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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: Full Moon&Winter Solstice edition: Happy Holidays!

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Wishing you & yours a Happy Healthy & Abundant Holiday Season. May your lives be forever filled with blessings and joy.

At Winter Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn. This is the time the Sun is at its most extreme Northern declination (which is the Tropic of Cancer). Western Astrology is based on the movement of the Sun and the Earth.

At every Winter Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn. But this year, not only the Sun--- Mercury and Jupiter are also entering Capricorn at Winter Solstice. And Pluto is in the last degrees of Sagittarius and will enter Capricorn on January 25, 2008. That is significant movement into Capricorn. And it is all being opposed by the Moon (it's a Full Moon) and Mars. It's not "just" Mars opposing Pluto on Christmas, it's Mars opposing the entire stellium in Capricorn from December 24 through January 2.

Jupiter in Capricorn is a year of being concise. Make your check list and start working towards your goals. Jupiter shows what's BIG, what people are interested in pursuing. In Capricorn, expect a rise in prosperity gurus and abundance counselors. Sure, they're online and have many books already, but it's about to explode. You can learn to create wealth and abundance, step by step. In 2008, effectively managing your business for profitable returns will be TOP priority.

It's the very end of 2007. 2008 is approaching quickly. This is the time of year to reflect on the past year and set your intentions for next year. With so many planets in EARTH signs, it's time to manifest. And to manifest, you have to get practical and professional, or you may get left in the dust (dispersed earth). What are you going to do to create a better life in 2008?

2008 is NOT the year to drift and "hope for the best." If that's your plan, you may wind up broke and even farther from your dreams. This IS the year to take INSPIRED ACTION!

2008 can be your biggest year of manifestation. But you have to TAKE ACTION. You have to set your intentions and ACT. Just thinking good thoughts is a great start, but it will not change anything unless you ACT on your good thoughts.

Mars, planet of ACTION, is conjunct the MOON at the FULL MOON. And together, the Moon and Mars oppose the entire stellium of planets just entering Capricorn. Not only is Mars conjunct the Moon and opposing most of the other planets, Mars is currently Retrograde in early Cancer (headed back into Gemini on January 8). How is your ego holding back your progress. How can you challenge yourself in ways that will insure your growth instead of getting stuck in fears, anxiety, anger, and hostile thoughts?

Cancer (Mars and the Moon are in Cancer, the Moon rules Cancer), the clue is to stop engaging your emotional stories because they are keeping you from fulfilling your dreams. Enjoy your ego, but don't let it rule your life. If your ego RULES your life, you won't do anything because, oh my goodness, someone may not approve. You may look silly or stupid. And it's true. The more you do, the greater the chances that you might make a mistake. People WILL think you're nuts, or greedy, or wrong. They WILL judge you. But if you let their judgments (egos) win, you don't get your work done. And that's not really a problem either, because no one ever gets everything done! We are all a work-in-progress. With Mars opposing Pluto, Jupiter, and the Sun, you can SEE how you give your power away to protect yourself. Being defensive can seem "only natural." Yet, it is what keeps you separated from living your true purpose and highest abundance. If you want to reclaim your energy and get going, it's time to think beyond the usual deeply rutted pathways. It's time to extend gratitude instead of fear and anger.

The point is not to focus on your enemies or detrators until you feel defensive and withdrawn (all possible with Mars Retrograde in Cancer). The point is to feel your GRATITUDE for the people who validate and encourage you. Focus on the people you CAN serve, the people who DO support and honor you, the people you CAN interact with, the people who make you feel good about yourself and positive about what you can accomplish. We all have detractors. Yet, focusing on them, living your life to try and please them, will keep you feeling agitated and too distracted to focus on your goals. And in 2008, your goals may be your most important consideration.

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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: New Moon edition

Scorpio New Moon: November 9 @ 6:03 pm est
Mars stations Retrograde: November 15 @ 9:24 am est

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Scorpio New Moon and Mars stations Retrograde: embracing your power, or tangled up in glue?

Happy New Moon in Scorpio!

This is the Scorpio New Moon. It's time to look deeper, below the surface, behind the facade. Instead of the obvious, it's time to focus our attention to inner realms because they hold the key to secrets and mysteries. Our dreams can bring hidden feelings to the surface as they unlock and communicate messages from the subconscious. That's why it's a good time of year to sleep. The nights are cool, long, and dark, especially at the New Moon.

