The Three Weeks - Final Catastrophe Count

The Three Weeks is finally over!!! Sigh of relief.......

Number of catastrophes that happened during The Three Weeks?..... Just one!! That must be a record low count of catastrophes for any The Three Weeks period. The catastrophe in question being on the first day of The Three Weeks when I was overcharged by $40 at the grocery story, with my self sabotage tendency kicking in, destroying the docket before I had the chance to take it back to the store for the refund.

My car had been running perfectly for the past few weeks until last Thursday when I needed to run errands after work. My car started to play up, and so I thought, here we go with Tisha B'Av falling on the weekend, the day the two Temples were destroyed, this would be when my car will give up the ghost and I would begin life without a car. With the repair bill for the cracked heads being 10 times what the car is worth, it would be just a matter of time before the issue becomes unsustainable and I would be giving my car a send-off to the wreckers. I was convinced this would occur during Tisha B'Av weekend when the worst of the catastrophes often manifests.

Friday I take my car into work as a self nurturing gesture on this day of the Goddess. Friday is Goddess day, named after the Goddess Freya. For the first four days, unless I have errands to run, I take the train into work then do my 5 kms walk from work back to home each afternoon, then do my Saturn Complex exercises in my bid to lose weight. However Friday, Goddess Day, is my day off. I drive into work, and I give myself a break from the exercises. And on Friday the car behaved itself perfectly!!!!!

Saturday was Tisha B'Av day, so if there was going to be any catastrophes, Saturday would be the day it will happen. I did my afternoon walk as per my Saturday schedule. This involved driving my car to one of my walking spots then going for my walk. This time, my walk included a walk from the train station to the Chakra Dance venue, to check with my GPS the distance of this walk and how long it would take me to get to the Chakra Dance venue from the train station in case my car dies and I would need to catch the train. There are busses that goes that way but are less frequent on the weekend, in fact only just four bus services to the vicinity on Sundays. So it be either Uber or a walk to the venue from the train station. Well according to my GPS the distance is about 3.5 kms, and it took me just on 30 minutes to walk this distance. So now I know should this become necessary. I am booked for the Chakra Dance day session next Sunday. However it turned out my car continued to behave itself perfectly also on Saturday as I went to and from my walking trail.

Now Sunday - today - when the Jews defers the observance of Tisha B'Av to the day due to Saturday being the Sabbath, and the Jews traditionally does not observe such depressing days on the Sabbath. So the energies of Tisha B'Av would still be evident on Sunday. I had a number of errands to run this day, driving to the Post Office to retrieve my mail, going to get fuel for my car, and going to the shops. My car being made to work harder, more stop and starting, and etc. Once again my car continued to behave itself perfectly!!!!

So now The Three Weeks is over I still have my car.

However I am far from being out of the woods, with more intense planetary alignments ahead, in particular the Chiron Effect in my 2nd House, the Chiron Saturn square.

A list of intense planetary alignments for this week......

Tomorrow morning, Monday, the Sun moves into Leo, so we enter into the times of the Leo. Those with the Sun in Leo or have heavy Leo influences in their chart are usually proud and confident people, they turn self love into a fine art form, and are often very sure of themselves. They like to rule the roost and expect people to appreciate them, indeed are often offended if people does not appreciate them nor acknowledge their achievements. Leos are often high achievers and they love for people to know of their achievements. They thrive on fame and fortune. The dark side is they can be narcissist, indeed my relationship from Hell, the lady I was involved in prior to meeting my wife, was a Leo and a total narcissist. In contrast there are absolutely no Leo influence whatsoever in my chart, I have no planets nor aspects in Leo. This together with my four planets in Virgo conspires to form the self criticism or self hatred perfect storm. Virgos are their own worst critics to begin with but for many are often balanced with aspects in Leo. However I have no aspects in Leo, so my self hatred is particularly intense, I very rarely take selfies, I can count on one hand the number of photos of myself that I have on FaceBook and even those photos are set at a privacy level that only those on my FaceBook friends list can see them. I am hopeless at selling myself, and I do not like to draw attention to myself. I am not very good at taking compliments, indeed it often embarrasses me, I believe that I don't deserve them. I am a very self sacrificial creature, I like to do good for others but I shun any acknowledgement of them.

