Critical Degrees

[AquarianEssence]

I understand that 1, 13, 26 of Cardinal, 4, 17 of Mutable and 9, 21 of Fixed signs are considered critical degrees. I also know that this is where the Moon changes mansions.

Now moves can be to a better, more comfortable secure home or to a lesser home where the furnace doesn't work or the house never gets finished like I live in. So what I would like to know is, what is the meaning of the critical degrees? Are they easier, more beneficial in some way or harder, more like a karmic degree? I've had this question unanswered for quite some time.

I'm asking it now because the attorney that just took my case and life into his hands has his Sun at 13 Libra which is my Mars/Jupiter midpoint and the reflex crisis point of my bowl chart. He also has his Moon at 19 Pisces which is my post birth full Moon. (My pre birth new Moon is at critical 4 Virgo) Giving him a noon chart (career) puts 13 Sag on the asc and is my 5th cusp. It's the degree of retribution. What's scary is I had to sign a paper with Neptune opposing my asc and Mercury conjunct my Uranus saying if it goes to trial and they've paid doctors up to $600 hr to testify that even if I loose I must repay them for this expense.

[AquarianEssence]

Thanks, Jade. The avatar degrees, I think, have their origins in the cross quarter festivals. I read that they were originally celebrated when the Sun reached 15 degrees of the fixed signs. That's when I was married on 5/5/00 rather than 5/1, May day or Beltain. This is the festifal of promised fertility when the asharah pole, the may pole stood erect with young ladies dancing around it with ribbons attached. Lammas is upon us now. It is the celebration of the 1st fruits, an offering is made from the 1st harvest and promises an abundant harvest to come. The racoons got mine .

Apparantly I am fired and can't do anything about it, or my vacation pay owed. The Family Medical Leave Act gives them a legal loophole. If I'm gone over 12 weeks they can fire me. I'm not going to the dr. appointment they ordered today. The attorney said they have no right to have another independant medical exam before 6 months and every judge knows that their other doctor is an IMA doctor. Either way they will cut off benifits and I'll have to sue. The dr. they were sending me to today is retired but still does this for them. I guess there have been two court opinions in Michigan finding against the injured party stating they must submit to surgery for carpel tunnel. I can't believe they would do that with the symptoms only mild to moderate with the right kind of work. I guess we don't even have rights over our own bodies anymore if we want a paycheck. I guess I'll just have to pray I get a judge with more sense. Then they still have to address the problem with the left upper arm and ulner nerve. They keep ignoring that.

I guess I'm feeling rather hopeless and helpless right now. The attorney said I'll be without income for at least 5 months with this process, and that I should find work that won't exceed my restrictions or cause any further damage, if I can get anyone to hire me. I will only be able to get the lowest paying jobs but they will have to pay me the difference. What I need is a way to make money from home, on my own but with so many doors closed, I don't know where to find an open one.

Thank you for the link and support.

[Amoroso]

Aqua,

I have nothing to add here other than we at the forum are with you at the quantum and the computer level. I am sorry that life is so very rough right now.

There is an endless "day spring" that lives inside you. You simply must trust that it is there for you to find a way out of this thicket.

At some point, astrology becomes a total head exercise and can keep us from really drinking from that day spring.

Blessings,
Amoroso

[gemstar]

Hang in there Aqua....

Life is pushing you to find new means of income which will be earned by you in a different fashion. You are not alone in your dilemma and certainly will find a solution!! Keep listening to the 'silence'.....meditating and reaching out for better solutions. Things will come together eventually. Plenty of people have been in your situation and found new means which made them become more self-sufficient and happier!! (Even without wading through the slow court system process). Life can work in mysterious ways.....and it does not always make sense in the moment or even appear fair. So we make the best of a tough situation and look for better solutions.....you will be fine!

Hugs-
GemStar

[AquarianEssence]

Thank, all of you. I know you are all right. I'm just having a hard time thinking of jobs I can apply for that aren't repetitive and won't need a refrence from my previous job. I have to be honest with them and don't know how to not mention the things that will make them not want me.

Congratulations, Jade, that's really great. I just got a call from my oldest out in Boston. He just landed a job, entry level @ $55,000. I'm so proud of him. And 55 is my destiny number. He and I share 22 as the soul number. It helps to know he is doing well. This is his first job in his field since graduation but he had to move 15 hours away to do it. Michigan isn't a very good state to be in these days.

[samina]

Great words of inspiration, Gem, Jade, & Amoroso -- you've uplifted me, too!

Aqualuv, there are so many different ways to earn money, and so many unbelieveably beautiful ways the universe can work toward your support...

Find a way to calm your mind and your fears, even just for a few moments (a long walk, a good cry, a hot bath, and a quiet rest work together very nicely), and at the same time affirm and feel in your heart that there's a perfect path for you through all the tumult. The miraculous magic of the universe will be able to find its footing to reveal itself in your life, and where the next steps on your path lead.

When I reach moments of impasse like your own, I still remember something that gave me comfort and rescue years ago: "Be grateful for help unknown, already on the way."

Today I'm remembering it for myself, as well as for you!

Hugs,
Samina

[AquarianEssence]

Thanks Samin, I do. That is my survival tool. I have always known I am protected somehow. Just these last years have been one hit after another. I tell myself that must mean I'm really on the right path. Sometimes though, the insecure Virgo takes over and berrates me with "you must not be good enough".