admin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:35 am
Dear icarus,
I’m at a bit of a loss as to why that lecturer hadn’t warned you prior to starting the course. Your words
‘indirectly he meant... ...’, suggest that this Mercury retrograde (amongst the other retrogrades) created misunderstanding about what was actually needed ?
Looking way back at our earlier posts, I had said:
“ However, I think that perhaps you should wait until after Saturn has turned direct and gone past your Mercury... but I’m also looking at transiting Neptune and the possibility of over-reaching yourself and then getting disheartened". And also later I said:
“it would be a good idea to make a plan for all of the possible expenses and to try to stick to that plan. This will help to contain all the Neptune influences – at least, to some extent”; and further
“...extra care needs to be taken prior to embarking on something new...”; and
“...perhaps it is after all, best to wait until later in the year to embark on this new venture.”
Yes, I do realise that I had also encouraged you to try, but this seems like a classic case of not verifying first with the course instructor about this matter of having to undertake IATA certification before embarking on this.
But none of this helps you at all, so enough now of ‘should have’s’. Time to make a new plan of action.
First up, I suggest you keep working on building your blog site, and doing all the research necessary. Make a plan of action, rather than just writing. Make a list of what you need to do, and create an agenda for each day, and stick to it. As I said, Mercury turns direct (in about 5 days) in your 6th House of ‘work’ and although he takes a few days to get up steam, ruling your 7th/’others’, and your 4th/family, enlist their aid to get yourself organised. Currently he’s in square to your Mars in your 8th, so this is why you’re feeling that your world has come crashing down and like it’s ‘the end’.
After he turns direct he’ll again square your Mars, but this time hopefully he’ll help you to see more clearly where you went wrong and thus avoid making the same mistake.
Mars too, still retrograde, has just re-entered Capricorn (in trine to your Pluto in the 7th, ruling your 9th). He turns direct in 2 weeks, and will continue to be in trine to your Pluto for a few weeks after this. This may at the very least - if you’ve prepared properly - give you renewed vigour, and perhaps even bring some very positive connection with some group in 'foreign' matters (perhaps languages or other connected areas).
As Jupiter is opposite your Saturn in the 2nd/finances, this surely feels frustrating and of course worrying, but in many ways it also brings clarity about where you ‘went wrong’ so that you can make the changes necessary to move forward. What’s important with this is that you open yourself to other opportunities rather than dwelling on what didn’t work which will only keep doors to new opportunities closed to you and result in more frustration. This is about learning from one’s mistakes and failures and determining to use the experience in order to move forward rather than just falling into a heap. Remember, Jupiter moves into your 9th in mid October.
And Saturn ! Still retrograde and involving your Capricorn Sun/10th House/Career and ruling your 6th/Work. Naturally this is contributing to your depression and feeling of helplessness. This has surely been a lesson hard-learned, to say the least. Saturn turns direct on the 6th Sept. and heads back to your Sun. BUT, this time it suggests that IF you have learned his harsh lessons, you will be working hard and finding that the effort put in, especially with regard to proper planning, will reward accordingly. There is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ even if it doesn’t feel like that right now.
Naturally, retrograde Neptune hovering over your Ascendant is perhaps the main energy to watch as he is this up/down, dreaming, illusory and confusing influence. This can result in over-sensitivity so that when something like what has just happened occurs, reality feels too harsh and like the universe is punishing you, or at least being so very unfair. But it’s vital that, although you need your dreams of great and wonderful possibilities, you keep your feet on the ground in order not to fall in a heap. It is really hard to keep focus with this going on, but if you can do this, you can make your dreams real. One step at a time is difficult with Neptune, but Saturn will help, if you let him.
Best,
Admin.