Cuspy VIRGO – PISCES SuperMOON (Feb 19): Wholeness in Oneness

Dear Astro~News Reader,

Full Moon over the Mountains during the Sochi Winter Olympics on Feb 13, 2014. Credit: Odd Andersen /AFP/Getty Images)

 

Feeling the energy building?
She’s coming!
Special in so many ways:

 

• The Biggest SuperMOON of the year is ‘on the horizon’ – literally:
  Hope we can see her in her glory in the morning hours before MOONset on Tue Feb 19, here from the West Coast perspective.
  The BIG Full Moon will be exact at 7:54 am PST (after Moonset / Sunrise).

 

• It’s also quite unique astronomically since the MOON will appear throughout the night very close to Regulus, the Royal Star, and brightest one in the constellation LEO.

 

• Astrologically, LUNA will be just over the ‘Sphinx Point’ cusp, on the 1st degree of VIRGO while the SUN will be on the first degree / day of PISCES:
  A Lunar Call to be in Self Awareness (LEO / VIR) –
  Who am I, what works for me, and how can I be of service to the whole, let AQ / PI Solar Consciousness shed on Community / Humanity, and bridge ‘both sides’ Me and Us All.

 

• 

  CHIRON the Centaur turned Warrior.

  The SuperSuper FULL MOON on Feb 19 ‘delivers’ and catalyzes CHIRON into ARIES, on the eve of the FM, Feb 18:
  

  …which brings themes for the next 8 years, such as:
  * Healing through showing up for ourselves, with bold, courageous action, or ‘simply’: Through emerging from the collective cocoon, and being fully present as ourselves.
  
  * Emergence of new Movements, societally and spiritually, for Waking up & Showing up!
  * Emergency to step into action, re: Climate and other urgent issues.

  A very cuspy & mutable Full Moon (see FM chart below): 

  So much in flux, and lots of shifts happening (incl. CHIRON entering ARIES, and URANUS going into TAURUS) – we better adapt and renew too.

 

• The last Full Moon in WINTER 2018 / 19 (after the Winter Solstice FM on Dec 22, and the Total Lunar Eclipse FM on Jan 20 / 21) – the next Full Moon on March 20 will be just 4 hrs after the Spring Equinox!

 

• The last Full Moon in the retro-free zone – no Planets retrograde between Jan 6 when URANUS went direct, and March 5 when MERCURY goes retro.

 

As with every Full Moon, and esp. with this SuperSuperMOON, it can be a very emotional phase, as things come to Fruition (think: Full Moon – Harvest Moon, and VIRGO), to be released (a la PISCES via the SUN plus MERCURY – soon retro – now close to NEPTUNE!).
Let’s allow it to BE (PI), and keep doing the practice (VIR) that keeps us healthy, whole, and connected, from which right action ‘in the world’ emerges naturally.

 

Neptune Rules Pisces
Painting by Johfra Bosschart

 

There’s a lot of planetary energy in PISCES in the Astro Weather – showing up for the Full Moon on Feb 19, and being led over into ARIES via CHIRON: Spring and New Life in Becoming!

 

The Full Moon in VIRGO on Feb 19 (see chart below) receives the reflection of the SUN freshly in PISCES, (the SUN will enter PI on Feb 18 at 3:04 pm PST), and MERCURY next to NEPTUNE in mid-PI, plus liberating LILITH in AQ surround the SUN.
What a cosmic tidal wave this can be, esp. mentally!
One thing leads to another, and all is interconnected.
Intensity and vulnerability through overwhelm and feeling lost….?

MERCURY in ‘exile’ in PI (ruling its opposite, organized VIR) can easily get overwhelmed and confused, since… all is connected.
And maybe ‘gone fishing’, meditating, or taking extra naps is the best way of allowing things to run their course and fall into place…

 

• What’s the Medicine that PISCES offers, at this ‘grand finale’ and transition of CHIRON from PI to ARIES?
• What’s the Practice that the VIRGO FULL MOON prescribes?

 

If you’re been feeling so much, and being sensitive to the collective energy, you’re not alone.
‘Their stuff?’ / Not yours?

Yes and no:
On a personal level, we don’t need to take in everyone’s woes, or critique their behaviour that we can’t change, and a healthy membrane is a good thing, like a well-functioning immune system. Good to take care of our own body-mind-spirit Temple, says VIRGO.

Yet energetically we’re all / all IS interwoven, connected, and ONE, in the flow of Life, shows PISCES – we’re spiritual Beings having a human experience. Something to take in and attune even more to, with MERCURY already and for a long time in in PI, plus soon to go retro (March 5 – 28).

 

You prob. heard the quote before: “Don’t sweat the small stuff – it’s all small stuff” (Very apropos VIRGO).
I disagree with the latter part. But it’s worth checking in whether a situation that upset us is actually ‘small stuff’ in the bigger context of things, and yet, why we feel it in such a BIG way? What’s the need behind it?

A spiritual teacher said:
“Do you experience the suffering (as a phenomenon that comes and goes) with compassion, or do you (as in: you personally) suffer the experience?”
And: “The Person has / is the Problem. Presence just IS.”

VIRGO represents the individualized Self, in that sense ‘the Person’ while PISCES represents Presence with / in / as Energy.
The VIRGO SuperSuper Moon calls us to be aware of what makes us feel / take things so personally even though it might be ‘just random’ / accidental / part of the human condition.
Not to over-analyze and re-affirm ‘the problem’, rather to simply be with it and watch it run its course…

 

Waves are coming in… – Photo by Melanie, Jan 2019

 

On the PISCES ‘side’ (which is an oxymoron, since PI is all-encompassing), some of us sentient and sensitive ones are very attuned to the ‘psychic weather’ / oceanic atmosphere around us.

Maybe we came with this gift (which can sometimes feel like a curse – a la CHIRON in PI over the last 8-9 years), or it was evoked early in life.

 

• Can you, the empathic Person, avoid being drawn into everyone’s emotional field, and experiencing it as your own?
• And what of that IS actually a reflection of you?
  The Sphinx Point Self Awareness and VIRGO discernment sure help.
• Can you let go, release the need to do something with what happened, and allow things to be as they are?
• Can you let people be who they are, rather than trying to do something about it? 
• Have you noticed how your (PISCEAN) vibration actually changes them / the situation in a better way than your (VIR) need to ‘fix’ or ‘reform’ them?
• How do you bring yourself, and what brings you back into alignment (VIR) with your true Soul Nature?
  

Things flow so much easier (PI), and the Universe ‘has our back’ when we’re true to ourselves.
Magic and synchronicities are our companions, life is more fun and joy, and we’re naturally led to do what we’re best at, and meet people on the way whom we resonate and co-create with.

Versus trying to be everything to everybody, bending over backwards, protecting your image and social status, and building up a fake persona, not wanting to loose face in the eyes of others, and being more perfect than you are, etc.
All of that takes so much energy, comes from the ego, and actually goes against what nature intended for us:
To be authentically ourselves.
HA – seems like CHIRON going into ARIES on the eve of the FM agrees wholeheartedly.

In this sense, more BEING in natural alignment, and less ego directed DOING (as a compensation mode) is what the Astro Doc prescribes, always, and esp. brought out by this VIRGO – PISCES Super FULL MOON.
Noticing and being aware (a VIRGO specialty) of what’s going on are the first steps to nature-ally re-align.

 

How does the VIRGO ‘Priestess’ and ‘Earth Angel’ in us show up in this?

 

Virgo and Mercury Painting by Johfra Bosschart

 

Let’s be aware (VIR) and in a loving, open, neutral place (PI), with the washing up and out of old emotions, thoughts and vibrations.

Maybe even residues of the whole PISCES Age era, our connection with / in it and conditioning by it,  showing up via MERCURY (soon retro), in triple contact with NEPTUNE (Feb 18, March 24, Apr 2).
Hints: The Victim – Perpetrator – Saviour – Martyr dynamic…

HOW to (a VIRGO approach) release all THAT?
I hear VIRGO getting concerned…
Impossible to resolve it all with a ‘strategy’, ‘method’, or ‘fix’, or by analysis…

We can’t keep these collective-connective waves from coming.
But we can learn and practice surfing and navigating them skillfully (that’s where VIRGO comes in) and, rather than judging and resisting, BE with it all (PISCES) in a good vibration, and loving, heart-ful way.

 

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

 

What are these themes are for You that are getting washed up – to be released?
They can be also seen in your chart – esp. where the VIRGO – PISCES axis is (houses, planets…).

Triple Goddess

Image:
Triple Goddess Maiden, Mother, Crone, with Waxing, Full, and Waning Moon, representing the stages of Womanhood

We can expose ourselves to the cosmic, universal,  unified and unifying PISCEAN Field, transmitted by the SUN, MERCURY & NEPTUNE.
And channel the energy into this human dimension, by tuning into the grounding gifts of Grandmother MOON in VIRGO, sign of the Sacred Feminine and Triple Goddess.

How can Your cosmic gifts be actualized, put into service, and help You be in alignment with Your cosmic assignment?

 

 

The VIRGO – PISCES Full Moon Chart

The VIR – PI Full Moon will be exact at 7:54 am PST on Feb 19 – first full day in PISCES 2019.

Immediately obvious:

We’re in a VERY PISCEAN realm, from our West Coast perspective – balanced by the VIRGO MOON.

 

PISCES Rising, with its Ruler NEPTUNE on the AC, together with MERCURY (which conversely is the Ruler of VIRGO).
The ‘Messenger’ is for a very long time in the PISCEAN oceanic realm this year: Since Feb 10, until Apr 16, and shall go retro there too (March 5 – 28)!
MERCURY in PI is attuning us to openness, connectedness, and fluidity of the Mind.

The SUN freshly in PI (from Feb 18 on), will have just risen at the exact Full Moon time, and therefore be also in the Piscean 12th House – nice natural alignment! –, not far from liberating LILITH in AQ. Being in the vaster Energy Field and tuning into Oneness of / as All-That-Is…
The SUN on the AQ – PI ‘Coherence Point’ invites us as ‘We’re all in This Together’ to tune into shared vibrations with other Human Beings (rather than separation).
Spiritual gatherings where joined group vibrations are being offered would be very welcomed (always, and esp. for this Full Moon).

 

The essence of timeless Tao Wisdom:
Yin-Yang Balance is always dynamic and interwoven.

The SUN /  NEPTUNE / MERCURY ‘field’ in PI show us:

All is unified and ONE.

