My boss is under a lot of stress and anything and everything seems to piss her off these days. Even staying out of her way pisses her off! So I am not going to ask her if she liked to pick scabs when she was a kid! Sheeesh.

Keeping an even keel in choppy emotional seas requires keeping a very careful eye on the tide, the wind, and an awareness of the rocks and hazards. And good helmsmanship also includes getting some rest anytime things calm down for half an hour.

mud – I appreciate that…

“will we know where we are when we can see the horizon again?”

well it sure as hell won’t be immediate! It may be 1 second beyond the peak but what is that? It’s like passing the coldest day of the year in the winter – it is still damned cold… = it is still damned foggy!!

kashmiri- I’m going to turn my computer off for a few hours and go outside as the universal energy is calling my name. Your question is very good. I think I will post it on my fridge, so I can ask myself that every day.

I’ve been taking my cues from others, like I’m on a furtive search for like minds, since I’m surrounded by people with whom I disagree. It’s not a bad place to be in, but it takes a lot of discipline, and it is sometimes lonely..

I was at a dinner party with 10 people with polar opposite political views than I have on Friday night. I was invited by a client.

They kept talking to me like I had cloned thinking. I see this at times but NEVER like this party. Four hours at the table and they had themselves WHIPPED into a frenzy of self flaggelation.

One woman actually had web cams trained on her yard cards and they had been taking down by the other party. She kept running to her blackberry to check them out letting us all know how very impt it was. She was going out 8 – 10 times a day to replace them.

I keep my opinions about that stuff (or anything not pertinent to my engagement) to myself b/c my clients are often 180 degrees from my views. I’m real good at saying ‘isn’t that interesting’ & hmmm, I see…. without feeling that I’m selling out or feeling like I have to show them the flaw in their thinking.

I keep my eye on the prize which is clients who are happy with me and my work and good relationships. No one can convince anyone of anything when people are so dug in. It’s just more fun to keep smiliing and go home and think – wow – what was that? And why does that kind of person always want to work with me?

I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

Meanwhile, I’m having this fixation with a friend who hasn’t been on line and who’s phone has been off all night. It’s very odd for her to do so. But my reaction to it- the fear thing- is totally out of character for me.

We don’t have mutual friends so i’ll have to wait and see on this.

I read and feel the next 4 days will be very intense. I am going to lay low, keep my mouth shut and change the things i can, which is my attitude toward things. This has been a really tough week for me personally.

Hi everyone – Thanks for the support on the other thread. Sorry to those who are being challenged as well. I think cleaning and going outside are good strategies which I will adopt today myself. For me – even more intense than a few days ago, but with some odd unexpected “good” popping up every now and then. This all seems to be keying into some old wounds.

I started today with my yoga class. I have north node in virgo at 3 degrees conjunct pluto in virgo at 5 degrees in the second house oppose chiron in pisces at 6 degrees in the 8th house. This Saturn Uranus 2nd house 8th house thing is just compounding what is already a life issue – so for me just going to class is healing – as it seems to help this polarity for me quite a bit. I go to church tonight (a very very liberal episcopal church). All to help ground me and keep me sane.

I feel personally like I am trying very hard to hold body and soul together and not spin apart at the seems. The feeling is one of electric energy, and an intense feel, and I am trying to figure out what it wants from me. I am trying not to drive like a fool, avoid wrecks, and stay out of the way of others who may not be so careful (hard to do in DC traffic).

Just found out that Venus in Saggitarius squares Saturn and Uranus over the next three days. That means that Venus is oppose my Natal Moon the next three days. Venus in my 5th house. Moon in my 11th house. I know I guess Venus means love – but there is no room in my life for anyone till I get this job/money thing straightened out. So I guess this makes it a grand cross- spending some time today trying to figure out what it means. Trying not to create any drama. I think the laying low strategy is a good one – as at the end of the day that is what you are trying to do – not create any drama.

