PISCES FULL MOON 2021
The Full Moon is at 8 degrees 57 minutes Virgo at 2:05 PM EST on 27 February 2021.
The Sun is in glorious Pisces, holder of the energy of all of the signs. Venus joins the Sun in Pisces to give us space to assimilate all of that Aquarius energy of the last few weeks and transmute the new downloads of information into insight and, in some cases, action. That assimilation can take place in the bath – where water will carry the emotional information that needs to sink in through the pores. I always think of Pisces and osmosis.
The Pisces Virgo axis is one that invites us to reflect on the last 12 months, as Pisces is the 12th sign of the Zodiac. The Virgo full Moon gives the clarity to view the emotional body and to see what we’ve gathered in over the last year- habits, information, relationships. We can separate the wheat from the chaff in our hearts, emotions and minds. We can get ready for a big release with the Pisces New Moon in a couple of weeks.
Then the wheel of the year starts a new cycle when the Sun enters Aries.
The Virgo Moon brings in the harvest of the last year’s thoughts feelings and actions as processed through the lens of our emotional body.
We can see what we have sown and what we have reaped. We can also see how ongoing projects are taking root and get clarity on what actions can be taken to enhance and encourage their progress.
Virgo full Moon likes to review and analyze how our emotional body has lead us to new experiences on the inner and outer. We can review what coping mechanisms feed us: walks, funny tv shows, chatting with friends, making a new recipe. We can see which coping mechanisms may not be as useful: gorging on depressing tv, eating unworthy snacks or excessive worrying about what we said yesterday or futures over which we have no control.
Virgo takes what it likes and leaves the rest. A wise practice all year round.
Lots of love and see you at the New Moon.

AQUARIUS NEW MOON 2021
At 2:05 PM EST on February 11th we have the New Moon at 23 degrees 16 minutes Aquarius.
We have Sun, Moon, Retrograde Mercury, Venus,
Jupiter, and Saturn ALL in Aquarius at the New Moon.
Pluto is the last hold out in Capricorn holding the energy for the major restructuring at hand.
Uranus freed us from the constraints of the familiar. It asks us to liberate from the structures we have known illustrated by the Capricorn/Saturn status quo.
Therefore, we are now being thrust into uncharted territory. As this is an energy of the individual experience who is part of a whole – we investigate and experience who we are because of and despite the experience of our family, culture, government and even our very humanity.
This experience varies from person to person depending on the factors in the individual chart and individual plan for evolution of the personality and soul.
We may all be in the same boat, but each of us is experiencing the journey from a different perspective.
Some are seasick. Some are lulled to sleep by the rolling waves. Some are plotting the course by the stars. Some rely only on the ship’s technology to find the way. Others are drunk in the bar and gambling away their life’s savings. Some are afraid of sinking. Some are convinced of their destination. Others are having deep conversations with their fellow passengers or with the dolphins that follow along.
Some are making sure others are comforted and cared for. Some are happily enjoying a massage. You get my point.
In the human experience there is wide variety. When the call to awaken and to allow in new ideas and ways of being comes, how do we react to the opening door?
Do we peek through? Do we evaluate what could be over the threshold? Do we smell the sweetness of the air rushing in – even if the scent is mostly unfamiliar?
It’s time to broaden our horizons and to find a way to ride the new energies, ideas and experiences that are available to us now. We each learn, adapt, and individuate in different ways and in different timing.
We each must find the way that works for us.
Our friends will help but they can’t have the experience for us. Each must let the Aquarian lightning bolt strike and assimilate that new energy in our own way.
Uranian energy will bring up what has been suppressed in Saturn/Capricorn.
Uranus holds all the memories of this and other lives, so we may be getting access to all kinds of flashes and flashbacks.
Uranus holds the blueprint for what is to come. So, this new Moon is a lot! Be as gentle with yourself as you can. Keep a pen or microphone handy for ideas, insights and memories.
Spend time alone to recalibrate. As the waves of energy come through we may need to adjust many times in the day by grounding, shaking the body a bit, stamping the feet, using soothing words to the self like “we’re getting through this,” having a nice cup of tea and a bit of cake, etc.
Squaring the Aquarius stellium is Uranus the ruler of Aquarius, and Mars both in Taurus.
