Moon Mind :::
12.16 Moon is in the 15th tithi (purnima), and nearing fullness. Moon moves from the creative star, Rohini, into Mrigashirsha nakshatra at 11:02 am CST while in its benefic mulitrikona sign, Taurus. Chandra (soma) rules the day- the deity who resides over this nakshatra. Find nourishment in the changes and fluctuations. Cultivate creativity and harmony with beauty. Pay attention to health and wellness, dietary details and purity. Sun is weak in degrees (sandhi) and now in Sagittarius. It receives drishti from Mars, Jupiter and Saturn from this position. Expansion and contraction energies are influencing the Sun in this transit. Anger and agitations can arise as a result. Get rid of what is not working. Cut way back on excesses with time, energy, money and spreading your Self too thin. Less is more.
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Moon is waxing (Sukla Paksha) and transits Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and into Taurus this week. Moon is exalted on 12.14 and in its mulitrikona sign of Taurus 12.15 and 12.16.
Sun moves to Sagittarius on 12.15 at 14:35 CST and will be there until 1.14.14. Sun in Sagittarius receives drishti (gaze) from Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. There will be a desire to expand, yet contraction principles at play simultaneously. Frustrations can come if we push too hard, overextend ourselves or do not effectively re-calibrate our intentions. Things will likely take longer than you'd prefer to pan out, so adjust for this. Best use of your time and efforts will be through goal setting, making to-do lists and using methodical action steps. Set your goals and aim high, but work backwards effectively in order to get the results you'd like. Full Moon (Purnima) on 12.17 at 3:27 am CST. It will be sandhi in degrees and in Gemini at its fullest point and in Mrgashiras nakshatra. More on this next week. Utilize my jyoti/creative arts activities as a healing & awareness tool. This week's Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity has us working with masking and unmasking. *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your “Western Sign” as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: Over the last few weeks you've been experiencing a more inward and restful phase, experienced set backs and slow progress. The end of the week marks a cycle of uplift for you over the next few months as Sun moves through your 9th and 10th houses. Simultaneously you can expect clean up, restructuring and reorganization of your life and Self. It will take courageous action steps and doing things differently in order for maximum benefits. Take time for comforts and nourishment this week and find support. Taurus: Use this week for strong forward movement and structured action steps. Find comfort in wisdom and support through your relationships. The coming solar month as Sun transits through your 8th house, will bring a time of working through past "material", the need for more silence and inward reflection, meditation and some "down time". Expect some father issues to emerge, or re-emerge, and work with these effectively. When a thought comes to the mental body, you know it's rooted in the emotional and physical bodies and will need careful attention/intention to heal. Gemini: Get gains from career this week- it's all about who you know and how you treat them, which doesn't imply being a doormat FYI. Assume a take-charge mind set but expect there to be tests about your follow up and follow through. Relationships in general right now are requiring extra attention, demanding your focus, while providing both nurturing and excess effort which can feel tiresome. As Sun moves into your 7th house for the next solar month, it will feel as though people are expecting more from you. Maybe it's because you can do that, or maybe it's because you are needing a healthier habit of saying NO. Either way, it's up to you. Cancer: You are in a time period that calls for re-structuring how you offer your Self and your gifts to the world. This next month will bring ways to heal and be healed. Move forward with the intention of greater comfort and security, self sufficiency and self-reliance. The week can bring gains through knowledge and wisdom, career strategy, friends and wealth. Get goal focused and sharpen your focal points. Attend to your relationships, emotions and healthy boundaries. Leo: Career seems to be going through some recalibration. It will be through your bold responsiveness that things shift. Use this week for fine-tuning what effective action might look like and where adjustments need to be made. Ask for feedback. This next solar month puts Sun in your 5th house and brings opportunities for higher learning, actions that bring advancement, knowledge from children. It will require your methodical action though and some restructuring perhaps. Sometimes things turn out better than you'd imagined them! Trust this to be possible. Virgo: The heat in your head is creating a bit of steam and cloudiness. Are you having trouble seeing clearly? Creativity, relationships and education are pushing you to expand your visions of what is possible. It's important that you think in terms of expansion and dream big. However, it is essential you goal set, use a strategy of small victories