The Astrology of September 2019 | part II - this is the way the patriarchy ends ...

Part 1 is HERE

A post about the first week of September is HERE.

Lots of Virgo energy these first couple weeks. Focus on the details. Make things smaller. Do a good job and then know when enough is enough. Take breaks as needed. Prioritize the stuff you care for everyday - your health, your work, your pets, your day-to-day schedule.

Do what is right in front of you. Then do the next, most practical thing.

OK, let's continue unpacking September.

Let's take a look at Mars during the second week - he is very active, covering the ground Venus and Mercury did before him (and do you think Mars likes following Venus and Mercury? No, I don't think so either!), so now we are taking action on what we LEARNED. We are BUSY.

Monday, SEPTEMBER 9th - Mars trines Saturn. Here is the young/new and the old working together. It's time to take action/use our energies toward (Mars) the stuff that is built over time/the stuff that lasts (Saturn). We take action - and remember Mars is in Virgo, so these actions are practical and focused, one thing follows the next thing - on our long term goals/ambitions. We apply ourselves to our work in the world/our career (the theme of your Capricorn natal house).

How are we spending our time?? Situations will conspire/transpire to show us what we are doing and not doing and how this is all working out for us.

On Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 11th, Mars will sextile the North Node - here's where the action focused on our future (maybe that home, family, mothering, home business, family business, real estate, foundational thingie) creates OPPORTUNITY.

But keep in mind the very next day, Thursday, SEPTEMBER 12th, Mars will square Jupiter - so we could take something too far/want to make something bigger than it needs to be with all this Virgo right now. We could feel OVERWHELMED. This square also tells us we need to have faith - we need to believe in ourselves and something bigger than ourselves and stay open to expanding possibilities.

Then on Saturday, SEPTEMBER 14th, Mars will oppose Neptune (remember, he is basically following Venus and Mercury's paths from this week) - this is kind of a low point. Maybe we are tired/discouraged. Here's where we need a break, so we don't get sick - not an escape into alcohol/you-tube, etc - but a BREATHER. Meditate. Pray. Make art or music. No sense pushing because it will be like pushing against the tide/trying to hold water in our hands. This is not a time to take a risk. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear - we aren't seeing things clearly. You get the idea! We could work against our own self interests here. The highest use of this Neptune is a kind of surrender. This isn't exactly what we want, but this is where we are/what is happening. Acceptance. Grace.

So we are taking action in  support of our long term goals. The action is focused and practical. Opportunities to live more authentically/more caring/more rooted (that Cancer North Node) come from our stable, grounded actions/initiatives.

The flies in the soup (tired of talking about ointment - the word itself is kind of gross isn't it?) are the "taking things too far or too fast, not believing in ourselves, entrenched beliefs that aren't working, pessimism, regret, wanting too much, not believing things will be better/bigger when we are through this stuff - THEY WILL BE!!" or situations related to our natal Sag house theme, and the Neptunian haze - rose colored glasses, lies, delusions, detours to nowhere, escaping into addiction or discouragement. Maybe we want to take action/we feel driven to take action, but we aren't clear on what action to take! Best use of these Neptune oppositions is probably us surrendering to the reality of the situation. Raise the white flag.

Note - next week Mars will trine Pluto - focus, purpose, doing what needs to be done, stepping into our power. So, Mars (as us) is far from out!

Also on September 14th, Venus and Mercury move into Libra.

Finally we have some air! Take a breath (and some Vitamin C - it's head cold season).

Venus comes home to Libra on Saturday morning - a sign she rules. The planet Venus was named for the Roman Goddess of love and grace; named Aphrodite by the ancient Greeks.

This transit (until October 8th) makes Libra Suns and Risings, who are already naturally attractive, even more so - both physically attractive and more able to attract what they want/need.

Everyone's Libra house gets more attractive, too (what house was Libra in when you were born? what is the theme of that house? do you have any planets or points in Libra - Venus will be hitting them over the next few weeks).

We will be attracted to what we find 'beautiful'. We will be attracted to what we find 'just'. We will be attracted to what we find 'peaceful'. And these are the qualities people will find attractive in us and our work in the world.

These are the qualities we'll want to bring to the table (and yes, flowers that would be a good thing to bring to the table now, too) to attract whatever we are wanting to attract now, particularly in the area of life housing your natal Libra and within our relationships.

Get dressed. Comb your hair. Appearances matter. This might sound shallow, but Libra isn't shallow. This is more about caring for ourselves and for the people we come in contact with. Wanting things to be nice for everyone. This can be a bad thing when taken too far, so don't take it too far. Libra makes it look easy, but that's her talent. She is a cardinal sign charged with starting a new season - far from easy!