Aquarian energy is of the Higher Mind, the genius, the rebel, and the outcast.
The way to bring in the new energies that are flowing, at times heaving toward us is to remember to stay grounded. If that means meditating on all fours or lying on the ground or the floor then do that.
Drink lots of water. Ask the higher mind to filter what information and energies that come through that are meant just for you.
Detachment is a keyword for Aquarius. The way Aquarians can be friends with almost anyone is that they maintain some emotional distance and allow what is at play, on the personal and the universal, to have space for expression.
Don’t take things personally at the moment and do the best to take a macro view of the human machinations at play just now.
Tend to your own vibration. Trust the process. Trust the greater wisdom.
Participate when it feels right.
Remember that there is a sea change at hand, and standing on the deck - ready and aware — is what’s called for first.
Stay grounded, invite the energies that are best for you to come in. Allow the rest of it to be absorbed by the surrounding sand, snow, and boulders.
The Moon will move into Pisces shortly after the New Moon. The Sun will move into Pisces on 18 February and things will feel a bit less electric.
The nerves will calm down a bit more and we’ll be able to assess. Mercury will resume forward motion on 21 February.
So for now, Happy Chinese New Year of the Metal Ox. The cycle for Chinese Astrology with the animal and element is 60 years.
The Metal Ox: hard working, dependable.
So the grounded, dedicated work can bring us back to center when the influx of information, new energies and grand changes jangle the nerves and senses.
Aquarius wants to invent, to make breakthroughs and to break free. This energy wants to be expressed during the new Moon. As many of us are in varying degrees of lockdown we need to be creative about breaking out when we might be sickest of coming up with new ideas for excitement in our living rooms.
Hang in there and invite in some new way to be, to do, to relax, to create, to relate, to allow…
With the natural square of Aquarius to Scorpio, share resources and ideas with friends. Find ways to collaborate and invent with others. Encourage a friend to try something new. Encouraging and empowering go hand in hand right now in ways that can radiate to the far reaches.
Jupiter conjunct Venus at this new Moon makes us feel lucky in love and affection. Mars Sextile Neptune can enhance the dream of attracting that which we desire.
Calm may not be achievable in the next day or so. Instead, dance like a maniac, with the intention of bringing in and earthing something new.
Happy Age of Aquarius! We are in it now! 🌑💙♒️
Happy New Year of the Metal Ox!🐂
Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️💗❤️ Find true love within. The love affair needs to be with ourselves first!
Happy Becoming More and More our individuated, free selves.⚡️
Love, Lydia
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EO FULL MOON 2021
The full Moon while Sun is in Aquarius is at 9 degrees LEO on January 28th at 11:00 PM EST.
The sun is conjunct Jupiter – once a year event.
Jupiter amplifies the already intense Uranian energy at this full moon. It highlights the atmosphere of genius ideas, shattering of old ways and a universal impulse for a breakthrough.
We are supported at this time by higher wisdom so tuning in to the All That Is at this time can be a contribution to the greater good.
Tuning our antennae to how we can use our personal abilities for the good of ourselves, friends, family, and community is beneficial at this time, especially.
Mercury is also in Aquarius, as is Saturn highlighting the spirit of friendship and community spirit. Aquarius is detached so we can. E helpful from a distance.
Mars and Uranus in Taurus square the Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Taurus. Fixed signs are willing to commit once they get the ball rolling in a direction of their choosing.
The Part of Fortune at 9 degrees Scorpio completes a grand fixed cross at the full Moon.
If we mean business right now, we can get things done. When we do our individual parts, and the whole will benefit.
A Leo Moon calls us to creative self expression that will improve our mood and enable us to find natural ways to contribute to the good of all.
The Moon’s opposition to Sun in Aquarius unites the creative gifts of the individual with the service to our collective evolution.
By focusing on what feels good to make or create, and by sharing that heartfelt gift, others are inspired to do more of the same.
The recitation of one poem can uplift a weary nation. A kind voice at the other end of the phone can save a life.
The collective is hungry for examples of how we can proceed, how we can contribute, to the great change that is at hand.
It starts with the individual putting pen to paper, notes to a musical recording, food to the community, Greta’s school strike for climate change - to move a world.
