). By early Monday, the soul vitality of the sun has reached alignment with undeniable centering in the passion of expression (sun meets Saturn in Leo). Wednesday morning, 4am Pacific time, the heart (moon) is full, aligned with the pull of dreams and healing (Neptune and Chiron) in visionary Aquarius, opposite the especially passionate soul (sun with Saturn) in Leo, reaching a ripening breaking point in the manifestation of power that's been building for a long time. Coming at the exact midpoint of summer, it's a reinforcing, intensifying polarization that makes for especially big, perhaps dramatic energy waves, remaking the coastlines of our lives in its wake.
Thursday and Friday, August 10 and 11, we're awash in released vulnerability (Pisces moon), then we wake up Saturday the 12th with the heart (moon) emerging into the dawn spirit of early spring (Aries). With soul and power (sun and Pluto) holding down the other two corners of the fire sign triangle, it's a weekend where the passion unleashed at the full moon now shoots through the cracking earth, a first glimpse of what will naturally emerge in the wake of the tense order's shattering. The heart grows strong in nature-charged earth power fertility as the moon charges ahead in Taurus, peaking with intensity Tuesday the 15th. Mentally charged Wednesday and Thursday (Gemini moon), late Friday the heart goes over the top, into the release of flowing feeling (Cancer moon). As the moon goes through fiery Leo on Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22nd, it completes a powerful, possibly historic month long rite of passage, a dramatic manifestation of underlying nature in a time of overwhelming emotion (feeling) and undeniable passion (expression).
As the sun moves beyond the Leo on Wednesday the 23rd, the moon joins it in Virgo, the ripening bounty of a good harvest. All the energy that has been unleashed can now go into the gathering and enjoyment of truly fruitful consequences. The Great Purification has begun
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Pardon His French
The great thing about being a Gemini is that you’re never at a loss for words. The rotten thing about being a Gemini is your mind works so quickly you often speak without anticipating the consequences. Or, as my mother used to say, “some people call it gossip, I call it philosophizing.”
New Orleans’ Mayor, C. Ray Nagin, is a perfect example of the Gemini blabbermouth. His outspoken comments during the crisis that enveloped his city — beginning with hurricane Katrina making landfall a year ago and extending through the levee breaches and the numerous failures of the Federal government to help, then and now — have become legendary. When he voiced his desperation on a New Orleans local radio show on station WWL-AM during the worst of the flooding, his raw words likely helped shame the administration in Washington into hurrying help to the devastated region.
“They don't have a clue what's going on down here,” he said. “They flew down here one time two days after the doggawn event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn, excuse my French everybody in America. But I am pissed.”
Despite the truth of those and subsequent Nagin remarks, since that desperate phone conversation, the Mayor has been forced to defend numerous instances of his loose lips behavior.
First there were the “chocolate city” remarks he made at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event during his reelection campaign earlier this year.
"I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are,” exclaimed Nagin. “This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be."
These remarks, like others that followed, were deemed racially divisive and Nagin was forced to make national apologies. Yet, as he told CNN, his remarks were “designed to talk to the African-American community for the most part, not only for here but throughout the country — and to make sure that they understood that they were welcomed in this city."
Subsequent vocalized observations have also clearly been aimed at African and disenfranchised Americans. Tim Russert the host of “Meet the Press” took Nagin to task last Sunday, August 27, for some of those remarks.
“You keep referring to the “powers that be” want to shrink our city, or that “they’re” using their money to have their way. Who are these “powers to be,” or “they are.” Who, who is this “they”? Russert asked.
Russert, who is part of the privileged, media elite who play musical chairs in Washington — moving between news jobs and political positions — was only upholding the fantasy he’s paid to defend when he asked Nagin to define “they.” Because, though most American’s know who “they” are, whether the particular “they”, they are referring to, is the same “they” Nagin referenced, Russert was obliged to act as if conspiracies or cabals of the powerful were fantasies believed in only by the insane.
Nagin was not talking to Russert’s elite when he made his remarks. He was talking to black Americans and poor Americans who have a very clear idea about who “they,” are.
They are the people who report the gross domestic product is rising while ignoring that real wages are falling. They are the people who measure inflation without taking into account food and energy costs. They are the people who send children to war to defend oil profits. They, in this case, are the people who would like to keep the poor, and yes, black, out of New Orleans, so that they can “develop” the abandoned land for themselves.
“There has been some strong talk about, you know, redeveloping certain sections of the city and displacing homeowners,” Nagin told Russert in his defense. “And I don’t think that’s appropriate right now.” It was a mild response, but possibly the only one he could make when being treated like a crazy, loose cannon on national television.
Russert further asked Nagin to apologize for referring to the 9/11 World Trade Center site as a “hole in the ground,” during a “60 Minutes” interview that would air later that night. This was a phrase he used to defend himself against the accusation that not enough had been done to rebuild New Orleans during the past year. That he used this phrase to contrast the lack of rebuilding on a small, contained site in New York after five years, with the lack of rebuilding most of his city after one, was lost in the rhetoric that deems 9/11 sacred, but Katrina merely unfortunate — a kind of rhetoric that the current administration supports.
Though Nagin is forced to backpedal on most of his off-the-cuff remarks, this time he could only say to Russert, “I wish I would have basically said that it was an undeveloped site, which it is.”
Being a Gemini means always having to say you’re sorry. Yet, only in the highly-politicized world in which Nagin lives and blabs, does he need to be the perpetual penitent. Divorced from politics, Nagin’s remarks are refreshing, candid and, from his perspective and that of many of his constituents, truthful.
Unless political viability is the measure by which he should be judged, he has little — at least little for which he’s actually taken task — to be contrite about. If he is merely the loudest voice of frustration among the tens-of-thousands in the Gulf Coast region who have earned the right to be pretty, Goddamn (pardon my French) frustrated, then he has nothing to be sorry about at all.
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