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25 September 2010: Grounded in Taurus

25 Saturday Sep 2010

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The Moon enters Taurus at 1:16 PM PDT, and around 5 PM Pacific we see a quincunx to the Sun and a trine to Pluto, bringing an interesting emotional possibility: we may feel two pressures, both an internal need to adjust the Self, and an external requirement for some change, particularly to the emotional perceptions or interpretation, and these changes may center on the material (Taurus). Transformation of assets or artisanal skills and exploitation of these may be both easy and desirable; this contact can bring a point that pushes accomplishment in material realms forward nicely. How we feel about it, or process it internally, may be another matter–we may be ill at ease with the new course or may just feel things are moving too quickly, though grounding ourselves (through diet, movement, or meditation) will show us that the rate of ‘flow’ is exactly right for us, and allow us to relax and enjoy the change in scene. Look to the natal House with Taurus on the cusp for best forms of grounding (conversation on the 3rd, perhaps, a good meal on the 4th, group-keyed creativity on the 11th, or a wee bit of travel or learning something new on the 9th, for example).

3 AM PDT of the 26th brings the Moon’s opposition to randy Mars in Scorpio–but fresh off contact with Pluto, the Taurus Moon is ready. Though this may present as an adversarial situation, it can be fun and games for all if we keep some perspective, chiefly available through awareness of where either sweetness or scrappiness might lead (Moon trine North Node) and that what develops here might put down roots (Moon quincunx Saturn in Libra) so we’d better make something pleasant and perhaps partner or Arts-oriented.

By 9 AM of the 26th the Moon has moved on to oppose Venus, like her Arian counterpart also in feisty Scorpio. This is when we see whether our earlier choices were good ones–choose lovin’ not fghtin’ and it’ll work out well! For some this will bring forward issues of love or money that have been coming to a boil for some time; face them head on but don’t freak out or exaggerate the situation–either situation (relationships or finances) can be salvaged, or at least put on a positive track, if patience and a willingness to see things for what they are, and to do what’s needed, is adopted and followed through on–fairly easy to do with Moon in Taurus, even though the pace may be a little plodding, you get there eventually, one step at a time!

One other thing I’d like to note for this period: the Sun is coming up on its annual conjunction with Saturn, this time in Libra; what is it about the Fall, and this meeting, that says Marriage to me? There are some obvious connections, of course, but I think we’ll all be wedding something or someone at this point–make a good choice, ’cause this union may stick! (Saturn in Libra).

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24 September 2010: Initiation

24 Friday Sep 2010

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Everything changed; did you feel it? I think for many this was subtle but discernible, if only through the intuition; for some, the world appears exactly the same, but something tells us it has slipped slightly, like we’ve skewed to the very next dimension, thin as paper, right next to the dimension we were accustomed to, and we know it’s different, we just haven’t seen those differences yet. It’s almost a matter of faith. For myself, I know change has occurred, I can feel the shift all around me, but I can’t yet point to the results–all we can be sure of now is that the changes will show in different modes of action (Cardinal energies of Full Moon).

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The Moon continues through Aries like Red Riding Hood through the woods, alone and strangely unguarded; though the Aries energy is usually pugnacious, today the feeling is much more lunar, more receptive. It’s as if this Moon handed over the action urge when it contacted the Sun and Earth along the Aries Point axis, perhaps funneling all the energies into the T-arm formed by Pluto. It’s not hard to imagine the density of the tiny demoted body pulling the juice from every other contact into its dark maw, making changes to reality (in Saturn-ruled Capricorn) that are so extensive and quiet we’ve yet to truly see or grasp the result.

But back to our concern of the day, Little Red Luna, as she skips along and makes no aspect until much later. Alone and unafraid, she moves through what seems to be familiar territory, and it is–except it usually doesn’t hide a wolf. The emotions will be very Self-focused today, in a way that’s more like contemplation, like reflecting on the Self and one’s role, than it is anything else–so what a shock when one finally notices the wolf! Before that, though, Red is stalked, and remains unaware of the onlooker. This is very much like the Moon’s next contact, an 11:30 PM-ish PDT opposition to Vesta; what matters, the sacred, the home, the intimate contacts, are all suddenly making demands on the Self–the emotional energy can’t be kept all to oneself, and this makes it obvious.

A quincunx to Pallas about 4 AM of the 25th says we will need to adjust the emotional perceptions to accomodate what’s wise–it’s a brief schooling in which emotional perspectives may simply be foolish and indulgent, and which may need to embrace a smarter course.

