Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto have recently moved into Earth signs. What have you noticed post this shift?

Dear Capricorn,

Sure Venus in Scorpio is obsessive and passionate but how about self-protective, hmm? How about Scorpio’s famous will to survive? I am sorry but I don’t have much sympathy. Why would I have sympathy for someone who is doing exactly what they want to do? Do you think this is accidental? Do you think you lack purpose? I do not agree.

I think you are using this guy as an excuse not to apply yourself. He is a way and means for you to find and feel an edge. He is a way you can feel pain and manifest your fear of failing. It’s got to be you because how can any of his doing when he’s not even on the scene?

Your friends don’t understand? I bet they do understand. They understand you are frothing at the mouth for a man who has no interest. They understand you are doing lousy in school and basically wrecking your life and while you’ve certainly got the right, I would not recommend it.

I recommend you clutch it up. I recommend you throw glass of cold water in your own face. Whatever it takes to snap yourself out of this, because you are in college now and you are supposed to paying your dues - as opposed to disabling yourself and calling it “love”.

Good luck.

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Three years later we discussed this again.

“You said you weren’t afraid of me and I want to keep it that way,” he said. “I don’t want you to ever feel afraid of me.”

I considered what he said but had no idea how to respond. I knew he was serious but the idea I would be afraid of him was foreign. It just seemed remote and unreal to which can be explained by the Saturn (fear) interaction with Neptune (ethereal) with Neptune in my chart. Logically I could understand but how are you supposed to make yourself feel terror you don’t feel any terror?

Continue reading Fear And Family Patterns: Lacking The Sense To Be Afraid?

I know people who have read me for awhile, 3 or 5 years or something, and they have a real feel for the pieces I throw up here which seem random at first eventually morph into belonging to the whole. In fact Avery seems to have caught on to this in 4 months judging from her response to my question, What Do You Like About This Blog?

Avery wrote:

“The humor, unpretentiousness, richness and depth of applied astrology, the community of personalities who gravitate here, the continuity and cohesiveness. I’ve only been reading your blog for about four months…”

But sometimes I like to lay it out.

Continue reading Fear And Family Patterns

I didn’t mean to upset or worry people with the blog about Saturn transiting conjunct everyone’s Pluto. It just occurred to me that we as a collective are going to experience this and in an order that is predictable. My thought was that the elders… people who have Pluto in Leo could reassure the next generation, the Pluto in Virgo people who are going through this now which would give the Pluto in Libra folk a heads up, early warning. Instead I created a fear-fest to some degree and for that I apologize and want to try harder.

Continue reading Saturn Transit Conjunct Natal Pluto: An Apology And Some Clarification

Saturn = fear and depression… cold weather - Mercury = driving and the mind - Moon = Mood

“I’m nervous,” I said. “Very nervous.”

“Why? How come?”

“I have a long drive tomorrow, bad, bad conditions. I am worried about getting home and how it’s going to be once I get there. I am afraid I will spiral down.”

“Don’t spiral down.”

Continue reading Saturn in Virgo Square Moon, Mercury In Sagittarius: Fear Of Driving And Depression

Rhonda writes on the Liars In The Zodiac blog:

“Keeping secrets is a survival mechanism for the id.”

Interesting. I am only partly aware of why I keep so much from the soldier. If I told you my reasons they would be valid but they would also be surface like the tip of the iceberg. And I don’t think I am going to have time this lifetime to visit this at any depth but I can tell you this: The things I keep from him are strange and I keep them from him and only him.

Now this is a Venus Neptune thing - I conceal my tastes from him. I never pick a movie for example. We watch his movies only (80% war and 20% love stories). He would be happy to watch any movie I’d choose but I refuse to choose a movie for what it would reveal.

In contrast, my ex, the AMF and I would watch movies all the time. We’d see two or three a week at least and I would pick virtually every one of them. Go figure.

Continue reading Liars In The Zodiac Redux: What Type Things Do You Conceal Or Keep Secret And Why?

