This Week

This Week begins with balsamic moon.  This is NOT the time to be launching anything.  This is not the time to clean anything up.  This is time to release and let go.    On Tuesday Jupiter the planet of “Big” and “Expansion” moves out of Leo and into Virgo.   This journey by Jupiter will take a year so we have plenty of time to get our Virgo going.   You can read more about it HERE.   At the end of the week we move into our LEO new Moon.  It is a good one.  Post will follow.     

In the meantime, R E L E A S E .

Balsamic Moon Phase

August 10

1:16pm EDT

   

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new. 

Focus on We release our feelings.  We release our need to emote.  We release our manipulation through emotions.    We release our guilt.  And our guilt on others.  

Special focus:

8/11:  Jupiter in Virgo

8/12: Mercury/Neptune:  Fuzzy thinking.  Dreamy thinking.  Communication looks weird and odd and not necessarily is it the truth. 

Leo  New Moon August 14 10:53am EDT  21 Leo 31 

Jupiter's Big Move into Virgo

Jupiter in Virgo  

On August 11^th (7:11am EDT) Jupiter moves out of loud and noisy Leo and into reserved Virgo.   The Zodiac progression is not a random act in astrological terms.  We need dramatic Leo with all of its bravery and grand ideas to be followed by tidy Virgo whose discipline nature can test if the Leo ideas make sense and can be built upon.   Virgo is our daily work.  You gotta know that of all signs Jupiter is really uncomfortable in Virgo.  Virgo is about dotting I’s and crossing T’s and Jupiter comes in like a bull in a china shop, loud and brusque.  In fact Jupiter is in his detriment in the sign Virgo—Meaning it is a little difficult for Jupiter to get his Jupiter on.   But it does not mean he does not propel us or help us expand and accomplish the good from Jupiter.  It is just that jovial energy must be harnessed in with Virgo daily habits. 

How can we use Jupiter’s energy in a daily manner?  Jupiter wants us to expand our world.  Jupiter is also about faith and religion.  Jupiter stays in a sign for about a year.   We will be tested to use our faith daily.  As said, Jupiter’s goal is to expand our world.  When it is in Virgo we will feel the urge to expand our world in some practical way, perhaps even traveling.   We also will get realistic (perfect Virgo world) about how to accomplish more travel in our life.  Is it putting a dollar a day in a jar and planning a trip next summer?  Is it taking a monthly payment out of our checkbook transferred to a travel savings?  Perhaps you will go about your day and meet more ‘foreign’ people, places or food.  Or expand our circle because we don’t feel we have enough people in it or we need new energy.    

Jupiter is the planet of luck.  But it is not some out of the blue lucky thing that just happens when it is in the sign Virgo.  Rather it more about the discipline and the hard work we do (Virgo) to make our ‘luck’ (Jupiter).   Virgo is the sign of daily health, hygiene and diet.  “Oh, Jupiter how this is challenging.”    Jupiter wants to eat and drink everything in front of him, but while in Virgo we can access the other part of Jupiter that is the optimism of finally locking a great diet that improves our health.   We get a boost of Jupiter positivity when we cut our calories down every day for a week and see a pound or two drop on the scale.   “Maybe I can do another week,” says Jupiter.    What other projects do you have on your calendar that need daily work and optimism?    Use Jupiter for the cause!   

On August 3^rd we had the first of three squares between Saturn and Jupiter.    There will be two more during Jupiter’s trek in Virgo.  The second on March 23, 2016 (16/17 Sag/Virgo)  and the final one on May 26  (2016)  (13/14 Sag/Virgo).   This is a push and pull between our pessimists and our optimists.  It is the push between being big and grand and taking on so much but then nothing gets accomplished.  It is getting lost in the forest and not seeing the trees.  It is getting lost in the trees and not seeing the forest.  Quite simply it is the microscope versus the telescope.   Where are you using one lens and need to switch to the other?    Finding daily faith will be a must to make it through these aspects.  And perhaps one of the more fruitful areas to explore with Jupiter is our philosophy and our opinions.   Many people will look at their daily life and see how it matches or doesn’t match their opinions and philosophy.  Is it working for you?  For example and this is an easy one, if you have a skanky opinion about ‘rich’ people then look at your income.  Would you benefit by more income?  Well how can you accomplish that if you have a crappy opinion about people who have money?    Look at all your opinions for the next year and see if they are working for you.  Especially around the dates for the squares with Saturn.    Go back to the first week of August 2015 and ask yourself what came up and see if it gets revisited in March and May.    And remember Jupiter will want to expand your calendar and schedule so much it might feel you are imploding.  Take a breath and prioritize everything but put health and exercise at the top and you will make the most of big ol’ Jupiter.

