Let Go of Useless Power and Violence

Embrace the Animus and Anima Part One.
Make Way for Pluto and Mars in the Conference Room.

Many of us are starting to notice an insistent, animated glow of reddish light in the East - Mars the planet. The Roman God Ares(other incarnations too) is rising shortly after sunset, Mars is a bright orange beacon in the early evening eastern sky, and it should not be missed! So this month Mars is the midnight “star” eading for closest approach to Earth on October 30. Some of us are marking our calendars for Saturday Oct. 15th when Mars is the "brightest object" in the night sky, other than of course the Moon and Venus. Just from the area of star gazing we got a lot ahead - On Oct. 17th a Full Hunter’s Moon and a Penumbral Eclipse. For those of us on the West Coast -

Start with the early, penumbral phase, beginning at 5:51 a.m. EDT, darkens the Moon too little to be easily noticed, and the partial phase doesn’t begin until 7:34 a.m. West Coast observers, and those in Alaska, Hawaii, Eastern Asia and Australia, have a better chance. At maximum eclipse (8:03 a.m.), less than 7 percent of the Moon’s surface will be obscured by Earth’s inner and darker umbral shadow.

Adjustments On All Dimensions
Wow, we are busy making adjustments, trying to leverage our lives toward completion, With everyone from Mayan Priests to Space.com Astronomers that TIME (Cronus) has shifted out of linear pattern to a more flowing continuum. We are just beginning as a collective to notice all the many anomolies floating around. Just recentnly, there was another time/space shift as TIME seemed increased at a dramatic pace. There has been great emphasis on energy and great physical exertion with hurricanes,earthquakes not only happening in Paksitan or New Orleans but RIGHT INSIDE US. Everyday we may be fighting how much energy we can devote to our large projects or is it tasks or is it obsessions?
It is increasingly obvious certain days highlight this process - the last time or transit was Oct 10 when at 22:13 Sagittarius Transiting Pluto was Quincunx (150 deg. orb) Mars @ 22:13 Taurus RX. This Inconjunct or Quincunx always leads to tweaking and many times big adjustmenst. When we bring in Pluto - dark, cold and slow it takes 248 years to travel thru the chart we better expect transformation. Our other adversary it seems showers us with red cloaks and robes reminiscient of Romans and Hindu Priests. Red Planet is moving within so to speak in a retrograde cycle that will turn direct on Dec. 10 at 8:14 Taurus final shadow stage to complete at 23:22 when Taurus moved retrograde on Oct. 1st.
We start to ask What the F... is going on then... How are are expected to make adjustments when the two power planets decide to
This is a time when we make changes, time to rearrange and redevelop activities in our life that may have demanded lots of motivation and energy. Many of us have been working stubbornly on projects (Mars) with persistence (Taurus) - these are the kind of endeavoers that really drive our core of being or at least our desire to obtain $ (currency - scrilla). Scrilla is a Hip Hop term: (n) Money, loot SHOW ME THE COIN.

"Scrilla scratch paper"

used to be called long green, cabbage or even bananas. We astrologers connect greenbacks, Franklins, bread, hard cold cash to the astrological sign Taurus by virtue of his/her ruler: Venus. Venus lingers low in the West-southwest twilight this week. So now is when we start to realize those past acivities which we invested our heart's and souls will end or at least need total TRANSFORMATION ? Perhaps it is just our role in the project that needs to transform. Or is it the role of your "special" Grail Quest which is changing. Either way you are letting go of a sense of power and need to make adjustments accordingly. Getting ready for the ingress of that Big Fella, the master of living large and far away - JUPITER steps into the Scorpionic persona muy intense just two days after (10/25/05)in the evening.

Archetypes: Animus and Anima connect with Venus and Martian Synodic Cycle. For those that have followed Carl Jung and his theory and symbolism of the human are familiar with the terms Anima and Animus. Jung tells how part of our persona is the role of male or female we must play. In fact Jung, like Freud and Adler and others, felt that we are all really bisexual in nature and because of society's expectations we usually only half of our potential.
Jung recognized the other half as by naming the those aspects Anima and Animus. Like Venus the anima is the female aspect present in the collective unconscious of men, and corresponding to Mars the animus is the male aspect present in the collective unconscious of women. Together they are refered to as syzygy.
In the last 1 +years both men and women have had a chance to experience these aspects collectivelly with first the Venus Eclipse on June 8, 2004 - June 8, the silhouette of Venus crossed over the disc of the Sun - Venus was Retrograde at 18 Gemini. It's like an extraordinary kind of eclipse -- the last time it happened was in 1882. Not only was this phenomena a signal of evolutionary movement for humanity and indication of coming economic upheaval but it also catalyzed the effect of women taking power or moving into power positions (recent victory of Angela Merkel Germany's chancellor or Condoleezza Rice, Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton even Liberian presidential candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.) It might be worth probing as to whether Venus Rx Eclipse in June 2004 represented Anima or Animus? With the preceding list of women - we might conjure the masculine aspect of the female psyche; aggressive, assertive, controlling, taking charge, the fighting spirit.

Anima In Jungian theory anima has multiple types from the young girl, very spontaneous and intuitive, or the courtesan cultured, gifted or deceptive possibly the witch bringing visions and shadwos, or as the earth mothe protective, nurturing and on the other extreme possesive/destructive.
It is likely to be associated with deep emotionality and the force of life itself. The animus may be personified as a wise old man, a sorcerer, or often a number of males, and tends to be logical, often rationalistic, even argumentative.
More to follow around October 22nd and 23rd as When the Sun - Solar God - our own shining RA or Apollo-Like.