PISCES NEW MOON
The Pisces new moon takes place on February 23 at 10:32 AM EST. It takes place at 4 degrees 29 minutes Pises. Pisces is a mutable water sign. It is the last sign of the zodiac and contains the energy of all the signs. It is a culmination of the entire wheel of the year.
This makes the Pisces New Moon a great time to look back at the previous 12 months and forward to the coming year.
As Pisces is ruled by Neptune, this new Moon invites us to dream, and to envision what we want to attract; where we want to spend our time and energy.
With Pisces we can also look at where we have been deluded, waylaid or sidetracked by ideas that may not be what we truly want.
We can be sidetracked by outmoded ideas, by thinking we want a life presented by social media that would, in truth and practice, not suit our disposition at all.
Getting a clear look at who we are and how we want life to unfold can be aided by meditation, by writing, by consulting oracles, by vision boards, by dream journals…..
Mercury is still retrograde in Pisces. It will dip its toe back into Aquarius to 28 degrees before resuming forward motion on March 10.
The bulk of the retrograde time is spent in Pisces, inviting us to see where we are foggy, where we are clear and where we might want to stay in the mist of potential until clarity arrives.
Saturn, lord of karma and timing, is getting ready to end the two year journey through Capricorn, the planet’s home sign. Saturn will move into revolutionary, ground breaking, rut shaking Aquarius on March 22.
Before Saturn leaves Capricorn, it will make some parting shots.
At the time of the new Moon, Mars is at 4 degrees Capricorn and Jupiter is at 18 degrees Capricorn. Pluto is at 24 degrees Cap and Saturn is at 27 degrees.
The South Node is nearly conjunct Mars at 6 degrees Capricorn.
We are face to face with the structure of our lives — the physicality and the plans and the timing.
What needs to be let go can be taken or shaken from our very hands at times like this so that we can be present for a deeper experience, the one we’ve been planning for with our higher selves.
We’ve been sitting in the Higher Self’s tree house, with a Guardian angel and our soul and a stick scratching out plans in the earthen floor that our ordinary selves may know nothing about. Perhaps only a glimmer or a nudge til now.
The part of us that visits with other realms while we are sleeping or doing the shopping or making plans for greatness has been quietly been plotting for an unfolding beyond our simple human imagining.
The sudden appearance of these machinations of our higher selves can pull us up and out of the every day.
I have seen it happening with several people I know this very week.
A healing crisis, the addiction that finally gets big enough for the job to be lost and for recovery to begin. These are Pisces/Neptune meets Capricorn experiences. Where we are lost from life, we are called back to the light of day.
The path we truly desire opens up in perhaps a sudden and possibly shocking way - where part of or all our whole existence may need to be reconsidered— Mercury retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius. Uranus in Taurus trining Mars in Capricorn can flush us from our rut to find deeper value in our activities and relationships.
Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn in Capricorn are square to Venus in Aries at this new Moon. Venus is the lower octave of Pisces’ ruler Neptune. Aries is led by instinct. Both Pisces and Capricorn are Cardinal signs that want to begin and begin again. Aries may break down barriers with its head to get the soul moving on the next leg of the journey while the personality is left rubbing the resultant lump and trying to keep up.
Pisces is the dream and delusion. It is also a culmination readying for another turn around the wheel of the year. Capricorn is the timing and structure. Uranus/Aquarius is the group and the lighting bolt that sets our pants and mind on fire with change of body and ideas.
These energies are all at play this new Moon.
While sitting in the dark of the Sun/Moon conjunction in Pisces, we can relate to the alternate awareness the fish has naturally that we can tap into. We are all swimming in the same pool of spirit that is beyond time and space. We are able to feel the ripple of what is approaching— sometimes hard by, sometimes many moons away. Both may be relevant to the here and now. The sense we used to pick up on these ripples may be intuition, instinct and connection to our Higher Self, rather than, or in addition to sight, sound, taste etc.
Expansion into love of self and love of each moments variety of experience is the best friend at this time.
When the waves come, by diving deeper we find stillness, comfort and wisdom.
Love, Lydia 💜
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LEO FULL MOON 2020
Creative Fire
The full moon at 20 degrees Leo brings home our creative expansion.
With the Sun in Aquarius we are on the trajectory between our personal creative self expression and the way that expression can be shared and enhanced with the group.
Leo is personal and wants to shine on its own merit. Our evolution starts with our emotional body. The full Moon gives a radiant point of self reflection and projection.
