Saturday, July 27, 2013

Leo's boldness

“Seize this very minute!  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  Only engage, and the mind grows heated.  Begin, and the work will be completed.”  Jean Anouilh
Arthur Fry (Leo)

You might think it kinder for the heaven’s to keep pace with the slow trudge that we humans take on the road to true change.  It’s not. The heaven’s Call to revolutionize our direction from ego-centered madness to spiritually compassionate oneness is quiet, but powerfully urgent.  


Monday is a kicker!  The Taurus Moon is making a series of alignments with almost every planet in the zodiac, all in one uproarious day!  Then Tuesday wakes you up to the intensity of your love and the inner depths of your Soul.  Wednesday you’ll be trying to adapt to it all while carrying a vial of nitroglycerin in your hand.  Thursday finds the powers that be sticking their fingers in a 220v outlet that shocks all of us into a lioness confrontation with our pride and grandiosity. And you thought last week was intense!


What’s really happening?!  The light in all of us is burning brighter, extending, touching, threatening the darkness with extinction.  And the darkness, like a spooky Hitchcock movie, relied on our belief to exist.  


♡ Date Night:  Venus in Virgo and Mars in Cancer
There may be some pouting over hurt feelings, but a blanket of comfort warms you both to the loving possibilities of compromise.  It’s not give and take, it’s give and receive.  This couple, whether friends or lovers or both, are willing to come from the heart and take care of each other.  Each sees in the other the innocence of a child, and forgives.  Forgives too much salt in the soup; too much fear to get near.  


The Force of boldness is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of July 28-August 3, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)


Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
Take heart that the restlessness and impulsivity you feel is actually going to boot you out of boredom.  There’s a drop of nitroglycerin suspended over your head this Wednesday that will require handling with a velvet glove.  Even if it seems rash, take charge with courage before someone else makes the decisions for you (yuck!).  The zodiac is pretty waterlogged right now, so you’re wading through those feelings that ordinarily you rush by.  It’s a week to cultivate patience and welcome the excitement of lightning when it strikes.  You’re always bold dear Aries, and now’s the time to put security above stimulation.  You’re quietly efficient.


Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Feel the power of love!  The Moon shifts into Taurus Sunday evening to set the stage for an unbelievably powerful Monday--a start to your week that promises to hold answers to your doubts, ease from your drudgery, through the gift of a hopeful enthusiasm.  Tuesday holds a promise of love, likely romantic, through an event that feels serendipitous.  Venus in Virgo is a harmonious, easy companion for your Taurus need to have everything in its place and the checkbook balanced.  So many planets are in Cancer that some emotional sensitivity is sloshing over into your tierra firma.  Feelings could get muddy and a bit stodgy.  Add some bold sharing; tell close friends how you feel.


Gemini (May 21-June 20)
You won’t know whether to pull out that spreadsheet and get to work or give in to some impulse buys at the Nordstrom sales!  Monday and Tuesday are a roller coaster ride of indulgence and hard work.  The Moon opens her latest book in Gemini Wednesday morning and your easy adaptability is restored.  Enjoy this mid-week harmony because it’s a weighty time for intense emotions and nothing taken lightly.  The zodiac is tilted to water signs, so you may feel uncharacteristically withholding when it comes to feelings.  Your best bet is to write a new recipe for humble pie and serve it generously.  It is so needed!


Cancer (June 21-July 21)
Don’t worry, you’re good luck charm is still firmly tied around you.  In challenging events like this Wednesday, your on-going good fortune will win over an angry bull in a china shop. Keep to your commitments, even though you’d like to break them wide open.  You’ve got joyous Jupiter, warrior Mars, mind-expanding Mercury, and the Moon in your sign by the end of this week.  I don’t know how your could possibly get more energy than this for your endeavors!  Boldness is not usually your modus operandi, but make this week an exception.  Surprise yourself.


