Saturn in Virgo 2007-2010

The Reign of the Harvest Goddess

The day has arrived - September 2,2007!!!

I have been waiting for this day! I love Virgo energy and find it to be so much more than the stereotypical Virgo-bashing passages I read so often. Virgo can now flex her muscle in a big way, much like She did in the late 1950s through the 1960s in the world.

Sepember 2, 2007, is a MAJOR day in all our lives! Saturn ingresses or enters the constellation of Virgo. For nearly the next three years, our lives will be flavored with the energry and interests of the Harvest Goddess, The Nurse, The Accountant, The Organizer.

Saturn is entering Virgo while Venus is retrograding. This Venus in Virgo transit is a notable one, occurring only once every 18 months. First, Venus was in Virgo, then it stationed retrograde and returned to Leo where it is now. The humility of Virgo is influencing the analysis people are conducting about their current and past relationships...and such Virgo humility is appearing in stark contrast to the ego of Leo. The retrograde motion is slowing and on Septemer 8, only six days after Saturn enters Virgo, Venus will station direct and begin transiting back to Virgo where it will remain for several weeks.

For those who have Sun in Virgo, Pisces, Gemini and Sagittarius, it will be an especially active and memorable time. Are you READY for the changes it will bring YOU as an individual?
How will The Harvest Goddess do this?


Religion/Spirituality, Alternative Medicine, The Environment
We will see much seeking of spiritual teachers and teaching, a resurgence in organized religion, alternative spirituality becomes more appealing. There will be acceptance and implementation of clean ecological foods and ways of eating; the rise of alternative medicine, natural healing, an increased use and recommendation of supplements, vitamins and minerals in place of prescription pharmaceuticals. Health and alternative healthcare will arise and serious changes will be made. Watch what happens with water, bottled water grains, bread and the price of bread!!) and more support for ways to avoid surgery and prescription medicine. Look back to the Virgo influenced 1960s and late 1970s, though, and recall the rise of the guru, Eastern spirituality, cults and religious groups like Dianetics (which is about correcting your flaws - how Virgo!).

Spiritual advisors and clergy will become very important to people under this Saturn in Virgo period as people seek to organize and find meaning in the spiritual so as to better guide their lives. People want a sense of purpose. Now that the fatuous ego has been downsized under Saturn in Leo, people want to do something with the humble spirit that remains.


Escapades and Escapes: Drugs and Alcohol
Purple hazes, white rabbits, mellow yellows, green tambourines etc...There is not too much revelation here when you look back at the Virgo inspired 1960s: non-prescription alternative drug experimentation exploded onto the scene. "Freeing your mind" sounds like something good to do when there is such a strong Virgo influence. After all, it supports free love and serving others by sharing yourself and your possessions, right? Hmmm. While Uranus and Pluto were transiting Virgo, LSD acid trips and marijuana was the drug of choice to elude reality while being convinced you were getting deeper into it. The rates of drug and alcohol use rose then and in the late 1970s we added many different pills to the mix. Tranquilizers and anti-depressants became the popular drug of choice in the late 1970s, with people needing to escape while claiming it helped them to cope with reality. It will not be surprising if people, angry over the last few years of strife, war and politics, repress that anger into depression and then seek a pill to deal with it. Alcohol (more of a polar Piscean influence) is also more easily accessible than a prescription drug so that could be another way of escaping. Mix some pills together, smoke a doobie and wash it all down with some beer or wine. Chill, dude. The fact is the issues that will arise under Saturn in Virgo will be challenging, conflicted and painful - will you strive to stay conscious and deal openly with them or will you hermit yourself in a cave of artificial safety and numbness? If you have indications in your chart (planets in signs or aspects) that indicate a pre-disposition for drug and alcohol use this is a time to be aware. Check your Virgo and Pisces placements.


