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TODAY ... Be especially aware this week of the messages you receive from Spirit, especially those that come through in the form of birds and other flying creatures. Birds -- and their feathers that we may find -- symbolize spiritual evolution and also offer a link to the higher planes of perception.
We're plagued with self-doubt as yesterday's certainties become today's questions. Although the ambitious Capricorn Full Moon at 3.56p reinforces our drive to succeed, tensions between our personal and professional lives make it difficult to set priorities. The Full Moon brings a time of harvest, conclusions, endings, and in this case, matters that pertain to your ambitions and responsibilities in life—Capricorn ruled. We need to work with how to take care of both ourselves and our responsibilities under the Full Moon in Capricorn. Share mutual support tonight as Luna enters collective Aquarius.
It's nearly impossible to know what the Full Moon will reveal because of its square to unpredictable Uranus at 10.06a. The Moon square Uranus brings an unexpected direction, but makes us prone to confrontation. Luna travels on to sextile eager Mars at 12.12pm and you will be much more likely to get a positive reaction.
MERCURY TRINE SATURN ... An illogical Mercury-Neptune misalignment muddles our thinking. The good news is that Mercury will be trine Saturn today as well, hinting at positive feedback from someone you respect. Mercury trine Saturn can further our meditations, help us make good decisions and keep our thoughts serious and on track, but can also bring out our controlling streak. If we mistakenly think that control is a good answer to worry.
VENUS TRINE SATURN ... Venus is following right behind Mercury now, and so we have a bit of an echo effect -- for instance, communication issues or insights that come up on Monday-Tuesday then impact our relationships on Wednesday-Thursday, when Venus moves into the place where Mercury was earlier. Venus and Saturn are in great aspect over the next day. This is a stabilizing influence to love, romance, and spending. Saturn is never a happy energy, but it does bring stability, consistency, and maturity. Due to this, more people decide to commit in their relationships, or take things to a more serious level. We’re also less likely to be indulgent in our spending and affections now, instead, choosing for more discipline and practicality in our affairs. We find more happiness with traditions now as well as people and things older than ourselves.
FULL MOON IN CAPRICORN ... The whole notion of work, of right-livelihood, is up for discussion this week and we may have to face some reality about our ambiguities or inner conflicts around our work on Tuesday’s Full Moon, as the Sun in nurturing, self-protective Cancer opposes the hard-working Capricorn Moon. Tonight's Full Moon in Capricorn combined with the contrasting energy of the Sun in Cancer may have you experiencing an intense push and pull. One half of you is feeling highly motivated toward your personal ambitions, while the other half may feel weighed down by the impulse to take care of everyone else in your life. Despite this conflicting planetary alignment, you don't necessarily have to choose -- but you do need to be prepared for the unique opportunities coming your way.
With the Sun in nurturing Cancer and the Moon in goal-oriented Capricorn for this lunation, it calls us to assess how well we balance the polarities of home and career, emotional well-being and external accomplishment.
- Do my commitments and responsibilities support my having a healthy inner life, or do I allow them to distract me from paying attention to my inner needs ?
- How can I rethink my priorities so that I spend as much time enjoying my life as I do creating it ?
- Are my boundaries solid, so that I can be emotionally available to life, but not overwhelmed by the feelings that arise through that sensitivity ?
This Full Moon will have you focused on business matters and your obligations. You'll be able to see the result of your past efforts now on a major project or goal if you have taken the time to properly lay a foundation and do the work necessary. This Full Moon encourages us to explore how to create a healthy, sustainable mandala of our life. To do so, we have to bust any illusion we have that life is all about our fun, relaxing time, if only wouldn’t work with get in the way, or all about our work, if only our private life would interfere. And break the illusion that either we nurture ourselves or we nurture others, either we engage our spiritual life or do our homework. These dichotomies are all parts of an inextricable whole, for a healthy life we weave their balance together to create a sand-painting mandala, knowing the richer and more diverse our life is, the more sustainable it becomes.
