The Cardinal T-Square… Morphing To A Grand Cross: How Are You Faring?
Astrology in real life
This is it, the summer we’ve all read about in astrology circles and I wonder how people are faring. This t-square hits my family hard and I think we’re doing really well. It’s been very pressured but I note the Saturn phenomena, where the load may be heavy but not more than a person can bear.
My son got in trouble at school which was a first. He’s got Saturn conjunct his Sun, and this t-square on his angles and authority came down on him hard. He came down on himself hardest of all and the he got sick.
Sick, he missed a week of school so now had to stay after school for detention AND for catch up work and you get the idea. The kid is 10, going on 11 and in a crush.
Me, look around. I have to meet the demands of running and maintaining this blog. I am constantly trying to improve the product whether it be the blog, the boards, the newsletter, the dispatch or my work as a consultant.
I notice not one thing gets done for me. There are no shortcuts to filling out the transit watch calendar for example. There are no short cuts to composing an astrological reading by email and I better know what I am doing when I get on the phone.
There is the house of course… it is mine to maintain and you get the idea. We’re working around here but I feel it is going well if not REALLY well and I think the strength comes from the commitment. We are all committed to going the distance and coming out the other end in excellent shape regardless of the choices people around us make and this seems to be a really good recipe.
What is happening in your life?
26 Responses to “The Cardinal T-Square… Morphing To A Grand Cross: How Are You Faring?”
Your last paragraph was a sigh of relief for me because for a minute there I’m thinking “Am I a delusional bastard to think things are going very well in my personal world?
Part of me is wondering if and when the ball will drop….but I’m enjoying the ride so much regardless. That Pluto/moon conjunction thing I just went through did WONDERS for me. I’ve totally let go of trying to control my surroundings, thus always leaving me disappointed. I feel free and playful now…totally enjoying life. But like Elsa said, I am totally committed.
It’s on my natal T-square (in the cardinal Houses). I’ve mentioned before I am trying to use this energy to break bad habits. So far so good–5 and a half weeks since I quit smoking and I don’t miss them one whit.
I am trying to get my house in order because in 3 weeks I start back at college. I figured out my schedual and if I work like a DOG this summer I can graduate come May 2011. If I graduate in 2011, I can apply to teacher college come September…if I don’t commit to working like fuck, I can count on having my plan delayed for a year.
So…I sat down, plotted out my course, and committed to WORK.
The good thing is, the load is lighter July-August, which is immediately following my best friend’s labour/birth, and if I play cards right, I can spend a lot of time with her in that period with the new baby, too (they live up the street)
I’m learning there are rewards for hard work. My Pluto/ASC transit had me wondering for a while.
It hasn’t really gotten to me yet. It doesn’t hit any personal planets, and it’s in mutable houses (6, 9, 12). However, the work and “what the hell am I going to do with the rest of my life?” issue is on my mind.
Things in my life are going unbelievably well. I’m planning on using this advantage to help out others in the collective who are possibly being crushed more than me. I feel I’m very strong being called to be a healer and I’m definitely going to heed to that.
I am going through this drastic re-allocation of energy in my life. The cardinal t-square is thankfully helping to shake up some of the energy that has been so stagnant for what feels like forever.
The Saturn-Pluto square helped me to cut out many relationships in my life that were not supporting my well-being. This left a big gap for a while and I realized that I need to invest more in the relationships with my family and putting more work/commitment into healing the burdens there that have been plaguing me for years. Simultaneously, I’ve had more time to work on my career path and I’ve been accepted into a graduate program as of yesterday, I’ve been able to put to good use a yoga teaching certification that I acquired almost a year ago, and also it looks like I’m going to be able to leave my current job, which I have been wanting to do for such a long time.
And this isn’t even all of the good stuff that’s been going on for me.