Letting go of mental hooks and hang-ups (MERCURY in PI), or of being caught in the collective web would be so healing.
Perhaps through sound, music, dance, and vibrational medicine.

MERCURY in PI responds to those ‘messages’, rather than being more inundated, confused, and hypnotized by ‘news’.
Not a suggestion to put the head into the sand.
Rather an opport-Unity to let go, and tune into deeper messages.

 

Big Wave Surfer Maya Gabeira

 

As we immerse fully into the PISCEAN field there is just energy, a ‘quantum soup’.
Which can be overwhelming and chaotic, for the individualized, ‘separate’ human personal self. Examples are everywhere, incl. the constant influx / inundation of media (also ruled by PISCES), paradoxically creating FOMO (fear of missing out) – when we experience ourselves as separate from ‘them’.
I guess you’re getting the picture…. 

Interconnectedness of ALL can, for our separate identity, be overwhelming, confusing, make us vulnerable – or make us want to escape, be ‘addicted’ to ‘the state of bliss and union’, etc.
The invitation is to experience and merge in the field of Oneness.

The SUN now entering PISCES (Feb 18 – March 20) also brings Solar Consciousness to the bigger, longer, and more transpersonal influences of NEPTUNE in PISCES 2012 – 2026, and CHIRON in PISCES 2010 – 2019 – which leaves PI literally on the same day as the SUN enters PI, Feb 18 – – the eve of the Super Full Moon.

So much is coming together now…

Allow it, and allow yourself to BE.
Maybe that means letting go of, forgiving, releasing something, some ‘disappointment’, ‘illusion’, etc. (chances are in the area of life related to PI in your chart).

CHIRON now leaving PISCES has shown over the last decade how old, early, time-transcending wounds came up in this process (esp. for those of us born in the 1960’s under CHIRON in PI, and anyone with PI placements).
As James Hillman summed it up in a Jungian seminar in Victoria a few years ago:
There are two basic early childhood wounds: Abandonment and overwhelm (invasion, abuse). We might have experienced one more than the other, or both in combination. We might have experienced one more than the other, or both in combination.
They often lead to addiction – as an escape, and / or substitute for genuine connection…
Real connection is Healing.

 

A Review of the effects of CHIRON in PISCES over the last decade would be quite helpful and integrative.
In our CHIRON into ARIES Parlour – 3 groups on Feb 20 & 28 we shall also in the circle review CHIRON in PISCES, and the Medicine it has brought to everyone.

 

Crystal activated Voyager card XVII – Star, showing Kuan Yin, Goddess of Compassion – Photo and crystal activation by Melanie

I call the AQ – PI cusp also ‘Kuan Yin Point’ – This female Buddha offers Compassion for Humanity and All Life Forms.

 

Often we have to feel what’s now ripe to be healed. There may be catalysts that bring out the old wounds – to be also healing agents.

Rather than spiritually bypassing the wounds, or indulging in them, or escaping into addictive behaviour, how can we do our part in letting go and healing (NEPTUNE, CHIRON, and MOON in VIR)?

 

The Full MOON in VIR – PISCES, together with the North Node now (until June 2020) in CANCER invites us to invoke Divine Mother / Goddess energy that is always available to support us and all sentient Beings. Like Kuan Yin, Mother Mary…

We can’t ‘do it all’ but we can ask for assistance from Higher dimensions… See how your energy shifts…!

Maybe it helps us with dropping resistance and separation, and, rather than trying to armour ourselves against the ‘tsunami of energy’ (since as sensitive souls we tend to take things in, and they sit and stick there, and possibly contaminate our inner environment) we can ask and allow the energy to gently leave us.

NEPTUNE in PI’s need for Connection and Oneness with the Great Mother, the Universe, the All, can lead to ‘looking for Love at the wrong places’, going on a compensation course via addictions of all sorts that promise to let the ‘me’ go away for a while, but hey, it does come back each time, which can turn into a painful vicious cycle.

These ‘depleting’ tendencies can be met by our awareness of wholeness (Full Moon in VIR) from which healing and renewed Consciousness that-IS (PI SUN) can come.
Practices that lead us to a physical, sensate awareness of wholeness, like mindfulness meditation, Yoga, walks in Nature help, ideally integrated into our life as a healthy routine (VIR).

What are other concrete practices, maybe healthy rituals you can DO (VIRGO) that help us come back into Oneness with / in Life?

 

VIRGO is the energy of the Harvest Goddess,  Priestess, and Sacred Feminine who is whole and complete, clear and aligned with her sacred Self which keeps her / us in Integrity.

VIRGO practices self-awareness, and tends to ‘her’ body-mind-spirit Temple through clearing, discernment, sacred and spiritual practice, such as ceremony and ritual.

Which means in our practical daily life:
A body / health / wellness / nutrition practice and lifestyle.
A healthy body in a healthy spirit.
Honouring ourselves and our body-temple.
Practice Is Perfect.

• Is there a practice you can adopt right now that would benefit your well being? Something simple and self-sufficient, like – cell phone free walks, Yoga, exercise, getting more regularly fresh air? 
• Which ‘recipes, remedies, and rituals’ would your inner Mentor prescribe? Like: adding / removing something from your diet, sleep, work style and hours, certain practices that make you overall happier and healthier, a morning ritual? 
• Is there something is ripe and ready now to be harvested, as in: let go of? 
• Would a ceremony help release something old and outlived, and / or help invite beneficial cosmic energies?

 

 

Other Cosmic Energies in the SuperMOON ‘Field’

 

Call of the Mountain
Photo by Melanie, Dec 2018

 

Mountain Medicine

Yes, still a lot of CAPRICORN energy too, activated by VENUS:

VENUS now in CAP (Feb 3 – March 1), on the ‘Integrity Point’ – a magnet to attract what’s ‘real’ and in integrity / really works for us, while ‘in the meantime’ it’s also a ‘match’ & mirror for where we’re at, with our self value and self love.

VENUS will have just met SATURN (once a year) on Feb 18:
What are you ready to commit to, from your Heart, and because it’s Time?
And what’s done & complete (even though you used to love it)?

On Feb 22 – 24, VENUS will meet PLUTO and the South Node in CAP:
Deep and karmic Soul Connections and Attractions are showing up, with the South Node, rather ‘of the past’, ancient and timeless, yet also to release (South Node) old patterns that don’t serve anymore (end of CAP has also VIR undertone, just as early VIR has CAP undertone, a mutually activated theme).
Be in Your Integrity NOW. Mountain Medicine.

 

 

 

Tune into Your Heart Gifts!

JUPITER has come a long way in its own domain of SAGITTARIUS (since Nov 8, 2018, until Dec 2, 2019).
It’s starting to slow down now, to go retro for 4 months, from Apr 10 on.

MERCURY while for a long time in PI (incl. its retro phase in March) will go 3 times (before, during, and after retro) into square with JUPITER in SAG: Feb 22, March 15, and Apr 11.
Which is also a reflection of the triple square between JUPITER and NEPTUNE in PI this year (1st one was JAN 13).

Let’s tune into Messages beyond our rational thinking, and receive the gifts of their Wisdom, showing us about the interwoven Fabric of Life.
Let’s allow things to be fluid and easy, offer and receive messages-as-gifts, tap into abundance mode, rather than feeling overwhelmed. Letting the Heart direction & connections unfold…

 

Awakening (through) the Body, and EmBodying Awakeness

Lastly, another cuspy activation, on the ‘Settling / Embodiment Point’ from ARIES to TAURUS…

…via URANUS, at the very end of ARIES – to move into TAURUS with the next New Moon, on March 6, and MARS which recently ‘settled’ in TAU (Feb 14 – March 30).

MARS in TAURUS followed by URANUS helps us with grounding and embodying Spirit-in-Matter, while Awakening (through) the Body, and EmBodying Awakeness.

More about URANUS into TAURUS coming up soon, in ASTRO~NEWS!

 

Cosmic Blessings for Wholeness in Oneness, with the VIRGO – PISCES SuperSuperMOON, and her ‘Entourage’ – and beyond!

Melanie

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

 

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CHIRON Enters ARIES (Feb 18, 2019 – Apr 14, 2027!): The Medicine of Being Authentically You!

Dear Astro Medicine Friend,

Here comes one of the BIG News this year:
Shamanic CHIRON, after having been immersed in the PISCES field since 2010 makes a move: 

CHIRON is about to cross over the Spring Equinox a.k.a. ‘Emergence’ Point, to Show up & ‘Come Alive’ in ARIES on Feb 18 – ‘Delivered’ by the VIR – PI Full Moon on Feb 19!
CHIRON was last year (Apr 17 – Sept 25, 2018) already technically in very early ARIES, for a try-on / preview phase, before re-immersing itself into PISCES over the Fall and Winter 2018 / 19.

 

CHIRON the Centaur turned Warrior

Yet, from now on, there’s no more holding back:

• ARIES Medicine comes out – calling us to be authentic.
• Life is NOW, and This is YOU.
• With ARIES comes also a sense of urgency – show up and act now!
• Be a Warrior or Midwife for a new World to be born…
  

…after perhaps being rather passive in the exposure to the state of the world, the climate, the effects of socio-political-economical structures, and other ‘bigger than life’ influences…
CHIRON in PI has shown:
One of the PISCEAN ‘wounds’ is overwhelm through the sense that all is connected, through individual heightened sensitivity, helplessness, perhaps leading us to escape and ‘disappear’, to avoid more exposure to toxicity and harmful influences that we ‘can’t do anything about’.
No wonder, things were a bit (or a LOT) overwhelming, as CHIRON was even connected with NEPTUNE in PI, in 2013.
Maybe CHIRON (2010 – 2019) and NEPTUNE (2012 – 2026) in PISCES have been syndromes of the outflowing Pisces Age.

PISCES is full of paradoxes, showing us:
Apparent opposites are ONE… incl. when it comes to Wounding / Healing experiences, with CHIRON travelling through PI since 2010. E.g., new addictions showed up, esp to technology which promises ‘connection’ yet only offers a facade of it, not the ‘real thing’, and isolating people even more socially. Addictions are quite often based in a need for connection (another PISCEAN core wound), and for letting go of the separate self and being absorbed in something larger.
Connectedness and Oneness is a big theme and Healing Agent in PISCES.
How have you felt Healing through Connection and being ONE with the All?