Service, Servanthood, Martyrdom
Virgo is the sign of teh Servant and certainly sevice and sevanthood are hallmarks of The Harvest Goddess. In the Virgo influenced 1960s the Peace Corps rose to prominence and volunteerism became something people did in greater numbers than ever beofre People sought to help one another to live beter lives and to share resources. The movement went around the world. We may well see such organizations in existence and some new ones, become very active.
We also could see martyrs - people "dying for the cause". How will we also cope when more people are forthcoming about sexual expressions like BDSM and its aspect of sexual submissives and slaves who gain sexual and spiritual saisfaction from submitting their bodies and lives to another person. The expression"hurts so good" could take on new meaning. Of course this could also be a revelation of both healthy and unhealthy mental process taking place. Who can determine this? Well, it will take an analyzation (Virgo) of this sexual issue to make an informative conclusion.


Women's Bodies, Women Legal Rights
Could we cure or prevent women's diseases such as breast, cervical and ovarian cancer? How about a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS? How about dramatically decreaing teh amount of hysterectomies performed on woen (removing the organs that make them distinctly female) by the use of supplements that naturally heal uterine fibroids and endometriosis? What would the make dominated medical profession do if the profits from performing hysterectomies dramatically decreased (there could be some anger and resistance there from the American Medical Association and other medical organizations exemplifed by them trying to destroy the companies that produce the alternative healing solutions!).

We could see laws arise around issues affecting women's bodies, health and lives in general. Remember the Equal Rights Amendment arose in the USA so there would be legal consequences for not paying women the same as men, but in under Saturn in Virgo it faltered and was effectively "killed". Does this now portend restrictive rules about abortion, the new drug that prevents cervical cancer in females etc.?

Saturn (male) in Virgo (female) - will men in power use their power to prevent, minimize or eliminate gains made by women, human rights for women or things which simply would make women's lives more equal to those of men?

Keep in mind since women are the primary caretaker of children in the world, children will be affected by whatever affects women and women will be affected by whatever decisions are made about children!


Lying, Telling the Truth and Their Rewards
Where you could perhaps charm your way out of a lie with some bravado at other times, now you will see the axe fall on your neck. We will see the rise people who tell the truth about things while witnessing the fall of people who lie and present a facade about who they are, their job etc. There will be many stories and issues about truth, and doing the right thing: we will see lots of folks exposed as liars - sometimes forcefully and explosively - and there will be harsh punishment for the lies (resignations, firings, immense shame, etc). Those who practice telling the truth from the start will be elevated - promotions, support, new jobs, more responsibility, lots of love from others, justice prevailing etc.


Good Sex/Bad Sex, Promiscuity and Sexual Dis-ease
Sexual issues of a deeply personal nature and possibly related to "taboo" or "hidden" sexuality in some form (discussions of sex and sexuality in general, issues about virginity, people's feelings of shame about sex, people who are living hypocritical lives (regarding general sexuality, child molestation, BDSM, bisexuality, homosexuality, transvestism, rape and sexual assault)......all these thing will come to light under Saturn in Virgo.

Look back to the 1960s, and the late 1970s, though, and recall that under Virgo/Saturn in Virgo influence we saw the explosion of free love (sex for the pure pleasure of it or in some cases promiscuity), the proliference of the birth control pill and the emergence of what became known as HIV/AIDS. The latter occurred under Saturn in Virgo - perhaps Saturn reigning in the excesses of irresponsible sexuality (unprotected sex)?

In the last few months, people have reported to me that friends they know who are bisexual or homosexual and not too careful with their sexual practices seem to be following in the path of gay friends they had as a child (yes, chilren/young teens are sexually active). If you recall, by the time Saturn arrived in Libra in teh early 1980s many people then exploded with sexual disease (HIV/AIDS) and died. We must be careful not to be too complacent now and end up watching more friends die of sexually transmitted diseases over the next 6 years. Start practicing safe sex under Saturn in Virgo if you were not before, so that you reap good rewards from your sexual activities, not disease and death (dis-sease and death being Saturnine energies).

The evolved thing to do under Saturn in Virgo is for us to work to eliminate dis-ease about our sexuality. We will have the chance to be open about all forms of sexuality, be open about sexual abuse in all forms and use this openness to have a more healthy sexual ethos in our communities, homes and personal lives. When we find sexual abuse we must deal with it and not push it underground nor punish the powerless victim (punishment and victimization are Virgo energies). We must stop repressing and hiding in our sexual closets for it warps our spirits and cuts off our relationships with other people.