I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on the WORK (career wise) and so that part is feeling good- the WORK (on the inside wise) though, is really ramping up. My montra has been to be fully conscious and open to what opportunities arise and my hope is that the ‘inside’ work will meld with the ‘career’ work and become one in the same.
In my natal chart I have Libra in my 2nd and ruling my 3 house, Capricorn intercepted in the 5th, Aries in the 8th and ruling my 9th house and finally Cancer intercepted in the 11th. Everything has been stalled in my life for some time therefore I don’t currently feel any difference with the Cardinal T-square…I’m not any more “stalled” than before, it’s just a continuation of the same.
I actually feel that my circumstances might shift soon and it can only get better if it does. (I’m unemployed, single, etc.). Perhaps I sense this due to the upcoming Cardinal Cross. In my Progressed chart – all four angles shifted late last year to all Cardinal signs (with progressed Pluto conjunct the AC at 1 degree – 0 natally). The progressed angles are currently all at Aries Point (0 degrees). Since this should bring changes to all four points (self, home, relationship, career) I imagine that the Cardinal cross will activate these changes. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Things are going GREAT for me, absolutely fantastic. Work has been steady and plentiful (I’m self employed), my kids are doing great. After being married 20 years and going through a 1+ year divorce, I am at peace with being single. So yea I am very happy now. Barring an unforeseen hardship, I have every reason to believe things will stay this way or just get better.
I am not sure how this is affecting me except I not only made peace with one friend that I was really hurt by but also reunited with old friends that I thought were gone forever from my life. And working on my marriage maybe…at least to untangle the damage done so we can move on. Not sure how the chips will fall with that. Other wise I picked up smoking again, which I am NOT happy about and feel unmotivated and lazy to get in shape which is really a goal of mine. I just keep reading about all the things to do and can’t seem to muster up the energy to do it. Very frustrating. But maybe that’s just how my Mars in the 12th is manifesting…house of undoing : (
No shortcuts. Work, work, work. And yes, faring well. After years of slogging that was pure pain, there is finally joy in working again. (Not always, of course but some joy is better than none.) And my focus and commitment are back too. All of that makes me feel like I’m headed towards something big and really cool. I know I have to work for it and have finally stopped resenting that at least enough to get the work done.
Nice post: it’s refreshing to hear that hard work can be part of faring well.
Unfortunately I am not experienced enough to be certain how its all affecting my chart. I do have Saturn in Cancer square Pluto in Libra natally. Saturn in virgo will square my ending sun and mercury in sag. And Uranus is squaring my sun and mercury as well. So it sounds like a cycle in my life will be ending. I keep wondering if there is a way to start a new cycle with out pain. Its my jupiter return year so ofcourse Jupiter will also square my sun and mercury….not too certain what it all means.
is it possible to even get a new job while Saturn is squaring sun? My MC is at 4 degrees Leo.
Up, down, up, down. Crush, ease off, crush, ease off, crush til I think I won’t be able to bear it, ease off so I can breathe.
I was talking to one of my Tribe last night and I said, “It’s not like anyone is deliberately causing problems for anyone else. You’ve got all the stuff you’re dealing with at home, and a change in work schedule, and that changes the time we have to spend on the phone. I’ve got more work than anyone should have, but I can do it if I put in more hours. T just had most of his internet stuff cut completely off at work, so our communication has ground to a halt. C has some stuff that he feels like he needs to man up and deal with at home, and who can fault him for that? Nobody is getting any slack, and when I look at it that way, it’s impossible to be angry at anyone.”
I’m coping, though. 
oh boy, a lot! right now, we are looking for a house to move on to. my dad cant seem to decide where and we are getting a lot of options. my mom and i had just an argument yesterday about whats going on with r lives. personally, i am busy looking for a house, building my new site, maintaining my blog, creating a story for a free lance job, giving so much effort for trying to get along with my housemates which is soooo hard.
at the end of all these drama, i feel hopeful to move ahead. what else could there be instore in my situation. we got no choice but to look ahead to keep our sanity.
