We are witnessing the configuration known as Pandora’s box right now in the sky, that consists of triple Yod of planets. Yod is considered to be God’s finger and this particularly refers to Gemini, Scorpio and Aries, however we all may have revelation moments of truth and insight into recent but also distant past that may flash back in front of our eyes. The unresolved issues from the deep unconsciousness burst into the consciousness and we suddenly become aware of ourselves, the truth is hitting us right in the face. Scorpios learn their lessons, Gemini realize the truth  along with the blessings they have in their lives and get uplifted while Aries actually do something that has larger significance than they think at least for the time being. Since we all have planets somewhere , for those positioned around the 10^th degree is the inner awakening from the mesmerizing confusion of the recent and distant happenings that actually begin to shape up all of a sudden. Thus we get the answers for so many unanswered questions if we take time to consider what has been troubling us. If we dive into the heart of the matter thus trying to grasp the essence, we will realize the truth about ourselves and our behavior and no matter how heavy that may seem, what lies in the bottom of Pandora’s box is the hope to guide us. Mars initiates some action possibly in some form of the reward, Moon in Virgo draws us into analysis while Saturn is conveying the message of what is to be done in order that we purify our karma and learn the valuable lesson. Since Saturn may seem to be on top of this configuration, maturing on some important issue, within the area of life, of the significance in natal chart, results in establishing new criteria and raising awareness in general.  Virgos and Capricorns are also included in the big picture of Pandora’s drive for knowledge and consciousness expansion with the aim of reaching the ultimate truth about themselves . Within the frame of self-preservation, personal energetic potential  and wisdom that represent our personal power, what seems to be the lesson is exactly  recognizing and accepting the set of rules of life we sooner or later abide by. The truth sets us free enough to overcome the boundaries but also to set up our own limitations with respect to the “holy trinity” of self-love,  self-respect and self-control. Self-improvement  for the sake of becoming  a better person seems to be the right way to happiness.   Accepting responsibility and holding a more serious attitude to relevant issues of interest lead to more successful accomplishments in life. Only then we are capable of fulfilling the purpose. The forgiveness purifies the soul and after all what keeps us going is the hope of deliverance.

 

Up to the 15th of December, Venus is in the sign of Scorpio creating a specific emotional battlefield, particularly in the lives of emotionally involved people. We may as well feel charged with high emotional voltage and experience outbursts of passion that may be varying between the extremes of Shakespearean love up to the greatest animosity. Emotionally trigger- happy and impulsive, people may feel driven by emotions more than usual, fiercely expressing overwhelming blows of passion in a way that could regret a little later. Edgy and dramatic more than usual, the emotional experience may seem to be life and death issue with the uncompromising gas in intimate relations. Everything seems to be black or white, we may as well feel we want all or nothing even if that’s not in our nature. The taste is somewhat bittersweet, it hurts but we are loving it, grunge is how we vibrate. The call for transformation of the approach with the loving one, the purification through burnout of extreme emotions has to lead to overcoming the old patterns, destroying and recreating. We may feel that we have just had enough. Fed up. Sick and tired. Cutting edge emotion, definite decisions, radical change. What has to be the result of the turmoil of this rolling in the deep is the emotional rebirth. Coming clean by the 15th in all the relationships is the way to go. Then comes the rebirth and we may finally dress up in white of Sagittarius with the diamond of truth we have been cutting in the previous month, seriously thinking of the essence, perspective and the purpose. Seems like the ingenious extremes of impulses provide the essential insight into affairs of the importance and there comes the truth as the bottom line. Make sure you do the homework in the intermezzo of the emotional blitzkrieg that is taking place. Essentially, it is the “Fight Club” film that we take part in, so make sure you examine your own shadow instead of chasing it. Anyway, enjoy the ride.

Director’s mind considers the sublimation of talents and skills, at first organizational, undoubtedly psychological, since in the very root of the director’s way of thinking is psychological approach. Then comes the ability of proper research, realistic perception of life and the artistic gift, that provides the poetics of an artistic value. Additionally, higher spirituality is desired in order that the ultimate outcome would have implying or apparent moral message or at least interpretation of life phenomena. Since directors are often screenplay or theatre play writers, there has to be a writing talent and there has to be a touch of originality providing strong individualism of poetic imagery of the film or a play. All that requires powerful positions of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

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 Acting talent is a rare gift and you may say that it represents a multi-dimensional art. In the first place, there is a talent for psychology, that is crucial for “entering a character”, represented by the presence of Scorpio in the natal chart. Then, sophisticated sensitivity that allows empathy and the sense for nuances, represented by Water signs, unavoidable sense for drama, represented by Leo which is crucial and denotes very rare dramatization gift as well as the ability of performance and stage act. Non-the-less important is the need for play and vividness, ability of transformation-all in the symbolism of Gemini along with the Uranian dynamics of the need for experimentation, exhibitionism and versatility.

