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From today’s Advanced Astrology Forecast (including midpoints):
Mar 9, 2008 (Mar 8, 2008 to Mar 10, 200 Merc Conj Nep

Your thoughts are dreamy, fantastic, and faraway right now. Your imagination and intuition is heightened, which benefits any creative or artistic work you may do. However, your practical reasoning ability and your ability to focus on the here and now are diminished. Your judgment regarding concrete matters is a bit fuzzy at this time, so you may wish to delay making important decisions.

Mar 9, 2008 (Mar 8, 2008 to Mar 10, 200 Merc Conj Ven/Nep

You may be in a romantic mood or at least interested in talking about love. Your desire for fantasy, however, may lead to making untrue statements or attracting others who are not straightforward in their communications.

[Monday's Aries Moon squares Jupiter and sextiles Mercury. Tuesday's First Quarter Moon in Aries, with ruler Mars sesquisquare Mercury]

What seems like an easy decision may be more complicated than first glance, and further discussions can be helpful. While you’re a planning big expansion and thinking fast, the equipment and people you’re relying on may not be able to keep up with your pace.

You can take positive action and get things done, but if you’re offering too much or pushing too hard, you can increase the stress level to OVERLOAD and create more friction additional conflicts.

This can be a busy week. The week starts with the First Quarter Moon(Tuesday) in active Aries with ruler Mars sesquisquare Mercury, while the Sun sesquisquares Saturn. Whether you’re doing errands or attending an important meeting, you can get more enjoyment, energy, and satisfaction from your interactions and connections if you go with the flow and overlook the small irritating things.

Or, you can resist and insist on full ego control. And wind up feeling agitated and stir up conflicts that make your BIG goals more difficult to achieve. Sure, you may be right and you can “win”, but you can also stir up bad feelings and lose the energy you could use to get things done.

It can be a lot more energizing to let go and let the higher spirit guide you this week. As Venus sextiles Neptune on Wednesday, you can easily see the best qualities and intentions in everyone you meet. And this unconditional feeling of love can inspire you to give selflessly for a purpose higher than your personal needs and desires. It can also make you feel genuinely happy

Venus opposes Mars on Saturday. Expect to feel the POWER of attraction INTENSELY this weekend. Do not underestimate how love can make you feel or what it can give you the courage and energy to do! Is it true love, or just infatuation? You’ll know by the response you get this weekend.

Have a wonderful week!

More to come soon!

in Love&Light,
Lauren

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While Venus is making pleasant aspects and encouraging us to socialize and shop, we may also have inner doubts about our real-life progress and stability.

The Sun and Mercury, planets of inner centering and knowledge gathering, are square Saturn and Uranus from Thursday, December 6 [Mercury squares Saturn] href=”http://www.artcharts.com/aspects/mercury/sqUranus.html”>Mercury squares Uranus. The Sun squares Saturn on November 30 and Uranus on Friday, December 7. [Although the Sun-Saturn square was Friday, November 30, the energy carries over through the T-Square.]

The Sun and Mercury are at the focal point of a MUTABLE T-square. This means there is PRESSURE on each of us to be credible, authentic, and responsible– and make changes if we’re not. If you need credentials to do the work you know you want to do, this is the time to make plans and make it happen. To the extent that you doubt your own ability and commitment, it may be questioned by someone, whether it’s a friend, neighbor, coworker, or relative, who can all point out just how impossible and challenging your goal really is. And this can, in turn, find you questioning yourself. ARE you goals realistic? What are your PLANS to fulfill them? Good wishes and inspiration are a great start, but if that’s your entire strategy, you are thinking more magically than realistically. And this can start to make you feel frustrated and very impatient if you’re not making progress or doing any of the things you feel CALLED to be doing in your life. The square from Saturn and Uranus to the Sun can create self-doubt, and the square from Mercury can make that doubt seem to come from everyone.

This configuration of Sun-Mercury with Saturn and Uranus can make us feel COMPELLED to do whatever we can to improve ourselves. In Sagittarius, it can seem there is NOTHING you can’t do and you can set your goals at a very high bar. Instead of dabbling, you may decide to pursue a focused course of education.

And if you haven’t considered it before, making a commitment to your future can be just what you need. How will bring out the best in yourself so that you SHINE?