This is the Aquarius/Leo axis at work. With Mars/ Uranus in Taurus the work is in the day to day. It is practical. It is nourishing and comes from a beautiful expression of our own personal values.
If you don’t now where to start on a given day, begin with self care. Drinking water, gentle stretches upon awakening, gratitude for the food, the body, the sunrise.
Mars and Uranus conjunct in Taurus can revolutionize our self care, self awareness and the way we value our body, time, thoughts, activities, and devotions. That attention to, and value of and for the self is the wellspring from which personal creative expression bubbles.
Leo rules the heart, so whether we are making 3-bean chili or painting a picture with a 3-year old - when the heart is engaged, we are giving the height of creative self expression. Engaging the heart in all we do will reach out to the Love in all things.
If you’re watching that 8th hour of television, enjoy it! Laugh like a maniac! Cry for the heartbreaks. Root for the underdog like it’s your own sibling! Bring the heart into all equations and Love is the return on that investment.
Love and the evolution of the species.
I kid you not.
Simple steps. Pare it down to linking the mind and the heart in all things💙
Love is the creative act. The object of that love is mostly irrelevant in the case of the polarity from Leo to detached and universe-al Aquarius.
The love being emitted is the energetic key that unlocks just the right bolts for each one of us.
Sunshine and thunderbolts. Fingerpainting can change the world when the heart is engaged. ☀️⚡️🌟
Good Morning, Starshine!
Love, Lydia
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CAPRICORN NEW MOON 2021
The first new Moon of 2021 is at 23 degrees Capricorn on Jan 13 2021 at 12:00 Midnight EST.
At the New Moon Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury in early degrees of Aquarius are squaring Mars and Uranus in early degrees of Taurus.
The North Node in Gemini and South Node of the Moon in Sagittarius are squaring Neptune at 18 degrees Pisces.
On the 14th Uranus resumes forward motion in Taurus.
With all of this Uranian energy in our minds, in our timing and in the way we expand – do we want to incite or do we want to unite?
It can be explosive energy. It can definitely be revolutionary energy.
It can also be the way forward as a community.
It can be a way forward as a group of people with a wide variety of viewpoints, United for some common purpose toward the good.
On 20 January Mars is conjunct Uranus in Taurus: a time to be attuned to the Higher Mind and to ground wild ideas in practicality and the reality of the everyday.
Venus is now in Capricorn in a trine to Uranus and Mars in Taurus. We must stabilize ourselves first. Be aware of our safety and surroundings.
Grounding exercises and release of excess electricity/anxiety into the earth by standing/walking meditation is helpful. Shaking it off physically also works.
On 22 January Mars in Taurus squares Jupiter in Aquarius.
We can expand ideas of how to make life safer, more simple, more sustainable on the levels of practicality, peacefulness and usefulness .
On 26 January the Sun in Aquarius is square to Uranus in Taurus.
Aquarius is ruled by Uranus.
On 28 January the Sun is conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius.
With all of these Aquarian transits we are best off grounding the electrifying energy of change and the embodiment of genius in our own beings and our surroundings.
Getting comfortable with it may not be what is called for. But we can be calm, even peaceful, and awake at the same time.
A place of expansive expectation would be possible, appropriate, and useful. We are entering a time when help is increasingly available from on High. That is the heavens on High – not human. Outer higher Self/the Soul connect us to the higher realms.
Look to your mind, heart, guidance and to the Heavens themselves for direct inspiration.
A Capricorn new Moon asks us to continually begin again and realign with each new beginning. A shift is definitely happening. So checking ourselves and what we are vibing to at each and every moment is a good habit to adopt. There is always good news happening. Looking at the good that is happening as opposed to focusing on the people, places and things who continue to jerk our chains, is the mature perspective.
Do we want to look at a pile of poo or do we want to look at the fresh blossoms on the tree?
Sure we notice the poo so we don’t step in it. Walk around it, warn the person walking behind us that the poo is on the sidewalk, or even remove it altogether, then redirect the attention to enjoy the fresh new blooms.
This centers us. It allows the vibration to be strong and allows us to step into usefulness. We also feel better and think better thoughts.
There is always a pile of poo.