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1. Psychological astrology is the particular kind of astrology, some would say
even the most progressive one, since it doesn’t really comply with the traditional way
of interpretation, particularly forecasting. It represents a higher level of consciousness
that has its aim in including a man as a conscious, responsible being into the streams
of life. It considers an individual effort and work on oneself with the aim of
overcoming of all the inner and outer obstacles on the way to perfection. Of course, in
the ideal image, that should be the motivation of every individual. In a way, the
discipline could be considered as the guide to a successful and purposeful living. The
aim is, of course, becoming aware of the potential, relating individuality and facing
opportunities one needs to strive for. Along with that, it is worth mentioning that the
very psychological astrology is able to interpret many manifestations of reality we are
dealing with on a regular basis and provides facing the world and ourselves in a way
that is the most acceptable from the perspective of wisdom. That is the only way such
faculty makes sense, in the beginning and in the end.
Regarding that, one of the basic parameters is the correct interpretation of the
position of Saturn as the planet that represents the key for the interpretation of the
individual horoscope. Worldly authority within the area such as Liz Greene, in her
book about Saturn made explicit analysis of psychological profiles relating the
position of Saturn in a natal chart. It is one of the most valuable books in education of
every individual who wants to obtain the skill of interpreting a natal chart since it
provides the insight into the basis of the psychological profile that altogether
represents the polygon for the work on oneself, inner growth and development that
come as a result. It is only the tip of the iceberg relating what the psychological
astrology has to offer. Further ahead, since astrology is based on mythology, so many
answers could be found there. The phenomenon in the collective unconscious known
as archetype, officially advanced by C.G.Jung in individual psychology, based on
ancient Plato’s ideas, is basically perfectly represented by mythological images.
Various aspects in astrology can be interpreted as some mythological situation i.e.
archetypical situation. Mythology itself represents traditional richness and profusion
of metaphorical images of individual and collective unconsciousness that throughout
the entire history of mankind imply to the experience and mechanisms of functioning
of human mind. If we approach astrology that way, we come to conclusion that
astrological advising should resemble psychological session in order that the outcome
is productive for every individual. Jung himself used to do natal charts to his patients
since he concluded that a study of the horoscope provides insight into the
psychological state of being as hours and hours of psychotherapy. It also provides the
pattern and the possible way out as an advice for every individual patient. In a letter to
Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung wrote “My studies in astrology are fascinating…I have
come to the firm conclusion that at the moment of birth an individual takes on the
characteristic state of the Universe for that moment in time.”
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The old Hippokrates, ancient Greek physician, used to say that a doctor that
doesn’t know astrology is nothing more than a donkey. It makes sense. Speaking of
psychological well-being, the psychological approach to astrology allows the insight
into those spheres of existence in which one needs to make moves forward in order to
achieve maximum of one’s own capabilities. You would agree that astrology operates
with possibilities but the point is in the fact that every individual must have
responsibility for one’s own life. If everything was predestined, religion wouldn’t
make sense. So, if the Bible says “do not kill”, or “do not steal” it means that it
implies that people have to keep trying to be always better than they are so as to make
efforts to be the best they can. Namely, it is an individual act and effort how much one
will achieve and up to what level of consciousness one will rise. Psychological
astrology has the same goal, to reinforce an individual to achieve one’s own
maximum, in relation to the basic potential, presented in the natal chart. Of course,
what is the consequence of the individual efforts in the final sum cannot be predicted
since the consequence will depend on the individual effort. . This means that not all
the difficult aspects will realize in all the natal charts. It depends actually on the
individual itself. In relation to how much one will improve one’s own personality, in
that measure one will allow difficult aspects to come forth and enforce all the good
ones. It means that every individual has the chance to improve oneself and thus one’s
own life in measure that it is possible. Therefore we are not talking about predictions
but pointing to possibilities and opportunities one has to comprehend in order to
realize one’s own personality the best possible way.
Here we come to the notion that we couldn’t possibly avoid and that is karma.
The concept of karma can be interpreted in several ways but if we accept the
reasonable deduction that karma represents the law of cause and effect and thus the
heritage of personal and familiar personal history we come to the polygon for the
