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It’s Quiet Around Here… (Advice For Most, April - Mid May 2009)
Astrology in real life
I notice it’s quiet around here. Not you guys but me. Part of the reason is due personal problems, part of it it is because I have the class going on and part of it is just that I loathe to write anything that will create conflict or place a demand on me of any kind.
This rules a lot of stuff out. Can’t start a story. Can’t write anything that will leave a difficult question in anyone’s mind because I will have to deal with it one way or the other and I don’t want to.
I have these periods from time to time. I’m just tired I think and I always get to wondering if I will ever come back the way I once was. It feels like something is dying every time I go through this and I never care. I am not one for heroic efforts to save anything that’s for sure so I just hang like a loose tooth and wait.
Invariably somethign provokes me and I come roaring back at least I have to date. But I wanted to make this relevant to all of you because this has been coming up in consultations over and over. I will use my experience on this blog as an example but I am telling you, this stuff is broadly relevant. By that I mean, many (most) of you are in a similar process right now and it goes something like this:
You have seen a lot of experimenting on this blog in the last several months. I have taught classes, launched a message board and tried to include things in the news (like the Black Market) that interest me that would have had no place on my blog of 3 years ago. I have also joined Facebook (who’d have imagined), and started offering a quick and dirty phone consultation option. This is the Uranus end.
Saturn is opposing Uranus and I have encouraged a lot of opposition and even outright rejection. Saturn is in Virgo and communicating in general has been very hard. The Dispatch too. I have had to make changes over there to improve the thing and this is a labor.
Anyway, astrologically we know Venus is retrograde and so is Saturn. Many (of my clients) are suffering profoundly with this as they want to move and go and progress but they are finding it very hard to get themselves untangled and headed in the right direction.
I am having the same problem, you can see it on this blog. This blog is no longer coherent (from my perspective) and I wish this wasn’t the case but it is the case. I just can’t quite start up the mountain in a way that is focused because I can’t quite find the mountain!
It is that or I am gathering skills I will need to succeed. In some cases I’ve got baggage Ive got to dump and maybe you get the idea. We’re all sort of stuck right now, sorting things out and what I wanted to tell you is we’re all going to be getting unstuck, mid May.
Both Venus and Saturn will be direct at that time and things should begin to clarify. Expecting this to happen any sooner - expecting anything of anyone any sooner is probably going to prove disappointing so I suggest treading water to some extent.
I don’t mean do nothing. It is more like do everything. Do everything you can to not only maintain yourself but to ‘train up” as the soldier would say because Show Time is coming in about 4 weeks.
Who can relate?
31 Responses to “It’s Quiet Around Here… (Advice For Most, April - Mid May 2009)”
I can relate and well, knowing what the case is actually makes it seem hopeful 
YES!
Thank you for writing about this. I suddenly pooped out a couple of days ago- I mean, 3 retrogrades- ridiculous…I’ve stopped writing also, and just gotten into reading and learning and feeling tired. And you’re right about showtime coming up- I feel like it’s a time to learn and reorganize…
Oh, and you know how retros are for reorganizatin and whatnot? I feel like I’m in the exhaustion phase after the planning is done. Like the first round of rehersals is done, and we’ve got to rest for the show–perfect metaphor for this feeling.
we <3 u
everyone needs some downtime!
Thanks for this!
liz - you’re welcome. This has come up again and again and again and I know people need this time frame…
Apparently, the Saturn-Uranus opposition is taking place on my natal conjunction of the Sun, Pluto, and Uranus. So basically I am off to see the wizard. It sure feels like it. It is quite disconcerting to have to go back to the starting line over and over and over again as I have this past year. Maybe some red sparkly shoes are in order for us all?
I don’t feel stuck, necessarily, but I do feel tired and a little frustrated from striving. Things are going well, but not easily, I have to work for the change I’ve been wanting. But I know it will pay off. All the best to everyone here!
Hubby comes home in four weeks….and I feel like I’m at a standstill in the meantime! Thanks for the heads up. Makes me want to bust my ass getting everything done before he comes home so we can revel in the fruits of my labor. lol.
eek, says the nail as elsa smashes him in the head.
this is exactly how i’ve been feeling, and very tired; knowing when it will lighten helps me keep it in perspective and pace myself.
oh, you said it. been feeling like a stopped clock. right twice a day but nothing much else 
Something in me has been intuitively awaiting somewhere around “mid-May” - So much is going on right now, I can only put my head down and “keep at it,” but I’m tiring. And my man is tiring, and we’re both working so hard - and have been for months solid. There’s no vacation in sight, but there is just the “break” - some calm, some stillness and hopefully relaxation.
This is so encouraging “We’re all sort of stuck right now, sorting things out and what I wanted to tell you is we’re all going to be getting unstuck, mid May.”
Thanks for telling us!
Been absent from reading/commenting myself because life was overwhelming. Last week, I stopped everything (thankfully, I can do that). Instinctively, I felt like I need to just rest and take care of maintenance things until June. So that’s what I did..put the word out. Got a website in development, some legal stuff, etc. and I just stopped it all. I feel better being able to avoid the battling egos happening all around me as well. That gets old really fast and I couldn’t bear it just now.
Thanks for this, Elsa, and I’m sending you LOTS of positive vibes (however much I can) to get through this!