The Sun and Moon are both square Uranus at the time of the Full Moon. This formation, called a t-square, increases our restlessness and desire for change. This t-square, with Uranus at the apex, opens up the possibility of breakthroughs or breakdowns. People may be more high-strung and impatient than usual, due to the overload of electrical activity. This can cause more extreme reactions, and an urgent need to break free from circumstances or relationships that feel restrictive. We will want to be especially aware of how our words or actions may alienate others. In the positive, this t-square can also increase our intuitive awareness, and elicit insights and visions, if we choose to focus our attention in that way.
FULL MOON IN CAPRICORN SABIAN SYMBOL ... The Sabian Symbol for the Full Moon reinforces the benefits of focusing inward at this time : A large aviary : The enjoyment of spiritual values by the soul able to familiarize itself with their implications. The keyword for this Sabian symbol is Clairaudience, defined as the capacity for being responsive to many inner voices. Astrologer Dane Rudhyar's interpretation of this symbol reads in part : Birds symbolize spiritual forces; the aviary presents us with a picture of these forces contained within a mind open to the light of psychic or Soul realities, and bringing joy and harmony to the consciousness. This is a picture of familiarity with inspiring experiences.
VENUS IN LEO ... Romantic Venus is now happily pranciong through lively Leo until 5 August. We're eager for some fun of our own. Love becomes larger than life with incredible romantic opportunities. During these three weeks, romance is going to go into overdrive as Venus moves into Leo. It's great to have a little fun to keep the relationship exciting, just make sure to address issues that may come up along the way.
MERCURY IN LEO ... Mercury has moved out of the emotional waters of Cancer into the fiery expressiveness of Leo until 30 July, which may help us be less at the mercy of our moods. The Messenger Planet will be in exuberant Leo helping us bring more play and joy into our daily lives. You'll speak with such flair that no one will be able to resist your words. Mercury in Leo is about self-expression and self-promotion. Mercury and Venus now in Leo bring out our inner diva, we want to give attention and receive attention, share what we know, but may have a harder time than usual getting out of our own perspective and walking in another shoes.
The Leo can bring us out of our shell, we just have to decide if we want to reach out for personal grandstanding, or the collective good. Mercury in Leo is about putting our best self forward, facing life's challenges with a positive attitude, and making your own creative contribution known. At it's deepest level, Mercury in the sign of the regal and majestic lion ushers in a cycle of tapping into our inner visions of what our life should be and turning that into a reality.
JULY 2016 OUTLOOK ... This is a very good month to put your energy into something that helps you grow and progress. See the best and worst days to do so in the monthly outlook for July read more ...
SATURN SQUARE NEPTUNE ... A new era has begun as realistic Saturn is in a challenging square to idealistic Neptune read more ...
SATURN RETROGRADE ... Saturn is retrograde through 13 August. Don't push ahead in business. Instead, take stock of where you are now and how you can improve read more ...
NEPTUNE SQUARE SATURN ... The category in your life this impacts (through Fall 2016) depends on where it lands in your natal chart. Scroll down the newsletter to see how this aspect will affect each of the signs ...
NEPTUNE RETROGRADE ... Reading between the lines gets easier. You might have a heightened intuitive awareness now, but it could not be so easy to trust it at first. Allow yourself time to meditate or just sit with your hunches and honor what is flowing through your mind. Neptune retrograde is often very positive because the clouds of confusion often pull away allowing us to see things clearly ... read more ...
PLUTO RETROGRADE ... With Pluto's influence strong now, we are aware of certain aspects of our lives that are not within our control. We are also deeply engaged in a process of release that is clearing the space in our lives for something new to be born read more ...
2016 OUTLOOK ... There are several astrological patterns that highlight this year – Jupiter in Virgo will square Saturn in Sagittarius, Jupiter will square Pluto and oppose Uranus later in the year, Saturn in Sagittarius will square Neptune in Pisces, and Saturn will trine Uranus in Aries. So, what do these patterns mean for us in the coming year? read more ...
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Astrology Sources : 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5
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BACTERIA Reversed
Ponder this ...
