Wenlock and Mandenville - Where Did You Come From?

The 2012 London Summer Olympics are here.  It is hard to believe that it has been four years since the last Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.  The Sun is in Leo and Leo wants to shine!  Leo’s energy is keeping the spirits high, optimistic and bright.  The chart of the London Olympics is a challenging one but that is not to say that these events will be all gloom and doom.  The chart has three Yods.  A Yod is a rare astrological aspect that can involve any celestial body.  It looks like a “Y” on any axis.  Two of the planets are sextile and and both inconjunct a third planet sharing neither gender, element, nor mode.    This placement of the planets can cause controversies, blurry outcomes, tense energies.  One can find a lot of information and conspiracy theories  that talk about the London Summer Olympics.  The three Yods just point out that there will be many different interpretations on what to expect from these events.  The Mercury was in retrograde during the opening ceremony and has now gone direct.  There are many ways of looking at the Games – perhaps it is just an entertainment, perhaps it symbolizes our pride, presents us with collective messages and spiritual awakenings - all of the energies of the three Yods.  What do the Olympics mean to you, do you cheer for an individual or a team?  Do the Olympics remind us that we can be competitive without using a force, without endangering someone else?  Some people believe the Olympics are here to reveal a message to us, and maybe that they point us towards our saviour, so we can become a part of the collective.  Are the aliens  watching us?  Good-bye past and welcome future.  Privacy is the thing of the past.  Wenlock is watching you!  :)

 

Take it or leave it attitude is sure going to apply during the entire event since it fits within the Games’ chart.  Mercury retrograde has created already some confusions and blurry messages but hey, for an event this large – things have been running pretty smoothly.  Mars, the planet of the competition is present at every sports event during the Olympics.  It is now in a friendly and sociable Libra – the sign of diplomacy and peace.  The sign of Libra serves its purpose during the Olympics since it emphasizes a healthy competition.  Mars is also close to being conjunct to Saturn.  Mars wants us to go, go, go and Saturn questions everything Mars is about to experience.  Saturn, the teacher, controls the expansive Mars – thus, the Olympics are very well organized.  Our economy and the world crisis will continue for months to come and is not likely to disappear; at least we can all immerse ourselves into the spirit of the Games and forget about the worries of the world – at least for now.  Isn’t it nice to see this kind of healthy competition and celebrate the achievements of many who have prepared so diligently and tirelessly to take part in the Olympic Games in London. Wenlock might be watching them, Mercury retrograde may have played a trick or two on them but the Sun in Leo shines on.  Mars in Libra gives them the kind of stamina that comes hand in hand with humility.  Speaking of stars aligned just right!

 

Home Sweet Home

The Sun entered Cancer on June 20, 2012.  And I am a procrastinator.  It is the 21^st of July now and we are officially in Leo.  Time got away from me.  Here are my excuses.  I blame the universal time and our fast paced society and the fact that I have absolutely no planets in Virgo :) I think I should blame my own disorganized self.  Perhaps I should learn to balance my family, my work, my friends, astrology and "me" time.  I know I should but for the most part it always seems like my life is this big avalanche of all of these things combined and I am a snowboarder trying to escape it.  I think this time I am going to call my Virgo friends to the rescue.  

Really, isn’t it kind of ironic - Cancer is a sign that rules our home, our family, our downtime and yet, during these busy months we don’t get enough time to  enjoy our home, our family and we don’t get the time we can just spend on our own doing absolutely nothing.  We crave this time, we idealize it – at least here in the Northern Hemisphere where Summer is the time when children are off school, people are on holidays, they spend time camping, going to the beach, travelling.  We want to read a book or two, we want to cook a nice meal and be outside, enjoy the summer days, relax, meditate and return to our primal purpose of our being.  During the month of Cancer we all crave peace, safety, security, time with family and time spent at home.  We retreat to our safety haven and then go back in time to relive our memories from the past.  We long for the past.  Are you all feeling this time crunch?  Do you dream about the past?  Was it better then?  Was the time going by a lot slower?  Are the summer days of your childhood and your youth the days you want to go back to?  Things seemed to be simpler and and a lot more relaxed.  I do miss the way things were, the slower paced life.  Well that was then and now is now, we can't change things.  Enough on that.

Happy belated birthday my Cancer friends.  As an astrologer I do not like to say “belated” but I have done it once again – time has vanished and it is nowhere to be found.  Cancer is a water sign, caring, sensitive and reflecting.  Think of Pisces and the ocean comes to mind, think of Cancer and what you see is a beautiful reflecting lake in the mountains, crystal clear, peaceful and quaint.  Mountains surround this lake and they provide safety and security - a true Feng Shui haven.  Cancer is a cardinal sign - the beginning of the new season, it is ruled by the Moon and therefore strongly connected to our emotions and feelings.  Cancer people are the nurturers and dreamers of the Zodiac.  They will be there to weather the storms with you.  They are sentimental and they often idealize the past. Their connection to their past is always there - may it be through the family of their origin, their roots, their memories, they do seem to go back and forth between now and then, floating flawlessly between the two time entities.  

Here is my little intermezzo.  It wraps all of the Cancerian characteristics into one specific trait – the longing for the past is very well depicted in the song Round Here by George Michael.   George Michael was born on the 25^th of June, 1963.  His Sun sign and his ascending sign are both in Cancer.  There is a certain flair of nostalgia in all of his songs.  His music as a solo artist and as a lead singer of the pop group Wham! will always evoke these nostalgic feelings of things long gone. 

Here is his Round Here from 2004 album Patience.  

 

George Michael - Round Here 

"So come with me, let me show you where I've lived
  I want to put my hands in this earth again
  Music fell like rain to the streets
  The Specials and The Jam, to The Beat
  Even though I think I've seen everything there is to see of this world
  I gotta be thankful that this crowded space
  Is the place of my birth"

Happy dreaming, happy Saturday, Sunday or whatever time zone you might be in.  I will give you a short astrological update in my next post.  Until then, take care of yourself and try to create more time.  For yourself, your family, your loved ones.  

Cardinal Grand Cross

Today’s Moon in Libra, Sun in Cancer, Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn complete a cardinal Grand Cross.  A Grand Cross occurs when the four planets involved are separated from each other by square aspects, 90 degrees apart.  In a Grand Cross there are four elements involved, each planet is in a different element (earth, fire, air and water). 

During a cardinal Grand Cross we may feel to be pulled each and every direction.  We want to accomplish so much but we often accomplish nothing at all.  Stop beating yourself for not being productive and just enjoy the day.  Even though this is a stressful configuration, today’s Libra Moon sets the mood for a quiet and romantic evening so just let it be. 

Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply just sums up the Libra Moon’s mood of the day.  Not saying you have to escape the harsh reality of the Grand Cross, but a little daydreaming may help you get through the day. 

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply