Priestess Astrology

Full Moon, the Buck Moon, of July’s end, 2010.
In Native American tradition July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. Last evening as I walked my little dog friends up along the ridge, the easternmost edge of the glorious Rocky Mountains, I spied a young buck resting on the side of an east-facing slope. Softest brown, he was nestled in among grasses and wild flowers in their mid-summer frenzy. He had 2 branches coming off his velvety antlers. I marveled at his peaceful loveliness and the joy of living so close to these gentle, beautiful creatures. And how do you like that? Just in time for the 2010 end of July Buck Full Moon.

too gorgeous for words

The FULL Moon in Aquarius opposite the Sun in Leo happens this evening into tomorrow.

The Full Moon sheds light, awareness, opportunity to SEE more of what it triggers. The Leo-Aquarius axis applies to the individual ego vs. the group mentality. Serving the group consciousness you are mature and clearly developed inside yourself is probably not such a great idea. Being only for yourself and not reaching out to be a part of community is the other extreme-also not so good. Full Moon times encourage you to look for and strive towards balance between two polarities.

Are you caring for yourself properly so your ego is healthy enough to be in service to the larger community? If so, the larger community can then feed you in return.  Look to where the Leo-Aquarius axis falls in your own chart. The houses these signs fall in and birth planets involved in the Leo-Aquarian axis will be highlighted tonight and tomorrow. Don’t know?  Time for an astro check-in! Schedule your astrology session today at http://PriestessAstrology.com

Full Moons are also good times to release. What needs to be let go?
Outdated clothes? How about outdated ideas and patterns of behavior?
You get to choose.  It’s YOUR life.

The Full Moon happens once a month. The other astrological events that are happening this month and on into the autumn are once in a forever type of cosmological occurrences. Certainly in our lifetimes there is nothing at all like what is happening right now and in the months to come.

What is MOST needed is your commitment to being clearly and truly on your path and all that that might mean for you individually and the planet at large.  Working on yourself to arrive at inner balance and focus and learning how to return to balance when you might be thrown off is top of the list priority these days. When you work on yourself, not only for balance and clear focus, but also to clear away dysfunctional, non-serving emotional/behavioral patterns, you clear the way for the best to come to you, the best and most wonderful dreams you envision for yourself and your loved ones.

The Aquarian Moon reminds you that all can be accomplished in community. Reach out for others as you go through your own molting, skin-shedding, cocoon bursting, summit scaling experiences. A healthy ego knows how to be in groups and still make time to be cozy and creative with oneself. Such is the balance of the Leo Sun-Aquarius Moon axis of this time, 25-26 July 2010. Whatever you learn today becomes a tool you have for always.

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Self-care in times of transformational eclipses

Nurture and care for your body as the sacred vessel it is
Do you take better care of your car than of your body?

Release negative emotions – they’re toxic!
You don’t have to do this alone! Help is available
Releasing toxins is like changing the oil in your car

Follow your Intuition
Your internal guidance system always directs you safely home

Move about!
Dance, walk out in Nature, especially by the water

Have an Astro check-in!
Being in the KNOW keeps you in the driver’s seat of your life
Schedule you astrology session with Cindy at http://PriestessAstrology.com

The Solar eclipse of July 2010 is arrived. The Lunar eclipse was a few short, but whoa! intense, weeks ago. The time between these potent eclipses could have you feeling sandwiched precariously between a veritable rock and a hard place. This scrumptious, inviting photo of high mountain columbines is to remind you that in trying times of transition and flux nothing soothes a racing heart like a walk in the woods.

If you’re urban go to your local botanical gardens and those of us fortunate to be by wilderness, get into it! Release your worries and cares to the trees and flowers. Relish their loveliness and remember you too are of Nature and you too have a season. What season are you in of your life?
Whatever it may be, enjoy it, as it is yours.

Eclipses are times when the magical portal of all that could be becomes possible. Patterns of energy are disrupted so new patterns of thought (thought creates reality) are able to make it through to us here on Earth. And don’t we need some new thought patterns right about now?! Think of this eclipse as a COSMIC UPGRADE to our systems.

