27th July 2014 New Moon in Leo

 

Hi everyone!  Yes, Annie, the sun does come out...today!

What’s been happening:  Planetary overload?

 

Planetary changes:    Gear Changes!

It’s been interesting week with changes happening to so much of our being as planets changed signs and shifted directions with the accompanying unsettled feelings.  As planets near the end of their transit of a sign, there’s an intensification of energy as if to say ‘Quick!  Got to finish up all the loose ends’. 

 

Last weekend Mercury moved from frantic Gemini to emotional Cancer.  More emotional focus, on communication this time.  Talking it out with others where you feel safe. 

 

From the Moon to the Sun:  Jupiter’s move into Leo for next year!

Midweek, Jupiter moved from Cancer into Leo for the next year.  The focus moved from the Moon’s world of the past, memories, the home and the emotional into a focus on the fiery spirit of Leo’s passion, all arising from our spiritual link to the light of the Sun. You may have experience a multitude of emotional energy arising around security issues as Jupiter finished his work in Cancer.

 

November 2013 to July 2014 Mars in Libra  Rebalancing:  Karmic justice!

Mars hasn’t been the happiest of chappies since November 2013 as he was thrown into a deep and challenging rebalancing process in Libra, ruler of relationships.

 

Passion and drive held in check since November 2013:  All self-love!

It’s been a hard slog with Libra holding our masculine fire, drive and passion in check as we resolve issues of relationship with ourselves and with

significant others.

 

We’ve been learning when to act and when to be still, to manifest from a balanced place of integrated extroversion/introversion.  We’ve been learning self-love through self care. Fair’s fair!  Enough is enough!

 

 

 

Physically:  In Libra it’s been a karmic resolution and justice being restored

Mars is the physical body and while in Libra we’ve been getting a karmic rebalancing of our physical being.  Many of us have been releasing and resolving long buried cell memories of this and past lives/other realities which have been keeping us reliving some other reality, time or place.  Anyone had headaches this past week?  Also, maybe strange aches and pains releasing from the body.  Much resolution of old relationship energies, imbalances in relation to abuse whether in this or other lives. 

 

Mars finishing up, being finished off in Libra:

Mars, the warrior, completes his last week of Libra finishing school. 

After 8 months in Libra, learning the art of peace instead of practising the art of war, we find Mars being contained has him feeling somewhat suppressed.  He’s stamping his feet and waving his arms in the air, feeling the upcoming release from all this training in politics and diplomacy.

 

Resolution, one way or another:  Karmic justice

As he finishes off his sojourn in Libra, explosive feelings may have been released and ongoing long term relationship conflicts, within and without, will be wound up.  They could come to a head either peacefully or not.  Whatever happens, resolution is possible.  

Mars is graduating from the School of Peace and this warrior of war will be glad to kick over the traces and get on his way in Scorpio, much more to his liking.

 

26th July:    Mars moves into Scorpio at 12.24 pm AEST...freeing the fiery butterflies!

until mid September 

Art:  Pedro Ruiz  I call this ‘Freeing the butterflies’

What’s coming in:  

Freeing the fire and drive of our inner butterflies!

 

Mars in Scorpio is fired!  On home territory!

Mars was once the ruler of Scorpio as well as ruler of Aries until Pluto was discovered.  Mars has his head back on his shoulders and is ready to go, go, go!

 

 

 

 

The truth test: 

Have we evolved our passion, drive and aggression? 

Have we transformed our passion and drive to be more loving, harmonious and balanced? 

Have we brought karmic justice to our lives? 

Have we learned to be more assertive and less aggressive? 

Have we learned to be more loving and kind to ourselves?  to others? 

 

The truth of our progress will be revealed as Mars moves into Scorpio.  

We’re fired and ready for action, more than we have been for months. 

 

Scorpio energy goes through us like a dose of salts transforming our lives.  With Mars in Scorpio, we’ll feel more ready to take on the world than we have for a long time.

 

 

In Scorpio, Mars will be tested on his evolutionary progress.  Eagle or Scorpion? Can he fly like the eagle or will he self-destruct like the Scorpion biting itself and everyone around?

