October 5th-11th
Experimentum Crucis
A week of transition, where we’ll sort through the various climaxes and crisis of the last month and attempt to come to a workable hypothesis. Chaotic life configurations give rise to new, experimental behavior patterns. It remains to be seen if the heart can survive laboratory conditions necessary to test these emerging ideas.
This week Mercury plows through the separating Saturn-Uranus opposition, starting off the week with an opposition to Uranus and moving into his third and final conjunction with Saturn on Wednesday, Oct. 7th. The rest of week Mercury finds his way through the final degrees of Virgo’s maze and emerges into Libra again. Just as Mercury finally liberates himself from the stress of the Saturn-Uranus opposition, Venus enters the fray, chasing Mercury through the clashing rocks. Venus opposes Uranus on Friday and heads toward conjunction with Saturn early next week. Meanwhile, Mars crawls toward the end of Cancer, finally meeting the South Node on Friday.
The difficult, experimental arrangements of the last month are beginning to gel into something rather new. There a few plans left to be made and a few lingering problems to be solved before the rubix cube of personal reality finds another stable configuration.
Venus and the Titans
Venus opposes Uranus this Friday, trigger sudden explosions of feelings, both positive and negative. After the opposition with Uranus, Venus will walk toward a conjunction with Saturn, meeting him next Tuesday, the 13th. Venus, charged with Uranus’ energy, will move to see whether these alterations in the pattern can make it through Saturn’s reality gate.
On a simple level- this one isn’t going to feel very pleasant. However, after Venus clears the Saturn-Uranus opposition and makes it past that little square to Pluto, she’ll be walking down the beaches of Libra like one of those dames in a feminine hygiene commercial. Sort of like this.
Point being, although your inner goddess of ease and beauty may currently be stuck filing taxes 6 months late or scrubbing dishes, the upcoming ingress into Libra will stanch your spiritual wounds. Venus doesn’t move into Libra until the 16th, but the Baron wanted to give you a reason not to off yourself this week. If you did, you’d miss out on a whole lifetime of suffering. Which would make the Baron sad.
Out With The Old
As we check in with Mars this week, we find him at the very end of a cycle. By the end of next week Mars will be in Leo, ready to begin a new retrograde cycle in the lion’s sign. This back and forth will begin in mid-October, but it will take Mars until early June to build a new gladiatorial arena.
This week we come upon Mars in Cancer, at the very end of the old cycle, but before the new one has begun. It is here that Mars meets the South Node. The South Node, also known as the Tail of the Dragon, or Ketu, acts like a roving black hole, gobbling up worn out emotional patterns, and helping us to dissolve attachments which no longer serve life. Mars meets up with Ketu this week at the end of Cancer, not far from the stellar site of the big sun eclipse this summer.
The journey of Mars in Cancer has been one of recognizing and reliving ineffective behavior patterns. Theoretically, this is in order to learn from them. Like learning to stop doing them. For some, this may be acting like a lazy coward, while for others it may be more about being a dramatic mess. Whatever retardation Mars is inspiring in your life, its all about not doing it. And not doing it is exactly what Mars’ conjunction to the South Node is all about.
As Mars conjoins Ketu on Friday, you can either kick and scream and hold onto the suck, or you can go with it, and use the unique opportunity to work through and let go so old bullshit. The Baron suggests the latter. However, if you’re really committed to stagnation, don’t let the Baron stand in your way. The Baron is pro-choice.
Weekend Plans
This Friday Venus opposes Uranus, entering the axis of the opposition, while Mars conjoins Ketu in Cancer. This is a recipe for rather stormy seas this weekend. However the heavens are not without mercy. The Sun will help sort out the intense feelings stimulated by Venus’ journey across the Saturn-Uranus opposition, aided by the trine to Jupiter in Aquarius, which will provide access to an even headed and detached perspective. It’s not a great weekend to plan an outrageous good time. It might be better one to plan an appropriate time out.
Horoscopes:
October 5th-11th
Note on Horoscopes: 12 Fold horoscopes are a way to assess the general condition of the splayed rays of the zodiac. Although not without value, they are a blunt tool, and can only describe the archetypal activity in each power-zone. In order to sharpen the accuracy of the horoscopes, read your Sun Sign if you were born in the day-time, and read your Moon Sign if you were born at night. Reading the Sign in which the Ascendant is placed is also advised.
