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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 11:55 AM
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Rick DiClemente's March Starself Astrology Newsletter
Welcome to March. Wow, much of the month there are 5 planets in Aquarius along with the North Node. And Pluto is moving fast, getting all the way to the third degree of Capricorn already. Uranus and Saturn keep fighting it out, and boy is that showing. Why can’t we all just get along Rodney?

Enjoy!


So, here is the story… one of them anyway.

Saturn and Uranus
continue to stay in opposition. And one can easily see the manifestation in the political party tensions. Two parties working together? Who ever heard of that? Well… Bipartisan solutions? You must be crazy indeed.

Again, the pressure of these two planets (Saturn in Virgo has the upper hand now) is stressing most people to merge the conservative (Saturn) with the liberal (Uranus.) This is why you can feel it in the air. We’re supposed to be working together and have gotten so used to the collective ego promptings (Republican vs. Democrat) that it’s almost like we’ve forgotten that word UNITED in our name. Anyhow, Uranus, the stronger planet, is giving in temporarily to Saturn in Virgo because Saturn is traveling all by itself, “the bucket handle.”

Ignoring for now all the fanatical planets bunched up in Aquarius…..

When a planet is opposite all the other planets, it is kinda shaped like an umbrella, like we have now. Or like a bucket with a handle. Since SATURN IN VIRGO is sitting on the bucket handle, it has the upper-hand now. We will WANT that part of us to conquer the other extreme or at least give it favoritism for right now. However, when MARS joins up with Uranus, it will tilt the see-saw dramatically, and we will shift to the other part of ourselves. Saturn wants us to secure things or lock them down, conservatively and carefully. Uranus wants the opposite; for us to break free of the tension and find our individuality. In most cases, people let Saturn win because they hang on the boat docks, afraid to sail down the unpredictable stream with Uranus - frequently to their demise.

So, what does this mean in down to earth terms? Many of us are moody now because of this see-sawing. Note the uncertainty on Wall Street too. In general, we’ll lean towards the conservative solutions at first and then towards the other around April 13th when Mars (the ever-present instigator) joins up with radical Uranus and wants something totally out of the ordinary to take over. This will last very strongly until the end of April. You may think it’s taxes that have you upset, but it may well go beyond that.
Now what that will do is activate a HOUSE in a persons chart (where 21° Virgo is) from now through mid-April, then boom!, look for a shift towards the opposite house. Per Sun sign, in general, it will translate something like this for each of you:

Aries – With Saturn in your sixth, you’re in the midst of working hard to develop your skills. Don’t be frustrated all through April when you start demanding to be noticed for your new skill-sets. Remember, everybody else is going through abnormal amounts of frustration too, so you’d be better off waiting a month or so before you can expect to get kudos for your efforts.

Taurus - With Saturn in your fifth house and Uranus in your eleventh… You’re trying real hard to express yourself more clearly. Now is a great time to perfect your creations. In mid-April, you’ll feel like thinking out of the box and sharing with groups or friends. Don’t stay glued to your small world or you’ll feel great frustration. Your easy chair will always be there, let your hair down for a while and you’ll be a lot happier then!

Gemini – With stiff old Saturn in your fourth house, you’ve been chained to domestic duties long enough. Keep firming up your foundation now, paying your bills, tending to family, etc. But, when April 13th comes, let it fly at work. Show people your real creative, flexible offerings of your extensive mental library. Balance home and work now - that is the key. Don’t think you’re going nuts around the 13th, many of us will be feeling those liberating feelings too.

Cancer – With Saturn in your third house, you’ve been trying hard to get a grip mentally. And this is not easy for emotional Cancer. Continue with this mental discipline; you will go far because of it. But, after April 13, get ready to break from family tradition and values and investigate thinking for yourself. The more you do, even if you get some flack, the better off you’ll be. You’ll also find that that flack that you have been avoiding has mostly been a creation of your own mind.

Leo – With Saturn in your second house, you’ve been making lots of gains in terms of your real sense of self-worth. Hoorah for you. In mid-April, you’ll want to free yourself from close ones. That doesn’t mean leaving someone. It simply means that you’ll now be focusing on being yourself (usually not hard for Leos) while in the relationship. This isn’t always easy, even for Fire signs. You’ll need a keen sense of who you are, where your boundaries are, and where the other person is.

