Just a Little Astro Essence for the Weekend 28-29 January 2012: ‘Unrestrained’

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From the newsletter:

The 28th brings Merc square Jupiter, Earth quincunx Pluto, and the Sun sesquiquadrate Mars. This is a formula for discord and conflict, where everyone is to some extent uncomfortable. Communications come across as exaggerated or bragging, the social arena reacts poorly to what’s put out, we are unhappy with material circumstances and wish for change, and our need for action is illuminated and yet we are critical of any possible course we could take. Believing that action is a necessity is the big mistake; with our thoughts and energy tied up in conflict, there’s no way we can see clearly what to do. Despite what likely felt like extraordinary ‘luck’  we experienced yesterday, we are just not in the same position today–and need to accept that, and hang back a bit.

And the Lunar outlook for Sunday, the 29th:

6 AM PST the Moon quincunxes retro Mars. This may be the big kick-off to our personal efforts to remedy actions we think we got wrong in the pre-retro period.

Noonish the Aries Moon sextiles Pallas, giving us a little shot of common sense and smarts–we’ll know it wasn’t a good idea to do that Aries Moon-type thing (maybe getting emotionally aggressive, all up in one’s grill with our feelings-ouch!)

Just after 8 PM PST the Moon opposes Saturn and sextiles Neptune. What a combination!! We throw off all constraints and let our imaginations lead–the atmosphere is tense, with all at 29 degrees (perhaps imparting a feeling that we must do ‘it’!) and we have no idea where this will take us, as we proceed into the Void at 10:10 PM Pacific time–the only thing we can count on is that each individual will be an individual, and very very Willful. Good luck!

Moon enters Taurus at 10:28 PM PST.

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Born Today

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Timing is to the Sun’s degree, not to a calendar day; ‘Born Today’ is not archived, but please feel free to copy and save this feature, to share it with others (with live link to this site and/ or attribution), or to print it out, if you wish.

Born 21-22 January, Sun at 01 Aquarius

Your unique, individual nature shines this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius, and you may end up saving the day, becoming leader of the group, inventing or innovating, accomplishing something academically, and whatever it is, it will all be done publicly, broadcast one way or another, for everyone to see. What you achieve will be impressive, and will definitely open up new horizons to you, and these may be very profitable. You could ‘rise to the top’ in the time between now and your next birthday, and, perhaps unfortunately, emotions and the feeling life may take a back seat for awhile; they may crowd up on you, but you will be concentrating on making things happen, and right now, those efforts just won’t center in the emotional life. That doesn’t mean relationships won’t go well–in fact, significant relationships in which you’re involved seem to have gone through big changes just in the past year or so, so now may be settled–that could be why they don’t need too much attending to! In any case, you will be busy stirring up the status quo and trying to bring dreams to reality–and with some effort and courage, you will!

Born 22-23 January, Sun at 02 Aquarius

Is it too corny to say you might feel born anew this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius? Just because your birthday coincides with a New Moon doesn’t mean there won’t be old problems to deal with, but it does mean that you can see them, deal with them, meet them in a new way that gives a fresh perspective and brings new ideas into the mix. The emotions will be in unusual harmony with the Soul’s intents, and the intellect will be one of your strongest assets over the next 12 months; what might present problems is the way communications, both coming from you and received by you, will carry messages and meanings of which the speakers just aren’t aware, and the actions that arise from these interactions will be suffering the same hidden meanings and repercussions. It’s not a lack of awareness of circumstances or intentions, but a problem of partial consciousness in terms of what’s being conveyed–and there’s nothing to be done about it–you’ve been chosen as a conduit for all kinds of messages in all kinds of situations–just accept it and go on. You’ll also enjoy power and authority related to your natural roles in life and in your relationship to nature, and your skill as a negotiator might peak at this time. Matters of both security and creativity may be under real strain and situations involving these could change markedly this year; everything you’ve come to count on could shift, subtly or not so–be prepared, and you may be called upon to be more creative than you ever have before, and perhaps to use creative energies in new and innovative ways.

Born 23-24 January, Sun at 03 Aquarius

You may take one of two extraordinary roads this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius: you might either spend the months inspecting, dissecting, and trying to right or heal or wounds and situations of injury and pain, or you may concentrate on bringing gifts specifically geared to your natal Chiron (and expressed at least in part through the matters of the House where Chiron now transits) to a whole new level, perhaps even a transpersonal one. Please note that developing the gifts is not necessarily a superior pursuit to working out pain–in fact, if the wounds are still raw, the gifts will not come forward as completely and effectively as they could. These are strong urges that have major life effect and may take up most (or all!) of your time; but you may have just enough time to devote to those things you find sacred (and you may wrap this up with the Chiron pursuits), or to dedicate to the home front or the intimate relationship. We might say healing, and bringing energies to an optimum level, is the theme this year. Much sorting and processing will take place in the intellect before you ever make a move, and that’s good, because once you do choose action you will in effect be making some bold and definitive statements–and you want to be sure that before you make those you really mean them.