work on ourselves. Namely, by interpreting karmic relationships and karma itself we
can derive and recognize some mechanisms. When we meet someone in the sign of
our 12th house, as well as Saturn’s sign we have the impression that we have already
met that someone before i.e. we become very close. We are connecting on the deepest
level, on the level of the most intimate levels of personality. “Karmic burnout” or
”karmic purification” is taking place. On a practical level it means that those are the
people that make the crucial influence on us and our becoming a better person. In the
ideal image. It isn’t always like that but if we accept our karma partner in that way,
the process will be less painful for both and there are greater chances of success.
Everything happens with the same goal. Hence, the work on inner self leads to
success. Self-examination, criticism and self-criticism, change, evolution must result
from those relationships, and not only those. They are, in a way, the most transparent
ones but one should keep in mind that the outcome of those relationships will depend
on the individual effort. That is the interpretation of the psychological astrologer when
it comes to karmic relationships and, as you see, it can be of help in a constructive
way to a person more than if you would say to him “you will stay together” or “you
will not stay together”, and what most of the clients expect in the first place. Of
course, psychological astrology has the aim of raising the level of consciousness in
order that one would understand that one needs to lead one’s own life alone and that
the work on oneself can lead to a progressive effect and an individual effort to
improve oneself to successful relationships. Then, there is a question of auto-realization
and achieving the full potential out of the talents and capabilities described
by the natal positions. Finding and revealing the true self. It is not always obvious and
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we mostly move within the range of our desires i.e. dreams, capabilities and talents,
circumstances, limitations expressed by what we call reality. The fact is that we have
a scale of possibilities where we can move, but only within a frame of the state of
mind that we have developed. As a matter of fact, freedom is a state of mind, and in
order that we come to a position to make a choice, we have to build up our
consciousness to realize the opportunities that we have in front of us. The process of
“karmic purification” is the reality of all of us, regardless of karmic relationships and
love, but very often through every day life situations, thus being obliged to realize
what our task is and how we can make the best of ourselves, and then the most of the
situation. What turns out to be the conclusion of this observation is the undeniable fact
that only by working out on our own state of mind and spiritual well-being we tend to
predispose ourselves to better life opportunities. By cleaning the “basement” i.e. Id,
that represents the unconscious in the official psychology, and the correspondent 12th,
4th and 8th house in astrological natal chart, we are getting close to fulfilling our life
tasks, and, as a result, we become better personalities. Therefore, we get better life
opportunities and rewards in reality, and everyday life. Basically, it is a reciprocal
process and there has to be a conscious effort in order to build up the level of
consciousness where we can make choices and have a stronger influence on what is
happening deep inside. The truth liberates. Namely, through the process of liberation
from let’s say fears or prejudice, self-doubt or complexes, correspondently
overcoming difficult aspects in natal chart, we tend to achieve liberation from self-imposed
limitations and boundaries that prevent us from getting where our desires or
dreams are leading to. The very aim of psychological astrology is to stimulate the
process of releasing frustration, making affirmation of the system of values that lies
underneath as the life-task for all of us, realizing our full potential and, as a result,
becoming a better person. Only then, we can expect our best aspects in natal chart to
work their way towards the realization of dreams. The question of self-realization is
the question of full understanding of oneself, basic potential and reality of a persona
that is very often being neglected or streamed into areas we are not fully satisfied
with. In order to comprehend our full potential, we need to understand who we really
are. The process of introspection that usually lasts through a period of transit of Saturn
under the horizon, meaning from 1st to 7th house of a natal chart is the key process in
our lives. It is the process of individuation that has to result in achievements once we
have dealt with ourselves. Saturn, Nodes and 10th house are showing us the way to our
karmic goal, self-improvement and realization in relation to all the positions in the
natal chart.
In relation to what has been said, the power of psychological astrology lies in
necessity to facilitate the individual efforts in the personal striving for realization of
one’s own maximum potential, with all the responsibility for what has been done in
the personal history. Thus, it can influence the individual in the most progressive way
in order that one can contribute to the collective evolution by personal auto-realization.
It is the way that the world evolution gets better perspective and that is
why psychological astrology is considered to be a progressive discipline.