Leo (July 22-August 22)
Sudden surprises are your friend.  They reignite your enthusiasm, which has been dampened by drudgery of “housekeeping” chores.  Friday you get a little tenderness and a lot more cooperation from others--just the right icing on your birthday cake!  When lightning strikes your laboratory experiments this Saturday your brains get solar powered new insights.  You’re eager for the kind of changes that’ll put more excitement in your life, probably through travels and adventures into your higher mind.  


Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Venus in your sign starts your week with a gracefully joyous note of generosity of spirit that erases the tensions of last week.  Monday and Tuesday are unpredictable but very beneficial for you.  You have the Midas touch when it comes to changing frowns and pouts to caring and cooperation in relationships.  Let some details slide, especially mid-week when a revolution sparks around you, and you’re focused too much on law and order.  Somebody did move your cheese.  You get a new look at the old question; would you rather be right or happy?  


Libra (September 23-October 22)
There is absolutely no air!  You can’t seem to catch your breath because not one planet in our zodiac is in an air sign right now.  It’s all water and earth with sprinklings of fireflies. Wednesday and Thursday are your best days when the Moon in Gemini aerates your emotions and dries a few tears.  Stay in the eye of the storm by slowing down, way down, to lounging on the coach (although never like an ordinary potato!) and earning your reputation for being down right lazy!  Except this week it’s not indecision that slows your pace, it’s the Universe wanting you to take better care of your inner needs.  Nurturing you.  Feeding yourself.  Truly you’re built for Grace, not speed. :)


Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
There’s no time to be picky about where to go in a lightning storm!  Grab a grounding rod and pick your spot on this planet.  Dig in, create your own spiritual sanctuary, and invite only those who’ve earned your trust to come in.  Serious Saturn is actually your friend, helping you take advantage of the new understandings you’ve gleaned from a long journey through doubt.  Look toward the end of this week for a benevolent helping hand,  full of a sense of well-being.  Saturday stirs your aggression.  You’re ready for this breakthrough.


Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
Nobody has to preach to your about boldness!  You take Leo’s courage and run with it.  Expect some resistance right now to your best intentions.  It’s not that others don’t want to hear you, they’re just under emotional waters with so many planets in Cancer.  Look to Leo for solar power and to Uranus in Aries for surprise after surprise.  Wednesday’s a challenge to keep your cool and not jump in even if you feel it is absolutely the thing everybody needs.  It may be, but restraint now will allow your ideas to “cook.”  That’s where the transformation, the alchemy, comes.


Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
Even you, dear organized Capricorn, will feel a little lazy as the week begins.  Yep, some overindulgence is on the menu, and believe it or not, you won’t feel like working!  Around mid-week you’ll notice that your Capricorn need for stability and security is keeping you from changing an intolerable situation before it gets worse.  Whatever blows up Wednesday is meant to explode, in order to free you from something that’s been restricting you.  If it sounds like a tightwire walk between reform and roots, it is.  


Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
It’s tough to get some breathing room right now with so much emotion and angst floating around you.  Astrologically your best friend is Leo, who ignites your intellectual spark to explore the depths of your higher mind.  Usually people are wishing you’d spend less time in your ivory tower library, but this week it’s exactly where you need to be.  Reason is needed in a world of impulse and irrational fears, and you have it.  Wednesday and Thursday are your best thinking days but a lot of adaptability will be required.  Electrifying breakthroughs in wisdom come with your wider perspective about the battleground below; you know it’s ego, all egos in meaningless struggle.  


Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
You're in your element, even though you may feel like you’re on the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland.  It is an emotional roller coaster this week but remember that Einstein pulled in those lightning bolts of bizarre ideas and turned them into creation.  You too.  Nebulous Neptune in your sign has had a downside of fogging up your vision here and there, but right now it’s a wide open harmonious and practical world of ideals turned into ideas that work.  Pace yourself and get out your tap dancing shoes; you’ll be required to make some rapid adjustments.


✶ Astrology Wonks
No moderation on Monday!  The Taurus Moon is on a roll when she opposes Serious Saturn’s insistence on work, work, work, at 7:41 AM, PDT; then she has a tense square with the enthusiasm of the creative Leo Sun at 10:43 AM, forcing more practicality than she’d like; by noon the Moon’s in a luxurious trine with Venus before the deeper feelings surface at 4:17 PM when she trines Pluto; she winks with flirtation at Mars around 7:09 PM making bedtime a calmer experience.  