Born 24-25 January, Sun at 04 Aquarius

Where are you going, where have you been? might be what you’re asking yourself this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius; the emotions are right now surging ahead of the mental perceptions, plans, and material arrangements, and though your feelings are in harmony with your goals, you may have the sense that you’ve fallen behind. That’s not true; and what’s more, if you listen carefully to emotional and intuitive guidance this year, you will receive the wisest assistance possible. The big question is, will you act on it? You may, but caution might be your natural fall-back position right now, despite knowing exactly what to do, and that’s not all bad, as you must acknowledge you’re just not in control of everything in your world. At one point over the next 12 months you may find emotions (or matters of the House in the natal chart with Cancer on the cusp) in direct conflict with an unknown element! that threatens the ambitions and desires, unless you can find a way to accommodate it. Talk about working blindfolded! Don’t worry, though, as that previously mentioned intuition and emotional guidance will truly prove itself to be uncanny–and of course you’ll end up in a whole new spot in life, because of it.

Born 25-26 January, Sun at 05 Aquarius

You have the chance this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius, to do some major healing, to deal with hurt once and for all, and to explore and then elevate gifts to new levels. You’re going to have to dig deep; in the next 12 months, you may take a transformational journey that could be a milestone in your life development–and even if the change in you isn’t quite that sweeping, it will still make for substantial alteration to your Self-concept and to your sense of your own vulnerability and resources. In the process, you may face some unusual demands from the reality scenario: you may be called upon to be the most purely creative you’ve ever been, and to translate your inspirations into the material realm. Even if you don’t think of yourself as an artist, you will access your creative essence and bring it into the world, an exciting process no matter what venue this takes place in (and it may be highly untraditional, in terms of the way we normally define ‘creative’). You will also enjoy a high level of intuitive ability this year, and you can count on the Universe to be sending you numerous messages–in fact, it will be like a series of trumpet blasts! All-that-Is is always communicating with us, but for you this year the messages will be big, blatant, and hard-to-miss–so don’t blow them off, listen :)

Born 26-27 January, Sun at 06 Aquarius

The emotions may tread on sacred ground for you this coming Solar year, dear Aquarius; no one better dare contradict, nullify, or otherwise criticize your feelings, or it’s off with their heads! Okay that’s exaggerated–a little; you will be very protective of your emotions, though, as they will seem to be about the only thing supporting you and your world view. ‘Seem’ is the important idea here, as you may find yourself in a state of perceptual stress for much of the year. You may not trust what you hear, see, or even what you hold in your hand, for every time you feel assured that you have the situation in correct frame, something will happen that shows you that things are not as they appear, at least not for you, and that will shake your confidence mightily. This sense of unsureness will permeate everything, making you feel isolated and maybe as if the world’s against you; but it’s not. You will have a hard time connecting for two reasons: you need to learn to turn to yourself for the aid you require–you’ve spent too long now relying on others, and too, you must have a hard lesson in learning that emotional reactions are not the same as facts–lately it’s been easy to confuse the two. But it’s not all boo-hoo and want to–the reason you’re in this state is that you’ve been working (or at least trying) very very hard, and a one-pointed attention on your goals has meant you have disconnected yourself from your surroundings and the others who populate your world. For awhile, dealing with others by intuition alone worked well for you–but it’s time to sort real from imagined, and to reclaim the creative and emotional energy you’ve so freely loaned to others, for you need it for your own purposes, now. The sooner you do so, the sooner you will be able to claim your strengths for this year: an enormous sense of integrity, possibly an almost ideal home and/ or intimate relationship situation (at least in terms of these helping you reach your aims), a strong positive urge to express your unique individuality and your natural authority, and the capacity to act wisely. The sooner this emotional quagmire is sorted through, the sooner the Universe will deliver this year’s reward, an abundance of love and/ or money!

Born 27-28 January, Sun at 07 Aquarius

The urge to purge your life of the unnecessary, unneeded, and unwanted is steadily growing stronger, dear Aquarius–it’s just your uncommon luck that right now you are in a good position to judge what should go and what should stay; you have a clear idea of what in life is most sacred to you, and hold high regard for the ideal of home and intimate relationship–now your challenge over the coming Solar year will be to honor these concepts by creating a living situation and energy  circumstances that truly reflect them. It’s time to walk your talk–and you can do it successfully, if you always keep in mind and protect the most unique and unusual things about you, because they are your lifeline to being the most original and vital version of yourself you can be. Your one warning is that rebellion will come easy to you, but unless you have a plan to replace current situations with, you’ll just loop around in a circle and end up right where you started–so think carefully before you act to replace what is with what you hope will be. Embrace your creative side, and don’t be afraid to bring it into material form–it just might be the thing that helps you show how really unique you can be.

