Transits & LOA

[airedale]

To continue the conversation of using transits in terms of 'getting into alignment' in the best possible way...

Thanks Kim, for the example on the other thread.

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Here’s an example from my chart. Pluto entered my 6th house in Jan 2003 & I think it has about 10 more years there. I have no planets in the 6th but T. Pluto recently moved past opposition to Venus/28 Gemini (12th) and trine to Pluto/28 Leo (2nd). Pluto’s now headed for quincunx (150 deg) to my Uranus/4 Leo (1st).

As for my core values, I may not know all of them but freedom & independence are very often a part of things that get my juices flowing.

I think of Pluto as transforming and 6th as daily routine – daily habits, people/things we deal with every day. I don’t know where to go from here. (I’m trying to play in the deep end with the big kids but I’m pretty much just clinging to the edge of the pool! )

Any input appreciated. Thanks!

[Kim Falconer]

Great one to start with, Airedale. Here's how I would approach it.

Where Pluto transits things wake up--or if you like, thinks wake up where Pluto transits Let's say that you have organized a certain kind of awakening for yourself at this time that coincides beautifully with the symbolism of Pluto through the 6th. How can you allow for everything you desire there? How can you be your own best friend at this time?

Pluto transits are long…this planet can spend over 30 years in a house when it’s on the ‘slow’ side of its orbit (Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo), so aligning with Pluto is something we settle into. Plenty of time! All the time in the world, really and that’s not a bad phrase for Pluto transits. ‘I have all the time in the world.’

Start saying that every day and watch things change.

You are right about routine. The 6th is about ritual and habitual ways of being and this is key to leveraging the Pluto transit.

I’m not saying you can’t transform habitual behavior any other time, but it’s really working with you as Pluto goes through the 6th, or aspects Mercury, ruler of the 6th or Moon, which also has to do with habits.

The first think I would do is ask, what are you in the habit of? Does that habit serve you? Or Hinder? Simply put, does that habit give you a spontaneous smile or does it make you tense? Check into your body’s well being (6th house) when you ‘test’ to see if the habit is serving you. It may once have been an ally but is it still?

Here are a list of possible habits. Readers please feel free to add more:

1. Judgments:

That was dumb—I stuffed that up. Change to: I love that about me or ' doing my best!

I look fat (thin). Change to: I’ve got the perfect shape! I love my body.

2. Obliging (if it feels like you ‘have’ to, feel again!)

Yes, I’ll do that for you. Change to. ‘I wish I could help but I don’t want to. Or No thank you.

3. Needing –if you think you NEED something, you automatically keep it at bay.

I work because I need the money. Change to, I work because I love what I do. Money follows me regardless.

The trick is (Mercury) it's not enough to just say these things like a robot--you need to get to the feeling place as if they were true. If you say, I love my body but the feeling is, 'I'm fat fat fat', transformation will not come smoothly. Get to that feeling place as you say the words, even if you need to 'pimp' a vibe (when you feel delighted about something, slip in a little, Oh this feels good, and . . . I love my body. Do you get what I mean? ;D

That’s just a kick off. Let’s add to this list, offering up whatever habit (that no longer serve us) to the universe so the energy can be recycled elsewhere. The 6th house is about closet cleaning—Time to clean out the drawers of your mind?

Share your habits here, and watch them transform

[3rdhousenorth]

Interesting thread, Kim!

I'm having a hard time sorting out this transit I'm having of Saturn conjuncting my Sun (Uranus was opposing as well, but is past now) while also squaring my natal Saturn. My Sun in Virgo is in the 2nd house (yes, I just got past Saturn transiting my first house and then wham, it hits my Sun !) So 2nd house is about what I value, right? And it's my identity, my Sun, which rules my chart because I'm Leo rising. Virgo separates out what is important from what is not important.

My Sun is square Saturn in Sag on my 5th house cusp - creative expression, love. The Sun/5th house energy is thus challenged - I challenge myself to be creative, to love? My Saturn does make a nice trine to my Uranus/Ascendant/Moon conjunction in Leo, which can feed that creativity. I'm just not sure what to do with that Sun in Virgo! Something about having the discrimination to refine creative expression?

I was reading about the Saturn square Saturn transit and found this interesting bit from Erin Sullivan:
"The conjunction is a time between sextiles, between two experiences of creative form. Saturn conjunct the Sun lets one know that the past way of expressing and communicating one's creativity needs to be renovated and tested. This creates a new path forward toward more original and innovative methods of living and being."

I'll be going on a short vacation while Saturn is exactly retrograde on my Sun. (Since my Saturn is in Sag, I guess travel is okay! I like the perspective travel gives me.) I'll be in a very artsy town, so it should be creatively inspiring. Also, since transiting Pluto is trining my natal Venus-Pluto conjunction, there could be some transformative energy there, too.

