Moon waning (dark half) and transiting Taurus, Gemini, and into Cancer this week. Moon is exalted in Taurus on 10.21 until the morning of 10.23 and in its own sign of Cancer from 10.26 until the morning of 10.28.
Mercury is now retrograde and in Vishaka nakshatra. Mercury will be retracing its steps through Libra over the next few weeks where it will cross over Rahu, exalted Saturn and debilitated Sun. Work on building alliances and support systems this week. Re-work, re-configure, re-connect in order to find something more sustainable with work and personal relationships. Mercury is retrograde until 11.10. Use this time to clean up and reorganize business and personal relationships, transactions and communications. Be mindful with arguments and convictions. This can be a time of expansion and proliferation for those who are building on top of a solid foundation. We are now in the two week period between lunar and solar eclipses. As per last week's transit report: This two week period between eclipses is a good time to "clean things up" internally and externally and will culminate on Diwali, the Vedic celebration of light where we honor goddess Maha Lakshmi. Think of the next few weeks as creating space for more light to enter, more wealth to flow, more creative abundance to course through you. Clear, clean, purge, and cut out all that is not working in your favor. This will be happening for you on a conscious and unconscious level as well as on multiple levels of existence. Surrender to the uprooting process. Utilize the creative arts and art as therapy practice through my Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity for the week of 10.21 ::: *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: Clean, clear, restructure and reform relationships and contracts with others. This can be a time of getting clear on your boundaries and what works/doesn't work for you. Make adjustments that better suit your needs. You are working through past relationship fears, concerns and irritations right now. Take some steps in a different direction this week. Remember to ask for help, seek comfort in sustainable ways and trust that this restructuring coming right now is in your best interest. Taurus: Digest, clean, clear and gently detoxify your gut. Use strategy and compassion for dealing with enemies. Likely you will be repairing, re-confronting and restructuring some misalignment with another. Find courage to say and do the right thing in order to heal the situation. This is a powerful time for you as a healer in general. Find ways to strengthen and clarify your offerings, services and the way you do business with your gifts. Pay special attention to pets, mother and father right now. Gemini: Expansion doesn't come without clearing, cleaning and cutting on some other levels- whether it's through re-prioritizing our desires and goals or literally cleaning out the closet. This is a time of "cleaning out all your closets" so that you can expand into a more efficient being; So that you can trust your Self and your inner guidance more innately. Get rid of distractions, the relations who are not serving your highest purpose, the toxic and the energetic vampire energy in your life. Be radical with your fall cleaning from the inside out. This is your time for a new life, but you have to make room for it. Cancer: Clean up, clearing out, restructuring and recommitting is happening for you right now with home and heart, land and mother, emotions and moksha. Find the intersection of these areas of life in order to maximize your liberation. Use the weekend for some introspection and restoration if possible. Watch for anger and irritations (these emotions bring great insights!) then make necessary changes if you have been misaligned with your long term needs for support and sustainability. Leo: Charging forward or charging back? It may feel like one step forward, one step back right now, but the good news is you are full of zest to keep dancing. Watch where you put that energy and to what capacity you use it. Your creativity is at an all time high, so using it in very concentrated ways is key right now. Are you aligned with others and are others aligned with your ferocity? Courage and effort can only do so much. Work it Leo, then surrender to the changes and fluctuations that come. Remember to make room for surprise and spontaneity. Virgo: There's energy hiding in your closets. Emotion is building and your pot is beginning to boil. Where will you direct all of this energy? There is good reason for it to be channeled into creative and career oriented pursuits, but it requires your focused courage. Your feelings of discomforts, fears and family attachments are adding to the pressure and likely creating issues with comfort, sustainability and your true desires. So many old messages are coming and telling you what you should do. If you