Jupiter, the planet of expansion and optimism, shall be entering Pisces on January 17th 2010.
On June 6th until September 8th Jupiter will briefly travel into Aries, then retrograde back into Pisces and remain in the Sign of the Fishes until January 22nd 2011.
It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to travel the whole of the Zodiac, so your house with Pisces located on the cusp is where you can expect to have Jupiter’s longer term attention the coming year.
A brief look at the energies represented by Jupiter and Pisces:
Jupiter: Jupiter is the representation of wisdom. Where Jupiter is transiting in your chart, is where you are afforded the opportunity for higher learning.
Some keywords for Jupiter are: abundance, expansion, luck, obesity, optimism, philosophy, publishing and religion.
Pisces: Pisces is a mutable water sign and the last sign of the Zodiac. Modern astrology attributes Neptune as the ruler of Pisces, yet until the discovery of Neptune, rulership was assigned to Jupiter.
Some keywords for Pisces are: artistic, creative, compassionate, imaginative, impressionable, psychic, sensitive and spiritual.
By identifying the house in which Jupiter will transit this next year, you can focus on the area of your life that your are being afforded the opportunity to expand in some manner with enthusiasm and good fortune on your side!
I offer one caution though, especially while Jupiter is transiting the ‘dreamy’ sign of Pisces, there is wisdom in the advice of “everything in moderation!” 🙂
Don’t get lost in too much of a good thing.
Yet if you are attentive to other area’s in your life needing focus, by all means you should thoroughly soak in the pleasures and advantages Jupiter is gifting unto you now.
Yet it is Mine to Reveal, and Restore without Hate
If ever you view me standing at Hell’s Darkest Gate
Please let it be known, the Light in my Heart, Shall be my guide Home.
When I struggle with Darkness, Fear and ill Faith
Your Love, plain and simple, shall help me find Grace
So Pray, judge not my fears, with your Anger nor Pain
Instead speed me Light, with Joy, in great Haste!
I ask simply this please…
Do not Judge me for Living my Truth
I AM what I AM and with All of my Might
I AM Purely and Simply
A Being of Light.
~Janya
***A very dear friend of mine penned the above some time ago and I felt it was perfectly befitting my little tale today. Thank you Janya, for allowing me to share your words of wisdom!
The past few days I have been in the space of a deep clearing of wounds that I had no idea I was carrying until recently.
That is not unusual at all though, especially after you have been on the healing path for a good amount of time, for we clear the ‘knowns’ first, the wounds that are on the surface that can still be seen in some manner, and then we go deeper than.
Deeper Than…I first began to hear those words 2 years ago. Deeper Than.
And I replied, “Yeah, sure, why not? I’m game!”.
That must have been my overly enthusiastic Uranus at work there. ((sardonic smile))
Seriously though, I have no regrets, not in the long run.
I do have my hard days though, just like everyone else, and on those days I can tend to be quite sarcastic, it is my way of keeping myself moving forward and my head above water during the really tough stuff.
As I’ve said a million and one times, and others have too..a sense of humor is mandatory when on the path of Healing.
Before I go into sharing my experiences and my forthcoming understandings of said experiences (that precipitated the title of this post), I’ll share the lowdown on my current astrological transits:
Transit Saturn (responsibility/the past) is on my 3rd/4th house cusp. (local community, brothers&sisters/inner self and more of the past). 🙂
Tr. Saturn is squaring Tr. Pluto whom is now within 3 degree’s of my descendant, so likely now affecting not only my 6th house (service to others, personal health) yet also my 7th house (committed relationships).
Squares are frictional and we all currently have the transit of Saturn sq. Pluto somewhere in our charts, I just happen to have mine as I detailed above.
I also have the coming Full-Moon Lunar Eclipse on New Years Eve conjunct my Ascendant (self)/ Descendant (other), squaring my natal Jupiter/Mercury (higher/expanded understanding) conjunction in Libra (relationships/balance/justice) and this all is forming a loose Grand Cross with my Chiron (healing/wounds) at the top of my chart(sharing my understanding of this wound to heal thyself) .
On the day that this area of self-clearing began for me, transiting Moon triggered the Saturn/Pluto square by forming an inconjunct and trine respectively, when the Moon aspected conjunct my natal Saturn in the 11th house (friendships/groups/hopes).
I’m not sure who I wrote that for, my readers or myself..likely more for myself. (I hope you benefit, but I am determined to do what I have to do here to heal thyself.) ((admitting with no shame))
Though it just made my tummy flip upside down again for the upteenth time this week.
So I am steeping in relationships right now, and issues of responsibility to others, and the need to regenerate in some manner, how I have perceived and/or done, all of this before.