Then on Tuesday the Chiron Saturn square moves to one degree of exact. This will be as close to exact as it will be this year, and it will remain this way until well into August. The catastrophic year of 2017 was catastrophic because of there being three instances of the exact Chiron Saturn square. Chiron was in my 1st House, my Ascendant sign, so the catastrophes revolved around pain and heartache of myself, when I was rejected, hurt, or had my character called into question. Now Chiron is in my 2nd House. The last transit of Chiron in my 2nd House from 1968 to 1976 coincided with my poverty years. So now any catastrophes involving the Chiron Effect is more likely to revolve around money and possessions, hence my car. So far my car has escaped catastrophes, there had been no catastrophes involving my car during The Three Weeks. However the Chiron Saturn square poses a new threat, and will be most intense for a few weeks from this Tuesday, being at a single degree from exact.

Thursday is when Mercury turns retrograde. Me with a retrograding Mercury conjunct with my Sun in my chart, catastrophes often happens during Mercury's retrogrades. This time Mercury is in Leo, my 6th House, so the retrograde will be in Leo. My 6th House deals with health issues, hence my fitness regimes, my walks, and my efforts to lose weight. I did manage to lose weight last month, but I fear this month's weigh-in especially given that Mercury will be in retrograde during my next weigh-in. Issues regarding my exercise and walking regime may also crop up, as also my dietary regime.

Then this Saturday we have the Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius and just inside my 11th House which is Cosmic Overview, Community and Friends, hence my involvement with the spiritual groups. Eclipses often brings up shadows and compels us to make changes. Exactly how this will play out remains to be seen. Lunar Eclipses occurs on Full Moon, therefore the Sun being in the opposite sign, in this instance, Leo, and just inside my 5th House. My 6th House begins at 5 degrees of Leo, and the Sun will be at 4 degrees of Leo during the eclipse, therefore still in my 5th House which is Self Love. So perhaps chaotic changes with my spiritual groups involving self love, or self nurturing. Perhaps being kinder to myself.

Now my plans for this week......... Tomorrow night, Monday, I will be dancing again. Our Chakra Dance group has been invited to a kind of reunion on Monday, an informal session which will involve about an hour of dancing. My experiences with this group has been so wonderful, being among all these goddesses, I definitely intend going back there tomorrow night.

Then on Saturday night is the 2nd of the Eclipses Activation ceremonies coinciding with the three eclipses. This Saturday will be the 2nd of the Eclipses. The 3rd Eclipse happens two weeks later.

Sunday is the day session, the Winter Workshop with the Chakra Dance group, so be quite a bit of dancing on Sunday.

So how this week will pan out? Time will tell...... at least the Maggies won!!!! And despite picking them and also the Bombers, the Chiron Effect is likely to manifest once again in my Football Tipping results!!!

The results of my "Saturn Complex" test during Mercury's retrograde in my 6th House...........

The Chiron Effect in 2nd House meets Throat Chakra activation !!!!

The truth explained.......

Egg choices these days..... choose carefully !!!!!!

Dealing with budget airlines......

The wonders of chocolates......

Meanwhile in Perth.......

During government cutbacks in the public sector.....

Very effective bait !!!!

When Virgos gets married......

More on life in Perth.......

More on the results of my "Saturn Complex" test during Mercury's retrograde in my 6th House.....

My "Saturn Complex" exercise regime.....

For me it be chocolate !!!!!!

A Virgo with no Leo aspects in his chart......

The Three Weeks - The Final Stretch

We are into the final week of "The Three Weeks", having survived the first two weeks, as the curse of being a Jew in my past life threatens to come back to haunt me. "The Three Weeks" ends next Sunday, the day of "Tisha B'Av", when both Temples were destroyed, the first by the Babylonians, the second by the Romans.

