Sun Conjunct Venus

Monday January 11 4:06pm

Sun Conjunct Venus

Several times a year The Sun and The Venus will get in bed together, literally and figuratively. Usually this is a day that is a bit softer, cozier and warmer. Feelings move a bit easier amongst us earthlings. Not just romantically but just our humanitarianism is grooving with everyone. However, when the Duo get together in Capricorn (now) everything does have a tinge of practicality. “Oh, wow a new oven mitt! Just want I wanted.” What’s on your ToDo list? You can carve through a lot of it today. Especially if you need someone in authority to sign off on something. Cap is all about authority so reach out and get some of that good Mojo and work the boss.
A very nice way to start the week and by the time we get to the end of the week we’ll have a nice practical new moon in Cap.

Start your year Merri---- Ray Merriman

I was just poking around on Lynn Hayes site where I mentioned in a thread an article by Ray Merriman that I really enjoyed.
This got me thinking that if there are some of you who do not regularly check in with Ray then you are missing some valuable info. Make 2010 your year to check his cycles report. FIND HERE

Here's a snippet from this week:


Longer-Term Thoughts
What kind of year will 2010 be? My initial thoughts are that 2010 will be “The Year of Extremism.”
We are going through something astrologically that we have not been through in our lifetime. The closest we have come to what we will experience in 2010 is perhaps 1965-66 and 1930-31. In 1965-66, we made it through the Uranus-Pluto conjunction in opposition to Saturn. It was a time of fervent revolutionary thought that had the potential to overthrow existing governmental structures. In 1930-31, we were in the middle of the previous Cardinal Climax involving Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto in a cardinal T-square, similar to what is transpiring this year (late 2009 through early 2011). That was a period when the world financial system had a meltdown. It ushered in the Great Depression, and led to a revolutionary new direction in many world governments, including the United States.
But 2010 has something extra going on. Not only are Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto in hard aspects again to one another, but Jupiter and Uranus will be moving back and forth between Pisces and Aries in this hard aspect formation Pisces and Aries are the end and beginning of the zodiac, and this dance begins in May 2010 and last through early 2011.

Go to link for more.

Have you considered learning about Chiron in 2010?

Chiron is such a pain in the centaur-ass.
It has only been tracked by astrologers for the last 25 years or so. So, it is very much a work in progress. Wherever it goes it hoovers up our past pains and spits them out for us to process. It is never easy but what I have found out is that it can't be second guessed. Yeah, you can get the broad strokes on it but the painful minutia is between you and your maker. Sigh. BTDT.

Anyway Karyl Jackson has a nice write up.

Chiron portrays a forced savings account from our
efforts. On our road of life, each of us are given pot holes from one
challenging situation or another. The tendency is to blame others for these pot
holes, or to blame situations for these deep challenges and scars in our
life.
The Truth about Chiron is that it points to the type of qualities and
the area of our life that is designated to give us the opportunity to understand
selfless giving and to grow through our chosen responses to these potholes.
Within these challenges, we are given the deep hole of experiencing unfair
situations that we must accept, deal with, understand and ultimately bless. This
is a very tall order, however, our life, our path is sprinkled with
them.
Chiron takes 50 years to make one complete orbit, so that we have to
provide 50 years of effort that may not be rewarded until Chiron connects with
where it started out in our charts. Chiron is the ultimate of giving us
challenges to see how we will respond to them. They usually take the form of
unfair situations, being the target of ill-motives, blame, displaced power, etc.
It is easy and the most popular response to be angry, to blame the situations or
the people involved, something outside of ourselves for creating these pot
holes. That may be true, however, the most important part is not the fact that
others or outside circumstances created the pot holes unfairly. The important
part is the quality with which to fill up these pot holes.
There are five
qualities, each of which has its own level of (spiritual) awareness with which
to fill up the pot holes of challenges;
First, there is tolerance. We can
tolerate the situation with patience and those that have created this pot hole
with patienceclick on the link to read the whole thing.