can silence them, you will get the real answers. Libra: Finding comfort and security is so essential for you right now- especially with what may feel like chaos and calamity in most areas of your life. Especially be mindful of what you are ingesting- sweets, alcohol and intoxicants are very tempting right now. But what is the need for maintaining blindness towards your emotional fragility and life's inevitable fluctuation? Is it possible to meet and greet life head on with no excuses, exceptions, apologies, deceptions or pretending? Be bold with your shadows. Scorpio: Feeling like you can't seem to get ahead? The losses keep coming and a sense of overwhelm may be keeping you from feeling the expansion of this time completely. It's ok to feel the depression, the disappointments and the miseries. These old demons are from the past and can be valuable tools. Just don't let them keep you from maximizing this time or continuing to take action steps. Your efforts will pay off eventually so keep your career focus and energy. Remember, cutting and clearing, purging and removal are necessary to make space for the spectacular and the sustainable. Sagittarius: It is who you know that can lift or lower you. Friends can be great allies or turn out to be great disappointments. Right now, you are navigating these relationships and these terms and conditions. There is clean up, restructuring and re-organizing with friendships, career and your achievements. Remember that endings are not always bad, they create openings and portals for new life, new options, new awareness and possibilities to arrive at your doorstep. Let go of what is not working or in your best interest. It's ok to be afraid of uncharted territory. Capricorn: Things fall a part, thing come back together. Crumble and build, crumble and build. Right now you are probably seeing and feeling these patterns in your career and are trying to learn to surf the waves of up and down and the impact this has on your emotions and security. As Pema Chodron says: “Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Can you make room for all of this?! Extra credit for channeling this into an offering to others. Aquarius: New creativity is creeping into your career and offerings. Building new relations and alliances can be supportive right now. Be aware of your approach: are you pushing too hard with excess aggression or just being direct and clear? Lessons are coming at full speed and from teachers, guides and mystics- many of whom are in disguise or perhaps from your past. Your only job is to be awake enough to greet these tasks with eyes wide open, to learn your lessons, and to see where you can open to new possibilities. Awakening and dharma are available for you with courage and restructuring of your old patterns of behavior. Pisces: Great vulnerability is in fact great strength. You are in the midst of big changes, upheaval and reorganization which is bringing the discomfort to a maximum. This is a time of cleaning and clearing the past and it is a very powerful and poignant time if you use it as such. Your best use of time is retreating and returning to the Self- in a radical way. This is a time of restructuring, digesting, elimination and removal. 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Moon is waning (dark half) and transits Taurus, Gemini and Cancer this week. Moon is in its sign of exaltation the 23rd to 25th and in its own sign of Cancer 29th to 30th. Aim towards flourishing and thriving this week with deep surrender.
Mercury is sandhi (in the gap/weak degrees) until late in the week and moves out of its sign of exaltation and into Libra on the 9.24 where it joins Rahu, Saturn and Venus there. Mars is currently sandhi in Cancer (its sign of debilitation). Mental/emotional tension, sensitivity, confusion and exhaustion are possible. Remember your self-care. Saturn and Rahu are in tight conjunction in Libra this week and collide in exact degrees on 9.25 with Mercury and Venus in Libra at that time as well. Four planets here will increase the energetics of Libra and will increase the movement and momentum with communications, mental activities and functions, commerce, business and trade. Rahu, Saturn and Mercury are in Swati nakshatra right now, ruled by the wind god, Vayu. The winds of change are blowing. Venus is now in Vishaka nakshatra. Expect increases, expansion and changes with alliances, support systems, relationships and business. This is a time of storm energy, "cleaning house" so to speak, forced change for better or worse. Spread your wings and surrender to the winds. See my articles on Rahu and Saturn in Libra for further details. Tap into your creative impulses and utilize your creation potential with this week's Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity. Creative Engagement Activity for the week of 9.23. *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: Speak, communicate, express, voice, sing. Tell the universe your desires and needs, then shout them from the top of the mountain. Get bold about what you attract and what you think you deserve. Use this time for a mental/emotional paradigm shift. Clean the pysche so there is room for a new reality and new relationships. Taurus: Being in service of the Self is important for your healing, growth and expansion. Seva for the soul. Find your healthy boundary set point- likely uncharted territory up until now. What is it that you are longing for and what is the hole that needs to be filled? Keep digging below the earth. Plant some seeds. Gemini: Be the beginner, the student, the child. Witness with eyes wide open in awe and excitement. Connect, communicate and create. Expand and trust your passionate inner realms. Find that missing piece this week. Trust the process. Cancer: Heart is softening, changing and getting a chamber cleaning. Expand, contract. Inhale, exhale. Stand still, step forward. Work with needs and wants, hurts and haunts. Stay low to the ground, feet in cool soil. Ground with earth energy. All love flows to the self. Leo: Effort, bravery, courage, will power, creativity and the hands, bring success and potential to you. You are likely feeling some comfort in your actions- say it loud and proud. But what holds you back still? Who and what continues to outshine you? Will the ego set you back or step you forward? Virgo: Do not shut down your powerful voice and the need to communicate! Seek comfort and create what you need. Though internal rumblings from your dark depths and hidden realms continue to bring illumination and fears to the surface, use this dragon fire to spark something. You are losing some naivete. Enjoy it. Libra: Head clearing or head pressure? Endings or beginnings? Charge forward or slow down and rest? You are in the thick of storm season and life's drama is casting you as their main character. All you have to do is use your surrender button. Let go, let God. Breathe. Scorpio: You are trying to reconcile with these feelings of being hidden, feeling alone, the unknown and uncertain. The life long complaints. You seek true community, companionship, expansion of self and your efforts to finally pay off, but fear it simultaneously. Let some magic in this week and let go of some misery. Seek to attract what you are repulsed by. Sagittarius: Gains, friendships, children, and decisions are going through transformations. Is your intelligences spot on or spot off- or both? Social interactions will increase this week but may leave you feeling drained and unsatisfied. What are you really craving for your life and how can you maximize your shine from the inside out? Capricorn: A week of maximum flow, maximum activation, maximum potential. What is holding you back from realizing your maximum? Who? What? What continues to go unseen is your greatest enemy. Expand what is possible. Aquarius: Less philosophizing, more embodiment. Less mental body, more physical. Less focus on action and achievement, more surrender to the emotions. Less looking to others, more looking within. Pick up your paint brush. Pisces: Debts, losses, transformations have blown in their haunts. Much of what has been hidden to you is painfully revealing itself. This is a time where blinders are getting ripped off. The only thing to lose is the known. The only thing to gain is moksha. Moon Mind :::
Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th Moon transits Virgo in Hasta nakshatra where Mercury is (newly exalted). Hasta is ruled by the Moon and Savitr and is connected to the dawn, waking up, self-realization, creative expression and the healing arts, working with the hands and the gifts that come from working with the hands. Reciting Gayatri Mantra is especially helpful today- especially if you are experiencing emotional/mental issues. Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tát savitúr váreṇ(i)yaṃ bhárgo devásya dhīmahi dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt Moon moves to Chitra nakshatra to at 21:59 CDT and stays there until 21:59 CDT tomorrow evening. Chitra is ruled by Mars (debilitated currently in Cancer) and ruled by Vishvakarma. Use tonight and the greater part of tomorrow for building, planning, strategizing, finding solutions, and for implementing creative endeavors. It is an especially good time for linking the creative arts with the emotions. If you haven't already created your New Moon Mandala from the Creative Engagement homework, now is a great time. If you have your mandala finished, why not take this into the next step? Write three action steps based on your new list of creative desires. Implement one of these steps this weekend. Find this week's CE homework here: http://www.swatijrjyotish.com/1/post/2013/09/horoscopes-for-the-week-of-92.html *Technically Ganesha Chaturthi {Birthday of Ganesh} has started already here in the US at 6:19 am CDT with the sukla chaturthi (4th tithi of waxing moon). This ten day celebration will end on the 17th. I will share more in my horoscopes/updates using Monday the 9th (India time) as the start date for the festivities. Jai Ganesha* Moon Mind :::
