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September Full Moon Wisdom + Creative Ritual

9/23/2018

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Days after the equinox, the September full Moon arrives on Monday the 24th at 20:52 MT. Moon is in sidereal Pisces and the constellation of Uttarabhadrapada at the time of fullness. There is movement, increased fluidity, and a desire for balance arriving with this Moon tide.

Equinox expresses the equilibrium taking place in the environment- when days and nights become nearly equal in length. The darkness and the light within us and around us find some harmony, integration and balance. With Venus currently transiting Libra until January 1st, this theme is alive and well.

Pisces also seeks balance, however it is through movement and release. Stagnation causes certain death. The turning of the cycles and the rotation of the wheel of life, is provoked at these seasonal junction points, or Equinox. Whether you are in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, the shift is arriving- causing the release and sparking an opening of the new.

Pisces correlates to the 12th house of the zodiac- which expresses themes around loss, endings, release and letting go. The wisdom of the 12th house is expressed through the ancestors, reclusive tendencies and all matters of the spiritual realms. It is a junction point between endings and beginnings, openings and closings, spirit and material worlds. There is nothing mundane about this portion of the sky. Jupiter, the guru, rules Pisces and reminds us of the knowledge possible through this sign. As a water sign, it requests movement, fluidity, purification and attention to the emotional body.

The September full Moon in Pisces and Uttarabhadrapada takes us into a deep dive- below the surface understanding of life and into the depths of our inner realms. Ruling deity of this constellation is Ahirbudhnya who rules unseen, hidden parts of our awareness. With the help of Ahirbudhnya, the unconscious parts of ourselves will rise to the surface, becoming conscious. The serpent of the depths seeks spiritual awakening, transformation and healing, and does so by asking us to look at our shadows.

As a Naga, Ahirbudhnya has spiritual serpent energy that moves darkness to the light, stirring and awakening the unseen, making it dissolve into conscious awareness. In many ways this is a reflection of the endless cycle of transcendence and transformation. Darkness to light, pulling from our depths, and awakening insights and awareness; the new awareness provoking change and beginnings.

Though we touch the surface, the intention of this constellation is to go back into the depths again and again. Coming up for air doesn't last long. It is the desire for expansion and growth that drives the movement and the return to the depths of our inner ocean. Ahirbudhnya supports this journey.

This waning cycle comes with a request to journey into your inner terrain and pull up pearls of wisdom. This requires your willingness to look deep within and uncover the hidden, dark parts of yourself. An invitation to intensify your healing process and gather new guidance is arriving. There may be confusion and shadow keeping you from seeing clearly, but strive for clarity and insight anyway. Balance, integration and harmony are bursting forth, but not without required release and endings.

Are you consciously allowing the letting go to take place? What veils of illusion are clouding your vision? What needs to be stripped away in order for you to see more clearly? 

Relationships and the feminine are particularly potent resources for this waning cycle. Are you listening to your inner Divine Feminine? Are you allowing her wisdom to support your balance? She is a requirement for your wholeness and inner balance. Let Her speak to you.

As we move beyond the equinox, the Vedic celebration of Maha Navaratri arrives with the new Moon on October 9th. This is a powerful turning point in the Vedic Calendar when the Divine Feminine transforms and awakens. It is through her powerful dance that the seasonal shifts take place. We are embarking on the magical shift between seen and unseen, straddling the material and spiritual realms. This is a gap, a portal, that invites in depth, wisdom and powerful inner wisdom. Don't go back to sleep.

The Navaratri celebration is an expression of what is taking place within Nature, through the Laws that govern Nature, marking an important transition within us and around us.
Align with Nature and Her powerful energy of change and transformation during Navaratri. Ritualize your connections with Nature- in order to land more closely to your own inner wisdom, to Her wisdom. Strengthen your connection to self and Spirit.

