Celestial Weather
23 October 2006 - 29 October 2006

The Week beginning October 23rd, 2006

Week as a Whole:

This week begins with a shift from Libra's finding a balance
and stepping back to making a committed choice as the Sun,
Moon, Venus, and Mars all move from Libra into Scorpio by
Tuesday.  The air of Libra, which really symbolizes the
perspective of distance necessary to form relationships, has
been replaced by the emotional laser focus of Scorpio.
There is no "distance" in a Scorpio connection, there is
union and co-mingling, there is intimacy and sex.  And there
is vulnerability.  The movement from Libra to Scorpio is a
natural human progression that we all understand.  First we
meet people and situations; then we move closer, weigh the
pros and cons, and finally, if everything feels right, we
open ourselves.  During the Libra phase, if asked, we would
reply we're considering a particular choice or person.
After the transition to Scorpio, we're "in bed" with that
choice.  This week begins with this shift as the U.S.
populace is making up their minds about the coming
elections.

The energy also has a new source or trigger planet.  With
many planets in Libra, Venus rules and calls the shots.  So
we react to stimuli more than we instigate.  We can see many
sides to an action or position.  We can put ourselves in the
other guy's shoes.  But in Scorpio, Mars and Pluto rule.
It's no more Mr. NiceGuy.  We want and need people to be on
our side; the other side is wrong or bad or somehow
deficient.  Scorpios are not known to appreciate shades of
gray.  We're not soliciting information anymore, we're
choosing and we've moved into wanting our "side" to win.
This is a big shift when 4 planets exit a sign and enter
another sign in two days.  Expect people to have new
attitudes, attitudes that are quite different than those
they may have held on Friday.

It's also politics, politics, politics all week.  On
Wednesday, Jupiter makes the exact square to Saturn that's
been coming into focus for the past couple weeks.  Jupiter
and Saturn are the left and right of the zodiac, liberals
and conservatives.  Jupiter wants a big boat with everyone
included, and Saturn wants to pare away the dead weight.
Jupiter in Scorpio is now in conflict with leaders whose
choices are very limited by Saturn in Leo.  Resource
limitations and the need to cooperate (again get in bed
with) with others are stressing leaders everywhere who want
most to execute their vision.  This is conflict between
unilateralism and multilateralism.  Politics is said to be
the art of compromise.  Even the most rigid must bend to
survive.

Many astrologers are working hard to complete daily tasks
and appointments before next weekend.  On Saturday, Mercury
stands still, from Earth's POV, and begins his 3 weeks of
retrograde motion.  All manner of communication and writing,
like contracts and computers, are more likely to become
confused and need re-working during Mercury's retrograde
periods.  Major purchases, big vacations, real estate
transactions should be postponed unless the parties wish to
have them redone at a later date.  Everything important
should be communicated twice through different channels if
possible.  These are the normal concerns during Mercury
Retro.

Especially around the days when Mercury's motion changes, we
can expect some confusion, lost keys or passwords,
misunderstandings, and general but usually mild
informational chaos.  But this weekend on Sunday Neptune,
planet of dreams and glamours, also stands still.  Neptune
opens doorways to our unconscious and brings the underlying
magic of the world closer to the surface.  This is wonderful
for music and theater, for all the arts.  We're easily
connected to each other, and some of us may find it
difficult to distinguish between their own feelings and
those flowing around them.  It pays, during Neptune time, to
choose your environment carefully, because once immersed our
natural defenses are down.  It also pays to linger in bed
and float on the edge between sleep and dreams; you may find
wisdom and meaning there.  But in combination with a tricky
Mercury communication and fact system, this surge of
unconscious content can be overwhelming for some and even
dangerous for others.  People will not be clear headed and
focused.  Their bodies may be on the freeways driving cars,
but their minds may be off the planet.  This is a time to go
with the flow and go slow.

This mind in the blender period continues on Monday when
Mercury backs into his second alignment with Jupiter in just
over a week.  We won't fully get our feet back on the ground
until a week from Saturday (7 November) when the Taurus Moon
settles things down.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 23 October 2006

No halfway measures today in Scorpioland.  Don't guess and
don't try to put up a smokescreen.  Be careful to commit
only to what you truly will carry out.  Remember that many
of us will be passionate about whatever we're doing.

Tuesday 24 October 2006

The Moon is Void until 11:53am/2:53pm when she enters
Sagittarius and the "High Noon" mood lightens somewhat.  But
Venus has just entered Scorpio and aligns with Mars this
evening.  A healthy physical channel for all this intense
intimacy is a good idea that will come with pleasurable
rewards.

Wednesday 25 October 2006

We'll probably be getting used to the new level of
emotionality by now.  Jupiter and Saturn are at right angles
and politicians are deciding which side will profit them the
most to support.  Statements they made just a few weeks ago
will now be "inoperative."  There won't be a rodent in sight
near a perceived loser.  They'll all have jumped ship.

Thursday 26 October 2006

The Moon goes Void at 11:02am/2:02pm and doesn't enter
Capricorn until 8:47pm/11:47pm.  Capricorn will sustain the
political focus since its Saturn's home sign.  You can be
sure deals are being made with elected and appointed
officials in survival mode.

Friday 27 October 2006

This is the last earth sign Moon before Mercury flip flops.
Some would say it's too close now and the Mercury fog is
already in effect.  But there's several helpful contacts
made by this Moon and resources are out there if we ask for
them.  Approaching elders with respect will meet with
success.

Saturday 28 October 2006

The doors of the asylum are open today.  Since you've
already backed up your computer, having read the warnings
above, you can relax and move carefully and slowly through
your world.  Try to call that old friend you've meant to
call.  You might get some Mercury magic and they'll pick up
the phone.  The Moon goes Void at 6:30pm/9:30pm.  Don't
worry, be happy.

Sunday 29 October 2006

The Moon has entered Aquarius overnight and we've followed a
rabbit down his hole.  Some places make you larger and some
places make you small...go ask Alice.  Neptune presents us
with alternate realities and new meanings and connections.
There's magic in the air.


Long Range Forecast:

November 8 - In the middle of Mercury retrograde (10/29
through 11/18) Mercury aligns exactly with the Sun in an
"eclipse of Mercury".  The last time this happened was May
2003.  Remember "Mission Accomplished?"  I'm concerned about
major Mercury aspects occurring near Election Day in the
U.S.  The 2000 election occurred on the day Mercury changed
direction.  The anticipated widespread use of electronic
voting machines and validity of their results may be an
issue.  (Thanks to reader John Dawson for alerting me to
this event.)

November 23rd - Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in
his home sign of Sagittarius.  Less spying and secret
courts, more transparency.  A new cycle of foreign affairs,
jurisprudence, and religious thinking begins.  More
Sagittarian energy comes December 9th when 6 planets are all
in Sagittarius.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - October 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of
squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city.

 

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Copyright 2006 Rich Humbert

Celestial Weather
30 October 2006 - 5 November 2006

The Week beginning October 30th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

Mercury began his retrograde period this past weekend
inclining us to look back into the past and review old plans
and ideas.  This backward orientation can often cause
confusion when we try to "think forward" and find ourselves
having to re-do matters of communication and thought.  Our
thoughts take color from Mercury's sign at all times and
when he is in Scorpio, our thinking tends to be emotional
and lacking in gradation.  We hold to our thoughts
passionately and can be suspicious of those who don't share
our views.  Our words are often sharp and can carry the
scorpion's sting.  With a U.S. election coming next week,
this week's political discourse will be colored by this
Scorpionic venom.  Mercury retrograde will dredge up
damaging items to serve as ammunition in personal attacks
and a major scale.  This may be the worst mudslinging
exhibition in the sorry degraded state of U.S. politics.

There is "water, water everywhere" this week.  From Tuesday
through Thursday seven of the ten planets are in Water
signs.  This includes five in Scorpio: Mercury, Venus, the
Sun, Mars, and Jupiter.  The Moon will join Uranus in Pisces
getting energy from Neptune who is still vibrating intensely
at his turning point.  We don't think with water, we feel.
In fact, thinking and feeling are mutually exclusive
activities.  We think in our heads and feel in our bodies.
We all get in trouble when we confuse them and try to think
about how we feel or trot out our emotions as thought.  The
Uranian pre-election "surprises" will come in profusion.
This will be really ugly.  This is a battle of words without
ideas.

People will be hurt and carry these wounds into the future.
There will be no rational debate.  As individuals, we need
to remember that we are in extraordinarily emotional times
and that we instinctively know just what to say to sting
someone who opposes us.