Under Saturn in Virgo this could be the time when those adult who are sexually late bloomers or immature in expression come into their own - healthy, regular sexual relationships, releasing of inhibitions from the past, first-time late marriages etc.

People hiding certain sexual behaviors - especially people with strong Virgo planetary placements - the bell will now toll for thee!! The truth will come out, leak out, fall out, be blown out etc. In fact, some of this began in late July as Saturn transited the final 10 degrees of Leo.


Organizing our Lives, Cleaning Out Our Closets and More
This world will get better organized (but then could that be bad in the form of creating too much red-tape bureaucracy?) Oooh, Virgo is a great oganizing energy.

Cleanliness will be an issue and you will find it in these areas: water, water safety, agriculture (clean, ecological food), more personal hygiene products, hospital cleanliness, germ warfare, disease research, or possible new diseases spring up or new cures being found regarding germ-based diseases


Virgo as Woman: the Ultimate Self-Contained Human Being
Women are wonderful. Once it is implanted her her womb, women spend 10 months nurturing a seed into human life. Women are the primary caretakers of other human beings. Women are workers, servants, mothers, lover, wives, partners, leaders, multi-taskers and well, everything. Women know how to take care of themselves sexually without needing to invade or control another person's body. Virgo, the Harvest Goddess, is the only female human zodiac sign. She is about being self-contained: about being able to live alone if necessary, about being able to handle whatever needs to be handled while having a delicate femininity. In the clear brown eyes of the earthy Virgo woman is someone who CAN do it all and do it well, to the amazement and sometimes irritation of others. She works hard, worries long and manages to pull it all together. Her love is practical, earth-shaking on a deep level and solid.

Think that intellectual, picky woman with her brown hair pulled back into a bun is a boring, frigid Ice Queen? Think again. Look again. Her clear brown eyes sparkle deep and her brilliant mind and throaty laugh from the heart will capture you while her sensitive spirit and her innate knowledge of ou bring you a deep satisfaction that if you treat her well, you will always be taken care of well. And did I mention the earth-shaking love making that starts with a tremor deep within?...........

Analyzing for Right Knowledge
Look back to 1977-1980 to deeply understand the times in which we will be living these next 33 months until early June 2010.

We will strive to "do the right thing" very consistently in this period. We will analyze, intellectualize and devise ways to do things better and more "uprightly". Yes it cold be irritating sometimes in some places to some people. Overall, however, it will be the right thing to do and we will know it.


Your Personal Saturn in Virgo
Call or write me to get a personalized consultation and learn your best moves under this influence. It would behoove us all to understand how we are or could be affected so we know how best to handle it.

Saturn is not a planet to be taken lightly and the changes He brings are lasting ones.
If you ARE a Virgo - this is a time when things can finally fall into place in your life for a lasting period of time (30 years!). Make it a GOOD 30 years!

Love's Unfinished Business - Venus Retrograde 2007

VENUS IN VIRGO RETROGRADE

Time to Complete Love's Unfinished Business

Now that the Sun has entered Leo we are nearing the month of August and some significant planetary movements.

First up we have sensual Venus stationing retrograde, something it only does once every 18 months. Venus will do this on July 27, 2007 at 3° Virgo (or more precisely, 2° Virgo 56'), and this retrograde period will last until September 8, 2007, By then the planet of love and sensuality stations direct at 16° Leo 36'. That forward motion then continues until October 11, when she returns to 3 °the 3rd degree of Virgo, where she first made her station (this is called the "Shadow Period"). To recap, that is, Venus is retrograde July 27-September 8.

This Venus in Virgo transit will be a challenging one because it will makes demands on you about the men and women you have been in relationship with, about love. The demands are coming from Saturn which will also be making a stand by moving from Leo into Virgo. (More about Saturn in Virgo is coming soon!). This movement of Venus began at the beginning of July and will extend into the middle of October. (then Virgo's ruler, Mercury is in retrograde again).