Thursday, 9.5 New Moon was early this morning in Leo at 6:37 CDT. Sun is currently there as well in its own sign. Moon is in Purvaphalguni nakshatra until 20:56 CDT this evening when it moves to Uttarphalguni nakshatra. We might be feeling some upliftment, a general easing, and a willingness to step out and shine because of the Sun and Jupiter influences on the day. Venus and Mercury are both Sandhi as they change signs today and are heading into more positive houses. Fast moving Mercury moves to its exaltation position (Virgo) at 14:10 CDT today and will be there with Venus for a few hours until Venus moves to Libra (its own sign) at 21:50 this evening where it joins Saturn and Rahu there. The focus for today as well as for the new Moon is on relationships, the feminine (including divine feminine), creativity, passion and all things related to Venus as well as the emotional correlation to these. Use this time for self-expansion, but do it with an inward focus. There is some vulnerability with this new Moon so be careful with the aforementioned indications as well as with travel and cars/driving, at this time. Cultivating your creativity is time well spent today. Find this Week's Creative Engagement New Moon activity via my horoscopes ::: http://www.swatijrjyotish.com/1/post/2013/09/horoscopes-for-the-week-of-92.html Moon passes through Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces and into Aries. Full Moon in Aquarius on 8.20 at 20:44 CDT and will be in Dhanishta nakshatra. Use this time to shine and be seen, but don't be surprised if it is on an introverted level. Emotions can run amok so guard your sensitivity and need for sacred space if necessary.
Mars has now moved to Cancer- it's sign of debilitation- until October 5th. This placement of Mars can create a tendency to "over do it" and often our imbalances with the way we use action comes to light during this time. Be especially aware of emotions- which are just a response to our actions. Work with appropriate boundaries at this time. Be particularly vigilant with relationships- starting with the relationship to Self. Awareness of the critic/victim paradigm can be useful. See my recent article for more details. Mercury moves to Leo 8.20 at 18:14 CDT, while Moon is strong in the 15th tithi. Mercury is weak in degrees and sandhi (in the gap) until later in the day on the 21st. Watch communication, especially with women, relationships in general and creativity. However, the liminal is an excellent place to acquire creative illumination. Use this time to day dream. Just don't expect quantified productivity. Mercury will be transiting Leo with Sun (there in its own sign) and is moving extra quickly right now. Normally it takes about a month for Mercury to make it through each sign, but he will be in Leo for only about 17 days. It's next stop is exaltation in Virgo just as Venus leaves its debilitation sign, Virgo, for its own sign, Libra. Business should get better at that point. Creative Engagement Activity for the Week ::: Create three hearts. One for the emotional, physical and mental bodies (extra credit: make one for the spiritual body as well). Use color, texture, multiple mediums to create your hearts. Give each heart a title and then for each heart, finish these statements: I think, I feel, I imagine. Use these statements to create a haiku for each image. Haiku's are created with three lines- in the form of 5,7,5 syllables each. Follow my daily Moon Mind posts on Facebook and via my blog for increased daily insights into the dance of nakshatra/pranic/intuitive and creative awareness. Now booking sessions for both Jyotish and Jyotish + Expressive Art Therapy work. Find Details about my offerings here: http://www.swatijrjyotish.com/services--offerings.html *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: Career may be the focus of the week, but don't neglect home and heart/emotional matters. Relationships in general are creating a bit of pressure and may feel extra demanding, especially those at home and at work. Children and educational matters need your attention as well, but these are shining brightly, so support the tendency. Watch for debts and overspending as well as the temptation for excess sweets, alcohol/drugs and carbs. Get your car tuned up. Taurus: This week's focus is on spiritual pursuits. how does this connect to your career, your offering to the world? There is a desire to create, but a lack of motivation and enthusiasm to follow through. Remember small steps, eventually they get you where you want