What an accelerated vocal, assertive, controversial, polarized, even hostile mental phase it’s been, with MERCURY in ARIES since March 9!
The retro phase (Apr 1 – 25) helped us on a ‘meta level’ to stop and notice what the mind is doing, what we react to, and become more aware of where conflicts and wars start.
Such a mentally active if not driven time, with MERCURY in ARIES.
Yet also a time to heal, byfinding our voice, and speaking up, authentically, as Light Warriors & Alchemists of polarities – …as MERCURY connected with CHIRON & the North Node in ARIES 3 times, before, during, and after the retro phase.
The Mercurial Inner Messenger / Communicator / Mind Archetype arrived in TAURUS today May 15, where it’ll dwell until June 3.
Initiating a super-TAUREAN phase, from May 15 – 20, when the SUN, MERCURY, VENUS, JUPITER, and URANUS will ALL be in TAURUS.
EnJoy & be FREE!
Settling the Mind, AND Being Free
The grounding effect of MERCURY in TAU can bring us back to embodied common (nowadays quite un-common) sense. I’m all for that.
Patience is a good TAU virtue. Can you allow for it naturally, by relaxing and slowing down the pace?
With MERCURY in TAU (quite the shift from ARIES), our mind & attention can more easily slow down, and turn to watching the mind, rather than getting swept away by mental whirlwind effects, esp. during the M-r phase in ARIES, in the super-charged month of April.
Food for NO-thought, for the mercurial Messenger-Alchemist…
Ready to mentally settle, integrate, and ground things / your mind out? Well, that’s what TAURUS offers – usually.
Buuut, MERCURY will connect with unpredictable and not-at-all settled URANUS, on May 30. Not quite your ‘walk in the park’ kinda vibe…
Esp. IF we get caught up in attachments and resistance (the pitfalls of TAU), re: social / societal / systemic dynamics – with PLUTO (almost fully) in AQ.
MERCURY will square PLUTO right at the onset of entering TAU, on May 17. An invitation to break free – by slowing down, connecting with our senses here-now, being in the body, in nature… And in our True inalienable Nature – which is our Freedom.
EnJoy Spring & good Food!
Purple Camas Delights of May – photo by Melanie
TAU is grounded, slow, sensual, embodied. Communication and learning happens through all the senses – not just via the brain.
Don’t chew on things too much in your mind. Ask your body!
Smell the grass, the Spring, be in the Camas fields of May, in Victoria.
All good Medicine for the too overrated busy brain, always in alert mode (esp. via electronic ‘extensions’)!
MERCURY in TAU can make us interested in yummy food and cooking. Wondering how many foodies and chefs have this cosmic signature…?
Clearly, all sensual / sensate delights are in the mental spotlight with MERCURY in TAU – and the super Taurean window currently.
It’s also an excellent time to learn more and communicate about the Body, Biology, Nature, and Mother Earth.
Those ‘Comfortable’ Attachments… Why do we get so attached?
TAURUS is fixed Earth energy we can settle into. The first fixed sign, and the first Earth sign in the Zodiac. Yet, if we get too attached / the energy gets too stagnant, we get stuck in the enjoyable, comfortable, or simply habitual.
Of course, MERCURY in TAU can become stubborn too, and insist on sticking to one’s mind-set.
The mind habitually attaches itself to things that we have an affinity to, desire for, or aversion against, and presents them as interesting / desirable to engage in (almost like a shop keeper presenting their window display) or resist – very Taurean. Our habit is to give in, and engage mentally with those attractive / hideous ‘offers’. Our job and in fact freedom(!) is ‘just’ not to buy (into) them.
Together with the Awakener URANUS now (2019 – 2026) in TAU, met by MERCURY on May 30,the Buddhist teachings 101come handy:
Suffering comes from attachments. What brings freedom?!
First step would be to acknowledge our attachment to getting what we want, or resistance to being stuck with what we don’t want, and to realize that it’s the attachment that causes the suffering, not the ‘thing / aspiration / situation’ in itself.
How can we release / free ourselves from attachment?
The realization and (yes, well, constant) reminders of how it all works is already a huge freedom catalyst – for me anyway. Basically noticing: Hey, I’m doing this to myself. It’s not the situation, it’s what my mind makes out of it that causes the frustration.
Also, a key piece is to embrace impermanence. SO up now with SATURN in PI (March 7, 2023 – Feb 14, 2026) – approaching NEPTUNE (2025 / 26).
No pain, problem, discomfort lasts forever. No pleasure & enjoyment either. Let’s not get worked up, graspy or resistant, and relax in the ‘storm’.Which naturally allows for the liberating process to go where it needs to go.
MERCURY in TAU goes into sextile w. SATURN in PI (May 27). We can turn to, and feed ourselves with what we truly value & enjoy – without compulsion, attachment, or other fixations, and it’s time to let our ‘hooks & hang-ups’ go (SATURN in PI). Nature always helps so much with letting go of sticky attachments.
What can Alignment with MERCURY in TAURUS look like?
* Tuning into what brings us true intrinsic joy (not derived from ‘getting’ and consuming more on the outer level).
* Re-connecting with, and communicating about what we truly value.
*Sloooowing down, esp. mentally, tuning into Body & our Senses, and following their messages. Which can re-attune us, and shift a lot quite fast – paradoxically.
* Asking ourselves: Where do I physically belong? Where do I need to ground myself right now?
* Maybe we need to take ourselves to magical spots. And of course, magic implies surprises that can’t be planned.
* Let’s get un-stuck, in so many ways, esp. mentally-habitually. Very timely now.
* Buying less, enjoying more.
* OH – and let’s talk to our Taurean friends! And thank them for their patience!
MERCURY contacts, sends & receives Messages to / from these other Planetary Archetypes while in TAURUS… Here areAlignment Tips for their combined ‘Weather’
Noteworthy:
* On May 17, MERCURY triggers / squares PLUTO freshly in AQ.
* On May 30, MERCURY connects with URANUS.
* During MERCURY in TAU, JUPITER will enter GEMINI (May 25, 2024 – June 9, 2025) – which is ruled by MERCURY!
MAY 15 MERCURY enters TAU What do You Truly Enjoy & Value? Free the Mind! Slow down, relax, enJoy life, communicate with & through the body.
MAY 17 MERCURY squaresPLUTO retro in AQ Values & ownership clashing with ‘the System’? With a calm mind, it’s pretty clear: It’s all IN us. And the Power to change starts within.
MAY 27 MERCURY in TAU goes into sextile w. SATURN in PI It’s Spring – a calling to enJoy Life & Nature in her blossoming beauty & bounty. So much to learn from Her…How does She help us with letting go? Let’s tune into what connects all sentient Beings energetically. Fluidity without attachment to a ‘position’. Listening to & conveying the voice of Nature & of our True Nature…
MAY 30 MERCURY in TAU meets and passes URANUS What’s new and exciting / thrilling? How does your mind now deal with what’s disruptive? How can you calm the mind in the ‘storm’? EnJoy without attachment, in the ebbs & flows of life. Freedom from the Known.
JUNE 2 MERCURY end of TAU goes into sextile w. NEPTUNE end of PI Surrendering and allowing things and people to BE – calm state of mind.
JUNE 3 MERCURYgoes over the ‘Voice Point’ cusp and enters its ruled sign GEMINI (until June 17), and into Air trine w. PLUTO retro in early AQ SO much to say, so much info, so many conversations, discourses, debates are UP, in society. Find your Voice, and give a Voice to Nature / Living Beings / what / who can’t speak up for themselves. Ask good questions. Be the Learner. Lightness & brightness of the mind…
Where in your chart is TAURUS?
Venus Rules Taurus (and the Martian / Aries Warrior Takes a Rest) – by Johfra Bosschart
That’s where you look for / find comfort, values, and connection to the Earth.
MERCURY in your Taurean House helps you communicate about & with these areas of your Life – while letting go of / breaking free from attachments:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and 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.
All the best for your Joyful Spring Journey with MERCURY in TAURUS!
Melanie
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Brightly-Naturally Growing to the Light – photo by moi
Another Super New Moon is coming!
And a super TAUREAN one that-is.
The last of 5 Super New Moons in a row. Yes, New Moons can be Super Moons as well, not just the more ‘famous’ Super Full Moons (since they stand out visually).
Astrologically, SuperMoons with their prominence enhance the lunar effect – and for TAU, it’s all about planting seeds… This time doubly relevant – since magnifying JUPITER is also near the NM in the Zodiac (well – with erratic & liberating URANUS in-between).
Spring is in full bloom – it’s TAURUS Season What a miracle Life IS!And how fragile…
The fine-tuned balance & inter-relationship in bio systems, and in any living Being as part of nature – what an expression of divine intelligence… not to be taken for granted. Finding balance and making new authentic choices is a big deal now, as the Nodal Axis is in LIBRA – ARIES (July 13, 2023 – Jan 29 – 2025).
Once again, as over the last years / decade, I heard from my European friends about their springy temperature roller-coasters (up to 10 – 15º from one day to the next) / lack of weather balance / stability – quite unsettling.
Here on the West Coast, it’s been unseasonably cool and very cloudy. Yet once the Sun is out the rays are very strong.
The Earth and all Her life forms (associated with TAURUS) are doing their best to adapt and compensate for the exponential impact of humans. Not so much by individuals (good old blame game), actually but mostly by big biz, esp. military-industrial interests pushing for greedy & ruthless abuse of precious resources while killing co-beings, and destroying ecosystems.
Insane experimental geo engineering (also an expression of URANUS in TAU) ‘solutions’ / cop-outs / cover-ups won’t do it. Once again, the proposed cure makes things worse, as humans disruptively experiment (shall we say: mess!) with natural processes.
The impact on the biosphere of all this reckless ‘playing with fire’ is already backfiring on all life forms, incl. humanity.
Bottom line: The TAUREAN organic / natural world is in peril.
URANUS, these years in TAU (2019 – 2026): Are enough Earthlings waking up to the unsustainable disruption of Nature and of organic human nature – in sooo many ways!?
SO much TAUREAN energy is ON, these days, esp. with JUPITER now in TAU too, in its ‘grand finale’ connected with URANUS on Apr 20. Their union will be fully catalyzed via the TAU New Moon.
So, let’s take a look at, and glean insights from the energy field of the
Cosmic Map of the Very TAURUS New Moon
…which will be exact at 8:22 pm PDT on May 7.
Check out that cluster in TAURUS, w. Venus, Sun & Moon, Uranus, and Jupiter
The New Moon at the most Taurean days of the year (May 7 / 9) wraps up the year of JUPITER in TAU (since mid-May 2023). Have you received the gifts & inspirations that come from The Value of Nature & Everything Organic?
Good to slow down, enjoy, and also: Let the Eclipse Season energies of turbulent April settle.
The MOON is exalted in TAURUS – so nourishing and comforting.
Mid-to-end of TAU where the SUN is already, and the New Moon will be, has a TAU / VIR undertone. Here, it’s about doing joyful & valuable work and service – esp. with URANUS: Grounding the Light.
JUPITER and URANUS stand out of course, in the Taurean configuration.
Both planetary Archetypes are about Freedom.
For JUPITER, it’s rather a freedom to grow, expand, be in abundance & happy (re: TAU, think: big beautiful garden / jungle / paradise).
For URANUS, it’s for starters a freedom from anything that can chain the Spirit (re: TAU, think: freedom from attachments – to stuff, habits, identity, unhealthy relationships you got stuck in), perhaps a freedom for… (re-inventing yourself). Ultimately, unconditional freedom (without a contrast / opposite) – which is true freedom.
LUNA activating Uranus: EmBodied Freedom & Light
The Super New Moon will pass URANUS & JUPITER after newness, on May 8. Their contact may be not SO comfortable – but important – for the sake of embodying new Freedom & Light.
The SUN this year passes URANUS on May 13 – to bring consciousness & light to the rather instinctive & body based life, and to help with paradigm shifts into freedom. URANUS likes to surprise (even shock): Freedom is not what you thought it was… and there’s always another level.
All of you born early-to-mid May prob. know what I’m talking about. You would have (had) the once-in-a-lifetime transit from URANUS to your SUN. And it was even enhanced by JUPITER, this Spring.
End of TAU (for URANUS 2024 – 2026) has a VIRGO undertone: Disruption / destabilization of the well-being of nature – and of our bodies in consequence, of the economy / nutrition (like: literally: food prices). Yet also wake-up calls when it comes to breaking unhealthy habits, and getting out of our complacent comfort zones. It’s liberating to be even more ‘radically aligned’ with Higher Purpose, and to practice living by that.
Awakening to EmBody Freedom & Renaissance of Earth Consciousness. Wake Up Earthlings!
We’ve been in for all kinds of shocks & surprises & paradigm shifts in the last years, with URANUS the disruptor / liberator / Awakener Archetype in TAU. No boredom. No status quo. No stability / security. No business as usual.
Yet, a Point of No Return can turn into a liberating Turning Point…
Angel of Revelation – painting by W. Blake
The May 7 Super NM in TAU catalyzes URANUS & JUPITER, and VENUS follows suit (see chart).
* How can we find inner stability & joy, in the constant shifts that take us out of our comfort zone?
* Conversely: How can we even pro-actively seek the edge rather than the comfort trap?
* Can we sloooww down, and listen with all our senses, while things are whirling?
* What does our EarthBody call us to – when we’re in full Presence?
* What grounds the Light – how can we be a catalyst for that?
Let’s move into the New, from a place of finding and standing our ground, despite disruptive, unsettling, unpredictable energies, relating to the Earth herself, and to our Earth body…
JUPITER activates the ‘Voice Point’ cusp from TAU to GEM – which it’ll enter on May 25:
* Let’s listen to the voices of Nature and of the Body.
* Let’s be a voice for Nature, and everything natural & organic.
* Let’s ground & emBody the Light, and unconditional Freedom.
* Being in Nature, and in our True Nature brings shifts in Consciousness.
Lots of ARIES ‘in the Background’fuelling the TAU NM
The North Node is now half-way through AR (until end of Jan 2025): Good to go for it anyway, even if you’re the first or only one. The LIBRA SN on the other hand shows us how we loose energy when we compare ourselves, try too hard to please, look for love at the wrong places, and compromise ourselves.
MERCURY post-retro in ARIES meets and passes the North Node & CHIRON once more (#3 of 3 alignments, pre-, during, and post M-r). Are you thinking in new ways about ‘the situation’? Can you be more present, and communicate more boldly, directly, and authentically? Which can be healing.
Pluto’s Involvement in the New Moon
PLUTO, now in very early AQ (ruled by URANUS) is freshly retro, since May 2, evoking Inner Soul Power to Change
Besides MERCURY, now back ‘on track’, and as of 05/05 out of the post-retro ‘storm’, PLUTO is the first slow moving Planet that turned retro, after a long-ish No-Retro phase since mid-Jan where outer events rolled out fast & furiously – and have gained a momentum of their own.
The CAP – AQ cusp gets activated by PLUTO this year. The interface of hierarchies, structures, governments, history (CAP), and people, systems, future (AQ).
PLUTO will re-enter CAP one more time, Sept 1 – Nov 19. Time to tie up unfinished business, integrate, process, transform / evolve,and make necessary changes,while being empowered (PLUTO), responsible, and in our own authority, when it comes to laws, and established structures (CAP). Interesting timing, with the U.S. Elections (and PLUTO in CAP in their country chart).
Flash-back: PLUTO end of CAP was hugely ON in 2020, compliments the SATURN – PLUTO conj. on Jan 12, w. the triple JUPITER – PLUTO conj. following. What a Turning Point year that was! Hindsight is 20:20.
The Old Establishment / Empire / ‘Operating Systems’ expire as they’ve shown their fear based power / control shadow (evolutionary PLUTO in CAP), while the new systems can be dehumanizing (shadow of AQ). AI can’t replace Nature’s intelligence and soulful life.
PLUTO will leave CAP ‘for good’ on Nov 19, to enter AQ for the next 19 y(!). A lot coming up, as to how systems affect / change Humanity.
With PLUTO retro now (May 2 – Oct 11), it’s time to roll back on giving Power away / delegating / projecting it to / letting it be hijacked by systems (AQ) that are built by the ‘ones in charge’ (CAP).
To find true Soul Power (PLUTO) from within, and emBody Freedom (AQ / URANUS in TAU), based on Natural Law (CAP).
I call the CAP – AQ cusp the ‘Prometheus’ or ‘Light Leader’ Point:
The New MOON in TAURUS with URANUS / JUPITER also reads as:
The Earth doesn’t belong to us. We belong to the Earth.*
Earth is our Mother. We are of the Earth.
We are Children of the Earth, and inhabit an EarthBody. Let’s truly treat the Earth and our Body as our Home that we love and care for (rather than an exploitation ground).
*…other than the distorted dehumanizing / disrespectful expression you’ve prob. all read / heard by now: “You own nothing, and you’ll be happy” – that marketing slogan was retracted again, as thankfully lots of people woke up to the insanity of it. A low vibe expression of URANUS in TAU – not from the ground-up / inside-out, but ‘ordained’ from the top down. In this case, once again, the ‘cure’ / suggested ‘solution’ doesn’t treat the issue but makes things worse – as it doesn’t come from an organic, soulful place.
Just mentioning it for contrast’s sake. Let’s not give this ‘program’ / ‘spell’ any more energy. And be unconditionally free & happy.
Magic of Connection – photo by me
A beautiful quote by Eckhart Tolle from: A New Earth
“Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings’ perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature and every life-form recognizes it as one with their own essence, and so loves it as themselves.”
Being Awake in our True Nature, as Nature, in Nature. Magic-All that-IS.
BEING Nature takes us to our true authentic, unconditioned Nature. And if our body instinct (TAU) is (still) intact it can do that too.
How does the instinctual wisdom of your Body guide you nowadays?
How does Mother Earth, all her Beings, and how does your Body draw you closer to instinct? We are the Earth.
Where are you ‘in your element’? Like: literally, which place on Planet Earth? Maybe far away, or around the corner, laying on the Earth, working in the garden, and eating / feeding others with home grown food?
The Corona Crisis with its overall health impacts, social restrictions and atmosphere of fear has been quite stressful for humanity. It had deep effects, and in essence, humanity hasn’t gone back to ‘normal’.
So important to BE in Nature – where the Medicine of fresh Air, of soUlar Vitamin D, of Springy re-greening and awakening can be found. Sooo good for our wellness, vitality & happiness!
Hope you’ve been getting OUT, and grounding too!
Earth My Body!
…sung so powerfully by young Spirit Elder Nicole Sangsuree. What a legacy, before her body was taken back by the Earth, in Thailand!
Where in your birth (or relocation) chart is (esp. mid-to-end of) TAURUS?
The area round 18° TAU in your chart (House, Planets, Nodes, and even more so if your birthday / Solar Return is these days, or your MOON is end of TAU) points you to the themes or area in your life that are now primed for a conception (MOON / SUN, Yin-Yang) – and energy shift.
BE both active in the ‘planting’ (yang), and receptive for what’s being planted in you (yin)! A ceremony in Nature on the day after the New Moon (May 8, since the NM will be on May 7 at 8:22 pm PDT) would be perfectly aligned.
Gardening can be the perfect body-mind-grounding wellness practice for starters, bringing the EarthBody Consciousness right home at this time where ‘earthing’ is so important.
The TAURUS New Moon and week to follow are a prime time for planting new seeds, figuratively and literally. Happening in my life and balcony garden too.
Where TAURUS is in your chart (house wise)… which relates to… (list below) gets activated / renewed by the NM:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and 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.
All of us with SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets mid-to-end of TAURUSare in for surprises. We get a Uranian ‘kicks in the butt’ to be liberated and reinvent ourselves, esp. in the area of life related to our TAURUS House.
An important re-initiation to find your ground in our nature-all Inner Freedom– now activated by the TAU New Moon!
Those of you born with URANUS in SCO (Dec 1974 – Apr 1975, and Sept 1975 – Nov 1981) are having their URANUS Opposition in the years of URANUS in TAU (2019 – 26) – an awakening / liberation in mid-life which can be a huge catalyst for radical life changes.
Lastly, let’s find the
Sabian Symbol
for the NEW MOON at 18º02′ TAURUS.
“TAURUS 18° A WOMAN AIRING AN OLD BAG THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW OF HER ROOM
KEYNOTE:The cleansing of the ego-consciousness
In this third stage of the present sequence, the first two stages should be considered as the background. The traditional teachings concerning human nature are somehow reconciled with the youthful enthusiasm that sees in every problem of growth an issue between the “good” and the “bad.”
The symbol suggests that the real enemy is within the mind; it is the ego and its attachment to possessions. The mind is shown in the likeness of a “bag,” now empty and needing to be aired in the sunlight. But the “window” must first be opened and the bag emptied.
The phrase “cleansing the doors of perception” has become well known of late. But even more to be cleansed is the container of perceptual images — i.e. the ego mind. The Keyword is PURIFICATION.”
Loving what the Sabian Symbol adds: URANUS in TAU, now enhanced by JUPITER, and catalyzed by the Super New Moon, helps us with ‘airing’ our attachments (TAU) – to right & wrong, good and bad – all originating in the ego mind. True Freedom emerges.Helping us with lovingly grounding the Light.
May the TAU Super New MOON with joyful VENUS, liberating URANUS & inspiring JUPITER guide us back to our Organic, Cosmic-Earthy Nature!
Blessings for the True & Free YOU!
May we emBody Freedom-as-Nature!
Nature is our teacher. Nature is always free since it just-IS. Freedom is our inalienable True Nature. We ARE Nature.
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you!
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Deep dark PLUTO is stationary now, since it went retro yesterday May 2 – at 02°06′ AQ (until Oct 11). That’s the furthest it goes into AQ this year.
PLUTO is not quiiite done yet with CAP, and will (in retro motion) re-enter Sept 1 – Nov 19 (the timing, re: U.S. Elections!), for unfinished business.
This is the last transition year of PLUTO, on the CAP – AQ cusp. It’ll enter AQ fully on Nov 19 (until 2043 / 44!)…
PLUTO’s Turnaround comes on the heels of the early SCO (ruled by PLUTO) – TAU Full Moon / Astrological Wesak Full Moon (Apr 23) which was squared by PLUTO – Dive Deeply & Find Freedom!
Have you gone through deep personal processes that called for release of sticky sabotaging ‘material’ – now in the waning Moon phase?
You’re certainly not alone (even though it might feel like that, in the oh-so separative, isolating, detached AQ world of late…).
Pluto-Cracy, Techno-Cracy, and the CAP – AQ Cusp
PLUTO-Cracy & Techno-Cracy are looming – and happening.
SO important not to give power away and feed the ‘monsters’ with frozen attention – Or avoid dealing with change, via ‘head in the sand’ denial.
PLUTO’s Turnaround helps with recognizing power patterns, and with digging to re-access our inalienable intrinsic power– especially in an Era of Change.
How does your Soul / Core go into the deep change? What do we contribute to the Evolution???