Astronomically speaking, on 20^th/21^st of May 2012 there is a first solar eclipse of the year 2012, also called annular (from the Latin word “annulus” i.e. the ring), that describes the appearance in the sky where Moon shades the Sun in a way that there is a ring of solar light around it, visible in southern Japan, Southeast Asia, Pacific Ocean and western USA. This partial eclipse duration in totality is 5 minutes 36 seconds and according to CET (Central European Time, GMT +1 longitude: 020 30, latitude: 44 50) with its peak at 00:47 AM on 21^st of May. This phenomenon occurs at 00 degrees, 20 minutes, constellation Gemini.

Astrologically speaking, this solar eclipse is happening due to very positive planetary influences. Namely, it is widely held that the influence of a solar eclipse lasts up to six months, until new solar eclipse occurs, however there are opinions that influences of the eclipses last as many years as the very eclipse last in minutes.  Essentially, eclipses mostly bring the changes of trends, switches of inertia and sudden overturns. Since this particular eclipse occurs in Gemini, it mostly refers to a boost of communication, thus verbalizing issues of the relevant houses, constructively managing the current matters, but most of all, due to the influence of close Jupiter, raising awareness of relevant issues and possibly spotting the guiding light regarding the house where Gemini is in a natal chart. Due to the opposition with North Node in Sagittarius, the emphasis is in revealing the truth and the task is subsiding the basic belief and grasping the big picture of the game we are involved in, with reference to the particular house. Previous trends of managing and understanding are proving to be not so workable solutions, so that the sudden switch of the approach may bring out handling the matter more constructively. The square with Neptune is indeed challenging in a way that we may be questioning ourselves for the sake of finding the right frame of mind. Overall, it brings about the boost of communication and expansion regarding all sorts of institutions in the world of mass media, productivity of journalists, writers and people in the business, stimulating new ideas and fresh insights. With upcoming Jupiter in June, this boost of communication and ideas should result in raising awareness of all the relevant issues mentioned above. All information that has been somehow hidden or not regarded as important may  prove to be of value in order that people just ”see the light”. Due to the retrograde Venus, in matters of the heart, reconsidering issues may also lead to sudden breakthroughs in understanding and tendencies of verbalizing suppressed topics. Time to question and set up a new frame for the game after 27^th June.

 

Taking into consideration that Karma is difficult to define, we are approaching the topic that initiates the question of karma and that is “karmic relationship”. Whether we consider karma as past lives or debts or credits of the ancestors, that we affirm as an opinion exclusively in relation to the question of faith, we regard this complex issue from the astrological point of view as the way to work on oneself like a necessary need so as to pass through the experience of karmic relationship with the best efficiency, regardless of the status of the very relationship in the end.

 

The way to perfection. The author has decided to use this title since the capacity for perfection lies within ourselves, sometimes as the ideal, ambition or aspiration but most certainly as a chance to achieve the balance in our lives, reach the inner piece through learning, maturing, sometimes even renunciation but unavoidably through work on oneself and auto-realization. The ultimate aim is the fulfillment of the karmic duty, one’s own purpose and affirmation of the centre of gravity, point of support and guiding light in life but as well the establishment of personality through formed character. Character is acquired and in psychological terms it is the base of a human destiny. Therefore, the fulfillment of one’s own meaningful existence is the aim. You can guess that the affirmative representative of the entire process, but also the shaped up character, is Saturn itself, the point that we start from but also the one that is going to provide the final signature and verification of one’s own existence. And the light of reason is emerging. It is a long-lasting process over which one doesn’t have a full control, very often unconscious, except in those cases when one is working on oneself, getting to know oneself, recognizing and categorizing one’s own personality. Self-awareness leads to awareness of the very process although the causality can hardly be perceived, and if they can, it is at best the individual act.