The message in this configuration is to take the time to LISTEN. If it’s you doing all the talking, you may not be receiving information you need. This is a good time to consciously calm your racing mind. You may be 10 steps ahead of yourself, planning the next few weeks as well as thinking about BIG steps to take in the year ahead, so breathing and centering can do wonders to keep you on schedule without feeling hectic or overwhelmed. And as Jupiter and Pluto conjunct in late Sagittarius (before they both enter Capricorn over the next month and a half), this IS a time to think BIG.

This is the time to figure out what you can do to add your wisdom to your community, your environment. By encouraging others, you can lead the way as Mars sextiles Saturn on the Sagittarius New Moon. More on that in the next newsletter, coming this Sunday.

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Lauren

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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: Full Moon edition

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SUPER Full Moon: Saturday, November 24 @ 9:30 am est
Uranus stations Direct: November 24 @ 5:16 am est

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Gemini SUPER Full Moon and Uranus stations Direct: stretch your mind

Happy Full Moon in Gemini!

This isn’t just another Full Moon, this is a SUPER Full Moon.

SUPER Full Moons occur when the Moon is closest in orbit to the Earth (perigee). This makes the Moon appear larger than a normal Full Moon. Tides are higher at all New and Full Moon, but at a SUPER Full Moon, high tides are stepped up. Effects can include stronger tides, more intense weather, earthquakes, tidal waves, and other meterological and geophysical disturbances. A Super Full Moon also draws our personal emotions to the surface. Instead of being hidden, events can occur that bring your feelings out in the open.

The Sun entered Sagittarius on Thanksgiving Day. As the Sun moves from Scorpio to Sagittarius and the greenery shrinks back into the Earth, you realize how often you hide in your “shadow” self. And this awareness helps you to see the shadow for whatever it is. And then you can let it go. And as you release the hidden fear that has become a burden, you can start to feel lighter, more lively and happy as the Sun enters Sagittarius.

When the Sun and Moon oppose in early Sagittarius-Gemini [Sun at 1 Sagittarius 55; Moon at 1 Gemini 55] they are squared by the Lunar Nodes [North Node is at 2 Pisces 27; the South Node is at 2 Virgo 27].

The Lunar Nodes are points, not actual planets. As such, some astrologers include them in aspect patterns, and some do not. Yet, the Lunar Nodes square the Sun-Moon opposition, creating a MUTABLE Grand Square..

This can be a time of accelerated learning– or it can become information overload. You can find workshops, seminars, teleseminars, webinars, eclasses, webclasses, blogs, newsgroups, and mentorships where you can learn more about anything. And with so many choices and information, you can learn for entertainment or you can make a commitment and set clear goals.

If you have clear goals, you can find information that can expand your range of knowledge and professional skills. The next step in your education — whether it’s a book, class, teacher, or degree — can become apparent around the Gemini Super Full Moon. “When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear” is an image for this Full Moon. Or, if your criteria is that information must be fre*e, you can access more information than you can read, most of it giving you a piece of the puzzle while advertising a product that will actually give you the answers you hoped to find.

In the last newsletter i said “if there is no way to vent emotions, they can come unglued at the wrong time, and with tidal-wave force.” At the Super Full Moon, not only Mars but the Moon is out-of-bounds (OOB) by declination, and at perigee (closest to the Earth), and square the Lunar Nodes. There can be an aggressive edge to emotions that is out of normal bounds. And unless you can catch an impulse before it becomes an action, you can act in ways that are out of character or beyond the bound of “normal”.

This is about learning to speak your mind in a way that CONNECTS positively to others. What DO you think? What IS your opinion? What ARE your goals? Write them down. Speak to someone who can really help you get clear and grounded, not just someone who will agree and circulate your story as more gossip.

The ruler of the Gemini Full Moon is Mercury. And Mercury is in Scorpio– whatever is lurking below the surface is what is interfering in your ability to communicate, or truly CONNECT. Are you connecting with the real you, or with a pretend you— and wondering why you’re not really connecting? This can be subtle and subconscious. And there’s NO BLAME! If you are secretly angry, resentful, panicked, hurt, anxious, scared, it’s a sign that you need to communicate your feelings if you want them to change. OR– they can fester and limit your progress, do you harm. Not only today or next week, but slowly, over time.