Wednesday is a bomb waiting to be defused!  Warrior Mars is in a tense square with Revolutionary Uranus, exact at 8:07 PM.  Easy does it.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Third of three SuperMoons

Perceptions shift so quickly that what you think you see is changing second by second while you watch with awe this kaleidoscope we call “reality.”  


It’s a rolling thunder week, with so many planets shifting positions that you’ll hear them slip and slide together.  Monday the Full Moon in Aquarius is the third of three SuperMoons (11:17 AM, PDT) that set the stage for thinking outside the box.

Unconventional lines of reasoning combine with spiritual epiphanies to create insights that can rock your world.  

The Sun catches creative fire in Leo Monday morning for a snap, crackle, pop breakfast that begins a month of volcanic eruptions, life-changing acts of courage.  A toast to those you love, a pledge of your continued loyalty, and enough enthusiasm to heat what you're passionate about to the alchemical boiling point.  

Venus starts cleaning her brushes to start work on a new canvas.  Paint your goals into reality with this Venus now in Virgo.  She brings order and clarity to your art and your heart.  

Your focus narrows to the details.  A chance to put more organization into your work if you slow down, or if you try to keep the pace at 3000 rpm you’ll just hit a big wall.  Restraint of pen and tongue needs to accompany the silent seething you’ll feel Saturday.  Still, anger needs to be vented or it’ll implode rather than explode where it can be seen and dealt with.

“At the height of laughter, the world is thrown into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
Jean Houston

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Virgo and Mars in Cancer
A well stocked pantry, bright shiny pots and pans, fresh herbs from your organic garden, combine to make love a healthy meal to be shared, a food to be eaten.  Love’s the most nourishing of “diets.”  And if you stir in some erotic exercise you’ll even lose weight!  You need to add some action to this luxurious menu or you’ll never make it off the couch this weekend!  Life is so good!  Such a feeling of well being between you and your loved one that for now the relationship seems easy.  Drink it up!

The Force of Kaleidoscopes  is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of July 21-27, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
With the Sun’s move into the house of your buddy Leo, your personality shines brighter for the next month with a nobility of spirit and generosity of the heart.  Venus has just left Leo so you feel less outgoing and more analytical for the next four weeks.  Insights about home and family that you’ve thought but not said, are said this week.  The Moon has your friendships glowing!  Friday afternoon starts a very powerful but volatile few days for your emotions.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
The Leo Sun would ordinarily be a harsh light on your cool and collected Taurus spirit, but you naturally share Leo’s practical philosophical and spiritual outlook.  The relief of getting your thoughts out of a circular spin and into meaningful action will boost your mental energy for the next three weeks.  Write a recipe book!  Darth Vader visits you Saturday with a dare.  Look more closely at the wounds you hide under your lovely facade, they may have healed more than you know.  

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Finally, you get the wind back in your sails!  Moving forward with ideas that have be waterlogged will be easy now that Messenger Mercury has turned to direct motion, the Aquarius SuperMoon added flashes of the avante garde to your thinking, and  the Sun’s move to Leo warmed your heart.  It’s “reach out and touch someone” week for you.  A few snares later in the week are thrown in by bottom-line Pluto.  You can’t be satisfied with chit chat, you have to take it deeper.  Saturday afternoon shifts your mood to light and lively for the weekend.  

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
Don’t overthink it!  The Aquarius Full Moon puts too much on your plate for the beginning of the week, but you are enjoying such an abundance of energy and enthusiasm that the zeal with which you jump (or maybe wade) into action will carry any project to a successful completion.  You may feel more jittery than last week, so patience with other people’s insensitive remarks.  They’re suffering from an impulsivity you don’t have.  You can afford to relax at home.  Buy some new cookware.