The week begins on "Crunchy Monday" when Mercury aligns with
Jupiter in Scorpio for the second time in a week.  Mercury
then moves on to reform the square to Saturn on Wednesday.
Mercury has been vibrating in the Jupiter - Saturn square
for the past week.  We are inundated with the informational
struggle for power and support underway as symbolized by
Jupiter square to Saturn.  Our communication systems will be
flooded with targeted messages aimed at our "hot buttons"
and phrased to inflame.  "Cut and run."  "Stay the course."
"The attack on marriage."  "Soft on terrorists."  These
phrases, and others like them, convey no information but
carry emotional content designed to divide people into
groups who share the same fears.  And fear is the underlying
fuel and the easiest emotion to stimulate especially in a
Cancerian country like the U.S.

But there is hope here as well this week.  Venus precedes
the Sun into a harmony with Uranus: Venus on Wednesday to
followed by the Sun on Friday.  Uranus is the "outsider" in
us all.  And this connection suggests that many of us will
be able to "step outside" and wake up from the spin and
group think to realize our own unique feelings.  Perhaps
disgust and anger at the sorry mess money, media, and
corruption has made of our political system.  There is hope
some leaders will rise above the mud and speak out for unity
and sanity.  There is more hope for conversion moments for
those in leadership positions suggested by a similar
harmonic connection between Saturn and Pluto.  Any
politician, from top to bottom, who steps up and admits to
error and makes a sincere vow to work for change would be
applauded and approved.

The time for a change in leadership is at hand.  Any time
this week through next Sunday's Full Moon
(http://www.celestialweather.com/images/103006.pdf) will
support such a shift in reality.  The Full Moon chart,
however, does not favor rational choice but rather a Pauline
conversion coming from within.  After this week's Full Moon,
we will be in a new world with new rules and new players.
Power will have changed hands.  The revolution will be
televised AND it will be live.  The outcome may take some
time to become clear as those in power may use desperate
measures to cling to their positions.  But this long
nightmare of fear is coming to a close.  The lights are
coming up and the roaches are scurrying.  This is the
beginning of the end.


Daily Forecasts:

Monday 30 October 2006

Neptune rules this morning.  Today begins in a dream and
ends with some hard facts as the Moon goes Void tonight at
9:31pm/12:31am after connecting Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter and
Pluto in the early evening hours.  We oscillate from deeply
involved to sudden detachment.

Tuesday 31 October 2006

Welcome to Waterworld.  The Moon has entered Pisces becoming
the seventh water planet.  Be wary of polluted waters and
follow your feelings out if you sense poison around you.
Remember and revisit places of joy and purity as medicine.
We're all more transparent to each other while the Moon
swims with the fishes.

Wednesday 1 November 2006

Hard facts (Mercury square Saturn) mix with new attitudes
(Venus trine Uranus) on another busy day.  Mercury's retro
confusion makes careful communication a necessity.  Expect
to hear about statements suddenly become "inoperative."

Thursday 2 November 2006

The Moon went Void last night and enters Aries at
7:46am/10:46am and we're noticeably less fuzzy.  There's
very few connections made but the madness rolls on.  Beneath
the surface, people are changing and then realizing they've
changed.

Friday 3 November 2006

With the Sun flowing with Uranus it's easier to be an
"individual" and step out of the herd.  Check to make sure
you're feeling your own feelings and not somebody's
programmed soundtrack.

Saturday 4 November 2006

Again the Moon went Void overnight and she enters earthy
Taurus at 8:05am/11:05am.  Earth Angel has arrived.  Expect
to feel literally more grounded.  Issues and ideas can be
seen more practically in terms of resources and time.
There's less of that feeling of being blown here and there
in the wind.

Sunday 5 November 2006

The Full Moon sheds her bright light on our commitments.
It's time to put your money on the table.  We see things now
in terms of personal cost and personal loss.  Like Dorothy
we're seeing the man (or people) behind the curtain.




Long Range Forecast:

November 8 - In the middle of Mercury retrograde (10/29
through 11/18) Mercury aligns exactly with the Sun in an
"eclipse of Mercury".  The last time this happened was May
2003.  Remember "Mission Accomplished?"  I'm concerned about
major Mercury aspects occurring near Election Day in the
U.S.  The 2000 election occurred on the day Mercury changed
direction.  The anticipated widespread use of electronic
voting machines and validity of their results may be an
issue.  (Thanks to reader John Dawson for alerting me to
this event.)

November 23rd - Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in
his home sign of Sagittarius.  Less spying and secret
courts, more transparency and more light.  A new cycle of
foreign affairs, jurisprudence, and religious thinking
begins.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - October 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of
squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city.

Celestial Weather
6 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

The Week beginning November 6th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

Two weeks ago at the New Moon late in Libra, all the
personal, day-to-day planets gathered together in a tight
group: that was the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.  This
group then entered Scorpio together and was moving toward
Jupiter on yesterday's Full Moon.  Since they all move at
roughly similar rates of speed, they will continue as a
group to make tight bunches of contacts on their journey
through Scorpio to emerge into Sagittarius late this month.
This week, Venus, Mercury (retrograde), and then the Sun
each make a square angle to Neptune.  This brings the magic
and illusion of Neptune into our lives.  Sometimes we
experience Neptune as simple confusion, sometimes as lies
and deception, and sometimes as an awareness of a deeper
reality.  Sometimes it's all the above.  With this
preponderance of Neptune coming surrounding the U.S.
elections, we can expect the results to be less than crystal
clear.  Some races may be disputed until November 22nd or
23rd when the Sun and then Jupiter enter Sagittarius.

The impact of these Neptune connections will vary depending
on how they relate to our personal horoscopes.  Certainly
people whose birthdays come early this week will be
affected.  Neptune can raise us to the heights of mystic
illumination, he can fill us with the universal love spirit
that connects us all one to another.  He can show us
perfection or an ideal that can lead us onward on our
journey.  He can dissolve the usual boundaries that separate
us into hermetically sealed emotional units.  These effects
can come at any time and not always when we're ready.  So
it's important if you feel a little strange or reactive to
chose your environment carefully and protect yourself from
negative or violent influences.

This exaltation/confusion comes when Mercury is retrograde
and focused introspectively and when he is exactly aligned
with the Sun.  Those of us who can spend this time in
meditation or contemplation of some beauty are indeed
fortunate.  But those of us in the marketplace may find that
we need to concentrate especially hard to remain grounded.
These are conditions when it easy to hear what you want to
hear, to believe one's own PR and ignore the possible
problems in our plans.  Neptune smoothes over the rough
spots...sometimes too smoothly for our own good.

It's concerning that the U.S. elections take place in the
middle of this Mercury retrograde/Neptune surge.  Clear are
decisive results may be delayed, if not impossible in some
cases.

On Wednesday, after Mercury squares Neptune, Mars connects
with Uranus.  These two combine in energy that wants to
storm the castle walls or blow down the gates.  Its sparks
turn into flames of outrage at perceived injustice.  This
energy may be charging the emotions of voters at the U.S.
polls.  Any results that seem an echo of the 2000 debacle
will evoke extreme reactions.  Post election comments and
reactions will be conditioned by the emotional intensity of
Scorpio and the enflamed imagination of the Sun in square to
Neptune.

Tempers will continue to flare into the weekend with Mercury
backing into alignment with Mars on Saturday.  This is
verbal shoot from the hip energy, and in Scorpio we're all
armed with extra high-powered ammunition designed to
penetrate and poison.  We see deeply into each other now; we
see each other's secret desires and needs.  It's a difficult
time for liars and a terrible time for equivocators.
Remember there are no neutral spaces in Scorpioland.

We're in the midst of a profound political sea change.  When
Venus makes the first of a series of Saturn squares next
Sunday, it will signal the first lifting of the Neptune fog.
All the other planets in this historic group will follow
Venus over the next three weeks and the outcome will become
clearer with each Saturn square made.  At the same time, we
will begin to realize the impact of this sea-change on our
personal lives.  We're at a corner in time.  These turning
points don't occur frequently, but when they do it's
sometimes possible to feel and understand the energies that
magically guide us into our collective and personal futures.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 6 November 2006

The Moon is Void until 8:46am/11:46am when she enters
Mercury's home sign Gemini.  Expect a blizzard of
communications during the Moon's passage through Gemini when
Mercury is retrograde and square to Neptune.  Bring along
your mental shovel but keep alert for the little mystical
gems that will be mixed in carrying special messages to each
of us.

Tuesday 7 November 2006

If you're voting in the U.S. elections today, double and
triple check your choices before making them final.  It's
been reported that some computer voting machines function
incorrectly, even creating negative totals of votes.  So be
wary and precise.

Wednesday 8 November 2006

The Moon was Void overnight and enters Cancer at
11:46am/2:46pm on a day with the potential for sudden mood
swings and outbursts.  Be very polite on the highway.  With
six of ten planets, including the Sun and Moon in water
signs, cool detachment will be very difficult.  If you look
to your local Aquarian for this, you may be dismayed to
discover that he or she is leading the mob with Uranus in
Pisces and linked with Mars.

