August New Moon

The month begins with a new Moon in Cancer and Ashlesha nakshatra on the 2nd, instigating Sarpa energy for the waxing cycle. Use the August waxing cycle to maximize your heart power, inner energy and dharmic potential by finding your most essential core needs. Gather the resources and support necessary to find greater stability, support and strength. Gain from relationships as they are your most potent resource for healing, transformation and growth. If you're willing to do the challenging work to clear away toxicity, darkness and illusions within the heart, there is potential for increased love, passion and dharma. Your ability to remove the darkness within will determine how able you are to open new doors to self love.

Jupiter in Virgo

On August 11th, Jupiter makes the leap to Virgo. Jupiter transits are 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, or Guru in Sanskrit, bring comfort, support and understanding. He brings learning through understanding, awareness and expansion of consciousness. 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. Everyone can benefit from the helpful and supportive resources that Jupiter provides. Without his support, challenges and struggles increase- which often bring tragedy, trauma and chaos.

The past year, Jupiter has transited through Leo. Half of this transit he has been conjunct Rahu. These energies oppose each other in dramatic ways. Jupiter is sattvic, pure and supports expanded dharma. Rahu is rajasic and brings base level human experiences, cravings and desires. It has been a conflict between light and dark forces on multiple levels- effecting ego, power, the masculine as well as father issues and relationships.

As Jupiter moves out of Leo, he also moves away from Rahu, releasing and finalizing much of the masculine conflicts that have been unleashed in the past few months. Jupiter can step back into his role as the benefic, nourishing support that he is inclined to provide. Rahu will continue to work your ego, masculine and power issues acutely, but Jupiter can now offer his stability and support on a mental body level as he transits through Mercury's sign, Virgo, in the coming year. Jupiter moves into Virgo on August 11th for one year. This is considered a major planetary transit. Likely you are already feeling the effects.

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Saturn Direct

Saturn has been retrograde in Scorpio for many months in an on-again off-again dance with Mars. On August 13th, Saturn goes direct, causing depth and transformation to start moving in a forward motion. His retrograde motion has increased the inner awareness of many, causing challenges as he stirs the emotional body. As Saturn moves into direct motion, there will be an adjustment period. Honor the need for slow, steady steps right now. Pressures with eighth house matters will begin to move forward now- including debt, death, transformation, transcendence and shadow work. Stay in your body and enliven the physical channels for integration on all levels of your being.

Read more about Saturn in Scorpio

Sun in Leo

Just before the full Moon, on August 16th at 06:46 MDT, Sun shifts to its own sign, Leo, joining a full house of planets. Venus, Rahu and Mercury are still transiting this fire sign that exudes masculinity and power. Sun is our inner and outer light source. It brings strength, ego, empowerment and a connection to the father with it. Just as Sun moves into its favorite sign, Leo will be on the horizon. This cycle brings an intense relationship with masculine power to the forefront. Your father’s lineage will play a major role in this process in the coming month. What parts of your father are helping you step into your masculinity and power more fully? What parts of your relationship with him and your relationship with his power are effecting your ability for self express?

Relationships play an important role in this cycle as well, asking you to confront and awaken your inner power more fully. What is working? What is not? What needs are coming to the forefront and how can you get these needs met more consciously?

Sun loves being seen, noticed and heard, which is also why he loves his own sign, Leo, so much. During this transit, expect your self expression to be confronted. Confusion, uncertainty, overwhelm and challenges arrive instead. As Sun moves closer to Rahu during this transit, problems may surface more acutely. There may be power struggles inside and out.

Heal the wounds with your father and ask for support and guidance with this process. Notice who and what shows up on your path to help you transform and grow. Blockages to your Sun energy will provoke resistance to being seen, heard, noticed and acknowledged. Where are you resisting your power? Your self expression? How has your relationship with father effected this personal mythology with your own power? It’s time to shine more brightly!

August Full Moon

Full Moon arrives on the 18th as Moon steps into Aquarius and Dhanishta nakshatra. This constellation reiterates the need to shine, be seen and get noticed. It wants attention and to express its light. This full Moon brings wisdom and creativity with it, as well as dharmic insights and awareness. There’s ample courage available, if you lead from the heart.

Read more about the full Moon in my August Full Moon Wisdom

Mercury in Virgo

As Mercury moves to its favorite sign on August 19th, there will be a moment of strength with mind and body. With Sun and Mercury feeling strong and stable, tasks can be accomplished more directly and progress can be made in a more empowered way. This stability lasts for under a week- before Venus arrives in Virgo. Venus is considered debilitated in Virgo, which will cause challenges and lack to rise to your conscious awareness.

