tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14517662310223949622024-03-18T20:35:30.262-07:00planetary reports by rae diamondWelcome to the archive of planetary reports, originally published at raediamond.com . Each posting was first published a few days before the date of the planetary event listed. All current & future posts are now published at raediamond.com as "Music of the Spheres" which you can navigate to from the blog page. Thanks, & enjoy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11559775841290495753noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451766231022394962.post-65553759327715168492015-06-21T11:12:00.002-07:002017-05-18T10:43:42.226-07:00Planetary Reports have moved to a new site<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11559775841290495753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451766231022394962.post-2371345886668425102015-05-14T06:34:00.002-07:002015-06-21T11:17:50.891-07:00Sun in Gemini, Mercury retrograde, Saturn Re-enters Scorpio<style>
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current of a river flows down from its source towards sea level. Rivers
themselves move in one particular direction, but the water that makes up the
river moves in a complex and intricate dance. Water molecules on the surface
are heated by the sun, and evaporate upwards. Water winds its way around land
masses, whirls around rocks, settles in pools, and forms eddies that swirl at
various speeds. These myriad motions set everything astir, causing the cooler water
below to rise up and mingle with the sun-warmed water above. Animals traveling
within and through the water introduce further layers of unpredictable and
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is, however, constant and irresistible movement in a river. Anything that
enters the river is subject to its motion. One either actively resists or
succumbs to its flow. This month, seek out those pools of rest, and see if you
can notice the motion hiding within the still points of your life. Listen for
the music that fills the silence. Catch your breath, and notice whether you
have been fighting or flowing with the current.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Gemini: 5/21/15 - 6/21/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Sun’s transit through Gemini marks a time of transition from spring to summer.
At this point in the year, we have fully awoken from winter’s dream. Our minds
are alive and curious, and there is much to be curious about - nature is
active, exploding in color, life and movement. We want to explore every little
bit of the world we encounter. We say, “YES,” to life, to people, to new
things, and under normal circumstances, we are not so concerned - yet - with
how it all fits together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This
year, however, Gemini is somewhat inverted and sideways. We enter this
flitting-about time with Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, just barely moving
backwards after his recent retrograde station on 5/18/15, and with the Sun in a
tense T-square, conjoined with impatient Mars, square dreamy and dissolving
Neptune, and opposite Saturn, the planet most associated with delays and a slow
pace. Hence John Muir nicely summarizes the wisdom of 2015’s solar month of
Gemini: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe.” </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
the pieces of your life reflect the whole?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the “ocean” the river of your life is flowing towards?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
elements of your life - the “water” of your river - are dissipating,
evaporating, caught in eddies?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you surrender to these various flows -</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">- the
overarching movement to the ocean?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">- and
the losses along the way?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury Retrograde: 5/18/15 - 6/11/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury
begins his retrograde motion close to the Moon and sextile Jupiter. This ties
our heart and our beliefs into the questions Mercury poses during this Gemini
retrograde, which underscore the ways our perceptions shape our life.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your perceptions color your feelings?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your feelings color your perceptions?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your perceptions shape your beliefs?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your beliefs shape your perceptions?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the flow of your mind? - dissipating, directional, swirling in vortices?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury
completes his retrograde motion in sextile to Venus. Meanwhile, the Sun
sextiles Uranus (illuminating & energizing insight), and Neptune stations
retrograde (exact on 6/12/15).</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
those sticky moments in relating with others reveal if you let go of the need
to be right?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
does compassion influence your perceptions?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
does forgiveness influence your ability to relate with others?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
will you integrate the insights of the past few weeks into your life,
relationships, & art if you’re an artist?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn re-enters Scorpio: 6/14/15 - 9/17/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn
- the planet that teaches us our true responsibilities by showing us our
limitations; the planet that pushes us to try harder and find our grit by
imposing setbacks; the planet that rewards our efforts and reminds us of that
which we’ve neglected; the planet that insists that boundaries are freedoms in
disguise - re-enters Scorpio shortly after Mercury moves direct. Scorpio
implies some kind of death-and-rebirth process, so you can be sure you’ll be
letting go of something. It won’t be easy, but it will come with the reward of
rebirth into something truer, more appropriate to who you are now, and
ultimately more sustainable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn
transited through Scorpio from October 2012 through most of December 2014. Now
that he’s retrograding, he’s dipping back into Scorpio until autumn of 2015.
You may notice a revisiting of themes that came up for you in December of 2014
over the next few months. This is your opportunity to resolve those issues.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What in
your life - relationships, careers, projects, places, etc. - is in a stage of
death?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
renewal do you foresee following those losses?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your core truth - the “source” of your river? How can you be truer to that
“source”?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
river flows to the sea, but the water that makes it up may become mist, fog, a
cloud, enter a lake, or recede into an aquifer before it ever reaches the sea.
Once that water does finally reach the ocean, it may enter through another
river. In the words of the great healer, Hippocrates, “There is one common
flow, one common breathing. All things are in sympathy.” This is the time to
surrender to that flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">It’s time for some
riddles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">#1, Pretend our
minds our mushrooms. Our perceptions, then, are mycelia, extending through the
world around us, the conversations we engage in, and all the other information
we take in. Our memories and dreams are also mycelia, and thus our mushroom
minds span through various layers of time - past, present and future - as well
as various layers of reality - material, emotional, mental and creative. Like
mycelia in the forest, our mental mycelia simultaneously digest and weave a web
throughout their environment. The questions, then, are where does the fruiting
body - that thing we visualize when we think of the word “mushroom” - show up,
and what form does it take?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">#2, Can your mind
travel over, under, around and/or through matter?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">#3, Does matter have
a mind of its own?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">This month, the
impalpable mind collides with the material plane. Keep your ears open, and you
just might hear the din of that impact. Below, you’ll find clues to help you
unravel these riddles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">Sun in Taurus: 4/20/15 -
5/21/15</span></b></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">The operative word
during the solar month of Taurus is “matter” in all senses of the word. Taurus
is firmly rooted in the substance of reality, enthralled with what can be
perceived through the physical senses, and utterly devoted to relating to
everyone and everything it perceives. That covers the physical matter aspect,
but then there’s the question of...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What matters to you?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What do you love to
do, eat, read, listen to, and smell?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Where do you love to
be, and how do you like to get there?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Whom do you love to
be with?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Do you love
yourself?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Do you believe you
matter?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">The sun’s yearly
transit through Taurus also marks the height of spring, when the natural world
is in full bloom. It’s a great time to remind yourself you are a part of
nature, which brings forth the obvious questions of...</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What part of you is
blossoming right now?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What parts of your
life - work, relationships, projects, etc - are blossoming right now.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">The flowers of
spring are followed by the fruits of autumn, unless, of course, you nip
something in the bud. Fertilize and prune as you see fit.</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle2" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">Full Scorpio Moon: 5/3/15</span></b></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">The moon culminates
in eagle-eyed Scorpio, opposing the Sun in Taurus, and thus offering a deeper
perspective on what truly matters. Jupiter squares both of the luminaries from
Leo, creating a tense, fixed T-square in the heavens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What blossoms bring
you the most joy?</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What blossoms bring
you the most attention, praise, and abundance?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What is your
relationship with those various blossoms?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What blossoms need
to be cut from your rose bush so the others can thrive?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Also on the day of
the full moon, Mercury (mind) opposes Saturn (matter), and is about to enter
the fore-shadow of his retrograde. It’s time to take your... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">pre-Mercury retrograde
precautions</span></b></span><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">:</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Get your cars and
bikes tuned up.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Back up your phones
and computers.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Finalize travel
plans.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Take note of any
issues that start brewing in your communications and perceptions.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">And above all, get
ready to be flexible.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle2" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">Mercury Retrograde:
5/18/15 - 6/11/15</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">About 20 hours after
the new Taurus moon, Mercury stations retrograde in his home sign of Gemini.
New moons impart an internal focus, and Taurus is a sign that appreciates
slowness and stillness, all of which mingle well with the apparent pause of the
solar system’s speediest planet. The more you can let go of your familiar
perspectives in the three and a half weeks of this retrograde, and open your
mind to allow space for new perspectives, the smoother things will go for you.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What do you
perceive?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">How does that shape
what you believe?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">How does what you
believe shape what you perceive?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">How does this create
a closed loop of belief and perception?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle3" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">What happens if you
allow yourself to notice things you don’t normally notice?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">In the words of cosmologist, Carl Sagan, “Somewhere, there is
something incredible waiting to be known."</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;"> What is that
something for you? Can you find it? Open your ears. Open your eyes. Open your
heart. Open your mind.</span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle2" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Cochin;">Coming Soon:</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="paragraphstyle1" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">Next month’s report
on the solar month of Gemini will offer insights into Saturn’s re-entry into
Scorpio and other surprises. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/835445596502430/?type=1&theater"><span style="font-family: Cochin;">like and repost</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin;"> this report as you see fit. Until next
time, wishing you a heart-ful month. Thanks for reading,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Let’s
say you’ve been running a marathon. Let’s say that the whole time you’ve been
running this marathon, a giant, slobbery monster with big, nasty, jaggedy teeth
and long, horrible, razor-sharp claws has been chasing you, forcing you to run
faster than you were prepared for. Just as your legs feel unable to hold or
move your body any further, your lungs won’t hold much air anymore, and you
think this is the end, the monster gets distracted by one of their friends. The
two of them go off to a bar together. You really don’t care about the marathon
anymore, and as you’re about to collapse on the spot you see the finish line.
Something snaps in you, and now there’s nothing that will keep you from
reaching that finish line. You continue on with renewed vigor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Just
then, nine trillion tons of mud fall from the sky, directly between where you
are and the finish line. You’re in knee deep mud, and now you’re ready to give
up again. But then you hear that monster and their buddy come stumbling out of
the bar. When you turn to look, you see they’re pointing at you. They start off
in your direction. You look back at the finish line, and notice that it is no
ordinary finish line. A sign indicates it is also the gateway to a monster-free
zone. You run as fast as you can through that knee deep mud, hoping that the
drunk monsters won’t be able to keep up with you. This month, although you may
feel you’re being pushed at both from behind and from in front, keep moving
ahead. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Saturn Stations Retrograde: 3/14/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Feeling
hung up? Saturn, the planet that slows things down even when he’s moving at
normal speed, is currently standing still in Sagittarius. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What is
in a state of suspension in your life right now?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What is
this teaching you about your relationship with surrender?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Are
your philosophies in alignment or clashing with the philosophies of your
culture?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Are you
compromising your beliefs too much to work within society’s constructs?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">How can
you work within the constructs of society in a way that upholds your beliefs?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Uranus Square Pluto, Exact: 3/16/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">For
more information on this transit, </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2015/02/uranus-square-pluto-sun-in-pisces.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;">please follow this link</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"> to last
month’s report.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Full super solar eclipse in Pisces & vernal equinox: 3/20/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">A full
solar eclipse is one of the bigger to-do’s in the realm of astrological events.
This one also happens to occur while the moon is at perigee - the moment when
its monthly orbit brings it closest to earth. When the moon is both at perigee
and syzygee, as it is on this day, the moon and sun pull extremely on the
waters of this planet. On the days around this major astronomical and
astrological event, you may find it helpful to think to yourself, “Over half of
my body and the body of every other person on this earth is being jerked around
by some humongous objects up in space. Over two thirds of the earth itself is
being jerked around right now too.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What is
the dream I am meant to embody?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Is
there anything I need to surrender or surrender to in order to realize my
truest and most whole self?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">How can
I accept the inherent imperfections of reality in contrast to that most perfect
dream?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">A few
hours later, the Sun enters Aries, thus marking the vernal equinox. Equinoxes
are both shifting points and brief moments of balance between light and dark.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What do
you perceive to be your light? What are its characteristics?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What do
you perceive to be your darkness? What are its characteristics?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What
happens when you love and accept both your light and your darkness?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Sun in Aries: 3/20/15 - 4/20/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Why
does a baby bird bother to hatch? It’s perfectly protected inside that egg,
kept warm by its parents’ body heat. Scary as it is to be out in the world
without armor, that baby bird would die if it didn’t tear its way out of that
shell. By the time a chick breaks out into the world, it has no room to grow,
and no more nourishment to sustain it within that egg. The chick hatches
because it chooses to live - only to find its tiny, feeble self utterly
vulnerable and at the mercy of nature. The elements, timing and luck interact
in their capricious ways to either make or break our little fledgling friend.
This is the essence of Aries. From the dream-state of Pisces, we emerge into
the struggle of existence, and we tap into the excellence and courage that is
required that we may continue to exist.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Are you
here, now? Why?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">In what
do you wish to excel? What is required of you to do so?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Is
there any way that you hold yourself back out of timidity? (Hint: This is the
shell you’ve outgrown)</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Courage
means to act from the heart - What does it feel like to act, speak, and decide
from your heart?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Total lunar eclipse in Libra: 4/4/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">There
are times when the cosmos turns up the volume, and this is one of those times.
The Sun (consciousness) is conjoined with Mercury (intelligence, perception),
Uranus (insight) and the dragon’s tail (sign in need of sprucing up) in Aries
(courage), all opposed by the Moon (emotions & heart-tugs) and dragon’s
head (sign in need of accentuation) in Libra (balance). Meanwhile, Pluto
(rebirth that can only occur after death) squares both ends of that opposition
from Capricorn (appropriate goals). There’s the equation. Here are some
questions to help you make sense of it all: </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What is
out of balance in your life, your relationships, your work, etc?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What
would bring you more into balance?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What do
you need to let die so that there is room for new life?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What is
inspiring your heart these days? How can you effectively act on that
inspiration?</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">Jupiter stations direct: 4/8/15</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">After
all that, here’s some encouraging news to conclude this month’s report.