I am not choosing to focus on that. I choose to focus on the good that is unfolding.
That is my choice to stand in my own authority. I can chose what to focus on which then affects how I feel and my state of mind.
I will vote. I will call my congressperson. I will comfort others. I do that best from the place of focusing on what I want and to hold the vision for what is to come.
This is what true adults do. They respond, not react. They show some patience and compassion for those who are not able to see the bigger picture.
When they are shaken, they find a way to realign as soon as possible.
I can take care of my body, my emotions, my surroundings. What can I do today to care for myself. This vibration, however small it may appear – making the bed. Eating breakfast. Doing the dishes. These acts radiate outward to “bigger” acts of self care and care for the group.
We each have our purposes and they evolve and change. We are gardeners, ones who show the way, quiet witnesses, revolutionaries, teachers, comforters, accountants. All are as important. What is most important is that we are most effective if we stand in the full flow of our personal vibration/intention.
Capricorn is a Cardinal energy. It can initiate a change in the structure of things. So I choose to keep the focus on myself and on what it is I want to build.
Capricorn knows when the time is right. It reserves its energy to use in good timing. The chick knows when to chip its way out of the egg. The chick knows. The hen can’t chip the chick out. The chick has its own authority to know when it is time.
We are the builders of today, and all future days. So step in and step up to the authentic call of each one’s mind, heart and soul.
Fear is the enemy of personal authority. Balance and courage keep us embodied in our personal authority, vibration and intention. Choosing balance is key during these transition times.
Courage, vibrational alignment, processing of emotions as they arise, resting, and lifting the heart to what is wanted is key. Holding a vision for the future is key. We are creators. This is the business of this very potent Capricorn New Moon 2021.
Shift is Happening. Know your own power and ways to balance and align. Form follows thought. The creative process belongs to all of us and it is alive in each moment.💗🐐💗
Lots of love, Lydia
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CANCER FULL MOON 2020
The full moon is at 8 degrees 53 minutes Cancer at 9:28 PM EST on 29 December2020.
For a year so full of Capricornian energy it seems fitting that we go out looking at the Cancer/Capricorn polarity.
They are Cardinal signs. Cancer is water and Capricorn is Earth. The mountain goat of Capricorn has the serpent’s tail reminding us that we come from the great pool of all that is. Capricorn is the executive of the zodiac. It excels when it remembers that it climbed to the heights to get a better view of where it came from – and where it intends to go.
Remembering the big picture is useful at this time.
A Cancer full moon can feel very personal. It can take things personally. It can filter experiences and thoughts through the personal emotional body.
But all of the water signs have the ability to tune in, like a whale across many leagues underwater, to the calls and cries of its fellow whales – be they warnings, or invitations to better feeding grounds.We are, of course, able to hear the calls of our fellows better than ever – thanks to all of the enhancements to communication we now have in the devices in our hands, at our fingertips, and through mor ancient means rediscovered: intuition, instinct and meditation.
We can feel the calls and ripples in our vibrational fields.
Many of us may be experiencing these communiques more than ever as other, more familiar, more mundane means, have been curtailed for the time being.
When one sense or familiar experience has been removed, it is natural to enhance another.
This leads to talk of our recent great conjunction of Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, and Jupiter, ruler of Sagittarius in Aquarius.
At the full moon they are at one and two degrees Aquarius, respectively – so they are still conjunct.
Aquarius rules the higher Mind, the group mind, the hive mind, the Zeitgeist.
So at this full Moon we are reminded to tune in to ourselves first. Then we can twirl our antennae to the greater information available to us.
It is important that the practice of attuning our frequency to one that coincides with what we want to to attract us well and truly in place. This will filter out any unnecessary noise.
Attracting information that will positively fill in gaps in awareness, knowledge, solutions for not only how to cope, but how to enhance the current experience for ourselves and others is key at this time.
Pay attention to synchronicities, coincidences and moments when we got just what we need: comfort, an answered question, a supportive response- or tha sudden ability to lend support.
When these are noted, a thank you, and request for “ more of this, please can enhance or experience further.
Daily reflection, in a journal, for example, of all that went well, of answers and gifts given and received will build up the optimism- Jupiter- that things can and do work out for us.
