Planetary Transits
October 31 to December 21, 2004
Samhain 2004 to Yule 2004
THE BIG PICTURE (for Oct.31 to
Dec.21):
The big
news is Jupiter-trine-Neptune, which begins now and continues
throughout 2005. Only forming every 4 or 8 years, the trine between
the two planetary rulers of Pisces brings blessings, harmony and
well-being, as well as the potential for confusion or
well-intentioned deception. Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius
in the midst of this, inspiring us to reconsider how we understand
and embrace our highest potential for growth and our most vulnerable
area of self-deception. Doing your homework in these area leads to
deep transformation by purging old beliefs that no longer serve you.
In the
meantime, Saturn has been isolated in Cancer, with the rest of the
planets bunching up on the other side of the zodiac, since the
beginning of November. We are all feeling the weight of Saturn’s
demand for responsibility, accountability, manifestation and
discipline during this time. Saturn’s separation continues until May
2005, with the exception of the times when the Moon travels around
to the Saturn side of the zodiac (late Nov. to early Dec., peaking
on Nov.30, and again after the time range of this column). The
Moon’s contact with Saturn brings the hard work we are doing down to
a personal level, as we are challenged to integrate and manifest our
goals.
Oct. 31 – SAMHAIN (Halloween)
Nov. 4 – Mercury
in Sagittarius (until Jan. 9, 2005)
Ideas and
thoughts take in the broad perspective during this time, especially
communication that expresses your visions, hopes and dreams. As
Mercury gets ready to go retrograde at the end of November, it will
collect new ideas and information to merge into new insight that has
intensely transforming potential in December. Now is the time to
start journaling your ideas, wishes and hopes!
Nov. 4-8 – Venus CNJ Jupiter, TRI
Neptune (in Libra/Aquarius)
This is a
time of opportunity when the focus of your desires has a good chance
of coming true if you focus clearly enough and maintain a good
balance, both inside and outside of you. The danger is in becoming
greedy and trying to grab everything in sight. Relationships and
money issues are amplified, so strive to stay realistic without
selling yourself short.
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Nov. 7 – Mars
SQR Saturn (in Libra/Cancer)
Arguments
and conflicts can abound under this transit. Your efforts seem
thwarted at every turn. Although you might feel blocked in your
actions, especially with authority figures, you’re not without power
or ability. Obstacles can strengthen you, if you work with them
instead of just fighting against them. Assertiveness with others is
important, but aggression or rigidity with others will only get
their back up.
Nov. 8 – Saturn
stations Retrograde (in Cancer)
For up to
a week before and after this time, your physical and emotional
energy may feel a bit heavy, stuck, serious or sad. It might seem
like your efforts to be self-sufficient and responsible just evoke
problems, but the next 4 months will show you new ways to improve
that side of yourself. Saturn’s lessons are slow and gradual to
develop. Hard work on blocked areas will start to pay off after
March.
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Nov. 11 – Mars
in Scorpio (until Dec. 25)
Mars
swaggers through its own sign of Scorpio, bringing a brusque animal
charm to your style of self-expression and self-assertion. There is
a strong urge to liberate yourself from the object of your
obsession, but there is the risk of self-deception at the end of
November, so be careful you don’t just become more obsessed.
Nov. 11 – Uranus stations Direct (in
Pisces)
For up to
a week before and after this time, your energy might feel liberated,
excited, erratic or scattered. Your instincts may push you to break
free from old habits or patterns, but strive to banish only the bad
stuff and celebrate the good stuff.
Nov. 11-13 – Mercury SXT
Jupiter/Neptune (Sag., Libra/Aquar.)
This is
the first of 3 passes (also mid- and late-Dec.) of Mercury forming a
Sextile aspect to the Jupiter-Neptune Trine. (See Nov. 29 for more
on Jupiter Trine Neptune.) This is a time when perceptions and
communication enable us to taste the sweet, soothing, harmonious
blessings of the Jupiter-Neptune brew. To focus the healing benefits
of this transit, write in your journal or talk with trusted guides
(spiritual or physical) about your highest vision and your greatest
joy.
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Nov. 12, 9:26AM
EST – NEW MOON in Scorpio
This
powerful New Moon energy takes us deeper into our need to transform
than we might have been before. The Uranus station the day before
provides energy to break through to new awareness of your inner
wounds. But strong healing energy can now be injected into those
wounds, which will take effect over the coming 4 weeks. Healing will
be most profound in subtle, gradual, unconscious ways, so don’t be
hard on yourself if improvement isn’t obvious or quick.