Mercury loves the focused and precise sign of Virgo, where he is considered both exalted and mulitrikona. Both Mercury and Virgo are airy and bring swift movement. The thinking mind will be strong in the coming weeks, but with Jupiter already in this Mercurial sign, there will be conflicts with the sattva of the guru and the mind stuff, chitta vritti. Jupiter is not fond of Mercury, but Mercury can tolerate Jupiter. Hopefully the guru can smooth and soften the mind and calm some of the inner turmoil.

This Mercury cycle brings immense possibility for healing and creativity but it will require you dive deeply into your unconscious terrain. Finances play a major role in your growth process. Are you hitting up against your shadow? You’ll know because it will show up in the form of lack, resistance or avoidance of your finances and money. You can no longer afford to stay in the dark. Your inability to advance financially has everything to do with your willingness to step into your power more fully. It’s time to be very direct with your personal mythology. What is holding you back? Where are you not showing up for yourself? It’s time to crack open your shadow and shine the light more brightly on your needs and desires. Set your goals big, then notice where the resistance shows up to sabotage your success.

Venus in Virgo

Just as the 25th arrives, Venus leaps into Virgo, joining exalted Mercury and Jupiter here. This cycle of Venus provokes a lopsided energy of big, strong creativity, mixed with vulnerability and sensitivity simultaneously. The challenge will be to honor both and integrate the conflict of big and small, expansive and quiet. At the time when Venus moves into Virgo, Moon is also in its mulitrikona sign, Taurus, with Rohini on the ascendant. This increases the huge waves of creative energy during this cycle and builds momentum.

Venus is considered debilitated in Virgo, which means that your life force energy this month will be very delicate and sensitive. It will require that you tend to your inner resources very consciously. Though Sun and Mercury will be provoking actions and imagination on a larger scale, understand that the body will be easily taxed and burdened by too much excess. Balance is a key element of this cycle. Be conscious of integrating inner and outer, masculine and feminine, power and vulnerability. Polarities will request your conscious awareness.

Relationships, finances and health will be especially effected in this transit. These parts of your life are asking you to look more closely at your alignment with power, purpose and balance. Where are you avoiding or neglecting your inner work? Where do you need more support, new resources and tools to activate new results and greater change?

Mercury Goes Retrograde

Mercury will go retrograde in its sign of exaltation on August 30th. Mercury will be exalted in Virgo (not in its mulitrikona degrees) during this retrograde. An exalted retrograde planet becomes debilitated, impacting the expression of the planet and turning it inward, rather than outward. For over a week, the mental body will be on a unique, inward journey. On September 9th, Mercury will re-enter Leo, joining Sun and Rahu here. This will bring the mind more clarity and external focus, while supporting a unique and innovative process.

The retrograde journey of Mercury will impact finances and comforts primarily. It will ask you to look more closely at your needs for financial support and stability, as well as self expression and communication. These themes are specifically tied to your visibility, empowerment and ego at this time. It is a cycle to re-visit and re-evalute your needs. You may find yourself re-visiting conversations, connections and communication until he goes direct on September 22nd. Use this time to clarify your sense of power and purpose. Seek clarity with your words and think outside the box in terms of getting seen and noticed in more creative and potent ways.

Once Mercury goes direct in Leo, he won't re-enter Virgo again until October 3rd. As he re-enters his sign of exaltation, he joins Jupiter and Sun as well. At this point, we may finally get the positive effects of an exalted Mercury, with the expansive wisdom of Jupiter and the illumination of the Sun to support the awareness. A strong mind will bring more clarity, purposeful communication and potent resources. For the benefits of exalted Mercury to be felt, it will require patience and strong intentions.

Stay true to your direction and continue to take action towards goals and desires. Increased financial support will come with your diligence. Work consistently and pro-actively on clearing limiting beliefs and mental/emotional blockages during this cycle- all that is hindering your ability to step more powerfully into financial abundance. Gather resources and support for this process. Jupiter will be activating your expansion, but only with the right guidance and support.

*Horoscopes are based on your Vedic (sidereal) 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 (Tropical) 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: Focus on home and heart until mid month, then bring light into your romantic relationships, as well as children and intuition. Shine brighter and honor your gut wisdom more consciously. You're either helping your digestion or not. How can you support greater assimilation of the life's nourishment- mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually? Continue to dive into your deep, dark terrain and look at your shadow. Transformation is available right now but only through your willingness. As Jupiter makes the leap into your 6th house for the year to come, big changes take place with finances, career and self expression. It's time to make some progress.