Navaratri is a poignant time in the Vedic Calendar. This ancient calendar is one that is dedicated to Nature and her cycles and rhythms, the planets, and most importantly the Moon. In the Vedic Calendar, time is connected to what Nature and the cosmos are doing, and these elements are intimately related. Navaratri occurs twice a year- in the "gap" seasons of spring and fall. These times are considered sandhi times; delicate times that feel like you are neither here, nor there. We might call it the netherworld. This time, though delicate, is considered sacred so use this time wisely.

Read More About Navaratri the power of Navaratri.



Creative Ritual


Use this simple process to help you harvest a message from your grief and support its movement and release.

1) Take a few deep breaths and lean closer to your body sensations. Take your time and go slowly.

2) Notice the emotional body. What are you releasing right now? What losses have you faced in this past cycle? What grief is stirring within you? If you could find this grief living in your body, where would it be? Where do you feel this grief in your body?

3) Lean closer to this grief in your body. How does it feel? What colors, textures or images do you notice? Ask it to share with you. If your grief could talk, what would it say? If your grief could share a need with you, what would it say?

4) Create an image of your grief. How does this grief feel in your body? Create an image using paint, craypas, collage or any medium that inspires you. Spend at least 20 minutes with your grief image. When it feels complete, give it a title.

5) Harvest from your grief image. If it could speak to you, what would it say?


Use my short podcast to support your inner resourcing and discover the message of your grief.  Read More


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September New Moon Wisdom + Creative Ritual

9/8/2018

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The September new Moon arrives on the 9th, just after midnight. This Leo new Moon occurs at 12:02 am MT while Moon is in Purvaphalguni nakshatra. As the Moon waxes and expands in the cycle ahead, comforts, nourishment and relationships come to the forefront.

Sun and Moon both transit Purvaphalguni nakshatra in Sidereal Leo at the time of the new Moon, receiving gaze from Mars. Mercury is also transiting Leo and currently in Magha nakshatra. The gaze from Mars empowers Sun, Moon and Mercury, while clarifying and strengthening desires and action steps. Leo is ruled by the Sun and notorious for bold expression. With Sun in its own sign right now, we may be feeling a surge in power, determination and strength. Put your focus into action, awaken goals and ask for what you need.

The New Moon in Leo and Purvaphalguni invites increased creativity and sensuality to the cycle ahead. There is strong desire, empowerment and attention to relationships surfacing. Clear away emotional debris and make space for gains and advancements in your feeling center, the heart. As you clarify goals and intentions, make sure you are also being diligent with the action steps necessary to accomplish them. Watch for overdoing, pushing and forcing as well as imbalance with action and rest. Allow for leisure, increased pleasure, nourishment and ease but be mindful of overindulgence. Cravings are rooted in the shadow.

What darkness is not being attended to with honesty and courage? Where can you let go and find more surrender? Where are you pushing and forcing, creating imbalance and incongruence?

Purvaphalguni nakshatra is ruled by Bhaga, the god of pleasure, comforts and commodities. He gives excess, abundance and juiciness. Sensuality and sexuality come naturally as a result of his gifts and influence. Manifestation is enlivened with his life force energy. This constellation is like the nectar that bees flock to, expressing a spring-like quality with plenty of blossoming and fruiting. The sap is flowing, the bees are buzzing and the flowers are blooming! Can you feel it? Beauty comes alive within this portion of the sky and potential is dawning. Relationships are energized and strengthened with the influences of this constellation. Plant your seeds of desire, expand your dreams and focus on the bigger picture.

Maybe it's time to ask for what you really want and need? Where are you receiving less than what you deserve? What is keeping you from rising and growing? Where are you resisting your power and greater purpose?

This cycle reminds us:

Don't settle for less than the best. Ask Nature to support your clarity and vision. Think bigger and be clear about your desires. Get focused and expand your reach. Use creative resources to awaken your life force energy. Make art! Dance and sing! Celebrate yourself! Meet new people, start new relationships, enliven the ones you already have. Allow more sensuality and sexuality into your life and let your life force energy flow more fully. Spend time receiving and remember your gratitude. Where do you feel abundant already? Where do you need more? Remember that getting the support you need and being able to receive, will strengthen your results. We don't succeed alone- ever! Gather who and what you need for growth.



