West Cork Astrology

When I read a chart for difficulties or challenges, I go to Saturn. For me, it isnt that Saturn means problems, it is more a place where things are stuck, or obviously not running smoothly. It’s a place that’s going to take work. Being a solar capricorn, I actually look forward to this moment in a charts reading, it means I can start to get my teeth in. I’ve been rereading this chart for the last week, and have bounced back and forth between Venus and Mars, and was getting nothing. Finally I looked at the Pluto Moon conjuction, and there sitting being overlooked was the squaring Saturn in Libra. If one is text book interpreting a difficult time, pretty much having Saturn turn up and square the situation isnt going to help untangle things. Like I said, I like Saturn. It’s heavy and reliable in its dutybound life lessons, a bit like the regularity of the bills coming in through the door. Its also the Limiter, and by being limited we often find out what we are capable of. (I will gush on in another post) Anyway Saturn in Libra came into that square on the 15th of November, and when did we flood? The 19th. What decision has the Irish government made about building on flood plains since? Not to do it!

And just to wind up, Venus is in an irritating square to Mars and another square to that intense conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron. So basically the planet of relationships & aesthetics was fighting with both the Action planet (Mars) and the greater planets of Expansiveness (Jupiter) Boundless connected ness (Neptune) and the wounded healer (Chiron). Heavy stuff. Our aesthetics of the town was definitely messed up. Venus squaring anything is being thwarted in her desires. When one wants what one cant have, strange behaviours ensue. On you tube, you can watch as a man kayaked the wrong way down Bridge St.

Neptune is the Ruler of Pisces, the most watery of the water signs. If Pisces were going to have a fault, it would be the lack of boundaries, a spilling forth into others with no awareness of where one ends or begins. Jupiter (ruler of Sagittarius) was explained to me once as having energy like a forest fire, voracious in its searching for new materials. It’s the sign of the Seeker, and can be fanatical as that sounds. Both are in the sign of Aquarius. Also resting right besides is the planetoid 95P/Chiron. (A planetoid which is a thing that looks like an asteroid and behaves like a comet.) Chiron is known as the wounded healer, and represents in a chart where someone is wounded, but through that pain can help or teach others. So to finish we have a wounded event, which is overzealous with a lack of boundaries. Good time for a natural disaster like a flood.
Anyway, that just my take. If you like it great. If you disagree, let me know. Debate and dialogue is good!

(I looked at a few times of the day for this one, but finally settled on the evening full tide time of 5:30.)

The first thing that springs to mind is that almost exact conjunction between Pluto and the Moon, which came to exactness about an hour later. It would be fair to say that around six thirty, the town was totally impassable and was feeling the full effects of the floods. We know that Pluto in Capricorn is renovating our current authority structure, and that the Moon is the planet that represents our needs and our home. Having Pluto and Moon conjunct is intense. The needs of the folks caught in these floods, the washing away and destruction of so much of their homes, places of nurture was intense. On Sat, I listened to a woman still in shock over having so much precious things destroyed. They were things precious to her, things that nurtured her, and the water forever altered them. There were many who have had basic things like carpet, flooring, door jams etc damaged by the flood. Perhaps its going a bit far to draw comparisons between the carpets being the skins of the house, and Saturn/Capricorn ruling the skin in the human body and Pluto shedding those skins, but it feels right to me.

Interesting enough with this time choice is the placement of Mars in Leo at 4th house. Normally in the natal chart, especially of a child, I would find this to indicate war or at least a lot of action in the home place. But Mars in Leo says more ‘daring do’ or active heroism. I would like to think that the Fire Service and others who immediately got into action helping out the elderly and others could be seen in this placement. Due to the prompt response with sandbags, much damage was averted.

To be continued…