The October 2011 Passage of Oct 26, 27, 28 – Super New Moon, Occultation of Mercury, Second Jupiter Trine Pluto!

Scorpio – Fires Within

Wednesday Oct 26 | 12.56 PM Pacific | Super New Moon | 3 Degrees Scorpio   This is the 5th of 2011’s 6 Super Moons.  Super Moons are when the Moon is 90% or greater of its closest approach to Earth.  When it is a full moon, it appears as much as 15% bigger!  They indicate more intensity, higher tides, strong storms if there is one, higher seismic activity.  This is a NEW MOON, and Scorpio is noted for intensity of the deep dark water variety!  Records could be set, relationships could start or crumble, there could be revelations about money sources, resurrection of old alliances, brushes with death, healing through saturation/immersion, miracles!  Time alone may be deeply needed and appreciated, a transfixion of quietness.  This is happening midday, so you may need to get away, take a bit later lunch, to meditate or have a private meeting.  Being a new moon, perhaps it is small beginnings, let things grow in their natural way.  The temptation is to use force, but avoid pushing at it, causing a distortionate break or growth ahead of its time.  Being only two days before the Jupiter trine Pluto puts it in that aspect’s hot zone!  There may be an ebb then a leap!  Read on….

Thursday Oct 27:  Occultations are Eclipses too, not just Moon/Sun Combos! They occur when planets are lined up both horizontally and vertically, exactly in the line of sight! Some years they happen again and again, often to the same planet. 2011 there are only 3, all formed by the Moon to different planets – 6.30 Venus, 7.27 Mars, 10.27 Mercury.  Oct 27’s Moon occultation Mercury is our last of the year.  Moon is emotional, Mercury is logical, and they are making a merger!  Feel what you think, say what you feel, but be really careful because this one is in Scorpio.  You can’t take back what you have said, and it may cut deep.  If a conversation even hints at turning South, let it go, NOW.  There may be an unanticipated price down the road, even revenge.  And it takes a lot of effort to repair, sometimes can’t be repaired.  The other side is someone may tell you something more valuable than you even realize at the time.  You may be healed or given a key piece of information that transforms you, your situation, relationship.  And it may be a blessing in disguise.  There could be an ending that serves you well in the long-term, and actually has been overdue.  Be able to engage, listen big, disengage if needed.  It’s a life skill worth having.  This is especially true this occultation because first Mercury is activated by its direct alignment with the Moon at 22 Scorpio at 7:08 PM, then the Moon passes over Venus at 23 Scorpio at 9:23 PM, just a little over 2 hours later!

First the New Moon quiets us, making us thoughtful in behind-the-scenes observant Scorpio, on the 26th.  Then the Moon, Mercury, Venus combination makes us extra aware of home and family, about love, the 27th.  It opens our capacity to attune, speak our love and affection, to kindly and potently tell what we want, both personally and in business, to see more clearly how we can make the money to support ourselves, loved ones, do things we naturally love.  These are the catalysts and a poignant part of the forming Jupiter trine Pluto, exact the very next day, the 28th, at 9:46 AM Pacific!

Friday Oct 28 Second Jupiter trine Pluto at 5 degrees Taurus and Capricorn.  This and the Jupiter sextile Chiron (the next one will be Dec 6) have been the aspects that have kept the Stock Market up this year.  Jupiter is expansionary, lucky, wise, foresees the directions things will take, is optimistic, will take long odds and win!  It has an extraordinary ability with perspective, watches the big picture, is playful.  Can’t keep a good Sag/Jupiterian down!   Pluto is the planet of wealth and Chiron of business!  Pluto cleans up messes, is expert at rebuilding after losses, recovery from illness, never says die!  When in top order, it is a clean machine!  Deep and internal cleansing, firing people who are not able to make the returns needed, are its forte.  Though at times painful for the recipient, in the long-term, the move is usually the best and reform and transformation happen.  Jupiter wants space; Pluto wants mergers and deep intimacy.  So, if a merger happens, it is probably a better deal than usual.  There has to be a real attraction for Jupiter to see a future in it and accept the transaction.  It will likely be a long-term value.  See more at last month’s pre Jupiter trine Pluto post.

