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Earth & Mars, Wikipedia Do what is required of you.  Specific transits ask for specific action.  With a Pluto transit, we lay low while keeping ourselves in the light as much as possible until the transformation completes itself.  Then we follow up with the appropriate action.  For instance, if we lose our home during this transformation, we take the required steps to clear away the old to make way for the new. With a Neptune transit, we surrender and allow the old life to dissolve and so on.  We also heal addictions during flowing and even challenging Neptune transits. While everyone loves trines, sextiles actually provide better opportunities because the tension that shows up forces us to take advantage of opportunities.  With Trines we take life circumstances and good fortune for granted, often not doing anything. Squares force us to go inward and deal with inner tension.  Therapy helps.  Oppositions bring experiences, situations and people that oppose us.  Sharpen you

Wikipedia Looking at the astrological forecast for August, I picture an image of a strong man with his shoulder pressed against a medieval wheel.  I see another man laboring in the fields with a horse and plow and sweat dripping off his brow. Roll up your sleeves and get to work, August feels like getting work done.   For many July felt like a retreat and many of you took your annual vacation during the past month. But now Mercury picks up speed zipping through two signs, Leo (1-15) and Virgo (16-9/2).  In Leo, Mercury wants attention and shows off.  Mercury in Leo talks big, especially when Mercury conjuncts Jupiter on August 3rd and thereabouts.  At that point, people exaggerate, puff themselves out like hormonal roosters, blow hot air or tell ribald jokes, though we might find ourselves laughing more than usual.  The comedian comes out in all of us and life's a gas.  But then after the 15th, Mercury heads into Mister and Missus Fix-it Virgo.  Suddenly the Sun moves behind

Photo by Patricia Herlevi New Moon transits at 3 degrees Leo on July 26th.  Set intentions for creative projects or simply to live within the heart and soul of creativity now. But first, clear away any psychic debris from your consciousness on the Dark Moon in Cancer (day before the New Moon). Astrologers like to wax about New Moons and the qualities of each New Moon.  And it's true that in the metaphysical field, we plant intentions during the New Moon period so that we harvest either two weeks later during the Full Moon or before the next New Moon phase.  We can also harvest a year later when we experience a repeat of the New Moon in say, Leo or Cancer or whatever sign. However, while metaphysical teachers and healers remind us to set intentions on each New Moon (depending in the energy of the Moon), my angels told me about releasing any stuck energy in the form of beliefs or patterns on the day of the Dark Moon, which falls the day before the New Moon or hours before it.

distorted roses by Patricia Herlevi Similar to other people born in the mid-1960s, first I was hit with the Pluto transit to my Nodes, then an opposition to my Sun followed by a Uranus Square, then followed by Neptune in Pisces transits to my Mutable T-Cross.  While most astrologers focus on the Uranus-Pluto Square, Neptune also causes emotional crises when it dissolves the only world we've ever known. While I enjoy using the Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey and the Dark Night of the Soul to describe a Pluto transit, I'll use the popular movies The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland to describe what happens when Neptune in Pisces transit conjuncts the Sun, Moon, Rising Sign or Saturn in a Natal chart (or in the Mutable T-Cross from the mid-1960s).  And while I could read astrology blogs that layout the Neptune in Pisces Transit brick by brick, I prefer to relate my own experiences with this transit.  After all, Neptune is currently conjuncting my Saturn and Moon, squa

Wikipedia As always, I am witnessing potential for planetary transformation happening with upcoming transits.  We stand at the crossroads of either bringing more fear to the planet or expanding our love by discovering our truth.  As Mars transits into Scorpio on July 27th, we leave the world of diplomacy and repressed emotions and allow our passions to soar. The main obstacle we encounter as we expand our consciousness during this time is that Mars transits into a Fixed Sign and eventually squares Jupiter in the Fixed Sign Leo (around August 19th).  Oddly, Mars and Jupiter still offer us an opportunity to pursue our truth with passion and to expand our consciousness by expressing what we love. So are we going to still focus upon what we despise? Why do we do this? Why do we focus on darkness when we can also focus on light? Granted, Mars in Scorpio takes penetrating gazes into darkness, but only to discover the wounds deep inside us.  Mars brings us courage to delve into those

Wikipedia While Jupiter spent the last 12 months in Cancer, we reflected on self-nurturing, nourishing ourselves and others and most likely, motherhood.  We reflected our needs in other people and some reciprocated. Now, with Jupiter in Leo for the next 12 months, we get to the heart of the matter.  In fact, the highest level of Jupiter in Leo is heart expansion and all that suggests.  The downside of Jupiter in Leo is encountering overinflated egos, which upon reflection points at wounded hearts. First, let's take a look at Jupiter and its themes.  Jupiter ruled by Sagittarius and traditionally, Pisces, promotes higher education, higher learning of the spiritual kind, academia, professors, adventurers, athletes along with Aries, religion, idealism, philosophy and publishing.  Archangel Uriel also represents these realms.  Jupiter is the natural ruler of the 9th House in an astrological chart. The planet is large and gaseous and this is where astrologers come up with the id