Saturn Direct: Get on with it.

August 2
1:53am EDT

Saturn turns direct at 28/29 Scorpio on August 2 pushing us to finalize any issues around resources, empowerment, taxes, legal matters, sex, loans, obsessions, dark energies that need death and rebirth.   Along with shallow issues that need depth (once again through death and rebirth.)    Scorpio is anything that we co-mingle with others like our money, blood, our DNA and sex.   It is also our black and white sides.  The part of us that shows no gray.   Saturn returned to Scorpio on June 14^th and will go back to Sagittarius on September 17^th.   As we have mentioned before, once Saturn leaves Scorpio he won’t return for 28 more years.  So, do you think it is a critical time to deal with sex, money, shared resources, loans, DNA, blood and the parts of our psyche that scare the bejeesus out of us?   Purge, purge, purge.   It is also a significant time to deal with compulsions and addictions.   Is it time for rehab? Is it time for 12 step?  Is it time for a real in your face therapist?   You know better than anyone.   Anyway, work on your shadow side during this limited period.    It is just too important to ignore and remember we don’t get it again for 28 years.    Just sayin’.  

This Astro Week

This week.  

Friday’s full moon lasts until late Monday morning (12:53pm EDT).    This full moon we are processing our relationship with our tribe.   Our tribe can be our family but is not limited to the people we are born into, our tribe also includes the people we gather round us.   On this full moon we are looking at our role in our tribe and if we are allowed to shine within in the group.   For more full moon discussion go HERE.   Watch what comes up.     

On August 2 Saturn will turn direct at 28 Scorpio 17 (see additional post)

There is pressure between Jupiter and Saturn as it builds towards the August 3^rd square.    Overindulgence versus tight wad.    Our optimism pushes our pessimism.   Being open versus being closed.    Multipoint vs single point solution.    How does this tension play out?  Where do you feel strained?   Use the energy to build something important.  A thought, a relationship, a connection, resolve a debt, move up a ladder step….it may not be easy but you can do it.

August 3

Disseminating

12:55pm EDT 

Focus on:  How are you sharing your faith? How are you sharing humanitarianism?  How are you sharing your metaphysics?  How are you sharing your gentleness?  How are you sharing your dreaminess?  How are you sharing your fuzziness?  How are you sharing religion?  Or spirituality? 

Special focus:

8/4: Venus/Jupiter  Values and resources expand.  Opportunities open up.  Love and money get a little stroke.

8/4: Venus/Saturn.   Values and resources are getting slapped.  Darn.  And on the same day Venus gets the a stroke from Jupiter, Saturn pushes us back.  Dream big, consider big but do the hard work that will satisfy Saturn. 

8/6: Mercury/Venus.  Thoughts around values are highlighted.  Love, money and creativity are injected with new ideas and thoughts that support growth.  

8/6: Mercury/Saturn:  Sharp thoughts and sharp tongue.  Negative thinking.  Cloudy ideas. 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

August 6

10:02pm EDT

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living  “The serenity prayer”

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

Focus on:

What actions are you taking that speak to your sensuality?  What actions can you take that speak to taking care of finances?  What actions can you take that help set up you building your own thing?  How are your emotions directly connected to what you value?  How can you build on those values?  

Special focus:

8/7:  Mercury in Virgo

8/7: Mercury/Jupiter:  Broadening thoughts.  Visionary.   Focused ideas and insights that expand thinking. 

8/8: Mars in Leo