Taurus: Your heart, home and mother are a powerful focus this month. Be courageous and creative. Take steps towards your liberation and notice where you are avoiding or neglecting your soft inner realms. There is healing possible right now with masculine and feminine. Seek integration and alignment with your heart wisdom. This requires that you continue to restructure your offerings and career choices. You are also finding new balance with relationships. The challenges are resources. Keep clearing and releasing grief and shadow. As Jupiter moves to your 5th house, the father and solar plexus experience changes and growth. Gains are possible this year, but only through conscious alignment with your dharmic path. Nothing else will be tolerated.

Gemini: Creativity and courage take center stage right now. Your hands are alive and active! Use them to re-create your life and bring your visions into form. Part of you is ready to leap forward and yet there are obstacles with the steps. This is where the healing begins. Where are you resisting and refusing to look at your shadow parts? Healing and gut continue to be potent resources and will show you where you are missing resources and refusing the support. Listen to your body wisdom for guidance. Keep refining your dharmic path and saying yes to your purpose. As Jupiter moves to your 4th house of home and heart for the coming year, career is activated. Inner and outer balance will be imperative. A cycle of deep transformation is awakening. Gather resources, support and guidance to support your process.

Cancer: Your mouth is a big focus right now. What you say, eat, share and express are all powerful and charged this month. Learn to refine and refocus what goes in and out of your mouth. This is connected to your power and ability to be seen and heard. Let your words be potent, while staying true to your heart wisdom and compassion. Power is a primary focus for you right now. Progress is being made- but with stops and starts. Trust your steps and your ability to awaken. It is through your gut intelligence that this process is taking place. Support your digestion and integration process- physically and emotionally. As Jupiter shifts into your 3rd house for the coming year, a new focus on self expression emerges. Challenges and gains will arrive with relationships, but keep your focus and effort on dharma.

Leo: This is a potent month for you. It’s as though everything is happening at once and yet things aren’t happening fast enough. Challenges and frustrations arrive with change and transformation. Stay true to your inner guidance system and learn to simplify. Heart is teaching you balance and integration, so keep showing up for your grief, pain and shadow. Relationships are teaching you about detachment and letting go. Let these mirrors be resources for your own inner awakening. You are looking at yourself. As Jupiter shifts to Virgo, communication expands.  This cycle requires diligence with shadow work, deep personal mythology, healing, bad habits and career. Your plate is full! Find ways to lighten your load.

Virgo: Deep liberation and letting go are arriving right now. Release and align within. Spend time alone and in meditation. Let yourself be on retreat right now. Integrate, balance, hit reset. You are digesting the final pieces of Jupiter in Leo which is the end of a 12 year cycle for you. It’s a poignant time. Meditation and inward time become more important as Jupiter moves to Leo, your 12th house mid month. Don’t push yourself. Continue to find balance with your hands, courage, creativity and parents. As Jupiter moves to your first house, a brand new cycle begins. He will ask you to look deeply at power and father issues in the year to come as well as activating your dharmic path more fully. Relationships will be a powerful resource for your growth. It’s time to step forward in more powerful ways.

Libra: Gains are awakening and stirring you, however pausing is necessary in order to integrate the changes. Keep focusing on career and being seen until mid month, then step into your power more fully for maximum support. Relationships will be supportive for this process but use your words consciously and clearly. In order to receive an increase and more gains, you must first let go and close anything that is not serving you. Create more space for what will truly serve you. As Jupiter shifts into your 12th house for the year to come, transition, transformation and endings arrive. He brings changes to heart and home, your healing process as well as debt and shadow work. Gather resources and guidance to support this process.

Scorpio: The cosmos are asking a lot of you right now. There’s so much willingness for change and transformation, yet resistance and obstacles hindering your steps. Goals and desires are intensifying. Where are the blockages within your heart that are keeping you from making more progress and bigger leaps? Parts of you are saying yes, while other pieces are keeping you in the dark. Keep landing in your heart. Continue to move towards joy and pleasure. Step more fully into your dharmic work. As Jupiter moves to your 11th house, gains come- but not without your conscious effort. Doors must close in order for new ones to open. Relationships and creative courage will be vital resources for the process. What are you saying yes to? What are you saying no to?

Sagittarius: Dharma is fully charged and active right now. Are you stepping towards or away from your path and purpose? What obstacles are showing up to thwart your progresses? What resources are showing up to support you? Let your hands be a tool for activating your creative courage. Ask spirit for support with this process. Liberation and letting go are arriving with stops and starts. Trust your steps, but keep moving. As Jupiter lands in your 10th house for the year to come, your career takes on new shapes and forms. Home and heart expand, while income requires more focus and attention. Expand what is possible for yourself but gather new resources for the process.