and attend to your to-do lists in order to get results. As Sun moves to your 4th house this next solar month, some new confidence in your own Self reliance may set in. Doubt the doubt, leave it out. Libra: For you, working from the inside out is most important this week. Sun's transit into your 3rd house at the end of the week will bring you a new month of expansion within, and the courage to act on your abilities. For you, goal setting and structured plans of execution are paramount, as the tendency for flightiness and lack of follow through can get you into trouble, or at the least leave you without forward movement. Keep it silent this week and create a "goal collage board"- one that has all your desires on it and can help you visualize the future. Then write a solid "goal setting" plan of action. Scorpio: Get your ducks in a row and ask for support from workers, friends and eduction in order for advancement. Be clear and direct with needs, desires and expectations, then hope for the best. You can't get 100% every time. As Sun moves to your 2nd house for the coming month, getting comfort and financial stability from your career will be of the utmost importance. What needs to be done, what actions made, in order to bring more security and harmony into your work and offer a greater financial gain? It's time to really let go of the old fears, and step into something new. Remember, others want to help you thrive. Sagittarius: A desire and a willingness to shine is coming to you and through you this next solar month as Sun transits into your first house. Get your soul shine on and maximize this time of expansion in knowledge and wisdom. What skills can you upgrade and reform? This week may bring some new realizations and sparks of insight to set you in motion. Watch for overindulgence, especially this weekend. Capricorn: Creativity is on your mind and coursing through you, amping up your career and courage. This week illuminates your creative process, yet the coming solar month with Sun moving into your 12th house, will ask that you bring your attention inward. The transits will offer expansion, yet ask that you continue to return your momentum back to its origin, the silence within, for refinement. This will teach you to pause, before saying "YES" and to get very clear before using your precious energy on futile actions. Trust the process. Aquarius: Anger may be coming from out of no where. Frustrations from the past are asking for your attention. As Sun moves into your 11th house for this coming solar month, it will offer you some more time for sifting through these pieces. Siblings, father, and friends will bring awareness to you, don't disregard the insights. Right now, relationships continue to be your "guru" and will offer growth and fine tuning. Pay attention. This week, find time for comfort, enjoyment, Self growth and reflection. Spend your Sunday outdoors. Pisces: Learning from your communications with others is offering big opportunities to you for expanded awareness. What works for you, and what doesn't? Clear boundaries begin with clear languaging, but the root of this clarity is clarity within you. This week find a new, intelligent way of speaking; a refinement is possible. As Sun moves to your 10th house for the next solar month, you will be working with give/take, offer/receive more intimately. Self expression will be restructured and the throat chakra cleared of debris. Speak and listen. Find a connection between body, breath and your spoken word. {When Fear Enters} Mask Exploration 1 ~By SJM As Sun changes signs late this week from Scorpio into Sagittarius (9th house activation and ruled by Jupiter) and the Moon gains power through its waxing phase (going from Kali to Lakshmi phases as well), we get a new opportunity to shine. This week can offer an increased relationship with Self, our Self expression, and what we present to others. Thus it can also be a useful time to navigate our mirrors and subpersonalities- what and who we turn on or up within us as we relate (and when we relate) to others. Mask work is therefor a great tool to help with this reflection process in order to cultivate a deeper relationship with the Self and all its dimensions.
Use the physical body as your entry point and start with gentle somatic movements. Explore spine and its relationship to the head, their intersections and fluidity. How does the spine support the head? Where is the head in relation to the spine? How do they work together as you move? When you feel your body exploration is complete, come to a pause, lying on your back, letting the ground underneath you, Support you. Take at least five minutes here in Sivasana. Come to your drawing pad. What color requires your attention? What does this color represent to you? Who is this color? Does it have a name or feeling for you? Let the image, the mask, arrive from the color you select and your relationship to it. Let its story come with these connections. Add colors if necessary or stick with one. Who is this mask and what message does it have for you? Complete these base line statements with your mask: I am____ I want____ I need____ Moon waxing {bright half/Shukla Paksha} and moves through Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and into its sign of exaltation, Taurus, later this weekend.