Jupiter, the bolsterer of faith and bringer of opportunities, will be switching
back into the great cosmic forwards gear. It’ll be a few weeks before he’s back
up to speed, but in the meantime, pay attention to what events and shifts occur
in your life around the days of his station.</span></span></div>
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meantime, here’s some wisdom from Winston Churchill: “When you’re going through
hell, keep going.” Keep pushing, friends. Breakthrough is imminent.</span></span></div>
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riddles of reflection are action through stillness, and generation through
receptivity. When we reflect on an experience, we are not actively engaging in
the experience. Instead, we are attempting to perceive it from new angles. The
roots of the word, reflection, mean “to bend back,” as still water bends light
in such a way that objects are mirrored, rendering their appearance - and our
experience of those objects - changed. Choppy water, on the other hand, breaks
up the reflection, making the reflection of the object difficult to perceive,
and thus leaving us to look directly at the object itself, without the bend of
fresh perspective. Mercury’s direct motion, the final exact pass of Uranus
square Pluto, and ramping up to a solar eclipse make 2015’s solar month of
Pisces an excellent time to allow action to arise from stillness, to allow
creativity to arise from receptivity, to bend time, to refract light, to
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">CLeaning up Mercurial Messes: 2/11/15 - 3/3/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">After a
three-week retrograde, Mercury stationed direct the morning of Wednesday,
February 11th. Give the guy a week to get back up to normal speed, and then you
can heave your post Mercury retrograde sigh of relief. Mercury will be
traveling forwards through the shadow of his retrograde through the rest of
February and into the first few days of March. In the next few weeks, you’ll
receive opportunities to act on the insights you received during the actual
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
“A-ha!” moments have you had in the past few weeks?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
communities are you connected to? Do they expand & energize you?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
have you learned about the interconnectedness of our species in the past few
weeks?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
constellation of Pisces: two fish swimming in opposite directions, an image of
ambivalence. Like all things, ambivalence can be healing or destructive,
depending on how and when it is applied. The second riddle of this month’s
report is this: Ambivalence arises from strength, but can cause weakness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
roots of the word, ambivalence, literally mean to be strong in two conflicting
ways. One fish taps into its own strength to swim upstream against the current,
while the other fish, in swimming downstream, taps into the strength of the
current itself. In the Pisces solar month, we must both find our inner strength
to face the challenges of reality, and simultaneously let go and allow reality
to guide us. To do the latter, we must first engage the former - i.e, face
reality and then give into it. Otherwise, we run into the danger of the Pisces
shadow - not looking at life’s actual flow, escaping, and manipulating others
(other people, other substances, other stories, etc) into making the current
“nicer” for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Pisces
is a water sign, and in astrology, water symbolizes emotions. As demonstrated
by water’s reflective abilities, we receive a clearer image from calm waters.
Sometimes we need to feel those stormy, choppy, swirling and wild emotions, but
our perspective is inherently unclear in those moments. Tranquility breeds
clarity, but there is a fine line here - healthy water is always moving, even
if its movements are subtle. For truth of perspective, aim for a serene flow.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
direction are your life’s events & opportunities guiding you?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are your responsibilities in these events & opportunities - What </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">can<i> you change?</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
ways do you need to let go, and give in to what is - What can you </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">not<i> change?</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
brings you to an inner calm and quiet?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn square Neptune: Reality and dreams in the boxing ring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This
Pisces solar month begins two and a half minutes after the Aquarius new moon,
imbuing the whole month with a sense of our interconnectedness, and with a
contemplative quality, which is further accentuated by a square between Neptune,
strongly placed in their home sign of Pisces, and Saturn in Sagittarius. That
tender (or tenderizing) aspect shatters illusions, making the need to accept
reality and the responsibilities that come with it - while still maintaining
your faith, hope and vision - all the more pressing. At this time, it is
essential to let go of regrets, what-if’s, and should-have’s. Let your past
actions and decisions dissolve into the past. This will free them to help you
move forward from where you are now. The wisdom of this configuration is this: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Hindsight
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">We can
color the past with the rosy lenses of false perfection. Reality is now, and if
you look honestly, you will find both suffering and peace in each and every
moment - past, present and future. Acknowledge and respond to both your current
suffering and your current ease, and above all, work to manifest your dreams
into this earthly timespace, and then accept their inevitable imperfections.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
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Aquarius new moons in a row and a Mercury retrograde in Aquarius mean it’s time
to think about our interconnectedness. We live in an individualistic society,
which can obscure the inherent interdependency of humanity. The fact remains,
however, that we are a species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
biologist, E. O. Wilson has observed that ants - a species whose colonies work
as an interdependent whole - are a major evolutionary success, as evidenced by
their many centuries of life on this planet, while the success of humans - a
comparatively new species - is yet to be seen. Ants also have an extreme hierarchy
that mirrors our 1% vs. 99% global economic disparity. This is the evolutionary
strategy of a species without compassion. With both Aquarius and Pisces
highlighted this month, we need to consider innovative possibilities for our
species that are compassionate in their interdependency. Aquarius can envision
egalitarian methods. Pisces teaches us that each and every one of us is both
capable of giving and worthy of receiving compassion. The questions here may be
a bit tough, but soften your heart with some self-forgiveness and self-love
first, and then give them a try.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
you reliant on the people & communities you dislike?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
they reliant on you?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
final of seven exact squares between Uranus and Pluto occurs on Monday, March
16th. For a thorough report on the overall timing and thrust of this
configuration, </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2014/12/uranus-square-pluto-saturn-enters.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">please read this article</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">. “Final exact
square” does not mean that after March 16th we’ll be skipping through the
garden with the conflicts of the gods behind us. Uranus and Pluto move slowly,
and will maintain a pretty tight square throughout 2015, and will slowly move
out of this configuration for another couple years after that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Because
Pluto deals with transformation on the death and rebirth level, this last year
of the closest passes of Uranus’ square invites a transition from the death
phase to the rebirth phase. Consider what major parts of your life -
relationships, places, parts of yourself, experiences, people, etc - have died,
either literally or figuratively since 2012. The more you release, the more you
will be replenished, so use this last exact configuration to more fully let
those deaths go, and train your awareness on what is in the beginning stages of
rebirth. If you feel stuck in the death phase of this cycle, that indicates there
is something you’re holding onto. Let go. Pluto does not take, “No,” for an
answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Although
both planets are calling for transformation, there is great friction in timing
and style. Pluto in steady-as-she-goes Capricorn is working on deep, slow levels
of tearing down, building and overhaul, while Uranus in quick-tempered Aries
wants drastic, immediate and liberating results. Yes, you need freedom now, but
you also need to build something solid for the future. If you choose to play
only one side of this configuration, then something outside of yourself - the
government, a passing car, a person, your job, the environment, etc - will play
the other side. BE the change, rather than having it thrust upon you.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are the
structures of your life in alignment with your beliefs?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your brilliance?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are you on fire about?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you channel your brilliance & fire into creatively illuminating others?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How is
your balance between freedom & responsibility?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
using your power & authority (yes, you do have some - own it!) with
integrity?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Here’s
one last thought to ruminate on: Reflections (past) are projections (future),
inverted. The Pisces solar month indicates a time of dissolving and integrating
the past so that we can be reborn at the vernal equinox. The past feeds the
future. When we hold fast to the suffering of our past without learning from
it, we invite more suffering. Alternatively, when we transmute our past
experiences into strength and wisdom, we nourish our future. Each moment is an
opportunity for this transmutation.</span></div>
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will offer insights into the first eclipse in the Pisces/Virgo axis since 2008
& the next lunar eclipse in Libra. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/808255015888155/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">like and repost</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Light.
We are awestruck by the fervent light of sunsets. We are mesmerized by the
quivering light of fire. We turn on electric lights to stretch our days, and
make the night disappear into the forests and heavens. Light is pregnant with
poetic impact. It conjures a sense of all things right, good and magical. We
think of it as awareness - the “light of consciousness.” We can visualize light
in our minds, but we don’t know exactly what light is... or what “mind” is.
Light is made up of photons, but we don’t know if photons are particles
(matter) or waves (energy) or both. Mind is made up of... thoughts? dreams?
emptiness? consciousness? something as yet unnamed that may be matter or energy
or maybe both? This month, the planets urge you to mind your thoughts,
illuminate the shadows of your understanding, and screw some fresh light bulbs
into your noggin.</span></div>
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summer’s planets (Virgo download and Venus retrograde) and herbs - and check
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Aquarius: 1/20/15 - 2/18/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Aquarius
is a sign that enjoys surprise doses of the unfamiliar, the unusual, the
unsettled and unsettling. With the Sun - our “light of consciousness” -
transiting through this iconoclastic portion of the zodiac, it behooves us to
stimulate our minds by expanding our community, meeting some new people, and
shaking up our routines a bit. Your signpost this month is <i>energy</i>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do your
activities energize or drain you? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do the
people in your life energize or drain you?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do your
ideas & perspectives energize or drain you?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Aquarius
is a particularly frisky sign at the moment because its two rulers just went
through some major changes around the winter solstice. Uranus, ruler of
earthquakes, electricity and “Eureka!” moments, stationed direct then, which
frees us to take tangible actions on our major insights of the past six months.
Meanwhile, stodgy ole Saturn, ruler of boundaries, responsibilities,
limitations, and authority, entered boundless and ebullient Sagittarius a
couple days later. This means it’s time to climb some mountains, strive for
some grander things in life, take a look at the big picture, declare our truth
- and live by it. These major planetary changes are igniting Aquarius with
renewed brilliance.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your truth?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your experience of reality?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
enjoy the reality you find yourself in?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
your reality leave room for others - their truth, their perspective, their
presence?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If your
truth is inaccurate, how does that effect your reality?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius: 1/21/15 - 2/11/15</span></div>
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much smooth sailing would be boring, and so un-Aquarius-like. We need something
to shake things up a bit. A Mercury retrograde cycle in the sign of Aquarius is
just what’s needed to add a bit more mental voltage to our Aquarius month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let’s
get the general Mercury retrograde advice out of the way: Mercury retrograde
cycles are famous for disrupting the flow of modern life, but a few general
precautions will help you get through this planetary bump in the road with a
little more grace. First of all, as with any bump in a road, SLOW DOWN. If you
slow down, you can be more flexible, catch some striking scenery you’ve been
flying past without noticing, and thus appease our nimble trickster god. Some
other Mercury retrograde rules of thumb are back up your communication devices
(computers, phones, etc) and tune up your vehicles (bikes, cars, etc) BEFORE
Mercury stations retrograde (1/21), and give yourself extra time to get around,
and maintain a state of openness when miscommunications and transportation
failures arise during Mercury’s retrograde.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">As with
any planetary event, there is something to learn during this Aquarian Mercury
retrograde cycle. Learning is easy if you have an open mind, but we cannot
learn if we are rigid in our perspectives. Aquarius is a fixed sign, ruled both
by re-volt-ing, en-light-ening Uranus and conservative, limiting Saturn. If you
wish to adhere to what you already know and believe, be prepared to suffer and
cause suffering to others during this Mercury retrograde. The other option is
to experience the liberation of allowing your mind to be blown apart by the
illuminating insights available during this retrograde. Now more than ever,
these insights come from our interactions with others. Then watch your
creativity soar to exhilarating heights you never knew were possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
most basic principle of the planet Mercury is this: The quality and accuracy of
our perception shapes our experience of reality. With Mercury in
community-oriented Aquarius, we also enter into the territory of collective
perception. We tend to seek out communities that support our current view of
reality, but this retrograde cycle suggests it’s time to seek out people and
communities that both challenge and recharge our view of reality.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
communication and perception issues have cropped up since the second week of
January? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
feel stuck - in your life, in your creativity, in your relationships, in any
way?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might your perspective be keeping you stuck?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
people that you associate with support your current view of reality?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do these
relationships energize or drain you?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
people that you associate with challenge your current view of reality?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do
these relationships energize or drain you?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Aquarius Lunation culminates in Leo: 2/3/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Aquarius lunation begins on 1/20/15, with Mercury at a standstill, conjoined
with Venus opposite Jupiter, Mars conjunct Neptune, and the South Node conjunct
Uranus. These combinations suggest it’s time to expand our consciousness to
include others’ perspectives, deepen our compassion for ourselves, and release
perspectives that put us in fight-or-flight mode. This new moon would also be a
great time for an intentional, cleansing and self-loving, candle-lit bath.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the difference between action and re-action?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
true liberation?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If liberation
begins in the mind, what perspectives might set you free?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you love yourself more?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">By the
Leo full moon on 2/3/15, Venus has conjoined Neptune, while Jupiter is
conjoined by the Moon and opposed by the Sun. Hopefully, you’ve practiced self-compassion
(foundation), and are now ready to feel deeper levels of compassion for others
(castle). For best effect, make sure your castle is built on a good foundation.
You may feel pulled between your joy and your responsibilities, between
yourself and your community, or you may feel like your mind is being blown at
every moment. At this point, we are more than halfway through Mercury’s
retrograde period, signifying it’s time to start experimenting with some of
what we’ve learned in the past couple weeks.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
and who brings you joy and energy?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
and whom do you love?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
and who do you feel loved by?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
and whom are worthy of your energy?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Cities,
with their buildings and blocks and grids of numbered streets, are full of
right angles. They are also full of choices<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- which way to turn, which diet, which community, which mode
of transport, which route, which style, which career? Right angles are
comparatively rare in the curvy, uncultivated wilds of Nature, and there are
attendantly fewer choices to make. One eats whatever is available and
digestible, travels the path of least resistance, and embodies the style that
will best protect them from predators and the elements, and give them the best
advantage in attaining what they need. Ultimately, one’s choices are best
viewed through Nature’s lens of necessity, but the current planetary
configurations suggest it’s time to expand our definition of necessity, to
expand beyond the needs of the individual to the needs of the species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Out of
necessity, we are taking a break from our normally scheduled monthly report on
how to align one’s individual consciousness with the evolutionary imperatives
indicated by planetary positions as viewed from Earth. Instead, we will explore
methods of supporting the evolution of the consciousness of our species.
