I can’t help but express how much of a Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz, I’ve come to be! With Mars conjunct Saturn in Virgo in 7th and Jupiter conjunct Pluto in Libra in 8th house.
‘Cruelty’ in relationships becomes an understatement.

Not running smack into reality (thanks to the good advice you gave me in a consultation that I had the sense to listen to!). However, I am truly seeing certain situations and individuals with new eyes. When you talk about the veil dropping, boy howdy, is that appropriate. I look at these situations and, for the life of me, I can’t fathom what I was thinking or see what I was seeing. This awareness has all taken place in recent weeks; it’s like I have woken up, just like Dorothy, and just in time. Sheesh. No idea about the societal implications of the reality check, but I am experiencing it first-hand in a very personal way!

I used to have a very rosy outlook towards life and then came Pluto in Sag opposing my Sun in Gemini and I could no longer be innocent.

What? If I fall off a 300 foot building I might die? I always thougth I could fly. Lol. What? I can’t beat my teacher over the head and force her to give me at least a C on my test? You see? Reality. Sigh:. Saturn.

I learned to fear with Pluto opposing Sun, but I also learned that I had capabilities I didn’t know I had!

Pluto still conjuncts my Neptune(1st) and I cannot hide in my unconscious any longer.. I have separated the wheat from the chaff and now its time for me to make some bread!!

The reality for me is in order to work in Mental Health, I need my Masters… I started a Masters program but never finished. So whether I like it or not, if I really want to make good bread, I gotta go back & finish what I started..

There is nothing to disagree with, flip. This has happened. *I* didn’t do it. I am just reporting it.

Saturn squares pluto in my chart and pluto is still conjunct my sun/merc. Reality check is the story of my life.
The no translator in court thing is a can of worms that will blow up in some one face in the long run.
They can give rich people a tax cut but they cant ensure a poor person is not rail roaded in court. Just goes to show who the rich people that make the laws look out for. Our system of government is run by the rich for the rich. People who believe otherwise are misguided.

((denamaria))

Welcome, cancergirl.

Flip, I agree, and see this in many other areas, like health care, pensions, and social supports. Vast sums are being wasted or stolen from the people and as the birds come home to roost, the people are going to wise up and rise up.
On the plus side, another astrologer recently said, it’s the end of ‘reality’ tv!

It just is what it is….people are cutting corners everywhere and our state budget is in deep crisis. The other side of this is that many hispanics are learning English very quickly (good thing) and so they are also declining the use of an interpreter even when one is available and in court.

Many attorneys who speak basic Spanish are also interpreting for their clients and sadly many district court judges don’t really know or understand how our role plays in the court system. I have also worked many mediations that go back to May and still have not been paid by the State….not good.

so, I will be venturing out into something else this New Year and I am excited because when one door closes, another opens!

I’m sorry, denamaria. It sucks to have to head in a different direction after doing something for years.

We are seeing Pluto in Capricorn stuff happening up here, too. I work for a call center based out of Colorado, which has recently closed many of its American sites and opened new ones in the Philippines, Guatemala and Costa Rica. The site I work in is the last one open in Canada and will likely close in the next year, according to the site director. She is trying to find new clients, but it doesn’t look good. I’m making plans to go back to school and get my BSW/MSW (it was never a career goal of mine to work in a call center) but there are a lot of people working there who don’t have a lot of options.

(((denamaria)))

YES I am–my computer died and I have told myself, no I am NOT reaching for the credit card. I’m going to live without my own computer, like billions of other people on the planet do, until I feel I can afford another.

I was also planning on quitting university to go back to work fulltime but realized the free therapy and dental insurance I get as perks for being a student will keep me there, at least until April….when the Aries planets happen, then BAM! I’ll need my mind and my teeth for that;)