Rhode Island as a Relocation Astrology Tutorial Site

Rhode Island was great: rain and sunshine, classes and beach time. I enjoyed the company of new friends and old friends I haven't seen in a year or so. One glitch: soon after I arrived, I realized my cell phone hadn't made the entire trip with me. And that's a segue for a relocation astrology tutorial and an astrology tutorial.

My relocation astrology chart for the area has the Cancer/Capricorn axis intercepted. When a pair of opposing signs are intercepted in any chart -- by relocation, or otherwise -- it's often a creative challenge to access the energy contained in that sign. Keywords for Capricorn include limitation, focus, responsibility, organization. Keywords for Cancer include home, and mother. I wans't able to "phone home" to the Berkshires, or to contact my 95 year old mother in western NY without a phone debit card; not a crisis, but mildly inconvenient.

While I was there, a specific transit was in play, too. Jupiter's retrograde movement in Capricorn triggered my tenth house North Node in Gemini (communication, the jester). Capricorn and Gemini are 150 degree apart, as you count around the circle. When focal points in two signs 150 degrees apart touch very precisely, the aspect is called "quincunx". That means, no easy point of contact; no way for the signs to communicate without effort.

All I remembered, in retrospect, was closing up the phone and putting it in my bag. The only place I'd stopped was one of the fueling stations on the Mass Pike. Maybe, I thought, it had been on my lap and dropped onto the pavement when I got out of the car. on my lap. Shaking my head wryly at the irony and precision of the aspects -- yes, this is the only time i've lost my cell phone -- I de-activated it.

But Gemini, the cosmic Communications Jester, wasn't through with me yeet. Two days later I found out my phine wasn't on my trip to Rhode Island at all. I'd closed it up and dropped it. That part of the memory was clear enough. But I'd been in a friend's car at home in Berkshire County when it happened. So the jester had fun with me at the beach, and my re-activated phone was waiting for me when I got back home.