Rick DiClemente’s
Astrology
Newsletter
Volume
75, June 2012
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offer anyone interested in astrology, or in truly knowing themselves. I am a big
fan of his work." Coming Events and Appearances for June 6/9 Saturday, @The Friends
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would personally like to thank everyone who offered me places to shoot my new
video series on beginning astrology for YouTube. I
have received every type of offer you can imagine and am so grateful. I have
yet to decide where to shoot it, but it won’t be long, I’ll be teaching right
into the lens so that you can all get a head start on learning this wonderful
art, astrology, IN AN UNDERSTANDABLE, DIGESTIBLE way. Astrology and Predictions It
is no wonder; I hear so many ideas about what people think astrology can or
cannot predict. Everyone thinks they want to keep their “free will” but
ironically, many conversely want to know “what will happen.” It’s funny, and
it’s understandable. It’s such a mysterious science and in many ways, so hard
to fully comprehend. What
I am attempting today is to show you what an astrologer can “predict” and what
he or she cannot. Hopefully, some of it will be cleared up for you. As the
wonderful astrologer, Richard Tarnas, put it (paraphrasing), “astrology is not to
be used for concrete predictions but can be archetypally. If you have
read my new book, “The Exquisite Zodiac”, you’d have seen that word,
archetype, thrown around quite liberally. Here is an example of what this
means. Let’s
say for example that I am reading for your son who is 27 years of age. He has
not “gotten himself together” yet. (Few of us do until Saturn returns to its
natal spot around age 28.) By looking at the placement of “today’s” planets and
comparing them to his birth chart, I can see that over the next year, Saturn
will return to where it started from. Significant events will happen then. By
using the computer or books with planetary positions (ephemerides,) I can
easily see when that Saturn return will happen. But, I have yet to
predict anything. Now,
let’s examine “old-fashioned” astrologers, those with limited understanding of
the archetypal influences, etc. I am paraphrasing what many people assume
astrology would say for that young man. “You are going into a period of great
hardship. You will find it hard to find a job; you will be rewarded very little
for your efforts; you will suffer illnesses; you may be rejected from friends
and family members.” This is very common, they might even go as far as saying
(look it up in the old astrology books if you don’t believe me): “You will be
held back from receiving your education; you may go to jail or be hospitalized
for a significant amount of time.” Curses, curses, curses. In
the old days, and unfortunately still commonly, Saturn has been known as the
GREAT MALEFIC! He’s the REAL BAD GUY. Well,
we’ve learned that he really isn’t. Now,
it is true that some of those TYPES of things could happen, but it’s
doubtful. These types of scary predictions accomplished two things. 1) Scared
people and made the astrologer look all-powerful, and 2) supported a false
world where Saturn was OUT THERE and OUT THERE TO GET YOU. Now,
WE KNOW…………………………….. Saturn, is in here along
with the rest of the entire universe – inside our psyches. Let’s
investigate what a new age astrologer, someone like me, might say in the same
situation: “If
your son is making attempts to grow up, i.e., putting out applications,
learning new skills, ready to take an ‘entry-level’ jobs, etc., there’s a very
good chance that he WILL get a job around that time! The universe cares mostly
for those who care, who try. “God helps those who help themselves” could never
be truer than in the practice of astrology. However, if he does NOT make
efforts to become responsible, I can just about guarantee that his money source
will dry up. For example, his dad might get laid off. His trust fund will
empty. Money will “get” lost. His cheap rent deal will suddenly go
belly-up. It’s all connected! That’s exactly why:
the FORCES that hand out the money and
support KNOW whether he is
trying or isn’t! Sounds fantastic doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t because
the force is him himself – here we go – it’s all quantum and holographic.
Back in issue #61, I told you that was going to be the “new” buzz
word from now on – quantum. That’s
WHY the zodiac is EXQUISITE. Mysteriously and coincidentally, which sounds more
to me like SYNCHRONISTICALLY, his funds of support will disappear. And this is
not a coincidence and is happening precisely because the boy has not been GETTING
WITH IT! What is the IT? - The Saturnian impulses trying to blossom up
through him. If he gets with it – he’ll succeed. If he doesn’t – he won’t.