If you were even born with CHIRON in PISCES (1960 – 1968) and had your CHIRON Return these past years since 2010:
How has an original wound come full circle for Healing, and as a Teaching?
How do you now carry this ‘Medicine’ for yourself and to share with others whom you connect with?

Now, as CHIRON travels for 8 years in ARIES – the archetypal Warrior – ruled by MARS:

• All is fresh and NEW in ARIES.
• Try out something NEW – and see the World and Yourself with New Eyes!
• Find the Medicine of Being Authentically YOU!
• Take Initiative. Be First. Others may be on board or follow. What matters is: YOU’re there.
• Emerge from the Collective Consciousness. Which can be scary, and / or hugely liberating.
  Hopefully URANUS going through ARIES (2011 – 2019) has already liberated you to be YOU.
• Be a Warrior or Midwife for the New World that’s emerging!

CHIRON brings up ‘wounds’ and awkwardness, and we feel like an outsider.
In ARIES when we show up or stand up for ourselves, and pro-actively (incl. solo) DO what matters to us. It might be also awkward if we didn’t have role models, or their teachings don’t apply to THIS. 
Yet, what the heck? says ARIES, It’s my life, this is ME.
Early ARIES is a Warrior / Survivor. All about the NOW.

That’s what ARIES is all about: NOW THIS!
Alive, alert, letting life force emerge in every moment – like blossoms surprising us daily now. Time for fresh beginnings – or for simply being present with what’s always NEW.

Show up in a new way and in the ‘new world’, try out what you haven’t before, not in a long time, or don’t have a ‘model’ or comparison for. If it ‘doesn’t work’ try something else (ARIES doesn’t mind starting anew). The essence of being innovative.
Anger and being triggered to assert yourself in the moment as well as being / doing things by yourself (ARIES expressions) can be your vulnerability yet also guide you to your Medicine.

On a collective level, we’re finally waking up to the Emergency of the impacts of Climate Change.
With emergent action, as in the municipal incl. CRD declarations of Climate Emergency and calling to work for carbon neutrality / zero carbon emissions in the region by 2030.

 

Cherry Blossom Emergence
Photo by Melanie, March 2018

 

CHIRON in ARIES (Feb 18, 2019 – Apr 14, 2027)
Meetings with other Cosmic Archetypes

Well, since it’ll be an 8-year process let’s keep it simple and closer to the NOW :-), and look ‘just’ into 2019 – 2021:

 

• In 2019 – 2020, CHIRON freshly in ARIES will be for basically both years in a semi-sextile (one sign apart) with URANUS freshly in TAURUS (from March 6 on – comes with the PISCES NM). Both move about the same speed from Earth perspective.
  Even though, this aspect alignment is per se not a major one, yet since both Archetypes will have freshly changed signs, and URANUS having left ARIES which CHIRON enters gives it more ‘ooomph’. How?
  URANUS in ARIES (2011 – 2019) has been an initial Wake-up Call, and Awakening Agent.
  Now as URANUS goes into TAURUS (March 6, 2019) for the next 7 years, it’s about Embodying and Manifesting the New & Awake.
  CHIRON in ARIES shows our Wounds and offers Healing & Teaching Medicine for Showing up in the New World / as the New Self.

 

• On Dec 8, 2019, stationary CHIRON in early ARIES goes into cardinal square with JUPITER freshly (from Dec 2 on) in CAP! This aspect will be active throughout end of Nov / early Dec.
  A challenge for that notion to be fresh and new in the NOW, in the face of traditions, obligations, and perhaps just before the Holidays, through having taken a lot on?

 

• Early March 2020, LILITH freshly in ARIES meets & passes CHIRON.
  Plus the Nodal Axis, with the South Node then in early CAP and the North Node in early CAN will be T-squared by CHIRON in early ARIES.
  This looks like a major call for another level of letting the Old Empire Expire (SN in CAP) – outer and inner (e.g. doing things the hard way, and wasting time and energy with disempowered judgment and resistance)… while nurturing and being gentle and compassionate, taking pro-actively (ARIES) care of our needs, and live as the New Authentic Self in our True Nature.

 

• In 2021, both JUPITER and SATURN by then in AQ go into sextile with CHIRON in ARIES.
  JUPITER just in Jan, SATURN 3 times, in Feb, June, and Nov.
  More support for the New and Liberated Self in Togetherness as Humanity.

 

How far does CHIRON go into ARIES this Year, 2019?

Up to 5°56 ARIES where CHIRON goes retro from, on July 8, back to 1°26 ARIES in December – going direct there on Dec 12.
So if you have your SUN, MOON, AC, Planets, or even CHIRON in early ARIES you’ll be affected by CHIRON’s passage this year.

 

CHIRON in ARIES in Your Chart & Life…

For those of you born with CHIRON in ARIES (Apr – Oct 1968, and Feb 1969 – March 1977) round age 50 CHIRON will make its Return, and your ‘original wound / Medicine’ comes full circle.

For all of us (independent of age) if we have SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets in ARIES (or challenged by it, in LIBRA, CAN or CAP), CHIRON activates for the next 8 years the Medicine of these Planetary Archetypes, and the area/s of life relating to the House/s where ARIES is in your birth (and geographic local) chart/s to showing up there / with those Archetypes, in your Awake, Authentic Self.

CHIRON in ARIES gives us a ‘kick’ to take initiative, and take a step (and baby steps!) forward, authentically as we are, esp. in areas of life related to where ARIES is in our indiv. chart…:

1st House:
Your Presence and Sense of Self

2nd House:
Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business

3rd House:
Your Environment

4th House:
Your Home, Origin, Ancestry

5th House:
Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover

6th House:
Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle

7th House:
Your Partners & Significant Others

8th House:
Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations

9th House:
What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels

10th House:
Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self

11th House:
Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends

12th House:
Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.

 

You’re welcome to join our 
Special ASTRO Medicine Parlour:
CHIRON Enters ARIES
The Medicine of Being Authentically YOU

3(!) groups to choose from:
WED FEB 20
7:20 – 9:20 PM

THU FEB 28
4:28 – 6:28 PM
7:28 – 9:28 PM

… to co-explore CHIRON in ARIES for YOU.
Just message me on my FB page if you’d like to register.

If you rather or additionally would like to come to a private session – let’s do that!
Short (1 hr) focused CHIRON sessions are 11% discounted.

 

Many Blessings for the Medicine of Showing up authentically as YOU, and for trying out something (or a lot) that’s fresh and NEW!
Melanie

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

SERVICES

ASTRO CONSULTATIONS

Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’.

I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.

Why?
Because it leads to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel connected with yourself in the bigger evolution.
Ultimately, you can dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less and less affected, more and more liberated, and self-realized.

The birth chart is an incarnational map to identify your ‘original imprint’and themes that are showing up as ‘issues’ in your life.
I help you see how you don’t need to be unconsciously identified with them, and they don’t have to run your life.

I’m always happy to welcome you as a client who is not seeking a ‘reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transitions, stuckness, transformational crisis, or for perspective at a crossroad, dilemma, or empowered choices.

This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!

 

ASTRO OFFER:

VALENTINE’s Month is still on for a week:
22% discounted Relationship Sessions
February 2 – 22

 

ASTRO~EXPERIENCES
…via Courses. Workshops, and Embodied Astrology:

Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 13 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic.
Join us in person or online if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you.

Excited to share these two upcoming ones, besides the CHIRON Astro Activation Parlour (above):

 

EmBODY Astrology – ASTRO Charts & Archetypes Come to Life!
On March 1, in Chinatown Victoria
In person only – by nature of this one 🙂

 

Astrological CHAKRA Journey
7-week Astro~Alchemy of Chakras & Planetary Archetypes –
applied to all participants.
March 6 – Apr 17 Evenings
In person or online

 

 

MARS in TAURUS (Feb 14 – March 30): Slow and Steady Strength into Spring

Dear Astro Friend on Planet Earth,

Today, Feb 14, MARS left ‘his’ ARIES domain, shortly after ‘his’ grand finale, offering in ‘his’ bi-annual linking with URANUS on Feb 12 fierce ‘fire crackers’ or other surprise effects (like extended and substantial snow here on Vancouver Island), revolutionary and liberating energy outbursts!

To enter TAURUS where the ‘Warrior’ energy will dwell until March 30:
Pursue natural Desires, Be Fully EmBodied, and Enjoy Life with all your Senses (the new Chinese Year of the Earth Piggy is in par with that).
Yet Remain Unattached.
Be in Nature and in Your Nature!

Tactile Buds – Photo by Melanie, Feb 2019

 

Johfra Bosschart: Venus Rules Taurus (and the Martian Warrior Takes a Rest)

Spring is now hopefully for real on the doorstep here on the West Coast (thanks Goddess for granting the gift of patience!), as the Martian energy settles into TAURUS – inviting us to slow down, enjoy Life with all our senses, plant seeds, and take some time to relax…

…after perhaps battling the elements, or fighting with others, running and rushing here and there, starting a lot of fires, and being highly charged and challenged, under MARS in fast and furious ARIES at the start of the year (Dec 31 – Feb 14).
MARS in in its ruled sign ARIES is a fast, direct, initiatory energy, and brought up anger and the impulse to assert.

MARS in fiery ARIES came to a crescendo in the first half of February, when it squared PLUTO the Transformer on FEB 1, and joined forces with URANUS the Awakener / Electrifier on FEB 12.
How was that for you? 
Did you ‘jump’ – or ‘surf’ through it? Enlivened and energized? Or irritated and dealing with Power issues?
A catalyst energy for transformation and liberation it’s been… Perhaps something in you like in myself ‘suddenly’ shifted, affirming to ‘keep things simple’ and show up authentically.

 

MARS is our assertion / life force / vitality Archetype. 
It rules the Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) – our power centre.
You know that sensation in the stomach when getting triggered…
Always good to check in and register what that has to do with the Ego. Yes, MARS is also the ‘Ego Planet’, expressing itself in ARIES rather direct and aggressively / assertively: “This is what I want and going for. And I’m doing it – actually: NOW.” Butting heads and flared-up battling can be an immediate effect when assertions conflict with one another. And yes, it’s been definitely an assertive time over the last 1 1/2 months…

Sheep Babies – baaaahh!

And / or it could have expressed as emergence and spontaneous action. Innocent. Baby steps.
Just going for it, trying out something new, rather than contemplating and ruminating.
ARIES is the first sign of the Zodiac. The Spring Lamb.
Hopefully we could channel the energy into this spontaneous, authentic action – and get up and start fresh when things were short-lived, or didn’t go anywhere.