Following is my tale, of uncovering wounds of perceived failure, and the messages I have received, concerning our responsibility to others. I confess the tale is somewhat long, for I could find no way to shorten it and still get my point across..so you may wish to take out the dog and get another cup of joe before you proceed..you brave, brave Soul. 🙂
To truly forgive one’s self, or an other, one must have an understanding of how one has been served by an experience in which forgiveness is now sought.
Forgiveness is not an act of granting approval to one’s self or an other for an action that was harmful in some manner.
Forgiveness is an act of Completion.
Forgiveness is the act of releasing oneself from a lesson, now achieved.
Forgiveness is the acknowledgment of one’s smaller being to Source, that one has come to an understanding of the lesson of a challenging experience and has now reaped the knowledge of the experience that was of value in bringing growth to one’s Greater Being.
Forgiveness is also the releasing of that which was not of value to the Greater Being, from within the experience.
Those on the Journey to Wholeness via the path of Self-Healing, often become frustrated when an experience they feel they have found closure upon through forgiveness, arises once again for them, sometimes years later.
Often current life experiences that precipitate a need of coming to the state of forgiveness are manifestations of a much deeper root situation.
If you find a situation in your life reopened that you felt you had closed and achieved forgiveness within, by acknowledging this as an opportunity for deeper healing, you allow your Greater Self to lead you to Higher Understandings bringing forth Compassion from which the Highest Expression of Forgiveness springs.
Mercury turns retrograde today @ 22° Capricorn and over the next 3 weeks shall retrace his steps back to 5° Cap.
When a planet is in retrograde motion, the energies of that planet, are internalized affording us an opportunity to come to a deeper understanding of experiences related to the function of that planet during it’s recent forward traveling of an area in our charts and lives.
If you know your natal chart, you can look to the house, or houses(this retrograde can effect 2 houses dependent upon your placements), to fine-tune the are of your life that you are being afforded an opportunity to reconsider recent Mercury ruled affairs.
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So what does Mercury govern?
Mercury represents the mind and the functions of the intellect.
Mercury is all about communication, how you express yourself to others, and how you perceive the expressions of others, to you.
Authors and teachers fall under the jurisdiction of Mercury.
Interestingly, one noted effect of a Mercury retrograde period is the malfunction of electronics.
As Mercury rules the nervous system, hands and fingers, I view a connection to the energy of Mercury turning inward super-firing our nervous systems causing our personal energy to back-up on us which then release in unexpected bursts when the energy goes into overload, through our hands when we touch things.
Remember to ground out your energy before picking up the phone or starting your computer, and you’ll minimalize your headaches related to electronics gone wonky.
During the 3 weeks of retrograde, take the time to reexamine your Mercury rewind area, and have patience if everything in that area in your life feels like it is out-of-whack.
Everything will right itself in due time, and shall be better aligned for your purposes, then before the retrograde began.
Mercury rules Virgo and Gemini, so if your Sun, Moon or Ascendant is within these signs, you are likely to feel a greater impact.
Both my Sun and Moon are Mercury ruled, and yes, I am feeling it. ((winks))
I feel quite fortunate just to be able to write a little something for this post today and have it make a modicum of sense! I may just be doing posts in pictures the next few weeks, for I have learned to allow retrogrades to ‘do their thing’ and not to force by them, for truly it doesn’t work out all that well anyway.
Share where Mercury is retrograding in your chart and how are you fairing?
Astrologer and Author, Elsa Panizzon, creator of ElsaElsa.com and AstroDispatch, extended her kind selflessness to me this past Autumn when she added me onto her list of astrologers and writers contributing to AstroDispatch.
Thanks to Elsa, I have received exposure to my site, that I likely would not have aquired for quite a while longer without her assistance.
If you are not familiar with ElsaElsa, I recommend stopping in for a visit.
Elsa offers a wealth of information daily and her archives are absolutely overflowing!
Also in the offering, is an astrological board that allows for the community at ElsaElsa to share their daily life experiences and explore their world in context to astrology.
On a personal note to Elsa:
I am immensely appreciative of not only the opportunity you have gifted to me through AstroDispatch, but also for the open manner in which you share daily your knowledge acquired through many years in service to others.
I have learned, and am continuing to learn, much from your sharing.
Thank you Elsa for your daily efforts in all that you do at ElsaElsa and AstroDispatch, you are one amazing Lady!
A subject that in many ways I feel has become almost taboo to speak on in public venues, and even in close circles.
Mention anger in certain company and you will likely find yourself “Loved, Lighted, and Blessed” to a degree you will feel like you’ve been mistaken for the Blessed Mother herself. ((smiles))
I adore the Blessed Mother and yet apparently I have a long way to go to Sainthood for all of that Blessing others have gifted me with to attempt to diffuse my anger at times, well, it just didn’t work.