Power-to-Change
…lies within, and societal Change for a better future is a collaborative endeavour… Given the developments of our times, where top-down structures (CAP) have amply shown their shadow, incl. often historically entrenched destructive ‘control issues’ (PLUTO), and things can’t go on like this.
If your SUN / MOON / AC / Planets / Nodes are round 0 – 3° AQ (or TAU, LEO, SCO!) you probably feel the intensity and pressure.
A pressurethat helps us transform from the inside-out.
Rather than banging our heads against a wall / mountain of density (CAP) or feeling alienated by where society has gone (AQ) without really being able – or needing! – to change those external things.
Change is not supposed to happen ‘the hard way’ (old conditioning…), by working with resistance (theirs, yours), or pushing against what ‘doesn’t work’ in the system (AQ) and we seem to be out of control about.
Early AQ where PLUTO has gone retro has a LIBRA undertone, and sure enough, we’re dealing with issues of fairness, balance, right relationship, and justice, in various social contexts. Long time built-up issues are now coming to the surface – to prompt a purge and transformation / evolution of various paradigms of power.
“You can’t solve a problem from the consciousness / dimension where it originated” (did Einstein say that?). To let go & transform, we have to go to another level of experience (which can be a fine line with spiritual bypassing…).
Have you been dealing with / feeling trapped in systemic issues? I.o.w., come up against issues that are really ‘heavy’, ‘old’ and ‘thick’ (not much breathing space / openness / flexibility)?
Feeling intensely affected by certain things a while ago, waking up some morning, I realized “these are density problems”, andsomething major shifted. We don’t need to go into ‘social relationship’ (AQ) with these issues, take on those challenges or be frustrated and burdened by them (late CAP – where PLUTO goes back to, in the Summer / Fall).
How can life be lighter and freer – shared with other mature (CAP) and free-spirited friends (transformed AQ)?!
Been listening to Playing for Change – Music unites Humans (so apropos SATURN – NEPTUNE in PISCES also, accentuated by the MOON today as I’m writing this.
Clearly, I felt also called to look up the
Sabian Symbol for the PLUTO Station
PLUTO went retro at 02°06′ AQ.
Thunderstorm Toronto (A. Furtado – Pexels)
“AQUARIUS 2° AN UNEXPECTED THUNDERSTORM
KEYNOTE The need to develop the inner security which will enable us to meet unexpected crises
An interesting connection can be made between the symbols for 1° & 2° TAU – “A Clear Mountain Stream” and “An Electrical Storm” – and those for 1° & 2° AQ, 270° apart (a waning square, in terms of a cycle of relationship, such as the lunation cycle). In the first case, we deal with energies or activities that can be related to the natural development of the individual. But here we are primarily concerned with social, collective processes and the function of the individual within them.
The symbol itself – “An Unexpected Thunderstorm” – could be given a very positive meaning in an arid environment, but the emphasis on “unexpected” tends to accent the sudden and dangerous character of the event. Such a thunderstorm in a region of dry hills can cause a devastating flood.
At any rate, it refers to an event for which one is notprepared – a menace to human works.
Seen as a 2nd stage symbol – thus in contrast to the preceding one – “An Old Adobe Mission in California” – this scene stresses the fact that nature may reduce to impermanence the seemingly most permanent endeavors and constructive activities of human beings. Under a downpour of rain, adobe brick can return to mud.
All human institutions and their achievements can be washed away, even in their day of great glory. “Dust you were, dust you must become”. This is NATURE’S CHALLENGE.”
Sudden intervention is associated with URANUS – ruling planet of AQ where PLUTO is going retro, and these years in TAU – the Earth sign associated with Nature, food, and anything sustaining & stable.
Having been passed by JUPITER on Apr 20 – a big deal, happens only every 13 – 14 y.! – their combo can bring big wake-up calls in those areas (already does…). Greedy human intervention, disruption & destruction of Nature (URANUS in TAU) inevitably has effects on Humanity (AQ) as on other Living Beings in the Web of Life (PI).
Apparently permanent (TAU) edifices can be swept away. Yet also, systems (AQ) that were once built-to-last (CAP) can transform (PLUTO), for better or worse. Evolution happens, and we’re all part of it.
Finding Soul Power within is ever so important.
PLUTO Retro once more back into CAP
PLUTO retro will one last time re-enter the very end of CAP on Sept 1, go direct on Oct 11, and leave CAP ‘for good’ on Nov 19.
True leadership requires integrity – essential (PLUTO) to CAP. Corruption, abuse of power and authority, and disrespect of Humans and Nature Beings whom the leader serves (late CAP – VIR undertone) are shadow expressions that come up now for full revelation and purging.
Pushing us to co-envision / co-build a better future for Humanity (from the ground-up, not the top-down) – as the AQ Age is setting in.
And hey – we’re the ones we’ve been looking for and looking up to.
Also, the way how we respond to ‘what’s going on in the world’ has likely to do with our own shadow too. Well worth digging and ‘seeing through’.
We can ‘repurpose’ & transform situations (esp. those challenging ones that we suffer, resist, and judge) by connecting with our spiritual core (PLUTO retro). Which brings us to a higher vibration, as we surrender to the Higher Order of the Universe that ‘uses’ / positions us, for a higher purpose.
PLUTO initiated the RetroSeason of the Year
Planets in retro areinward-backward energy.
Old – perhaps karmic – patterns, conditioning and internalized experiences come up again…
So that we can better understand and transform them, and regenerate from within.
Much Love, Power, and Cosmic Blessings to You and Us ALL, from the Inside-Out! Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you!
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
What a PISCEAN phase it’s been, since end of March (with MARS, SATURN, and NEPTUNE)!
Hopefully you could surf the waves of Oneness, (re)connect with people, life, and yourself, and surrender in the letting go / rolling-out‘grand finale’ in PISCES, as MARS passed NEPTUNE, on Apr 28.
SO much PISCES has also brought up overwhelm, esp. via the media, suffering, confusion, chaos, deception, addiction, escapism, and the alike, and the need for regulation / protection (SATURN).
Yet also pointing to the outflowing last wave of the PISCES Age. Which will come up big time via SATURN in PI approaching NEPTUNE next year (their conjunction in early ARIES will be in Summer 2025 / Feb 2026).
Ready to get into gears & into action for the Summer? Noticing renewed vigor & vitality? Good! …MARS just entered ARIES on Apr 30 – for the first time since Spring / early Summer 2022.
MARS will be in its own Warrior sign until June 8.
Let Your Inner Super Hero/ine and Activist emerge!
Here’s a thought & spirit evoking video apropos: Re-activating the Inner Hero/ine, with great classic quotes and art.
New vitality, energy, and motivation to get going, to show up, and start a-new, are finally coming, big time, compliments MARS in ARIES.
The North Node (July 2023 – Jan 2025) and CHIRON(until 2027) and MERCURY in ARIES (March 9 – May 15) add to the energy, with Healing Medicine of showing up & speaking up authenticallyand bravely.
It has become so clear now that the brutality of wars wounds everybody – except the military-industrial complex benefiting from them. The price of war is wayyyy too high. What starts (AR) wars? What heals (CHIRON) them?
Why do we fight / what in us battles?
The MARS Archetype represents the life force asserting itself. Which shows up in different expressions in the Zodiac ‘colour’ / mode it appears in a personal (or event) chart. In its most ‘pure’ and raw version in ARIES.
MARS the Warrior having just entered its natural ARIES expression gives the pre-existing ARIES ‘formation’ (CHIRON, NN, and MERCURY) a powerful boost, and brings out the assertive & combative side of ARIES even more.
Yet, it doesn’t have to be warfare: In ARIES, springy Life Force awakens, desire & passion are reborn. MARS now freshly in its own sign ARIES is kicking us in the butt to emerge anew, be brave, take risks, initiative, and action for the NEW!
For all of us with ‘something’ (SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, Planets) in ARIES – these sides in us get kicked into gear via MARS. See Houses list below, re: the area of life where MARS wants to activate us.
MARS rules ARIES – bringing out the drive to take action & initiative, to start something new, be assertive, and ‘just do it’ (rather than dreaming / visualizing / talking….), a boost for everything dynamic.
Things can move fast, with MARS in ARIES (after perhaps going in loops / nowhere / evaporating with MARS in PI over the last weeks).
What do you want? What’s the 1st step? Go for it!
ARIES is about the original, authentic, autonomous Self. No standardized cookie cutter life whatsoever…
PLUTO (representing the Martian ‘Transpersonal Level’ – Powers of Evolution vs. personal wants and desires) is now freshly retro since May 2 in early AQ. Be in your intrinsic SuperPowerand contribute that to Humanity.
MARS in ARIES will go into sextile with PLUTO on May 3. Can bring up battles / conflict of the individual with society / the system, and even in friendships – and calls for courage to address what’s up.
And: Rather than fighting against ‘them’ (while still feeding the ‘monster’), how do we invest our energy into constructively & innovatively co-building (PLUTO early AQ on the ‘Co-creation Point’) the New (AR)?
There’s SO much to MARS in ARIES – esp. in its alignments with the North Node (May 18), CHIRON (May 29), and MOON / ERIS (June 2 / 3).
ERIS who’s been in ARIES since 1922(!) and until 2040(!) is a ‘dwarf planet’ and in mythology the Goddess of discord, and sister of belligerent MARS. More about ‘her’ below, in the MARS – ERIS paragraph.
What can the Martian RAMifications bring?
* Our inner Super Hero/ine is ready to be launched – it all starts HERE!
* New vitality and Spring-like energy is emerging & arising. If you’ve been sick and weakened during the MARS in PI phase (since March 22), you get a boost of energy, esp. if you have SUN, MOON, Nodes, AC or Planets in ARIES. MARS is natural in its ARIES domain, as a survivor, an ‘energizer bunny’, and it comes to life when battling the elements.
* Fast actions and reactions.
* People can get quite angry and upset (esp. with MARS meeting ERIS) – no more PISCEAN tolerating. It can be in general a fired-up and confrontational period. Better to channel the energy into healthy outlets of bold action, authenticity, and trying out something new.
* Do something productive with that energy! What matters is to pro-activelyget going – better than resisting and fighting.
* If it ‘doesn’t work out, not to worry. ARIES gets up and starts again, in a new way. Like a toddler learning to walk, with natural instinct & trust.
Aries Ram by Khairzul (Fine Art America)
This is OUR Time & Life.
Let’s not postpone or give up, but do something exciting NOW with the Time & Energy we have here!
MARS in ARIES gets the ball rolling, and brings fresh energy & vitality for getting going, and taking action…
Which Planetary Combos & Dynamics are up, with MARS in ARIES?
Raw & vulnerable experiences can be triggered – which can take us to find our Inner Medicine of being truly present and authentically HERE in this Life, and in this Time. There’s only the NOW. How do you show up?
These themes come up too when the MOON meets MARS, the North Node, and CHIRON, on May 4 / 5 and on June 2.
ERIS’s glyph – representing her discordant nature
Also in ARIES – and often ignored (which is tragically-fittingly aligned with Her Archetype) – and met by MARS on June 3:ERIS.
She’s the most massive and second-largest ‘dwarf planet’ known in the Solar System, and was given this astronomical status in 2006 (originally named ‘Planet X’ / ‘Xena’). This happened in the process when PLUTO was demoted as a Planet – while in late SAG, the Galactic Centre(!).
Since ERIS has almost the same diameter as PLUTO, and size matters for astronomical classifications, if PLUTO had retained its Planet status, ERIS and CERES had to be reclassified as Planets as well, which the astronomical community / consciousness wasn’t up for.