Leo (July 22-August 22)
Saying goodbye helps you turn and say hello to something new.  You enter your birthday month this Monday which begins a time of letting go and a clearing of the space for your New Year which begins on your birthdate (this date, when the Sun is at the same degree as your birth, comes earlier through time until it’s the day before by the time you’re in your 50’s).  Monday also brings you surprisingly brilliant out-of-the-box ideas and the focus to make good use of them.  Plans that have been brewing since June 26th now shift to forward gear.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Venus is adding a decorative touch to your desire to organize and beautify your home and surroundings.  For the next four weeks Venus in your sign may make you more critical of those you love, as you try to push them to your standards of perfection.  You’ll only end up lonely as you retreat into your work.  Your healing touch is also magnified and is your way through to relationships that actually are crying for your love and attention.  (yes, you are too!)  You’ve got plenty of self-confidence coming your way so that you put whole-hearted involvement in all you do.  

Libra (September 23-October 22)
A SuperMoon of freedom in the way you express yourself starts your week with unusual developments in your relationships.  You’re in a “don’t fence me in” kind of mood which, when added to your iron fist in a velvet glove, makes you a warrior (who's still very friendly!).  The Sun’s move to Leo is very good for your heart, keeping it open and courageous.  An obstacle or two later in the week forces you to chose between your will be done, or joining your willpower with a higher power.  Easy choice if you want to be happy.

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
You’ll feel a shift in the Force this week from contemplation to urgency to take action.  Heed the flashing red lights this weekend when you’re tempted to use your very powerful will to get what you want, even though it’s not what’s good for you.  Stop and think how your inner needs, personal and unique to you, can be expressed through the universal Force for the benefit of all concerned.  You have a wonderful zeal and zest that’s fortunately contained enough that it saves you from being a fanatic about your ideas.  If you take this energy to the business arena, you’ll turn it into money!

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
The cosmos has hit your “refresh” button!  Blood rushes to your head and and your vital energies are mobilized.  Your innate honesty of expression finds a renewed zeal for being frank and outspoken (but please hit pause now and then and think before you hit send!).  Your heartfelt generosity will bridge any gaps in understanding with a gentleness of spirit.  You may feel like getting up on your soap box because your confidence is so high.  Make you speech, and your personal changes, count for those here at home.  You can still maintain lofty ideals, even if it just your next door neighbor that you help.
 
Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
Venus starts a beautification project in your 8th  house of corporate money, deeds and trusts.  Answer a major call to integrate your wisdom with the power of personal force you have at your disposal. You’ll want to talk about it, and you’ll receive many calls and messages.  You’re not in the mood to take “No” for an answer.   Might makes right is a philosophy that usually leads to violence, but in your mind it gets blended with your superb integrity and comes out as very enterprising business decisions; with a few flutters of anxiety around the edges!

Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
The SuperMoon in your sign this Monday starts your week on the note of building alliances and completing projects in which you were able to exert great personal power.  Like the values of the Age of Aquarius, you are in a period of linking with like-minded souls and sharing ideas and resources for social change.  The Sun’s move to Leo creates a tailwind of courageous action with all your relationships.  You take a big step forward in consciousness, knowing that what you think is what you create.  

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
Zealous action.  Your natural ability to pay attention to the small and beautiful things in life gets a helping hand from the goddess of love for the next four weeks.  Love, and being of service to others, will be the principles around which you’ll organize your life now.   You’re not inclined to do anything halfway, which helps you overcome your innate shyness and put yourself out there.  Make yourself take the stage.  You look good there!

✶ Astrology Wonks
The SuperMoon in Aquarius is full at 11:17 AM, PDT, on Monday.  It’s the grand finale for a turning point day;  Venus enters Virgo at 5:40 AM, followed by the Sun’s entrance into Leo at 8:55 AM.  

The Moon in Pisces conjoins visionary Neptune at 7:19 PM Wednesday and then immediately trines Saturn in Scorpio at 7:44 PM.  This reignites the spiritual epiphanies at work throughout this week and last.  

Keep a fire extinguisher for Saturn-day!  The Aries Moon conjoins lightning bolt Uranus Saturday at 12:56 PM.  Then Mars in Cancer faces-off with Powerful Pluto in Capricorn 3:50 PM.  The new Leo Sun makes a tense square with Saturn in Scorpio Saturday at 6:05 PM.  

