[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter
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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: Full Moon edition
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Taurus-Scorpio Full Moon: October 26 @ 12:51 am edt
Mercury stations Direct: November 1 @ 6:58 pm edt
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The Full Moon in Taurus: embracing your power
This is a special Full Moon. There is an astrological pattern, called the Grand Sextile, which is made of 2 Grand Trines, forming a Star of David. This means that 6 planets are joined by sextiles. It’s important to note that this Grand Sextile includes the Nodes and Vesta, an Asteroid: women are part of the equation.
[Grand Sextile: Moon sextiles NorthNode-Pallas sextiles Vesta sextiles Sun sextiles Saturn-SouthNode sextiles Mars sextiles Moon] [Water Grand Trine: Sun trines Mars trines North Node] [Earth Grand Trine: Moon trines Vesta trines Saturn-South Node]
On this Taurus Full Moon you can find ways to package and present your talent so you can reap the rewards of your sincere, creative efforts. If you benefit people and perform a useful service, you may receive not only good wishes, but the realistic support it takes to keep doing it. Building anything worthwhile takes support. It’s not enough to express your talents. If you want to keep doing it, you need material returns as well.
Every Star of David contains 3 oppositions. The Sun opposes the Moon, the North Node opposes Saturn and the South Node, Vesta opposes Mars. And besides the Star of David, there is a Venus-Uranus opposition. This is a time of increased social change and awareness, and it may come at a time that you are feeling more private and security-conscious than open and resilient, making it more challenging to enjoy the outside world. This balance is between your spiritual or personal development AND your very real physical needs here and now.
The Earth Grand Trine — including the Taurus Full Moon — can make you comfortable and secure in your current status quo. The Water Grand Trine — including the Sun — can increase your sensitivity, making you less interested in venturing beyond your comfort zone.
Grand Trines in astrology point to how we create comfortable patterns that keep us going around in endless circles. What patterns do you build? What masks do you wear to protect yourself from others? What defenses have you built to stay safe and not get hurt, again. Perhaps instead of building walls, you can break down the negative emotions that your wall is made of. Acting out your negative emotions keeps the cycle going, as you feel guilty, make others feel awful, so you feel guilty, and on it goes. The barricades grow and become entrenched. There are other ways!
Happy Halloween
Halloween is the time you can see through the veil, or shadow, to gain a greater understanding of what keeps you in a self-sabotaging pattern. All self-sabotage comes from unacknowledged shame. You may ACT and TALK like you’re secure and in control, but if you’re not really sure deep inside, over time this builds toxic emotions like resentment, anger, jealousy.
Scorpio is a symbol for release, recycling, and rebirth. How do you keep your angry feelings alive? What stories do you tell yourself to prove that your anger is justified? Do you disown what you don’t like about yourself and pin it on someone else?
Every Full Moon brings greater awareness, and during a Taurus-Scorpio Full Moon we can become more aware of how we project whatever we don’t like about ourselves onto others. This may seem like a strategy, yet it leaves ourSelves with big missing pieces. We’re not our authentic selves so we don’t “blow our cover.” But by staying safe, we are not taking our power. Then we feel justified resenting those who DO take their power, especially if you can detect something to criticize so you can keep the cycle going. But one insight can change that!
When the veil is thin, we can also HEAR our inner voice. What is it telling you? Do you contradict your own fulfillment by wanting something one moment and thinking you’re “not good enough” or unworthy the next? As soon as you want something, the next thought is all the REAL reasons it’s impossible. This gives your subconscious mixed messages. It keeps you in a state of contradiction, or stuck.
Instead of holding down our shadow selves (which takes ENERGY), you can let it go, release toxic emotions in SAFE ways that won’t hurt yourself or others. Looking honestly at yourself is NOT required, but NOT looking at your shadow because you’re a “good” person who has no faults, is more than likely to keep you in conflict and stuck where you are. You can’t “just be different” if you keep thinking and doing the same thing. And you can’t think differently if you deny what you’re feeling. Listening to your inner voice is the first step to take back your power.
If you are “grounded” or centered in your body, you can use your creativity to rise above a difficult situation. What keeps you from feeling grounded? Not listening to your body. Not even being aware of what you body needs or wants. To get back in touch, you can: drink water (staying hydrated keeps your body chemistry working), exercise, take a walk outside, be close to nature (wherever that is for you), notice your environment, massage your feet, clear your clutter, get your paperwork organized, eat good food, get into some comfy clothing, and hug someone you love.
Trick o’ Treat
When the veil is the thinnest, we have access to our ancestors– just to visit. The treats you give the trick o’ treaters are symbolic treats that honor your ancestors.
Mercury is currently Retrograde in Libra and will station Direct in Libra (23 Libra 22) on All Saints Day, November 1. Libra is ruled by Venus and Venus is in Mercury-ruled Virgo. This means Mercury and Venus are in mutual reception, or able to “stand in” or replace each other. This gives them a special relationship where they function as a unit. Before you can get closer, you have to get clear so you’re not projecting your shadow onto others, even deceased ancestors, and burdening not only them, but yourself.
Mercury will trine Mars again (on Nov 19), while both Mercury and Mars remain sextile to Saturn (Mercury/Mars=Saturn, which puts Saturn at the midpoint of Mercury/Mars). This extra long Mercury-Mars trine (which usually last a day) is in effect through November 19. And it’s not over then.
Mars and Saturn are both stationing and hardly moving (Mars stations Rx on November 15, Saturn stations Retrograde on December 19), which continues their sextile relationship (October 8, December 9, March 14). This can be an extended opportunity to use your mental energy to get clear about what you want, focus on it, and make it happen. Saturn restricts, and many astrologers see this prolonged sextile that includes the South Node as a sign of difficult times ahead. Combine this with Mars being out-of-bounds by declination all winter (through late April 200 
and any tense situation can HEAT up to OVERBOIL, whether it’s physical (which is possible in Virgo), geographic (also possible since Virgo is an Earth element sign), social, or political. Out-of-bounds planets can swing to extremes, so it can be TOO HOT one minute and you can feel an energy drain the next, especially while Mars is Retrograde (November 15 - January 30, 2008).
Positively, the prolonged Mars-Saturn sextile can show you what you DON’T want, which can make it easier to realize and focus on what you do WANT. If information clutter doesn’t give you time to focus on anything, your anxiety can overwhelm your energy and you can feel more frustrated and restricted than informed. Focus is essential to keep your mind on your goals.
And because nothing is ever perfect or complete, there’s more (almost) daily on the ArtCharts AstroBlog
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SECTION 2. Using Astrology for Your Greatest Benefit
Scorpio is the time of year to go beyond surface explanations and gain understandings that lead to profound, inner transformation. When used in conjunction with other self-awareness techniques, astrology can help us know WHEN to work on what qualities, so we can develop in a way that is natural and most beneficial. We fulfill our true needs, and we start to feel empowered, because we are! We are LIVING ourselves.
Learn your chart through one of the greatest psychics, Edgar Cayce.
The Cayce Past Life Report will give even the seasoned astrology a new view into any chart– even your own.
Next issue: November 9
New Moon
Mars Retrograde
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