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A trip, pilgrimage, workshop or vision quest February–March or late in 2010, exposes you to electrifying aha’s that occur best when you are in unfamiliar territory, and your past has less hold on you. Glimpses of a very different future fuel your ambitions, provide unconsidered options and alter your course.
Destiny now calls you to review past loyalties, to approach each relationship as new, full of possibilities. You may find yourself in close contact with unique souls not drawn so much by individual needs but by a sense of a deeper work, a common passion. By sharing you have more resources available, look for win-win situations. You have a heightened capacity to empower each other, though there will be battles. Don’t hang onto people who won’t share, won’t change or won’t believe in you.
In the middle of all this fire and excitement, pay close attention to your home and family. Do the circumstances support you and provide a firm base for respite from the stresses of life for years to come? Or do they need attention, time, clarification and stabilization? Do you need to move on? Don’t make do out of sentimental attachment to the past.
You’re here to put a new spin on your heritage; all your ancestors are waiting spell-bound to see what you’ll do for the world. More often you’ll find yourself instinctively reaching for just the right tool or being in the right place—in response to need in these swiftly changing times.

Gretchen Lawlor (Seattle, WA) Into my 3rd Destiny at 60, after 2nd Saturn Return- even more important to pass on what I have learned in 40+ years of devotion and study. Specialties: anyone in transition/crisis, esp. young people (I do astro counseling at the local high school), work, health, relationships, annual navigational maps, classes and workshops. In person/by phone . 206 391 8681 - email Gretchen - website

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Starcodes for week of July 9, 2010
by Heather Roan Robbins

We need to tell our story this week. Sometimes it will be the rock-hard truth, sometimes our story may be low on facts but will still speak our inner reality as Mercury enters expressive Leo and trines prolific Jupiter.

With Mercury in Leo we’ll be proud of what we know and happy to share. We might be tempted to jump on our soap box and pontificate, but if we do so, it will just cause eyes to glaze over, so let’s dial it back a notch. We can watch reporters on the evening news or over the backyard fence crank up their emotional charge and drop into bathos, but just because they exaggerate doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

Because we’ve got to sing in the weeks ahead look for great reportage and wild opera, but there may not be much difference between. People will want to spill their guts, but whether we get the real deal or the simplified melodramatic cover story will take extra perception on our part. Some of the stories that come out this week will be both true and mythic; they’ll rip our hearts open and hit us in a visceral way.

Luckily Venus enters perspicacious Virgo for the next few weeks and asks us to dig deeper to understand the story behind the story. Venus in Virgo encourages us to talk it out and ask the tough questions, she encourages us to process for fun. We just have to be sure other people around are as interested in dissecting the story as we are.

Venus in Virgo also encourages us to put some effort in to our chosen art forms, and asks us to care for one another in a practical way. She helps us find the problem and, if we tap into her potential, can help us heal it. Just watch the Virgo–Venus tendency to go to our head and analyze as a way of getting out of messier work or messier emotions, or making improving comments to loved ones to subtly push them away.

When we need to tell our version, it can be ok to go for the melodrama, sometimes it will be the only way to get the story across. Kids have rested up from school and no longer just want to sleep late; they’re looking for a bit of adventure, for good or ill. Social life picks up and summer arts festivals percolates: it will pay to see performances early in the summer rather than later for inspired performances. Just forgive a bit of over-acting.

A good story is a wonderful thing, and the sob story of other peoples’ lives can be fascinating, but it’s far more interesting to live out a great novel ourselves. Tempting as it is to just talk; we need to live our story. Make future memories.

Mercury in Leo can bring out a generous but more self-centered, less empathetic attitude and that can skew family dynamics. If so, get the difficult family members talking and get those old stories recorded now. Interview the difficult neighbor or cranky grandparent. When in doubt or in a tense situation ask questions and gets the story flowing; look for understanding rather than accuracy.

Expect the weather to keep up its own drama throughout this summer. Mercury also affects the winds, and for the next few weeks they’ll blow with bravado or disappear off the stage like a diva in a huff and leave a dramatically breathless heat. An era-changing T-square between Pluto, Uranus and Saturn will keep the winds swirling and the wheels of history rolling all year, so much is in flux, so many industries are at a crossroads, and this plays in the background of every story we hear. We need to treasure adaptability and awareness above all other skills to sail through this time with grace.