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Free hugs and mystical epiphanies

In India they’ve recognized a woman named Amma as Mother of Immortal Bliss, the Hugging Saint.  She just goes around hugging and comforting people. For free. She’ll break into song for absolutely no reason, except joy.  

Why aren’t we all doing this?

This week’s our big chance for sainthood!  The same Jovial Jupiter in harmonious trine to visionary Neptune occurs in the heavens above us this week, just as it did on the day of Hugging Amma’s birth.  Amma has this gift for life, but the same receptivity to mystical experiences is open to all of us now.  Greatly facilitated by mental Mercury coming out of his Cancer shell this Saturday, clearing channels of communication.

Set your epiphany clock for this Wednesday and Saturday.  Expect it to rain buckets of practical spirituality.

“There is one Truth that shines through all of creation...the sun, the moon and the stars, you and I--all are expressions of this one Reality.”  Mata Amritanandamayi, the Hugging Saint

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Leo and Mars in Cancer
Make big plans.  The lovers are not singing the same tune, but Mars has such an abundance of energy that he’ll carry Venus along in his enthusiasm.  He will simply not take no for an answer.  Venus will be flattered by this (flattery is a total necessity with Venus in Leo!).  Then you’re both carried away by the night itself--a magical summer’s dream.  Hug everyone.

“A hug is like a boomerang, you get it back right away!”  Bil Keane

The Force of mystics is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of July 14-July 20, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
Venus is your best friend this week.  As a fire sign, you are more inspired than others to act upon your spiritual inspirations.  The big epiphanies, exact on Wednesday and Saturday, are in water signs and may sound gurgly to you, as if bubbling up from your unconscious mind--which they are.  Expect revelations about your roots, your sexuality, and your spiritual beliefs.  Remember the god of lightning is still in Aries, so opportunities to live happily, joyously, and free come with sudden, unexpected claps of thunder.  A good sign.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Your practical aesthetic sense is the perfect grounding container for this week’s prolific spiritual insights.  You can not only understand what’s coming through to you, but you can also make immediate practical use of the information.  Expect new insights in the areas of partnerships, friends, and communications.  Saturday is a great day for putting opportunities into action, gifts in the bank.  Your mind is a powerful conductor of images from spiritual dimensions.  Even with your Taurus feet planted in down-to-earth reasoning, you’ll still have lift-off!

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Be gentle with yourself this week as you’re likely to feel out of sync.  Ever watch a wheel spinning so rapidly it begins to look as if it’s spinning backwards or standing still?  The big spiritual inspirations this week are going to come to you in great waves, but because they’re in water signs you’ll have moments of disorientation.  It’s just an epiphany trying to rise up into your conscious mind.  You’ll gain much more insight if you can make that wonderfully multitasking mind of yours stop and focus on one thing at a time.  A sweet wink from the goddess of love will bring your attention back to your heart, where your epiphanies are forming in a language you can understand.  By Saturday communications are in forward gear, but only at about 15 mph!

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
It could feel like tsunamis washing over you, only because so much information is coming to you right now that will take time to process.  It’s all good, and it’s so many opportunities to make your dreams come true that you yourself may find it difficult to believe!  Believe it dear Cancer.  This is one of the most powerful weeks in your year.  Jolly Jupiter in your sign is wonderful on his own, and this week his usual lucky streak (you have this for one year!) is magnified by both visionary insights and practical marketplace tips.  Take notes!  Pay special attention Wednesday and Saturday.  Both WOW days for you.    

Leo (July 22-August 22)
Neptunian thinking is always in the clouds--of dreams and imagination.  All you have to do is put in that lightning rod and ground your wildest ideas with the help of serious Saturn.  You have the opportunity to see with the eyes of love while at the same time making very practical and productive decisions. The epiphanies (exact this Wednesday and Saturday) are happening in water signs, so you fiery Leos will have to slow down and look both ways.  Then you’ll see how your discoveries can be profitable in the marketplace.
  