 

Saturn in the first place describes karmic duty, the area in the natal chart where one is basically concentrated, where one’s stronghold is and where one finds one’s own purpose and sense. The sign where Saturn is based in natal chart represents people we have a special karmic reference about i.e. who are of exquisite importance for our inner growth and development. Therefore, if we take a peak into a natal chart, we will notice that people of that sign where Saturn is, are being very important to us for some reason. Sometimes we are particularly fond of them so that we have a special emotion for them, and yet sometimes we feel odd hostility. That is because the very karmic reference makes them particularly influential in our lives. Those are the people we are in karmic relations with and they are of crucial importance for us. Very often this process is being conveyed unnoticeably but most often we feel that they have enormous influence on the development of ourselves and very often those are long-lasting connections since karmic process is durable and far-reaching. Those are not “smooth” relations, they are often full of obstacles, efforts and even suffering since everything is being focused on restructuring of personality with the aim of “karma purification” or, to put it like this, becoming a better person. What does this practically mean? It is understood that there is an interaction between the Sun sign and Saturn. Namely, if you are for example Scorpion and another person has Saturn in Scorpion in the natal chart, there is an interaction between Sun and Saturn. If it is love, everything is happening under the veil of emotions and some deep-rooted connection with the partner for which we only know that we need him. Those are the people that we learn from. Very often we don’t have the feeling that we are getting what we want but what we need for some reason for our inner growth. The one whose Saturn is, is the great teacher, critic, loudspeaker of reality referred to the one whose Sun is, and who is supposed to mature in the area and affirm everything what “Saturn” is moralizing about. The aim is maturing and personal improvement, correction of one’s own flaws, fears, prejudices, weaknesses in order to become a better person, morally upright and purposeful, and eventually fulfilled and satisfied. Saturn partner is strict, cruel, critical to the Sun partner who finds it hard to bear, but the sooner they both realize what they need to do and fulfill those life demands, the sooner they will accomplish the purpose and release from the pressure. Here it is necessary to emphasize that the tendencies of Saturn are not just always obvious and it is something to think about. Sometimes, the aim is accomplished, the relationship is over and both sides continue their lives happy with partners they have the next level of connection with, since the need of one for another stops. In an ideal situation, both sides will understand their needs and necessities and tendencies and accomplish the harmony thus improving their relationship. Those can be unbreakable and ideal marriages. However, people don’t change so easily so the practice is showing something else. Such relationships may become very chaotic and a real torture. Here I have to warn the Sun partner since it very often happens that Saturn partner hurts the Sun partner or exhausts him, criticize him or deprives him of something. And vice-versa the Sun partner implies to the same process and can really enlighten the Saturn partner, show him the way and help him affirm his purpose in life. If that’s the case, partners are getting close to fulfillment of their relationship from the perspective of purpose and sense. On the occasion I asked my Saturn partner without thinking about planetary positions and karma: “What’s the meaning of your life?” and thus verbalized the process that was essentially going on at the time, one way or the other.

 

Besides Saturn, karmic relationships can be signified by the 12^th and 4^th house. Namely, people of the sign that is on the cusp of 12^th house are the ones we enter (or not) the karma relationships, while those of 4^th house cusp sign are the ones notified as “the secondary karma”, i.e. familiar karma, in relation to the official psychological category of “familiar unconscious”, introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Leopold Szondi.

 

The 12^th house is the most typical and the strongest form of karma. “The 12^th house encounter” is entirely specific and more-less universal. Here I consider encounters of people who are connected by the sign on the cusp of 12^th house. For example, your Ascendant is Pisces and your cusp of the 12^th house is Aquarius, so you when you meet Aquarius that you enter relationship with, you are having “the 12^th house encounter”. At first, we have a mild impression that we have already met somewhere and then we feel that we know each other for a long time like forever. We recognize each other as incredibly close and spontaneously we open to one another without thinking and without stopping, since we feel we can trust that someone and it’s just flowing out of us. So we are making a connection on a deepest level, under the sexual, on a level of unconscious so that we become a part of one another. It takes time to do that but, in short, that’s what is happening as a typical karma process. In time, we start to look alike and we recognize our own characteristics in the partner. The unconscious of two are melting together. There starts the process of “karmic burnout”, and those are great love affairs.

