If you didn't like Monday, Tuesday is an opportunity to get it right.
Venus is squaring Mars and briefly the Moon-- making love and attraction personal, public, and stressed. (Venus at 0 Virgo squares Moon-Mars at 0 Gemini)
Give and take are not in balance because it doesn't seem like there's enough time to wait for things to balance out. And with impulsive Mars in Gemini and Venus taking account in Virgo, words can hurt as much as physical violence. Words may not leave visible scars, but the damage done can last a long time, especially if someone wants to use it to make a point. Acting impulsively, you can do or say something that cuts to the point but is NOT in your best interests.
Is it momentary anger or a desire to cut and run? Perhaps a bit of both. But if you are irritated by a lack of perfection, you can be feeling especially stressed out right now.
Since life is ongoing, there is no completion or perfection. Yet, it could be time to cut or prune something that has gone too far and is sapping energy for meaningful growth. Venus Retrograde and about to (re-)enter Leo suggests a time to reevaluate how your self-confidence contributes to -- or interferes with -- attracting what you really want.
By immediately blaming others, you are giving up on your own ability to make and/or attract beneficial changes. Blaming gives whoever you are blaming all the power, while you are not to blame but also have no power, and no energy, to make changes. Feeling guilt or shame for mistakes or for your current situation is not the point, but accepting how you contribute can help you make changes and improvements that really could change your life, even if it takes time.
And since this is a Gemini-Virgo square, there can be cat and dogs fights, so watch your pets-- and how they interact with each other and with neighbor's pets. Mine have been riled up twice today. One run-away dog due to loud neighbor (Gemini) music (she's back) and a hissy cat fight (no thanks to claw clipping during a Gemini-Virgo square^^:)
in Love&Light,
Lauren
in Love&Light,
Lauren
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Speak up! But read this first
Mercury, planet of communications, is making 2 aspects simultaneously. If you're not sure whether to speak up or remain silent, consider this...
Mercury is sextile Mars and inconjunct Pluto. If you're know what you want, you can cut through piles of BS and get right to the point. If you believe in what you're doing, you can negotiate brilliantly and make the sale, sign the deal, teach a class, do more research.
You may not be all that concerned with how the other person takes what you're dishing out, and your compassion may not be high, even if you're discussing something very private or personal. Say what you mean and cut to the chase. Just be aware that if you bring up heavy subjects and you don't care how it makes the other person feel, you can create more resistance than cooperation.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Mercury is sextile Mars and inconjunct Pluto. If you're know what you want, you can cut through piles of BS and get right to the point. If you believe in what you're doing, you can negotiate brilliantly and make the sale, sign the deal, teach a class, do more research.
You may not be all that concerned with how the other person takes what you're dishing out, and your compassion may not be high, even if you're discussing something very private or personal. Say what you mean and cut to the chase. Just be aware that if you bring up heavy subjects and you don't care how it makes the other person feel, you can create more resistance than cooperation.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Choose to be happy
Sun trines Jupiter.
You CAN have a fabulous day with lots of golden opportunities on the horizon that are NOT mirages -- if you can be open to feeling great. It's your choice.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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You CAN have a fabulous day with lots of golden opportunities on the horizon that are NOT mirages -- if you can be open to feeling great. It's your choice.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Focus
Mars, the ACTION planet, is in the hot seat.
Mars is exactly square Saturn Tuesday and is also square Neptune, creating a tense t-square that DEMANDS action while making it more difficult to TAKE action.
Outside, expect HOT weather. On the personal level, there is an opportunity to free up STUCK energy and start moving towards achieving your goals. How? FOCUS.
If your FOCUS is on what you see as problems and imperfections, that is what you will continue to get, and more of it. Goals will be more frustrating than motivating, and your resistance will keep things exactly the way they are, even if you SAY you want change.
If you can look at the world and the offerings presented to you as having the potential to change, inform, and emotionally uplift your psychological energy, you can move past limiting patterns and beliefs. If all you find are faults, you are meeting your own resistance to your own passions and motivation. You can't FOCUS on gratitude and appreciation when you are blaming and assigning guilt. And-- you can't feel guilt and blame when you are FOCUSing on your gratitude and appreciation.
If you let past events determine your future, you are likely to hold on to the same fear, guilt, and inhibitions that have always limited your actions. Despite WANTING better things in your life, you will continue to self-sabotage and not receive your dream life. If you can stand on your own and take action based on what YOU know is right-action, you can start to move forward. Otherwise, you can continue to seek support and continue to find fault in how it is given.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Mars is exactly square Saturn Tuesday and is also square Neptune, creating a tense t-square that DEMANDS action while making it more difficult to TAKE action.
Outside, expect HOT weather. On the personal level, there is an opportunity to free up STUCK energy and start moving towards achieving your goals. How? FOCUS.
If your FOCUS is on what you see as problems and imperfections, that is what you will continue to get, and more of it. Goals will be more frustrating than motivating, and your resistance will keep things exactly the way they are, even if you SAY you want change.