As the weekend begins we are offered a clear picture of what we need to do next as Mercury trines Saturn. A certainly heaviness can sit on our minds and everything make take longer than we think. But this same heaviness can help us get the details hammered out before play begins.

Over the weekend the mood changes, self-doubts creep in the back door, but we can hide them in a new-found extroversion. It can be too easy to critique our loves just when they need our fascination, especially if we’re feeling overloaded or emotionally hungry after recent events. Although it may be tempting to start a litany of interior complaints about their behavior, it would serve us better to invite them to swim or do a project that improves our life together. If we need extra space ourselves, less just ask for it directly and skip the part where we push others away.

Early next week feel a resurgence of the need to live life on a grand scale. Those who feel ignored or undervalued may get mean. It is easy to create drama if we cannot find a more interesting life, but we can rewrite that script and make it a dynamic adventure instead.

Friday, July 9: Deal with practicalities early as Mercury trines sane and solid Saturn. Mid-morning don’t take the bait as the Moon squares Mars and brings emotional pressures. Take problems seriously when others share, but help restore perspective. Communication is good but we need to nail down details before we disappear in to a rather magical world tonight.

Saturday, July 10: Enjoy the wild script as Mercury enters Leo while the Moon enters deeply feeling Cancer. We’ll be ready for something different, but also deal with a lingering trepidation over a surprising emotional response as the Moon enters Cancer and squares Uranus. Be kind through a lost or wandering feeling midday, part of the past slips away as the Moon opposes Pluto. Energy and warmth return tonight if we choose to extend ourselves; familiarity feels better than a room full of strangers.

Sunday, July 11: We’re ready to take action and make things happen, want to take theory and make it so as the Sun sextiles Mars. Irritations scrape midday as Mercury semi-squares Mars, but soon after some recent stress converts to a can-do, willing to learn attitude as Mercury trines Jupiter. Please be explicitly encouraging, as it’s all too easy for others to hear criticism where it’s not intended. Some darker quirk of the mind surfaces tonight, listen to dreams but look inside for the meaning, not out.

Monday, July 12: Turn up the volume and make it interesting. Stubbornness, generosity, and hyperbole abound; the story gets more dramatic as the Moon enters Leo and trines Jupiter and Uranus. Ask for attention carefully. Love up the dear ones as they need attention too; catch them doing something right and effuse. Take this Leo Moon to a higher level and let the heart chakra shine.

Tuesday, July 13: Living well is the best revenge, so find the romance in the daily, and love the weed growing through the crack in the sidewalk. We need to feel the bittersweet and the pain, and heal with our heart; reach out in some substantial caring action and avoid mere gesture as Venus trines Pluto in earth signs. Do not begrudge attention; the more generous we are the more flows back. This is not just generosity, it is survival.

Wednesday, July 14: Fuzzy, foggy-brained morning as the Moon opposes Neptune clear up midday as the Moon enters Virgo. Our bodies resound with our emotions; health regimes needs attention, ours and our planets’. The consequence of what we consume becomes clear for better or worse. Practical follow-through actually relaxes; inspiration comes to the prepared mind. Tonight, watch the nagging.

Thursday, July 15: Cranky morning, be quiet and be helpful as the Moon conjuncts Mars. Midday reactions and responses flow quickly, our actions flow decisively; good time for surgery, engineering or weeding. Critiques are quick and incisive but painfully undiplomatic; take with a grain of salt and avoid grandstanding.

Starcodes for week of July 2 , 2010
by Heather Roan Robbins

A long weekend with fireworks are just what the astrologer ordered, we are so ready for a break. After the synapse-cooking and chapter-changing aspects of the last few weeks we need time to renew and integrate. We need our rest and recuperation but what that means will be different for each if us, and anything we do now to create more balance in our life will further.

Friday starts out softer and squishier, we may feel awash under a sensitive Pisces Moon, so let’s finish up loose ends and rest, it gets better soon. Even if we have to travel we can keep the vibe low key an interactions undemanding, let people begin to open and unwind. We may need to heal a problem caused by a gap in communications or a lack of supplies as Mercury challenges Chiron. The first step is to see whether this gap was an intentional effort to hide or ignore information or if it was accidental and needs to be forgiven. And then take steps to clear that pathway for the future.