Capricorn: It's a deep and powerful time for inner transformation. This process is awakening your inner power, even if it doesn't feel like it right now. Relationships are shining the light on where the inner work is. This theme of inner power intensifies in the coming weeks as Sun lands in your 8th house. Keep bringing light and awareness to your shadow, to pain, trauma and grief. Gains are arriving through this inner work. Share your process with others, with the world. Dance with your vulnerability and power, integrating and grounding more fully. As Jupiter arrives in your 9th house, dharma is activated. He will bring expansion to self, creativity and your inner power. Some protection arrives, but not without your steady, consistent steps.

Aquarius: Relationships are proving to be a complex organism for you right now. There are resources and challenges showing up simultaneously. Are you gathering the insights and letting go of all that is not serving you? It’s time to be radical in the release. Heal, transform and renew. More light is coming this month which will shed even more awareness on your outer mirrors. You are looking at yourself, so be very aware of who and what shows up. These mirrors are effecting your career and how you are seen. Cut away the ego and get to the heart of it. As Jupiter moves to your 8th house for the coming year, depth and transformation come to the forefront. Addressing deep, hidden shadows, wounds and personal mythology will be essential. This is a time of powerful liberation. Make sure you get the necessary resources and support during this time.

Pisces: Healing has been intense and powerful lately. Clear and clean your gut, in order for more clarity and precision with your awareness and intelligence. Old conflicts and challenges are rising to the surface. You are your own enemy. How can you befriend the challenges and let the darkness become the light? Lean into the transformation and liberation of your past. Digest and assimilate your past. Work diligently on finances and gathering new resources of support. Step consciously towards your dharma, even as challenges present themselves. As Jupiter moves to your 7th house, relationships become a strong focus for the year ahead. Gains come from your creativity and awakening your inner awareness. You must be willing to look closely at the mirrors arriving, as these are the resources for your own awakening.

This Week's Intention: Your depth, pain and healing path invite you to take a closer look. There's no room for disassociation or disconnection anymore. Invite in all your experiences- light and dark- as resources for your awakening and transforming. 

Moon continues to wax this week, allowing the emotional body to fill and activate more potently. This is a powerful week of big transition and shifts. The war between Jupiter and Rahu comes to completion for now. The battle between light and dark forces finds some closure. Hopefully you have done the necessary clean up during this past cycle with father, masculine and relationships, so you can find resolution in the months to come. Jupiter shifts to Virgo for an entire year, bringing expansion and wisdom to sixth house matters. Saturn finally goes direct, offering forward momentum with shadow work and inner transformation. Mercury and Rahu are in tight conjunction the first half of the week as they both move through Leo and Purvaphalguni nakshatra. Fertility, creativity and life force are activated on the mental body level. Is this conscious or unconscious terrain for you?

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Monday, August 8th
Moon in 6th tithi
Sashti

The week begins with Moon moving through the last pada of Virgo, moving through Chitra nakshatra. This is Vishvakarma's domain, the chief of the celestial architects. He builds, plans and structures the cosmos. As his name offers, he is connected to action, including karma yoga- powerful deeds that provide seva. He also supports thousands of arts and brings powerful action steps with him. Moon moves to Libra mid day, receiving gaze from Ketu. Anger and rage may be provoked. How can you channel this energy into more potent actions and choices. Remember that underneath the anger is your power. Touch your raw power and use it mindfully. Just before midnight, Moon moves to Swati nakshatra and the wind god, Vayu, is activated. Stay grounded.

Tuesday, August 9th
Moon in 7th tithi
Saptami

Moon moves through Swati nakshatra today, inviting in the wind and movement of Vayu. Your inner prana is shifting, moving and transforming. Are you moving with or against these currents? Vayu is one of the eight Vasu Devas, he brings illumination, dharma and strength as he is connected to Rudra as well. Vayu however represents the wind as he is air itself, whereas Rudra energy is the chaos of the storm itself. The strength of Rudra's energy however comes from the wind, Vayu. How do you use this inner strength, this power? Use it intentionally to move your forward. Misuse it and your energy will be scattered. Harness your inner winds and direct the currents for maximum gain.

Wednesday, August 10th
Moon in 8th tithi
Ashtami

Just as the day begins, Moon shifts to Vishaka nakshatra and duality is enlivened through Indragni. Vishaka provokes co-creation and inter-dependency as Indra is the king, while Agni is the priest. Both rely on each other for power and support. This combination is powerful and mighty, but requires self-less service. Who and what can you align with today for more power and potency? What is the underlying intention for this union? Just before midnight, Moon shifts to its debilitation sign, Scorpio, joining the challenging relationship of Mars and Saturn. Tend to your emotional body.