You have to get into the river. There
is no mystery, it’s this simple, Most of us fake
ourselves out and try to fake everyone else
by agreeing that we think we are all one, and connected. Few of us really
believe that it really is true. It
IS becoming more recognized as true in this magical year of 2012 – it is being
more accepted each day. It is our only
salvation from this mess in which we find ourselves. We had to just about blow
ourselves off of this planet before our HUGE collective ego would admit that
we’re all connected, and therefore, NONE OF ARE THAT BIG OF A DEAL A NO ONE OF
US IS SPECIAL! Take THAT, you pesky, insatiable ego! When we help another, we
really do help ourselves. Getting
back to our young man: The old astrologers would place curses in front of the
querent. This is WHY I got into astrology in 1971 when an unscrupulous
“astrologer” put forth a list of my unavoidable curses. I dug into it. I found
out. She didn’t know what she was talking about and should not have been
reading for anyone. I am very tough on my students before I “OK” that they are
ready to read for others. If
the pre-28-yr-old is trying, he may get some set backs, but SATURN WILL STOP
him in his tracks until he gets on track in a very real way, such as going to
vocational school. When I was 28, my girlfriend suddenly got up and moved to It
stung, but I got up and started a whole new path, back at evening classes
studying computers which began a 20-year period working in I.T.
I was then on track and on my way into my second Saturn cycle (ages 28-58.) Hardly a curse. ARCHETYPALLY,
our example young man has been stopped and corrected. THAT’S WHAT SATURN DOES. Saturn
doesn’t sit on us and squish us with its huge ice-ring; it stops us to ASSURE
that we get things working. Ignorant viewpoints would simply say to him, “be
scared to death, it’s going to be a bad year period.” I still meet so many
people that are unnecessarily quite nervous of their coming Saturn return. That’s
the difference between an archetypal reading and an old-time, ill-informed
antiquated one. We
no longer see the planets out there, because they aren’t. What’s true above is
below (inside.) Another
simple example: Say
the planet Uranus is about to hit a critical point in a married woman’s chart on
July 1. A less-than-up-to-date astrologer might tell her, “You’re in for a lot
of chaos, your marriage is already shaky, one of you
might leave the other on that day! It will be very upsetting and lots major
surprises are in store for you!” Anyone
would have their golf-shoes scared right off of their feet! That’s
not how it is done. After I interview the client, well aware of the major
intersection of that woman’s sensitive marital construct and transiting Uranus,
I would definitely find out more about the status of the marriage. NOT TO BLAME
ANYONE. You WOULD NOT believe how many people want me to simply say, “Yes, he’s
a bastard, he doesn’t deserve you, he IS cheating on you, and you should
leave!” You also would not believe how that’s the main thing I DO overhear from
some “psychics and readers” that I’ve overheard over the years. It
ain’t that simple. I’m not going to tell you what you want to hear. It won’t
help any. If I
hear that you don’t want to work on the relationship, i.e., the relating has
ceased, and you don’t have the courage to get out of the marriage, you ARE in
for it. Things WILL explode, and ON that date, too. Specifically,
why? Because Uranus is the only planet that hits
exactly mathematically. It will explode into a myriad of UNPREDICATABLE ways, but, archetypally, you and your life
will blow up. Why? Because that is what you REALLY want to happen, that’s why. After
the explosion, you will have been liberated. It may not be in the manner you
wished, but that’s what Uranus does: it renews or it cracks the status quo. There’s
no mysterious Greek God out there waiting to get you just because you have lots
of buried religious guilt. It’s all within YOU. Your subconscious says, “Well,
I can’t live like this anymore, so if YOU aren’t going to do it, I’m going to
set chaos in motion for you.” The mind IS that
powerful. It creates reality. On the other hand…. If
the same woman says to me, “We’ll he and I had better get to work on these
issues (most people wait until it’s way too late) and get to a marriage
counselor.” Her and her husband’s experience of chaos will be GREATLY MINIMIZED
because they are finally trying to face the energies. Uranus, first of all,
wants us to be friends. Maybe they will face it and heal the marriage. If it
the friendship cannot be healed, for-get-a-bout-the-mar-riage.
