Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius - August 5, 2009

For all you folks with Leo and Aquarius prominent and personalized in your natal chart (Sun, Moon or Ascendant) you have reached the end of a long and harsh two year cycle! It comes to and end tonight, August 5, 2009, in the USA at 8:55pm EDT and in Europe (Copenhagen/Brussels) tomorrow morning at 5:55am CEDT, in the form of a full moon (lunar) eclipse.

The eclipse will occur at 13 degrees of Aquarius and is an unusual third lunar eclipse of the season, and the second one of this summer.

You can expect it to touch the Aquarian areas of your life and bring to you final "aha" moments and lessons. You have learned a lot since August 2007 in the life areas covered by Aquarius in particular and also in Leo.

In the mundane, larger world, you expect it to highlight progressive perspectives on humanity, life in general, science, social groups and asociations and knowledge. It will also affect whatever personal areas where you have Aquarius. If it is in your 7th house, then relationships; if it is in your 11th house, then friendships and group associations; if it is in your 8th house, then debts and deep sexual and psychological issues etc.

The other area that will be marked in the larger mundane word is in Leo areas of children, taking risks (such as gambling on the stock market), creativity, being playful, and non-serious but perhaps sexual love affairs.

Because it is a lunar eclipse, if you are a woman, you may decide it is time to end an unsatisfying relationship and walk away; if you are a man, you may see the woman in your life leave you because she can no longer tolerate the relationship and realizes that things have finally run their course for her.

The influence of this lunar eclipse could be felt as early as August 2 and the stronger effect will last until August 9. However, expect that for up to two weeks from the direct hit, you will see the import of it all. The final messages about what is wisest for you to do, which direction to take and what you were to learn in certain areas and from certain people, will be very apparent by August 23.

Of course for many there will be no major event during this eclipse time, but there still may be that unspoken sensitivity to people and events around you. Expect the unexpected and embrace what the Universe brings you!

Blessings

Barrett

New Moon in Cancer -- June 22, 2009

New Moon in Cancer
Monday, June 22, 2009
9:35pm CET
1° Cancer 30’

One of my favorite times of the year is only a few days away -- the Summer Solstice! This is the New Moon of the year that is absolutely gorgeous and exuberant with LIFE. I am expecially thrilled when I am able to spend this time of year here in my home in Denmark. It is always nice in my California (USA) home, but it is even more beautiful here in Denmark. We are so far north that the days are already long -- with the Sun not setting until about 9:30pm at night and the remaining duskcontinuing until about 11:00pm. It is possible to frolick, walk, canoe, picnic, hang with friends, etc until......the next day! It is a perfect time for being out on the water canoeing and to camp in tents under the beautiful night sky! Oooh!

This New Moon marking the Summer Solstice is occurring at the crucial first degree of a sign so we are being asked to take some action! That particular action is to be kind to ourselves and protect ourselves (do not read that as over-protect!!) by being LOVING and KIND to ourselves. We are also to extend it to others. We are to do this actively by surrounding ourselves with loving people and situations.

This Sun/Moon conjunction in Cancer is in exact opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. If you know your natal chart, look to the two houses where these positions of Cancer and Capricorn are located and you will know how you can expect to be affected. The effects will be felt as early as Wednesday, June 17, and significantly more strongly from Friday, June 19. Venus in Taurus and Mars in Taurus are trine (a positive aspect) Saturn in Virgo so there will be an urge to express love and compassion in very practical ways. For example, in what ways can you reduce suffering and pain in your personal life or, your local, national or global sphere of influence?

Cancer and especially the Moon in Cancer represents the archetypal Mother and Saturn in Virgo represents the archetypal Father. Nurturance through taking responsibility is in the air.

Cancer is about mothering, smothering, nurturing, emotional security, and caregiving. All of these things occur within ourselves and in our relationships. This New Moon is a perfect time to find a path of healing for yourself and for you and another person to work on healing your relationship if it is in need of some TLC. Saturn in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn will empower you to look at things realistically, find the places where you steered off-course and speak the truth about them The Sun/Moon in Cancer can help you do it with love.

It is possible to create relationships incorporating nurturing, respect, trustworthiness, personal responsibility, kindness, and independence with love,

This New Moon in Cancer at Summer Solstice is calling us all to make time for each other in our homes and families -- or to make time to create the home life and family life you desire if you do not have one. Clean out the junk in your home -- literally and figuratively.

Under this New Moon in Cancer you can begin releasing old defense mechanisms and self-protective behaviors. Do you have significant Cancer or Capricorn placements such as your Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Venus or Mars? Again, search your natal chart because these are areas where you will significantly feel this New Moon. Those with Sun, Moon and Ascendant are very likely to find there are some hidden defense mechanisms. Do you explode/rage/vent unfairly at people you want to have a close relationship with -- and then wonder why they keep pulling away from you? Ask yourself -- why are you being defensive and self-protective? The answer is within YOU -- it is not because the other person is doing something to you. Tale responsibility. If you want to have a reconciled and healthy relationship with someone who is pulling away from you -- then YOU need to address YOUR issues, stop trying to make other feel guilty and responsible for your happiness, stop being defensive and sarcastic when they do not meet your needs, and learn to be truly giving without trying to guilt people into loving you. These behaviors do more harm than good!

If you need help unearthing these realities, ask yourself these questions:

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   Do you mother others, do things for them, as a way to hide your own feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness?
   
   
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   Do you threaten to stop loving others or being giving towards them if they do not stay focused on you?
   
   
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   Do you become cold, nasty and explosive (screaming at them and/or storming off in a huff) towards other people? Have yo done this more than once in a relationship with someone?
   
   
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   Do you keep an iron grip on unhealthy relationships because you feel unworthy of anything better?
   
   
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   Do you seek love as a way to fill an inner emptiness?
   
   
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   Do you crave attention and get a thrill from the neediness of others?
   
   
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   Do you tolerate abusive relationships? Do you stay with someone who hits you due to financial fear or fear or not finding anyone else for a relationship? Are you calling such such an abusive relationship "love" and making excuses for the abuser?

With Pluto in Capricorn figuring significantly in this New Moon Summer Solstice, the issue of emotional explosions and power plays will be prominent. If you are on the giving end of the explosions and attempts at being dominant and powerful over someone, STOP IT and apologize to the person for present and pasta abusive behaviors. Seek help elsewhere to change these feelings and actions if you need it. If you are on the receiving end of these behaviors, MOVE AWAY from the person to wisely protect yourself and then explain that if it does not stop, there can be no relationship.

Cancer and Capricorn are cardinal signs, meaning their energy expression is one of wanting to be in charge, to be first. Pluto is where we can experience intense jealousy and deep fears (our dark side). But we must learn to curb extreme expressions of this. With Pluto in Capricorn, it is challenging (although possible). Look to where you have the signs Cancer and Capricorn and the planet Pluto in your natal chart to get a clue about where you are acting out these behaviors. Saturn in Virgo asks you to also look at where it is transiting in your chart to provide clues as to where you need to de-clutter or clean our bad behaviors and look at life more realistically. It shows where you are being asked to take responsibility in life and how. For example, are you a Cancer Ascendant or Capricorn Ascendant and find that you express strong emotional outbursts at unwitting people to protect yourself emotionally instead of expressing calmly and very clearly what you would like? Are you expecting them to read your mind and stay energetically focused on you and your life and to feel that their needs and lives are inferior to your life? Are you unwilling to let someone else be in the spotlight and/or to admit someone is better than you at something?

Here is an even more provocative question: Do you try to have a relationship with demanding, possessive, controlling, power-hungry people like this who try to suppress your abilities and talents (make you inferior to them), and who use you for their explosive venting?

Lastly, I would say to you that this New Moon is one to work with your intuition. When you remove the self-protective and defensive behaviors, you can hear Spirit more clearly. Use the symbols of the Tarot (Moon, Queen of Cups, King of Cups), or the calming influence of a body of water (lake, ocean, pond), or meditation to connect with Spirit and hear the message.

Then, get out there and ACT! Do what is the right thing to being healing and nurturing to yourself and to your relationships. Then you will have true power, because real love, without manipulation, is POWERFUL.

To your success!!

Aquarian Emotions - August 16 Eclipse

Aquarians, and those with Leo Ascendants are emerging this year with stories about emotional and sexual breakthroughs and outpourings and more are to come with the lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 16, 2008.

Is your birthday anywhere between February 10 and February 16? Aquarians with birthdays on or within 3 days of February 13 are especially revealing stories of almost explosive emotional and sexual expression and release. In fact for many of these typically cool, casually witty and flirty Aquarians, it is as though someone dynamited the dam of their sexual and emotional inhibitions and fears and released a shocking yet satisfying torrent of emotions and sexual expression.

Looking at Aquarius for 2008 this was destined to be and will continue to be a year of permanently altering changes and experiences regarding dating, sex and love – because your emotions will be deeply and irrevocably involved. Your intimacy needs and sexual desires will have opportunity and almost compulsion to be expressed.

While you had some hopes for a new sexual year in the first few days of 2008, the year started off with some Saturnian restriction when it came to intimacy. Did you find yourself putting business, competition, control and self-imposed rules ahead of entering into a new relationship or enjoying your sex life with your partner? Saturn is about rules and restrictions and it may have put a damper on your sex life while you tried to decide mentally where you wanted to go sexually and intimately.

But no fear – 2008 is the year for you to conquer sex. Think back to the solar eclipse in Aquarius one of February 6, 2008. You made and/or had a date with someone within a week of that date. Whether you realized it or not, you embarked on a journey with that person that was marked by another interaction at the August 1, 2008 solar eclipse, and you will have opportunity to further blossom at the August 16, 2008 lunar eclipse in Aquarius. This lunation is likely to be the most emotionally and intimately intense period of 2008 because your physical, sexual AND emotional needs in a partnership will be thrown to the surface. The man or woman you are living with, dating, married to etc on August 16 is right where you need to be. You will not be able to ignore the emotional and sexual needs any more. It is time to shed the old skin, the old ways of being and embark on a new and exciting journey with a partner.

This is all quite shocking and disturbing to the Aquarius soul, which is cool and aloof on the outside and can talk up a witty, chatty storm, but on the inside, and extremely sensitive.

The lunar eclipse in Aquarius on Saturday August 16 is conjunct Neptune so the tendency to drown these sexual urgings and emotional intimacy needs in alcohol (or some other form of drug/mind-altering substance) at a party will be very tempting. How many will get drunk to avoid the uncomfortable feelings? Drunken sex is not good sex.

The positive solution, dear Aquarian, is, with clear eyes, to take your woman or man by the hand on that date, and share some good love-making. Start on Saturday August 16 and continue for at least the next two weeks into September! Get down to business and let the electric waters of pleasure flow between you! This is an emotionally cathartic time for you when you will best serve yourself, and best mature, by connecting body and soul to another human who is ready to journey alongside you and has simply been waiting for you to open yourself to the sweetness.

Full Moon in Scorpio - May 20, 2008

Full Moon in Scorpio
May 20, 2008 4:11am CEDT

May 19, 2008 7:11pm PDT

29º Scorpio 27’

This Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the second one in Scorpio for the year. It is because of this Blue Moon that we are about to hear some rare truths!

Scorpio has as one of its archetypes The Snake. Snakes shed their old skin periodically, revealing a shiny new one. It is time to shed your old, dead skin and let the newness come to the surface.

This Full Moon occurs as part of a Grand Square between the South Node in Leo, Neptune in Aquarius and Sun/Venus in Taurus. In this configuration, Neptune in Aquarius is playing a strong role, calling for spiritual awakening and for the layers of deceit and delusion to be ripped off. It is time to reject false claims and people who say they want change or are bringing change but do nothing of the sort.

Saturn in Virgo is now direct and we are still being demanded to get our affairs in order and to work hard to do it. Such hard work and organization will bring healing to ourselves, others and the planet. Rules and regulations are actually NOT a bad thing. Structure is not a bad thing. Saturn is comfortable in Virgo because of this, as Saturn rules and like hard work and perseverance. It is time to take responsibility for your role in relationships with other human beings, projects at work, and your larger community.

With Jupiter in Capricorn (Capricorn is ruled by Saturn), we have the opportunity to see some positive and joyful fruits of our labor even now, rather than having to wait until the transit of Saturn in Virgo is done in mid June 2010.

The South node is karmic, revealing the pull from and to the past. It represents the old ideas that and habits that we must shed in order to grow. This Leo South Node is about clinging to old desires for selfish amounts of attention, instant gratification and over-emotionalism. Now is the time to head toward the Aquarius North Node and it is a call for cool, rational thinking, concern for humanity, and willingness to try new and innovative methods of handling everything from personal relationships to politics and the environment.

Scorpio has as one of its archetypes The Phoenix. In the mythological story this creatures burns to ashes but rises again. Burn off you old karma under this Full Moon. Literally light a candle and release the old ideas and thoughts, behaviors, relationships and ways of relating. Then step forth into new (and yes, scary!!) ways of being.

How much longer can you blame someone else for being lonely if you reject those who are interested in you out of fear and naïveté about relationships? It is time to learn intimacy and you only learn it by doing. How much longer will you complain about the environment but not join an organization that is doing something to make changes? How much longer can you take the position of powerless victim instead of releasing the past, standing in your strength and being yourself, no matter what others may think?

The Scorpio Moon urges you to bring the painful things to the surface and heal them once and for all. Take responsibility for growing spiritually, emotionally, in your relationship life, and with your family, friends and co-workers.

New Moon in Taurus - May 5, 2008

New Moon in Taurus
15º Taurus 22’
May 5, 2008
2:18pm CEST

Family. Home. Community. Love, Good sex. Good food. Money. Comfortable surroundings. Responsibility. Order and Organization.

These are all in play with this lunation in Taurus on May 5. Venus-ruled Taurus governs our commitment to be steady providers for those we love and care about, such as our families and communities. This lunation has not just the Moon but Sun and Venus in Taurus and that calls us to connection with Mother Earth. There is also a grand trine between Pluto in Capricorn, Venus in Taurus, and Saturn in Virgo (which has just returned to forward/direct motion on May 2) make it feel natural that we are bringing the world of organics and environmentally-friendly ways of living into mainstream. Saturn in Virgo is all about organizing ourselves and taking responsibility to heal ourselves and then, using what we have learned, the larger community or world. Pluto in Capricorn is all about being realistic in our transforming of our relationships and the world, especially around issue of business and finances. Venus in Taurus gives us the incentive to plant some flowers and be gentle we go, making showing that order, organization, healing and responsibility can also be beautiful, especially as reflected in our relationships.