Journaling gives a structure: Saturn/Capricorn, to our feelings: Moon/Cancer that will lead the way to further evolution.
Find out where the Moon is in your personal birth chart. Read up on what the Moon in that sign means.
In Evolutionary Astrology, the Moon leads the way. The emotions are the road map that illuminate our way.
The Moon, ruler of Cancer, changes sign every 2.5 days or so. That is why it is called a Moon/Moonth/Month.
The Moon travels through all of the signs of the zodiac about once a month or every 30 days or so.
Paying attention to what sign the Moon is in day to day and relationships that to ones own chart and ones emotional body as it moves through the signs is a way to tune in to greater energies, and also is a way to better understand the self.
At this full Moon, Pluto in Capricorn is squaring Mars in its home sign of Aries, also a Cardinal sign. New beginnings can bring deep changes on the inner and the outer.
We may reflect, as the calendar year comes to a close, on our accomplishments in 2020, good job for making it through, dear readers! And we can instinctually -the realm of Aries is instinct- tune in to how we want to proceed with our lives as the calendar ticks over to another year.
On what would we like to turn the page and/or close the book altogether?
What endeavors would we like to continue? In what areas would we like to expand?
Where could we use some advice/information/support in that expansion?
We may have access to all kinds of tutorials, but sometimes we may actually want some human help.
The wise mind and heart knows when to work in solidarity and when to reach out for assistance.
Capricorn Sun and Cancer Full Moon brings us, once more, to a place where standing in one’s own strength and acknowledging and accepting ones feelings and experiences, are the keys to peace, empowerment, and the ability to move forward.
Happy 2021.
May the new year unfold gracefully for all.
Lydia
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SAGITTARIUS NEW MION SOLAR ECLIPSE

The new Moon solar eclipse will take place at 11:16 AM EST December 14th 2020 at 23 degrees 7 minutes Sagittarius.
All in a row, we have Sun, Moon, Mercury, and the South Node in Sagittarius.
So, that whole line up opposes the North Node of the Moon at 19 Gemini.
The call to sift through the piles of glittering information and ideas to discern which is gold dust and which is worthless sticky glitter is made to us now.
Sagittarius finds the with and meaning in information and ideas.
It internalizes what is True for us. We can choose to cast aside that which is indoctrination, infused ideation from authority. We thus carry on with the move toward individuation and liberation. We can move on.
There is a fiery trine from the New Moon and its companions to Mars in Aries.
This heralds an instinct to do things in a new way, to think for ourselves in a new way, to work our way through the glitter and the gold to a new way of understanding.
By the 21st, the line up if planets will have made a sea change.
At the new moon, Jupiter and Saturn are hanging with Pluto in late degrees of Capricorn. By the Solstice, Jupiter and Saturn will align in the Great Conjunction in Aquarius.
I did a Zoom EA talk about this alignment.
You can watch it here:
https://youtu.be/eY4GVLqnOq4

We are shaking off the shackles of the constricting qualities of Capricorn and moving into new waves of Aquarian individuation, liberation, community, and personal responsibility and accountability.
The Sagittarius new Moon eclipse reminds us all thing begin with intuition rather than external commands and demands.
When we are attune, first with the Higher Self and inner wisdom, we can move more smoothly, with less effort and with greater effect.
We have an opportunity, as we approach the Solstice, tune in to real and profound transmutation that stems from within.
It is wise to remember that Sagittarius’s ruler is Jupiter: purveyor of optimism, expansion and Truth.
We can make a choice to tune the dial to optimism, fun, big ideas and the good feelings that ride in their coattails.
Venus enters Sagittarius on December 15th, so feel how beautifully the ideas, inspiration, and intuition evolve into words, plans, actions and activities.
Chiron goes direct at 8 degrees Aries on 15 December. This asteroid named for a centaur calls us to move forward, wounds and all, to give our hard won and deeply felt gifts.
By the Solstice, Jupiter and Saturn align in Aquarius in a way that should even be visible to the naked eye in the sky.
These planets are real. They affect us in a real way. Their conjunction ushers in the next level of individuation, breakthrough and evolution.
Bring your mind, heart and spirit along for this ride.
Tune your spirit antennae to brighter and bigger things just beyond what you think is possible.