 

With MARS now in TAURUS, the energy lends itself to slowwwing down, literally sitting and meditating, sitting with our initiatives and choices, smelling the fragrances of the (fingers crossed!) incoming Spring, cooking and tasting yummy food, listening to the sounds of music and the sounds of Nature, enjoying Life with all our senses, and honouring Mother Nature (every day is Earth Day!) and our earthly existence.
Fighting for Mother Earth and all her creations would be a natural MARS in TAURUS impulse, or rather resisting than actively fighting.

 

In its nearly 2-year cycle, MARS was in TAURUS the last time in March / April 2017.
We’re now coming full circle with what we planted and what took roots since then – esp. in the area of our lives relating to TAU in our charts (House, Planets, SUN, MOON, AC in TAU).
One thing that comes to mind for me from that time is new actions (MARS) I took in my business (ruled by TAURUS – yep, that meant also investing money – a Taurean domain too), and the patience required with seeing things ‘bloom’.
Looks like it’s time for more inspired action – and for ‘gardening qualities’ of patience and persistence.

In TAURUS, the first Earth Sign of the Zodiac, MARS

• helps us with being grounded,
• give more attention to our body and its natural desires,
• and going for tangible, sensate experiences of being alive.
• We tend to rather pursue security and stability than ephemeral adventures.
• Our motivation to assert (MARS) what’s valuable (TAU) is strong – and can sometimes become rigid and stubborn (TAU when there’s attachment.

And hey, what’s REAL WEALTH?

 

On a deeper level, MARS in TAURUS helps us with grounding and embodying Spirit-in-Matter.
PLUTO and SATURN nowa-years in ultra-Earthy rock-solid CAP have us lead by example – by being an embodiment of our intrinsic soul / spirit / essence.
MARS goes into Earth Trine alignment with SATURN on March 14, and with PLUTO on March 20, supporting acting / moving from Power-as-Simplicity and Body Wisdom.

In these MARS in TAURUS weeks, lets re-discover slowing down and enjoying the EmBuddha-ment (Embodiment without attachment)!

 

 

MARS in TAU in Earth Trine with SATURN & PLUTO in CAP just before / AT Spring Equinox is a welcome grounding and integrative upcoming Astro~Weather pattern, after a wilder Martian ride in ARIES at the beginning of this year. A good time to find inner ground in the big evolutionary changes, and to be clear where we stand.

It’s also an excellent energy to guard and protect sacred land and Mother Earth from exploitation and abuse of resources. MARS in TAURUS can harness resisting and defending energy, to be channeled into a deeper, evolutionary purpose.

 

Painting: Anima Mundi by Forrest Boden

MARS in TAURUS (Feb 14 – March 30) Meetings with other Cosmic Archetypes

Weekly (mostly on / just after the weekend), the MOON in fixed signs TAU, LEO, SCO and AQ meets, goes into square, and opposition with MARS.
Days to watch for, re: emotional re-actions / attachments / confrontation / resistance.
Be the wise and patient Buddha…

 

MARS in TAU itself goes into mostly ‘chill’ and mutually supportive aspects with the SUN, NEPTUNE, SATURN, MERCURY, and PLUTO.
Good to know – and not to ‘neglect’ / be lazy re: the gifts in this.

FEB 14
MARS enters TAU
Slow, Steady, Strong, into Spring

FEB 17
The MOON in LEO in square with MARS in TAU
Don’t let ego, pride, and stubbornness get the better of you / get involved in ‘theirs’. 
Be playful and enjoy Life.

FEB 23
The MOON in SCO opposes MARS in TAU
Feeling like someone / life / your deep-dark emotions poking and provoking you like El Toro being poked by the Matador?
Don’t turn the discomfort against you, go into brooding / pouting, or numb it with food. Better to go to the bottom of things, emotionally, and guided by your bodily sensations.

FEB 27
The SUN in PISCES in sextile with MARS in TAU
A ‘Spa Day / Evening’? Perfect day to chill, rest, and enjoy.

MARCH 3
The MOON in AQ in square with MARS in TAU
Conflict between your (or your friend’s / partner’s) need to socialize, and the Call of Nature, peace and calm? How can it be reconciled? Freedom matters.

MARCH 10
MARS in TAU sextile NEPTUNE in PI
Being calm, relaxed, and open to attune to and connect with synchronicities and miracles.

MARCH 11
The MOON in TAU conj. MARS
Time to cook up something yummy.

MARCH 14
MARS in TAU in  Earth trine with SATURN in CAP
Know where you stand, simply, clearly. Find Inner Ground.

MARCH 17
MERCURY retro (post conj. with the SUN) in PI sextile MARS in TAU
Let your Body guide you to be open for Messages.

MARCH 18 – here we go again, one lunar cycle later:
The MOON in LEO in square with MARS in TAU
Don’t let ego, pride, and stubbornness get the better of you / get involved in ‘theirs’. 
Be playful and enjoy Life.

MARCH 20 – Spring Equinox (first day of ARIES, ruled by MARS!) & Full MOON in LIBRA-ARIES!
MARS in TAU in Earth Trine with PLUTO in CAP
Harness resisting and defending energy, and channel it into a deeper, evolutionary purpose.

MARCH 21
VENUS in AQ in square with MARS in TAU
En-Joy with all your Senses, yet don’t get attached to your desires. Love is always Free.
MARS in TAU in quincunx with JUPITER in SAG.
Beyond wanting permanence there’s freedom in knowing what it’s all about…

MARCH 24 – rolling out the MARS – PLUTO (ruling SCO) dynamic:
The MOON in SCO opposes MARS in TAU
Go to the bottom of things emotionally, and guided by your bodily sensations.

MARCH 30
MARS leaves TAURUS and enters GEMINI
Find your Voice, and take Flight.

 

MARS in TAURUS (FEB 14 – MARCH 30) ushers two slow moving Archetypes into new Zodiac signs:

• Shamanic CHIRON goes fully into (MARS ruled!) ARIES – already next week, Feb 18 – until Apr 14, 2027!
  The Medicine of Showing up Authentically!
• URANUS – Archetype of the Awakener – leaves ARIES (since 2011) and fully enters TAURUS, on March 6 – the day of the New Moon in PISCES.
  Wake UP, Earthlings!

 

Dedicated to MARS in TAURUS,
in Earth Trine with SATURN and PLUTO in CAP – exact March 14 & 20:

 

Medicine Wheel

 

A MESSAGE FROM THE HOPI ELDERS

You have been telling people this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is THE Hour.
Here are the things that must be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river, keep your eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is here with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

The Elders
Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation

 

MARS in TAURUS in Your Chart & Life…

…can help your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planetary Archetypes in TAURUS and the area/s of life relating to the House/s where TAURUS is in your birth (and local) chart/s to being grounded in the strength of slow, steady, patient, and enjoyable Life Force. Sense it in your Body!

 

MARS in TAURUS now transiting in your… House relating to…:

1st House:
Your Presence and Sense of Self

2nd House:
Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business

3rd House:
Your Environment

4th House:
Your Home, Origin, Ancestry

5th House:
Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover

6th House:
Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle

7th House:
Your Partners & Significant Others

8th House:
Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations

9th House:
What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels

10th House:
Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self

11th House:
Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends

12th House:
Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.

 

Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can inspire you on your Earthly Journey?
Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
Or take me up on my Valentine’s Month Offer – 22% off for all Relationship themed sessions (still on until Feb 22) – see below.

 

Wishing You the Gifts of Slow, Steady Strength and EmBodied Enjoyment, with MARS in TAURUS!

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

SERVICES

ASTRO CONSULTATIONS

Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’.

I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.

Why?
Because it leads to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel connected with yourself in the bigger evolution.
Ultimately, you can dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less and less affected, more and more liberated, and self-realized.

The birth chart is an incarnational map to identify your ‘original imprint’and themes that are showing up as ‘issues’ in your life.
I help you see how you don’t need to be unconsciously identified with them, and they don’t have to run your life.

I’m always happy to welcome you as a client who is not seeking a ‘reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transitions, stuckness, transformational crisis, or for perspective at a crossroad, dilemma, or empowered choices.

This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!

 

ASTRO OFFER:

VALENTINE’s Month is still on for a week:
22% discounted Relationship Sessions
February 2 – 22

 

ASTRO~EXPERIENCES
…via Courses. Workshops, and Embodied Astrology:

Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 13 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic.
Join us in person or online if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you.

Excited to share these two upcoming ones – both very apropos MARS in TAURUS / EmBodiment & Chakras:

 

EmBODY Astrology – ASTRO Charts & Archetypes Come to Life!
On March 1, in Chinatown Victoria
In person only – by nature of this one 🙂

 

ASTRO~Alchemy of Chakras & Planetary Archetypes
A 7-week Astro~Experience Journey
March 6 – Apr 17
In person or online

 

 

MERCURY for a looong time in PISCES (Feb 10 – Apr 16), incl. Retro Phase (March 5 – 28): Tuning & Communing. Openness & Fluidity of the Mind

Oceanic Quantum Greetings, dear Cosmic Friends!

“How can I be connected with the Quantum Field?” you may ask….
You ARE IN the Quantum Field.
That’s like a dolphin asking, ‘How can I be connected with the ocean?”

So, that’ll be quite the shift from abstract, systemic AQ which MERCURY loves to the oceanic interconnected mystical worlds of PISCES.

Swift, brainy, practical MERCURY isn’t per se ‘well placed’ in PI (considered ‘in exile’ there – “What am I doing here..?”).
Not so much about doing, and even ‘active thinking’.
Rather in an ultimately watery way:
Having an open mind, being fluid, flexible, and receiving messages.

Straight-forward communication turns into energetic / psychic tuning in and communing with one another, with Nature, and the larger ‘field’. 
A wonderful time for creative inspiration that’s beyond words, and of course for music, dance, poetry, film, photography, all art-as-fusion.

And for spiritual, transcendent No-Mind realizations.

We have 9 weeks (super long for MERCURY!) to get into and used to that state-of-Mind.

