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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LIBRA NEW MOON 2019
The New Moon at 5 degrees 20 minutes Libra occurs on September 28th at 1:26 pm EST. The new moon comes just a few days after the Equinox as we go into days of ever increasing darkness or light, depending on your Hemisphere.
It is the halfway point of the Astrological year.
Venus, ruler of Libra, currently moving through Libra, as is Mercury.
As Libra is an air sign, purview of the mind, and by association, communication. There is an implicit connection with Libra to Mercury – the gatherer and purveyor of communications.
The business of Libra is to learn about the self by embarking on a variety of relationships with others. Libra is just the first sign of the second half of the zodiac. From Libra through Pisces we are getting to know who we are by how we relate to individuals, groups and the environment.
Libra is the first sign above the horizon. It rules partnerships of all kinds – business, friendly, romantic.
Scorpio rules marriage. Libra is more akin to dating — getting to know others and who we are when we relate to others.
When we observe — a very air sign thing— our reactions to others – we learn about ourselves.
Does your boss bring out your best work?
Does your mother always know how to inspire a very scratchy kind of irritation?
Did that date last night make you laugh in a way you’d thought you’d forgotten how to do?
A new Moon in Libra can open us up to how we are relating, when we are relating, what feels like it’s working and expanding.
Libra is connected to aesthetics, the mental experience of the beauty of ruler Venus.
One can start to think one is relating by keeping up through social media and curated feeds. Libras aesthetic nature may prefer to watch than actually engage.
The true lesson of Libra is in actually meeting with others — all kinds of others. It may, however, feel like a freshly hatched chick staggering about on spindly legs. Libra is a Cardinal sign. It begins things. It emerges from the egg and says here I am! Who are you? It could meet a fox who wants to eat it. It could meet a worm that the chick wants to eat.
The new relationship experiences can send us back into our shell – but each new experience causes us to grow.
The shell has been cracked open and can’t offer us the protection it did when we were gestating.
Each relationship affects us in some way. The mind of Libra considers what we look like, who we are now and want to become, in part, due to the experience of the Other.
Chiron in Aries is in opposition to the Libra new Moon.
Aries is the newly emerged instinctual primal Cardinal energy. It is definitely experiencing itself through its own physical lens.
Aries is ruled by Mars. It will heal itself by instinctually striking out on its own, again and again to express its very “beingness” in the world. Chiron in Aries has groundbreaking energy.
The Aries/Libra polarity has us dancing back and forth across the wire from Aries pure instinct, following its nose to find itself, to Libra imploring the other to hold up a series of mirrors to say, who am I now?
And now? And now?
The Cardinal signature is a desire to change.
The repeated new beginnings inspire more and more change — or as we say nowadays — growth — assuming we are ever expanding through our experiences.
Cardinal signs are zipping back and forth across the line of their polarity to find balance – a place of comfort, a place of interdependence.
The balance between Aries and Libra is between blind instinct and considered and considerate relationship.
Between now and the full Moon in Aries on October 13th, we can ask ourselves, where am I the warrior on the field, hugely focused on kill or be killed? Where am I the warrior, marching home from battle, dreaming of my perfect partner waiting for me, heart in hand, immaculate home, beautifully swept hearth?
Where am I the returned hero, storming into the house, covered in gore and the grime of my journey, with very little idea of how to relate to the clean and quiet and relationships of peacetime? How does it feel to have time, at last, to look another in the eye with love, curiosity, compassion?
Maybe the partner the warrior returns to has succumbed to the wounds of their own battles. Maybe the partner has joined up with someone else while the warrior has been off following their own quest. Maybe the kids the warrior finds around the table cannot possibly be their own.
Who is that returning hero in the reflection of these scenarios?
Who am I now?
Each experience of the self alone, and the experience of the self as reflected through the other, invites reflection and change. The invitations are dynamic, as can be our willingness to accept the invitation.
If the invitation from other humans feels like too much at the Libra new Moon, one can unite with our higher selves in meditation. We can unite with earthly and universal energies by standing, barefoot, in the garden - observing the interaction of the bird and the branch on which it alights.
All things are relating, in varying degrees, all the time – the kettle and the water, the vacuum and the dust, the cold and the sun.
The changes may seem infinitesimal, they may seem cataclysmic. We can’t fit back into the fractured eggshell from which we emerged.
Ever onward, inward, and outward again we go.
I am a big fan of rest, reflection, and a pinch of resolve to begin again.
Lots of love.
Lydia
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PISCES FULL MOON 2019
The Pisces full Moon is at 21 degrees on Friday Sept 13th at 6:33 PM EST.
It is the Harvest Moon in the Northern hemisphere.
We are very close, now to the Equinox.
We are feeling the Virgo/Pisces polarity.
Virgo experiences the Spirit in all things through its mind and its physical senses.
The Pisces full Moon experiences the Source if all things through its extrasensory perceptions the senses to which we attune when we rest, relax and turn inward.
Polarities are necessary because they, for one, keep us safe.
It’s best to attune to the physical environment before we turn inward to meditate.
We make sure no bears are coming and that we haven’t left a pot going on the stove. We check the weather to see about possible lightning storms.
It is easier to relax and be one with everything if we are not doing in a busy intersection.
Anyway, you get the point: feet on the ground, head in the Pool of All That Is is a nice Pisces Virgo image.
Virgo is a wonderful navigator of the Earth plane. Pisces is a wonderful explorer of the other realms. We can, and do, experience both to various degrees in life, especially now.
At the full Moon Mars in Virgo is opposing Neptune (ruler of Pisces) in Pisces.