That is where the next steps await us, calling us forward.
Lots of love, Lydia
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GEMINI FULL MOON ECLIPSE 2020
The eclipse cycle with the full moon at 8 degrees Gemini on 30 November at 4:29 AM EST.
The full Moon opposes Sun in Sagittarius— both mutable signs. Gemini is Air and Sagittarius is fire.
Air feeds fire. Our ideas, impressions and beliefs are illuminated for us to run through our systems: the mind, the nervous system (Gemini), the Intuitive body (Sagittarius).
Most planets have resumed forward motion. Neptune in Pisces (also a mutable sign) went direct on November 28th.
We are going to begin to lift our hearts and minds from the mire of collective untruths and hyperbole to see for ourselves what is true, what we choose to believe and how we want to proceed.
Gemini likes to collect the shiny bits of information. Sagittarius will unpack the sack of glittering ideas and see which ones will make up the mosaic of its updated belief system.
Sagittarius is developing its intuition. It will, if it is attending to itself, let go of outside influences to make up its own mind.
Sagittarius can be affected by accepted belief systems: organized religion, political bodies, cultural standards.
It is wanting, however, to expand its mind beyond what it has been fed by parents, teachers, religious and governmental leaders. It wants the big adventure of knowing its own mind through investigation and development of intuition.
We are on a big adventure of accepting our own authority and taking responsibility for our own ideas and where the commitment to those ideas takes us.
A Lunar Eclipse amplifies Full Moon energy, so giving the emotional body extra love and attention is paramount at this time.
Venus in Scorpio opposes Uranus in Taurus at the full Moon, as well. Memories of old loves could be affecting emotions and connections in the here and now. Uranus rules all memories of this life and other lives, so what has been running in the background could rise up for examination and healing.
Now that Mars is direct, we can assimilate old experiences and the effects they have had on us and grow in forward motion, moving on.
Whenever we have the Scorpio/Taurus polarity, we incorporate the way we care for and value the self with the way we share with others. We see where we are self-empowered on our own and once we interact with others.
This leads to a recommendation of more self-care, acknowledgement of where it hurts and where it’s healing.
Uranian energy is electrifying. It can jangle the nerves, so cleansing and grounding exercises should be as much a part of the daily routine as the drinking of water.
It is a universal force, as well. We may pick up on others’ energy more than usual, so a creating a bubble of light around us before bed, and again, when we start our day can be a comforting psychic hygiene practice.
On December 21 we will have the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius.
We are stepping foot firmly into the New Age, the Age of Aquarius. Ideally, this time consists of a individuals developing their own opinions and joining together for the good of the whole.
Here is a link to a talk I gave recently on the Great Conjunction of 21 December 2020: https://youtu.be/eY4GVLqnOq4
Each person brings their own gifts and abilities to the party.
The Lunar Eclipse will help us to align with what is True for us. We will be able to let go of that which is just “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
We can discern what IS significant for us. We will be able to identify, with Neptune moving direct, what we do want to attract into our life experience.
The mind is the great attractor. It is of paramount importance to keep an eye, a heart, and the gut on what is going on in the mind and to have responsibility for the thoughts that are being entertained therein.
Soothe the mind.
Listen to and Trust the Intuition.
This is a Mutable Lunar Eclipse, so Easy Does It.
💗
Love, Lydia
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NEW SCORPIO MOON 2020
The New Moon takes place at 12:07 AM EST on 15 November 2020 at 23 degrees Scorpio.
The new Moon makes a pleasant sextile to Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn.
We have the third of three Jupiter/Pluto conjunctions in Capricorn.
At this new moon there is an embodiment of optimism and self-empowerment. Jupiter says I can do it and my intuition is telling me how to do it!
Pluto says I am going to do what is in my personal power to get started with – or to continue on with.
Mars is finally direct at 15 degrees Aries. Mars is the lower octave of Pluto, Scorpio’s ruler. Both Capricorn and Aries are Cardinal signs. They like to begin things.
We can trust the internal power source to move on ideas, visions and plans that have been gestating during Mars retrograde.
Scorpio is a fixed sign. It will stick with it once a decision has been made to move ahead.
