Navigating the Intensity of the Astrological Patterns in February

I hope all of you are recovering from the Saturn opposition Uranus that was on February 5th. It was a hum-dinger! (as we say in Texas.) I spent the entire week putting out emotional fires for all of my clients. On the 5th of February I didn't even manage to get a lunch break as clients and people were in tears or tremendously stressed out.

Just to mark your calenders, there will be three more oppositions. Sept 15, 2009, April 26, 2010, and July 26, 2010.

I like to know the dates so I don't think that I am going crazy on those days when the energy gets intense. I believe that things are easier to navigate when at least you understand and become aware of tendencies that are happening globally. After all I believe that we are one heart and one mind. When something begins to affect everyone, there is no way that I cannot feel it. The more you become the more you feel. So it is important to notice what might be coming your way and find ways to be prepared or to move with the flow of the energy that you encounter.

This particular opposition attempts to find an inspired, creative solution to the disintegration of structures that are no longer working in your life. All of us are attempting to reach beyond the patterns that seem to keep us locked and unable to manifest to our individual potential. You will feel the wobbliness of the uncertainty right now and the air is full of anxious people around you.

Try to remember that this opposition can illuminate what needs to shift in order to open up blockages that have previously been constrained. You have the capacity to grow beyond what your ingrained patterns have up to this point created in your life. Find new ways to appreciate yourself and know that when you fully let the potential that is within you out, you are safe.

Things are going to remain challenging for a while. So, it is critical to find ways to de-stress and relax. I have many clients that are having a very hard time sleeping right now. This is the moment when learning meditation, getting some really strenuous exercise to diffuse the situation, or take some herbal supplements to sleep is a great idea. Probably all together would be the best. It might take all of those options to feel relaxed and whole.

Just another reminder that there will be a lunar eclipse on Feb 9th. This will have an effect of making you feel as if you cannot quite grasp situations or get clear in your head. You may feel as if your enthusiasm is very low and you may only want to deal with the real problems rather than the emotional dramas that seems to be coming your way. If you are a Leo or Aquarius you will feel a continued shift in your personality. You will notice that the questions you will be asking yourself have to do with: What do you really want? Where you are going long term? And how do you want others to perceive you?

Personally, I have been feeling a tremendous exhaustion hitting me from many angles. Part of the nature of my work is to deal with people during times of stress and strain. But the global level of this economic trend downward has everyone in a panic. People who have had businesses that were successful for decades have been going bankrupt. Finances are amazingly tight for everyone. Even the wealthy have been hit hard. Realistically this pattern will take at least a year and a half to gain some of the ground back that has been lost. So play it safe and try to relax.

I have had a number of clients that have been hit so hard that they literally asked me if their family had some sort of curse on them. I told them that if there was a curse, it was hitting everyone. So no, I do not think the universe and angels are trying to make everyone suffer and be miserable.

In life there are just global trends and patterns. We are unfortunately in a particularly difficult one. Try not to take the twists and turns of life personally. Instead, take responsibility for your money, life, and safety. You cannot change what is happening but you can change the patterns that make your life more or less difficult.

Responsibility is something that everyone has to learn. If we are baby Gods, learning about creation, then we need to learn to take responsibility for the patterns in which we find ourselves.

You are the product of your ancestors that were survivors during much more difficult times than this one. Within each of us is a part that knows how to keep going when the going gets tough. Feel into that part and know that this is but a bump on the normal pathways of life. You can make it. You can find an answers that you seek. You can recover and find the strength within to succeed in difficult times. You will have to think outside the box and stretch your consciousness into new areas. But that might be fun. Don't knock it until you have tried it. Let go of the old. Embrace the change that is here and find a way to enjoy the process.