It’s at the 5 AM hour PDT that Red finally gets rolling, forming a Grand Trine in Fire with Juno and Ceres, and a sextile to Chiron/ Neptune. Here’s Red’s initiation into the ‘real’ world, into the layers a reality can hold, into the what the Full Moon energy has subtly re-aligned; the emotional Self meets the possibility of creating a power outlet that is much more than the sum of its parts. The GT says the emotional Self holds the key to both expression of the individual’s innate power and authority, and the relationship to Mother Nature–and with this latter, the ability to manipulate, handle, direct, or otherwise use natural forces is all ours. Chiron/ Neptune adds one’s most unique skills and the ideals and creative capacity to the mix, making for a tremendously powerful period when the individual becomes an energy alchemist, transforming the unique relationship to skill and power into actions taken, initiating oneself into the ‘new’ relationship with the ‘changed’ Universal flow of the Full Moon. You can blow the doors off it, at this point; aim the energy and the intentions very very carefully.

Void begins at 7:12 AM PDT on the 25th; Moon enters Taurus 1:16 PM PDT. ‘Til then, have a great one!

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23 September 2010 Full Moon: Glimpsing Intentions of the Soul

22 Wednesday Sep 2010

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The women were like beings made of moon milk, and their skin shimmered with little silver dots like those of the salmon in springtime, and the women’s feet and hands were long and graceful.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes Phd,  WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES

The Full Moon for September occurs at 2:17 AM PDT on the 23rd at 00 Aries 15–the Aries Point! In the most straightforward terms, the Aries Point is the slice of space/ time where spirit enters matter, the collision point of  all that is real and unseen with discernible material form. So, a big deal, as for the individual, this point in the flat chart of the natal horoscope designates the point at which the individual meshed the spirit and the physical as we know it; it’s the place where the Soul entered active engagement with the present lifetime. What does this mean for us when the transiting Full Moon coincides with what we might see as a doorway between spirit and material?

The occurrence of the Full Moon at the Aries Point may open a doorway to our origins, to the most fundamental expression of who we are, at that moment when we both took material form (birth) and still retained full consciousness of the Soul essence. The Sabian symbol for 0-1 Aries is: ‘A Woman Just Risen From the Sea; a Seal is Embracing Her’ This image brings to mind the Archetypal story of the Seal Woman who mates with a human male, has a child, and slowly loses her health–all because as she celebrated herself, a hunter saw, and took the sealskin she wore as her ‘true’ identity. The story is given form in ‘Sealskin, Soulskin,’ in Estes’ marvelous ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves.’ She divides the story (which is told in many cultures in many forms) into parts that I know  I can’t improve on, so we’ll look at each part and how it might relate to the Full Moon experience.

Since this is a Full Moon, we know we’re speaking of culmination, the rounding out of some part of our own story. First, there is a kind of initiation that comes through a loss, in one form or another, of the Soul. I think this can be equated to birth, represented by the Aries Point as the doorway; we can’t help but become disoriented, losing a bit of ourselves in the process. Then one ‘loses one’s pelt’ in earnest–we are trying to enjoy our new human form, but in celebrating this we set aside the Soul connectors we still retain, in order to fit in to the earthly realm. We substitute the values of the culture and our tribe, and though these are not completely alien, they do represent the values of consensus, and that means we lose our awareness of those things that make us unique; this loss is represented by ‘poor’ choice (and by that I mean the kind of choices we inevitably make in an attempt to regain that part of ourselves we sense we’ve forgotten) and the way we are lured by the things we think will provide our lack. So we are, like the Seal Woman, left naked and shivering as we search for our eternal Beingness.

Next there is communion with the hunter, the individual who has ‘taken’ our skin–of course, we don’t know that we are facing the thief. This is represented by any animus oriented energy to which we succumb: our own interior animus, our ego, or an external animus: a man, ambition, society’s definition of ‘making it.’ Note that though this story is told as a woman’s loss, this tragedy happens to men, as well; they lose their unique ‘Soul skin’ in an attempt to be the kind of man society (and perhaps the partner) demands, rather than the kind of man they are naturally. The ego and its particular form of vanity promises to fulfill us, to return to us that missing Soul piece, if we will only do its bidding–but this is just not true–it cannot return what it does not possess.

The woman, the entire time she has spent on dry land, has been hearing the call of the sea (her true environment) and has been conscious of her vibrational connection with her child, her spiritual ‘home,’ in a sense. This spirit child in the story is the child of the Seal Woman and the hunter who captured her by stealing her skin. This is representative of the pure, inner connection we retain to the Soul (it can be ‘the inner child,’ though I think it’s something much purer, the experience of the Soul rather than just the seed-manifestation of it), and it’s this element in the story that, agitated by its mother’s distress, stumbles out into the night and trips on the mother’s wrapped up Seal skin, finding and delivering back to the woman her true identity.

So, in all this we are seeing an Archetypal journey in miniature; the Full Moon presents us with the ability to re-acquaint ourselves with that moment when as Soul we slipped into flesh–and this is a vital point, as it is the one time in the incarnation experience (other than the moment of death) in which we can be fully aware of the enormity of who we are, and can re-connect so directly with it.

Using our strict orb, we see that the Sun/ Moon/ Earth makes only one aspect, a T-square with Pluto in Capricorn. Ah ha! Besides being able to glimpse in its purest form the Soul and its intentions on incarnating (in the Sabian, this is the seal embracing the woman, a return to the natural sensibilities), this Full Moon also offers the power (Pluto) to transform (Pluto) our own manifestation in the material (Capricorn). Since the inner is the outer, and the outer the inner, this means we can change anything on any level, with corresponding changes visible (or felt or realized) in the opposite venue.

In ECLIPSE I called this Full Moon “the true birth point of fated Cardinal action,” and outline the other influences in effect at the moment of Full Moon fulfillment that will act on our transformational choices. If you’re planning on getting this issue and you just haven’t yet, now’s the time http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/  The life long journey to empowerment is closely related to  the mini-empowerment we will be instituting with this Full Moon; see more on that here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com  in my new book on Juno. Thank you!

And have a wonderful Full Moon transformational experience!

20 September 2010: Awash in the Zeitgeist

20 Monday Sep 2010

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So just after I complained about short Voids not allowing us a little recuperation time, along comes this Void and gives us a stretch free of Lunar feedback (and this may invite a few brains to run hot–it’s in Aquarius–a few tempers to over heat and a wee touch of rebellion to foment–that lasts through 1:15 PM Pacific time; that’s when the Moon enters softly persuasive Pisces–persuasive as we may just want to lie back and dream, with the first aspect not forming until 5:30 PM PDT. At that point the Moon sextiles Pluto, and we may be able to purge emotionally; there’s a possibility that during the after-Pisces-entry hours we could be a bit too receptive to the Collective schmutz and may find ourselves angst-y over things we grab out of the air, rather than anything in our own lives. This all takes place during Dark of the Moon (which began 2 AM-ish Pacific today), so that there’s an even further remove, a feeling of disconnection blanketing it all that serves to make everything a lot more nebulous, and everyone a lot more spacey, in their own way (that just takes away barriers to the personality, amplifying each of us–you get MORE of what you are!)

By 9 PM PDT the Moon trines Mars, both in Water; we can expect a feeling that’s like swimming: we’re making effort but it’s not the usual, we’re soothed yet anxiety can come on in an instant, we’re bouyed yet enveloped. Emotionally we’re working up to the conjunction of the Moon with Jupiter/ Uranus late evening Pacific of the 22nd and early morning of the 23rd which precedes the Cardinal Point Full Moon. Stress levels may be high and difficult to get a handle on, starting with this trine to Mars and building toward the Full Moon.

1 AM PDT of the 21st the Moon quincunxes Saturn–use this grounding moment (which will come through some small dissonance in consciousness)  to orient yourself and take a read on the situation. At this time we need all the grounding influences we can get.

5 AM of the 21st the Moon makes a Water Grand Trine with Venus and the South Node, and we get steeped in nostalgia (literally, the pain of the past) and awash with all our deepest longings and yearnings emotionally and for connection. The Soul is gently turned inside-out with emotion. Understand that, though likely involving some degree of pain, regret, and heartache, this is a very good thing to experience, because it lets us know what we believe would make us complete-and that’s typically not at all what we truly need or want for satisfaction in our lives. It’s a period of sentimentality that can have a purpose that’s quite useful at giving some perspective to things.

The Moon steadily moves toward opposition with Mercury, perfecting in the 11 AM hour PDT. We may feel this building, as the Dark period otherwise tones down most other, immediate influences, making some really pop. This could be a point of revelation, or a mini comedy of errors, as communication can be confusing, even messy, and of course, there’s the potential for confrontation.