Although Capricorn’s sea-goat is an inspiring image of striving up out of the
depths to the greatest heights, we are taking a break from the imagery of the
zodiac to employ the medicine of the vulture - nourishing life from death, and
protection from poisons. We are taking a break from discussing the shifting
moods of the Moon to discuss the theses of more distant bodies, whose messages
are at this moment best put through the megaphone and magnifying glass of
awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Perspective of a planet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Zoom
out. Take a look at yourself from the perspective of the planetoid, Pluto.
What? You can’t see yourself? You can’t even see Earth? Shoot. Well, zoom in a
bit, and try again from the perspective of the gas giant, Uranus. Still can’t
see yourself or Earth? Hm. Well, hop on over to ringed Saturn. Ah, now you can
see a speck of light in the dark vastness of space that you’re pretty sure is
Earth, but there’s still no sign of little ole you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On some
level, we are everything - we are the Cosmos, the galaxies and multiverses, the
dawn, day, dusk and night, the ocean and the wind, the vastness of infinity and
the intricacies of time. But on another level, we are the minutiae of subatomic
particles, specks upon specks in the limitless unknown, fractions of blinks in
the endlessness of time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Ninety Degrees of Change:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Once
upon a time, in the mid-1960’s, Uranus and Pluto conjoined in the sign of
Virgo. Whenever any two bodies appear to come together like that, we have the
opportunity for a fresh start. We experience this once a month at the new moon
- the classic time of new beginnings and seed plantings. But whereas the
transiting Sun and Moon are fleeting and personal in their effects, Uranus and
Pluto are plodding and fermenting in time, and their effects are on the
planetary, species and generational levels. Every month, the Sun and Moon
conjoin. Uranus and Pluto will not conjoin again until the beginning of the
next century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
effects of this particular alignment of Uranus and Pluto were felt in an arc
that lasted about ten years into the early 1970’s. These are two different
energies of transformation - one abrupt, sudden, inspired, and revolutionary,
and the other deep, slow, requiring great sacrifice for greater gain, and
bringing that which has been hidden in darkness into the light. In that
volatile time, tilt shift merged with death and rebirth in the sign of “the
virgin,” - the one who is whole unto themselves. In a state of holistic
awareness, Virgo seeks purity of action, wholeness of being, and puts its
mastery of skill into appropriate service. In less evolved expressions of
being, Virgo picks apart, criticizes, and seeks to control the world around
itself. At this time, the environmental movement began, and the U.S. was in the
throes of the civil rights movement and a big push in women’s liberation. Great
leaders were killed, and power-hungry leaders called for unnecessary deaths
under various levels of Plutonian expression. The world (influence of outer
planets) sought a new (conjoining of planets) order (in Virgo). Some people
chose to live through Virgo’s light, and some people chose to live through
Virgo’s shadow, but everyone embodied both Pluto and Uranus because their
conjunction fused their energies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">One
week after the Sun and Moon conjoin at the new moon, they enter into a tense
ninety degree relationship at the waxing half moon - one of those rare right
angles in nature. At this point in the lunar cycle, we must make difficult
choices, and focus our energies into action and momentum so that we can
experience fruition in one more week at the full moon, when the Sun and Moon
are on opposite sides of the sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Uranus
and Pluto are now at this square, right-angle point in their cycle, roughly
fifty years after their conjunction in Virgo. The square configuration between
these massive bodies is at the apex of its influence from 2012 throughout 2015,
but its overall arc ranges from around 2008 to 2018. Anything set in motion in
the mid-60’s is thus now at a critical point of decision and push, but this is <i>not</i>
the end of the cycle. It will be about another thirty years before Uranus
opposes Pluto - the “full moon” phase and half-way point of this planetary
cycle, when we can expect to attain fruition of that which was set in motion in
the mid-60’s. But even then, the cycle won’t be over until the next century.
The best effects of this current configuration can be attained by first
considering what we want that fruition stage and its fine-tuning aftermath to
look like on both the individual and species level, and then making decisions
now about how to manifest those outcomes. We - as a community, as a society, as
a country, as a species - need a thirty-year plan and a ninety-year plan,
especially in regards to any issues that began in the mid-1960’s - i.e, environmental
stewardship, and gender and race equality.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What decisions do we need
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you, an an
individual, live by those decisions now?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Self and Beyond:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Uranus
and Pluto are “trans-personal” planets, meaning they function on the level of
the species and the society, rather than on the personal level. They take us
beyond our Selves into the We of humanity - collective consciousness rather
than individual consciousness, collective action rather than individual action.
Trans-personal planets are difficult to integrate on the individual level, and
if we are unable to consciously harness their energy, they harness us. This is
when the planet’s shadow comes through on both the collective and individual
level. Because Pluto and Uranus are in a square relationship at this time,
there is - on both the individual and collective level - a tendency to strongly
identify with the energy of one planet and then project the energy of the other
planet onto a convenient screen, such as a government, a corporation, a race,
class or gender of people, a boss, a co-worker, a spouse, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
only way to avoid this trap, and to thus harness the evolutionary energy of
this configuration, is to become conscious of the presence of the energies of
this entire configuration within ourselves - both the shadow and the light of
both signs and both planets involved. Before we explore this further, consider
this: Scientists have proven that genes carry and pass on not only physical
traits, but also memories. This means that within each and every one of us,
there is the memory of being both the rapist and the victim of rape, the memory
of being both the slaver and the slave, the memory of being both the murderer
and the murdered, the memory of being both the torturer and the tortured. If
you cannot face any part of yourself, you cannot access all of your strength,
and therefore your capacity for doing good by yourself and others is greatly
diminished. We are all human, and we can consciously choose to act in the best
interests of all, or we can knowingly or unknowingly make choices that are
harmful to ourselves and others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On the
Uranus in Aries level of illumination, we all have within us the ability to act
on an inspired, energizing and revolutionary vision of how all of humanity
could be bettered. On the Uranus in Aries level of shadow, we all have within
us the ability to carelessly and impatiently destroy that which we perceive to
be in our way, and to believe that we are the true saviors, the underdogs with
the only true vision of how things should be for all of humanity, and above
all, the ability to make decisions based on anger - an emotion that is a
byproduct of fear - rather than love. Uranus brings the vision of a better
society, but Uranus utterly lacks compassion. If we allow ourselves to channel
this energy too strongly, we lose touch with our heart. Illuminated Aries
expresses courage - the roots of the word courage mean acting from the heart.
Shadowy Aries re-acts out of anger. Be inspired, and be angry if that’s how you
feel, but stay with your heart, friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On the
Pluto in Capricorn level of illumination, we all have within us the ability to
envision a transformative longterm goal (e.g. equality for all races and
genders, redistribution of wealth that dissolves class altogether, and a
symbiotic relationship with our host planet), and then employ the winning
combination of strategy, patience, disciplined effort, and accurately directed
power to manifest these visions. On the Pluto in Capricorn level of shadow, we
all have within us the ability to misuse our power - especially if we are
convinced that “others” have all the power - to needlessly destroy, to fixate
on the wrong goal, to feel defeated and beaten down into apathy and depression,
and to view things through the limiting lens of the past. Keep your eye on the
real prize: respect and stewardship for all people, for all beings, and for our
home, the Earth.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About what/whom has your
heart hardened and grown cold?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you inspired
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In what ways do you believe
you know what’s best for everyone?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if it’s not true? </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">(Hint: Being wrong is a good way to learn!)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How are you capable of
manipulation of yourself and others?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How are you destructive to
yourself and others?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the most
transformative creation you could gift to the world?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Tree is determined by the Seed, although shaped by the
climate:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">We are
fielding conflicting energies, emotions, experiences, and ideas through this
configuration - Pluto in Capricorn’s patience clashes with Uranus in Aries’
impatience; Uranus in Aries’ vision of the future clashes with Pluto in
Capricorn’s lens of the past; Uranus in Aries’ reactive approach clashes with
Pluto in Capricorn’s calculating strategy. You may feel that some things are
happening so fast you can hardly keep up, while other things are moving in slow
motion or seem downright stuck. It’s a battle of gods, but there will be no
winner and no loser. Uranus in Aries will make a lot of noise, and Pluto in
Capricorn will silently, uncompromisingly, and steadily build towards the
transformation and power it desires. In the history books of the future, there
will be pictures of the wild Uranus in Aries events of this time, but the Pluto
in Capricorn effect of this time will be the perspective from which those
events are told. Play both sides of this game, friends. Be angry and inspired,
but also be and build the change you want to see in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Another
clue about this Uranus and Pluto square is found in the initiating energy of
their 1960’s conjunction in Virgo. Virgo’s influence will continue to permeate
the entirety of this Uranus-Pluto cycle until their next conjunction in the
first years of the next century. Illuminated Virgo attains mastery of oneself
and of one’s skills, and puts that mastery into service for the good of all.
Shadowy Virgo criticizes, points fingers, is unable to witness one’s own
imperfections, and is needlessly controlling of outer situations and other
people. In the cyclical story of the zodiac, once we reach the sign of Virgo,
we have already discovered that we exist, that we have value, that we have a
particular way of perceiving things, that we feel certain ways, and that we can
shine and express ourselves. What we learn in the sign of Virgo is how to
organize and put all of those lessons and skills to good use. At this critical
juncture, we must master ourselves, own our destructive, power-hungry Plutonian
shadow and our cold-hearted Uranian shadow, and then put ourselves in service
of the enlightened Uranian vision and the empowering Plutonian creation we wish
to manifest in the world.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you being critical of
others - individuals, institutions, a class, gender or race group?</span></i></div>
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yourself, including your mind, your emotions, your flaws, and your gifts?</span></i></div>
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others and to society in innovative and creative ways?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you both taking
immediate action and strategically building towards a deeper change?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you acting from your
heart or from your head?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would you have the
history books of the future say about this time period?</span></i></div>
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perspective of this history be written? </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Six down, one to go: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
sixth of seven exact squares between Uranus and Pluto occurs tonight (Sunday,
December 14th at 9:14 PM, PST). However, this is the last of these exact passes
with a mutual reception of Pluto and Saturn. Pluto has been traveling in
Saturn’s home sign of Capricorn since January of 2008, while Saturn has been
traveling through Pluto’s home sign of Scorpio since October of 2012. A mutual
reception indicates a deep fusion of the two planets’ energies. It’s as though
they are tuned in so deeply to each others’ frequencies that it’s difficult for
them to be influenced by anything else. This has heightened the tension between
Uranus and Pluto because Pluto fused with Saturn is that much more powerful,
that much more shadowy, that much more destructive, that much more stuck in his
ways - but also, transforming at that much more deep of a level, digging up
that much more deep and valuable of a treasure, and taking as much time as is
necessary to maneuver that much more transformative of a destruction-creation
process.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn enters Sagittarius:12/23/14</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Two
days after 2014’s winter solstice, Saturn enters Sagittarius. Plodding old
Saturn will be - perhaps arthritically - leaping about in Sagittarius’ exalted
and spirited realm until the end of 2017, with a brief revisiting of Scorpio’s
sunken treasure throughout the coming summer of 2015. A change in Saturn’s sign
of transit is always a notable event, but this time we’ll feel that shift on a
deep level because it will take some pressure off of that Uranus-Pluto square
by adding the galvanizing energy of Sagittarius to Pluto’s experience of
Saturn-ruled Capricorn. That which has been transforming so slowly beneath the
surface may pick up some momentum and arise into the light. That which has been
dying may finally be reborn. Those experiences of loss may now lead to gain.
This influence inspires hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">...even
though he’s in jolly, charismatic Sagittarius, he’s still contrary ole Saturn,
playing devil’s advocate wherever he goes:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you really believe
in?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How will you respond if
your beliefs are tested?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you maintain your
faith in the face of set-backs?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you manifest your
ideals in your actions, relationships, and especially in your thoughts?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What personal
responsibilities do your beliefs define?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do your beliefs limit
you? How might they set you free?</span></i></div>
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since you last crystallized them in your mind?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn
represents the structures of society. His transit through faith and belief
infused Sagittarius indicates there will be change in and influence from the
realm of established religion. It is likely that there will be shifts in the
relationships between various religions and governments - blurring the
boundaries in some cases, and strengthening those boundaries in others. But
what this transit all boils down to, on the individual and collective level,
is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Do you walk your talk?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">When
answering that question, please remember <b>Rae’s #1 rule of astrology and
consciousness:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Planets
ask us questions. You can lie to yourself, but it is futile to lie to a body
that is four and a half billion years old. They’ll bloody well know you’re lying,
and they won’t quit prodding you, let alone reward you, until you tell them the
truth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Capricorn: 12/21/14 - 1/20/15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
outer planets are transformative and evolutionary, but the Sun is still king,
and holds even far-off Pluto in his orbit. We must stay aligned with the Sun in
order to maintain our own true orbit and keep our life force flowing. The Sun
enters Capricorn on Winter Solstice, indicating a month of retraction,
assessment and realignment of direction, goals and purpose, and downsizing in
order to focus energies on said goals - hence the popularity of “new year’s
resolutions.” It’s a time to think about the longterm, to consider our reserves
for the future, and to learn from the victories, losses, and mistakes of our
past. Above all, it’s now time to take responsibility for the state of our
lives, assess our resources, and formulate how to use those resources to build
the future we wish to inhabit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>What is the state of
your life? How did you, yourself, create this life?</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you want your life
to be like in five years?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you make
adjustments now that will shift you into that reality?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you need to cut
away to help focus your energies towards your true goals?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that longer range
vision in mind, what are reasonable goals for the coming year?</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Coming Soon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Next
month’s report on the solar month of Aquarius will offer insights into
Mercury’s next retrograde cycle and more. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/778502708863386/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">like</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> & </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/764375483609442/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">repost</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> this report as you see fit.
