Surf the Wave

If you have not made your HAITI Donation yet... please do it this weekend. It is New Moon and when you plant seeds on New Moons they grow. The energy of your donation during this cycle will activate others. It is like riding a wave. When you plant or activate on the New you get the whole force of the wave behind your efforts.

So,

Plant that seed now. You know how to find the various organizations who are helping. As I said earlier my personal favorite is OPERATION USA ...they have 4 stars in charity works. They run a very lean operation, I volunteered in their offices and they were dumpy. Which is great. No glamour..... 93 percent goes to HELP, not pay fancy buildings. That's top notch.

Mercury is Direct

Thank goodness... Mercury is direct. Hurray. 1/15 11:52am EST

Oh, lordy that was a long (kind of hideous) three weeks. Glad it is done.

Mercury direct in Capricorn is all about thinking, doing and being practical. Having a goal and making it happen. Not being airy fairy, "some day, maybe that _____ (fill in the blank) will happen"... nope---this is all about getting it done. And doing what it takes. Our minds want it so.

Because this Mercury direct is happening on the New Moon do not be surprised if you find this whole 28 day cycle working on things that you have talked about for months but now you are doing it.

Perfect example happened to me today. I ended up spending 6 hours today focused on a sink for a closet off an school auditorium. That is driving around town, meeting with a plumber calling another plumber, blah, blah, next thing you know the day is over and all I accomplished was finding, purchasing, and locking delivery of a sink. But here is the deal---that sink has been on the "Some day TO DO" list for a year. Today it was done. Come hell or high water I was going to see it to the end. And get this... THAT was not even a project on my docket. It was on other people's TODO list but somehow it ended up near my friend and me and bam--we had to do it. That is the power of this Mercury Direct on a New Moon.

God speed as you all accomplish much this cycle.

Pluto in CAP... Greed is ..the other G word: "Gross"

So, let's talk about Pluto in Cap for a minute. As you know we are a few hours away from the NEW MOON in Cap, which I for one am Desperate to begin. It is a solar eclipse and there is a lot of good in it that we can certainly use.

I am putting my antenna out there at least for the next few years to really watch what comes up around the Cap New Moon as it will speak volumes especially as we begin to deal the Cardinal Cross centered around Pluto in Capricorn. I find it particularly interesting that today it was reported that credit card companies were charging 3 percent fee for transactions costs for every donated dollar to the Haiti Relief. As you can imagine, the millions of dollars coming in via credit card donations would give Amex/Visa/Mastercard a big profit. This is blood money if you ask me. Imagine telling RedCross, I'll let your donation of $1000 from NicePerson go to you but you have to give me $30. Ping, ping, ping, in the time you took to read this think how much money they made.

Well, after a public flogging on various news sources, today the companies have retracted that policy and all donations will go to the charity donation. Thank 'effin gawd.

Like I said, I believe it will be a better new moon.

Of Relief Work

I am sure I am like the rest of you in that I carve out a little TV time/Internet to find out the latest in Haiti and I am promptly sadden. This afternoon I was home answering emails and other stuff and I thought, "Let's see the latest on Haiti." There on CNN was a reporter in front of a collapsed building where locals and some newly arrived relief workers were attempting to extract a young girl. Alive and around 10, the girl was described as having the upper part of her body free but her right leg stuck under the rubble. They needed big equipment to move it out and every time they moved some of it she screamed out in pain. The reporter said that he had no idea if they would be able to get any equipment because there is very little in the country.

My Moon in Cancer could only take this for about five minutes. It was too painful to watch and luckily I received a phone call from a friend.

Clearly Relief Work during a Balsamic Moon with a Mercury retrograde is terrible. It feels like we can't get in front of it. There is no equipment and to get equipment means being shipped by the US. Although Florida is not that far away it is still too far for immediate help. Slowly stuff is coming which is typical but it is not typical like what happened today when American Airlines had to cancel flights that it started up because there is no more jet fuel in Haiti. (or at least they can't get to it). Argh.

Here's what I can say...I am hoping that tomorrow's New Moon which is actually about 7 hours from now will shift the energy a bit. Plus a few hours later Mercury will go direct and that should open up more resources.

It is my hope that there will be a few stories of hope and faith over the weekend with this New Moon. I do not kid myself that these stories will do anything to assuage the pain of the awful stories but at this point a little good news will be better than what we have been witnessing so far.

Prayers out.

Earthquakes

I started getting emails from friends last month that basically went something like this, "What is going on with all the earthquakes--is there an astrological reason?"

So, clearly it was on everyone's mind when Haiti happened yesterday.

The quakes began to ramp up in the fall of 2009 with the Samoa one (8.1) in September, Banda Sea (6.9) October Fiji 7.3 (november) Baja California (5.9) and Northern California (6.4) January.

For me, my antenna went up when Saturn moved into Libra and began it's first (of 3 squares) with Pluto on November 15. Those are two tight warriors and although Libra is an air sign, Pluto in Capricorn is an earth sign and it does crack and destroy. You can find a lot written about earthquakes and planets. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto usually seem to be in the mix. If not all three perhaps one of the three and then there can be a Moon aspect. About a year or so ago I posted about Supermoons and their sometimes tie into earthquakes. Fwiw, Friday is a solar eclipse.


