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Today's Astrology Horoscope (for all signs)

The New Moon in Leo, on August 9, or 8 - 9 - 10.

Here's the astrology chart for the New Moon in Leo:
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As Venus enters Libra, she conjunctions Saturn (just into Libra at 01Libra28) and Mars at 5Libra01. This is a tight threesome! It's not an exact mathematical midpoint, however, Saturn is contained between Venus and Mars, and all 3 will be visible in the evening sky. If visibility adds to their influence, this threesome is caught "with their pants down!" Much like the myth of Aphrodite and Hephaestus, another Saturnian figure of Greek myth who caught his beautiful wife, Aphrodite (Venus) making love with the god, Ares. Here again we have Venus and Mars, separated by Saturn. And this time they are in opposition to Jupiter-Uranus and square Pluto. We are at a crucial point!

Since venus, Saturn, and Mars are in Venus-ruled Libra, the feminine part of each of us has a major role to play. That means we need to consciously become more cooperative. Subtle sneering and suspicion only keep the hate alive and thriving, stopping progress and goodwill. Not everyone really wants progress or good will, or realizes what they have to do to create it, so until more of us are energetically and consciously aligned with a more peaceful purpose, we will continue to play one side against the other. Getting "rid" of your shadow doesn't mean shutting it up in the basement or pointing out the faults of everyone else. It means being able to look at it. The courage has to come from within first, or you'll never believe it from anyone else.



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Monday, August 9:: The Moon is in Leo :+: Sun semisquares Saturn :+: Venus opposes Jupiter :+: New Moon in Leo (17 Leo 25) @ 11:09 pm EDT :+:

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Tuesday, August 10:: Venus squares Pluto :+: Sun sesquisquares Jupiter:+: The Moon is in Leo is Void-of-Course from 3:11 pm EDT - 7:02 pm EDT :+: Sun sesquisquares Pluto :+: The Moon enters Virgo @ 7:02 pm EDT

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Wednesday, August 11:: The Moon in Virgo is Void-of-Course from 8:05 pm EDT - Thursday @ 6:44 pm EDT

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Thursday, August 12:: The Moon enters Libra @ 6:44 pm EDT :+:

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Friday, August 13:: The Moon is in Libra :+: Crescent Moon in Libra (05 Libra 28) @ 3:34 am EDT :+: Uranus enters Pisces

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Saturday, August 14:: The Moon in Libra is Void-of-Course from 4:07 pm EDT - 8:27 pm EDT :+: The Moon enters Scorpio at 8:27 pm EDT

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Sunday, August 15:: The Moon is in Scorpio

Current major aspects: Venus opposes Uranus :+: Venus opposes Jupiter :+: New Moon :+: Venus squares Pluto :+: Uranus enters Pisces

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Jupiter squares Uranus: October 8
Libra New Moon: October 11 @ 1:01 am edt
Mercury Retrograde: October 12 @12:00 am edt

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Libra New Moon: Slow dancing

The New Moon in Libra, the sign of the scales, is the time to create balance.
When you are in balance, you can harmonize with others and enjoy your relationships. Whether you are relating to a person, a pet, something you are doing, or a work of art, you are relating and creating balance and harmony, using the appropriate words, images, colors, tones, gestures, feelings.

To create harmony with others, you need to be diplomatic and able to compromise. If you focus on keeping the peace, your own needs can become less of an issue and you may even overlook something personally important to avoid conflict. There is also a balance between compromising until you lose your integrity and being yourself at all costs.

At the time of the New Moon, the Sun and Moon are conjunct in Libra. Libra is ruled by value-conscious Venus. And Venus is making a semisquare to the Sun and Moon and a conjunction to Saturn-- all of this can heighten any gap that exists between what you want and the habits you enjoy that keep you from achieving it.

On this Libra New Moon, Venus conjuncts cautionary Saturn, while Mercury is stationing Retrograde in Scorpio (and will Retrograde back into Libra on October 23, also the day the Sun enters Scorpio). The message is slow down. Something needs to be unraveled and it can't be done at high speed.

How do we get OUT of balance? By letting the opinions of others limit our reality. And we let ourselves be limited so we can remain at a familiar comfort level. No wonder we're frustrated! Following someone else's path is a sure way to get lost, or out of alignment with your Self, your flow, your dream.

Seeking approval is a quick way to feel unsettled and lose your balance. If you are (unconsciously) chasing after approval, this New Moon is an opportunity to release that need. If you are always accommodating others to be fair and stable, you're not really keeping the peace or creating balance if YOU are out of balance by only giving and not allowing yourself opportunities to receive. You may create peace and harmony, but also lose personal integrity as you put aside what you KNOW is important so you can satisfy the expectations of another person or society in general.

Libra is ruled by Venus and Venus is conjunct Saturn, so it may not be easy to express your feelings and you can be more calculating than unconditional in your feelings towards friends and lovers. You may be socializing more, but it may be more out of work or obligation than enjoyment.

