May 6, 2004

• Just Relax

  My Anam Cara
  had herself all worked up in anticipation of some shaking up due to the
  passage of Uranus through a sensitive zone of her horoscope.  She
  laughed at me (a bit hysterically) when I suggested she “just
  relax.”  That exchange between us has had my mind returning frequently to the
  topic of relaxation, and to astrology, the outer planets in particular,
  since yesterday. 

  Uranus is in Pisces now. 
  It danced around on the Aquarius/Pisces cusp all last year, and at the
  end of 2003 began its seven year transit of Pisces, the sign opposite
  my sun sign Virgo and square my Anam Cara’s sun sign Gemini. 
  Virgo is not only my Sun sign.  In my chart, the asteroid Vesta is
  at 0° Virgo, so Uranus was in opposition  to this sexy quintessentially Virgoan
  goddess for a while early this year, throwing the full actinic glare of
  it’s weird New Age light on my sexuality.  Don’t think I didn’t
  notice.  Now, Uranus has moved out of opposition with Vesta and is
  approaching opposition to my natal Mercury at 8° Virgo.  It’s
  going to be there for a while, doing another retrograde dance that
  takes it back toward Vesta and just barely gets it out of the
  Mercury zone before it turns direct in November and crosses opposite
  Mercury again.

  Since my natal Mercury is conjunct natal Jupiter and the asteroid
  Ceres, which is all about nurturing and nutrition, with the three of
  them lined up opposite where Uranus will be transiting (back and forth,
  retrograde and direct) for the next four years, I can expect to have my
  mind, my luck, my love and family life and my food issues thrown into
  high relief and transformed.  Sooo… what else is new? 

  By the time Uranus moves away from opposition with that stellium in my
  chart, in spring 2008, it will be approaching opposition with my
  Sun/Chiron conjunction, where it will retrograde back again and forth
  again and hang around that aspect for a couple of years.  Then, it
  will head on out of Pisces and into opposition with my natal
  Moon/Neptune conjunction in Libra.   Uranus’s influence in
  Aries will be a lot
  hotter, more direct, less soft and diffuse than it is from
  Pisces.  Aaaand, this doesn’t even address the Neptune/Pluto septile that
  is trailing along, with Neptune being about a sign behind Uranus through all that, impacting my
  good old curse/blessing pattern in ways different from that of
  Uranus.  I figure the only sensible thing I can do on this roller
  coaster ride is relax.

  I received my first training in relaxation techniques
  and instruction in
  the reasons to relax as a small child, from nurses trying to help me
  through the discomforts of illness and the pain of some medical
  procedures.  It didn’t ever come naturally to me.  I was a
  high-strung hyperactive kid and have as an adult been a superachiever reluctantly
  shackled with chronic fatigue.  Relaxation has been my saving
  grace.  Stress could kill me, I know.  I also know that
  stress is not a stimulus, it is a response.  I have the choice
  whether to stress out over life events or whether to mellow out through
  them.  Regarding astrological stressors, the ancient Romans had it
  figured out:  “Stellae agunt,
  non cogunt”  The stars impel, they do not compel.

  Thanks, Sarah, for impelling me to pick up the ephemeris and see what’s
  what this time around.  As I was following up online today on what I
  read in the book, I found this, which might be of interest to you and
  other Geminis:

  GEMINI, Uranus brings a hugely
  significant seven-year period, but you must be able to “handle it.”
  Your tension and stress will increase, so learn relaxation techniques
  (fresh air and nature walks are best – television is worst) – or simply
  accept the fact that you need eight hours sleep a night! Your
  intellectual capabilities, your education, your ability to write or
  broadcast, the ideas or viewpoint you’ve gained from international
  travel, your willingness to travel afar, your contacts with
  foreign-born people, scholars or intellectual workers (lawyers, etc.) -
  all these are career assets. If you’ve struggled to learn, teach or
  communicate, now you will be recognized as a “doer” in these areas!
  (source:  Tim Stephens)
  

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