Full Moon on Sunday 11.17 at 09:15 CST while exalted in Taurus and in Krittika Nakshatra. Sun is weak and in young degrees (sandhi) at this time as it will have just moved out of its debilitation sign, Libra, and into Scorpio during the wee hours of the morning on 11.16. Seek clarity and purification with this Full Moon weekend and don't over indulge in sweets and intoxicants. The coming weeks will bring a theme of "cutting out what is unnecessary". Attend to your inner flame, your life force energy at this time. This is a particularly auspicious Full Moon in the Vedic Calendar. Called Kartik Purnima because it is a Full Moon (15th tithi) in the Vedic Month of Kartika while Moon is in both Bharani and Krittika. Considered a Maha Kartik when the Full Moon is in Krittika nakshatra at this time of year, and also special when in Bharani nakshatra. We will receive the blessings of both nakshatras on this particular Kartik Purnima. Kartik Purnima is a celebration and honoring of Lord Shiva's defeat over the rakshasa (demon) Tripurasura and the creation of the triad of "space cities" by the gods called Tripura. It is also the birthday (jayanti) of Vishnu's fish incarnation as Matsya, as well as a day dedicated to honoring our Pitr, or ancestors. Additionally, it is also said that Krishna danced for Radha on this day. Kartik Purnima is considered a Dev-Diwali, or Diwali of the gods. In the USA, the festivities commence on 11.16 at 08:15 am CST and continue until the fullest part of the Moon on 11.17 at 09:15 am CST. Many fast during this time. Pujas, prayers and devotions at your altar can begin at dawn and/or dusk on the 16th. Utilize my jyoti/creative arts activities as a healing & awareness tool. This week's Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity is centered around digestion and tending our fire within. *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your “Western Sign” as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: Expand what is possible for your Self through courage and Self-effort. Make the right connections on the inner and outer levels as well as with the right people. Issues with children and/or partners continue to bring challenges this next month. Prepare in advance for disappointment, losses and health sensitivities and trust that this is a time of soul transformations. Lay low if possible this coming month and ask for support and guidance. Enjoy a Full Moon weekend that provides time for you to shine and have some new comforts and gains. Taurus: Some new growth and healing through digestion and assimilation has occurred recently. Have you noticed? Continue to mind your gut and be careful of old, bad habits and enemies/frenimies. Do acts of Seva- with boundaries. Relationships, and your relationship to them, are in transformation. Some old experiences with friends and/or lovers may come back to haunt you. You are able to heal and grow from this if you go beyond the surface. This month will prove powerful on the levels of relating; the mirror of "other" will be bright. Let your Self be visible this Full Moon weekend. Step out with courage, but avoid intoxicants and your old avoidance techniques. Gemini: Your passionate fire is smoldering. Getting burned yet? Dial it back if necessary and take stock of your fire pit. Make a charcoal drawing or sprinkle some of the ashes intentionally. Find conscious ways to honor your Self, while being conscious of relations. Conscious awareness with boundaries- when/how energies merge and separate- is your internal homework assignment. The coming weeks bring necessary times of Seva and service as well as healing. Whether you do a gentle Self cleanse or a solid round of Pancha Karma, don't flake! Go for the gold. This weekend, as hard has it will be for you to do, take some necessary alone, away time and re-charge. Cancer: Some new passion and zest comes this month. Be bold and courageous with your words and creativity. Think outside the box. Tend to heart matters, home, vehicles, moksha, property and mother. Heal relationships with others and with your Self. This is a time of Self-care so avoid old, bad habits. Be mindful of friends, older siblings and frenimies. Appropriate boundaries are always important for you, but require courage and awareness. Work may feel unpredictable and unsupportive, but trust this time of learning to be worthwhile. Enjoy this Full Moon weekend with friends, siblings and/or lovers. Leo: You are still feeling a "take charge" spirit which is about to shift into a greater sense of awareness for your Self and others. It is a time to be courageous with relationships, but hit the pause button now and again and ask your Self "what am I learning here?" This is best practice for really reaping the fruits of your setbacks and also your gains. Remember, you win some and lose some, but be mindful of your motives and motivations anyway. This weekend, your career is charged. Think big! Your motto is "play big or go home". You won't be disappointed. Virgo: Your tongue is becoming a bit less tied and thoughts begin to get clearer now. Some new courage and bravery