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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: Aquarius Full Moon+Solar Eclipse

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Aquarius New Moon+Solar Eclipse: backwards or forwards?

[New Moon+Solar Eclipse @ on Wednesday, February 6 @ 10:45 pm est]

On this Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius that is also Ash Wednesday, the Chinese Lunar New Year of the industrious Rat, and the day after Fat and Super Tuesday, the question is: are you going backwards or forwards? Because you can’t stay here.

The seed is planted. How it grows depends on your focus. If you KNOW it will grow, your focus is on growing. If you’re not sure, your focus is not strong and it may not grow.

How do we maintain our focus? Especially with SO MUCH information at our fingertips?

The Solar Eclipse is conjunct Mercury (and in the Mercury decanate of Aquarius), so there is a focus on new ideas and communication. Yet, due to the Eclipse, actually connecting can be cut off before it begins. You may want to communicate, but there are just too many things going on to maintain the focus.

Aquarius is a thinking sign that is more abstract than practical. We can care about what happens to society, but it can be difficult to feel for individuals. During Aquarius, we can be more excited about sharing information than acquiring more things. In fact, Aquarius prefers that you streamline your lifestyle. Aquarius remembers that all that stuff needs maintenance, which leads to more stuff.

Backwards OR forwards can be an appropriate response at time of transition. Aquarius is the sign of change and there is a stellium (3 planets of more) in Aquarius — Chiron, Mercury, Sun, Moon, Neptune, Vesta, and North Node). Mercury is Retrograde in Aquarius and conjunct the New Moon/Eclipse– AND — and this is the key to unlock the potential of the Eclipse — the Sun-Moon-Mercury conjunction is at the Venus-Uranus midpoint (Venus and Uranus are also sextile!) AND Uranus rules the Aquarius Solar Eclipse. This Eclipse can be a wide-open window of intuition — if you’re open to love and not shut down by fear and suspicion. It’s time to re-connect with the Age of Aquarius. It’s not just a song from the 60s, it’s a transition we are living through right now as we slowly move from the age of Pisces into Aquarius.

Yet transitions are transitions because they are periods of time when going back no longer works, but the future is not clear either. So you keep going back and forth until a path becomes more clear. Yet, it is by accepting this unclear period of unknown possibilities that we can be open to change, make unexpected progress, and wind up manifesting even more than our wildest imagination could have dreamed for us!

From the Sun’s perspective (Heliocentric astrology), there are no retrogrades. Retrogrades are optical illusions from the Earth’s perspective. Only the planets make retrograde stations, the Sun and the Moon are never retrograde. And on a soul, or solar level, there is no going backwards. Despite the labeling or judgments of society, you are always progressing towards your highest spiritual evolution. Even if– from the perspective of others on Earth, you seem to be going backwards. And at this Aquarius Eclipse, it is time for the entire society to start moving forward.

Since the Solar Eclipse in Aquarius is conjunct Mercury Retrograde, and the Eclipse is in the Mercury-ruled decanate of Aquarius (the Gemini decanate of Aquarius, degrees 10-20), this is an opportunity to change the way you think. If we become what we think, this Solar Eclipse contains the potential to become more aware of how we think so we can change the way we think and thereby the way we experience life. As we start to appreciate our Selves and the gifts we are here to learn and share, we can become fulfilled and functional contributors to the greater social network.

Aquarius is the sign of groups. Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius is the time to take another look at group dynamics. How do you participate? Do you show up? Do you share? Do you listen? Do others listen to you? Is the information you’re sharing true, caring, kind, necessary? Many of us get stressed listening to different opinions and insert our opinions at every opportunity. Are you constantly trying to get your plug in, or are you really listening and responding to what the others are saying? Not listening is a way to (attempt to) control others and assert your own ego. It’s really from the fear that you will be overtaken if you listen. Or that you will be drained, so you keep talking to prevent others from getting a word in. Yet, this makes working in a group situation into a constant conflict instead of an opportunity to find mutual solutions to large-scale problems.

The connection of Venus-Uranus to the Sun-Moon-Mercury conjunction highlights the theme of compassionate detachment. Caring but not clinging. The feeling we need to fix each other leads to attachment, judgment, and remaining stuck. What if you could care, yet maintain a healthy boundary between you and your friends? This Solar Eclipse/New Moon shows a strong connection between friends and security. Friends and group participation can give us a feeling of security. Sometimes, trying to step in and fix “it” denies the other person access to their own inner resources. So you spend you time feeling overwhelmed by their dilemmas, while they continue to have their ongoing dilemmas and every perspective or solution you offer is wrong. Since you can’t force others to change or feel good, all that really matters is that you feel clear.

