Your Zodiac For The Week

I completely had some of you in mind when I read this forecast. Where the hell are my cards dammit.


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Week of October 23rd, 2005

Week as a Whole:

On Tuesday evening Jupiter enters Scorpio and begins his yearlong residence in this sign of strong desire and fixed purposes. Less than 24 hours later, Neptune comes to his semi-annual standstill and resumes normal forward motion through the zodiac. Both Jupiter and Neptune represent our connections and expansions into the larger worlds outside our personal and family life. Both inform our sense of reality by defining, consciously and unconsciously, what we think is possible. After this week, the world will seem a different place with new options and some old patterns of thought left behind.

Jupiter is the philosopher of the zodiac. He takes the broad view in all senses and his condition describes the condition of our cultural institutions like our courts, universities, and formal religions. He opens a pathway for us to expand up and out into our society. He informs our long-range relationships with people and countries. He is a policy maker working with big ideas and concepts. For the past year, Jupiter has been passing through Libra, a sign noted for its grace, objectivity, and balance. Sometimes, Libra can be so polite and evenhanded that the crucial issues are not discussed, but inconclusively danced around. Not so with Scorpio. Matters that were debated intellectually and “rationally” a month ago, will now be charged with emotion. No wiggle room allowed. Politics will become even more polarized. Do not be fooled by a veneer of civility; the true blood sport nature of political power will be roiling just beneath the surface.

As Jupiter moves forward into Scorpio he will make square angles in December with Saturn in Leo and in February with Neptune in Aquarius, and with both at once in the late summer of 2006. These will mark times of serious power struggles and battles over cultural values. The mid-term elections in the U.S. will be a stage for this contest over the country’s direction. Court battles and trials will be the locations for power changing hands. Much will be hidden in typical Scorpio fashion. The law and legal arguments will be a means to an end.

Neptune connects us by the experiences we have in common. He dissolves our boundaries, boundaries like class, nationality, geography, gender, age, political affinity, and wealth. Neptune reaches us through mass media that touches our common humanity. We feel his power in the weather and the common cold that can affect us all. Our unified experience in a symphony or a football game is Neptunian. Music flows over and through us like his oceanic waters that make up 70 percent of our bodies. Neptune has been slowly moving through forward-looking Aquarius for the past few years uniting all of us in concern and anticipation of an approaching future vastly different that the recent past. We all feel something headed our way. We all know intuitively that technology and industry – Aquarian attributes – are driving these changes. We can expect that the square angle between Jupiter and Neptune in February and then later next summer will mark points of tension over the shaping of this future and how we use or don’t use our resources.

We’re at the end of a long period of extreme stress and high energy. Calmer days lie just ahead, but this week as Jupiter and Neptune change, we come to new mental and spiritual understanding of what has happened. The political landscape has changed, and in a more subtle way, our assumptions about what’s possible have also changed. The previous weeks have made serious changes within our personal sphere, our feelings have changed, we have new information, and our minds have been stretched a bit. But this week those changes come outside and manifest. Hidden matters come to the surface; this is a time for revelations big and small.