August Astrology Preview

The 8th month is a time of transitions and completion of karmic cycles. Number 8 is the symbol of Karma and Infinity which means that all time is NOW. It is a lucky number, symbolizing all the directions in Chinese Feng Shui.

Jupiter in Virgo is closing out his year-long stay in the 6th sign of perfection, work, grassroots, and health issues on September 9 so finish up projects now. There are some major planetary aspects this month.

AUG. 2, Mars  re-enters Sagittarius on a New Moon in LEO shifting us into more optimistic territory since May 27.

AUG. 13, SATURN turns Direct, since Retrograding since March 25.

AUG. 18, FULL MOON in AQUARIUSWith a big T-square between North Node Venus Mercury and Jupiter opposed to Neptune South Node and Chiron all squared by Mars and SATurn in Sagittarius.

AUG. 24, MARS conjuncts SATURN in SAGITTARIUS, a very heavy difficult day.

AUG. 25/26, MARS squares NEPTUNE, a good day to launch a dream. AUG. 27, one of the best days of year,Venus conjuncts JUPITER in VIRGO.

MERCURY turns RETROGRADE on August 30 in Virgo. Will be a tough one, prepare early.

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August 1.  A powerful Venus day as the Love Goddess trines Uranus

AUG. 5, VENUS enters Virgo until the 29th.

Love is a necessity, work, analysis, focused, accountable. A love of discipline, diet, health, getting the job done. Practical.

AUG. 6 Venus squares MARS in Sagittarius

The women and the men square off in the Truth and reality ring.

AUG. 6,  MERCURY in VIRGO squares Saturn

Being accountable is super important or the Cosmic Cop may get you.

AUG. 7,  LEO Sun inconjuncts PLUTO

Big power clashes in the world.

AUG. 7 Mercury in VIRGO opposes Neptune

Create your practical plans to actualize your biggest dreams. A Spiritual think tank.

AUG. 10th Mercury trinesPluto, Earth trine

Good for serious goals, Taurus benefits

AUG. 12, Jupiter in Virgo opposes Chiron in PISCES

Health matters feature, spiritual, legal and educational issues and problems are featured.

Aug 13 SATURN turns DIRECT after months since March 25 conjunct ANTARES

Saturn unleashes reality and now we can more forwards . There will be legal backlashes to the corruption of the DNC meddling with Bernie Sander’s landslide win. Foreigners and foreign diplomacy issues may take a turn for the worse. Launch your ship of truth. Publishing, travel and higher educational goals are also featured.

Jupiter inconjuncts URANUS in ARIES

OOPs, a big cosmic whoopee cushion. The best laid Virgo plans backfire! Make sure you check all the facts.

VENUS squares SATURN important karmic day for love

This is a great day to tie the knot. Serious love proposals will last. Commit to hard work with your educational goals. If you love to travel, make those plans now.

AUG. 14 Venus opposes NEPTUNE- Soul mates

This is the 3rd most powerful soul mate aspect there is. The grounded spiritual seeker finds their dreams. 

AUG. 17 Venus trines PLUTO

AUG. 19. Mercury opposes Chiron and inconjuncts URANUS

Aug 22 Sun enters VIRGO, It’s VIRGO time.

MERCURY conjuncts JUPITER  in Virgo at 26+ degrees.VIRGO this is a great day for you, One of the most positive days in 12 years so make the most of it. Mercury rules Virgo, Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Pisces. The two are exactly in square to the Galactic Centre. This is a great day for vision quests, seeking higher wisdom and guidance. A very practical and Metaphysical alignment.  Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces all benefit from this Mutable match. 

Aug 24 MARS CONJUNCTS SATURN in SAG. @ 9+ degrees on ANTARES

This is a very difficult combination. The two “true malefic’s” conjoined on Antares-the rival of Mars spells Terrorist attacks of the worst type or going to War. This is  a real challenge and difficult for people with planets at 9 degrees Mutable, Gemini, Virgo Sagittarius and Pisces. Check out where these degrees fall in your natal chart. My Sun and Moon are 3 degrees either side of this aspect. 

AUG. 24 Venus opposes Chiron

A day of feeling vulnerable in the physical and spiritually. Vulnerability is a great strength.

AUG.  25 VENUS inconjuncts Uranus

Expect many breakups as Uranus in Aries is impulsive rash and the urge for freedom is strong. 

AUG. 25/26 Mars in SAGITTARIUS squares Neptune in PISCES

Very inspired day for Sagittarians and Pisces. Super soul mate potential. A good day to go on a vision quest or plan one or other spiritual dream trip. Get your dreams on. Put the feedback on that Unicorn and begin to fly.

Aug 27 VENUS CONJUNCTS JUPITER ***** 27+ degrees VIRGO

This is one of the best days of the year these 2 benefices get together. Venus rules TAURUS and LIBRA. Jupiter rules SAGITTARIUS and PISCES. This is great for VIRGO’s. Go for that raise, harvest some big benefits from working out or diet. Big win at work. Love is in the air for VIRGO.  Also Excellent for VIRGO, Taurus and CAPRICORN.

