I'm yellin' timber

Obviously nothing in motion in our solar system actually stops, but when something appears to, relative to earth, it's called a station, and it's very important in astrology. Most of the time, you have no reason to notice the station of a planet, so most of the time, stations aren't relevant to you. But occasionally, they are really, really relevant. Right now we have 3 planets actively stationing: Uranus, Jupiter, and Venus, and two more planets moving pretty darn slow: Saturn and Pluto. The odds are better than normal that one of them is affecting you.

For a while I lived next to a pseudo-frat house. The swarm of college men who lived next door seemed to destroy everything they laid their hands on, which they did while blasting Pitbull and Ke$ha's "Timber" on repeat. A stationing planet is like this environment: unruly people and repetitive, annoying music, or whatever would be the emotional equivalent for you.  If I ever hear that song these days, I'm immediately transported back to that time and place, where I was stuck hearing that song on repeat at all hours of the day.

You can substitute relentless Pitbull/Ke$sha for a car accident, a drawn-out fight at work, a broken bone, a childcare crisis, etc. It'll last a couple of weeks and be very in-your-face and then eventually subside. Solutions start to appear. Someone picks a new song to blast to the neighborhood.

When Venus stationed in the other direction in July, it was in strong aspect to my Neptune, and whenever anything happens with Neptune in my chart, my skin acts up. I got a rash and some bug bites. I felt itchy and gross, and I knew it was because I had an overly-activated Neptune. I got some rash cream. I didn't scratch the bug bites. I complained about my itchy grossness to my friends. The situation got better after about a week, which, incidentally, was when Venus backed off.

That's a mild and minor example, though I would like to state for the record that Venus is typically considered a "nice" planet, and that is not true during Venus retrogrades (hence my rash). (Venus retrograde is almost over for all of us, btw). You've survived many planetary stations in bad aspect to stuff in your chart, and you'll survive many more. In my opinion, though, they're important to notice, because the energy feels like it's never going to let up, and that damn will never stop playing. You can have the sky knowledge I have and STILL get tricked into thinking this way: that it's endless.

This is dark, but I've seen so many charts of suicides that involved a planetary station that created stress, and if that person had been able to hold on for a few more days or weeks, the energy would have let up and they would probably have started to feel better,  aside from existing brain chemistry issues, if there were any. Obviously, I don't mean this as judgement in any way: often, I can see why a person would feel they were in a very dark place and that they had few options. Stations pack an extra punch and you have to wait them out.

So let me change this to a lighter note: Jupiter is one of the planets stationing right now. It's rarely implicated in anything overly bad; the only thing it's really guilty of is exacerbating existing energy. So if you're prone to overeating and have Jupiter stationing on your sun (it's in Taurus right now, and Taurus likes some decadence anyway), well, you might have several weeks' worth of delicious, delicious food options. Once Jupiter starts moving again, the world will seem less delicious, I promise.