Thursday 9 November 2006

Musicians and dreamers should be flying high on this week's
energy and perhaps today is the peak time for them.  The
Moon makes a momentum building water triangle with Uranus,
Mars, and then later with Mercury and the Sun.  Good
feelings soar and bad feelings are the pits.  No pastels.

Friday 10 November 2006

Water flow continues until 12:59pm/3:59pm when the Moon goes
Void.  She enters Leo and we can start to dry out a bit at
6:34pm/9:34pm.

Saturday 11 November 2006

Leos tends to take things personally, as if they were
important enough to be the target of everything.  We are
each the center of our universe and today it helps to
remember there are 6 billion centers walking around on the
Earth.

Sunday 12 November 2006

Venus squares Saturn today and some of us have to accept
some hard news and loss.  Letting go is a normal growth
process and can be a liberation.  Saturn teaches us to "grow
up" and put away childish notions.



Long Range Forecast:

November 8 - In the middle of Mercury retrograde (10/29
through 11/18) Mercury aligns exactly with the Sun in an
"eclipse of Mercury".  The last time this happened was May
2003.  Remember "Mission Accomplished?"  I'm concerned about
major Mercury aspects occurring near Election Day in the
U.S.  The 2000 election occurred on the day Mercury changed
direction.  The anticipated widespread use of electronic
voting machines and validity of their results may be an
issue.  (Thanks to reader John Dawson for alerting me to
this event.)

November 23rd - Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in
his home sign of Sagittarius.  Less spying and secret
courts, more transparency and more light.  A new cycle of
foreign affairs, jurisprudence, and religious thinking
begins.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - October 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of
squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city.

Celestial Weather
20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006

The Week beginning November 20th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

This is a week of endings and beginnings that starts with a
New Moon late in Scorpio, followed by the Sun aligning with
Jupiter on Tuesday and entering Sagittarius on Wednesday.
Jupiter follows the Sun into Sagittarius on Thursday.  Note
that every New Moon ends a cycle and begins a new one.  The
Sun is ending his month in Scorpio and beginning a month in
the Archer's sign.  Jupiter is ending a year in Scorpio and
beginning a year in his home sign.  So above all, this is a
week of transitions - endings and beginnings.

The change from Scorpio into Sagittarius is prototypically
emerging from darkness into light.  The "dark night of the
soul" is a Scorpio experience in which we come face-to-face
with our deep desires and darker aspects.  It is where we
lose our delusions of perfection and invulnerability.  But
after this immersion comes release and light.  All the fire
signs in astrology are born in water signs.  New life
springs from the loss of boundaries and dissolving of ego.
All the water signs come with a loss of control and
independent action since we find ourselves bound to others
in the water of family, partner, or humanity.  Jupiter
symbolizes our ability to envision our future, to take the
long overview of life, to make public decisions and
judgments that follow social standards, and to set policy
for the future.  Our political life has been clouded for
some time with no way out of many current predicaments
visible.  This is ending.

Another sign of returning health to the body politic is
Saturn slowing up to make his annual retrograde move when
he's in a harmonious contact with Pluto.  It's worth noting
that this connection is never completely made this fall.
Saturn and Pluto combine to mature us and step beyond
outgrown behaviors and attitudes.  If you're feeling this
pressure to change, remember the motto of the Borg,
"Resistance is futile."  Saturn and Pluto are inexorable in
bringing us change and renewal at the deepest levels.  But
what may appear as solutions and transformations in the next
weeks may be delayed until late next summer when Saturn and
Pluto finally make perfect this angular contact.

The New Moon Monday afternoon (PST)
(http://www.celestialweather.com/images/112006.pdf) comes on
the 29th degree of Scorpio.  Sometimes the degree symbols
are spookily on target.  The symbol for this degree is a
squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children.
This is the feminine principle seeking an end to the death
of young men. This is the question that's in all our minds,
especially here in the U.S.  As the cycle that begins deep
within on this New Moon expands out over the next two weeks,
the squaw's pleas will grow louder and louder.  Death in war
is madness enough, death in pointless war is beyond.  We can
expect serious thought about change.  The public mood will
grow very impatient with more sons and daughters in boxes.
Expect the change to come over the Thanksgiving holiday as
the Sun and Jupiter complete their shift into Sagittarius to
join Venus.

Notice in the New Moon chart the tight group of planets just
below 3 o'clock.  That's the same group that's been
traveling together for a month, moving through Scorpio and
now into Sagittarius.  As they make this motion they all
make a square to Saturn in Leo and test and get tested in
the struggle between the Leo ego and the need to cooperate
and admit the more dire consequences of our actions.  These
square angles also represent a struggle to break free of the
past and establish a new basis for forward motion.  Finally,
this location in the chart for the U.S., is an area in the
horoscope that deals with adjusting to the outside world in
a healthy way.  It's about curbing one's ego to fit in and
be ready to form relationships.  It's a Virgo-type location
and has a symbolic association with the military, the
"service."

The weekend, under an Aquarian Moon, has Venus in square to
Uranus and so the week ends on a Uranian note just as it
began the day after Uranus stood still.  The week is framed
by energy that encourages new thought and perspectives.  We
can expect the unexpected this week, some good and some not
so good.  Uranus may continue to unsettle the weather as he
often does; he will definitely unsettle those whose
horoscopes he currently contacts.  Aquarians are busy, busy,
busy being a little freaky and making space for the rest of
us to expand into.

We're coming to the end of the tunnel.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 20 November 2006

The New Moon comes close to Jupiter this afternoon at
2:18pm/5:18pm.  The urge to act is strong but the expansive
motion may be in or minds.  The Moon goes Void at
3:54pm/6:54pm and enters Sagittarius at 5:15pm/8:15pm.  The
mood lightens.

Tuesday 21 November 2006

The restlessness you feel is the Moon activating Venus and
Uranus moving into their square and the Sun aligning with
Jupiter.  Avoid confining people and situations if you can.
Be in motion in all ways, take time to step back and think
long thoughts.  Not a day for precise detail work.

Wednesday 22 November 2006

Mercury connects with Uranus and the Sun moves into
Sagittarius today continuing the theme of mental simulation
and new ideas.  The Moon goes Void at 5:19pm/8:19pm
energizing the Saturn - Pluto evolutionary contact discussed
above.  Another wave in the political sea-change is breaking
today.

Thursday 23 November 2006

Overnight the Moon has entered Capricorn and we have some
grounded earth energy for a change.  But the enthusiasm of
Jupiter continues as he enters Sagittarius this evening.
Even though it's a holiday for the U.S., serious matters and
decisions are being made today.

Friday 24 November 2006

The Capricorn Moon continues today when there's no major
activity for the first time this week.  Time for a rest
after the Moon goes Void at 5:43pm/8:43pm.

Saturday 25 November 2006

The Moon ends her Void period this morning when she enters
Aquarius at 7:41am/10:41am.  Everyone's a bit twitchy with
Venus square Uranus and the Moon channeling that energy into
us.  Expect some odd reactions of your own and from others.
With the right attitude this could be a zany and fun day.

Sunday 26 November 2006

More of the same but some media event may bring many of us
together when the Moon aligns with Neptune this afternoon at
2:11pm/5:11pm.



Long Range Forecast:

November 23rd - Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in
his home sign of Sagittarius.  Less spying and secret
courts, more transparency and more light.  A new cycle of
foreign affairs, jurisprudence, and religious thinking
begins.

December 8th to 10th and December 18th to 20th - Six planets
are in Sagittarius.  Time for the big picture, time to look
ahead, time to see clearly.  And maybe time to overlook some
important details.


Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - November 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series
of squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city

Celestial Weather
27 November 2006 - 3 December 2006

The Week beginning November 27th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

Tuesday holds two sets of square angles, Mercury square
Neptune and Mars square Saturn, and they may combine to
frustrate many of us.  Since Mercury represents among other
things our information systems, stress with the imaginative
energy of Neptune often yields confusion, illusion, and
delusion.  The three "usions".  We are more likely to hear
what we want to hear, or slightly embellish the facts, or
spin the story, or simply be confused by contradictory
accounts.  A Scorpio Mercury inclines toward suspicion and
Aquarian Neptune paints an ideal future outcome.  These two
don't harmonize easily.  It may be hard to find the middle
path between blanket cynicism and dismissing negative issues
out of hand.

