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Astrology Wheel » The Sky Summit of Cardinals
July 18th, 2012 @ 4:34 pm by Astrology Wheel
This current Cardinal Grand Cross period is going to be a serious time. This astrological cross consists of four cardinal signs and four planets therefore impacting four different areas of our lives. Lets just say..stressful, tense and uncomfortable. At this point I absolutely need to put in a caveat – I do not believe, think or give credence to any ideas the ‘the stars make us do stuff’ like puppets or that ‘the planets hold the strings’. I also have an inbuilt horror of anything remotely smelling of brimstone…but that being said – currently there is a good old rip roaring celestial party going on and some people are bound to have a mega hangover when it ends, some people will have to mop up the mess and there are also the people who will remember these days for the rest of their lives.
Less abstractly, Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn, tough enough. Uranus in Aries wants to put into action all of it’s new ideas and will hardly take “no” for an answer. Pluto in Capricorn may be the one saying that “no”, whats more, saying it with a authoritative disregard on top of wielding a mega load of resources and power. Both Uranus and Pluto are contributing to an inevitable atmosphere of explosive change, breakdown and renewal.
Recently the Sun in Cancer briefly entered into the fray and blazed quite a trail, but now…‘dah dah’ now there is a new delegate – enter Mars ‘the hot-headed warrior’ clothed in Libran uniform. This Libran outfit indicates he wants to ‘set things straight’ he wants to bring in some order and fair play and is not above achieving these aims by stirring up a fight. Mars the Captain is stripping off his stage gear, flexing his muscles and is just about to beat his chest and enter the ring – this is no dress rehearsal, he may mean business.
For good measure for a few days only, the tag team also consists of the Moon also in Cancer, our ‘mother-load’ feeling centre, which is also being dragged into the melee.
So there we have it – pistols at dawn, crossed swords and a lot of teeth gnashing, and the seconds have finally departed.
Oh, there is also the washing machine on it’s highest spin as the dramatic Mercury in Leo is Retrograde sending all our gadgets and communications into meltdown or breakdown.
Exhausted yet with all of this running through your mind? Is there anything positive at all amongst this celestial whirlpool? Well yes, the benevolent uncle of them all, Jupiter himself is sending in troubadours with ‘happy clappy’ tunes right into Mars’s path, which might be just enough to distract him…….
‘Might’ being the operative word, it could just be interpreted as a rousing clarion call for action, the trumpet sounding ‘Advance’. Oh dear…..
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| Actor Nick Cage Sun Capricorn. His Mercury 9degrees Capricorn is now exactly in the Cardinal Fray |
There is much advice and soothing words to help ameliorate the turbulence, ‘find your centre’, ‘be ultra careful with your communications’, ‘back up your data’, ‘reach for the higher ground’, ‘keep calm and carry on regardless’, ‘keep smiling’ and ‘press the escape button’. Good advice all of it, may even take some of it myself…..
As Adele (Venus in Gemini) so beautifully sings in ‘Turning Tables’
“Close enough to start a war, all that I have is on the floor, God only knows what we are fighting for…”
i agree, the planets just like the traits we inherit have a power, but the energy is neutral until chosen to use negatively or positivel.
I dont do well with mars energy so have watched it for a long time, catching what it trigger and choosing to use it positively.
I have also watched it mundane globally. In 2008 when he went through libra, it was like saying, watch it, pluto is about to eneter cap, how fair is the global structure, then in 2010 he was saying watch out here comes saturn, that structure thats collapsin how are you choosing to be, you gonna be fair?
Some were, but alot did what they could to hold onto their way over the top monetary situation to reap what they could by either passing it on down the line to those who struggled already to meet basic needs or made a profit from the losses of those who lost the very little they had. so now, mars is following saturn and he to me is saying, watch out all of those who have been unfair and unethical even with saturns promise, cos I gotta a flame thrower and Im not afraid to use it, watch that unfair structure fall.
Sux to be the unfair who think they won…..