AUG. 28/29 Mercury conjunct VENUS in Virgo -talk about love

AUG. 29 VENUS enters LIBRA her home sign

This makes for a great time for socializing, meeting new people, dating, having parties, openings and feeling more balanced. Libra is the Peacemaker and go-between, the Ambassador, Perhaps the world situation will mellow out now.

AUG. 29 UH OH MERCURY RETROGRADE in VIRGO @ 29th degree –

This one will be tough as Mercury is in its own sign. Mercury turns Direct September 22 @ 14 degrees Virgo. Prepare early to make sure you don’t have to buy new tech. Back up all computers etc. 

AUG. 29, VENUS enters LIBRA her home sign.

September 1st is a SOLAR ECLIPSE at 9 degrees VIRGO. 

A very powerful eclipse with the Sun square Saturn more about this later. 

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Invite Eris, the F.U. Goddess of chaos in

Wow there is so much going on right now. PLUTO, LORD of the UNDERWORLD is in a Trine with JUPITER and the NORTH NODE. Pluto and the North Node are both karmic evolutionary factors. The North Node is the cosmic hand pointing us the direction to go.

GO VIRGO-

Go humble, go earth, go harvest, go details, go intellectual, go serve, go perfect things, go integrate the mind/body, go serve the VIRGIN GODDESS.

The North Node and Pluto will be in Trine to each other until October but are enhanced now with Jupiter expanding their powers. Jupiter connected to PLUTO is the billionaire corporate 1% power on the mundane physical level. On the higher consciousness levels JUPITER is the power of SACRED LAW, ethics, doing the right thing and Pluto is the soul and collective unconscious. We each have to take time out to listen, rather hermit-like as in  the Tarot Arcana #9, Virgo influence and 2016’s numerology- to our own inner ancient wisdom to know our highest truth.

CUE the REVOLUTION

The pot is being stirred furiously now by Jupiter, Pluto and the North Node, reactivating the PLUTO URANUS conjunction from 1965-1967  which was between 15-18 degrees of Virgo with Saturn in PISCES opposite the two. We can see just how serious this Revolution is gonna get as SATURN, head honcho of the reality check, continues to square those degrees. Saturn is karma, obstacles, limitations, regression, the Patriarchy, the old boys network.  Saturn has been squaring the ghost of the seeding of the 60’s Revolution since January 2016 and will continue to do so until the end of this year and into 2017.

Then there is also the URANUS/ ERIS conjunction at 23 degrees ARIES! which will continue into MARCH 2017. I call this the F*%& U revolution as people will be walking away from the old ways, politics, same old B.S. 

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), The Judgment of Paris, 1516-1518.

Oil on panel, 63.5 x 41.9 cm. Seattle Art Museum.

The Sun and Venus are in conjunction and they are moving into a Sextile with Uranus and Eris exact from Venus on the12th and the SUN on the 13th.

Venus is women and the SUN is SOURCE energy, this indicates women coming to the forefront to lead the revolution. Women want to be unbound, uncaged, to walk on the wild side. This is the time to break out of any boring routines at work and in your love and sex life, your wardrobe, your old habit patterns. Get a life make over.

WHO IS ERIS?

ERIS, is  a minor-planet, discovered on Jan 5, 2005 in California. Her name means DISCORD, or strife. She is the sister of Mars/Ares and the Goddess of war and chaos.  Her mythology is that of creating senseless slaughter in war. Her powers deal with inducing anger, both with a smoke made of elemental chaos that she gives off and with her suggestive voice. It leads a person to action, but a strong will can fend it off. Others fall into a trance. It depends on the individual.  Like all Greek and Roman goddesses and Goddesses, her true form is incomprehensible and unable to be perceived by mortals without them burning up. She can look very glamorous and seductive but her form is said to be as grotesque as her heart, and vaguely insect-like. Which is very interesting as it sounds like she is an alien entity of some sort as well.  

She can become tired from using her supernatural abilities. Her counterpart is Harmonia/ Concordia, and when they are together both their powers are canceled out.

She is another aspect of LILITH, the DARK FEMININE, but she is more active and revengeful, intellectual, shrewd and stealthy in her ways.  Eris was not invited to the biggest bachelorette party around and in revenge, she threw a Golden Apple at the three main Goddesses, Athena, Hera and APHRODITE/Venus inscribed with “To the FAIREST.”  That squabble of the Goddess eventually led to the Trojan War. In popular Fairy Tales Eris is the 13th, uninvited Fairy in Sleeping Beauty who curses the Princess to sleep for 100 years. In her myth she reveals VANITY, the superficial side of VENUS as what leads to strife.  Kim Kardashian and selfie addicts BEWARE

ERIS’s energy is implicit in her stories, if you don’t invite her then she will yell F U and shove it in your face but there is also a deep lesson in her karmic reactions. Eris symbolizes being rejected, left out and overlooked as the Divine Feminine has been since the Patriarchal times 5,000 years go. So its time for us to invite Eris in and make her feel welcome. In doing so we also heal our own wounded, rejected parts.

 Making Peace with Eris’s energies creates less strife.  Make an altar to ERIS and honor the Goddess of chaos/change or karmic justice into your life. How would that change your life?

