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You are still in the midst of transformation, Aries, and it only grows more profound over time. You are fully exploring your own path these days, attempting to discern how and why you can handle that in concert with society’s somewhat contradictory goals and strictures. Meanwhile, and especially this month, you are responding to concepts of service to others and to the surrounding collective that seem to emanate directly from your higher self. You are called to greater participation in the life of your community, with the understanding that partnership goes far toward establishing yourself in a way that benefits both societal and individual needs. You are striving now to both belong to something larger than yourself and to flourish in your own unique individuality.

As the month begins, you are reflecting on who you are and who you might yet become. This last gasp of summer has been a terrific period for introspection of all kinds and will likely remain so, at least until Mercury regains its lost Zodiacal longitude on September 9th. You are thus very much still a work in progress as the seasons shift – and what is more you are beginning to acknowledge it. There is a deep intuitional understanding that is part of your makeup right now, and which is also paradoxically an unknowing, at least insofar as what is known in the eyes of the world. You have perhaps gone from being one of those who “knows not, and knows not that they know not” to the wiser one who can acknowledge that they “know not and know that they know not,” which is an altogether safer position. With all this insight comes also a fuzziness regarding who exactly you are to be when and if ever you do eventually grow up, and who you are prepared to gift and to benefit from as you take each other with you along the way. There has been lately a degree of uncertainty regarding the influence on your own concerns and values of significant partners in your life, and that issue too is likely to be a factor in your meditations over the first part of this monthly cycle.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, you come to a potential crisis of action and of meaning. This is a time when conflicts could arise, and when you are striving to find the right way to look at what is transpiring for you, or how to put what you are currently up to in the right perspective. Partners are important to you now, as an adjunct to your own process. This is a powerful time to connect with relationship partners more fully, and to sort out what is yours in compromise with others, versus what is yours and yours alone.

The Full Moon a week later, taking place early Monday morning, September 12th, is another powerful crossroad in time when issues of self and other are likely to emerge, and when spiritually based insights present themselves to you in perhaps subtle ways, giving you opportunities for dealing with them. Epiphanies abound during this week, which leads you from the purely personal to the universal. Your concern to find a psychologically valid home base for yourself morphs into something more like an intrinsic sense of security that does not require a physical means to that end.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, represents a time of reassessment, when many factors in your reaction to events become clearer as you mull over the preceding three weeks of the lunar cycle. You are finding your ego involvement is still active, although subdued and merged with a more actively spiritual approach.

The Fall Equinox a few days later, taking place on Friday the 23rd, is magical for you, and speaks to you as always of the power of partnership in shaping your life, almost in spite of yourself.


Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are this month coming into a profound redefinition of your own identity, Taurus. This is of course a culmination of the many-faceted phases that have led you to this moment in time, and is yet in some ways an entirely new departure. Your changing sense of self corresponds to changes in your worldview and also to the extent that you take your mission in this context more seriously – a feeling of life purpose that is connected more to intuition than to consensus thinking or even to rationality. You are in a naturally fortunate space right now, where all sorts of things come relatively easily, and important opportunity presents itself. You benefit by remaining as open as you can to all your possibilities in order that you truly rise to this occasion.

As the month begins, you are full of pizzazz from the recent New Moon in your sector of creativity and self-expression. Your ruler Venus is also just breaking away from it’s month-long collusion with the Sun, coming out from behind it to shed her own light. Venus will begin the Evening Star phase in late September, when her beauty will once more grace the just-after-sunset skies. Your identity is taking on more and varied colors accordingly, especially with Jupiter forming a Grand trine with Pluto and your ruler, Venus, in the Fire sectors of your Solar Chart. It could be said that the reflective time of the Mercury retrograde period that is just now passing away has contributed to tectonic shifts in consciousness for you that are in the subtext of your psyche and that are only now emerging, over the course of the next few monthly cycles.

The First Quarter Moon taking place on Sunday, September 4th, brings an element of tension to your process that has within it seeds of furthering your sense of purpose. You are transforming throughout this climactic year, whether you are able to fully acknowledge this or not, and this particular juncture might serve you by making your changes more evident. There could be issues that arise with important partners in your life, and if these involve the polarity of opposing viewpoints they could yield to a third way that represents not so much compromise but synthesis, a stepping outside of the seeming limits of the conflict.

