Monthly Archives: October 2014

Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini monthly for June 1, 2001

Everyone is a control freak. It’s just merely a matter of what we strive to control, that’s all. In a manner of speaking, artists are fascists, writers are tyrants, musicians are maestros, chefs are chiefs; and those without a creative purpose, without a constructive, productive but mainly creative intention to their lives are doomed to be petty tyrants, acting out their frustrations on those around them. Now that Saturn has officially commenced its 30-month journey across your birth sign, you get to make some choices. Rightfully, this is a cause and a time for celebrating, but it’s a celebration of acknowledgment. You are, unfortunately, likely to feel this as pressure to conform, to live up to something, or to take life “too seriously.” However, you have been waiting for such cues for a long time. Not dealing with them has been remarkably frustrating. Have you had enough?

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Joan Quigley, Astrologer to the Reagans, and What’s Brewing in the Astrology Charts for Canada

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Dear Friend and Reader:

This week I am switching up the horoscope schedule a bit. Today I am posting the Sex By Sign monthly edition, a new column (actually, a weekly but with one monthly edition mixed into the cycle). I began this column in July and that is part of our Core Community membership. Thursday I will be posting an extended-length Inner Space for November as the weekly horoscope.

Joan Quigley, who became famous as the astrologer to the Reagans. AP photo.

Part of the plan is giving me a week to get ahead on the weekly horoscope, in preparation for the 2015 annual edition, called COSMOPHILIA: You Belong Here. We will have news about that soon, including a description of the project, the initial purchase offer (best price) and our revised holiday schedule.

In tonight’s Planet Waves FM, I will cover the astrology of our Scorpio phase of the year, and two topics from the news. One is a tribute to Joan Quigley, who served as astrologer to the Reagans from 1981 through around 1987. Joan died last week at age 87.

I’ll be looking at her natal chart and also consider what influence she may have had as the only astrologer with a direct hotline into the White House.

Second, there seems to be something brewing in Canada. There were two rogue attacks in one week, and now one of the country’s most popular radio hosts has been fired by CBC for alleged sexual misconduct. Note, I suggested that something like this would be happening in the article that accompanied the October monthly horoscope — a prominent event involving the politicizing of sexuality.

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Recognizable Patterns — Mercury Conjunct the Mean Node

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Mercury (in direct motion again since Saturday) makes its third Libra conjunction since Sept. 17 with the mean lunar ascending node (North Node) tomorrow. In the context of everything else going on over the last six weeks, Mercury’s third merger in short order with the lunar North Node implies how recognizable new patterns may now be emerging in your life.

Considering all that has probably been going on for you since mid-September, it might be comforting to finally discern some order in the course of events.

Even if things are beginning to make more sense now, it’s also important to remember how a great deal is still probably in the process of forming — starting with Mercury, and proceeding through you.

On Sept. 14, Mercury in direct motion first passed the degree of Libra where its eventual apparent retreat would end. Thus began the first echo (or ‘shadow’) phase before retrograde. A first conjunction with the lunar North Node followed shortly after on Sept. 17.

The Sun was still in Virgo on Sept. 17. Now, the Sun is in Scorpio, but it’s likely that something of the astrology to follow was foreshadowed when Mercury first conjoined the node in Libra. You may, for example, have heard the echo of our current season, initiated when the Sun entered Libra on Sept. 22.

Back on Sept. 17, you might also have sensed something of what Mercury’s subsequent retrograde (Oct. 4 to Oct. 25) would hold. Most likely, however, Mercury’s first conjunction with the lunar North Node correlated with some anticipation of the eclipses that took place this month.

That’s because the most straightforward meaning of the two perpetually opposing lunar nodes for astrologers is ‘where eclipses take place’ when the Sun is near one of them. In addition, the lunar North Node (or ‘ascending node’) in particular corresponds with looking ahead to the future.

Sure enough, the Libra Sun was very close to the lunar North Node on Oct. 8, close enough for a total lunar eclipse to take place when the Full Moon opposed the Sun from Aries. At the time, Mercury was slowly backing out of early Scorpio. Then, an interesting sort of symmetry followed, a flip if you will.