It’s been a big day around here… maybe it shows. Personally, transiting Saturn is leaving my 7th house for my 8th and Pluto, leaving my 11th for my 12th. Now both these transits are dreaded, but I am feeling pretty good especially about Saturn through the 8th.

I am feeling good because I am old enough I have already had Saturn transit my 8th house so I feel equipped. I have not had Pluto transit my 12th though and seeing as my astrology books have been packed for almost 4 years now, I googled “Pluto transit 12th house” and this is what I got… really the only offering:

“Pluto through the 12th house- This transit can either be for better or worse. At worst, powerful and deadly enemies can enter into one’s life, long term incarceration and imprisonment, diseases that are long lasting and/or permanent, isolation.

The person, at this time, may have an intense desire to be alone, or this can be forced upon one, through circumstances. There can be restriction and confinement, mentally or physically.”

Oh for Godsakes! 1 in 12 people have Pluto transiting their 12th house. Do you see 1/12 of the people around you locked in jail with the key thrown away, body parts rotting off as people plot against them? ::shakes head::

I am going to make a point of writing about this transit so when people search they can pull up some sanity, you think? We can start today.

If you have had Pluto transit your 12th house and did not become riddled with leprosy and go crazy in quarantine, please let us know.

pictured: Rembrandt. Portrait of a Noble (Oriental) Man. 1632. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Art historians believe this painting depicts the Biblical King Uzziah, who was stricken with leprosy for usurping the authority of the Temple priests. c. 1639

Talking to the soldier:

“Well I’m glad you wrote. When I saw your name come up in my email, I was instantly happy. I was really glad. And I had no idea all this other stuff. I didn’t know I was dying but as soon as I saw your name, I knew it would be a good mail. You know. It wouldn’t be scathing.”

“Now why in the world would I ever send you a scathing email? ” He laughed. Continue reading The Soldier Reaches Out - Part 4: Beware The Mail

Dear Cap,

Yep, you’ve been around awhile and as you know I have significant Capricorn in my chart… so I understand the plague! I understand the overdeveloped sense of duty and responsibility, the repression, the oppression, the fear, the sense of not being good enough and on and on and on. And I only know of one cure!

Now there may be others but if so I haven’t found them. And I don’t need to find them because my way works! I have made it up the mountain to where I am happy and free and you can do it too - but only if you master all the Capricorn lessons which are so simple as to be misleading.

First, you must face your fear. All Capricorn must face all fears or be crippled by them

Second, you have to take responsibility for your life… completely. I don’t care what your parents did to you. I don’t care how hard you had it, how ugly you are, how many bones you’ve had broken or any other thing. Because it simply doesn’t matter.

If you want to be happy, at some point you have let all that go and decide to take things into your own hands. You have to build the life you want, and I don’t care if you’ve got only loose change and the shirt on your back to do it with. Too bad! You still have to do it because you’re a Capricorn and it won’t be done for you.

Outside of this, I’ll tell where you where I think you’re going wrong. Your Pisces Sun is dreaming. You have a fantasy about Italy, and you might just make it there some day if you would just apply Capricorn technique.

See, Pisces can get to Italy via their imagination but with all this Capricorn in your chart, it’ll never happen… you will never get there for real (Capricorn) if you do not take the million little steps between here and there.

I understand you’re drawn to passion and the energy of Italian people and I think it is entirely possible (especially with Jupiter currently transiting Sagittarius) for you to learn from them and absorb some of their ways and attitudes. But since you can’t leave your six year old and go to Italy tomorrow, can you perhaps take a cooking class? Can you find an Italian restaurant and make yourself a regular so you get to know the people there and they get to know you?

These things will help. They will take you closer to where you want to go. But right now you’re doing nothing but standing on your side of the glass, wishing and hoping and pining. And I can tell you for sure that you will never get what you want, unless you face your fear and start to get in there and mix it up. Like this:

You decide to do it, you feel guilty / scared / whatever and you do the thing anyway. I am sorry but it’s this or die in shackles.

Good luck.

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