Full Moon in Aquarius | August 15, 2019 - focus on what matters, expect the unexpected, help from the ancestors, words that change things, releasing our death-grip on the old world so a new one can be born, pregnant with possibilities

On THURSDAY, August 15th at 8:29AM EDT - the Aquarius Moon will oppose the Leo Sun, giving us this year's Full Moon in Aquarius.

Aquarius is our rational, detached and objective air sign. The sign of equality and community - fixed and "knows-it-all" Aquarius does not like compromise, but Aquarius does love collaboration. Aquarius wants everybody to win. Following Capricorn this is the space where we have already reached the top of the mountain, so what's left to do, but lower a hand and pull someone else up.

Aquarius is the sign of genius, the sign of the revolutionary, the scientist (sometimes of the madder variety) and the exile.

Let's unpack the chart!

The Sun is exactly conjunct Venus (we talked about this yesterday when they were both at 21 degrees Leo), so we have both the Sun AND Venus opposing our Full Moon and we can see they are forming a fixed T-Square to Vesta in Taurus. Uranus (ruler of the lunation) is squaring Mercury - exact on Friday (surprising news, disruptive communication or tech/transportation disruptions) and trining Chiron. Sun/Venus are inconjunct a retrograde Pluto and the Moon is semi-sextile. Neptune is trining the North Node. The Moon is trining Pallas.

Full Moons brings things to light, to a conclusion or to a peak point of fullness. They are emotional times - even in detached Aquarius - just look at all that Leo energy! Full Moons are oppositions and focus us on our relationships with other people (our projections).

The Sun, strong in his home sign of Leo, conjunct Venus (and note all the other energies in Leo right now - whatever we have going on is going to be BIG!) and inconjunct a retrograde Pluto we talked about yesterday HERE. Venus is love, beauty, abundance, the power of attraction and hooking up with the Sun illuminates what we want (whether or not we get it) and material results and offers us a potent, creative fresh start.

The inconjunct requires us to adjust to a retrograde Pluto in Capricorn - the dying rules and limits and the way the world sees us that is evolving/being reborn. This inconjunct is the energy of what we have already achieved/our mastery/our power vs the space of our heart and what we are creating next (the Venus Star Point in Leo). Maybe it is our fear of losing control attempting to hijack our Venus/Sun beginning. Whatever it is, don't attempt to smother it. Inconjuncts require giving both energies their due.

Venus opposing the Moon is uncomfortable. And it's "the other person/those other people" at fault -  making us uncomfortable! :) This energy is about how comfortable and comforted we feel with feminine roles. Maybe it shows up as a "need" to be in love, be peaceful, have more money, be more attractive.

The Sun/Venus and Moon's T-Square to Vesta in Taurus speaks of tension/frustrations around what (maybe our resources) we hold sacred, are focused on, value, are devoted to. Probably something here we don't want to lose and are intensely determined to hold onto. Aquarian need for liberation always squares Taurus's need to stay put and keep things solid and stable (not working out so well for Taurus these days with Aquarius's ruler Uranus crashing and burning his way through their sign).

This Moon is trining Pallas - near the end of her journey through Libra. Speaking again of this Full Moon's focus on our relationships. Aquarius wants to go her own way, but Pallas here also speaks of strategies that incorporate cooperation and diplomacy.

Moon's ruler Uranus squares Mercury (exact on Friday) who also starts covering new ground in Leo TODAY. Another turning point. The conversation changes. New information comes in. Maybe whatever we have been going back and forth over is decided in a bold and sudden way. Mercury trines hurting/healing Chiron - we can say/hear just the right thing. Words can be disruptive, but healing, too.

I love that magical/mystical Neptune is trining the North Node (in Cancer). This is intuitive insight into our future/path forward. Again help from behind the scenes/from our ancestors, spirit guides and past lives. Meditate. Pray.

So, how would we wrap this all up?! Can anything ever be tightly rolled into one little thing anymore? I don't think so! We left black and white behind with the invention of the color TV.

Full Moons bring something to a conclusion or culmination (peak energy). The Moon opposes a stellium of planets in Leo including an exact conjunction of the Sun and Venus - which is a Venus Star Point kicking off a new Venus cycle. Both the Moon and Sun square Vesta which makes what we are focused on/what we think we want/need THE FOCAL POINT. Keep in mind this is a FIXED Full Moon answering to Uranus in a FIXED sign. Let's not spread ourselves too thin now. We will focus here (deal with what is right in front of us and what is most important) AND we'll stay open to surprising situations/solutions as life makes its unexpected gyrations in its determination to bring us something BETTER. With Mercury squaring Uranus and trining Chiron - we are thinking outside the box. Unexpected information/news could come in as well as triggering/healing words and conversations. We are releasing ourselves from lifetimes of obligations and rules and limits that have been keeping us safe (sort of) but have also been keeping us stuck. Life is tricky. Relationships, probably trickiest of all, as we struggle to maintain our balance through outdated paradigms that are out of balance.