Wikipedia No rest for the weary this week as Saturn goes Direct, Uranus goes Retrograde, the Sun transits into Leo and Mars finally transits into Scorpio, leaving the Cardinal Sign, Libra where he's resided since last autumn.  Whew! As we adjust to Jupiter transiting into Leo after its 12-month stay in Cancer, Mercury and Venus entering Cancer, and a powerful Super Full Moon in Capricorn during the past week, we look forward to Saturn going Direct, Uranus going retrograde with the Sun and Mars leaving Cardinal Signs for Fixed Signs.  So let's do our usual breakdown. When the Sun leaves Cancer and transits into Leo for approximately 28 days, we stop exploring our emotions and other Cancer-related themes, and find our heart center (that is if we don't get caught up in ego traps).  With the Sun in his own sign, we all look for ways to shine now or we might just worship the Sun.  We see stories about the Sun or celebrities that catch our attention more than usual.  We m

Wikipedia No rest for astrologers the third week of July.  More pushy Cardinal energies promote personal and global transformation.  And the biggest news revolves around Mercury, Venus and Jupiter transiting into new signs.  Look forward to another quick-paced and chaotic week.  Have you dropped down Alice's rabbit hole lately? As we recover from the Full Moon in Capricorn and find new directions for career and structure of our lives, we endure another week of pushy Cardinal energies, a Saturn-Uranus inconjunct and Jupiter moving into Leo for the next 12 months.  Oh, but we're far from through with Cardinal players since Mercury transits into Cancer on Monday July 14th followed by Venus transiting into Cancer on the 19th/20th.  That's gives us to more Cardinal Sign planets to oppose Pluto and square Uranus and Mars.  And if we had not got the theme of transformation in recent years, then we might just experience a grand awakening now. On July 17th when Jupiter final

Wikipedia Take time this weekend to rest and rejuvenate.  We just passed through choppy waters with the Cancer Sun squaring Uranus in Aries in wide square to Pluto and Moon in Capricorn conjuncting Pluto before turning Full.  Imagine rocks shattered by relentless waves... How could I have ignored these transits? Perhaps the Universe hid the transits from me until after the fact, but like many of you, I endured a trying week of nasty people, including a man calling me selfish because I would like to live in a pedestrian-centered city.  Not surprising this man projected his shadows on me since his goal is to build more parking lots and make the city more car-friendly.  Nothing like commerce to destroy the earth that we have remaining. So let's break down these powerful transits.  The Sun in Cancer in its most enlightening mode, nurtures, fosters self-love, reflects out to the world, is intuitive, mothering and nourishes.  The shadow of the Sun in Cancer acts clannish, promote

Wikipedia Yesterday I thought of relationships, dating, single people and Venus aspects in Natal Charts.  So often we equate Venus with sex, allure, charm and attraction.  And even though Venus represents the earth, women and ecology, the planet boils down to the art of relating. For instance, how do we relate to the earth? How do we relate to ecology? How do we relate to women, sexuality, relationships and partnerships?  Venus possesses a two-sided face in that Taurus and Libra rule the planet, a grounded Earth Sign associated with cows and a Air Sign associated with diplomacy and indecision. Adding to this confusion and complexity, an astrologer looks for Venus energy with the actual planet and with the houses with Libra and Taurus on the cusps.  Taurus and Libra when aspected in a chart with a three degree orb or less form an inconjunct so the energy of each sign act as irritants to each other. For the sake of this post, let's explore Venus in regard to romantic relation

Brazil, Wikipedia I start this post off quoting Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," only because the words, "Clouds in my coffee..." popped into my head. However, the 2nd week of July resembles last week, with the exception of a Scorpio Moon trining Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter and conjuncting Saturn and Mercury moving into Cancer on July 14th.  This week feels watery, but what's new Magoo? Water and Air dominate this week with the Sun, 3 planets outer planets plus Chiron in Water and Mars, Mercury, North Node, and Venus in Air. Mercury switches elements on the 14th when it moves into Cancer.  And speaking of Cancer and the other two Water Signs (Scorpio and Pisces), I advise you to buy lottery tickets, enter raffles and drawings and send off submissions if you're a writer, this week. The benefactor Jupiter rolls into Leo next week and it will be another 5 years before Jupiter is in its next Water Sign, Scorpio. It's also begin