Mars makes a square angle to Saturn roughly once each year.
These are times when our aggression must be focused and
under control.  Unconscious outbursts often meet with
painful consequences.  For an athlete disciplining himself
on the road to a gold medal, this energy is highly useful.
For the surgeon learning a new technique, also useful.  But
for most of us who simply want to put new projects in
motion, the increased resistance and required precision may
be felt like an uphill struggle to get things done.
Thinking of this pressure as muscle building and tuning up
is perhaps the best attitude.  Coming with the Mercury -
Neptune square, this may underline the fact that there are
no easy solutions to many of our problems like Iraq, Darfur,
global ecology, and so on.  The enthusiasm over the change
of power in the U.S. is giving way to the reality of
governing and making hard choices.

Three days, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with long Void
Moon periods can add to the low-level difficulties we may
encounter this week.  These periods are best for continuing
ongoing efforts, or for stepping back and reflecting, or for
simply resting the mind and body.  These are not times to
make decisions and new opportunities that come during these
periods rarely work out.

Another square angle is formed this Saturday by the Sun when
he connects with Uranus.  This occurs twice each year and
often manifests in battles of will and power struggles.
There will be pressure to lash out at commitments that may
suddenly seem unfairly restrictive even if they were
explicit all along.  There may be a Gulliver and Lilliputian
feeling since the conflict is coming from a Sagittarius Sun
to a Pisces Uranus.  There may be a conflict between the
"rules" and what one knows intuitively to be right in a
situation.  And happily, there may be sudden inexplicable
bursts of compassion and sympathy.  The Sun and Uranus form
a natural pair linked to the opposing signs of Leo and
Aquarius.  The Sun is warm and personal where Uranus is cool
and detached.  When they are square we're challenged to keep
our egos small as points yet warmly in contact without
attachment.  When they are square we can learn how far we
are from that hard-to-attain ideal.

Later next weekend, the Saturn based slow motion will return
with the approach of his retrograde change just after the
Full Moon next Monday.  Saturn will also connect with
Mercury and Venus next week.  Politics both national and
global will continue to churn as tides are shifting.


Daily Forecasts:

Monday 27 November 2006

The Moon is Void from 5:00am/8:00am until she enters Pisces
at 12:21pm/3:21pm.  The First Quarter Moon comes this
evening as well, so we're all trying to find a place where
we feel like we belong.  Follow your feelings over the next
two days, but double check your facts and figures.

Tuesday 28 November 2006

More Neptune glamour and shimmering today with Mercury
square to Neptune and later Mars square to Saturn.  These
two may combine to feel depressing, like nothing will ever
work out.  Remember that this is just a feeling and it will
pass.  Take slow steady steps and build your muscles.

Wednesday 29 November 2006

Void Moon again from 8:29am/11:29am until 3:30pm/6:30pm when
she enters Aries.  The weight will lift and what seemed
unattainable on Monday will seem quite possible, even easy,
this afternoon as the Moon takes fire from Jupiter in
Sagittarius.

Thursday 30 November 2006

New ideas and enthusiasm are in the air but remember we have
no earth planets to naturally ground us and only Neptune as
an objectifying air influence.  There is an overabundance of
fire energy.  Fire gives heat and light but must be fed new
fuel and so moves on quickly.

Friday 1 December 2006

The Moon goes Void at 10:40am/1:40pm and finally brings us
much needed earth energy at 5:26pm/8:26pm when she enters
Taurus.  Expect to feel like the brakes have been applied.
Some of us may be exhausted by the excess fire and need to
calm way down with this earth energy.  Simply lying on the
ground can be good medicine now.  Working the earth in your
gardens large and small is also therapeutic.

Saturday 2 December 2006

That twitchy feeling comes from the Sun square to Uranus.
Avoid petty conflicts of will and look for attitudes that
you may have accepted about yourself that you've outgrown.
This energy can help us shrug off pigeon-holing either
coming from others or coming from within ourselves.

Sunday 3 December 2006

The Taurus "shopping" Moon continues until 4:31pm/7:31pm
when she Voids again.  She enters Gemini at 7:05pm/10:05pm
and the heavy approach of more Saturn action will be felt.


Long Range Forecast:

December 5th - Saturn stations and begins 4 months of
retrograde motion.  He ALMOST makes an exact contact with
Pluto that would indicate a major release of pent up change
energy, and these changes will seem imminent.  But they will
be delayed until next summer when Saturn has resumed normal
motion and again moves into this same angle with Pluto, only
this time he will make the connection.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - November 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series
of squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city.

Celestial Weather

4 December 2006 - 10 December 2006

The Week beginning December 4th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

Astrologers group the signs of the zodiac into three modes:
cardinal, fixed, and mutable.  The cardinal signs are
originators, beginners, sources of new action and ideas.
Fixed signs, like the name implies, focus energy and
purpose, maintain action, and have momentum.  The mutable
signs, also as their name implies, are shifting and
symbolize phases of human life in which we react to our
surroundings and adjust to conditions.  The Full Moon that
begins this week occurs in the mutable signs of Sagittarius
(the Sun) and Gemini (the Moon).  This normally is a time
when we make adjustments to our communications and
understandings.  It is about ideas and vision, words and
policy.  But this Full Moon is formed in square to Uranus,
also in a mutable sign (Pisces).  Uranus brings sudden and
erratic change energy into this Full Moon.  On a trivial
level this can be felt as a "twitchy" feeling.  On a more
profound level, we can be awakened to a new reality in our
world.

Uranus is often called a "wild" planet since he represents
change that is essentially uncontrollable.  Change like
severe weather, earth changes, radical political action, and
interestingly technology.  This association with technology
suggests that innovation and invention can unleash forces
with unforeseen consequences, like Frankenstein or the
Sorcerer's Apprentice.  Uranus has been a significant
influence since late last week when the Sun moved to make
the square angle and his influence continues into this
week's Full Moon.  These are unsettling and even startling
times.  But rest assured that they will pass by week's end.
The results of these upheavals may take longer to integrate
and understand.

Continuing on the theme of "mutable" signs, by the end of
this week, there will be 6 planets in Sagittarius: Sun,
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto.  When the Moon
enters Virgo next Sunday, there will briefly be 8 of 10
planets in mutable signs.  Uranus in Pisces and the Moon in
Virgo make 8.  This is a serious imbalance and over-reaction
is the simplest manifestation.  Fortunately, or maybe not so
foretunately, Saturn in fixed sign Leo is turning retrograde
on Tuesday and this will counterbalance the mutability to
some extent.  U.S. President Bush is perhaps the most
visible example of this fixed Leo energy.  In him we can see
the virtues of courage, loyalty, and determination as well
as the pitfall of stubborn fixation.  In times prone to such
oscillatory excess, we can use some of his steadfast energy
to keep our heads in balance.

This Saturn retrograde takes place almost...almost...in
exact contact with Pluto.  Saturn combines with Pluto to
form a powerful synergy enabling us to grow up and evolve,
to shed outgrown attitudes and behaviors, to revise plans
and goals.  This in combination with the extreme forward
focus of all the Sagittarian planets has the world eager to
move into the future, impatient with waiting, and inclined
to overlook the details necessary for real change.  The
quick and easy fix is very tempting, and not just in Iraq.
We all need to strive to ground ourselves...no earth planets
remember...and slow down and look down at what's right in
front of us.

Another imbalance formed by the cluster in Sagittarius is
apparent by another astrological grouping of the signs:
earth, air, fire, and water.  The 6 Sagittarius planets late
this week are all in fire signs.  Saturn in Leo adds another
fire planet making seven of 10 in fire; Neptune is our sole
air planet and Neptune in Pisces our water planet.  When the
Moon passes through Leo on Friday and Saturday there will be
8 fire planets.  Fire brings heat and light, and fire also
consumes and moves.  Control of fire and the related energy
generating wisdoms are a truly human characteristic.  Out of
control this energy has great destructive power both in
nature and in war.  Fire must be fed or it fades and goes
out.  We have a chance this week to feel what it's like to
be a strong fire-sign person who can be bored easily, who's
restless, who lights up a room and warms our hearts, who's
here and then who's gone.

The Sagittarian seeks to rise up to expand his/her vision to
broader and broader horizons.  The symbol expresses this
progression in its animal, human, and the abstract bow and
arrow components.  The Centaur ranges far and wide bearing
his human aspect into new experience.  He can illuminate
dark corners with his arrows of light.  He can also skewer
people in tender spots.  With Jupiter newly liberated from
his yearlong passage of Scorpio, the future now seems bright
with possibilities and solutions.  We should remember that
Saturn won't make the complete connection with Pluto until
next August when real forward motion will occur.

But this is not to say that nothing will change until then.
This Thursday Venus aligns with Pluto indicating a time to
refresh our relationships by agreeing on a shared future.
This is time to re-visit assumptions about our joint plans
and confirm or revise or abandon those we may no longer find
compelling.  This happens every year and is the beginning
point of relational growth whose cycle is anchored on the
major Venus - Pluto contacts.  It is also time to let go of
people with whom there is no longer any real interaction.
Our world is speeding up and none of us has time or energy
for empty gestures.