The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, the 12th, perhaps represents a better state of balance both within yourself and with others. You are becoming more conscious of old patterns and how they can trip you up unnecessarily, a situation that can be avoided by greater internal acceptance of your own dark places. It is also a time when – with Mercury past its shadow – you can look ahead more confidentially to making fresh starts on existing situations.

Then the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, brings fresh reflective and philosophical energy to bear on everything that has gone before. This is a time of reassessment and realignment of your understanding of your purpose going forward. You are aided in this effort at summing up your past and future circumstances by a deep sense of intuition that is available to you now, and that is extremely pertinent to what you are up to in terms of soul-purpose. It is difficult to tune in to these whispers from the cosmos but it is well worth the effort and the unique sensibility required.

The Fall Equinox a few days later, on the 23rd, is a time of great power for you in this regard. You benefit the more you can pay close attention to these inner stirrings. When the New Moon of the 27th comes along in your sector of health and day-to-day activities you will be prepared for the burst of new energy that it brings as you wend your way forward into a different future than the one you were only recently contemplating.


Gemini   (May 21 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

You are attuning to your inner depths, Gemini, and contrary to popular belief, there are no real dragons to be found in these uncharted waters. This is a big month for more thoroughly finding yourself in the context of family or tribe, and for redefinition generally. You are also taking a good long look at largely dysfunctional patterns arising out of the distant past but which still have the power to trip you up in this current era. By examining these details through the lens of intuition they lose their power to so strongly affect you, and you are enabled to form new agendas going forward. By Full Moon time you will be returning is some important sense to your roots – and you will know the place for the first time.

As the month begins you are in a pivotal place for yourself and for your inner process. This is a time of reflection and introspection for you, with your ruler, Mercury, only just now changing to direct motion, and still with over a week to go before it escapes its “retrograde shadow” period on the 9th, This period of time is made especially strong because of two factors of this recent retrograde. The first of these is that as Mercury stationed it opposed Neptune almost exactly, giving you a potent dose of this otherworldly and idealistic dimension.

The other is that Mercury retrograded in the beginning degrees of your fourth sector, which is a psychologically active area of your chart, increasing the strangeness and the potential confusion of the Neptunian influence. As a consequence, you have been striving mightily to escape the simplistic thinking that is espoused by consensus philosophy surrounding you. Steve Jobs recent quote is relevant here: “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Some would say that logic is the sole determinant of reality, but you know in your heart that it just is not so, and that actually reality with a capital “R” goes far beyond this overly superficial assessment, based in thought forms arising from early conditioning, in many ways the wrong direction for humans who are aspiring to become all that they can be individually.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, you are heading into a quandary that pits differing and divisive points of view against one another in seeming conflict. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between. You might be tempted to making a strong stand for your own opinion but there is usually much to be gained from a synthesized standpoint that takes into account as large picture a view as possible.

The Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, offers the possibility of balance, and gives you a powerful push toward resolving interpersonal differences by compromising intelligently with important partners. This does not of course imply caving in or giving up your individuality for the sake of relationship harmony.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, you are mulling over the past three weeks and reviewing the events that you have encountered with an eye to improvement. It may be that old and dysfunctional patterns of behavior have emerged over this period of time, and if so it is essentially for the purpose of recognizing trauma-ridden or walled-off complexes and moving past them. You gain through greater acceptance and ultimate integration of these hurt or wounded parts of yourself.

The New Moon a week later taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, makes for an important and powerful fresh start in these and many other areas of your life.


Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is a month of transition, Cancer, as you head toward a more sober-minded assessment of the reality of your enterprises. You have lately been exploring new wrinkles in the arc of your personal development, taking a good hard look at yourself from the inside out, and all this thoughtful work has paid off in terms of increased acceptance of where you find yourself within this important cycle of self-development. Your evolving partnership dynamic forms the backdrop of what you are currently up to, as you seek a more thorough grounding – but not of the usual material variety that consensus thinking would dictate. An important balance point is reached mid-month, giving you a graceful pause before the potential intensity for you of the Fall Equinox and the month’s final week.