New Moons are seed times, when you cannot SEE the results of your work, but you still plant, having faith that your seed will take hold, be nourished, and grow. What you DON'T see is what's important at the New Moon. So what are we NOT seeing?

The Scorpio New Moon is the time to look at what scares you. What do you hide from? What really matters, deep inside? In Scorpio, you don't have to look at your shadow alone! It's not even recommended because Scorpio is fixed water and if you delve alone, you can get obsessed by the darkness. Scorpio wants a partner, and you may find someone whose penetrating insight and honesty can help you shed light on what's dark.

In modern astrology, Scorpio is ruled by Pluto; and in Classical astrology (or any astrology practiced before 1930), Scorpio is ruled by Mars. When you study horary or transit charts, you will notice that personal issues are described by Mars, while large-scale social issues come under the domain of Pluto. For most of us, most of the time, Mars still rules Scorpio.

Mars in Cancer is in "mutual reception" to the Moon in Scorpio. They are both in each other's rulership sign. Mars rules Scorpio, while the Moon rules Cancer. This can awaken your need to be needed, physically. Your strong, courageous actions can protect your home and family and make you feel like you're in control. Yet, if there is no way to vent emotions, they can come unglued at the wrong time, and with tidal-wave force.

Mars, the personal ruler of the New Moon, is hardly moving as Mars in Cancer prepares to make a Retrograde station next week, November 15. Before Mars resumes forward motion on January 30, 2008, Mars will Retrograde out of Cancer, all the way back to 24 degrees Gemini.

Whatever part of your chart contains 24 Gemini to 12 Cancer can experience an energy shift. In the USA chart, Mars will make its Retrograde station conjunct the USA natal Sun. And Mars will Retrograde back to 24 Gemini, just 3 degrees from the US Mars at 21 Gemini. The entire country is reviewing it's energy policy.

Everyone wants to know when Mars Retrograde ends, but you can't hold your breath until January 30! Mars stationing Retrograde is a chance to look-- again-- at how you use your ENERGY. And despite frustrations and set backs, there are also opportunities. At the New Moon, Mars is TRINE the Sun and Moon and in mutual reception to the Moon; the path to progress is eased because you CAN take the heat! Great ideas can be forged, even if you can't set plans in motion as quickly as you'd like.

This is more than Mars stationing Retrograde. This is a very close connection to the Moon. Mars is also: in its FALL in Cancer, in mutual reception to the Moon, out-of-bounds (OOB) by declination, and trine Uranus. Mars Retrograde alone is challenging, and all these factors combined can give this Mars Retrograde an EXTREMELY out-of-control quality. And if that's not enough to make the energy feel unstable, the Moon is at a high declination and moving out of bounds. When Mars stations Retrograde on November 15, the Moon will also be out-of-bounds at 24 S 53 (contra-parallel to Mars at 24 N 28) and approaching perigee (closest to the Earth) on November 24. That's a lot of volatile energy starting to boil.

Using your energy spontaneously can suddenly take you beyond your conscious boundaries of action and aggression. When does stimulation become aggression? When does passion become obsession? And when does obsession overtake your productive energy and hold you back instead of give you energy?

Retrograde, Mars can drain our energy, making it harder to take direct action. And the more we hold our desires inside, the more frustrated we can start to feel. Yet, impulsive or premature action can result in a setback and you may not really feel more energized or sincerely motivated until Mars starts to move direct, especially in the area of your chart where you have 24 Gemini to 12 Cancer. Using more force won't open a locked door, but using the right key (Gemini) will.

With Mars Retrograde in water-sign Cancer (where Mars is in its Fall), energy and emotions meet. Automatic reactions can have consequences. But-- if you can become more conscious of your automatic responses, you can be the one in control of your actions. This is about your (Mars) relationship to your Self (Cancer). Cancer can get stuck in a rut, and when Mars is Retrograde in Cancer, we can see how we made our ruts. One way to get out of the same old rut is to stop blaming others and being angry at them. If you can stop that automatic reaction, you can get some insight into how and why you got to the point you're at right now. There are sensitive, private feelings you're trying to protect, where you need more nurturing, understanding, love, compassion, forgiveness, and release. Holding them takes energy you could be using for .....

Before we wonder how we can be responsible for our subconscious, let's take another look at the subconscious. Unlike your conscious self, your subconscious self does not know how to lie! It can only tell you YOUR truth. That's why we feel so profoundly moved by our dreams. But most of us don't want to see or acknowledge our subconscious. We don't want to know, and we try to hold it back so we don't have to look. Yet, that kind of repression is what congeals energy from free-flowing into a solid goopy mass that is harder and harder to process. What if your subconscious was your best friend, always there to give you the best advice, for you, if only you would listen to it!