The potential for peace within our relationships increases as we move from critic (Virgo) to diplomat (Libra).

The potential for people pleasing increases, too. Balance is the key now. 

Making life too much about the other person is Libra's shadow side. It's easier, or I should say, lazier, to just give in to something to have "harmony" than to work out the win-wins. 

We need to honor ourselves as well as the other person. It's simple, but not easy. If we think balance is easy we should stand on one leg for a while! 

People with a more Aries nature - Libra's polarity sign - used to putting themselves first might need to do pretty much the opposite for awhile. 

Venus in Libra can offer our relationships a fresh start if we can let go of the petty grievances and nitpicking. Seeing the other person with new eyes really is possible here.

A couple hours before Venus - Mercury (communication, ideas, thinking, siblings, local neighborhood) moves into Libra (balance, fairness, diplomacy, passive-aggression, indecision, peace, art, beauty, women), too, where he/she will hang his hat until October 3rd.

Successful words are more tactful now - more focused on what the other person needs/wants. That splitting hairs and checking for typos Mercury did back in Virgo cedes way to saying it nicely. 

Our thinking could be more indecisive now. Not because Libra is wishy-washy so much as just able to see both sides of any situation. Libra's polarity sign Aries can make fast decisions because the energy can focus most easily on one point of view - their own. Ha! And because this is the way life seems to works we will often be faced with a decision at exactly the time all this energy makes decision-making hard - go figure.

Libra is the natural ruler of our 7th house of other people. Life gets more complicated after the 7th house. Do you have any planets in your 7th house or in Libra - these are the archetypes we usually set up our lives to have played out by other people - how's that working for ya'?

Libra wants everybody to be friends. Diplomacy, both in our personal lives and the larger collective, if actually attempted, can improve tense situations now. The gentle art of persuasion via a lighter touch can work, too. Mercury in Libra is a good listener because Libra actually cares about other people!

Words that make people feel loved and appreciated and beautiful will be the right words.

Our natal Libra house gets a visit from multi-tasking, inquisitive Mercury. So things in the area of our life naturally ruled by Libra get busy.

SATURDAY is also the time of our big Full Moon in Pisces - where we get to see what we have accomplished this year. And we get a REST, which we will have earned, so hang in there.

Mercury has a bunch of aspects the second week also and we will talk about that plus the Full Moon in Part III and more big-picture 2020.

Heads up - the third week of the month is kind of the big week with Saturn stationing direct and the Neptune/Jupiter square!

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | September 5, 2019 - stick to the facts, think things through, making plans, making adjustments between the details and the big-picture, staying positive while keeping things real

Popping in to see where we are!

The Moon moved into Sagittarius this morning after that LONG, potentially uncomfortable, void in Scorpio yesterday/last night. In Sagittarius, the Moon wants to step out of her box; expand into foreign territory. She wants her (our) opinion heard. We are nurtured through optimism, big ideas, Sag themes - legal issues, politics, education, weddings, the media, publishing, our higher beliefs.

She will square Mars at 8:48PM EDT and square the Virgo Sun at 11:10PM EDT giving us this month's First Quarter Square - challenge/frustration/the need to adjust - around whatever we started at the New Moon last week.

At the same time Mercury (the ruler of Virgo and that Virgo Sun) is trining (brakes off) a serious and retrograde Saturn. There are limits. Rules. Our goals. Information. Conversations with authority go well - just don't overdo the Sag "know-it-all" energy, so ripe today. Talking about the details/whatever we are fixing moves us forward even as we are adjusting to any need to tone down Sag's big plans/over-optimism. Virgo/Capricorn will keep things REAL. Stick to the facts now. Talk/think GOALS. Give yourself time to think things through. Talk like a grown-up. Talk about what you know. Use the Sag Moon to expand that knowledge. Learn more. LISTEN.

Excellent day to take what we have been talking/think about and start to give it legs. The Moon is growing. So are your plans and actions. Just avoid Sag's preaching/taking something too far. The Sag Moon is going to meet enthusiastic Jupiter (Sag's ruler) at 3:19AM EDT. Mercury will be squaring Jupiter at the time. Our minds could be restless. Tension between the details and the big-picture. Write down your dreams.

With Black Moon Lilith (in Pisces) opposing that active and influential Mercury we could find ourselves embroiled in inflammatory perspectives - maybe 'outsider' information comes in. It could be our inner Lilith's voice seems to fall on deaf ears now - remember that trine to Saturn wants "just the facts jack". The angry feminine could be shut out.

