MERCURY ENTERS SAGITTARIUS 

Busy October, important Planetary changes implementing a new 3 year Saturn cycle.

Oct 3-4 Full Moon @ 11 degrees + Aries- Fiery and new

The Full Moon in Aries initiates the Libran Sun Balance we need to proceed with.

VENUS is very active!

She forms quincunxes {I love that word it’s a 135 degree angle which means elements don’t understand each other whatsoever} with Jupiter Oct 4, opposes Uranus and quincunxes Neptune on Oct 9.

Venus joins serious Saturn Oct. 13 and makes her 4^th square of the year to Pluto Oct 15^th. All of that Venusian impact, intercourse and interactivity puts the Goddess center stage. You won’t help but take note of what you value, how far off you‘ve veered from your balance and your true Feminine path, and what we need to eliminate and recycle {Pluto}.

We are still in the Saturn/ Uranus balancing act walking the tightrope between old and new. We are also blessed with Jupiter Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius remaining within 5 degrees of each other until Jan 2010. Make those big dreams and wishes your grandest, but the way through is to experience the vulnerability and the wounding that has prevented you from achieving it. It’s a healing crisis big time! The haling balm comes from enduring the tears pain and the wounds.

JUPITER turns direct Oct 12- all systems go!

All Jupiterian higher minded, truth seeking, teaching, philosophies, international affairs, animal rights, largesse, “gypsies,” and  legal matters which have been on hold and re-versioned since June 15^th sbegin to boldy expand and follow the truth of the higher visions.

VENUS ENTERS HER HOME SIGN OF LIBRA OCT 14-peace and love

The Goddess of Love, Beauty, Harmony and Social Grace, money and values too is at home exuding and expressing love and harmony to the max until Dec 1^st which is also a Full Moon.  So tune into the Goddess’s Beauty in yourself, show more love and kindness, enjoy, lighten up, be a little extravagant or simply be aware of beauty. Make art, make love, decorate, plan lovely soirees, be romantic, and fall in love. A bonus for all Libran’s of course, but Capricorns, Cancer’s, and Aries get a big boost too. If you know your Astrology chart Where you find the Sign of Libra, sign of RELATIONSHIPS, That’s the territory Venus is traversing. This is where you’ll attract wealth, joy, peace into that segment of your life.

MARS ENTERS LEO OCT 16-fiery, passionate, bold and then-

Mars melts out of his Mom’s house {Cancer} to boldy heat up,with heart pounding, Apollo’s light glinting off his armor.  Mars is very at home in Leo’s solar fire. Mars animates, activates, sparks, armies get ready to move; defenses are ever at the ready.  Time to be proud, bold, aggressive, daring, strong, courageous, crow, wear your heart on your sleeve, and demonstrate who you are, be strong willed and a big leader.You’ ll feel more of a spark, passionate, lighter,more child like.

Leo is the sign of the Child. This aspect sparks protecting children’s rights. Act from the Heart is the highest expression, not from ego.

MARS RETROGRADE HEADS UP!

-         see Mars retrograde separate article Mars is gonna hang out in Leo for quite awhile. Where Leo is in your Natal chart shows where Mars heats up then chills out that area of your life.

LIBRA NEW MOON OCT 17-18

This is the first Libra New moon , with Venus in her home sign too +Mercury in Libra.  So very Libran-harmony, peace, partnerships. More importantly Saturn enters Libra Oct. 29, but more about that later. Neptune trines this New Moon enhancing visionary insights and dreams.

The Lunar Nodes- karmic

This New Moon forms with in one degree of squaring the North and South Lunar Nodes of the Moon in Capricorn-Cancer.  These transiting nodes represent the collective spiritual frontier, what we as individuals are working towards and for the collective. Any planet that squares the nodes applies extra evolutionary pressure to that polarity. The North Node in Capricorn calls us to develop discipline, self-reliance, and patience, to build,to aim for our highest goals in a mature, responsible way. The South Node in Cancer asks us to release codependency, martyrdom, and destructive attachments to family, ethnic groups or nations.

SATURN ENTERS LIBRA OCTOBER 29 for the next 3 years!!!

Libra is the sign of JUSTICE in the Tarot and in the Heavens. Saturn which rules reality, physical matter, boundaries, limits, obstacles, cause and effect, law and order. Saturn is the mythic Grim reaper and father Time. Saturn will be sojourning through the Karmic sign of Libra over the next three years.

