Electrified Emotions Start Your Weekend
Expect the Unexpected
6 planets in Aries. Isn’t it time to make a move?
Aries Moon connected with Uranus yesterday (Friday). I hope you didn’t get your fingers stuck in any light sockets! You, and those around you, were probably feeling the need for BIG CHANGES! On an emotional level an upset of some sort may have been required…. perhaps it was the only way to get out of a stuck spot. Aries won’t tolerate being stuck even if anger, negative passion or aggression is the only way he can see to get unstuck!
With this type of energy it is important to find a new perspective or a new approach to the things that may seem stale in your life. Initiate action on a new project, a new study or a new way of seeing. There is electric energy here that can tap in to brilliant new ideas and ways of seeing the world. Allow energy to move but think ahead because how this is handled will affect the rest of your weekend!
Late Friday night/ early Saturday morning you will likely feel some intensity possibly due to putting your finger in that light socket! Or perhaps due to someone else doing the same! By noon you will feel more content and solid with your world. Brunch with your friends is the best way to start the day. Any shopping you must do, do in the earliest part of the day. Spend the rest of Saturday developing structure and value in your relationships with friends and loved ones.
Sunday will bring strong energy! Find a way to direct it out into the world. Get out and exercise, accomplish something, ride your bike, go on a hike! Don’t stay indoors with this energy, get yourself and any kids in your life outside!
Have a great weekend. Love to all.
Sunday Morning Brunch
Dreams and Surrender
Hindu Chhat
As Wednesday (right after midnight) begins, the Moon enters the intangible realm of Pisces (and joins hands with Neptune) bringing our imagination to the surface, insisting we give space to our dreams and mystical yearnings.
The sweetness of this Pisces energy is quickly overshadowed by Venus (Aries) squaring Pluto several hours later. There are situations in your life involving finances and/ or intimate relationships that must be looked at clearly. Now is the time to open our eyes and take in the reality of our situation. Perhaps you have been living with some delusion about the state of your finances or the state of your love life. Open you eyes and look clearly at what you need in these situations, it may be that you simply have to accept the truth/reality.
This is not new information, your awareness has been growing for some time. There has been prior warning. We may have avoided looking at it, but we have been aware of the rumbling underground. No matter how we have tried to avoid the reality, eventually it is undeniable. The pain and difficulty is in the denial. Rather than fight this information/situation take steps to open to the reality now. Work to get a clear grip on what the situation is. Face the reality. Without clarity there is no possibility in changing the course that you are on.
There is a shift that is taking place at this time. Sidestep the power plays, get to the reality. It may be that you need to end that relationship, or allow it to look very different from what you had expected. Or maybe you have to face the reality of selling a home you have been attached to or losing a job that you thought would support you for many years to come.
Something that you have been attached to is transforming and you do not have as much control as you had hoped for. It is best to surrender and allow yourself to love what is really there to love. Open to what is real. it may not look the way you expected it to, we each have our pictures of how we want things to be. the sooner we can release those pictures and love the reality as it is, the more joy we will have in our lives and the more joy we can share with others.
True love is not in those false pictures we have carried in our minds for so long. True love is in real human connections between flawed human beings with open hearts and minds.
Have a wonderful Wednesday.
Love
Take A Risk, Come Alive With Passion
Passion, agitation, edginess…. but hasn’t the SUN entered TAURUS? Can’t we have a bit of a rest?!
Even with the SUN having entered TAURUS on Wednesday we continue to be in a time of great abundance of FIRE! FIRE is exciting, fast, impulsive and often dramatic.
As the SUN moved out of ARIES , VENUS promptly moved into ARIES! Rather than tearing things down, we may now see a different set of possibilities and begin the process of building… but we still want it done NOW! Patience is sorely lacking!
With the shift of the SUN into TAURUS we are more able to find a balanced state in HOW we direct our core energy and yet in issues of love, relationships, values and resources we are suddenly HEATED UP (VENUS IN ARIES)!
VENUS enjoyed her 3 week stay in PISCES but now she is done with quiet times, done with poetry and sweet sensitivity. In ARIES, VENUS wants our relationships to come alive with passion! No holding back, take that risk that you have been afraid to take, initiate where you would normally wait for another. ARIES is bold and must move forward with courage and assertiveness. This is not the time to hesitate.
On Friday we get an increase in the intensity of this energy as VENUS joins with URANUS! This throws an unexpected twist into issues of relationship, our personal values and resources. We may feel the need to begin something new, or relate to someone in a different way than what is expected of us. We are ready to open to the unexpected, we are willing to surprise ourselves and those around us. We feel reckless and impatient in love/relationships; we are ready to take risks. We may find ourselves drawn to people, situations and values that surprise us. We are attracted to things/people who have been foreign to us in the past. We possibly feel drawn to those who are from a very different social class, of a very different age or from a culture other than our familiar one. If someone new shows up in your life during this time, they could bring great changes to your way of thinking and bring you into a different future than what you have been expecting. Keep in mind that relationships that start suddenly often end the same way! So enjoy anything new for what it offers in the present!