Finally on Friday Mercury enters Sagittarius making the 6 of
10 planets in Sagittarius and the 8 of 10 in fire signs.
Mercury tends to leap and occasionally sting in Sagittarius.
He (that is our minds) can neglect to gather the facts
necessary to prove his theory...especially if those facts
may disprove an attractive idea.  Gemini and Virgo people
may find these "Saggy" times frustrating although it's
exactly their point of view that's needed.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 4 December 2006

Full Moon madness in some places.  The Moon is Full at
4:25pm/7:25pm and everyone's buzzing or changing or both.
Deep breaths will help.  The out of control feeling will
pass.

Tuesday 5 December 2006

Politics is Saturn's playing field.  Expect it to be "game
on" today as Saturn stands still in our sky this evening.  A
tide of events has peaked and will now slowly recede until
Saturn resumes direct motion in about 4 months. The Moon
goes Void at 3:11pm/6:11pm and enters Cancer at
10:00pm/1:00am.  Mars adds to the crowd in Sagittarius this
evening.  Now they are 5.

Wednesday 6 December 2006

Venus links with Saturn late tonight after the Moon has gone
Void at 5:13pm/8:13pm.  This is part of the interpersonal
growth energy that continues into tomorrow when she aligns
with Pluto.  Nothing we do or commit to with each other now
is trivial.  Be precise and conscious.

Thursday 7 December 2006

The Moon is Void all day but Venus connects with Pluto and
Mercury enters Sagittarius making 6 planets now horsing
around.  Resist the urge to act or choose under the Void
Moon.  The claustrophobic feeling will lift tomorrow.

Friday 8 December 2006

The Moon has entered Leo overnight and makes quick contact
with Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter by midday.  Expect a major
mood shift into fiery mode.  Try not to go everywhere at
once and get nowhere.  Use consciousness to stay focused and
avoid the jitterbugs skittering about.

Saturday 9 December 2006

Mercury aligns with Mars today, and when this happens in
Sagittarius the tendency is to shoot from the verbal hip.
Sarcasm is the ugly cousin of sharp wit.  Some words cannot
be taken back, so be kind.

Sunday 10 December 2006

The Moon is Void for an hour from 12:35pm/3:35pm until
1:31pm/4:31pm when she enters Virgo.  Not only do we finally
get earth energy from the Virgo Moon but finally a planet is
entering an earth sign: Venus crosses into Capricorn this
evening and we will enjoy consistent grounding for the
immediate future.


Long Range Forecast:

December 5th - Saturn stations and begins 4 months of
retrograde motion.  He ALMOST makes an exact contact with
Pluto that would indicate a major release of pent up change
energy, and these changes will seem imminent.  But they will
be delayed until next summer when Saturn has resumed normal
motion and again moves into this same angle with Pluto, only
this time he will make the connection.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - December 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series
of squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of
business-as-usual politics.  The nationalistic dinosaurs
will enter their twilight times.  The transition to organic
regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his
first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they
were aligned in the second half of the 1960's.  Hippie
dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based
economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know
your neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We
may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or
growing very thin in the city.

Celestial Weather
11 December 2006 - 17 December 2006

The Week beginning December 11th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

We finally enjoy consistent earth energy with Venus now in
Capricorn and the week begins under a Virgo Moon for an
additional earthy bonus.  Make those major financial
commitments and decisions now if possible; chances are
you'll find value and avoid oversights.  That small voice in
our heads that asks us to consider the costs and time
required for our choices is back.  It's been many months
since our feet were solidly on the ground and we're less
likely to be swept away by time's currents and eddies.  Our
senses are more alive to taste and smell just in time for
holiday feasting.

Mars and Jupiter align on Monday in early Sagittarius making
those itchy Sag feet even itchier today.  Mentally we may
suffer from too many ideas and concepts, but that's not
really a hardship.  This Mars - Jupiter combination
encourages expanding every point of view and pushing our
ideas enthusiastically.  The Virgo Moon can help channel
this into areas where there may be a genuine result, and it
will pay to listen to those voices bringing up important
details.  Mars - Jupiter would rather plunge ahead than
carefully weigh the next step, but it's a well-known fact
that a disciplined racehorse can outrun a wild one.

Midweek is relatively quiet, after this extraordinary Fall,
I welcome relatively quiet periods as time when I can have
more control rather than keeping the alligators from rising
above my waist.

Mercury makes a square angle with Uranus on Friday.  This is
a twice-a-year mental electric shock treatment.  Sudden
outbursts of blunt speech are possible, little boys pointing
at naked emperors.  If you've been stuck trying to solve a
puzzle, the solution make flash upon you late this week.
It's not a time to be stuck in routine tasks, and not a time
to micro-manage people you work with.  This comes and goes
quickly on Friday.

The weekend sees the Sun connect with Saturn as he
approaches Pluto.  This blending of the Sun's light with the
power of Saturn - Pluto is a true opportunity for growth and
change.  This is a time when we can own a new self-image and
disown old habits that tie us down.  The Sun sheds his light
on Saturn in Leo's message about ego-boundaries and the
precise application of our will.  Those of us with "boundary
issues" can really benefit during the days between Saturday
and next Wednesday's New Mon when this is reaches an end.

Every year when the Sun aligns with Pluto we get a hint of
our mortality...sometimes more than a hint.  After the
initial shock, we can make "death our advisor" as Don Juan
advised Carlos Castenada.  Knowing that each moment is
precious and one of a finite series does wonders to focus
the mind and brushes aside trivialities.  It brings to mind
the Zen story of the man chased over a cliff by a tiger.  He
grabbed a strawberry vine to save himself from falling.  And
with the tiger growling down at him and the vine slipping
through his fingers, he saw one ripe strawberry before him
and ate it.  Nothing had ever tasted so sweet.

There is a summing up of lessons learned this fall as we
spiral in toward the New Moon aligned with Pluto next week.
All of us have come a long way toward realizing, whether we
like it or not, that the world has changed and we're all
together on this cosmic bus ride.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 11 December 2006

The Virgo Moon can help us from running off in all
directions at once with Mars and Jupiter aligned.  (Also
visible at sunrise below Mercury for those early risers.).
The Moon passes opposite Uranus around midday (PST) adding
to the nervous edge.

Tuesday 12 December 2006

Pay attention to details today.  Important consequences are
clear at the Last Quarter Moon and certain details cannot be
ignored or brushed aside today.  The Moon goes Void at
6:32pm/9:32pm aligned with Pluto.

Wednesday 13 December 2006

The Moon has entered Libra overnight and proceeds to make a
series of helpful contacts to the Sagittarian group
throughout the day.  People are friendly and open to
cooperation.  Take someone to lunch and enjoy.

Thursday 14 December 2006

Beneath the easy Libran flow, we have depth from Venus in
Capricorn.  Yesterday and today are suited for making
socially useful connections...graceful politics, if that's
not an oxymoron these days.

Friday 15 December 2006

The Moon goes Void at 7:33am/10:33am and remains Void until
she enters Scorpio at 2:42pm/5:42pm.  The Mercury - Uranus
square can be a little gawky, so keep your inner nerd under
wraps until the Moon unvoids.  Tomorrow it will be easier to
find an audience for your ideas.

Saturday 16 December 2006

Ego-lessons often sting but so does removing a splinter.
Keep focused on non-attachment : non-attachment to other
people's opinions, non-attachment to your mistakes and
history, non-attachment to outcomes.  Focus on the process
and finding joy in the moment.  It will never come again.

Sunday 17 December 2006

Take note of your heavy dreams overnight.  Look for a lesson
there.  The Moon goes Void at 3:31pm/6:31pm square to
Saturn.  Serious doesn't have to be sad.  Don't get weighed
down by the feeling that everything matters, even though it
does.  Ego is best when acting as a point without
extension..."you're invisible, you got no secrets to
conceal..."

Celestial Weather
18 December 2006 - 24 December 2006

The Week beginning December 18th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

With a New Moon on Wednesday followed closely by the Winter
Solstice on Thursday, and both influenced by Mars in square
to Uranus, this is a week of endings and beginnings.  The
Mars - Uranus square suggests a transition more radical than
graceful from past into the future.  It further suggests
that the next three months will set us on a new and
uncharted course.  We're finishing energy conditioned by the
Sun moving from Saturn to Pluto that enables us to shed old
patterns and attitudes.  The Mars - Uranus will surprise us
with new possibilities and, sadly, increased potential for
violence.  The week is crammed with potent planetary
combinations so many that we may occasionally feel
exhausted, and regular breaks to rebalance will be helpful.