Creative Ritual


Create A Life of Thriving With These Five Steps:

Step #1

Write a list of all the things you are grateful for. List the people, experiences and parts of your life that truly make you feel glad to be alive. Are you grateful for your health? Your children? Your garden? Your amazing clients? Put it on the list!

Step #2

As you look at your gratitude list, pause and be still. Where do you feel the sensation of gratitude in your body? Can you feel it rising up from your belly or spreading across your chest? Try to locate the sensation and clearly identify it.

Use this physical body feeling as a tuning fork. Keep coming back to this sensation as a way to touch in with the feeling of thriving and nourishment. More of that please! This is what you want to create more of in your life!

Step #3

Create an image of this feeling of gratitude and the sensation of nourishment it brings into your body. Use craypas, paints, collage, pen and ink or any other medium that inspires you.  Use colors, textures and shapes to create your image. Take 20+ minutes to create your image then give it a title.

Step #4

Move your image. Use your image to inspire a movement exploration. Let your body move in response to your nourishment image with an intention of "moving with your feelings of nourishment".  What sensations emerge for you during your dance? What awareness? Allow 5 to 10 minutes for this movement exploration.

Step #5

Harvest in your journal some of your key findings from this process. Answer these statements:

I sense___
I feel____
I imagine____


Bonus Step:

Pick a few people to share your gratitude with. The best way to amplify this feeling is to share it with others! Use post it notes for a quick thank you or get more elaborate and write out a love note to someone special. Write a sweet message of gratitude to your child or give your neighbor a friendly mailbox surprise.


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am on a mission to help sensitive souls connect with their inner truth and inner wisdom. To connect with purpose and dharma. We need you now more than ever!

Every week I offer two *free* dharma coaching sessions to action takers who are ready for deep life change. Is this you?!

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Jupiter in Scorpio: Transforming Shadow Into Light + Horoscopes

9/3/2018

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As the planet of expansion, satwa (purity) and akasha (space), Jupiter brings us knowledge and wisdom as well as new awareness. The Sanskrit name for Jupiter is guru (teacher), expressing the support and nourishment he provides. As Jupiter moves around the zodiac, he sparks learning and growth through wisdom, guidance, support and resources. Whatever he touches, he expands- which may feel helpful or uncomfortable at times.

On October 11th, 2018, Jupiter moves to sidereal Scorpio and will be here until November 4th, 2019. Rahu gives his gaze to Jupiter until March 7th of 2019, intensifying the themes of this transit for the first portion of the journey. When Rahu touches Jupiter, he brings shadow to the purity of the guru. This can bring even more increase and excess, tainting the wisdom and support of Jupiter with worldly, foreign, unusual and impure experiences.

Jupiter transits are roughly one year long and impact all levels of wisdom, knowledge, comfort and support. He leads you to your dharmic path and supports the nourishment gained along the way. Positive effects of Jupiter  bring comfort, support and understanding. He brings learning through greater awareness and expansion of consciousness- which of course is not always comfortable. He is the ultimate teacher (for better or worse) providing some of the most poignant life lessons.

Challenges with Jupiter include lack of support, knowledge, and dharma. When Jupiter is not strong in the chart, there may be little to no support offered, few resources or missed opportunities. Everyone can benefit from the helpful and supportive resources that Jupiter provides. However, without his support, challenges and struggles increase- which often bring tragedy, trauma and chaos.

As the guru, he represents teachers of all sorts- including coaches, healers, guides, mentors, therapists, wisdom keepers and shaman. Receiving the blessings of Jupiter requires that you allow the nourishment and wisdom of this type of support to be received. Negative influences upon Jupiter in the jyotish chart, will create challenging experiences with teachers and a resistance to knowledge and wisdom. Whereas positive influences upon Jupiter in the jyotish chart will offer nourishing and supportive experiences with teachers, wisdom and guides.

