Grandtrines

As Mercury joins the rest of the retrograde party tomorrow ( 4-28-16) with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, let’s take a pause. I enjoy Cee’s Share Your World challenges as a way to get off the merry-go-round and change-up my typical intense blogging style.

So let’s get started:

When writing by hand do you prefer to use a pencil or pen? 

I prefer pens to pencils because they leave a stronger mark. Pencil is great for sketching though.

What’s your choice: jigsaw, word, maze or numeric puzzles?

I lack the patience for crosswords, but will take a stab at one now and again. I do like jigsaw, but really don’t want to invest the time. A few years back I did complete a castle jigsaw and it was quite a lovely finished product. I am very fond of castles, so that was the draw. Typically I get my puzzle fix…

It’s that time again, y’all. Mercury retrograde. Oof.

Doesn’t it seem like we just went through one? Oh, wait… we did. In January. Even though Mercury only retrogrades three to four times a year, it always feels like too much too soon.

Well that dreaded tri-annual, month-long period known as Mercury Retrograde is here again: April 28th – May 22nd.

I’ve said it so many times before and many of us have heard it from countless sources by now, thanks to the ever-expanding internet. It’s that time of year when things and communications just seem to break down, go berserk, lose their juice, get mismatched, befuddled, and the list of woeful occurrences just goes on. But why is that? There is always a reason for the things that happen in life, and too few are willing to plunge into what those reasons are, because it would inevitably entail taking on a deeper level of responsibility and consciousness in how to respond to life’s curve balls.

by NASA’s “messenger” spacecraft

What if we recognized Mercury Retrograde as an opportunity to improve and release things and patterns that are no longer useful – if we…

Mercury is stationary now and will turn retrograde tomorrow the 28.04.2016 at 23° Taurus. Travelling back through the sign of the bull he will turn direct the 22.05.2016 at 14° Taurus.

There are a few more retrograde planets now: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto.

It is a time to re-discover, to re-treat, to collect all the lost threads, the splitters of our minds, forgotten, but not vanished.

Mercury transits my natal Moon at 22° in Taurus: this Moon feels more like a 6th house moon by equal signs, not like a 5th house by Placidus. He feels comforted by sorting and cleaning and working, by lists and routine, he is not for drama, he feels better when separated of the dramas of others.

Basically I write long lists these days with all the stuff that needs to be done, and I work them off. Sooner or later will be a…

MAY ASTRO FORECAST 2016

By =Lorna Anne

(This is a reminder that I am using a different interpretive astrological system than what is commonly used. Once again, I say the proof is in hindsight as we review our realities at the end of the month. For an explanation of this system, please consult my blog post, “Ancient Wheel Astrology System” @wordpress.com orlornasancientwheelastrology@blogspot.com. And please read your Ascendent/Rising Sign for further information.)

Trends: It’s May…Touch and feel your world, and all its sensuous pleasure and beauty! May is a very sweet and copacetic month featuring opportunities for inner transformation and long-term growth in the area in which we put our energies or place value upon. Patterns put in place now will be far-reaching, but we must all realize that change starts on the inside first. With only two planets changing direction to a forward…

Moon points to Pluto at mid Capricorn (tropical zodiac).  During the day, the Moon is in the West and Pluto is in the same area of the sky.
Time to admit to your deep feelings even if you should not give in to them.

All positions at noon, Mountain Time, USA

(Lights)
Moon                    Capricorn @ 09 deg.
Sun                       Taurus @ 07 deg.

(Rocky Midgets)
Mercury             Taurus @ 23 deg.
Venus                 Aries @ 27 deg.
Mars                    Sagittarius @ 08 deg. (Retrograde until June 29th)

(Gas Giants)
Jupiter               Virgo @ 13 deg. (Retrograde until May 9th)
Saturn          …

Pluto represents where we have unfathomable personal resources and power..a bit like our inner atom bomb. We can remain in the depths of unconsciousness and implode from within, annihilating ourselves or we can utilise its immense energy to completely transform ourselves, think sustainable energy V’s dirty energy.
Globally Pluto in Capricorn is dismantling outdated government and big business structures, whilst Big companies wrestle for power over people, resources and patents.

In the personal zone the area of life we find Pluto transiting in our charts is where we may be resisting deep and lasting change, or just letting dead wood go and courageously starting afresh from ground zero.
For example, if Pluto is in your 7th house of equal partnerships and marriage you’d be facing your darkest aspects of self through your one to one relationships, obsession could be a feature as well as the difficult feelings…