Until next time, wishing you a heart-ful month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading,</span></div>
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you read the word, <i>ECOLOGY</i>, you probably think of the natural
environment of the Earth, which may then lead you to feelings of anxiety,
frustration, or grief. But before the emotions, before the association with the
global environment, there was only the word, <i>ECOLOGY</i>. Say it out loud
and repeat it a few times, fast and slow. Notice its inherent musicality, its
implied lilt and melody. Now consider the implications of <i>ECOLOGY</i>’s
roots: the study of home. This month, take a look at the interrelation of your
mind, body, beliefs, and life. Observe - and perhaps revise - your ecology of
mind.</span></span></div>
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word from our sponsor: Prices on astrology consults and Alithesis intensive
treatments will go up in 2015. The remainder of my appointment availability for
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">At this
point in the Sun’s yearly journey, we leap from the destroying and empowering
depths and darkness of Scorpio to the exhilarating heights and unbridled
freedom of Sagittarius. It’s time to ask the big questions of life, to search
for meaning, to cast off some constraints, and revel. That would be the whole
story if the Sun traveled in a void, but there are other forces acting on this
solar month. Some of Sagittarius’ fire will be earthbound and even subterranean
this time around, but you will still find yourself mulling over such questions
as these:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>Are your philosophies
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>How does your ecology of
mind compare to the ecology of the Earth?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What are the most
meaningful experiences you could choose to engage in this month?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What are the most
meaningful experiences you could choose to engage in this lifetime?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What do you really believe?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span><span> </span>Are your beliefs limiting or liberating?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%;">The <b>Anchored Vision</b> Lunation Begins: 11/22, Culminates:
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">The Sun
and Moon conjoin in the first degree of fiery Sagittarius, closely sandwiched
between the two earthiest planets: Saturn and Venus. This gives the imperative
for beliefs based on values, and anchored in reality. Neptune in Pisces squares
the Sun and Moon, further emphasizing the shattering of illusions, and the need
to let go of that which simply does not work, or no longer belongs in one’s
current phase of life. This new moon configuration suggests we allow ourselves
to dream, to suspend our normal beliefs for a moment, and allow our minds to
travel into vaster potential outcomes than we usually dare to consider. The
formula is: <b>As belief expands, so too does reality.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What in your life is
falling apart, dissolving, dissipating? - How can you surrender to that
process?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What elements of your life
do you whole-heartedly believe in?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What visions are worthy of
manifestation?</span></i></span></div>
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possible, what could unfold in your life and in the world?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">This
lunation culminates on December 6th with a full moon in Gemini. At this point,
Mercury - the ruler of that Gemini Moon - conjoins the Sun in Sagittarius,
highlighting the experience of these two opposing signs as a single axis. Fact
and detail can thus inspire a fresh sense of the big picture, while the gestalt
can bring heretofore unnoticed minutiae into focus. This full moon chart also
shows a loose grand fire trine between the Sun, Mercury, Venus, asteroid,
Ceres, and planetoid, Pholus in Sagittarius, with Uranus in Aries and Jupiter
in Leo. This configuration offers great opportunity, but also inspires
compulsive over-doing and over-committing, with a tendency to compensate for
the attendant stress with over-consumption. There is also a strong imperative
to get out into deep nature. The high road in the first week of December is
this: Spend some time in the mountains or woods, and let yourself dream big.
Then jump back into your hectic life, and make some more informed and wise
choices about what to commit to and what to let go of.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>Which of those
opportunities bring you the most joy, or feel closest to your heart?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Jupiter
is far enough out in the solar system that his annual four-month retrograde
cycles don’t directly effect the everyday functioning of our lives. This is one
of those more subtle, internal influences from the Cosmos. This year, however,
Jupiter’s retrograde station is significant because it occurs while the Sun and
Jupiter are in mutual reception - each planet is traveling through the other
planet’s home sign. This increases the fusion of their energetic pairing, and
also implies that our experience of the Sun (i.e. <i>life force</i>) will also
hit a slump around December 8th.</span></span></div>
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creations, and joys inform your beliefs?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What have you been giving a
lot of energy to since mid-September?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>If so, how can you bolster
your faith in those involvements?</span></i></span></div>
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them go?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">December
is classically a tense month in our society due to familial and consumeristic
pressures that clash with our animal bodies’ needs to be <i>slowing down</i>
for the winter. This December will have an extra oomph of stress from the
heavens as Uranus makes another exact square to Pluto on December 14th. This is
the fourth of five exact passes between revolutionary and impatient Uranus in
Aries and exacting, destroying and regenerating Pluto in Capricorn, spanning
from 2012 through 2015. These are slow planets, so you’ll feel the intensity of
this energy throughout December. Venus squares Uranus and conjoins Pluto on
December 20th. On the low realm of the spectrum, these aspects can inspire
greed, hunger for power, and a belief that whoever does not share our value
system is <i>wrong</i>. On the high end of the spectrum, this influence can
help us commit more deeply to what we believe will have lasting importance in
society, help us value the good of the past while still allowing for change,
and teach us about the transformative powers of love. As always, how you
experience this energy is your choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What are you slowly and
steadily constructing that is transforming you and your life?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What are you impatient
& frustrated with? - How can you relinquish control there?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What does liberation mean
to you, in your life and in the world at this time?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What is the difference
between power and control?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>How can you inspire and
attract others with the power and beauty of your values?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">We are
coming to the end of what I refer to as “The Scorpio Era.” Since October of
2012, we’ve had a mutual reception of Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn,
Mercury retrogrades in Scorpio, and eclipses in Scorpio. For one more month, as
Saturn completes his transit through Scorpio, we’ll be rooting through our
deeply held pain and insecurity around authority, sexuality, gender and power.
We have one more month to find and tap into that personal agency and authority
that stems from our deepest knowing. We have one more month to turn around,
face our shadow, and embrace the strength and beauty of that inner beast. One of
my favorite ways to tap into the subconscious is automatic writing. Set a timer
for two minutes, and then answer the questions below, two minutes per question.
Keep your pen moving on the paper throughout the two minutes, even if it’s just
writing gibberish or repetitions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What/who does your shadow
look like? - Bonus: Draw a picture or make a collage.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What does your shadow say?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span> </span>What is your shadow’s
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Next
month’s report on the solar month of Capricorn will offer insights into the
major shift of Saturn into Sagittarius, and the energetic imperatives of the
2015 calendar year. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/778502708863386/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;">like</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"> & </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/764375483609442/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;">repost</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"> this report as you see fit.
Until next time, wishing you a heart-ful month.<span> </span>Thanks for reading,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have
you ever looked through a gauzy thin veil? Try it. Put on a thin veil, walk
around, observe your world, and then look in the mirror. The world is visible
to you, although somewhat altered, while you, yourself, are obscured. Now try
(or imagine trying) the same thing with a thicker fabric. Depending on the
fabric, you can either just barely see your world, or not at all, and you
yourself are completely invisible in the mirror, save for the knowing of some
presence. The Scorpio solar month is famous for its’ “thin veil” - a time when
our three dimensional, material “reality” mingles with ethereal dimensions,
thus increasing the occurrence and gravity of mysterious and synchronistic
events. What is actually happening is you are more able to witness, be seen by,
and interact with layers of reality that are in fact always there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sun in Scorpio: 10/23 - 11/22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">During
the solar month of Scorpio, we find ourselves in mid-autumn, when leaves mimic
the colors of sunset. Each wind storm thins out the foliage, increasing our
view of the sky, helping us remember how small we really are beneath the
vastness of that limitless ceiling. It’s a time of nostalgia, of reminiscing
about the fun and follies of spring and summer, and of remembering places,
experiences, and people - including our own past selves - no longer in our
lives. It’s a time of conservation and retraction, a time to let some things go
in order to conserve our energy and focus more deeply as our bodies slow down
for the winter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What & whom do you
remember fondly, including parts of yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you honor the
people and experiences of your past?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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and main branches of your life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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need to let go of in order to nourish that trunk, those roots and branches?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The <b>Transformation</b> Lunation Begins with a Solar Eclipse:
10/23<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Both
the solar and lunar months of Scorpio begin with a partial solar eclipse in the
first degree of Scorpio, with Venus also entering Scorpio that day, close on
the heels of the Sun and Moon. This eclipse is not a particularly strong
eclipse, but it is significant because it beautifully illustrates Scorpio’s
main theme of <i>death</i> - as the seasoned last eclipse in this sign for over
eight years - <i>and rebirth</i> - for the first degree of a sign always
embodies the freshness and naivety of rebirth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Venus’
presence in this configuration helps us to rebirth that which we value, and let
go of that which matters less to us. The operative word here is <i>matter</i>.
Astrological information and the questions that arise from that information can
put us in a cerebral state of being, but transformation - literally, the
changing of the form or matter of something - requires that we translate idea
and inspiration into creative action. Ideally, the physical matter of our lives
reflects what actually matters to us. Neptune trines this eclipse from Pisces,
highlighting the sacredness of the necessary sacrifices we make at this time,
and reminding us to be mindful and grateful in our lettings go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What has changed in the
form of your life, relationships & body since November of 2012?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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when you let go of that which no longer lights up your life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you connect with infinity & with possibilities otherwise unavailable to
you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
quick little trickster of our solar system stations direct in mid-Libra on
October 25th, enabling you to move forward with the transformative and
balancing realizations that have struck you since he stationed retrograde in
early Scorpio on October 4th. Mercury represents our style and finesse of
perception, communication and movement. When he appears to move backwards
(retrograde), our assumed perceptions are challenged, which forces us to
communicate more clearly, and to move through the world with renewed awareness.
This particular retrograde cycle marks another death and rebirth imperative -
because it began in early Scorpio, conjunct the degree of the 10/23 eclipse,
because it is the last (death) of Mercury’s retrogrades in water signs for over
three years, and because he stations direct in Libra, close to the degree of
the dragon’s head, which represents the evolutionary ideas from which rebirth
arises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do those realizations
help you to think, move and communicate differently?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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perception bring you into balance?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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change the forms of your life, relationships, actions, and speech?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Meanwhile
Saturn, the structurer, continues his trudge through the depths of Scorpio,
having entered there in October of 2012. Each of the Scorpio eclipses in the
past several springs and autumns have been like storms to this slow and steady
traveler - electrifying, drenching, cleansing, and muddying. Each of Mercury’s
autumnal retrogrades in Scorpio (since 2012) have altered Saturn’s steady
course as the journey’s goal shifted somewhat each time. With only a couple
months left in Scorpio, Saturn receives a couple bursts of inspiration in
mid-November as Venus and then the Sun conjoin him for a moment, softening and
then lighting the depths of Scorpio’s intensity and Saturn’s determination.
This is a perfect time to attend the </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saturn-his-cycles-workshop-tickets-13192311559"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Saturn and his Cycles</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> workshop
(clarifying Saturn returns & more) on Saturday, November 15th, from noon
til 3pm. It’s also a good time to ask yourself these questions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What stability &
structure have I lost since 2012?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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structure have I gained instead?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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life in alignment with my values and purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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last significant event of the Scorpio solar month occurs when Neptune stations
direct in early Pisces. This indicates we have opportunities for insight into
the Neptunian and Piscean themes of mindful awareness in favor of illusion, and
sacrifice as a prelude to redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What have you sacrificed
since early June?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What redemption do those
sacrifices offer you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What illusions have
shattered since then?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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inspiration have you received in the wake of those clarifications?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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Sagittarius will help you gain insight on Jupiter’s coming retrograde cycle,
and support your alignment with the evolutionary cardinal T-square, instigated
by another exact pass of the ongoing tense Uranus/Pluto square. Thanks for reading,</span></span></div>
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autumn, the slant of the light produces a familiar glow that signals a
confluence of gathering and dissipating activities. Animals store food for the
winter in their bodies and homes while leaves and fruits fall from plants.
Throughout nature, decisions are being made - what goes and what stays? What
continues to live, and what dies? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Autumn
begins on September 22nd, as the Sun enters Libra, the sign of the scales.
Typically, during the solar month of Libra, our primary aim is to bring our
lives into balance. After the expansive, try-anything, do-everything energy of
spring and summer, our energy starts to flag. We need to decide what is worth
continuing, and what needs to be let go of. We’ll have some help in that
process this month as Venus, the ruler of Libra and clarifier of values,
travels close to the Sun - i.e. our light of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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relationships, activities, communities and places do you value most?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you let go of
that which means less to you with grace?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your
relationship with your own dignity?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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dignity of that which you commit to and that which you move away from?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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autumn equinox also occurs on September 22nd. After six months of the days
being longer than the nights, nature brings light and dark into balance for a
moment. It’s a brief still point, but it’s also a tipping point. From this day
on through the next six months, darkness will be stronger than light. In a
culture that equates light with all things good, and dark with all things bad,
we may have to face some fears and resistance to this change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the wisdom of
darkness? What does it teach us?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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in the dark? What senses become more acute when you cannot see?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you find when you explore the shadows of your mind?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One
more key event on this particular autumn equinox day is Pluto, the planet of
power through transformation, stations direct in steadfast and ambitious
Capricorn. Pluto stationed retrograde in mid-April, indicating that deeper
shifts have occurred within us, rather than in our outer world. On this equinox
day, the scales start to tip in this way as well - the deeper truths revealed
in the past five months can now be put into practice. The transformation
process of Pluto in retrograde is often subtle, and only fully understood in
hindsight. However, these questions may help you identify some elements of your
current process of deep change, and therefore how to implement these shifts
more consciously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>What deeper power
have you tapped into since mid-April?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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relationship with your own and others’ authority shifted since mid-April?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moon is new in Libra late the next night, on September 23rd. This means that
autumn began under a balsamic moon, thus accentuating the elements of
stillness, release and return throughout the season. The energetic imprint of
the second degree of Libra, where this new moon occurs, is that of a threshold.