The ruler of the Gemini Full Moon, Mercury, is part of a (separating) WATER Grand Trine that includes Mercury-Mars-Uranus. And this astrological pattern can make us feel like we “should” be in a hurry, that we don’t have time to stop, reflect, meditate, think. We can have or create additional busywork and get obsessed in the details. We have a hard time just being still enough to know the next step. We can’t tolerate temporary indecision or confusion, so we can’t be open to our possibilities. When you’re busy all the time, you don’t have to listen to your intuition before you JUMP into the next project that is not really YOUR path.

At this Super Full Moon squares the Nodes, we have yet another Mutable Grand Square. What patterns do you repeat, over and over, because you think it’s your role, job, archetype. We don’t only get stuck in roles, we get stuck thinking we “should” do something other than what we feel is our path. The strong MUTABLE influence of the Full Moon chart shows that moving forward is not necessarily a straight path. We may need to make adjustments and be flexible if and when situations change. Yet, this can feel ungrounded, which can make you feel unstable and anxious.

The light of this Super Full Moon can show us what happens when our emotions are dependent on the moods and thoughts of others. It’s like having an immune-system leak in your emotional body; you never feel fully energized and happy. Focusing YOUR attention on watching for any changes in others doesn’t give you peace-of-mind to focus on much for long, so you fly from this to that, unable to concentrate or stick with anything. After all, you have to keep an eye on THEM so you can stay a step ahead. But in keeping your eye on THEM, you aren’t making a commitment to yourself, so it’s hard to find the right commitment to make, or the time to make it and keep it going. And it’s really because you don’t want to take your focus off the action.

Instead of feeling supported by your friends and family, your need to anticipate their every need, emotion, craving, or mood can leave you feeling exhausted, alienated, and unsupported. Yet, it was your “choice” (or early training) to anticipate any fluctuations in the moods of those around you. And that takes constant monitoring, or attention.

To have healthy relationships– with yourself and others— you need to more than talk, you need to LISTEN. If you are not getting honest guidance or feedback, perhaps you are so busy anticipating, you are not willing to listen.

The point in SEEING your imbalances is NOT to guilt-trip yourself or feel bad or alienated or wrong. The point is to USE the information being revealed so you know what you DO and DO NOT want. Pick and choose– and then commit.

There are some spots around the world where the Full Moon effects are likely to be stronger. SUPER Full Moon effects can be from 3 days before to 3 days after the Full Moon is exact. In the US, the east coast may experience a Nor-easter, or some extreme weather coming up the coast. Las Vegas sits in a very hot spot, as does Rio de Janiero and Tokyo.

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
Sagittarius is the time of year to expand your horizons. The BIG picture view can show you patterns you may not normally see clearly, and this OVERVIEW can help you to understand this experience we call LIFE. Travel, study, religion, philosophy, and reading can help us to understand how the world “works” and how we all interconnect.

Sagittarius gives us perspective. In Sagittarius we find our faith in the future, and even our sense of humor.

Next issue:
Mega trends: New Moon in Sagittarius (Dec 9) + Jupiter conjunct Pluto (Dec 11)
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Venus and Mars are at it again! They are making square (90 degree) aspect on Monday, November 19.

This Venus-Mars square offers a way through the tensions of relationships, so your tango doesn’t get tangled in relationship goo.

If you feel like your giving OR receiving is out of balance, you can feel unappreciated, which can drain your energy and intensify any feelings of conflict. Before you end a romance, this SQUARE calls on each of to give more thought to WHY our relationships get out of balance. Are you both able to give? to receive? It’s not as simple as it seems. Both giving and receiving require being open to the other person and to your own heart. If you exist in a shame-based blaming relationship, you are not giving or receiving, you are staying closed-off by blaming the other person. Though joyless, this kind of lifestyle can seem very comfortable. Being open to giving OR receiving requires great strength AND great sensitivity. And that’s the balance Venus-in-Libra square Mars can show you this week.