 

Scorpio is a sign represented by two symbols representing the ‘muggle’ and the ‘magical’, the Scorpion and the Eagle.  This is because Scorpio is all about transformation, life, death and rebirth.

 

We can also include the image of the golden phoenix within the Scorpio magic bag of personas!  Returning to life, reborn in the light!

 

27th July:    New Moon in Leo at 8.41 am AEST at 3 degrees 52 Leo...fun, games and frivolity!

Sun and Moon are speaking the same shining language as they meet at the New Moon in Leo.  Our extrovert and introvert urges meet and are speaking the same language.

 

The inner shining spirit of self is calling:   

Are you ready to shine without pretences, masks and false ego?

The purity of spirit comes through the light of the Sun, igniting and enhancing our golden selves.  When we are coming from that pure space of being ourselves without the cloak of conditioning and the labels and benchmarks of society, we are living and being in truth, our truth.

 

Creativity:    Be true to self!  Leo is ruled by the Sun, the light of our spiritual essence.  It is time to express your essence, your light and spirit in the world.

 

Love and romance:  Let the heart open to the power of love!

Isn’t being in love an amazing feeling!  Our hearts are opened, our spirits become optimistic and love rules our lives.  Nothing is impossible when we have this experience.  Our spirit is revealed and shining.  We see into the soul of ‘the other’, our lover and we are enchanted.  And we feel ‘wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time’. 

 

This is the energy calling us now, to open our hearts and spirits to love and the romance of life, to experience the enchantment that comes when our reality is enhanced and uplifted by spirit.  It’s not just about a lover, partner, spouse.  It’s life.

 

Why do we fall out of love?  We just stop seeing each other’s spirit and experiencing the soul connection.  That’s my take on it.

Play and Children/childhood:  Back to what matters!

The child energy brings us back to innocence and purity, to that essence of self we lost amongst the growth into adult life.  Maybe you never lost it and it’s well alive inside of you.  This is the time to embrace it, enhance it, reclaim it if necessary and be childlike in your joy of life.  This is the aphrodisiac of life!  Enjoy!

 

 

 

Wishing at the New Moon:  

The seeds are planted for the next lunar month and the next Leo year!

Make wishes and send them out for any or all of the above.  We set the intent at the New Moon and then build on that for the next month. 

 

It’s definitely showtime!

 

 

 

Planetary energies at this New Moon:  Passion rules at the Leo Party!

 

New Moon, Sun and Jupiter conjunct They're running the show together! 

A Leo party!  It’s a rave! 

Jupiter makes it bigger than big!

With Jupiter joining the Sun and the Moon in Leo, it’s become a major event in the calendar.  EVERYONE’S invited!  That’s Jupiter for you.  The more the merrier!

 

No, it’s not a birthday, but with Jupiter in Leo, every day’s a birthday!

 

It’s completely over the top with the love, joy and passion of life!

In this kind of energy people can fall in love or fall in love all over again.  Make the most of it.  Just take care with overindulgence!

 

Mars in Scorpio squaring/challenging the New Moon and Jupiter:  

Uh oh!  Here’s trouble!

Uh oh!  There always has to be a trouble maker at the gatherings.  Is Mars looking for a fight with the joyful dancing crowd at Leo’s New Moon party? 

 

Has he learned his lessons in Libra?  This is a test of his new balanced, transformed self at the Leo gathering where everyone wants a good time.  Is Mars going to pick a fight or add to the fun and celebration?  He’s in our hands, minds and hearts.  Up to us.

 

Giving Mars a chance to join the party:  Second chances are good!

Maybe Mars just wants to fire up the energy of joy, being as he’s travelling in the Scorpio vehicle of change. 

Maybe he’s looking for love and connection with the joy of life.  He’s certainly going to fire proceedings with his passion and drive.  Look out...someone!

 

 

 

Venus opposes/challenges Pluto:   

What, more trouble or is Pluto looking for love?

The dark lord Pluto has emerged from his dark cave to join the party too. Pluto could be the wet blanket we all dread, wearing his dark, brooding energy like a cloak of identification with the dark side. But let’s remember, he comes from deep within the earth, where we find the precious gold within. 