Keep in mind all this Virgo is apt to be very stressful and taxing. Stay on top of things, but take a break when you can!


xo all

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The Astrology of September 2019 | part 1 - this is the way the patriarchy ends

I need to take a blog break for a bit, so let's take a good, long look at September, with a 3-part post this week, before I go!

September is a HUGE month.

We have alot of Virgo energy for the first two weeks.

SMALL PICTURE - Virgo! We are, and have been, focused on the details of something (maybe on a health or work issue, maybe that Cancer real estate/home, home business/family business, mothering issue from Eclipse season, maybe on the Virgo house theme from our natal chart) - working hard, fixing, editing, being practical, grinding away at something. 

BIG PICTURE - Saturn! Saturn has been retrograde in Capricorn since April 29th where he has been traveling near the South Node (what we are releasing, what's time has past, old commitments and responsibilities, old work, our ancestral inheritance) - slowing everything down. We talked about Saturn's retrograde this year HERE. He stationed at 20 degrees Capricorn and will have moved back to 13 degrees when he stations direct on September 18th (this is the space Pluto was traveling back in 2014, so there could be connections now to what was happening then, and in particular, what is culminating, showing a result or ENDING now).

We are being asked to RELEASE a commitment, a karmic obligation, a story from an ancestor's life or one of our own past lives.

AND we have to do this in a responsible way.

We are asked to take BACK the responsibility for our own energy.

A load is coming off our back, but some of us are so used to carrying a load that we are hanging onto it for dear life or we run right out and pile another load on to weigh ourselves down. Let's try not to commit to anything too quickly right now. Commitments made with Saturn on the South Node - because remember he is OPPOSING the North Node of our future - will be written in cement. There is right timing with this culmination point. Nothing could have happened any faster, any differently than it is happening/ending. This is HOW it was going to happen. No regrets. OK? Endings bring new beginnings, always.

Saturn on the South Node brings up this karma (you can't stay here any longer, you must come unstuck, you can't keep avoiding this) - focuses us HERE - says 'DIG!". The opposition to the North Node has meant we could not move forward until this hole was dug - this job done, this commitment lived up to, this responsibility seen through to the end, this sh*t ended.

This is the patriarchal crap we are all here to play a role in SHIFTING.

This is about us being in charge of our own lives! Old roles/responsibilities are ending.

Saturn is in his home sign of Capricorn. Once he stations direct in mid September (the 18th, but we will feel him slowing to station sooner than that), he will be full-steam-ahead on his journey to meet Pluto in January 2020. There won't be any stopping him.

So, any unfinished business in our life needs to be taken care of NOW.

The first two weeks of September.

When Saturn stations direct mid-month the chickens come home to roost. Responsibilities can get heavier. Limits are felt. Deals sealed. People put a ring on it. Karma. Cause and effect. This can as easily be reward as punishment. Respect for a job well done. The Capricorn situation shifts gears.

Until then there is alot of energy to move through.

By the time Saturn meets the South Node (for his third and FINAL time) on September 28th - this thing FINALLY WRAPS UP.

This is what we are working toward in September.

(Also a heads up we can look ahead to November 8th when we get Saturn's third and final trine to Neptune - this year's BEST repeating aspect. Making the dream real. The sacrifice to build something more solid and lasting. There is a final move to be made here. A hand still to be played ....)

This is all a step on the road through the ending of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius - this is the way the patriarchy ends, folks ...

BIGGER PICTURE - We are living through the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius - this is unlike any time in our history. We cannot sleep through these important times. We are awake and if it takes a smack in the face or a rock to our head to wake us up that is what we will get. As painful as it is, it is a privilege to be alive now.

We are the people who are living through the ending of the Abrahamic religions - the story of a male God - a messiah, a son of God/holy prophet that forms the idea that God is a man. This shifted the balance of power so that the female had no God. The religions separated us. The religions taught us to get to God we had to go through man, they told us who we were, they told us who we were "better than".

This story of separation is crumbling.

Slowly and rapidly. And it is reshaping our world. Everything is changing. The nature of the masculine and the feminine. Our relationships. Our nationalities. The planet. Everyone is participating in this transition from one form of life to another. We are entering a Galactic Community where the idea of an earth-centered God doesn't exist - where God is an organic force.