Relaxing and envisioning might be my recommendations for this period–along with buying the NEW ‘Juno in the Natal Chart’ http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com or getting the Summer issue of ECLIPSE, which carries a large entry on this upcoming Full Moon, the Venus retro and how to handle it, articles, and the October forecast http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ 

And! New at ‘Been There, Done That’ just posted ‘Your Relationship Power Balance’ http://askjulie.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/your-relationship-power-balance/

And have a great one!

27-29 August 2010: Taming the Aggressive, Enjoying the Material

27 Friday Aug 2010

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What we face while we still have an Aries Moon is a series of, well, face-offs, as if the emotional state is repeatedly challenged to prove itself. This may be because an Aries Moon urges us to assert our emotions as if they’re fact–and of course, this may not sit well with others!  There’s always that tendency of the Ram to push, prod, and force the Will on others; we really can’t blame others or ourselves for being so assertive under this influence, as everything seems so urgent–but we do need to be aware of the way this influence can creep into everything.

Noonish PDT today, the 27th, the feisty Aries Moon opposes Vesta, and something in our emotional landscape is directly contradictory to our most sacred values, and/ or the home situation or the sex life. Uh-oh. This is the kind of conflict that can upset us severely and leave a seriously bad taste in our emotional mouths (please don’t ask me to locate those on a diagram!) The results of this may linger for quite a while and may even alter our perspective for good. By 4:30 PM PDT the Moon forms a T-square with the Nodal axis, creating (or perhaps solidifying) a need to sort out the attitude and the way it may affect the life direction.

8:30 PM or so PDT the Moon opposes Zeus and trines Juno, drawing us into the possibility of a very interesting power struggle: we are confronted by naked ambition or desires, and we access our core goddess empowerment (or we access power via status or our partnerships) and use that, rather than our puny egos or emotions, to answer this challenge.

By 4:30 AM PDT on Saturday the 28th the Moon quincunxes retrograde Mercury, and we may be wondering why we (or another) had to open that (emotional!) mouth and let it all out. Just a reminder, don’t confuse the subjective and the objective by obscuring fact with emotion.

8 AM PDT and the Moon opposes Mars–is there a way to avoid discord with others today? I don’t know, but what is sure is that relationships will undergo a trial where egos, Wills, and emotions are under scrutiny (even attack) and on edge. We think we’re asserting our rights and we’re really trampling on others; we think we’re assisting and we’re really crushing; we think the other guy is punching us, and it’s just our own aggression bounced back at us. Just take care to be scrupulously honest in assessing your own Aries expressions.

The period to watch occurs a few hours either side of 2 PM Pacific, when the Aries Moon trines Ceres and opposes Venus. Here we find our ‘power footing’ even as we find our values and relationships under stress. Mother Nature, instincts, and knowing our power territories (and what areas are not in our province) all help us see and assess the standards we will meet at this time. This is one of those times when we create a mini-clean slate based on recent revelations and experiences.

We finish off the Aries Moon in the wee hours of Sunday, Pacific time, on the 29th. The Moon sextiles Neptune (confusion, both of emotions and of where aggression is actually coming from), and then sextiles Chiron (3 AM-ish); our reaction to this latter aspect shows quite clearly how we are truly reacting to recent events (rather than simply supporting what we tell ourselves is our reaction). We either cast ourselves as victims or empowered (though injured, and therefore empathetic) agents of healing–it’s that straightforward.

Void begins at 3:53 AM PDT and ends with the Moon’s entry into Taurus at 7:35 AM PDT on the 29th. Oooh Taurus! When the Moon is here the emotional and intuitive outlooks key to the sensual, and material, the appetites and sensations involved with those purely earthly experiences of occupying a human body. This is the time for a micro-vacation, a session of physical pampering, savoring an excellent meal, drinking in the beauty of the world around us. Focus in particular on enjoyment of the end of summer (or the end of winter) and what the very early beginnings of the seasonal change offers (see more about this weekend in the Summer issue of ECLIPSE, and the extra material about this weekend on the readers-only page here at the site.  Password required and found at the end of the first article in ECLIPSE), plus learn about the important influences surrounding early September, forecasts for September and October (and post-cast for August!) and articles on the 6th House, the creative complex, Pluto, and much more! GET IT ALL HERE  http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/) and get access to the FULL picture, for only $4.95!

The main Lunar influences for the 29th are a trine to Pluto around 11 AM PDT (a chance to purge the emotional state–a housecleaning that will feel uncommonly good), and a 7:30 PM-ish trine to the Sun that simultaneously brings the weekend to a close and starts the week, refreshed and renewed by our attention to the material pleasures involved with being a spiritual Being having a human experience.