 

Pluto rules Scorpio, ruler of transformation as well as sexuality and intimacy.  When he meets Venus at this New Moon gathering, look out!  Love, intimacy and sexuality could be aroused.  Pluto’s not looking for a speed dating experience.  It’s all or nothing!

With Pluto, love and romance can turn into serious passion and deep love in an instant!

 

 

 

Sabian Symbols for New Moon:  From Lynda Hill http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/

 

The Sabian Symbol for the new Moon is Leo 4:

A Man Formally Dressed Stands Near Trophies He Brought Back From A Hunting Expedition. 

The following interpretations are taken from my book The Sabian Oracle: 360 Degrees Of Wisdom. 

Extract :A Man Formally Dressed Stands Near Trophies’ is an image of someone putting on their best attire and showing something that’s seen by himself and others as being a reward for achieving success in what is probably normally a male dominated arena.

Keywords: Trophies of conquest. The desire to show oneself. Proving one’s animal instincts for the benefit of social position. Displays of manliness. The spoils of daring and courage. Notches on the belt. Victories over another. Trophies awarded for one’s club, social standing or country. Looking for pats on the back. Diplomas. Guns, rifles, ammunition. Academy Awards. Animal liberationists.

The Caution: Dominating nature with power. Showing off one’s spoils. Warfare and the ravages of it. Keeping tabs on one’s conquests. Boasting of masculine prowess. Living in the past. Arrogance. Seeing things as objects to conquer. Testosterone overloads. Compromises made to attain social acceptance. Envious responses to success.

For full interpretation of the New Moon symbol and other planetary symbols at this time:  http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/

 

 

 

From 27th July to 1st August:    

Winding up the Mercury in Cancer reunion energies

Whenever a planet moves through Cancer, there’s an element of the past in the equation.  With Mercury in Cancer, it brings communication and reconnection with past energies, often through commercial links as Mercury rules Commerce as well as communication and travel.

 

This period of time may bring you some reconnections to the past, family, childhood and yes, commercial connections.

 

We still have Venus in Cancer until 12th August, so the connection at a heart level to the past is likely to arise.

 

Yes, reunions too!  This life, past lives.

 

1st August:    Mercury moves into Leo at 8.45 am AEST

until 15th August

Make the most of the next 2 weeks of uplifting interactions:

This is such a creative energy with Mercury the quicksilver mind energy stimulated by its transit through Leo, the creative powerhouse of the spirit of the self. 

 

The mind is buzzing with ideas:  Let’s talk and share!

The commercial world is alive with possibilities as we connect and interact with others, expanding and sharing creative ideas.

 

 

 

 

The heart is jumping with loving conversations:

Mercury rules travel, so we could take a trip, just for fun!

 

Lots of opportunity for loving exchanges with those who matter in our lives as well as sharing the love with others

 

 

 

The inner child is begging to be heard: Come talk and play with me!

Feel the excitement and joy of childhood revisited.  Children can help with this one.  Or watching Disney movies! 

Write a children’s story.

 

 

 

 

Golden Oldies:

 

‘Coney Island’ Van Morrison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPfybDTJ-Bo ‘Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time’

 

‘Passionate kisses’ Mary Chapin Carpenter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCMpA5TfHc  Mars in Scorpio/Leo Sun and Moon

 

Lyrics for above: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Passionate-Kisses-lyrics-Lucinda-Williams/D54EEB60EA1DF87E48256CDF002DE3AF

 

‘Everything Possible’ Judy Small http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOR7ndGxXDk  Song to the child.  Leo call to authenticity and love.

 

 

 Upcoming Dates:

11th August:    Full Moon in Aquarius

12th August:    Venus moves into Leo

16th August:    Mercury moves into Virgo

 

 

 

That’s if folks!  The Yellow Brick Road calls us on!

I’ve written quite a bit about what’s been happening these past 8 months with Mars in Libra as it’s been such a strong influence on our lives for an extended period.  I always feel understanding as much as possible is our key to moving on.  Otherwise, we keep dibble dabbling about in the past until we ‘get it’.  So, hoping you all survived this challenging period and feeling better for it.  If not now, then in the weeks to come. 

 

Happy travelling everyone on the yellow brick road!  As always, love and blessings to all of us pilgrims as we step along the road under the Leo Sun and New Moon. 