Virgo- With Saturn in your first house, the translation is similar to Leo. Self-pressures are now on you like a cheap suit, but how would you even notice? That’s your middle name. The real key will be when Uranus gets activated by Mars on April 13. You really need to be flexible with your mate. Hide your job-jar for a few weeks and don’t panic if the dishes aren’t washed. Give yourself a break! Take a vacation. Really.

Libra – With Saturn in your twelfth, it’s time to come out of your hole. For months now, Librans haven’t been themselves. Pluto’s square to you from the solar 4th has had you reeling emotionally. And Saturn in your twelfth has really made you crawl into a cave of wondering what the heck is going on. What’s going on is that your unconscious mind is trying to get messages to your conscious mind without your social consciousness getting upset by its findings. Yes, pay attention to your dreams and hunches. For once, in April, don’t worry about what others think.

Scorpio – With Saturn in your eleventh house, you’ve been dutiful to your friends and the groups you belong to. You are one loyal sign. As stated before, you cannot expect that kind of loyalty from many of the signs and this can lead to much disappointment. Once April comes, you will be feeling quite explosive in terms of wanting to express your own ideas. Go ahead! Don’t worry that you’re letting someone else down. Fly a bit; no one’s going be offended, really.

Sagittarius – With Saturn in your tenth, you’ve hated it! Keeping your nose to the grindstone just isn’t a fair thing to do to fun-loving Sag, is it? Always on the lookout for fun times, that time is mid-April with Mars and Uranus. And coming from the fourth house, this means with family. Go have a blast outside. After all, Sagittarians aren’t that particular as long as it’s fun, it’s outside, and you have someone to share it with.

Capricorn – With Saturn having been in your ninth house for a while, you’ve been really working hard to integrate your philosophies. Fine. Make sure. Build that unbreakable citadel of impenetrable mental constructs but don’t be surprised when El Uranus throws you a nasty Steve Carlton curveball! Get some new ideas; break new ground; it won’t kill you. There’s actually air outside of the box. You can integrate it all later – if you want to. You really do have f-f-f-f-freedom.

Aquarius – With Saturn in your solar eighth house, you’ve really been out of sorts for quite a while now. You’ve done your work regarding dedication to others for a good while now. April is the time for you to start recoiling back to what you want to do. What are the things you like to do that make you feel good about yourself? That’s where the focus needs to be. Don’t be surprised by this one; you’ve had fair warning. The fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius can be quite upset by Uranus which doesn’t even know what the word fixed means. Even though you rule contradictions and paradoxes, you Aquarians need to go do something entirely nonsensical.

Pisces – With Saturn in your seventh house, no one’s ever had to tell you to follow Alice down the rabbit hole. Saturn is tough on Pisces. You’re about to get a reprieve. I know it’s hard for you to think about your own needs instead of others, but that really is what you need to do. It’s ok to do for you. Go swimming. Go boating. Go to the beach. Fishes. Water. Refreshment. Ah.

What Do You Identify With?

As I’ve said before, when we listen to our Sun sign too much, it will deceive us into listening to only it. And we’ll get out of balance. Astrology is clearly an art of getting ourselves into balance. Some things to think about:

Aries – With just yourself? Does it get a bit narrow? Or are you satisfied?

Taurus - With your stuff? (Like George Carlin) Or is your stuff another person?

Gemini – With your ideas, interests? Aren’t they fleeting?

Cancer – With your family? What happens when they leave?

Leo – With your performances? What if the audience is empty?

Virgo – With the things you’ve produced? What if you have nothing to work on?

Libra – With your partner? What if you have no one?

Scorpio – With your partner? What if they change?

Sagittarius – With your philosophies? What if no one listens?

Capricorn – With your title? What if you get sick?

Aquarius – With your freedom? What if people get distant to you?

Pisces – With your non-worldliness? What if people mistake it for not-caring?

Planetary Events

3/8 Daylight Savings Time, 2:00am - Turn your clocks ahead one hour

3/10 Full Moon 20°  40’ 10:38pm - This full moon will certainly light up the Saturn opposition to Uranus that’s been going on since election day. We will become clearly aware of schisms that have grown in the country since then. Also, we’ll start to see just how bilateral our government can be! It’s no wonder Obama is talking so much about pulling all of our resources together. To repeat myself, we can’t afford to let Saturn (right-wing conservatism) and Uranus (left-wing liberalism) to be so extremely at odds. We must see that they are two sides of the same coin. Look for dramatic effects to manifest vividly at this time. In the sign of Virgo, it will most likely show us how we’re going to have to bite the bullet to work ourselves out of our mess. Remember, Virgo energy doesn’t care for whining or blaming. Let’s hope for the very best.