However there hasn't been any more catastrophes since the catastrophic incidence Sunday two weeks ago, the start of "The Three Weeks" when due to a computer glitch I was overcharged at the grocery store by over $40, and had destroyed my docket in an unconscious act of self sabotage, consequence of The Chiron Effect, before I had the chance to get the money back. Money lost is money that will never be replaced. Any money I may get in the future to "make up" for the loss is money I would have received anyway, such as tax breaks and savings. So it is yet another loss, another in the very long line of financial losses due to the Chiron Effect that I will have to wear.

Due to this catastrophe and the usual rise in the taxes and charges that comes with July, I had expected my savings plan to be shattered, seriously affecting the viability of my intended trip to the USA next year. So with much trepidation I did my savings plan review last week as I do prior to each payday...... and found I actually made a GAIN in my savings plan. I checked the figures again just to make sure..... and there was no mistake, I did actually make a GAIN. It was a small but significant gain. How I managed to pull this trick despite the catastrophes I will never know, but it means my trip to the USA remains on track for early next year. Catastrophe number 2, the catastrophic loss in my savings plan, did not come to pass.

Next in line, my taxes, as I once again deal with Australia's very high taxes and my ever shrinking tax refund check, barely enough for a Happy Meal at Maccas. Well maybe not quite that meagre, well not yet anyway. I do my taxes online, all with computers, so there won't be any errors...... oh yes of course there can be errors with computers, as the incidence at the grocery store proves. But we're talking about the tax office here. There won't be any errors except for errors that favours the tax office. So in other words, I wouldn't accidentally get a higher refund check, the tax office will make sure of that, while if there be any errors, it will manifest in an even smaller refund check than originally expected. So I was utterly surprised when I saw that I am due to received a BIGGER tax refund check than last year!! This can't be an error, so I thought.... wow!!!! This will really give my savings plan an unexpected boost. Catastrophe number 3 averted!!

I soon worked out why I am receiving a larger tax refund check. When I received my wage rise last year, it was back dated almost six months. So I received a lump sum payment worth six months worth of wage rises. Certain kinds of lump sum payments are taxed at a much higher rate, so all lump sum payments are automatically taxed at this higher rate. It wasn't until I would do my taxes and they determined that the lump sum payments was simply a consequence of the wage rise being back dated therefore doesn't attract the higher tax rate, the tax difference was effectively refunded back to me. Hence the significantly larger than expected tax refund check.

So despite the Chiron Effect it seems my finances are in pretty good shape with my savings plan remaining intact. However I am not out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. There is still the final week of The Three Weeks. Then another month of the peak of the Chiron Saturn square, with Chiron in my 2nd House, the House it resided back during my poverty years in my childhood.

The expected demise of my car hasn't yet manifested. My car it seems is still running well, indeed for some reason it seems to be running better than it has been in recent time. Perhaps the premium petrol that I have been feeding my car with, more expensive than the normal petrol, but it earns me extra frequent flyers points which will help me with my trips.

