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Greetings Star Gazer!
It’s the Sturgeon Full Moon of August!

I would imagine the Sturgeon Moon moniker came from the running of the sturgeon at this time of year but this astrologer’s imagination went right to PISCES, Moon in Pisces opposite, the Sun, which just entered Virgo today.
Pisces rules bodies of water and that’s where the blessed sturgeon lives.

The Full Moon illuminates opposing forces in each of us, wanting resolution and balance. Or as one of my astrology teachers, Jyoti Wind, says of oppositions: “An opposition dreams in its sleep of becoming a conjunction.” In other words, opposing forces yearn to be neutralized and similar.

Pisces and Virgo always seem to me to be the most opposing of all the Full Moon oppositions. Virgo can be analytical, fussy, judgmental, and particular to the extreme (Hey! EVERYONE has some Virgo in their charts, some more than others) while Pisces is all-loving, all encompassing, all-forgiving. Virgo cares excessively about what is right and proper. Pisces knows nothing of rights and wrongs, swimming in the eternal oneness of existence. Virgo insists on practical ritual and efficiency . Pisces embraces ritual that brings her as far from what is practical as is humanly possible, desiring only that which connects her to Oneness. Virgo wants to know what is, by using the refined faculties of a trained mind. Pisces knows what she knows because she feels it in every cell of her body.

Both of these mutable signs are energies of service and caring, through work, through sacrifice, through ritual.

Is one way better than the other? Of course not. Both qualities are desirable and you have some of each in your own make-up.

Are these energies out of balance in you? Any adjustments need to be made? This FULL MOON is the perfect time to tweak and arrange to more fully be in balance.

Greetings Star Gazer!
It’s the Worm Moon of Aries time. I am assuming this Full Moon is named as such because as the ground thaws in the temperate Northern climes the worms are coming alive, beginning their incredible work of preparing the soil for planting. I did you a favor and did not include photos of worms, though I am a strong proponent of vermiculture. Are you working the soil of your own life? Well, get to it. The time of the Worm move is nigh upon us.

The Full Moon in Libra, the first full moon of the new Zodiac cycle corresponds each year with the ritual of Passover, the Jewish celebration of liberation and feedom from oppression. Where are you still oppressed? What can you do to liberate yourself from any limitation? Remeber what Bob Marley taught us: “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds”. Are you ready to release yourself from prisons you have created for yourself? No better time than right now at the Worm Moon, 2010.

This Full Moon, like all full moons, sheds light on what we need to release and shed, what we need to let go of that no longer supports our life journey. The polarities of Aries-Libra emphasizes where we need to work on Self (Aries) and where we need to learn compromise and cooperation.

Aries is courageous, risk-taking, and full of dynamic fiery energy to move forward. Consider the energy it must take for bulbs to break the surface of thawing ground. It’s mind-boggling.
Same too for you. Where will you direct this burst of energy to push through to the light in your own life?
Libra supports partnership, fairness, and balance.

The polarity of the Full Moon asks you to look at where you need to assert yourself with dynamic force and where do you need to collaborate and cooperate.

If that’s all that was happening that would be enough to work on but our friend Pluto (yes, befriending Pluto will certainly help with the transformation process) is squaring the Full Moon. This square shows us what is holding you back, which could very well be, and often is, your own self.

When you think Pluto think about metamorphosis. Go see Alice in Wonderland (you must!) and see Absolom do his thing from caterpiller to butterfly. That’s you too. Are you doing what you need to do to transition into the butterfly you are destined to be?

Pluto in Capricorn reminds us that we are 100% responsible for every single thing that happens in your life. When you do this you step completely into the full empowerment of the amazingness that you truly are. Are you ready? And are you moving in your life with conscious choices or unconscious choices? Either will get you where you will end up but clearly being more conscious is way better.

That is obvious, is it not?

Last night, as the Full Moon shone above through soft, yellowy clouds tinged with blue, I was privileged to participate in a Full Moon honoring and celebration at the local All Seasons Chalice in the foothills of the Rockies, called the Star House. There were about 25 people gathered in this sacred place to light the fire inside of ourselves for the winter months to come. This Autumn I feel more darkness than I have in years, even though the winds of change have brought us new leadership, the dark still reigns, or so it feels so to me.

I was grateful to light a candle to honor the friends I am bessed with, in human and spirit form.

This Full Moon, Sedna, who orbits way beyind Pluto, and is the carrier of our connection to expanded realities, connecting us to the Divine Feminine, aligns with the moon’s glow, empowering and imbuing us with her energy

Neptune forms a square to the luantion as well, softening and confusing the edges, asking us to look at illusion and break through it with the light of the FUll Moon.

It’s a powerful time of transformation on Planet Earth and in each of our selves. Light a candle to light your inner fire, Call in the starry beings who are here to help, guide, and support you on your ascension journey.
Who knew it would be so hard to do?
But indeed it seems to be so.
Ask for help to lesson the ardor of the journey.
Let it be easier than it has been!

AMEN!

Cindy, head in the stars, feet firmly on the Earth
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