Mars in Sagittarius is sextile the Sun and Moon in Libra, offering courage
through conviction and faith. Mars is also square Neptune in Pisces, so you may
find it helpful to retreat into nature - especially near water - for clarity at
this time. This configuration suggests that something may need to be
sacrificed. To sacrifice means to make sacred through release. To walk through
that doorway, we must leave the old, known world behind. Neptune urges us to
bid farewell to our known world with devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>What two worlds do
you currently stand between?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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known world you are leaving behind with dignity and devotion?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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unknown world before you with courage and faith?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the
midst of all of this letting go, we have a very different energy building in
the form of a grand fire trine. Between the equinox and the first two weeks of
October, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be in alignment in the three fire signs
of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. Grand trines tend to offer great opportunities
with a lot of momentum, but it’s up to us to act on them. There are down sides
to this configuration, however. Watch out, however, for burning yourself out.
There may be too many opportunities knocking at your door, and you may not be
able to take them all. The high road with this configuration is to take
creative and courageous leaps based on your convictions, but do take a moment
to first get clear about what your beliefs actually are before you jump into
the fire of commitment. Fire-prone areas of the world may also be in extra
danger at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are showing up for you?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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in alignment with your own philosophies?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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a balance between stillness and action at this time?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile,
the distant rumbles of the full lunar eclipse in mid-Aries draw nearer. The
Sun, north node of the moon, Venus, and asteroid, Pallas, are conjoined in
Libra. Opposite them, the Moon, Uranus, south node of the moon, and planetoid,
Eris, are conjoined in Aries. Mars and Jupiter feed the flames of this tense
configuration while Pluto applies some torque from Capricorn. If you feel like
you’re being scorched and torn asunder, congratulations - you’re in alignment.
During a lunar eclipse, the shadow of the earth passes over the moon while it
is full, and thus in the peak of its light phase. At the moment of greatest light,
we experience darkness. It is in these moments of abnormality that we can gain
insight not normally available to us. Here is what the planets ask us during
this lunar eclipse:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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exercise patience in the midst of strife?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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people, beliefs and values bring you into balance?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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to be torn apart, how might you fit back together into a truer whole?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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from your life that you can add only once you release something that’s in its
way?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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midst of all of that motion and stillness, and all of that arising and
descending, Mercury enters his final retrograde cycle of 2014. This particular
Mercury retrograde period is intrinsically linked to the two eclipses occurring
in October by timing, sign, and degree. This means we have access to greater
insight and clarity during this difficult eclipse season if we practice
accurate awareness, and then accept and adapt to what is happening within and
around us. The combination of Scorpio and Libra suggests we work with these
questions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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levity and grace to that which feels heavy and awkward?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which activities and
relationships are you not fully committing to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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activities and relationships are you willing to commit more deeply to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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respectfully let go of those activities & relationships you cannot commit
to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are the one
being let go of, how can you gracefully accept that loss, and adapt to your new
reality?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What rebirth may come
in the wake of the endings you face?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Satisfaction:
It’s an elusive thing in the first world. The U.S. breeds a simultaneously
workaholic and over-indulgent culture. We never feel as though we’ve done
enough, and we are haunted by unfulfilled - and perhaps unfulfillable -
yearnings for something more. The roots of the word satisfaction mean <i>to
have done enough</i>. The planets, in this solar month of Virgo, want us to
find that feeling of having done and received enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Abundance: Embodiment & Faith Merge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Tomorrow
night (late August 17th in PDT), Venus conjoins Jupiter in Leo, encouraging us
to take concrete action on what we believe most whole-heartedly in. This is a
brief transit that creates ebullient feelings that are easy to enjoy. Do so,
but if you also take action on what you enjoy, there will be profound rewards.
This energy filters more subtly into the next week, and infuses the whole solar
month of Virgo with a bit of its serendipitous spark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What opportunities are most calling to your heart right now?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Which relationships offer a sense of mutual expansion & growth?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
can you joyfully bring your beliefs & actions into alignment?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Virgo: 8/22 - 9/22<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Sun’s transit through Virgo marks the beginning of the harvest season. It is the
culmination of the dreams of winter, the efforts of spring, and the cultivation
of summer. Both the fruits of our labors and our labors are at their peak, so -
provided we have dreamt well, and put forth the proper effort and care - it is
a time of accelerated and focused work with clear rewards. This is also a time
when our level of mastery become apparent to us and others. Depending on where
you are on the spectrum, it’s thus a time to either impart your wisdom and
experience, or gain more expertise & knowledge from the masters you feel
drawn to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
root of the word, harvest, means to cut. We cut the fruits of our labors off so
we can be nourished by them. Also, we cut away dead matter and anything that
directs energy away from the integrity of the system we are cultivating. Thus
Virgo also has an association with purification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>What
are you harvesting?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are you being nourished by the fruits of your labors?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What mastery have you attained? What mastery do you wish to attain?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are your teachers? Who are
your students?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What work gives you a sense of satisfaction?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What happens when you cultivate the feeling of satisfaction at the end
of each day?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What/Who needs to be cut away to maintain the integrity & health of
the whole of your life?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The <b>Right Effort</b> Lunation Begins on 8/25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
moon is new in Virgo on the same day that Mars conjoins Saturn in Scorpio. This
is a double indication that it’s time to commit to those matters of deepest
importance to you. A new moon marks the beginning of the lunar cycle. It is a
time of realigning intention and redirecting focus through contemplation and
inner seeking. Neptune’s opposition to the Sun and Moon bring elements of
redemption into the month’s story. Meanwhile, Venus and Jupiter in Leo remind
us to play, to love, and to enjoy life to its fullest, even as we attend to our
goals, visions, responsibilities, and realms of service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Have
you identified your life’s Work? If not, see below*<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What are the structures you need to put in place to manifest that Work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What/whom do you need to forgive in order to help you move forward with
clarity?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
is your work/life balance? Are you making time to play and rest as well as
work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
there an element of redemption in your skills - for you, for those you serve,
or both?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span>*Write a letter to yourself about the decisions and challenges you face
now<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span>from the perspective of an older you in your last few moments of life.</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Pisces Super Full Moon: 9/8 (PDT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Virgo lunation, which began with a private inner search, culminates in an
outgoing super full moon. This Pisces moon is aligned with the planetoid,
Chiron, and features a Venus/Neptune opposition, all in the 1st/7th house axis.
It thus offers powerful healing through direct encounters with others, so it’s
a very fruitful time to work with a healer, therapist or teacher if you are in
need of a breakthrough. Here are some recommendations of wonderful healers
(& artists, who are the healers of society). Or perhaps you will be the
agent of someone else’s breakthrough. The truest statement to be made of this
Pisces full moon is we are all connected through a vast and intricate web, and
thus we are all capable of being agents of each others’ healing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Coming Soon:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Next
month’s report on the solar month of Libra will give you some tools for
maintaining equilibrium during the double whammy of a<b> lunar eclipse</b> and <b>Mercury’s
next retrograde cycle</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may </span></span><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">schedule</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a private <span style="color: black;">astrological</span> consult, healing session, or healing
intensive in person, over the phone, or via Skype. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond/photos/a.599180383462287.1073741828.598888340158158/718605874853070/?type=1&theater"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">like</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">,
forward this page on & repost it as you see fit. Until next time, wishing
you insight & heartsight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks for reading, <a href="http://raediamond.com/rae_diamond.html">Rae Diamond</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Heart,
like love, is a single word with many meanings. It is a physical organ,
essential to life. It is the center or essence of something. We can learn
something by heart, meaning that it has rooted thoroughly in our memory. We can
do or say something with heart, meaning that we put our full self into our
action or speech. It shares the same root as the word, hearth, linking it with
a sense of life-giving internal fire. It has connotations with rhythm, timing,
and with alternating between expansion and contraction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Expansion: Jupiter in Leo, 7/16/14 - 8/11/15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This
morning, Jupiter entered the sign, Leo, and will remain in this sign that rules
the heart for a full year. Jupiter expands whatever he touches, but first he
requires that we take an appropriate leap of faith for we cannot become more
than we are until we stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zone. With Jupiter in
Leo until next summer, this means you must take leaps of faith in those areas
that are dearest to your heart. In the process, however, you may need to let go
of some things that matter less to you. Jupiter bids us to reach out beyond
ourselves, and into the collective. Jupiter in Leo insists we reach forth from
our heart, and in so doing, touch the hearts of others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
brings you joy?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
activities, relationships, & places do you cherish most?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might you increase your experience of the people, places & endeavors you
love?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
you distract yourself from &/or compromise that which you love?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
might “the next level” be for these relationships & activities you hold
dear?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Contraction: Saturn stations direct in Scorpio, 7/20/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">A few
days later, the next planet out in our solar system, Saturn, stations direct in
mid-Scorpio. Whereas Jupiter reaches out into the collective with boundless and
inspired enthusiasm, Saturn is our experience of the limitations of society and
of reality in general. Saturn’s transit in Scorpio, since October 2012 and
through December 2014, has us restructuring our lives based on what matters
most to us, and is also asking us to take a look at our use and experience of
power. Saturn imposes limits on Jupiter’s wild ideas. Limits might not always
be fun, but they do inspire innovation and focus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
has been hung up in a restructuring process since early March 2014?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
has died for or in you since then?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
now ready to be reborn, & how has it shifted within that time?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you set up healthy structures that empower you and support your rebirth?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Expansion: Uranus stations retrograde in Aries, 7/21/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
next day, the next planet out in our solar system, Uranus, stations retrograde
in mid-Aries. Uranus is genius, pure idea, flashes of insight, <i>Eureka!</i>
in action, electricity. Uranus explodes Saturn’s boundaries, disrupts his
established order, and imposes his own brand of Chaos. When this god of sudden
change stations retrograde in Aries, however, our attempts at personal
liberation become private implosions, rather than outer world explosions.
Translation: look at things differently, and blow your own mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
radical shifts have occurred since mid-December that have blown your world
asunder in some way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might you integrate these outer changes into your perspective and
understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
kind of energy have these shifts generated in your life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might you patch any energy leaks that may have occurred in those explosions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">More Expansion: Sun in Leo, 7/22/14 - 8/22/14 (PDT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next day, the heart of our solar system, the Sun, enters his home sign of Leo.
This galvanizes Jupiter’s recent ingress into Leo. For this next month, get
clear about what you care about so you can get the most out of this year of
Jupiter in heart-ful Leo. Let your heart glow. Dedicate yourself to what and
whom you love. Cut back on the distractions and the drudgeries. Enjoy life, and
above all, cherish yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Contraction: Mars in Scorpio, 7/25/14 - 9/13/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">A few
days later, Mars enters Scorpio. This puts Jupiter in a bit of a Scorpio
sandwich, as these are his two nearest planetary neighbors. That will function
as a nice tempering to what might otherwise be a bit too hedonistic and
over-inflated of a Leo solar month. Decisive Mars has been transiting
uncomfortably in wishy-washy Libra since early December 2013, so he will be all
to happy to enter one of his home signs. The combination of both Saturn (the
planetary architect) and Mars (the planetary muscle) in Scorpio gives us the
ability to put our empowering plans into action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What’s
a big vision you feel able to commit deeply to?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What’s
your plan for making it happen?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What’s
the next step to take?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Rumination.
Rooo... minnn... ayyy... shunnn... The root of this word means “to chew,” so
when we ruminate on something, we chew on it in our minds. Chewing is the first
process in digestion. If you skip this step the rest of your digestive system
has to work extra hard, and even with that extra effort it’s hard to get the
nutrients from what you eat. But if you get stuck chewing on your food without
ever swallowing it, your jaws will grow tired, the rest of your digestive
organs will actually start to eat themselves because chewing stimulates enzymes
to be released that help to break down food. If there’s no food for the enzymes
to work on, they can start affecting your bodily tissues instead. Meanwhile,
you’re not getting any nourishment. The moral of this month’s astrological
story is: chew well, and then swallow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Sun enters Cancer on the Summer Solstice, 6/21.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> Cancer is the sign most concerned with
nourishment - both in the physical realm of eating and processing food, and in
the subtler realm of what fulfills us on some deeper level, such as loving and
being loved, and feeling a sense of belonging. Meanwhile, Jupiter is completing
his yearlong transit through Cancer throughout most of the Sun’s month in
Cancer. Since the Sun illuminates, we’re all given a last chance to understand
how to increase our experiences of nourishment and belonging (to a place, as in
“at home in the world,” and to an intimate group of people, as in “family,”
loosely defined). Here are some Cancerian concepts to ruminate on this month:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are you
nourishing yourself well - with healthy food, with quality alone time, with
quality social time, & with quality intimate time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are you
nourishing what’s important to you - important relationships; the people you
lean on; the establishments you love; the environment on the micro & macro
levels?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are you
being nourished by your work in the world? If not, do you need to ask for more
support in exchange for your efforts, or do you need to look for other, more
fulfilling work?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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being nourished in your various relationships? If not, what happens if you ask
for more support?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars is happily in the last stretch of his final pass through
the shadow of his retrograde in Libra. </span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars is
a planet of decisive action. Libra is the queen of rumination. This month is
the time to make some final assessments, bring some things to a close, make
some choices, and let certain options fall away. In the Libran realm of
relationships, make sure that things are feeling lateral and honest, without
getting caught up in the relative and fluid realm of “fairness.” Mars entered
this retrograde shadow in late December 2013, so it’s going to feel really good
to get some closure on these issues. Welcome the decisions you make. Welcome
the decisions others make, even if it’s not what you would have chosen. Accept
your situations as best you can, take affirmative action, and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What
are the choices you are facing?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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are the most beautiful choices you can make within the confines of your
reality?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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artists - what sense of conviction about and direction in your art have you
gained since late December?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury completes his retrograde cycle on 7/1.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> This retrograde began in early Cancer, ends in
late Gemini, and thus blends the realms of feeling and perception. Hopefully,
you’ve noticed the cycle of how feelings affect what you perceive, which in
turn affects how you feel. This Mercury retrograde gives you an opportunity to
break or evolve those cycles. For instance, people with low self esteem
intensely notice when others criticize or ignore them, but gloss over the
moments when they are praised or given positive attention. This pattern of
selective perception “proves” and perpetuates the originating issue of low self
esteem. So yes, you can rejoice that with Mercury moving forwards, your
internet, your phones, your vehicles, and your computers can run smoothly
again, but hopefully you also learned something about the nature of your mind:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What
assumptions do you make when you don’t hear back from people?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you notice when you’re happy? What do you notice when you’re angry?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you notice when you’re sad? What do you notice when you’re feeling anxious?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What
events do you gloss over<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in your
memories, & how does this shift the story you’re living?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What if
the world is full of ambiguities, & people are not all bad or all good,
& things do not come together in tidy little stories?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is that
terrifying, or is it freeing, or maybe both?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
sticky convergence of inner planet retrogrades cycles, stretching way back into
mid-December is about to come to an end. My closing advice is <i>REST UP</i>.
