Transit Lab: Everything transiting everything else (or so it seems)
Mercury’s stationing on the cusp of my 2nd…the new Moon tonight is on my 1st house Uranus, squaring my Cancer/10th South Node, opposing Rx Chiron on the DSC…Mars is transiting the 9th opposes my natal Jupiter in 3rd and squares Pluto in 12th…
Which seems to have resulted in me choosing to take a long-distance trip for reasons I would not have possibly guessed I might (the Mars t-square), but choosing my desired method of transport, no matter what anyone says (Uranus in 1st).
Okay, I’ll just tell you: I’m sailing back to the Midwest for a family funeral in my boat made out of drinking straws.
That wasn’t so hard.
For some reason, I’m just very sure I’m not flying for this trip. Also, piloting my straw boat through the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississipi always helps me calm down, stay focused and ground, and that’s needed now.
A couple of days after I received the news, I did an interview with another evolutionary astrologer about a new archetype I’m working with, Arjunsuri (asteroid 20300). She’s producing a podcast regularly, providing a forum for some cool ideas. You can find the podcast here: http://www.denadecastro.com/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html.
I listened to it and was shocked at how clear I am. How together, how with-it. Apparently, I work well under pressure. Can you tell I’d just heard about a death in the family? It never occurred to me to postpone it - how’s that for a good little 10th house South Node?
A woman called me today to wish me well in my work, and to tell me that if I want to, I “can rise above astrology.” She meant the stereotypes and negativity so prevalent in the field. I thanked her and told her I’m doing just that. I guess she found an ad of mine, or my site - I didn’t ask. That’s Mars in Cancer/9th opposing Jupiter in Capricorn/3rd - why, I’m very sure I already do that, thank you was the unconscious impulse.
But isn’t that nice? Someone calling just to wish you well?
When home, I’m going to reconnect with some friends I haven’t kept up with in a long time - oh, I just got that it’s the Mercury Rx - in Scorpio - reconnecting with friends because of a death. And also my sister, who seems to find me inexplicable (though she’s a Pisces/3rd Moon, it’s sextile 1st house Mercury in Capricorn on my North Node - she springs into dedicated action at the drop of a hat, and doesn’t get why I can get in emotional circles sometimes and be, um, somewhat less than productive). And my step-father, who thinks I’m crazy because I choose not to have the kind of job that everyone he ever knew had. And former teachers…and who knows who else who shows up to the memorial service. I think I’m going to tell them I’m an acrobat with the circus, and that I got in with my little belly and not-buff physique because of affirmative action.
When I was a kid, I was asked no fewer than eighteen hundred thousand million times if I was going to grow up to be on the radio, be just like my dad. I had the precociousness, but unfortunately not the prescience or vocabulary, to tell them no (but not that I have retrograde Saturn inconjuncting my 2nd house Sun, and that I probably would not choose to do that).
But, there’s that podcast…that fun podcast…the opportunity-to-get-your-ideas-out podcast…
Given the amount that my mouth moves and emits words and/or ideas in order to alleviate the crowding in my brain, maybe that’s a good way to go? Let me know what you think after you listen to the podcast.
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October 10, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
October 11th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Tom! I hope your journey home is a good one. I wonder who you’ll see there? Funerals have a very interesting dynamic.
Not a job like anyone else, indeed. Valuable and valued all the same.
Bon Voyage!
October 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Hi Tom, I heard the interview on Dena Decastro’s podcast in the car today and the introduction to Arjunsuri was fascinating …
As I’m teaching myself astrology, when I got home many hours later, I went and looked up Arjunsuri in my birth chart, and lo, was it not in exact conjunction to my Sun in Gemini? This means that Arjunsuri is also in a trine with my Moon-NN in Capricorn.
I have always had internal conversations with myself in my head, always dissecting my own thoughts as they come up - I always just assumed that was a Gemini mental thing, but the presence of Arjunsuri is making me rethink that a little, especially the intensity of my Saturn return in 2001.
My Sun is also conjunct my Saturn, and in the year of my Saturn return (2001, the year of Saturn opposite Pluto!), Pluto was in my 12th house. Around that time, I picked up meditation and it’s helped me center myself a great deal. Maybe it was Arjunsuri that helped me find that center.
Anyway, I’m not asking for a lengthy reading here, but I wonder if you had any brief insights on how I might work with this placement of Arjunsuri a bit more?
Thank you.