Grandtrines

On Wednesday when Mercury meets the Sun again, there’s a chance we may feel the need to express our thoughts fully, but retrograde motion of Mercury may cause us to speak before we think.

A fortunate grand trine among the TaurusMoon, Jupiter and Pluto also in earth signs generates a compulsive emotional need to grow beyond ones’ boundaries.

But with the Sun out of step with Neptune don’t allow frustration to take a toll.

Mercury making a minor yet unstable connection to Mars causes minds to be restless into evening hours.

MERCURY Retro in LI meets the SUN today Sept 30:
Ahhh, yes, we’re also half-way through the Mercury retro phase now – the Eclipse took center stage, but hey, it’s been also trickster time since Sept 17, until Oct 9.
So, what’s going on today, on that retro half-way point?
MERCURY will pass the SUN – at 7:38 am PDT – and from then on travel again behind the SUN (as a Morning Star, rising before the SUN soon).
This shift is the most significant purpose of the Mercury retro phase: There has been a tendency for Mind (Mercury) with its ‘old stories’ to run the show as Mercury has been ahead of the Sun in the Zodiac in the last 2 months. As in every Mercury retro phase (3 times a year), MERCURY is ‘lassoed in’ by the SUN, and Spirit, Consciousness, the Heart go on the ‘driver’s seat’…

After a long dry spell, without any Active days for the whole month of September, we have a dozen Active days in October. Look up which dates are best for starting new experiments (or events) and which days are good for specific lab processes.

http://www.risingstarmusic.com/alchemyastrology/laboratory.html#10

September 30th and October 1st

Sepetmber 30th is a day to capture your ideas.  Sun conjoints Mercury (retrograde).  But, Sun/Mercury quincunx Neptune leads to confusion in areas of communication and transportation.  You may not be able to act on them, but do capture those creative ideas.  Review them after October 9th and see which ones are worth your efforts.  This problem with the quincunx affects October 1st as well.

Mercury (R) Conjunct Sun 2015-09-30

Retrograde Mercury conjoins the Sun slightly past 0930 CDT (please adjust for your time zone).  This short window, from about 900 CDT to about 1000 CDT, is a time when an old project can be resurrected with brilliant results.  Here is the chart, filtered for the Kite present at this time:

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Actually, when we filter for 5th harmonic aspects, we find a 5th harmonic aspect similar to a Yod that gives you a choice between (a) resurrecting the old project (Sun/Mercury on one leg) or (b) scrapping it and replacing it with a new brilliant solution (Pallas, innovation, on the other leg).  Here is the chart, filtered for 5th harmonic aspects:

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Do realize that, whichever approach you choose, you may need to make adjustments after Mercury turns direct.  And a bit of a “fly in the ointment”…

Tuesday and Wednesday are days very tightly tied together aspect-wise as Mercury and the Sun both make an ‘adjustment’ aspect to Neptune. Mercury does so as he is applying to his Conjunction with the Sun and the Sun does so as he is separating from their Inferior Conjunction. With Neptune so intimately involved in their Conjunction, it bodes well for getting a deeper meaning of the ‘seeds’ of clarifying (Sun) communication (Mercury) we will have on Tuesday night and all of Wednesday.

Beginning on Wednesday morning, Mercury Retrograde will Conjunct the Sun in Libra creating their Inferior Conjunction of their roughly 165-day cycle. They have 3 Inferior Conjunctions and 3 Superior Conjunctions each year. The Sun rules real-time, clarity and our goals. Mercury rules communication, thoughts and ideas as well as local transportation, vehicles, siblings, neighbors, local community and such. When Mercury gets far ahead of the Sun, our ‘vanity’…

I like this doing video thing. Sept. 29  I am heading back to Toronto from Sedona. 

The Aries Moon trines Venus in Leo at night.

Moon enters Taurus for stubborn, sensual, slow to react, creative, lazy moods.

4 count ’em QUINCUNX’S today. Caught between a rock and a hard place.

Caught between Four rocks and hard places, OUCH! This is reflected in the world political situation between the U.S. and Russia. The Tarot reading shows the way to deal with it.Mercury Retro in Libra is making all the adversaries play new games of reblancing the power.

Moon trines Mars in Virgo its gonna get down right dirty, earthy and nit picky.

Retro-Mercury also inconjuncts Neptune in Pisces

Get back to that dream drawing table.

I use the tarot cards to show you how figure out how to handle all this. 

I will be in transit today. I’ll put  up a…

At last, a month when life starts making sense. Turmoil, new boundaries, reboots and endings are still rampant, but some situations are settling into recognizable contours and sturdy, supportive foundations. They’ve been showing warning signs of firming up, and now they’re hitting an accelerated construction phase, as if in sped-up stop-action animation. Even if we don’t like everything we see, we stand to benefit from plenty of it.

Before this action gets fully underway, two review processes end back-to-back and affect how we go into the stabilizing. The first involves heart and desire. Venus, ruler of all we hold dear (love, money, beauty, creativity), changes mode on October 8. She is packing up the gold, glitter and memories of her long summer in high drama, self-oriented Leo, where her retrograde helped us explore people and activities that were once very important to us. (And possibly reclaim bits of ourselves.) When…

Some people are just so easy to converse with!

That’s how I feel about April Elliott Kent.

When she and I met, I didn’t realize that I’d be taking my astrology anywhere. As a solo practitioner of astrology, I didn’t really have any astrology friends. I was mostly closeted about it for a while. I was discovering it all on my own, with the help of books, while maintaining and editing my own constant reflections upon the transits. To me, it was my private scientific investigation.

Eventually, I had this blog, and I was meeting with the occasional client. I was still feeling out what exactly I wanted to do with my clients in the astro realm. I kept looking for the “WE,” the co-creating. How could I really be of service in a way that also worked within the flexible framework of my highest values and within my integrity?…

Sun Quincunx Neptune 2015-09-30

We present the chart for Sun Quincunx Neptune, which perfects September 30th of 2015:

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We note this is a bit of a “fly in the ointment” that rains on the parade of Mercury (r) Conjunct Sun on this date.  However you choose the energy of this day, a “reality check” is in order.

In the sports news today we learned that the Washington Nationals have suspended closer Jonathan Papelbon for four games without pay for his role in a dugout incident in which he choked his teammate Bryce Harper.

According to ESPN:

“After getting out of the batter’s box slowly on a pop fly to left field, Harper returned to the dugout and was approached by Papelbon …  The two appeared to have a brief but heated exchange that resulted in Papelbon putting his hands on the 22-year-old Harper’s throat and shoving him into the back wall of the Washington dugout.” This is not the first time Pabelbon has been suspended for acting like a two-year-old during a game.

I guessed that in his birth chart he must have an afflicted Mars to account for such impulsive aggressive behavior, so I looked up his birth information: 23 Nov 1980 in Baton Rouge, LA, time unknown…

Last night’s Full/Blood Moon Total Eclipse … if you missed it, catch the next event in 2033!