We are going to get there, but how we get there depends on what we do now. Some things that look/feel like they are stabilizing us are actually keeping us stuck/holding us back, so they are falling apart. We've built our house on sand simply by doing what generations of other people have done. By doing what we've done before (past lives/ancestral story). By buying into a hierarchical world that is dying. This is all shifting and it can be some scary sh*t because it is nothing we have experienced before and our bodies are made to crave what is familiar. Also because many of us have lived through cataclysm and those memories, stored deep in our cells and soul, are awakened now. This isn't easy. Life on planet Earth is not for sissies.

Here are the transits for September (and I have surely missed some!).

Look at the patterns.

The story of September is told through the patterns (and archetypes).

We'll unpack the rest of the month in Part II later in the week when we look at some of these:

SEPTEMBER 1st - Mercury trines Uranus, Venus trines Saturn
SEPTEMBER 2nd - Mars conjuncts the Sun, Venus squares Jupiter
SEPTEMBER 3rd - Mercury conjuncts the Sun and Mars, Venus sextiles North Node
SEPTEMBER 4th - Venus opposes Neptune
SEPTEMBER 5th - Mercury trines Saturn
 SEPTEMBER 6th - 1st Quarter Moon Sagittarius, Sun trines Saturn, Mercury squares Jupiter and sextiles the North Node, Venus trines Pluto
SEPTEMBER 7th - Mercury opposes Neptune
SEPTEMBER 8th - Sun squares Jupiter and sextiles the North Node, Mercury trines Pluto
SEPTEMBER 9th - Mars trines Saturn
SEPTEMBER 10th - Jupiter inconjunct the North Node, Sun opposes Neptune
SEPTEMBER 11th - Mars sextiles the North Node
SEPTEMBER 12th - Mars squares Jupiter
SEPTEMBER 13th - Mercury conjunct Venus, Sun trines Pluto
SEPTEMBER 14th - Full Moon in Pisces, Mercury and Venus enter Libra, Mars opposes Neptune
SEPTEMBER 16th - Mercury opposes Chiron
SEPTEMBER 17th - Venus opposes Chiron, Mercury inconjunct Uranus
SEPTEMBER 18th - Saturn stations direct
SEPTEMBER 19th - Mars trines Pluto, Venus inconjunct Uranus
SEPTEMBER 21st - Jupiter squares Neptune
SEPTEMBER 22nd - Last Quarter Moon in Gemini, Mercury squares Saturn and the North Node & South Node
SEPTEMBER 23rd - Sun enters Libra
SEPTEMBER 24th  - Mercury inconjunct Neptune, Mercury sextiles Jupiter
SEPTEMBER 25th - Venus squares Saturn and the North Node & South Node
SEPTEMBER 26th - Mercury squares Pluto, Sun opposes Chiron
SEPTEMBER 27th - Venus inconjunct Neptune
SEPTEMBER 28th - New Moon in Libra, Saturn conjuncts the South Node, Venus sextiles Jupiter
SEPTEMBER 29th - Sun inconjunct Uranus

We looked at the first week in the weekly HERE. We'll look at some of the rest next post, later in the week. No dailies this week - need to rest my neck/shoulder/arm/hand AND somehow pack up thousands of pounds of metal which sounds like two things very much in disagreement with each other, but are actually both the untangling of some very old and very rusty knots. Yikes!

My job, as the world shifts this month - what is your job?

xo all

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Astrology Forecast for Creatives | week of September 2, 2019 - purpose, motivation, taking action, being sober, being practical, big girl/boy pants on, avoid over-doing it, some confusion and need to escape, get the sh*t done, get enough sleep, believe in yourself and your future because it's reaching back right now and pulling us forward

Let's unpack this week (looks like three suitcases at least) - 

SUNDAY - Mercury trines Uranus. Venus trines Saturn
MONDAY - Venus squares Jupiter, Sun conjuncts Mars
TUESDAY - Mercury conjuncts Mars, Sun conjuncts Mercury, Venus trines the South Node
WEDNESDAY - Venus opposes Neptune
THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn
FRIDAY - Sun trines Saturn, Venus trines Pluto, Mercury trines the South Node, Mercury squares Jupiter
SATURDAY - Mercury opposes Neptune
SUNDAY - Sun trines the South Node, Mercury trines Pluto, Sun squares Jupiter

This can't be right, can it? WWHHHAATTT?!

Remember in the New Moon post HERE we talked about how the Virgo planets (Mercury, the Sun, Venus and Mars) are going to do - this week and next - what the Moon did last Friday PLUS interact with each other!

So this is busy. This could feel overwhelming.

But we will be motivated and can get a heck of alot done.

