Three Eclipses - How Will They Affect You?

The first eclipse is a partial solar eclipse on June 1st at 11 degrees of Gemini. This eclipse will greatly affect Gemini and Sagittarius, but it will also impact all the air signs, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. That's because this eclipse is at a trine aspect to Saturn in Libra which is an air sign. If you've been working very assiduously towards your goals, you may find that you receive long overdue rewards for your efforts. Wherever this falls in your chart will indicate where you may receive acknowledgment for your hard work. If you haven't been focused enough, then you will have an opportunity to create a new structure in order to move forward in that life area more effectively.

The next eclipse is a total lunar eclipse on June 15th at 24 degrees Sagittarius. As this is a total eclipse rather than a partial one, this has even more power than the previous one in Gemini. There will be considerable changes in your life and you may be expected to learn something new, maybe learn some new skills, possibly move to a new area or even a different country. Try not to resist the changes and this eclipse will not disrupt your life too severely. On a global level, there could be issues with travel, technology, computers, cars, planes, trains, roads and general communications.

The last eclipse is a partial solar eclipse on July 1st at 9 degrees Cancer. This is potentially the most challenging of all three as it makes some difficult aspects with the other planets. It will greatly affect the cardinal signs: Cancer, Capricorn, Aries and Libra. Depending on where it falls in your chart it could mean relationship problems, changes in your relationships especially with your family. It could mean a move and financial challenges, even your health may be affected. There is also the potential for huge profits from a business and also to meet your soul mate. These energies are very powerful and have an affect for at least six months or longer.

Eclipses and What They Mean in Your Life: 

Look at your chart and see where the eclipse falls and you will have a period of about a year in which this life area will be stimulated. You will feel as though you don't have much choice, but you have to deal with issues facing you now and you cannot procrastinate any longer. There's usually a build up period of six months before the actual eclipse and consequences that need to be dealt with in the six months following the eclipse.

1st-7th house axis 

You need to find balance between your relationships and yourself. You will be facing issues around courage, confidence, and independence. Here are some possible outcomes: 

- An increased drive to take charge of your life. 

- A complete change of your personal appearance, your body, and your self image 

- You learn how to stand on your own two feet 

- You may marry or have a separation 

- A push to stronger identity and greater autonomy

2nd-8th house axis 

You'll want to find a balance between your own security needs and comfort with the needs of other people. Your finances come into sharp focus: 

- How well have you taken care of your finances? 

- Do you need to make some changes? 

- Are you spending more than you earn? 

- Are you relying on someone else for your security? 

- Prioritise your values and make sure you live in accordance with them 

- Take actions so that you can feel safer and more secure. You may learn that it's not necessarily material things that make you feel secure.

3rd-9th house axis 

Issues surrounding learning and sharing knowledge will come into focus. You may need to pay more attention to your immediate environment. Things you may face: 

- A need to become more active and involved in your immediate environment 

- Learn how to expand your horizons and look beyond your own world 

- Force yourself out of a rut and stale habit patterns 

- Start to communicate more effectively 

- Learn something new 

- Teach something new 

- Prioritize your values and ensure you are living according to those values 

- Make connections with people from an entirely different background than yours - either personal or business.

4th-10th house axis 

This involves issues about your public and your private life, as well as paying attention to your career and your family. You'll need to find ways to: 

- Strike a balance between home, security and family with the needs of your career, reputation and drive for success. 

- Take charge of your private life 

- Take charge of your career 

- Start a new career path 

- Balance the needs of home with work 

- You have to move state or country for your work 

- You may move home

5th-11th house axis 

This is about finding out what gives you pleasure and maybe turning a hobby into a business. You'll be reevaluating your friendships and the groups to which you belong. 

- A love affair may begin or end under this influence. 

- New contacts with others are likely 

- Try to take some risks especially with your creativity 

- Develop your self confidence - maybe take up acting or public speaking 

- Learn about working with others and being a team player 

- Consider contributing to your community - maybe volunteering

6th-12th house axis 

This is all about work, service and health - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It's a good time to: 

- Get more organised 

- Adapt your routines 

- Develop healthy habits and put some new structures into your life 

- Let go of your fears and old destructive habit patterns 

- Develop more compassion and understanding of others 

- Let go of your obsessions and your worries 

- Focus on the spiritual side of your life and go within for answers

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Taurus Cow Goddess Message

My man, Taurus the Bull, was always transmitting messages about safety and security, especially at a physical level. "Stock up on food, water, keep your gas tank filled up, have money on hand, your papers in order, be ready to leave at a moment's notice. You never know when there will be a natural or manmade disaster and you want to be prepared for any crisis that could occur."

Being Safe Emotionally

Being safe and secure are also messages that I'm sending to you, but more from the emotional perspective. It is feelings and intuitive abilities that you will be fully developing during the Goddess of Love's reign that is being expressed through a matriarch inspired era. It's quite an enthralling time ahead as you learn how to play your feelings consciously, much like a gifted pianist runs her fingers adroitly over a piano.

