Venus in Aries Moment

Neptune is currently squaring my Ascendant by transit, Libra’s ruler is retrograde, spring seems to have been put on hold where I live and I am very, very, VERY tired of the media feeding frenzy whipping up hysteria.

I can’t get too excited when I listen to someone moaning about having their investments lose 40-50% in value . . . from six million to three million. Those of us who have always lived within our means and saw only modest benefits from the glory days of Pluto in Sagittarius high living and hype are being impacted too but to a lesser degree. More than anything it feels to me like it’s fear that has paralyzed many people. We all need to take a deep breath and note the Sun is still coming up every day. One of my favorite astrologers, Ralfee Finn, has this to say and I agree 100%!!

-snip- “And here’s mine: The media keeps referring to this recession as if we’ve been in a halcyon period of milk and honey abundance for the last several decades. Hel-lo? Did I miss something? Most of us didn’t strike it rich in the high, fast, free, and easy financial world. Most of us have been in a constant struggle to survive, especially as the spending habits of a small minority jacked up prices on necessities, especially rent and food, not to mention oil and health care. Since Reaganomics, normal life (whatever that is) has become increasingly expensive, as our system, bloated on its own greed, continued to devolve. Those of us who weren’t in the small echelon of the rich, attempted to maintain a personal status quo through plastic, which on one side of the coin was a god send, but on the other, was a ring of hell Dante could never have imagined. But if you listen to the media, none of that struggle existed. From the infomercial point of view, we’ve gone from an Ozzie and Harriet to Road Warrior over night, and at any moment there will be riots in the street.”

As for Neptune squaring my Ascendant; after close to four years of being an active presence online, someone finally hit on me. The guy seems nice enough but is obviously seeing someone else entirely because I’m not a conservative Christian woman, I’m very married and am so not looking. Amazing.

Venus may be retrograde but she sure as heck is in Aries! This Libra is feeling quite independent minded now and determined to stand up and say her piece. My personal philosophy is still the same – live each day well, treat others with respect and kindness and refuse to worry about the zillions of things totally out of my control. Sure I have trouble with the last part but I just do not want to live my life fearing the “what if’s”. Life is too short, today the sun is shining and on Friday the Sun moves into Aries again.

I received one of those Amaryllis bulbs with it's own pot for Christmas and it bloomed! This is such a Venus in Aries flower . . . huge vivid red blooms atop a 2' stalk. I love it! :-)