Energy returns, and it won’t be just the fireworks that spark as the Moon enters individualistic Aries and conjuncts erratic Uranus and Jupiter for a wild, freedom-loving weekend. We will not be told what do. Neither will our dogs, kids, fuel pipes or allied countries. But we will cheerfully interact as equals.

It’s time to celebrate Independence Day. So let’s explore what independence means to us, and ponder what actually brings us our personal independence as well as our independence as a country. Think about what it takes to create freedom without squelching others, and with life-giving connections intact.

Freedom to one person may look like a trap to another, and we’ll all have strong, intense opinions on the subjects. Freedom to one spouse may be finally having the time to work on the house, while to another it means kicking back at the lake. Do not schedule for one another, take turns where possible and give each other wandering time.

Under the Aries Moon it is a sparky weekend; we love our fire and need the sparklers and the grills. Protests at home an aboard erupt easily and unexpectedly. Keep fires containers and take extra care when handling explosives. Same with temperament and flirtations, every thing sparks; we can light some lovely fires, but let’s avoid accidental conflagrations.

Next week our brains don’t come back from holiday quickly as the Sun challenges Neptune. The conditions slow down and become murky or sleepy for a few days. Electrical equipment may give us difficulties as industrious, eventful Uranus turns retrograde for the summer. Uranus retrograde can slow down the rate of transformation around us, which can at first be frustrating, but lets us deepen and manifest the work already on the table.

Some imminent metamorphosis may be put on hold, a change when thought we could believe in slows down we are sent back in to do the internal work first. Most of us will not abandon fossil fuels overnight, though we may want to, but we can take further steps. Tectonic plates shift, but not where we think they will.

Over the next few weeks we may have to go back to an old chapter and remember lessons learned before; seek the new answers in the clues of the past. We may need to do some healing around our inner critical dialogue, the feeling that if we can't to it perfectly, we don’t want to start. If that dialogue arises, we need to listen to that voice but not let it run the show. It will help to encourage one another for taking thoughtful risk, for having a beginners mind and starting afresh and without preconceptions or expectations. Forgive co-workers their mistakes and encourage them to explore options rather than strive for performance as Mars in Virgo begins to conjunct Saturn and oppose Uranus. Sometimes the answer has been staring at us all along, but tension under pressure make it hard to see.

Our dreams may electrify this week as Uranus retrogrades, as if the lightening strikes our internal dream ocean. Most of these dreams will be more speculation and process than divining the future, but they can feel like we are dreaming someone else’s dreams, or dreaming the world soul.

Towards the end of the week we really just don’t know- even though we think we do- as Venus and Mercury challenge Neptune. It is easy to get carried away by our imagination and assume a relationship is better or worse than it really is, or to project our ideas upon them and really miss the boat. If we admit we don’t know and acknowledge the mystery, we can open to a new understanding of anything or anyone we care about.

Friday, July 2: Watch for mistakes in the rush to meet pre-weekend deadlines. Don’t get insulted easily, as it’s too easy to misunderstand when some comment hits close to old scar tissue. Let’s confirm intentions before getting too upset, and use this to identify and remove an old psychic splinter as Mercury challenges Chiron. The energy level is low, in fits and bursts, sensitive and a bit self-conscious, but capable. Make it safe to unwind together tonight.

Saturday, July 3: Urgent need to get going with little agreement about where. The mood is outspoken, edgy, and intense; we need to instigate as the Aries Moon conjuncts Uranus and Jupiter. Don’t tell us what to do, set the challenge and let us find our own answer. Spontaneity trumps this morning, some more unrgent demand requires mutual support this afternoon. Tonight we want to howl with the fireworks.

Sunday, July 4: Odd tensions arise as our personalities pull in opposite directions, let each of us have rambling time to listen to our soul this morning, and then coordinate efforts this afternoon. Agree on the goal but keep plans loose and control minimal. Track sharp tools and stray sparks, and enjoy the wild eccentricity of humankind.