Scorpio, a water sign, will know when it FEELS right to act. Jupiter in its rulership of Sagittarius, gives an intuitive boost.
When wanting to feel courage and empowerment, I like to run a list of actions and ways of beings I already know how to do and or have accomplished to remind me that I am capable of action and capable of manifesting my vision.
I start with the fact that I got up that morning. I made the bed, I showered, I ate a meal, I wrote in my journal.
Then I can say, wow! I’ve been up for an hour and look at all I have done for myself already!
There are many things that are going on in the outside world that am seem beyond our control.
It is highlighted at the moment, but this is always the case.
There is something that we can work on though. The time of the Scorpio new Moon is a great time to focus on what is within our power to envision, to change, to manifest. We do have the power, if we are willing turn our attention to it, to find our own best and most comfortable responses to circumstances. Responsibility – the ability to respond – is a good one quality to keep in mind.
We do have choices. We may not always like the choices, but we do have them. When I remember I have choices about how I act, speak and respond, that no one is making me… I regain/retain my personal power, agency and authority.
There are constraints across the globe at the moment. There are constraints in my town. I can embrace them and find ways to flourish within them.
At this time we have access to the why – why we have been thinking and acting in certain ways.
We will be able to go toward empowering behaviors, habits and relationships. We can move into thoughts, behaviors, habits and relationships that are most true for us. When we embody what is true for us – what feels right in our instinct and intuition, we are empowered.
Keep in mind the threefold symbol of Scorpio: the Scorpion who is nimble and deadly close up and in the ground, the eagle, who has a wide view of the lay of the land. It is strong, powerful, and sees the big picture. Finally we have the Phoenix who is magical and is willing to dive into the depths, risking its very life, to experience the transformation and subsequent rebirth.
All power to each soul on the path, embodying the human experience in all of its multilayered richness.
If we can’t go out, we can go within!
Lots of love, Lydia
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TAURUS FULL MOON 2020

This month’s blue Full Moon takes place at 8 degrees TAURUS on 31 October at 10:49 AM EST.
In Taurus we can fixate, in the best possible way, on the beauty and the nurture of the world we create within and experience without.
We can fixate on self care and on what we value in our lives. These can be actual things- food, sleep, the right body cream to be absorbed into much-washed hands.
We can also fixate on thoughts and ideas that nurture us, comfort us and make us feel better.
Taurus is learning to value itself in all levels.
With the Sun in Scorpio, we see how sharing with others-resources, kindness, ideas, support can lift us up and encourage us to carry on.
The Taurus full Moon reminds us that charity, love and empowerment all begin in the home - in our own heads and hearts.
Taurus likes concrete, earthly reminders of love and beauty – flowers in the garden, the variety of vibrant color in autumn leaves, the aroma of a meal rich in flavor and nutrients.
This full Moon is exactly conjunct retrograde Uranus in Taurus. Uranus highlights our need for individuals to take personal responsibility for their own individuation, their own ideas, their own actions.
The Moon in Taurus conjunct Uranus reminds us we are responsible for our own emotional body and the thoughts and actions that spring from that emotional body.
Parents, government, teachers, the media and our friends are involved in their own issues and journeys.
We must have our own best interest at heart first.
That is how we can embody the truth of who we are and, in turn, radiate the actions and energies that are truest and most useful for each one of us.
Taurus and Scorpio are practical. They want to find what is useful. Taurus, especially, wants to optimize its energy for the maximum gain with the minimum expenditure for the best outcome.
This starts, with Taurus full Moon conjunct retrograde
Uranus with time spent going within. Seated/walking/standing/taking a bath meditations – whichever works. Connecting with the Higher Self that is with us every moment of every day and every night can be the most effective and enriching path to right thought, right action and best outcomes.
We have but to ask our Higher Self to Guide us to the best thoughts and actions — the best way to talk to a friend or family about a sticky situation. The best route to the grocery store, the best food to eat for optimal health.
This is the time to start recognizing the inner voice that wants to speak to us, wants to guide us on matters large and small. We all have a Higher Self, an invisible friend, who is waiting to hear- just from us.
Start with the small matters – do I walk or drive? Do I order from this store or that? Do I call my mother now or in two hours?
Ask and listen.