Mars, currently stationing Retrograde, is part of a Grand Trine that also includes Uranus (and the Moon on Monday) and Mercury in the guest co-host seat for this week only, as Mercury trines Mars on Monday and Uranus on Wednesday. This is the 3rd and last time. Mercury made a trine to Mars before the last Mercury Retrograde station (September 26), during Mercury Retrograde (Oct 17), and this week (Nov 19) for the final time.

You can make fast progress now if you communicate your needs and ideas. If you leave your happiness to whether or not someone can read your mind, you can find yourself in a continuous disappointment loop. But this week, your ability to communicate can be exceptionally clear and persuasive. You can get things done quickly— just by using the right words.

Step one is to write. When you write, you clarify your thinking. If there is something you want, if you have a goal you would like to achieve, write it down. Thinking about it is a good start, but if you want to make it happen, start writing. Writing and communicating can help to balance you emotionally. Sharing is not required, but if you feel that you want to reach out, make new friends, and share more of yourself so you can grow, Mars-Mercury-Uranus in trine formation this week is the PERFECT time to start your blog or social-network page. Join an online group, participate in community events, join with like-minded locals. And if you’re not ready for that, start reading more, leaving comments, writing profiles, sending messages. Express yourself, make suggestions to the group. Don’t think everyone will agree with everything you say and think. They won’t. Yet, when you are yourself this week, magical things can start to happen, like your intuition can open up and give you just the right words of wisdom.

in Love&Light,
Lauren

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As Mars stations Retrograde and tempers have the potential to flare, there is a choice.

There is a strong connection between Mercury and Saturn.

As the Moon in Saturn-ruled Capricorn sextiles the Sun (on Thursday, Nov 15, the day Mars stations Rx), Mercury sextiles Saturn in Mercury-ruled Virgo. You CAN stay on course and be productive– IF you stay true to your commitments. Being impulsive won’t give you the freedom your urges may try to sell you on. But maintaining your truth, staying centered in your practice or commitment, can help you use your time and energy productively and joyfully.

Work can be fun. Even paying attention to details can flow easily. Concentrate. Get involved.

This is Mercury sextiles Saturn from the StarLight Solutions Forecast. It’s an excellent description, so i thought you’d enjoy it:
This is a good day for quiet thinking and work that entails intellectual or technical skill, craftsmanship, or careful attention to detail. Wrangling with practical problems and logistics, finding intelligent solutions and completing tasks and projects are favored. You meet deadlines on time and enjoy taking care of business. A library or quiet room where you can be alone and just do your work appeals to you now. This is also a fine time to take an examination, either written or oral.

in Love&Light,
Lauren

Mercury recently stationed Direct in Libra and will be in Libra through November 11.

This is from Your Spiritual Path available personalized in the Karmic Reports section of the artcharts catalog. Enjoy:=)

Most of us were taught a set of “truths” in childhood and we were expected to accept them. To supplement what you have been taught by your parents, teachers, and the world at large, you need to develop a spiritual learning style that works for you. If you then decide to teach others, you must develop communication skills that let you share these experiences clearly and meaningfully with your students.

Training Your Conscious Mind
Three factors contribute to your ability to train your conscious mind for spiritual development:
* the natural direction of your thinking
* training to take advantage of this direction
* training your nervous system, and learning to respond to it

Element of Mercury
The angel Raphael is associated with healing in the Bible. The capacity for both companionship and healing forms the essence of Mercury’s expression.

With Mercury in Libra, your communication style is primarily the Thinking type. Your healing focus lies in words and skillful communication. You use your intellect to examine conflict, discover its significance, and illuminate the path toward resolution. Adept in the technology of communication, you may have impact over long distances. Whether you focus on oral traditions, written word or artistic communication, you use logic in the mediation between or among people.

Training the conscious mind involves reasoning on the conscious level. Spiritual Education teaches how to engage your intuitive function. Intuition can be trained. Mercury reflects a specific way for you to learn about intuition. See the section on Uranus for more information on your intuitive ability.

Your sense of harmony comes into play when intuition arises. You want to fit the new information into what you already know so that you can use the head start it gives you. By knowing the emotional tone of situations in advance, you will learn mediation skills - Because you have the feelings ahead of time, you can be calm when the moment comes.