Monday, July 5: We may feel an urgent need to complete some short term project, but the more we push, the harder it is to complete, and errors in judgment increase. If so, slow down; move in meditation instead, even if the Moon is in restless Aries. Make the challenge to do it right the first time. Question sudden changes in plans and make sure they are an improvement. Electrical apparatus acts up; don’t purchase new technology now as Uranus turns retrograde. Tonight the Moon enters Taurus bringing a friendly melancholy and longing for familiar comforts.

Tuesday, July 6: Get to the bottom of the questions as the Moon trines Pluto. Dig roots, transplant, reorganize. Deal with fundamentals that nurture the crops we grow. Trust isn’t easy, grow it by remembering people matter more than things, and land more than money. Tiredness may be more in the soul than the bones tonight; our responsibilities weigh on us while the Moon challenges Saturn.

Wednesday, July 7: Embodied and active morning, we may feel unusually hungry but can choose how we feed the senses as the Taurus Moon trines Mars. Odd jealousies or longing interlace through relationships but can bring a moment to grow trust instead. Unsettle feelings and conditions can bring complications tonight, revel in the starlight but sort fact from feeling before reacting as the Moon squares Venus and Neptune.

Thursday, July 8: Lots of talk, lots of feelings, but it can be hard to get the two on the same wavelength, if asked what we feel; we’ll give more poetry than sense. Both Venus and Mercury challenge Neptune, which can leave us blinded with wishful thinking. Boredom with our usual problems makes us itchy; people tend to poke just for reaction and don’t know what they’re really saying. This can be a wildly creative day if we find an artistic outlet for our longings and keep it real with one another.

Starcodes for week of June 25, 2010
by Heather Roan Robbins

We’re in for a moody, eventful, week. Karma cranks up in speed and volume and everything, even a simple act of bumping into some at the store or planting a tomato plant let alone the dramatic headlines , can feel fraught with symbolism. Look for solid evidence about how our world is changing, and stay involved to help direct the process.

This atmospheric intensity can leave us feeling excited but potentially grim about the future even on relaxed sunny afternoon, but let’s not think this cloud is an accurate representation of things to come. If we feel sad, we’re probably tapping into the real collective global sadness and concern rather than the details of our personal life.

The stars want us to look squarely at our challenges and make decisions from there. And if we do so, this week can bring a turning point. Pots that are already simmering can boil over or longstanding challenge comes to a head, as ask us to step up to the plate. Take the high road and take on our full size.

The era-defining culturally-transformative aspects that started in November of 2008 and continue through 2013 are triggered this Saturday morning as a Full Moon Eclipse in Capricorn conjuncts Pluto and sets of a grand square involving 7 planets. The Moon-Pluto conjunction at 4 degrees of Capricorn opposes Sun and Mercury conjunct in Cancer; they all square Jupiter and Uranus conjunct in Aries and square Saturn at the last degrees of Virgo.

The weekend starts off with unsettling news and a change in mind or circumstances, but we can roll with the punches and make the best of it. This is an incredibly ingenious time, but it may be hard to hold our concentration. The week deluges us with info, but we can forget as fast as we take it in, so it helps to keep a notepad handy. Paper and pencil may work better than any high tech variety for the moment, technology will tend to have poltergeist.

Luckily the Sun and Mercury in Cancer can reel us back a bit, encourage us to play safe even if the rest of the transits call us into trouble. Traditionally this first month of summer when the sun is in Cancer is time to picnic, touch bases with the family and check back in with community. We are renewed where they feed us and karma-slog where we have work to do. It is always a self-protective time, protective of whoever we consider our own, generally relaxed and cozy, but easily infuriated if our family, home, or ecosystem feels endangered.

And the only planets not involved in that grand square Venus, Mars, and Neptune. Our spiritual life as well as our romantic relationships and social buzz are not going to take the brunt of this aspect, though they may feel the fallout. We can meditate upon it, and talk about it all over brunch or in a Pride parade.

Most of us will just feel moody or might find ourselves feisty or broody, looking at some future decisions with excited wariness, though we’ll feel better if we have a short term task to accomplish while we think. But like last week, weather and wild folk will act out. Keep a weather eye out over the weekend as the crosswinds of this grand cross swirl and call out extremes. May the changes be extremely beautiful.