With the opposition to the Sun in Aquarius we can say, how does my radiance, my special and unique and NECESSARY shininess benefit the whole?
What does my presence – the way I hold my head, the way I walk into a room, the way I share my story, benefit the whole?
Aquarius loves its friends, its community, its shared vision. Together, we can be electrifying. But it’s the differences in our gifts and abilities and histories joined together that make a whole that can energize and transform and galvanize.
We have our first Mercury retrograde cycle of the decade starting on Feb 17 at 12 degrees Pisces. Mercury will resume forward motion on 10 March at 28 Aquarius. All other planets are direct until 26 April when Pluto goes retrograde at 24 Capricorn.
We may want to consider how our day to day conversations affect us and others. Mercury rules short distance travel. We could forego driving to the shops and walk instead; using the time to be mindful of the air, the signs of the ever-changing natural reactions to temperatures and sunlight.
The Sun enters Pisces on February 18, so the Mercury retrograde will have an extra Neptunian cast. We have to opportunity to gaze into the dream space, the land of wish and hope and desire. We can reflect on how life is unfolding and the direction we are taking. We can adjust the wish list to fit where we are today. We may want different things than we did a month, a year, a lifetime ago. Also, the trajectory of our dreams may have shortened thanks to our increased awareness, abilities and knowledge.
As Pisces also addresses delusion, we want to see where our ideas are not reflecting the clear, true light of day. What we see in dim shadow at 3 am is very different once the sun comes up. The practical Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus May give the wake up call to what, indeed, is what.
Venus is the lower octave of Neptune. Venus will be moving through instinctual and action-oriented Aries until 6 March. As we reflect on what we want, Venus in Aries may give us a sudden brainstorm on how to get it. Chiron moves from Pisces to Aries on 19 February. We may see how our wounds and dashed or amended dreams have lead to new shots, fresh growth and stronger visions that will suit better who we are now.
Lots of love and happy dreams.💗
Lydia
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AQUARIUS NEW MOON 2020
Recipe for a Moonage Daydream
We have our first new Moon of the decade, of the year.
The Aquarius Sun and Moon are together at 4 degrees.
The Sun and Moon are squaring Uranus at 2 degrees Taurus.
We are being asked to clear the decks to observe the revolution that is going on inside of each one of us.
The new Moon is such an internal experience. Our light and our night are unified to illuminate the our heart of hearts.
In the dark of the moon we have a quiet, a vacuum that lets us hear a different kind of quiet. The voice we can’t hear the rest of the year can be heard. When we tune into the frequency of Aquarius, we’ll hear what the Universe wants to say to us and to us alone.
This square to Uranus in Taurus makes it personal. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury. It is the voice beyond listening with ordinary ears. We need to go inside and reach for it.
Uranus in Taurus says, listen to me now. I’m speaking to your skittish inner mouse or squirrel who wants to know it’s going to have enough hay for a nest and enough nuts to get through the winter. And Uranus in Taurus, with a message just for you, may say, forget the hay and the nuts for a minute!!! What have you got in that hidey hole of yours that’s going to feed your soul and your spirit and the part of you that wants to LIVE? What have you got going on in the heart of hearts that allows you to align your vibration with the song that the Universe sings just for you? When will you realize that the song is a duet?
All the wisdom is out there and the wisdom flows through a funnel and when that wisdom drips down to the core of our being it has been distilled into an elixir of illumination just for us.
So, go on, bask in the radical Aquarian black light of this new Moon. Burn some incense! Invite your whole self, inner child, higher Self, animal teacher, ancient healer, past and future selves! Aquarius likes the company. Bring all of yourselves inside for the journey.
The way to honor this full moon is to value the self. Get comfortable with all of our moving parts and shifting thoughts, and evolving emotions. Bathe in the atmosphere of your own vibration. Feel what is emanating, feel what your field is attracting. All of this can be experienced while lounging comfortably in one’s own bed or bath or couch.
Eyeshades can help the movement inward as can breathing and allowing the stars and galaxies to swirl around your insides giving a New Year New Moon cosmic cleanse.
Venus and Neptune are conjunct – or close enough to it – to contribute to the dreamy quality of this New Moon. Mars in Sagittarius makes a mutable square to Venus/Neptune, kindling the heart fire and sparkling our Dreamtime to life. Breathe in the steam they make and breathe the 2020 self into being.
Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter and the South Node are all in Capricorn reminding us we know how to dream AND see the reality of manifestation. North Node in Cancer says the emotions lead the way. The New Moon is a great time to tend to what the emotions reveal to us. They tend to be illuminated when the Sun rides tandem with the Moon.
Mercury rides with the Sun and Moon in Aquarius, too. Upon arising from the reverie, you may want to make a note of any insights that revealed during your starlit repose.
Happy New Moon.
Happy Year of the Rat. 🐀
Lydia
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FULL CANCER MOON 2020

Happy 2020 to you all!
The first full moon lunar eclipse of the decade is at 20 degrees Cancer on January 10 at 2:21 pm EST.
This eclipse is penumbral, not clearly visible in the night sky, even if you live where it is “visible.”
In the sky at the moment we have Saturn conjunct Pluto at 22 Capricorn. Their conjunction is exact on January 12, but they are at the same degree at the new Moon, so close enough to contribute to the intense Capricornian energy in polarity to the full Cancer Moon.
We are feeling our history in Cancer. We are feeling who we are, at core; uniting ego and emotional bodies. There may be a feeling of pulling our emotional socks up resolving to a year of self care, self love, calmness and letting go of past hurts. The
Capricorn Sun calls us to stand in our strength, personal authority and authenticity as individuals.
On Jan 10, Uranus, the higher octave of Mercury, goes stationary direct at 2 degrees Taurus after having been retrograde since August 11.
Uranus holds subconscious memory and while it was retrograde for the last five months, our memories around safety, security, self love and value systems may have been distilled in such a way as to be brought to our conscious mind to be remembered, processed and integrated.
For instance, long lost memories of childhood trauma may have resurfaced to be examined, understood, healed, forgiven, and released. So now, at the full moon eclipse, with Uranus resuming forward motion, we have the opportunity to be liberated from old wounding, misunderstanding, alienation, fear of lack, or neglect.
Freedom from past hurts leaves a great space. We are no longer carrying as much weight of old wounds. We can use that freed up mental and emotional space to let in what is new, wanted, and expansive.
There is an opportunity for liberation from old subconscious wounding or habits. There is the opportunity to transform and evolve the way we operate on the earth plane for our own greater good and for the good of all.
We all participate, to varying degrees, in natural, familial, societal, economics and political structures.
We have the opportunity to actually use the universal wisdom that we have been downloading through our good intentions, meditations, careful action, kindness, and warm and happy thoughts.
These things aren’t just Instagram pics or bumper stickers. The good is real. Positive evolution and expansion are real. We simply need to choose them every time.
What is the best action or thought or mantra I can take, think, repeat in This present moment?
Pluto and Saturn are a power duo in Capricorn capable of real shifts of consciousness and action and structures in the real world.
The full Cancer Moon asks us to be responsible for our own emotional body. Do we direct our emotions to a better feeling place? Do we remember that no one can make us feel a certain way? We must remember that we are responsible for what arises in our own system. The Cancer/Capricorn polarity is about responsibility. Do we respond in a way that makes us feel good about ourselves and the choices we are making in our thoughts, words, and deeds?
The Cancer full Moon is about keeping our side of the emotional street clean. We can be a power of example for others by taking a beat and responding with care as best as we are able in every situation.
For many of us this is a work in progress. So each moment we can resolve to evolve.😊
Powerful people living in powerful times. Choose to respond in a way that feels true in each situation that arises.
Happy Full Moon and Happy New Year. All the very best to you all.
Lydia
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CAPRICORN NEW MOON/SOLAR ECLIPSE
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse will occur at 12:13 AM EST ON December 26th.
We approach the closing of the year and the decade with Capricorn’s New Moon and eclipse at 4 degrees 7 minutes Capricorn.
The eclipse amplifies the energy of the New Moon.
Jupiter will be within a degree conjunction to the New Moon. Jupiter definitely amplifies, or expands what it touches.
Now Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, traditionally is known to contract what it touches.
I like to think of Saturn as solidifying things it touches. It makes them real. The concrete sets, the jelly gels, the story starts to make sense.
I like Jupiter and Saturn traveling together. Jupiter brings the vision, the expanding sense of possibility, the jokes.
Saturn brings the blueprint, the timeline, the storyboard and an outcome in real time.
It’s like the buddies in any tale of a journey. Both players can’t be Falstaff. And both players can’t be the one who gives all the reasons why it will never work.