Stay focused on what matters most - don't dilute your energy with a scattered focus. Stay open to other possibilities. Release what isn't really yours ...

Keep in mind when Saturn (co-ruler of Aquarius) stations direct in the middle of September - and he will start to slow down even earlier and gather his strength - DADDY'S HOME. Between now and then we want to be sure we are going in the right direction because things will get more FIXED after that. Releasing fears, commitments that have outgrown their usefulness, limiting rules that don't even make any sense anymore, our list of "shoulds" and "have to's" - now is the time. What we are moving forward with come mid-September we are going to be stuck with for awhile.

With Uranus and Saturn co-ruling this Full Moon from their retrograde positions we might find someone/something/some situation from our past resurfacing -

this could also be a familiar ego or archetype energy in the form of a new or unexpected person or situation, with a resonance to something from the past. 

This would be something we need to release or reclaim that has to do with the Aquarius Full Moon's collective themes of self-expression, freedom and individuality. 

This could relate to change we are resisting or some responsibility we are resisting.

Focus on what matters most. A light is shining on what we love/want. Give everything and everyone a little extra air. Expect this Full Moon to deliver something a little or a lot unexpected. Change is here. Lighten your load. Loosen your grip.

Nothing is set in stone just yet. We are pregnant with possibilities!

xo all

This is a good time for a symbolic release. I always give things away to Goodwill during the Full Moon, signaling to myself (and my painfully fixed nature) that I will always have as much as I need and creating space for something new to come into my life. Don't forget to get outside and walk in it, too!

Venus Star Point | Venus meets the Sun - fresh starts with love and money, knowing what we really value, seeing how our self-esteem is connected to our hearts and wallets, letting go of that dead thing and following our inner spark, vision boards and starting a manifesting practice

On Thursday, August 14th, Venus

(love, money, our resources, our values, women, beauty and self esteem, also the themes of the houses ruled by Libra and Taurus in your natal chart)

meets the Sun at 21 degrees Leo. 

Venus meets the Sun every nine and a half months in a beautiful pattern/rhythm that, over the course of eight years, forms a nearly perfect five pointed star in the heavens.

She always meets the Sun in the same five signs - Aries, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio and Capricorn (notice none of these are the signs she rules or is exalted or is even very comfortable!). She last met the Sun in Scorpio back in October during Venus's stormy retrograde. She will next meet the Sun when she retrogrades in Gemini in May 2020. Because she won't meet the Sun in Leo again (while direct) for eight years - this week's energy both concludes AND kicks off a new eight year cycle.

HERE and HERE are a couple posts from the time of her previous star point - back in October. In Scorpio something was transformed - maybe something we used to greatly value. Maybe we could see the ways we had given our power away or didn't honor our own hearts. Maybe we were too focused on what wasn't really ours. Scorpian transformation comes through loss and is permanent.

Now, that story from October (but also from 8 years ago) is reaching a culmination/conclusion point. With Venus, something truly beautiful and loving can be revealed now. At the same time we are able to start a new, fresh chapter - we should see some physical manifestations of what we start now when Venus gets into Aquarius at the end of the year (during the eclipses!) and beginning of 2020.

Coming just one day before our Aquarius Full Moon - Aquarius ruled by Uranus and Uranus in Taurus answering to Venus - adds to the oomph and the mega-creative potential!

Today's energy is excellent for stating what we want. Make a vision board. Tell someone you love them - hopefully a whole lot of someones. Socialize. Connect with other people. Put your focus on what you want to grow over the coming eight years. Start something new. Get this energy into its DNA. Try something new and heart-felt. Spend time with children or on a creative project.

There is also an inconjunct (rock and a hard place) with a retrograde Pluto

(that death that has been postponed/public space or mastery we hold in the world that is evolving/mess that needs to be cleaned up),

so there could be some kind of compulsion or jealousy or manipulation energy activated. Maybe time to go high when they go low?

Moving through Capricorn, Pluto here represents the dying rules and limits and the way the world sees us that is evolving. This is the space where we have already achieved mastery/power vs the space of our heart and what we are creating next (the Venus Star Point in Leo).  

An inconjunct requires we somehow work both sides.
  