Chiron in Aquarius and Neptune in Aquarius are playing strong roles in this New Moon, squaring Taurus and asking us to be real about the wounds that keep us from getting new starts; the wounds that keep us from being radical, original and progressive; the wounds that separate us from the local and larger community. In order to grow and live healthily we must be open and honest about letting everyone express their opinion and offer their gifts and talents. We cannot oppress and suppress others in order to put ourselves first – even if we do it in covert ways and even if we try to present the façade of being humble behind-the-scenes persons. Our ego is seen!

What can you do from May 5 until the Full Moon on May 19? There are many things you can do to get real about your world, to deal with your finances, to enjoy the good things in life, and to transform your work life:

Taurus likes what is real. Do things in a real way. Neptune in Aquarius can bring out the higher spiritual instinct in you or you may struggle with delusions, drugs, too much daydreaming, denial of reality etc and thereby obscure reality and all the positive ways in which you could be contributing to the world. A major delusion we are now undergoing is one in which focusing on the negative, aspects of the world (the problems) instead of the positive (the solutions) is becoming commonplace.

Instead of contributing to the negativity of the world regarding relationships, politics, the environment and business, do something positive:

1. join a peace rally
2. support the candidate you like by passing out flyers or making phone calls
3. find ways to compliment your partner and bring her/him a fresh plant or flowers
4. spend more time wit your lover learning to be a better sexual partner
5. volunteer to help people in debt create budgets and improve their finances.

In fact, with Saturn in Virgo in motion, it could be that you may responsibly serve someone well not only by helping them with their budgeting, but in other ways:

Case study: A few years ago, a pre-Saturn Return male client of mine had a woman friend he dated but to whom he never committed despite thinking she was pretty, sexy, caring and intelligent and enjoying her company and thier conversations. It was under the influence of a New Moon in Taurus that May, that he finally committed emotionally and sexually to this woman he cared for. He was tired of the haphazard world of dating and irregular one-night stands and realized he wanted some stability. However, he was still fearful of committing to another person and any responsibility that would entail. He decided to approach it both emotionally and "practically" by telling her he wanted to take their relationship further and asking her to move into his home, so that she would no longer need to spend money on rent and could use it instead to pay off her bills. She moved in with him a month later in June. She was able to pay off her debts and significantly add to her retirement savings (which impressed him), and to create the beautiful home she always wanted to create (which meant he benefited from her decorating, cooking and stable organization of their social life) and he became noticeably happier. During this time he opened up to her emotionally and allowed himself to admit his love for her and to be loved by her. Their living together thus became more than a benevolent financial arrangement. They became engaged nearly a year after she moved in and set a wedding date for the following summer. She was then able to contribute to a joint fund for their wedding and her secret wedding gift to him was to pay for a surprise side-trip during their honeymoon to a place she knew he always wanted to visit (which he really enjoyed!).

Speaking of finances, this New Moon in Taurus is a prime time to get your finances in order using a realistic plan. Examine how you meet your daily needs and look at the lifestyle you desire to live. Decide what makes you happy and what you can do to achieve it that is responsible. Make practical financial goals, commit to a budget (meaning live within your budget!) and create a savings/investment plan. Taurus calls for a moderate, even approach to finances so that when there are lean times, one is not affected and can still enjoy luxuries. Like the lesson of the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, be moderate and save during the abundant times and sit back and enjoy during the lean times.

Venusian Taurus is all about enjoyment and it a good thing to enjoy working at what you love – and it helps you fund the budget you have made! If you are not doing work you love, brush off the CV and apply for new jobs under this New Moon. You should hear a promising response by May 19. (But be cautious about starting any new job between May 26-June 19, the next Mercury Retrograde).

And finally, but not in the least, use this New Moon in Taurus to indulge in sensuality and sexuality as only Taurus can do! Take that luxurious bubble bath, spend an afternoon getting a manicure and pedicure, enjoy some loving, fun, and intense sex with your partner, eat a delicious meal, drink some good wine.

Full Moon in Scorpio - April 20, 2008

Full Moon in Scorpio

April 20, 2008
12:25pm CEDT
0º Scorpio 43’

This Full Moon is a powerful transformative lunation that demands honesty, facing of fears and deep change. What do you want in life? Now is the time to peel away the layers that obscure what you desire.

This Full Moon in Scorpio is the signal to see things as they truly are, not as you wish them to be.

Case study: Two years ago a male client of mine was living in a fantasy world, pining resentfully over a woman he liked, who I will call "Abigail". They had a fun and casual acquaintanceship in group social settings but never a romantic relationship. She moved away for work purposes and he spent several months pining over a fantasy of what they could have been in his mind. He deluded himself into thinking she had abandoned him and their great love relationship. All the while he ignored the women he was dating. He held tightly to the fantasy relationship he had in his mind of "Abigail". Because of this, he denied himself a relationship in which he could have a healthy and stable emotional and sexual expression. Fortunately, after nearly a year he finally awakened from his nightmare of denial by admitting there never was and never would be a relationship between him and "Abigail". He opened his eyes to a woman near him, got to know her and eventually married.

What can you do to take full advantage of this lunation from April 20 until the New Moon on May 5?

It is a time to release the past – people, situations and ways of behaving – and open yourself to a new level of compassion, love, possibilities, open-mindedness and spiritual growth.

It is a time for healing of deep wounds that have intense feelings attached to them, as they are only serving to hurt you and prevent you from moving forward into the future.

Chiron in Aquarius, Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces make this a particularly spiritually invigorating New Moon in Scorpio for awakening from the death-like trance of victim and into the powerful stance of the healer (who is also ready and able to heal others who have suffered the same wounding).

Name your fear – and thereby destroy its power over you.

Share the joy and pain of self-disclosure with someone who has been telling you they want to know YOU for who you really are, in all your imperfections. Stop living in denial and lies (whether direct or through omission). Be honest and find yourself making a human connection that could last a lifetime.

Deal with trust issues – especially if there is a secret that you know has been keeping you and another individual from being as close as you could be. It may feel like destruction at first but after the destruction comes the time of healing and rebuilding in relationships. From there you can expect growth, unconditional love and openness that leads to a more solid relationship, one that could endure for eternity.

New Moon in Pisces 2008

Are you ready to be free, to throw away tradition, to have your creativity rise to the top like delicious, thick cream on a perfect cup of hot chocolate, and to have your wildest dream begin to manifest? That is what you could see happen under today’s aspects!

New Moon in Pisces

Friday, March 7, 2008, 17°31′ Pisces 6:15 pm CET

At 5:20 pm CET, we will experience the aspect of Moon in Pisces opposite Saturn in Virgo. This aspect will illuminate and charge us in a gentle and compassionate manner, encouraging us to be just that – compassionate, gentle and sensitive with each other in guiding each other to be our best and to make changes that benefit our well-being. Just under an hour later we will experience a consciousness-awakening New Moon in Pisces. This is an opportunity to open your heart, spirit and mind so you can nurture your dreams. The worst thing you could do now is to suppress your creativity and imagination, as that will destroy your dreams. It is a time of fertility in spirituality; however quiet an aspect that may be for you. Compassion will be in large supply and creativity will flower. If you have been frozen this winter in your emotions, now is the time you can risk opening yourself to receive what your soul needs to grow. This is not to say that it will all be a “bed of roses” because eccentric, shocking Uranus is close to this lunation and brings sudden jolts and changes. The changes that occur may feel unpredictable, out of control and chaotic – but many will find this can used to do something alternative, something different from the routine. Emotional and other habits will be shaken and shattered under this New Moon. Beneficent and constructive Jupiter in Capricorn's supportive sextile to unpredictable Uranus in Pisces imbues us with an urge to create a sensible agenda for today (and the next two days) that incorporates the chaos, the desire for creativity and produces a new and exciting launch for your Spring activities.

