Personal Evolution Astrology – Week of August 23, 2010
My little Leo Roya Pearl waters the "sunflowers"...
The Moon is Full in the 2nd degree of Pisces on Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 1:05 pm EDT. Pisces, positively, is the ultimate sign of Soul — the knowing that we are All-One and that life is but a dream, so why not dream a lovely one? This Full Moon makes a powerful, positive connection to Pluto in Capricorn, indicating the availability of soul- or Self-revelation that shows us the necessity for the soul-purging times we are going through as a world and the subsequent vision of a better world to come.
Aries – This is a good week to invest some time and attention reviewing your work and health habits and the way you use your time and energy on a daily basis. With Mercury retrograde in your 6th House of work and service, you’re being given the opportunity to go back and make rational sense out of the lessons Saturn was teaching you about this area of your life over the last three years. This isn’t a punishment; you’ve already done the heavy lifting. Look at the next three weeks as a cosmic gift – the opportunity to streamline your life so that you have the energy available to pursue those big dreams that have been calling you for so long. P.S. With a Full Moon in your 12th House on Tuesday, expect your dreams to deliver at least one powerful message. If you’re losing energy to an addiction or addictive emotional pattern, now is the time to set your intent and take action.
Taurus – I’d like to see you use this week’s energy to really tune in to your goals. As a fixed sign, you like to find methods, relationships and patterns that work for you and then stick with them through thick and thin. This enables you to be tremendously productive but it can also be your downfall in times like the present when conditions are shifting so rapidly. Tuesday’s Full Moon in your 11th House of ideals and networks and the ongoing Mercury retrograde in your 5th House of creativity are teaming up to help you learn something very important about the way you use your creative energy in the world (this could also involve your romantic life or a child). In order to shift out of the blockage, struggle or scarcity that has characterized this area of your life over the last few years, you need to recognize how – and how much – your goals have changed. The simple fact of admitting to yourself that something you struggled to achieve for many years is no longer important to you can free up a huge amount of energy towards the things that do hold value for you now.
Gemini – It looks as though you need to set some boundaries at home or within your family unit. It’s not like this is news to you – with Saturn in your 4th House over the last three years, you’ve made a lot of progress dealing with a difficult family member or cohabitant. The difference now, with Mercury retrograde in this same part of your chart, is that you’re being given the opportunity to think about this situation in a way that finally makes sense of your persistent struggle to master it. Once you recognize where you need to change your own thinking, the solution to reclaiming your emotional freedom becomes simple. Not necessarily easy, but simple nonetheless. P.S. Tuesday’s Full Moon in your 10th House of career puts you in line for a promotion, recognition or opportunity – the kind that could involve the chance to benefit from someone else’s power, prestige or money.
Cancer – Safe to say you’ve not lived through a year like this one in a long time. Some of you would have to go back to a past life in order to remember a time that was this intense and in which the pressure to continually evolve was this powerful. With Mercury retrograde in your 3rd House of thoughts and communication for the next three weeks, you get something of a break from the non-stop action. But this period brings its own unique challenge, as Mercury retrograde always takes us inward and backward in time in the area of our chart he is transiting. What this means practically is that Mercury is going to show you the thoughts and thought patterns that keep you trapped in a reality you do not want. The only way he can show you is by activating those patterns, which can be unpleasant. If, however, you go into this week knowing that each negative, self-critical, or judgmental thought that comes into your mind is showing up so you can release it and identify the core patterns that are ready to be transformed – well, that’s a game-changer, wouldn’t you agree?
Leo – It’s all about the money this week, Leo. Although the green stuff is unlikely to ever become your prime motivation, life has really been pushing you over the last three years to take responsibility for your finances. If you want to achieve your big creative dreams, you need to be able to procure the resources and buy yourself the time to you need in order to create and shine. From 2007-2009, Saturn in your 2nd House continually hammered this message home. For the next three weeks Mercury retrograde in this same part of your chart wants to help you identify negative thought patterns about money, income and personal resources and replace them with the thoughts that will help you make the money you deserve. In order to work with Mercury, you need to agree to focus on the details. Make lists, talk to an expert, push yourself to drill down into the nuts and bolts, rather than escaping into sunny optimism and stubbornly focusing on the big picture. Remember what they say: Energy flows where attention goes. You have an opportunity right now to change your financial reality for the rest of this lifetime.