Let’s look at what Eris is made of from the birth chart of our rediscovery of her. 

Eris is an earthy, patient, all business, Capricorn with her SUN at 14 degrees.It looks like her Moon was in SCORPIO which perfects fits the revenge, subterfuge energy but it could also be in late LIBRA indicating the Justice theme. She has three planets in Sagittarius, Mercury @ 23+, Venus @ 24+ SAGITTARIUS,which is a combination of brains and beauty, and  Mars @ 7+ SAGITTARIUS which is conjunct the Fixed Star ANTARES. Rival of Mars- very true. Jupiter is at 17+ LIBRA, Saturn is at 24 Retrograde Cancer, Uranus is at 4+ PISCES, NEPTUNE is at 13-14 degrees AQUARIUS, Pluto is at 22+ Sagittarius conjunct her Mercury and VENUS, a very powerful combo. 

Eris’ North Node is at 28 degrees ARIES squaring Saturn, further underscoring her Karmic nature.  Her Lilith is at 17 degrees of CANCER close to Saturn, and square to Jupiter, she has a lot of power. 

Her Chiron,where she is the most vulnerable is at 25 degrees CAPRICORN opposite SATURN. This has to do with the Patriarchy.   Perhaps you have similarities in your natal chart to Hers?

Call upon ERIS  and Set up an altar to Her.

Symbol of ERIS

I would put on it things that symbolizes your anger and rejection, whether it was being rejected by a boyfriend, for a job, your family, politics, the system, or feeling alienated from parts of yourself or intimate relationships. You can place symbols of things which feel discordant or inharmonious in your life on the altar to find ways to bring more harmony into your life.  Through Eris you can come to know, love and accept these very wounded, rejected and neglected shadow parts of yourself. This is very important work.

Eris shows us that if our true selves are not acknowledged, a part of ourselves will induce pain and suffering onto others as a defense for the vulnerability that we feel. This is what the Patriarchy did too. They felt powerless in relationship to the Goddess and put her down and suppressed her. Uranus is HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS we can change all of that.

We need to fight the good fight against our lower natures where we are revengeful, spiteful and catty and competitive with other women. We have to get to a Higher consciousness of the forces that have suppressed women and kept them bound into fighting with each other. 

Are you ready to welcome the positive changes of chaos that can come now? 

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Dream big, mutable roller coaster weekend

The weekend is a big busy mutable weekend as the Moon in Virgo activates the Mutable T-square, which may make you feel like you are on an emotional roller-coaster, which will test you about your faith and your deepest dreamy wild truths, and if you know which way is up or not and  tests your hardest self-knowledge about What is real, and what is too hard to imagine?

The Grand Mutable T-square Jupiter Saturn Neptune. 

As the Moon opposite Neptune early in the a.m. I’m feeling high as a kite.
then the Moon Squares Saturn one hour later, the crash. Who put lead in my shoes and why am i so down and blue?
then 41/2 hours later Moon conjuncts Optimistic expansive trusting Jupiter. Wow I am feeling so UP!
Then the Moon conjunct North Node , 4 hours later; a karmic new cycle begins at 16 degrees.

The North Node and the Moon point to where we need to point our ship, what we nail to set sail after. Virgo North Node is about paying attention to the details. The crafting the hands on, DIY, perfecting something, it doesn’t have to be big, it can be small and prescious.

I used to be a craftsperson in my former incarnation in this lifetime. My ex and I made everything  by hand, these were  little tiny clay like pins. Our line was mainly cats and we sold these across Canada and the U.S. in Art Gallery Gift Shops and retail stores and at Major Toronto and California Craft Shows. Each one was meticulously hand-made, sanded, painted, sealed in minute details. I have a VIRGO South NODE.

What do you dream of crafting? – a sweater, a product, a meal? A new job? A new life?

It can feel very practical and very romantic.

Do be mindful of  how much alcohol or drugs you take of any kind. 

The Mood is nature loving, we need to be grounded, not too flashy and could be worrisome as Jupiter expands Virgo’s natural worry mode. 

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT 

Moon Conjunct Jupiter in Virgo makes us pay attention to how we feel from what we eat. We are what we eat. Virgo is the digestive trace and the Moon rules the stomach.

diet, digestion, food allergies, these are all things to pay attention to.

Eliminate things that make you bloat up or change your moods.

The mainstay rule is don’t eat anything white, No this is not racist. 

No milk, no white sugar, no white flour, no dairy… And it takes two weeks to eliminate these foods from your system. Pay attention to your health and exercise routine. 

Watch for waxing Moon conjunct Jupiter if clear night skies to help clarify.

The planets are aligning in an arc during June

Moon TRINES PLUTO in the evening EDT

Think about the biggest highest goal you could have. Dream Big, we are still working with Neptune and Jupiter. Pluto gives anyone incredible power if they are truly walking on their souls’ path. If you could be at the top of the world in terms of fame and power what would you do? Who would you be? If you can’t analyze it and talk about it How can you build it? Saturn is the builder. 

SUNDAY is SUPER BUSY,Mercury enters its home sign of GEMINI on Sunday.,more about that later…

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