As the month begins, you are more outgoing than usual, but also, paradoxically, tuning up internally as well. Communication is the name of the game for you right now, but Mercury, ruler of communication, is still recovering from its recent retrograde period so at the moment, reflection and introspection are still major factors in your world. You are held to a more serious and conservative approach even as you feel the urge to launch yourself out into new ventures. Mercury is drifting toward your communication sector right now – where it will also escape its retrograde shadow – arriving on the 9th, so that after that first full week of the month will be a much better time for wholeheartedly reaching out to others, and also for actualizing any personal initiatives that you feel the impulse for.

The First Quarter Moon comes along of Sunday, September 4th, and may present you with a few bumps in the road of your progress. Flair-ups are possible, as you work through conflicts between idealized versus realistic future planning or perhaps with significant partners in your life. Your communication is inspired and takes on a mystical tone these first ten days of the month, so don’t be surprised at anything coming out of your mouth or else arriving as messages from the cosmos that have a strong poetic or even prophetic feel. This particular time is great for journaling so that you can have the benefit of potentially remarkable insights throughout the remainder of this creative end-of-year time.

With the Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, you reach out for balance and might even succeed in finding it. Your heart is dedicated to your future self now, and the direction that it should and will ultimately take in achieving its soul purpose, and you benefit when you acknowledge this fact.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, represents a time of summing up the previous three weeks with an effort to take the lessons forward into the next cycle. Your philosophy is expanding now to match the changes in life focus that you have been participating in, and this might be a confusing time if you stop to think too hard about the conflicts with consensus thinking that you are essentially witness to.

The New Moon of the following week, which comes along on Tuesday, September 27th, will take you further into your own mind and heart, emphasizing personal commitment, and therefore allows you to get much further along the intentional arc of your own personal development.


Leo   (July 23 - August 22)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You are entering upon yet another powerful month, Leo. This time the foreground subject matter is formed by your values and the resources at your disposal, within the context of continuing shifts in perspective leading you further along the thread of your own personal evolution. Your finances have been fluctuating lately – and perhaps even something of a mystery – but all that begins to change with the oncoming fall season. Perhaps more important, your financial picture is only one way of looking at the transformation that you have been through, to the extent that they almost don’t even mater anymore, just counters in the game of what must be given over to one sidelined part of existence, while the real life of your mind and Spirit flows on independently.

As the month begins, you are feeling more than ever that existence is a continual exploration and an adventure. This last month – with the Mercury retrograde as its distinguishing feature – has been a thoughtful time, when although not so much in your life has altered, in many ways your attitude toward it has. There has also been a decidedly mystical slant to the proceedings lately, which has helped you to reformulate your thought process, or which constitutes perhaps the core of your resistance to such a reformulation. You are seeking a more thorough grounding in the physical world, something that you can fully count on amidst the viscidities and trials of this life. Paradoxically perhaps, such a grounding requires greater reliance on what is not fully discernable to your five senses, but is available only to your mind’s eye; to the part of your psyche that is represented by Spirit acting through you. The New Moon a few days before the previous month ended gives you a boost of radical new energy for your attempt to figure things out in a way that makes cosmic as well as practical sense. Your values and core beliefs are the subject matter of this entire month’s philosophical journeying. This can include your financial resources, but to be taken more as a symbol of value than as a thing in itself. You are fortunate lately in your material circumstances but likely not dwelling on this factor.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, there could be conflicts that emerge. You are seeing just which of your rather wild fantasies for progress at this juncture is viable. If you do encounter difficulties they might represent opportunities for greater understanding of your true situation.

The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, September 12th, is opposite your resources sector, so that you are essentially seeking a balance of energies between self and other, and making more conscious choices in this area. It is also possible that you have greater consciousness surrounding old patterns of behavior that have been coming up for you over the past two weeks. This form of knee-jerk reactivity usually stems from early childhood when you did not get what was truly needed in parental or in peer-to-peer relationships, and could continue to haunt you in your present day until some sort of effort is made to confront them and put them to rest. Acceptance is the key, and for that you need a preliminary sense of exactly what is troubling you, which might in fact be the gift for you of this period of time.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, is a surprising and perhaps volatile time for you, and also a time when you might be able to reflect on these ideas and others relating to your current arc of development.

You are but a few days away from to the Fall Equinox now, taking place on the 23rd, when you could encounter epiphanies regarding relationship that also potentially come to others around you as well. This week you have the courage to act on your convictions but those very notions of what is most important going forward might prove to be a changing landscape right now. Your deeply felt ideals and feelings for where to take them are subject to refinement and transformation throughout this monthly cycle. With the Libra New Moon of Tuesday the 27th you are poised for more of these adventures in awareness, a prelude to important growth. As your ideas move, so moves the world around you.


