tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21737911865143138682024-03-12T16:05:58.327-07:00JFA AstrologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2173791186514313868.post-25201931976119432032023-06-26T12:49:00.006-07:002023-06-26T12:55:19.957-07:00About Mercury Retrograde<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>About Mercury Retrograde</b></span></div>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>About three times a year, Mercury goes retrograde for approximately three weeks. First, let’s get the techie stuff out of the way. When a planet is retrograde, from our visual point of view, it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac. First it slows down, then it stops, which is called a “station.” Then it proceeds to move backwards until it slows down, makes another station and moves forward again. I think we feel the effect of the stations for about one degree of the zodiac before and one degree after the exact station. Planets don’t actually reverse direction in their orbits. They appear to do so because the Earth has temporarily passed them in its own orbit.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So what’s the effect of a station? Stationary planets are stronger and wield more influence than non-stationary ones. For most of us, if you were throwing a ball, you’d probably be more accurate in your aim, and the momentum of the ball would be more powerful, if you were standing still than if you were running when you threw it. Also, a stationary planet spends longer at the same degree of the zodiac, so it has more time to influence whatever part of your chart it’s affecting. As I write up this explanation, Hurricane Dorian has just made landfall in the Bahamas. Because it was moving very, very slowly, meteorologists said that it was “stationary,” and that since the hurricane took much longer than usual to cross the Bahamas, its <i>effects</i> lasted longer and were greater than if it had crossed the Bahamas quickly. It had more time to do its work, so to speak. Stationary planets also have more time to do their work. The stations of Mercury last for about five days before and after the exact degree and minute of the station.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Whatever a retrograde planet rules seems to go “backwards or sideways” during its retrograde periods. Glitches or delays connected to what a planet rules are common during its retrogradations. The Sun and Moon are never retrograde, but the rest of the planets do turn retrograde at some point in their orbits around the Sun. Mercury’s retrogradations happen the most frequently, because Mercury has the fastest planetary orbit around the Sun, about 88 of our days here on Earth. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What does Mercury rule? Lots of things! Almost all of them have to do with communication and perception, whether we’re using the mind, the faculty of speech, writing, reading, listening, or our physical selves to communicate and perceive. Knowing where your body is in space, whether you’re sitting or standing, whether your arms are raised or lowered, what kind of surface you’re on, and whether you’re keeping your balance or are about to fall, is called <i>proprioception</i> and is a special kind of perception. How and where your body moves, along with the specific muscular effort to move it, is called <i>kinesthetics</i> and is related to proprioception. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mercury, then, rules speaking, reading, writing, listening, publishing (with Jupiter), commerce (with Venus), the Internet, the power grid, and all forms of transportation, planes, trains, automobiles, and their schedules. It also rules any work we do with our hands. If you’re a fine arts painter, Venus rules the <i>aesthetics</i> of painting, how it looks, what colors you’re using and the balance among them. But Mercury rules the <i>mechanics</i> of painting, how you hold and move the brush. I think it rules what musicians call “muscle memory,” the work you have to do to memorize a piece and play it without the sheet music and without mistakes. Mercury rules any relatively small tool that you use with your hands, whether it’s an engraving tool, an electric drill or a computer. It rules your calendar app or your appointment book. It rules electronic equipment. It rules your nervous system as a physical, biological entity, as well as your hands, arms, shoulders and lungs. It rules writers, librarians, computer programmers and teachers. It also rules people who use their Mercury function to communicate what they want someone to hear or perceive, not necessarily the whole truth. It rules pickpockets and con artists and stage magicians. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When Mercury is retrograde, anything it rules can go sideways or backwards somehow. It’s not a jinx or a curse. It’s a call to pay more attention to the details of what it rules, to be <i>mindful</i> of them, not to go on automatic pilot. Confirm your reservations and appointments, and buy trip insurance. Get things in writing. Repeat the information until you’re sure it’s correct, no matter whom you annoy. Double-check your schedule and the flight information boards at the airport. Send important mail by registered mail with a return receipt, and insure any important packages. Proofread that list of your medications that your doctor wanted. Public transportation is somewhat more likely to be late, to have to detour, or to lose your luggage. Allow extra time to get where you’re going. Check your oil. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is Mercury retrograde just three weeks of potential hassles? No. Is it good for anything? Yes! It’s great for almost any verb with the prefix “re:” revisit, revise, reflect, and redact—that means edit. It’s good for taking time to think things over, for research, for looking before you leap. It’s good for practicing or reviewing something you’ve learned: irregular Italian verbs, a new song, scales on the piano, studying for a test. If you can delay a Mercury-ruled action that you’re going to do <i>for the first time</i>, do so. Don’t buy a car or a computer or an airbrush unless you absolutely have to. Delay that important conversation until Mercury’s direct. Don’t send in your manuscript yet. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mercury tends to be strong in people whose left brain functions are powerful, who are good with logic, reason, order, sequence and details. However, there are ways that we learn or communicate that aren’t left-brained. Some of us are right-brained, more tuned into images, shapes, or metaphorical thinking than into something like science. I’ve found that Mercury retrograde seems to challenge the left-brained to use their right brains more than they usually do, and it seems to challenge the right-brained to use their left brains more. An artist has to do his taxes or set up his wi-fi network. A mathematician wants to write a poem for her husband for Valentine’s Day. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You may not enjoy the process of using the non-preferred hemisphere of your brain, but doing so can help you be more versatile and more accepting of how other people’s minds work. It can help you be more flexible and adaptable, and those are Mercury traits, too. They’re also survival-positive. Species of animals who can adapt to changing circumstances or environments tend to thrive, while animals who eat only one kind of food, for example, can face extinction if the source of that food vanishes. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So practice being more mindful, present, resourceful and adaptable during Mercury retrograde. Humanity is facing a rapidly changing environment, and the more adaptable we are as individuals and as a species, the more likely we are to thrive despite those changes. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">www.jodieforrestastrology.com. Email: jodietighe@gmail.com. (Forrest is my professional last name; my legal last name is Tighe, if you’re wondering why I have two.) </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here's the scoop about rectifying (deducing) a birth time:</span></b></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First, please exhaust all the possibilities for finding your birth time. My website has a page about finding your birth certificate: <span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: underline;">https://birthcert.jodieforrestastrology.com/</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">. Do try to find it, because </span>mothers have been known to insist, "It was 7:10 in the evening," when your birth certificate says <i>you weighed 7 pounds and 10 ounces</i>, and the birth time recorded on the certificate is totally different. If you were born in or after about 1968 in the U.S., the time should be on your birth certificate, and it's often there even if you were born earlier than 1968. The page on my website includes places you can look for certificates for births outside the U.S.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you can’t find your birth certificate, or if the time isn’t listed on it, the next step is to narrow down the possible time frame (the earliest and latest hours between which you have good reason to think you were born) as much as you can. Please do all you can to narrow the time frame <i>as long as you have some reasonably concrete evidence to do so</i>, such as a blurry birth certificate, more than one person's memories, or your mother's specific memory with a good reason to have retained that recollection. ("I'd just looked at the hospital clock, and it said 10:00 a.m. on the dot," for example, or, "I'd just heard the bell tower ring noon," etc.). </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If I don't have a wide enough time frame, you risk my not arriving at the right birth time. That's because the patterns I'd be looking for might not exist within an inaccurate time frame. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I usually don’t do rectifications if the time frame is wider than six hours. There are some exceptions, so please inquire whether rectification might still be possible in your case. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Suggestions for finding your birth time or narrowing its time frame:</span></b></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Look for baby books, journals, family Bibles or the equivalent. Ask your older relatives where your parents might have written down your birth time and whom they might have told about it.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Ask all your older relatives—not just your parents—or even ask any longtime family friends for any recollection of what they were doing when they heard you’d been born. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For example:</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* You might find that an older brother remembers that you hadn’t been born when he left for school, but at lunch time, the school told him that he had a new baby sister or brother (you!). That would narrow down the time frame, starting <i>from</i> whenever your brother left for school, <i>to </i>whenever lunch was over. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* One of your relatives may be passionate about her hobby of genealogy, and she just might have your birth time in her files.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Perhaps your aunt or uncle or another relative or a family friend was staying with your siblings while your mother was giving birth. The relative or friend might remember when he/she was informed that you had just been born.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Contact the hospital, the physician, the midwife, or the adoption agency when relevant. It’s easier to get adoption information than it used to be. Some of my clients have had good luck when they very politely explained that <i>all </i>they wanted to know was their time of birth.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Call the relevant birth-certificate-granting entity where you were born. <i>Sometimes</i> the birth time is in the State records, or even in the Armed Services records if your parent was on active duty, even if the time isn’t on the birth certificate itself. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you have no luck finding your birth time, you’re a candidate for rectification. I enjoy doing them. But there's also <i>no</i> guarantee I'll be accurate to the minute. The narrower the possible time frame, the better chance I have of finding your accurate birth time.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Your Event List: <i>The content of your list will be kept confidential.</i></b><br />