Actress Within You

For now, know that your emotional nature is designed to express feelings so everyone can easily identify the role it is acting out. Your feelings most often keep you playing the same roles over and over again like a broken record without becoming conscious of the fact. You may sometimes ask yourself, "Why am I repeating the same role over and over again, I know better." Think of your emotional nature as the actress within you clamoring to jump up on the emotional stage and play her part. The more familiar the script, the more she likes it.

Three Basic Emotional Roles

There's really only three basic emotional roles: victim, villain or heroine. So, why would your emotional nature head for a victim role? Actually it's not at all a despised role for your emotional nature. The pain, grief and suffering that can be expressed through the victim role can be so heart-wrenchingly dramatic.

Victim Role Seductive

The victim role is such a seductive role. Through the hurt and suffering that you endure, you can tap into your seductive, tender sensuality that makes the agony worthwhile. Hard-core victims wait until misfortune strikes so many times that even they can't help noticing that something must be wrong.

I'm the Victim, You're the Villain

In a relationship conflict, both parties usually try to convince each other they are the victim. The thought is, the victim role is the only safe role, while pointing the finger at the other one as the villain.

You Will Not Be Safe

So what do emotional roles have to do with safety? It will not make any difference how much you prepare at a physical level for a catastrophe or a crisis, if your emotional nature loves to express itself through the victim role, you will not be safe. You'll end up in your usual role, the victim.

Life Looks Unfair

Let me ask you, "Are there enough heroes to go around, or are there more people heading for the victim and villain roles which emotionally are so much more juicy than a perceived staid heroine role?" That's why life looks unfair, not enough heroines to save all the victims and triumph over all the villains.

You Become the Heroine

If you want to be safe, you'll need to learn how to play your feelings just like the pianist plays the notes. When you catch your emotional nature expressing itself as the victim, you become the heroine she's crying to save her. Don't try to reason with her with facts and figures, rational reasoning does not work. Instead get involved, play the role of the heroine to the hilt but like in an exaggerated play. "Oh, damsel in distress, let me save you. You're my love, here's a tissue to wipe your furrowed brow. Do you need to cry my love?" Not snide, not nasty, just really "campy", fun.

Break Hypnotic Trance

You're after breaking the hypnotic trance your emotional nature is stuck in and you're doing it in a caring way with humor. Then get her to help you, cook, care for the animals, water the plants, whatever that would get her into the heroine role also, being helpful. You may be surprised, your emotional nature is actually happy playing all three starring roles, it's the feelings that she wants to express. Help her this zodiac year become truly masterful at expressing herself through the caring heroine role.

Victims and Money

Be realistic, no self respecting victim will ever be caught with money. As soon as she gets it, she has to get rid of it, either spending it on things foolishly or letting someone take it from her. To train your emotional nature how to become a heroine in the matriarch era, you'll need to become good at business but in a whole different way. Home based network marketing is a natural, where to succeed you definitely must express carrying which automatically thrusts you into the heroine role and out of the victim role. Passive, residual income made through duplicating yourself many times is the matriarch way.

Understand the Numbers

Get involved! Each and every zodiac month, there will be a new skill to develop, so your emotional nature will not get bored for even a moment. This zodiac month, it's the compensation plan, the numbers you need to understand. Otherwise you will be a naïve, gullible hero which will land you back in the victim role way too soon.

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The Eclipses Are Coming - A Triple Play - Summer 2011

June 1st, June 15th, and July 1st, 2011

This Summer's eclipses may just creep up and surprise us. Things could start off with some unexpected pleasures or opportunities, but before they are finished we may find ourselves struggling to get along. We can't really blame it all on the eclipses, because there will be outer planetary trouble brewing around the same time. But, each of the 3 eclipses will also become progressively more troublesome.

Usually eclipses come in pairs and mostly twice a year, but this summer, we've got three in a row -- bang, bang, boom! Eclipses bring changes, and where they occur in our natal chart determines what areas of our lives will be affected. Eclipses can be the best determiner in predictive astrology. What that means is, when you look at the year ahead, you check to see where the upcoming eclipses will land. Its the easiest way to get quick a look at someone's astrological future.

Our first eclipse will be a partial solar eclipse on June 1st at 3:50 AM EDT. It will be at 11 degrees 3 minutes in Gemini. Obviously this eclipse will impact Gemini and Sagittarius, but it will also impact all the air signs, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. That's because this eclipse will be at a very tight, very positive aspect to Saturn in Libra. This will help to bring patients and stamina to the scattered Gemini in our personalities. Because eclipses bring changes, and Saturn rules hard work, we may find that we receive some long overdue rewards for our past efforts. We may also be ready to begin working at making positive changes in our lives.