As this New Moon eclipse is in the sign of Cancer let’s take a look at Cancer energy. The Moon rules the sign of Cancer, the constellation of the essential female nurturing principle. In Cancer are all the archetypes of the Divine Mother energy. And what will the Divine Mother not yield to support and nurture?
As we each reclaim the Divine Feminine in ourselves, shifting away from the masculine imperative TO DO to the feminine imperative of BEING and RECEIVING, we create the template for the balance that is so desperately needed. The Divine Feminine does not say do nothing, the Divine Feminine reminds us that every action has a consequence so action is to be taken not impulsively but with consideration for the effects to the greater family to which we ALL belong.

Cancer is directly connected to FEELINGS. What FEELS right? What FEELS not right? Choices made IN BALANCE with the directions of the mind and the imperative of the heart just FEEL RIGHT.
Take some time this New Moon eclipse to test how much you follow your feelings and how much your mind dominates your choices. When the mind dominates you’ll hear “shoulds”. Shoulds are born in the mind. Action in alignment with feelings feel right and never feel like “shoulds”.

Cancer is the nesting instinct and ideas of security. Are you putting your faith in something real and true or something fleeting? What makes you feel secure? Are you inviting more of that into your life?

Self-care in times of transformational eclipses

Nurture and care for your body as the sacred vessel it is
Do you take better care of your car than of your body?

Release negative emotions – they’re toxic!
You don’t have to do this alone! Help is available
Releasing toxins is like changing the oil in your car

Follow your Intuition
Your internal guidance system always directs you safely home

Have an Astro check-in!
Being in the KNOW keeps you in the driver’s seat of your life.
Schedule your Astrology session. http://PriestessAstrology.com

New Moon in Gemini.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury, as is Virgo (remember Mars is in Virgo right now) so lots of mercurial energy about- buzzy, flighty, conversational, chatty, busy with many things  – scattered, fun, and full of the contradictions of duality.

The New Moon reminds you that once a month, in alignment with the influence of the lunar cycle, you can bring in and call to you the NEW. With the strong mercurial flavor of this New Moon consider new thought forms and new ways of thinking about your life to better serve you in these amazing times of transformation and change.
Where does 21 degrees Gemini fall in your chart? This is where you will experience new insights, new perceptions, new thought forms.
Excellent! Just what you needed at this pivotal time.

Be open to new info, new ways of perceiving and go towards those teachers and teachings that can support that!
One of my favorite teachers – sound healer and all around delightful mercurial guy – Zakairan, will be doing a FREE tele-call from Australia on Sunday, June 13th, 7 p.m. Mountain Time. If you would like to be on the call and you’re in the U.S. just dial:
303. 330. 0432  When you are asked for the code, press: 189161
If you are in Canada or another country email me and I will send you the appropriate info.
Just leave a reply and I’ll get that info to you.

Mars enters practical, detail-oriented Virgo where he will be busy organizing, discerning, clarifying, and serving efficiently until 29 July.
Mars has been in Leo for so long, what with the seemingly endless retrograde movement, that we are pretty much fried from all that martian Leo energy. Mars in Virgo is a reprieve from all that blasted heat, helping you to get organized, get things done, and feel more grounded. I embrace Mars in Virgo totally! of course I have my share of Virgo energy and I appreciate the gifts that Virgo brings.
I just put my house on the market for sale so I have been tossing, cleaning, fussing, organizing, packing, and taking stock. Perfect Mars in Virgo activities.
Where are you doing that in your own life? Where Virgo falls in your own chart, that’s where Mars is hovering and that’s the arena of your life that will be activated by this transit.