Do your wishing, dreaming and rituals, but do not do any decision-making until after the Moon enters Aries on Sunday afternoon (3:23 pm CET). Why? Because the Moon will be VOC (void-of-course). You always have three (3) days when there is a New Moon, or decision-making (sending out important emails, starting Advertising/public relations campaigns, filing legal papers etc). Once the Moon transits into Aries we become motivated to initiate the news activities we imagined, reflected upon and dreamt of during yesterday’s inspirational New Moon in Pisces.

Other related aspects:
March 6, 2008, 5:20 pm CET
Moon in Pisces opposite Saturn in Virgo
The Moon/Saturn aspect makes emotion expression rather tense but practical; be careful about thinking too much, getting depresses and then following that with alcohol or a pill to avoid the pain of the thoughts or feelings. Examine yourself and your feelings and then release it.

March 6, 2008, 8:04 pm CET
Sun in Pisces sextile Jupiter in Capricorn
Moon in Pisces conjunct Uranus in Pisces; then Moon void-of-course

The Sun/Jupiter aspect brings opportunities for dreaming of our goals and manifesting them as we expand our horizons through determination and rock-steady perseverance of the things we need to reach our goals. The Moon/Uranus aspect urges us to use our intuition, which for many of us is a new way of knowing and exploring our feelings and thoughts.

The Moon is VOC until Saturday, March 8, 200 3:23 pm CET

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: February 20/21, 2008

This year has been a very active one astronomically, with significant movements: Saturn in Virgo retrograde, Mars in Gemini retrograde and then stationing direct, Chiron and Venus in Aquarius, a New Moon solar eclipse in he constellation of Leo and now, a Full Moon total lunar eclipse in the constellation of Virgo is occurring on February 20/21, 2008.

February 21, 2008 1º53’Virgo 4:27 am CEST

At exactly 4:27 am CET the Sun will be moving opposite the Moon through the constellation of Pisces 1º53’. The Earth will align exactly between the Moon in Virgo and Sun in Pisces, blocking the light of the Sun to the Moon. For astrological purposes, because it is so close to the next degree, it is considered to be at 2º Virgo. Those with planets between 28º Leo through 5º Virgo will be most affected, as will the life areas covered by those houses in a person’s natal chart.

To calculate the times when it will occur for you, here are some time zones: 10:27 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the east coast of the Americas, 7:27 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on the west coast, and 03:27 Universal Time (UT) and 4:27 am Central European Time (Copenhagen, Brussels).

When Full Moons occur we are more emotional and during a lunar eclipse it is magnified. We become more creative and artistic; our spirituality and intuition are also heightened and we are more emotionally connected to people and situations. We can feel quite stressed because of this change in emotional environment. However if we do not resist what is causing us to “feel deeper” we will open new doors of possibilities and opportunities. The stress can feel like a crisis – and in Chinese philosophy, a crisis is a combination of chaos and opportunity. What began at the New Moon now comes to fruition at the Full Moon.

You can expect that an old phase of your life or some part of it is coming to and end. It is likely that something new began within five days of the solar eclipse on February 7 (so that would be somewhere between February 2 and February 12). However, because eclipses are so strong, there can be significant events as late as two weeks after the eclipse. Where the solar eclipse fell in your chart will receive more attention until the total solar eclipse in Leo on August 1, 2008. That solar eclipse on February 7 is the primary area in which you will need to focus; this lunar eclipse on February 21 will be the secondary area of chaos/opportunity and will give you insight as to what hidden or repressed areas you must release into the open in order to grow in the direction required by the solar eclipse. This lunar eclipse will highlight events where it falls in your chart until the partial lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 16, 2008.

For example, if the solar eclipse on February 7, 2008 fell in your 1st house, you are being called to balance individuality and independence and the self with partnership, marriage, and/or business relationships – to become balanced in your dealings with and consideration/inclusion of the “other”. Now, this lunar eclipse will highlight what you are really valuing and what you expect from a partner on a very intimate level, either sexually, financially, of psychologically – or any combination of the three areas.

For many single people with a Leo Ascendant, it was a time of coming into close contact with a genuine marriage or life partner and the lunar eclipse in Virgo occurs in the 2nd house and will highlight anything that must be recognized, acknowledged, changed, transformed, and/or healed in order for the marriage/partnership to take place. There could be a change from icy singlehood with financial struggles and sexual wounds or celibacy to a deeply caring, warm and very healing sexual relationship with a partner who balances out your finances and who becomes your marriage partner. It could even be that YOU are healing for that partner in those same ways!

Saturn in Virgo retrograde is in close orb to this eclipse, giving it an energy that means there will be an air of caution, common sense, slowness of movement and decision. Taking responsibility and doing things in a responsible manner will be a strong part of whatever happens during this eclipse.

Mercury retrograde in Aquarius is ending just before this eclipse, so there will be a chance to communicate in a more articulate fashion and matters which seemed confusing or stagnant in the three weeks previous will now begin to be clarified. People with a Sun in Aquarius, in particular, may find they can finally say what has been on their minds/what they want concerning relationships, work and finances. Now is the time when Sun Aquarius people may find they want to initiate healing by opening up to a partner or potential partner by getting in touch with and voicing the feelings they have been detaching from in the past months.

A special note: for some people, the solar eclipse heralded the removal of a male from your life; similarly, this lunar eclipse may herald the removal of a female from your life, or conversely, if you are female, if may herald your removal from a male's life (remember, you may want to remove yourself from some male's life if you now realize it is your best path). You may want to lay low, keep things emotionally light, or take the week off and have some space in order to avoid unecessary arguments.

I do know some people who take a few days of vacation alone or intentionally avoid email, the tephone and generally avoid people when eclipses come that touch significant points in their charts.

Keep your eyes open for the lessons – and write me about any changes which occurred for your on or about February 7, and coming up, on or about February 21.

Solar Eclipse: February 7, 2008

One cycle is ending and another beginning, with a strong humanitarian flavor this month. That is because we are experiencing a solar eclipse at the beginning of the month.

February 7, 2008 17°44`Aquarius 3:56am EST

A solar eclipse is when the Moon is exactly between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the light of the Sun from the Earth. Solar eclipses are very powerful New Moons and are the harbingers of important endings and beginnings. The effects of a solar eclipse are equal in years to the number of minutes the eclipse lasts. The immediate visible effects of the eclipse can be seen in intervals of six months for a period of two years. You get an opportunity to break an old pattern and see a metamorphosis of your life that brings growth and healing.

The New Moon begins at 17°44 February 7, 2008 and the solar eclipse occurs at 3:56 am EST at 17°56 degrees of Aquarius. Peole with Sun signs in the fixed signs (Aquarius, Leo, Taurus, Scorpio) will be most strongly affected, as will those with Aquarius and Leo Ascendants. Those with Leo Ascendants will especially see a difference in their partnerships marriage and business relationships and dealings.

With Mercury retrograde, Chiron and Neptune also in Aquarius, those people who are Water-Bearers are experiencing a time when it is crucial to heal the body, spirit and mind. The opportunities to do this are now presenting themselves. If nothing has alreayd begun to occur or does not occur within three (3) days of the eclipse, they will within six months. Now is the time to work on healing the sexual wounds that have prevented full and healthy sexual expression and left you feeling wounded about your body and about sharing your body with another person; now is the time to release the thoughts that are hindering you from contributing all you can to the world in terms of your brilliant progressive mind; now is the time to open your spirit to the forms of spiritual expression from which you have been hiding...keep your mind open to science but also open up to astrology, intuition and other religions which have mystified you.

