Your Milky Way Horoscope June 29-July 5, 2014

By Milky Way Maid

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The Sun at 7 degrees Cancer trines Neptune in Pisces at 3:23 am Sunday. This is followed by: Venus at 7 degrees Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces at 3:31 pm Sunday. Both transits hitting the same day are probably going to cause lots of confusion and lost objects on the mundane level. I know I had a bit of a tizzy earlier today with trying to locate some items I had misplaced, etc tho I eventually found most of them. Neptune, whether in supposedly good or bad aspects, is just as likely to cause losses or the fear of losses in your personal life.
Mercury is Stationary Direct at 24 degrees Gemini at 8:50 am Tuesday, July 1. Yay! Some of you out there hardly breathe until Mercury goes direct again, so now you can finally exhale. Let’s hope you learned some previously unrevealed details about whatever issues concern you. I know that I have gone through a period of temporary fixes and the long-term solution will go into effect on the day that Mercury just happens to go direct. So I couldn’t hold my breath and refuse to make any decisions. What happened was that I put in the temporary fix, but went for help in finding something else that might save me money and still protect my interests.
The Sun at 12 degrees Cancer opposes Pluto in Capricorn at 4 am Friday. This is the kind of transit that calls on us to dig deep for inner resources and fortitude to overcome obstacles. And yet, if you are trying to “fight City Hall” you may have to throw in the towel and accept defeat. If this contacts personal planets especially the Sun or Mars, you might truly have to fight for your life. On the positive side, you have the chance to clear the air, get to the bottom of whatever is a stumbling block in a relationship, and start afresh. Since Pluto is also symbolic of transformation, this is also an opportunity to remake yourself, make vital changes in your life now that you see what must be done.

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LATE DEGREES – see my popular article on late degrees of all the signs. Link: http://milky-way-astrology.blogspot.com/2008/08/planets-in-late-degrees-what-do-they.html

POPE FRANCIS – I finally posted a little article on the new Pope Francis and also a kind of book review on a book that accidentally talks about ancient astronomy. The article on Pope Francis is here: https://milkywayastrology.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/a-look-at-the-new-pope-franciss-astro-charts/ And the article on the best book that both is and is not about ancient astronomy is here: https://milkywayastrology.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/the-best-book-about-ancient-astronomy-that-isnt-about-astrology-per-se/

COOL WEBSITES – In no particular order of importance: Check out Astrology.com — free lessons online. Watch astronomic animations at http://shadowandsubstance.com/. Go to http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ for a view of our solar system and nearby stars. This guy called the correct winner of the 2012 election, and he puts out a monthly column: http://www.howardbeckmanvedicastrologer.com/wordpress/
This guy writes a cool weekly astrology newsletter and sells astro books: Dave at http://www.astroamerica.com.

Your Milky Way Horoscope Feb. 23 – March 1, 2014

By Milky Way Maid

The Sun and Neptune are conjunct at 5 degrees Pisces at 1:11 pm Sunday. As I was saying in last week’s column, perhaps you ought to let someone else drive; it is way too easy for you to get confused and lost today. To put it another way, you probably couldn’t find your way out of a paper bag. It is a good day for shooting yourself in the foot, literally or metaphorically, so leave new matters for another time. In some ways it can be an expression of the anxious or confused energies around you, which you have absorbed like a psychic sponge. It may be good to reinforce a kind of protective blue aura around yourself.
Venus at 23 degrees Capricorn sextiles Saturn in Scorpio at 11:50 pm Monday. One interpretation is “kind advice” – which to me is the best type of advice to give. If one of the planets is in a money house, it may bring an opportunity to earn what you need. If one of the planets is in a career house, it can help you schmooze with the movers and shakers in your corner of the world.
Jupiter at 10 Cancer squares Uranus in Aries at 2:33 am Wednesday. This aspect is basically generational but can be quite disruptive in one’s personal chart. You may feel like you are on a roller-coaster ride. You may feel like you were “born to be wild” while at the same time reporting as usual to a button-down job. You may burn a bridge or two, hopeful that you can now journey to a land where the grass is really greener.
Mercury makes its Direct Station at 18 degrees 10′ Aquarius at exactly 9 am Friday. Yeah, I can see you breaking out the confetti and balloons. I hope you have taken the opportunity to clear the air (since it occurs in air sign Aquarius) and put communications on a solid footing, with all parties on the same page. If you have Mercury retrograde in your natal chart, you may have enjoyed a vacation from miscommunications or internal chatter.
The Sun at 10 degrees Pisces trines Jupiter in Cancer at 11:05 pm Friday. Luck can land in your lap under this transit, or maybe you are king/queen for a day. Try not to be too haughty! Travel is generally favored since you are optimistic and open-minded, ready to make friends wherever you go. It is a good day for visualizing a better life in every way. I must add, however, that sometimes a Jupiter transit contacting your personal planets is more protective than lucky, although given the current economic realities, protection of your main source of income is very lucky indeed.
Mars makes a Retrograde Station at 23 degrees 32′ Libra at 11:24 am Saturday. Just as Mercury gives us a chance to correct erroneous thinking, Mars retrograde gives us a chance to change bad health habits, possibly because you are forced to by some health wake-up call. If this is close to natal planets, your energy may be low, so make sure to get enough rest. You may have difficulty with sports, competition in general, or with expressing anger or standing up for yourself. On the plus side, it is easier to count ten before responding with inappropriate anger. On the minus side, you may let resentments fester until you explode later; to fester is BAD, do not fester. Depleted physical energy can make it harder to heal, slower to recover from ordinary infections, fevers, injuries. You may find it helpful during this time (and for the long term) to take up some yoga exercises, if only some breathing exercises, to help your body recharge its battery.