 

MERCURY’s quite striking main connections with other Planetary Archetypes, while in PISCES add to the ‘Zeitgeist’ vibes:

• A triple conjunction with NEPTUNE in PI:
  Feb 18 (M pre-retro), March 24 (M-r), Apr 2 (M post-r) 
• A triple sextile to SATURN in CAP:
  Feb 19 (M pre-r), March 20 (M-r), Apr 7 (M post-r) 
• A triple square to JUPITER in SAG:
  Feb 22 (M pre-r), March 15 (M-r), Apr 11 (M post-r) 
• A triple sextile to PLUTO in CAP:
  Feb 23 (M pre-r), March 16 (M-r), Apr 10 (M post-r).

 

So there’s obviously / yet mysteriously a process in the making for our mind (MERCURY) and how we relate to the themes of these other Archetypes, within and in the ‘outside world’.

 

Neptune Rules Pisces
Painting by Johfra Bosschart

Let’s see what that may present itself, in the first round of Connections from MERCURY / pre-retro:

 

FEB 18 – just before the VIR – PI Full MOON on FEB 19
MERCURY meets NEPTUNE (1 of 3)
Initial initiation / attuning of MERCURY.
Can be on a personal level big confusion, illusion, unclear communication where boundaries aren’t respected.
On a deeper, more transcendent level, it’s all about connecting and communing, and tuning of the mind – there’s only ONE of us here….!
Also the SUN going into PISCES that day, plus it’s the eve of the Full MOON – which all calls for fluidity, flexibility, care, and connection.

 

FEB 19 – Day of the Full Moon in VIR – PI
MERCURY in PI sextile SATURN in CAP (1 of 3)
Seems to reflect  / transmit spiritual teachings of the sextile between SATURN and NEPTUNE (also triple contact this year, 1st one was JAN 31).  How can you be in the World, yet not of the World, and let Form and Formlessness, Being Rooted and Letting Go be reconciled?

 

FEB 22
MERCURY in PI square JUPITER in SAG (1 of 3)
Also a reflection of the triple square between JUPITER and NEPTUNE in PI this year (1st one was JAN 13).
Allowing things to be fluid and easy, giving and receiving messages-as-gifts, tapping into abundance mode, rather than feeling overwhelmed. Allowing the Heart direction & connections to unfold.

 

FEB 23 
MERCURY in PI sextiles PLUTO in CAP (1 of 3)
On an inter-personal level: Avoid ‘fishy’ dynamics that can lead to unnecessary waste time and energy, or overwhelm and exhaustion.
Let Spirit be your counsel, and speak through you.

 

MARCH 1
MERCURY in PI goes into pre-retro ‘storm’.
Take it easy on ‘plans’.
Get ready for synchronicities and synch’ with the flow of life.

First days of MARCH
MERCURY at the very end of PI almost meets CHIRON which will be just barely over on the ARIES side of the ‘Emergence Point’.
Speaking authentically from the Heart and Soul in a way you wouldn’t otherwise is healing for ALL.

 

Then, on MARCH 5
MERCURY (at 29°39′ PI) goes retro, until MARCH 28 (back to 16°06′ PI).
Being ultra fluid, and definitely don’t believe everything you think (are these even your thoughts?).

MARCH 14
Half-way point of the M-r Journey = ‘Point of Enlightening Insight’

MARCH 20 – APR 5
At the end of its M-r Journey, back to mid-PI MERCURY will connect in slow turnaround mode with NEPTUNE, basically from the Equinox Full MOON (MARCH 20) to the ARIES New MOON (APR 5).
Super Oceanic Retreat & Clearing Energy…

Blessings for the sublime PISCEAN Time!

 

More about MERCURY in PI, esp. its Retro phase in one of the next ASTRO~NEWS posts – stay tuned!

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

SERVICES

ASTRO CONSULTATIONS

Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’.

I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.

Why?
Because it leads to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel connected with yourself in the bigger evolution.
Ultimately, you can dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less and less affected, more and more liberated, and self-realized.

The birth chart is an incarnational map to identify your ‘original imprint’and themes that are showing up as ‘issues’ in your life.
I help you see how you don’t need to be unconsciously identified with them, and they don’t have to run your life.

I’m always happy to welcome you as a client who is not seeking a ‘reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transitions, stuckness, transformational crisis, or for perspective at a crossroad, dilemma, or empowered choices.

This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!

 

ASTRO OFFER:

VALENTINE’s Month
22% discounted Relationship Sessions
FEB 2 – 22

 

ASTRO~EXPERIENCES
…via Courses. Workshops, and Embodied Astrology:

Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 13 years I’ve been facilitating workshops and classes) become quite potent and catalytic.
Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you – also available as an online participant.

 

 

VENUS over the ‘Integrity Point’ into CAP (Feb 3 – March 1) – Timeless & Rock-Solid Love!

Dear Astro Friend,

Whether you discovered this Blog just recently, or been tuning in for years… 
I just went back, and saw it started with the Equinox / LIBRA New Moon in Sept 2014 – ruled by VENUS.

This one’s about VENUS…
…who has come a long way recently!
After the VENUS-retro phase last Fall, where ‘she’ once again activated the Inner Goddess, ‘she’ crossed from transformational SCO over the ‘Phoenix Point’, and rose – as the ‘Morning Star’ in SAG on JAN 3, where she helped us attract lots of opportunities from the Heart and from Gratitude, Generosity, Self-Value, and Abundance – All attributes of LOVE.

In uplifting SAG, VENUS met big Mentor JUPITER on JAN 22 – right after the Total LUNAR Eclipse Full MOON in CAN / LEO – CAP / AQ.
What an initiation into celebrating the creative & strong Lunar Mother Goddess and to be BIG with our loving, magnetic Heart!

YES – in the Root-to-Crown / Saturn-to-Sun Chakra Journey, VENUS’s association is with the HEART Chakra.

 

Now, VENUS crosses over the Winter Solstice cusp from SAG to CAP, a.k.a. (well, I call it) the Integrity Point, and becomes / helps us become a magnet to attract what’s ‘real’, lasting, timeless, and in integrity / really works for us. Rock Solid Love.

In the meantime / simultaneously it’s also a ‘match’ & mirror game (we attract matches & mirrors) for where we’re at, with our self value, self honouring, and self love.
You might want to notice what you attract into your ‘field’, and what it says about you, how you’re the perfect match for it – from the perspective of the status quo / from what you ‘sent out’.

An ‘inventory’ / assessment time, with VENUS in CAP this month:

• What works really well, and generates balancing reciprocity (remember, VENUS rules LIBRA) and joy (yes, VENUS also rules TAURUS)?
• Where is a new negotiation or are boundaries needed, to honour yourself and live in mutual mature respect?
• Maybe, ‘simply’ walking away from situations that never give you the loving appreciation you’re looking for is ‘walking your talk’ and the wisest thing to do.

I.o.w., don’t work too hard (a CAP thing – CAP can turn into a Martyr).  
SATURN in CAP (for more than a year now) couldn’t agree more:
Don’t do it the hard way, i.o.w., work too hard to to ‘receive / earn Love’ (which could as an old conditioning certainly come up this month), rather (the reformed VENUS / SATURN duo): Do it the Heart Way!

With VENUS in CAP, on her way to meet SATURN on Feb 18 (just the day before the Full Moon) we  might feel called to make a timely & important commitment, and find closure of an old pattern – in the area of life related to mid-CAP in our charts.

And then, the unfathomably deep VENUS – PLUTO, and the old and karmic VENUS – South Node connections in CAP this month, followed by a surprise / paradigm shifting and liberating VENUS square URANUS at the very end of the Love Story….

 

Beauty of the Mountain
Photo by Melanie, Dec 2018

 

Planet ‘Dates’ with VENUS in CAP (Feb 3 – March 1):

Not as many alignments from VENUS in CAP to other Planets as from when she was in SAG.
Goes with CAP’s tendency to like it simple “all you need”.
I added the aspects TO VENUS from the MOON though, to give a sense of the ‘flavour’ on those days when they engage with each other…:

FEB 5 / 6
The waxing MOON in PI in sextile VENUS in CAP.
Feeling timelessly connected – a Love that never grows old.

 

FEB 8
The waxing MOON in AR square VENUS in CAP.
Impulses for the new and authentic-NOW can clash with traditionalist ‘leave it as it is’ attachments.
Reconcile Innocence with Experience.

 

FEB 11
The waxing MOON in TAU in Earth Trine with VENUS in CAP.
How about a yummy meal with grandma’s recipe?

 

FEB 16
The waxing MOON in CAN opposite VENUS in CAP.
Reconciling the need to keep it cozy, and the love to challenge yourself / get work done? Well, it’s Saturday…

 

FEB 17 – last day of the SUN in AQ, and with the MOON in LEO
VENUS in CAP sextile (‘her higher octave’) NEPTUNE in PI.
A good day for a charitable fundraiser, a choir concert, a benefit performance…

 

FEB 18 – Day before the Full MOON.
VENUS in CAP meets ringed SATURN.
What are you ready to commit to, from your heart, and because it’s time?
And what’s done and complete (even though you used to love it)?

 

FEB 22
The waning MOON in LI squares VENUS in CAP.
VENUS in CAP meets ‘deep dark’ PLUTO.
You might feel you’re still on the fence, yet something deeper and ‘older’ calls you.

 

FEB 24
VENUS in CAP conj. the Lunar South Node.
Love doesn’t have to be earned (karmic? conditioned? old school?). I.o.w., don’t work hard to be loved, accepted, respected, esp. by those who don’t ‘get you’, and turn to those who warmly welcome you.
In any case: Rather than ‘doing it the hard way’ let’s stay on the Heart Way. So much easier…

 

FEB 25
The waning MOON in SCO sextile VENUS in CAP.
Some processing of deep emotional layers helps with finding your loving ground.

 

MARCH 1
VENUS at the very end of CAP squares URANUS at the very end of ARIES.
VENUS enters (URANUS ruled) AQ the same day, and is met by the MOON there on MARCH 2.
Uhhh, what a conclusion of her CAP visit! Free at last! 
Where does Love set you free?
Paradigm shifts, and loving connections between human equals, beyond time, age, status are calling.

 

 

VENUS in CAPRICORN in Your Chart & Life…

…can help your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planetary Archetypes in CAP and the area/s of life relating to the House/s where CAP is in your birth (and local) chart/s to be a magnet to attract what’s ‘real’ and in integrity / really works for YOU, while ‘in the meantime’ it’s also a ‘match’ & mirror for where you’re at, with your self value and self love.

With VENUS in CAP, on her way to meet SATURN on Feb 18, the day before the Full Moon you might feel called to make a timely & important commitment, and / or find closure to an old and too hard way of being – in the area of life related to mid-CAP in your chart.

