On the post, Scope etc. I explained how I have spent most my life coming up / thriving in an environment where decay, deprivation and hardship dominate the scene and the experience. This an Pluto archetype or for the non-astrological, you can see this in nature when a flower springs up from a heap of manure.

I think building and maintaining yourself amid loss and death and decay is going to be a major theme with Pluto in Capricorn and people will gravitate towards people like me who know how to do it. Come up smelling like a rose, that is because if you can’t do it the only other option is to be buried in some really nasty stuff.
Continue reading General Remarks And Observations Regarding Pluto In Capricorn The Cardinal Cross 2010

The first thing to note about the Cardinal grand cross is it is not a Cardinal grand cross. Mars in Cancer, squares Mercury in Libra, squares Pluto in Capricorn but it is Uranus in Pisces (a Mutable sign) that completes the configuration.

What has happened is we’ve morphed from an “almost” Mutable grand cross to an “almost” Cardinal grand cross and personally, I have felt very fortified since these planets shifted. I’ve reported this on the boards, on facebook and in conversations with friends and a good number of them feel similar so I was thinking about this today.

Continue reading The Current (Almost) Cardinal Grand Cross… And The Rogue Wave

I live with a Grand Cross and have all my life. It is in my natal chart and it’s mutable.
Life is simple, really, WATCH MY KARMA.
If I go ANYway, one or the other, or the other, or the other too far off, I’m going to get my butt kicked, it’s that simple. Live life right, reflect, never forget to check yourself and do things right for you, for others, and lastly, for humanity.
I know, this sounds pretty corny and simpleminded.

Continue reading Living with a Grand Cross, the truth, by Annalisa

This is complex situation as introduced here, Heads Up! I feel it warrants another post.

We have to take this serious because Saturn is involved. Saturn means there will be consequences for any transgression. In contrast those who “do the right thing” even when it’s difficult find themselves supported.

Mars is involved so people are angry. If you anger is misplaced you can expect it to be thrown right back at you one way or the other, courtesy Saturn.
Continue reading Transit Watch: Dealing Well With The Mutable / Cardinal Grand Cross – August 18th – 29th

I had a terrific time getting out of the relationship with the composite grand cross which was unusual because I am as slippery as they come. I am like Houdini with a jet ski waiting when it comes to leaving a relationship but I could not find a way out of that one to save my life, up until the time I did. I don’t know what to say besides I’ve been happy since and I think I’ve learned my lesson.
Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Astrology of Relationships: Synastry vs Composite Charts, Mars Square Mars, Grand Crosses and Other Frights: Part Two

The Moon in Gemini is now officially squaring Saturn and Uranus forming a T-square. Later it will move into opposition with Pluto and that’ll be that, we’ll have our Mutable Grand Cross.

My sister (also an astrologer) has a mutable grand cross in her chart and having grown up in a bedroom with her I know quite a bit about them.

I actually think you can fair pretty well over the next day or so as the Moon opposes Pluto in Sagittarius for the last time in a 240 year cycle provided you keep talking. Communication… moving around is key.

You don’t want to hole up on this. Get on the phone, get in the car, send someone an email… just don’t let the stuff back up on you and things should go fine.

Dear Elsa,

Investigator

Investigator, I don’t have a grand cross in my chart so fall outside your control group. Hopefully some people will show up… thanks!

Yesterday was tough. The day started at 4 AM and ended for me about 2AM this morning. The soldier didn’t fare much better, his day ended about midnight. He pretty much starved all day due the surgery on his mouth, had to do without pain medication because he was driving (“A little pain never hurt anyone.”) and when he finally got stopped he realized he had a black eye. Turns out he had a bungee cord snap back and hit him in the face. I guess we should count him lucky he’s still got an eye but at the end of the day with his cheek swollen and his shiner, he literally looked beaten.

Continue reading Yesterday’s Cardinal Grand Cross – Who Got Beaten Up?

I was talking to my pal and astrologer, Claire France Perez about suffering. She thinks love means suffering and pointed out that I do quite a bit of it.

“I suffer?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, yeah I do,” I said.

And my sister (who has a Grand Cross in her chart) had a theory that the suffering of some allow others to avoid suffering. She was specifically talking about people with difficult charts like hers in comparison to people with charts full of trines.

I just stared at the time, but have come to agree with her. What about you?

Does one person’s suffering ease another’s?