It has all become a myth. BUT, there will be no explosion and probably no car
wreck or broken ankles (Uranus rules the ankles). The crack is minimal. The
reason for this is simple, all along the way there may have been signs that one
person has been cramping the other person’s “style.” Well, we all know, the
more you sit on it and let it fester and say nothing, the more fuel you’re adding
to the eventual fire. That’s true astrology, not the
1-900-I’ll-fix-your-love-life-for-cash type. The planets tell us when these inner-energies
will make us “fed up” or “can’t take it anymore.” Or better
yet, when we are ready to move on. Most of my clients fall into
this latter category because we, as a collective race, are evolving at a
phenomenal rate. We just aren’t staying put when the relating has stopped. So,
the point of all of this is that the old astrologer tried to tell you (and most
still do) that xyz is going to happen to you this coming Sunday. Wrong. He of
she is pulling at least one of your legs. A
good astrologer will tell you, these are your choices; if you continue as you
have been these (arche)TYPES
of things are likely to happen; and they will. If you live in synch with your
own impulses, the more conscious and better off you will be because you are
taking ownership and responsibility of your own life. (It’s really not YOURS
anyway, remember God was just thinking, “I wonder what it would be like if I
went out and played by myself.” It’s all His or Hers.)
Some call it Lucifer’s fall from Grace. It’s all illusory. You cannot
have it both ways: 1.
Using the book, The Secret,
“I will create what I want so I can have a bigger yacht and a better boyfriend
with hunkier abs.” And 2.
I don’t want any responsibility
over what is happening in my life, in other words, I’m creating it, but I want
to blame the problems on the planets or my biorhythms or my tarot reading or
tea leaves, or chicken entrails... It’s
all our own creation. This is why I hardly every address questions like these
anymore: ·
Am I going to get that job? ·
Is he going to come back to me? ·
Is my kid going to be all right? ·
Will I meet someone? ·
Should I move? ·
How does my money look? People
want predictions because they commonly think it will be a relief for once
giving up responsibility for their lives. But then, in actuality, they wouldn’t
trade it for the world. It’s certainly understandable WHY people ask those
questions, but here is what I have found: Are you flowing with your life energies or not? If life goes through you, you are alive. If it does not go through you, you are not. Seems simple, but it is true. That
is ALL that matters. I am not an expert karmic astrology and I do not hypnotize
people to re-experience their past lives. I cannot explain reincarnation. What
I have EXPERIENCED is this: when you are blocked, it does not matter how you
got blocked or how long you have been blocked; if you are blocked, you sooner
or later will get very sick, duh. If you are not flowing, nothing will
flow in your life – it simply can’t. You’re stuck and that’s the very
word people will use. My
job with you is to get you unblocked, no matter how much it takes. I have a
very old, well-worn crowbar that I use all the time. Then, MIRACULOUSLY, it
simply all starts to work. Money starts to come in, as do suitors. You start to
feel better, the cruel boss gets fired, and so on. This
is the magic. This is what the next book will be all about, to be entitled, “The
Intimate Zodiac.” So,
it all comes down to that, and if you are flowing with your life energies (all
from the Divine) everything will work out. This is precisely what our
preachers have told us; that God would always give us what we need if we but
have faith. Having faith is more than having faith in Him or Her, it means
having faith in Who and what We are;
i.e., part of Him/Her. A very big difference. The
reason we will always get what we need is because God will always feed His own body,
and we are merely different parts of His/Her body. He’s not going to ignore his
Hand. The way we get in trouble is when we insist on being separate and therefore
cut off our own “food or life” supply, i.e. blocked. Astrology
is and isn’t a miracle. It’s simply another of God’s clocks and series of maps.