What can you DO to create change. First in your own life. Then in the community. This Eclipse is an opportunity to walk into the future. Instead of remaining fixed in the past– take a plunge into NOW. How can you join with others to create a spiritual awakening? This Eclipse is a call to take notice of the Earth– as a group. We may need to sacrifice some material luxury for the well-being of our planet. And this can be a deal breaker for many of us who think we can only take because we don’t realize the valuable gifts we have to share. So on this Eclipse, it is uncertain which direction we will pick, old and seemingly safe. Or the new paradigm and uncertainty as we forge a new group spirituality. Surely an appropriate question for Aquarius.

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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: Leo Full Moon

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Leo Full Moon: reversals

[Full Moon @ 01 Leo 54 on Tuesday, January 22 @ 8:35 am est]
[Pluto enters Capricorn on Friday, January 25 @ 11:35 pm est]
[Mercury stations Retrograde @ 23 Aquarius 53 - Monday, January 28 - Monday, February 18]
[Mars stations Direct @ 24 Gemini 05 on Wednesday, January 30 @ 5:33 pm est]

The energy of the Leo Full Moon is “reversal”. There’s a Full Moon (Moon opposes Sun and Moon) while Mercury stations Retrograde and Mars stations Direct.

Meanwhile, we just entered Aquarius, the New Year isn’t brand new anymore. So what happened to the excitement and resolutions that were going to make this a great year!?

The Leo Full Moon reminds us of love. And all love starts with self love.

Self love fills us with pride and gives us the WILLPOWER to push past obstacles and keep the faith that good things are going to happen. You can set and meet goals because you KNOW you are going to succeed.

But what happens when you don’t meet your goals or get what you want. And worse, when you don’t get what you KNOW you deserve. If your goals aren’t met quickly, relying only on WILLPOWER alone can start to get exhausting over time. And less productive. And now you have another goal that seems unattainable, another reason “it can’t work.”

This is reversal. It happens when your energy is literally running backwards through your meridians, causing you to achieve the OPPOSITE of what you thought you intended! And the harder you try, the farther you seem to get. Somehow, your subconscious is getting a message that is the OPPOSITE of what you want. There are several reasons this can happen. And there is NO blame because they are all subconscious and likely originate from incidents in the past. And they are being revealed (and hopefully healed) by the current Full Moon that occurs as Mercury stations Retrograde while Mars stations Direct.

Here’s the good news. The energy reversal that started during Mars Retrograde can get re-wired and re-connected while Mercury is Retrograde in Aquarius.

Your energy can get reversed when you are not really ready to achieve your goals. And there can be good reasons for hesitating or procrastinating. Succeeding at something can mean having to give up something else. And this can set off inner conflicts. Maybe you’re not ready to make a sacrifice, go the extra distance, make a change or a binding commitment– if it means giving up something that gives you comfort and makes you feel safe.

Since the New Year, like many of you, I’ve received countless emails promising me a new life if I sign up for a program, costing me $ per month. I’m sure many of these emails, pdfs, podcasts, books, eBooks, videos, DVDs, and teleseminars will get me motivated to achieve and succeed, but the sheer number of them is overwhelming. Yet, they have a timely message.

We are entering an era when more of us can learn how to succeed professionally, as long as we’re willing to concentrate and commit. This is the year of Jupiter in Capricorn, so we have an abundance of business gurus, wealth mentors, and life coaches to teach us the steps to success. It’s a growing field and will eventually bubble, although this year, telling people you can help them make big bucks can make YOU big bucks– if you’re truly an expert. If you’re not, Jupiter can help you expand your confidence, education, and professional reach until you become an expert.