We can turn our physical energy to our inner world.
We can experience our spiritual selves while in the physical experience.
We are drawn to do so at this time. Meditation can feel like a quest to meet our inner wise one for a receipt of calm, clearing and the answering of questions.
While we are harvesting- this — or preparing to plant – we can tune in to our surroundings and hear what they have to say to us.
The opportunity for listening to all the ways we can receive the message of our Greater Self are many. When I say our Greater Self I mean the part that sees beyond the four walls and can guide us in the day to day of our lives.
Jupiter in Sagittarius is making a final square to Neptune (ruler of this full Moon) in Pisces. Mars, and more widely, Venus and Mercury, all in Virgo, are opposing Neptune and Squaring Jupiter.
At this time, we are wanting to go big. We are wanting to go home and reflect on what going big felt like and means to us in the grand scheme.
It is helpful to think about what going big means for us in relationship, in vocation, in fun and at home.
Someone else’s really small might be very expansive, indeed, for me.
Saturn goes direct in Capricorn in September 18th at nearly 14 degrees.
Plans and ideas we’ve been refine will start to make their way into the light of day.
Saturn tells us when it is time to implement and act. Saturn in Capricorn will make some steps forward and then stop to reflect, look at the structure thus far, pull a nail and move it over a few inches, ensuring the structure is sound.
Life is never all systems go or stop.
It is a dance in many directions and experiencing the feel of the entire field in which we can operate is a fulfilling and useful thing. We can get in touch with more of our heart, soul, energy and guidance. We can go bigger and see how that feels
… for us, it’s all relative and it’s all part of our personal full Spectrum.
Lots of love,
Lydia
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lydia@soulastro.com

VIRGO NEW MOON 2019
The New Moon at 6 degrees 47 minute Virgo truly gives us a chance to let go, regroup, recharge and make a space clear for the next phase.
We are a few weeks away from the Equinox.
We are a few weeks away from moving from the internal, self development phase that is the first five signs in the Astrological year — from Aries through Leo.
In Virgo we reflect on how we feel about the experience so far. We have an opportunity to see more clearly than usual what things are worth our attention, and what could be released.
The new Moon in Virgo is making a grand trine to Uranus in Taurus and Saturn in Capricorn. Our lives can be revolutionized by making tweaks to our daily routine.
For me, starting my day with journaling years ago has been utterly life changing.
Doing dishes before I leave the house leaves my brain free for creativity when I return home.
We can meditate on how we would like our daily life to be ordered and what can be weeded out to make time for what we really want to be thinking/doing/experiencing.
Who are we pleasing?
Does the thing we are attending to make the heart and spirit swell with happiness/a sense of fulfillment?
Does it make us contract with fear/loathing or perhaps an exclamation of why am I spending my precious time on this?
I spent a quite a lot of time this summer on a project for which I had little aptitude and even less interest. I could have been painting or sunbathing or studying astrology or baking pies!!!
The investment in time and energy was way bigger than I expected.
When I get to places like this, which is less often now, I give my self permission to quit. It’s sometimes necessary to reframe priorities.
I sometimes jump into things and halfway through remember, oh yah! I don’t like doing this thing!
It is okay to change one’s mind. It was a good reminder of how I DO want to be spending my time.
It is okay to back away from the cliff. It is okay to take the easier softer way.
It is okay, more than okay, to spend our precious time doing what we love.
Virgo helps us to assess all of these ideas on all levels.
Virgo is ruled by Mercury. It is of the mind—and an Earth sign — in Virgo we are using the mind in a useful, practical way. Taurus is ruled by Venus. It helps us in a practical way to be aware of what we value. In relation to Virgo, it is what we value in our daily life and our attitude toward our daily life. What do I love to do in my every day life?
Capricorn, the third Earth sign is ruled by Saturn. Saturn makes the structure of our day and how we spend our time. How can we fit what we value into our every day life. This love triangle of the Earth signs can help us to enter into a daily life that works for us.
Virgo rules work. It rules the attitude toward the work we do, regardless of what it is we are doing.
For some people a relatively predictable schedule provides a structure that works. For others, any sort of “day job” is unthinkable. What works for us can vary at different times of life.
If work is love in action, then at the Virgo new Moon, whether we are typing or scrubbing or writing or planting, we can be open to the voice of our Higher Self, urging us, coaxing us toward that which we want now, that which makes us happy, secure, and fulfilled, for example.
This Virgo new Moon is conjunct Venus and Mars. If we put some love and attention into our day, the inspiration can Be truly galvanizing!
Have a chat with your Higher Self while airing out your home. Invite your higher self to partner with you in setting forth on the life you truly want. Just for today. The whole life doesn’t need to be mapped out. A next step can and will start the ball rolling.
The new Moon opposes retrograde Neptune in Pisces. Our dreams wishes hopes and desires need a dusting off, an airing out, and a bringing to light.
The dreams that may have been put on the shelf may be brought down and brushed off, given a more prominent place in your life. Some of them may go back on the shelf to be reviewed later. Some dreams don’t need to come to fruition. They were holding the space for a Dream more fitting to the now reality. Some of the dreams may be released to the ether, to make room for the dreams that feel right, the dreams whose time have come for attention and realization.
Yes! I love Virgo! Virgo is a mutable, transformational sign. In its polarity to Pisces it brings our dreams wishes hopes and desires down to earth and allows them to manifest.
So get dusting, airing out and clearing the corners of the home, the mind, the heart, and the vision.
The time has come for dreams to become reality!
Love, Lydia
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