The next eclipse will be a total lunar eclipse on June 15th at 4:12 PM EDT at 24 degrees 22 minutes in Sagittarius. This eclipse will not be making any aspects to any major planets, and there won't be any other planetary influences going on. So, anything we feel out of the ordinary at that time can definitely be blamed on the eclipse. Total eclipses have more "umph" than partial, so there will changes happening. Often people find change difficult and uncomfortable, and we don't like it! With this eclipse happening in Sagittarius, we may be expected to learn something new, possibly for the job, or we may just notice that there is an air of pessimism about. There could also be problems with neighbors, computers, our vehicles, and travel, so try to stay flexible.

As I mentioned above, these eclipses will get progressively worse, and this last one will be the grand finale. It will be a partial solar eclipse on July 1st at 4:38 AM EDT at 9 degrees 12 minutes in Cancer. Obviously this eclipse will affect Cancer and Capricorn, but there will also be problems in Libra and Aries (all of the cardinal signs). This eclipse will be at a very negative aspect to Saturn in Libra, and 9 of the 10 major planets in our solar system will be at some aspect to one another. Thats a lot of commotion all at once. The eclipse itself could bring problems and changes in relationships and at home. There could be marriage an/or family issues, and there may also be financial or even health problems (especially stress related health issues). The other planetary problems may actually amplify the eclipse energy, and they may cause problems to emerge in other areas of our lives including criminal behavior and repressed anger. But, there will also be a potential for great windfall in business, gambling, and even love. Because of this positive potential, those who can rise under pressure may actually find this eclipse energy will reward them.

And, thats the end of our Summer trio. The eclipses will return in November and December to upset Geminis and Sagittarians once again. If you are wanting to know more about how these eclipses will affect you, contact your favorite astrologer. Even a few minutes with an astrologer can help you learn more about yourself and your chart than you may realize.

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Experiential Psychological Astrology - Part 1

Defense mechanisms - oppositions in the horoscope

How do oppositions really work in the horoscope? Generally they are perceived as showing a split between the energy of two planets, a difficulty in finding a balance or middle way between two opposing parts of the psyche, or the needs they represent. The personal planets shows personal needs, whilst the outer planets show the challenges that our needs encounter. Certainly the opposition represents a polarity which sparks a constant process of negotiation within the person.

It is very difficult for the person to feel or express both planets at the same time - there is an inner division or divide. This is in all likelihood because one of the needs (the one planet) has been difficult for the person to relate to or even access whilst growing up. An unfulfilled need takes up a lot of space, and when grown up the person must resort to projecting this need onto others, and is dependent on another person to express the need (the planetary principle) to be able to feel whole.

Projection is a defense mechanism to avoid feeling an emotion or a need that has historically been dangerous or forbidden to satisfy. If this defense mechanism could speak, it would say: "you must under no circumstances feel, think or act in this way". The projection or opposition works also in a way that other people are ascribed feelings, acts and thoughts, which in fact belong to the person. The target person or group does not have anything to do with it. This happens because owning these feelings or needs is such a threat to the identity that it has become a habit to project them. So other people are made wrong whenever a "dangerous" feeling related to the need begins to be felt.

An example

Take for example a person with a Venus/Pluto opposition. There will perhaps have been an experience of abandonment or loss of love, which was a threat to the identity, resulting is a deep longing to be valued, loved and have contact early in life. The person has a residual anxiety about losing, and love is equated with survival. To feel that one really needs another person is forbidden, and furthermore the person may not express love tangibly enough, developing a shell of self-sufficiency.

The Pluto principle is projected onto the partner: "you are a threat to me, you will probably abandon me, I will suppress my jealousy and strive to manipulate you and control you, so you will not leave me". The partner is made to be wrong, is criticized or is threatened so that the unbearable feeling of being powerless disappears.

It is possible to work with the two planets in an empathic and therapeutic way when the bond between therapist and client is secure. A classic technique is working with two chairs, when the client feels both needs in turn. Firstly the Venus principle - a need for affection and recognition, to love and be loved. Subsequently the Pluto defense, which is activated when the inner anxiety or emotional level becomes too strong. The motivation of the Pluto projection onto a partner could for example be: "I must dominate you and threaten to leave you, because you will surely leave me. You have to feel like I do, or be of the same opinion, otherwise you are not going to be close enough to me".

Moving from one chair to another can start a negotiation between the needs, so that the dilemma softens up. It is an exercise in feeling what is normally so dangerous to feel. This work demands a safe therapeutic relationship which has been developed over time, and a willingness to experiment and feel the self. Being able to express the emotions that come to the surface in this way gives an experience of being whole and complete. Therapy takes time and the development of complete trust takes time. In group work this is only possible when the participants meet regularly in an experiential psychological astrology framework. Bonding and security are the foundation blocks for making this work, and a group can be just the place where empathy is strong and transformation can take place.

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