So you think the weather is woolly … wait till you get the astrological forecast for October, it will be a wild ride all month. It starts off with Sun square Pluto today, followed by Sun opposite Uranus on Friday, sparking the Pluto-Uranus ‘evolve or evaporate’ energy. Any of the need for change that has been bubbling under the surface will come up and make itself obvious over the next week, and this will be felt on both a personal and a geo-political level. You can try to kid yourself with this energy, but you’re going to have to be pretty damn good at suppression for it to work! This is ‘get real’ time, time to get rid of what is not working.
And then the rest of the month brings us Venus squared Neptune on the 10th (think love delusions), an eclipsed full Moon in Aries on the 19th (emotions hidden from the self), Mars opposite Neptune also on the 19th (misdirected assertion and sexual energy) and then Mercury begins another retrograde (21st).
October may be a wild ride indeed. Of course, none of this is causal, but then there is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things ….
There’s two astrological aspects going on this weekend that make for a fascinating, but just a little challenging combination. Venus is opposite Neptune (the exact was late yesterday) … so our perceptions of love were pulling in opposite direction to our hopes and ideals. This can be dreamy and romantic, but it risks being the kind of romantic that has “hopelessly” attached to it. Neptune brings the chance for delusion to whatever it touches, so it’s a time to take care that whatever we’re feeling, or more likely, creating in our minds, is actually real.
The other aspect is Mars opposite Pluto, activating the Pluto-Uranus ‘evolve or evaporate’ energy (again!!). With Mars in play, there is likely to be an underlying tension to the weekend, and with Pluto, it is possible that little irritations could easily blow up into big disputes. Time to take a deep breath, appreciate the mystical, and don’t get hung up on or triggered by any of the detail … it is all Maya anyway!!
Neptune moved into Pisces in Feb 2012, a significant wobble in planetary energies. Neptune is a very slow moving planet, it stays in PIsces for 14 years (the last time it was in Pisces was the mid-1800s). Things spiritual and psychic take the driver’s seat. If we’re open to it… this was a global shift that could even challenge gross materialism … it is the opportunity to appreciate the illusion. Surrendering to the field, to energy that is greater than the merely mortal, is the ultimate liberation. All is maya, illusion.
“Your suffering is a dream, your darkness is a dream, your going astray is a dream. That’s the meaning of the word maya. Man lives in illusion. The way out of illusion does not exist, because the way out of illusion will be another illusion. You have simply to wake up. There is no way, no bridge. One state is of unawareness, another is of awareness. And from unawareness to awareness the distance is nil… just a little effort, a little jogging.” Osho.
Neptune in Pisces … it’s a chance to wake up, to accept the illusion that is!
Uranus Rising 