The Planetary Archetype PLUTO is well & alive (Archetypes aren’t subject to demotion), and in the meantime seen in a new light through the New Horizons space mission cameras, with first close-ups from Pluto in 2015.
Regardless of her astronomical ‘status’, ERIS came into collective consciousness in those years.
ERIS has a highly elliptical orbit that takes her 558 years around the SUN – more than twice as long as far-out PLUTO (248 years). Plus, she’s been in ARIES for a super long time, since 1922, until 2040 –for the entire life time of most humans alive. Even if you have ‘nothing in ARIES’ you do: ERIS.
Who / what / which Archetype actually is ERIS? How does She show up now, personally and societally?
The rather unevolved role of the ERIS Archetype – the Greek goddess of discord & strife – seeds disruption and separation, is vengeful and confrontational.
We’ve seen a LOT of polarization and discord in Humanity lately (triggered through the Corona Crisis – hmm, the ‘Coronation’ theme is very symbolic for the ERIS Archetype too – don’t give sovereignty away!), as the massive 2020 Stellium of the Titans, JUPITER – PLUTO – SATURN end of CAP moved into square with ERIS – who is presently (these years) end of ARIES.
Why all that discord & strive, in / via ERIS?
Because she’s not welcome at the table / not invited to the ‘ceremony’.
So much conflict nowadays, as the socio-political Pluto-cratic (which means literally: rulership of the wealthy) ‘One Percent’ (prob even much less than that) elite / supremacy (CAP / AQ cusp shadow) is playing their exclusive ‘game’ in the old and dying hierarchical (CAP) / technocratic (AQ) top-down world, at the expense / exclusion of ‘regular people’ and esp: minorities who feel left out of a truly ‘democratic’ decision making process (does that even exist – anymore…?).
We don’t need to think hard to find prime examples of large scale collective seeding of discord, division, and separation. Most obviously via the media, with their deceptive / programming potential and via ‘disruptive technology’.
The process started to kick in big time when URANUS in late ARIES met ERIS – 2016 / 17 – only every about 85 years.
ERIS – Antikensammlung Berlin
Mythological ERIS is MARS’s / ARES‘s sister.
In Greek Mythology, “She stirs up jealousy and envy to cause fighting and anger among men.
At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, all the Gods were invited, with the exception of Eris, and, enraged at her exclusion, she spitefully caused a quarrel among the Goddesses that led to the Trojan War.”
ERIS’s Archetype shows also how ‘small things’ can lead to major discord / conflicts.
Yet, ERIS can evolve, according to Doug Walker’s article: “If the ERIS Archetype is developed fully, humanity may never have to experience war again. The feminine ERIS will balance the aggression of MARS. A well developed ERIS Archetype could banish all war. The ancient prophesy of swords turned into plowshares could be realized.”
Wishful thinking nowadays… or a real possibility?
* May CHIRON now in ARIES, approaching ERIS (building up to their union which will be exact in May & Sept / Oct 2025, and March 2026), help with healing what makes war possible!
* May MARS give ERIS a boost to be adamant, show up, stand up and fightin an empowering & transformational way!
* May the sum ofsmall determined actions (not: upset re-actions) help shift global consciousness, and move us into the NEW Way of Being with one another on this Planet Home!
All the MARS in ARIES Transits, in Chronological Line-up
APR 30 MARS entered ARIES Take Initiative with New Vigour & Vitality!
MAY 3 – Orthodox Good Friday MARS freshly in AR in sextile w. (its ‘higher, transpersonal octave’) PLUTO retro / stat. in AQ How do you reconcile your own wants and will & Warrior Spirit with the changes in society / humanity?
MAY 4 – May the Power be IN You! The waning / Dark MOON in ARIES meets MARS (before activating on May 5 the North Node, MERCURY, and CHIRON, all in ARIES) Big boost of energy.Solo fight? Make a move to meet your needs.Voice what is up for you now! What do YOU want to start (or rather: get ready for, and materialize with the TAU New Moon on May 7)?
MAY 18 MARS in ARIES meets the North Node / opposes the SN Don’t hesitate – go for it!
MAY 29 MARS in ARIES meets CHIRON Find Inner Medicine through raw & vulnerable experiences.
JUNE 2 The waning MOON in ARIES meets the North Node, CHIRON, and MARS Yet another activation of vulnerable experiences that can bring out our capacities of courage, new beginnings, taking initiative…
JUNE 3 MARS end of ARIES meets & passes ERIS What seeds discord & strive? The sum ofsmall determined actions (not: upset re-actions) can help shift global consciousness, and move us into the NEW Way of Being with one another!
JUNE 8 MARS enters TAURUS (until July 20) – contacting URANUS on July 15 EmBodying Nature-al Strength, Perseverance, and Freedom
MARS Rules ARIES – painting by Johfra Bosschart
MARS in ARIES in Your Chart & Life…
… will trigger / activate and energize your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planetary Archetypes in ARIES, and the area/s of life.
Relating to the House/s where ARIES is in your birth (and local) chart/s:
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.
Do You want to explore the MARS-in-ARIES activation in YOUR life? Let’s do it. Come over for a private session! Can be a short focused one (ARIES likes that).
All the Best for a dynamic Start into / as the NEW, with MARS in ARIES!
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you!
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Celtic Wheel of the Year, with the Equinoxes & Solstices, and the fixed ‘Gates of Power: BELTANE, Lammas, Samhain / Hallowe’en, and Imbolc
The season of TAURUS (since Apr 19) is here – and all is fresh and green, and in bright bloom!
At BELTANE, the mid-Spring Celtic festival on April 30 / May 1, we celebrate fertility & fecundity of Nature!
Central TAURUS begins with Beltane – double TAURUS!
All about sensuality, Nature, the Earth, our Earth Body, and: Values.
This year, Beltane is ‘sandwiched’ between the SCO – TAU Full Moon / Astrological Wesak Moon (Apr 23) – Dive Deeply & Find Freedomand the Very TAU NM on May 7.
The waning Half-Moon will be in AQ on Beltane – beautiful energy for group ceremonies – which may focus on releasing attachments, while celebrating JOY.
Plus, PLUTO in early AQ is currently stationary and turns from direct to retro – on May 2!
This is to a truly potent Beltane season!
From the Pagan pageThe Goddess & The Green Man(traditions & ceremonial recipes for the seasonal celebrations of the year):
“Beltane is a Fire Festival. The word ‘Beltane’ originates from the Celtic God ‘Bel’, meaning ‘the bright one’ and the Gaelic word ‘teine’ meaning fire. Together they make ‘Bright Fire’, or ‘Goodly Fire’ and traditionally bonfires were lit to honour the Sun, to encourage the support of Bel and the Sun’s light to nurture the emerging future harvest and protect the community.”
Beltane is the time when the Green Man appears, Nature blossoms in full Spring, and when May Pole dances weave the masculine and feminine energies together.
Jumping over the Beltane bonfires kindles passion and fertility, while the Beltane ashes have protective powers.
Brings back memories of May Pole dancing / weaving, and Beltane Fire jumping at the Corunum Yurt outside of Victoria, and May Pole dances in my native Bavaria. Precious Traditions in Community… based in Nature Spirituality.
May we preserve traditions, despite the viral virtuality! And may we meet in Nature, and in our True Nature – often! Happy warming Season!
Birth of Venus – by Renaissance painter S. Botticelli
VENUS – the patroness of TAURUS – isnow also freshly in TAU (Apr 29 – May 23) meeting URANUS / JUPITER May 18 / 23: Wake Up & Enjoy Life-in-Spring!
A beautiful energy for Beltane – ahhh!
Happy BELTANE Season, dear Friends near and far! For a fertile Spring, and a bountiful Summer!
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you!
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
VENUS Rules TAURUS (while the Martian / ARIES Warrior takes a rest) – painting by Johfra Bosschart
SPRING is here, on the Pacific NW Coast,and VENUS enters TAU on April 29 – to enjoy it even more fully.
Ahhhh – VENUS in her home domain of TAURUS – following the SUN!
VENUS’s entry into TAU has been worth waiting for, and comes as a sighhh of relief.
After sooo much fierce & feisty ARIES energy, since mid-March (VENUS, North Node, SUN, CHIRON – catalyzed by the Total Solar Eclipse on Apr 8!).
And now for VENUS in TAURUS…
Time to settle, enjoy Life-in-Spring, and our auspicious & precious embodiment – without attachment, since nothing is permanent…
….which URANUS in TAURUS knows & conveys these years (2019 – 2026). VENUS meets URANUS on May 18 – Let Love set you Free!
The URANian energy in TAU has been reflected in shake-ups & wake-ups that have been unsettling for the body, for anything we value, for the economy, and for Planet Earth.
URANUS has been super-charged by JUPITER, through their alignment on Apr 20 – Waking up to Truth, Joy & Freedom – Helping us with paradigm shifts (like: gratitude!) and enlightening understanding – of ‘craziness’ in the last years with URANUS in TAU. And of the importance of true liberation & awakeness, in a world of TAUrean complacency and convenience.
At the very end of Her visit in TAU, VENUS will meet JUPITER, and go into (Venusian) sextile with Her ‘higher octave’ NEPTUNE in PI – Be open for Joy & Blessings!
URANUS & JUPITER, ‘just married’ on Apr 20, and soon activated by VENUS, shake stuckness & attachment loose, and entice us to… EmBody Love, Light, and Freedom, andawaken the senses & our joyful connection with Nature.
Birth of Venus – painting by S. Botticelli
VENUS in Her own sign of TAURUS celebrates the Goddess in all her expressions of Beauty, Life, and Love. A beautiful, sensuous energy – yummm & ahhh!
Your TAURUS SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets and the House TAU occupies in your chart become a magnet, during VENUS’s visit, until May 23.
Let VENUS show you how to slow down, cultivate pleasure and the Arts, be in Nature, and let your Earth Body be a temple of joy!
After some perhaps quite stressful / intense vibes (VENUS in ARIES squaring PLUTO), mostly a calm, grounding, and powerful ‘weather’ is coming in, for VENUS in ‘her own’ TAURUS abode.
So here they are:
VENUSian Dates with other ‘Planetary Players’, while She’s in TAURUS
APRIL 29 VENUS enters TAU Time to Wake Up, and Enjoy Life-in-Spring!
APR 30 VENUS in early TAU in square w. PLUTO stat. (goes retro May 2) in early AQ Does the power of ‘the system’ interfere with your enjoyment? What are you sharing and co-creating with like-spirited others that re-empowers humans, in this time of change?
MAY 7 The Dark-before-New MOON (also May 7) in mid-TAU meets VENUS Back to Nature, and to our senses.
MAY 10 VENUS in mid-TAU in quincunx w. the South Node in LIBRA Playing ‘nice’, pleasing and compromising isn’t so joyful, really.
MAY 13 VENUS in mid-TAU in sextile with SATURN in PISCES Let there be Spring! Let there be Love! Despite & beyond chaos& confusion.
MAY 18 VENUS in TAU meets URANUS Set your Love free. EnJoy freely, and without attachment. Be surprised at what (or whom?) you fall (or: rise!) in love with.
MAY 23 VENUS at the very end of TAU meets JUPITER, And goes into sextile w. (Her ‘higher octave’) NEPTUNE in late PI Full-ON Spring – the call to enJoy Life & Nature in her blossoming beauty. What would Love say? Relax & be at ease. Open for blessings to come your way.
MAY 23 VENUS enters GEMINI (until June 16) De-Lightful Alchemy of Spring Connections.
Where in your chart is TAURUS?
That’s where you look for / find comfort, values, and connection to the Earth.
VENUS in TAURUS in your… House helps you appreciate and attract, in relation to these areas of your Life:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and 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.