By the end of August ALL the personal planets will be in Virgo (in positive alignment with change-maker Uranus) - the path forward will be much clearer and we will be making practical plans and taking decisive action.

For today - make a vision board. Focus on what you want.

Give your muses something to work with.

Fresh avenues are opening for our innate talents to announce themselves and to growth and thrive.

xo all

NOTE (from a previous post about money since Venus rules our personal finances, values and resources) - I have seen many, many makers' charts and often artists and healers come into this lifetime with a disconnect from money - from lives where they didn't need to deal with that energy and so have never learned to - lives where they were taken care of or unhealthy or lived in communal situations or have taken vows of poverty in previous lives - note - if this sounds like something you might resonate with it can never hurt to ask your higher self to seek release from this vow - a friend told me it felt like a rock rolled off her back after meditating on release.

When we raise our vibration; everything raises with us (the only one of us here thing). The tide isn't carrying us, we are the tide.

an old one of mine - got the camper, not the pony

We develop a manifesting practice - and yes, it is called a practice because it is something we need to practice!

1. We practice compassion

(non-judgment with others and ourselves, holding a safe space, creating home)

2. We don't have to know what we want (thinking we have to know this is what gets so many of us stuck) - we just have to know how we want to feel. We focus on the things we already have that make us feel this way. We set our intention - verbally, through the written word and visually.

Vision Board TIP - I used to be very big on vision boards and have had a lot of success with them - I always start my vision board with pictures of what I already have in my life - things I am grateful for and am already in vibration with, so for example if I wanted more recognition I would start the board with images of ways I have been recognized - cards from my daughter, thank you notes, awards, articles, blah-blah - I would get myself into the vibration of that and then add images of this in bigger ways to my board.

3. We sit with the idea that we don't have to make things happen (that what we seek IS seeking us) , we just have to release the stuff we carry that is standing in the way of what we want/need - see how that feels.

(this isn't about laziness or inaction - this is about getting to a place of compassion and alignment with the vibration we want and using the law of attraction to bring to us what we need; what we are here to manifest, what is truly ours).

4. We release our attachment to the outcome.
5. We meditate to still our monkey mind and connect with our inner wisdom
6. We take action on the things that come into our life.


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Today's Astrology Forecast | August 13, 2019 - the seasons of our life, moving forward, encouraging words, the time for a course correction if we aren't liking where we are headed, smart moves

Yesterday got away from me - weekly coming tonight!

For today, the Moon is void until 11:35AM EDT when she moves into humanitarian Aquarius moving toward her opposition to the Sun (Full Moon) on Thursday.

With the Moon in Aquarius we are nurtured by allowing ourselves a little air/distance. She will oppose Mercury (in Leo and walking degrees for the third time, so not a brand new situation) at 4:32PM EDT - our independent feelings (forward leaning and detached as they might be) in conflict with our mind/thinking/loud words or bold ideas.

At the same time Mercury is trining (brakes off) Ceres (in Sagittarius) - this is also a repeating aspect (due to Mercury's recent retrograde) from June 18th and June 29th. Leo/Sag is bold and hopeful. Now that both planets are direct it would be time to move forward. Ceres themes include seasons of life issues, issues around an important pet, nurturing, mother issues, situations where we might feel out of control. Mercury rules communication, so we could reach a decision, receive more information, have a conversation, etc - that moves things forward.

Mercury's opposition to the Aquarian Moon this afternoon could put us at odds with ourselves - our thinking/feeling out of balance or with another person. Aquarius wants cool headed logic and Leo needs a heartfelt desire.

For some people Mercury shows up as sibling situation, local community issues, writing/learning, transportation or tech issues.

Venus is building toward her meeting with the Sun - in play now - in fiery Leo. A light is shined on what we want - love, money, our resources, values, self-esteem, women, beauty. A reward could come in now (opportunity) or we get a clear view of what isn't working - we talked about this yesterday. We win or we "lose", but if we have to lose, this is exactly when we want to "lose" because we can MOST EASILY change direction at the start of a new cycle. We have had since Venus went retrograde last fall to figure out what we want - here's where we have it/get it/can see we will have it or know why we don't and still have time to CHANGE COURSE.

Stay conscious. The detached Aquarius Moon should dial things back just enough to get a better view and clear our head. We can act and think smartly.

Back with the weekly tonight. The Moon is waxing (growing) - it's a time of action.

xo all





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Today's Astrology Forecast | August 12, 2019 - get to work, what have we manifested, pregnant with creative potential, an intense night

Today's Moon is in ambitious Capricorn (work, career, responsibilities), Mercury is freshly minted back in Leo (children, romance, creativity, recreation, following our heart) and Jupiter is direct (in his home sign - travel, legal issues, foreign issues, our beliefs, wedding, media, religion) - no sleeping in!