Defining the cultural trends and limits are the “social planets” Jupiter and Saturn. They are currently trine, or capable of working harmoniously together. And the Jupiter-Saturn trine is also trine Asteroid Goddess Ceres, creating a Grand Trine in Earth. (Check out the inspiredastrology blog for the discussion on the Jupiter-Saturn-Ceres Earth Grand Trine.) If you have a goal in mind, but achieving it has started to seem unrealistic, you can start to feel like giving up is the only realistic thing to do. Still, that does NOT mean your goal is unattainable! But it may mean that manifesting it may be more complicated or challenging than you thought. And this can bring you face-to-face with inner blocks and conflicts that make you feel wrong or undeserving– just for having a goal. And if that’s true, no matter how well you hide it, that internal conflict will come up every time you think about your goal, making it hard to just get started. Your subconscious can find a way to sabotage every attempt you make to manifest your goals. It’s not out of cruelty, your subconscious is trying to give you more of what gives you energy. There is only one message you can give your subconscious to override its habitual beliefs. And that’s self-love– accepting and loving yourself no matter what happened in the past. We need to extend to ourselves the universal, unconditional love we would like to radiate and extend to others. And radiating love comes from connecting to your own inner source of love. We are kicking off a season of getting back to that source.

This (almost ending) Mars Retrograde included 2 oppositions to Pluto, with 1 more opposition to come after Mars starts moving forward (March 7 in Cancer). Your energy can get diverted or disrupted by holding on to resentment, feelings of betrayal and broken promises. Subconsciously, you may want to deny or punish someone for not living up to a promise or filling a need. Focusing on negative emotions is yet another way to divert energy and hold yourself back from achieving your goals. Letting go of the past, including past resentments, can mean changing. You may start to look and act differently, and that can seem false to your history, your identity. And what if you disappoint people who rely on you for being a certain way? This feeling that changing will disappoint others lowers and/or reverses your energy enough to lose any enthusiasm you start to build. Not only does this make it more challenging to do the things you want to do, it makes it very difficult to know and attract what you want. And you can easily sabotage anything you want, and blame someone else for the situation.

In general, when you blame or compare, your energy gets reversed, which means it runs backwards. And when your energy is reversed, you get the OPPOSITE results of what you say and think you want.

Perhaps it’s just mind over matter. But before assuming that, check out some scans of brains experiencing negative feelings, and those experiencing positive feelings. The brain produces chemicals than cause electric charges and chain reactions. Those chemical and electrical reactions continue to cause chain reactions of energy that move throughout the body, either carrying healing or toxic energy to every part of the body. Including the mind.

Blaming yourself can be an “automatic” or learned reaction, but it clouds your ability to see what’s really going on so you can react appropriately. This Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius is about taking the next step to greater awareness. And during the Leo Full Moon, that awareness needs to highlight the power of self-love to open your heart and accept yourself as you are. Even though you may feel anger, resentment, and a list of other negative emotions, you can still love and accept yourself. And at this Full Leo Moon with Mercury stationing Retrograde in Aquarius, feeling your self-love and acceptance will give your inner self the message that a positive change is possible. Sure, there are conflicts, but a solution is also possible! And– you can even re-wire your belief systems so negative feelings no longer have the hold over your future that they held in the past.

Getting angry at the person who made a mistake or disappointed you only serves to keep your energy in reverse. You can move forward anytime you take responsibility (power) for your choices. Knowing that, why isn’t it easy to change our habits and behavior? Maybe there are secondary benefits we get that we enjoy and are not ready or willing to give up

Whether or not we consciously realize it, we make choices all the time. Pluto in Capricorn, the sign ruled by Saturn, INSISTS that we take responsibility for how we use our power to choose, which includes our money, individually and collectively. And if we don’t, Pluto in the sign of Saturn will make corrections. It’s already shown us this can and will happen. The more aware you can be of your choices, the more you can reclaim your personal, and financial power.

Before you blame and drain your energy, let Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius give you the time and opportunities to re-think your expectations. As Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius over the next few weeks, are your expectations realistic? Sustainable realism is important now as Jupiter and Pluto enter Earth-sign Capricorn and ruler Saturn trines them both from Virgo. Also, this Mercury Retrograde station is defined by the Mercury-Neptune conjunction (Jan 22, Feb 2, Mar 9), a time when ideas can filter into your consciousness from your subconscious. What happens if your expectations are not met to your satisfaction? What happen if they ARE? Are your expectations reasonable, sustainable? Are you demanding something from someone that you are capable of giving to yourself? If so, ask yourself why you think you need that other person to do it for you. This is yet another self-restricting attitude that blocks your flow of self-love and drains your energy. And disruption of energy blocks your happiness, which can lead to dis-ease, bad attitudes, lowered expectations, less energy, negative vibrations, and the inability to manifest your dreamlife. But you can manifest your joy and abundance when you feel connected to your essential self. And this Full Moon in Leo reminds us that love starts within and has the power to set us fre*e.

