HOW WILL THE SEPTEMBER 11TH SOLAR ECLIPSE AFFECT YOU? STAR LADY KNOWS!
POSTED BY BEVERLEE, Thursday, August 30, 2007
The upcoming Solar Eclipse of September 11th, as astrologer and author Michele Adler points out in her remarkable article about the 18/19 degree of Virgo/Pisces, triggered by this Eclipse, is an especially potent one which affects all of us in some part of our natal chart. Each of the houses in our chart represents a compartment of our life, and wherever the Eclipse hits, it triggers a turning point.
In fact, the late Robert Carl Jansky, in his book “Interpreting the Eclipses”, says that he was able to find the core issue in a client’s life merely by knowing in which part of his or her chart the latest Eclipse fell.
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18-19 DEGREES OF VIRGO/PISCES AND THE ECLIPSE OF SEPTEMBER 2007
POSTED BY BEVERLEE, Wednesday, August 29. 2007
Michele Adler, author of Predictive Astrology, Cycles of Chance, Seasons of Meaning has posted a fascinating article about the degree of the upcoming September 11th Solar Eclipse. I encourage you to read it here.
MOTHER TERESA’S LONG DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
POSTED BY BEVERLEE Sunday, August 26, 2007
Today is Mother Teresa’s birthday. A new book of her letters, “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light”, due to be published next week by Doubleday, marking the tenth anniversary of her death, reveals her in a very different light than we have come to think of her. Mother Teresa, we discover from her letters, which she had requested to be destroyed after her death—a request denied by her Church, suffered crises of faith for most of her life and even doubted God's existence.
"Where is my Faith -- even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness and darkness -- My God -- how painful is this unknown pain -- I have no Faith," she wrote in an undated letter addressed to Jesus.
"If there be God -- please forgive me -- When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven -- there is such convicting emptiness."
"I call, I cling, I want -- and there is no One to answer -- no One on Whom I can cling -- no, No One. -- Alone."
Interestingly, when these comments were revealed yesterday, the aspects to her natal chart were perfectly in accord with our discovery of her inner torment. Neptune transiting the third house of her chart—the house of her thoughts, ideas and communication—reveals to us the startling news that her outer words were not, in fact, her inner truth. Mother Teresa had her Sun, Mars and Mercury posited in the 9th house of spiritual values, religion and travel to foreign countries. Her mission in life was clear.
Yesterday’s transits to that house are numerous: Pluto, moving slowly through the first house of her chart, (which remember, does not die with one), is forming a challenging square to her natal Mercury in Virgo and an opposition to her natal Pluto—the planetary representative of one’s power. The Sun yesterday had returned to her natal Sun, marking what we astrologers call a Solar Return, while Saturn, the heavenly examiner of reality, hovers near her natal Sun…just at the moment that we learn her inner truth. Transiting Mercury is conjunct her natal Mars, while Jupiter also squares that planet which depicts her drive and ambition. Transiting Mars squares her natal Mars. Retrograding Venus (values, what one loves) squares her natal Moon (emotions) while transiting Uranus, the rebellious planet, having escaped from Saturn’s limiting influence, transits her third house of communication, and simultaneously opposes her natal Mars. These combine to at last reveal Mother Teresa’s tormented inner truth to us.
I find the poetry of the transiting planetary alignment at this moment absolutely striking and gratifying to those of us familiar with astrological cycles. But let’s also explore Mother Teresa’s natal chart for more clues to her lifelong dilemma.
Jupiter, the ruler of religion, the church and also the ruler of her chart, which has Sagittarius rising, dwells in the 10th house of reputation, career and direction in life. During her lifetime we revered Mother Teresa. She was the champion of the poor, willing to live a life in poverty herself in order to help those less fortunate. At an early age—the age of twelve—she had already decided that she wanted to be a nun. This, of course, is the first return of Jupiter to its own place and interestingly, many young girls are struck with the idea of becoming a nun at that time. Most of them do not follow the path for long, however. Mother Teresa did.
Ah, but although Chiron, the so-called planet of healing—ostensibly her life’s work—dwells in her third house of communication, we also see that Jupiter squares her natal Neptune, the planet of inspiration as well as disillusionment. That Neptune is mightily challenged, furthermore, by the opposition of Uranus in the second house of values. And Uranus just happens to be the focal planet—the handle in the bowl pattern of her chart. Rebellion, especially in her value system, was a very strong element in her psychological makeup. Sadly, the two edges of the bowl pattern, Jupiter and Saturn, are inimicable. In aspect to one another in a chart—any aspect between Jupiter and Saturn, either flowing, as in sextiles and trines, or challenging, as in conjunction, square and opposition—does not bode well for the native. You don’t want to find these two planets in any aspect to one another in a chart.
Mother Teresa, however, also had an Earth Grand Trine in her chart to bring her good fortune. That energetic Mars in the 10th house of career, trines the spunky Uranus in the house of values as well as the sympathetic Moon in the 5th house of love, and creativity. This grand trine, in my opinion, was instrumental in pushing Mother Teresa in the direction of her marriage to Jesus. But, alas! Saturn also dwells in that house of love. Thus, though she wanted very much to love her spiritual spouse, there was also pain and suffering when she did not feel He responded to her love and devotion.
But an Earth Grand Trine does not give up easily, if at all. Though inwardly suffering, with but little respite from her pain—or what she deemed unrequited love, outwardly, she persevered. By the time she had discovered, or at least presumed, her love to be spurned by her Loved One, other young women had already joined her in tending the poor and dying in Calcutta. A true Virgo, she obviously felt that she could not let them down.
In any event, Mother Teresa’s letters, revealing her ongoing spiritual pain, while outwardly maintaining her cheerful demeanor, will understandably cause a reevaluation of her life’s accomplishments-—both pro and con. And we can see this reevaluation very clearly as transiting Jupiter, her guiding star, passes through her twelfth house of what is hidden—and also self-undoing.