Change is the keyword when eclipses occur. One primary way eclipses affect humankind is in relationships. It is very common that the relationship which breaks on an eclipse or within a week of it, is permanently broken. It means it is time to release. However, the relationship that comes together and begin at this time will stand strongly for the future. It may all leave you feeling like your life is out of control, but really it is not; it is that you resisted change in the previous months and finally it has been forced upon you.

The house where you have Aquarius will indicate that areas of life that will be most affected for you. The one exception is if you are an Aquarius – as it will have an overall affect on you. Here is a brief synopsis of how it will affect the various houses:

The house where you have Aquarius will indicate that areas of life that will be most affected for you. The one exception is if you are an Aquarius – as it will have an overall affect on you. Here is a brief synopsis of how it will affect the various houses:

1^st/7^th : You are being called to work on the balance between self, independence and your parternship/marriage or your business relationship.

2^nd/8^th: You are being called to work on the balance between your earned income and join tinfances or taxes, and inheritance. It is also about striking a balance between what you value and what your partner values or what you receive (or do not receive from your partner); it is also about a psychological and intimate balance with a partner and/or about sex.

3^rd/9^th: You are being called to balance long-distance travel and/or educational pursuits. You may return to school or find people from different cultures are very important to your life.

4^th/10^th: You are being called to balance home and family with your career/vocation and public reputation outside the home.

5^th/11^th: You are being called to balance issues of children, risk, individuality and creativity with group expression and participation.

6^th/12^th: You are being called to bring balance into health, work and service. If there are any secrets occurring I your life that prevent this, or any covert behaviors or thoughts on your pat, they will come to light and unless dealt with honestly, you will find yourself confined in some way (hospital, mental institution, jail/prison, or loss of job which results in being forced to stay home)

Full Moon in Leo - January 22, 2008

This Full Moon in Leo is about becoming aware of our own power. It is also about releasing into the universe the energy we have been working on since the New Moon in Capricorn on January 8.

The Full Moon occurs at 2 degrees Leo at 5:35am PST.

There are several astrological aspects working together to bring a variety of energies to this day. Venus (sexuality) and Pluto (transformation and power) are conjunct in Sagittarius, calling us to combine faith intensity and faith to bring our dreams to fruition. The North Node in Pisces symbolizes the need to stop fantasizing and bring real change into our lives by acting on this intensity and faith.

Saturn retrograde in Virgo and Mars retrograde in Gemini lend some grounding to this intense energy, giving us the ability to think through some of the details of our plans and not only act on emotions.

This Full Moon effect will be in place January 22, January 23 and much more weakly, January 24. Take advantage of it on January 22 and 23, if you want to see the strongest and most favorable effects in your life. Make that telephone call, arrange that meeting, have that dinner or conversation, get out that novel-in-progress, script or painting.

While tonight can bring out a bit of selfishness and vanity, it is also a night for romance. It is a night for making love, pampering yourself, sharing fun times with friends in a social setting and letting our deepest desires come to fruition with someone we have had in our heart for some time. Some people with Sun in Leo, Leo Rising, Sun in Aquarius or Aquarius Rising, may find themselves involved in a strong flirtation this evening. Alternately, these same people could find themselves resisting intimate connection with another person due to arrogance, pride, vanity, fear or lack of courage. Sometimes, for example, Aquarians enjoy testing others by playing games involving being aloof, distant and just out of reach. The goal is actually very leonine: to get the other person to shower them with attention out of unbridled passion brought on by being teased so long. A word to the wise: sometimes it backfires and the other person gives up on you and walks away to seek a more straight-forward relationship.

It can also be a day and night of creativity where writer’s block, and other forms of inertia are set free. If this Full Moon energy does not release your creative fires, it may be time to think about another venture or course.

New Moon in Capricorn - January 8, 2008

What an extraordinary New Moon to start 2008! If you are ready to make the most of 2008, now is the time.

This is the best New Moon of 2008 for goal-setting, initiating projects, and making serious commitments for successful achievement.

This first New Moon of 2008 is framed by strongly supportive placements. This year the Sun and Moon in Capricorn are joined by faithful, expansive and optimistic Jupiter in Capricorn, so there is support for believing in the plans you are making. Saturn, which rules Capricorn, is in retrograde in Virgo at present, bringing both a demand for and a tendency towards detailed, careful focus and thought in all our decision-making. On this New Moon there are also two energies alongside Capricorn working to boost the effects of this New Moon, and they come from Sagittarius and Aquarius. Venus and Pluto in Sagittarius lend optimism and faith to your goals. This is because Venus Sagittarius (the heart of generosity) and Pluto in Sagittarius (transformation through growth) highlight our personal goals and their connection to the evolution and quality of the future of humankind. A line-up in progressive Aquarius empowers it even more: Mercury (progressive thinking), Chiron (awareness of wounds and healing), and Neptune (spirituality). This energy adds a visionary ability to dream and see beyond the materials as you are setting your goals. Mars in Gemini has slowed in its current retrograde motion and we are all feeling the effects of it as we find ourselves more carefully watching what we communicate and how we communicate it. Uranus in Pisces is forcing us to stay shockingly focused on the global environment and peacemaking by presenting us with the shocking news of how our consumption affects our planet Earth.

Fear:
The archetype of Capricorn is the Sea Goat, which is actually the mountain goat. Mountain goats climb steep hills with a sure steadiness and do not fall off the side of the mountain. They eventually reach the top through determination. Capricorn qualities are: big-hearted, deeply caring of others, desirous of motivating and teaching others, possessing of stamina, committed, focused, driven, courageous, hard-working, responsible, goal-oriented, a strong leader, and loyal. Capricorn is also ruled by Saturn, a planet with a strong reputation, even among those who do not know a lot about astrology.

Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, is classically associated with conservatism and fear. Yet, fear can actually be a great motivator. Capricorn is the sign which best symbolizes the ability to identify fear, overcome it, and attain success because of it, not in spite of it. Use this New Moon to acknowledge your fears, and face your fears in a positive manner. Make fear a life coach who motivates you to success.


Fortitude:
Like deceased musician James Brown was the hardest working man in show business, Capricorn is the hardest working sign in the zodiac. A realist at heart, Capricorn defines itself by being a self-sufficient and dedicated worker who keeps an eye on the goal and never wavers from it. With its ruler in detail-oriented and conscientious Virgo, this New Moon is the time when you must get real about your goals. No more empty promises of accomplishing something once you get this or that other things or future fantasies. Under this New Moon in Capricorn, focus on what you can obtain now:

1. Brainstorm what you want to achieve, write the steps you must take to achieve it and then commit to patiently following each step no matter how hard it is and no matter how long it takes.
2. Take the work you can get now and trust that it will be the right step in getting your dream job in the future.
3. Work with what you have now and stop fantasizing about what you do not have but wish you did.

Finances:
Saturn, deeply connected to tradition and security, does not like to take risks. This New Moon empowers some profound intuitive internal thought about what you actually need to achieve financial success and security. We are told we cannot make a good financial living doing what we love. The truth is you will be financially secure as well as spiritually and/or creatively successful if you believe in yourself and work hard at what you love. You must be judicious about spending, and do without or do with less. We must make the sacrifices necessary to not follow the crowd.