Early on Oct. 21, retrograde Mercury’s second conjunction with the North Node in Libra essentially took the place that had been held by the Sun during the lunar eclipse.

Then, on Oct. 23, the conjoined Sun and Moon essentially took Mercury’s previous place in Scorpio, but still close enough to the ascending node to precipitate a partial solar eclipse. If you experienced something of a flip-side of mid-September at the time of the Scorpio solar eclipse, it would be little wonder.

So it is that, having probably seen something of both sides of your life now, Mercury’s third conjunction with the lunar North Node tomorrow will potentially afford you a parallax view looking forward. Implicitly integrated in the forward view will almost certainly be some familiar motifs.

Those familiar tableau will in turn be more sharply defined by both familiarity and the depth perspective gained as a fringe benefit of the edgy astrology you have lived with and through for the previous month and a half — astrology that is not quite done.

Mercury is not done retracing its steps. There is more to re-encounter until Mercury’s second echo phase concludes on Nov. 10. Hence, there are new patterns yet to fall into place, or more appropriately, to be put into place.

In an interesting form of symmetry, the extent to which patterns of your life have been altered, or even disrupted, since Sept. 17 is the extent to which you are implicitly being empowered to consciously put new patterns of life in place.

Therefore, envy not those who appear to have been unaffected by the astrology of late. Those who got off easy will not as easily have seen things coming during Mercury’s first echo phase — though if that describes you, it’s still possible to look back and discern useful patterns.

By the same token, those who remained mostly right side up during Mercury’s retrograde and the eclipses will not have seen as much of the flip side. Those who have not felt somehow flipped will also not be as well attuned to what for many will now be increasingly recognizable patterns which can be further developed to effectively design the future. Not that there is anything to fret about if you have remained among the high and dry — these things always work out as appropriate for the individual.

So, if you are still picking yourself up (or remained standing and are wondering what’s next), please consider yourself to have picked up some valuable experience as well — experience you should soon recognize how to use.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Scorpio weekly for Oct. 3, 2008

Mars has entered your sign, and once again you may be asking yourself what, exactly, you were so worried about. Fear, like all emotions, comes in layers, and when the layers come off there can be a wave of feeling. You’re currently between two of those layers. On the next one, you would appear to be working out a mental puzzle about your recent experiences in a relationship, though you thought the situation had run its course. We all experience those times when we forgot to ask an important question, and this seems to be the case — only the person you forgot to ask was yourself. Ask away, and note the answers that you get. Those are not necessarily the truth, and I suggest you go through them carefully, over the next couple of weeks, rather than acting on them all at once.

Trust Goes Bust

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By Jen Sorensen

Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Monday, Oct. 27, 2014

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Cancer monthly for Sept. 23, 2007

Mars enters your birth sign Sept. 28, where it will remain well into 2008. (Mars turns retrograde in Cancer Nov. 15, so it spends about six months of its two-year orbit in your sign.) This is your invitation to focus your intentions and experiment with the power of desire. Note that this era doesn’t appear to be a transient phase of your life, but rather a threshold to a new understanding of yourself and how you can relate to your world: directly. You are soon to learn that you’re more likely to get what you desire than what you don’t desire. The key to this equation is to make your desires conscious, and to learn how to cancel the ones you don’t want or need. This will require a constant exercise in awareness, and then the additional step of making choices. Part of what you sort out are your past desires from your current ones; all while making room for what you may want in the future. As you do this, remember: feeling secure is more of a choice than a matter of chance.

Mars in Capricorn, Mercury Direct, Journey to Saturn

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Mercury is now direct, and we’ve experienced the last of the solar and lunar eclipses of 2014. I know many people are breathing easier — for many people, the last few weeks were a bear.

Night Side of Saturn, photographed from Cassini Space Probe, Oct. 28, 2006. Photo: NASA; JPL

One element of this was the journey of Mars across Sagittarius, which ended today. Those using a conventional astrology chart would have seen nothing other than Mars in this sign.

