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Weekly Weather Report

by Stephanie Azaria

Significant Planetary Aspects for:

Kathy has EXTENDED the holiday special for readings booked and paid for by January 10, 2010: $160 for one hour or $90 for a 30-minute SWAT look at your chart. Email kbiehl@fortunaworks.com to book.

It’s the time of year for looking back over the past and thinking about things (like situations, problems, habits and weight) we’d like to leave behind. Prepare for an epidemic of exactly that, only more intense, more widespread and more definitive than what we’ve seen in recent years. Our gaze is going to be stretching back a lot further than the beginning of this year, too. We’re tying up loose ends all over the time/space continuum.

The early warning signs started popping last week. Was your world rocked by a revelation? Information that disclosed what someone had been doing unbeknownst to you, or that explained their behavior or cast them in a completely different light and forever changed your attitude toward them? Did the revelation involve an authority figure, a woman, or a family matter? Did it tie back to last July, or to situations that were in your life seven to nine years ago, or 17-19 years ago? If you got one, more disclosures and door closings are coming. If you didn’t, don’t worry. You’re not going to be left out.

The greatest feminine archetypes in the sky, Venus and the Moon, are assisting this year-end review. Venus is joining with Pluto and squaring Saturn at the beginning of the week, while the Moon is launching the weekend and taking us out of the year with a Full Moon lunar eclipse in her home base of Cancer. Either event alone has sufficient force to color the week. Together they are providing a powerhouse finale to the year and the decade. Change is everywhere: in relationships, in families, in traditions, in attitudes about money, possessions and security and, most importantly, in our personal short list of what’s most important in life.

The whole week is filled with revising and releasing. The first wave affects our personal bottom line. We know ourselves better than we have all year — perhaps better than we have all our lives. That knowledge includes an awareness and understanding of what we value. This week that awareness becomes even sharper and more refined. We are stripping our values down to the core. Even if you consciously zeroed in on them earlier this year, they are undergoing another streamlining and injection of power now. As we peel them back to the absolute non-negotiables, we will be applying them to all the situations in our lives. The metaphoric paring knife is out. Whatever falls outside our non-negotiables is going to be cut away, or at minimum scored to help it peel off later. Whatever falls within the non-negotiables gets all the nutrients in this next growth spurt. What stays will grow with the vigor and lushness of an expertly pruned vine.

This process will especially be affecting relationships, agreements, obligations and financial arrangements. Our side of each equation has changed; now the equation itself must evolve. For some people, this process is going to generate pain, uproar and drama, and some juicy ones at that, since the goddess of love is tangling with the lord of our deepest desires and phobias. (I’ve already heard a Venus/Pluto tale so symbolically perfect that I can’t tell you about it, except to say that it’s left three Aquarians speechless.) You don’t have to live out a tabloid headline or cable-TV movie script, though. It is possible that Pluto’s efficiency will make your decisions effortless, painless and clean. If money’s tight, for example, as it is for many people, you become exceedingly deliberate about spending. You reserve it for essentials and things you truly want, and turn your back on frittering. If time is tight, you focus it on core obligations and activities you value and decline unfulfilling ones. When you know your priorities, as we do by now, it’s easy to say yes or no and not feel like you have to explain or excuse yourself. Your priorities are part of who you are, and you are now living in accordance with them.

Remember that you are not the only person going through this process. Everyone is, whether they’re conscious of it or not. People are going to be announcing and making major changes. People are going to be taking a deep breath and stepping into bold decisions that have been brewing for a long time. There will be new orders, new rules and new structures, deepening and intensifying of some commitments, and many, many departures. (Watch the news. We’re in for a reprise of last summer’s celebrity death epidemic, heavy on women and on people who touched generations.) The big, big areas of life are going to be involved — home, family, career, love, money. The year is going out with a bang. So is the decade. In fact, so are the last two decades.

The lunar eclipse that’s lighting up New Year’s Eve ties to the eclipses of July 1990 – December 1992 and December 2000 – June 2002. The themes of those years are coming back around, particularly the ones that involved your private and public place in the world. Many people I’ve been talking to changed jobs, moved, started or ended major relationships or had children during those times. Think back to what you were doing in those years and compare those experiences with what has been going on for you in the past 6-7 months. This week’s eclipse ties most closely with one on December 30, 2001. How was that New Year’s different from the previous? What happened in the six months prior to it, and how does that history compare to this year?