On Monday the Sun aligns with Pluto completing the linkage
with Saturn that began last Saturday.  This chance for an
ego reboot will return next summer when the Sun in Leo will
again link these two powerful agents of evolution.  This is
a "heavy" combination that can make every decision, large or
small, seem momentous.  Keep in mind some are and some
aren't...and in many cases it's just a feeling, but
important changes are happening to us and around us.

Wednesday there is a New Moon at 28 Sagittarius 32 minutes,
(http://www.celestialweather.com/images/121806.pdf) with a
degree symbol of "a fat boy mowing the lawn on an elegant
street."  This symbol indicates a disconnect in what we're
seeing in our world.  There is the appearance of work by
someone who's never really worked enough to lose weight.  If
we think about what we're seeing, there's an unhealthy
pretense of effort by the privileged.  The need for real
work and sacrifice is implied.  I can't help but think this
suggests how the U.S. appears to much of the world.

Notice the six - count 'em - planets in Sagittarius grouped
from 9 to 10 o'clock.  That breathless rushing feeling comes
from all that Sagittarian energy eager to leap ahead on to
the next mountaintop or next idea or next appointment or
next whatever.  Next being the operative word.  The link to
Saturn at the 2 o'clock position does help to steady and
slow us down a bit.  But the Mars - Uranus square is coming
into focus and that is anything but calming.  People touched
by this square will be quite volatile, quick to anger and
snap.  Restraint of any kind may feel like prison chains.
Finding a healthy channel for new activities is worth the
effort.

There are no two planets in opposition in this chart, and
that indicates a lack of perspective in our thinking.
Without the feedback of an opposition, we tend to be
subjective and slightly, or more than slightly, out of
touch.  People lacking oppositions in their birth charts
display this inner-directed tendency, people like U.S.
President Bush.  We should ask for other people's opinions
and points of view since the universe will not supply them
automatically.  Coupled with all the "full-steam ahead"
Sagittarian energy, it's possible to re-enact the Wiley
Coyote dash off the cliff into midair.  Meep Meep.

The following evening, Thursday, the Winter Solstice occurs
at 7:23pm EST.
(http://www.celestialweather.com/images/WinterSolstice2006.pdf)
By this time both the Sun and Moon have shifted forward into
Capricorn reducing the Sagittarian crowd to four planets and
adding much needed earth energy to the mix.  The Sun's entry
into Capricorn has re-created last winter's resonance
between the Sun and Saturn.  Saturn is in the Sun's native
sign (Leo) and the Sun is in Saturn's home sign (Capricorn).
We may find ourselves oscillating between Capricornian
caution and Leo flamboyance.  We also have the chance to
strike a healthy ego balance that integrates responsibility
with realistic self-worth.

Note in the chart that Mars is at 11 Sagittarius 14 and that
Uranus is at 11 Pisces 14.  The exact square of these two
occurs 6 minutes before the solstice moment.  The solstice
chart describes the coming three months from now until the
Vernal Equinox in March.  This exact connection of two
aggressive and often violent planets does not indicate a
peaceful quarter ahead.  Radical political change is likely.
The level of politically motivated violence is likely to
increase.  Situations in Iraq and Darfur will not calm down
this quarter.  And I hope I'm completely wrong.

We are all challenged this winter to break new ground and
refuse to be pigeonholed by other people or by ourselves.
The Capricorn Moon and Venus should help to anchor us and
help us avoid new for newness sake alone.  We should listen
carefully to our inner voice when it urges second thoughts
and cost considerations.  The concerns above about the lack
of oppositions apply here as well.  Meep Meep again.

Next weekend Mercury retraces the Sun's path from last week
that connected Saturn with Pluto.  He links with Saturn on
Sunday and then Pluto on Monday.  This is a time to
articulate our creative will so that others can understand
what we want and need.  Our speech (Mercury) will have
unusual powers to persuade and illuminate.  Our words hold
fire and can spark the minds of our audience.  With Mars -
Uranus still in effect, think before sending a fiery shaft
of insight into your friend's consciousness.  We can wound
as easily as we can heal with this high-powered Mercury.

The time stream calms down after this week; I will be taking
a holiday and there will be no reports for the next two
weeks.  The next Celestial Weather report will be for the
week beginning January 8th.

Best wishes to one and all for a wonderful holiday season
and a healthy and happy New Year.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 18 December 2006

Power is changing hands with the Sun aligned with Pluto.
When the Sagittarian Moon moves from Mars to Uranus this
evening, some of us are likely to feel edgy if not
explosive.

Tuesday 19 December 2006

We're much calmer today and able to understand more of
what's happening as Mercury links with Neptune and Venus
links with Uranus this afternoon.  The Moon touches Saturn
later tonight as we settle into ourselves and the coming New
Moon.

Wednesday 20 December 2006

The Moon goes Void at 6:01am/9:01am at the New Moon and
armies of fat boys begin to traverse their lawns.  The need
for personal change toward health should be a part of our
New Moon meditations.  The Moon enters Capricorn at
8:39am/11:39am.

Thursday 21 December 2006

Despite the inclination to focus inward that comes with the
New Moon, Mars and Uranus keep setting off explosions
outside that distract us.  The Winter Solstice occurs at
4:23pm7:23pm and the Sun begins his slow climb northward as
the days grow longer and colder.  The Moon has been Void
since 8:05am/11:05am.  Most of the western world has gone on
holiday early.

Friday 22 December 2006

The Moon remains Void until 1:49pm/4:49pm when she enters
Aquarius.  But there are no connections made today.  We're
all looking ahead.

Saturday 23 December 2006

The Moon begins a series of future oriented contacts with
the Sagittarian planets that continues into tomorrow.  This
is time to dream about the future you would like to inhabit.
Our future begins in our dreams.

Sunday 24 December 2006

The Moon goes Void at 12:09pm/3:09pm and then enters Pisces
at 5:43pm/8:43pm.  Despite the other-worldly Pisces feeling,
we're very clear-headed with Mercury making the connection
between Saturn and Pluto.  Take this time to speak your
dreams and plan ahead with your family.


Long Range Forecast:

February 13th - Mercury begins three weeks of retrograde
motion that ends on March 7th.  Signing important documents
should be postponed.  Plan to best use this time to
re-organize all things mental and communicative.  Expect to
lose and find something.

Celestial Weather
15 January 2007 - 21 January 2007

The Week beginning January 15th, 2007

Week as a Whole:

Every New Moon marks the end of a lunar cycle and the
beginning of another.  It's a time when the consequences of
our choices are washing over us and we can step back and
re-group.  The New Moons fall in relatively the same place
in each sign as each month passes.  Our recent New Moons
have been at the end of signs and we've been working with
ending situations.  This New Moon is in Capricorn (chart
below) and is time for us to reflect on our career and
political choices and their consequences.  Have they created
situations that we find healthy and rewarding?  How are we
spending our time?  Do we feel useful and important to those
in our world?

In addition to the endings and beginnings of this New Moon
on Thursday, Mercury, Mars, and the Sun change signs as
further indications of a phase shift taking place this week.
On Monday, Mercury enters Aquarius his strongest sign.
While in Aquarius Mercury can "see" ideas, he make
occasional lightning leaps to sure knowledge, he can bridge
gaps finding ways to explain with clarity that are widely
understood.  He can also be dogmatically sure of his
knowledge and quite pig-headed when pushed.  This is a
period to step out of ordinary thought patterns look for new
perspectives.

On Tuesday Mars enters Capricorn and this too is his
strongest zodiac position.  Our aggression - get up and go -
is focused and efficient.  Mars spends about six weeks in
Capricorn every two years and it's a time to take on hard
work and complex tasks.  Sustained effort is not usually a
strength of Mars, but here in Capricorn he perseveres and is
content with small steady progress in relentless Capricorn
fashion.  In another way, his passage through Capricorn will
fire up politics into outright confrontation.  Seasoned
political types are usually successful at maintaining
control and, like the sure-footed goat, rarely act without
forethought.  Expect some outbursts of true feeling from now
through the end of February.

Venus aligns with Neptune an hour before the New Moon
(http://www.celestialweather.com/images/011507.pdf) putting
their combined energy into the coming four-week lunar cycle.
(You will find them together at the 5 o'clock position.)
Venus joins Neptune every year as she circles the Sun (and
our sky).  Combined in Aquarius they present an opportunity
to envision our future with our loved ones.  We also need to
feel a direction and higher purpose in our lives together; a
purpose shared by other liked minded people.  As always with
Neptune's bright images before us, we need to remember that
he beckons from the land of magical ideals, ideals we should
strive to reach but, perhaps, will never fully attain.  We
should be satisfied with progress and not be disappointed
that we cannot achieve perfection in all things.  Neptune
brings us close to perfection and even sparks our lives with
bright magical moments now and then.  Clinging to these
moments or trying to reproduce them leads to frustration.
But this is time to renew our vision, step back and inward
at this New Moon and take the long view of what matters to
us and where we're going.