3/14 Mars enters Pisces 11:20pm - And none too soon. And none too soon. Cooler heads prevail after the ragged-edged full moon. Time to chill.

3/20 SPRING! Sun enters Aries 7:44am - This is one big deal in Western Astrology. It’s a new zodiac! The entire zodiac is based on this day. 0° Aries today. A time for great beginnings and a time to not only treat yourself but to celebrate yourself! Don’t take yourself or your life for granted - right?

3/25 Mercury enters Aries 3:56pm - Time to say what’s on your mind and with Mercury squaring transiting Pluto, it might come out kind of harshly. Be careful that that is not the case. Be decisive, don’t waiver now.

3/26 New Moon 6°  08’ 12:06pm - This new moon will be very challenging because the Sun and Moon will both be squaring Pluto in Capricorn. Another huge test for most of us including collectively. This will most likely bring questions of aggression to the fore (Aries.) It be an excellent time to launch brave new projects that represent new solutions to old problems. Be bold now and don’t attempt to hide in the pseudo-safety of past harbors. It won’t work. We must pick up the pioneering spirit of this new spring and Arian New Moon, doing like Captain Kirk said, (yes, William Shatner and Spock Leonard Nimoy are both Aries too!) and boldy go where no lame duck president has gone before……

<snip>

For the entire newsletter, go to: www.starself.com/newsletter39.html

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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 03:44 PM
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1. Great as always, Rick. However....
your Capricorn examples made me sick to my stomach. :scared:

(I'm a Capricorn, as you know, and I'm embarrassed that they have the same energy that I do. :()

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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 04:29 PM
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2. Dearest
I'm sick to mine too.

Just joking.

Being a double Capricorn, with a Capricorn father and an ex-wife Cappy too, I think I know something about the subject. Capricorn is a perilous sign. Period.

NOT YOUR CHART THOUGH because you have many major energies LIFTING you out of the quagmire that Cappys often end up in.
Their danger is STAYING FIXED TO STATUS QUO, NOT TRUSTING, NOT MOVING, BECOMING A STATUE ETC.

It is not "written in stone" that everyone under that sign ends up that way; certainly not. BUT, you have to have compensating energies in the rest of the chart to help it.

You have an extremely strong Moon/Neptune, Scorpio rising... AND your Cap planets are greatly energized INTO curiosity (therefore MOVEMENT) because of their 3rd house placement.

relax, o IHAD, relax

"I'm a Capricorn, as you know, and I'm embarrassed that they have the same energy that I do. )"

NOw that's just silly. I can hear Stella turning over in her bed.
ALL 12 energies are great, but can be misused. Taurus and Capricorn energies are very tempting to JUST STAY PUT = RIGIDITY = STATUE = NONFLOWING.

It's up to each of us to work with what we have. BUT, you still have to be honest with yourself. Look around you and you'll see many Caps stuck in precisely what I've described. Astrology is all about flow, just like life. Paraphrasing Helen Keller, there is no safety. Only sailing the boat better and better, that is true safety. No one is doomed.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 04:34 PM
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3. "I can hear Stella turning over in her bed."...
:rofl:

Oh, yes, I absolutely agree with you that Capricorn has that tendency. Those people are just absolutely repugnant though. What horrible damage they've done to the world. :(

As always, thank you, my friend.

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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 04:48 PM
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4. Yes...
as I look closer at the pictures of Cappys I used, I see your point. All 12 signs have people who glorify the energy or can use it like Stalin did (Capricorn)

With these types, the issues have very little to do with the Sun sign - it takes much more complications in the chart that just that.
Rove has an abused TSquare to Neptune which he chooses to use to deceive others.

Limbaugh has MARS opp. PLUTO (potentially vicious)
Merc opp Uranus (wild mouth) and MOON IN PISCES opp Saturn which has the earmarks of being crushed emotionally. Wow.

Hannity has Sun/Venus/Mars in Cap which is commonly someone who is "in love with his own voice" and has some TYPE of charm and charisma. The Moon in Libra is HIS smooth-talker. There is much more to his chart that is hidden due to no birth time.

All three of these charts could have "turned out OK" if they had used "better choices" in my opinion. They were not cursed from the beginning. Looking at Wikipedia's Limbaugh background on his father filled in a lot of blanks.

Capricorn is a strong energy, hopefully used right, which I HAD A DREAM exemplifies.