Your Milky Way Horoscope Nov. 10-16, 2013

By Milky Way Maid

Mercury goes direct at 4:12 pm Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2 degrees 32′ of Scorpio. By this time you may have stumbled upon some information that you were not supposed to find out, or anyway, info that explains a small mystery in your life. A past event may prove to be the deeply rooted trauma that prevents you from moving forward in some way, and now that you have brought it to the light, it no longer has power over you.
A forward-moving Mercury trines confusing Neptune at 2 degrees Pisces at 3:48 pm Monday. Mercury and Neptune do not get along too well, even with a trine aspect. It becomes TOO EASY to get confused, to get scammed, to lose you way or lose your wallet, to be worried out of your mind. Try selecting an affirmation to conquer a fear (Neptune), or sessions of altered consciousness like hypnosis or meditation to resolve or dissolve old programming.
The Sun at 20 degrees Scorpio trines retrograde Jupiter in Cancer at 11:39 am Tuesday. A lot of benefits are ascribed to a Sun-Jupiter trine, but more often it merely lends a screen of protection around one’s person. You may lose one job, but financial supports or other income kick in and you manage to pay your bills. Or, you lose an apartment but find shelter with relatives or other friends. Since Jupiter just went retrograde last week, it is yet virtually at a standstill and exerting especially strong power in this transit. You could be thrust into the limelight under this transit, if it falls on an angle in your natal chart.
Neptune makes its Direct Station on 2 degrees, 35′ Pisces at 1:43 pm Wednesday. I wish to quote extensively from Dane Rudhyar’s brilliant chapter on Neptune (in An Astrological Triptych) to explain the influences of this planet and effects of the stations—

“The Neptunian era that followed during the nineteenth century actually built the substance of our modern society – its machines, it industries, its commerce and travel – but it built upon the intellectual foundations of scientific materialism. It built upon spiritual scarcity and upon the power vested in the remnants of ancient feudalism to corner the more abundant life under the cloak of rugged individualism. Neptune is the wholesale builder of collective substance. Its power of proliferation is immense, but it builds only according to man’s attitude toward Uranian creativeness. If this attitude is one of resistance to the unfamiliar New, of fear before the revealed Glory, of weary withdrawal into the Saturnian shells of social security and privilege, then Neptune’s power of growth leads to the senseless mushrooming forth of hectic cities, tabloid newspapers, glamor-crazy motion pictures, murder-storied radios, (hallucinogenic) drugs – and to generalized cancerous conditions due to unorganic living and unnatural habits of physical or psychological feeding.

“Neptune, nevertheless, in its true positive being, is the substantiality of the spirit. Neptune is the substance of creative space, the astral light, the Ocean of spiritual Sound, the encompassing gift-waves of divine grace the all-inclusive charity of the compassionate ones. Is it the divine Substance which feeds what the Uranian spirit has aroused into creative being. . .

“In the physical body, this power is the source whence are derived the antibodies, white corpuscles, and special hormones or enzymes which are sent through the blood to heal and purify whatever part of the organism has been injured or exhausted. At the level of the great spiritual organism that may be called Man, this Neptunian power is Grace (Charis) – Grace which comes to every soul that has recognized and accepted its participation in the ‘works if the spirit’, and its companionship in the mystic Christ with all that is of the spirit.

“To the individual limited and bound within the structures of his ego, the universe as a whole answers as Karma, the Mosaic Law of exact compensation. But to him whose soul has become a hallowed shrine for the Living God, whose circumference of self includes potentially the whole universe, whose mind establishes its formulations in terms of the reconciliation of all opposites, leaving nothing outside of its all-inclusive multi-dimensional logic – to him God answers as grace. Though his path be strewn with collective obstacles and harsh memories of his individual past, he is nevertheless secure – with the only security that is of value, the security that comes from being the Whole in active expression at one point, and this point, one’s immortal self.