 

 

 

helenbea

 

from the chair...with my inner child

 

 

 

It’s all about love

23rd July 2014 Sun moves into Leo

 

Hi everyone!

A picture of the last Full Moon Supermoon which has continued reverberating with us all since 12th July.  It came along with a whole stack of planetary energies interacting with each other and bringing a huge release and ongoing changes.

 

What’s been happening:

 

A major realignment of body and heart, passion and direction:

The full moon culmination along with the powerful energies of Mars/drive and passion, aligned with the North Node/our current direction, along with the two asteroids Vesta/spiritual flame and Ceres/nurturing mother acting like ‘minders’ chaperoning the positive trine connection of Mars/body with Venus/heart.

 

 

Lightening the load:

That all sounds complicated.  It wasn’t really.  But these planetary energies happening at the full moon, effectively swept away so much karmic burden, old belief systems and damaging emotions from our cell memories.  We may not feel the full effect just yet but will be starting to appreciate the major strides we’ve made over the past week.

 

 

 

Adding to the release of the past:  

Jupiter leaving Cancer and entering Leo...leaving the ghosts behind

As Jupiter came to the final degree of Cancer over the full moon weekend and up to the 16th July, we experienced an intensification of energies almost rushing to be released.  Because Cancer rules memory, the past, family and ancestors you may have revisited some past energies of this or other lives, in conscious or dream state. 

Resolution of past energies:  people, relationships and problems

People and experiences from the past may have popped up for some kind of resolution of the past time.  Maybe it was about final goodbyes as we stretch into new ways of living and consciousness. Maybe it was about renewing ties, revisiting memories which will carry on into our new field of consciousness.

 

What’s coming in:

 

19th July:    Venus moves into Cancer at 12.06 am AEST...past pleasures, present joys

until 12th August

Coming home to ourselves:  Mothering

Venus in Cancer calls us to connect at a heart level with what brings us home to ourselves.  It’s connecting with the nurturing, mothering energy inside of us, bringing comfort and a sense of security and safety to the inner child. 

 

Being at home with ourselves and others at a heart level:

Cancer rules family, home, the past, memories and nurturing, so the next few weeks we’re called by our heart energy to connect with any or  all of these energies.

 

 

Enhanced emotions and intuition:  

Listen to the inner guidance from the heart!

Cancer is ruled by the moon, representative of our deep inner intuitive selves and our emotions.  Make contact with that deep emotional part of self to really discover what brings your heart to life. 

 

Heart energies of Venus on a hotline with the energies of the Sun and Jupiter:

The Venus energy is offering us a direct hotline from our heart’s desires to the way we bring those into the world as our shining selves, as masters of the physical world.

 

 

21st July:    Saturn stations/turns direct at 6.35 am AEST at 16 degrees 39 Scorpio

out of retrograde shadow in late October:  slow and steady

 Art:    Duy Huynh ‘Waiting for Time to Fly’

What’s been happening since early March:  Deconstruction!  Marking time!

We’ve been undergoing deconstruction for months, since Saturn went retrograde in early March.  The status quo has been challenged on all levels, from the personal to political, from relationships to communities. 

 

Out of the comfort zone:

We’ve been getting a renovation of our inner being with so much of the status quo pulled down around our ears.

 

 

 

Saturn’s role in our lives

Taking authority of our physical lives:

Saturn rules time and is the master of structure, construction and building.  As the master of manifestation in the physical world, Saturn calls us to take our authority of the physical dimension, our earthly lives.

 

Responsibility:    Saturn pushes us to take responsibility for this life and to resolve those unresolved energies we have chosen to work with karmically this lifetime. 

 

When we put in the effort and commitment to our earthly path, Saturn brings the rewards of feeling the success that comes when we do what we need to do.

21st July:  Time to rebuild!   From deconstruction to reconstruction! 

Start with the blueprints!

For the next 5 months we’re working with building new foundations or rebuilding our foundations on a firmer footing. Whatever has been ripped away from you, now needs reclaiming in a new form.  What form that takes will be a gradual development as with Uranus moving retrograde, ideas and radical solutions will be welling up from inside, from the unconscious. 