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Happy Halloween

Halloween is the time you can see through the veil, or shadow, to gain a greater understanding of the dark. What’s in the dark? Whatever keeps you in a self-sabotaging pattern. All self-sabotage comes from unacknowledged fear and 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. Ya’ know, the dark stuff.

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 fanning the flames of your anger is justified? Do you disown what you don’t like about yourself and pin it on someone else? Because, duh, you’d never do THAT. Anger is all based in fear. We get angry AFTER we feel fear. But instead of feeling safe saying we feel fear, we get angry. Scorpio is the time we can look at our fears, see them for what they are, and let them go…

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.

Halloween is the last day of Mercury is Retrograde in Libra, while dreamy Neptune stations Direct on Halloween. And Mercury will station Direct in Libra (23 Libra 22) on All Saints Day, November 1. Mercury and Neptune appear to be in an approaching trine. But since Mercury will station Direct, it will not become exact. This is the time to let your imagination out of the box. To achieve balance and harmony while Mercury is direct in Libra, give your creative vision fair representation. On this Halloween, use your ingenuity to unmask your subconscious. Let your imagination be free! Mercury stations Direct tomorrow, All Saints Day, and then you can write down your visions and put your ideas on paper. Meanwhile, on this Halloween, it’s time to give your imagination a night to remember.

Happy Halloween!
Lauren

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As the Moon transits Gemini (Sunday and Monday, October 28 and 29) becoming the Disseminating Moon predawn on Monday (4:13 am edt), she completes a Mutable Grand Square. This Moon transit can personalize the side effects of this week’s Venus-Jupiter square and Jupiter-Neptune sextile. Venus and Jupiter are both square Uranus in Pisces, and the transiting Moon fills in the 4th leg of the square– creating a Mutable Grand Square that echoes the Mutable Grand Square of the recent Solar Eclipse on September 11, 2007 (see blogs below). Tension builds, something needs to improve, yet overindulging can fill you up with all the wrong things. The need to succeed and create abundance can feel stalled; is this a calling or an impossible dream? There is a release valve. It’s your intuition.

Jupiter has been square Uranus all of 2007, so you may feel that your luck is being tested, or that you want to change your luck. You want to grow, if only everyone would support it! There is help, if you’re willing to be open to your dreams and intuition.

On Halloween, Nepune stations Direct. There is access to your subconscious exactly at the time the veil is the thinnest. This is an open invitation to delve into your inner self. Jupiter is sextile Neptune this week (exact Nov 1 at 12:01 am edt) and Mercury stations Direct the night of Nov 1. To get past the feeling that everything you want is an impossible dream and you “should” keep your full attention on reality, that will only bring more of the same things. Why not try shifting your focus to what makes you feel better. Notice where you have succeeded, give more thought to what you want to happen next. If you contradict every positive thought you have, you are focused on what you don’t want, and continue to attract more of the same. Change takes planning and the willingness to do something differently. As Jupiter sextiles Neptune, taking one step in a positive direction can lead to a thought shift you may have never been able to see — until now.

Mercury stations DIRECT on November 1st. This is Halloween followed by All Saints Day, when the veil between the worlds of the senses and the extrasensory is the thinnest. And as dreamy Neptune stations Direct along with Mercury, this the time to take what you learn from your inner guidance and manifest your dreams and desires– start by putting it in writing. What are the steps you need to take? Write it down. Having a dream or hoping for the best is a great start. Now it’s time to draft your proposals, write your resume, detail your plans, follow up on your requests. Don’t just wish it and feel frustrated when it doesn’t happen. What actions are you INSPIRED to take? Making any intentional movement to reach out and connect can be the ripple that starts something big. Let something wonderful grow.

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Continuing on with the Venus-Saturn conjunction theme, because the sky is not letting it drop…

Venus is quickly approaching the current Mercury-Mars trine by making a sextile to Mars and Retrograde Mercury (on Tuesday 10/16), while Retrograde Mercury and Mars form a perfect trine before dawn on Wednesday (10/17). With the Nodes, this forms a KITE formation, which is a Grand trine and a sextile to one of the points [Mars in Cancer trines North Node in Pisces trines Mercury in Scorpio and both Mars and Mercury sextile the Venus-SNode-Saturn conjunction in Virgo]. The KITE pattern is a symbol for supreme success. This is about figuring out the details for your greatest success.