We need walls to the house, a container into which we pour our grand ideas, recipes and designs.
Since Saturn is in charge of timing, we can take actions, after calm reflection and planning, and let go of the results- leaving the results in the lap of the gods.
Uranus, is currently retrograde in Taurus and makes a trine to the new Moon/Sun/Jupiter in Capricorn.
Uranus, the higher octave of Mercury, doesn’t necessarily care how we might feel about the earth shattering downloads of awakening or information it gives us at this new Moon. Keep a microphone, pen or some other device handy to record the revelation that may be available at this time.
Don’t hit the snooze again. If a jolt is given, it is a call the higher self is making to the physical receiver. It’s only polite to receive.
If we don’t, the next jolt could do more than simply get our attention.
Also at the new Moon, Saturn and Pluto are pretty close to a conjunction in later degrees of Capricorn- 21 and 22 degrees respectively. Saturn is The ruler of this new moon/eclipse.
Pluto is the ruler of our personal and soul’s transformation. In Capricorn, these two are saying, yah it’s time. Sometimes as we travel down the road with these two, the road may get more narrow. Superfluous interests may fall away. What used to seem important may suddenly feel superficial. We wil see what is truly important to us. Focus is enhanced. Focus is aided and guided by Saturn and Pluto. It could feel restrictive as the higher self guides us to important appointments with our own destiny.
Pluto is the higher octave of Mars, who is currently in Scorpio, who is ruled by Pluto.
We may feel that there are some things afoot that are just out of reach of our understanding. It is important to be prepared, through increased time of rest and reflection, to receive and assimilate information that will coalesce into understanding in perfect timing.
We are in a beautiful space where the dream, the idea, the possible — meets the probable, the achievable, the doable?
Saturn allows the hot air balloon of puffed up Jupiter potential to land on terra firma. We can tie the balloon down, alight from the basket and earth the ideas; we can make manifest the big picture that we envisioned from on high.
Funnily enough we started 2019 with a Capricorn new Moon and eclipse and now we end it with another one.
In the past year, I hope you have fine tuned the dreams and visions that are the unfoldment of our lives.
We say an uplifting word to a stranger at the grocery store, it makes their day. It saves their life.
We embark on a new project or hobby that enlivens us and that brightness blasts outward. It raises our vibration and the vibration of those around us.
We clear out old wounds, fears or habits and allow good feeling thoughts and actions that fill the resulting void.
These are all very Saturnian experiences. These are feet walking in a Good Orderly Direction types of Capricornian actions.
All the best to you all and see you in 2020.
Lydia
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The Sun may be in Sagittarius and the Full Moon is in Gemini, but wow we must talk about Capricorn.
At this Full Moon on Dec 12 12:12 EST we have Pluto at 21 degrees and Venus and Saturn at 19 degrees Capricorn.
We have the South Node at 8 degrees and Jupiter at 2 degrees of the sign of the Goat with a serpents tail.
Since the ruler of Sagittarius is Jupiter and Jupiter is now going to spend a year traveling through Capricorn the two signs are finding their way together.
I happen to think they make a great pair.
Jupiter wants to expand and grow and can be prone to unbridled optimism and an almost grandiose expectation of good luck.
Capricorn and Saturn love growth and expansion, as long as careful planning and a good sense of timing are employed. We don’t want the wood to expand so much in the rain that we can’t shut the door.
It’s an opposites attract kind of situation in which the two temper each other.
We also have a mutable T square formed by the Sun, the Moon and Neptune in Pisces. We are dreaming in this square to Neptune. We are seeing where our dreams, hopes and visions have come to fruition. Full Moons are culmination points and a good time to take stock.
A good amount of time to look at is the last six months when the sun was in Gemini and the Moon was in Sagittarius.
This axis looks at the mind, communication, curiosity and Truth; and how we gather and assimilate information.
Gemini asks what is that? Sagittarius asks what does it mean? Intuition and inner exploration is the shortest way to find out.
All of the Capricorn energy says “it’s time,” as Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn says “when.”
This is the last full Moon of the decade. We move out of the teens and into the twenties. Like our century, with many planets in Capricorn, we are maturing.
What is nearing completion that has been a focus since the last eclipse cycle of Cancer/Capricorn in July of 2019? On December 26 we have a new eclipse cycle beginning- with the New Moon Solar Eclipse at 4 degrees Capricorn.
