A Shot of Arctic Air

This sounds funny for anyone living in a genuinely cold climate but we're having one of our annual psycho freezes in California this week. We are nearly at our wits ends, of course, worrying about frost bite and what to do with our succulents which shrivel up like balloons that have lost their air.

Today has tied for coldest December 8 on record along with December 8 in 1994 when the Mercury dropped to 31 degrees in the morning hours. Well, I certainly wish I could say that it froze the broken sewer pipes back together so that I don't have to bathe in my neighbors' greasy meats, but that, of course, is impossible. Glad to know that the neighbors are well fed with heartily seasoned foods that I suspect are keeping away the locusts ... Either the stuff doesn't attract Rats, or you just don't notice it over the damn spice smell.

I checked the astrology for 6 am on both dates to see why perhaps this would be considered the record setting cold days on these dates. This puts beginning degrees of Sagittarius on the Ascendant with the Sagittarius Sun in the first house. Sagittarius is a fire sign which is Hot so I suppose there is no significance in that. Most Polar Bears, though, are born in December, thus Sagittarians, and they hang out on the North Pole so maybe extreme frost tolerance is a Sadge thing. Maybe the Sadge influence just emphasizes all things that exaggerated and bigger than normal. Maybe it's just Nature's way of charming the snowflakes as they fall on the ground.

Also interesting in the heat department is the fact that Mars is in Leo on both dates. Both Mars and Leo rule Fire. Perhaps the Jupiterian idea of the chart and the Mars in Leo simply signifies record setting, doesn't care if it's sports, weather, kisses or food.

Moving on, the coldness part might come from the Virgo Midheaven in both charts. Virgo is a cold, earthy sign. It represents all things that are pure as the driven ... in this case, snow. The Moon was in Virgo this morning conjunct the Midheaven. Back in 1994 it was down near the IC in conjunction with Saturn in Pisces.

Pluto is squaring Saturn in both charts. Back in 1994 it was on one of the last degrees of Scorpio in conjunction with Jupiter and the Ascendant. This morning it was in conjunction with Mercury just at the beginning of Capricorn. So it seems to be on the cusp at either end of Sagittarius which might somehow tie in with the Sagittarius chart in a way that I can't explain.

Also interesting is that the rulers of Scorpio and Capricorn are Saturn and Pluto. And, as I said, they are squaring each other in both charts. That combination likes to keep things a little desolate.

Maybe this is related to Eclipses. I'm too lazy to look that up right now. It's just too much damn chart reading.