The “karmic burnout” is basically of the utmost importance here as the process inside of both parts. Essentially, it is the process of “purification of karma”, namely purification of the “basement” so to speak and that we could define as the Id of the personality, in the official psychological terms. Those are the deepest layers of the personality, it is the unconscious which contains all the inherited experience of ancestors, as well as the individual experience in the form of energy of emotions, fears, complexes, phobias, suffering etc. that have been accumulating within in the “basement”. Love reacts like a water pump to all those contents but what is of the utmost importance is what happens on a conscious level since the whole process needs to be circled in order to accomplish the purpose of the karma relationship. And there is always a purpose. Then we have to ask ourselves why we have met in the first place. Generally, in karma, people are closer than usually, sometimes those are the people that know us best. Most certainly, the potential of karma relationships lies in the possible achievement of our own improvement through such a complex and close relationship.  Due to those open doors of the unconscious, it’s time to work on ourselves so that we attach importance to all the messages coming from a karma partner. That’s what life has to say to us anyway. Most often, those are the messages that we need to accept in order to build up a relationship and then to reexamine ourselves The point is that those are not simple relationships, they are very difficult and complicated and they very often end up in divorce and separation, mostly because people are not ready to work on themselves and correct their own flaws that lead to conflict in the first place. That’s why we are fighting so much. Namely, where there is such a great closeness, there are great conflicts and it is not easy to bear the shadow of loving one, very often our own.

 

Actually, it is necessary to figure out why we have met and what is so important in our relationship. We meet to help each other for some matter so that we can freely move on when the purpose is being accomplished. Then we meet to teach one another a lesson on something, etc. The point is that union can be harmonious only when the process of adjustment has been done and there are relationships when that process is lasting all their lives, or the most of it. Considering the fact that most people don’t think about it and don’t undertake steps to treat their own personality where they should, the majority of karma relationships ends up in brake-ups after the agony both parts experience in realizing that they just can’t be together and yet they can’t be apart. The solution certainly exists but it requires effort and the will.

 

12^th house as the house of secret enemies justifies that, since two parts in karma relationship being secret enemies in inflicting weaknesses in another, thus forcing him to deal with oneself or to fight back…seems clear why those relationships are so complicated. It takes at least two and a half years to figure out in practice if that can work or not. Before elapsing that time it is not advisable to realize marriage or more serious union since carried away by the force of emotions people are not capable of separating and yet they haven’t achieved the harmony.

 

However, there are positive i.e. successful karma relationships when there is Jupiter in 12^th house in the horoscope of one part in the conjunction with the Sun on the other part. Then, the Jupiter partner is a karma reward for the Sun partner. That’s only one example of many, when the karma partner brings prosperity, happiness, fulfillment to the Sun partner and is generally benevolent, thus bringing karma settlement for some good deeds of the ancestors, for example, although we can’t determine that as a fact. Actually, the karma phenomenon is completely incomprehensible and mysterious so that we can only recognize some mechanisms, in order to be able to see what we can do about it. Generally, karma issue is largely a matter of belief and as we know, a matter of some religions, but what practically results from it is that the work on oneself is necessary. The karma issue demands the inner quest and that is of the utmost importance in order to do everything that’s possible so as to improve one’s own personality. It can be regarded in relation to the earlier experiences in a personal history, but what’s important here is that one should know when to end a karma relationship if life implies to that, since it often happens that the process gets even more complicated and new karma debts are being created that way.

 

It may seem that those kinds of relationships happen to those individuals with full 12^th house from logical reasons. Namely, those kinds of relationships can be even necessary for them in order to improve their lives and themselves in the first place. In some cases, it is often more functional to avoid karma relationship where Saturn is afflicted, if it’s possible of course. Generally, karmic relationships are not so recommendable unless you want to work on yourselves and improve your inner state of being through introspection as well as the state of relationship through tolerance and communication. On the other hand, very often they can be unavoidable or it may seem that it isn’t accidental if they have already happened.

 

4^th house relations are somewhat similar but not just the same. 4^th house is a house of secondary karma i.e. familiar karma and it is somewhat lighter but there certainly is the karma reference. Partners whose Sun is in the 4^th house of our horoscope are basically “father figures” or “mother figures” and as such, these individuals are very important in our lives.  Psychologically, those are people that are very much like a mother or a father and can be very close to the image of animus or anima. They provoke the deepest emotions in us, we feel like we are at home with them and we are capable of getting really close with them. Very often we will see marriages “of the 4^th house”. Essentially, these individuals activate the key points in relationship with a parent that they may be prevailing in the relationship with a partner. Sometimes it can function according to the principle of overcompensation, in a way that we compensate what we lack from a relationship with a parent, and sometimes it is just a model. What most certainly happens is the activation of the deepest emotions and the relationship itself tends to be very deep. Very often it happens that we recognize the image of our animus (masculine side of a woman) and anima (feminine side of a man) and we may get the feeling that it is the ideal relationship in the matter, although it depends on a contact between Sun and Moon in both horoscopes as well as other positions. But those partners are considered to be like animus and anima projections.