Here is an interesting article about various earthquakes and astrology.

I don't know if we ever can predict them. I suppose at the very least we can say there might be an astrological weathercast for them but then is that helpful? I dunno.

Anyway, as I write here from the lip of the San Andreas, I guess it can't hurt to get some water just in case. In the meantime, I will make a donation to OperationUSA which I have posted here before (on one of the other quake disasters) as being an excellent resource of AID.

But back to Pluto in Capricorn---is there really any reason for a country surrounded by so much wealth to have such poorly built buildings? Really? This begs the question...why did that happen?

No answer now. But then Pluto will be in Cap for many years and we'll have all that time to figure this out. And for what it is worth, the last time Pluto was in Cap was over two hundred years ago, after it did what it did...Pluto went into Aquarius and we got the French Revolution.
What will it do this time?

Capricorn New Moon 2010

January 15 2:11am EST

This Capricorn New Moon has a lot of positivity in it. Of course, Cap is not always comfortable in a positive enviroment. It likes doing hard work. But the interesting thing to me is that we are going to get this nice New Moon so we can mind out the magic in Capricorn cycle. And hopefully when the Sh*t hits the fan later this year and all the cardinal signs (Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn) start to gong, gong, gong..we'll be ready for the fall out. Afterall, we might as well learn from a master.

As always I have posted my whole article on Margaret Wendt's website but here is a snippet:

This Capricorn Lunar phase has Sun/Moon/Venus and North Node in conjunction which means they are all on top of each other talking non-stop about their future and how to accomplish it. They know that the potential for success with Capricorn is great. Capricorn is a goat and it can climb any mountain. And where others complain that the air is thin and there isn’t much vegetation, Capricorn just smiles and nods, “Yep, just the way I like it.” The bottom line is that Capricorn can be wildly ambitious but the irony is that it does not need that much to be happy, that is, besides success.

People with strong Capricorn in their chart (or 10th house) are driven to make their mark in the world. Whether they are the big shots in their town or in their family or in the greater public world --they are driven. Many Capricorns or those with strong Cap in their charts go into the public sector from Chamber of Commerce to Mayor to City Councilmember to congressman to senator to President. Capricorn is not satisfied to be a worker bee, love their family and then die. That’s not good enough for Capricorn. No. They LOVE to build their own company or build their own destiny. Or they build something for the community. They have vision and out of nothing they will make a big something. They love hard work and dedication and they take responsibilities very seriously. However, if you noticed I said that they can be the most ambitious sign of the zodiac. I said can because there is more to Capricorn. They can also be extremely insecure and inhibited and perhaps the most pessimistic sign. When their inner switch is shut off, they only see the glass half empty. Negative and lacking self confidence however they are not always up-front about their insecurity. They can cover it with smugness and apparent lack of interest in something when in truth they covet it greatly but are afraid they won’t succeed so they play like they don’t care. Ah, the complication of Cappy.

And just to send home the message--- out of nothing Richard Nixon, a perfect Capricorn built a political career. Always ambitious he didn’t let a lot stop him and had it not been for Kennedy’s great tan he may have been President the first time he ran. However, when he did get the job his insecurity, pessimism and paranoia got the better of him and in the end he flew off into the sunset with only his misguided choices rumbling around in his head. Now, the world remembers him for two issues. Opening up relations with China (Gee, how is that going now?) and Watergate. The highs and the lows..so perfectly Capricorn.
For the next twenty eight days don’t be surprised if you do all of the above. Well, I don’t think you are going to bug a hotel room but you may feel exactly in tune with the universe as you build your future with some concrete solution and ideas. You will come up with a serious game plan as to what is next. Of course at the same time you may feel negative and not sure you can do it. The Sun gives us confidence, Moon gives us the

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Saturn Turns Retrograde

On Wednesday January 13 10:56 am EST

Saturn Turns Retrograde at 5 degrees Libra. It will go backwards until May 30 at 28 degrees of Virgo. So for those of us who have got planets in Late Virgo (or Mutable signs) or early Libra (and cardinal signs) we will be feeling Saturn up our grill one more time. Remember, Saturn is the DAD planet, or the BOSS planet. What is not working here will be found out during this retrograde.

As always it is interesting to see where these outer planet retrogrades take place within the lunar cycle and in this case it is on the Balsamic part of the Sag Lunar cycle. Of course Saturn is about structure and organizing things that are important to us. Libra is relationships. This is the first retrograde by Saturn since it moved into Libra last Fall. Since it moved into Libra it is putting all our relationships on notice. We are learning a lot about our relationships and what we think is important. How we relate and how others relate to us. What we need from relationships. All of that is getting overhauled. This does not mean that we are just walking away and ditching it all. Instead we will be moving things around and shifting things. Libra is all about negotiations but Saturn is all about defining what is NOT negotiable. We have a lot of work in front of us and it will become more apparent during Saturn’s retrograde through the end of May. And again, please not that this retrograde is coming up during our Sag cycle where we come up with goals. It is specifically during the balsamic phase which means when we release goals that no longer work. Perhaps some goals we set on Sag new Moon will be released now for the benefit of our partners and relationships.