Jupiter and Uranus are conjunct at zero degrees Aries, now until 14 June. This same conjunction occurs again in September and in January. This is the taster.I turned on the local news the other night to follow the story of a bridge collapsing and filling the creek near my house with chunks of debris.
I caught the footage of a public service explosion in Denver that looked exactly like the Tower card in the Tarot deck:
Wow! The Tower card is about the destruction of old structures and everything no longer valid to make way for the new.
Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Aries. There you have it. It’s happening locally, it’s happening globally, and it’s happening personally as well. Since there’s not a whole lot you can do about the local and global
(some, but not much) best to focus on the personal. Where are the massive upheavals and changes happening in your own personal sphere? (we can see this in your chart, of course). Where are you burning down the structures of what has been to be birth yourself anew – fresh, free, and open to new possibilities and new opportunities?
And believe me, this is just the beginning.
Astrology can be a powerful tool and ally to you during these TOWER times. You have your own unique skills and ways of managing life that work specifically for you. Your chart reveals where the TOWER energy is playing out for you personally as well as ways to ride these changes with awareness and grace, which sounds infinitely more appealing than succumbing  to obsessive-compulsive behaviors (which ones do you do?) that only serve to falsely soothe in the very moment you’re doing them but really don’t serve in the long run.

Greetings Star Gazers!
From my perch here in the foothills of the Rockies it certainly feels like the most butt-kicking Mercury retrograde period of recent remembrance. But least I don’t live in Iceland.
I did have somewhat of a crush on an Icelandic boy I knew at college and wonder if he was in Iceland at the time of this latest volcanic event. I would Google him expect that I can only remember his striking face – his name totally escapes me.

The Iceland volcano started off this whole period with a cosmic bang of all bangs.
Whoa!
Electric Uranus clashes with a Plutonian eruption
Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland
(and you thought Astrology was challenging!
How about if you had to participate in an Icelandic spelling bee?
That would be a day in Spelling purgatory)

Air travel in and out of Europe brought to a standstill for days. Travelers stranded mid-journey. Or was this just part of the journey?
Having to completely surrender to things way beyond our control in terms of our own plans and schedules-clearly a Mercury retrograde trick. I’ll bet people started to connect in ways they never thought they would have. Ah, the trickster up to his crazy magical antics.

To view more FABULOUS photos from Iceland
click onEyjafjallajokull photos

I myself was supposed to have a vacation with friends in the glorious red rocks of Utah but a winter snow storm across I-70 forced a change of plans. I guess I am needing to tend to things on the home front and who knows why I couldn’t seem (once again) to get out of the orbital pull of Boulder?

Mercury is up to his mischief until May 11th. Lots of other planets are, of course, also involved in creating all kinds of opportunities for you to confront your limitations and rigid patterns. Mercury scoffs at your plans, making merry with your anticipation and projections, offering you over and over again the choice to recreate your experience in the magic of each moment you have.

I always think of Mercury retrograde as aligned with the energy of the Hanged Man card in the Tarot: encouraging you to look at things from another perspective and therein find new ways of looking at any baffling situation. Or maybe just accepting that sometimes you can’t figure things out and need to just make the best of what is.
A statement of gratitude will take you into much vaster enjoyment than whining, though whining sure does feel good every now and then.

A great book for this Mercury Retrograde period, in the vein of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhardtha (my favorite) and The Wizard of Oz (another personal fav) is Paolo Coehlo’s The Alchemist.
The journey is always about returning to the self.
Thank you, Cat Cantor, magical Accutonics massage therapist, whom I will be interviewing gon my Priestess Entrepreneur TV show next month, for recommendin this excellent read to me.
More on the show at Priestess TV

Who else is going backward?
Both Pluto and Saturn are also going retrograde at this time.
Pluto retrograde in Capricorn, Saturn retrograde in Virgo, and Mercury retrograde in Taurus: all EARTH signs.

The EARTH signs remind us to ground down into our connection to what is real. Taurus reminds you to connect with the things of Nature. Virgo reminds you to discern your work and service through attention to detail. Capricorn reminds you to be alert and aware as to the systems you are working with and how to use them to help with your own ascension.

It helps to connect with the natural world, reminding you of your own rhythm and connection. Watch some birds build their nests today or sniff a cloud. Review your world and reconnect with what is real and nurturing for you.