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Aries: The Ram
After a not terribly awesome Full Moon in your sign, you enter what may be rather difficult week. Mars, you ruling planet, your inner buddy, the one who tells you to go and kick the asses of things- he’s not doing so good. This week they’ll be less ass-kicking, and more thinking about all the dumb, insecure things you do, and how being generally great does not make up for it.
Taurus: The Bull
Dear Taurus, this is not likely to be a terribly pleasant week, although it will probably be an important one. Big emotional adjustments are in store. And we all know how much like adjusting. Let’s be honest, you don’t even really like getting up off the couch to look for the remote once you’re settled. Unfair? Certainly. Enjoy your pivotal emotional adjustments.
Gemini: The Art Project
Dear Gemini, things are actually less shitty for you than most folks. Your buddy Mercury is no longer retrograde, and heading straight out of purgatory. Your course is likely follow to follow Mercury’s, as you scrape together the devastated remains of your life and make a “found object” sculpture out of it. And they call modern art mental masturbation! It is the business of life itself.
Cancer: You Are The Winner
If your birthday lives near the end of Cancer, congratulations! You’re going to be a moody fuck this week. Even if you’re not the winner of this prize, all Cancers will be treated to a bout of melancholy navel gazing. As you gaze into your soul, you can expect to be treated to a slide show of misdirected aggression. Learn from it, grasshoppa.
Leo: The Lion
Serious financial considerations and epiphanies about wasted energy hover about this week. Maybe you’re not as great as you feel. Or maybe you are, but you aren’t acting like it.
Virgo: The Virgin
The week that looms before ye is…stressy. You’re at the ass end of making all sorts of important changes. Finish them. Finishing them means feeling them, which, unfortunately is not your forte.
Libra: The Scales
Happy birfday to the Libras! Consider the above video clip your birthday present. Mercury’s conjunction with Saturn this week helps solidify the insights which have been emerging out of the details over the last month. Mars’ conjunction with Ketu at the end of Cancer highlights negative emotional patterns impacting your professional life, while Venus’ journey between Saturn and Uranus triggers a number of intense emotional adjustments.
Scorpio: The Scorpion
This week sees you make significant progress on the project of re-engineering certain aspects of your lifestyle. In the midst of this, Mars’ conjunction with the Dragon’s Tail highlights the negative feelings that have tarnished your outlook for a while now. Perhaps you will remove the dead bug on the windshield of your perspective. And perhaps you will just stare at it, feel sorry for yourself, and plot revenge.
Sagittarius: The Archer
This week sees Mercury finally clear the Saturn-Uranus opposition, bringing completion to a number of changing arrangements in your professional life. Mars’ conjunction with Ketu in Cancer signals a need to flush energy overcommited to draining relationships. You need to develop better boundaries around your resources. Ignoring these things does not make them go away.
Capricorn: The Goat
Mercury’s conjunction with Saturn this week is particularly interesting, and will likely trigger an intense period of mastur-planning. The road ahead emerges brick by brick. This raod leads deeper into the season, where new professional opportunities hang low, riding the clouds in from weeks away.
Aquarius: The Water Bearer
The conjunction of Mercury to Saturn this week brings a month or so of intense cognition about the facts, figures and arrangements of your life into a more solid form. Now we’ll see if the clever arrangements you’ve designed will work emotionally. You’ll have to feel your way through the experiment you’ve designed. Meanwhile, Mars’ conjunction with Ketu in Cancer highlights nagging factors which have been eating away at your financial and physical health.
Pisces: The Fishes
This week continues the saga of changing arrangements with the important people in your life. An experiment is likely to emerge out of the combination of new energies and old duties. In the first half of the week, solidifying thoughts bring clarity and most of a plan to your living situation and partnerships. During the second half, Mars’ conjunction w/ the Dragon’s Tail unleashes a number of pent up creative energies. The initial outpouring may be toxic, but are ripe for transmutation.
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Sol in Libra, Luna in Taurus