is coming. Can you feel the momentum building? This week is a time of "pulling the arrow back" in preparation. Get clear on goals and ambitions. Make lists, dream big and let your desires expand what feels possible to you. You are in charge of your action steps. Remember that! If something in your life or within you needs to shift, let it. Use love and Self love + compassion for maximum benefits. This weekend, use the Full Moon to gain new knowledge and wisdom. Listen carefully and let your heart be your teacher. Libra: Some of the intensity of the past few weeks begins to ease later this week. It may feel like there are no right answers or solutions, but take tiny step towards goals, self soothe, and trust the process. Being brave with creativity is essential right now. Use the arts as your teacher, to heal old wounds, to go beyond the surface. Use your voice powerfully in the coming weeks to get your needs met. This weekend, retreat, relax and restore with the Full Moon. Avoid intoxicants and temptation to fall into your old avoidance techniques. Confront what is. Scorpio: Rise and shine! Things will be getting a bit more progressive in the coming weeks so make hay while the sun shines in your first house. But before the celebrations commence, stay true to course, work smartly, methodically and get clear on goals and agendas. Speak and sing sweetly; gain and prosper with the right words and actions. Your growth curve is expanding so commend your Self for your good work occasionally through healthy and healing activities. This weekend enjoy quality time with friends and lovers but find time for health and healing as well. Find the joy. Sagittarius: Relationships are proving helpful and useful, while offering support and lessons to you. What are you learning about the Universe right now? About life? What feels helpful and what does not? Gains come through communication, connection and meeting the right people. This next month will be a time of solitude and rest for the soul. Make it purposeful for maximum benefit. Go on retreat if possible. Take care of your health and diet and mind your heart. This weekend watch for bad habits. The desire to over eat, binge on sweets and alcohol is strong. Instead, choose to nourish your Self from the inside out. Capricorn: Some career pieces are starting to make a bit more sense and fall into place. Some clarity begins to emerge over the weekend. This month focus on relationships with friends and healthy alliances. Gains seem to come out of no where so expect a few surprises! Healing in the bedroom, on retreat or through meditation and seclusion is possible at this time. Mind your gut and bad habits, as well as enemies/frenimies. Be of service! This weekend, enjoy a passionate, romantic and intellectual Full Moon. Aquarius: This last month has provided you with much to learn and grow from. You will be able to move forward with these lessons in the coming weeks and make them more conscious in ways that powerfully help others- especially within your career. Relationships are still heated and fiery. Channel this fire into your work and continue to make connections within. Confront old patterns that continue to show up in your relationships. What old mirror continues to haunt? What Self work is still needing attention? What are your needs here? Enjoy time with friends and spark some inner creativity and passion. This weekend tend to heart matters, work in the garden and walk barefoot. Kiss the Earth. Pisces: Creativity is an offering worth pursuing right now. Be courageous with your art and share it on a larger level. Some new support is coming, so shake off the dust from this past month and honor the road that you've been walking. It's not for the faint of heart! Continue to work in and on your darkness and shadows. You are in a time of great change and its coming from your darkest depths. Use this time wisely! This weekend, be bold with your creativity. Throw paint on canvas, howl at the Moon, take your creativity to the edge. Moon Mind :::
Thursday, 9.18 Moon is waxing in the 15th tithi (purnima) and is currently in Aquarius in Purvabhadrapada. Today offers an opportunity for balance- outer and inner. The winds of Vayu may be sweeping you. Feel the momentum? Find your dance with it, your personal rhythm and take harmonious action. Venus as just crossed over Saturn and they are still in tight conjunction. Saturn and Rahu are one degree a part. Creativity, desires, passions, and storms are strong. Find a structured stance with these cravings and natural forces. Be aligned with Saturn, and you can't go wrong. Ganesh Chaturthi {birthday} celebrations have ended now {India time} with Anant Chaturdashi. Jai Ganesha! Moon will be full on 9.19 at 06:13 CDT. Full Moon is in Pisces in PurvaBhadrapada nakshatra. Key words for the Full Moon and waning cycle ahead: tapas, purification, Shiva, creative movement, changes and shifts, balancing act, endings, renewal. Just in time for fall equinox on 9.22. The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love. ~Rumi |
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