The occurrence of Sun, Moon and Jupiter in Capricorn trine (a favorable astrological aspect) Saturn in Virgo translates into a prime opportunity for setting achievable and successful realistic financial goals and eliminating excessive spending. This is the New Moon to create a BUDGET and a commit to it. Capricorn spends conservatively, shrewdly and sometimes not at all. Do you really need the thing you are about to buy? Is it beyond your basic housing and shelter needs? How can you spend less and what do you really not need? If we are honest what ourselves, it is many things.

How can you do this? Start practicing Zen and the Art of Shopping to become conscious of your consumption of materials things. Be aware of how you are mentally and physically when you shop. Pay attention! As yourself:

1. Do I really need this?
2. What other ways could I use this money I am about to spend?
3. Can I put this money away for my future instead of spending it now?

Future Growth:
This New Moon in committed Capricorn is the New Moon to dedicate yourself to becoming responsible for your emotional and spiritual growth and the enlightenment our human community on Earth. The threat of global warming is real, as is destruction through the heartless, thoughtless, arrogant warfare based on discrimination by class, race, and ethnicity. A very few constantly take from the masses so that poverty is at nearly everyone’s doorstep through uneven distribution and over-consumption We must awaken and cease these things or for humankind there will be no future.

Full Moon Rising:
The two weeks after the New Moon, the Moon waxes to a Full Moon in Leo on January 22, 2008. This means that NOW is the most advantageous time to build the energy of your intentions. Plan to start taking take action on your New Moon at the Full Moon in Leo.

Eclipses (2008-2011)

Every five and a half months, when the Sun is near one of the moon's nodes, eclipses can occur. When they occur during new moons they are solar eclipses. This is when the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun and blots out the Sun. When they occur during full moons they are lunar eclipses, where the Moon is hidden by the Earth's shadow. Eclipses have bewildered, awed and frightened humankind over the centuries and are a time of critical transformation.

Eclipses are about sudden dramtic change and disruption. This is when we see change occur the fastest in our lives nad sometimes quite profoundly. For people that have become happy with the status quo, the changes can be quite overwhelming or shocking.

The best way to hadnle eclipses is to expect the unexpected, expect losses of poeple or situations and be ready to acccept the gifts that come in their place. Lunar eclipses tend to herald the loss of a female from your life and solar eclipses tend to bring the loss of a male from your life. If you view these dramatic and radical changes as new opportunities, the results can be very positive.

Also, eclipses are stronger and more long lasting in their effects than normal new or full moons. Their effects can be felt at the time of the eclipse and 6-12 months afterwards. In fact if you are experiencing the eclipses in polar signs near planets in your natal chart, it will be up to 2 years before you see the full effects. For example, eclipses in Virgo-Pisces began in late 2006 people with Suns in those signs will get the full message of the eclipses by early 2008 when the last eclipse in Virgo occurs. There is one theme for you in the eclipses and that theme will play out for 2 years. You can also look back 10 years and see it is a replay of the same issues. How will you choose to handle it?

Here is hte scheudle of eclipses, their signs and degrees for the next few years:

2008

February 8 - Aquarius 17° (solar eclipse)

February 20 - Virgo 2° (lunar eclipse)

August 1 - Leo 9° (solar eclipse)

August 16 - Aquarius 24° (lunar eclipse)

August 28 - Pisces 4° (lunar eclipse)

2009

January 26 - Aquarius 6° (solar eclipse)

February 9 - Virgo 21° (lunar eclipse)

July 7 - Capricorn 15° (lunar eclipse)

July 22 - Cancer 29° (solar eclipse)

August 6 - Aquarius 13° (lunar eclipse)

December 31 - Cancer 10° (lunar eclipse)

2010

January 15 - Capricorn 25° (solar eclipse)

June 26 - Capricorn 4° (lunar eclipse)

July 11 - Cancer 19° (solar eclipse)

December 21 - Gemini 29° (lunar eclipse)


2011

January 4 - Capricorn 13° (solar eclipse)

June 1 - Gemini 11° (solar eclipse)

June 15 - Sagittarius 24° (lunar eclipse)

July 1 - Cancer 9° (solar eclipse)

November 25 - Sagittarius 2° (solar eclipse)

December 10 - Gemini 18° (lunar eclipse)

Love, Delusions and Confessions

German Girl confessed today.

She is the German exchange student I talked about earlier. She was born and raised rather poor in what was East Berlin. She is studying Communication for a semester here at the university.

She confessed with a whisper that she has "feelings of love" for The Dane...who she says also has the same feelings of love for her. She says she knows this because while we were on the trip to Bornholm he helped her (and everyone else) while we were climbing some steep rocks during a hike. The Dane went up first and helped people up, as I stood in the back making sure everyone did get up the hill. She also tells me he gave her special looks. German Girl then told me I am sworn to secrecy and must not tell The Dane about her "feelings of love". But if he also has "feelings of love" for her, why must I keep the secret? Hmmm.

Of course I said nothing to her about my thoughts towards The Dane.

She has a boyfriend at a prestigious British university studying to be a lawyer, who is rather unhappy with her demands on his time and her demands for their relationship to be solidified into marriage (and soon, children). She is unhappy with the lack of attention she gets from him. She said is hoping to get something going with The Dane, so then she can break it off with her boyfriend and have another relationship to go to; she will "show" her boyfriend she can get someone else.

Someone recently told me there are 2 million more women than men in Germany. I think I am getting the picture. She is on a hubby hunt.

German Girl has a Sun and Mercury in Leo, Ascendant in Virgo, Pisces Moon, Venus in Cancer, and like The Dane, she has a Saturn in Libra. She is a 1.5 years younger than him.

She is a soft-spoken person , very librarian-like, can be very pleasant in tone when in conversation. The Sun in Leo expains the magenta-red hair. I noticed she is very secretive, very emotionally sensitive (Pisces Moon, Venus in Cancer), quite depressed (views life as quite bad), and possessive. Her tongue is biting and arrogant. She blurts out rude statements at people sometimes and does not seem to notice she is so harsh. Maybe that is a German thing? Or just a personality thing? Who knows.

This confession of hers feels like a dirty secret and a bit disturbing.

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 2007

Eclipses of the moon (lunar eclipses) are traditionally seen as bad omens but really they are not. Women and family are more likely to be affected AND at the center of actions than are men. You see, the Moon governs the feminine, emotions and relationships. The effect is more personal.

Mutuable signs
If you are a Pisces, Virgo, Gemini or Sagittarius, this lunation will be very significant for you.

The Lady Vanishes
What I have observed over the years is that when there is a lunar eclipse, particularly during a Full Moon, a woman is eclipsed from someone’s life. If you are male you may likely find yourself putting and end to a relationship with a woman you know is not meant to be in your life anymore, whether she is a friend or a lover. If you are female, you will likely find yourself on the receiving end of a rather abrupt break in a relationship. Of course you could do the breaking, but the former is more likely.

Emotions and Egos
This total eclipse is at 4°46' Pisces. If you have Pisces planets within 3 degrees, or Virgo planets opposite this degree you will be feeling it rather heavily. Beware of letting the ego and emotions get tangled into an ugly mess! This lunation can prompt a significant change.

Health will be a prominent issue in this eclipse – as it will between now and June 2010. During this lunation – especially and in the week to follow, there will be a pervasive attempt to hide the pain you feel one feels in the ego - to dull the pain and escape from the reality of broken relationships and emotional sorrows through drugs and alcohol. Psychosomatic illnesses and hypochondria will rise. Physical illnesses with no obvious cause will be seen.