Virgo   (August 23 - September 22)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

This is a powerful time of new beginnings for you Virgo. You are only just now starting to emerge from the adventures in consciousness of the previous cycle, one that has taken you to your depths and back out again. Now, your energy is up, and partnership is paramount as you exercise in a practical way the information that you have gained. It might also be that old patterns of relationship come back to haunt you in the present monthly cycle, but if so, it is for the purpose of recognizing and moving beyond them. You are hitting your stride, and although you are less superficially brash than you were even as recently as a month ago, you are coming at the world with greater depth – and more true confidence.

As the month begins, you are energized and outer-oriented, even as you realize that you are more aware than ever of inner perspectives. This meditative period is slowly ending, in stages. as you deal with the aftermath of last month’s retrograde of your ruler Mercury, which has taken you to the inside for an intensive look at all aspects of your life. Outer and inner are but two sides of the same coin, as it were, and yet they can seem to have different agendas and to correspond to different takes on reality. You are pulling yourself together in spite of your new-found understanding of the vastness that separates the varied perspectives of your internal compass points. There is a long shadow cast by some of these contents and you are dealing with it as this current monthly cycle unfolds.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, you are finding the greatest tension in your process as you run into potential conflicts with others, perhaps family members, and strive to resolve differing points of view. The secret is a synthesis that rises above the horns of the seemingly black and white dilemma, taking a third and more graceful path. While it is tempting to stay stuck on past beliefs and established dogma, as safer, it is ultimately more rewarding to let evolution take its course and allow the universe to steer your ship of state.

The Full Moon of a week later on, taking place on Monday, September 12th, is a good moment to try for a sense of balance. You are dealing with issues now of self and other; and these involve deciding where one ends and the other begins, and how to compromise without compromising yourself or transgressing your bottom-line requirements. Old patterns of behavior might crop up at any time this month, and especially over these first two weeks. These could represent the residue of prior trauma, in childhood, when parental care was either problematic or lacking or when peer-to-peer relationships among siblings and classmates left something to be desired. There can be hurt feelings that are shunned by conscious attitudes and that take on an underground life of their own. Moving past these wounds is of course vitally important for your peace of mind and continued growth, and involves first the recognition of what is going on for you underneath the surface of your more habitual conscious awareness and then the acceptance and re-integration of these rejected and walled-off parts of yourself.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, represents a time when you will be reviewing the past three weeks of the lunar cycle and reconstructing the events that have transpired according to the insights gained over this entire period. This serves as seed material for the next cycle, kicked off by the New Moon of Tuesday, September 27th, which is another powerful one, leading you to a fresh start in many areas.

Libra   (September 23 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are deeply meditative, Libra. Having been in an increasingly introspective space over the course of these past few weeks, you are plunging even further into the dark waters of your inner world. This is useful as well as temporary, so it benefits you to make the most of it. There is a time and place for everything, and right now, yours is internal. Your dreams are quite real to you, and your intuition provides better answers than outer events can show you regarding questions you had perhaps forgotten to ask. By mid-month the cocoon will begin to shred and by month’s end you will be once more out in the world, but with important soul gains that you have made over the course of this fertile period.

As the month begins, you are delving down into your own inner process. You are far more attuned to dream reality than you are to the events of the normal waking world that go on all around you. This is temporary but intense and you benefit by taking advantage of it to help you steer your life direction more fully. A factor of spiritual healing work is present for you, either as patient or as participant. Over the course of this monthly cycle a career in chiropractic or other alternative healing modality could be knocking at your door and representing itself as your calling. You breathe in information now from a deep intuitional knowing that that is borne on cosmic winds rushing through you but that seems to come to you through the agency of others. Due to your interior orientation over the first two weeks of this month, you may well be in a better position to receive this quintessential energy and take it in.

The First Quarter Moon that comes along on Sunday, September 4th, is an important time, when many of the things that you are visioning could either come closer to manifestation or else be judged too idealistic to last out the vicissitudes of sensible limitations that rear their practical head at this juncture. Your personal evolution is pulling you in one direction and practicality in quite another so that it is hard to imagine which will in the final analysis win out. It is always better to follow your heart than your head in these circumstances but it not always possible to do so.