 

In accordance to the title, it is important to mention that karmic relationships definitely open the door in a way that they allow one to get more intimate with oneself as well as the partner and provide the insight into the essence of our inner-self. They are recommendable only for those who are ready to cope with themselves and work on the inner improvement. The potential lies in them. It is important to feel when the karmic relationship ends so that we accomplish the purpose of the very encounter and thus the karmic relationship itself, no matter if it is punishment or a reward, giving or taking. All roads lead to Rome so as the life lessons that we get lead to the same cause: becoming a better person, liberated and more perfect. However, if we consider karma that way we get more chance to have more relaxed, happier and more satisfying lives.

 

 

 

 

 

On 12th of June, ”The Great Benefactor”, Jupiter enters the sign of Gemini, to transit this very sign for an entire year. This ambassador of good will brings a very important influence in the year when collective task is supposed to be raising awareness and a general breakthrough into the higher state of consciousness. Essentially, this breakthrough is being conveyed through the executive power of Jupiter itself.
Basically, Jupiter represents consciousness, spiritual and intellectual insights by means of religion, psychology, philosophy, knowledge and higher education, usually within the range of professional interests and personal and professional improvement. The question of self-improvement has been brought into the spotlight as essential on a more massive level in the contemporary world, depicted by the recent apparent movement of one of the four brightest stars in Milky Way, Regulus, the Archangel Raphael, “Watcher of the North” into the sign of Virgo, that should be establishing a new principle as relevant for the progress of mankind. Personal development issue turns out to be of the key importance.
Jupiter in Gemini announces that this issue should be starting to become conscious and effective, operating on a more massive level, as a predominant condition for general progress and evolution of mankind. Due to the position of Saturn in Libra by September, the focus,ultimate tasks and lessons are within the area of interpersonal relations, partnerships, social interactions, diplomacy as well as the role of diplomatic influence in political affairs, in the final stage. Starting from September, major lessons refer to intimacy issues, personal power and libido, energy issues as well as restructuring of the world power, oil business etc. The ultimate aim is forming an attitude that should be governing us in the years to come, hopefully in a progressive way.
The truth liberates and what seems to be the imperative within the planetary constellations of Uranus-Pluto Square, Jupiter transit is happening, is exactly discovering the truth as the guiding light on the individual as well as collective level in both spiritual and material worlds. Speaking of psychodynamics on the individual level, this transit should bring out into the consciousness issues of the subconscious by the awakening of the deep-rooted knots of frustration or a conflict. In terms of Freudian psychoanalysis, Jupiter should convey into the consciousness “the catharsis, releasing repressed instinctually charged memories in order to free the psyche and the body from neurotic fixations, thus bringing the suppressed energies to conscious awareness and expression”. In general, there should be a way to release the inner tension through conscious insights into the issue, with the enhanced potential of realizing the truth about ourselves. That is a sort of purification that should transform the tension into optimism, faith, hope and resultatively bring about the higher level of consciousness. The urge of 2012 in the first place.
Additionally, taking into consideration that Gemini represents mind but also multi-media, there may be some development in the form of exposing the truth about governing structures that may result in additional tension of the atmosphere of “rebellion in the air”. The key importance is to prevent potential outbursts of massive discontent by urging people of all structures to raise awareness of the important issues of human existence such as regaining faith in the era of twilight of religion Neptune in Pisces is due to recover. It seems that in minds of people there should be a heaven-sent guidance in order to restructure the figures on the global chess board in the years to come, with reference to Saturn transit through Scorpio.
Expansion of writings and writers, intellectuals, multi-media that Jupiter in Gemini is about to bring should establish new standards and criteria that are due to provide the higher accessibility of the truth so that it could make necessary changes, if not in the power-obsessed material world, on the spiritual level of self-improving individuals at least. That’s how the necessary change stands greater chance to be a progressive one.

 

In addition, the expansion on a level of communication should enhance the energetic metabolism between people on a massive level, bringing also more short-term travels and arousing motivation for continuing education or improvement on a professional as well as personal level. Altogether, raising standards and criteria of all the professional requirements or at least raising necessity brings about concerns on prospective outlook in a way that professional improvement i.e. education becomes burning issue in the times when raising awareness of environmental and existential matters come into the spotlight.