YOU are a great example of Capricorn energy (with a lot of Scorpio thrown in) being used to it's highest. The true Goat on top of the mountain and I KNOW tons of people here in this forum agree.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 05:49 PM
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5. Limbaugh's chart
I think he has Taurus Ascendant (based on noon time). If you read the NYT article about his estate, love of beauty is everywhere. Also, I got that his Pissces Moon is probably linked with his substance abuse; AND, the fact that he is allied with the ever-"underdog" (victim), Republicans.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-04-09 12:30 AM
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6. That's very interesting about the other parts of their charts...
which make their Capricorn energy manifest in such a negative way.

Thank you for your kind words, rico. :hug:

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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-04-09 03:49 PM
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9. LIMBAUGH'S chart
keerist, I studied his (its) chart today. No wonder. He has Pluto sitting right on his Mercury in Cap. right now and it's at the tip of a Tsquare. And it squaring his ruler Saturn which is natally at 1 Libra. The power has gone even more to his "head".

Venus/Mars in Aquarius, with maybe 1 degree Aquarius rising. Mr. Warm and wonderful
But, Mars is opposite Pluto which can certainly bring out a mean streak.

But the MOST telling, is his SENSITIVE MOON IN PISCES opposite Saturn. I believe the man was crushed emotionally early on and merely projects his anger outwards at all times. I don't think that he personally gives a hoot about anything but his own ego.

You see how "modern" athletes bang their chestbone or thymus when they make a great play, You know, "I'm bad..."

HE did that a day or two when addressing that crowd and he actually missed the spot, he banged on the side of his ribs... lol

What a dangerous joke he is.... ditto.
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Kind of Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-04-09 07:16 AM
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7. Goodness, your assesesment for Taurus is kind of spooky
Edited on Wed Mar-04-09 07:29 AM by Kind of Blue
in a good way. Thanks.
I do have a question though. I want to have my chart done but I wasn't born in the U.S. and I wasn't born in a hospital, so it's the midwife's memory of my birth time. Is it possible to accurately adjust for that and get a decent reading? :shrug:
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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-04-09 03:43 PM
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8. Hey KB
Don't let any assessment scare you. We all have blends of 4 or 5 signs that can counteract each other. YEs, you can have a chart done. Best to get a birth time as close as possible. To rectify a chart, have the astrologer time-correct it, is very difficult but doable. Also, much can be learned from the chart without the birth time too.

It's a very complex story.

Good luck
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Kind of Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-04-09 04:34 PM
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10. Wow. Thank You, Ricochetastroman.
:cry: All these years I thought what's the use since my birth time is not so definite. I really appreciate your answer :hug:
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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 10:34 AM
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11. no
about 1/5 of my readings have no birth time. there are tons of things you CAN know w/o it.
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 11:07 AM
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12. oh that's good to know
I don't know my birth time...it's not even on my birth certificate. Soooo.... I'm stuck.

Well, I'm not heavily into astrology, but it IS interesting and I'm always in support of trying things and seeing how I feel about it (rather than the other way around.)

:hi:
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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 11:22 AM
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13. In Pittsburgh
Many of my clients to the Dept. of Vital Records where they DO have the birth time even though it's not on the BC. YOu can try that or the hospital records dept.
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 02:17 PM
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14. Hi Rick--well I tried...
vital records for NYC only seemed to have Birth Cert info, at least as far as the person I spoke to knew; and the Hospital I was born in doesn't keep records that far back. *sigh* Oh well...

Thanks for the suggestion, though.
(I checked your website. Very good testimonials! Now I'm tempted.... ;) )
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ricochetastroman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 06:39 PM
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15. I don't know why...
but you sometimes have to PUSH THEM TO GIVE YOU the birth time. Can you believe that? In Pittsburgh, if you get a new Birth Certificate it won't have the time on it unless you specify that you want it. I don't know what the policy is in NY. Kinda like they want you to avoid going to astrologers - kinda paranoid eh? What other reason could they possibly have to keep it off?


Good luck.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 06:45 PM
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16. Blanche
I was born in NYC and when I asked for a replacement birth certificate, they sent me a short form. I called back and said I wanted the full information. I then got the full information, including birth time.
I was born in Brooklyn (Kings County) in, well let's say in the Boomer years.
Feel free to PM me if you want to chat about how to get the long form.
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-05-09 07:00 PM
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17. Far out! Thanks SC and Rick!!
:7

Will do, SC

:hi:
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