To do a rectification, I start by looking very closely at several possible charts, equally spaced within the time frame of your birth, and seeing how accurately they would have reflected the astrological placements of the planets on extremely important dates in your life. To begin this process, I need a list of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>at least</i> </span>two dozen important events from over the course of your whole life, and the more events, the better. <b>Please state the events' dates just as precisely as possible: place, month, day, time and year if you possibly can. If not, then:</b></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* season and year is better than just the year</span></b></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* month and year is better than just season and year</span></b></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* early or late in a month is better than just that month as a whole.</span></b></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* early or late in a week is better than just that week as a whole </span></b></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Also, if you remember more events or details for your list after you’ve given it to me, <i>please</i> let me know about them</b>, because they could help me refine the rectification.<br />
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<b>Are you having a hard time coming up with your list?</b> Maybe your spouse, aunt/uncle, sister/brother, co-worker, neighbor or a family friend has an excellent memory for dates. Maybe you kept your appointment books or your personal journals, or maybe your spouse or sibling or child did. Maybe some business, governmental, medical or educational agency involved in an event has a record of it. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>As for what sort of events are important, </b>I try not to "lead the witness" too much (with some exceptions), because what's important <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>to you</i></span> can give me some clues about your birth chart. With that in mind, any of the following might or might not be important TO YOU: </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">family members’ and significant others’ birth data</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">entering or leaving school or work,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">beginnings and endings of significant relationships (friendships or love affairs), </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">earning or losing a lot of money, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">work changes, including learning new work skills, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">highly creative times, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">outstanding personal achievement, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">births and/or deaths of significant others or family members or beloved pets, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">earning educational degrees or professional licenses, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">changing religions, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">meeting mentors or important teachers, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">entering psychotherapy, </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">joining or leaving significant groups, etc.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">important travel</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">serious illnesses</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">accidents or other trauma</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">anything unusual </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Please don't</i> try to find an event in every single one of those categories; just list events that were <i>significant to you.</i> <br />
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<b>Exceptions to my not “leading the witness”: please DO include:</b></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. </b>your parents', sibs', spouses', very best friends’, and children's birth or death dates, with places and times if possible, or just the birth dates if you know them.<br />
<b>2. </b>any event that's both <i>unusual and significant to you personally</i>--for example, unexpectedly winning a lottery, accidents, injuries, illnesses or assaults, surviving a natural disaster or a fire or a collapsed building, arrests, surgeries, struck by lightning, met your favorite musician, actor or writer, had a fabulous vacation, had a feeling not to take a plane that crashed, a wonderful stray animal adopted you, you had a revelation in psychotherapy that changed your life, you escaped from a country that was in a political crisis, you had a powerful spiritual or metaphysical experience, you had a short story accepted for publication, etc.<br />
<b>3. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>whenever</i></span> you moved/relocated to a different physical address (where you sleep, rather than something like moving your office). Also, please tell me if a move was a particularly significant one, and why.<br />
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<b>It's also helpful, but optional,</b> to send me several photos of you that were taken at different ages. A digital format is best and safest, but any hard copy you send will be treated with care and returned to you once I’ve finished the rectification.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Fees: </b></span>if you know the time frame within:</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">one hour, $200.00</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">two hours, $250.00</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">three hours, $300.00</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">four hours, $350.00</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">five hours, $400.00</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">six hours, $450.00</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Payable in advance, please, by any of these methods: </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Check or money order in USD sent to: Jodie Forrest (or Tighe), PO Box 1311, Ramona, CA 92065</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thank you. I look forward to working with you.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jodie Forrest</span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2173791186514313868.post-57157075825324145492022-12-20T07:53:00.010-08:002023-06-26T12:56:54.755-07:00Astrology Courses for Beginners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdz9rqCUtlks4NOdXznkHYBlBk8hwrfzTvFJiAzniNbgZAIyVNE-hBNXyGwfnvi0AaUrW1A2CwSZi-B3vYw7kTP3OiSg7eG5UHcE7SOeMbDWmmL4n-DgIQIHvcQHWg1QB43F4tJhw1HMQMoHHGL9J8Xv971TsvU7I5IjE1_jQ8mKlJhRn0ttO6lRJ1/s300/Beginner%20Courses%20for%20Astrology.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdz9rqCUtlks4NOdXznkHYBlBk8hwrfzTvFJiAzniNbgZAIyVNE-hBNXyGwfnvi0AaUrW1A2CwSZi-B3vYw7kTP3OiSg7eG5UHcE7SOeMbDWmmL4n-DgIQIHvcQHWg1QB43F4tJhw1HMQMoHHGL9J8Xv971TsvU7I5IjE1_jQ8mKlJhRn0ttO6lRJ1/w57-h57/Beginner%20Courses%20for%20Astrology.png" width="57" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />☪ Are you new to astrology?