[Juliet]

We have a saying here about what I'm going to write: swearing in church, but since I started using LOA, transits do not interest me all that much. What do I know about what the universe has in store for me? Even if I focus on a transit, it can be one my mind hooks on, while something altogether different is more important now. Oh my, am I vague. It does not feel vague though.

My LOA motto is to trust EVERYTING that is best for me will materialize and it certainly seems that way. My mind is (for me, and it's what I feel strongly about currently) a too limited instrument to choose from the limitless possibilities the universe has to offer. Plus it does attach to outcomes, something I'd like to avoid.
The best I can think of, is relax relax relax relax and be grounded at all times so it can all come to me!
It feels so playful and light and life is full of new and surprising opportunties!

Saturn has passed Pluto, Sun and is between my Mars and Mercury now. Later on it will be Eroses, Psyches, Jup's and Venus's turn.

Pluto will be conjunct Moon and Ac soon. We'll see what it brings...
Love, Juliet

[airedale]

Kim- Your explanation helps me see a little more. I'm now thinking of it as an individualized cosmic calendar that can clue us in to when might be the best time to shovel snow, or start the spring cleaning, or set out on an adventure, metaphorically speaking. It's a big, old synchronicity calendar. Ahhhh, something you mentioned months ago just sunk in.

My daily routine/habits are significantly different than they were a few years ago. They are more in line with my own priorities but still evolving. Possibly if I had been more aware of what was on my calendar, the wakeup calls might have been less abrupt. I like what you said,

"I'm not saying you can't transform habitual behavior any other time, but it's really working with you as Pluto goes through the 6th, or aspects Mercury, ruler of the 6th or Moon, which also has to do with habits."

I just might get more bang for the buck on energy I put into transforming habits of thought & deed.

I'd also add to the list:

4. Tolerations - get out of the habit just accepting tolerations rather than changing them

Well, I'm off to 'pimp' a vibe or two... ;D ;D That's a GEM!! Humor AND wisdom -- can't beat that!

Thanks again Kim!


P.S. I hope your cat is feeling better.

Also, thoughts and healing to all the people and animals caught in the path of the massive Australian fires.

[pam]

Hey Kim,

I can get to the whole where "things wake up, Pluto transits". Pluto hit my ascendant just before the conception of my son, around the time I made the jump and got my first reading from a high priest of the orisa tradition. Natally, Pluto is in my ninth house and when it crossed my ascendant, it squared it's natal place within 1 degree. The last 16 years have brought me the lessons and challenges I needed to deal with not only major spiritual changes , but also relationship issues (it eventually opposed Mars in the seventh, at the same time it conjuncted Saturn in the first, and trined my sun/venus conjunction in the 5th), and money and career issues (squared Midheaven and Jupiter in the tenth). The growth hasn't always been pleasant, but it has always been growth. During Pluto's passage through my first,I learned that I have healing abilities, I gained over 70 pounds between the pregnancy and then attempting to cushion myself from a myriad of unpleasant and unpalatable truths by burying my sorrows in fried potatoes, pasta, and tons and tons of espresso fudge soy dream. I am currently on my way back to my sleek and svelte knock'em out weight of 145lb. I had to realize several times over that the weight gain was an attempt to avoid not the attention of men, but the enmity of women(!!) and I had to realize (several times over) that I am not responsible for anyone's issues of my attractiveness to men. I had been giving away my own power, and using my transformative abilities to transform my self in a way that is not healthy for me. so now, as Pluto has entered my second, I am using my resources to manifest a reality that is more to my liking, physically and professionally.
At the same time that Pluto enters my second, Saturn is hovering around my MC. I am so very over teaching in a public school setting under the restrictions and political machinations that exist. What can I do differently, that involves me teaching and at the same time time removes me from all of the bs that teaching brings with it? there is no doubt that teaching is my calling. I love it, and I love the population that I serve. I work in an "urban" (re: low income, 95% black, 4.5% Latino, possibly one or two white children in the entire 750 population) school. the kids are not easy and are undereducated when we get them. They are needy, undernourished (although frequently huge), and their parents tend to be young. Many of the parents are high school dropouts themselves, and quite a few have a criminal past. The faculty at this school describe ourselves as missionaries as much as teachers. I want to continue working with this type of population and I want to continue teaching them. But how? I know I need to be able to deal with my own core values of nutrition and political empowerment, but this is risky in a public school setting. At the same time, I don't need to jeopardize my own income.
So I am visualizing me working with children and parents, and teaching classes at the farm. Some time ago, my friend asked me to come work with him. I'm seeing that work, but the doubt about the $$$ is still there. I haven't yet completed my visualization, but it's coming. And these particular transits of Saturn at the mid-heaven, and Pluto on the second house cusp are the perfect opportunity for me to finalize and concretize (is that a word? Must be, didn't see the red line ) the plans to make that happen. And I have to develop that and see it and feel it happily and fully. I know just what daydreams, experiences, and memories to attach it to ...