Jupiter is fame, fiery, education, and speed sports; Pluto is death and healing, charisma, power.  The first trine was July 7 – on  July 8 we lost Betty Ford, died at the age of 93. She was known primarily for her work post-whitehouse and for founding one of the most famous rehabilitation facilities (The Betty Ford clinic) in the world. Widow of former president Gerald Ford.  Coming into this second trine, we have lost two.  1) Steve Jobs Oct 5 (4 degree trine): Chairman and Co-Founder of Apple, died due to  complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Jobs was known for his keynote speeches that were given each year to update the loyal Apple followers, as well as his enlightening interview style.  2) Oct 16 (2 degree trine): IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died after suffering severe injuries in a spectacular 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300. He was 33 years old. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (including this year’s event) was critically hurt when his car sailed over the top of another during a massive, fiery wreck on Lap 11.  Ironically he had been driving test cars to avoid exactly that.

All of these people made powerful contributions, each in their own way.  May they rest in Peace.  And may we LIVE this aspect well, and carry on its teachings with Grace.

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Happy Birthdays, Dear Scorpios!

Oct 28, 1967 Scorpio Julia Roberts

Famous Scorpio Women Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwVWpQjJnA&feature=colike 

It starts with Julia Roberts.
7 Fab minutes!
Will she make big news this week?
The Jupiter trine Pluto is happening on her birthday Friday!

Scorpio, Master of Resurrection

Scorpio is the only sign of the zodiac that starts in a double number month, November, 11.  Double numbers double the power, called Master Numbers!  Scorpios have always been feared and revered!  As Libra is the sign of mirrors, Self reflected through others, looking across the table, Scorpio is the sign of merging, ultra sensitivity to others, doubling power when a merger is accepted, accumulating power with each merger, corporate like.  Being a ‘permeable’ water sign, is why they walk around with the stinger ready, a demeanor of don’t mess with me – to keep away the ones that don’t suit at that time.  Or, they don the mysterious unfathomable poker faced mask – you don’t know me, I’m not available, yet, if ever.

The mask, sometimes freely worn as the perfect image of inscrutability, implies a need to protect, a vulnerability that is perhaps not discernible to others.  So there is a certain unpredictable ferocity, a tempestuous wildness in the cauldron, that you need to be careful of until you get to know them better.  And which one of you are we speaking with?  The mask we see or the one behind the mask?!  Both?  Do you know yourself?!  And we all know that, there is more to us than as first or often appears.  One of us is the ‘face,’ the other fermenting.  We all have Scorpio somewhere in our chart,  an 8th  house (Scorpio’s natural part of our chart), and Pluto (Scorpio’s planet) somewhere in our chart.  We all have a minimum of 3 places where we experience Scorpio’s Shadow and Revelation, one way or another.  Since the Mask implies the one you see and the one you don’t know but is there, perhaps this is part of the Great Mystery of their super healing, both having and bestowing.  The mask calls forth what is needed, attracting the Force, while the inner person gathers strength from within, perhaps even resting, while the Mask is lining things up externally.  They have two chances at life, healing from two directions!  Scorpio has always been known to heal faster than other people, miraculously so even when there has been extreme wounding.  And they heal not only the obvious, but the source of the trouble.  Complete healing, through and through, body and Spirit.

Because a partner, an equal, has been attracted, and legalized in Libra, now there is also a very real other, Self, that is there to help when needed.  No doubt they are finely attuned, because Scorpio is highly sensitive, and must pick a partner with higher compatibility for comfortability.  Their reputation is to mate for life.  You can see why.  Only in extreme circumstances do they give up their relationship, and when it’s up, it’s up.  Period.  This deep bond must be boon and bane.  It’s blessed when it is well, and tortured when it isn’t, because it is that close no matter what’s up.  Sigh.  Scorpio is the sign that most often marries one of its own same sign.  So there is less work explaining, there is natural concert, extraordinary potency.  It’s as if another person, or is that two persons, is helping with healing, comforting, encouraging exactly as needed, as if it is another yourself you must live for!  What is that Mayan phrase?   “In Lak’ech” – I am Another Yourself   I’ve thought of that as a Gemini phrase also, Gemini the sign of two.  I think of Gemini and Scorpio as different stages of butterflies.  Geminis flit here and there with nary a care, or so it seems, and Scorpio is the silent invisible Creature in the Chrysalis, deep in dark, soon to bloom.