Withdraw a bit, even if you have to steal yourself away from the pulls of the
world because you need some you-time to process everything that has shifted,
ended, begun, gotten lost, resurfaced, or been utterly shaken and stirred in
the first half of this year. If you do this, the next half of the year, which
will be much more fast-paced, and with much more forward momentum, will be
exhilarating and fun. This is the year of the Green Horse in Chinese astrology,
and this is the month where you need to make sure you have a firm grip on the
reigns before that horse begins to gallop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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would like to know the astrological currents of this summer, mp3’s of my
workshop, Aligning Heaven & Earth: Summer 2014, are available for $5. The talk covers the major planetary events of the
season, offers herbal support for working with those energetic shifts, plus
meditations to get you in touch with the evolution the planetary energies
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
fast can you run in knee-deep mud? What is the conversation between Immediacy
and Obstacle like? What kind of story would you write with a pen that randomly
changes color on paper that intermittently shrinks and grows while your mind’s
perceptions shift like a kaleidoscope under water?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Gemini, 5/20/14 - 6/21/14:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Sun’s transit through Gemini is normally a time of accelerated activity, when
we can expect to be running about, chatting with people, and gathering up
quantities of facts and ideas to process & catalogue in our noggins. We are
alive with ideas, inspiration, energy and creativity, and not particularly
drawn to such things as focus and commitment. Spring is overflowing, and
starting to tip over into the fullness of Summer’s luminous energy. It’s time
to have fun, but be patient this month as the pace of this year’s solar transit
of Gemini will feel like an odd mixture of rushed yet sludgy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars Stations Direct in Libra, 5/19/14:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><> </span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars is a
planet that appreciates neither the stillness that occurs during a planetary
station, nor the grace, idealism and prudence of Libra. This is not a
comfortable transit, but it does offer a reset button in terms of where and how
we are directing our energies, especially in the context of relationships,
& what actions we can take to attain & maintain balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><> </span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">When Mars is
thwarted from expressing decisive force, strength and valor, he can resort to
willy-nilly aggression. Depending on your temperament, this may show up as
undue anger either expressed by you or at you, or as an injury, or a mental or
physical illness that slows you down (especially be wary of adrenal fatigue
& lower back injuries). Mars will not be up to his normal speed until July,
so maintain patience in your relationships, and if you’re an artist, maintain
patience with the progress of your art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
actions can you take to bring your life into balance?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Where
are you experiencing indecision in your life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
your values & your body tell you about the decisions you are facing?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
have your relationships shifted since late December?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are
your relationships in better balance, or do more adjustments need to be made?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
shifts have occurred in your body & physicality since late December?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
might your body be telling you, & how can you bring your body into an
evolved state of balance?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">grand Water Trine & Grand Cardinal Cross:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Throughout
this month, we’re teetering between the tugs and shoves of one major
configuration and the tides and strides of another, with jolly Jupiter at the
center of this massive seesaw: Cosmic tough love meets redemptive cosmic gift
this month, with the biggest challenges being:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
alert to the opportunities showing up?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
showing up to the opportunities that present themselves to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
leaving empty time in your schedule to let new inspiration & opportunity
find you?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
these configurations offer:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> The grand
cardinal cross challenges us to maintain our center in the midst of pulls
between finding balance in relationships, activating new inspirations about
identity, attending to longterm transformations from the foundation up, while
increasing the nourishment, support and love we give and receive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> The grand
water trine is an intriguing mingling of nourishing expansion within intense
limitations in such a way that redeems your animal nature, and dissolves old
wounds. Now there’s a riddle to ruminate on:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
activities, people, places & practices return you to center?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
activities, experiences, & states of mind unite your instinctual &
emotional nature with your intellectual & philosophical-spiritual nature?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
cutting away the unnecessary & unimportant in order to support your truest
directions of growth?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
nourishing yourself appropriately - physically, mentally, emotionally, &
spiritually?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
nourishing what’s important to you - relationships, communities, projects,
environments?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Configuring
time:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> The grand
water trine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is strongest in the
second half of May.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> The grand
cardinal cross peaked most strongly in mid to late April, but it will have a
smaller spike in intensity around the Sagittarius full moon on 6/12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nourishment issues squared away now (apologies for the astrological pun)
because this is the last month of Jupiter’s yearlong hurrah in Cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
good news is this Mercury retrograde cycle marks the apex of the early 2014
mire, & once it’s over, things will run a lot more smoothly - maybe too
smoothly, so use this slower period to rest up. Also, be flexible and patient
as this is the longest, slowest and most potent of this year’s Mercury retrograde
cycles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">General
Mercury retrograde protocols</span></b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stations retrograde on 6/7, back up computers and other devices, tune up cars
and bikes, and solidify any ambiguous communications and travel plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mercury’s backwards transit, 6/7 - 7/1, maintain flexibility during your
commutes and travels, and suspend judgment and keep your mind open during
communications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This
Mercury retrograde is brought to you by the Hanged Man tarot card:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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periods offer us opportunities to evolve and shift our perceptions. With
Mercury stationing retrograde in early Cancer, pay attention to how your
emotions affect your perceptions. Also, your perception of your past is up for
review - it’s time to update your story so you can create a more nourishing
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bulk of this retrograde occurs in late Gemini - Mercury’s home sign, and the
sign of the Sun’s current transit. Meanwhile, Neptune stations retrograde in
Pisces on 6/9. The key word in these planetary maneuvers is <b>Suspension: </b>Suspend
belief, suspend judgment, suspend your urge to speak, suspend your movements.
Only then will new beliefs make sense. Only then will true discernment shine
through. Only then will you truly hear. Only then will you know your true
direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are the stories you tell?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the picture those stories paint?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is that
picture the landscape you want to inhabit?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If not,
how can you shift your stories to create a more nourishing climate?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your emotions affect your perceptions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mind is
an infinite territory - how can you expand the range you “in-habit” within that
boundless expanse?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might forgiveness and compassion expand your perception?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Coming Soon:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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month’s posting will cover an overview of Summer 2014, the completion of the
Mercury retrograde cycle, and (drum roll, please) Jupiter’s exciting entry into
heart-warming Leo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may </span></span><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">schedule</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a private <span style="color: black;">astrological</span> consult, healing session, or healing
intensive in person, over the phone, or via Skype. Feel free to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">like</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">,
forward this page on & repost it as you see fit. Until next time, wishing
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</span>Thanks for reading, <a href="http://raediamond.com/rae_diamond.html">Rae Diamond</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Normally,
the Sun’s transit through Taurus is a time of profound embodiment, rooting and
settling. However, there is no place for the word, <i>normal</i>, in Spring
2014. There are times and places that exist as thresholds between this reality
as we understand it, and something else. We are in such a time-threshold now,
in which we can allow the known to become mysterious, and simultaneously
welcome the mysterious into our conscious understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Then
it’s time to hang on tight for what can only be a wild, wild ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I’m
writing in the wake of last night’s </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2014/03/spring-2014-sun-in-aries.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">full lunar eclipse in Libra</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> (4/15
just after midnight on the West Coast), which came on the tails of Mercury
& the Moon activating the current grand cardinal cross throughout 4/14. In
human terms, that was a LOT of tension to withstand. A friendly astrological
tip for you, dear reader, is this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Quick Tip on 4/16:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Moon in Scorpio activates a brief grand water trine</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> with Venus in Pisces & Jupiter in Cancer on
the morning of Wednesday, 4/16. This configuration offers a healing release of
that eclipse and grand cross tension. Trines tend to feel so pleasant that we
often don’t act on them, but you will benefit from doing any of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sleep in & pay attention to your dreams (drink mugwort & vervain tea to
help both soften & remember those dreams).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Improvise in any media - music, visual art, dance, writing, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Go see a healer of your choice (referrals here) - LMP, acupuncturist,
therapist, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Engage in a gentle consciousness practice, such as pranayama, qigong, or
meditation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Solar month of <b>Taurus</b>, 2014: 4/19 - 5/20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Taurus
wants peace, quiet, and the ability to enjoy whatever comes in through the
physical senses, including the joy of right work. But there is little peace to
be found in this solar month <i>unless you go out & steal it, </i>&
that is exactly what I recommend you do, friends. GET AWAY some time this month
- get out in nature, get into a </span><a href="http://oaklandfloats.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sensory deprivation tank</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, get into
your creative zone, get outta Dodge - unless you want to be eaten alive by the
wild energies that will be only to happy to drag you hither and thither. Make
time for <b>you</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Change:</span></b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> One of Taurus’ least favorite things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On
4/20, Jupiter in Cancer activates a pretty exact T-square configuration with
Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn, just before the next exact pass of
Uranus squaring Pluto on 4/21. This configuration of Uranus & Pluto has
been active since 2012, & will continue to instigate profound change in us
as individuals, as communities, as a species, & as residents of this
changing planet through 2015. Both of these planets want change, but they are
functioning on different levels and time frames - Pluto’s slow but effective
overhaul of the core structures of things, including the rooting out of dead
wood does not blend easily with Uranus’ revolution my way now. Jupiter’s
presence in this configuration reminds us to advocate for our needs, and to
learn how to both give from and receive deeply into the heart. He offers a
welcome reminder that even as we make these radical shifts & calculated
transformations, we also need time for snuggles, meals, & things soft, safe
& cozy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
you believe you need? What do you actually need? How do you bridge that gap?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What/where/who
is HOME to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What’s
the progress of your massive overhaul (look back to 2012 for a sense of this)?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
you revolted in some way since 2012?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, are you conforming
to the point of squelching your truth?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, has the dust settled
enough that you can see what to make of the rubble?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
next day, on 4/22, retrograding Mars in Libra squares Jupiter, & then
opposes Uranus & squares Pluto on 4/23. This is the thick of the spring’s
grand cardinal cross. Although Mars adds further tension to this configuration,
he also offers much balance - because he is in Libra, the sign of the scales;
because he evens the score of two retrograding planets (Pluto stationed
retrograde on 4/14 & is still relatively motionless), & two direct
planets; & because there is a stabilizing, albeit uncomfortable, element to
a grand cross. The four opposing energies actually hold us up if we let go of our
attachments to specific outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
your relationships affect the changes you are making/experiencing?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
your relationships affected by the changes you are making/experiencing?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
relationships are family relationships? What does family mean to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
center for you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you stay connected to that center in the midst of all of these tugs at your
energy & attention?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Annular <b>Solar Eclipse in Taurus:</b> 4/28 at 11:14 PM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This is
the last eclipse in Taurus for about 9 years, so it mingles both the energy of
completion and the new moon & solar eclipse energies of beginnings. It’s a
partial eclipse, so it won’t be as dramatic as the lunar eclipse of 4/15, but
the energy of that massive eclipse is still with us, coloring this transit.
With earthy Taurus’ ruler, Venus, in ethereal Pisces, a mingling of realities
is now available. Past, present & future are one. Dream & reality
coincide. The impossible becomes real, & reality no longer makes sense.
Tonight would be another good night for some mugwort and vervain tea, in order
to gain insight through dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
you value, both in material reality & in more mystical & philosophical
spheres?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you better embody your values in your day-to-day life & in your goals?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
you enjoy? Do you experience enough &/or too much of what you enjoy?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
have your values shifted over the past year and a half to two years?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And then there’s <b>the merry month of May:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">May is
a <i>relatively</i> calmer month than April... kind of... sort of... a little
bit... Eclipses can be felt for - depending on which astrologer you follow - a
few weeks or months before & after the actual event, so we’ll still be
riding the wake of those wild April waves. Things won’t exactly be smooth, but
they will be a bit less rough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mutual Reception of <b>Venus & Mars, </b>Venus goes wild<b>:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus
enters Mars-ruled Aries on 5/2, which adds a nifty twist to Mars retrograding
in Venus-ruled Libra. The potency of that mutual reception is further deepened
by the sun’s transit through Venus-ruled Taurus, in the wake of two eclipses in
Venus-ruled signs, during the lunar nodes’ transit through Mars & Libra.
But wait, there’s more: Venus opposes Mars & the moon on 5/11 while the
moon activates the grand cardinal cross all over again that day, and then Venus
activates the Uranus/Pluto square on 5/14’s full Scorpio moon & on 5/15.
And, finally, Mars stations direct in Libra on 5/19. This is the stuff of
astrology nerd phantasy. The mingling of these two energies is so thick at this
time (again that mingling of realities) that the potential for change &
growth in these areas of experience is astounding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How is
your balance of compromise and self-advocacy?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you compromise
effectively when necessary, or too often, or too reluctantly?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you effectively stand
your ground when necessary, or too often, or too reluctantly?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
a compassionate & mindful warrior for peace?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars stations direct: </span></b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">5/19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars -
our will, our drive, our decisiveness & our actualizing force - has been
wandering backwards in cautious, thoughtful, noncommittal Libra since March
1st. It’s not the easiest of energies to mingle, but that’s how growth happens.