“This faith in Grace is the Neptunian consequence of a courageously met and assimilated confrontation with Uranus and its creative transfigurations. The two factors cannot be separated, and both are expressions of an utterly changed conscious relationship to spirit and to God, its cosmic Source. Spirit is the ‘universal creative’ not in the sense of it being the builder of worlds and physical organisms, but because it is that constant harmonic Motion which emanates and releases incessantly whatever is necessary to compensate for and to harmonize any disturbance in the equilibrium of the universal Whole. Spirit creates solutions to every need – including that vast solution to the need of chaos which we understand as universe or solar system. Every human birth, considered as the release of an immortal self can be harmonized and balanced by the potentiality of a victorious future, is a solution presented by the spirit. Every birth-chart is a plan for regeneration an individual creation of the spirit, a logos sent by the Father to save a portion of humanity. . .

“Grace comes to pervade the soul that has left behind the sense of individual lack inherent in the nature of the ego. As an ego, man knows himself apart from the spiritual Whole; as a soul, he experiences himself a part of this spiritual Whole. In and through this experience he becomes actually and consciously suffused with the vitality of the Whole. He partakes of the Blood of the Whole, of the creative substance of the spirit – the mystic Wine and Bread. He partakes of the Eucharist – the perfect gift of Grace – as the cell of the body partakes of the vital essences and the healing chemicals of the forever flowing blood in which it lives and has its being.

“This is the life more abundant, the life in Grace; a life from which has vanished the gnawing sense of frustration and lack, and the regrets or remorse of ego-bondage, ego-fulfillment and ego-conditioned tragedies; a life now filled with the presence of the unfolding God-seed within the soul and with the downflow of Grace this unfoldment summons because it requires it. It is also the life of charity, for charity is man’s only true way of responding to the charismal gift of the spirit, Grace. Faith in the creative power of the spirit, Hope that the Transfiguration shall come and find us fully awake to behold this ‘marriage of heaven and earth’; and the greatest of all, Charity to men everywhere – in the name of the spirit.

“True charity (agape) can only be, at the level of still ego-bound men and women, the pouring out of what the traveler on the Illumined Road has received as Grace. The man flooded with Grace must give charity, which is perfect love, if he is to receive greater spiritual abundance in his soul; but that charity can only be true to the spirit, if it comes indeed from the divine spirit, even though it be released through the individual man. To give out charity means, first of all, to experience oneself as an agent of the spirit, as a focusing of the divine Whole. Charity is not of the ego, but of God through the ego transformed into soul. It is as the soul overflows with Grace that the whole organism of the spirit-illumined man or woman is also able to radiate charity. The gifts of a privileged nation filled with earthly goods, egocentricity and collective self-complacency can be bitter to the peoples ravaged by a catastrophe for which the whole o humanity is responsible.

“Yet it was as the presence of Neptune became revealed to Western man that society at large began to respond to the call of mercy and humanitarianism, and even the most egocentric business baron found it necessary to henceforth to bestow the social semblance of charity to the victims of the system that had enthroned him…”

Venus at 9 degrees Capricorn squares Uranus in Aries at 8:13 pm Thursday. Venus-Uranus aspects seem to always involve meeting foreigners or unusual people who shift you out of your comfort zone. These are almost always short-lived relationships, even the romantic involvements. The Uranian person serves his purpose and moves on . . . Sometimes this aspect accompanies a sudden job change.
Venus at 9 degrees Capricorn is conjunct intense Pluto at 4:30 pm Friday. The conjunction (and the square) are often aspects of obsession, especially romantic obsession. Sometimes comes with meeting one’s Soul Mate. It may just bring intense experiences in that department of your life. Capricorn is not a very romantic kind of guy, so maybe it will take the form of a transformation (Pluto) of his financial (Venus) condition.
Looking Ahead – We have a Full Moon at 25 degrees Taurus at 10:16 am Sunday, Nov. 17 – this is way too close to the dreaded Algol for my comfort, tho Jupiter is in a kindly and protective trine to the Sun.

