TIMING IS EVERYTHING!

“To everything there is a season

and a time for every purpose

under heaven.”

(Ecclesiastes 3:1)

Hooray! I am so excited. I finally figured out a way to post current and upcoming astrological cycles so that you can access them as you choose.

This way I can write my NEW MOON and FULL MOON updates in one place and then other important cosmic weather updates which you can access under the TIMING IS EVERYTHING link.

"IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART

THAT ONE CAN SEE RIGHTLY;

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL

IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE."

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

As an Astrologer, I am often in awe and amazement when I see how the cosmic weather reflects what is happening here on Earth. I watch the movement of the planets through the heavens, which form and release connections with each other in a cosmic square dance.

We can’t change the energy, but we can become aware of it and dance with the beat rather than against it. Astrological awareness is not a scary prediction of good or bad events to come. Instead, it is simply another piece of information that you can use to make sense of things.

There is no doubt that we are living in a very unstable, and yet for some of us, very exciting time of change and revolution. If you’re struggling with changes that seem to have been imposed on you i.e. the loss of a job, relationship, a financial or health challenge, look at what opportunities this pain-in-the-butt circumstance is forcing you to explore.

The fear you may be experiencing can get you all tied up in knots so that you aren’t thinking straight. Then you make bad decisions, which have negative consequences, which makes you more fearful. It’s a vicious cycle. If this sounds like you, here’s my advice…Realize that the fear is the #1 problem. The fear itself is, in all likelihood, a bigger problem than the object of your fear. Take care of the fear first. This is not so hard if you take it one step at a time.

Remember to breathe deeply, remember to eat well. Take care of your body and your mind. Nourish, nourish, nourish. Remember that what you focus on gets bigger. And you ARE in control of your focus. Don’t focus on how and where you are powerless. Instead focus on where you are powerful which will present options for solving whatever the problem is and for making it through a difficult time. And keep breathing!

Every 40 years or so, two planetary bodies do a fascinating dance in the heavens. Saturn represents form, convention, the old guard, the Establishment … while Uranus is the symbol of reform, change, unconventionality, the new guard and revolution. They are currently 180 degrees apart in the heavens. Astrologers call it an opposition, and this is what happens every month at the Full Moon, when the Sun and Moon occupy that place in the cosmos. Saturn RESISTS CHANGE and Uranus DEMANDS CHANGE. This world-altering planetary cycle peaks on election day, November 4, in the United States.

The contrast between the two major party candidates mirrors this opposition perfectly. The archetype of tradition and maturity, Saturn, is represented in the form of John McCain, a conservative, who at 72 years of age would be the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as president.

Uranus, the energy of change and progress, is symbolized by Barack Obama, the first biracial candidate and a liberal, who at 47 would be one of the youngest presidents in United States history.

The keyword of the Saturn/Uranus opposition:

A CHALLENGE TO THE STATUS QUO…no kidding, right? But don’t fool yourself into thinking that this opposition only symbolizes a struggle between the powers that be and the powers that wanna be. This opposition operates on a personal as well as a collective level, and that translates into all kinds of shifts. Saturn represents authority, Uranus questions authority. And approximately every 40+ years, as they oppose one another, we struggle with structures and foundations, individual and collective, in need of a serious overhaul.

Notice what’s stagnant in your life, and be prepared to transform your situation, even if that means being uncomfortable… very, very uncomfortable.

Think of the next 2 years as a period of rebellion against stagnant systems that no longer work but are resistant to change, individual and collective. The GIFT of Saturn opposite Uranus is the ability for us to get past our tribal/survival thinking. Indeed, thinking from a perspective of vision instead of fear and us against them survival is the ONLY remedy for Saturn opposed to Uranus woes.

IT’S TIME TO REMEMBER THAT

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

For you history buffs, the two most recent cycles of this opposition occurred from 1918 - 1920 and 1965 – 1967.

During the 1918 – 1920 cycle, Mussolini founded Fascism in Italy, women in America and Britain got the right to vote, the Communist Party was born in China, Gandhi became India’s leader for independence, and Gertrude Stein coined the term ‘lost generation’.

During the cycle of 1965 – 1967, a time of tremendous social, political and cultural turmoil, along with extraordinary creativity…Betty Friedan founded NOW, Chairman Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the march in Selma, Malcolm X was assassinated, spacewalks by Soviet and U. S. astronauts, 50,000 people marched on Washington to oppose the Vietnam War, Miranda rights became mandatory, Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India, and the counterculture revolutionized nearly every aspect of life.

Of course it can be argued, and rightly so, that unheaval is a constant part of our earthly situation. What astrology offers is the ability to identify patterns within that existential flux so we can better understand the forces at work in our personal and collective experience.

Saturn represents time in its usual sense. Living out our days within the steadfast boundaries of our clocks and calendars, we humans maintain a sense of order and normalcy. Uranus, by contrast, represents sudden surprises…it electrifies and accelerates everything in its path.

The feeling in the collective is that of a

TORNADO DERAILING A TRAIN.

To get a bead on the purposefulness behinds these thrills and chills, let’s put ourselves in Uranus’s shoes for a moment. He has a job to do…

TO WAKE US UP BY SHOCKING US SILLY.

If you were the Cosmic Trickster, how would you slap a people out of their complacency? Abrupt and drastic changes are good ways to get a rise. One of the reasons you’d want to send the Dow hurtling into a climb the day after you sent it plummeting with a stomach-lurching drop would be to give it somewhere to plunge again, the day after that.

In this contest, the planet with the clipboard, fretting about facts and figures, is Saturn. But Uranus orbits beyond Saturn. So it knows something that Saturn doesn’t know. And what Uranus knows is that…

CHANGE IS A GIVEN.

Frankly, the wise approach to the next few years is to get in touch with the part of you that loves a joy ride. In the same way that people line up at an amusement park for the chance to scream with glee while flying through the air, it is theoretically possible for you to approach the next 3 years as if you had chosen them.

But why, you may ask, would anyone choose something that disallows us our self-protections and shatters our sense of security? For the same reason that we pay good money for gravity-defying thrills and chills at the fairgrounds…

TO FEEL MORE ALIVE.

Given that Saturn and Uranus are always in the sky somewhere, we know that they take up residence in the chart of everyone on the planet. It would be valuable right now to locate Saturn and Uranus in your own birth chart and give it some consideration.

Wherever Saturn is cycling in your chart is where you are tightly holding on to what you know, where you feel restricted and confined...while you crave the unpredictable, the wild and exciting in the area occupied by Uranus. Your future is confronting your past. You can observe deep-seated patterns that don’t work anymore and change them.

The Saturn/Uranus opposition is all about renewing your relationship with authority. This can manifest in many ways depending on your disposition, such as growing out of childish fears, accepting life has limits, finding the courage to stand up to injustice, and coming more fully into your own authority.

And until we connect, I wish you...

BLUE SKIES, GREEN LIGHTS and LUCKY STARS!

I Love You,

Lorelei