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Jupiter turns direct at 29 Pisces, a sign which it rules and in which it therefore carries extra oomph and influence, on November 23rd, the day before Thanksgiving.<span><a name='more'></a></span>
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Our largest planet rules:</b> benevolence, philanthropy, charitable giving and good will hope, faith, generosity and good humor higher learning, new experiences, travel: what widens our horizons openness to other cultures: appreciation of diversity and self-righteousness and fanaticism feelings of entitlement, self-importance overconfidence and imperiousness difficulty with commitments or restrictions.
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We’ve felt the station increasing in power since Halloween, and we’ll feel it decreasing in power through Dec. 18th. It’s exact the day before Thanksgiving. If we focus on gratitude and good will toward everyone on that day, and on tolerance, seeing the best in others, and a willingness to let go of pettiness or resentments, then we should have a rather pleasant holiday.
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We may, however, feel “<i>entitled</i>” to some extra pumpkin pie, so eat slowly.<div>Subjects to avoid at mealtime should probably include any subject about which you know or strongly suspect that your fellow diners disagree.
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It’s an excellent time to help out at a soup kitchen, donate to food drives, and commit random acts of kindnes</b></i>s—all Jupiterian in nature. Pay for the order of the car that’s behind you in line at the drive-through. Good will is contagious! Think about what you could do to help people less fortunate than you are, do as much as you can, and you’ll get a big dose of Jupiter’s upbeat energy.
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And tell some jokes!<br />
Laughter is contagious too, and very healing.
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A retrograde transit of Mars began on Oct. 30 at 26 </div><div>Gemini. Mars continues its backwards movement through the zodiac until Jan. 12th, when it will station (stop) at 9 Gemini, then move forward again. </div><div> We’ll feel that station the most from Dec 31st through Jan. 25th. Whatever a planet rules tends to “run backwards” when it’s retrograde, to slow down or stall, or to need review or reconsideration. <div><br /></div><div><b><i>Mars rules our fight, flight or freeze mechanism:</i></b> what we do when feeling threatened. </div><div>It also rules drive, initiative, boundaries, assertiveness, desire, competition, and our energy level in general. </div><div>If it malfunctions, Mars can be either a bully or a coward. Global conflicts—and there are many at any given time—may have been in some kind of holding pattern during this retrogradation, and related events may take place after Jan. 12th.
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On a personal level, have you felt stalled somewhere? </i></b></div><div> Has it been more difficult to get things done, to move forward, or to point out where someone’s stepping on your toes?
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Now is the time to think about those areas of your life, go on fact-finding missions and plan strategies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingUfpCua2mbEy0qThbMXl6ttmtksbpG7eSJ6zVX7vc8gTz4FZ-RzSSgf9ICZ7vdadQ44jnFFOL1kPIaaJAV7OwaoWvypm7Qmfa387szX5qy31MbEpaRHjEPNkpkSddCH8MzxYKXNxMiUyfEFgBFRD8ZvDZzFye2Dl69v71Usys8QGweuUUU4Kgxri/s300/Jodie-Forrest-Astrology-112122.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingUfpCua2mbEy0qThbMXl6ttmtksbpG7eSJ6zVX7vc8gTz4FZ-RzSSgf9ICZ7vdadQ44jnFFOL1kPIaaJAV7OwaoWvypm7Qmfa387szX5qy31MbEpaRHjEPNkpkSddCH8MzxYKXNxMiUyfEFgBFRD8ZvDZzFye2Dl69v71Usys8QGweuUUU4Kgxri/s16000/Jodie-Forrest-Astrology-112122.gif" /></a></div><br /><div><br />
After Jan. 12th is the time to act on them. </div><div>Watch your temper from Dec. 31 to Jan. 25th and don’t overreact—you may be more inclined than usual to use a machete to swat a tiny mosquito.
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As they say, just because you have a hammer doesn’t mean that everything is a nail.
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Since Oct. 1, Neptune has slowly approached its station on Dec. 3rd at 23 Pisces, a sign which it rules, and after the station it turns direct.
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We’ll keep feeling the extra power of that station through Feb. 2nd. </div><div>Note that Jupiter and Neptune, which both rule Pisces, are both stationary and conjunct in late Pisces, and their stations overlap from Halloween through Dec. 18th.
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Let’s look at some key phrases for Neptune:</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b>
☯ the part of our psyche that can become aware of transpersonal reality beyond our three-dimensional, time-bound daily lives—that can “feel the Force.”