Thursday, August 11th
Moon in 9th tithi
Navami

As Moon moves through its sign of debilitation, Scorpio, today, a deeper inward gaze is offered. Moon joins Mars and Saturn in this sign of depth and darkness. Stops and starts, fast and slow, old and new are awakened and the Moon mirrors all of these feelings through exact conjunction with Mars and Saturn today. You'll feel the depth, challenges and confrontation of polarities in the coming days as Moon continues through Scorpio. What integration of opposites do you need for greater inner harmony? Get in the body! Unite and integrate opposing forces with conscious intention. As Moon shifts to Anuradha nakshatra mid morning, the constellation of Mitra awakens. Friends bring their power and support. Connect with who and what nourishes you and offers their helpful guidance. You are rising up from the thick mud like a lotus blossom. Gather all the resources you need in order to unfold your petals.

The year long transit of Jupiter in Virgo officially begins today at 07:56 MDT. Jupiter transits are 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, or Guru in Sanskrit, bring comfort, support and understanding. He brings learning through understanding, awareness and expansion of consciousness. 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. Everyone can benefit from the helpful and supportive resources that Jupiter provides. Without his support, challenges and struggles increase- which often bring tragedy, trauma and chaos.

Read more about Jupiter in Virgo

Now is an ideal time to check in with me for some personal guidance. How will the coming year impact you? What gifts and challenges will Jupiter bring?  Schedule a session with me now

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Friday, August 12th
Moon in 10th tithi
Dashami

Moon continues to feel the heat and pressure today, but a bit of lightness arrives as Moon moves out of tight conjunction with Mars and Saturn. Late morning, Moon moves to Jyeshtha nakshatra, stirring Indra and his strength and purpose. He is the king of the gods and rules the rain- either opening or closing the sky gates. He has a strong sense of dharma and purpose. He leads by example and invites a strong mental body as Mercury rules this constellation. There is strong sensitivity combined with his pwer and strength- especially with regard to the senses. Don't overstimulate today. Less is more. Honor the subtle energies and find time to meditate.

Saturday, August 13th
Moon in 11th tithi
Ekadashi

Saturn has been retrograde in Scorpio for many months in an on-again off-again dance with Mars. On August 13th in the early morning, Saturn goes direct, causing depth and transformation to start moving in a forward motion. His retrograde motion has increased the inner awareness of many, causing challenges as he stirs the emotional body. As Saturn moves into direct motion, there will be an adjustment period. Honor the need for slow, steady steps right now. Pressures with eighth house matters will begin to move forward now- including debt, death, transformation, transcendence and shadow work. Stay in your body and enliven the physical channels for integration on all levels of your being.

Late morning, Moon moves to Sagittarius and Mula nakshatra. The goddess of adharma, Nirrti, is provoked, bringing her calamity and misfortune to the surface. As she provokes chaos and disconnection, she also brings an opportunity for finding your grounding cord and right relationship with your turmoil. It's more important than ever to stay in your body. This is your connection to source, to presence, to your life force. Be here now.

Sunday, August 14th
Moon in 12th tithi
Dvadashi

The first half of the day continues to be ruled by Mula and Nirrti. Stay grounded. Watch for calamity and chaos. Are you getting sucked in, or can you stay in the calm of the storm? Nirrti tears things apart and disconnects. She loves destruction. Your job is to put the pieces back together and find your center. Mid day, Moon shifts into the domain of the water goddess, Apas. The power of jala (water) can destroy or harmonize, deconstruct or rejuvenate. Just as water does, Apas flows, moves and cleanses. Water relates to the emotional body, the waters within. Allow your inner waters to flow today- let them move you into more clarity and awakening. Spend time in water and near water today in order to purify from the inside out.

Monday, August 15th
Moon in 13th tithi
Trayodasi

The first half of the day continues to awaken the wisdom of Apas and PurvaAshada. Break open, break free! Let your inner waters cleanse you. Allow them to move through you and move you. Dance with your emotional body and let it be a resource for touching your inner wisdom. Mid day, Moon shifts to Uttarashada, enlivening the Vishvadevas. These are the Laws of Nature- the rulers of life and order. They require integrity and purpose, truth and righteousness. Ruling planet is Sun, now at the edge of Cancer. Shine as brightly as you can from your heart wisdom. Align and honor the light in your lungs. Be truthful to yourself and your path. Stay true to your purpose.

Jupiter transits Virgo from August 11th 2016 to September 11th 2017.

Jupiter transits are 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, or Guru in Sanskrit, bring comfort, support and understanding. He brings learning through understanding, awareness and expansion of consciousness. 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. Everyone can benefit from the helpful and supportive resources that Jupiter provides. Without his support, challenges and struggles increase- which often bring tragedy, trauma and chaos.