And after the encounter with the ‘Ringed One’, VENUS meets PLUTO and the South Node in CAP on Feb 22 – 24, connecting with deep, old, soulful Love – that may move mountains, or at least melt walls… while releasing old ways of ‘loving’.

 

VENUS – approaching SATURN / PLUTO / Lunar South Node, now transiting in your… house relating to…:

1st House:
Your Presence and Sense of Self

2nd House:
Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business

3rd House:
Your Environment

4th House:
Your Home, Origin, Ancestry

5th House:
Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover

6th House:
Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle

7th House:
Your Partners & Significant Others

8th House:
Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations

9th House:
What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels

10th House:
Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self

11th House:
Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends

12th House:
Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.

 

Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can inspire you on your Earthly Journey?
Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
Or take me up on my Valentine’s Month Offer – 22% off for all Relationship themed sessions Feb 2 – 22) – see below.

 

Wishing You the Gifts of Rock-Solid Love, with VENUS in CAP!

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

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Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’.

I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.

Why?
Because it leads to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel connected with yourself in the bigger evolution.
Ultimately, you can dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less and less affected, more and more liberated, and self-realized.

The birth chart is an incarnational map to identify your ‘original imprint’and themes that are showing up as ‘issues’ in your life.
I help you see how you don’t need to be unconsciously identified with them, and they don’t have to run your life.

I’m always happy to welcome you as a client who is not seeking a ‘reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transitions, stuckness, transformational crisis, or for perspective at a crossroad, dilemma, or empowered choices.

This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!

 

ASTRO OFFER – very Venusian:

VALENTINE’s Month
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FEB 2 – 22

 

ASTRO~EXPERIENCES
…via Courses. Workshops, and Embodied Astrology:

Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 13 years I’ve been facilitating workshops and classes) become quite potent and catalytic.
Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you – also available as an online participant.

 

Next up:

ASTRO*TRAVEL –
Find Your Auspicious Places on Planet EARTH
via Astro Worldmap, Relocation Charts, and Location Compatibility

4-Part ASTRO Journey throughout FEB 2019
Starting next Tue Feb 5
First meeting drop-in friendly to ‘test the waters’.

 

AQUARIUS New Moon on Feb 4 – Freedom for New Light!

Dear Astro~News Reader,

Uranus Rules Aquarius – Painting by Johfra Bosschart

The Days are getting longer, and the Light is coming in stronger…
AQUARUS brings Light, Prana, and fresh AIR.

And as the 2nd NEW MOON after WINTER SOLSTICE, the AQ NEW MOON also heralds the CHINESE NEW YEAR – the day after, on FEB 5 (see special CNY feature) –

When’s the AQ New MOON?
At 1:04 pm PST on FEB 4.
Nice date-time alignment 🙂

The AQ New MOON links up with MERCURY / LILITH, both also in AQ, and both being met by the MOON on that day too – see chart image below.
What does it mean to be in your ‘wild and free Nature’?
A wildly refreshing and liberating energy… like taking in new Prana and fresh AIR that connects us all…
…post the ‘rocky’ and heavy CAP vibes over weeks – which also showed (via SATURN / PLUTO / South Node) where things are indeed ‘expiring’.

 

Voila – the Cosmic Map for the AQ NEW MOON

Quite striking:

A whole line-up of Planets, embracing the SUN & MOON union, are concentrated in the Zodiac Field from mid-SAG to end of ARIES – within 140° – with the North Node end of CANCER counter-balancing so much Winter-to-early Spring energy.
A planetary pattern called a ‘Basket’, with the NN being the basket ‘handle’.

And it’s quite unusual (very Aquarian in that sense) that presently there are 4 PLANETS in their own ruled ZODIAC signs:
MARS in ARIES (until Feb 14)
JUPITER in SAG (until Dec 2)
SATURN in CAP (until Dec 17, 2020)
NEPTUNE in PISCES (until 2026).

Plus, NO Planet is retro (until March 5 when MERCURY goes retro).

All in all, cosmic energy can move and expresses purely – facilitating accelerated shifts and evolution.

So, let’s see what’s in the ‘New MOON Basket’, and how to pick it up, via the NN in CANCER:

 

• Starting with JUPITER in mid / towards end of its own ruled sign SAG (where it travels and inspires us this year (precisely Nov 8, 2018 – Dec 2, 2019).
  JUPITER is just coming out of its 1st (of 3 in 2019) square with NEPTUNE, these years 2012 – 2026 also in its own sign PISCES (their square was exact on Jan 13, and comes back in June and Sept).
  Being in a spirit of gratitude and abundance elevates our vibration, lightens us up, and brings us into flow and connectedness. Coming from the Heart and following its call, and sharing our Gifts with the World attracts synchronicities and ‘miracles’. 

 

• Next up: VENUS, freshly in CAP (Feb 3 – March 1), on the ‘Integrity Point’ – a magnet to attract what’s ‘real’ and in integrity / really works for us, while ‘in the meantime’ it’s also a ‘match’ & mirror for where we’re at, with our self value and self love.
  With VENUS in CAP, on her way to meet SATURN, on Feb 18, just the day before the Full Moon, we might feel called to make a timely & important commitment – in the area of life related to mid-CAP in our charts. And what’s done and complete (even though you used to love it)?

 

• Then, SATURN, solidly anchored in mid-CAP (also the sign it rules, and checks in on these years, Dec 2017 – Dec 2020) – in sextile with NEPTUNE in its own oceanic Piscean realm (the 1st of 3 alignments between them this year was exact just on Jan 31, again in June and Nov).
  Time to stand in who we are, let go of old patterns, esp. revolving around judgment, resistance, and doing things ‘the hard way’. 
  A good combo between dreams, visions, and realism / manifestation.
  What does it take to make your dreams come true? Chances are, being in flow and synch with the Universe (PI) and in receiving mode has to do with it. 🙂 Doesn’t mean we have to say YES to everything that comes our way. SATURN helps us with being clear about what works for us, and NEPTUNE in PI to let go of the rest – with Love. 

 

• SATURN is also approaching PLUTO this year – closest in Apr / May at 20 – 23° CAP, when both are stationary, as they go from direct to retro, PLUTO on Apr 24 and SATURN on Apr 29.
  Next year, on Jan 12, 2020, the rare (every 38 years) conjunction will be exact. It closes a cycle of societal structural breakdown, purging of its shadow, and rebuilding from the core / basics.
  The SATURN – PLUTO conjunction will be almost exact on the U.S. PLUTO (plus, the country has its 1st PLUTO Return at 27°33′ CAP in 2021-23- every 248 years only – speaking of regeneration from its core and soul!).

 

• The Lunar South Node in late CAP is (while moving retro) soon lining up with PLUTO (exact on March 29) and with SATURN (in effect all the way from mid-May until end of Sept!).
  One of the main themes this year, and has been already activated with the CAP New Moon Partial Solar Release Eclipse on Jan 5 / 6 (“Let the Old Empire Expire.”).
  It’ll come back into the picture big time with the CAN NM / Total Solar ‘Seed’ Eclipse opposite SATURN / SN / PLUTO, on July 2, and with the CAP / CAN FM / Partial Lunar ‘Release’ Eclipse on July 16.
  All pointing to the end of a CAPricornian era of hierarchical top-down structures / control systems that are anachronistic, abusive, and destructive for all life forms.
  And the seed of a New World of caring and compassion – catalyzed by the North Node in CANCER phase (Nov 2018 – June 2020) – “Because we Care.”
  

 

• Gentleness, Caring, and Compassion while making sure to fill our own cup too are themes of the North Node in CAN Basket Handle.
  It can help us ‘pick up’ the ‘basket’ of critical themes presented at this time, collectively, and in our personal world, and show up for what’s our ‘assignment’ – yet not to pick up what’s not ours to carry (SN and Planets in CAP).

 

• Then, quite centrally in the Cosmic Basket:
  The AQ New MOON and MERCURY / LILITH – New Light & Freedom, and Freedom for New Light!
  Mid-AQ where the New MOON will be is double AQ:
  Fixed energy concentrates there, with the theme of Humanity consciously cooperating.

 

Let’s see which hints the
SABIAN SYMBOL for the New MOON offers.
The NEW MOON will be at 15°45 AQ.

“AQUARIUS 16°:

A BIG BUSINESSMAN AT HIS DESK.

KEYNOTE: The ability to organize the many aspects of an enterprise involving a large group of human beings.

A great deal of what is glowingly written about the Aquarian Age is probably sheer glamour. The New Age should be one in which humanity learns to use the power generated by human togetherness and group interplay — that is, to use it harmoniously for the welfare of the whole of which all individuals are parts, humanity and Planet Earth. This has never been achieved and only very rarely attempted. Mankind today must make a thorough and irresistible attempt, or be nearly destroyed — except for a creative “remnant” of seed-persons who would have to begin again from new foundations. In the field of big business, of huge war undertakings (like the Normandy landing in World War II) or of major national efforts (like the Moon landings) great results have been achieved, but the motive and the quality of the human interrelationships involved were neither of permanent significance nor invested with a truly harmonic quality. The character of the techniques used were totally unsatisfactory from a “human” point of view. Nevertheless there is much to learn from modern large-scale management and systems analysis, even in terms of personal endeavors of very limited scope.

This is the first stage in the sixty-fourth five-fold sub-cycle. It introduces the concept of management which is basic at this period of the cyclic life process which the zodiac symbolizes, yet which needs to be totally reevaluated if mankind is to actualize the spiritual potentialities implied in the evolutionary transformation just ahead. ORGANATION should be the Keyword, rather than mere “organization”; for humanity now can and should realize that it is indeed an ‘organism’.”

 

Please note:
Eminent astrologer Dane Rudhyar wrote this interpretation of the Sabian Symbols in 1973 – 46 years ago, hence the language carries a somewhat antiquated tone yet the themes are timeless.

And this one is even very timely, given the urgency for Humanity (beyond our political representatives) to co-avert a climate catastrophe, and co-create a livable, cleaner, greener, lighter, freer and socially just and responsible future.
How can this immense undertaking be possible and coordinated?
Perhaps the initiatory challenge to even enter the Aquarian Age.

