Dear Elsa,

I’m on this roller coaster ride, trying not to be flung out! I have moved to another town and am currently trying to start from scratch as a self-employed psychotherapist. Now I suddenly doubt that any good will come of this... and shouldn’t I rather paint or travel to India and be a psychic healer?

Apart from that, anybody giving me advice stands a good chance of being barked at by me -- even if I was the one that asked them for help! I am usually outspoken, but this tendency to explode is new to me.

I have a lover and friends, and I mean to keep them. Can you give me any advice?

Greetings From a Sad Volcano

Dear Sad,

Yeah! You’re a danger, all right. Let me fill you in on the astrology.

As you know, people are walking around with their various complexes. In your business, you’re aware that some events can occur which trigger the complex and all hell breaks loose. Same thing in my business, except timing is foreseeable because it correlates with transits to the birth chart.

Now in your chart there is a big fat honkin’ complex. It’s composed of Mars (anger), your Moon (emotion), Uranus (unpredictable) and Pluto (explosive). Further, all those planets are conjunct your ascendant, which means we can all see the veins pop out on your forehead.

This whole mess is in Virgo, Mercury’s sign (communication), which is why you yell like a drill sergeant, I bet. There it sits and then along comes a transit, in this case from Uranus. The effect is like putting a cattle prod to this thing, and the result is your email!

Here’s what I can offer. First the timing. Forget about quick resolution. You will be dealing with this in your face into early 2008. It's not going away, so you need to align. You can do that if you understand the underlying purpose, which is your liberation.

Now Uranus wants to experiment. Out with the old, in with the new -- and then out with the new and in with the newer new. See what you’ve done? You’ve moved home on impulse. Now you have another impulse. As disruptive as this may be, it has a purpose.