Mars Retrograde in Cancer can make us wonder where we have an energy leak. How do you give away your power and drain your energy? Do you know that when you give you power away your also drain other people. Then you wonder why other people seemed uninterested and cool to you, after you gave so much. If you don't take your power, you are drawing it from other people, and instead of feeling energized from your interaction, others lose energy, and therefore interest in pursuing a friendship, partnership, business transaction, etc. That's your underlying shame leaking through. If you can realize that, you can maintain your power, and other people will also feel energized in your presence. You can use your natural energy and vitality in positive ways instead of letting your automatic responses take over. Mars Retrograde can make our actions more subconscious than conscious as energy coming through us can feel either overwhelming or less than enough.

So how do we lose energy? Mars Retrograde gives the image of choking back tears. Holding back or repressing our emotions turns them into a force that prevents us from moving forward. We get stuck in our anger. It's not ANGER that is toxic, but the way we express it that creates negative spirals. We get irritated, irate, upset, argue, have accidents, cut our fingers, get infections, run a fever, get headaches, or feel enraged at little things. We point the finger and blame others because WE are so sweet and good we couldn't possibly be angry or aggressive, it's obviously all THAT bad person's fault. We cannot admit when we have bad thoughts, so the bad thoughts make us FEEL bad and we take on the feeling that we have done something wrong. And from that bad feeling, we feel worse, and worse. So how can we turn anger into courage?

Mars Retrograde in Cancer also gives the image of melting anger. If you can realize the inner subconscious source of your anger, you can heal it from the roots (Cancer) and dynamically change your life. This can take outside guidance, since you can't possibly see all your blind spots. Yet, you can change old patterns that are based on old identity beliefs. Denying your feelings keeps you stuck because it's only through feeling them that they can dissolve. Denying feelings keeps you subconsciously living with frustration, fear, and anger, and those emotions keep you from being HERE and NOW. Believing our stories that cast us in the role of being "good" prevents us from being whole and helps us build defenses. And these defenses protect us from feeling emotions we really don't want to feel. Yet, stuffing the bad feelings keeps them subconsciously alive and well, ready to add on to any situation and create a reason for a reaction.

This is Mars in Cancer from the New Age Adult Report. This reports is based on the work of Louise Haye, so If you're familiar with her work, i hope you'll enjoy this: .

"Everything you do depends on your mood. When you feel positive and happy you act with confidence and security. But when you feel depressed you show your irritability and impatience. It is probable that you do not adequately vent your aggressions and if you find yourself hurt by someone, you can bear a grudge. This astrological position could indicate that your home life was tense or discordant, with frequent arguments and disagreements, or, that you had a dominant mother with whom it was easy to fight. In spite of the lack of harmony that could exist in your home, you feel a great loyalty towards your family. In the face of an emergency you will be calm and firm. It is important that you learn to direct your energies with discipline and continuity, to be more tolerant of criticism, and to moderate your aggressiveness when it appears."

To adapt this description of Mars in Cancer for right now, Mars in Cancer can point to disruptions in your CURRENT home or familylife, someone in your family trying (or passive/aggressively trying) to get their needs met, making fighting seem to be shadow boxing. Who's right? It's hard to say and it doesn't really matter.

And from Your Spiritual Path
"With Mars in Cancer, your spiritual persona is expressed most fluently through the Feeling function. You are like a steam engine in many ways. Once you get rolling, it is nearly impossible to slow you down. You are able and willing to push into territory that other people shrink from, and you come out of difficult situations more or less in one piece, with your enthusiasm intact. You exemplify the connection between the past and the future in your devotion to whatever task you set for yourself. You are not satisfied until this connection has been made and you understand it. Spiritually you have to understand your karma from the past in order to guide your present decisions. Thus you may press deeper into your personal and family history, and even into past lives."

Once Mars makes its Direct station and re-enters Cancer (on March 4, 2008), Mars will oppose Pluto at 0 degrees Capricorn. (Pluto is changing signs, always a major signal of a change in world focus, but before that happens, there's a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction on December 18, more on that soon...) The issues you don't clear up now can become MAJOR issues by Spring.

Many of us were taught very young (Cancer) to shut down our emotions (Cancer), so while Mars is Retrograde in Cancer, we may experience unconscious displays of emotions that have been kept in the dark as we pretend they don't exist because, after all, that was so many years ago....