I am an air-force-brat. I have moved 20 times in 47 years, and I am tired. It seems every time I get settled into an area – I have to move again. I have tried very hard to break this pattern as an adult – but now it looks like it is happening again. I moved to DC two years ago after living in Boston for 7 years. I have Uranus natally in the first house – conjunct my dads mercury in leo, and my twin nephews moons in leo. Dad was a pilot – still alive. Uranus is at 21 degrees Leo – so I am guessing it is affected by everything in the air right now – and we have Neptune opposing it and trining my natal moon.

Obviously – someone wants something from me – but what?

I am in a money crunch due to the lay off and bad planning – and a position has come up in Miami Florida. Never in a million years have I ever thought I would live in Miami – but I am going to look at it.

It would have been nice to stay in DC where I Have made friends, but who knows how it will play out. I was at a party on Friday – where a business woman was mentoring me on this lay off and being really helpful (Venus was trine my natal venus that night) – and I felt at home there with those people which rarely happens. I have moved so much and have so many cultural influences I spend 99% of my time feeling like a stranger in a strange land – so I have mixed mixed feelings about leaving. Friends have to mean something, but i am unemployed.

So – yes – that moon is stressed – I feel like I am spinning apart – but I know that venus will be moving on Wednesday – so I won’t make any final decisions about anything till lets say next Friday.

On a lighter note – “Auntie Mame” was on TV last night – she is the quintessential Saggitarian Venus and a very fond childhood memory of watching that movie many times. Going to go buy it today if possible.

Elsa – I apologize for such a long posting. I do appreciate your follow up with this thread. It helps to talk about it if nothing else.

K

I just reread that post and realized how very unclear it was. So for me

Natal Planets
Gemini Moon 19 degrees in the 11th House
Uranus in Leo 21 degrees in the 1st House

Transiting Planets
Saturn in Virgo 19 degrees 2nd House
Uranus in Pisces 19 degrees 8th House
Venus in Saggitarius 18 degrees 5th House (next three days)
Neptune in Aquarius 21 degrees in the 7th house

Yes – I am lit up like a Christmas tree

Kathryn

thanks Elsa and eye of the hurricane!

I am going to hide now.

The thing about fear is that it is so damn necessary (well, for me anyway) because without fear we simply have no motivation to act in a way that could save us from a bad situation (or ourselves). I guess what’s scary about it is the worry (Virgo) that we’ll act out (Uranus) in ways that we’ll have to pay for later (Saturn). Like me straining at the bit but fearful that if I go off half-cocked and follow the change I know I want in my Life, consideration of boundaries and responsibilities WILL be necessary, or I’ll be in the same stressful place I was in February 1966 during the last SAT/URA opposition: Saturn in Pisces (my 1st house) opposed Uranus in Virgo (7th) – same 18 degrees as now and squared Chiron on the MC (same as now).

I was 16 years old and straining at the bit then too. All my relationships were out of this world: unusual, exciting, taboo and trouble. (Pluto was also in the mix as it was conjuncting Uranus.) Although I felt older, more mature and serious (Saturn moving thru 1st), I didn’t handle the tension well then, maybe because I was young and really had little control over my life, though you’d never have known it given the power plays I found myself embroiled in. One thing is for certain: my life AFTER that transit was NOTHING like my life BEFORE the transit.

So here it is again; the same planets see-sawing across the 1st/7th only flopped: now Uranus is in the 1st and Saturn is in the 7th again squaring natal Chiron. I know I’m in for another major life change and some long-buried wounds now require healing. Should l look back to that period of time for guidance on how to get through this one? I just haven’t a clue as to how to go about it. Not yet anyway.

I don’t unusually say much about my stuff, no more than my 8th house Scorpio Merc will allow. But this transit is a BIG deal and I hope you all continue sharing how you’re experiencing it on the personal level. If I have any epiphanies, I’ll share too.

I was 5 and a half and living near Vancouver BC at the time. I have indelible, colourful, and sensory memories of that time of my life. An overwhelming sense of magic, happiness and awe of the world that seemed to last forever.