[ariesmoon]

I've been reading all these posts and wondering what I can contribute, and then I realised - there's a double-whammy Mars/Saturn transit going on (transiting Mars on natal Saturn, and retrograde Saturn trining natal Mars exactly). So there's got to be something I can use there!

Here's a habit - self sabotage. I am very good at it. I'm going to be on my own next Tuesday for the first time in the new job, it's a school holiday week here and all of our small team is taking leave that day. My self-sabotage habit says "oh dear, something is bound to go wrong, it's bound to be my fault, and how on earth am I going to cope."

I've been working on turning that round, and thinking "OK, it's a challenge, I like challenges, and they obviously have confidence in me, and I can use my forward planning and organisational skills (Saturn/Aquarius, receiving a huge positive boost from a Mars/Jupiter conjunction). So I've made a list of the questions I need to ask my manager on Monday so that I'm prepared for any eventuality. I can't do everything, so I won't expect myself to. I'll prioritise, and won't beat myself up for not clearing the in-tray.

I'm going to see these transits as Mars/Jupiter giving my poor old worrying 10th house Saturn a boost of positive thinking and confidence, and Saturn in Virgo from the 5th giving structure, form and attention to detail in my creative work.

As for Pluto opposite my Sun - I get a much longer shot at that one! It's refining, and clearing away anything which isn't truly "me", isn't authentic. It's helping me to shed that tough Cancerian shell which protected me, and the part of my nature which has protected others from my true feelings. That bit isn't going down too well with some friends, who are getting the message that there are times when I'm not willing or available to take on their problems and challenges. I've always been the listening ear in the past, and from now on I'll do my best, but I'll also say when it doesn't suit me.

[Kim Falconer]

I'm glad these ideas are stirring conversations and thoughts. When we begin to think about transits in a new way, we will experience them in a new way. I'm with Juliet. I no longer look at my transits and think about things that 'will happen'.

Instead I think about what will happen next--knowing I create it. I look at the transits in passing. They are like sign posts giving me hints on what is ripe for change or what my core values are, if I lose sight. They can also point out my habits and thoughts that may be keeping me in a particular 'reality' or creation. When I see that, it's much easier to shift.

As you can imagine, my transit readings for other people have taken on a whole new tone.

3rdhousenorth--Enjoy that holiday! When we move towards activities and thoughts that feel better, one step at a time, our lives open up. Consciousness opens up. If you can imagine it, you can have it

Airedale, glad you like the 'pimp a vibe' concept! It works for me! Gratch cat is much better thank you and if anyone is interested there is a fundraiser raffle going for all the thousands of animals caught in the Victoria bush fires. I'm one of the prizes www.astridcooper.com/bushfires.htm

Pam your thoughts are inspiring me! What a freedom it is to realize we are not responsible for anyone's issues, full stop! I got chills when you said I am using my resources to manifest a reality that is more to my liking, physically and professionally. The power is in doing what we love and in this case Saturn on the MC coincided with you getting in touch with that and taking action! Great example.

Ariesmoon--I'm glad you mentioned Jupiter. I think we have a lot to learn from that energy. And I like the way you shift your 'self-talk' from fear to more optimism. I call this 'segment intending.' If I see a situation that might seem challenging, or frightening, I call in that Jupiter energy (where ever he is!) and say, 'this is going to go great! I'm going to have the best time ever. I really know my stuff...' I give myself a Jupiter/Mars pep talk and the let it go. When the task is done I usually find I did have the best time ever and all is well.

What we say to ourselves is so important here, as is what we say to each other. If I feel I am undermining my own best interest in a situation, I make a point of saying what I want to experience and not what I do.

To let go of self-sabotage I begin by saying (to anyone who will listen!), I'm my own best friend and for a few second I feel what it would be like if that were true...and before I know it, I start to believe! Energy shifts and the old patter falls away.

Thanks everyone for the great insights here.

[primamateria]

oh WOW, I love this new section of the forum Kim - and it really looks like things are picking up over here!

I agree with Juliet - for some reason I no longer look to transits for 'predictions' - rather I find connections between events (that often make me laugh!), both inner and outer.

Like today, the first of three Venus returns this year, I found myself involved in very feminine pursuits (so Venus in Aries - feminine and pursuit!) including shopping for new bed linen and then later discussing fertility issues.

I've been working with some of Florence Scovel Shinn's affirmations Kim - and as she suggests - they really work if they 'click' with me. Particularly helpful are affirmations about trusting the guidance one receives at any given moment.

Its great to be here again!

(I'm wide awake to my own good!! )