Virgo – I really want to encourage you to roll with this Mercury Rx in your sign. You can choose to see this not so much as a series of frustrations but as an opportunity to reorganize your thinking about your life. Being in a good place with your thoughts is very important to you and with all of the change and chaos flooding into the world in the last two years, staying on top of things mentally hasn’t been the easiest task. But you can use the next three weeks to really slow down, tune in, and focus on what’s working for you and what needs to be discarded. A big part of the change you need to make in order to spring forward into meaningful, abundant action in the rest of the year has to do with how you think about who you are. What is the one area of your life in which you’re acting as though it’s still 1995? Money, relationships, work, health? You’ve grown so much in the last three years – it’s time to redefine yourself to yourself. How can you expect people to relate to you as a powerful creator if your self-image is still lagging years behind the real you?
Libra – If you feel something nagging at the edges of your consciousness this week, don’t block it out. You’ve been through a lot of changes and under a lot of pressure this summer and with Venus and Mars riding high in your sign this week the tendency could be to blow it out, take some romantic chances and just generally live out loud as a way of releasing some of that tension. No problem with having some well-deserved fun, as long as you don’t use it as an excuse to ignore that little voice inside you. Retrograde Mercury in your 12th House of the deep unconscious mind is trying to get in touch with you to help you clean out your mental files and reorganize your operating system so that it runs cleaner, faster, and better with less interference from that nasty “self-sabotage” virus. Yes, this is the territory Saturn was mining over the last three years. Use this three-week period to get mentally clear on what you learned about your deep self so that you can move forward deriving maximum benefit from your Saturn lesson.
Scorpio – After several months of soaring along on a high-octane mixture of divine inspiration and personal willpower, you might feel a little flat this week. With Mercury retrograde in your 11th House of ideals, networks and dreams for the future, you are being given a second chance to maximize the positive impact of your Saturn lesson for the period of 2007-2009. I suggest you set aside time to examine your goals and your behavior patterns in a Virgoan – that is to say, “Logical, Captain” – way. Make some lists, charts, or grids. Get in touch with what you want out of life and then take a ruthless look at how you use your energy on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Look at the people you associate with – are the people in your life helping you achieve your goals or are they convenient excuses to keep from facing your fears and going after what you really want?
Sagittarius – Every hour you put into a detailed, conscientious review of your business over the next three weeks is going to pay rich dividends in the years to come. With Mercury retrograde in your 10th House, the best use of your energy is in review – looking back at what has worked for you in the past, as well as examining your current schedule, methods, strategies and operating procedures to discover what’s working now and what is a waste of time. Since Mercury is the ruler of your relationship house, you might want to bring in an expert to help you audit yourself; you’ll also probably find at least one person from your professional past showing up with advice or opportunity. You’ve already done a huge amount of work in the last three years to step up and become responsible to your life’s work and your goals. Use this period to learn what it takes to become as efficient as you are passionate.
Capricorn – I think you make a couple of dynamite breakthroughs this week in your understanding of your reality and your complicity in creating it. Mercury retrograde in your 9th House of intuition, beliefs and wisdom is activating what you learned with Saturn in this area of your life from 2007-2009. Over the next several weeks, Mercury is going to teach you to verbalize or communicate your philosophy or belief system in a way that finally makes sense to you. Why is this important? First, if you look back – and you should – you’ll find your outlook has broadened considerably in the last three years. This should naturally change both your goals and the way you pursue them. Second, being able to talk about what you believe enables you to attract people who believe the same way. Ultimately, this translates to increased opportunity.
Aquarius – You might receive an unexpected new income opportunity thanks to a Full Moon on Tuesday in your 2nd House of money and possessions. One way or another this Full Moon focuses you on what you have and what you really need. One way to work with the Full Moon would be to do what the Native Americans call a giveaway. Identify a possession that would be more helpful to someone else you know than it is to you and make a present of it. This not only shows the Universe you believe in abundance, it also opens up room in your life for something more appropriate to flow your way. At the same time, Mercury retrograde in your 8th House of other people’s money and shared resources is trying to help you resolve a power- or money-sharing issue that you’ve been working on since at least 2007. You’ve already done a lot of work with this person or on this issue; over the next three weeks Mercury wants to help you understand how you create or perpetuate the situation with your own thoughts and words. Start this week by looking back to similar situations in the past. Once you find the root energy of this repeating pattern, you’ll be able to learn what you need to learn in order to let the lesson go.
Pisces – The annual Full Moon in your sign arrives on Tuesday, bringing a fresh realization about who you are at this time in your life. Full Moons always bring to light that which has been obscured and this Full Moon specifically wants to show you how much you have evolved in relationship to your ideals and goals. You can encourage this process by being on the lookout for feedback from friends, colleagues and people in your social networks. Notice what others are saying to you and about you and connect these sentiments to your long-held goals about who you want to be and what you want to create in this lifetime. Focusing on how far you’ve come toward manifesting some of your major ideals sets the stage for an important new collaboration that should be manifesting for you within the next four to five weeks.