If Jupiter is a naturally benefic or positive planet in your chart, this transit will bring natural gains, expansion and support in the areas of depth, awareness, transformation and healing. There will be new insights with death, depth, darkness and hardship. This cycle may support the integration and deeper awareness of past suffering and struggle. However, If Jupiter is challenging in your jyotish chart, expect difficulties in these areas of your life to surface. You may not be able to hear the wisdom arriving or you may stay stuck in old patterns and behaviors that increase your struggles.

Scorpio is not a surface level sign. It requires (and often forces) one to dig below the mundane, surface level of understanding. For those unwilling or unfamiliar with this type of depth, it can be painful and downright terrifying! This transit will require you to look at your shadows, unconscious inner terrain and acknowledge your undigested grief.

The 8th sign of the zodiac, Scorpio, correlates with the 8th house- house of the unseen, hidden forces at play in life. I relate this house to our animal body, ripe with emotion, passion, feelings and unconscious awareness. Willingness to dive into your depths and shadows will help this transit move more smoothly and support deeper healing and transformation.


Scorpio and the 8th house of death, is one of our greatest teachers we can encounter. The depth of the 8th house shows us our fears, losses, disease and those things that we try to avoid because of certain pain and misery. It is associated with vulnerabilities, the past and the future, sex, mysticism, the private parts and excretory organs. The letting go, releasing of the known, the surrender of past and present, the depths of life that go way beyond the surface of life. It's a sign and a house that can not (and should not) be avoided.

On the positive spectrum of things, the 8th house is linked to transformations and transcendence, as well as mystical and occult knowledge. It is also deeply connected to our sexual nature. When life gets tough, we naturally get tougher; which is the essence of the eighth house. It forces us to surrender. To disarm and let go. Through our suffering, we are determined to change, re-direct ourselves, to rise above and move out of the trenches.

The eight house is indeed hidden, unseen, and thus relates to the unseen and hidden realms- both internally and externally. Our pain after all is solely connected to our shadow. A Scorpio is determined to shed its shadowed self which is why Ketu (the "planet" of liberation and moksha) is considered exalted here.


READ MORE ABOUT THE SIGN OF SCORPIO

Use this cycle to liberate yourself from addictions, rather than getting stuck in them. Addictions of all kinds may come to the surface in the year ahead- depending on how this transit impacts you. Are you actively looking at your shadows, wounds and struggles? Or are you avoiding, negating and suppressing them?

Addictions are a mechanism of avoidance, numbing and suppression. This prolongs our suffering. Until we are ready to lean closer to our shadows, wounds and grief, and use them as a resource for our awakening, the darkness continues to control us unconsciously. Don't get stuck! Be sure you have plenty of support in this cycle- more than you think you need.

In the year ahead, gather the necessary resources, support and guidance to transform your inner darkness, grief and pain. This can be a powerful cycle of healing and transformation, but it will require that you are proactive and not complacent.

Depending on where Scorpio sits in your chart, there may or may not be mitigating factors. I will share general guidelines for each sign in my horoscopes below.

Please consult with me directly for more chart specific guidelines.



Jupiter in Scorpio Horoscopes for
~ October 2018 to November 2019


These Horoscopes will give you general themes for the year to come based on your rising sign. Horoscopes are based on your sidereal, or Jyotish rising sign, not your Western or Tropical sign. There is likely no correlation. You may also use with your sidereal Moon or Sun sign for extra insight.
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Aries: As Jupiter dips into your 8th house, it's time to recalibrate and hit pause. This is a low point for you and will require your willingness to deeply dive into shadows, unconscious terrain and your hidden fears. What have you been avoiding and unwilling to see? Now is the time to bravely look. Saturn continues to transit through your 9th house of dharma while Jupiter moves through your 8th house. Let this be a time to refocus your intentions and goals, as well as refine your dharmic path. Find more meaning in life and a deeper purpose. Go beyond the mundane. Take care of your health diligently and be mindful of debts and addictions. Are you over-pleasuring? Are you avoiding the parts of yourself that need to be looked at? Are you staying numb and disconnected? Get some extra support at this time from new and unusual sources. It might be time to consult a shaman. Find time for more spiritual pursuits and seek a deeper understanding for your life. You will use this new wisdom in the next cycle. Trust the process.