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May 17, WESAK, Full Moon Taurus/Scorpio 4:09AM Pacific

This is the Full Moon of the Buddha celebrated worldwide.  The Buddha is thought to actually come to Earth in a Himalayan valley. Sitting as the Buddha, being grounded and centered, feeling completely aware of everything/nothing, having gentle compassionate wisdom, total peace, are what we seek. With two outer planets, Jupiter and Uranus, still in Aries, it might be more like Thich Nhat Hanh’s walking meditation, riding your bike long distance in the Zen of the flow.  But at the time of the Full Moon, there are FOUR planets in early Taurus, a stellium, starting with Venus, Taurus’s own planet, Mercury, then Mars, all three closely together in conjunction.  The Sun is last, at the end of Taurus.  Mars, Venus and Mercury are the planets associated with the first three signs of the zodiac, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, as if in summary of the three sacred festivals of the first three Full Moons of the year, Aries The Christ – Love, Taurus The Buddha – Wisdom, Gemini Humanity – The Word! 

Taurus sits on the rock, walks in focused prayer and silence stopping to listen, touch the trees, tip and sniff the flower now and then.  It is one with Nature, loves the touch of all its textures.  Barefoot on soil presses minute particle to particle, draining away hysterical fear, replacing it with a neutrality from the soil that allows you to be free to see simplicity.  A Tao Te Ching phrase that has been with me a long time is ‘Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Till right action arises by itself?’ 

Scorpio Moon?  Taurus is mine.  Scorpio is ours.  Sharing.  Mutual funds.  A gathering of resources from the deepest realms.  The Native American Underworld where power is sought, faced alone, Spirit your only Ally, imbued with a Sacred Trust.  The Greco/Roman mythological underworld of Hades.  Christian celibacy; tantric sexual intimacy, a merging beyond words.  The Pagan life sustaining storing of goods for winter sharing, a living reservoir of human connection.   

Goddess Mother Moon, GrandMother Moon, lights these ‘dark’ places as fully as She can, with her Night Light, a gentle, more bearable Light, than the Light of Day.  This is a time to look upon the silver strands that connect us, absorb their meaning.  What binds us?  Money, Love, genetics, nothing we can explain?  Is it time to step across the barriers, cross the threshold to the next level?  To return to our prime mission?  To let go and keep walking?

Walk it, share as you can.  I will be being mindful the evening previous the Full Moon, and the 17th, in planetary prayer.  The Sun and Jupiter will be in the degree of the Galactic Center.  Join me in Spirit if you wish.  By your grace.

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Healer Chiron into Magical Pisces Feb 8, 2011!

We are now on the threshold of Chiron entering Pisces for 7 years!

SEVEN years! Those 7 years will be in the same time Neptune is in its own sign Pisces, which starts April 4 for 15 years!  That happens only every 168 years, and WE get to live it!!!!  Double, even triple , magic of misty watery Pisces!  And Neptune enters Pisces during the super charged firey Aries Stellium!  It’s going to be off to a tremendous start!  What it dreams, it does!  Complete and perfect intuition inspires instant responsive positive action!  Pisces can be shy, even timid, until it gets a cause to live for!  Then, by God and Great Spirit, things happen with bells on!  I hope you are graced with inspiration like none other, that fills your Whole Soul!

Jupiter left Pisces Jan 22, now passing the baton to Chiron.  Jupiter was the precursor, looking for truth (Wikileaks), opening up then focusing on the point of selection, looking for the good in all ways.  Chiron is considered to be a wound that happens, or a wound that needs healing.  And, is considered to be a healer; it knows how because it has been there.  Which begets the teacher! If you know how to heal, you can show others.  Pisces loves being the savior or being saved, so it looks like a good fit. Spiritual business will be done.

Healings may be more subtle, invisible, invincible in Spirit.  Spiritual wounds of feeling forsaken, misuse of spiritual power or powers, fear to step out of the shadows of past life ‘mistakes’ or punishments, living without mission, or matters of mercy, may be kinds of healings that occur both to oneself, and, or in behalf of others.  They may somehow find mending, a quelling of misspent imagination, an inner reweaving of the strings of life as twined with others’ hearts, in a sensitive moment of seeing from a different facet or vantage point of compassion long-awaited.  There is a gentling, and yet a tsunami of merging, not just looking at a person or situation, but seeing it as if you were the other person!