Interestingly, this New Moon degree bears the symbol of "a
woman reading tea leaves" and further points to a mystical
vision of the future that's available to us.  The symbol
points to the underlying unified harmony of our world in
which the greatest is found symbolized in the smallest.
It's this same coherence that empowers the positions of the
planets to describe the condition of time.  We live in a
meaningful magical world that functions with 6 billion plus
centers and no boundaries.  The symbol also urges us to pay
attention to the small signs that come to us every day and
especially this week from our dreams.


This New Moon also carries the energy of Jupiter square to
Uranus which has been coming into focus in recent weeks.
(Jupiter is at 7 o'clock and Uranus is at 4 o'clock.)
Jupiter is exactly square to Uranus next Monday and even
thought he moves at a stately pace they are less than 1/2 a
degree from exactitude on this New Moon.  If you've had a
"Eureka" moment recently you've been touch by Jupiter -
Uranus.  If you've felt suddenly more connected with people
that ordinarily you wouldn't encounter: Jupiter - Uranus.
Sudden restlessness and metaphysical claustrophobia can also
be linked to these two.  Both are mind-expanding challengers
of the status quo. They are working to bring us to a new
understanding in life, to put things together in new ways
and find new meaning.

When we look at the New Moon chart as a whole, we see Saturn
in Leo at 10 o'clock and on the other side of the chart all
the other planets contained between Jupiter and Uranus.  See
this as the "king" having to adjust to a populace who's been
given a new vision and is eager for movement toward this new
future.  Leaders must choose to lead toward this future or
resist it.  They cannot duck the issue at this New Moon.
Saturn retrograde draws all our attention to choices made in
the past, made by all of us, and at the New Moon it is time
to consider the consequences and the road forward.

When the Sun enters Aquarius on Saturday we can begin to
take the first steps.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 15 January 2007

A little too much mental stimulation may be in the air this
morning as the Moon moves from Jupiter to square Uranus.
Later she moves to anticipate the New Moon's magic by
connecting with Venus and then Neptune.

Tuesday 16 January 2007

The Moon goes Void at 1:28pm/4:28pm aligned with Pluto.
Mars has just entered Capricorn thirty minutes before.  This
is time to refocus your effort and clear away extraneous
details.  The Moon enters Capricorn at 5:49pm/8:49pm.  Even
if you're "rearin' to go" don't kick off a project during
the Void Moon.

Wednesday 17 January 2007

Steady work, quiet mood.  We're all introspective and
pondering the past, both social and personal.

Thursday 18 January 2007

The Moon goes Void at the New Moon at 8:01pm/11:01pm.  She
enters Aquarius at 10:16pm/1:16am.  Take the time between to
breathe slowly, meditate or pray, and find your inner
balance.  Venus and Neptune have just aligned.  Think long
thoughts and see clear visions.  Avoid the raucous and rude;
our natural armor's a bit thin.  Light a candle and a stick
of incense.  Fill your space with light and music.

Friday 19 January 2007

We're finishing up and moving on today.  There's change in
the air.  Expect a "big" dream tonight; look for guidance in
its symbols.

Saturday 20 January 2007

A good night for a gathering with a non-homogenous group of
people.  Go out somewhere different.  Accept that some part
of your past is falling away.  Even if it's served you well,
you've outgrown it.  The Moon goes Void at 9:00pm/12:00am.

Sunday 21 January 2007

She enters Pisces at 12:48am/3:48am and we lose some of our
cool detachment.  This evening the Moon again channels the
Jupiter - Uranus mind-expansion as she connects with them
both at 9:20pm/12:20pm.  Sleep may be slow in coming as our
minds buzz.


Long Range Forecast:

February 13th - Mercury begins three weeks of retrograde
motion that ends on March 7th.  Signing important documents
should be postponed.  Plan to best use this time to
re-organize all things mental and communicative.  Expect to
lose and find something.

Celestial Weather
29 January 2007 - 4 February 2007

The Week beginning January 29th, 2007

Week as a Whole:

There are several planetary connections this week that point to new ways
of thinking and/or new methods.  Mercury links with Pluto midweek and on
Saturday, Mars and Uranus cooperate as do the Sun and Jupiter.  But the
major event of this week is Thursday's Full Moon which contains an
unusual "Y" pattern that's very tightly focused.  "Y" patterns like this
one often symbolize a decision that must be made or a fork in the road
ahead.  There is no choice about the requirement to make a choice, and
in the U.S. chart the pressure is on our leaders and relates to either
the courts or foreign policy or both.  More detail below.

Mercury links with Pluto on Wednesday in a combination that offers a
chance to revise and re-think plans and creative projects.  What's old
and "been done" is clear and new ideas are available if we open our
minds and listen.  This is a pattern that opens doors and creates
opportunities but does not compel.  It's up to us to make use of the
mental penetration that comes with Mercury in Aquarius and Pluto in
Sagittarius.  If you find yourself slapping your forehead as you see a
solution that has been there all along, you've opened your mind to
Mercury - Pluto.  If you've felt like you're beating your head against a
wall, make another try on Wednesday.  If there's no breakthrough, maybe
it's time to walk away.  Much of the swirling ideas and verbiage of the
past weeks can come clear since this combination allows us to
efficiently remove the noise from our perceptive systems and focus on
essentials.

But this pattern is background or setup for the Full Moon Thursday
evening (PST). (http://www.celestialweather.com/images/012907.pdf)
Saturn and the Moon, both in Leo and both connecting with planets in GW
Bush's chart, bracket the high point at the 12 o'clock position.  Since
all the other planets are opposite these two, they are the focus and
channel for the energy of the chart.  Saturn and the Moon, for the U.S.,
concentrate the country's communications and relations with global
society.  Notice that there are four planets whose degrees are number
12: the Sun and Moon, Mars, and Uranus.  Notice also that the Moon is
the apex at which the other three are focused.  This inverted "Y"
pattern strongly indicates that a decision must be made on this Full
Moon, made in public, and from which there is no dodging or spinning.
Mars and Uranus can be violent but most likely will force this issue
suddenly and without warning.  Procrastination will only make the
situation worse.  Some people touched by this pattern will be vindicated
and their advice seen as prescient.  Others will not be so fortunate.
On a personal level, it's most important to accept responsibility and
accept the change.  There is help available from people in power and
authority if asked for.

"Y" patterns can form without incorporating a Full Moon.  But this one's
Full Moon involvement means the changes will take place in full view, in
the spotlight.  And like all Full Moons there's an equal chance for
fulfillment and the reconciliation of opposites as a chance for rupture,
discord, and failure.  Since the Sun and Moon are both in fixed signs,
Leo and Aquarius, and since Leo and Aquarius embody the strong-will and
egos characteristic of the fixed signs, we can expect to see a strong
will challenged by a sharp change in circumstances.  Mars and Uranus are
in dynamic and fluid signs, Capricorn and Pisces.  These signs are not
fixed and are poised to bring some shocking information that will shake
up the set status quo.  For those connected with this pattern, consider
the Borg warning, "Resistance is futile".  Accept the new reality and
accept the change because the situation has already changed.

This "Y" type pattern is found in the charts of people whose lives
follow a zigzag route through the world.  As their "Y" pattern is
contacted, they are confronted with "Lady or the Tiger" situations in
which they must choose.  And their choices change the direction of their
life.  We'll see more of this dynamic pattern in early April when 3 "Y"
patterns form on the 2nd.


Daily Forecasts:

Monday 29 January 2007

The Moon goes Void at 10:40am/1:40pm and enters Cancer at 2:16pm/5:16pm.
Kick off in the morning and then re-connect late in the day.  Notice the
shift from thought to feelings.

Tuesday 30 January 2007

Get in gear before 1:30pm/4:30pm when the Moon goes Void.  There should
be a feeling of group unity today as the Moon makes nice with Uranus in
Pisces.  Groups are open to new members.  Get two days of work started
because tomorrow the Moon is Void.

Wednesday 31 January 2007

The Moon is Void ALL DAY.  So keep up with current tasks and avoid
starting totally new projects.  Discount new ideas and opportunities
that come your way today, unless they come after 9:14pm/12:14am when the
Moon enters Leo.

Thursday 1 February 2007

A day of decision.  The Full Moon in Leo and Aquarius is also about how
we express our love for each other, and how we are open to receive that
love.  There's a steadily rising drumbeat of energy all day leading up
to the Full Moon at 9:45pm/12:45am.  Meditate before not after.

Friday 2 February 2007

The ripples are still spreading outward and with Mercury entering Pisces
we're going first to feelings and intuition before logic.  We're
considering karma and consequences.  With the Moon moving from Neptune
to Saturn (who are moving into opposition) we may see an end to wishful
thinking...and that's almost always healthy in the long run.