If we are attentive and reverent to our Quiet Inner Voice, the last thing we
need is a natal or birth chart. Divine Blessings to us all. A VERY active
month Over
the next 3 years, transiting Uranus will square transiting Pluto 7 times. These
will be major turning points similar to the revolutionary energies of when they
were last together during the Sixties. You may want to save these dates. These
are wide ranges of dates, not simply occurring on those precise dates. I will
be explaining much more about it as we go. You’ll KNOW it, when you feel it. Dates for Uranus square Pluto 6/1-5
Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, and Venus Rx – This strange occurrence, all
in the sign of Gemini, is acting quite like a combined mixed up Mercury
retrograde period. Heaven forbid. It will calm down in a few days. We may all
be found running around like chickens sans heads, and it would behoove us
greatly to try to simplify our lives for a little bit. 6/4 Lunar
Eclipse 14°f14’ 7:12a – The
eclipsing Moon will trigger Mars at 16°c
so any planet sitting at 16° Gemini, Sagittarius or Pisces will get a swift
boot kick. What does Mars in Virgo always say? “Well,
let’s get something done around here! Where’s are all the results?” Mars
doesn’t care, it wants action and productivity,
result: you’ll FEEL like getting off of your behinds and resuming that project
you just couldn’t get to before. Virgos won’t even notice it. Pisces will say,
“Ah, why now man?” This
is a very big deal because the Martian energy is emanating from all of the
discussion that has been going on between the Sun and 6/5 Venus eclipses the Sun! 9:10p –
Wow, this is a rare one. With special lenses, we’ll be able to watch teeny tiny
Venus try to upstage the majestic Sun. And Venus retrograde
at that! This symbolic language will make sure that Venusian matters in your
life will become foremost in your thoughts. Who are you (Sun) as you mix with
another (Venus). Clarity will be brought to you about
what you want/need out of a relationship. Spend special time thinking about
what you are really giving to your relationship. Venus will crawl across the
face of the giant star! 6/11 Jupiter enters Gemini 1:22p, -
Sounds like a GREAT time to start videotaping a new beginning astrology course
for YouTube! It is a marvelous time that will last
one year, where we can start anew with communications of all types, new
magazines, exchange students, studying new languages, finding new ways to express
ourselves. Early Geminis will find this to be very fruitful and fun! This will
also be a great time to dedicate yourself to a new
exercise regimen. Gemini exudes wonderful childlike energies! 6/19 New Moon 28°a`43’ 11:02a – New policies will be announced,
especially ones ruling the usage of the Internet and social mediums. Gemini is
all about information and how we share it. Since it’s a New Moon, I expect more
than a few libraries to start talking about shutting down. The power of the
Internet has taken over. Surely newspapers are having a hard time surviving.
It’s not always a picnic in Gemini. New challenges bring new solutions. We have
to find more efficient ways to communicate. Further discussions and pressures will
be put upon Post Offices to close. It’s blog time. 6/20 Sun enters Cancer 7:09p – It’s moody time. And that’s good. Time to
get in touch with our real emotional needs. Stop thinking; instead, feel
what you want. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are being irrational because
you are allowed to be now and then – thank Goddess… Happy Summer! 6/24 LONG TERM. Our first Uranus square to
Pluto 4:14a – Oh boy, first of seven. The two big boys have it out. This is
one great big deal. Think of the sixties… they’re back. We’re reconsidering voting
rights, racial issues are still a mess. Uranus (people’s
rights) is fighting the big dogs, i.e., oil companies, big banks, etc. This
won’t be solved ANYTIME SOON. This will go on for years and will SPIKE during
the dates that I listed above. Some people are calling this “class warfare”,
whether that is accurate or not. It will be very, very disruptive for the next
4 years or so in general. No surprise, is it? 6/25 Saturn goes Direct 4:01a – We’ll
all feel better as the big worker, Saturn, discontinues it backward crawl
through Libra and heads on its way into Scorpio on Oct. 5, 2012. Now, once it
gets to Scorpio, that will be no picnic. Lots to talk about then as Saturn is at its most severe in the sign
of Scorpio. 6/27 Venus goes Direct 11:07a – About
time, we’ll all feel better as Venus straightens out. All that reconsidering
regarding our relationships now finds the time to be expressed. What you don’t
want to do is go back into your old ways of relating. This marks the time for
you to be a new self within all of your alliances. 6/29-30 The Sun opposing Pluto will form a
T-square to Uranus in Aries! Once again, another chapter
in this massive energy combination from the big planets. Watch political
forces become even more insane and vicious than you can imagine. The Big
Machine is at work and the small grassroots programs are nipping at their heels.
This is no small matter. May the
planets be with you as you find your Starself!” - Rick To receive a monthly reminder of my free
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