With the Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, you are reaching for a more balanced perspective. As you make all your decisions currently you are coming from such a deep place within your psyche that it can be confusing or even scary to contemplate. You can trust inner guidance once you properly attune to it, discarding false fears that arise from simple conditioning. The angel of change perches on one shoulder while the criticizing voice of limitation is on another and it is up to you to pay heed to the right one for you.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, represents a good time for mulling over everything that has been happening and attempting to impart the correct spin. Journaling is recommended throughout these first three weeks of the lunar cycle and especially at this juncture.

Then a few days later, the Fall Equinox is heralded by the arrival of the Sun into your sign. This happens on Friday, September 23rd, and gives you fresh energy for further adventures in awareness. The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, is an extremely strong one for you and makes for an entirely fresh start.


Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

This is a powerful time to set intentions, Scorpio. The recent New Moon in your sector of future plans and societal connection has set the stage and now it is up to you to inhabit the scene and make it come alive. It is also becoming obvious that you can’t really get there entirely independently, so that you could potentially be forced to compromise somewhat with your famous tendency to go it alone. It is a delicate tightrope walk between self and other that you are performing now. You must make allowance for the help of important partners, perhaps even for joint ventures, while still applying the unique sense of your pathway forward that only you can bring. Spirit will guide you, to the extent that you will let it.

As the month begins, you are visioning new possibilities for yourself and for your career. You have been refining your working-world goals over the previous monthly cycle and now that period of inner contemplation is beginning to pay off in terms of concrete ideas that you can use to move forward in some new and different directions for yourself. Even though you are excited about your prospects now, in terms of the retrograde it is also considered prudent to include a waiting period after Mercury’s recent station, one lasting until the 8th or the 9th, when the messenger planet re-enters Virgo and has the chance to recover its lost Zodiacal longitude. You might be ready to presume a more compassionate attitude as an important component of where you find yourself currently headed, because of the time that you have spent in contemplation and in mulling over your perspective on service and your beliefs in general, and this is consistent with the symbolism of the current monthly alignments.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, you are meeting up with resistance of one form or another to your most cherished ideas and goals. What emerges from this next week as having survived these trials will likely have the validity to become incorporated into your eventual set of future plans. Others in your life are a factor that while it can be divisive can also be helpful for you now in giving you faith in your ideas in spite of everything that seems to be getting in the way of them.

The Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, implies smother sailing, and a better sense of integration between the ideas of others and your own, so that significant partners might be able to aid you in providing important adjuncts to your own perspective. Your basic thrust right now is to concretize into practical manifestation what you have up to now only imagined. This is not easy to do however, as ingrained habits are hard to break. Still you can begin to see significant trends. In this regard some concept of spiritual healing work plays an increasingly important role – as your process would seem to indicate.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday the 20th initiates a period of summing what you can gather from the experiences of the previous three weeks of the cycle, and the lessons learned. This is an important time of stepping into your new persona at least as a trial of what might be involved, a test fitting.

That week includes the Fall Equinox, when there might be surprising further epiphanies and connections that you might make internally to Spirit unfolding in your life. With the New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, you are feeling even more energy for powerful change upwelling from the inside out.


Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

The beat for personal evolution accelerates in the present month, Sagittarius. You are energized by your ongoing penetrating presence on the world stage – your work in the world – and actively seeking a more complete sense of mission in life that more closely reflects your true self. Service is your motto now and you are getting better and better about actualizing it. Your values are shifting as you wage your struggle for better internal connection with yourself and ultimately, therefore, with others. You may also be getting more adept at dealing with old patterns that arise to trip you up from the dark places that underlie your logical surface mentality. If such issues arise, they can be mitigated by a concerted effort of recognition and acceptance of these hidden layers of your psyche.

The month begins on a strong note for you, since the New Moon that kicks it off a few days before the actual 1st of the month takes place in your sector of career and professional endeavor. You are feeling the urge for more outer world presence in a big way right now, and also at the very same time, with Mercury still struggling to regain its lost zodiacal ground from the recent retrograde, partake in a bit of an introspective and thoughtful attitude. There is also a strong element of the mystical that pervades your thinking now as well, and that perhaps extends particularly to feelings of psychological connection, since Neptune is prominently placed and aspects your ruler Jupiter. With this mystical and more cosmic cast of mind factored into your awareness, one outcome is mere confusion and uncertainty. When the larger picture is invoked however, this confusion can yield to a faith in the process that the universe has in store for you, a process that you currently find yourself squarely in the midst of.