It has also been recommended to me a million and one times that I just ‘let it go’ and while I agree 100% percent with the letting it go and I strongly advocate Release Work in self-healing, to let something go you first must have some idea of what that something is.
Hence, I’ve had to learn to embrace my anger and listen to that which it was speaking to me to then be able to master and redirect this emotion/energy of anger just as I do with all emotions/energies if I find them manifesting in an undesirable form.
The first step to learning to utilize your anger, or any energy for that matter, is acknowledging that it really does exist.
The second step is not judging the emotion/energy as bad or harmful for it is simply something you are feeling at the moment and does not necessarily identify who you truly are.
No energy or emotion is bad or harmful in and of itself, these energies that comprise the emotional scale are merely tools, and there is nothing to fear in utilizing these tools we were gifted with for navigating our journeys within this human experience.
We currently live in societies that I feel have made it quite unpopular to express “undesirable” emotions in a healthy manner and we have been encouraged to put a shiny veneer on everything and anything, including ourselves, and to not allow anything deemed ugly in some manner to be displayed for the view of others.
Some might argue that I am incorrect in my statement citing the premise that we view lot’s of emotion daily on news reels, tabloid venues, and reality-based TV shows and yes!, we do see lot’s of something in those arena’s yet in many cases it is not what I would call healthy emotional expression.
Anger, is an emotion, it is not an action.
Anger is an energy and actions come forth from one applying their Will to an energy.
Anger is one of many energies categorized as emotion and energies are neither good nor bad, they just ARE, until they are utilized by one’s Will and directed for manifestation therefore any energy can be utilized in any manner.
Energy-workers understand this quite well and simply term it transmuting energies and the first step in transmuting energies is to first drop the label off an energy and just feel the vibration.
Energies have many different levels of mass and the more compacted the mass, the denser an energy feels to the human system, hence the labels of low and high vibration/energies.
Anger just happens to be a more dense energy and can pack a real punch to someone that is not accustomed to working energies or does not find the intensity appealing, and yet the quantity of energy contained within anger if utilized in the proper manner, can deliver huge results for beneficial purposes.
By acknowledging the presence of one’s anger and by not denying the existence of this energy (which in effect will only repress it and will not make it go away) you can take steps to utilize your anger as the fuel for meaningful purposes and lessen the possibility of your anger having negative ramifications for yourself and/or others.
Author and Astrologer, Donna Cunningham, has gifted me with the honor of guest blogger, on her site:Â Sky Writer.
I am elated to be acknowledged in this manner by Donna whom has served so many with a genuine devotion to assisting the well-being of others.
I have admired Donna Cunningham’s work for quite some time, and she has been an inspiration for me many times when my journey was difficult.
I will honestly admit that when she extended the invite for guest blogger, I was like a little kid that just found out they are going to Disneyland, dancing gleefully around my kitchen and high-fiving my dog. 🙂
Thank you, Donna, I am deeply honored..you most definitely made my day!
Today marks Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and in most societies this week is embraced as a holy week and is celebrated in a myriad of forms, dependent upon one’s personal beliefs, or those of which belong to the society into which one was born.
I personally, have never felt a personal attachment to any holiday of note, of any culture.
It is not that I am adverse to holidays celebrations, and in fact when I was raising my daughters, I quite joyfully participated in any celebration that was of importance to them.
You see, until recent years, I have had a walk that necessitated developing a great deal of optimism to roll with the challenges.
I suppose I learned a very long time ago, somewhere within childhood, to accept change as a constant and to celebrate each little event that felt good.
I have learned to embrace challenges out of the realization, that at least for some (myself included), challenges are a way of life and no matter how much effort you put into avoiding them or attempting to wish them away, you find time and time again, the only way up is through.
Yet too, I have learned that when one stops denying the existence of their personal challenges, and faces them head on with determination and courage, those same challenges eventually become one’s greatest achievements.
When you enter this world with an abundance of challenges, I feel many of us learn quite quickly that to sustain ourselves, we must celebrate daily, anything and everything that is Good and nurturing unto our Souls.
When faced with challenges, many are sent into reeling into ‘survival mode’, out of a fear of change.
Yet change is inevitable, and is ever occuring, regardless if one is able to recognise it at it’s most microcosmic levels.
The nature of change always brings challenges and challenges always catalyze change.
When you truly come to understand the dynamics of these cycles, and recognize that to evolve, we must embrace the cycle’s of change and challenge fearlessly, knowing, that this is the way we grow and become more, you suddenly find that you are living a life in constant celebration and awe, of this entire process experienced within our human journey’s.
Suddenly you do not wish to wait, for affirmed ‘special dates’, to celebrate and be joyful, loving and thankful.
Each and every moment, even the challenging one’s, are filled with a delicious prized center.