You may see what you want, and you may want to go for it. Yet, making a decision can bring up endless details to figure out. If you allow that to change your mind or “awfulize” a situation until there is no way out, you can talk yourself into a negative spiral. This is about focusing on the positive by watching where you place your attention.

What about success and abundance challenges your beliefs about your routine and work?

How can you look at the feedback you’re receiving to turn things around in your favor?

If something is in your way, talk it out, write it out, journal it out– argue it out if you have to. And with the air cleared, you may be able to figure it out.

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[ArtCharts Express] New Moon edition

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Jupiter squares Uranus: October 8
Libra New Moon: October 11 @ 1:01 am edt
Mercury Retrograde: October 12 @12:00 am edt

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Libra New Moon: Slow dancing

The New Moon in Libra, the sign of the scales, is the time to create balance.
When you are in balance, you can harmonize with others and enjoy your relationships. Whether you are relating to a person, a pet, something you are doing, or a work of art, you are relating and creating balance and harmony, using the appropriate words, images, colors, tones, gestures, feelings.

To create harmony with others, you need to be diplomatic and able to compromise. If you focus on keeping the peace, your own needs can become less of an issue and you may even overlook something personally important to avoid conflict. There is also a balance between compromising until you lose your integrity and being yourself at all costs.

At the time of the New Moon, the Sun and Moon are conjunct in Libra. Libra is ruled by value-conscious Venus. And Venus is making a semisquare to the Sun and Moon and a conjunction to Saturn– all of this can heighten any gap that exists between what you want and the habits you enjoy that keep you from achieving it.

On this Libra New Moon, Venus conjuncts cautionary Saturn, while Mercury is stationing Retrograde in Scorpio (and will Retrograde back into Libra on October 23, also the day the Sun enters Scorpio). The message is slow down. Something needs to be unraveled and it can’t be done at high speed.

How do we get OUT of balance? By letting the opinions of others limit our reality. And we let ourselves be limited so we can remain at a familiar comfort level. No wonder we’re frustrated! Following someone else’s path is a sure way to get lost, or out of alignment with your Self, your flow, your dream.

Seeking approval is a quick way to feel unsettled and lose your balance. If you are (unconsciously) chasing after approval, this New Moon is an opportunity to release that need. If you are always accommodating others to be fair and stable, you’re not really keeping the peace or creating balance if YOU are out of balance by only giving and not allowing yourself opportunities to receive. You may create peace and harmony, but also lose personal integrity as you put aside what you KNOW is important so you can satisfy the expectations of another person or society in general.

Libra is ruled by Venus and Venus is conjunct Saturn, so it may not be easy to express your feelings and you can be more calculating than unconditional in your feelings towards friends and lovers. You may be socializing more, but it may be more out of work or obligation than enjoyment.

It may seem that people don’t appreciate you. And you may feel that you are not loved for yourself, but for the functions you perform, the financial support you provide, or the work you do. If your commitment to your family usually comes before your career, it can seem that others are far ahead of you.

Releasing the need for approval is a challenge because it means accepting your own less-than-perfect tendencies; your own darkness. It’s hard to accept yourself FULLY. You don’t always approve of yourself or not all your impulses that are nice or friendly or harmonious, and some are uniquely personal.

Venus and Saturn conjunct in early Virgo can magnify any resistance to love. And affection can be harder to demonstrate. Yet, in Virgo, the message is that being a partner in a happy, fulfilling relationship can be taught and learned.

How do you get clear — right NOW– which is the only time there is!? The New Moon (Sun and Moon is trine Neptune and sextile Jupiter. The key is to have a vision. And you can get your vision by meditation, visualization, prayer, creativity, dreamwork, journaling. Let your subconscious have its voice. Open and give yourself inner access, whether that’s by listening, feeling, sensing, or visualizing. However it comes to you, be open and let yourself see beyond what seems to be reality. Singing, dancing, and music can help you channel your sensitivity, and talent is NOT necessary (and may hinder the process if you automatically edit your every impulse). You can change your aura by listening to music, and you can get inspired by watching a movie or reading a book.