(house information is included in the report, but is valid only for the US eastcoast, and so is not included here

Mercury Aspects
The spirit within you expresses itself in the world almost without effort. Others can see the values you hold most important in your actions, hear them in your words, and therefore come to respect your opinions. Spirit expresses through you in the form of material creation. Whether you use words, music or art, or simply assist others to discover their highest expression, you are mediating between spirit and the material world each day. You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. You seek people with whom you can engage in serious spiritual work. Your capacity to concentrate on ideas can develop into deep philosophical understanding. You may become a teacher for others, as you recognize the effort required and can inspire it in your students. Your psychic senses are tuned so that you can talk about them clearly. You develop the capacity to tell other people the oddest impressions without causing discomfort. Powerful will stands behind your words, whether they focus on spiritual matters or mundane circumstances.

Special to the searcher for Mercury on Pluto. Mercury is in Libra (through November 11) and therefore sextile Pluto in Sagittarius (60 degrees of separation). Mercury is moving very slowly (because it just stationed Direct and is barely moving forward yet) and approaching a sextile to Pluto on November 11.

From the Io Transit Forecast:
Transit MERCURY sextile natal Pluto

Watch for information and ideas related to self-control and willpower. They represent opportunities that may lead to improvement in mental health and physical fitness, an enhancement of organizational skills and effectiveness at work or at home, and help you attain greater levels of self-discipline. Such opportunities may not come automatically or appear in an obvious way, so you may have to go out and actively seek information or methods that will help you attain greater personal power. It may be in this very search that the opportunity you are looking for is to be found.

in Love&Light,
Lauren

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Astrologically, when Mercury stops being Retrograde, it is called the Direct Station. All Retrogrades are called stations because the planet seems (from our Earth perspective) to stop moving. [There are no Retrogrades in Heliocentric, or Sun-centered, astrology.] The apparent standstill is why it’s called a Station. Today, November 1, 2007 @ 6:59 pm edt, Mercury makes a Direct station. There are more details about this Mercury Retrograde on artcharts.

On this day after Halloween, called All Saints Day, when the spirits go back to the underworld, we get the symbolism of Neptune and Mercury making Direct stations. It’s time to give your subconscious a voice. Turn your daydreams into step-by-step plans. The separation of illusion and reality may seem like an illusion as you awaken to how directly the nature of your thoughts influences your experience. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. If you expect things to stay the same, that’s what will happen. If you want to change, start planning. Instead of just thinking about it, vision it. And write down every step. Wanting something is a great start, now as Mercury and Neptune station Direct together, start writing the proposal, sending the emails, reaching out to share your dreams.

As Mercury and Neptune station Direct, the Sun and Moon square, forming the Last Quarter Moon [5:18 pm edt]. The Last Quarter Moon makes a Fixed T-square with Chiron [Chiron squares Sun squares Moon]. The Sun is at the apex of the T-square as Sun squares Chiron. To heal old wounds, it will help to see, feel, and accept the projections you are carrying for others– so you can release them and get your energy back. Carrying the past is really about our own ego’s need to keep things the way they are– known. Stepping outside what is known, familiar, and expected can bring up fear, and that can keep you from taking a risk and hold you back.

The Sun is also starting to form a Grand Water Trine with Uranus and Mars, which will be a strong influence through Spring 2008. Listening to the advice mentors or experts can seem to keep you endlessly confronting the same challenges. It can feel like it’s time to strike out on your own, yet an impulsive move may not create any real change– at least until till next Spring. If your work brings joy and creativity to the world, shamelessly self-promote. But a seemingly strong tide of publicity can start to disappear as Mars slows in its orbit, preparing for a Retrograde station on November 15. What felt like a strong current can seem to subside— before it returns full force in April. Meanwhile, it’s time to give more thought to packaging, presenting, and publicizing your work so you feel confident when you get noticed by the public.

Mars and Uranus will be trine through April 2008. This is the winter to create networks within and without. If you want to connect more effectively with others, make the space within to allow yourself to receive and access energy, instead of blocking it off with negative thoughts and emotions. Holding onto beliefs and emotions that make us feel worthless or hopeless is really not about what “she” said or “he” did, but about our own fears that come up when we think about how to go on, what to do next, how we can avoid a risk. The trine of Mars-Uranus-Sun is about increasing courage, without bravado or ego, and for the greater good.

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Lauren

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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.

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Lauren

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