Halfway Through August 2010 With The Cardinal Grand Cross Out There… What’s Happening?
Astrology in real life
How is it going?
My life was thrown into chaos around the first of the month but I got a handle on things after about week. I can see there will be a level of stress for the rest of the month but I have adapted and can see what might be silver linings, over time and if nothing else, I’m getting smarter which is something I enjoy.
I am seeing things shrink down. I just wrote about the fact the government is not taking custody of near as many kids be they abused or out of control or whatever. One of my friends who works in the courts lost her job due this so you see what I mean, there is a reduction. Less money begets less money begets less money.
Jupiter is in this mix and some will get lucky but what I am seeing for sure is a global shrinking down which is one expression of Jupiter in aspect to Saturn.
Now there are many other possibilities. Slow (Saturn) expansion (Jupiter) for example but whether this is good or bad is up in the air. For example, if it is you ass expanding, you are probably not going to be very happy but if it is a trend in the collective you favor… well then you can be “cautiously optimistic”.
What is happening in your life?
45 Responses to “Halfway Through August 2010 With The Cardinal Grand Cross Out There… What’s Happening?”
Many things are happening, and some are rejections I’ve experienced for the first time in my life, there is chaos unresolved, owed money unpaid, etc.
But I still have a roof and honestly, those are the times I feel it is maybe a good thing to be born with a Grand Cross (albeit in fixed signs, involving Sun/Moon/Mars/Sat/Nep) because there is such familiarity with everything, I can just shrug my shoulders and move on, whereas if I am not used to this energy it might be devastating.
Hope everyone is doing ok and keeping their head above water.
That is a good point, anesa. I have a major deal scheduled under a tight grand cross – the Moon in Cancer.
“If anyone knows what to do with a grand cross, it’s you,” Annalisa said. I think this is because she has one in her chart and I grew up in a bedroom with her. 
things are moving slowwwly and my sleep is majorly messed up right now.
I’m right there with you on the sleep thing, Jilly; sleep deprivation makes a weird situation even more surrealistic….
What is happening in your life?
There was a storm and a tree tried to take out my house. The roof still works and the power is still on and the tree is on the ground, so except for a plumbing leak everything is fine. I’ll just have to wait awhile to shower.
max
['We got lucky.']
“seren-dip-shitty” … lol
Le Ciel you are too funny!
got a wrench thrown into the works today by a tough psycho bitch. I was/am angry at her demands. I have been trying to calm down and recognize that all of her demands are realistic, at least from a bean counters point of view he he, and that I am so used to being a maverick, due to necessity and usually getting away with it….that this might lead to me being better at producing my product…
gasp gasp
ooohh that was bad english
My normal optimism keeps getting tempered with reality. I can’t get through a fraction of what I would like to get done but there is no major crisis so I feel pretty lucky. I think I am making very very slow but somewhat steady progress. I’ll take it.
My cat is ill, ill, ill ill…poor guy. He hasn’t been eating. Vet appointment Saturday-wish the little Boss luck:(
Bedtime at 8:30 and up at 4 am . . . my body has its own weird sleep schedule goin’ on. Like Anesa, I have a grand cross and this current transit energy is interesting and familiar to me. My business is expanding so I’m hiring – a new role for me. Albeit only one position for a housekeeper (I run a boutique hotel) but when I put an ad out on Craigslist, I received 7 responses in one day. (My town has a population of 2500.) I’m grateful to be able to provide work for some who are willing and in need. People I haven’t seen in years are coming out of the woodwork. No past loves (except my first husband who is coming to the area to visit our son this weekend). Today I attended the funeral of a dear friend’s son who was only 53. Acute alcoholism. Last week after dialysis he drove his car up a tree. His son and daughter are devastated. I feel this may be just the beginning of a mass exodus in my world. On a high note, my mom just turned 91!
good news is that my friend with PPD is doing better. I snuck over to her house today when she wasn’t home and cleaned up. It made both of us feel good:)
sorry about your friend’s son, cherie
I just feel like I’m coming down from the shitstorm from my Saturn return (most of Saturn’s trip through Virgo), so not a whole of anything but maintaining in my life. I am slowly expanding in some areas, mostly socially and professionally. I am contracting with material goods (Saturn transit through my 2nd), and with the personal energy I expend on anything but myself.
I feel like I’m doing a bunch of gearing up. Which I may be for the next several years. I have most of my planets between Libra and Capricorn, so I’m going to have years of hard transits. I am grateful for the calm now.
sorry to hear about that, cherie
Chrispito: My cat is ill, ill, ill ill…poor guy. He hasn’t been eating. Vet appointment Saturday-wish the little Boss luck:(
Good luck to the little kitty CP.
Sorry about your friend Cherie.
max
['Well, now is when the cross decides to get interesting.']
I was cured of my clinical depression this summer. This grand cross was great for me. This would explain why I was always so down and out all the time as a child and felt sad for no reason. I’m sorry for others who had/have it so hard! 