This AQ New MOON is signaling us:
A Seed is planted. We need to co-intend, co-envision (JUPITER-NEPTUNE help with this), and concretely tend it (says SATURN) – together.
And – with the Lunar North Node in CANCER:
Prioritizing human need over corporate greed, and tending to the needs of our fellow animal and plant Beings – so that a peaceful Future together is possible where the next 7 generations and beyond can thrive, on Planet Earth.

 

• MERCURY – exalted / best positioned in AQ aligning with LILITH in AQ on the DAY of the New MOON (an only once-a-year happening) is also quite striking.
  The Voice of Freedom, from our ‘wild’ and Natural Self.

 

• More ‘New MOON Basket’ Goodies:
  NEPTUNE in PI – yes, triple-squared by JUPITER & triple-sextiled by SATURN this year –
  All about Unity, Connection, Oneness Consciousness – which is also the ‘like-heals-like’ Medicine for overwhelm and feeling lost.
  Speaking of Medicine, Cosmic Medicine Wo/man CHIRON is now in its very last DAYS in PISCES (since 2010).
  On Feb 18, it will cross over the ‘Emergence Point’ into ARIES, for the next 8 years, until Apr 14, 2027 – The Medicine of Being Authentically YOU.
  CHIRON already ‘tried on’ AR last year, Apr – Sept.
  So yeah, coming out of our Piscean slumber of collective consciousness might be scary yet hugely liberating, and the Medicine the World needs now.
  

 

• In ARIES, MARS the Warrior enlivens and kicks us into action these days (since Dec 31 actually) – and we’re coming up to the Grand Finale for MARS in AR:
  MARS in AR conj. URANUS (every 2 years only) on Feb 12.
  Liberation and breakthroughs across the board. Revolutionary energy. 
  Can easily turn into societal / political protests and riots. Hopefully, instead of a re-active a pro-active and innovative direction is being taken.
  Birth the New Self!
  

 

So there we have it – a Cosmic Basket of Archetype activation!
My we pick up what’s ours, with / for LOVE… and: Because we Care.

And, as mentioned – worth saying it again:
NO Planets are presently retro – until March 5, when MERCURY goes retro, on the day before the PI NEW MOON. We’re in a phase where things can and want to move forward – into the NEW.

 

 

By the way, I’m being asked quite often, and you might wonder too:

Is the AQUARIUS AGE already here?
Or when does it start?

No clear-cut ‘scientifically correct’ answer for this – very Aquarian.
Yes, according to astronomical calculations the AQ Age starts when the Spring Equinox point will move (always backwards, and very, very gradually) out of PISCES and into AQ – apparently in the year 2597 – faaaar ahead.

But for one thing, there are ‘overlaps’ in the constellations.
And there are other indications, besides the ‘mere’ calculations.

Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen a ‘preview’ of what the AQ Age could be about:

• URANUS and NEPTUNE were united in AQ in the late 1990’s – they have 84- and 165-year cycle, and a conjunction in AQ is super rare.
  What happened then?
  Personal computers became accessible for everyone, and the Internet took off, and changed our social, communicative, and work world forever. In the meantime, the Internet is omnipresent, in any area of life, and continuously being developed! 
• PLUTO (with its 248-year cycle) will go into AQ in 2023 / 24.
  There’s a big time AQ Evolution coming up. 
  Looks like Humanity really needs to and can cooperate much more than ever.
  Since things get intense and extreme with PLUTO, we can also see a lot of alienation and encapsulation, loneliness, social awkwardness, and other side effects of the technological self-sufficiency…
  Endeavours of replacing humans with robots will increase, and perhaps a massive ‘Space Age’ will break out, with settlements on other Planets, if Earth becomes uninhabitable – whoooaah!

Let’s already / any time co-create with the AQ energy, be innovative (URANUS / Prometheus, the AQ related Planetary Archetype loves that), connect with like-spirited others in integrity, and cooperate in Circles and Community into the future, a future ON Planet Earth, I’d propose.

 

Blessings for the AQ Times!
Needless to say (I do it anyway):

Astrology is an Aquarian Art.

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

SERVICES

ASTRO CONSULTATIONS

Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’.

I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.

Why?
Because it leads to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel connected with yourself in the bigger evolution.
Ultimately, you can dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less and less affected, more and more liberated, and self-realized.

The birth chart is an incarnational map to identify your ‘original imprint’and themes that are showing up as ‘issues’ in your life.
I help you see how you don’t need to be unconsciously identified with them, and they don’t have to run your life.

I’m always happy to welcome you as a client who is not seeking a ‘reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transitions, stuckness, transformational crisis, or for perspective at a crossroad, dilemma, or empowered choices.

This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!

 

ASTRO OFFER:

VALENTINE’s Month
22% discounted Relationship Sessions
FEB 2 – 22

 

ASTRO~EXPERIENCES
…via Courses. Workshops, and Embodied Astrology:

Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 13 years I’ve been facilitating workshops and classes) become quite potent and catalytic.
Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you – also available as an online participant.

Next up:

ASTRO*TRAVEL
Find Your Auspicious Places on Planet EARTH
via Astro Worldmap, Relocation Charts, and Location Compatibility

4-Part ASTRO Journey throughout FEB 2019
Starting next Tue Feb 5
First meeting drop-in friendly to ‘test the waters’.

 

 

Happy CHINESE NEW YEAR of the Yin Earth PIG, Starting Feb 5!

Dear Astro~News blog Reader,

Are you ‘into’ Chinese Astrology?
Using it for Feng Shui?
‘Simply’ curious?

Here’s my East-West honouring of the Chinese New Year.
Happy New Year of the Yin Earth PIG!

The Upcoming New Moon on MoOnday Feb 4 at 1:04 pm PST at 15º45’ AQ initiates the CHINESE NEW YEAR of the Yin EARTH PIG, starting on the following day, Feb 5.

 

In BC, with strong Chinese communities, we have quite an awareness of Chinese Astrology and year cycles.
Did you know? Victoria has the oldest Chinatown in Canada!

 

Dragon Guardians in Chinatown – Photo by Melanie, Feb 5, 2018

 

And even though, the Chinese population is about only 3300 (4%), Chinese New Year Celebrations are alive and well – a well-loved tradition in the City. The Chinese New Year will be celebrated in Chinatown on Sunday, Feb 10 – always on the Sunday after the CNY – with traditional Lion’s Dance, fun performances, before Lions walk through the streets of Chinatown to visit the shops, bring blessings, eat the lettuce, and snatch the bills and red envelopes – for the Chinese Benevolent Society.

The BIG Vancouver CNY Parade will be also on Feb 10. Metro Vancouver has a large Chinese population of about 475 000 (about 20%)!

 

EARTH PIG Year on the Horizon…

Spring is already in the air, and shows up from the ground up, here on the West Coast (even though the weather report says frost and flurries over the next week…).

And the air gets cleared for this year’s So(u)lar union / New MOON in airy AQ, on Feb 4.
Feb 5, the day after the 2nd New Moon after Winter Solstice, is the start of the CHINESE NEW YEAR in China, all over South-East Asia, and in Chinese communities worldwide.

The Yang Earth DOG Year (since Feb 16, 2018) having called us to ‘walk the talk’ is now walking out. Combined  with SATURN freshly in CAP, it’s been a grounding year, showing us where our Integrity, Loyalty and Values are.

With these qualities (hopefully!) established, let’s invite the Yin EARTH PIG’s promise of Joy and Abundance – together with JUPITER this year in SAG…!
There’s of course more to the Earth PIG… we shall see.

Check out my perspectives below.

 

Dragon’s Dance at the CNY Celebrations last year in Victoria’s Chinatown

 

Chinese ‘Astrology’ – Basic Intro

The Chinese calendar is Lunar based (as in Islamic, Mayan, Native American cultures), and therefore the New Year varies every year. It traditionally starts with the day following the 2nd New Moon after Winter Solstice.

Yes, there is also a Chinese Astrology based on the planetary movements in relation to the star constellations of the Zodiac, like our Western Astrology system.
But that’s not what’s being addressed here… (ha – wayyy too complex).

 

The more popular Chinese system is based on two interlocking ‘wheels’ of cycles:

The Cycle of the 12 Animals = 12 earthly branches.
These are in sequence:
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

The cycle of the 5 Elements = 5 heavenly stems:
Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood.

Therefore, there are 60 possible Animal & Element combinations, and they repeat every 60 years.
The Elements are ‘on’ for 2 years, with alternating Yang and Yin polarity.

For instance, after a Yin Fire Rooster year (Jan 28, 2017 – Feb 15, 2018) came a Yang Earth Dog year (Feb 16, 2018 – Feb 4, 2019).

As mentioned, the Chinese cycles aren’t directly based on planetary cycles or related to star constellations.
But the 12-year Animal cycle corresponds roughly with the 12-year JUPITER transit cycle. So, when you have your JUPITER Return you also have the Return of your Chinese Year Animal.
Makes sense?

So these are the cycles of yearly Animals who come with changing Elements, and the Yin / Yang association of each Animal.

Yet, the Chinese cyclical system has more combinations than just the yearly ones – the so-called Four Pillars:

• The Yin-Yang Animal / Element of the YEAR – the ‘Outer Animal’.
  …which would in Western Astrology compare with the sign JUPITER was in at the year of birth.
• The Yin-Yang Animal / Element of the MONTH of birth – a.k.a. ‘Inner Animal’.
  …which would compare with the 12 Zodiac SUN sign cycle.
• The  Yin-Yang Animal / Element of the DAY of the week – a.k.a. ‘Private Animal’.
  …which would roughly compare with the MOON sign.
• The Yin-Yang Animal / Element of the HOUR of birth – a.k.a. ‘Secret Animal’ – only people who know your birth time would know it. With a 2-hour range per Animal.
  …comparable with AC signs in he Western system.

As you see, the system is much more differentiated and complex in its combinations and variables than at first glance, with just the ‘Year of the…’.
12 x 5 Year combinations, 12 x 5 Month combinations, 12 x 5 Day combinations, and 12 x 5 Hour combinations = total 12,960,000 combinations are possible!

In Your 4 Pillars, you can have either of the Animals and Elements, with 12 Animals x 5 Elements = 60 possible combinations in each pillar. In the 4 Pillars 60 x 60 x 60 x 60 different variations are possible = 12,960 000!
This much for the statement: “I’m a Rooster!” If that’s the (outer) animal of the YEAR for you, check out which of the 5 Elements it belongs to, and also what’s in your other 3 Pillars!
In our East-West Parlour on Feb 4, I’ll provide you with a calculation of YOUR 4 Pillars!