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☯ the part of the psyche which benefits from exploring our
consciousness, spirit, soul or inner life—through meditation, contemplation, mysticism, compassion, imagination, creativity and/or psychic awareness
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☯ the part of the psyche which has a drive to enter an altered state of awareness, preferably on purpose and without artificial inducements—and without losing our ability to function as a coherent personality in our outer lives and
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☯ possible absent-mindedness, addictive or escapist tendencies if we aren’t doing regular inner work or entering purposeful altered states that clear our energy
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☯ possible vulnerability to others’ pain and the pain of the world, feeling overwhelmed with everything our sensitivity allows us to experience
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☯ drifting through life in a reactive state, rather than living pro-actively
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Jupiter tends to expand whatever it touches – and it’s augmenting Neptune’s influence on us while these planets are conjoined, and especially when they’re conjoined and stationary.
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If you meditate, do artwork, counsel people, or have a devotional practice, its benefits can expand under this influence—if you spend time at it.
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I would suggest a form of meditation that includes positive visualizations of a more gentle, compassionate, fair and generous world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWre3VCU0FELK-kZns0fr7QVBhRKtcfAYSkJjE7ob3JmOka1PnCaIH3OI51Sao09kf6mcz0z19Nr6s3ZTqZuPWXCeWcD1tNtT9QWuww1tnqRGgzfuvGf3NkyLMBH6h-T5WSFeE62KVmS1STrxYWIg4pbE3mCkKQrar11FA66exkNXrQe-KmehoQ_qD/s300/Jodie-Forrest-Barn-Building.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWre3VCU0FELK-kZns0fr7QVBhRKtcfAYSkJjE7ob3JmOka1PnCaIH3OI51Sao09kf6mcz0z19Nr6s3ZTqZuPWXCeWcD1tNtT9QWuww1tnqRGgzfuvGf3NkyLMBH6h-T5WSFeE62KVmS1STrxYWIg4pbE3mCkKQrar11FA66exkNXrQe-KmehoQ_qD/s1600/Jodie-Forrest-Barn-Building.gif" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>Let your affirmations or quiet time include forgiving others, letting go of rancor, and concentrating on seeing the good in people.
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Everyone on Earth is a mixture of good and bad. </div><div>Focus on what you want to see grow in yourself and your loved ones and on the planet. Donate to a charity, take a meditation class, get out your watercolors – and as they say,
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“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
(The Jupiter section above contains more ideas.)
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Here’s a goal:</i></b> During both of these stations, extend loving kindness, what the Buddha called bodhichitta, to everyone you encounter, without exception.
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That’s a spiritual practice that will hold your feet to the fire like no other.
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It’s also a spiritual practice whose energy and influence are boosted during these stations, which means that the practice can benefit us more, and probably means that it will be easier for you to attempt just now, too.
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On Christmas Day, the beginning of the retrograde station of Mercury can be felt.
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The exact station occurs on Dec. 29th at 25 Capricorn, conjoining Pluto, which is still in the orbs of the U.S. Pluto return.
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(See the article elsewhere on this website.) Mercury is retrograde until Jan. 19th when it makes a direct station at 9 Capricorn, and we experience its retrograde effects through Jan. 23rd. During Mercury retrograde, it’s a good idea to double- or triple-check all important details.
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Details of what?
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Everything Mercury rules: communication, including writing, reading, teaching, learning, giving speeches, and the Internet; observation; research; travel, etc.
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It’s wise not to buy a car, a computer, software, or airline or train tickets during Mercury retrograde, if you can avoid it.
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Sometimes we can’t—just inform yourself fully, double-check everything, and have backups.
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Astrology’s like a weather report.
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If I need to go outside when it’s raining, I do—I just dress for the weather and bring an umbrella.
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Don’t let difficult people rattle you if you can help it. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Especially if you tend to have a sharp tongue, keep your sense of humor through the holidays and early in the New Year—everything’s easier if we can see a funny side to it.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jodie Forrest</i> </div><div><br /></div><div>Have a great Thanksgiving and be sure to check out my newest book: Solar Arcs: Directions from the Sun<br /><br />
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☪ Hello again! The world’s been on a wild ride lately, especially since covid
began. I hope that you and yours are all doing well nevertheless, and I’m glad
to “see” you again.
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The end of the year is fast approaching, so I took a look at all the planetary
stations in effect.<span></span>
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Stations occur when a planet is turning retrograde (SR)—apparently stopping and
moving backwards in the zodiac—and when it’s turning direct (SD) and moving
forward again. A stationary planet becomes stronger for the duration of the
station’s orbs, not just when it’s exact. I visualize a stationary planet as a
runner who stops and plants his feet, then hurtles something like a ball of that
planet’s energy toward us. I use one-degree orbs for stations; many astrologers
use a different orb. In my opinion, we feel a station from one full degree
before it’s exact to one full degree after. I’m listing the exact stations that
include or follow today’s date, Oct. 13th. Dates may vary by one day.