Thank you chrispito and Elsa. It was an honor to be included in their intimate gathering today. This man’s daughter is pregnant and he will never see his first grandchild. His mom and I worked together years ago. She’s 20 years older than me and adopted me as her only daughter. She would bring me lunch nearly every day at work and blouses she wanted me to wear She moved back home to Kentucky and I went there to help her with funeral arrangements for her husband about 10 years ago. She lost another son early on. This woman is one tough Capricorn! I love her.
Curious Wanderer and Max, I was writing when you sent your regrets. Thank you everyone. It feels good to be with my cyber family tonight.
crispito, my kitty is very dear to me. I’m so sorry your kitty is sick. Zobo and I send healing vibes your way . . .
((cherie))
Biggest hugs to cherie and chrispito
I lost a dear shortlived adotped and loveable friend this past week.
((((Hugs to all)))
Maintaining for 2 years with virgo opp my sun and tons of cardinal on my early card t-square. still maintaining as t-sq continues. All 3 of my Yods have been, are or will be active. Sureil (sp?) yup. totally focas 1 min incomprehensible the next and can’t seem to spell for shit lmao…
I recently (new moon!) escaped a situation where I moved to a new town, living in a family friend’s house. He is an older man, an uncle figure, and proved to be extremely passive-aggressive, perverted, and selfish — anything but paternal and concerned toward me.
It was, and is, a horrible shock. I am mostly angry for what it’s done to my mother, having stress of her own and then having to worry that her friend of 50 years would pretend to help me start a new life in a new town when his real motivation was to try and get in my pants.
I still feel sick about knowing this man for all my life but never seeing who he was until he got me under his roof and started groping and flirting with me.
I have been protected & blessed, though, through all of this. Despite the terrifying reality of living in the same house with this man, everything ELSE seems to have fallen into place very very quickly—so quickly, and so positively, that my head is spinning. A new place, a good job with great bosses (not great pay but I like the work and it’s enough for now). My intuition is getting very very good and when I see an open door I jump through instead of hemming and hawing. It’s worked pretty well.
I have witnessed, and experienced extremes in human behaviour, both positive and negative.
I have learned how strong I really am.
I still feel the effects of the past month. I still get horrible, hours-long stomach aches and I often feel so profoundly sad, isolated, and numb I wonder how I get up in the morning; I can barely believe I am the same person I was two years ago.
I DO think the positive things that are happening now are the universe’s way of acknowledging that I’ve been worn down to the bone and have no more to give. I have surrendered totally, and that’s when the good stuff actually began. Oh, the irony!!
Also, today I started bankruptcy proceedings and although I won’t relax until I can see the money start to flow again, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is a relief.
I am SO exhausted, though!! I’m sure I will look back on this and be very proud of surviving it with my sanity, dignity, and integrity intact.
nothing major has really happened, wait, I lied… My skin has gone so crazy every since summer has started and I am very vain (begrudgingly hate to admit it) have to dermatologist again and the docs. Last time this happened was in my childhood and never seen again.
Plus my poor little puppy is sick (Libra doggy). My daughter (Capricorn) is having nightmares (about animals??) and I am getting no sleep too!
called in sick today at work as icould not sleep last night, until an hour before I was due to get up
cant stop crying
just visited the chinnese doctor about my chi levels
spent £600 last year, because I felt that bad
he says, my chi level, is ok, but has much dampness, hence the tears, which he says could have been created by weak heart and liver chi
i guess the on off binge drinking to sate the lonliness, boredom and on of emotional frustration
aint helping, although its only normally once fortnight/week at most
every woman I ask her out seems to either have a no interest, policy, suffer from BPD or I tend to sabotage it, for some reason, not always clear to me
lats night , i was out scorpioed by a scorpio female and it hurt, really hurt
all is temporal but as of the moment, nothing makes sense anymore
I am tired of feeling in many ways, like I am just enduring, and I don’t even know for what purpose any more
Hang in there Jamie..
I’m sorry it’s so hard for people right now:(
Sunnysadge, check out these threads:
http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/what-rules-skin-in-astrology
and maybe this one, too:
http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/women-cosmetics-do-you-put-your-face-on
I hate this month the most. I feel so out of whack and still so stuck
Plus I hate that summer is almost over
Nothing really happened.
Maybe after this summer?
Or is it wishfull thinking?
It’s been a tough go. The Grand Cross is hitting my 3rd House (Virgo/Libra) hard. Everything is about my immediate environment (3rd House): Post divorce by a matter of weeks (the grand finale to my Saturn Return =)) have to find a new place to live in a couple of months (Saturn, Venus, Mars right on the edge of my 4th), have no idea what is going on with my job (Virgo) but trying to maneuver things in a way that will benefit me once I leave (my Jupiter has always been a gambler). Basically telling my employer (Saturn) that this partnership (Libra) isn’t working and you can’t keep raising the standards and lowering the expectations.