 

Starting from the 4^th of October up to 30^th of January 2013, Jupiter is going retrograde, making sure all the growing issues and tasks of raising awareness are being set into motion. Retrograde mode brings about some catching-up-to-do kind of development in the sense that overwhelmed minds take some time to pack all the pieces of the puzzle together, in accordance with the symbolism of Gemini that operates with vital information for the purposeful existence. Also, the initiated wave of expansion and understanding, namely all the things that we have started to be conscious of, that have come in a tide are now being exposed to a proper understanding, refering to all the psychodynamic issues of realization and liberation of inner frustration mentioned above. On the individual level. Globally, people are being challenged to fully grasp the truth about the world and themselves considering the recent development that has brought about so much, one has to put up with up to January, in order that proper attitude prevails. All the novelties and new enterprises that have set in motion some fresh activities may start to develop in a more concrete manner in this period i.e. we may finally tend to see the results of the efforts that we have been investing into our personal expansion since June. Whatever has been agreed is now being conveyed and put into practice.

Psychologically speaking, the issue of self-improvement is being put into effect in these several months, considering already initiated process since June. Metaphorically speaking, all the new softwares that we have obtained from various sides, we need to apply on our PCs in the months to come.

 

Starting from 23rd of August up to 7th of October, Mars will be transiting the sign of Scorpio.
Scorpio, as the natural sign of the 8th house represents essential insights,resources, basic energetic potential,libido, sexuality and power, regeneration and transformation,psychologically speaking, but also a research, massive inclination, large cash flows, business and the global economy, oil industry, world domination games and again power. The entrance of Mars should energize these issues in a way that they appear mostly in black and white paradigm, with a tendency of grasping the essence of the matters, aiming at bull’s eye with no compromise. We may as well feel as edgy as it takes to accomplish what we want, capable of taking risks as an instinctive drive, even if that is not in our nature. The powerful energy of Mars is pushing us ahead to make a breakthrough no matter what, we just feel powerful enough to do it. On the way to a battlefield and the ultimate fight of the year, we might as well inform ourselves how to handle it.

Regeneration – the first thing. Since Scorpio represents energetic resources i.e libido, as the basic psychological energy, and not just sexual, according to C.G. Jung, what seems to be the greatest positive influence of this transit might be filling up the reservoirs of the psyche in a way that it regenerates our basic power. It is already in the air, soon enough we should feel charged with energy enough to feel like shooting a gun, hitting a target…what’s more the centre of the target.Trigger happy as we might be, thinking more black and white than ususal and feeling in straits of the extremes, we might choose impulsively. However, those are winning impulses. Additionally, libido is empowered and sexual energy has somewhat stronger drive as well. As a result, general refreshment is what takes place, so make sure you have time for everything that brings you a recharge.
Essential insights – Scorpio is the sign of psychologists, researchers, mystics, warriors,detectives, spies and surgeons so that we all might as well feel a little bit like those. More than usual, that’s for sure. Basically, energizing Mars may convey the ultimate insights into areas of importance since Jupiter has entered Gemini in June. Namely, the focus of the year is bringing up into the consciousness all the inner nods, and potential conflicts and suppressed emotions from the past, all the tempered energy in people, depicted in Uranus-Pluto square for the purposes of self-awareness and self-improvement in the ideal image. However, these inner discontent already pulsing from within may outrageously burst into the public as the culmination of the year since Mars in Scorpio provides a channel for grasping things down to the bottom line as well as expressing it with no withholding but as a necessity or even urge. The ultimate path is moving downward to the essence of the issue and then upward to a sort of resurrection or liberation. The very energy of the Phoenix bird is the energy of Mars in Scorpio, that has the power to rise from ashes and bring life. Nothing livelier than Mars in Scorpio. They say that those full of death are full of life and only this position, as one of the most powerful positions of Mars, if not the most powerful one, may feel the “eros” and the will for life in such a degree that may arise from the dead. Psychologically, the essential insights into matters of relevant kinds visible in natal charts, may breed in a new life and resurrect the energy by purification, transformation of the general outlook on the issue. If something may be called miraculous in potential, than it is this position of Mars. For all the people that do believe in miracles, now is the time to make them.