The dance with Jupiter in Capricorn will continue, so find a way to move with your own flow of expansion and contraction. When we know when to inhale and when to exhale, knowing each is a necessity, our breath can take us, in perfect timing, into The unfoldment of our lives.
We can only hold the lungs at full expansion or full exhalation for a short time. We need to expand and contract, expend energy and gather energy in a cycle that works best for us.
It is a busy time of year on the inner and the outer. Find an expansion and contraction cycle that works best for you and the responsibilities and the intentions will have a way of being met.
Love, Lydia
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SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON 2019
ADDING THE EXTRA TO THE ORDINARY
The New Sagittarius Moon is on November 26 at 4:06 AM EST.
We move in to a time that can be more fluid, like our waistline when we eat at holidays.
Sagittarius is a mutable sign – able transmute ideas and things.
Venus has now entered Capricorn where it will travel until December 20th.
Sagittarius’ ruler, Jupiter, will move out of its own sign into Capricorn on December 2nd.
So our Sagittarius time will be tempered by Saturn.
Sagittarius is expansive and feels lucky. Capricorn contracts and wants to feel sure.
I like the combo of the two. Capricorn gives a good foundation for Sagittarius’ castles in the sky.
Sagittarius adds the fun factor, the embellishment, and the spirit to Capricorn’s blueprints.
But at this new moon Jupiter is still in Sag, and it is a good time to sit down and digest the year that is nearing its close. It is a good time to tune into how we have experienced these last months and to ask our higher selves how to integrate our thoughts and experiences and prepare the way, on the inner, for what we’d like to experience next.
Sagittarius’ business is to develop our own intuition, to develop our connection on a daily basis, with the energies, easily within reach, that can help us. There is so much more to life than what we can see and experience with the first five senses.
The way can be expanded by following our guidance on the little things. Then we have inroads when we need help with what seem like the bigger things.
When there is an inkling to drive home via a different route, just try it! The higher Self can see further down the road than we can with our ordinary eyes.
Perhaps we’ll see that there is a sale on at a shop that has just what we need.
Or maybe, by taking that different route home, we avoid a construction delay.
Sagittarius invites us to expand our inner life so that it meets the every day life and makes it extraordinary.
This inner life and the wisdom it conveys can be enhanced by tuning in to the natural world— whether it is the ground beneath the feet, the cat on the lap, the plants in the garden, or the snow falling outside the window.
Sagittarius calls for freedom and the natural world can remind us to release the constraints of schedules, to-do lists and alarms — even for a few hours a week- to attune to our own time to rise, time to move, time to eat.
This way, when we get the urge to make a change in our day to day life- job, diet, social life, exercise routine, well recognize how we want to respond to opportunity arising.
With Jupiter moving into Capricorn and Saturn, Pluto, and Venus already there, the structures and schedules of our lives are worth reviewing.
Saturn rules time and the order of things. Schedules that don’t work for us can change or feel like a prison.
If we find daily routines and schedules that work with our natural time clocks and rhythms, the schedules can be a freedom.
A new Moon in Sagittarius asked where do want to feel more free? Sagittarius wants to know it’s Truth. Sometimes it takes investigation to know what is true for us and to weigh what is important to us, and what we think should be important to us.
Where is the breathing room, even in a busy day?
How are the choices I make in work and routine allowing me to feel expansive?
Sometimes all that is needed is an adjustment in how we look at daily life.
Sometimes a bigger revamp is called for.
By tuning in to one’s own intuitive voice, we are aware of the what’s when’s and wherefores and the inner truth of our Being.
Thank you and may the Sagittarius new Moon be restful, reenergizing, and revelatory in just the right measure for you.
Lydia
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TAURUS FULL MOON 2019
The Full Moon on November 12th is at 19 degrees 32 minutes Taurus across from the Sun in Scorpio.
The Taurus Scorpio axis unifies our ability to be self- sufficient and our ability to share resources with others.
Taurus learns to hunker down and gather it’s resources. With the full Moon here, we might wonder what we’re doing alone at home with a year’s supply of canned goods and no one to share them with.
Playing it safe, emotionally, can be comfy and hassle-free. It can also be a bit lonely or boring or even moving toward stagnation. One strength of the fixed signs is once they decide to make a new habit, they are able to stick with it.
Mercury will go direct at 12 degrees of Scorpio on November 20th. This retrograde cycle, leading up to Sun in Sagittarius time, asks us to listen to our inner conversations and to be conscious of how we speak to ourselves. Scorpio seeks transformation and a great place to start is with our inner voice and how we work with it. Even the words we don’t speak aloud have power, so our inner monologue can be refined to comfort, encourage, and embolden.