 

From 21st to 28th:    Time for making plans, accessing new ideas, solutions

and creative avenues which excite the passions!

Make the most of this week to gather resources, consider options, explore potentials and generally access the incredible creative energy opening us up on all levels.

 

Remember to take time out to just sit and dream, meditate and contemplate and let the ideas come in.

 

 

 

 

 

Note: 

Not a lot of movement on the physical dimension until 28th/29th after New Moon in Leo on 27th July and Mars moves into Scorpio on 26th 

Saturn will hardly be moving for the next week or two from about 17th to 28th as he comes to station.  Plenty of time to get your act together with plans, blueprints, pulling in new ideas and options.  We’ll really feel like getting going as the energies are opening up for movement in our physical lives. 

 

22nd July:    Uranus stations/turns retrograde at 12.53 pm AEST at 16 degrees 31 Aries

until 23rd December

 

What’s been happening:

A wild ride with Uranus in direct movement since mid December 2013:

It’s been a bit of a hairy ride for the past few months with surprise agent/risk taker Uranus slapping us around the head with sudden moves and events seemingly coming out of nowhere.  We’ve had to be ready to jump out of the way of a collision course. 

It may well have felt you were trying to drive an out of control vehicle.

 

Maybe it’s been a bumpy ride on a rough road.

 

Maybe you were taken off road completely!  

And I mean body, home, work, money etc.

 

Ongoing challenges to the status quo:

With Uranus in a square/challenge to Pluto these past months, much of the status quo has been challenged, both personally and publicly. 

This is an ongoing challenge which doesn’t complete  until March 2015.  However, with Uranus in retrograde, the shifts and changes to our lives will be more likely an internalised process as we change our minds and thinking about the way things are.

 

 

What’s coming in:  Breathing space!  Integration time until 23rd December

The brakes are now slowing the rapid, wild unexpected change process for the next five months.  Uranus retrograde will slow the energy and allow us to integrate all that’s been happening. 

It’s an internal process of revamping our energies, of allowing the rewiring of our mind, opening us to new ideas.

 

Finding solutions, new directions, possibilities:  

Our sleeping ‘radical’ calls us to listen

Uranus retrograde opens us up to radical solutions to old problems. Uranus is the radical rebel who thinks outside the box, who offers innovative ideas and avenues for forward movement.  You could call Uranus an extremist.  When Uranus is retrograde, the extremist is stirring up our mental processes and popping creative ideas into our conscious mind.   Allow time out for switching off and allow this inspiration to flow.

 

Moving but with a new paradigm emerging:  

Getting used to new ways of moving out of the comfort zone.

This kind of movement may feel a little clumsy and unfamiliar, but trust that any glitches you feel are helping you shift your perspective and your attachment to the way things have been up to this time.  We’re shifting awareness about ourselves and how we express our unique selves in the world.

 

23rd July:    Sun moves into Leo at 7.41 am AEST

until 23rd August

Leo is ruled by the Sun:    It’s a major lightening up!

It’s heat and light, fire and life force. 

                                     

Leo is fire:   

The fire of passion of the true self!  

Time to burn off the dross!

Time to burn off all the dross accumulated from your journey through the world.  Welcome the light and warmth of the Leo energies which are strengthening over the coming month. 

 

 

Be your shining self:  Shining from within!

This is a perfect month for strengthening your inner light and bringing it forth into the world.  This will work beautifully with heart loving energy of Venus in Cancer and also with Saturn preparing to move direct.  It’s a call to authenticity in the light of your own being.

 

Leo time is showtime!  

Roll up, roll up and experience your own amazing self! 

 

Leo rules:

 

Love and romance:  Open the heart and keep it light.  No heavy commitment scenes but passion is on the menu!

Embrace the joy of romance and just play!

 

Creativity:  Open the heart to creative impulses and urges and follow them to find the source of pleasure in your life.

 

Fun:  The more pure fun, the better! 

 

 

Children and childhood:  

It’s all about play and exploration...let’s pretend!

Reclaim any lost childhood, lost childhood aspects through fun and play.

Connect to children and/or childhood toys and joys.

 

 

 

Drama and Theatre:  

Showtime!  Get on your fancy clothes for your own special party!