26 August 2010: Gliding on a Pisces Moon

25 Wednesday Aug 2010

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It may be a day for dreaming, creative work, and a loose schedule that allows for detours into fantasy, making Art, and imagining ‘what ifs.’ This will be the general atmosphere for a Pisces Moon that glides along without contact, but that also means that for those whose natal charts are not affected, it could be a day whiled away or lost to a big Collective experience–so keeping plans flexible is important for making the most of the energies. For those whose natal placements are contacted, the Pisces Moon could bring creative and intuitive possibilities to the natal energy–and these are likely to feel a little pressured, as if something creative must be done now! Try to see that this is simply an opportunity for heightened imaginative capabilities, rather than a mandate to birth something stunningly creative at the drop of a hat.

It takes all day for the Moon to move on to its final contact in Pisces, a conjunction to Uranus at 29 degrees, forming in the 5 PM hour PDT. Shocks and abrupt revelations/ surprises, possibly supplied by the Collective or our own active imaginations, will surface. Void begins at 7 PM sharp, and ends with the Moon’s entry into Aries at 7:49 PM PDT–if you want to roll the dice on any venture, this is the 49 minute period that promises only that the results won’t be what you expect.

The Aries Moon comes crashing into Jupiter (figuratively, of course), making the Will and the need to assert BIG; the energy may look for an outlet on the social scene, but with everyone under this influence it may be like a lot of hams vieing for stage time in the high school play–all those monologues drown one another out. Just after midnight PDT the Moon squares Pluto, bringing forward very real and very serious dissonance, and a little bit of destruction or danger–obviously, you’ll want to avoid this 🙂

By 2 AM PDT on the 27th the Moon quincunxes the Sun, giving us a window wherein we can rein in the emotions and attend to the details–it’s a point when we can, as they say in the military, square everything away–and that will allow us to use the Aries Moon to best advantage for the rest of the transit.

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24 August 2010: Getting a Glimpse

24 Tuesday Aug 2010

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This Full Moon energy is allowing us to get a glimpse of what’s going on with some in our world; see what I make of it on the ECLIPSE Only page (password protected–password located at the end of the first article in ECLIPSE magazine http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ )

My illness is lingering–don’t really know why–but at least I’m not sleeping all day! I will be posting a forecast much later today, though–so ‘see’ you then!

August 24th 2010 Full Moon: Down the Rabbit Hole

22 Sunday Aug 2010

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It won’t be down the rabbit hole for everyone, just those who are determined to push forward with their agenda and who also refuse (or are unable) to recognize that they are being driven by hurt, or possibly revenge, all thanks to the Moon/ Earth conjunction at 1 Pisces 25 at 10:04 AM PDT, conjunct Chiron (just short of a three degree orb). Sounds terribly dramatic, doesn’t it? The rabbit hole, of course, signifying a confusing and frustrating neverland where nothing is as it seems. But this Moon will contain this kind of drama for some , while for most it will simply be a difficult energy to sum up in any crisp way; we just may not consciously get a good hold on the endings presented, and that’s okay–though it may feel like something needs to be accomplished, relax–there’s really no need to come to conclusions at this time, in spite of the Full Moon being a natural conclusion point. We must be cool enough to let the energies ride, especially as it appears there will be plenty of forces at work that are outside our control.

There will be some interesting energies swirling around us. The Moon/ Earth combo makes a wide quincunx to Saturn (the need to adjust goals and emotional perceptions to reality); a semi-sextile to Jupiter (the social arena figures in to the emotional perceptions/ material realizations at this time); a sextile to Pluto (there is power here, in this moment–tread carefully).

The Moon/ Earth also acts as an impromptu apex for a Fist formed by the Venus/ Mars conjunction and the Midheaven at the moment of Full Moon realization. This suggests that something related to both the anima/ animus balance within the individual as well as the individual’s relationship to the opposite sex will be tested at this time, and all of this may happen publicly and/ or will affect individual reputation and status. Again, this points up that some of what happens is truly beyond our control–important to keep in mind, as a Full Moon may make us feel that we should be in control of everything, and may drive us to attempt to mess with forces better left alone.

