Midlife Transits

The sign of Virgo loves its facts and figures. For right now, let’s hope you’re one of those Virgos who fits the type–because you need to have a handle on your facts and figures when it comes to money these days. March sees both of your money houses lit up with energy, and March is really just the beginning of a long-term trend. The basic problem (and it kinda is one) is Saturn in Libra in your second house of income and values.

Saturn opposes the sun, Mercury, and Venus in your house of debt this month and there’s a full moon in your income house this month too (on the 29th). This is like a quadruple emphasis on money during the month. So what exactly are you supposed to do about all this? Probably what you are supposed to do is learn to put a great value on conservative investments, savings, and the like.

Live within your means. Develop an appreciation for free stuff–like walking in the park on a beautiful spring day, or a breezy spring day, or any kind of a day at all, so that you can save money on gym fees.

Yes, and gather facts. Face reality; figure out the truth. The thing is, Saturn in your second house is full of financial fears. Maybe some of those fears are justified; maybe they are not. You’re not going to know unless you get up the courage to look at your 401k account and see what’s left, balance your checkbook, see what kind of interest you are paying on your credit cards, and do all that sensible stuff that grownups are supposed to do.

This the time of year when all the planets are lined up on the opposite side of the zodiac from your sign, leaving you with little personal planetary attention. There is a full moon in your sign on the 28th of February, though, and you can use it to get rid of all kinds of stuff that you don’t need or want any longer, until only the good stuff is left.

There is one good angle between your ruler Mercury and Uranus this month, one that could help your personal life. That’s between Mercury in Capricorn in your 5th house of love and Uranus in Pisces in your 7th house of committed relationships. It becomes exact at 3:02 a.m. on Saturday the 6th, though (Eastern Standard Time), so you and your date will either have to stay up late to get the maximum romantic punch or fudge things a little.

On the 10th, your ruler moves into Aquarius and things get a whole lot more fuzzy and a lot less play-oriented. On the upside, you could see a modest increase in income from your job for the time being. And Aquarius is the friendship sign, so the energy is good for doing things with your buddies. On the downside, your normally precise mind can’t get much traction with the vague Aquarian energy, dominated as it is by Neptune and Chiron this month. Furthermore, Aquarius is the sign in your solar chart that represents work! So for most of the month, your mind is more on work than play.

This month, there’s a dust-up between Saturn in your solar second house and Pluto in your solar 5th house. Saturn in the 2nd relates to money. It means (most often, not always) reduced income or the need to make serious purchases, such as buying a car. This  trend has been in effect since October, so some of you have already made a big purchase.

The 5th house represents pleasure, kids, love, creativity. The dust-up indicates that your financial obligations are at odds with your desire to enjoy yourself. On the one hand, there’s an eclipse in this same 5th house that indicates the possibility of new love or a fresh start in some creative or pleasurable area of your life, especially since happy Jupiter is entering your 7th house of relationships. Indeed, a major theme for all of 2010 is relationships.

On the other hand, there’s a long-term trend toward financial pressure, as Uranus is now bearing down on your 8th house of debt, preparing to enter there in June. I suppose the message is enjoy yourself now, but prepare for the future and look to managing your expenses, even if you do fall in love this month! Finally, a reminder that Mars in Leo has got your subconscious mind vrooming along with energy. You may want to keep a dream journal or record your inspirations.

As for 2010, if you can keep a clear head when it comes to relationships and money–you should do all right.

The month starts off with a full moon in Gemini in your career sector. Sometimes a full moon signifies a low point in the cycle with regard to the affairs of that house, especially if you work in a Gemini-related field such as writing, office work, and the like. You may lose or complete a project, or just feel low energy in your career.Try not to make careless errors, and shrug off temporary annoyances.

The 16th sees the annual new moon in your home and family sector. Usually, there’s ton of energy in this area of your life in December. This year, a bit less so. For one thing, Pluto is gone from this area (yay!) and for another, Mercury spends almost the entire month in Capricorn instead of Sag. You may actually get a break this year and find the holiday season to be more refreshing than usual–or you may miss the usual hubbub at your house.

The end of the month sees a rare lunar eclipse in Cancer. The most straightforward meaning of this would be that you would have to give up something in your perpetually overcharged schedule. A friendship, a bit of your social life, a community involvement. Something’s got to be purged, so purge it and empty your calendar a bit.

New moon in your 3rd house of reading, writing, and arithmetic this month, Virgo, on the 16th. If you’re a book-loving Virgo, haul out the reading list and indulge. Exercising your active brain may be more important than you realize in November, as wacky and difficult aspects make a retreat into the mind an appealing way to cope.

First, the pleasant stuff. Venus in Libra from October 14 through November 8 may tempt you to spend money socializing. Go ahead and splurge a little, because there’s not much splurging ahead for your sign over the next few years.

On the 22nd, the sun moves into the sector of your chart that deals with home and hearth, just in time for the holiday season to begin. In fact, Thanksgiving may be the best day of the month as warm-hearted Mars in Leo teams up with Mercury in Sagittarius to make things merry and bright for a family get-together.

It’s that middle period, between the 9th and the 22nd when you may want to grab that book and hide.

Cardinal people are scheduled to go a little nuts, or at least exhibits sign of stress (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn are cardinal signs). Fixed sign people are scheduled to get all confused and weird (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius are fixed signs). All at the same time. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of people who won’t accidentally be trying to fry their relationships under the influence of quarreling skies.