Every Full Moon highlights an apparent paradox and challenges us to include all parts to find some resolution. This Saturday’s full Moon-Eclipse in Capricorn highlights any tension we have between our work and our personal life, between our ambitious machinations and our kind confidence, or any tension between nurturing business and nurturing beings. And it highlights the variations of those forces in the world at large. We need to tend to our beloveds, dive into life, but keep our business cards handy and be ready to pitch in if needed.

We may feel tested this week to choose between apparent opposites; the news may say we have to choose between jobs and our ecosystem, or between safety and humanity. Our make may say either we are right or they are. This is all an illusion. If we feel pulled like this, we need to out of the crossroads and choose wholeness.

Karma speeds up this weekend, do something nice, and watch it multiply. Be a jerk, and the jerk-hood will come back fast. If events get strange, we have to look at the story line of our life to see how is fits, or the story line of history to understand the bigger versions. We can feel the cultural metamorphosis happening, need to keep the pressure up to have it change in a good direction, but patience with the process. This is big.

As the weekend begins, words and behavior can be out of synch, as our subconscious gets is rear-wheel traction going and begins to run the show. Because we may feel compelled, but we don’t quite know why, watch behavior for clues as to a person’s inner motivation, but assume that maybe they don’t even know themselves. We will easily resent other people’s expectations and can feel them loaded on our shoulders when all they asked whether we wanted to go to the store.

Chill. Under these challenges we all want to feel our partners and family are working with us, not fighting us or loading on more work just when we need them. So postpone handing over a chore list and work together. We can make it to the long July 4th weekend ahead.

Friday, June 25: The day won’t go as planned as Mercury squares Uranus. Conversations are choppy and calls are dropped, communications is uninterrupted and unsettling; news may change our views. Be ready for a change but watch the wild wacky thinking and the longing for extremes. Confirm all facts. If relationships are strained by expectations or over scheduling, dial it back, hold hands and say less as Venus challenges Saturn.

Saturday, June 26: Work it. The day starts out tough, we may be full of doubts or feel unequal to the task at hand, and maybe we romp with our control issues. But once we gear up, this day can be a miracle of accomplishment. Watch the news. Humans get more done than machines, as they will have issues. Keep information flowing; keep others informed of new plans and it will all flow together. Don’t buck others’ controlling behavior, that leaves them in charge of the agenda, just listen to the inner muse and keep them informed. If we want to take it to the limit tonight, let’s step to the edge, not over.

Sunday. June 27: The Full-Moon hangover can leave us stretch thin this morning, we need to rest in body mind and soul. Later, if unexpected work arises, drop personal agendas and shift to universal schedule. Move towards growth; don’t stomp away from a problem. Check in with lonely or depressed people. Troubled thinking, brooding over ours or others inadequacies as the Sun opposes Pluto, can breed discontent with relationship as Venus challenge Uranus. Don’t post-mortem an argument, it only stirs the mud; instead share on deeper, less interpersonal issues. Art helps create the change we want to see: paint, sing, and dance.

Monday, June 28: Monday is comparatively restful after an intense weekend. Let people take a step back, don’t push for emotional response right now; think camaraderie not intimacy. Our feelings have been too close to the surface, too intertwined in our decisions, and we need to look at the bigger pattern. Fresh options arrive later in the day, humor returns tonight. Good meetings later on.

Tuesday, June 29: Personal issues that have been upstaged by recent events now need to be dealt with as the Aquarius Moon opposes Venus in Leo. Unusually sociable day, shyness can actually made strangers more interesting. Check in with teams and contacts, work the web. Important decisions are made for the group which may affect us as individuals.

Wednesday, June 30: A squishy, emotionally vulnerable day as the Venus challenges Pluto while the Moon enters sensitive Pisces. Don’t trample feelings, do expect touchiness; ask directly instead of get defensive even if it’s hard to do. Don’t feed into jealousy or resentment, instead deal with the real pain underneath. We are sufficient to the task at hand but may need to make adjustments. We need little kindnesses as well as great ones, and will be appreciative.

Thursday, July 1: The mood is sensitive but decisive, our heart and mind need to talk together until they agree. Feel it all and act anyway. Take a step forward rather than linger at the crossroads. Soggy or squishy conditions or spilled items can slow us down. Our sensitivity and creativity flow later, but we are easily irritated. Check for misunderstandings before reacting as the Moon opposes sparky Mars tonight.

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