It may seem that people don't appreciate you. And you may feel that you are not loved for yourself, but for the functions you perform, the financial support you provide, or the work you do. If your commitment to your family usually comes before your career, it can seem that others are far ahead of you.

Releasing the need for approval is a challenge because it means accepting your own less-than-perfect tendencies; your own darkness. It's hard to accept yourself FULLY. You don't always approve of yourself or not all your impulses that are nice or friendly or harmonious, and some are uniquely personal.

Venus and Saturn conjunct in early Virgo can magnify any resistance to love. And affection can be harder to demonstrate. Yet, in Virgo, the message is that being a partner in a happy, fulfilling relationship can be taught and learned.

How do you get clear -- right NOW-- which is the only time there is!? The New Moon (Sun and Moon is trine Neptune and sextile Jupiter. The key is to have a vision. And you can get your vision by meditation, visualization, prayer, creativity, dreamwork, journaling. Let your subconscious have its voice. Open and give yourself inner access, whether that's by listening, feeling, sensing, or visualizing. However it comes to you, be open and let yourself see beyond what seems to be reality. Singing, dancing, and music can help you channel your sensitivity, and talent is NOT necessary (and may hinder the process if you automatically edit your every impulse). You can change your aura by listening to music, and you can get inspired by watching a movie or reading a book.

Pay attention to your feelings, allow them to be present. And then allow yourself to release hurts and forgive, starting with yourself. This can free up energy that is frozen in position by holding onto hurt that causes you pain. There is always something you get from every experience and once you can realize what that is, you can release any hold that experience may have on you. If you can't meditate and release by yourself, guided meditation can help you learn to sit silently with yourself, which can take practice. If you don't have a space that feels sacred and inspiring, this New Moon is the perfect time to create one. It doesn't have to be large, any space will do. It's not the size, it's what you bring to it, the way you decorate and give it personal meaning.

Mercury stationing Retrograde on a New Moon suggests that to get something NEW you may have to rethink something you are obsessing on (Mercury in Scorpio)
This is a message to SLOW DOWN. This is a balancing act that can be done-- slowly.

Thoughts are flying fast. Mercury will trine Mars 2 more times (Retrograde on Oct 17 and Direct on Nov 19), and they are both sextile Saturn (Mercury/Mars=Saturn, or Saturn is at the midpoint of Mercury/Mars). This is the time to use your mental energy to make clear and practical decisions. Libra, the Scales, is about balance. To achieve balance on the scale of this New Moon, you will need to tip the scales slowly and cautiously.

If you are experiencing a lack of energy, feeling stuck, apathetic, ashamed, or embarrassed, afraid, anxious, or depressed, you cannot just instantly expect yourself to move to an ecstatic state of pure joy. But-- just making the slightest push towards feeling better or shifting your perspective slightly can cause a major turnaround this Autumn. You don't need to PUSH, just a PING! of encouragement (New Moon - Sun and Moon sextile Jupiter) is enough to set a positive change of direction in motion.

While Mercury is Rx in Scorpio, we may be trying to figure out major, profound problems we recently raced past. While Mercury stops and travels backwards in Scorpio, we may be anxious about what we are sensing, and not ready to get drawn deeper into understanding a mystery. There are still lessons to be learned before we can dive deeper. Perhaps we don't really know what we want. Or we think about something and immediately negate the possibility that it could happen. During Mercury is Rx in Scorpio we get opportunities to rethink recurring negative thoughts. It's a great time to slow down your thoughts by journaling or meditating.

If you want to release but you are resisting, what new ideas are you resisting? Jupiter square Uranus symbolizes tradition interfacing with new ways of thinking. And since Uranus rules groups, we are not sure the new vision is aligning with tradition in a way that can create a mindset shift-- as a society. Yet old walls and ways are slowly changing and breaking down.

Resistance can even take the form of exuberant enthusiasm. When Jupiter is square Uranus, too much optimism can be unrealistic and encourage you to overdo something, overshoot your goal, thereby missing the mark. Perhaps you think you're best is never good enough, so you continue to work, polish, edit, do more, and more and more and it's still not good enough. You can create your own resistance by continuing to do too much, when your first impulse was fine.

From Libra to Scorpio
The Sun enters Scorpio on October 23

While the Sun transits through Libra, it's time to find balance --- the state when body, mind, emotions are aligned. And once we feel this balance, we are in an aligned state of body, mind, emotion with what we want, or our spiritual purpose. And then we are ready to move into a deeper or more spiritual perspective, which is Scorpio.

Buddha: "don't just DO something, sit there!"

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SECTION 2. Using Astrology for Your Greatest Benefit
Libra is the sign of love and relationships. The New Moon is the time to think about how you relate to others, because this is also the time you can DO something about your relationships. You can change the way you look at others and how you feel about your interactions. How DO you react to insulting or negative comments? To love and affection?

