Chiron in Pisces Impressionism

Recently there was a shift in the sky which I think has an effect on the way we dream. Often times when we dream, like at night time, it can be hard to remember a part of the dream or make sense of it all. But the same can go for our dreams and ideals in our lives. We may want something but if we look closer, we may notice there can be a vagueness in exactly what we want.

Pisces can be the dreamiest of signs, we may simply want to live in a castle without considering the details of how to get there. When Chiron enters Pisces, as it did last week, we now have the possibility to look at the details in the dream. We can zoom in and look at the the pixels which create a larger impression. With Pisces there is no linear logic. Pisces works more like magic.

Chiron creates an indeniable awareness of detail in the dream. We can zoom in and zoom out and see the dream clearer and clearer with our awareness ever heightening to a kind of sensibility we may used to have described as silence or nothing. This could be why during the years when Chiron is in Pisces (the last time was 1961 - 1969) we tend to fight for our dreams more intensely - because we can see them and because we can.

Bikini Season Here I Come

Ladies and Gentlemen, If there has ever been a good New Moon for getting our bodies ready for bikinis (or one piece bathing suits or hot pants or baby doll bathing suits with aprons), it is this New Moon this Wednesday, so start your engines! One hour per day walk, run, bike, whatever, but just do it. The New Moon will be exact at 9:29 pm in Sydney; 1:29 pm in Hamburg; 7:29 am in New York and 4:29 am in California. So we need to be starting our exciting new discipline on or just before the exact New Moon. Today is Monday, so this gives us a day to get the equipment we need, like shoes, and to psyche ourselves up.

P.S. This New Moon aligns with my 3rd house of communication, so THATS why I am writing about it - to strengthen my intention.

If you would like to find out where this New Moon aligns in your chart to support your bikini body, write to me either in an email or on facebook to set up a time.

Rainbow Bridge To Higher Ground

Recently, I was talking to my friend Yuko, who brought up the 150° degree angle currently between Saturn at 29° Virgo and Chiron at 29° Aquarius. I had not been thinking about this quincunx at all, but I started to so I ran Saturn + Chiron + quincunx through my astrology program and noticed that we are currently in the 4th of a series of 5 quincunxes happening since Obama has been elected. This means that the quincunx has been running parallel to the Saturn-Uranus opposition. A quincunx is a connection that tends toward continual adjustment rather than a solid hunkering in, like a soup which is never finished where one minute we think the soup needs more salt and the next minute it needs more pepper, but then it needs more stock, and this keeps going.

The next quincunx between Saturn and Chiron will be exact on this coming Monday, April 12, less than two weeks before the next exact Saturn Uranus opposition on April 26. The Saturn Uranus opposition is the strong split opinions which have been dividing nations, parites, communities, friends and families since 2008. The upcoming conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus at the Aries point indicates quick, broad world incidents effecting us personally. The quincunx added into the mix may be asking for some fluidity in our opinions rather than getting so fixed on an issue.

As I started to think about this combination, Earth (Saturn in Virgo) and Air (Chiron in Aquarius) combined, I thought of the Virgo planet Mercury in exaltation in Aquarius, and how that (a detailed analysis for our future's solutions) may be a door to open to get out of the polarity. Yuko pointed out that Chiron, as ruler of Virgo, and Saturn, as ancient ruler of Aquarius, are in mutual reception until April 20 when Chiron will enter Pisces.

I also spoke with Paloma, who reminded me of Barbara Hand Clowe's Rainbow Bridge. Chiron, located between Saturn and Uranus, acts as a bridge between the inner planets and the outer planets, between the old and the new, the personal and the collective, the past and the future.

What this seems to emphasize is the importance of Chiron at the last degree of Aquarius pointing us to our personal and political futures. Many countries seem to be on the brink of extreme thought and change from Kyrgyzstan to Thailand to today's tragic accident bringing down an airplane with Poland's highest officials sadly now gone.