The Magi astrologers tell a different, or perhaps an additional story.  They say Chiron is the #1 marriage factor in charts, love heals, and is a great business planet!  Partners make more money!  Marrying in Pisces is a cautions affair however.  The worst is just plain denial, then the words ‘I just can’t believe it!’ If your friends say you are missing the signals, I would get the credit check and give it some time to prove out.  The other side is marriage made in heaven.  In surety.  A gift of union Spirit-made.  May you walk in Beauty.

Businesses that are of a Pisces nature may flourish!  Anything ocean related, musics and arts, dancing Spiritually, retreats, magic and intuition, fine wines to feet treatments, computer programming, films, theatre, visionary repertoire, tending eyes and how we see, conscious dreaming!  Throw in the spice of Chiron, and we are adding a business of curing whats needed in any of those fields, a marriage blend of any of those elements, the consultant, coach, seminars that uplift our goals and ideals!  Blessed be.

Chiron enters Pisces Feb 8, Neptune April 4!  Marriages, healing, business, magic!  It will be a spiritual renaissance for those willing, ready, and able! Music and art will fill new dimensions.  Compassion and insight will be called for as the world tussles with resurrection after Pluto in Capricorn topples the old ways to the ground!  Stand tall, Live deep, LOVE well!

Please refer back to Chiron from Pisces, back into Aquarius, July 20 to Feb 8, 2011!

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Dec 13, Five Conjunctions, Master Capricorn, Magical Pisces!

Dragon with Merlin (BBC)

It starts with Moon conjunct Jupiter at 12.16 PM, on through the afternoon and evening, ending with Mars conjunct Pluto 8.13 PM!  Conjunctions, when planets are very near each other, or exactly at the same place, are potent mergers!  Two for the price of one, two ways to see or act on a topic, combining talents! 

The Moon in Pisces is first with optimistic Jupiter, truth teller, then conjuncts Uranus, which throws it all to the winds in the interest of discovery, new friendships, flying, perhaps amazing computer connections!  Mother Moon lends her sweet nurturing, brings in our feminine gentleness, tender feelings, responses to what is needed. 

In Pisces, is a profound sensitivity, psychic awareness, sees the whole, not just oneself or one’s family or culture, but all.  An incredible fusion can occur; words of long awaited truth can bubble up. With a letting go of fear that once held all prisoner, now freed, the invisible bonds are unraveled, smooth as a snake skin!  Though that magician sees hidden flaws, what we are ‘blind’ or ‘deaf’ about, it also sees all that is glorious, the true art and beauty of what our Souls can do!  It can walk with God.     

This opening is followed by Mercury, of mind, logic, words, first conjunct Pluto, then Mars, both fighters, defenders!  Though Pluto doesn’t give up confidentiality, secrets, easily, this time, with Mercury’s logic, keeping things more neutral, the mighty pen may tell secrets, make the revelation, that can bring action to save the day!

Pluto faces death itself, our psychological Dragon within; Mars, sword in hand, Goliath-like courageously fights the Dragon you can see, the one that metaphorically breathes fire on your village.  In finale, Mars conjuncts Pluto, external action merges with internal desire, hopefully, for perfect satisfaction!  It’s been building up all week intensely, and will build all that day!

This formidable Mercury, Pluto, Mars combination will be in the Builder sign Capricorn.  Architects of homes and Spirit, building our psyche from within, making beauty on our land, in our homes, Capricorns look for solidarity.  They are the archaeologists of our future!  Great walls of needed protection, rocks as place holders and anchors, even the gravestones of our ancestors, are parts of their contributions to the power of our memory banks that save us from previous mistakes, serve as foundation for future growth. 

Have a good talk with your dragon that lives in you!  Get more acquainted with your power.  Know that fire is Light, fire can burn away the dross, clear your Path, light the way.  What will you do the 13th that will make a difference, be a Gift you are happy to give?!

Dec 13 is also the last day of, the culmination of, the Sagittarius Bowl, and is happening while Mercury is Retrograde in Capricorn!  Keep the Mercury Retrograde factor firmly in mind.   Our next Bowl, in Capricorn, the Third Bowl of 4, will be Dec 28 to Jan 10, 2011.  Stay tuned….

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