The past year, Jupiter has transited through Leo. Half of this transit he has been conjunct Rahu. These energies oppose each other in dramatic ways. Jupiter is sattvic, pure and supports expanded dharma. Rahu is rajasic and brings base level human experiences, cravings and desires. It has been a conflict between light and dark forces on multiple levels- effecting ego, power, the masculine as well as father issues and relationships. 

As Jupiter moves out of Leo, he also moves away from Rahu, releasing and finalizing much of the masculine conflicts that have been unleashed in the past few months. Jupiter can step back into his role as the benefic, nourishing support that he is inclined to provide. Rahu will continue to work your ego, masculine and power issues acutely, but Jupiter can now offer his stability and support on a mental body level as he transits through Mercury's sign, Virgo, in the coming year.

Virgo carries the effects of the sixth house of healing with it and provides qualities of this challenging, yet dynamic house. The sixth house notoriously causes conflict, challenge and battles. It is the house of enemies, yet through enemies you can learn, grow and awaken your biggest shadows. Debts and financial challenges are also seen by the sixth house. Not surprisingly, Virgo is connected to commerce, money, communication and connections through the market place. The sixth house is also the seat of the lower gut, an essential part of the digestion process. It connects to hired help, workers, those in service, pets and bad habits. All competition is seen from this house as well as adversaries, competitors, obstacles and vices. Since Virgo correlates to the sixth house by default and is ruled by Mercury, the mental body, worries and anxieties are also seen from this house.

The sixth house is also connected to the Left Prefrontal Cortex of the brain which is the seat of intuitive thinking or impressions. Literally "gut" reactions. This part of the brain effects mood regulation, motivation, mental diseases, worries, anxieties and mental body functions. This cycle will directly impact the mental body, mind and communication of all realms- including intuition, energetic, language, word and senses.

Communication is a key theme for this Jupiter transit. Expand your ability to communicate- how you share, who you share with and what you share. Speaking is especially impacted by this transit as well as the voice, singing and by default music. Virgo is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication- verbal, written and creative. He is highly creative and supports all of the arts, including the healing arts. Virgo brings healing through creativity, connection and co-creation. This sign also supports the market place, commerce and all things connected to money and finances.

Expanded Creativity and Self Expression

This year of Jupiter moving through Virgo will expand earth based energies, mainly the material realms. Any resistance to creating, manifesting and enlivening what you want on the earth plane will come to the forefront. As Virgo connects to the sixth house of healing and the mental body, it is also a prime opportunity to heal and transform any blockages or limiting beliefs keeping you from bringing your desires into form. This includes financial and monetary blockages. Debts and the limiting beliefs connected to your lack, scarcity and resistance to being nourished must be addressed more closely.

There is a lot of expansion available with creativity, healing and manifesting in this cycle. What resources do you need to maximize this transit? What support and guidance is missing for you right now? Where are you stuck, resistant, avoiding or neglecting your dreams, visions and creativity?

Simultaneously, life force energy will be delicate and require your attention and focus. The lower gut will be a primary focus for healing and transforming challenges into resources. Use the wisdom of your stomach to support this process and help you awaken and heal more fully. Clean up diet and what you ingest. You stomach may be more sensitive at this time. Part of this cycle may also kick up addictions with food, drugs and alcohol, so be mindful of your relationship with excess and seek healing support for old shadows that emerge around nourishment.

Virgo brings to the light purification and puritanical beliefs. Jupiter's sattvic nature can also increase puritanical belief systems, mythologies around perfection and shadows that perpetuate idealism. Jupiter is spiritual, while Virgo is more centered around the human, mundane part of existence. Thus the integration and balance between spiritual and material realms will continue to inspire and invoke personal development and healing for all this year. What is your relationship with perfection? How does this story provoke a resistance to deeper nourishment and support? What does your perfection tell you about your needs for safety and support?

Watch for overly idealistic attitudes and dogmas that keep you locked in unrealistic mindsets that perpetuate scarcity. Since perfection is unattainable on a gross, human level, these beliefs actually suppress and negate your true needs, keeping you resistant to receiving the true nourishment you need. It's time to look at these beliefs and dogmas that are holding you back. This will take a radical and realistic approach to working with spirit and shadow. Look out for spiritual bypassing and where you are avoiding chaos and messiness. Use this cycle to get into right-relationship with your shadow and light in a more integrated and balanced way.

Jupiter Retrograde

Just before midnight on February 5th, Jupiter begins his retrograde motion back through Virgo for five months. Jupiter will be retrograde until June 9th, 2017. Retrograde planets increase in strength, intensifying their indications- acting like the nodes Rahu and Ketu who are always moving in reverse. This transit of Jupiter through Virgo, is provoking the need for clarity, certainty, purpose and alignment with your highest ideals. There is a certain naivety and innocence that is available- for better or worse. This five month retrograde motion of Jupiter brings a re-evaluation of our convictions. Virgo is known to be idealistic and often naive in those convictions. What needs to be addressed and recognized within you? What needs to be healed and transformed in order for you to expand your potential and purpose?