We can get alot done today.

A good day to deal with authority/step into our own. Clarify goals, be productive, creative.

The Moon meets a retrograde Saturn at 5:53AM EDT (endings, reality check), sextiles a retrograde Neptune at 11:58am EDT (opportunities to use our imagination, spirituality, healing) and finally goes void until late tomorrow morning off a most-likely uncomfortably intense connection with a retrograde Pluto at 6:11PM EDT.

The waxing Cappy Moon also makes a couple important inconjuncts (rocks and hard places) - the Moon and Venus and the Moon and the Sun (both in Leo). This is about us remembering our responsibilities - and with that Cappy Moon, both answering to and meeting a retrograde Saturn today - probably old responsibilities - reality check time.

We move toward Venus's meeting with the Sun mid week when a light is shined on a fresh Venusian opportunity (love, money, beauty, women, self-esteem) and we start a new eight year Sun/Venus cycle in bold and creative Leo. We are pregnant with creative potential.

As Venus meets the Sun the situations we find ourselves in now are showing us the ways our past investments of love/resources/time/money have manifested. 

Do we like what we are seeing? 

Rewards can come to light this week as well as disappointments. 

If we seem to be holding the short end of the stick - there is good news for us, too - because a NEW cycle is kicking off and now we know what doesn't work!

How long it took us to figure this out is just how long it took us to figure this out. We are infinite. The Moon in Capricorn can be cold without alot of soft places to fall. Everything, EVERYTHING is a transit (ie transitory, in flux) - keep this in mind if things feel overwhelming now.

This powerful retrograde energy in Cappy this summer is determined to part us from the stuff that has outgrown its usefulness. Old emotional blocks. For some people this will be the ingrained patriarchy stuff around hard work and commitments. What old commitments are no longer working? How are we depleting ourselves? As the Moon moves into detached Aquarius tomorrow morning - time to step back and take a breath.

For today - TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS. We are moving forward. 

Get it done before 6:11PM EDT. Expect an intense evening.

The weekly got delayed by Sunday's amazing weather. It will be up tonight or tomorrow morning.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | August 11, 2019 - changing direction, moving forward, creative ideas, bold words, mining for missed gold, learning more, expanding our reach, some changes put on hold

Today we have a MAJOR re-alignment of energies.

Uranus (in Taurus) stations retrograde (through January 2020), Jupiter stations direct (in Sagittarius through December 2019) and Mercury returns to Leo (our third time at zero degrees Leo).

Let's unpack this and start with Mercury.

Mercury first entered Leo back on June 26th then she/he turned around a few days later (stationed retrograde) moved back through the early degrees of Leo and then back into Cancer then stopped again (stationed direct). We are back at 0 degrees Leo late this afternoon. We won't be covering totally new ground for a few more days - but back into Leo means our Leo story - our creative projects/ideas, bold/courageous words, Leo themed situation (or the theme of your Leo or Sun house in your natal chart) moves forward - children, romance, love, creativity, recreation, the space of our natural spotlight, our heart, what our heart wants. Something will pick up where it came to a stop/pivot back in late June.  

It's time to be moving forward.

Jupiter, in his home sign of Sagittarius for ONLY a few more months (through December 2nd), has been retrograde since April 10th. He now stations direct (starts moving forward) from 14 degrees Sag. That Sag theme (what is foreign, high education, media, weddings, our beliefs, legal issues religion, travel) - or maybe more likely the theme of the Sag house in your natal chart or the theme of the house ruled by Jupiter in your natal chart - changes course. Interacting with Mercury just before Mercury changes signs - this could be the time we get an unexpected/sudden piece of information we need to move forward. Maybe we see (Mercury) an opportunity to expand (Jupiter). If we have been wronged, here is the energy to get us justice (just don't spend too much energy looking for it because other people's justice may not be visible to us - an example would be Epstein's suicide which will likely, coming at this time, expand this story in ways it couldn't if it stayed focused on him). If an area of expansion shut down last spring here is where the wheels start spinning again. An opportunity, that seemed lost, can come back around. There could be an opportunity to learn more/connect with something that expands our reach/get lucky. Jupiter in his home sign only happens once every 12 years - there is alot of other stuff greedy for our attention, but we don't want to miss THIS.

Stuck stuff gets going. It's time to be moving forward.