Watch for financial extravagance with this placement, it is easy to be reckless regarding your money & resources during this time. The SUN in TAURUS has such a love and appreciation for things of beauty that we could easily end up with “stuff” that was not a practical purchase!
Also on Friday MERCURY turns and resumes direct motion. I hope you have gotten caught up on many of the projects and paperwork left over from the past few months. Now we can feel more comfortable moving into new plans, new projects, getting new ideas on the table.
Get out and enjoy your weekend! I plan to! It should be a good one!
Sun Enters Taurus, The Cannabis Connection
Profound shifts of energy occurred before we even got our of bed this morning.
A month ago (March 20th) the Sun moved into the pioneering, warrior sign of Aries where it joined company with Uranus, Mercury and Jupiter. Mars also joined the party on April 2nd. During this time we became accustomed to an edge of action, anxiety, assertion and aggression in everyone and everything around us.
If we have used this time well, we have been productive and pushed ourselves forward, accomplishing much in the process. With Mercury retrograde there is the potential that we have cleaned up a lot of loose ends that had been languishing since Mercury’s last retrograde cycle in December. If we have been attentive and used our energy well we will start with a clean slate when Mercury turns direct on Saturday morning, April 23rd.
Very early this morning the Sun entered Taurus. We can relax a bit. Think of Taurus The Bull. Not the raging bull but the one who knows how to rest in his power. Ferdinand the bull is a lovely symbol of Taurus.
One of my coworkers asked if I thought it was a coincidence that the cannabis culture’s 420 holiday falls on the day that the Sun enters Taurus! Interestingly I had never thought of this. Today, at my day job, I encountered a number of young people who were celebrating the holiday. This gave me the opportunity to observe and give the matter some thought.
We astrologers always link alcohol and drugs (along with poetry, fantasy, dreams, delusion, inspiration & compassion) to Pisces/ Neptune and yet when I think about Taurus’ connection to cannabis use, a different type of connection makes sense as well.
I think about how Steven Forrest talks about Taurus in “The Inner Sky”. He refers to the ability of Taurus to feel reverence for earthy sensuality. Cannabis connects us to the sensuality of Taurus, skin on skin. Pisces certainly refers to the drug/alcohol issues of escapism and mystical transcendence.
I think there is a clear and logical explanation for the cannabis holiday being the day that the Sun moves into Taurus.
If you celebrate, do so wisely and with the reverence of Taurus. In the morning wake up to the energy of Taurus that builds and maintains stability, steadfastness and reliability.
Learning Patience, Waiting For Warmth
Monday morning, waiting for warmth.
Waiting for the April Sun to heat up the earth, to bring warmth to our bodies, our minds, our hearts.
However, we are in a pattern of hesitation… we know the warmth is coming, it must, and yet Saturn requires this wait. We have no choice but to learn lessons of patience, lessons that time brings to us no matter how hard we fight against them.
Today as Mercury and Mars ride together side by side we deal with our ability to bring our observations to others in the form of communications. We work with issues of assertiveness, expressions of anger and selfishness. There is not a lot of patience in Aries!
Get to the point!
Today Saturn opposes Mars, Mercury as well… giving us a perspective of time, insisting that we learn the lessons of waiting, watching, observing, and patience. Some things can not be hurried. Sometimes one has to slow down and wait.
Saturn currently is insisting that we work with these issues within the construct of relationship, of noticing the needs of others, of cooperation. The screaming infant (Aries) must learn to please the ‘other’ (Libra) in order to get her needs met. Patience.
Much of our energy is centered on issues of relationships as Saturn in Libra demands. We will do well to look at the areas where we insist on autonomy and the areas where we long for companionship.
Learning lessons of kindness, sharing and pleasing others ultimately results in our needs being fulfilled far more effectively than the tactics of the demanding screaming infant.
For today with Mercury still retrograde….. keeping one’s own council is a fine idea. Slow down and think about what you are saying. Rushed actions and communications will be perceived as harsh, unkind and selfish and likely will come back to bite you later.
Today: accept limitations. Accept that there is much in life that is beyond our control. Cooperation will get us where we need to go. Angry demands will bring defeat.
Cooperation and kindness are valuable skills, learned through patience and discipline. If we are able to learn the lessons of Saturn in Libra we will have our loved ones at our side to enjoy the warmth of the Sun when it finally arrives!
April 18, 2011
Laurie Farrington
“Let The Universe Support Your Growth”