How will this affect you? With Venus going retrograde, August, September and half of October will be time for a review of your love life and relationships in general. Virgo demands honesty, practicalityand uprightness in love. The past is important. Who do you REALLY love? Is there a woman or man in your past who you have run away from, rejected or refused to commit to because of fear and dishonest "reasons"? Now is the time when you must face the music. With the influence of Saturn, it is decision-making time - and making the choice for that person may well be the "right" choice and the best choice. Are you in a "relationship" shaped by and grounded in a foundation of secrecy, guilt, control, sexual obsession or some other fragile reason? Making a choice to commit to that person will bring you pain that will be long and memorable and not to your liking in any way until you, again, making things "right".

One example: At hte center is a Virgo male who is a closet bisexual and transvestite who wears women's clothing and wants to be the dominated submissive in BDSM sex play. He connects online with a dominatrix. This woman's last such relationship ended when the man, her "slave" finally would not comply with her persistent demands for marriage and financial support. She is still looking to get married, hopefully toi a man who wants to take the submissive role. They have cybersex for a few months then she travels to his country to live with him. They live out their fantasies in front of a webcam and in BDSM clubs for an online BDSM community in what is called a TPE 24/7 (Total Power Exchange). They have also agreed to do this under a year long Mistress/slave contract. Now months into it. they argue frequently about finances and struggle over who will be in control. She tells her BDSM chatroom friends that it is th greatest relationship in teh world; he knows he will never marry her but he is staying silent to avoid conflict for the remainder of the contract. He also hides their relationship and his sexual orientation from his family and friends. So, what happens to such a relationship under under Venus retrograde (and Saturn in Virgo)? Does this relationship have any real foundation for a lasting relationship of decades? Can it stand the test of honesty, openness and dealing with everyday life like children, extended family and building a life together? Or is it really only a guilt-ridden and secret relationship hidden from everyone? Virgos do not really get away with making the wrong choices, LOL. They suffer for it, unlike some other signs which bounce back better.

If you have Sun, Moon, Venus, Saturn or Ascendant in Virgo this will be an especially personal transit. For Virgos in general this is a part of a marriage and commitment transit. If you have Sun or Venus in Virgo, do not be surprised if the best and "right" decision of commitment that brings life happiness involves another Virgo! Of course it may not be. Do not be surprised if both or one of you is well past the "normal" marriage age. All good things come in time and later in life is Virgo's time. Why? Two things: 1) Virgo is said to be truly the only sign that another Virgo can marry and it definitely works out well and 2) Virgo women and men are THE most self-contained people in the world and tend to marry later in life - 30s and 40s.

I will go deeper into Saturn in Virgo in another article, but know that Saturn's arrival into Virgo signifies the start of many marriage, divorces and pregnancies/births by Virgos between September 2007 and June 2010.

Venus in Virgo retrograde will call upon us to go back and take care of unfinished love business. *ouch* Typically in retrogrades we are forced to deal with deep feelings that have their origins in past events. It is an opportunity to gain insight into your style of relating, whether sexually, creatively, or financially. The deep feeling will be activated internally but can be difficult to express to ourselves or others while Venus is retrograde. When the retrograde is done (early September in this case) we can give voice to what is uncovered.

Is there or has there been a Virgo in your life that you were involved with at some point? Your thoughts will wander back to that person to reconsider. After everything is weighed a solid and honest committed relationship can result that will involve love, security, service, caring, friendship and a lasting partnership.

Have you been feeling there is something missing in your life and you want the partnership that a marriage brings? Then it is time to put aside the obfuscations and lies you have used to keep the two of you apart (or for you to face that Virgo who has been doing the same thing) and get married.

When Virgos are presented with the truth, no matter how "deep, dark and ugly", it can open a whole new world of light - like the kind sparkle in a Virgin's eyes.

Virgo will take care of you and you will never be wanting as Virgo loves to serve. That is the general nature of a commitment made under Saturn in Virgo - a commitment made to and with a person who embodies the Virgoan calling of service

As director Spike Lee said....it is time to DO THE RIGHT THING.

So review and undo the false relationships that have no solid foundation for a future. Analyze the facts, take into consideration the truth about yourself and the other person. Speak openly and honestly and let love into the space between you. Make a good choice for love and stick to it. It may mean reaching back and calling, visiting or writing that old girlfriend, it may mean you meet a new man in October 2007 who embodies Virgoan characteristics and marry him, and hey, it is time!