Wishing you a truly JOYful Spring Time, with VENUS in TAURUS!
Melanie
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Wesak Moon Blessings, dear Reader in the Astro ComMOONity!
She’s coming….!
The upcoming Full Moon is one of the most potent FMs of 2024! She invites us to connect with Herattributes in all these ways:
* SCO Full Moon where the Moon is most challenged / ‘in Fall’ – SO many sticky / deep / hidden emotions and power issues are hanging around now – to be processed, and released.
* PLUTO, ruler of SCO(!), freshly in AQ, will be in T-square(!) w. the Full Moon axis (see chart below) – the SCO FM brings out the ‘PLUTO Effects’. And: PLUTO is about to go retro (May 2 – Oct 11). Helping us find Inner Soul Power to Change.
* JUPITER / URANUS Alignment The SUN in early TAU catalyzes the epic Apr 20 alignment of JUPITER & URANUS (ruler of AQ where PLUTO is freshly in) – which is prone to bring breakthroughs intoWaking up to Truth, Joy & Freedom. The alignment will be activated again with the TAU New Moon on May 7. The SUN will meet URANUS & JUPITER on May 13 / 18.
What a surprise-surprise TAU Season (which can be upsetting / unsettling and / or joyful & liberating)!
* She’s the Astrological Wesak (or: Vesak) Moon of the Buddha. Wesak is one of the most important festivals in Buddhist cultures, celebrated at the Full Moon in May. Why then do I attribute THIS Full Moon to Wesak already??? The special chapter about the astrological Wesak Moon at the end of this article is dedicated to that.
* She’s the 2nd of the 3 Spring Full Moons – in the Esoteric Tradition:
Festival of the Risen Christ – pre-Easter Full Moon (this year PLE on March 25) Festival of the Buddha / Wesak Moon – this Full Moon (Apr 23) Festival of Humanity (this year on May 23)
The following – Solstice – Full Moon will be on June 21 – Day ONE of Summer 2024!
* The April Full Moon is most well-known as thePink Moon.
Magical Pink Bloom – photo by moi
April is THE Month of 2024
What a Time we live in! Change is the only certain – has always been… And nowadays ever more ‘in our face’. Things seem so out of control…
Essential theme this April / May: How can we be empowered and liberated, in and through this challenging & changeful Time?
The Full Moon of the Buddha can help us with this.
April is the most powerful month of the year – with the themes rolled out in May (esp. on the TAU & PLUTO ‘fronts’).
Let’s be easy and gentle, in the depth & intensity of it all, nurture & nourish ourselves through what’s being revealed, and allow old sticky attachment / resistance issues & emotional pain points to move, and be set / set us FREE!
Feeling the Lunar Infusion Effects in You? All about Power & Depth, Joy & Freedom
The growing Full MOON in SCO will be exact on Apr 23 at 4:49 pm PDT.
Such an intense polarity of the MOON in herdeepest – yet most potent – position of SCO! Facing LOTS of planetary action in the cosmic energy field on the opposite side (of the Earth), from mid-PISCES (w. SCO undertone) to mid- / end of TAU. See below, in the Birth-ing chart!
Esp. if you have Astro features in early SCO, TAU, LEO, and AQ you’d feel the tension & pressure of the FM ‘fixity’.
This Full Moon evokesTransformation of the Old & ‘Sticky’ – And Regeneration of Creativity, Freedom, and Self-Radiance.
* Don’t hide in the dark (and notice what in you takes you there…)!
* Re-connect with inner Magic, Essence, Soul Power!
* Live Life magically again!
* See through manipulation, power trips, ‘psychology’, and other (inner & relational) tricks! MERCURY currently retro helps with this too.
* Awaken into your organic-creative strength, freedom, joy, and radiance (JUPITER & URANUS united in TAU)!
* Be in consciously emBodied Freedom!
The SCO MOON also brings out the shadow cast on the powerful Lunar / Yin / Feminine – to keep Her rather ‘in the dark’ & oppressed.
To clarify, I’m not talking generically about men and / vs. women, nor joining a gender identity debate here, but about the Inner Feminine IN all Beings. We (men, women, children) are invited to reconnect with our natural intrinsic & instinctive organic power!
Our intrinsic Power brings Joy & Freedom (SCO – TAU). And when we’re in Joy & Freedom we sense our Power.
A super charged & super charging & super changing Full Moon:
* SO much has come to fruition & harvest that’s now ripe for birthing!
* SO much release of darkness, stuckness, disempowered situations!
* SO much birthing out of the Old Matrix where fear & control rule, and into the New & yet unknown World.
Rather than dwelling on stuff / getting sucked into the ‘dark zone’, it’s better to do ‘interventions’ & experiments, by shifting habits, and getting out of the uncomfortable ‘comfort zone’.
What brings you more embodied Joy & Freedom??? JUPITER & URANUS in TAU, opp. the FM help with this.
TAURUS Themes are strong now
Fixed, earthy (first Earth sign!) TAURUS (ruled by VENUS) is all about embodiment, enjoyment of Life-on-Earth, sensuality, food, assimilation, and gathering of value.
A substance building energy.
Immersed in the realm of TAURUS, like in the full bloom of Spring, we celebrate the physical senses, comfort & pleasure, everything that creates security and grounding, and grows over time. Taurean energy takes roots, builds, cultivates, and conserves, like a gardener, farmer, and good custodian of the Earth.
TAU likes to attract what’s pleasant, to experience it via the senses, to eat, assimilate, gather & accumulate, to settle and to claim ownership & territory.
TAU slows down, after the fast and furious ARIES energy, and favours predictability and patience; therefore habits & routines are formed.
The Taurean orientation is very life affirming, yet can obviously lead to attachment to the known and comfortable, to the material side of things, and worldly plane in general, and to physical satisfaction, yet also hoarding, and greed.
TAU has a strong resistance to change and to pain.
Presently, there’s a LOT going on in TAURUS, via: URANUS (since 2018 /19), JUPITER (May 16, 2023 – May 25, 2024), the SUN (seasonally, Apr 19 – May 20), and also soon VENUS (Apr 29 – May 23). What a TAUREAN energy field – polarized by the SCO Full Moon!
An atmosphere that invites us to be calm, conscious, and creative, and wake up to Being Here – on this Earth, in this Life, in this beautiful season of Spring – while being free & unattached from material ‘comfort traps’ and ‘convenience hooks’.
URANUSthe shaker-upper / waker-upper, these years (2018/19 – 2026) in TAU has been pointing to disruption of Nature & biology, of the economy & monetary system, of the comfortable, habitual consumer culture, and of our organic ways of being in physical contact w. each other.
Yet, URANUS helps us also to awaken from ‘convenience’ (incl. ‘convenient paradigms’) and to be more unconditionally free.
URANUS got a big boost from JUPITER – exact on Apr 20 – which feeds into the Full Moon energy. JUPITER is now ahead of URANUS. Breakthroughs into emBodied Joy, Truth, and Freedom! Now we can understanding (JU) the erratic / disruptive / crazy BS energy – around us, in us, in the world (UR in TAU) – and can be free (UR). Unless we’re still stuck in indulging in it (SCO – TAU), lol.
PLUTO freshly in AQ, squared by the SUN in TAU (exact on Apr 21): Let’s not get used to new ‘normalized AI’ / transhumanism take-over. We Humans are organic, nature-ALL Earth Beings (TAU).
TAURUS & the Heart Torus
In 2020 / 21, I was wondering how the ‘6 ft apart’ physical (TAU) tactile ‘free’ distanceaffects our auric / Heart Chakra energy exchanges with each other. I mean, it was pretty palpable.
The graphic from the Heart Math Institute to the left shows the electromagnetic (URANUS) energy field of the Heart – which extends as a ‘doughnut like’ Torus shape (not to be mixed up with TAURUS – but hey, maybe there IS a connection…) – about 5-6 ft around a human being.
Let’s keep emitting Heart Energy!
May our Heart Toruses expand and connect! And may Heart Intelligence move us through all the predicaments that present themselves currently.
Consider yourself Heart Hugged!
SCO (ruled by PLUTO) carries Transformation Medicine
The ‘fixed’ / still / deep watersign SCO (related to lakes and ponds)in contrast to the ‘above ground’ green & growing Taurean world, takes us into emotionally intense, at first ‘ugly’, uncomfortable, and painful places in the ‘muck’ of the subconscious where hidden, and often covered or repressed emotional material– and treasures – sit.
Just as the leaves rot and go beneath the earth in late Oct – late Nov, the Scorpionic energy takes us to the ‘grand mystery’ of death & rebirth, and to processes that have nowhere to go but down & through, for alchemy to happen.
TAU – SCO also represent the pleasure – pain, and life – death axis.
SCO penetrates the underground / underworld / underbelly, which can be a painful process. This is where transformational ‘digestion’ of what’s already dead happens, so that it can be purged and eliminated.
Our very ‘human humus’ and shadow can’t be just ‘gotten rid of,’ or ‘hidden away’. It needs to be processed to become a composting ‘fertilizer’ for renewal – the Alchemy of Life.
SCORPIO is for the MOON the most ‘challenging’ sign. While LUNA is considered ‘exalted’ in TAU, it’s trad. ‘in Fall’ in SCO – since:
The MOON represents emotions, our instinctual mind (in a broad sense: body-mind, feeling-mind), and our needs and habits which by nature long for nourishment and sustenance.
Taurean energy provides such sustaining delivery & assimilation – intake through feeding & reliable presence…
Whereas SCOrepresents necessary detoxifying elimination, often through painful processess. That’s not what the Lunar side (representing also our Inner Child) is most comfortable with… deep & difficult emotions come up.
Moonlight on Lake Ontario – photo by Diego T. Silvestre
Under a SCO MOON (whether we’re born with it, have it by astrological Progression for 2½ years every 29 years, or whether the MOON in SCO for 2½ days per month affects us), we’re instinctively sensitized towards the need to purge what’s toxic & outlived, what controls us, and doesn’t allow us to be free, in a deeper sense.
The process calls us to go into the ‘mouth of the monster’ and through its bowels even, while our head and ego might severely protest and resist.
SCO MOON experiences can lead us to thedeepest abyss of our inner worlds, yet are an opportunity to take us through it, and be regenerated and transformed through the process.
Not ‘comfortable’ or ‘easy’ but so spiritually rewarding, and blessed by the Wesak Moon.
Prometheus, mythological Archetype of URANUS, bringing the Fire of the Gods to Humanity – artist unknown
A LOT can shift and move quite suddenly and surprisingly, via the JUPITERian / URANian involvement.
Wake-up calls from Mother Earth are striking.
URANUS & JUPITER in TAU: Wake up to being an emBodiment of Nature, live life joyously, and in accordance with the Earth and our Earth Body.
Let’s contribute joy, blessings, calm, groundedness into the ‘electrified’ energy field, and: ground the Light.
Freedom comes in so many ways.
Let’s get out of our habitual comfort zone, and cut the energetic umbilical chord to an old outdated and exhausted model.
Balance is a key theme for the Full Moon opposition. A FM is the ‘Mother of Oppositions’, calling for Balance, Integration, and Right Relationship.
Plus, PLUTO in early AQ which T-squares the Full Moon axis has a LIBRA undertone – evoking social fairness and justice, for ALL of Humanity.
What’s in that regard with the war in / on Gaza, going on for 6 months(!)?
All Humans matter equally (PLUTO in early AQ – with LIBRA undertone). The end (is it still about Hamas?) doesn’t justify the means and its ‘side effects’ – of killing 30000 innocent Palestinians, incl. children. The issue about territorial occupation (TAU) in the ‘background’ (SCO) has been brought to the attention of Humanity.