What would be your costume? 

What is your favourite dance style?

Be ready to do your ‘party piece’. 

Showing off in the joy of fun and playfulness is everything with the Sun in Leo.

 

Leo is the lion:  Ruling your own personal kingdom or ‘queendom’!  Strength and courage, confidence and humility!

Are you ready to take charge of your life in a whole new way?

 

Courage and strength to the fore as we embrace our ‘royal’ selves, the self that is a child happy to be in joy, to be playful, to be loving and of course to be proud of who we are, our authentic selves without the cloak of false pride and pretence.

 

Let go of all fears of shining your light.  Believe in yourself at the deepest level of being. 

 

Call forth true confidence, the confidence that comes from knowing, loving and enjoying who you are.  Fear not the ‘demons’ of arrogance, false pride or over bloated ego as you hold the humility and gratitude which keeps us on the balanced path.

 

Out of the closets into the light of the true self!                  

Releasing shadows into the light!

 

No more hiding from yourself or the world

Be open and generous, heart filled and passionate

Creative and fulfilled

Shining your true self

Laughing into the light of the Sun

 

Let the shadow self into the light of a new day in this big Leo energy. 

 

The Leo energy is big and going to get bigger in August:

With Jupiter having just moved into Leo, we now have the Sun HOT on his heels! Mercury and Venus going into Leo in August.

It’s not exactly a Leo party but it’s pretty big with both the Sun and Jupiter in the Sun ruled sign of Leo.

 

23rd July:    Mars moves out of his retrograde shadow

...on the move at last!

Finally we can feel we’re on the move.  Mars is still in Libra and won’t have his full head until 26th July when he moves into Scorpio.

 

 

23rd July:    Eris meets South Node in Aries:    

Major shift in consciousness...the past must go!  

Sudden and dramatic change for the better!

Eris is a dwarf planet similar in energy to Uranus, the radical change maker.  She can bring chaos and destruction for the better.

The South Node is an energy from which we are evolving.  Currently it’s the Aries energy which is the wild fiery warrior energy we are learning to bring into harmony and balance through the North Node in Libra.

 

With this energy, we may find some of the chaotic energies shifting quite dramatically.  Keep laughing!

From Stephanie Azaria's Daily Weather report 18th July (New York time):

'We are in a very interesting passage this week, as the Big Bang Mars conjunction continues to reverberate with the Moon’s Nodes while awaiting the Eris South Node conjunction on the 23rd.

The Libra-Aries Bridge, aka the relationship axis, is highly energized and wide open. This bridge, from self to Self is guarded by Mars and Eris, along with an array of newer energies representing the new consciousness.

While chaos reigns on the planet, (and as we near the Eris South Node conjunction the chaos will gain momentum), the higher Self is well aware that chaos precedes a new order. Take a front row seat and watch the movie that is the end of the old order, and at the same time, let your Light shine so brightly that anyone who even so much as senses the new order will be able to find their Way.'
www.thecosmicpath.com

 

Keep eyes, hearts and minds uplifted as we move towards a culminating energy on 23rd July. 'Look to the rainbow'

 

 

Golden Oldies:

‘Sunshine Medley’ Doris Day & John Denver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQMh9F7xlko for the Sun in Leo

 

‘Here Comes the Sun’ The Beatles  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p-fANMqo0s for the Sun in Leo

 

‘I can see clearly now’ Johnny Nash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y51_bBQZ1a4

 

‘There’s no business like show business’  Ethel Merman and Muppets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdggcQhysQ

 

‘Baby laughing at dog eating popcorn’ Something to make you laugh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTOeuH-iEJ8 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Dates:

26th July:    Mars moves into Scorpio – cheer!

27th July:    New Moon in Leo

1st August:    Mercury moves into Leo 

 

 

That’s all for now folks!  We’ve had quite a lot of significant shifts in the past weeks which will keep us on a roll through the next few months!

 

As always love and blessings to all my fellow travellers in the light of the Leo sun.

 

helenbea

 

from the chair...basking in the Sun, listening to my inner Uranus for insights, feeling the joy of my heart and...

readying for constructing my new physical life...tapdancing! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s all about love