Taurus: Jupiter moves through your 7th house in this cycle. Relationships expand and become the focus of your learning and growth. They require your willingness to gather new resources and support so that you can transform the challenges into wisdom. Allow your relationships to grow with you and don't get stuck in old patterns, behaviors and unconscious choices. The mirror of the "other" will be stronger at this time. Don't get overwhelmed or lose hope! Depending on your natal Jupiter, this transit can bring positive changes in relationships. For some people, this cycle could provoke a marriage or meeting a new partner. It could support new business connections and clients. Others may encounter challenges and disappointments with relationships if they aren't paying attention or if Jupiter is not supportive. Saturn in your 8th house is still asking you to dive deeply into your undigested, unconscious grief. Stay alert and don't get lazy with your healing work.

Gemini: This cycle can be a great time for healing and resolving conflicts- within your self and with others. As Jupiter moves through your 6th house, pay attention to the gut and be mindful of digestion. You may notice sluggishness or constipation. Avoid overly fatty, oily and sweet foods as this will exacerbate the issue. More cooked leafy greens are your best friend! With the expansive energy of Jupiter, expect a lift with your offering and career. Use your healing process and the wisdom you acquire as a way to connect, share and offer to others. Deepen your spiritual pursuits and self care. Ask the ancestors for support and guidance. Take time for meditation and inner resourcing. Wealth, finances and nourishment increases. Ask for what you need and be ready to receive more. Be mindful of overspending and overindulgence at the same time. You will need extra healing support at this time so be sure to gather what you need and expand your team of resources. Use this time to stabilize yourself.

Cancer: Jupiter moves into your 5th house. This is an expansive time for pleasure, joy, children and romance. Step into your power and attend to gut intelligence. More children may be showing up in your life so be mindful of their needs and your intentions. This is a cycle that supports you growing into your power and purpose more fully. Resources, support and past life credits may arrive to help you gain momentum and strength. Deepen your desires, goals and intentions as you step powerfully into a more embodied existence. You will need extra support, guidance and resources to make this happen, so gather your team and clarify your needs. With Saturn still moving through your 6th house, pay attention to gut health and digestion. This is a time of great healing for you. Be diligent with digestion and releasing grief and don't let stagnation happen in your gut. Spend time focusing on gut health and strengthening your food habits. Gather the nourishment you need for more joy and abundance. Ask for more!

Leo: As Jupiter moves through your 4th house of heart, home and mother, these areas of your life expand and grow. Pay special attention to your emotional body and let your heart guide you to a more expansive experience of life and love. Use this heart expansion to inform your life offering and the way you connect with the world. Pull from your depths and honor the power of your feelings. These are important messages for your growth and healing process. Allow spirit and the ancestors to support your expanded awareness and ask for more messages and resources. Saturn continues to move through your upper gut, the 5th house. Watch for constipation and undigested emotion showing up in the solar plexus. Be diligent with clearing the grief in your gut so you can experience the empowerment of your new emotional wisdom. Lighten up and lighten your load. Let in the joy and pleasure arriving.

Virgo: It's time to get creative and self express! Jupiter is transiting through your 3rd house of the arts and writing. He will support you with your artistry through dance, music, painting, drawing and writing. Gather new resources and support and be open to trying new things. Share your learning and wisdom with others and use your skills as a part of your dharmic offering. There is important wisdom arriving with your life purpose. Are you paying attention and taking action to support this? Expand your courage and creativity in the year ahead. Let relationships support your growth and expansion and ask for more of what you need. Gains and growth come when you let go and release. Purge and clear the emotional body and heart. Make space for more of what you want and need. As Saturn continues to move through your heart, the 4th house, be diligent with undigested grief that is clogging your heart center. This impacts your ability to receive the nourishment you crave. Ask for more support with this process or releasing grief.