A little something to lift you up for 2010

I have been poking around on different sights and one of my cyberfriends (MMM) put up this link to a Youtube video about 2010.


And I don't know about you but I have been buzzing around lately thinking about Numbers...specifically Numerology. I don't know much about it but I felt a strong vibe that once we clicked over to 2010 something changed in me. It felt like the numerology bell rang.
Anyway, I went looking and found this piece on Numerology.....it might interest you.

4th Quarter Moon

On Thursday at 5:40am (EST) will be the Last Quarter Moon of this lunar cycle. I normally don't stop down to talk about the phases because I am so certain that you take copious notes when you read my monthly NEW MOON which lists all eight phases that you just don't need additional prompts from me (cough, cough).....but on this Lunar Phase I wanted to remind you that this is the Last Quarter Moon where we can address our Goals. Remember, we had a lot of stuff happen between New Moon (Dec 16) and now that impacts our Goals. Things came up that we never want to experience again. We saw holes in our life that need to be fixed. We felt some good things that we want to continue. We realized we have things that need to be improved upon. We grew tired of some people. Our brains had to make adjustments as our beliefs started to shift. All of that taking place on the Sag lunar cycle is fodder for our Goals.

Now on this last quarter we get the final information as to what we need for our goals.

As a reminder (from my New Moon article)

Third Quarter moon: Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense. And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action. It is a time for living “The serenity prayer”

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things cannot change Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.


Focus on: Can you make some final changes based on your new moon goals that will include others? How do your relationships and specifically partnerships fit into your life and your goals? What moves can you make in your life right now that will improve your relationships? Are you giving too much in relationships? Or are you not receiving enough? Or are you doing too little? Did it occur to you it might be impacting your goals?

Mercury conjunct Venus

January 5-- Mercury Conjunct Venus 5:39am (EST)

Wit meets love. Brains meets Beauty. Smart meets Sassy. Do you get the gist or do I have to continue with pairings that sound like Jeopardy catch phrases?

We will feel a bit more prickly with our loved ones but what we are really craving is practical application of love and brains. When our lover calls us up and whispers sweet nothings to us our first instinct is to hang up. Sweet nothings mean nothing on a day when Mercury and Venus hook up at 13 degrees of Capricorn. No shit. What we are concerned about is our money (what's new?) we crave a deepening of our goals and values. We look around and if we see things that are not of value...we want to ditch 'em. This includes people. (Yikes!) If we have a houseful of Chinese Crap from Target, we'll hate it all.

I think it is interesting that some of these blah aspects are coming up while we still are on the Sagittarius Lunar phase. Remember, this is the period in the year when we figure out our goals and desires, where we put our little arrow in the sky, zero on our target and go for it. It is quite an interesting to have aspects come up which make us go 'blah' when we look around our life. We're not suppose to get depressed by them, but perhaps we are suppose to rethink stuff. Maybe a couple years ago you were thrilled to go into Target and buy a bathroom rug for $10. Now you are asking bigger questions like, I wish this bathroom was not in Van Nuys. Or fill in the blank.

Anyway, today you may be thinking more about what you value and is it in your life the way you want?

Sun Conjunct Mercury

January 4 2:06pm (EST).

The Sun conjuncts Mercury several times a year and is basically a nice garden variety aspect. Nice but no big whop. You feel a little bit brighter and a bit smarter and more clever today BUT and make that a big BUT...when the conjunction is with a retrograde Mercury it is a bit duller. The shine is not on this one instead we feel a bit more energized but we can't quite get 'there'.

It is a good day for us to take on a few projects but we need to cut ourselves some slack if our ideas and aspirations are too big for our reach today.

I know I took time to move out all spices that have not been used in the last year and (5 years !) from my cabinet to Mr. Trash Can. I also had a great desire to clear out the fridge and what is on top of it...but I have to save that for another day by the afternoon I did not have the brain or energy to touch the yucky grime on top. Perhaps another day.

Be grateful for whatever new ground you covered today but give yourself a break if you don't do as much as you hoped.