Monday, May 23, 2011

Astrological Winds for Week of 5/23/11

A quiet week of astrological weather.

On Monday, Venus catches up to Mars in Taurus, the sign she rules, but a sign Mars is weakened in. Thus, Venus/Taurus energy should be able to get the Warrior to slow down and smell the (fresh blooming) roses. Relationships will stabilize and romance/sexuality is in the air. This can also manifest as highly creative/artistic energy. Even if this does not mean romance in your life, social times should be stimulated/fun-filled now.

The Sun sextiles Uranus on Tuesday: opportunities to put your unique, fresh, cutting-edge ideas into creative action/drive are highly favored under this transit. You will have to stimulate the action, so don't sit around waiting for it to happen - make it happen, or chances could pass you by. Some interesting/offbeat events/encounters could occur to stimulate your mind and day. The mind is sharp and clear and intuitive. A good day to do something different from the norm.

Mercury/Venus/Mars all quincunx Saturn this week, showing that our desires may be out of step with the duties and responsibilities we have - they will feel like they are dragging you down/keeping you from what you really want to do. It's a good time to re-assess duties and try to align your life with them and strike a better balance. This could require some serious shifts/releases/changes.

The Sun squares Chiron on Thursday challenging us to establish a new balance of our image to the world: to learn from the battles and wounds we've been in/gotten lately, and to turn them into something postive/healing/growth-oriented first for ourselves, and then as an example to others. On a mundane level, it will continue to show how a patriarchal/male perspective in the world is causing much anguish and pain to others and driving much of the crisis' in the world today.

Mercury's semi-square to Uranus on Friday can be very irritating to the mind. It's too much going on at one time in order to process everything around us, which can whip us up into a frenzy of nervous energy, and cause lots of little mistakes that can build up into an irritating pitch that has us shoot off words out of our mouths without much thought behind them and build up tension with others from our crassness/tactlessness.

Saturday the Sun is quincunx Pluto: this is a time to seriously assess all we've been through lately and to let go of much of what is causing us pain. Clear the clutter out of your life both literally and figuratively now. It's as if your higher self knows what the answer is but the obsessed ego is struggling against letting go even though it's likely the best thing for you and others. This can create quite a deep inner conversation with yourself. The danger is projecting this shadow out onto others or the world and having some negative reactions to it that can get quite intense. Stay away from dangerous places and people if you are struggling internally, as you will attract them to you if you are not fully aware.

Sunday Mercury sesiquadrates Pluto and whatever came up on Saturday from Sun/Pluto can become an immense mental blockage as you can obsess over something you have no power to change now. Not a good day for those with OCD. Best to use this energy to do your own deep psycological analysis on yourself, or you may find yourself in endless power struggles/arguments/mental warfare with others.

And I said it was a quiet week mainly? :)  Use this week to truly assess what needs to be cleared out of your life so that new opportunities have the room to get into it.

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