Retrograde Jupiter has a tendency to be fastidious about cleaning things up. Jupiter in Virgo will make this desire doubly so as this is the sign of healing, confrontation and courage to change. Retrograde Jupiter is also notorious for wanting to fix and "do it better". At the risk of activating co-dependency, make sure you are in right-relationship with this need to fix. If you are trying to heal someone else, you are wasting your time. If you are willing to heal yourself, this is a good use of your effort and energy. Make sure you're in right-relationship with any desires to fix others. There may be underlying control issues at play.

The majority of this retrograde dance will be with Jupiter moving back through Chitra nakshatra, Vishva Karma's domain. The remaining 1.5 months of the retrograde dance, Hasta nakshatra will be activated. This is a foundational transit which supports building blocks, potent action steps and support sustainable change and a strong foundation. Once Jupiter lands back in Hasta, more awareness, awakening and light will enliven. Make your steps count and don't lose sight of your visions, goals and highest truths. Gather resources, support and guidance to awaken deeper wisdom and inner knowing.

If Jupiter is a natural benefic in your chart, this transit will bring natural gains, expansion and support in the areas of healing, creativity, commerce and communication. However, If Jupiter is challenging in your jyotish chart, expect difficulties in these areas of your life to surface. Depending on where Virgo is situated 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.

*Horoscopes are based on your Vedic (sidereal) 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 (Tropical) 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: Jupiter will transit your 6th house in the coming 13 months. This transit of Jupiter will impact finances, bad habits, healing and enemies. Jupiter is a naturally expansive planet, so he will bring more of whatever he touches. Even if he brings hardship, there is usually a silver lining. Consciously work with creating balance with work, finances and communication. Relationships are vulnerable at this time, especially with children. Slow down and authentically connect with your relationships- as well as with yourself. What do you need for greater inner stability? Now is an excellent time to clean up and heal past pain and challenges, but you’ll need extra guidance and support in order to make progress. Seek out a therapist, healers and financial advisors in order maximize this transit.

Taurus: In the coming months, Jupiter will move through your 5th house of solar plexus, upper gut, romance, children and intuition. There is also a connection to father and the masculine. Jupiter will support expansion in these areas of your life, including more self awareness, dharmic understanding and gains from your newfound discoveries. Relationships require your focus and attention as they may offer struggles, challenges and grief. You are learning a lot about your self as a result of others. Let your heart wisdom guide you. Deepen your relationship with your emotional body intelligence and step into your power in a more embodied way. This cycle will deepen your intuitive guidance system if you support your gut and clear away blockages on the mental, emotional and physical body levels.

Gemini: Home, heart, mother and land are expanding you in the coming year. This supports growth with your career and deep transformation as well. There is a release, liberation and letting go arriving, but it will pave the way for more of what you truly want and need. Creativity and courage continue to drive you, while dharma becomes more spiritually awakened. Your gut continues to require your attention and focus as you clear and clean up old, hardened grief stuck in the physical body. This process requires you look very consciously at your past, darkness, shadow and old personal mythology. Jupiter will support this awakening with your effort. You will need help with this process in order to maximize the effects of this cycle. Seek resources, healers, therapists and guidance for your transformation process. Strengthen your team of support and ask Spirit to guide you.

Cancer: Jupiter will transit your 3rd house in the coming 13 months. This is the house of creativity, communication, courage and the arts. He will expand your connections and co-creation process as well as projects and artistic endeavors. He gives his gaze to your house of relationships, dharma and gains. All will be effected by increase, though relationships are somewhat vulnerable and will require extra attention and focus on your part. Seek balance and integration with inner and outer realms as well as comfort, nourishment and support. Find more balance by resourcing from your legs. This cycle will also require you seek new ways to effectively communicate your feelings. Get creative! Expand and awaken your creativity. Get support and extra knowledge to help you grow into your artistry more potently. Use this as a resource for your dharmic awakening.

Leo: As Jupiter moves through your 2nd house, comfort and support expands- as well as finances and resources. At the same time, communication through speaking increases, which impacts your career and visibility. Finances may not be as strong or as greatly impacted as you would like, but there is expansion nonetheless. You are figuring out how to increase your self expression and share your wisdom with others in a more authentic way. Be honest and purposeful with your heart and emotional body. It needs your attention. Seek balance with finances, bad habits, healing and stomach. You will need support this year to reach your goals and achieve your visions. What holes are there on your support team? Find the resources that will help you make the necessary changes you need for maximum growth- personally and professionally.