to go. You may feel a swell of heart expansion, but reserve some of this attention for the Self. Boundary work is a top priority right now. Gemini: This time of expansion is giving you plenty of growth. This week focus on inner transformations and lay a solid foundation for your Self, before throwing your self out into the inevitable spotlight. Outer depends on inner. And though your creativity is at an all-time high, some grounding force is essential for long-term sustainability. Even geniuses need proper TLC and rest. Cancer: Home, heart, relationship with mother, land and vehicles become a strong focus in the coming weeks. This impacts your relationships in general and how you handle them. Watch for internalized and externalized anger, fears and anxiety. Rely on your inner knowledge and awareness to show you the way and use your energy properly. There's a lot of heat inside; channel it for maximum propulsion and put your creative energy to good work. Leo: You are the bright, shiny object everyone keeps looking at. As Mae West said "It is better to be looked over than overlooked." Expect the attention to continue for a while yet but note that creative storms abound, which may make life feel a little less comfortable then you'd like it to. Watch how you treat others and be mindful of the ego at this time. Pat your Self on the back for a job well done, but know when to leave the ego at the coat check. Learn from others at this time- even if it's what not to do. Virgo: If I was your therapist, I would have a little chat about "constructive criticism vs. deconstructive." I would then give homework to you about "dancing with your critic" and ask you to take it on a date, nourish it and create a more compatible relationship with it. This little friend won't seem to leave you alone! Might as well get used to it and figure out how she/he/it can be an asset, a strength even, rather than a debilitating force. Libra: This week has you putting focus on home, heart and emotional matters as well as mother and land/property and vehicles. You may feel the need for a home, some grounding force, or extra support emotionally. Take necessary alone time to move through this. Set goals and desires to paper and give them a structured frame for later activation. Education requires attention as do friendships and lovers. Don't spread your self too thin. Especially these next two months with debilitated Mars in your 10th house of career- the tendency is to push too hard on the out stroke, when the need is to go within. Scorpio: It may feel like meditation is impossible, the spiritual zest of norm is getting lost, and that life's typical magic is feeling numbed down. Remember the simplicity, even the mundane, can be spectacular. Change how you are looking at things- clean your spectacles. Careful with friendships, matters of the heart, father and guru right now. Shine with career and sharing the hidden realms which come naturally for you. Mind your spicy tongue. Sagittarius: Career matters are getting less and less thrilling and home and heart, the things that nurture and comfort, feel much more attractive. Ask for what you need in relationships- without anger and attack. Be especially careful with friends and older siblings. Use some of your creative energy for increasing your skill set, using your hands, and getting physical. But hibernate in bed or on retreat if necessary. Capricorn: Suddenly relationships may feel like a chore and yet maintaining them is of central importance. You may feel extreme power and personal charge- expect others to notice. Can you make this a positive? Career is especially active and demanding right now. It's important to not overdo it, to watch your personal resources, boundaries, and to keep in check your general tendency towards overworking. This is a test. I repeat. This is only a test. Don't get burned out. Aquarius: Your attention on the Self and all the extra effort you've been clocking in on it is admirable. My question is, what is a balanced approach to the inner/outer realms of existence? Both contain truths and can't, should not be avoided. With the Sun now in your 7th house of relationships, expect to restore some balance to this paradigm by forcing you to look at the mirror of truths- the "other". Hmmm. Very chicken and egg of the universe don't you think? Pisces: The "other". Ugh. They take you away from everything- Self time, personal rituals and needs, and seem to create emotional debt! Is it even worth it? This is a time to closely evaluate your relationships, but not necessarily to cash them in! Be really honest with your Self right now. What is working for me? What isn't? Get brutally clear about what needs to shift in order for you to be more fulfilled within your relationships. Do so alone. Take your time. No action steps required. Yet. |
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