Nov. 12 – Mercury enters the Shadow
(until Jan. 7, 2005)
Mercury
now passes into the area where it will later go retrograde. From now
until Nov. 30, be alert to new insight which has the potential to
transform old wounds through intense self-honesty, as well as soothe
through justice and liberation. The core issues underlying events
over the next 2-3 months can develop into a liberating Truth.
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Nov. 15 – Mars
TRI Uranus (in Scorpio/Pisces)
Actions
taken now can break you out of whatever rut you’re in, bringing a
breakthrough to new possibilities. Your courage is at a high point
right now, as is your ability to leave behind old outmoded habits
and patterns. Just be careful that your high energy doesn’t blast
away people and situations that you want to keep.
Nov. 15 – Venus SQR Chiron (in
Libra/Capricorn)
Relationships and finances require adjustments now, as you face
dynamics in these areas that just don’t want to balance out the way
you want them to. Stubborn reality keeps intruding, requiring that
you keep lowering the bar of your expectations and desires to match
what is practical, which can bring healing to these areas of your
life.
Nov. 19 – Sun
TRI Saturn (in Scorpio/Cancer)
This is a
great time to apply yourself to serious work, especially in ways
that increase self-sufficiency, strengthen your sense of self, and
support your ambitions.
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Nov. 20 – Venus
SQR Saturn (in Libra/Cancer)
Finances,
relationships and interactions with others may seem blocked or
require additional effort, for a day or two before and after this
time. Manifesting your desires may require added hard work right
now, but the struggle will likely bring you closer to your goals.
Nov. 20 – Mercury CNJ Pluto (in
Sagittarius)
This is
the first of 3 conjunctions between Mercury and Pluto over the next
7 weeks (also Dec.7 and Jan.4). This powerful combination of
energies brings the first step of deep transformation through
increased self-awareness and seeing yourself within a broader
context of the world around you. The next several weeks are a good
time to explore your deeper feelings and needs by journaling or
finding other ways to express them.
Nov. 21 – Sun in
Sagittarius (until Dec. 21)
During
this time your self-expression and aspirations may look to new
horizons, new truth, new knowledge or new justice. The rebel in you
may explode out first, shaking up old assumptions and opinions. This
allows you to reconnect to your ideals, which helps the
transformation and awareness of your secret hopes and fears.
Nov. 22 – Venus
in Scorpio (until Dec. 16)
The energy
now is sensuous, sultry and scintillating! Your instincts fling you
into intimacy and yearning, but be careful that fantasy and
obsession don’t set you up for disappointment. The energy is there
to pursue your heart’s desire, so be careful what you ask for, since
you are very likely to get it.
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Nov. 24 – Sun
SQR Uranus (in Sagittarius/Pisces)
The
radical in you is probably itching to come out and stir up trouble
for 1-2 days before and after this date. Resist the urge to rebel
just for the sake of doing something different, and aim to break
free of old forms of self-expression and ideals that don’t work for
you anymore.
Nov. 24 – Venus TRI Uranus (in
Scorpio/Pisces)
Relationships, finances and interactions with others are likely to
be footloose and fancy free right now, as hidden urges and desires
come springing out of the woodwork to shake up the status quo.
Nov. 26, 3:07PM
EST – FULL MOON in Gemini (Sun in Sag)
This is
the fruition time of the New Moon from Nov. 12. Now is when those
old wounds are opened up the widest, giving you the chance to apply
a salve of love, balance and honesty. If you’re willing to sacrifice
a bit of your guarantees, perfection and “happily ever after,” this
can be a unique opportunity for transformation by creative chaos.
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Nov. 29 –
Jupiter TRI Neptune (in Libra/Aquarius)
This is
the first of 3 Trine aspects between Jupiter and Neptune (the other
two being Mar. and Aug. 2005). This energy remains in effect from
late Oct. to next April, but is esp. strong for a week before and
after now. You have the potential to channel uplifting and healing
love, compassion and optimism. The air is saturated with idealism,
faith, hope and love, which can bring healing balm to open wounds.
But there is also the possibility of deception and perfectionism, so
allow the inspiration to guide you, not demand that life imitate
art.
Nov. 30, 7:18 AM
EST – Mercury stations Retrograde (in Sag)
For
several days before and after this date, energy may be intense,
condensed and tense. For the next 3 weeks, expect weird
communication, wrong numbers, crazy drivers and befuddled thoughts.