Mercury is retrograde in Libra squaring Jupiter/Pluto/Saturn in Capricorn and widely opposing Retrograde Mars in Aries at this full Moon.
The wisdom and direction come from within at this time – at all times – but especially now.
Mercury resumes forward motion on 3 November. Mars resumes forward motion on 14 November at 15 degrees Aries. Mars is the foot soldier of Scorpio’s ruler, Pluto.
The relationship with Mercury retrograde in Libra is with the powerful Higher Self which can expand the life and can give a better structure to the life. This leads to more economical action, more fruitful action, more valuable action.
The Sun is in Scorpio. It is time to know our own power, to make a relationship with our own power, to gather that power, and where and when appropriate, as guided by the Higher Self, to use that power for personal good and for the good of the whole. Make a willing and comfortable home for your power in the body, heart, and mind.
Express the power with self love and care. The time is now for personal evolution and empowerment via the limitless love and attention of Source.
Brew up something beautiful and delicious. 🧙
A Good Samhain to you all.🖤🌕🖤
Happy Halloween. 🎃
Lydia
www.soulastro.com
lydia@soulastro.com
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LIBRA NEW MOON 2020
The New Moon is at 23 Libra on 16 October at 3:30 PM EST.
Libra is a Venus-ruled cardinal air sign.
It is the first sign above the horizon of the chart. The first five signs of the zodiac are more self centered — building a way to be safe an operate at a baseline in the world. Virgo is a transitional
Archetype – preparing, refining, rearranging the self that has been built up to put on its “public face” for the first time.
In Libra we start to see what kind of self others have created and to observe our reactions to them. We compare ourselves to the other to see what we may or may not want to adopt as our own. That is why Libra is such a visual, as well as mental sign.
We look at others and may be struck by their beauty, the way they carry themselves, the way they dress.
It may seem superficial, but the colors, the flow, the smells, and sounds can all be deeply affecting. The initial attraction may indicate whether we feel safe enough to approach.
We learn, as we go out in the world, to see if people are as they appear. Perhaps what appears to be a sheep is really a wolf wearing a fleece who is looking for an easy meal.
Appearances and realities matter in nature and they matter to us humans.
Venus may or may not like what it sees, and we may make some adjustments to our own public face in response or reaction. If a person speaks in a rough or coarse way, we observe others joining the ruckus or turning away. We see the effects of appearances and behaviors.
The person who does not bathe may become repellent.
The person who wears high heels on a hike may struggle with the terrain. I give high relief examples here, but in Libra we learn to refine behavior and appearances in reaction to what we perceive to be working for others. We observe and adjust… or not.
We have, at this new Moon, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, dipping back into Libra before forward motion is resumed on 2 November.
Mars is still retrograde in Aries until 13 November.
Mercury in Scorpio retrograde while the sun is in Libra will be looking beneath those outer appearances for the motivation behind the public façade, the pretty/not so pretty speeches - the result of actions of those observed on the world stage.
Many people are in varying degrees of isolation, observing through a variety of screens. We have time to see/feel how the appearances and actions of others affect our mood, our nerves and our own self perception.
Mars is the foot soldier of Pluto. Mars is retrograde in Aries opposing the Sun/Moon. We are seeing outward evidence of our internal power surges. Our energy field is being attracted to what is going on around us – at work, at home, politically.
Oppositions ask us to look at how events and emotions evoked by the outer are affecting how we feel and behave. That is why making healthy responses to life’s challenges an integrated part of our muscle memory is so key right now. Making a habit of helpful responses and reactions is not only possible it is necessary for our well being.
Mars is squaring Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn at the new Moon making what is happening on the outer feel very personal. The beasts that are roaming the world at large are very real in an instinctual level to Mars. This is important to note, because Mars retrograde in Aries will shoot that beast and drag it back to its lair. Mars retrograde in Aries will skin it, dry it, eat it, and make a coat out of it. So we had better be willing to get cozy with the ideas, the rules, the fears, the power struggles, and the actions that we are engaging with and bringing home with us just now.
Mercury is retrograde in Pluto-ruled Scorpio. The insight granted in Mercury retrograde can align with the revelation about how we have been spending our energy, our life force and our motivation with Mars retrograde.