Pay attention to your feelings, allow them to be present. And then allow yourself to release hurts and forgive, starting with yourself. This can free up energy that is frozen in position by holding onto hurt that causes you pain. There is always something you get from every experience and once you can realize what that is, you can release any hold that experience may have on you. If you can’t meditate and release by yourself, guided meditation can help you learn to sit silently with yourself, which can take practice. If you don’t have a space that feels sacred and inspiring, this New Moon is the perfect time to create one. It doesn’t have to be large, any space will do. It’s not the size, it’s what you bring to it, the way you decorate and give it personal meaning.

Mercury stationing Retrograde on a New Moon suggests that to get something NEW you may have to rethink something you are obsessing on (Mercury in Scorpio)
This is a message to SLOW DOWN. This is a balancing act that can be done– slowly.

Thoughts are flying fast. Mercury will trine Mars 2 more times (Retrograde on Oct 17 and Direct on Nov 19), and they are both sextile Saturn (Mercury/Mars=Saturn, or Saturn is at the midpoint of Mercury/Mars). This is the time to use your mental energy to make clear and practical decisions. Libra, the Scales, is about balance. To achieve balance on the scale of this New Moon, you will need to tip the scales slowly and cautiously.

If you are experiencing a lack of energy, feeling stuck, apathetic, ashamed, or embarrassed, afraid, anxious, or depressed, you cannot just instantly expect yourself to move to an ecstatic state of pure joy. But– just making the slightest push towards feeling better or shifting your perspective slightly can cause a major turnaround this Autumn. You don’t need to PUSH, just a PING! of encouragement (New Moon - Sun and Moon sextile Jupiter) is enough to set a positive change of direction in motion.

While Mercury is Rx in Scorpio, we may be trying to figure out major, profound problems we recently raced past. While Mercury stops and travels backwards in Scorpio, we may be anxious about what we are sensing, and not ready to get drawn deeper into understanding a mystery. There are still lessons to be learned before we can dive deeper. Perhaps we don’t really know what we want. Or we think about something and immediately negate the possibility that it could happen. During Mercury is Rx in Scorpio we get opportunities to rethink recurring negative thoughts. It’s a great time to slow down your thoughts by journaling or meditating.

If you want to release but you are resisting, what new ideas are you resisting? Jupiter square Uranus symbolizes tradition interfacing with new ways of thinking. And since Uranus rules groups, we are not sure the new vision is aligning with tradition in a way that can create a mindset shift– as a society. Yet old walls and ways are slowly changing and breaking down.

Resistance can even take the form of exuberant enthusiasm. When Jupiter is square Uranus, too much optimism can be unrealistic and encourage you to overdo something, overshoot your goal, thereby missing the mark. Perhaps you think you’re best is never good enough, so you continue to work, polish, edit, do more, and more and more and it’s still not good enough. You can create your own resistance by continuing to do too much, when your first impulse was fine.

From Libra to Scorpio
The Sun enters Scorpio on October 23

While the Sun transits through Libra, it’s time to find balance — the state when body, mind, emotions are aligned. And once we feel this balance, we are in an aligned state of body, mind, emotion with what we want, or our spiritual purpose. And then we are ready to move into a deeper or more spiritual perspective, which is Scorpio.

Buddha: “don’t just DO something, sit there!”

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SECTION 2. Using Astrology for Your Greatest Benefit
Libra is the sign of love and relationships. The New Moon is the time to think about how you relate to others, because this is also the time you can DO something about your relationships. You can change the way you look at others and how you feel about your interactions. How DO you react to insulting or negative comments? To love and affection?

The Love Forecast gives you invaluable insights into how you approach love, using the transits of Moon, Venus, and Pluto. Be ready, because this forecast discusses everything and holds back nothing.

The Relationship Potential Report looks at how you approaching relationships, using your 7th house cusp, or the Descendant to describe your relationship to Relationship. If the same problems resurface in your relationships, it can be invaluable to look at what you expect and what you bring to your relationships.

SECTION 3. Personal Readings
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Mercury is stationing Retrograde.

From October 12 at midnight (edt) for the next 3 weeks (until November 1), Mercury will be apparently (from the Earth perspective) traveling backward in space.

There are many negative thoughts connected with Mercury Retrograde, and while it’s true that some of those things can and do happen (purchasing a computer during a Mercury Rx in 2002 resulted in a computer that had to make multiple trips to the repair shop), there’s a better way to think about Mercury Retrograde.

During Mercury Retrograde, Mercury, symbolic of our thoughts, stops moving and seems to hang motionless in space and then turn around and go backwards. And Mercury does it gain in 3 weeks when it stations Direct, and again seems to stop and then move forward again, slowly at first.