During a planet’s retrograde cycle, it transits three times through a
particular portion of the zodiac. In the first pass, issues arise (late
December through 3/1) through our dealings with others & the the world at
large. In the second - backwards - pass (3/1 through 5/19), those issues get
revisited, but in a way that causes our perception of these events,
relationships & issues to shift. In the third and final pass (5/19 through
mid/late July) we resolve those issues through decisions we make & actions
we take, based on the retrograde-induced shifts in our understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
have your aims shifted since March 1st?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>... since late December?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are
your aims driven by your values & ideals or by basic needs?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you incorporate both of
the above realms into your drive?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How has
your awareness of others deepened?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How has
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
you learned the value of restraint (this is also a great question for artists
to apply to their art)?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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month’s posting will cover the next installment of Mercury’s unduly infamous
retrograde cycle and <b>a healing grand water trine</b>, brought to you by the
social planets, Jupiter & Saturn, & the philosopher planetoid, Chiron.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Upcoming Bay Area Events:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Second Fridays of the month, drop in for an energetic realignment during </span><a href="http://www.homesteadapothecary.com/Happenings"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the saging hour</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, 12 PM til 12:50 PM, or schedule a private
CoAlithesis session at </span><a href="http://www.homesteadapothecary.com/Low-Cost-Clinics"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Homestead Apothecary’s low-cost clinic</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in a mingling of music & consciousness. It’s free, & all are welcome.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Yes</span></b><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> you will need to move fast to keep up with the
energetic imperatives of Spring 2014, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b>
things aren’t likely to move much farther ahead quite yet. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> there is big change happening, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> things will feel full of sameness. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> you are a special individual person, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> you are also a part of something greater -
a species, a living planet, various relationships, various projects, etc. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> you must work hard right now, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> you must also rest and make sure you are
nourished physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually. The
theme of Spring 2014 is: <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes, but...</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Aries solar month: 3/20/14 - 4/19/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">When
the Sun transits through Aries, it’s time to shake off the winter slumber, wake
up, be fully alive, & most importantly, realize that you are alive. Stop
for at least one little moment during this solar month, & think to yourself,
“Wow, I exist! I <i>am</i>!” It’s time to shake off that dreamy Pisces oneness,
& be a unique individual with desires and drives. Take those comfy Pisces
dreams, & courageously put them into Aries action. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> that’s what we do during the Aries solar
month, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> this year, things are a
little different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
have you been daydreaming about, envisioning, exploring in your imagination?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
any of that seem worth bringing into material reality?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If so,
what are some initial steps you can take to manifest those dreams?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is
there anything you would like to do that scares you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is that
fear keeping you alive </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">(the useful
purpose of fear)<i>, or is that fear holding you back from living?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Spring 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">A chart
cast for the Vernal Equinox indicates the energies we’ll be feeling throughout
the Spring season. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> there are
challenges this season, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> there are
meditations and herbs that can help support you through these challenges in my
quarterly mp3, Aligning Heaven & Earth, Spring 2014, available at the
bottom of this page for a mere $5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Season of Conflicting Elements:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Spring
is a time of arising energy - sprouts popping up out of the ground, slumbering
animals waking up, etc. It’s fiery by western elemental standards, but in this
spring’s chart, half of the main “planets” used in astrology are in water
signs. Water has a descending character to it, & is a tangible, material
element. Fire, on the other hand, is more mystical in nature, and functions as
a liaison between this realm and the beyonds. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b>
our spirits are awake this season, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b>
they also continue to dream. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> we
act with faith, courage & determination, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b>
this season, we are tender warriors & tentative pioneers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you act effectively while acknowledging your emotions, even in tender
situations?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If
courage is acting from the heart, while being aware of what you fear, how can
you be courageous this season?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Season of Mysterious Time:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Time
always moves mysteriously, and this Spring, we’ll be able to feel that mystery.
Practically speaking, with both Mars & Saturn retrograde, & the Moon
& Saturn mutually applying to a conjunction, patience is key this season.
Saturn & Mars are the two great material realm “accomplishers” of the solar
system. With them both in the realignment & revision stage, we will still
be working hard, but things may not amount to much. Some lessons can only be
learned through trial and error, and this will be a season of a lot of lessons
learned. By summer, you’ll know what works and what doesn’t, & you’ll know
it well, and once and for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Yes, </span></b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">you’ll work hard out in the world, <b>but t</b>he
real “progress” will happen within. Sure, be frustrated. Be annoyed. Be sad
that your dreams will take that much longer to come into manifestation. But
after you’ve had your tantrum or weeping fit, roll up your sleeves, get to
work, and be glad that once the season’s passed, you’ll know more clearly where
you need to be directing your energies. You’ll know who’s on your team, and
who’s not. You’ll know what paths not to take again because for you they’re
just dead ends, and that will free up a lot of energy that is otherwise wasted
on the various “what-if’s” that float about in your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">With
pragmatic Mars retrograding in idealistic Libra, expect your visions &
ideas to go through practical applications and tests. It’s a time of bursting
bubbles in all things Libran - who you’re friends are & are not, whether
your politics are plum, level & square or not, whether things are balanced
in your life & in your relationships, & for artists, whether your
artistic goals are appropriate to you & feasible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
tools do you have for tapping into patience (e.g. deep breaths, a mantra, etc)?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
areas of your life are you experiencing a sense of time moving quickly? How
about slowly?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
there been times when those areas of your life seemed to move at a different
pace?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
does that teach you about your experience of time?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Season of Tension & Growth:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Also
apparent in the Vernal Equinox chart is a tense & wobbly T-square
configuration between Pluto in Capricorn, Uranus in Aries & Jupiter in
Cancer. This configuration will grow increasingly exact over the next five or
six weeks, and will culminate in a Grand Cardinal Cross once Mars in Libra
enters the configuration in mid-late April. This T-square is less hectic than
the Cross, but gives a sense of “something missing” that makes it difficult to
maintain balance. Here’s the big question with this configuration:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
attending to your needs for nourishment, tenderness and safety, even as you
strive & evolve?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Total Lunar Eclipse in Libra: 4/15/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">By the
time this lunar eclipse occurs, the T-square mentioned above is nearly exact,
Pluto has just stationed retrograde, and the Grand Cardinal Cross is beginning
to form. The combination of these three events & other elements in this
chart suggest it’s time to surrender to being torn asunder. We live in a
culture that fears, avoids, and resists death, so we tend to fight even
metaphorical deaths. This lunar eclipse chart suggests we surrender to some
such “death,” & allow ourselves to be torn apart so we can reassemble ourselves
and our lives in a truer way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Moon is closely aligned with the Dragon’s Head in Libra. The quick
interpretation here is let your heart lead. With the Moon in a Neptune-infused
Libra, your heart is not likely to speak in clear, succinct sentences. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> the world will be clamoring for your
attention, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span> </b>quiet your mind, &
allow some inner sense of things to direct you. There are many ways to do this,
from following the breath, to engaging in some creative endeavor, to taking a
silent walk in the woods, to running with total focus on the alignment of &
signals from your body, etc. <b><span style="color: #990033;">Yes,</span></b> you
will be busy, <b><span style="color: #990033;">but</span></b> take time out in
mid-late April to find your own personal stillpoint, & the wisdom that
arises from that state of quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
will bring you into truer balance - in your life, - in your relationships, - in
your work, - in your family & home, - & in your mind?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
you a part of the interconnected web of humanity & beyond?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Who
supports you, & whom do you support? Is that in balance?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
ways does your work feed you? If it doesn’t feed you at all, why do you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you bring more reciprocity & win/win situations into your life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Octave Alignment:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
personal/mundane and communal/spiritual octaves of the mind - Mercury &
Uranus, respectively, are closely conjoined in this chart in the sign of Aries,
ruled by retrograding Mars. This suggests we have access to profound insight at
this time. Keep your mind open to new inspirations, and new ways of looking at
things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
does this situation look like from the perspective of the other people involved?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
does this situation look like from the perspective of an outsider?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
does this situation look like from the perspective of the Earth itself?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
this situation be perceived in a way that benefits all, & does the most
good?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I communicate that perspective effectively?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
personal/mundane and communal/spiritual octaves of grace - Venus & Neptune,
respectively, are also conjoined in this chart, in the sign of Pisces, ruled by
Neptune. Venus is the depositor of both retrograding Mars (depositor of the
Sun), & the eclipsed Libra Moon, & she is also trine Jupiter, and
sextile Pluto. Here’s where we get that surrender from. Surrender to this time
of being torn apart. Although our society tells us to hold on tight, to keep
ourselves, our relationships, our work, our homes - everything - under control,
the planets are telling us to let go of the illusion of control. In truth, the <i>only</i>
thing we have the ability to control is the flow of our own minds - i.e, our
consciousness. The rule of thumb is let go of anything that impedes your
control of your own mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
you practice surrender while maintaining compassion for yourself & others?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
trying to control something that is not yours -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e.g. another person, a large situation, etc?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If you
let go of those situations, what does that do for your ability to control the
flow of your own mind?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are
there any balls in your juggling roster that you can drop, either temporarily
or entirely?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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month’s posting will cover the next exact square between Uranus & Pluto,
the Annular Solar Eclipse in Taurus - the second to last eclipse we’ll have in
this axis for nearly a decade, & the completion of the Mars retrograde. As
for this month, consider how you may release what holds you back in an honoring
& sacred way - this is the true meaning of sacrifice. Such sacred release
leads ultimately to sacred embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“‘Who
are <i>You?</i>’ said the Caterpillar... Alice replied... ‘I hardly know... at
least I know who I <i>was</i> when I got up this morning, but I think I must
have been changed several times since then.’” - from <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>
by<i> </i>Lewis Carroll<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pisces solar month: 2/18/14 - 3/20/14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you
relate with Alice’s response to the Caterpillar, congratulations - you are in
alignment with the current energetic thrusts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Sun transits through Pisces, it’s time to let go of
who you think you are, and put your energy and attention into merging with
whatever presents itself to you. Only through surrendering your perceptions of
yourself can your new true self emerge in the Aries month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It’s
time, now, to pay attention to your dreams, & to direct the flow of your
life through the realm of visions, insights & inklings. Pisces is the
master of ambiguity, with one foot in this world & one foot in the beyonds.
Until Neptune, the ruler of Pisces, enters Aries in 2025, we are in a time of
all things Pisces intensified. So forgive everything & everyone, exercise
compassion with yourself & others, & walk the razor’s edge of the
mystic: absolute awareness with utter surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What
new levels of forgiveness can you reach this month - towards both yourself
& others?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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things shift when you tap into compassion in difficult situations - for
yourself & others?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do you
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arising in your dreams these days - both in sleep & in waking?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What is
arising in your imagination these days?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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surrender to what these images, themes & energies suggest?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nodal shift into Aries/Libra: 2/18/14 - 11/13/15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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month, we begin trekking through the foothills of the energetic mountains of
2014, so let your heart open wide (Leo rules the heart) with the Leo full moon
on 2/14, interestingly falling on that day that people think about romance
& companionship. That, friends, is some cosmic foreshadowing because four
days later, the lunar nodes (points indicating karmic release & evolution)
enter the Aries/Libra axis of self/partnership, where they’ll transit until
late 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With
the south node in Aries, it’s time to let go of “my way or the highway”
behaviors & attitudes. If you have story lines about being a survivor, a
hero against the odds, or a renegade all on your own against the world, it’s time
to change your story. Instead, tap into Aries’ most positive traits - courage,
loyalty, enthusiasm, vitality & vision to help you tap into your Libran
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the north node in
Libra, it’s time to develop your capacity for compromise, your ability to
instigate peace, your aesthetic sensibilities, your embodiment of grace, &
your relationship skills.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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great key to evolving through the Aries/Libra axis is allowing your
relationships with others to expand who you are as an individual through
accepting, understanding, & eventually embracing their differences. Once
again, the Alice & the Caterpillar theme of surrendering who you’ve been
& who you think you are presents itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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see yourself as a survivor?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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might your life change if you saw yourself as powerful instead?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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ways have you experienced grace?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you invite more grace into your life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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see yourself as heroically facing the world all alone?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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might your life alter if you acknowledged all the help & support you have
received from others?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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might your life alter if you learned how to effectively ask for help?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you cultivate peace & beauty in yourself, in your life, & in the world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mars retrograde: 3/1/14 - 5/19/14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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case you were planning on slacking on the lunar node work, the planets have
aligned a few persuasive arguments in favor of evolution. Mars, the ruler of
Aries, will be retrograding through the sign of Libra for two and a half
months. He stations retrograde very close to the degree of the next lunar
eclipse in Libra (4/15/14), and opposite Eris, a modern ruler of Libra. The
next day, on 3/2/14, Venus - the traditional ruler of Libra - makes an exact
square with Mars, still almost stationary in the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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layperson’s terms, what all that means is your relationships will be your main
source of growth right now. You will experience that as challenges in existing
relationships, new relationships that stretch both your strength & your
level of understanding, & also great rewards in/through relationships after
you’ve put in much honest effort. Eris’ presence in this configuration suggests
that if you are experiencing strife in your relationships, it is because you
are not seeing the whole picture. In that case, find the missing piece that
alters your perception. Depending on the situation, that may necessitate
leaving a relationship, surrendering to being wholly in a relationship,
changing the nature of a relationship, or changing your role within a
relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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there any strife showing up in your relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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might you need to shift how you direct your energy in your relationships, based
on that strife?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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your balance of compromise & self-advocacy in your various relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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relationships might need to alter form, either ending, committing deeper, or
shifting gears?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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roles do you play in your relationships? Do these seem appropriate, or do they
need to shift?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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assert yourself gracefully?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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courageous in your compromises?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2014/01/sun-in-aquarius-2014-mercury-retrograde.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mercury stations direct</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> in Aquarius
on 2/28/14. Please wait a week to celebrate that fact because it takes a while
for him to get back up to speed. By then, Mars will be retrograde, so remember
to <b>be patient & flexible through the first half of 2014.</b> We entered
the year of the horse and a new elemental cycle in the Chinese astrological
system recently, but we still have a mass of retrogrades to contend with. There
will be movement, but it will be two steps forward, one step back until roughly
July. Then it’s time to hold onto your hats because the pace will be wild.