Libra: Scorpio is your second house and Jupiter here supports expansion with wealth, nourishment and abundance. Watch out for over indulgence and overspending. Use this time to clean up your diet, speech and money habits. Depending on your relationship with Jupiter, this can be a very powerful time for increased nourishment, or it can provoke overconsumption and excesses that lead to more struggle and harm. Speak your truth, find your voice, clarify your needs and sing your songs! Saturn in your 3rd house is asking your to simplify and stabilize yourself without extravagance. Don't lose sight of this as Jupiter shifts into your mouth and wealth house. You are what you eat. Be diligent with your food, habits and behaviors. Watch your gut health and don't over eat- especially sweets, heavy foods and alcohol. Put your new found expansion into your life offering. Be visible and let your words help you get seen and noticed.

Scorpio: This is your year to shine! Jupiter in your 1st house is one of the most expansive and powerful cycles you can experience. It's time to ask for more, expand what is possible for yourself and your life! Take calculated risks to meet your biggest goals. Relationships will support your expansion, as will children, romance, pleasure and empowerment. Use your positive past life credits to do more good in the world and align with more dharmic pursuits. Step into your zone of genius and be your own authority. It's time to rise and shine, honor your wisdom and share your gifts with the world. Whatever you do, don't play small. As positive as this transit is, it will still require your usual Scorpio diligence. Get new support, extra support and strengthen your team of resources. Don't let your ego get away with itself and don't lose sight of your goals. Life may feel easier, but don't get lazy or complacent. Watch addictive patterns and overindulgence. Remember, it's ok to be in right relationship with joy, pleasure and nourishment. Enjoy!

Sagittarius: This is a very spiritual cycle for you. Jupiter is activating a need for retreat and alone time as he moves through your 12th house. Endings are taking place, preparing you for beginnings coming next. Be diligent with the release process. Let go and purge what no longer serves you. Ask the ancestors for help with this process. Spend ample time alone in meditation and contemplation. Resource from within and let your heart guide you to clarity. Expansion at home and within your heart is possible at this time. Support this inner growth and keep your digestion clear. Watch for stagnation and constipation in stomach. Use this time to access your depth and deepen your healing process. Ask for more support, guidance and resources. You will need extra people on your support team at this time. This is not a cycle of material gain, however great spiritual strides can take place.

Capricorn: With Jupiter in your 11th house of gains, expansion and increase is inevitable- if you are willing to allow for losses and letting go as well. Making space for the gains is a prerequisite. What are you releasing and purging? How much space do you have for what you truly want and need? Are you consciously attending to the waning cycles and letting go of what no longer serves you? Clean and clear your holding container. Let the new arrive and move towards the nourishment. Use your creativity and self expression to attract and align. Children, playfulness, romance and empowerment are arriving. Are you ready to receive this abundance? Relationships continue to get your focus. Put in the effort to grieve losses and attend to the shadows coming forth. Ask your ancestors to support you in this process. They are asking you to transform this grief and prepare for something else.

Aquarius: Your 10th house of career and offering is about to get a powerful dose of expansion. Are you ready to grow into your offering and share in even bigger and bolder ways? Jupiter will be asking you to teach, guide and share your wisdom more visibly. This is not a time to play small or resist your visibility. Are you ready to expand your focus, your goals and your vision? Where are you avoiding or negating your power and success? Jupiter is very spiritual, however the 10th house is very worldly. You may experience some conflicts with both. Saturn in your 11th house is supporting calculated gains- with the release of old, outworn patterns and behaviors. Focus on increasing nourishment, support, finances and abundance, but watch your spending habits and food habits. Your gut health and digestion is requesting your attention and intention. Heal your body through your stomach and attend to undigested emotions and grief. This Jupiter transit will support heart and home expansion. Let your emotional body be your guide and teacher.