It’s really one hell of a beginning of a year for me. Every difficult aspect has just come, including my Saturn Return being activated too by Uranus squaring my Saturn. The Venus retrograde squaring Pluto and Pluto squaring my sun has been particularly difficult as well. I’m always telling myself, this too shall pass. Like you, Elsa, I’ve always wondered when I will go back to my old self again - that vibrant sassy self I used to be. But I guess all these aspects are forcing us to learn something about ourselves - perhaps something new or something we’ve forgotten.
In any case, I take comfort to knowing I am not the only one going through these difficult transits. This too shall pass, everyone! We can only keep hoping for the dark cloud to be lifted!
need to start asking for interviews for the next school year…
until then, feeling eeriely directionless. just put the nose to the grindstone for the next few weeks, but keep a finger in the air..
there’s a hiring freeze.
This is a very strange feeling for me….I am usually an optimist and can bounce back….but, these last couple of months have taken a toll on me…I am tired…so tired of so many things…I am working my ass off and would rather be reading or sitting quietly somewhere. I am tired of some of my friendships.., tired of my sisters’ craziness and me being the doormat…I am tired of being nice…I want so bad to really tell some people off, but I feel this is a passing feeling and I should just ride it out..the only ones I really want around are my dogs and my cat. My kids are irritating the hell out of me too….these last couple of days have been rough going….YUCK!
Wow, wow, and double-wow! Boy, can I relate. It feels as though everything in my life has been stagnating, and I fight it. I fight it every day, but it feels exactly that way, like I’m treading water. Thank you so much for this, and the heads up on the timing! I’m off to England to visit someone at the end of May (was originally planned for early May, but timing didn’t work out for us). I didn’t like the delay at first, but now I think I am glad for it, and looking forward to the trip even more. Thank you so much for sharing this…<3
“Train up” - I like that. Gives a sense of purpose. Conditioning mind and body for the marathon ahead. Looking up and striding forward, strong and focussed. Tired of being weary, sick of being weak.
New challenges ahead!
I’m quiet because I’m on a (formerly rare) business trip. Hope to catch up on the class soon. Reeeeally looking forward to a few days of break in the astro-weather and getting unstuck later. I don’t think the blog is incoherent at all - the same threads come up and build and develop all the time - but I am glad to read this account of Saturn/Uranus and ElsaElsa.
I almost called Elsa to set up a consultation today because I feel so - blank - about the road ahead. So much is happening, and nothing is happening at all. A lot of the comments hit close to home. And Elsa’s reference to the dang mountain - oh yeah.
I think you do an amazing job with everything, Elsa. Quality and innovations and all that– from my perspective, you are going onward and upward!
Lots of love to you.
Elsa, I rarely comment, but read your site daily. I read it not only because it’s interesting and have learned a lot but because there is life in it…there is friction, which of course can create fires and there are people who are not mature enough to allow and cherish other peoples’ spark, I think because they’re afraid they will be diminished in some way…they don’t understand that in order to be warmed by the fire you must have the friction first and quite honestly, who cares what they think…maybe this is a process of sorting the wheat from the chaffe. If they don’t have the balls to read what you say and respect it even if they disagree…let em go…it will only make room for more and better quality people to stop by. I love coming here! So throw another log on the fire:) When you’re ready of course…we all need a reprieve from time to time(especially now).
It’s your site and you don’t need to deal with anything you don’t want to deal with. That’s my Mercury in Taurus talking:)
(((lunalie)) your vibrant sassy self will never disappear. i promise.
togi the wizard of oz is my fave movie, ever.
Oh heavens yes, and thank you. I am feeling so stuck and this is really helpful. It’s funny - I have a techie problem at work and the best answer I have been able to come up with?
Learn to program.
No joke.
Everything has felt like that lately. Glad to know we’ve got a timeframe on doing stuff.
Brilliant. Am feeling as though I am walking through toffee at the moment. Have two essays due and my part time paid job is getting me down. I’m normally super perky so it feels odd to feel so uninspired.
I keep trying to answer unnecessary questions about the future but now is clearly not the time to make decisions!
Thanks, Elsa for just saying it like it is. Just need to put one foot in front of the other…
I’m so glad I read this. No where else in astrology that I have seen is anyone talking about this. I’ve been wondering why things seem so sticky and difficult. I do try to remember to count my blessings but this helps a lot. I will look forward to show time. In the mean time there’s plenty to do. There’s no lacking for busy work, which is part of the problem. Nothing feels like its happening the way my old self would have been able to make it happen. Don’t people know who I am? lol
It seems the general consensus around here is stuck, and I can relate whole-heartedly.
I was actually standing around today and thought to myself, “Shit, when the HELL am I going to get out of here?”
Then I came and read this. Oooo, synchronicity, gets me every time.
Thank you for posting this. I’ve been looking forward to Mid-May for a while due to this, but it feels good to hear it from someone else. I am graduating from college in May and I am trying to find a job and get my life in some sort of order and it is just not happening. I have put in something like 40 applications and I am juggling so much. It is so tangled. Thank you again.
Yup. I’ve been stuck forever and ever though, so I’m not sure I’ll get better come direct planets. But everyone is all frustrated and stuck and scared. And I’m so SICK of it. Mostly I am just trying to distract myself, but I dread any moment (say, I have to walk home alone in the dark and I can’t even crack a book, or during a gym class) when I am left alone with my thoughts, because they are heading to Stuck and Fear.
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