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
As a Virgo you complete this weeks powerful configuration of planets by creating a “finger of God” aspect that points to a rebirth in your life; letting remnants of the past, still living in your mind, die.  And you’ll do this with the zeal of a warrior who won’t be defeated, and the power of a shaman who heals.  Collect amazing spiritual insights throughout the week, but don’t shift into forward gear with them until Saturday when Mercury turns direct in Cancer.  Look for a wink and a nod, not a burning bush.

Libra (September 23-October 22)
The fact that Libras are born for grace, not speed, is going to work for you this week.  Your customary fast mental pace could run right over a joyously insightful moment unless you balance that bright intellect with the deeply intense feelings that your epiphanies will travel on.  There are no planets in air signs right now, so simply gathering data won’t work for you.  It’s a right brain job.  Messy but gets you out of a rut.  Expect gifts related to your career, work, and resources.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
Seldom has serious Saturn done you as much good as he will this week.  Saturn, still in your sign, gets your intensely practical work ethic some needed spiritual lift-off.  It’s rare to have dreams fall to earth, like fertile seeds in a garden, where your can of Miracle Grow brings immediate growth.  Expect miracles in the area of your creative self-expression, romance, and adventurous travel to exciting foreign places in your head and in your physical reality.  Just don’t try to close any deals until Saturday.  

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
Expect to receive many spiritual zingers this week, and to give them away as quickly as you get them.  New insights around budgeting and joint finances, unconscious desires (which will bubble up in some uncomfortably intense ways), will come through in your dreams and daydreams.  Make yourself pay attention and write them down no matter how “alien” they feel.  Above all, trust the language of the heart--especially yours.

Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
You have a compelling influence.  “Might makes right” is not your style, but this week you’ll approach any work to be done with such wholehearted involvement that you find yourself uncharacteristically aggressive.  In a good way given your acute sense of fairness and integrity in all you do.  In your relationships with others you bring a big dose of optimism and support for their dreams, and you can give them practical feet.  Saturday is a particularly powerful day in which spiritual epiphanies come to you, as you fearlessly break from the past.
   
Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
Well dear Aquarius, your ability to see the global humanitarian picture will save you a lot of frustration this week.  There are absolutely no planets in air signs, so intellectual understanding of the big insights you’ll receive (especially Wednesday and Saturday) is very unlikely.  However, if you hold your breath and dive into your unconscious waters, you’ll uncover hidden treasures related to intense desires in your house of career, deeply spiritual values when it comes to the use of resources, and ways to be of service to your family and community.  

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
Swimming around in the deep waters of dreams and visions is your usual forte, and this week your undersea adventures pay off handsomely.  The grand trine of epiphanies (especially Wednesday and Saturday) are all in water signs, setting off your clairvoyant abilities.  Your psychic gifts find very creative expression.  You can read the minds of your family members, and you’re going to have insights related to your tribal roots and deepest desires.  Your thoughts have an elegant magic when you put them to words.  Look for practical rewards.

✶ Astrology Wonks
A special hug to those of you coming to my workshop this weekend!  The stars are aligned beautifully for “Answering the Call of your trueSelf.”  Epiphanies for everyone!  :)

Major, huge, enormous spiritual energy this Wednesday and Saturday:  
Wednesday is a grand trine in water signs (Cancer-Scorpio-Pisces); Jupiter in Cancer trines Saturn in Scorpio at 10:31 AM, PDT; Jupiter trines Neptune in Pisces at 5:13 PM.   (which of course means Saturn and Neptune are also trine).

Saturday the Moon in Sagittarius trines Venus in Leo at 8:00 AM (you’ll want to rally all your neighbors for a Free Hugs campaign); Mercury turns direct at 11:22 AM (thank you God!); Next warrior Mars in Cancer trines psychic Neptune in Pisces at 12:42 PM, and also trines Saturn at 2:33, again setting off the grand trine in water signs (above).  This is, at the very least, putting your wildest dreams into action and manifesting them in flashes of inspired clairvoyance.