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<p>Oct. 8, Pluto SR, 26 Capricorn 07</p>
<p>Orbs of station from July 30 - December 13</p>
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<p>Oct. 23, Saturn SR, 18 Aquarius 35</p>
<p>Orbs of station from September 17 - November 26</p>
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<p>Oct. 30, Mars SR, 25 Gemini 36</p>
<p>Orbs of station from October 18 - November 10</p>
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<p>Nov. 23, Jupiter SD, 28 Pisces 48</p>
<p>Orbs of station from October 31 - December 18.</p>
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<p>Dec. 4, Neptune SD, </p>
<p>Orbs of station from October 1 - February 2, 2023</p>
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<p>Dec. 29, Mercury SR, 24 Capricorn 20</p>
<p>Orbs of station from December 25 - January 1, 2023</p>
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The Pluto station on Oct. 8th has long orbs, from Jul. 30 to Dec. 13. Themes
can include power versus powerlessness, death and dying, the deep unconscious,
sexuality, depth psychoanalysis, “Plutocracies” (government by the rich),
nuclear power, espionage, purging, elimination, catharsis, the personal or
collective Shadow, and that which must “die” or change to make room for
something new. We feel this globally and, if you have planets in late
Capricorn, Cancer, Aries or Libra, you’ll also feel it personally.
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The U.S. government will definitely feel it, because this station occurs just
over a degree from the U.S. birth chart’s Mercury—which stations on Dec. 29 at
25 Capricorn--and in the orbs of the U.S. birth chart’s Pluto return. (For
more on America’s Pluto return and how it may affect the different Sun signs,
please see the article on this website.)
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What’s Pluto doing on our Mercury? Previously hidden information and
communication may come to light. How and what our nation communicates may
undergo scrutiny; so may the wording of our Constitution and other laws. As I
write these words, the former occupant of the White House has been subpoena’ed
to testify before the Congressional committee investigating the January 6
insurrection, and I suspect that a great deal of previously hidden (Pluto)
information (Mercury) may arise (Pluto). Notice what’s been happening on the
Internet. Social media companies (Mercury) have closed some accounts (Mercury)
because of their owners’ racist, incendiary or false statements (Pluto rules
scapegoating.). The suicide (Pluto) of a UK teenager has exposed Internet
discussions (Mercury) of suicide that may have depressed her further and
encouraged her to end her life.
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The Saturn station on Oct. 23 at 18 Aquarius 35, with orbs from Sep. 17-Nov.
26, calls for excellent reality-testing, maturity, and making an effort to
adapt to reality by changing what’s no longer working and what we’ve
outgrown—on a global level. If you have planets in the middle of Aquarius,
Leo, Taurus or Scorpio, you’ll feel this personally. Inflation is rampant, and
energy may be harder and harder to come by as Russia restricts its oil
exports. Italy is delaying when it turns central heating on in its public
buildings, and asking people to tolerate colder indoor temperatures this
winter. Saturn may provide us with more wake-up calls about the global
economy, fuel supplies and sources, the conflict in Ukraine, and the dangers
of climate change that may already be out of control. We need to face these
realities and work to correct them as soon as possible.
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<p>
On Oct. 30, Mars makes a retrograde station at 25 Gemini 36, with orbs from
Oct. 18-Nov. 10. It’s a time to count to 100, not just to 10, before you
assert yourself, and to think strategically (Saturn) about which battles you
truly need to win (Mars), because you may not have all the facts (Pluto), and
because people who lose their tempers may say things they later wish had been
left unsaid (Mars). Please note that during Oct. 18-Nov. 10, three planets
will be retrograde: Pluto, Saturn and Mars. What they rule will seem to “go
backwards" during this time, which may translate into delays (Saturn),
impatience about them (Mars), and a growing sense of what a momentous era
we’re navigating as best we can, as well as how important it is to get most of
it right (Pluto).
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<p>
Next, on Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving, Jupiter makes a direct station
at 28 Pisces 48. If you have planets in late Pisces, Virgo, Gemini or
Sagittarius, you’ll feel the station more that the rest of us will. Jupiter
co-rules Pisces, so it’s powerful here. The orbs run from Oct. 31 - Dec. 18.
Jupiter appreciates the good things in life and feels deserving of them, so
you might want to keep an eye on how much you indulge yourself at the
Thanksgiving table. I don’t mean to starve yourself. I just mean that stopping
before you’re full is wise, because it takes a while for the stomach to signal
the brain that it’s had enough. It’s also wise to be extra-careful about
drinking and driving, a theme repeated in the Neptune station I’ll discuss
below. Use the Jupiter station to be more compassionate, supportive and
giving—helping at a soup kitchen on Turkey Day might turn into the best
Thanksgiving you’ve ever had.
