if you are into astrology, take note, uranus is changing signs, moving from watery pisces to fiery aries tomorrow may 28 at 10:44 a.m. manila time.

The big astrological event this week occurs on Thursday/Friday (depending on your time zone) with the entry of Uranus into the sign of Aries for the first time in 84 years. Uranus is the planet of rebellion and revolution, of surprises, scientific and technological breakthroughs, spiritual/mental illumination, spontaneity and sudden change. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and carries the energy of birth, the new, the magic of beginning, and archetype of the Fool. Combined, these two archetypal principles of Uranus and Aries make for a lightning bolt, a wake-up call, a sudden compulsion to make changes. With the slower-moving planets, we seem to feel their impact before aspects and entries into signs are exact, and the tone of Uranus in Aries is indeed already showing up.

Uranus is currently in Pisces and changes signs every 7 years. It therefore does a full rotation of the zodiac every 84 years and its arrival in Aries is the beginning of a new cycle. This is therefore a hugely significant event. Transits of Uranus are quite often difficult to convey – the nature is unpredictable. Therefore, forecasting what will happen is nigh on impossible but understanding how it might work isn’t. So..how might this transit affect us? Well, any shift from Pisces into Aries is a dramatic one – it is a rebirth and sudden change – this could be pleasant or unpleasant. We can therefore expect that in some area of our lives there will be a significant alteration and learning how to handle these new energies will be crucial to navigating the period and making the most from it.

Uranus is the awakener, the mover and shaker of the zodiac. His goal is change/improvement for the masses at any cost, even at the cost of chaos or a revolution. Uranus represents humanitarianism, unconventionality, unpredictability, indifference, freedom, technologicaladvancements, and loyalty to its cause. Uranus’ energy is radical, disruptive, rebellious and innovative.

Aries is the trailblazer of the zodiac. Aries energy is bold, individualistic, independent, enterprising and can be impulsive, pushy, abrasive, and bossy. It’s an impatient energy that needs to constantly be in a dynamic state — gotta be moving, gotta be doing, gotta be making things happen. Aries represents the self, the ego, our volition, our potential.

Uranus in Aries is the period for asserting the self, its needs and wants. It is a time for breaking away from dependence and finding one’s own strength for self-reliance and self-motivation. I am independent. I am strong. I am significant. I matter. I can do it. I can make it happen. I can get it started. I can because I am. This is a time for discovering or re-discovering and connecting or re-connecting with the self and its raw, passionate, instinctive drives to be the main motivator in formulating goals and getting them accomplished. Remember that Uranus governs the unexpected so, be flexible enough to expect the unexpected — find opportunities in the least likely places or connections; formulate unique solutions to common or existing problems; tweak an old method and make it more effective; break away from boundaries and think outside the box.

if you’re into astrology: mercury turns retrograde — i.e., looks like it’s moving backwards as seen from earth — from december 26 tomorrow until january 15, 2010.

and three more times in 2010:

* April 17 – May 11
* August 20 – September 12
* December 10 – December 29

 

this year mercury goes retrograde four times, the 4th continuing into 2010:

january 11 to february 1
may 7 to may 30
september 6 to september 29
december 26 to january 15, 2010

murphy’s law as defined in the cosmos

here’s to a happy new year, even if things are likely to get worse before they get better.   and here’s good stuff i found on the web trending into 2009 by professional astrologer steven mcfadden. excerpts:

… the major planetary patterns that characterize the coming years: the recent entry of Pluto into the sign of Capricorn until the year 2024, and the ongoing, dynamic opposition of Saturn and Uranus for next two years…

The numbers of the year 2009 add up to an 11 – a Master Number year.  Master Numbers (11, 22, 33, etc.) are especially vibrant and intense.  When a Master Number characterizes a period of time, it’s understood that the general energy patterns of that period demand more of people, while also representing the potential to give more in return…

The numerological vibration of 2009 is a mirror, or equivalent, of…the basic vibrational signature symbolized by the Saturn-Uranus opposition (2008-2010).  As above, so below on our Earth: the opposition signals forceful encounters with reality and unavoidable demands;it also crackles with electric opportunities to go forward, creating new ways to live, to organize and to govern ourselves…

Big shift.  Big changes.  No road map.  But there are paths…

…a healthy goal to embrace for the year ahead is acceptance — acceptance of major changes and new situations.  We are well underway with an unavoidable process of re-defining our security, prosperity, consumption, power, and also corporate identity and function in the world.  That’s reality, and there is value in swiftly and gracefully accepting it.  Staying stuck in wishing that things would not change, being stubborn and resisting change, blaming others and refusing to forgive, will be problematic stances that function as obstacles to optimum adaptation.

…an effective way to work toward the goal of acceptance in the year ahead, is through observation.  While there may be no road map for the changes, a mode of observation would tend to restrainimpulsive or panicky behavior.  By observing what is happening, and then responding carefully and pragmatically to new conditions, what needs to be done gets done.

…a markedly emotional year, a human intensity that would be mirrored in substantial earth change and climate events, with a predominant theme of water (too much water as in the case of heavy rains and floods, too little water as in the case of shortages or drought, or ice shifts as in the case of Earth’s Poles).

…we haven’t seen anything yet.  Much more is to come.  [But] avoid latching on to that nugget of prophecy…for the year ahead also brings great opportunity.

…in 2009 we reach a tipping point for spiritual awakening and for dynamic, positive sustainable initiatives.  Critical mass approaching.

Saturn in opposition to Uranus unfolds five times, marking a span of time when the forces of change and revolution directly confront forces representing the status quo.  Uranus mandates change and innovation.  Saturn tends to resist it.  When these planetary Titans are in opposition, the clash is on…

In celestial collaboration with the long sojourn of Pluto through Capricorn (2008-2024), the Saturn-Uranus opposition symbolizes a foundational shift in consciousness over the globe, evolving most of us inexorably from ideological debates and risky, unsustainable economic behaviors, into a time characterized by an unavoidable need to respond to Earthly realities via pragmatism, restraint, and discipline.  The imminent questions revolve not around whose God, cosmology, or philosophy is right, but rather what works?  What puts shoes on your feet, a coat on your back, and a glass of clean water on your table?”