Virgo reality check! I know however that I am sitting on a time bomb. The car is overdue for a service, which hopefully I will be able to get done shortly once I dealt with my usual July bills for the new tax year. The service seems destined to result in higher repair bills, my feeling is the brakes will need to be done, which is destined to put a dent in my savings plan. The bigger issue however is the cracked heads which will cost more to fix than what the car is worth. So far the leakage in the cooling system from the cracked heads is manageable, needing to be topped up only once per month. This cost me a fortune in coolant fluid, but better than getting it fixed, which not only will wipe out my savings but send me deep into debt. I was quoted up to $5000 for the repair bill. The car is worth less than $1000 and that's an optimistic estimate. Therefore when the leak becomes unmanageable, I will simply cut my losses and sell the car to the wreckers, kissing it goodbye for ever..... and hello to the trains and Uber. So trying to keep repair bills to a minimum, doing only what is absolutely essential, until the car finally gives up the ghost. Unfortunately I think the brakes will be one of them, my feeling is they will need to be done, and it will be expensive. This I will have to face up to over the next month or so as the Chiron Effect kicks in, the Chiron Saturn square peaking at less than a degree from exact for the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Despite it being The Three Weeks when I normally keep a low profile and become even more of a tiny little hermit, I have been going out a lot..... well it is a lot for this tiny little introverted hermit who usually abides by the rule of not doing anything new during The Three Weeks nor Chiron Saturn squares. The 9-week Chakra Dance course proved to be my inspiration. Last week I was at the 7/7 Activation Ceremony for the 7th day of the 7th month - the 7th of July. Then last Friday I was at another Activation Ceremony for the solar eclipse that took place last Friday on Friday the 13th - my lucky day. Friday the 13th is a very lucky day. Friday is the day of the Goddess, so it is always a good day. And 13 is the number of the Goddess, it is a Goddess number. So putting those two together, Friday the 13th becomes a very lucky day. The superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day is a Christian conspiracy, cos Christians doesn't like Goddess worship so they will do everything to make us afraid of anything to do with Goddesses. Hence they say Friday was the day Adam and Eve ate that apple which made us to be such mean and nasty creatures who are going to Hell, and also the day Jesus died.... and 13 is said to be unlucky cos Jesus and the disciples made up to 13 people, and one of them ended up betraying Jesus, so had to choose a 13th disciple to replace Judah the betrayer. All this effectively to suppress honouring the Goddesses.

So last Friday on my luckiest day, I was at the Solar Eclipse Activation Ceremony. Then last night I was at the Cacao Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance session, this was truly epic. My next outing will be to the Lunar Eclipse Activation Ceremony on the 28th, then the day session with Chakra Dance on Sunday the 29th.

Oh wait..... there has been a catastrophe today!!!! A total and utter, truly Earth shaking catastrophe tearing at the very fabric of time and space....... the Weevils beat the Maggies. A massive fail of the Weevil voodoo dolls. It would not have mattered if the Maggies lost to the Bombers, or to Richmond, or Melbourne, or GWS....... but the bloody Weevils!!!!!!! No!!!!!!!!!! Arrrrrgh!!!!!!!!! This I will never live down..................

Speaking of allegedly "unlucky" days and that original sin........

When the Chiron Effect in my 2nd House kicks in........

Family lessons......

When I take my car in for a much overdue service during the Chiron Saturn square......

When the Saturn Complex in my chart manifests.......

My new diet..... until the Saturn Complex kicks in.......

The lament of a Virgo.......

I wonder if they will call in at Baskins and Robbins.......

When Chiron entered my 3rd House back in 1977......

The Three Weeks and The Chiron Effect

Heading into the "perfect storm" here. Now week one of The Three Weeks have just passed, and this cursed period of time coincides with the peak of the Chiron Saturn square with Chiron in my 2nd House, a catastrophic transit that previously coincided with the 8 years of childhood poverty. Last Sunday's catastrophic incidence of being overcharged at the grocery store by $40 due to a computer glitch marking the start of The Three Weeks serves as a symbolic start to the 8 years of poverty. With our very high taxes and the July bills all which has increased, this conspires to send my savings plan catastrophically into deficit, threatening the viability of my next trip. This really never happened before, but then we are talking about the perfect storm - The Chiron Effect, the Chiron Saturn square coinciding with The Three Weeks. This hadn't happened not even during the catastrophic year of 2017 when there were three exact Chiron Saturn squares. To make things worse I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, that means, I hate winter, I very often get depressed during winter, my suicidal attempts usually peaked during winter, and it was when I most self harmed myself. Winter is a horrid time of year, there is nothing good about winter, it is a cursed time of year. So between my Seasonal Affective Disorder, the curse of The Three Weeks, the curse of the Chiron Effect and the Chiron Saturn square, and the real possibility that I would not be going overseas afterall, this served as the perfect storm to totally and utterly shatter me with Category 6 hurricane force winds, finding myself in a very dark place........