If you can look at the world and the offerings presented to you as having the potential to change, inform, and emotionally uplift your psychological energy, you can move past limiting patterns and beliefs. If all you find are faults, you are meeting your own resistance to your own passions and motivation. You can't FOCUS on gratitude and appreciation when you are blaming and assigning guilt. And-- you can't feel guilt and blame when you are FOCUSing on your gratitude and appreciation.
If you let past events determine your future, you are likely to hold on to the same fear, guilt, and inhibitions that have always limited your actions. Despite WANTING better things in your life, you will continue to self-sabotage and not receive your dream life. If you can stand on your own and take action based on what YOU know is right-action, you can start to move forward. Otherwise, you can continue to seek support and continue to find fault in how it is given.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Full Moon Awareness
The Full Moon is approaching and weather permitting, will be quite a show as the moon rises this evening.
Since i see astrology as energy, i have a few comments on the current state of energy.
Mars, the energy planet, is square Saturn, the cautious planet. This is a time when everything seems to get in your way of success. You may have spent considerable time and energy trying to make something criticism-proof, yet the responses you receive can be frustrating, non-existent, or even resentful.
Insisting that everything works according to your plan or schedule can create a one-way energy system. And the problem with that is that the energy cannot renew itself. It's a dead end. So you do a lot, but then the energy dries up and you wonder, why? what happened? Things may have seemed to be going great, but they were just going your way, and/or you did not create a path for the energy to flow back; receiving energy seems to be blocked or slowed way down.
How can you make this time less frustrating and more productive? Patience! And build a path for the energy to return. Let yourself receive positive energy, don't block it by feeling the frustration or thinking there's never enough. That's the old scare-city mentality. There IS enough, but you may need to accept building patiently now if you want to continue to be productive.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Since i see astrology as energy, i have a few comments on the current state of energy.
Mars, the energy planet, is square Saturn, the cautious planet. This is a time when everything seems to get in your way of success. You may have spent considerable time and energy trying to make something criticism-proof, yet the responses you receive can be frustrating, non-existent, or even resentful.
Insisting that everything works according to your plan or schedule can create a one-way energy system. And the problem with that is that the energy cannot renew itself. It's a dead end. So you do a lot, but then the energy dries up and you wonder, why? what happened? Things may have seemed to be going great, but they were just going your way, and/or you did not create a path for the energy to flow back; receiving energy seems to be blocked or slowed way down.
How can you make this time less frustrating and more productive? Patience! And build a path for the energy to return. Let yourself receive positive energy, don't block it by feeling the frustration or thinking there's never enough. That's the old scare-city mentality. There IS enough, but you may need to accept building patiently now if you want to continue to be productive.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Venus Retrograde: reawakening to your love
Why don't we make big changes that will improve our lives, free ourselves of the things we don't like, make major strides, live in our love?
We resist changing tooo quickly. We hold on and resist making changes that are too sudden or sped up.
So we make excuses, stall for time. We search for the key to change our lives, yet when we find it, we're not really ready, at that moment, to make a commitment to change. So we slow it down, think it over, make our own terms, get ready,,, slowly.
As Mars squares Neptune while Venus stations Retrograde, change is almost impossible, especially if you've lost your faith in your inner process. You need your intuition now, and shutting yourself off from it can be dangerously misleading and confusing.
You can benefit from Venus Retrograde, if you realize the key to understanding its energy. I've written too much for the blog, so for more on Venus Retrograde, please sign up for my completely free newsletter, ArtCharts Express. Here's a link so you can get my article on Venus Retrograde-- free! Thanks, i'm looking forward to sharing my insights and inspirations on Venus Retrograde 2007.
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Venus will be Retrograde for 40 days and 40 nights. More to come on Venus Retrograde 2007.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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We resist changing tooo quickly. We hold on and resist making changes that are too sudden or sped up.
So we make excuses, stall for time. We search for the key to change our lives, yet when we find it, we're not really ready, at that moment, to make a commitment to change. So we slow it down, think it over, make our own terms, get ready,,, slowly.
As Mars squares Neptune while Venus stations Retrograde, change is almost impossible, especially if you've lost your faith in your inner process. You need your intuition now, and shutting yourself off from it can be dangerously misleading and confusing.
You can benefit from Venus Retrograde, if you realize the key to understanding its energy. I've written too much for the blog, so for more on Venus Retrograde, please sign up for my completely free newsletter, ArtCharts Express. Here's a link so you can get my article on Venus Retrograde-- free! Thanks, i'm looking forward to sharing my insights and inspirations on Venus Retrograde 2007.
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Venus will be Retrograde for 40 days and 40 nights. More to come on Venus Retrograde 2007.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Message from Mars: part 2
Mars takes action this week, even if it seems to be in slow motion.
Mars is square Neptune (7/23) AND Saturn (7/31), highlighting the current Saturn-Neptune opposition, and creating a fixed t-square. It is time to take action that comes from your own intentions.
Mars and Venus are about giving and receiving. If you are only taking, thinking you are "getting over" and not giving back, this is a deficit within you which comes from not believing you have anything worth giving, from thinking that you could never improve yourself, so why bother? This is apathy, the lowest level of energy. It keeps you stuck. What percentage do you have in remaining stuck? You may have good reasons to remain stuck, but they are all around not believing in yourself or your contribution.