The Love Forecast gives you invaluable insights into how you approach love, using the transits of Moon, Venus, and Pluto. Be ready, because this forecast discusses everything and holds back nothing.

The Relationship Potential Report looks at how you approaching relationships, using your 7th house cusp, or the Descendant to describe your relationship to Relationship. If the same problems resurface in your relationships, it can be invaluable to look at what you expect and what you bring to your relationships.

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A Prayer on the New Moon

The New Moon is in Leo.

Leo is love. This Moon is in the 7th house of "the other". We are instructed to "Love thy Neighbor as Thyself". Yet, many of us are quick to blame our faults and problems on others. We are disconnected from our love and blame others, and that make us sad. Life is about being joyous, yet we deny ourselves the flow of joy in our lives. When we resesent, take offense, treat others with suspicion first, and fail to appreciate others as themselves, we are going against the flow, we are denying our own best interests. We want to control others. We want to decide how they "should" behave, what they "should" think, what their soul's purpose "should" be. And since that is not really possible, we become bitter. We create barriers instead of opening ourselves to love. And we blame instead of feeling care and consideration. We get smaller and feel worse, when the goal is to expand and feel joyous.

When presented with an opening to receive more love, we are skeptical. We don't have the time, we don't have the patience to experiment, we see no point in being still and opening to our inner source of well-being. We deny ourselves, and by doing that, we deny whoever we contact. We're not getting what we need, so we deny it to everyone, we vibrate denial. If we see someone who is generous, we think of how we can take more. We want to stop that flow of generosity. Better cut them down to size! And so continues the cycle of feeling worse.

Changing all that is as easy as releasing it and moving back into the love. The love is always there. Patiently waiting, sending you good wishes however you are feeling. Do something to feel good, and let the love radiate. Feeling good is the intention.

in Love&Light,
Lauren

The drama of blame: The Leo New Moon opposes Neptune

Blame seems so natural.

In the heat of the moment, it's easy to blame someone, anyone, for whatever is wrong.

If something isn't working, it must be because THAT person is a cheat, liar, thief, con artist, crook, creep, stupid, or out to get you.

What if none of that is true? What if that is all your own projection? your own choice of perception?

Then maybe you've found where you're hiding from your true self. Trying to shame someone for an error is not a sign of personal strength and inner confidence.

Here's the problem with blame. It makes you dummy down. You don't have to think beyond blame. Blame gives you permission to be condescending. You tell them off, and move on. But you don't go anywhere. You continue to complain to yourself and anyone else who will listen. Your mind becomes obsessed with blame and negative self-talk.

When you blame, you cut yourself off from appreciation. And when you can't feel appreciation, you repress your feelings of joy and well-being. You may think you are doing this to protect "the truth", but is being "right" really worth focusing on and radiating negative feelings?

If you think that you and everyone else has to always to be PERFECT, you can continue to feel disillusioned and exaggerate any defect into a shattering upset.

What if you could feel good regardless of what "they" did?

(Sun and Moon passing through the Saturn-Neptune opposition)

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Lauren




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New Moon in Gemini, Mercury stationing Retrograde in Cancer

The New Moon in Gemini with ruler Mercury making a Retrograde station seems to be an appropriate time to restart the artcharts blog. This is a great time to let go of the past, embrace the future, and feel authentically positive about the prospects for all of us. Working in a calm, concentrated, focused way, you can make significant progress and use your energy productively, without getting bogged down by negativity and resistance.

This will help greatly as Mercury makes a Retrograde station (the day after Thursday's New Moon, on Friday, June 15). To better understand how a Mercury Retrograde period will influence your life, it's helpful to look at the chart for the Retrograde station.

Mercury retrogrades 3 times a year for 3 weeks each time.

Mercury in Cancer will make a Retrograde station while conjunct the Moon, ruler of Cancer. In its own sign of Cancer, the Moon is in a strong position. This Mercury Retrograde period is about getting back in touch with your emotions by communicating more; allowing feelings you have stuffed and repressed to come out and be cleared. This is a time for blending sensitivity with the ability to communicate, which makes it staggering how much you can express of your inner, personal feelings and responses. It's a time to WELCOME your feelings, allow them happen so you see them for what they are and can even let them go....

It can seem like everyone wants to tell you their life story, even if you've heard it before. As your inner feelings become more conscious, you can express them more easily, but you can also be motivated by your emotions and your ideas and opinions can be colored by how you feel, blurring the difference between being emotional and being rational. Which is which, who knows, who cares?!


The only problem is that we can subconsciously lean into our old, pre-programmed emotional prejudices and responses. So keep in mind, your ideas and your mind set is based on your own experiences, not only on "the facts".

This is a time to try an experiment. Try letting your feeling responses come before your intellectual responses. Learn to say what you mean, without controlling every thought and response, and trying to fit it into what you think you "should" be feeling or thinking. Try something new, try responding as your authentic self.