Whatever Scorpio darkness we have had to face these past 2 weeks, whatever new level of power we have reached, whatever limits we have surpassed... see this clearly and with peace today.

Rather than choosing fear/panic/discord, choose clarity/authenticity/connection.

Because only one of those choices is going to feel good. And doesn't Taurus LOVE to feel good???

Everything we build on this earthly plane will die, every dollar we make will go back to the pot it came from, every luxury car will break, every body will age, every beauty will fade. When all the tangibles die, what is left?? When all the man-made structures fall, what remains?

Capricorn wisdom, perhaps, comes from the choice to succumb to a greater power, or authority, that animates us. And then to LIVE UP to that higher form by BEING the responsible leader who lives with integrity.

At today's New Moon please remember that Cancer is a gelatinous and watery archetype. Not fully formed, it prefers to dart in and out of salty wetness... protecting itself through subversive clacks and sideways scuttles.

The best way to connect with our Cancer energy is to be alone, in a place safe for you, so that you can FEEL yourself internally. Cancer is an inside job... and stillness ensures her emergence. So spend time alone this evening, reflecting on your personal sense of INNER EMOTIONAL ME.

Facing self… fighting for self… RECLAIMING self. The TRUE self. No aberation, no mask, no projection.

JUST ME.

The pain, the beauty.

Chiron on our eclipse today is an invocation of TRUE SELF that cuts deep.

RE-IGNITE

the FIGHT

Coming into a body is inherently sacrificial, as our soul experiences itself as 'less than' it was, reduced from 'perfect origin' state to one limited and 'bound'. And Virgo owns this process of 'weaving Spirit into Form'.

Like a cosmic tailor in the fitting room of life, Virgo does her best to fit God into the finely woven casing of a meat suit. I can just hear her, kvetching.

"Oy! It’s tight in there!!! Oy! It's so HOT! Oy! It's smelly!!!"

(Though I have a theory that Virgos themselves do not smell. I've yet to proven wrong.)

Transformation city. Coming HOME to a deeper YOU. A deeper ME. And hopefully... a deeper sense of our GALACTIC FAMILY.

This time we are in is INITIATING us into deeper and more spiritual levels of personal identity (Cancer) that will enable us to evolve to a higher level of consciousness (Neptune/Uranus/Pluto).

Ha. Simple right? ;)

I feel this is a big deal and that we should honor it as such.

'Of all you might achieve in life, what could be more valuable than knowing the heartbeat of your Mother?'

The kind of love that peaks in its own glory, parties the night away high on its magnificence, does a rail of itself on the bar at 3am to keep going, and then takes its walk of shame home at sunrise while wobbling shamelessly in gratuitously high heels. This is LEO LOVE.

This is not a dramatic New Moon, not fireworks or whoops of delight. Rather it speaks of quiet stability and authentic inner connection to the divine that we are. A new foundation upon which to stand. 

Dancing with darkness only gets you so far. Better to stop using weapons against yourself… and use your passion to create treasures that empower the world around you instead. For as low as you go, that's as high as you may rise.

If you were to radically accept your individuated self, exactly as you are, and declare your uniqueness from this point onward, what would you SAY? What DECLARATION OF SELF might you speak??? Put it into a sentence... write it out. Speak and say WHO YOU ARE. Be brave. Feel it. Be it. This is the time. 29° Aries... culmination of self.

Aries natural impetuous 'selfishness' is at its best a sort of 'self-FULL-ness'... because the SELF that Aries is full of? It's Pisces, of course. Aries at its best is deeply connected to Source, to the Gods, to its cosmic origins in the 12th house... and thus it is able to receive information from its higher order family to guide its adventures.

Healthy Saturn in Pisces can indulge in the dream without getting lost in it. It can stay awake while swimming, eyes open, enjoying the fact that we are creators of a fantastic story.... and it is okay to relish in the joy this brings us!!  Dreams are there for our entertainment. We have FRONT ROW SEATS TO LIFE!!  So enjoy! Applaud! Standing Ovation all around!

For all humans, the deepest inner source of HOME is our connection to the Primordial Feminine. The waters of life. The Mother Goddess. It is HER tenderness that allows us to feel empathy and vulnerability, to give birth to new ideas and projects (and people!), and to give us something meaningful to work for.

This year might be compared to the moment that a baby is entering the cervix during the birth process... as the baby descends, it bumps against what feels an impossibly tight passage.

OUT OF BOUNDS.

What does that phrase mean to you? Out of control? Beyond understanding? New? Dangerous? Exciting???

Well, this month is full of it.

"I wanted it one way, now I see it is another.
 While the paradox of this is maddening, the TRUTH is: 
I want freedom more than delusion.
So I choose YOU, TRUTH with a BIG T...
I relish you, I love you, I defend you,
I WILL YOU INTO BEING...
for I know it is YOU, dear TRUTH, who offers the gate to authenticity.
And, ultimately, to fulfillment of my unique contribution to the collective dream of unified being."

To perceive wholeness, unity and Truth… Or persist in a mind set perceiving division and separation.

Is there a choice to make?

"What am I acknowledging and healing, what personal freedom am I asserting, and what new relationship am I ready to magnetically attract?”

Austerity is not a particularly nice word.... rather it is pinched, just like the energy today. It means to be PLAIN AND SIMPLE. It means to exhibit a STERN OR SERIOUS quality. It means to BUDGET, to make careful choices, to be realistic. Even restrictive.