We’ve been looking for the remote to the gas fireplace for five months now. We stowed it away, not liking the way, if someone pushed the wrong sequence of buttons, or sat on it! the flames would suddenly leap into a full burn hours later, often in the middle of the night, as if Satan had just stopped in to warm up. We stowed it good, we did; now we have no idea where we put it. So, after hours of searching, I drew up a horary, “Where is the fireplace remote?” Technically, the chart was unreadable, with a 00 Cancer Ascendant; I’d learned to read this as, ‘It’s too early to ask–the matter isn’t fully developed,’ but since that makes little sense in this case, I decided it meant I just wasn’t going to find it yet, and wasn’t to get any clues–no matter what. But I’ve got that dead-cat kind of curiosity, and poked around the chart a bit anyway. I used the 2nd to signify the remote, as the general House of possessions, which also had a Cancer cusp. The Moon was in Scorpio, located in the 5th–perhaps in an area used for recreation? Ruler of the remote was Pluto, posited in the 7th–my husband was definitely the one to decide where to stash it–or does Pluto suggest Satan may have pocketed it one chilly night when he stopped by? I’ll try to locate it again next week using astrology–for right now I’ll just wear a sweater 🙂

For the 10th, the Moon in Scorpio goes Void at 7:03 AM PST, so the day starts, at least for North American West Coasters, wide open. At that point it seems to me the biggest influence will be Venus conjunct the Sun and North Node, and opposed Earth and South Node, a picture that’s almost too heavy with promise. We may be expecting great good fortune, illumination of the best life direction, clear sailing and a huge dose of luck–but Sedna has muddied the waters, and after the Moon moves into Sagittarius (10:10 AM PST) we see it move on to sextile Saturn (6 PM hour PST). At this point Venus and the Sun will both be at 20 degrees, perfecting that trine to Sedna, and this suggests we’ll be very motivated to be constructive emotionally, to reach out and build circumstances that support the very epitomy of what we want in life–but Sedna makes us unable to see where our true reward, treasure, love, and fortune lie! What a bummer! But don’t despair–I think this situation is meant to point us in the direction of our ideals, to ask us to build those circumstances out of the most appropriate scenario we can envision, rather than in response to our earthly ties and desires. This is an opportunity to bring a little bit of the ideal to your reality, a kind of remote control that gives us a tremendous chance to improve our lot, if we’ll only give up the need to handle things first hand and with a focus on the material–faith must take its place.

10 PM-ish we see the Moon square Vesta, with emotions and intuition challenging what we find sacred, the home front, and/ or the sex life–if you respond to this it’s a good indication that you’re deep in the ‘looking at the ideals to potentially bring them to reality’ thing, and that’s good. By 2 AM PST the Moon conjuncts Ceres and trines Juno, and if we’ve been working our Moon energy well, we’ll be in the groove to empowerment, and shaping nature to our liking. We’ll be entering the Dark of the Moon, when we can, through active meditation, align with spirit, and re-center ourselves in the virtual, if not literal, silence that allows rest before New Moon renewal.

Today’s Post: Here’s some excellent material on Mars Retrograde by one of my favorite astrologers http://lunarreflections.blogspot.com/2009/12/mars-retrograde-in-leo-2009-2010.html