Venus, ruler of Taurus, is in mutable Sagittarius at this full Moon. Sagittarius guides us to develop our intuition, making this Moon a fine time for inner expansion, leading to interesting and expansive choices and actions on the outer. Sagittarius can also be optimistic and fun-loving; coaxing Taurus up into the light to share the labors of love that have been nurtured in solitude.
Taurus helps us in the realm of what we value and how we value ourselves. Sometimes it takes going out in the world, to a friend’s house, to a class, to work, even if we don’t feel at our best, to see that sharing our honest self can be of value in the world. Sharing how we have grown and changed and moved through hurt, even if we are still in it, can be life saving for others.
We can only hole up for so long before cabin fever sets in and we are really sick of our home-canned pickles.
It’s time to see if they can be traded with a neighbor’s tomatoes they put up over harvest time.
This is bringing the Full Taurus Moon into the resource sharing nature of Sun in Scorpio.
Clearly I am not just talking about canned goods. I am talking about knowing when to be in strengthening retreat, and when to come out and share the valuable self each of us is developing with others.
The energy shared then transforms ourselves, and those we touch; sparking evolution— small and large.
We don’t have just one purpose in this life on the outer plane.
On a daily basis we can tune in and see where our value and our power lies and how it can be expressed through us - to ourselves, and to others.
Lots of love, Lydia
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SCORPIO NEW MOON 2019
The new Moon occurs on October 27th at 7:38 PM EST at 4 degrees 25 minutes Scorpio.
The preparation for change, the call for the self to relax into what is to come is great.
When a woman, about to give birth, enters later stages of labor, the whole being must give over to the experience.
When we give over to our Soul’s Desire to become what our blueprint has laid out for it, we can resist it, or we can breathe, squeeze a loved ones hand or paw and allow our lives to be forever changed.
Scorpio wants to change. It is also afraid of change. It wants to be all powerful, and it wants to give over to the All Powerful.
The water sign feels deeply and it wants those feelings to mean something, and it wants the feelings to bear fruit.
Scorpio is a fixed sign. Once a fixed sign has screwed up its courage and decided on embarking on that next transformative adventure, there is no turning back.
Pushing off with its mighty talons, the eagle aspect of Scorpio takes to the air.
Aloft, it can get the bigger picture. It can see the forest and the trees.
It can see where its hunting ground is fertile and where it is dry and unyielding.
When we embark on a transformational journey and, if we are keeping all of our eyes open (both inner and physical), every journey can be transformational, we get more information and more experience. These learnings the aid further expansion.
Some of the learning can be uploaded, intellectually, before we even push off.
We can watch endless YouTube videos on the subject. We can ask friends and advisors, we can consult innumerable self help books.
They will help us to orient to what we may expect.
But as our individual curriculum on this life walk us tailor-made, just for us, we can only really allow and integrate transformation by experience.
So we get stuck in. We meet people. We go on an actual date. We write an actual term paper. We look up from the cookery program and make the meal and eat it.
Fixed signs are not just theoretical. They get involved on all levels. The emotional, spiritual and physical can be left behind with the mere ideation.
This new Moon is in opposition to retrograde Uranus in Taurus.
Where Scorpio knows how to ask for help on its Project and look near and far for active solutions, polar opposite Taurus hunkers down in the bunker and gathers its own resources.
With Uranus in Taurus, our soul memory, the one we carry lifetime after lifetime, is felt in our bones and aids in our very survival.
This is a resource that is more available than ever as it is retrograde. We can discover pieces that may have been lost to us that can help us in the here and now.
It is said that the veil between the worlds is thinnest during Scorpio time.
If you were so inclined, a round table meeting of our present, former, and perhaps, even future selves can be called.
In meditation, we can ask the wisdom of all that we are, have been, and ever will be to gather together and offer memories, prophecies, advice and visions.
We can use our favorite occult tools to aid us in seeing. Tarot cards, crystal balls, a favorite tree. A memory of a visit to a sacred site – imagining yourself sitting there, your back against a standing stone or a beach chair, can summon up the Wisdom of your own ages to aid, advise and assist.
Mercury in Scorpio will go retrograde on October 31 at 28 degrees Scorpio journeying back to 12 Scorpio when it resumes forward motion on 20 November. The Sun is in Scorpio, as is Mercury for that entire retrograde cycle.