BASIC BACKGROUND

A little insight on Virgo and Venus:

Virgo is the planet whose archetypes are The Analyzer, The Sacred Prostitute (Vestal Virgin), The Servant, The Harvest Mother, The Nurse. This is a feminine sign and men with Sun in Virgo have something about them that is quietly graceful and feminine. It could be in, for example, the gliding walk of model-turned-actor Virgoan Sean Connery, or the charmingly intelligent looks of Virgoans Mark Harmon and Richard Gere. Virgo is also sexy too - besides those three men, think Virgoans Sophia Loren and Beyonce Knowles!

Venus reveals our values. The Goddess of Love rules emotions and feelings, fashion, sense of humor, anything artistic and aesthetic, fashion, the pursuit of pleasure, forms of desire such as money/wealth, social attitudes, love, marriage,romance and commitment, Venus symbolizes female relationships and social interactions at every level.

Service is Love - Venus in Virgo (July 14, 2007)

Venus in Virgo

Service is Love

Get your love in order! We are blessed with Venus in Virgo from July 14 through August 8. In communion with the New Moon in Cancer, this ingress of Venus into Virgo lends us full support in taking care of the details of love. Love is not always dreaming and floating on air. It is doing the “little things” for each other. It is a time when we find ourselves doing practical things to help our partners. We make ourselves more available to our lovers than at other times. For those in a bad relationship it is a time of being able to look at our relationships with the eyes of practicality and make sometimes tough decisions to end things or to note where we can make improvements.

Let’s take a moment to say something else about Virgo. The superficial word about Virgo is that it is all about milquetoast men and frigid women who are life-long bachelors, sexual virgins or inexperienced with sex, prudish, think sex is disgusting, shy, guilt-ridden, and who spend their lives as be-spectacled librarians and accountants. But Virgo is an Earth sign and that means Virgos are not just analytical (noticing the little things), practical and concerned about hygiene in a relationship; it means Virgos are sensual people who know how to make the earth quake! They are not necessarily virgins and can be quite sexually free, merging with a partner with some delight. Reserved? Once you have proven yourself to be a trustworthy and caring person, analytical and observant Virgo lets the wall down and is willing to do what it takes to make a partner happy. Service is an excellent expression of love.

As the Sun transits into Leo a few days into this Venus transit, some of the expressions of love could be quite elaborate and showy. During this Venus in Virgo cycle it would be easy to feel guilty about enjoying love and other pleasures too much, but indulge yourself anyway. Notice how people respond to your attempts to make them happy and notice how you respond in kind. Do not, however, worry yourself to death over things not being perfectly expressed. Stay in the moment and enjoy it.

New Moon in Cancer - July 14, 2007

We have a New Moon in Cancer on Saturday, July 14th, 2007, at 8:04 AM EDT/2:04 PM CET. This occurs at 21 degrees and 41 minutes of Cancer. It will significantly affect people born with Sun, Moon, or Ascendant between 20 to 24 degrees in Cancer, Capricorn, Aries and Libra.

This is a good time to make new beginnings, as it is with every New Moon; this one is good for new beginnings in the area of personal goals that symbolize the nature of Cancer the Crab. This includes family and home, nurturing, improving our relationships with our parents but mothers in particular, realizing what makes us feel insecure or secure. We must focus on whether our fears are rational or irrational and which is the best thing to do to face the world and our relationship with true courage, not false bravado where we jab at others and run back to hide in a shell we build around ourselves. We also must guard against being crabby and picking at the ones who love us, trying to keep them away from our true hearts (or prevent them from uncovering the things we have been dishonest about in relationship to that person!) We must focus on honesty and that means telling the truth in al ways (because hiding facts is lying through omission and is just as bad as outright lying. We must be honest with ourselves and with others. It will give us the intimacy and security we desire because we never need fear losing what we have because a lie we told or truth we hid might get exposed. .Since it is a time of new beginning it is a prime time to start a new project that can improve your family, home and general domestic life: start a scrapbook, write a story, have a special lunch with some family members etc. You will reap the rewards of this New Moon in Cancer in the month to come as this New Moon trines Uranus. The rewards could come in an unusual form, but stay open to the surprises for they can bring you good things. There is also another event helping you along with this energy, and that is Venus in Virgo, which also begins today.