Another possibility is that there will be some sort of event that affects a great deal of people at once, and they won’t be happy about it. Hopefully nothing too upsetting will happen, but still, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make a mental note that snuggling under the covers with a flashlight and a novel may not be the worst way to spend the week of the 15th.

There’s still energy in your sign in October, but the focus is switching to the sign of Libra and your second house of income, possessions, and property. Libra is a social sign, and the emphasis indicates that your financial gains come through interacting with others and staying in contact with them. You’ll need to be adaptable and accommodating, most likely, for best results, although it’s possible that the upcoming switch of Saturn in Libra will make you feel like being a bit less accommodating than usual when it comes to finances. Your financial new moon occurs on the 18th, though, so make a wish then (or set an intention) if you have issues in that area.

The Libra sun is also in good angle to Jupiter stationing in your health sector. The week of October 11 is a superb week to get a health issue addressed. If you’ve been praying and hoping for a breakthrough, you may finally get it.

The sun moves into Scorpio on the 23rd of October. There it’s in your third house of being on the go. Accept invitations, get your errands done, take a short trip. Bottom line: you’re starting to get a nice break from some of the pressure your sign’s been under, a development that should ultimately make your life simpler. Good show!

The one part of your chart that is not supposed to be hopping with energy right now is your work and health sector. All three of the placements there (Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron) are retrograde, and for once they’re not doing much of interest. So you can leave that part of your life as is for awhile.

The main part of your chart, however, is locked in a fierce battle with itself. Should you jump into something (perhaps something romantic) and think about the consequences later? Or should you do just the opposite: think about the consequences now and jump later, if at all?

You’ll probably do a combination of the two–jump now and think now. Which maybe wouldn’t be a bad solution to your dilemma. After all, Pluto is trying to thoroughly overhaul your love life, and he’s stationing this month. Maybe it’s time to take a step forward–worries and all.

As for the next 12 months: well, you should finally be getting a chance to do a lot more jumping and a lot less hesitating. Saturn will move out of your sign, so he’ll stop holding you back. You’ll get some Jupiter in Pisces action, which should help the romantic and partnership jumping. Uranus and Jupiter will also both visit Aries, which is a jumping combination of energy if there ever was one.

Oh I’m not saying there won’t be any holdups, because there will be. Saturn will be getting all nasty with Pluto over the next 12 months, and the cardinal signs will all be sniping at each other.

But you’re not a cardinal sign; you’re a quick-moving mutable sign. And finally, much of pressure will be off. The planets will get off your angles and you’ll be able to get off your butt because you won’t have so much inertia to contend with. Little dancing buds of freedom will sprout and you may be dancing along with them.

The big news is that the sun and Mercury move into your sign this month. Mercury does so on the 2nd, the sun on the 22nd. That makes three placements in your sign this month, cuz Saturn’s there too as he has been for a long time. There are also 3 placements in Aquarius (Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron) in your solar 6th house, the house associated with your sign.

That puts a really big emphasis on the service-y side of your Virgo nature. Virgo lives to serve, and you happen to have been born under the most useful sign in the zodiac. You people volunteer like no other sign does, are constantly busy, usually helping others, and you’re responsible for a big chunk of the good works of any society. Plus, you never really take credit for it!

The skies have put a spotlight on all your service-y tendencies this month in an attempt to get you to un-sign up for one of your many exhausting activities. Maybe you need to quit going out with your work friends, so you can have some alone time. Maybe you need to un-volunteer for something. Maybe you need to give up some duties and control on the job. You know better than I what you need to relinquish.

Relinquish now to gain some energy and some of the time you need to replenish–so you can live to serve another day.

Summer! Time to get outside and hang with your friends. Yeah, I know you need to work. Maybe you even need to work like crazy this month, but you need your social time too.

Take a walk in the park with your best buds, catch up on all the gossip. It’s not just that you need the refreshment of companionship (which you do); it’s also that your senses need refreshment. Feast your eyes on the greens of nature and feel your mind calm down. Wear your hat, of course; we don’t want your delicate Virgo skin getting a sunburn.

If you have to stay inside, your chart still needs you to be sociable and involved in group activities. There’s a sociable vibe in the job sector of your chart, for example, so maybe you can benefit from being part of a small team at work (about 3 people would be ideal).

Finally, if you’re single, I have to tell you one more thing. You may or may not be looking for love, but it’s entirely possible that love is looking for you. The days around the 22nd will let you know if you’re on Cupid’s hit list. I’m not guaranteeing anything will happen, I’m just saying….you know, it could. Have fun.

At the full moon on June 7, you will probably be concerned primarily with something having to do with your family. Whatever it is, it is not a new issue, but something instead that you are trying to wrap up. It’s possible that you will need some additional information in order to resolve the problem. Trying checking out a new book for inspiration.

At the new moon on June 22, you begin a period of playing mother to your friends. Or maybe they’ll be playing mother to you.

Another theme of the month has to do with a lot of activity in the sign of Taurus. Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be in the sign during June. Taurus represents your solar 9th house. This house has to do with a variety of things. One of them is travel; another is religion, and a third is education. You know better than I which of these areas is most likely to be important to you (maybe all three). Perhaps you’ll be traveling in order to further your religious education. Could happen. But I’d put my money on a bit of a summer vacation. Whatever it is, enjoy!