Yet, the subtle feelings persist and continue to color our every day lives. They influence our relationships, and they even influence how we talk to ourselves. As Mars Retrogrades from Cancer back into Gemini, it's an opportune time to pay more attention to HOW YOU TALK TO YOURSELF. I don't mean out loud, i mean to yourself. How much do you talk yourself out of everything you want? While Mars is Retrograde in Cancer you may realize how much of your automatic self-talk is unconscious. It's "just" the way we were taught to be as we grew up, what we learned from the grown ups around us. This is not ANYONE's fault. It's the way culture changes, slowly, over generations.

On a financial level, Mars will station Retrograde in Cancer and exactly conjunct the USA Sun. Mars has a cutting effect, and when it comes to business or any financial transaction, Mars cuts prices. Cancer rules the home, and with Mars making a Retrograde station conjunction of the US Sun, it's likely that we'll see the dollar continue to drop, along with home prices.

What prevents us from abundantly manifesting whatever we want, and keeps us thinking we need to exert more and more and more force to get it is FEAR. Mercury, through affiliation w the archangel Raphael, can facilitate healing unspoken (Mars Retrograde in Mercury) fear. When Mars Retrogrades back into Gemini, you may find a healthy way to give voice to your anger. Speak your mind-- with passion!

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Since Venus rules Libra, the influence of Venus is strengthened in Libra. You're looking good, feeling friendly, and hoping to enjoy harmonious social situations.

When Venus is in Libra, we can be more focused on our relationship with others than with ourselves. And while this can create peace and happiness, you can also lose your own sense of self.

Venus in Libra can also make items we want seem more valuable. The competition can get fierce if you're bidding for something or someone attractive!

From the TimeLine Forecast:
Venus in Libra
As this new cycle takes hold in your life, romance and social interaction take on a greater importance for you. Harmonious ties to others are what you yearn for; refinement and elegance are what you seek. The ideal partnership, the perfect balance, the highest standards of truth and beauty - these are some of the things that quicken your pulse now.

Venus enters Libra as we approach the New Moon; this is a time of renewal for friendship, love, and money! Celebrate all the wonderful things you LOVE about your life.

in Love&Light,
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Here's Destiny & Decisions on
TRANSITING SUN TRINE URANUS--The Sun illuminates you and the world around you and this transit encourages self-discovery. There will be an air of excitement and suddenness with a heightened level of understanding about yourself and the world around you. It is a good time to expand your horizons and for the study of any technical discipline, such as astrology, mysticism and psychic phenomena. Very little that affects you is hidden from you during this transit, and you can be very much aware of who you are. You will be energetic and restless, so it is not a good time to relax. Use the energy to expand your life with new experiences and new encounters.

And here's Sun trine Uranus from Starlight Solutions:
Creative license, spontaneity, improvisation, and discovery are stimulated now. This is a good time for any activity that requires you to experiment and think outside the box. Your freedom to express yourself in your own way is quite important to you at the moment.

This Grand Trine is created by the transits of the SUN, URANUS, and MARS. Since the Sun travels more rapidly than Mars or Uranus AND Mars will station Retrograde on November 15, the Trine between Mars and Uranus will not actually become EXACT until April 2008, yet Mars-Uranus will have an influence through Spring 2008. When any personal planet occupies the 3rd point, a Grand Trine will activate. More on that as Mercury (Nov 19-21) and then Venus (Dec) approach that point.

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This is from Your Spiritual Path available personalized in the Karmic Reports section of the artcharts catalog. Enjoy:=)

Most of us were taught a set of "truths" in childhood and we were expected to accept them. To supplement what you have been taught by your parents, teachers, and the world at large, you need to develop a spiritual learning style that works for you. If you then decide to teach others, you must develop communication skills that let you share these experiences clearly and meaningfully with your students.

Training Your Conscious Mind
Three factors contribute to your ability to train your conscious mind for spiritual development:
* the natural direction of your thinking
* training to take advantage of this direction
* training your nervous system, and learning to respond to it

Element of Mercury
The angel Raphael is associated with healing in the Bible. The capacity for both companionship and healing forms the essence of Mercury's expression.

With Mercury in Libra, your communication style is primarily the Thinking type. Your healing focus lies in words and skillful communication. You use your intellect to examine conflict, discover its significance, and illuminate the path toward resolution. Adept in the technology of communication, you may have impact over long distances. Whether you focus on oral traditions, written word or artistic communication, you use logic in the mediation between or among people.