My priorities have changed somewhat, and I’ve lessened the load and pressure I put on my own shoulders. I also manage my time so much better than I have in recent months, and I’m less hesitant to ask for help.
Looking forward to summer when work slows down and I can focus on a couple of special projects.
(Obviously, I don’t want to share specific bits o’ goodness because… Because. So I’ll just say that things are marvelous.)
@Deb yay for marvelous!!!
Wish you the same, Shannon .
You know how it is. You tell people how gloriously something is going, and it gets pooped on somehow, someway. Someday. At least that’s how my life has tended to operate often times. Sort of like a comedy. So I share *just enough*.
Pluto is hitting my 10th house and I am learning that I want a career in some kind of communication (writing, talking, etc). I loss 2 jobs, but it was a blessing in disguise because I am slowly learning what I want a career in.
Uranus on the other hand is on my 1st house and I am accepting my body for what it is even though I know I could lose a couple of pounds, Lol.
just had a baby (thank you pluto transiting 5th conjunct my moon. thanks to mars square pluto in the 12th im feeling pretty onery. i get in a lot of arguments. saturns in my second so im broke. saturns also square my neptine so ive had difficulty with escaping. (my usual modus operandi when things get bad.) neptune transiting 7th you get the idea… major life upheavel major lessons. i feel likeeive learned a lot th. and actually feel very optimistic. lol
@ Deb for me it’s more like I’m super sensitive to other people and don’t wanna sound like I’m bragging if they are hurting. Example – not telling the unemployed friend about my pay raise at work. That kind of feeling.
Instead of doing the monthly draw my insurance company took out an entire year! Avalanched my checking account and I had to take a long lunch to straighten things out. All my fees were waived, but the company won’t do an electronic deposit. They insist on sending the check snail mail…that almost screwed up a deal I was in the middle of, buying a lawnmower.
I just winced thinking about asking the guy to hold the check…I mean, it’s so cliche in a lowlife way. Fortunately, I didn’t have to.
I’m struggling here. Currently unemployed (again) because I left a contract job that was slowly wasting me away. When Saturn went back to Virgo, I was pretty much forced to just take a break because my body was really feeling the effects of the stress. It’s as if I haven’t learned my lesson.
Right now, because I’ve been saving money from the work I’ve done in the last 5 months, I am not too worried financially, but I DO have to get my act together. I’ve started my application to go back to school and change careers. I have a school interview to go to in a week and I am hoping and praying to the heavens that this is “The ONe”… But Elsa once told me before: if it’s not meant to be, life will kick me out of it.
Right now, I’m trying to look for jobs for future tuition and rent money next year. A part of me wants to give up my current profession. The thought of it stresses me out and I just want to work something else, but because of my very minimal skillset (I’m highly specialized in my current profession), I’m stuck.
I wish I can just harden my heart and just work for the sake of work. but I just don’t work that way…
Uranus is moving to Aries soon and right now it’s somewhat conjuncting my 12th house sun. The NEED for CHANGE is really apparent and I’m starting not to give in to my sudden “urges”… *sighs*
My natal moon is at 0cancer with venus at 29Pisces so the past few months has been eventful with having finally sold a property owned jointly with a partner i have left after many years of being on the receiving end of emotional and verbal abuse, remiscent of my youth at home.
I have moved interstate and am living in student accommodation whilst I find a suitable house or take therisk and do what I’ve wanted to do for many years and buld myown home. Nothing is gelling but after years of self analysis I have maintained a certain sense of calm and acceptance at what will be will be. Gone are many of my old fears of being homeless, without money or friends. Much of this has come about by realising how much we in the weternworld have in comparison to othrs in Haiti, India, Africa and now parts of of Iceland.
Hopefully we will experience a shift in consciousness and care and share more for each other and not allow the greed of the past to accumulate in small pockets of society.
with a Pisces Sun I have to have my dreams.
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