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<p>
On Dec. 4, Neptune makes a station at 22 Pisces 38. Its orbs run from Oct. 1
to Feb. 2, 2023. Collectively, this is a prompt to consider what the Dalai
Lama said in the 1990s: “The twenty-first century will be spiritual, or it
will not be.” If you have planets in late Pisces, Virgo, Gemini or
Sagittarius, you’ll feel the station personally. It conjoins the Jupiter
station discussed above. Both planets rule Pisces, and their wide conjunction
in that sign at their stations should make their influence particularly
powerful. The time when their stations overlap, from Oct. 31 - Dec. 18, will
increase the strength and effects of both planets. We need more times-out than
usual, because we need more quiet time to meditate, reflect, pray, relax, do
inner work, do creative work, pursue a creative hobby, listen to music, write
in a journal or a dream journal, and contemplate whatever spiritual beliefs or
ideals we have. (Atheists can do this too. Ask yourself: What makes my life
the most meaningful? What qualities of human nature do I believe are good, so
they inspire or guide me?) The more we try to be 100 percent extraverted
during Neptunian times, the more we may experience the pull to pay attention
to our inner lives as interfering with our attention to our outer lives. We
feel distracted and absent-minded. Distracted people make mistakes, forget
things, and feel tired more easily than others do. It’s worth your while to
take out those adult coloring books and marking pens, or enroll in a drumming
class, or resume doing yoga. You need to enter an altered state in a way that
doesn’t interfere with your ability to handle your outer life, and that
involves choice and some activity on your part, rather than zoning out with
Netflix all weekend. Enjoy feeling the Force, however you choose to do
so—meditation’s first benefit is that it calms our busy, chattering minds,
which most of us would welcome these days.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2173791186514313868.post-54063206096520966802022-10-12T05:58:00.000-07:002022-10-14T07:10:17.452-07:00Jodie Forrest
☪ I've maintained an evolutionary astrology practice for 33 years. I believe
living beings are growing and evolving, not static, and that your chart
represents both your growth potentials and your possible navigational errors.<br />
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The ways you choose to grow or to avoid growing effect on how fulfilled and
happy a life you can lead.<span><a name='more'></a></span>
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<br />Because I've learned to read the symbolic language of astrology, I can use
it to help increase your self-awareness and your understanding of the different
life paths that are open to you. Think of your birth chart as your individual
Lonely Planet guide to living.<br />
<br />
Astrology isn't a religion or even a belief system; it's a tool, something like
a very sophisticated personality theory that's rooted in the archetypes of the
collective unconscious. You can interpret a chart like a dream or a poem. Dreams
and poems aren't "real," but they can contain illuminating wisdom.<br />
<br />
For example, after a very busy holiday season with many rotating shifts of
guests and dinners, one woman dreamed that she was locked in a small closet with
the most obnoxious of her in-laws, and the in-law wanted to put a grand piano in
the closet with them. Did that really happen? No. Do you think one meaning of
the dream was that this woman had been feeling crowded by her lengthy procession
of visitors?<br />
<br />
I think so, too.<br />
By the same token, your birth chart is not astronomically "real," because it's
drawn as if the Sun, Moon, and planets all revolved around the Earth. We know
better nowadays. But we can still interpret that drawing of your birth chart in
ways that are just as meaningful to you as our besieged woman's dream is to
her.<br />
<br />
Each chart is so complex that it's virtually a universe in itself. Your
universe. Come explore it with me.<br />
<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2173791186514313868.post-81277037395298581292018-05-01T13:53:00.004-07:002023-06-30T13:55:45.701-07:00Transiting Uranus is in Taurus, 2018-2025<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Transiting Uranus in Taurus from May 2018 until July 7,
2025</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Transiting Uranus entered Taurus on May 15, 2018, at 8:16 am PDT, where
it remains until July 7, 2025.</b> It spends about seven years in a sign, minus
some brief retrogradations into the previous sign, such as its return to the
late degrees of Aries between November and March. Astrologers call Uranus one
of the “generational marker” planets; it demarcates a mini-generation of seven
years per sign. We rebel and innovate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">against
and through</i> the energies of the sign that Uranus occupies, which is now
Taurus, either natally or by transit. The new and unusual often provoke a
backlash, so some people may cling fiercely to the Taurean status quo as long
as they can.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Here’s a quick example: the Uranus
in Cancer mini-generation seriously questioned the construct of the nuclear
family, often describing it as dysfunctional. They created communal or
non-traditional living arrangements, had children much later in life than their
mothers did, or had them out of wedlock. They also became involved in
alternative (Uranus) health (Cancer, healing), and women’s issues (Cancer as
archetypal Yin energy).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">For the next seven years, we can
grow impatient with what may seem like unnecessary restrictions, overly
conservative attitudes, and empty conformity related to what Taurus rules.