But a closer look revealed that Mars made 17 conjunctions to Chiron-like centaurs, Pluto-like bodies, deep space points and various asteroids — a true journey full of twists and turns, particularly for those with strong placements in the mutable signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces.

With Mars now in Capricorn, Mercury moving in direct motion and the eclipses behind us, we are in new territory — what you might think of as the third distinct phase of 2014. (The first was the cardinal grand cross era; the second was the initial Jupiter in Leo era.) This past Thursday, planets began entering Scorpio, followed by an eclipse of the Sun; that was a bold line of demarcation. Our abundance of Scorpio is an invitation to focus on inner awareness, your feeling body, your psychological well-being and your sexuality.

If Scorpio is a sign that describes something about relationships, that would be true from the inside-out. Scorpio is the realm of where your inner reality creates the atmosphere that you share with others. It is the space into which you invite the people with whom you want to be intimate. Scorpio can feel like a secret aspect of yourself, but one that you are eager to share — with the right person, at the right time.

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The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, October 26, 2014

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By Sarah Taylor

This week the cards are very clear; as clear as the sense of defeat and pain that they relate; and equally clear about the way that is available to you that moves you through both and towards something different.

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Seven of Disks, Nine of Swords, Knight of Cups from the Röhrig Tarot deck, created by Carl-W. Röhrig. Click on the image for a larger version.

At the centre of the reading lies the Nine of Swords. Also known in this deck as Cruelty, the image of the Nine of Swords is its own effective description: an eye, its makeup belying the bloodshot veins that run through it, and the open wounds on the cheek below it.

Tears have been shed — are still being shed. There is injury: emotional, physical — in other words, the pain is visceral. It isn’t simply a matter of “I feel hurt.” In this case, “I am hurt,” and it is a phrase that can be taken two ways: first, describing a sense of self-injury; second, describing oneself as the embodiment of pain.

The Nine of Swords describes a sense of cruelty to oneself (written on the card) that is then projected onto the surrounding world. It is anguish writ large in how we experience ourselves and then our interactions with others. When we experience the kind of pain described by the Nine of Swords, we become its agent. Remember that Swords are associated with the mind; and so we turn pain into a belief about who we are, and what the world is in response to us. And so we, too, respond to that world with “heart less passions,” “fanaticism,” “passive opposition,” “martyrism [sic],” “vengeance.” It is a (very) vicious cycle.

Why has this happened? This is suggested in the preceding card, the Seven of Disks.

In some way, you have experienced something not working out the way you had planned or hoped. Your efforts appear to have blocked the Sun. You sit, small, beneath. It is a moment of humbling.

But what if there were no accidents? How about looking at the Seven of Disks more closely in this instance? The sky is, for the most part, clear, soft, and dappled with clouds. The Sun hasn’t disappeared; it is only obscured. But a part of you believes that you have somehow caused the Sun to disappear, when in reality you are not that powerful, and what you are seeing is described by the metaphor depicted in the card: just a passing cloud.

Yet you take it so seriously! So seriously that, perhaps, you have forgotten the courage that it took to embark on your endeavour in the first place. What courage that you even tried! The pain has come from identifying yourself with it so fully that it became its own belief system, an act of total self-definition.

But the Knight of Cups offers the antidote to the cycle of cruelty in which you find yourself enmeshed. His presence is a response to it on all levels. Where there are heart less passions, he brings higher emotional levels; where there is fanaticism, he offers devotion to a loved person; where there is passive opposition, he embodies the ability to give; where there is vengeance, he responds with spiritual relations. There is a St. Francis of Assisi aspect to the card that becomes very clear here: when you are revealed in the gaze of the Knight of Cups — when you look upon yourself and your world with different eyes — you become a channel for peace.

Maybe it is in this moment that you realise your project wasn’t the failure you thought it to be after all.

Astrology/Elemental correspondences: Seven of Disks (Saturn in Taurus), Nine of Swords (Mars in Gemini), Knight of Cups (the fiery aspect of water)

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