 

And now for the PIG!

The PIG is the last of the 12 Chinese Animals.

According to the myths, the PIG was the last to arrive when the Jade Emperor called for the great meeting. Other sources said that Buddha called for a great meeting when he was about to leave the Earth. The PIG came in last.
Legend has it that just as the emperor was about to call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little Pig. The Pig had gotten hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast then fell asleep. After the nap, the Pig continued the race and was named the 12th and last animal of the Zodiac cycle.
Or hey, maybe it was a Yin Piggy momma looking getting her piglets on board… (my comment).

The PIG is considered Yin by nature, and its Element is Water.
Thus, it is commonly associated with emotions and intuitions – fitting its association with the Western Zodiac sign of SCORPIO.
So let’s see how – despite the fact that JUPITER is out of SCO since Nov 2018 – there’ll be also a scorpionic tone to the PIG Year.

 

Yet, this Year’s PIG is an EARTHy One.
We’re in two (Yang & Yin) EARTH Element Years now which started with the Yang Earth Dog Year, followed by the Yin Earth PIG.

2018 / 19 has been also in the Western Astrology very Earthy:
SATURN entered (just before the Yang Earth Dog Year started) its own mountainous domain of rock-solid CAPRICORN (Dec 2017 – Dec 2020), requiring from us to ‘walk the talk / dog’, live in Integrity, from our best and highest Self, prioritize what matters most, and get the work done (yet not the hard way).
Revolutionary URANUS will shake up, and liberate Earthy TAURUS from March 6, 2019 on (comes with the next NEW MOON!) for the next 7 years, until Apr 26, 2026.
A wake-up call of Mother Earth?
An economic / monetary / food revolution???
A radical change of values?
A new way of being in our Senses and EmBodied?
Rising of the Goddess!

 

Chinese Character Zhū – Pig

The last Yin EARTH PIG Year was Feb 8, 1959 – Jan 27, 1960.

If you’re about 60 years old, you have this year your Chinese Element / Animal Return (together with the Western Astrology 2^nd SATURN and 5^th JUPITER Return).
In case you have grandchildren 60 years younger than you, you share your Animal / Element combo with them.

The last PIG Years (with different Element combinations) were (Jan / Feb until Jan / Feb the following year) 1935-36, 1947-48, 1959-60, 1971-72, 1983-84, 1995-96, 2007-08. Please find specific dates, and a more detailed intro to the Chinese Elements and Animal Cycles here.

For the PIG Years, check out this table:

Start date	End date	Heavenly Branch
16 February 1923	5 February 1924	Water PIG
4 February 1935	23 January 1936	Wood PIG
22 January 1947	9 February 1948	Fire PIG
8 February 1959	27 January 1960	Earth PIG
27 January 1971	14 February 1972	Metal PIG
13 February 1983	1 February 1984	Water PIG
31 January 1995	18 February 1996	Wood PIG
18 February 2007	6 February 2008	Fire PIG
5 February 2019	24 January 2020	Earth PIG
23 January 2031	10 February 2032	Metal PIG
10 February 2043	29 January 2044	Water PIG

 

Yang Earth DOG Year Review

The DOG started 2 Years in the EARTH Element (Yang DOG and Yin PIG) – the Element of the Centre. 

With the EARTH Element, a grounding, stabilizing, and balancing energy is offered, and required(!). 

Simultaneously, SATURN entered its own earthy sign of CAP in Dec 2017, until Dec 2020, encompassing the EARTH Dog & Pig Years, and going into the Metal Rat Year.
PLUTO is also in CAP (until 2023), and JUPITER will follow, on Dec 2, 2019.
As URANUS will also shift into earthy TAU this year (from March 6 on), a lot of unsettling energy can wake & shake us up from old habits and attachments, and for new freedom.

EARTH is in the Chinese system associated with 

• The Centre (also in Feng Shui / the BaGua)
• The Change of Seasons (rather than ONE season)
• The Planet SATURN – corresponds with SATURN being in earthy CAP now.
• The Colour Yellow.
• The Yellow Dragon.
• The digestive system, spleen, and stomach.

Good to strengthen / be supported by all those attributes, always, and esp. in these two EARTH years.

Do these DOG Characteristics relate to YOUR last year (and to the DOG in your natal 4 Pillars, in case you have one there)?

Of all the Chinese Animals the DOG is the friendliest and kindest.
DOGs like to serve and being of use. They are the epitome of loyalty and faithfulness.
DOG has an association with the Western Zodiac sign LIBRA.
Known to be very relational, loyal, reserved, quiet, helpful, practical, unpretentious (after Rooster), calm in a crisis, keeping equilibrium in chaos, yet always ready to respond.
They thrive on team work and have a strong sense of duty in the community.
DOGs are eager to please. They seek companionship, and friend-ly relationship, and can go out of their way to be praised and approved of. DOGs are also very outgoing and social, love to be seen and loved, and thrive on contact and company / their pack – otherwise they become a lone wolf… (a theme that came up just recently, with the Total Lunar Eclipse ‘Wolf Moon’ on Jan 20 / 21, on  the LEO / AQ cusp).
They’re honest, intelligent, with a sense of justice, fairness, and integrity, affectionate and sociable, trustworthy, yet hard to forgive if the trust they’ve offered is being abused.
Rather an expert in certain things than a ‘jack of all trades’. They don’t need much, yet when in need hey’re very resourceful. They need purpose, be motivated and acknowledged, otherwise they’re unfulfilled. Having high standards, they can easily become judgmental, cynical (a word derived from Latin canis = dog) and pessimistic.

Many of these traits are also very apropos SATURN over the last year in CAP where we’ve experienced this spectrum of experience.
DOGs can do everything for others (LIBRA), even to a degree of martyrdom, or being taken advantage of (CAP).
Being dogged and fatalistic are shadow expressions of the DOG.
Success is a result of consistent effort. They can make a sound adviser and good leader  – who demands loyalty, and dedication to the work (again very apropos SATURN in CAP).

These characteristics of a DOG year / month / day / hour born person (or dog!) can be translated into the Earth DOG year we’re just coming out of:

Very Earthy Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog (Creative Commons photo)

• A year where the call for justice, integrity, and true leadership became stronger and stronger.
• With JUPITER in SCO, in combo with PLUTO in CAP also an impulse for transformation of structures and leadership.
• Loyalty to a ‘pack’, and defending integrity and principles could have become a big theme. Hopefully not to a degree where loyal ‘serfs’ are conditioned to to ‘do everything’ for their master.
• Well, yeah, check in who or what might turn into your master, and how to take Authority back.

This is to Integrity DOGs and Protectors who stand up in Loyalty for Mother EARTH, and all her Life Forms!

 

The Yin Earth PIG, and its Year

PIGs love pleasure, and for them as watery Zodiac beings, this includes the pleasures of delving into their emotional turmoil and depths (fits the SCORPIO association of the PIG) – even though this might appear to the outside world as self-indulgence, and ‘rolling in the mud’.

Their Yin Nature makes them rather withdrawn, enjoying the quiet and peaceful of a private setting. They’re dedicated to home, family, and children, and known to make the best out of every situation.

They’re sociable, trusting, passionate, intelligent, and endowed with a good instinct and common sense, hence sought-after caring and empathetic friends, mentors and advisers.
Since they love enjoyment and the good things in life they’re great hosts who love to entertain their friends, yet can tend towards indulgence and materialism – reflected in the shadow of JUPITER this year in SAG – “more is better”. Good to channel the energy into true Happiness from within.

PIGs seek beauty and sensual love, yet also need a partner who gives them space to explore their own emotional life.
Their shadow is to be overly trusting and naive (just because it’s enjoyable doesn’t mean it’s good for you), which may have them flip into its polar opposite (like SCORPIO can do) of setting high standards, being suspicious and pessimistic.

Seems like the PIG has qualities of SCO but also TAURUS – when it comes to the enjoyment / indulgence side.

 

What do these characteristics of a PIG year / month / day / hour person add up to, for the Yin EARTH PIG YEAR to come?

• We already did the JUPITER in SCO delving in the depth last year – maybe less of that PIG trait to be seen this year.
• So yeah, a year of ‘legit’ pleasure – perhaps through having learned from the DOG year and SATURN in CAP, rather than doing things hard way it’s better and more pleasurable to do them the smart and still effective way.
• With URANUS going into TAU on March 6, we might discover new ways of living that are surprisingly enjoyable, incl. finding a new turf where we’re happy as a PIG in mud 🙂 without breaking the piggy bank. 🙂

 

On that note, yes, new ways of feeding the Piggy bank is always nice, and extra supported in the Earth Piggy Year.

Plus, let’s invite what the German saying: Schwein haben promises = literally to ‘have Pig’ means having good luck.
JUPITER this year in SAG likes and supports that too. 

 

Curious for more, and more personal Piggy Year themes, and ready to invoke the Yin EARTH PIG in a conscious & fun circle?

In our East-West CNY & Feng Shui Parlour on Mon Feb 4,
(day of the New Moon, and eve of the CNY!) we’ll consciously co-invite the New Year of the Yin Earth PIG, plus co-explore these themes further and deeper, and how they relate to what’s going on for YOU, applied to everybody in the circle.

 

 

If you were born in the Year of the PIG this coming year opens a personal new 12-year cycle for you, AND you likely also have your JUPITER Return Year (JUPITER is in the same sign in the Zodiac where it was when you were born). Generally speaking, a good time for travel, and expansion of your business and life. And yep, there’s a special PIG Rate to join the Parlour.

In the East-West Parlour, we’ll also explore what the energy of the AQ NEW MOON on FEB 4 brings, and how you can naturally align with its cosmic ‘weather’.

And, timely for the CHINESE NEW YEAR, we’ll discuss helpful & fun Feng Shui Tips. Plus, you’ll receive a 14-p. Feng Shui Companion E-Booklet which I compiled from several Feng Shui courses I took to dive deeper.

FENG SHUI helps with organizing and streamlining our environment – which makes life simpler, easier, more enjoyable, and directs the energy flow in optimal and naturally aligned ways.

If you don’t come to our CNY Parlour you can still order the 14-p. Feng Shui Tips E-Booklet for $8.88 (8 is the luckiest Chinese number), via e-transfer, or PayPal.
I email it to you upon payment.

 

Happy New Year of the Yin EARTH PIG!

 

© 2019 by Melanie Lichtinger

 

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