Entering Libra Oct 29, it will remain there till Oct 5, 2012 {retrograding briefly back into Virgo April 7 to July 21, 2010}.

Saturn’s last journey through Libra was  Sept 21 1980 to Aug 24 1983.

The U. N. called for withdrawal of Russian troops in Afghanistan, IBM’s personal computer was launched and the CD; MTV was born. This was the Reagan years with sky-high inflation, gas rationing in the U.S. women beginning to be more accepted in the workforce.

Saturn’s passage through Libra will bring to the fore issues of Justice, fairness, and equality. This Libra passage will build upon the paths that were trod before with women’s power coming more into true balance and alignment away from the masculinized Feminine in the media, culture, and at work. The need for beauty as a stabilizing influence, the arts being seen as necessary and practical. Negotiating as a fine art. Saturn is the builder and is considered to be exalted in Libra.  Teamwork, reconciliation, letting both sides win. This is good territory to be traveling through. But also shows we’re hanging and being judged in the Karmic Balance of Ma’at. What you put out comes back that’s karma. Have we been fair?

SATURN entering Libra signifies the Beginning of the CARDINAL CLIMAX alignment.

Over the next year a formation of 3 planets will come to fruition, this is the beginning of that powerful CARDINAL CLIMAX!

If it sound like a Big Cosmic Orgasm, an echo of the Big Bang,well in a way it is.

Saturn at Zero degrees of Libra is Squaring Pluto at One degrees of Capricorn. What does that mean to you and me? And you thought Pluto

Was demoted didn’t you? Not so fast…. It’s not good business to fool around with the Lord of the Underworld.

Both of these Planets are initiating us into the Karmic Balance, in Libra and in rebuilding the World’s stance in Capricorn. Saturn is also the ruler of the Sign Capricorn and has the last word here, so the two planets blend their energies more easily. In other words Pluto Lord of death takes marching orders from Saturn now especially as he is strengthened in the Sign of Libra, where his influence is considered to be most just. Later the planet Uranus,the freedom bringer and revolutionary will enter  ZERO degrees of Aries, the sign of Spring, new life.

Then we will have these 3 planets counter poised with each other, at what’s called CARDINAL POINTS –the Solstice and Equinox degrees. These are gateways of power, they are the 4 cardinal directions, the stability of the Season of the Year, the Sun’s quarterly compass points.

Saturn in zero degrees of Libra,  squaring Pluto in early degrees of Capricorn, Uranus will enter Aries in 2010 and then Square Pluto, and Uranus is also in opposition to Saturn. This is called a T-square formation and it is stressful, change provoking, critical.For example Saturn was opposite Pluto in August 2001, That alignment sparked 911.

START the Revolution!

The 60’s were in fact sparked by an Astrological alignment of Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo with Saturn in Pisces exactly opposite that. We are also now in the “midlife crisis” or

opposition to those exact mid- 60’s transits which the Beatles were the living embodiments of. What was seeded in the 60’s with Uranus and Pluto coming together, John Lennon wrote a song called that didn’t he?

Will now be activated, as Squares provoke action. Say you want a Revolution? We shall soon see.

Anyway we are in the KARMIC LIBRAN BALANCE NOW!

Nothing can be taken for granted without being aware of the consequences.  Climate change, evolution, warring factions, extremism, imbalance in relationships, cause and effect,will all be  reckoned with as intrinsic matters.

Libra is the 7^th house of traditional marriage, it is all “others.” The balance between us and them has to be leveled.The gap between rich and poor has never been this extreme.

 Around Oct 22 the Sun will square the July 21 Solar Eclipse degree {29 degree of Cancer} and that triggers a release point for those energies. Watch out for important insights into what you need to do to move forward on your path.

MERCURY ENTERS SCORPIO OCT 28 How Low can you go?

Communications gets down, deep deep down in to the depth, into Soul territory, into the Unconscious, into the shadows and Secrets of power, control, obsession, sexuality, other peoples money, death and rebirth. Perfect timing during Halloween.

Good time to soul search, dump all that no longer serves you. Die before you die.

Nothing ever stays the same change is the name of the game. Develop your personal laser vision while Mercury is in Scorpio a scant two weeks till November 15.

CHIRON goes Direct Oct. 30