Personal Evolution Astrology – Week of August 23, 2010
My little Leo Roya Pearl waters the "sunflowers"...
The Moon is Full in the 2nd degree of Pisces on Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 1:05 pm EDT. Pisces, positively, is the ultimate sign of Soul — the knowing that we are All-One and that life is but a dream, so why not dream a lovely one? This Full Moon makes a powerful, positive connection to Pluto in Capricorn, indicating the availability of soul- or Self-revelation that shows us the necessity for the soul-purging times we are going through as a world and the subsequent vision of a better world to come.
How Mercury Retrograde Works
Aries – This is a good week to invest some time and attention reviewing your work and health habits and the way you use your time and energy on a daily basis. With Mercury retrograde in your 6th House of work and service, you’re being given the opportunity to go back and make rational sense out of the lessons Saturn was teaching you about this area of your life over the last three years. This isn’t a punishment; you’ve already done the heavy lifting. Look at the next three weeks as a cosmic gift – the opportunity to streamline your life so that you have the energy available to pursue those big dreams that have been calling you for so long. P.S. With a Full Moon in your 12th House on Tuesday, expect your dreams to deliver at least one powerful message. If you’re losing energy to an addiction or addictive emotional pattern, now is the time to set your intent and take action.
Taurus – I’d like to see you use this week’s energy to really tune in to your goals. As a fixed sign, you like to find methods, relationships and patterns that work for you and then stick with them through thick and thin. This enables you to be tremendously productive but it can also be your downfall in times like the present when conditions are shifting so rapidly. Tuesday’s Full Moon in your 11th House of ideals and networks and the ongoing Mercury retrograde in your 5th House of creativity are teaming up to help you learn something very important about the way you use your creative energy in the world (this could also involve your romantic life or a child). In order to shift out of the blockage, struggle or scarcity that has characterized this area of your life over the last few years, you need to recognize how – and how much – your goals have changed. The simple fact of admitting to yourself that something you struggled to achieve for many years is no longer important to you can free up a huge amount of energy towards the things that do hold value for you now.
Gemini – It looks as though you need to set some boundaries at home or within your family unit. It’s not like this is news to you – with Saturn in your 4th House over the last three years, you’ve made a lot of progress dealing with a difficult family member or cohabitant. The difference now, with Mercury retrograde in this same part of your chart, is that you’re being given the opportunity to think about this situation in a way that finally makes sense of your persistent struggle to master it. Once you recognize where you need to change your own thinking, the solution to reclaiming your emotional freedom becomes simple. Not necessarily easy, but simple nonetheless. P.S. Tuesday’s Full Moon in your 10th House of career puts you in line for a promotion, recognition or opportunity – the kind that could involve the chance to benefit from someone else’s power, prestige or money.
Cancer – Safe to say you’ve not lived through a year like this one in a long time. Some of you would have to go back to a past life in order to remember a time that was this intense and in which the pressure to continually evolve was this powerful. With Mercury retrograde in your 3rd House of thoughts and communication for the next three weeks, you get something of a break from the non-stop action. But this period brings its own unique challenge, as Mercury retrograde always takes us inward and backward in time in the area of our chart he is transiting. What this means practically is that Mercury is going to show you the thoughts and thought patterns that keep you trapped in a reality you do not want. The only way he can show you is by activating those patterns, which can be unpleasant. If, however, you go into this week knowing that each negative, self-critical, or judgmental thought that comes into your mind is showing up so you can release it and identify the core patterns that are ready to be transformed – well, that’s a game-changer, wouldn’t you agree?
Leo – It’s all about the money this week, Leo. Although the green stuff is unlikely to ever become your prime motivation, life has really been pushing you over the last three years to take responsibility for your finances. If you want to achieve your big creative dreams, you need to be able to procure the resources and buy yourself the time to you need in order to create and shine. From 2007-2009, Saturn in your 2nd House continually hammered this message home. For the next three weeks Mercury retrograde in this same part of your chart wants to help you identify negative thought patterns about money, income and personal resources and replace them with the thoughts that will help you make the money you deserve. In order to work with Mercury, you need to agree to focus on the details. Make lists, talk to an expert, push yourself to drill down into the nuts and bolts, rather than escaping into sunny optimism and stubbornly focusing on the big picture. Remember what they say: Energy flows where attention goes. You have an opportunity right now to change your financial reality for the rest of this lifetime.