Your Milky Way Horoscope July 14-20, 2013

By Milky Way Maid

We have an interesting week, astrologically speaking. We have two planetary stations – Uranus goes retrograde and Mercury goes direct. Then we have not just one Grand Trine in water signs, but a series of Grand Trines being triggered as two planets become exact at any one time.
First up – the Uranus retrograde station will be at 1:20 pm Wednesday, at 12 degrees 31′ of Aries. Where will that fall in your chart, and will it contact any natal or progressed planets for you? It will make major aspects to two of my natal planets, so it will be interesting to see what transpires. Dane Rudhyar says that Uranus stations express an ego that becomes an expression of “the God whose countenance is now at least dimly perceived – The Star in the sky has become the pulsating heart of the Christ-child within the utterly renewed human person.” He also says that at times “the Uranian challenge to ego-structures and social-religious privileges . . . is perceived as a kind of Visitation from the spirit – It may be a vision, a summons to action, a sudden realization of the next step to be taken or of the distant goal.” Uranus is the power of the Annunciation, or of a Transfiguration that allows spiritual light to shine from within. Uranus can throw off the base matrix stone that encases the brilliant diamond of the soul.
Stephanie Clement says of the Uranus retrograde period that “you can expect the unexpected. Things are subject to sudden fluctuation and you may be feeling a bit stubborn, rebellious, your emotions explosive and uncooperative toward anyone or anything that represents the status quo.” [for her complete article please, go to http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/retrogradeplanets.htm%5D
I should also add that when Uranus has a station, whether retrograde or direct, things can be rather chaotic or even manic.
Mercury goes direct at 2:22 pm Saturday, at 13 degrees 23′ of Cancer. Note that this is square the Uranus station, so if you have natal planets in aspect to the one, you will likely feel another whack on the side of the head when the other makes its station. We have covered Mercury retrogrades several times already, but in summary, the retrograde gives you time to correct your thinking, try a different formula, find the error and fix it, or find out new information that causes a re-evaluation of the situation. Also, people may find that it is easier to write things down than to communicate verbally.
Jupiter makes two trines Wednesday – Jove trines Saturn at 1:32 pm, and trines Neptune at 8:16 pm. They are at 4 degrees, 50-some minutes of the water signs. The Moon in Scorpio trines Jupiter and Neptune on Tuesday. The Saturn-Neptune trine becomes exact at 9:28 am Friday. Mars gets into the act on Saturday, trining Neptune at 3:43 pm, and then Saturn at 5:34 pm. The Moon in Capricorn sextiles Neptune and Saturn the same day, and opposes Mars and Jupiter late that night. (Mars won’t be conjunct Jupiter until next Monday.)
So you can see that the Grand Trine is continually urging new beginnings on many of us this week – which also means that we may have to say good-bye to something first. Good-byes and losses are part of the Neptune dynamic – sometimes translated as “easy come, easy go”! So if that part applies to you, I hope that you took the opportunity to make good use of the good that came into your life to get on your feet again.

Your Milky Way Horoscope March 17-23, 2013

By Milky Way Maid

Yay, Mercury goes direct at 4:03 pm Sunday, at 5 degrees 39′ of Pisces. The station comes only 2 and a half hours after Mercury squares the Moon, so we might not immediately feel like leaping into social groups and chatting away. The good news is your closet and junk drawer have probably been cleaned out. 

The Sun enters Aries at 7:02 am Wednesday. The Sun in Aries is very independent and will do as he pleases regardless of whether you give them the go-ahead. Can aggravate others by insisting they put him first. However, they sometimes have a natural leadership quality, and their exuberance can be catching. They can be pioneering adventurers who start their own companies or go off to raise coffee on a plantation. When he focuses on just one goal, can achieve success in anything. Always young at heart and with a contagious enthusiasm. Famous people with the Sun in Aries include: Gregory Peck, Doris Day, Charlie Chaplin, Arturo Toscanini, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent Van Gogh, Warren Beatty, astronaut Virgil Grissom, Julie Christie, poet Robert Frost, photographer Edward Steichen, and J. William Fulbright.

Venus also enters Aries the next day – at 11:15 pm Thursday. Venus in Aries is a bit impatient, and not exactly the sweet nurturing type. May have house plants but they better be cactus because this Venus doesn’t always remember to water stuff. This Venus is very independent in relationships, and usually sets the agenda for any dates or parties. Can help others to improve their self-reliance and assertiveness. Never a shrinking wallflower, this Venus almost always initiates new relationships. When they combine their gifts with good manners in asking for others’ cooperation, they can be real movers and shakers. Famous people with Venus in Aries include: Audrey Hepburn, Mia Farrow, Henry Fonda, John Lennon, Bing Crosby, painter Willem de Kooning, rocket scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Henry Luce, baseballer Willie Mays, and politicians Laurence Rockefeller and Ted Kennedy.

Mars at 8 degrees Aries is conjunct Uranus at 2:17 pm Friday. This is the classic signature of an accident or explosion, so take all safety precautions the three days before and after this aspect. Not that everyone’s house will blow up, it’s just that this is a major transit, after all, and even those not directly affected may be inconvenienced.

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