The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th might represent a crucial moment of tension and the resolution of tension, a time of pause and of recognition. This is the part of the lunation cycle where you get to find out which of the impulses from the New Moon time is truly viable via its confrontation with the school of hard knocks. This is where some ideas survive and some do not, and you might encounter a collision between private concerns and the demands of profession or public service.

The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, September 12th, might represent a balance of these opposing forces. For this entire cycle, you are fully present for professional outreach and also showing up for others around you in a dedicated manner. At this moment, with Mercury coming through your career sector, you are taking a more thoughtful stance on what – in terms of future plans and for personal as well as professional assessment – this all adds up to. It this regard, it might be important to recognize that old patterns of behavior could be seen as a part of the equation. It makes a tremendous difference when you do what you do with a whole heart, coming from a place of the gift freely given, rather than from a need to make yourself indispensable to someone or to some abstract ideal.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, you are looking back over the preceding three weeks of the lunar cycle, making an assessment that you can carry forward into the future. It will be important for the following month and the changes that will be coming down that you have a clearer idea of where you have been and where you intend to go. Your life path is a work of art right now, but it is a work in progress.

This week also includes the Fall Equinox, when new ideas come plentifully as you gather your energies for another huge month yet to come. This is kicked off by the New Moon taking place in the final week of the month, on Tuesday, September 27th. Your imagination is running wild these days, which can be a bit disconcerting, but your practical side is active too, serving as a constructive counter-balance.


Capricorn   (Dec 22 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

The rules of the road are changing beneath your feet and before your very eyes, Capricorn. You continue to be faced with a thorough-going personal evolution that is difficult to negotiate, but then so is the rest of the surrounding collective. Since you are more attuned than many to the needs and shifting values of the society at large, you are more profoundly affected by the challenges there. Your ruler, Saturn, still placed in your tenth sector of authority and career activation, calls for your active participation but the increasingly poignant question is exactly how that looks. As your perspective shifts, and field and ground exchange positions, you are seeking your own sense of personal authority, independent of the strictures of a collapsing societal worldview that no longer serves you.

As the month begins, you are in a philosophical and yet practical mode, and using this confrontation – between the world and your idea of it – to your advantage. It is of course true that the world is what you make of it and that the more you believe this the more it happens. You are intent now on making your mark and are beginning to realize the extent that your belief system can influence that process. Your communication is mystical and somewhat undefined at the moment, partaking more of poetic than of hard and fast logical approaches, which could seem to be a bit inconsistent with the level of practicality that you concurrently are able to muster. Synchronicities abound that can no longer be passed off as mere coincidence. There are as well deep epiphanies rising up from the very depths of your soul in response to the perceived harmonies and cosmic order of the world around you. The changes that you are going through these days might in fact be partly due to this fundamental and yet entirely creative instability at the very core of your being.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, some of these potential conflicts might emerge more distinctly. Your sense of the mystical might appear to be in conflict with practical experience as represented by the built-up experiences of a lifetime, or are these merely a set of dogmatic beliefs? There is hope for resolution in your creative self-expression which has the power to move mountains these days, if you will allow your inner sense of intuition full reign.

With the Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Monday, September 12th, you are both learning and educating. A definite development is taking place over this monthly cycle and the trick is to discern it. This can be an intense and challenging time for you or else another leg of a wild adventure depending upon your view point. It could be for you that Shakespeare spoke when he had hamlet declare: “I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself King of infinite space, were it not that I had bad dreams.” In this case your dreams might well be good ones, so that you have the fortunate opportunity to transcend previous limitations.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, brings you to a place of assessment of what has gone before it in the cycle. You are seeking to understand the lessons of the events that have recently transpired, so that you might be able to take them forward into the next.

Then the Fall Equinox a few days later, on the 23rd, will be a time of sudden ideas and epiphanies for you as you head into the New Moon period of time. You might be revitalizing your sense of self, and how you see your ultimate soul purpose. The Libra New Moon taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, gives you tons of energy for any direction you might want to take yourself in, in alignment with this new sense of intentionality.


Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

This is a fascinating and perhaps difficult time of increasing understanding and renewed subliminal struggle, Aquarius. You are coming at life more from your heart than from your head, and you could discover that it is only your heart that will serve you now in what you are really intending. You are called to a new form of intimacy with others and even with yourself. The going gets tougher so that you find you have to dig the well a little deeper as you recognize more clearly the need to discover the direction in which to get going. The changes and challenges of this climactic year seem to sum themselves up into one or two major epiphanies for you right now, and the question becomes how to act on them.

As the month begins, you are feeling very strongly the potential for transformational change in your life. You are now in your element, since you are typically prone to changes of all kinds. The one thing that can be said for certain is that you are definitely not standing still. This set of changes, coming from deep inside your psyche, has been creeping up on you slowly and subtly perhaps, or sometimes rapidly; it has been a long time coming and its going to be a long time gone – meaning that the changes you are experiencing now will endure. This has been an educational sequence for you, but not in the usual logical mental space that might be associated with that term. Your current process takes you toward the inside, the deep interior part of you that is more directly connected to the cosmos than your ego-mind, conditioned by consensus thinking, believes.

The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, might bring up a few moments of tension in your road, as you attempt to see your way through to the concrete manifestation of what is nascent and in the idea stages within your internally reflective process. Although there could be a relative chaos on the level of outer events, there is inner stability now, especially if you can let go and simply allow grace to happen.

The Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, represents another time when concretely seeing the manifested fruits of your labor is an important priority, and when a balanced approach succeeds in getting you there. Your progress is empowered now by perspective shifts that have been slow in maturing but which are enormously useful in helping you to move forward. Your communication and your self-expression in general is actually enhanced by taking seriously all the information that you can get from your most internal sources. This includes the residue of past trauma, which could be very alive for you over these first two weeks of the month.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, you are reviewing everything that has happened up to now in the cycle, and attempting to make sense of it in terms of your personal evolution. As you mull over outer events and your internal reactions, putting the most positive spin on them that you can will be extremely useful. Negativity forms an additional and unnecessary drag on your aerodynamics as you let your life flow forward.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, gives you renewed energy for spiritual and mental exploration of the new surroundings engendered by your expanding awareness.


Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 20)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

This is in some ways a thoughtful and introverted month for you, Pisces, although there is simultaneously a push for greater partnership sharing and intimacy. Even as you reach out more strongly to others around you, you are reserving a large allocation of your energy for introspection and reflection. With your ruler Neptune moving backwards into your sector of dream imagination, you are going internal, in-dwelling within your own private world and continuing in your own way the reflective energy of the Mercury retrograde period that for everyone else is just ending. Although logically paradoxical, this all makes sense in the larger scheme of things. You have to know yourself at the deepest possible level in order that you truly know and are available for others.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward with new and sometimes troubling awareness, as you review the past and prepare for an uncertain future. Partnership is powerful for you, partly as an adjunct to your own advance to greater growth and understanding. Communication is important to you now and reveals a depth process that is leading you toward a different vision for yourself slowly but surely. As you communicate with others and reveal to them your evolving point of view, you sort out what you truly believe underneath the oftentimes superficial chatter of the modern world. You are partially still entered into an introspective period of time, a legacy from the recent retrograde of Mercury that has you questioning almost everything. This can be fruitful as long as not obsessive.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, September 4th, you are finding a few more bumps in the road of your progress. This can be a trying time, when your faith in yourself is tested, and yet can also tap into your creative powers to synthesize and to learn via self-expression. Partners can help light your way toward your own set of goals.

With the Full Moon of Monday, September 12th, you are reaching for a balance of self and other, and of public goals versus private concerns. You are forging new ideas for yourself right now, and they might be difficult for your conscious mind to grasp, even though your unconscious process knows exactly what you and it are up to. This is a time to think your way through changing priorities and sudden new insights that emerge from the course of this month’s journey.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 20th, is a time for reflection and for integration of the information gleaned from the preceding three weeks of the lunar cycle. Self-expression is intensified during the early part of this week and is one way that the results manifest themselves as you prepare for the next.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, September 27th, gives you plenty of fresh energy for the chase. What you are hunting down is your own future self. During the course of this and next month’s adventures you are an avid and creative advocate for yourself once you can get out of your own way.