- What poisonous or toxic thoughts, emotions, perceptions, actions lurking beneath the surface need to be cleaned, scrubbed, removed ?
- What is no longer sustainable that needs to change in myself and in my life ?
- Do I choose the hard part now, for a longer, happier, more sustainable future … or do I take the easy road of avoidance and create a toxic future for myself ?
More bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That’s what’s going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It’s time to get out the anti-bacterial soap of life and do some cleaning.
On a literal level, this would be a great day to clean, especially with anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-microbial products to really get at the invisible level of what can be creating dis-ease in ourselves, in our homes, in our environment.
And I encourage you to use natural products (easy to make your own cleaning solution for this with 50/50 water/alcohol (or witch hazel) + essential oils of tea tree and/or lavender, rosemary, thyme, oregano … and treat your body to a softening, soothing and protective application of organic coconut oil).
Beyond just the physical level, we also need to do some cleaning and prevention around those things that lurk invisibly in the recesses of our body, mind and spirit that have gotten infected and festered into chronic dis-ease, discomfort, anger, guilt, shame, depression, giving up.
That which is not sustainable needs to be changed or eliminated altogether in our lives at this time.
We can identify what those might be by paying attention to the people, relationships, situations, environments, things that ...
- hinder or block cooperation
- are incommunicative or sabotage the opportunity to create a safe, open space to speak and be heard
- insist on their way or one way and refuse to collaborate
- either inhibit the ability to grow and multiply, or over compensate with more, more, more all the time and no sense of boundaries or limits or enough is never enough
- prefer to die rather than innovate and adapt, clinging to the way things have been, desperate to avoid or prevent change of any kind
What needs to be done may not be pleasant, comfortable or preferred … but if we don’t, then we will find ourselves and the situations affected by these things that lurk beneath the surface getting sicker, harder, more painful, and passing beyond the point of a cure to simply having to manage and learn to live with.
So, do we choose the hard part now, for a longer, happier, more sustainable future … or do we take the easy road of avoidance and create a toxic future for ourselves ?
The decision and choice is ours to make at this time.
Image : Sustain Yourself Oracle
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VERVAIN
Vervain has been used for sacrifices, purification during rites and rituals, and to help with sight by opening the inner eye to other dimensions of reality. Vervain helps us see things from a different perspective by opening the sixth chakra/third eye. It aids in releasing congested thinking, revealing new possibilities. It helps to bring about a clearer mind as new energies and situations are emerging.
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A new era begins as realistic Saturn moves into a challenging square to idealistic Neptune.
Opportunistic Jupiter enters practical Virgo for a yearlong stay adding amazing emphasis to work, health, and details in life. See how this affects your sign
thru Dec 2017
A big significant cycle pulling you in a much weightier direction to learn how to manage our expectations without completely losing our faith. We all have our limits and boundaries. It is figuring out what these limits and boundaries are that is the root of Saturn in Sagittarius
more ...
If we don’t claim our personal authority, there will be others who will try to claim authority over us
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LOOKING AHEAD
JUNE 2016
JULY KISS DAYS
1, 4, 6, 9,
10, 15+, 20
Choose the morning of the 15th for the hardest call you have to make, or for getting a new haircut—it’s a day of Grace and a good time to get in touch with the people who can help you. There are good aspects in many of the other days this month, but you’ll need to check out the daily reports as something else is also happening on those days which you need to know about, along with the kiss.
JULY QUACK DAYS
7+, 11, 29
There aren’t many difficult markers in the heavens this month. Stay out of the dentist’s chair on the 7th as astrological skies cloud up and nobody is in a good mood. Communication problems are likely on all three days—wait for another day to make your case.
Mars is now direct in his motion and still in powerful Scorpio, a sign he co-rules. He now brings us fabulous energy to clean out the closets and to bring old furniture back to new life. Or to dive into a therapy that looks at our emotional conditioning. Scorpio wants to get down and get at the truth. Mars is pushy and impatient, but also willing to try something new. This is a very good month to put your energy into something that helps you grow and progress ...
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