I’ve already seen and made data errors, all resulting in things having to be done twice– AND also resulting in having to make CONTACT and CONNECT with other people. Mercury Retrograde– especially in Scorpio and Libra– reminds us that we need to CONNECT, to others and to our self.

When Mercury is Retrograde, it’s time to SLOW DOWN. Our thoughts have been racing (as Mercury speeds up ahead of the Sun) and we are not thinking in the present, we are somewhere in the future. We forget to make essential connections when our minds are racing. And with Mercury in Scorpio, we make snap judgments, creating more interference in our minds.

How can you slow your mind and make the connections that are important, perhaps sacred. When you’re going too fast, you can’t stop to connect to much. You can keep collecting, talking, and reading bits and headlines, but it’s hard to concentrate and learn anything in depth when you’re always on the move for more.

During Mercury Rx through Scorpio and Libra, find ways to slow your mind. Talk about what matters. Just be with yourself, observe how what you put your attention on becomes more clear.

What are you missing by rushing all the time? Hopefully, you’ll find out while Mercury is Retrograde.

in Love&Light,
Lauren

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Now that Mercury is in Scorpio and Mars is trine in Cancer, it’s clear sailing!

And to make you even more productive, both Mercury and Mars are sextile Saturn.

Message:

There are A LOT of ideas flying around, many of them very energizing. But before you make a move, get grounded, have a direction, and plan well.

That means it’s time to make a DECISION!

As you get clear about your goals, the next step will come into focus.

But before you can make a plan and move forward, you need to make a decision. And to honor the choices and commitments you make, you’ll need to follow directions and take all the necessary steps.

Since both Mercury and Mars are close to Retrograde stations, the progress you make right now may not be immediately visible, but it is happening. You CAN make VERY real progress if TRUST your process and put your energy into what you KNOW is your path.

Trust your guidance– and be prepared to do whatever it takes to make it real.

Once you KNOW your next step– and you KNOW it because it ENERGIZES you– the next few months are the perfect time to do more reading and research. Whatever you need to learn is there to access! You only need to make a commitment and stay focused.

Once you know WHAT to do, Saturn at the midpoint of Mercury/Mars advises us to get GROUNDED.

What are the details and exactly HOW will you proceed.

As the SUN trines Moon and Chiron forming a fast-moving GRAND TRINE, you can find on-going inspiration from a mentor and/or teacher.

Timing: this can be felt on a personal level from Sunday night through Tuesday as the Moon (personal feelings) contacts this configuration.

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Lauren

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The New Moon in Gemini with ruler Mercury making a Retrograde station seems to be an appropriate time to restart the artcharts blog. This is a great time to let go of the past, embrace the future, and feel authentically positive about the prospects for all of us. Working in a calm, concentrated, focused way, you can make significant progress and use your energy productively, without getting bogged down by negativity and resistance.

This will help greatly as Mercury makes a Retrograde station (the day after Thursday’s New Moon, on Friday, June 15). To better understand how a Mercury Retrograde period will influence your life, it’s helpful to look at the chart for the Retrograde station.

Mercury retrogrades 3 times a year for 3 weeks each time.

Mercury in Cancer will make a Retrograde station while conjunct the Moon, ruler of Cancer. In its own sign of Cancer, the Moon is in a strong position. This Mercury Retrograde period is about getting back in touch with your emotions by communicating more; allowing feelings you have stuffed and repressed to come out and be cleared. This is a time for blending sensitivity with the ability to communicate, which makes it staggering how much you can express of your inner, personal feelings and responses. It’s a time to WELCOME your feelings, allow them happen so you see them for what they are and can even let them go….

It can seem like everyone wants to tell you their life story, even if you’ve heard it before. As your inner feelings become more conscious, you can express them more easily, but you can also be motivated by your emotions and your ideas and opinions can be colored by how you feel, blurring the difference between being emotional and being rational. Which is which, who knows, who cares?!

The only problem is that we can subconsciously lean into our old, pre-programmed emotional prejudices and responses. So keep in mind, your ideas and your mind set is based on your own experiences, not only on “the facts”.

This is a time to try an experiment. Try letting your feeling responses come before your intellectual responses. Learn to say what you mean, without controlling every thought and response, and trying to fit it into what you think you “should” be feeling or thinking. Try something new, try responding as your authentic self.