Shadow expressions of SCOare manipulation, emotional control, secrecy, violating privacy, schemes & power games, destructiveness, black magic, self-defeating psychology – brought up by the Full Moon. In connection with PLUTO the Ruler of SCO squaring the FM from early AQ it’s about society, humanity & technological systems.
The modern state of Israel has its SUN and NN in TAU, and its SN in SCO. See the Israel chart in the ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse of Oct 14 (just 1 week after the Hamas attack) and my take on it, in this blog article.
Scorpionic Kali Moon Goddess / Death Doula
Kali Ma – artist unknown
…holds spacefor it all to transform, and come through.
It’s been said that we’re currently in the Kali Yuga – the World Age of Darkness, Discord & Conflicts (in a way the ‘devolution of humanity’). May Kali help us call out and transform what’s been present for so long.
Hopefully, we can SEE the Moon Goddess Her in all Her glory (suspense-suspense, and no attachments, ha-ha)!
We sure FEEL Her already… and will even more so, once She’ll enter SCO (on Tue morning 8:20 am PDT).
So much emotional intensity is UP these days – culminating with the SCO – TAU FM onApr 23.
The tides are high. Things come to a culmination / fruition (think: Full Moon – Harvest Moon, Full Birthing Belly), to be revealed, transformed and released.
Spiritually, the Buddha Moon supports it all (more about this below)…
Why is PLUTO so relevant now?
Pluto – New Horizons 2015
PLUTO rules SCO. And T-squares the SCO – TAU FM axis. The FM energy can find an outlet via PLUTO, and vice versa.
PLUTO, now in early AQ, turns from direct-forward from Earth perspective to retro on May 2, hence is a stationary focus end of Apr to early May – calling us:
* Not to give power away to ‘the System’
* To not hide out with our Power / keep it hidden from ourselves.
* To regenerate, find empowered Soul Integrity from within, and walk with / in it – while being in empowered / empowering community.
Birth Chart of the SCO-TAU Full Moon
The Full Moon will be exact at 4:49 pm PDT on Apr 23.
A lot about the energy field has been already presented above. Here are other factors that struck me – and you can see in the chart:
Again, the strong concentration of energies between mid-PISCES (w. SCO undertone), via SATURN, and mid- to end of TAU, via JUPITER / URANUS – freshly aligned (Apr 20). All of that catalyzed through the SCO – TAU FM.
PLUTO, ruler of SCO, now stationary (going retro on May 2) in early AQ, in T-square w. the FM axis, is the ‘singleton’ (only Planet) in the AIR Element. Reason & objectivity isn’t easy to come by, these days.
The Future of Humanity (AQ) appears either utopian or dystopian – if we give power away to ‘the System’ (AQ).PLUTO brings up extremes, to show where the shadow lays and what change needs to happen. Evolution needs to come through Humanity.
More AIR-y lightness & brightness coming in, via JUPITER entering GEM(!), on May 25 – and of course GEMINI Season (SUN, MERCURY, VENUS), end of May to Summer Solstice.
The PISCEAN influx / inundation will fade once MARS has passed NEPTUNE (overwhelming energies? feeling like giving up, or checking out?) on Apr 28, and moves into His own heroic sign of ARIES, on Apr 30. Much needed vitality and zest kicks in from May on.
In the meantime, SO much is going on in ARIES (where MARS is ‘at home’): MERCURY is now retro (Apr 1 – 25), in ARIES:Back to the Beginnings.
So much as been re-vealed, via information, conversations, ‘in your face’ news – about the ‘early phases’ of… (you name it). Although, it could have re-wounded / re-traumatized it can also contribute to healing (MERCURY in AR touches CHIRON 3 times in this phase, pre-, during, and post-retro).
The TAURUS ruler VENUS is currently in ARIES too, close to MERCURY retro, the NN, and CHIRON.
Doing what we love, and what healthy self love would do is healing. As well as being brave / authentic / fierce, and taking initiative, whether in writing, or communicating otherwise – esp. related to themes of love / what we love.
On Apr 29, day before the Martian move, VENUS, currently the ‘belligerent bellezza’ in ARIES (attracted to too many battles?), will settle into Her joyful domain’ of TAU (where She’ll dwell until May 23) – Enticing us to enJoy the Beauty of Spring, and of Life.
The transformational SCO Full Moon will ‘escort’ MARS & VENUS out of these ‘problematic’ into more ‘natural’ expressions.
TAURUS – where the big draw is now – features the JUPITER / URANUS union. URANUS in TAU these years (2018 / 19 – 2026), and esp. this TAU season is a call to wake up, enJoy Life-in-Spring, and emBody Freedom as your True Nature!
Also noteworthy: LILITH in VIR, after opposing SATURN in PI (exact last Oct, yet still ‘lingering’) has been opposed by MARS last week, and will oppose NEPTUNE in PI throughout June. The only other opposition currently, besides the FM axis.
A juxtaposition between challenges through collective & chaotic forces (PI) and the notion to be in our Temple of Wellness-in-Wholeness, use the tools at our disposal, adhere to what’s good for us, and be of service in soulful ways (VIR).
The Scorpionic Buddha Moon helps us with channeling all these ‘free flowing’ energies into deep processes that get us to the Heart & Soul of the Matter, where change can happen.
Where in your birth / relocation chart is early SCO / TAU?
That’s where deep, hidden / repressed emotional material comes up, with the Full Moon.
Shadow is being revealed to be processed, purged, and transformed into ‘compost’ (SCO) – for new grounding, nourishing and sustaining energy (TAU).
Which tends to show up in / via relationships (Full Moon) between opposing sides in ourselves, with others, with society, etc.
Maybe your SUN, MOON, Nodes, or Planets are there? Extra activation / excavation ‘markers’.
In any case, check out the opposing SCO – TAU Houses in your birth (or relocation) chart for the dynamics between pain / pleasure, change / stability, soul & body, activated by this Full Moon:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, your Body, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and 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.
Feel welcomed to get in touch if you could use an Astro boost for this current and pivotal dynamic!
Let’s bring in the
Sabian Symbols for the Full Moon Energies
Starting with the MOON at 4º17′ SCO
“SCORPIO 5° A MASSIVE ROCKY SHORE RESISTS THE POUNDING OF THE SEA
KEYNOTE The Inertia of all Institutionalized Procedures
Slow is the rise of the land from the vast ocean, but once it is formed it develops a formidable resistance to change in spite of storms.
Likewise, once a culture has expressed its basic symbols and its particular way of thinking, feeling and acting in concrete institutions, these change very slowly indeed.
The individual who came to the great city (Scorpio 1° symbol) soon finds his life set by the rhythms of city living, which obliterate vaster life processes and the moving tides of evolution.
This is the last of the five symbols of the forty-third sequence. We see in it how binding and resistant a communal way of life can become. In this there is strength and stability, and these are necessary factors in human social life – until new horizons beckon. The Keyword is STABILITY.”
And for the SUN at 4º17′ TAU
“TAURUS 5°: A WIDOW AT AN OPEN GRAVE
KEYNOTE The Impermanence of all Material & Social Bonds
“All natural compounds decay”, said the Buddha. The most beautiful and most enjoyed substance loses its potential energy through continuous actualization and the principle of integration and form is withdrawn, leaving the Void – ‘the open grave’ that ends all attachments. The Void is the great challenge: What next? One must begin anew, and if possible at a ‘higher’, i.e. more inclusive and universal, less egocentric, level.
This fifth conclusive stage of the sequence which deals with root elements and basic actions and responses may seem negative, yet it opens the door to self-renewal. Beyond the personal attachment rises the possibility of participating in a larger sphere of existence. This possibility rarely manifests itself except as one is ready to DISCARD THE PAST.”
What a powerful juxtaposition – in almost reverse SCO – TAU dynamic, showing the attachment ‘problem’ / painful experiences with either.
For SCO: The seemingly unchangeable institutions, and the powerful binding and absorbing collective forces in city / civilization life. How can we free ourselves from those?
For TAU: The tragic reality of impermanence. Can we radically-pro-actively discard the past (URANUS in TAU) – Or at least our attachment to what / whom we have bonded?
Well, that lends itself to a transition to…
The Wesak Moon of the Buddha
Buddhist Stupa – perhaps under the Wesak Full Moon – photographer unknown
The Wesak Moon is celebrated by the Buddhist World Sangha (community), honouring the birth, enlightenment, and passing of Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, who walked the Earth more than 2500 years ago, and set an example for the Living Buddha in all of us.
In Buddhist cultures, the Full Moon in May traditionally marks the Wesak Moon, which falls this year on May 22 / 23 – when the SUN will be already in GEM and the MOON in SAG.
I’ve found that the Wesak Moon with its Buddhist teachings aligns so well with the SCO – TAU axis. Therefore, I refer to the yearly SCO – TAU Full Moon (which might, as this year, occur already in April) as the astrological Wesak Moon.
So many provoking and out-of-control situations are up… The deep emotions they evoke can pull us into a ‘pain-body’ loop. Eckhart Tolle coined the term ‘pain body’ – what I refer to here.
Staying with what-IS, being calm (TAU) & conscious (SUN), holding space for what’s going on deeply-emotionally (MOON) can bring us to the core (SCO) of the matter (TAU), and is being transformed (SCO) in this cauldron.
Sitting in the Buddha Heart Hub, with wisdom and compassion, in the Wheel of Life, saves the day and is the way / the pathless path.
PLUTO, ruler of SCO, ‘undertaker’ and archaeologist Archetype, now in AQ and in T-square with the Full Moon,helps unearth our core essence & Soul Power as Humans.
PLUTO now at the beginning of AQ (with LIBRA undertone) prescribes / can bring out (while also showing extremes in that regard: The Power of our shared genuine Humanity, and World Community– also an antidote to isolation & alienation (shadow of AQ).
An essential question in Buddhist teachings: Why do we humans suffer / are we dissatisfied / discontent (‘dukkha’)?
It’s simple and ‘revolutionarily’ obvious to see it this way (why do we forget?!): Because of our attachments to what we desire, and their frustration – not getting what we want, and not being able (or: willing!) to get rid of / resist the unwanted and painful, yet being trapped in its grip. Which is… very TAU – SCO!
And Scorpionic pain, death, loss, grief and the whole spectrum of emotional depth – which, if it doesn’t crush us, can bring us to the essence of where real Power within sits, and change us in our evolution, personally & collectively.
What does the Buddha say to this essential polarity in life?
There’s a difference between physical / emotional pain, and the human suffering coming from it – the ‘pain body’.
Suffering – even though it may feel so appropriate and legit – has to do with the attachmentto the desire for what we want, and to the desire of getting rid of the unwanted and painful. It comes up esp. in the ‘sticky’ fixed signs TAU – SCO (the FM axis), LEO, and AQ (PLUTO, squaring the FM).
The Buddhists would suggest two ‘ways out’ of suffering:
* To be aware that nothing really lasts forever. Everything that has manifested is impermanent. This world of phenomena is in constant flux and change (SATURN& NEPTUNE in PI show us a lot about this too…). Realizing this helps us to better surf the ‘waves of change’, and become free from wanting it ‘our way’.
* To walk the ‘Middle Path’, a.k.a. to practice the Noble 8-fold Path (right speech, right livelihood, right action, etc.) whichbrings intrinsic happiness.
Awakening, and emBodying Freedomis buddha-ful. Awakener URANUS & JUPITER united in TAU are activated by the SUN in the Full Moon. Bright – clear – conscious – liberated – alive energyis available, on the other side of the SCO process…
I’ve been listening to Eckhart Tolle’s audio book (read by him) A New Earth (there’s prob. also an online version available), and find it so helpful / paradigm shifting / enlightening. It’s from 2005 – and timelessly and timely relevant, esp. the central piece about the ‘Pain Body’, and how to become free from it.