With the aspects of the Full Moon in Pisces, Venus retrograde in Leo, the Sun and Mercury in Virgo opposing Uranus in Pisces, it is not a good time to work on newsletters or other forms of communication nor to do anything with the finances of an organization. You will also want to lay low where it concerns group activities. However, if you will wait until the Solar Eclipse on September 11, you will then be able to make some significant headway. For now, just let what you have already planned take place.


Embracing the Eclipse
With Venus retrograde at this time, it is an even better time to recall the past, examine your part in it, forgive yourself and others and release it. Let the past be the past so you can have a present and a future. Instead of picking at the scab repeatedly, relax, allow yourself to heal and watch the transformation begin. While this is what we SHOULD do, it also needs to be said that many will not. There is temptation to be a martyr and sink into self-pity instead of accepting the reality and moving forward. Others may attempt to revive dead things such as broken relationships. Love affairs that have broken recently are just that, BROKEN. They will not fix. Trying to start a new relationship or revive one that has broken down will result in all kinds of trouble and horror in the weeks and months to come.

The Sun is in Virgo so a discriminating tone is in the air and may provoke feelings of distrust and anger. Mercury is also in Virgo, opposite Uranus and turmoil will abound. This is the time to take a philosophical approach to all matters in your life and learn to shrug your shoulders. Do not make any decisions. Listen to all sides and take notes.

Service is Love - Venus in Virgo (July 14, 2007)

Venus in Virgo

Service is Love

Get your love in order! We are blessed with Venus in Virgo from July 14 through August 8. In communion with the New Moon in Cancer, this ingress of Venus into Virgo lends us full support in taking care of the details of love. Love is not always dreaming and floating on air. It is doing the “little things” for each other. It is a time when we find ourselves doing practical things to help our partners. We make ourselves more available to our lovers than at other times. For those in a bad relationship it is a time of being able to look at our relationships with the eyes of practicality and make sometimes tough decisions to end things or to note where we can make improvements.

Let’s take a moment to say something else about Virgo. The superficial word about Virgo is that it is all about milquetoast men and frigid women who are life-long bachelors, sexual virgins or inexperienced with sex, prudish, think sex is disgusting, shy, guilt-ridden, and who spend their lives as be-spectacled librarians and accountants. But Virgo is an Earth sign and that means Virgos are not just analytical (noticing the little things), practical and concerned about hygiene in a relationship; it means Virgos are sensual people who know how to make the earth quake! They are not necessarily virgins and can be quite sexually free, merging with a partner with some delight. Reserved? Once you have proven yourself to be a trustworthy and caring person, analytical and observant Virgo lets the wall down and is willing to do what it takes to make a partner happy. Service is an excellent expression of love.

As the Sun transits into Leo a few days into this Venus transit, some of the expressions of love could be quite elaborate and showy. During this Venus in Virgo cycle it would be easy to feel guilty about enjoying love and other pleasures too much, but indulge yourself anyway. Notice how people respond to your attempts to make them happy and notice how you respond in kind. Do not, however, worry yourself to death over things not being perfectly expressed. Stay in the moment and enjoy it.

New Moon in Cancer - July 14, 2007

We have a New Moon in Cancer on Saturday, July 14th, 2007, at 8:04 AM EDT/2:04 PM CET. This occurs at 21 degrees and 41 minutes of Cancer. It will significantly affect people born with Sun, Moon, or Ascendant between 20 to 24 degrees in Cancer, Capricorn, Aries and Libra.

This is a good time to make new beginnings, as it is with every New Moon; this one is good for new beginnings in the area of personal goals that symbolize the nature of Cancer the Crab. This includes family and home, nurturing, improving our relationships with our parents but mothers in particular, realizing what makes us feel insecure or secure. We must focus on whether our fears are rational or irrational and which is the best thing to do to face the world and our relationship with true courage, not false bravado where we jab at others and run back to hide in a shell we build around ourselves. We also must guard against being crabby and picking at the ones who love us, trying to keep them away from our true hearts (or prevent them from uncovering the things we have been dishonest about in relationship to that person!) We must focus on honesty and that means telling the truth in al ways (because hiding facts is lying through omission and is just as bad as outright lying. We must be honest with ourselves and with others. It will give us the intimacy and security we desire because we never need fear losing what we have because a lie we told or truth we hid might get exposed. .Since it is a time of new beginning it is a prime time to start a new project that can improve your family, home and general domestic life: start a scrapbook, write a story, have a special lunch with some family members etc. You will reap the rewards of this New Moon in Cancer in the month to come as this New Moon trines Uranus. The rewards could come in an unusual form, but stay open to the surprises for they can bring you good things. There is also another event helping you along with this energy, and that is Venus in Virgo, which also begins today.

Full Moon in Leo 2007

The look, the feel, the grandeur of love is permeating the air on February 1, 2007 at 9:45pm PST/February 2, 2007 at 6:45am CET. We have a Full Moon in Leo and with all the powerful aspects around it we will see open doors of love, creativity, and connection with self and others unlike any other time this year.

It is, for those in the Northern Hemisphere, the middle of cold winter, bleak midwinter, in fact. But that cannot stop the brilliance of sunny Leo from shining through and shining light. Occurring at 13 Leo this Full Moon comes two weeks after many of us have been working on our personal goals. Now is the time to release them into manifestation. What you have been planning is ready to be put into action while the Sun is in complementary Aquarius.

With this Full Moon is a yod (finger of God in a Y shape) that combines the Full Moon in Leo, (personal power and magnetism, leadership, romantic love, creativity, grand vision, and the willingness to take chances) with Uranus in Pisces (uniqueness and unusual methods around the spiritual, art music, film, fantasy and imagination) and Mars in Capricorn (steady, hardworking achievements in the areas you want to take charge in, especially sexuality and entrepreneurship/leadership.

We are still living under the influence of retrograde Saturn in Leo but that energy is being counteracted by Mercury and Neptune in Aquarius. That energetic charge will help keep your mind clear – but be careful of taking any drugs or other substances. Whether prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) a drug is not so good at this time. Alcohol or other tings that you know have strong influence over you are to be avoided now. states of mind. Chiron is also transiting Aquarius and you would not want to be forced to learn a lesson about getting healed or being healing via an experience of fog or pain if you can avoid it.

Use this Full Moon in Leo to celebrate yourself and those you love in a romantic way. Make love, make music, make art, make whatever you want. Merge your minds and souls and let the sound be dramatically glorious. Jupiter is in Sagittarius and so there is the danger of going overboard and falling into vanity. Yet do not give up the beauty of this Full Moon. Surrender to the heat. Merge and melt…go for the gusto complete with wine, candles, flowers and music. The Full Moon is most effective for three days so until Sunday night (PST)/Monday morning (CET) you have total support from the Universe to heed the callings of singer Jose Feliciano and light someone’s fire – or let them light yours!!!

If there is no romantic relationship in your life, if there is no making love, perhaps you can make art. Draw on your creative energy. You may find that happens quite easily, as you begin writing, drawing, painting on the canvas, sculpting, spinning your potters wheel, firing up your kiln, running your hands over the ivory keys or the piano, or strumming your fingers over the guitar strings. If you prefer something more social, invite a bunch of friends to go out and have some fun seeing and being seen. Leo loves to be the center of attention, so get out there and shine! It's a great night to support the arts; so go see a play or hear some music. If you are up on that stage, be prepared for a very dramatic and inspiring performance. All this Aquarius and Pisces energy would be great for bringing together fun and support of a good cause.