Try to delay signing contracts or making major decisions until well
after Mercury goes direct (Dec. 20). Through this time you are
called upon to seek a new awareness through a higher truth, brutal
self-honesty, and being willing to see the beauty through the
tarnish.
Nov.30-Dec.2 – Mars/Venus SQR
Neptune (in Scorpio/Aquarius)
The
intensity of desire and lust collide with the yearning of ideals and
perfectionism during this time, give or take about a week.
Relationships, interactions and pursuit of money or pleasure are
prone to distortion from hidden fantasies or unrealistic
expectations. This time is best used to pierce through the fog of
secret longing and to lower the bar of unreachable perfection.
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Dec. 5 – Venus
CNJ Mars (in Scorpio)
From
mid-Nov. until late-Dec. (peaking around Dec. 5), desire is pulsing,
lust is simmering and love is gleaming! This marks the end of a
2-year cycle and starts a new one, developing the dance between
receptivity and aggression, love and lust, persuasion and control.
The latter (Mars) of these pairs are likely to be strongest, being
in Mars’ sign of Scorpio, and Mars’ sharp edges will benefit from
Venus’ soothing qualities. You are likely to experience a very
concrete manifestation of this energy for the next week or two.
Dec. 7-13 –
Mercury/Sun/Pluto CNJ (in Sagittarius)
This is
the 2nd of 3 conjunctions between Mercury and Pluto (Nov. 20), this
time joined by the Sun. This transit brings great intensity of
vision, depth of perception, and transformation by ending old modes
of self-expression that no longer serve you. Strive to shed any
self-image or mindset that doesn’t support and encourage the best
you are capable of being.
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Dec. 11, 8:28PM
EST – NEW MOON (in Sagittarius)
This
4-week cycle compels you toward deep purging of old pessimism,
rigidity and harsh judgement that no longer serve your best
interests. What will flow in to fill its place is a deeper and
broader connection to whatever form(s) of Higher Power you relate to
(and possibly some you aren’t yet familiar with). The deeper you are
able to scour out the deadwood in your life, the more room there
will be for new meaning and spiritual renewal. It may be a
challenge to balance serious responsibility with the urge to throw
off all structures that inhibit your growth...but try anyway.
Dec. 12-14 –
Mercury SXT Jupiter/Neptune (Sag., Libra/Aquar.)
This is
the second of three passes of this transit (see Nov. 11) which can
bring the boundless potential of spiritual energy (of the
Jupiter-Neptune) into our conscious awareness and worldview. This
pass is best focused through “Right-brain” approaches, like
meditation, intuition, dreams, artistry, creativity and Universal
Oneness. Pick at least one and meditate on it, talk about it, think
about it, become it.
Dec. 13-19 –
Venus/Mars TRI Saturn (in Scorpio/Cancer)
Even
though Venus and Mars passed the exact conjunction a week or so ago,
they are still close together enough that their joint Trine to
Saturn will manifest their collective energies now. Saturn’s
seriousness might force Mars’ fiery edge and Venus’ hot desires to
chill out a bit in order to harness their powerful forces, but their
collective energies should be more accessible and easier to
transform into real change and rewards this way.
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Dec. 16 – Venus
in Sagittarius (until Jan. 9, 2005)
Venus now
turns her passion to truth-seeking, philosophical exploration, lust
for knowledge, spiritual intimacy, music in foreign languages and
multicultural social discourse. Initial surprises may disturb your
calm balance, but by viewing it from broad, compassionate
perspective, new transformation will be possible.
Dec. 19 – Venus
SQR Uranus (in Sagittarius/Pisces)
This
transit brings the initial surprises mentioned for Venus in
Sagittarius. Disruptions, revelations and unexpected turns could
come your way in the areas of relationships, interactions, finances
and self-worth. Any problems lurking in the background could burst
on the scene now, but it will let some fresh air into a stale
situation.
Dec. 20, 1:30AM
EST – Mercury stations Direct (in Sagittarius)
For up to
a week before and after this date, your energy may feel intense,
confused or dynamic. Insights and opinions may now come out of the
woodwork, having brewed behind the scenes for the last 3 weeks. You
could feel your security, integrity or well-being is on the line,
compelling you to speak your mind more than usual. Strive to speak
the highest Truth you know, not default to reflexive argument.
Dec. 21, 7:41AM
EST – YULE (Winter Solstice, Sun in Capricorn
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© 2004
Wendy Guy.
Originally published in Cauldron and Quill Magazine, and The Burning Times
Newsletter, Samhain 2004 issues.
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