A commitment to daily or weekly meetings, in meditation with your Universal Selves during this period could widen the knowledge of self and gain many tools of confidence and wisdom for the way forward.
Scorpio rules shared resources. A sharing experience with all that we are, have been, and will be, can be a wonderful way to allow in the energies of the Mercury in Scorpio and Uranus in Taurus retrograde.
We can follow the breadcrumbs we, ourselves, have left and visit the house In the wood of our hearts that we, ourselves, built.
The witch who resides there is our own teacher and guide. The fear that she will eat us, or even more scary, reveal to us the Truth if our being, can be diminished by the accompaniment of the light of our own Faith and Desire to commit to revelation our meditations will bring.
The Scorpio archetype deals with lessons of Trust.
In this new Moon cycle, we are focusing on the trust we build in ourselves via our own investigations and experiences.
When we continue to build faith and trust in our own Higher Selves, we are more courageous in all aspects of our lives, because we are more self-reliant. We know that the Universal Force with which we have developed a constancy, is holding our hand every step of the way — it is the same Guiding Force when we meditate as when we mediate in the boardroom at work, or socialize with a new group, or go on a first date.
Scorpio has its three aspects, the armored, defensive scorpion, the all-seeing Eagle, and the death-defying Phoenix, reborn of the flame of Transformation.
I’ve capitalized lots of words so they will light up the subconscious and works as lamplights during the potentially life- changing adventure that is this Scorpio time m. We must but Embark. All that is needed is a loose ideation of what it is we want. And then we get on the Soul Road.
Happy Trails and Happy Halloween.
Lydia💜🌑💜
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ARIES FULL MOON 2019
Who am I when I put the sword down?
The Moon in Aries is full on October 15 2019 at 5:08 PM EST.
The Sun in Libra is engaging with others to gain insight into the self –what it is and is not; what it does and does not want to be.
The full Moon in Aries experiences itself through instinctual experience of its emotional body.
The emotions are raw and fiery and are not checked or inhibited by the mind.
It’s definitely a good time to look both ways before crossing the road.
Twice.
The other day, Mars, ruler of Aries, currently in Libra, was in opposition to Chiron in Aries.
Chiron is the wounded healer. It is a trigger point, in Aries, for old wounds. In opposition to Mars, enflamed old wounds can turn hair trigger.
We are still in orb of this opposition at the full Moon.
It’s a good time to take en extra breathe right down to the toes to remain grounded and all in one piece when engaging with others.
We all get triggered by different key words or behaviors or memories and it can be like walking on egg shells… or a mine field.
Retreating to one’s own corner or one’s own glorious garden, scenic outlook, or favorite comfort tv show are a great way to deflect at this time.
A brisk walk, swim, batting cage or other such full-body engagement is recommended.
Mercury and Venus have both moved into Scorpio. Pluto, now direct at 21 Capricorn and squaring the Moon and Sun, is the ruler of Scorpio. Pluto is the higher octave of Mars, again, ruler of this full Moon.
Scorpio can be skittish, but in the end it wants to transform. It is willing to dive into the fire of its own shortcomings to be reborn as the next iteration, a higher octave of itself.
If the full Moon hard-charging Aries can be reined in by its wiser advisor — Mercury and Venus in Scorpio, there is a way to put the emotional instinct to use. This means getting out ahead of our triggers - by meditating, practicing mindfulness, wearing ourselves out with exercise before we engage with people or a world full of triggers.
If restraint and consideration seem impossible, walk another lap around the block at speed.
Jupiter in Sagittarius is making a fiery trine to this full Moon.
Jupiter, though kindly, often fuels any fire it comes across. So, please read the above paragraphs about meditation, mindfulness and vigorous exercise again.
It is a time to remember that we are all swimming in the same pond. It is a time to remember that we all have triggers and are at various stages of healing, ignoring, or being completely unconscious of those triggers.
Treading lightly with our own emotional bodies and those of others is the way through.
If there is kindness to self and others that can be conjured, lay it on.
If at a loss in a tricky situation, this full Moon in Aries, vote with your feet and walk in the other direction. It can save sore heads and hearts.
The fire of the full Moon can be used to create beautiful chili or to knit a fuzzy rug to curl up in. Using the inner fire to heal and intuit what comes next for us is possible and recommended. 💗
Lots of love, 🐏
Lydia
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