Born 28-29 January, Sun at 08 Aquarius

This coming Solar year you may find yourself on a journey to the Underworld and (eventually) back, my dear Aquarius; you will undergo transformation in some (or many) forms and at multiple levels, and all so that you can fashion yourself as living, creating, being closer to the Soul’s intentions on incarnating. This does not mean you are in any way inadequate now; it does mean that you must evolve, losing some of the trappings and distractions that keep the personality distorted, in terms of meeting its ideals. It’s all serious and a little scary, as things you’ve become comfortable with (and perhaps grown to rely on) fall away–and not everything will immediately be replaced by something else, giving you a little of the sense that you’re Icarus hovering on softening wings! Don’t worry–this feeling is simply meant to give you the mental and spiritual space you need to allow ‘the new’ to be drawn to you or to rise to the surface within you. The physical and material structure of your life will change now, too, at least some of it through crisis–but again, it’s for the good. Meet upset and crisis with creativity, imagination, and faith, and rely on your own ingenuity at this time. Those who love you genuinely will make themselves known by coming to your aid–let everyone else go–you and they will know where they stand.

Good Luck, and Happy Solar Return!

Knowing the degree of your Sun is the best way to know which day applies to you–sorry, I’m not available to determine that for you, nor do I keep previous posts in a special place only I can see–they’re gone! Not sure which is your day? Read both–you’ll know which one you ‘vibe’ to!

Thanks to Terri O for inspiring ‘Born Today’!

Just a Little Essence for Today 27 January 2012: ‘Voiding the Void’

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8 AM PST the Pisces Moon sextiles Mercury with Neptune at the midpoint, trines Juno and quincunxes Saturn. Emotions may be way off the mark, formed under illusion, deception, fantasy, or in following ideals, but no matter what, they carry a communication punch that will be empowering for both listeners and speakers, in spite of the changes to the material situation that will be required.

We have an odd Void situation: The Moon heads toward the Void with Mercury only 7 minutes from entering Aquarius, but before the Moon hits the Void point Mercury enters the next sign, effectively Voiding our Void by removing the ‘measurement yardstick’ provided by Mercury! Let’s measure it from the time Luna pulls away from trine with Juno, 9:37 AM PST, though some may prefer the quincunx to Saturn as he has major planet status, leaving at 9:19 AM–but then again, many don’t use the quincunx in timing a Void!

In any case, the Moon enters Aries at 10:28 AM PST.

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Mercury Into Aquarius: ‘It’s All In Our Heads’

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Typically, Mercury through Aquarius centers us so firmly in the intellectual that we may find feelings a surprise; this time, we see the Moon hits the Aries point when Merc has been in his new sign for only one minute, and that unites the energies by sextile in a potentially meaningful way. With the Aries Point suggesting revelation, and mentality rising to a new level of understanding in the sign of the Waterbearer, we might see some huge ‘Aha!’ moments that bring us clear realization as well as clear and deeply felt emotions. This would be unusual for anything involved with either Aries or Aquarius, where the dominant thrust of ‘I AM!’ Will, aggression, and the alternating compulsion to be rebellious and to process only through the intellect can leave the feeling function adrift, and severely neglected or denied, in a worst-case scenario.

Though this transit has the benefit of focusing the mentality on the Higher Mind, and thus making it much easier to align efforts with ideals, it also urges our minds to write checks our emotions, efforts, and bodies can’t cash, with depletion in all departments often the biggest danger.

Mercury enters Aquarius at 10:12 AM PST on the 27th of January.

Just a Little Essence for Today 25 January 2012: ‘Juicy and Earthy-Smelling’

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4 PM PST the Pisces Moon sextiles Pluto. The emotions are gently *popped* open like an over-ripe fruit separating from its stone; it’s juicy and earthy-smelling and gets us all messy with its sweetness–and yet, good as it is, all we really want to do is consume it and wash! And so will be our experience at this time.

11:30 PM PST the Moon squares the Nodal axis, delivering that frequent but oh-so-necessary reality check at a gut level. Listen.

Just a Little Lunar Essence for Today 24 January 2012: ‘Unpalatable’

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12:30 PM PST brings the Moon conjunct Pallas and quincunxes stationary retro Mars–eww. A stew of good intentions and positive advice that is unpalatable because of our own inability to get the spoon from bowl to mouth. Okay, that’s the end of the bad metaphors! Will simply feel like we’re stuck in spite of knowing where to go and what to do. :(

9:30 PM PST the Moon squares Juno, challenging our sense of empowerment. Do we feel strong? Something in the environment tries to convince us otherwise, but we really are personally empowered at this point–so don’t fall for it.