Mars at this crucial focal point of the Saturn-Neptune opposition creates a t-square, an astrological aspect that means ACTION-- things can't "just go on", something has to give, something has to happen so that meaningful change can occur.
If your ego is getting in the way of expressing your passion and acting in a compassionate manner, it will be more obvious this week. If your intention is to prove who is right, prove your point, and keep your ego on top, you will somehow miss out, hit too hard, use your aggression instead of your assertiveness, creating anger and frustration instead of letting your confidence lead you to a positive perspective and a more successful outcome. This is because you are not using your potential, not coming from your love, not being open to yourself, so how could you be open to anyone else?
The problem is Mars square Neptune can make you unsure of yourself while Mars square Saturn can bring out your fears, making you think that they are correct, encouraging you to ACT on them. this can put you right into a negative spin. While you can harness this energy into a productive use, you can also create more blocks and impasses by letting your ego having full control.
This week, Mars is calling you to get clear. Simple idea. But not so easy to do or we'd all be there already. What obstacles are preventing you from making the progress you would like to make now? Vague resentments are not contributing to a positive vibration and can be keeping you from feeling good about yourself, what you're doing, and your prospects for the future. In a word, you can feel stuck in a negative pattern.
It's a blessing if your negative subconscious feelings come to light now because that gives you the freedom to create meaningful, lasting change that helps you to be yourself and manifest your higher good and abundance. But it will take commitment to make changes.
Perhaps you can find a safe place to be open with yourself so you can focus on clearing out some of the old debris that is clogging your energy, making you feel guilty and undeserving of the bright and positive energy that is also around you, if you chose to see it. If you can free your energy from guilt, defeat, blame, anger, and vague feelings of resentment, you can feel a lot more free, encouraged, positive.
Instead of blaming yourself and letting your frustrations continue to hold you back, you can make decisions that free your energy and allow you to move forward again. Writing down your goals can help you to slow down enough to get clear about what you really want. Think of steps you CAN take to make progress, regardless of how small they may seem and insignificant to anyone else. The only judge is that you can do it. You have to start somewhere to break the inertia.
This is your opportunity to TAKE ACTION that creates positive change in your life. Commit and create.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
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Mars is square Neptune (7/23) AND Saturn (7/31), highlighting the current Saturn-Neptune opposition, and creating a fixed t-square. It is time to take action that comes from your own intentions.
Mars and Venus are about giving and receiving. If you are only taking, thinking you are "getting over" and not giving back, this is a deficit within you which comes from not believing you have anything worth giving, from thinking that you could never improve yourself, so why bother? This is apathy, the lowest level of energy. It keeps you stuck. What percentage do you have in remaining stuck? You may have good reasons to remain stuck, but they are all around not believing in yourself or your contribution.
Mars at this crucial focal point of the Saturn-Neptune opposition creates a t-square, an astrological aspect that means ACTION-- things can't "just go on", something has to give, something has to happen so that meaningful change can occur.
If your ego is getting in the way of expressing your passion and acting in a compassionate manner, it will be more obvious this week. If your intention is to prove who is right, prove your point, and keep your ego on top, you will somehow miss out, hit too hard, use your aggression instead of your assertiveness, creating anger and frustration instead of letting your confidence lead you to a positive perspective and a more successful outcome. This is because you are not using your potential, not coming from your love, not being open to yourself, so how could you be open to anyone else?
The problem is Mars square Neptune can make you unsure of yourself while Mars square Saturn can bring out your fears, making you think that they are correct, encouraging you to ACT on them. this can put you right into a negative spin. While you can harness this energy into a productive use, you can also create more blocks and impasses by letting your ego having full control.
This week, Mars is calling you to get clear. Simple idea. But not so easy to do or we'd all be there already. What obstacles are preventing you from making the progress you would like to make now? Vague resentments are not contributing to a positive vibration and can be keeping you from feeling good about yourself, what you're doing, and your prospects for the future. In a word, you can feel stuck in a negative pattern.
It's a blessing if your negative subconscious feelings come to light now because that gives you the freedom to create meaningful, lasting change that helps you to be yourself and manifest your higher good and abundance. But it will take commitment to make changes.
Perhaps you can find a safe place to be open with yourself so you can focus on clearing out some of the old debris that is clogging your energy, making you feel guilty and undeserving of the bright and positive energy that is also around you, if you chose to see it. If you can free your energy from guilt, defeat, blame, anger, and vague feelings of resentment, you can feel a lot more free, encouraged, positive.
Instead of blaming yourself and letting your frustrations continue to hold you back, you can make decisions that free your energy and allow you to move forward again. Writing down your goals can help you to slow down enough to get clear about what you really want. Think of steps you CAN take to make progress, regardless of how small they may seem and insignificant to anyone else. The only judge is that you can do it. You have to start somewhere to break the inertia.
This is your opportunity to TAKE ACTION that creates positive change in your life. Commit and create.
with Love&Light,
Lauren
If you like the free articles on this blog, let Lauren know by buying her absolute favorite gift - an Amazon gift certificate. Her email is lauren@artcharts.com Click Here!
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