Uranus, from 6 degrees Taurus, stations retrograde until January 2020. What is the theme of your Taurus ruled house? What is the theme of the house Uranus rules in your natal chart? If you don't know,  ask me and I will check your chart. Collectively Taurus rules our money, our resources, what we have earned, our values, our self-esteem, the planet Earth. There is a change of direction here. Uranus is unpredictable - any unexpected lightning strike could take us in a bold new direction or remove all the excitement/energy from a forward-leaning project/situation. For some people changes that hit unexpectedly over the last few months will slow down or be put on hold. If we are directly impacted by Uranus's back and forth over a sensitive planet or point in our natal chart - changes could intensify. For most people changes move from the outer to the inner realms.

The Moon moved into serious and goal-oriented Capricorn last night. She will trine (brakes off) a strong and still Uranus today at 1:36PM EDT - expect the unexpected. This is practical creative energy and will help us ground these changes in the real world. This is a good time to re-launch something or move something into a NEW PHASE.

We have an amazing week ahead with Venus meeting the Sun and a Full Moon in Aquarius! Expect a post tonight or Monday morning.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | August 9, 2019 - nourished by a sense of adventure, date night, an emotional gamble, reality check, transformed by what we hold sacred, shaping the energies of our quest

The Moon, in high-flying Sag, will hook up with a retrograde Jupiter at 7:24PM EDT

(mountains out of molehills, self-righteous feelings, feeling optimistic or maybe nourished by a Sag themes - travel, something or someone foreign, the media, our beliefs, religion, education), maybe it's time for an emotional (Moon) gamble (Jupiter),

and then trine loving and social Venus (in creative Leo) at 10:18PM EDT. The Moon is feeling good today!

Mercury is at the end of emotional Cancer - for the third time - some might be feeling the melancholy of this. The past. That home/family/real estate situation. Mothering regrets or regrets around mothering. The ball and chain we can't slip off ... just yet.

At the same time we have Venus inconjunct Saturn (rock and a hard place) and Pluto trining Vesta.

The Venus/Saturn requires us to make some kind of adjustment to what we want.

Saturn aka "the reality police" dulls our shine just a bit now. Retrograde, he is holding our feet to the fire via an old obligation/commitment/contract. Enforcing a limit/boundary/requirement. Delays.

Pluto/Vesta is an intense focus on what we hold sacred. In earthy Taurus, Vesta is bringing our attention to our resources, our money, our values or self-esteem. Pluto brings powerful change. Transformation (Pluto) of sacred cows (Vesta). Powerful (Pluto) commitments (Vesta). The brakes are off something now.

In a couple days Jupiter is going to station direct and Uranus is going to station retrograde and Mercury will be back in Leo. Something is turning around. Are we ready? probably not!

Leo is a proud and fixed sign, so we need to stay flexible. The Sun (Leo's ruler) is mirrored in our physical bodies through our heart and our solar plexis. Priority should be given to both now. Heart health - diet, exercise, opening our heart to love, compassion, empathy, moving out of our ego, being easier on ourselves and others - more loving. Our solar plexis (our gut) - diet, exercise, breath work, are we feeling empowered? can we trust our gut? or are we more often feeling bloated, "butterflies in our stomach" or "kicked in the gut" - maybe this area needs strengthening.

The midpoint of the Sun's journey through Leo (the sign he rules) is sometimes called the Lion's Gate. This annual portal opening - around 8/8 - is a time of increased consciousness about our soul mission/the ways and spaces we are intended to have confidence and courage and shine in this lifetime. Sirius (the dog star), a fixed star located at 14 degrees Cancer is associated with the Lion's Gate. The brightest star in our sky when visible, Sirius is 25 times brighter and double the size of our Sun. This is the time of year (the time of harvest/abundance - the "dog" days of August is a reference to more than the temperature) the ancient Egyptians could view Sirius rising above their pyramids and they believed there was a special maternal link between Sirius and life on Earth.

This year the North Node (our collective way forward) will conjunct Sirius from late August until late September for the first time in more than 18 years. This will support our North Node in Cancer agenda - clearing out expired maternal contracts/patterns, moving toward what feels like home/nurturing, a need to mother and be mothered, an increased ability to show vulnerability and not see this as a weakness, but instead as a crucial piece of our journey toward a more authentic state of person-hood.

We'll talk more about this as we move through it.

For today, it's Friday, the Moon is in optimistic (and sometimes preachy and bombastic) Sag and supported by Sag's ruler (Jupiter) and Venus - our two most beneficial planets. Find something to enjoy about today.

We are shaping the energies for the quest ahead of us.

Share something. Get outdoors. Embrace the magic.

Where could our life use a little more adventure?!

xo all

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