May 25th, 2009 - June 1st, 2009

Weekly Weather Report

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Significant Planetary Aspects for:


The skies continue to weave our spiritual and worldly existence into on cohesive whole. Jupiter, Chiron, Neptune and Uranus are traveling together for the rest of the year and are moving in and out of exact aspect to each other. Their machinations last week brought novel and horizon-expanding insights into situations of longstanding crippling, as expansive, beneficent Jupiter crossed Chiron, the wounded healer, and made an exact growth aspect to innovator Uranus. (The stars are indeed aligned for health care reform, as President Obama said.)

Mars, the planet the rules our internal drive, starts the week moving into opportunity aspect to the triple conjunction. He completes this aspect on Tuesday, just before Jupiter and Neptune make their first exact meeting of this year. (Two more follow, in July and during the winter holidays.) Your internal guidance system is evolving. Just as the Venus/Mars connection has loosened the monopoly of the mind and moved us into heart-based decision making, this traveling party is linking spiritual guidance into the mix. The Mars/Uranus link signals a change in ambitions. Liberate yourself from past ones that no longer fit you and embrace broader ones that are in alignment with something higher than your ego. Let your soul guide you. For readers of this site, connection to spirit is the key. It’s happening even in people who don’t believe or think in terms of spirit, though. Look at the upsurge in visibility and community-building among atheists, who are banding together in pursuit of reason, their characterization of the force underlying existence. Labels don’t matter. What’s important is acknowledging and reaching for guidance from something greater than yourself (spirit, reason, love, higher self, God) and finding common ground with other inhabitants of this planet in the process.

As Jupiter conjoins Neptune and semisextiles Uranus, encouragement mounts to re-envision your life. It’s not just about hanging on to a paycheck or amassing toys and trinkets. All manner of celestial influences have been nudging you to get to know yourself and identify your core values and priorities. Move in their direction now. They are not simply abstract concepts; they are coming into being. This week gives us a huge assist in bridge-building. Our heads are in the stars, while our feet are firmly on the ground, with Mercury in Taurus and Mars moving in on Sunday. There is no longer a separation between worldly life and spiritual life. Church isn’t something we tend to once a week in a dedicated building; spirit is with us, in us and working through us constantly. We are, as the adage goes, spiritual beings having a physical experience.

The separate compartments that have defined our existence are all crumbling, merging and commingling. The mutual receptions in the sky echo this. A mutual reception occurs when planets are in each other’s signs, and it sets up a reverberation between the affected planets that causes their influences to blend. Uranus and Neptune have been in mutual reception for six years, with Uranus in the sign that Neptune rules and Neptune in the sign that Uranus rules. Starting Sunday, when Mars moves into Taurus, Venus and Mars are in mutual reception, too, another indicator of blending. They’ll complete that merging when they meet in her boudoir mid June. The bottom line is: there’s no longer any point in thinking of your life in neat, tidy, walled-off compartments. They do not exist any more. Heart and mind are working as one; body and soul have united. As above, so below; as within, so without.

Neptune goes retrograde on Thursday; Jupiter, Chiron and Uranus will follow between now and July. The retrogrades will prolong and expand the merging of body and spirit. It’s like taffy being pulled first in one direction, then another. The planets will all contact each other exactly two more times in the process. Take note of what stretches you this week. The themes of this time will repeat in July and December.

Mundane: If you are a mid-February Aquarian or were born between October 1955 and July 1956, The traveling party of Jupiter, Chiron, Neptune and Uranus is having a direct and personal impact on you. I would like to hear about any changes you have been experiencing in how your brain works. Some of the things I have been hearing are: not thinking as quickly, drawing a blank on a coworker’s name or the sequence of streets you’ve driven down for years, and not remembering something you said a few minutes earlier. Please feel free to email me about your own experiences. All identities will be kept confidential.

Kathy’s overview of 2009 and Saturn/Uranus talk are now available on CD or in an mp3 from FortunaWorks.com. To join her mailing list, send e-mail to kbiehl@fortunaworks.com.

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