This miserable combination is almost over. I have known about it over the past week, but it was so depressing I couldn’t even bring myself to write about it. The best way to sum it up would be aggressive self criticism for not meeting expectations at a deeply intense level. I had the feeling that I was clearly failing at this human experience and had no idea what to do about it. It was a sobering, humbling, bring us to our knees time and I am super glad that it’s on its way out the door. If you did anything self destructive to deal with it, like I did, then it’s time to shrug it off, pick up the pieces and move on. The take away is that while uncomfortable, the experience of seeing how we are failing our expectations, is an opportunity to re-evaluate those expectations, as well as the perspective on our current reality. It’s never as bad as Saturn says it is. It just isn’t. And what we think we should be doing with our lives is never as great as we think it will be either. Remember all those fervent dreams we had in junior high school, aren’t we so grateful half of them didn’t come true? So take a moment to call bullshit on all of it, and then ask yourself, what’s really important to me now that I can do today, and whatever that is, go do it.

It may not totally feel like it, but we have about a week of mad productivity happening right now with Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Taurus, and Pluto in Capricorn making a happy earth trine. Sure you might feel aggressively bitchy, or hopelessly depressed, but Jupiter is here to cheer you up and that should be enough that you can hang tough through the rest of the bullshit and get some stuff done. Although Mars will move on at the end of the week, perhaps ending the productivity, I don’t know, not so with Jupiter!!! This awesomely benevolent planet has taken pity on us all, extending its trine to Pluto by going backwards and forwards and will be keeping us out of the suicide zone through the dreaded holidays and all the way to March 2012. Yeah Jupiter!