Enter my cards..... each week on a Sunday I draw my cards for the week. So I drew my cards this morning, and it was the Ace of Pentacles. There are over 70 cards in a Tarot deck so the chance of drawing any one card is about 1 in 70. The Ace of Pentacles represents resources, and the message is I have enough resources to reach my goals. The last time I drew this card was at the end of the catastrophic year of 2017, when I was planning on my Mexico trip, and was waiting on the backpay of my wage rise and the December bonus payment. Those two manifested soon after I drew this card. This time I have been planning for my America trip but there are no financial windfall in the pipeline. My very scant tax refund check does not count as a windfall, it will do extremely little towards payments of my July expenses. We pay very high taxes in Australia and we have sweet fuck all to show for it. I know some European countries pay higher taxes but they have far better services and infrastructures. Australia however, being such a shit country it is, our taxation is more like that of the Roman Empire, that is, the taxes went to just line the pockets of the Emperor. It is basically the same in Australia, our taxes goes mostly to line the pockets of our politicians and all of their perks that us mere mortals can only dream about. So we work like slaves to pay our very high taxes and we have nothing to show for it, only a very scant refund check that barely covers a Burger Kings meal.

So the fact that I draw the Ace of Pentacles, telling me I do have the resources for my America trip and all will work out..... well there are no financial windfalls in my future, so I can only guess that somehow I will navigate my hurricane-force stormy waters and come out with enough funds for my America trip. We Virgos are very good at planning and extracting blood out of a stone. Therefore despite the overwhelming odds for catastrophes over these next few weeks, all should eventually work out. My cards has always been right. They have not let me down yet. So it is just something I will need to hold onto. I suppose just a matter of waiting to see how things will pan out.......

Despite the catastrophic effects of the Chiron Effect and the curse of The Three Weeks, I have been attending spiritual events. Last Friday I was at the 7/7 Activation ceremony for the following day being the 7th day of the 7th month, meaning, July 7. This involved a shamanic journey to our home planets, which of course for me included Taygeta, and then going back to the Source, basically pure light, which is where we all come from, we are all basically pure light right at the very beginning of our existence,  before we began all of our incarnation, before Taygeta, before any other forms of existence whatsoever.

Then next Saturday I am booked for the Cacao ceremony and ecstatic dance session. There is a solar eclipse event happening next Friday which I will probably also attend, haven't booked yet but likely to do so. Then the Chakra Dance day session on the 29th, which I am also likely to book for by next week.

What else is happening....... progress on my aquarium is on hold due to the Chiron Effect, and will remain on hold until the end of August. The Chiron Saturn square remains at its peak through July and August affecting my finances and budget, with further catastrophes a certainty.

And my car is still running....... there is two more weeks to go of The Three Weeks, and 8 more weeks of the peak of the Chiron Saturn square.

And the football..... well it looked like the Maggies had also drawn the Ace of Pentacles card after things were looking hopeless at 3rd quarter time. Meanwhile those bloody Weevils they messed up my tipping plans, we need to get those voodoo dolls re-tuned!!! It looks like I won't be getting the boobie prize, it seems I had gone up a couple of levels from the bottom!!

When I take up Yoga....... probably a good reason why I hadn't as yet !!!!!!

The Saturn Complex.... explained!!

The musings of an introvert......

Somehow this would not surprise me !!!!!

Back in the good ole days......

The perils of surfing the internet......

The power to raise people from the dead not always a good thing for the dead !!!!!!

For those familiar with the perils of travelling.....

During my teen years after Chiron entered my 3rd House.....

The perils of Chiron's transit of my 3rd House during my teen years.....

When trying to get a Virgo to change his routines......

Tips on interpreting horoscope readings when you have the Saturn Complex in your chart....

Me after my "Saturn Complex" test fail, the monthly weigh-in despite my hard work.....

Saturn lessons.......

The musings of a Virgo......

The story of my life.......