May the season of the Buddha’s / Astrological Wesak Moon bring golden opportunities ‘in the dark’, for realization & practice that set us FREE!
More Offerings for the Wesak Moon
The SCO / TAU Wesak Full Moon is a fully solar illumined (and most potent) SCORPIO MOON that reveals our deepest needs for transformation.
With our conscious Self (the SUN), we have to patiently stay & ‘sit with’ (TAU) what comes up from the depth, for the processing (SCO).
Bali Morning Prayer – photo by Helga Hendricks
In Buddhist tradition, the image of the peaceful Buddha floating on a (Taurean) Lotus flower that blossoms so purely & beautifully while rooted in the (Scorpionic) mud swamp, represents the enlightened quality, rooted in real-life human suffering, and evoking compassion.
* Where do your swampy roots show up, these days?
* Can you ‘sit’ with it all, open to the light of consciousness?
* Can you dwell in the Buddha hub of calm – within the tension between enjoyment and pain?
* Hold (fixed energy of SCO – TAU) as much spiritual energy as possible. And allow yourself to be held by it.
The Wesak Full Moon is a magnificent divine and meditative moment-in-time, when transformation (SCO) can be anchored (TAU).
Our attachment to desires and longing for what we want and don’t have, or ‘even’ to pain / suffering / complaining / to feeding those ‘hungry ghosts’ (TAU – SCO) that show up in obvious or subtle personal and collective / cultural addictions and compulsions (more consumption, information, work, entertainment, F.O.M.O., nothing’s ever enough, being pulled into the dark…) can be really UP and fully-ON, in these times.
Can you put these manifestationsof attachments into the bonfire of the Soul (SCO) so that the deep Alchemy can do its work?! Natural empowerment via intrinsic Soul connection comes from there.
Supported by PLUTO about to turn from direct-forward to retro on May 2: Finding Power within, and via intrinsic transformation.
Truth on all levels is being revealed through the process. Esp. as the MOON will move from SCO over the ‘Phoenix Point’ into SAG, on Apr 25 (exact at 6:37 pm PDT). That’s also the day when MERCURY goes from retro to direct again!
The days after the Wesak Moon are considered ‘Days of Distribution’ of the Buddha Blessings – very apropos SAG MOON also.
Inter-dependent Yin-Yang Balance
The YIN-YANG is a perfect symbol for balancing the Yin / Lunar and Yang / Solar influences in us, under each Full Moon.
Especially under this astrologically potent SCO – TAU Wesak Moon.
As above so below and within…. We ARE the field, and the catalysts for evolution & liberation…
In the light of the Wesak Moon….
…it’s good to sit a la TAU with what’s here-now, enJoy Life with all its blossoming expressions – without getting attached. As the smiling Buddha would.
URANUS, now in TAURUS – and super activated by JUPITER – brings: The wake-up call to EmBody unconditional Freedom.
How can we be free from what’s been stifling & stuck, from old fears that have proven redundant (many do), and the alike? And / or we might be drawn to new freedom for…
Yet: Real Freedom is unconditional Freedom. Or, as the spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti (his Taurean human birthday is on May 12) would point out brilliantly: It’s about Freedom without an opposite (as in: from / for), since otherwise it pretends to be Freedom but isn’t the real deal.
Similarly, again quoting K., and inquiring myself: What is Love that has no opposite?
That takes us full circle. A good place to hand it over to the Wesak Moon, and Her infusion…
Flower Power Buddha Blessings
May the ‘Power of the Dark’ be fully seen and released.
May re-grounding in emBodied Freedom be restored.
May we come out of the (esp. emotional) trials & tribulations stronger, re-empowered, and with our ‘wild’ and loving Heart.
May we remember our always FREE Buddha Nature!
Many Blessings now-as-always! Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
How’zit going, in the Green Wood Dragon Year (since Feb 10), so far? JUPITER in TAURUS (May 16, 2023 – May 25, 2024) is a reflection of that energy too. May green growth returnthis year, and into the future, on this Planet. Looks like the Green Dragon will be awakened – and awakening.
Super relevant for all of us with TAUREAN SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, or Planets (esp. JUPITER)!
URANUS has been in TAU since May 2018 (- 2026) – Wake UP, Earthlings! The Zodiac sign where it’s ‘least comfortable’ in (considered ‘in Fall’ there).
Lots of shifts and shocks and disruptions have happened since that rattled the boat of stability / comfort / security – affecting so many humans (esp. in war zones, but ‘even’ when it comes to the economy, nature – and our biology). Time to wake up to the territorial (TAU) trauma (UR) – that’s been going on for so long.
The JUPITER contact is also one of the highlights in URANUS’s journey through TAU – enhancing its themes – only to understand better, and even outgrow what has been traumatic.
JUPITER rules SAG, URANUS rules AQ! So – ‘even’ if you have nothing in TAU where they come together but some energies in SAG / AQ you’d feel the effect! Think: BIG Surprises. Expect the Unexpected. Free as can BE.
JUPITER – URANUS: Cycles and Historic Context
After the Total Solar Eclipse on Apr 8, the next major cosmic event of this most intense month of the year is coming up, on Apr 20: The conjunction of JUPITER & URANUS in TAURUS.
These two Planetary Archetypes align only every 13 – 14 years – opening a new cultural-societal cycle of growth (JU) through disruption / paradigm shifts / innovation (UR).
Their last alignment was in 2010 / 2011 on the PI / ARIES cusp – the Spring Equinox / ‘Emergence Point’ where everything starts.
That alignment heralded the fading of an old, and emergence / birth of a New Era altogether – which has become even more obvious in the last years.
Interestingly, in 2025 / 26, SATURN & NEPTUNE will align on that very crucial Zodiac cusp – a pointer to the end of the PISCES Age. And (together w. PLUTO then fully in AQ) to the beginning of the AQ Age – although the process is a gradual transition, of course.
Another striking factor: The degree of this year’s JUPITER – URANUS alignment at 21°49′ TAU is just 1° away from the alignment of JUPITER & SATURN on May 28, 2000 – which opened a (rather conservative) 20-year socio-political-economic cycle that lasted until the recent alignment at 1º AQ on Winter SoUlstice (Dec 21) 2020 – A New Era for Our Shared Humanity. The point where this year PLUTO sits(!) – and yes, ruled by URANUS.
Indicators for the shift from the solid, earthy, grounded, ‘owning’ oriented phase into a new, systems, innovation, and ‘sharing’ oriented (AQ) era.
Its shadow being technocracy, transhumanism, post-humanism (don’t ‘share’ / give away your identity / spirit / soul / humanity!). Hence, the PLUTO shift also evokes / calls forth The Power of Our Shared Humanity, in an Era of Deep Change.
You might wonder: When did JUPITER & URANUS align the last time in TAU?
URANUS was the last time in TAU March 1935 – May 1942. JUPITER was in those years in TAU May 1949 – May 1941, meeting URANUS in May 1941. Right in the middle of WWII.
In Vietnam, the Viet Minh was formed to overthrow French rule of the nation, as an alliance between the Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, and the Nationalist party. It became the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Both Planetary Archetypes have to do with Freedom.
JUPITER with freedom as value & virtue: Freedom to expand, grow, move, follow one’s truth, seize opportunities encompass more in life. The freedom that comes from understanding / seeing the bigger picture.
URANUS with breaking free: Liberation, waking up / awakening, breakthroughs, independence, paradigm shifts, revolution, sudden ‘cutting of chords’, setting yourself (or being set) free: “I’m out of here!”
The fusion of the two can be about Awakening into Truth & Freedom.
Which can lead to transcending the notions of ‘freedom from’ and ‘freedom to / for’ to living in unconditional Freedom. Spiritual teacher Krishnamurti would call it ‘Freedom that has no opposite’.
In the meantime, on a practical, TAUREAN level, we not-quite enlightened ones can tune into & align with the following JU – UR effects:
* Breaking sticky habits/ attachments that ‘seem’ convenient, rewarding / enjoyable but prevent our true freedom. Toss what doesn’t bring you JOY. It starts with the mind (says also MERCURY currently retro).
* Waking up to the beauty & abundance of the Earth, and of this Life!
* Anchoring the Light / Higher Frequencies&New Earth Consciousness.
* Planting Seeds of our Unique Gifts,at this critical time.
* Technology and its Morality (or ‘detached’ lack thereof) Not all that IS possible nowadays SHOULD be done. The genie comes out of the bottle; the ‘Magician’s Apprentice can’t control the forces s/he invokes / experiments with.
* Even more disruption of biology through technology (think: bio-digital convergence) – why letting technology mess with nature?
* Hyper-erratic effects in economy and Nature – what are the causes? Paradigm shifts through enhanced understanding can happen, with JU – UR.
* Opportunities through crypto-currencies Yes, TAU rules the monetary system, or rather: value. Disruptions (UR) can bring opportunities (JU).
* Promotion of digital currency models (CBDC) What do We the People (AQ) do about this proposition / covert implementation(!)?
* Epiphanies about / celebrating the ingenuity of Nature / biology!
Cosmic Picture of the Alignment
Here is the ‘Cosmic Map’ of the exact alignment On Apr 20 at 7:27 pm PDT.
As you can see, besides the JU – UR conjunction, there are more fused / concentrated energies – all between PI and TAU:
In PISCES: SATURN – MARS – NEPTUNE Draining / drowning, overwhelming energy that seems to go in circles, and might make one feel lost or want to escape / disappear. How about channeling the energy into dance and music?! Going with the flow, ‘intentionally’ doing nothing? And: Acting on spiritual teachings.
In ARIES: The North Node, MERCURY retro, VENUS, and CHIRON The incentive to show up for / as oneself, with one’s authenticity and boldness – which can heal old / early wounds, and: the wounds of war.
In TAURUS: The SUN (enters TAU on the day before the alignment, Apr 19), and JUPITER / URANUS Consciously emBody Joy, Truth, and Freedom. Experiment, and be surprised / surprise ‘your world’.
Again, as in recent charts, the planetary pattern is still a ‘wedge’: Most Planets concentrated within 90 degrees of the Zodiac. Extending to LILITH & the (void) MOON end of VIR – like a handle of a ‘bucket’: It’s all practice – to be in alignment with our cosmic assignment…
Sabian Symbol for the Alignment Degree
JUPITER & URANUS come together at 21°49′ TAU.
“TAURUS 22° WHITE DOVE FLYING OVER TROUBLED WATERS
KEYNOTE The spiritual inspiration that comes to the individual in the overcoming of crisis
Here also we are confronted with a symbol of guidance, and the dove flying over troubled waters reminds one of the story of Noah and the Ark. Noah met his and mankind’s crisis courageously and in complete obedience to God’s promptings. The test completed, he received the dove’s message. It is a message from the Holy Spirit announcing a new Dispensation.
This symbolic scene can be applied to personal crises resulting from emotional upheavals or from the irruption of unconscious forces / impulses into the consciousness – if the crisis has been faced in the right spirit.
This second stage symbol is in contrast to the preceding one because here it is not the product of a culture, a ‘book’, but instead the rhythm of cosmic, God-ordained cycles that reveals its conclusive beat through a living and concretely significant sign – a REWARD TO THE FAITHFUL.”
Now, that encompasses the PI – AR – TAU concentrations!