Training the conscious mind involves reasoning on the conscious level. Spiritual Education teaches how to engage your intuitive function. Intuition can be trained. Mercury reflects a specific way for you to learn about intuition. See the section on Uranus for more information on your intuitive ability.

Your sense of harmony comes into play when intuition arises. You want to fit the new information into what you already know so that you can use the head start it gives you. By knowing the emotional tone of situations in advance, you will learn mediation skills - Because you have the feelings ahead of time, you can be calm when the moment comes.

(house information is included in the report, but is valid only for the US eastcoast, and so is not included here;)

Mercury Aspects
The spirit within you expresses itself in the world almost without effort. Others can see the values you hold most important in your actions, hear them in your words, and therefore come to respect your opinions. Spirit expresses through you in the form of material creation. Whether you use words, music or art, or simply assist others to discover their highest expression, you are mediating between spirit and the material world each day. You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. You seek people with whom you can engage in serious spiritual work. Your capacity to concentrate on ideas can develop into deep philosophical understanding. You may become a teacher for others, as you recognize the effort required and can inspire it in your students. Your psychic senses are tuned so that you can talk about them clearly. You develop the capacity to tell other people the oddest impressions without causing discomfort. Powerful will stands behind your words, whether they focus on spiritual matters or mundane circumstances.

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Jupiter squares Uranus: October 8
Libra New Moon: October 11 @ 1:01 am edt
Mercury Retrograde: October 12 @12:00 am edt

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Libra New Moon: Slow dancing

The New Moon in Libra, the sign of the scales, is the time to create balance.
When you are in balance, you can harmonize with others and enjoy your relationships. Whether you are relating to a person, a pet, something you are doing, or a work of art, you are relating and creating balance and harmony, using the appropriate words, images, colors, tones, gestures, feelings.

To create harmony with others, you need to be diplomatic and able to compromise. If you focus on keeping the peace, your own needs can become less of an issue and you may even overlook something personally important to avoid conflict. There is also a balance between compromising until you lose your integrity and being yourself at all costs.

At the time of the New Moon, the Sun and Moon are conjunct in Libra. Libra is ruled by value-conscious Venus. And Venus is making a semisquare to the Sun and Moon and a conjunction to Saturn-- all of this can heighten any gap that exists between what you want and the habits you enjoy that keep you from achieving it.

On this Libra New Moon, Venus conjuncts cautionary Saturn, while Mercury is stationing Retrograde in Scorpio (and will Retrograde back into Libra on October 23, also the day the Sun enters Scorpio). The message is slow down. Something needs to be unraveled and it can't be done at high speed.

How do we get OUT of balance? By letting the opinions of others limit our reality. And we let ourselves be limited so we can remain at a familiar comfort level. No wonder we're frustrated! Following someone else's path is a sure way to get lost, or out of alignment with your Self, your flow, your dream.

Seeking approval is a quick way to feel unsettled and lose your balance. If you are (unconsciously) chasing after approval, this New Moon is an opportunity to release that need. If you are always accommodating others to be fair and stable, you're not really keeping the peace or creating balance if YOU are out of balance by only giving and not allowing yourself opportunities to receive. You may create peace and harmony, but also lose personal integrity as you put aside what you KNOW is important so you can satisfy the expectations of another person or society in general.

Libra is ruled by Venus and Venus is conjunct Saturn, so it may not be easy to express your feelings and you can be more calculating than unconditional in your feelings towards friends and lovers. You may be socializing more, but it may be more out of work or obligation than enjoyment.

It may seem that people don't appreciate you. And you may feel that you are not loved for yourself, but for the functions you perform, the financial support you provide, or the work you do. If your commitment to your family usually comes before your career, it can seem that others are far ahead of you.

Releasing the need for approval is a challenge because it means accepting your own less-than-perfect tendencies; your own darkness. It's hard to accept yourself FULLY. You don't always approve of yourself or not all your impulses that are nice or friendly or harmonious, and some are uniquely personal.

Venus and Saturn conjunct in early Virgo can magnify any resistance to love. And affection can be harder to demonstrate. Yet, in Virgo, the message is that being a partner in a happy, fulfilling relationship can be taught and learned.