We are now, as a global society, in the midst of a cycle of accelerated change and challenge.
There are innumerable filters through which to perceive that which is now upon us, and everywhere you turn now there are many that are trying to explain this period and what it is all about, through their personal filters.
I feel for the most this is a good thing for we all resonate in different ways.
For each that is seeking understanding through their personal filter, there is someone that is offering knowledge, through the same filter.
I personally, feel I know what I need to know for myself, and on occasion for others if I am to be of service to them in some form.
I feel no need to really know, the “ONE and ONLY TRUTH”.
In all honesty I feel that is a fool’s game to seek to know this “ONE TRUTH” in exclusion of all else you could be experiencing and benefiting of now, as there are many, many truths upon this plane, and much that is labeled as truth is merely a personal truth subjective to the one experiencing it.
Sure, I have my personal Truths, and I am in constant awareness that others have theirs also.
I feel the best we can likely do, is to live our days the best we can by standing within our truths, and by being tolerant of the truth of others, by acknowledging that not a one of us, consciously is in awareness of the Whole of It.
If and when, I should be enlightened to the One Truth, well, I am sure I will be beyond blessed and thankful, yet as of now, that has not occurred for me.
So I take each step, each moment, each day of these changing and challenging times..and I walk it through, with the most grace that I am capable of.
I keep my eyes on what is straight ahead of me and apply myself to what I can do NOW, and do not allow myself to be concerned with what the next moment, may or may not bring, and I trust with all of myself, that All is Well, when I stay on this course of action.
And I celebrate, each and every day..I celebrate as I dance, as I sing, as I share laughter with another.
I celebrate by listening, truly listening, when another has something their heart and soul wishes to share.
I celebrate the smiles gifted to me by ‘strangers’ at the grocery and the company of the birds that visit me as I take in a few moments of the winter air on my deck.
These things I celebrate, and all that is good, and allow none of it to slip by without being savored and noted.
These things, nourish and sustain the Soul.
These things, we bank, and draw upon to keep us whole, as we navigate the challenges that catalyze change.
My catalyst for sharing this today came of my need the past few days, to acknowledge this holiday season in some manner on my site, and to extend my wishes of a joyful holiday to my readers.
Yet I just could not find a manner of doing so, that I felt really embodied what I wanted to offer as greetings and blessings, to the many different personal preferences and paths represented by those that partake in my offerings here.
So this is what came forth above, and I simply wish to conclude with this:
My heart and best wishes are with all on your celebratory days.
I hope that you find peace and joy, in your every moment, even those of challenge.
And may you find the courage and strength to walk your path with the utmost grace possible, for yourself and all others, through this Blessed Season of Change.
Here in the US Mid-Atlantic, we awoke to a picture outdoors that I thought was just perfect for Mars turning retrograde.
Yesterday brought a nor’easter up the Atlantic Seaboard and blizzard conditions were prevalent across many states.
Baby it is cold outside..and the Fire’s are burning bright within households up and down the East Coast.
Mars retrograde is all about the Fire turning within, from without.
So as I peeked outdoors this morning right before daybreak, the view to me was like Mars giving a heads-up, that indeed he was now departing the outer and taking residence, within.
Thought I’d share a few pics I snapped off of my view here along the Pennsylvania/Maryland border.
Have no idea what our official snowfall was recorded at though it appears to be over 20 inches.
Be safe All, and if you reside in the ‘drop-zone’, hope you find enjoyment in all that frozen white stuff!
Saturn (boundaries) is now transiting Libra, the sign of relationship, balance and justice, and boundaries in relationship have become the hot topic of the season.
Boundaries and relationship go hand-in-hand and you just can’t have one without the other.
As Saturn transiting Libra is a collective influence, unless you plan to become a Hermit, this is an area everyone has to come to terms with these next 2+ years.
As I have stated previously in other articles I do not see boundaries as ever being about the other person.
Boundaries are always personal and solely about you.
When lacking healthy boundaries we are often inclined to acting out the victim archetype and playing the ‘blame game’ for we feel that everything that occurs in their life is the result of an others actions.
There is no happiness, joy, nor self-fulfillment within the state of victim-hood and it is not a pleasant place to be .
Victim-hood is the residence of stress, anxiety and anger.
Victim-hood harbors guilt, shame and self-disappointment within it’s walls.
Yet if you find yourself residing within victim-hood, you can make the choice to step out of those walls, and it really is much easier than you may believe.
I am a firm believer that, “No One or Thing can cause us harm nor control us in any manner unless we allow it to be so”.
This, is where boundaries come in.
When assisting clients in the area of boundary development I often offer a visualization that makes it quite easy to immediately start building boundaries in your life and enforcing them with others, even if you have previously struggled with understanding or utilizing boundaries and are currently feeling dis-empowered your relationships.
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