The Virgo planets are trining Saturn (stability, sobriety, being responsible), squaring Jupiter (tension/frustration around expansion, overwhelm), trining the South Node (endings, wrap ups, results, what we have to do) opposing Neptune (confusion, rose-colored glasses, needing a rest) and trining Pluto (truth, power, our own authority or interactions with authority, intensity, intimacy, acting on our ambitions).

The reality of 2020 is setting in now folks, if it hadn't already. Can you feel it?

There is no point in writing a day-to-day here in the weekly because I would be saying the same things over and over just in slightly different ways (plus my body hurts, so I need to be concise and quick on the keyboard!). 

We are going to be in and out of a T-Square between the Virgo planets, Neptune in Pisces and Jupiter in Sagittarius for the next couple weeks.

With Jupiter at the apex, we are going to have to watch out for taking on too much, over-spending, over-counting on something, expanding too much, allowing ourselves to be pushed further than we want to go, over-promising, betting the farm, saying too much, basically being over-the top.

BUT with Jupiter at the apex (who better to have at the apex!), strong in his home sign and DIRECT - there are NEW opportunities here. We have to have faith, in ourselves and in something bigger than ourselves. We have to expand our reach and get out of our own way. We have to embrace what is foreign to us. We gotta believe!

All this Virgo will focus us in on a specific problem/situation. We will have the energy/motivation to take practical action to move things forward or fix what needs fixing. Don't ignore health matters now. No cutting corners. No more waiting.

Opportunities come in now. Some things fall into place. Yes, there will be times we are overwhelmed and have to take a deep breath and even a break now and then. The trines to Saturn keep things serious - our money, our relationships, our words - we need to be sober and wearing our big girl/boy pants.

The oppositions to Neptune create some confusion, things are hidden, we don't know what we don't know. Avoid jumping to conclusions or into things that seem too good to be true.

The trines to the South Node speak of karmic endings/releases. The things that are no longer working. Results can come in. The stuff we have been procrastinating will be biting us in the ass. Good thing we have been drinking these double chocolate chip frappuccinos and have some extra padding. We are strong, We were born to do this. We keep going. 

Every time things start moving too smoothly there will be a wrench tossed in the works. Every time things start looking too 'blue skies' a storm cloud will roll in. BUT every time we want to give up we will get a second wind or some encouragement or whatever it is we need to keep going.

The inner planets are going to roll through this pattern and it will be hard to separate one from the other. We won't need to. In general (you have to look at your natal chart for themes) with collective themes - we zero in a health or work problem. We will want to fix it/talk about it/take action on it/ clear things up. There could also be connections to the Cancer stuff we have been dealing with - home, family, mother, home business, family business, real estate. Stuff can feel bigger than it actually is (and yes, it can be pretty big for some people) or solutions/pending results can look easier/better than they actually are or will be. Don't over-do anything. Watch your Benjamins. Watch your language, especially around what you are committing to. Have faith. Know things are improving. Look for the opportunities. Stay positive. Some things will be hidden - we don't know what we don't know. Old work issues or results or issues with authority come up. Our stability/security comes through what we know/what we've already done or accomplished. We could be wrapping something up/ending something. There will be chances to take breathers and pit stops - take them. Our future is over there and over there looks pretty freakin' awesome and you might not be able to see this yet, but trust me it is.

If we are doing the shadow side of Virgo/Pisces we will be screwing this up by - criticism of ourselves and other people, nothing is good enough, trying to fix what can't be fixed, service to the point of exhaustion, too restrictive a diet, health obsession, enabling, playing a victim/martyr, escaping into drugs/alcohol/Netflix marathons. Check yourself on this stuff. Just stop. Do a little better.

If we are feeling too much Virgo - need to get something perfect, too much doing/helping/service, critical, exhausted  - we need to move toward Virgo's polarity sign of Pisces - take a breath, make some art, dance, listen to music, meditate, pray. If all this Virgo has us zoning out and moving too much toward Pisces, we will need to pull ourselves back to the Virgo - make something smaller, focus on the details, make a list, grow a backbone, do what is right in front of us, wash the dishes, skip the cake and eat the f'ng salad.

Do your job. Play your part. This can be a really productive week. We've got this thing. Things that we haven't been able to rush, because this is all a process with billions and billions of moving parts, will start to unfold.

xo all

Heads up all these planets bundled together means another week of long void moons, so stay flexible when things get wonky and have to be re-done (!) - MONDAY Moon is void from 4:30AM EDT to 7:35PM EDT, WEDNESDAY Moon is void 6:58AM to 11:08PM and Friday from around noon EDT through SATURDAY morning.

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