How do you get clear -- right NOW-- which is the only time there is!? The New Moon (Sun and Moon is trine Neptune and sextile Jupiter. The key is to have a vision. And you can get your vision by meditation, visualization, prayer, creativity, dreamwork, journaling. Let your subconscious have its voice. Open and give yourself inner access, whether that's by listening, feeling, sensing, or visualizing. However it comes to you, be open and let yourself see beyond what seems to be reality. Singing, dancing, and music can help you channel your sensitivity, and talent is NOT necessary (and may hinder the process if you automatically edit your every impulse). You can change your aura by listening to music, and you can get inspired by watching a movie or reading a book.

Pay attention to your feelings, allow them to be present. And then allow yourself to release hurts and forgive, starting with yourself. This can free up energy that is frozen in position by holding onto hurt that causes you pain. There is always something you get from every experience and once you can realize what that is, you can release any hold that experience may have on you. If you can't meditate and release by yourself, guided meditation can help you learn to sit silently with yourself, which can take practice. If you don't have a space that feels sacred and inspiring, this New Moon is the perfect time to create one. It doesn't have to be large, any space will do. It's not the size, it's what you bring to it, the way you decorate and give it personal meaning.

Mercury stationing Retrograde on a New Moon suggests that to get something NEW you may have to rethink something you are obsessing on (Mercury in Scorpio)
This is a message to SLOW DOWN. This is a balancing act that can be done-- slowly.

Thoughts are flying fast. Mercury will trine Mars 2 more times (Retrograde on Oct 17 and Direct on Nov 19), and they are both sextile Saturn (Mercury/Mars=Saturn, or Saturn is at the midpoint of Mercury/Mars). This is the time to use your mental energy to make clear and practical decisions. Libra, the Scales, is about balance. To achieve balance on the scale of this New Moon, you will need to tip the scales slowly and cautiously.

If you are experiencing a lack of energy, feeling stuck, apathetic, ashamed, or embarrassed, afraid, anxious, or depressed, you cannot just instantly expect yourself to move to an ecstatic state of pure joy. But-- just making the slightest push towards feeling better or shifting your perspective slightly can cause a major turnaround this Autumn. You don't need to PUSH, just a PING! of encouragement (New Moon - Sun and Moon sextile Jupiter) is enough to set a positive change of direction in motion.

While Mercury is Rx in Scorpio, we may be trying to figure out major, profound problems we recently raced past. While Mercury stops and travels backwards in Scorpio, we may be anxious about what we are sensing, and not ready to get drawn deeper into understanding a mystery. There are still lessons to be learned before we can dive deeper. Perhaps we don't really know what we want. Or we think about something and immediately negate the possibility that it could happen. During Mercury is Rx in Scorpio we get opportunities to rethink recurring negative thoughts. It's a great time to slow down your thoughts by journaling or meditating.

If you want to release but you are resisting, what new ideas are you resisting? Jupiter square Uranus symbolizes tradition interfacing with new ways of thinking. And since Uranus rules groups, we are not sure the new vision is aligning with tradition in a way that can create a mindset shift-- as a society. Yet old walls and ways are slowly changing and breaking down.

Resistance can even take the form of exuberant enthusiasm. When Jupiter is square Uranus, too much optimism can be unrealistic and encourage you to overdo something, overshoot your goal, thereby missing the mark. Perhaps you think you're best is never good enough, so you continue to work, polish, edit, do more, and more and more and it's still not good enough. You can create your own resistance by continuing to do too much, when your first impulse was fine.

From Libra to Scorpio
The Sun enters Scorpio on October 23

While the Sun transits through Libra, it's time to find balance --- the state when body, mind, emotions are aligned. And once we feel this balance, we are in an aligned state of body, mind, emotion with what we want, or our spiritual purpose. And then we are ready to move into a deeper or more spiritual perspective, which is Scorpio.

Buddha: "don't just DO something, sit there!"

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SECTION 2. Using Astrology for Your Greatest Benefit
Libra is the sign of love and relationships. The New Moon is the time to think about how you relate to others, because this is also the time you can DO something about your relationships. You can change the way you look at others and how you feel about your interactions. How DO you react to insulting or negative comments? To love and affection?

The Love Forecast gives you invaluable insights into how you approach love, using the transits of Moon, Venus, and Pluto. Be ready, because this forecast discusses everything and holds back nothing.

The Relationship Potential Report looks at how you approaching relationships, using your 7th house cusp, or the Descendant to describe your relationship to Relationship. If the same problems resurface in your relationships, it can be invaluable to look at what you expect and what you bring to your relationships.

SECTION 3. Personal Readings
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Full Moon on October 26: beyond the veil

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