We’ll see a great need for change, increased freedom, and social progress in
areas related to Taurus, and a questioning of the status quo in those
departments. It’s also possible that we’ll see more extreme manifestations of greed
and selfishness, since Uranus rules non-conformists, reformers—and sociopaths. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What does Taurus rule?
</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">* Establishing and maintaining
a healthy, easy connection to your body, your senses, your instinctual side,
your human primate nature, and Nature herself. </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We may see discoveries and
innovations (Uranus) about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the senses and
the body</i>. Perhaps we’ll question the wisdom of sitting in front of a
monitor all day, or discover more about the human body’s natural cycles and
systems, and how interfering with them may affect our health. We may rebel
against the current beauty ideals of extreme thinness and the kind of muscle
tone attainable only by hours of daily exercise. On the other hand, some people
may resist the Uranian call to change and become very indulgent of their
senses, attached to comfort or luxury, pleasure-seeking, and hedonistic. Others
may try to decorate the body as if it were an art form, such as darkening the
entire iris of the eye or splitting the tongue. Some people may wear more
devices: smart watches, smart goggles, Fitbits, VR visors, or even cybernetic
or bionic implants.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We may see increased activism about
saving the Earth from the effects of global warming, pollution, and
overpopulation—there is no Planet B, and our need to save this one may become
shockingly apparent. Innovations could occur in agriculture, animal husbandry,
geology, human and veterinary medicine, forestry, horticulture, meteorology, seismology,
or volcanology. Gardening or cooking may become more experimental or wholistic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We may see more efforts to move to
other sources of energy besides fossil fuels, more “back to the Earth”
movements, and experimentation or discoveries about the optimal human diet,
including the “Paleo” diet.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We may learn more about the
instincts, DNA analysis, the anatomy and physiology of the senses, or human
sexuality. We may rebel against organizations or cultures who are extremely
repressive about the body, the senses, or sexuality, and since that touches on
our reproductive instinct and religious or social constructs at the same time, there
may be a conservative backlash against greater freedom or transparency in these
areas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It wouldn’t surprise me if some of our
relationships to animals changed, as we discover more about them. People are
not the only tool-users, which suggests more intelligence than we’ve attributed
to animals in the past. Birds and chimps use tools, and they’ve recently discovered
a sea creature using a stick to help it reach some food. Dolphins have been
known to help human divers who are in trouble. Octopi kept in labs will
sometimes reach out of their tanks to break glassware or otherwise behave
mischievously.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* The sign Taurus is connected to acquiring the resources and
the security that you need in order to thrive—and that may not always mean
money. Our collective (Uranus is an outer planet) instinctual side (Taurus) is
being stimulated by Uranus’s entering Taurus, and our strongest instinct is
self-preservation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Over the next seven years,
therefore, we may see people trying to get and keep, by any means possible,
massive amounts of money, land, material goods, natural resources, or power. We
may also see more reactions against conspicuous consumption and unequal access
to wealth, food, land, water, other natural resources, birth control, and
health care. Global economics and banking (Taurus) will likely face revelations
(Uranus) and challenges, as well. Our monetary systems (cash, credit, “digital
money,” etc.) may change. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The less <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">safe </i>(Taurus) that people feel, the more unpredictably (Uranus)
they may react. Grounding the galvanizing, electrifying energy of Uranus on the
Earth and in your body is one good response to this influence. Back to basics:
what do we need to survive? Food, water, clothing, shelter, health, and the
resources to maintain them. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I think one of those resources is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">calm, </i>the ability to stay centered, to
monitor and stabilize our reactions to stress, to other people, and to our
immediate environment. When you’re upset, you may start unconsciously holding
your breath. One of the best ways to become calmer is to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">breathe,</i> deeply. More oxygen means more calm and clearer thinking.
You might try exercise, yoga, meditation, or biofeedback to encourage deep
breathing. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">What does the Earth need to
survive? Open-mindedness, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>honesty,
education, compromise, sharing of resources, and action. All easier to attain
if we’re calm. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* The sign Taurus is connected to simplifying our lives, to
living as close to the rhythms of Nature and the needs of the body as possible.
With Uranus there, we may react against the crazy pace and overloaded schedules
that Westerners, at least, are expected to maintain. Downsizing our living
arrangements, cleaning up our diets, and making sleep more restful may become
popular. More opposition to genetically modified foods, preservatives and
additives may arise, and we may want to forbid or restrict use of some
medicines and chemicals. I hope that the practice of truly integrative medicine
becomes widespread. The Internet horse is long since out of the barn, but we
may pay more attention to how our online lives are affecting our health and
well-being. How could you simplify <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i>
life? </p>
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