The really interesting things is the pull I see in my chart between the Saturn, Venus and Mars in the early degrees of my 3rd House Libra bumping up against the cusp of my 4th House and IC AND Jupiter and Uranus in the early degrees of my 9th House Aries bumping up against the cusp of my 10th House and Midheaven. It’s like I’m so done with this chapter in my life, but I’m trying to save money before I move and don’t have a job, but is it worth it? Time and money is where I’m feeling the Saturn/Jupiter opposition the most. I’m waiting at the door so I can leave, but this show isn’t over yet, I’ve got more to learn and and the hardest part is that it is in the immediate, in the everyday, and I know I need to pay attention if I want the benefits when the planets finally break through the MC/IC barriers. Fortunately (yes, there is a fortunately) fate looks out for me and what I can’t seem to pick up on my own, fate delivers in the form of a beneficial lesson. Not always easy, but worth it.
I wasn’t really understanding all the tension, but once I saw Saturn, Venus, and Mars on the cusp of my IC and Jupiter/Uranus on the cusp of my MC, it got through to me. Poor Pluto is in my 6th trying to temper these energies, part shadow, part healer, you know how Pluto does.
PS: I think a good description of the Cardinal Grand Cross energy is being reflected in nature this summer. I live in the Pacific NW and it’s been a very cool, cloudy summer, it doesn’t feel real at all. My garden is stunted from the lack of heat and sunshine and when it comes it soaks it all up, see a little growth spurt, some things are ripe, some things need more time on the vine. The tomatoes are growing, just very, very slowly.
It’s a magnified, fri. the 13 the jaws of life, don’t pry me out yet I’ve got more suffering. My Mom who abused me was here for 9 weeks this summer. She took good care of my dad when he was dying, (after distroying his life) likewise my older sister. She just left and I bundled scrubbed, and hung in the sun every contact bleaching out the DNA as if I can get rid of it!
The atmosphere is most political the big ‘I’ aries..a jupiter/uranius conq is expanding unique political talents right down to the snob libra saturn conq mars. The I is awair of consiquences, lashes out too violently, and dose real physical damage. Don’t forget the newmoon in perigee was conq nadar. in the 4th!!!.
So expect the home to be a false safe clean place.
nausea left with mom. I couldn’t eat but had to feed her.
jamie stop drinking! and join a outing club. they are usually weighted towards female, men do maps and planning. And you’ll be so foking tierd you won’t be able to strut that ass. (your sorrow as metaphor) I had some wacky spiritual experences on mountian tops. The sun came down on the trail and lit it up when it was all fog and rain. I was the only one who saw it.
I have posted a link to my chart
http://forum.astro.com/cgi/forum.cgi?lang=e&num=1281740177/0#0
could someone tell, me how the grand cross, is impacting my chart or specific house in my chart, possibly ??
also the mars/venus conq opp jupiter just off the uranius saturn opp…it doesn’t surprise political types are getting caught left and right with their hands in the till. Venus/mars wants to use others money/energy uranus/saturn opp not to mention the whole mess gets them slapped.
jamie – better to post this question on the boards under astrology-based advice. You’ll get a better response
jamie, with virgo rising go over your diet, your body’s a pet, give it the best. The double wicked trans accidents 8th & 2nd will cost you material and physical. You need a group of friends to make money with….put aside searching for the 1. iget the sadness be intellectual
thanks for your input goss
diet is pretty healthy to be honest, certainly can’t afford any thing extravagant fiid wise, try and survive on £15 a week or so for food
trans accidents of the 8th and 2nd0 do you mean august ?
trans accidents ?
the sadness is starred ??
I am doing my best with that bit, by the way
freinds to make money with
mmm
Hi! Very exhausted and a feeling of being super-serious/sober about everything. It’s as if I m not allowed to any illusions whatsoever!!!
I hope this summer proves to be a great one—(maybe in the long run?)
(May I ask? I noticed that the grand cross does not fall exactly on any planets/cusps of my chart. But my progressed sun is currently in the 1st degree of Cancer. Does that qualify for my feeling the effect?)
Can Pen: (May I ask? I noticed that the grand cross does not fall exactly on any planets/cusps of my chart. But my progressed sun is currently in the 1st degree of Cancer. Does that qualify for my feeling the effect?)
Ayup. You’ve gotten hit by the squares all month.
Jamie: could someone tell, me how the grand cross, is impacting my chart or specific house in my chart, possibly ??
You really should go ask on the boards, where more people will opine on the subject, but I will say that the Cardinal Cross is hitting your 1st and 7th houses and your 10th and 4th houses. In particular it’s hitting your nodal axis, so you purpose in life seems to be under seige and both relations with you family and at home and relations between yourself and your SO (if you have one) are being upset all over the place. I think some would say this is necessary to help you find a better place to be in life.
max
['As Elsa said, ask on the boards.']
my plans are moving forward.
far better than i would have expected to turn out.
but it’s slow, and demands a great deal of my stubborn to continue…
and i have a ton of work to do with seventh house stuff in cardinal veins…
control, control, control… : P
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