As I pointed out earlier, this Full Moon in Leo is opposite Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius. But there is no need to fear. This is a Full Moon that gives you every reason to totally believe in yourself, to commit to yourself and what you know you can do…to call forth your leadership skills and personal vision to influence and empower your local or global community in some way. Use this power judiciously and you will lifted up by the community as a great and noble leader. Use it selfishly and you will known publicly as greedy, egotistic, cowardly and unworthy of leadership. Believe in your own marketing!! You can be a powerful presence, you can reinvent yourself, you can have the glory of love, the glory of success, the glory of it all.


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New Moon in Capricorn 2007

Stamina. Drive. Focus. Have you got these things? Do you want these things?

Capricorn has them. Capricorn the sure-footed SeaGoat is the master of them.

This is the energy that will bring you sure solid success, and now is the time to take advantage of this energy, with the New Moon at 28 Capricorn on Thursday, January 18th at 8:01 pm PST (Friday, January 19th at 5:01am CET in Europe). This is the first New Moon of the year, and the best New Moon for launching or follow through on your New Year’s resolutions. Initiating projects, setting goals and making commitments are greatly supported by the Universe at this time. In fact, I highly recommend not making resolutions on New Year’s Day, but rather wait until the New Moon in Capricorn each year to start your new goals.

We hear the phrase “overnight success” a lot, but is there really such a thing? For most people there is not. If you look closer, for most the “overnight success” is in reality the result of believing in yourself, putting that belief behind a goal and following that solitary and lonely path no matter what others day or do. Taking the road less chosen is the choice of many successful entrepreneurs. Believing they can make a living doing what they love, they spend countless hours, day after day, working towards their dream. They know the instant gratification of money from a job working for someone else will in the long run be dissatisfying and empty.

Capricorn is a sign of cardinal (“I want to lead”) energy and focused on taking action, in a way that does not draw attention to itself. It is willing to toil hard. When the Sun is in Capricorn and under a New Moon in Capricorn it is a great time to launch new business projects, accomplish goals and focus on making money. If you have some knowledge of astrology, look in your chart to learn which house Capricorn rules, as this is where you will experience the new opportunities and renewal that this New Moon in Capricorn brings. This is where you will experience a lot of these new opportunities. No matter where it falls, however, it is nonetheless a time of renewal and new beginnings.

Have you ever noticed Capricorns? They may not be the shining star getting all the kudos in the office. They may not be the center of attention at a party. They may be working overtime and seem a bit on the serious or depressed side. However they get the job done, stick to their projects and eventually, they receive their reward. Capricorns tend to be overlooked when they are younger, and everyone speeds past them getting the promotions and applause. But in their later years, usually around their mid-40s, Capricorns are suddenly (yet not so suddenly) at the front of the race. They get the promotion to president, vice-president, chairperson, etc or the BIG raise…or other such things. Many with Chiron in Capricorn recently saw as they approached 29-51 years old that they finally got the recognition they worked for all these years. Condoleeza Rice is an example. Her Chiron Return in Capricorn saw her installed as the first woman Secretary of State for the United States of America after many years of hard work in academic and government positions behind the scenes. Along the way she sacrificed love/relationships and family but she did gain a prestigious position that, from all appearances, is deeply satisfying to her. Capricorn does not whine and cry about what was or what might have been. It gets real, accepts what is and make do with it.

There are other celestial supports aligned with the New Moon in Capricorn this year. Saturn and Mars in Capricorn, and an Aquarius line-up (Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Chiron) are kicking in their favors.

Saturn rules Capricorn. This planet, also know archetypically as The Teacher, The Taskmaster, The Parent and The Father, expects hard work, deliberation, dedication and right choices. This New Moon aspects Saturn as it transits Leo. The ego has been under fire for over a year now and this New Moon highlights the fact that ego has no place in progress. Any attempts to be egotistic, to be in the spotlight or to promote yourself are going to fall flat under this energy (for many with personal Leo placements, it has already been happening quite consistently). But there is no need to sit back and do nothing just because you cannot do something in a way that you get the spotlight. Mars in Capricorn is calling for action to support your intentions. You will find you have more strength and stamina than usual to accomplish your goals.

Aquarius is a visionary sign with eccentric, rebellious and humanitarian Uranian energy. So how does all this Uranian energy manifest with this New Moon in Capricorn? It means that the focus of goals, projects and dreams initiated now can and for many will be for the benefit of the community as well as the individual. It means they will involve a humanitarian love, be communicated through the use of modern technology, involve a collective spiritual sense and have a connection to healing the wounds in our society and perhaps also our individual souls.
However neither the community nor you will experience this as a flaky “New Age” movement. Under a practical and rational Capricorn Moon it will be a collective expression of the spirit of humanity, built on solid ground (Capricorn is an Earth sign!) and backed by principles.

Speaking of community, why not make Friday, January 19 a time for a brainstorming session, family meeting or a business lunch with a prospective partner for an entrepreneurial venture? Under this New Moon you can produce some exciting, realistic, and visionary new growth ideas. Outline the goals and then delineate all the steps necessary to achieve them. Have everyone commit to the plan, commit to seeing it through to its finish. Under this New Moon in Capricorn everyone has a place in the new order and everyone can be individually successful, leading to the groups overall triumph. Write down what actions you must take, in what order, to make the team's goals a reality. Then commit to following these steps no matter how long it takes; no matter how hard it may be. With this New Moon in Capricorn, you will find all you need to cross the finish line.

New Moon in Leo 2006

Greetings Friends!

We are at another New Moon - a New Moon in Leo - and it is all about our creativity and imagination, love, the awakening of the heart, and play.

You have the WILL to create something - so do it! Be it a relationship, a business project or a theatre production...

Now is the time to let that come out. It may be a bit hard because Jupiter in Scorpio will be squaring it (that is, it is will be 45 degree away from it) and we may have some financial worries or doubts that dampen our creative impulse....but that will only occur if you CHOOSE to allow it to happen.

Professionally and personally, now is the time to step forward. Do not be passive.

With Mercury still retrograding in Cancer miscommunication may still occur, but trust that anything along those lines can be straightened out after Friday, July 28, when that planet stations direct.

Enrich humankind with the gift of YOU - push the power of personality to its limits.

Leave embarassment, worries and fears behind.

Be sure to do a New Moon ritual in which you tell Spirit your wishes/desires. Light a white or purple candle when you do it and say a prayer. You may even want to do an abundance ritual, with it. To do so, light a green candle, and get a blank check from your checkbook. Write the check out for, $1 million (that is, $1,000,000.00)/£1,000,000.00 and make it payable to yourself. Sign it from "The Universe".

SCHEDULE
The New Moon occurs on (note your time zone):

Monday July 24 at 9:32pm PDT (West Coast USA)
Tuesday July 25 at 12:32am EDT (East Coast USA)
Tuesday July 25 at 5:32am GMT (London)
Tuesday July 25 at 6:32am CET (Copenhagen, Brussels, Paris)

New Moon Eclipse in Scorpio: Norway's & Denmark's Crown Couples Announce Pregnancies

A trip through the Nordic region today! It appears that with the New Moon in Aquarius back in February there WAS a conception and with the New Moon lunar eclipse in Scorpio (a sign of secrets) the news of it came out today. Not only is there a baby being born to the new Crown Couple in Denmark; the adored Crown Couple of Haakon and Mette-Marit of Norway also announced today that they are expecting their third child a few months later in December! Haakon and Mette-Marit were scheduled to make a tour of the U.S.A. in 2005 but that may need to be postponed.