Saturday 3 February 2007

The Moon has gone Void and entered Virgo at 6:34am/9:34am.  Overnight
Mars has completed the link with Uranus (see the Full Moon chart) and
the Sun links with Jupiter.  We may awaken feeling renewed and ready for
a fresh start.  Some aspect of our world has shifted.

Sunday 4 February 2007

Sort of an "Itchy and Scratchy" day with the Virgo Moon wanting to
correct and perhaps should wait until asked.


Long Range Forecast:

February 13th - Mercury begins three weeks of retrograde motion that
ends on March 7th.  Signing important documents should be postponed.
Plan to best use this time to re-organize all things mental and
communicative.  Expect to lose and find something.

March 3rd, March 18th - The spring eclipse season begins with a Lunar
Eclipse on March 3rd to be followed by a Solar Eclipse on the 18th.  All
energy levels are elevated during the eclipse periods.  Some of us will
have great accomplishments and others will not be able to handle the
juice.

April 2nd - A complex of three "Y" patterns forms indicating major
decisions are required and a sharp turn taken by those whose personal
horoscopes are touched this day.  More on this as the time approaches.
Thanks to astrologer Helga Steffee for pointing this out.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 - January 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of squares to
Pluto newly in Capricorn.  The end of business-as-usual politics.  The
nationalistic dinosaurs will enter their twilight times.  The transition
to organic regional government will not be smooth...the result may be
some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 - April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his first major
hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they were aligned in the
second half of the 1960's.  Hippie dreams may come true when the ecology
and/or petroleum-based economies fail.  Plan to live where there is food
and water and you don't need a car.  Plan to live where you'll know your
neighbors...maybe even love them.  What a thought! We may have to choose
between eating grain on a commune or growing very thin in the city.

Celestial Weather
5 February 2007 - 11 February 2007

The Week beginning February 5th, 2007

Week as a Whole:

Every year as the Earth circles the Sun a series of annual contacts is
formed by the Sun and the inner planets: Mercury and Venus.  This week
the course of the Earth's revolution will align the Sun with Neptune on
Thursday to be followed by the Sun appearing opposite Saturn on
Saturday.  Viewed from above the Solar System, the Earth is moving into
a line connecting the Sun, Saturn, and Neptune.  Functionally Saturn and
Neptune are opposites.  Saturn defines and enforces borders, limits, and
boundaries; Neptune dissolves these same dividing lines and seeks to
unify.  Saturn is the "reality principle" bringing us to confront hard
facts and sometimes unpleasant truths; Neptune shows us perfection and
what could be.  Every year the Sun aligns with Neptune and every year he
passes opposite Saturn.  The current conditions, which find Saturn and
Neptune opposite each other, bring us situations in which what we wish
must quickly confront what's possible.

When the Sun aligns with Neptune our dream life leaks into waking life.
Our imaginations color what we see and feel during the day.  We
sometimes see what we want to see, rather than what is.  Our
discrimination is not optimal.  It's a fine line we must walk to
appreciate the potential of people and situations without being gullible
and without being cynical as a defense.  Confusion and indecision often
come with Neptune's energy.  Our protective shields, that can both
isolate and protect us, are lowered and we are more open to influences
in our environment.  This can be wonderful if you place yourself in a
beautiful and enriching setting.  It can create pollution issues if we
sponge up negativity.  So we must use our consciousness to be selective
and alert for body messages that warn us of "poison" in the atmosphere.

Before the Sun - Neptune alignment on Thursday, another annual event
occurs: Venus aligns with Uranus.  Uranus represents another force that
acts to breakdown Saturn's structures.  We need the strength of Saturn
in our bones and in the ability to retain a sense of identity and
continuity in our lives.  But Saturn acts over time to lock us into
habits, habits of activity and habits of thought.  He ranks people
according to their utility.  And he doesn't like to admit he might be
wrong or that people can change or improve.  Uranus blows this
crystallization apart.  Coming through Venus, as he does this Wednesday,
he lets us see people in a new way, or meet people that don't ordinarily
cross our paths.  We have a sense of distance and can step back from our
relationships and take stock.  And this stepping back sometimes brings
the shocking realization that a particular relationship has reached the
end of its useful life.

After the Sun - Neptune event, Venus forms a square with Jupiter.  This
too asks us to stretch our concepts of what we want from people.  Venus
in Pisces and Jupiter in Sagittarius are both operating in
religious/mystical realms.  We will feel a need to have meaning in our
social life and to feel a deeper and broader connection with the people
in our lives.  We will want to see forward motion or growth from our
relationships and a shared purpose.  If taken negatively, this can be a
brief but intense case of grass being greener just because it's new or
different grass.  If we open our hearts and minds and pay attention
during the influence of Venus - Uranus, Sun - Neptune, and Venus -
Jupiter, we can move into the weekend with a new point of view.

For three days we'll be challenged to open our minds to new ideas and
new perceptions, first by Uranus and then by Neptune, and finally by
Jupiter.  There may be a slight "out of control" feeling since many of
these new notions come from deep within us and may seem strange.  The
urge to chuck it all and run off to the South Seas may cross our minds.
This is not always a bad idea.  Breaking out of the mold and following
one's dream is moving toward individuation and away from collective
living.  Escaping from responsibility is not.

But then comes Saturn on Saturday to remind us we do have
responsibilities; people count on us: partners, families, co-workers,
groups, etc.  Saturn will work to focus our dreams and give us pause to
consider what they require.  While he may deflate some, to others he
will give form and structure.  Saturn and Neptune in healthy combination
have been called the "architect's planets".  The architect has a vision
and then makes it a reality.  What many find difficult is that not all
blueprints become buildings.  Saturday some of our dreams and ideals
will be tested.  The confusion (and, yes, there can be deception) of
Neptune will be clarified.  Some of us will feel they've "come to their
senses", others brought "down to earth", and still others charged with a
plan for a new future.

These are annual contacts happen regularly and form the background music
to human life.  We're coming down from the very high energy of last
week's unusual Full Moon and Mars - Uranus violence.  We're beginning a
few weeks of lowered stress levels soon to be enlivened by the usual
Mercury retrograde hi-jinks.  Perhaps we can take a break from worrying
about a future that seems to be rushing at us with the acceleration of
the Mayan calendar.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 5 February 2007

A good start to the work week under the Virgo Moon.  Get cranking early
before she goes Void at 2:36pm/5:26pm.  Then keep on with what's in
motion until the Moon enters Libra at 6:15pm/9:15pm.  In between, not
much new happens.

Tuesday 6 February 2007

We're restless and eager for something new.  Group activities feel good.
Ideas flow easily but we bore easily as well with Venus approaching
Uranus and sending energy to the Libra Moon.

Wednesday 7 February 2007

A busy, even hectic morning cools down by mid-afternoon when the Moon
links with Saturn.  We "make up our minds" about some personal issue
this evening.

Thursday 8 February 2007

The Moon is Void until 7:09am/10:09am when she enters Scorpio.  The Sun
aligns with Neptune at roughly the same time.  Expect to be a bit foggy
this morning and maybe this will be a day seen through a lingering
dream.  Pay attention to any messages in your dreams.  Be selective
about places and company.

Friday 9 February 2007

Scorpio is known for strong emotions and they flow today.  You're either
on the bus or off.  Indecision is considered "off the bus" by Scorpios.
Feelings are either very good or very bad.  Avoid the green eyed
monster.

Saturday 10 February 2007

With the Sun opposite Saturn and a Last Quarter Moon shining on those in
power, politics may be a background to our daily life this day.  Be
precise, "pick up every stitch".  Saturn brings out the inner cop in all
of us.  But with the Moon Void all day until 7:01pm/10:01pm we'll get
warnings rather than citations for our sins.  Last night's bad dreams
are just that...bad dreams.

Sunday 11 February 2007

We're feeling the Sagittarius Moon today: more optimistic, restless,
easily bored, and needing room to move.  Get out and move around either
physically or mentally.  A day for travel or expansions.


Long Range Forecast:

February 13th - Mercury begins three weeks of retrograde motion that
ends on March 7th.  Signing important documents should be postponed.
Plan to best use this time to re-organize all things mental and
communicative.  Expect to lose and find something.

March 3rd, March 18th - The spring eclipse season begins with a Lunar
Eclipse on March 3rd to be followed by a Solar Eclipse on the 18th.  All
energy levels are elevated during the eclipse periods.  Some of us will
have great accomplishments and others will not be able to handle the
juice.

April 2nd - A complex of three "Y" patterns forms indicating major
decisions are required and a sharp turn taken by those whose personal
horoscopes are touched this day.  More on this as the time approaches.
Thanks to astrologer Helga Steffee for pointing this out.