The New Moon of 22 January 2012: ‘The Forgiveness Moon’

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From the newsletter:

The New Moon was at 11:38 PM PST at 2 Aquarius 41. This Moon marks the Chinese New Year, as it’s always timed to the first New Moon in Aquarius; I think of it as a second, mini-New Year, with all the ‘fresh start’ potential brought forward for secondses–it’s a point where we can refine our New Year beginnings, and this is a helpful point of view for those who tend to overreach in the resolution department, or who carry too high an expectation for instant renovation and renewal. I think, then, that we should call this ‘The Forgiveness Moon’, with the emphasis on being understanding of ourselves.

The New Moon makes a semi-sextile to Chiron and a sextile to Uranus and Ceres, which are now conjunct. The NM touches Jupiter by square, reflecting the one area of discord in our scenario. The overall picture is of inceptions that are unique personal power expressions, a direct manifestation of the authority one holds and the individuality at its most characteristic, and these may hurt us (either treading on the primal wound, or injuring via the feedback we receive from the social arena) or call forth our unique skills keyed to our Chiron energies, offering healing to others (and the Self through expression)–and maybe both of these effects, hurt and healing expression, show up at once. The location of the NM in Aquarius, plus the way the Chiron contact is minor (and thus signaling that it’s more a side effect of the NM event, rather than a focus) tells us that the intellect will be stimulated, that this is likely the spark point of ideas (Aquarius) that become action that epitomizes each of us as individuals (Aries). We can think of this energy as creating an exciting new activity or action that may cause some blowback from our social circle (and this could have material repercussions, or could simply reflect envy–Jupiter in Taurus) but that will be a perfect and original expression of who we are.

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Just a Little Weekend Lunar Essence 21-22 January 2012: ‘Magic Touch’

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For the 21st: 4 AM PST the Moon conjuncts Pluto. The emotions run deep, intense, and can be plumbed in such a way that they can be re-invigorated and rejuvenated–we come out the other side of this transit renewed, if we don’t fall to our own temptation to be overly critical, which only makes us want to destroy our ‘bad’ feelings (either ‘forbidden’ ones or ones that literally make us feel bad!) Don’t trash anything at this time–even the basic framework of our lives is threatened, by none other than ourselves, fueled by discomfiting emotion–channel the energy into transformation–you can call the shots on change and do it your way at this time. It’s particularly important that you take care in wielding this energy as there is a simultaneous sextile Moon to Venus that endangers what we care about, as well as our resources–there’s a real danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater–so don’t! If you’re not happy with your financial or love situation, though, you can make changes at this point that can make a difference, if not felt immediately, then very soon thereafter.

For the 22nd: 3 AM PST the Moon conjuncts Mercury. There’s no mistaking that communications are firmly related to the reality picture at this time; they may, however, give us the idea that things are more restricted and grim than they really are. Too much focus on ‘what is’, rules and regulations, and the reality of things in the now can quash our dreams. Take a step back and regard reality with a jaded eye, knowing that what you don’t see is just as important.

Just post 5 PM PST the Moon squares Saturn and semi-sextiles Neptune, offering a reality check and the imagination-power to re-create anything we aren’t happy with more to our liking. We have a kind of ‘Magic Touch’ at this time–use it! Void begins (relative to Saturn, not Neptune) at 5:39 PM PST; the Moon enters Aquarius at 6:53 PM PST.

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Just a Little Essence for Today 20 January 2012: ‘Intuiting the Next Step’

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2:30 AM PST the Sagittarius Moon squares Mars, and we are prompted to act–or maybe I should say, act out. No. no.

1 PM Pacific time we see the Moon hit the midpoint of the Neptune/ Saturn trine (and she just misses contact with the Sun as he enters Aquarius). This brings an emotional perspective to all that has been brought from the imagination and creative effort into the physical/ material realm; we know with certainty how we feel about our creations, and we can intuit the ‘next step’ or the next project.

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Just a Little Essence for Today 19 January 2012: ‘A Wake-Up Call’

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9:30 AM PST the Sagittarius Moon conjuncts the North Node and squares Vesta. We are faced with evidence via the emotional perceptions concerning our destined life direction and the course we’re on at this time, and this may conflict significantly with our highest values, our present home life, and/ or our most intimate relationship. It’s a wake-up call and moment of reckoning all rolled into one, that places a very real need to make some important choices in front of us. This quite likely won’t be sorted out in a day; the purpose is instead to bring serious attention to things that will have to be shaped, in some sense, to accommodate both our highest calling and our personal life.

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