Saturn on one end of this quincunx at 29 Virgo is crying out for us to look into the details and heal on a soul level. The specifics in our health, our paperwork, and day to day life, often so tedious, may help ground us as we are crossing the rainbow bridge to a personal and collective higher ground. As this quincunx asks for adjustments in the way we think about our day to day practical affairs, it may be the nicest to structure the pondering during morning walks with the dog, or daily meditation. We may find fluidness helps while tasting the soup on our wild adventures on the bridge. ◊

Seeing and Being Seen; Transformed In Detail

A few months ago, I was at the Wax Museum in Berlin...

...and saw these eyes in a tray which felt creepy as they were displayed in styrofoam compartments and seemed like they had a soul. This reminded me of Scorpio, in that Scorpio people can sometimes make themselves invisible or detached, yet maintain intense eye contact - creating a very deep observation system.

I thought of this today as Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, has just turned retrograde. This deep, invisible way of observing is now active within our consciousness - not just for Scorpios, but for all of us, — in our psychology, our souls, our minds and obsessions...

...also as today, Saturn re-enters Virgo, letting us not just spy on ourselves inwardly, but to see details in sharp focus

and take action even if we don't want to.

This is a chance to get over ourselves

(with great effort, of course).

Luckily, to add some momentum, a New Moon is coming up next week on Wednesday, April 14. This will be a New Moon in Aries, which may point to the beginning of the beginning of something we may have been trying to birth for a while.

As the days before the New Moon are building, the Dark of the Moon can be a time when the pending beginnings, wishes and longings may feel bleak or out of our reach every time - sort of like what PMS can do.

This New Moon is happening just before a Mercury retrograde, so one tact may be to sort through something old, to birth what we have been wanting to birth and have been working with our intentions for a while...

...like the big pile of old toys, school papers, clothes, magazines, books and stuff to sort and give away. Because by doing this we can, for example, transform a huge part of our living space from a big messy corner or even whole room to a peaceful library. This can change not just our physical space...

...but also our outlook on life!

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If you want to schedule a reading to find out how to use this astrology to transform an aspect of your life, contact me either through facebook or email, deirdre@cosmicguidelines.com so we can set up an appointment for your Spring Cleaning reading.

This blog is dedicated to Meg Alexander.

Healthcare, The Aries Point, Go!

The Go square, in the game Monopoly, is the point where the game starts. This corresponds to the first degree of Aries in astrology. As we travel around the Monopoly board, the Go square remains and feels like a second of respite, just past the drama of Boardwalk. Not that I find very much correlation between Monopoly and Astrology, but I was thinking today that The Aries Point has kind of the feeling, but not the exact function, of combining Go with Community Chest, Chance, Free Parking, The Electric Utility and Boardwalk all while if it were possible to put hotels on this conglomerate - hotels where we could sign up for our new Health Insurance.

The Sun has just passed by the first degree of Aries, so we are starting a new round. The Aries point is being activated more than usual by Pluto and Saturn from Capricorn and Libra respectively. The chart to the right shows Sun's ingress into Aries from the perspective Eastern Daylight Time. The four cardinal signs lign up on the angles, with Aries being at the Midheaven, Cancer rising. Today may be the day President Barack Obama and his team will get the historic health care bill passed.
In this chart, the ruler is the Moon solidly placed in the sign of its exaltation, Taurus, in the 11th house of groups, the future and dreams. This Moon makes a positive aspect to Uranus in the 9th house showing favor and eventual comfort with new solutions. Sun will oppose Saturn tomorrow evening. Saturn is at the bottom of the chart retrograde, while the Sun is high in the chart exalted in Aries and only gathering more strength as it trines Mars. This looks to me like an old tradition giving way to the new.
Whether or not you are a fan of getting the new Health Bill passed, my point is, this spring a LOT is possible, we can make a lot of headway in our lives. The astrology is unbearably exciting as Jupiter and Uranus are heading for Go at the Aries Point. This will be exact on June 8 2010, with all the optimism and confidence of Jupiter and at the same time the genius of Uranus meeting up both exactly on the astrological sweet spot, spelling another giant leap for peoplekind.