Virgo – I really want to encourage you to roll with this Mercury Rx in your sign. You can choose to see this not so much as a series of frustrations but as an opportunity to reorganize your thinking about your life. Being in a good place with your thoughts is very important to you and with all of the change and chaos flooding into the world in the last two years, staying on top of things mentally hasn’t been the easiest task. But you can use the next three weeks to really slow down, tune in, and focus on what’s working for you and what needs to be discarded. A big part of the change you need to make in order to spring forward into meaningful, abundant action in the rest of the year has to do with how you think about who you are. What is the one area of your life in which you’re acting as though it’s still 1995? Money, relationships, work, health? You’ve grown so much in the last three years – it’s time to redefine yourself to yourself. How can you expect people to relate to you as a powerful creator if your self-image is still lagging years behind the real you?
Libra – If you feel something nagging at the edges of your consciousness this week, don’t block it out. You’ve been through a lot of changes and under a lot of pressure this summer and with Venus and Mars riding high in your sign this week the tendency could be to blow it out, take some romantic chances and just generally live out loud as a way of releasing some of that tension. No problem with having some well-deserved fun, as long as you don’t use it as an excuse to ignore that little voice inside you. Retrograde Mercury in your 12th House of the deep unconscious mind is trying to get in touch with you to help you clean out your mental files and reorganize your operating system so that it runs cleaner, faster, and better with less interference from that nasty “self-sabotage” virus. Yes, this is the territory Saturn was mining over the last three years. Use this three-week period to get mentally clear on what you learned about your deep self so that you can move forward deriving maximum benefit from your Saturn lesson.
Scorpio – After several months of soaring along on a high-octane mixture of divine inspiration and personal willpower, you might feel a little flat this week. With Mercury retrograde in your 11th House of ideals, networks and dreams for the future, you are being given a second chance to maximize the positive impact of your Saturn lesson for the period of 2007-2009. I suggest you set aside time to examine your goals and your behavior patterns in a Virgoan – that is to say, “Logical, Captain” – way. Make some lists, charts, or grids. Get in touch with what you want out of life and then take a ruthless look at how you use your energy on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Look at the people you associate with – are the people in your life helping you achieve your goals or are they convenient excuses to keep from facing your fears and going after what you really want?
Sagittarius – Every hour you put into a detailed, conscientious review of your business over the next three weeks is going to pay rich dividends in the years to come. With Mercury retrograde in your 10th House, the best use of your energy is in review – looking back at what has worked for you in the past, as well as examining your current schedule, methods, strategies and operating procedures to discover what’s working now and what is a waste of time. Since Mercury is the ruler of your relationship house, you might want to bring in an expert to help you audit yourself; you’ll also probably find at least one person from your professional past showing up with advice or opportunity. You’ve already done a huge amount of work in the last three years to step up and become responsible to your life’s work and your goals. Use this period to learn what it takes to become as efficient as you are passionate.
Capricorn – I think you make a couple of dynamite breakthroughs this week in your understanding of your reality and your complicity in creating it. Mercury retrograde in your 9th House of intuition, beliefs and wisdom is activating what you learned with Saturn in this area of your life from 2007-2009. Over the next several weeks, Mercury is going to teach you to verbalize or communicate your philosophy or belief system in a way that finally makes sense to you. Why is this important? First, if you look back – and you should – you’ll find your outlook has broadened considerably in the last three years. This should naturally change both your goals and the way you pursue them. Second, being able to talk about what you believe enables you to attract people who believe the same way. Ultimately, this translates to increased opportunity.
Aquarius – You might receive an unexpected new income opportunity thanks to a Full Moon on Tuesday in your 2nd House of money and possessions. One way or another this Full Moon focuses you on what you have and what you really need. One way to work with the Full Moon would be to do what the Native Americans call a giveaway. Identify a possession that would be more helpful to someone else you know than it is to you and make a present of it. This not only shows the Universe you believe in abundance, it also opens up room in your life for something more appropriate to flow your way. At the same time, Mercury retrograde in your 8th House of other people’s money and shared resources is trying to help you resolve a power- or money-sharing issue that you’ve been working on since at least 2007. You’ve already done a lot of work with this person or on this issue; over the next three weeks Mercury wants to help you understand how you create or perpetuate the situation with your own thoughts and words. Start this week by looking back to similar situations in the past. Once you find the root energy of this repeating pattern, you’ll be able to learn what you need to learn in order to let the lesson go.
Pisces – The annual Full Moon in your sign arrives on Tuesday, bringing a fresh realization about who you are at this time in your life. Full Moons always bring to light that which has been obscured and this Full Moon specifically wants to show you how much you have evolved in relationship to your ideals and goals. You can encourage this process by being on the lookout for feedback from friends, colleagues and people in your social networks. Notice what others are saying to you and about you and connect these sentiments to your long-held goals about who you want to be and what you want to create in this lifetime. Focusing on how far you’ve come toward manifesting some of your major ideals sets the stage for an important new collaboration that should be manifesting for you within the next four to five weeks.