In the PISCEAN realm we may feel overwhelmed by the chaos of ‘troubled waters’ that connect us all. Here, the challenge (SATURN) is to stay spiritually connected, surrender (NEPTUNE) one’s ego-wants (MARS) and have faith-beyond-hope. Que sera sera. Different from giving up.
How do we face (AR) a crisis? Processing the Apr 8 TSE with CHIRON – an Eclipse of war escalation. Wounds of confrontation and violence SO need to heal. Where did / how does it start? Where do we start the healing (AR)? Time to show up authentically, be in the moment, start NEW (rather than repressing and shutting down our truth – or: lashing out).
TAU shows manifestations of the energy (PI) and spirit / actions (AR). Which can appear like a reward, even ‘miracle’ / surprise / synchronicity. We did our part to show up for it, surrendered, in expectation-free ways.
Where is TAURUS in your (birth / relocation) Chart?
That’s the access point where the JUPITER – URANUS alignment invites / provokes you to liberate yourself from the ‘Known’ / from stagnation and attachment.
And to be an awakened expression of your embodied freedom.
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House – that ‘TAURUS House’ (if you have Planets, Sun, Moon / Nodes in it you have an extra TAURUS ‘undertone’ in your chart!) Your Values. What you own, literally & metaphorically, incl. your Business
3rd House Your Environment & Relatives
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.
Many blessings for Eurekas, Awakening, surprises of the best kind – and beneficial breakthroughs into your Truth, Freedom, and Joy!
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Tomorrow, Apr 11,MERCURY half-way through its retro period meets the SUN (like a New Moon). The ‘New Mercury’ is born, a.k.a. ‘Point of Enlightening Insight’.
It starts the Promethean phase – the second half of M-r. New insights and connection with Spirit & Consciousness can lead to new inspired direction – a very auspicious time.
At this occasion, check out my
Seasoned MERCURY Retro Tips & Tool Kit
The Thinker – by A. Rodin
1) Be mindful, and lead from what’s here-now
There’s a tendency for the mind to be distracted and all over the place, to loose and misplace things & thoughts that later have to be RE-trieved again, in your ‘inner house’. Avoid getting scattered and disorganized, collect the mind ‘pieces’, be present with any situation & function ‘at hand’, and be present (ARIES). The apparent priority of urgent ‘little’ things & ‘small stuff’ can easily be a distraction and waste of energy.
Practice coming back to the Here-NOW.
2) Retro is an inwards / backwards oriented energy
M-r is a good time to RE-treat, and RE-connect with meditation and mindfulness. Also an excellent chance (if not necessity) to deal with ‘old unfinished business’, ‘loose ends’, and to clear communication themes from the past, often carried over from a previous M-r times (Aug / Sept and Dec 2023).
3) Every M-r phase is a great time for basically everything that starts with ‘RE-‘, esp. RE-sidual communication
Like: RE-assess, RE-align, REad, Re-search, RE-treat, RE-pair, RE-boot, RE-group, RE-consider, RE-arrange, RE-place, you name it…
One RE-ason for me pointing out all these RE-activities: During M-r (which also has a karmic undertone), we less likely get away anymore with being sloppy, and with procrastinating or neglecting RE-sidual communication issues with people from the past. They come up like a mirror. Talk about what RE-ally matters, esp. with friends and loved ones.
What do you think about – and want to (re?)discuss, esp. re: “How it started”, beginnings, starting something new, fresh approaches and also: wars, where they start, and what can heal the terrible wounds they bring (all apropos ARIES – and CHIRON there)?
4) Choose the clearest & most direct mode of communication available
Phone rather than messaging / emailing. Meet and connect in person or at least via video call rather than via phone / text, to make sure an actual dialogue happens and you can face (ARIES) the other person (rather than just your factual monologue in your own head, with the assumption you know what they think, or they know what you think).
Consider communicating in several ways & via different media, to make sure the message comes across. Re-member people’s minds can be all over the place now.
To the effect that ‘communication’ might be… ~ Scattered / incomplete / jumping from topic to topic without hearing each other out (can be very ARIES). ~ Prone to assumptions: “I thought you got my email!!!” ~ Actually an ‘externalized inner monologue’ – so you might wonder / need to ask them: “Are you just thinking out loud as you talk, or are you actually suggesting something to me?”
5) Be mindful & compassionate in your communication with others
Compassionately put yourself in their position, and address issues directly, rather than getting mad at ‘them’ (possibly based on a lack / deficiency / incompleteness of communication) – so ARIES.
6) Be clear and precise with commitments & agreements
Double-check whether you’ve been understood correctly, and RE-peat / RE-phrase back to them too. Avoid signing anything hastily / out of perceived urgency (ARIES), before you have all the necessary details / information (often only after MERCURY retro is over, or at least half-way, meeting the SUN = Apr 11). Practice patience.
7) MERCURY Retro RE-minds us…
…that direct connection with one another in an authentic & lively dialogue offers the opportunity to open up, speak freely, and touch on other subjects than the originally intended purpose / agenda of the communication. Which can eventually lead to even more important outcome or actions (ARIES) than anticipated. Check out in hindsight why you actually needed to talk to that person…
8) Under M-r, the odds for fabulous unexpected synchronicities are 99%
Been noticing them? When we act intuitively and out of the ordinary, we let the spontaneous intervention of the Universe show us our interconnectedness! So magical!
9) M-r is a good time to RE-connect with people you have lost sight of – and see them in a new light
With theARIES flavour, get in touch with people whom you met ‘early on’ or just briefly, but lost sight of. Trust your intuition, take initiative if you feel called to meet up with them again, and let yourself be surprised by what shows up when you speak to them. No assumptions… Or you might meet new people whom you spontaneously connect with (ARIES), and feel you already know each other ‘forever’ / ‘from somewhere’.
10) The areas of life (partners, children, career, groups, etc.) that THIS retro phase brings up for YOU…
…have to do with Planet/s and House/s that M-r activates in YOUR personal birth chart, i.o.w. where ARIES is situated (see above). Let’s explore that in a session if you’re quite M-r affected this time.
11) When ‘glitches’ occur, be fluid and flexible like quicksilver (MERCURY’s metal), think “shift happens”.
No need to get mad at it / them / yourself (ARIES).
RE-frame your way of thinking about things. What could be the opportunity in this mishap? What’s ‘even’ actually funny about this? Is it possible that subconsciously you might have ‘arranged’ that wild alternative to the original ‘plan A’? Which might lead to something new and better and more fun than what the ‘normal’, ‘usual’, ‘regular’ mind-in-rut-mode could have come up with…
12) Enjoy those unintentional puns, slips, and new mental connections. Be creative. Brainstorm – esp. together with your MERCURY Retro Friends.
13) Enlightened Insights, anyone…?
The Day of Enlightened Insight – when M-r meets the SUN on the exact half-way point of the M-r phase. In this M-r phase on APR 11.
Check out what epiphanies & paradigm shifts occur round this day!
14) If you would like to know…
…whether you are a member of the RETRO CLUB (born under MERCURY Retro, as yours truly) …in which area of Life the MERCURY Retro Trickster in ARIES plays tricks on / with you …how to consciously, creatively, and mindfully play WITH the energy…
…feel welcome to get in touch with your Astrologer.
Hope to RE-connect with you again soon, online, or even better: In real life!
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
VENUS has been in PISCES (‘her’ exalted – most ‘dignified’ Zodiac energy) since March 11. Love IS. Beyond form, time, and space. A connection with / in the Universe… Yet also an attraction to / in mass consciousness – of the now outflowing PISCES Age.
And now for a refreshing shift & lift,into early Spring vibes ….gearing up for the ARIES Total Solar Eclipse on April 8!
VENUS Love Goddess will be part of it! She’ll move over the ‘Emergence Point’ from PISCES to ARIES on Apr 4 – 4 days before the Eclipse New Moon!
A welcome contrast, and boost for new beginnings, from the inside-out. Yep, ARIES is autonomous self-starter energy.
CHIRON the Centaur turned Warrior.
CHIRON awaits her in ARIES: The VENUSian visit is due on Apr 21.
In 2019, CHIRON madeits move into ARIES (until 2027!), reminding us of the Medicine of Being Authentic and of Starting Fresh. This year, the NN is also in ARIES, and aligned with CHIRON in early March. Even more boosts for authentic self-starter energy – and to heal early wounds & wounds of war.
VENUS will attract our attention to anything ARIES, esp. as part of the TSE on Apr 8, and approaching CHIRON & the North Node.
Lots more ARIES energy is now activated, via the Total Solar Eclipseon Apr 8, with VENUS, the North Node, SUN, MOON, CHIRON, and MERCURY retro in ARIES (see chart preview).
Special ASTRO~News article for the Eclipse to come. Check out my freshly released Eclipse & VENUS in ARIES focused video.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here (soo ARIES), and roll it back to where it ALL (incl. the astrological New Year) starts: at 0º ARIES.
All things are NEW and freshly Alive in ARIES.
With VENUS entering the ARIES scene on Apr 4, the Heroine / Warrior Goddess of Fierce Love emerges, and Newness blossoms – like fresh shoots in Spring.
VENUS in ARIES doesn’t wait to be asked ‘to dance’. She takes initiative, takes the first step, goes for what she values, is direct and ‘in your face’.
VENUS is in the trad. system of dignities ‘in exile’ in ARIES – furthest away from Her natural Home in LIBRA. Yet, that’s another box that we’re evolving out of.
Beautiful Emergence – photo by moi
The question is rather: What are the gifts of VENUS in ARIES?
Showing up in new, raw, authentic, courageous, and intrinsically, genuinely beautiful & attractive ways is drawn out of us.
And: Authentic Love starts with Self Love.
So refreshing for times like these – CHIRON & the North Node agree.
Let’s be inspired by the emerging Goddess of Freshness & Newness!
VENUS in ARIES will witness and pull us into the super charged events of APRIL.
Show up in it all, in fierce Goddess Love!
Let’s see how VENUS fares in the springy sparks of ARIES… Directly connected with the North Node & CHIRON, and indirectly with other cosmic ‘Players’ in the Zodiac.
Here are the Planet Dates for VENUS in ARIES
APR 4 VENUS enters ARIES Goddess of Spring A-Rising. Authentic Love starts with Self Love.
APR 6 VENUS in early AR in sextile w. PLUTO in early AQ Be lovingly spontaneous & fresh, follow the Life Force – You might meet & connect with friendly folks that way.
APR 7 The waning / Dark MOON in AR meets / welcomes VENUS Early springy lightness-brightness-swiftness is in the Air. Yet also dark-ish pre-Eclipse vibes. And yet again, there are always sweet opportunities to share a spontaneous smile…
APR 17 VENUS in AR meets the North Node Start something fresh, take initiative with fierce Love, starting with Self Love. See things with fresh loving eyes, and let opportunities arise.
APR 21 VENUS in AR meets CHIRON Showing up lovingly, boldly, and authentically is healing. New connections can be made, with the Medicine of loving presence.
APR 29 VENUS enters TAURUS (until May 23) EnJoy Life in Spring!
Where in Your Chart is ARIES?
That’s where rebirth and fresh beginnings beckon!
VENUS in ARIES, being part of the Eclipse and meeting with NN & CHIRON, in your… House helps you attract in these areas of your Life – which can go really fast…
… as you show up as YOU, bring your Medicine of being authentically self-loving into the scene, and give New Life a chance:
1st House Via Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Via Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House Through Being You in Your Local Environment
4th House In Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Via Your Creativity, Your Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House In Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House With Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House In Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House Via What gives You Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, on Your Path and Travels
10th House Via Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House In Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House In / As Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
Wishing you a fresh & healing Start from the Heart, with VENUS emerging in ARIES, and meeting the NN & CHIRON!
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
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.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school 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 transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
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