Astro-Yike!
Sep. 15th, 2009 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI don't usually look deeply into astrology, but when I clicked over to Astrobarry.com just now, instead of going directly to my Sagittarius horoscope, I clicked on his entry about the current -- and ongoing -- Saturn-Uranus opposition: http://www.astrobarry.com/2009/sep1309.php
This is fascinating reading, even for a non-astrologically inclined person like me. Essentially, this situation puts the forces of innovation and conservatism in direct conflict, with both sides having validity. On the large scale, we can see it in the debate over the US healthcare system. But it's also very, very pertinent to my personal life, especially around the area of my career.
This is why so many of us currently feel caught amidst perpetual questioning of whether we ought to strive to persist, restraining our immediate discontent in order for our struggling and saving and sticking with it to eventually yield stable long-term results (Saturn)… or whether continuing along the same path will prove to be a deflating dead-end, whether, instead, more drastic and dramatic breaks from the existing norms are needed to breathe life back in before irreversible decay sets in (Uranus).
Any of this ring a bell? The opposition's dual-pressures have been hitting those with personal planets in the last third of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) with the harshest challenges. As far as Sun-signs go, this would most strongly affect those with birthdays around Jun 11-19, Sep 13-21, Dec 12-20, and Mar 11-19.
And the Sagittarius horoscope is scarily on track with this evening's earlier meditations:
The current Mercury retrograde, Saturn and the week's new moon are conspiring to urge you to reorient yourself to what's apt to be the best fit for you professionally (or in terms of your outward community participations)… and, in the process, to come to full grips with the significance of any external indications you've recently received about where you currently stand. As long as Saturn's been in your solar 10th (which has been just about two years now), Sagittarius, you've been faced with a stabilizing (or potentially sobering) 'progress report' on whether your career/community efforts have been effective, if you need to work harder or smarter, and/or are in the most appropriate, productive and realistic place for yourself. These upcoming few weeks frame an exceptionally useful period for analyzing this progress report… both to give yourself credit where credit is due and to concede areas where your best intentions haven't proven enough to yield the results you'd hoped for. Even in those most disappointing cases, there is no excuse to feel badly about yourself. So-called 'failures' teach us so much about ourselves—and, once we forgive our imperfections and commit to moving toward different ambitions with new lessons to offer, they usually end up becoming wonderful perspective-shifting gifts. Whether you ultimately emerge recommitted to perseverance on a presently productive track or reenergized to try a distinctly different path or tactic, the important point is to look ahead. But that's really hard to do well if you haven't come to full grips with either the past or the present.
The current Mercury retrograde, Saturn and the week's new moon are conspiring to urge you to reinvest in the thoughtful industriousness that your work lately warrants, if indeed you've let your attention swerve elsewhere in the last two or three weeks. It's not like I can't see the persuasive power of Uranus in your solar 12th tugging you far afloat from where your task list lies. It's almost as if, Aries, your psyche is in constant dialogue with itself, one side attempting to convince the other that, in light of all the work you've already put in, you owe yourself a distinct break from all pertinent earthly worries. Will I therefore help the more responsible side reclaim its authority by reporting this isn't the moment to prematurely claim a reward (of freedom! of release! of another fresh start!) that you have yet to thoroughly procure? Don't jump the gun, my restless fire-breather. If there could be any surer astro-sign than Jupiter and Uranus's conjunction in your sign next year that you will get the game-changing excitement that'll swoop in and carry you off to the next big adventure, I can't think of one. But that time hasn't arrived yet. For now, the planets and I are asking nicely that you redo what wasn't adequately attended to the first time, fix anything that's broken, and unambiguously finish what you started.
This is fascinating reading, even for a non-astrologically inclined person like me. Essentially, this situation puts the forces of innovation and conservatism in direct conflict, with both sides having validity. On the large scale, we can see it in the debate over the US healthcare system. But it's also very, very pertinent to my personal life, especially around the area of my career.
This is why so many of us currently feel caught amidst perpetual questioning of whether we ought to strive to persist, restraining our immediate discontent in order for our struggling and saving and sticking with it to eventually yield stable long-term results (Saturn)… or whether continuing along the same path will prove to be a deflating dead-end, whether, instead, more drastic and dramatic breaks from the existing norms are needed to breathe life back in before irreversible decay sets in (Uranus).
Any of this ring a bell? The opposition's dual-pressures have been hitting those with personal planets in the last third of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) with the harshest challenges. As far as Sun-signs go, this would most strongly affect those with birthdays around Jun 11-19, Sep 13-21, Dec 12-20, and Mar 11-19.
And the Sagittarius horoscope is scarily on track with this evening's earlier meditations:
The current Mercury retrograde, Saturn and the week's new moon are conspiring to urge you to reorient yourself to what's apt to be the best fit for you professionally (or in terms of your outward community participations)… and, in the process, to come to full grips with the significance of any external indications you've recently received about where you currently stand. As long as Saturn's been in your solar 10th (which has been just about two years now), Sagittarius, you've been faced with a stabilizing (or potentially sobering) 'progress report' on whether your career/community efforts have been effective, if you need to work harder or smarter, and/or are in the most appropriate, productive and realistic place for yourself. These upcoming few weeks frame an exceptionally useful period for analyzing this progress report… both to give yourself credit where credit is due and to concede areas where your best intentions haven't proven enough to yield the results you'd hoped for. Even in those most disappointing cases, there is no excuse to feel badly about yourself. So-called 'failures' teach us so much about ourselves—and, once we forgive our imperfections and commit to moving toward different ambitions with new lessons to offer, they usually end up becoming wonderful perspective-shifting gifts. Whether you ultimately emerge recommitted to perseverance on a presently productive track or reenergized to try a distinctly different path or tactic, the important point is to look ahead. But that's really hard to do well if you haven't come to full grips with either the past or the present.
The current Mercury retrograde, Saturn and the week's new moon are conspiring to urge you to reinvest in the thoughtful industriousness that your work lately warrants, if indeed you've let your attention swerve elsewhere in the last two or three weeks. It's not like I can't see the persuasive power of Uranus in your solar 12th tugging you far afloat from where your task list lies. It's almost as if, Aries, your psyche is in constant dialogue with itself, one side attempting to convince the other that, in light of all the work you've already put in, you owe yourself a distinct break from all pertinent earthly worries. Will I therefore help the more responsible side reclaim its authority by reporting this isn't the moment to prematurely claim a reward (of freedom! of release! of another fresh start!) that you have yet to thoroughly procure? Don't jump the gun, my restless fire-breather. If there could be any surer astro-sign than Jupiter and Uranus's conjunction in your sign next year that you will get the game-changing excitement that'll swoop in and carry you off to the next big adventure, I can't think of one. But that time hasn't arrived yet. For now, the planets and I are asking nicely that you redo what wasn't adequately attended to the first time, fix anything that's broken, and unambiguously finish what you started.