The Sabian certainly suggests caution: ‘A Squirrel Hiding From Hunters’ Perhaps surprisingly, this sums up the energies that will surround the Full Moon very well. Each of us will need to be quick, clever, watchful, and most of all, cautious–external forces (read ‘Pluto’ ‘Saturn’ and ‘Chiron’ here) will in some form be the hunters of the symbol–and hunters don’t care for the concerns of their prey, they’re only out to nail them! A low-key approach, then, with the discipline and control to let the chips fall where they may (and to stay out of active trouble ourselves) will suit the vast majority of us best.

Extending the Moment

19 Thursday Aug 2010

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I’ve decided to extend my moment of meditation from yesterday for a few days more; my persistent, debilitating cold is urging me to simply rest–so I think I will. Some responsible adult will continue to monitor mail and fulfill orders–but other than that I’m going to be bathing in silence–at least for a good portion of the time. Join me in spirit, if you like–I look forward to communing in stillness and in peace–and wishing you all fulfillment in the coming days–jd

17-18 August 2010: Lust Be a Lady

17 Tuesday Aug 2010

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11 AM PDT of the 17th the lusty (yes, it does seem a lusty energy, rife with potential–so watch yourself around your Sag-influenced friends!) Sagittarius Moon trines Juno in her fiery Leo home, and we have a surge of empowerment energies that call out to be fulfilled. It’s an excellent mini-opportunity to launch something, even as we hang in the balance, waiting for Merc’s retrograde, so take advantage of the moment if you’re looking to go forward, and especially if you’re looking to make your lady-powers sparkle 🙂  BTW, the chart for this point shows the Part of Fortune opposed Juno, perhaps suggesting choices made now will be much more significant than they appear–they may even be fate-driven.

If we aren’t worn out from our day of lusting (and see more about the lusty, pirate-y spirit in all of us in the Summer issue of ECLIPSE http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ ) the Moon will sextile Mars and quincunx the South Node around 7 PM PDT, and all I can say is, Beware! This stirs the ego, the action urge, the ‘I am’ through the memory or return of elements from the past, and for many this may be trying; after so much stimulation early in the day, we may feel the Mars contact as an impulse: just one more big push, and I get what I want. The past (and likely past failures) may push us to act in ways that ignore the partner, or that seek to insist on the partner’s support (Mars in Libra, only one degree from conjunction with Zeus, with Venus one degree from conjunction with Mars–so the god of war sits between love/ desire and lust/ ambition, and tries to serve them both). Good luck with that one!

Let’s move ahead to 9:30 PM-ish PDT, when the Moon sextiles Zeus and Pallas sits at the midpoint of the two. Stress! as the emotions and intuition are pushed to fulfill wants but find wisdom intrudes and seeks to modify our course–congratulations to those of us smart enough to listen.

The Moon conjuncts Ceres in Sagittarius around 12:30 PM of the 18th, bringing together the emotions and intuition with perceptions of the natural order, and with our own personal connection to the power of nature and ourselves as natural Beings; it’s a moment of true power, when the Universe responds to our Will and our touch.

By 3:30 PM PDT of the 18th the Moon quincunxes Sedna; we’re flying blind for a couple of hours, a sensory underload that may be highly confusing after the strong perceptual period that preceded it. Stay cool and, uncomfortable as it may be, on the fence, saving decisions for a few hours later.

9:30-ish PM PDT of the 18th sees the Sagittarius Moon trining the Leo Sun in what amounts to a fiery compromise. It’s a lovely, ultra-bright few hours of illumination of the emotions and intents and life direction–a good point at which to assess and re-group energy and efforts. This is followed by the 1:30 AM-ish PDT of the 19th sextile of the Moon to Neptune (imagination helps align emotions with efforts) and the 3:30-ish sextile to Chiron (that spirit of creativity can be used to call forth skills).

ECLIPSE readers: be sure you check the forecast for the period starting the 18th–it’s worth knowing about and planning ahead for! And if you want to get in on it http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ Thanks! And have a wonderful couple of days!

Today’s Links: a well-reasoned (and reasonable) piece of advice worth a (re-)visit http://www.astrogirl7.com/2010/08/augusts-tug-of-war-merge-or-do-your.html And here’s a lovely post on the Earth signs; Neeti has been freaking me out lately, as we seem to be writing often about the same things–I’m working on an article for the Fall ECLIPSE that also centers on Earth signs–but from a slightly different perspective http://astrologyexpressed.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/earth-angels-a-tribute-to-the-earth-signs/ And this is a thought-provoking piece on the 1st House Sun http://theastrologyplace.blogspot.com/2010/08/sun-in-1st-house.html

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