This year is ending with the first culmination stage in our current Cancer/Capricorn eclipse cycle. The solar eclipse of July 21 delivered a fierce admonishment to rethink family and nurturing and reclaim responsibility for your personal emotional needs and security. Many a sibling relationship moved into new dynamics then (I know one person whose sister literally closed the door on her), while other blood and legal ties hit a point of no return. Now, as the Moon builds to fullness in her home sign of Cancer, the emotional impact is hitting of those realizations, decisions, shifts and ruptures. The positive expression will fill hearts to the brim, awakening joy and love and appreciation of dear, dear ones we love and who love us for who we are. Nostalgia will be also overflowing, aching with the pain of connections long past and the foreboding of losing connections that still exist. And there will be some head shaking and scratching as the moonlight floods our periphery, and how. Watch for an epidemic of revelations of what has been going on just outside our line of vision, tying back to this summer as well as showing exactly what has been evolving in the past eight years. The revelations are providing information. Take it all under advisement. Other people may act quickly now (more likely, react quickly now). Important action is better launched in the aftermath of the Capricorn solar eclipse on January 15, when Mercury will be stationing direct. For more on the Full Moon, read my report on the site.

I wish all of you adventure, empowerment and unprecedented personal fulfillment in 2010!

Monday: On Christmas Eve, you put your world on notice that you are different from the person you’ve been. Now it’s time for all manner of arrangements between you and others to evolve. No more keeping the peace to protect anyone; anything you brushed under the rug last week just to get through Christmas comes flying out unavoidably today. Venus and Pluto are bringing stark awareness of your core values and comparing them to your relationships, money, self-worth and possessions. Some attachments are going to die; others are going to vibrate with irresistible attraction and potency. Still others are going to rupture into power struggles. A void Moon from early afternoon to evening gives plenty of time to sit with the rumblings. Get clear with yourself first. There’s time all week to implement what you realize.

Tuesday: Relationships fly out of balance today — or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that existing imbalances come up for reckoning. Someone says no, perhaps you. Issues of responsibility and obligation block your path; the question is whether they’re yours or not. Renegotiations abound. Proceed from a position of strength, power and self-knowledge, and don’t make an agreement you are not comfortable (or capable of) keeping.

Wednesday: Out of the intensity of the past two days emerges a familiar, golden air of optimism and possibility and higher purpose. Jupiter and Neptune reprise the magic of last week’s conjunction with a meeting by declination, encouraging us to bring our spiritual values into our earthly lives and expand our existence into a greater experience of love, creativity and compassion. Another void of course Moon allows for ample contemplation of these concepts, from mid afternoon until late evening EST.

Thursday: New Year’s Eve brings the second Full Moon of the month, and it’s a lunar eclipse in Cancer to boot. Auld acquaintance won’t be forgot today. It’s more likely to waft through our thoughts, come up in conversation and even phone, e-mail or walk in the door. As nostalgia washes over you, it’s okay (and appropriate) to admit that you’re glad certain situations are in the past. Sweep out the old and immerse yourself in time present. That’s where you live: now. And that’s where each day of next year will take place: in the now.

Friday: Happy New Year! Our hearts are ready for the fresh start. Insights, new possibilities and breaks from the past kick off the first void Moon of the year, which lasts from late morning till late evening. Lay low and brainstorm a vision for the year. No need to settle on resolutions today. Wait to finalize them until the solar eclipse of January 15, which will shoot them forcefully into your future.

Saturday: The dream world is hopping. We’re test-driving the fundamental changes that are at work, first and foremost in your psyche and then ultimately in every relationship you have. We’re saying goodbye, too, to disappointments and disillusionments of the past and retaking control of our individual emotional states. The waking hours have a seesaw feeling to them. Everyone’s just a bit out of kilter and trying to reestablish balance. Retreating to familiar ways won’t do it because the old patterns aren’t holding anymore. Choose from the heart and don’t feel you have to explain yourself to anyone.

Sunday: We have another night of incredibly active dreams. So much happened over the last two weeks that we’re still deep in processing. Dream scenarios are all over the place. They show that new concepts are starting to take root within us, but also point out where, who and what we’re fighting. Save waking battles for another time. This is the last day of the holiday weekend — and long holiday season — and the skies are encouraging us to take it easy, relax, and escape. The Moon’s late afternoon opposition to Jupiter encourages one last bout of indulgence and socializing. We have a void of course Moon for the rest of the day (4:59 PM to 9:53 PM EST). So what if your house is still full of decorations and torn wrapping paper. They can be dealt with later. For now, relax and enjoy.

Visit Kathy’s site EmpowermentUnlimited.net for podcasts, mp3s, a discussion forum and more on the eclipses, the Aquarius/Pisces traveling party and the Saturn/Uranus opposition. To join her mailing list, send e-mail to kbiehl@fortunaworks.com.