Astrology Tidbits & Tie-Ins

This week is the beginning of a breaking out period. It is a time when you can distinguish yourself from the pack. This has taken careful planning on your part but it is evolving in an amazing and unpredicted way. Some people just did not see it coming. Let the games begin.

Many influences are at work behind the scenes so it is hard to know which of the many events will surface first. But be sure that these changes are coming and in a most spectacular way. Try to harness your energy so that you won’t get caught without the needed drive and direction that it requires to bring home the prize.

Attention to detail and a lot of hard work have taken you to this curve in the road. Stay focused as it is a critical time that requires your complete commitment. Now is not the time to hesitate. You are on target but must see this project through to the end. The feeling that you need to abort must me disregarded. Stay the course.

Many captains of industry stand on the precipice of ruin. These are the signs of the times. If you are at the top, there is the proverbial fall from grace. This is in the nature of things. Go with nature and do not fight the tide of discontent. You are only one person and can do only your best. Stand tall.

“The fault, dear Brutus, lies in ourselves and not in the stars”…Shakespeare hits the nail on the head with this one. Character is destiny. We have to take responsibility for our actions and we also pay for the choices that we make. Really, we pay for what we want and we pay for what we don’t want. This should be reassuring to know that although we are given a natal chart, we are also given free will. It is the use of free will that determines our fate. We are given certain psychological and physical characteristics but it is more important how we put them to work. For every advantage is a disadvantage.

Speaking of work, there is a lot on your plate in the coming weeks. You have a lot of obligations that must be met and many of these situations are generating a lot of heat. Frankly, you might be feeling overwhelmed. Don’t despair, help is on the way. It seems that favorable planetary influences arrive to assist you with this burden.

This is a good time for ruthlessly eliminating unnecessary things & ideas. Get rid of some old shoes. Cleaning up the place both physically and mentally will refresh your attitude and allow you to become more focused. You can begin to look forward to bolder times that will reward you with a new perspective and renewed energy. It’s about time! Take a chance on something new.

This week begins with the Sun & Moon in the sign of Cancer. It is a New Moon and this falls in the house of psychology and home. This represents your foundation. Your psychology is a result of your relationships with other people. The seventh house is the cause of the fourth house. Another example of this relationship between the 7th house & the 4th house; marriage is the cause of your creating a home.

The personality is the cause of the profession. It is always important to work with yourself through your profession. You choose the profession based on your personality and you work out your psychological problems through your profession. Your character which is represented by the first house is the cause of your tenth house (destiny). Therefore, character is destiny.

Really, you and the others are the same. The way that you perceive others has a lot more to do with who you are. Others are a reflection of you. The best way to get others to change is by changing yourself. People will react differently to you if you change your actions toward them. In other words, we are all looking in a mirror. Everything around us is moderated by us. Everyone is seen through our own eyes. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We color everything that we look at with our own personalities, preferences and prejudices.

Step out of yourself and see the world in a whole new way. There are many things to be thankful for.

It’s the Fourth of July in more ways than one. Roman candles are shooting off everywhere. It just doesn’t seem like you can get a break. Everywhere you go it is just one giant pitfall waiting to happen. These planetary influences linger for some time to come, so you must learn to negotiate them with expertise and flair. Others will be impressed at your ability to maneuver around these circumstances.

So many things to do, so little time to get them done. Not to mention that you are feeling a fair amount of indecision. You just can’t get going in any one direction. This naturally makes you feel like nothing is happening. Once you choose a course of action, stick to it. Stop vacillating as this causes you unnecessary anxiety.

Follow your instincts during the coming week as they are likely to lead you to unexpected benefits. Also, control your reactions as you will give away your real intentions if you react too strongly. You don’t want to catch someone flat footed as this might result in an unfavorable outcome.

Higher influences are working on your behalf, so don’t feel like you have to do it all yourself. Just get things going and you will see how harmonious your environment will become. Don’t try to control the outcome. We only think we know what is best for us. Let go and be surprised.

This week more stuff will hit the fan. There is lots of tension in the current planetary configurations that spell trouble for just about anyone on the planet. Naturally, it is how you handle this tension that really counts. If you feel yourself losing control, let it go. Don’t try to restrain any situation. Flow with it, ride it to a place of safety. Life is mostly about things that you can’t control. However, you can control yourself. Therein lies the wisdom of the ages; control yourself.

The Sun, Mercury and Pluto have teamed up in the sign of Capricorn. This explosive combination means you can anticipate a blow up between opposing forces. You can use this configuration constructively by getting to the bottom of the situation, understanding it completely and bringing a conscious course of action. This will jam the circuits of any opposing forces. It’s organized and deliberate and that makes it difficult to defeat.

Also, a little bit of luck seems to go a long way in your overall success. Jupiter & Uranus are conjunct in Aries and this duo gives you added reach when comes to getting the needed support that you have been seeking. Be mindful that your actions may have unintended consequences. Often we don’t look far enough ahead and our short term moves don’t result in any gains. Make sure you balance the short term with the long term as this will yield the desired results.

Good fortune follows the courageous one.

It’s time for someone to release the steam from the pressure cooker. Things are adequately cooked. Leaving it on for too long will reduce it to swill. Hopefully, things are going to chill off a bit. Too many angry voices are bad for our health. I recommend tuning out the nightly news if it is causing you too much anxiety. Better to live in your own fantasy than to risk a total meltdown.