Virgo: This coming year is expansive and awakening. Jupiter has moved to your 1st house for the coming 13 months, where he is prepared to support you in more life honoring ways. This is a brand new Jupiter cycle for you that will last for 12 years. As you step into this new Jupiter cycle, set the tone for what you are creating. He gives wisdom, guidance and nourishment in order for you to expand what you think is possible for yourself and your life. This is a dharmic cycle on multiple levels, helping you deepen your inner intelligence and intuitive guidance system. Clean up your gut and clarify your diet. Gather resources to support health, healing and longevity. Your hands and creativity require your focus and attention, but will support your strengthening creativity and inner wisdom. Gains come with your career as you step into your intelligence more potently. Relationships are nourishing, supportive and balanced in this cycle. Let this be a resource for other parts of your life. Try saying yes to more playfulness.

Libra: As Jupiter transits your 12th house this coming year, losses and release are impacted. This can be a very spiritual cycle for you, or one of hardship- depending on how you work with it. Jupiter will be impacting your mind and emotions very directly and will ask you to dive more deeply into your healing process. This is a cycle that will support moving and transforming through grief and re-shaping pain, in order to heal more deeply. You will need to find ways to stay light and playful at times, which may prove to be a challenge for you. Trust that if you fully work with the themes of loss, liberation and letting go in this cycle, you will come out of it stronger and more empowered. Keep walking and don’t stop moving, but be sure to pause and check regularly. Seek support and resources to help you navigate the challenges. Don’t try to do this cycle alone.

Scorpio: With Jupiter in your 11th house of gains, increase occurs on all levels of your life- but not without necessary release and pruning. The expansion arrives by letting go of people and actions that don’t serve you or honor your needs. Get clear about what works and what doesn’t work for you. Relationships and your career expand naturally as you clarify what you need. Romance and intuition are touched in a positive way, as well as children and playfulness. Start to balance work and play more consciously and integrate inner and outer needs. If you’re too focused on work, your need for playfulness will force you to pay more attention to it. Get creative and be courageous! This may feel more challenging on some level, but it’s not the time to slack on your artistry and movement. Channel this lightness and joy into your offerings and keep opening your heart wider to possibility. Find ways to balance the excess seriousness.

Sagittarius: Jupiter awakens your 10th house of career in this 13 month cycle. Expansion, resources, growth and development arrive with your life offering and work. This supports increased finances and balance with money and comforts. Dharma is still bringing confusion and challenges, but use this as a resource for your awakening journey. There is no separation. Allow grief and loss to be a part of your life offering. As gains arrive, you will be balancing and integrating the growth with your past losses and struggles which may feel challenging. Your ability to honor and use your losses as a healing resource, will determine how much space you have for the new growth. Heal, awaken, transform. Ask for help with this and gather new tools to support your journey.

Capricorn: Jupiter will move through your 9th house of dharma in the coming months, activating your life purpose in very important ways. Watch carefully for what and who arrives to support this process of ripening and integration. This is a very expansive time for your inner knowing, in order to help you trust your purpose here on earth more directly. Creativity, the arts, communication and courage expand and grow. Intuitive wisdom and guidance feels more trustworthy and allows you to be more playful and spontaneous. Find balance with your seriousness and playfulness. You will still be diving deeply into you subconscious terrain as Rahu continues to move through your 8th house. But with Jupiter in your 9th house, you can start using it to inform your offerings and gifts in this world. Seek out guidance and resources to support this process.

Aquarius: You are being cracked open so wide right now. Jupiter will increase this theme even more. The coming 13 months will be an intense and deep process of awakening for you. Not easy, but necessary for deeper awareness. You will be asked to look closely at your shadows, haunts and illusions, as well as your past. This is a time to re-evaluate your personal mythology and re-write your story in a more life supportive way. Relationships play a vital role in this process as does your career. You are transforming yourself from the inside out. This cycle is not for the faint of heart. It’s time to gather all your resources and add extra support for your mind, emotions, body and spirit. The ways in which you rise towards challenge will determine the outcome of this transit. You will be extra sensitive at this time so protect yourself and restructure your boundaries.

Pisces: Jupiter brings expansion to your relationships in this 13 month cycle, but not without mental and emotional body work. Stabilize and seek support. What do you need to feel supported in life? Your pelvis will be a natural resource for awakening this understanding more potently. Clean up finances and your physical body- especially gut and digestion. Relationships will be helpful as you clarify your dharmic work and strengthen your offering in the world. Continue to cut and clear blockages and obstacles in your heart center. Your consistent steps will support your gains, growth and expansion, but dedicate your efforts to sustainable results at this time. Use your hands, creativity and the arts for increasing courage and potential in your life. Expand what you think is possible for yourself.