Pisces: This is one of the most powerful transits of Jupiter for you! Jupiter is your ruling planet and he will be moving through your 9th house of dharma, considered the most auspicious house of the chart. The support of the guru can guide you from this position and offer increased resources and wisdom to help you clarify and refine your dharmic path and purpose. Depending on your relationship with Jupiter, the guru may be sattvic, rajasic or more tamasic, but either way there will be immense growth and transformation as a result. Protection comes from this house so enjoy the blessings of its resources and support. Self expansion and growth comes with more ease. Be courageous and creative. Use your creativity as a spiritual resource. How can this support you with your dharmic work? Children, romance, intuition and empowerment bring more growth and abundance. Let these resources support your healing process. Saturn is still moving through your 10th house. You may not receive the material gains just yet, but patience will work its magic on you. Stay true to course and keep gathering what you need for greater nourishment.



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I
am on a mission to help sensitive souls connect with their inner truth and inner wisdom. To connect with purpose and dharma. We need you now more than ever!

Every week I offer two *free* dharma coaching sessions to action takers who are ready for deep life change. Is this you?!

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Venus in Libra: Balance and Harmony

9/1/2018

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It's always lovely when a planet transitions into one of its favorite signs. It will feel more balanced and harmonious- rather than in an extreme.

As of today, September 1st, Venus moves to its own sign, Libra- a place that exemplifies integration, balance and equilibrium for the planet of harmony. Venus joins Jupiter here in Libra and is now outside the gaze of Saturn and Ketu. Venus is also no longer debilitated! More fluidity and momentum with all things Venus will benefit us during this transit.

The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter will cause some expansion, awareness and wisdom to arrive with this theme of balance and harmony. However Venus and Jupiter don't love each other as much as one would hope. Jupiter is the guru of the devas (sattvic gods and purity within), whereas Venus is the guru of the asuras (the demons or human qualities within). Thus there is a conflict between the spiritual and the human desires here. Jupiter will start his year long transit into Scorpio on October 11th, ending this conjunction.

Are you in conflict between opposing desires? What binaries are rising to the surface asking for you to look more closely? What needs to move or change in order for more balance?

This transit is unusual in length. Normally a one month transit, Venus will retrograde on October 5th and won't go direct until he's at the very edge of Libra on November 16th. Venus will then retrace his steps back through Libra and will shift into Scorpio on January 1st 2019. The full duration of this transit will last four months!

Not only unusual, but this strangely extended transit has the remarkable ability to soothe and harmonize the polarities that have been at play for months. We've been seeing this imbalance surface with masculine/feminine, misuse of power, self/other, doing less/pushing and forcing, spiritual/material, shadow/light. These themes will continue to rise to the surface as exalted Mars finishes his extended transit through Capricorn on November 5th. The harmonizing influence of this Venus transit will support resolution and new integration.

Notice what is rising to the surface right now. What conflicts need your attention? What extremes are surfacing? What binaries are forcing you into attraction/repulsion. Where can you find more gentleness and ease?
The medicine for this cycle is to seek balance, harmony, the middle Way. Use least force and feel the wisdom of gentleness. Healing never comes through force.

Venus is the planet that connects to life force energy or Shakti. Healing comes with greater life force or nourishment. Venus supports, sustains, comforts and nourished through creativity, Shakti, harmony, beauty, the feminine, love, money and the receptive or feeling level. Venus loves Libra for the reason that ultimate harmony and balance is supported in this sign.

It's time to create and get creative! Use this powerful time wisely to create your offerings and share with others. Libra loves marketing and connecting! Share, connect, co-create, mingle, expand your reach.

This extended transit will give you plenty of time to focus on relationships, the mirror of "other" and finding more balance between self and other. Expand and open to possibilities. Seek harmony and flow between opposing forces. Find integration and balance through the pelvis. Align with sustainable pleasure and nourishment.

Notice where Libra lives in your Jyotish chart in order to refine this understanding. These house themes will be be surfacing for you in the months ahead.

Enjoy the balance, beauty, harmony and flow!


I call myself the Dharma Midwife.

I
am on a mission to help sensitive souls connect with their inner truth and inner wisdom. To connect with purpose and dharma. We need you now more than ever!

Every week I offer two *free* dharma coaching sessions to action takers who are ready for deep life change. Is this you?!

Send me a message to see if I have any openings: [email protected]

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