But temperatures are rising. So keep cool no matter what garbage is being thrown your way. You can only control your own actions. The actions of other people are beyond your control. In fact there are people that are just sour grapes. Remember Aesop’s fairy tale about the fox that couldn’t get to the grapes so he claimed that they were sour. Resources around the world are becoming less and less available. It’s difficult to lay your hands on good old fashioned cash. Think carefully about making any unnecessary purchases. Demand quality.

Ease up on yourself. Don’t drive yourself too hard or you will risk a nervous breakdown. Everything can be accomplished in time. Set your own schedule and don’t allow others to fritter away your time. Say no to people who don’t know where to draw the line. You have to define your own goals and stay focused. Time and space become less important when you are making progress. You stop measuring everything in material terms. Find something to be happy about everyday.

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”…you may remember these lyrics from Me & Bobby McGee, a song written by Kris Kristofferson. The planetary influences seem to be in harmony with these sentiments. Suddenly we are faced with making serious choices which may otherwise be impossible to make. But given the circumstances surrounding these decisions it becomes easy to make choices.

We have a few planets in the sign of Gemini. Gemini is theoretical. If you ask them for directions they will point in two opposite directions. In a way, this is a very metaphysical answer. We achieve harmony by going toward the material and by going toward the spiritual. We learn to balance our nature through this process of going back and forth between these two poles.

Venus in Cancer is exactly sextile Saturn in Virgo. We feel like we must take life seriously. What we don’t know can hurt us. We have to become more aware. By bringing the unconscious into the conscious we protect ourselves from the unknown. It is the Sun that must realize the Moon. The Sun represents the conscious while the Moon represents the unconscious.

Naturally, the unconscious is hard to access. Our experiences bring this hidden matter to the forefront where we can deal with it in a conscious way. Jupiter and Uranus are conjunct in Aries and they will work together to bring you new and unexpected insights into your own deeper self. These insights will help you to advance on many levels.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. This voice is being heard louder and louder across the world. People are waking up to the changing economic events. Although this seems like a cacophony of sentiments, it does seem to be taking us somewhere outside our little worlds. You just can’t help but notice the suffering of humans and animals alike. Man is supposed to be the protector of the animals, of nature and of the earth. The consensus is that we haven’t been doing a very good job of it. This neglect will exact a high price in the years to come.

People are supposed to be superior in that they have a rational mind but it seems that this rationality has just gotten us further and further into trouble. Perhaps we have to look to higher influences to solve the problems that affect mankind. As it turns out, we are not so smart. We are an enemy to ourselves. Objectivity got a lot of people into a lot of trouble. Suffering will continue until we start to see that our real role is evolution and that evolution should include a humane and peaceful approach to all living things.

Character is destiny. We will enjoy the beauty of life if we respect the nature of all people and things. But we must take responsibility for our own actions and do what we believe to be the right thing. It is necessary to set a good example. The other thing needed would be to give up our resentments. This is our life, our choice and we must pay the price for those choices. We pay for what we want and we pay for what we don’t want.

Cooler heads must prevail. The myriad of thoughts that have been swirling around in your head seem to have no outlet. They are kind of dizzying. This is due to the confluence of planetary influences that don’t seem to find a common resting place. There are too many conflicting elements that can’t seem to cooperate fully. This is an unhappy state of mind. Unhappiness is the inability to experience inner peace. The times that we live in bring about challenges to finding this inner peace, nevertheless, it can be achieved.

The best way to obtain inner peace is by living in the moment. You must have a master plan but nothing can be experienced in the past or in the future. Life can only be experienced in the moment. Being too connected to the past allows for some fond memories but no action can eradicate or wipe out a word of it. The future cannot be experienced except in the form of extreme anxiety in which you project your fears onto some upcoming event. Too much foresight or not enough foresight is the enemy.

Going hither & thither seems to be the best route for the moment. Flexibility is required during this major period of change. Saturn & Uranus will soon be moving into to new signs and this will usher in new beginnings. Fresh ideas will begin to rise to the surface. Consciousness will find new paths of emergence. All these things will keep you moving in a positive and constructive direction.

Use this week to refuel. After the previous few weeks, you are feeling exhausted. Sometimes you just can’t swim upstream. Relax and go with the flow. You think that expressing your opinions is necessary to national security but really, sometimes it’s better not to rankle. Some things must run their course without the interference of interested parties.

Some people are making all sorts of declarations which ultimately can’t be upheld. Don’t get in the fray. Stand clear of any forming thunder clouds. When things hit the fan, you won’t be smack in the center of the chaos. Preservation of your resources is the most important consideration. Those resources include your health. Don’t let any one drain you of your precious time or energy.

You might be looking around and wondering, where is this all going to end? Don’t contemplate the unknowable but concentrate on making your own positive contributions to the world stage. None of us see the “big” picture. We all possess a small sliver of information from which we operate our lives. Keep your balance and enjoy the show.

Look for big swings of popular opinion. We will now see lots of people suddenly supporting things that only a short time ago they wouldn’t have considered. Survival is the greatest consideration. Survive with your own talents and resources. Be your own friend.