Until then, try to enjoy the slow pace, & surrender to the setbacks as they
are ultimately leading you to a truer alignment with your own heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bay
Area folks, I’ll be teaching a class on energetic applications of herbs for
current astrological trends at </span><a href="http://www.homesteadapothecary.com/Happenings"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Homestead Apothecary</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> in north Oakland on Thursday, March 13th, 2014 at
6pm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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month’s posting will cover the explosive eclipse in Libra that occurs in tandem
with a Grand Cardinal Cross (Want change? Here it comes!) & a farewell
solar eclipse in Taurus. By the way, you are already feeling that Libra
eclipse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As for
this month, when in doubt, surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Surrender
to what is present & current with awareness & grace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/">schedule</a></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a private <span style="color: black;">astrological</span>
consult, healing session, or healing intensive in person, over the phone, or
via Skype. Feel free to </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rae13diamond">like</a></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, forward this page on &
repost it as you see fit. Until next time, wishing you insight &
heartsight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading, <a href="http://raediamond.com/home.html">Rae Diamond</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sun in Aquarius, Mercury Retrograde</div>
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Sun in Aquarius: 1/19/14 - 2/18/14</div>
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Mercury Retrograde: 2/6/14 - 2/28/14</div>
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Here we are - a mass of consciousnesses, coexisting in some plane of existence that many of us call reality. We bump into each other - this reminds us that we are not alone here, and offers us some reflective surface to bounce our perceptions off of. This is how we test our awareness, either proving or disproving our perceptions.</div>
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Here we are - a mass of souls, infinitely interconnected through some web that spans all of time & space. There is a force that bonds us, feeds us, heals & teaches us. This force reaches us through our interactions with each other, and through our own awareness of this force. Some call it love, but it is stronger & vaster than any name we could give it.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="style" style="color: #ab1942; line-height: 25px; opacity: 1;">The solar month of Aquarius, 2014</span> offers you the opportunity to gain insight into</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 21px;">your
connexions to others on intimate, communal and spiritual levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any transit of the Sun through
Aquarius, we tend to be focused on community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reach out to others, meet new people, and ideally stir up
our stable reality with some inspired spontaneity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, we have a couple of interesting twists to this
already interesting Aquarian plot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Plot
Twist #1:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus, ruler of beauty, grace, abundance, and relationship,
continues her retrograde</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> in Capricorn
(since 12/21/13) until January 31st.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This influence has given you ample opportunities to reevaluate the
structures of your life, to reevaluate the relationships you’re in and how you
operate within those relationships, and to reevaluate your current financial
status, financial goals, & how you intend to attain those goals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally once Venus stations direct, we
get to implement outer-world shifts, based on our retrograde-induced
reevaluation process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to plot twist
#2 (see below), and to the delay-inducing influence of Capricorn, and to
further sticky elements ahead, these changes will be slow in manifesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Rule of thumb for the first half of
2014: Be patient!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Look at
the investments - financial <i>and</i> otherwise - you’ve made or are making
during this time, and consider what these investments might lead you to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Why are
you investing your time, energy, money, and devotion into these items or
actions or creations?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
important to you about them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What,
exactly, is important to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
where you put your time and energy teach you about what is important to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are
your goals in alignment with your values - in relationship, in life, in career,
in thought, in deed?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Plot
Twist #2:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury, the trickster god & ruler of communication &
transportation, stations retrograde</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> in Pisces on
February 6th, and then moves backwards into Aquarius on February 12th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>General Mercury retrograde advice is
back up your computers & other communication devices, tune up your
transportation vehicles, & get any upcoming travel plans squared away <i>before</i>
February 6th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then be flexible
with how things unfold throughout February.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go with the flow, especially when things go awry, and open
yourself to any insights the inevitable communication & transportation
glitches may offer you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
this specific Mercury retrograde cycle in Pisces & Aquarius:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">February 6th - 12th</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
does your mood effect your perceptions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
you need to forgive in yourself and others, & how will this forgiveness
ultimately free you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
perceive things from the role of victim or martyr?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would
happen if you changed that story?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">February 12th - 28th</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
your perceptions shaped by your community?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
unique perspective do you have to offer humanity?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is that
perspective </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">ripe<i> yet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, how can you nurture it into its
fullest expression?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
allowing room in your mind for other perspectives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">listening<i>?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Plot
thickener:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">That pesky Cardinal T-square</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> (see
last month’s post) - Throughout the past couple months and the coming months,
we are balancing various tensions between masterminding longterm shifts in our
responsibilities, increasing our experience of nourishment, and
implementing/expressing fresh & sometimes radical insights into who we
are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are disparate energies
that for now feel incongruous, but will integrate into a cohesive whole in the
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do your best to manage the
balance of inner and outer needs, and personal and relationship needs, which
may require elongating your sense of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Next month’s report will cover the lunar nodes’ entry into the
Aries/Libra axis</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until then, we are completing one and a half years of
evolution in the Taurus/Scorpio axis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Consider these questions, as we complete this nodal transit:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
you identified your core truths?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
taking appropriate risks, based on your core truths?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
you released grasping at security & safety, in favor of what truly &
deeply matters to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
transformations have taken place in you & in your life since September
2012?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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next time, wishing you insight & heartsight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">Winter Solstice, 2013 & a Peek at 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Capricorn: 12/21/13 (PDT) through 1/19/14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Reality,
realization, really, real, surreal, ethereal - the Latin root of these words
means, “thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“Thing”
comes from an Old German word that referred not only to inanimate objects, but
also meetings and matters of concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the coming months, notice the encounters - the <i>meetings</i> - in
your life... encounters with other people, encounters between matter &
non-matter (i.e. energy, emotion, thought, the mysterious), & encounters
between the various parts of yourself - between the parts you know well and the
parts you hide from yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
questions - the <i>real</i> questions - for the Capricorn solar month & for
all of this winter season are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the “things” of my life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
did they come to be?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
“things” are worth bringing into being?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What am
I encountering, & how did I manifest those encounters?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
this matter really concern me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
so, how?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, how can I drop
it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Although the December </span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">17</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">th Gemini
Full Moon is a hectic time</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, give those
questions some initial rumination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With personal genius-stimulating Uranus stationing direct in
revolutionary Aries, & mental Mercury applying to a conjunction with the
energizing Sun in late philosophy-minded Sagittarius, fresh insight is readily
available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The proximity of the
Sun to the Galactic Center offers access to unifying ideas, which will be quite
useful in dealing with the ongoing loose Grand Cardinal Cross - an influence
that has us going in every direction at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, there is a cosmic reason you feel like a chicken
running about with its head cut off.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Winter Solstice - December </span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">21</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">st - is a
power-packed day</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> as the Sun enters
nose-to-the-grindstone Capricorn, & less than five hours later Venus stations
retrograde at the tail end of that same sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’ll be retrograding through late to mid-Capricorn until
January </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">31</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">st, </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2014</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
tend to feel Venus retrograde periods intensely as issues with finances,
relationships & values come to the fore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Venus is the esoteric ruler of Gemini, so communication is
also affected - not in the Mercurial way of losing cell phones and such, but
rather in direct, Venusian person-to-person interactions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Venus rules the compromises we make in
order to keep the peace, & our ability to tune into another person’s views
& state of being in order to relate effectively with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her retrograde through Saturn-ruled
Capricorn suggests necessary adjustments in our work & responsibilities,
based on our changing values, changing finances, & changing relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Sabian symbol for the degree of Venus’ retrograde station is <i>“a woman
reading tea leaves.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
danger of this influence is allowing mundane details & pesky nuisances to
bog you down, & thus receiving tainted insights that maintain your current
level of realization through that smoggy filter of awareness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The high road is to <span style="color: #990033;">steady your mind on what truly matters to you</span>,
& allow insight to filter your way through that lens so that you are able
to realize newer, truer “things” for yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus retrograde questions:</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
I value?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I living, acting,
speaking & </span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">thinking<i> in tune with
my values?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What am
I responsible for, based on my values?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is this in alignment with the responsibilities I’ve actually taken on?</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars in Libra is applying to an opposition with Uranus & a
square with Pluto</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, stimulating another
Cardinal T-square, & a loose Grand Cardinal Cross with Jupiter retrograde
in mid-Cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll feel these
influences strongly starting in late December and early January, & again in
mid-January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That feeling is the
uncomfortable combination of these many disparate tugs:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">1,
deepening your commitments to & restructuring your life for the sake of
your long-term goals (Pluto in Capricorn),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2,
acting - sometimes suddenly - on revolutionizing insights (Uranus in Aries), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">3,
balancing your will with necessary compromise, especially in relationships
(Mars in Libra), &<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">4,
clarifying your true needs, & updating your beliefs around your access to
nourishment (Jupiter retrograding in Cancer).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn in Scorpio</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> is both trine
Jupiter in Cancer, stimulating both inspired & practical planning in those
matters that have deeper meaning & offer greater nourishment, & square
the Leo Moon, insinuating tension between your need for carefree joy and the
work of attending to your responsibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Make sure you create space for play this season</b>, even
as your work sweeps up your time, energy & resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This configuration suggests that play
is what ultimately feeds your work, & brings you the most nourishment in
the long run.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Trends of </span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The new moon in Capricorn occurs in the wee hours of the first day of
the new year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We enter the year
with half of the major bodies used in astrology in the sign of Capricorn - the
Sun, the Moon, Pluto & Mercury are all closely conjoined in mid-Capricorn,
while Venus retrogrades in late Capricorn, applying to a sextile with Saturn in
Scorpio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Grand Cardinal Cross,
mentioned above, is in full effect.</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Based
on those hard-driving patterns, the following questions will be fruitful guides
at that new moon, & throughout </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2014</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I maintain a sense of balance, freedom & loving softness, even when my
responsibilities & goals demand my time, energy, resources & focus?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
working towards what really matters to me, or am I just working?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
taking time out to enjoy the fruits of my labors, & to make sure I’m still
on course?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The rule of thumb for a happy & successful </span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> is plan some really good vacations</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> because your<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>responsibilities will have you working triple time this
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The surest way to balance
out that heavy dose of hard-working, goal-fixated, Saturn-ruled Capricorn is to
step away from your normal reality every so often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will give you the personal freedom Uranus in Aries asks
of you, the compassion, healing & dreamtime Neptune & Chiron in Pisces
require, the loving tenderness & self-care Jupiter in Cancer calls for,
& with all that you’ll meet the drive for overall balance inspired by Mars
in Libra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Full Moon in Cancer on January </span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">15</span><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">th</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">
stimulates another round of Grand Cardinal Cross intensity... as if full moons
aren’t intense enough on their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Retrograding Venus in Capricorn is applying to a square with Mars in
Libra, applying tension to relationships, especially around issues of
responsibility and compromise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Temper your communications by stating what’s important to
you, & finding out what is important to the people you are communicating
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Differing values lead to
different points of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
will consistently be at the root of your misunderstandings & discussions at
this time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Also in
this full moon chart, Mercury in Aquarius (ruled by Uranus) is applying to a
sextile with Uranus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
influence offers profound insight, especially if you “think outside the box.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best advice for this full moon is
take some time to brainstorm & improvise in any medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you enjoy automatic writing (</span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">
minutes of non-stop writing without lifting your pen until an alarm goes off,
based on a given word, phrase or other idea-stimulator), <span style="color: #990033;">here are some planetary energy-inspired prompts for
mid-January:</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I’m
inspired by...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In
balance<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
really feeds me:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What I
won’t admit to myself:</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And
that brings us to the end of the Capricorn solar month, at the end of which,
the days will be noticeably lengthening once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay tuned for the Aquarius solar month report, which will
cover the next Mercury retrograde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did I mention that the first half of </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2014</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> will be dominated by pesky inner planet
retrogrades?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #990033;">Write your plans in the sand, friends.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Summer’s the time for bigger leaps
& steadier commitments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">Solar Month of Sagittarius, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Sagittarius: 11/21/13 (PDT) through 12/21/13</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">What
comes into your mind when you read the following word?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">REWARD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Spend
some time with your answers (aside from any answers involving wanted posters
from old Western movies or desperate lost pet flyers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll ask you again in the spring, &
you’ll then find your answers to be quite different - richer & deeper in
meaning, & with a sense of a vaster timespan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On a
similar yet different note, one of the things I get asked the most as an
astrologer is, “When will things get better?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only honest answer to this question is, “There is no
such thing as better.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a
professional, so I have a better bedside manner than to say that directly to
someone struggling with the beasts of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these planetary reports are truth time, so it’s safe to
say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Things
will not get better because there is no such thing as better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things will change, & hopefully we
will evolve both as individuals & as a species so that we perceive &
experience these changes in a more open way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But for
now, we are many planets, eclipses, & sensitive points deep in
truth-telling, transformation-inducing Scorpio, in the throes of an on-going
tense configuration of outer planets, decades away from gaining our bearings
after the 2006 discovery of Eris (named after the goddess of strife!), &
about to enter into an inner planet retrograding bonanza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This age we find ourselves in, friends,
is challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>But</i> the
coming solar month may feel just a tad softer than the previous month & the
proceeding months, so whoop up & enjoy your holidays - or your avoidance of
them - as the case may be... because we’ll be entering a dense time this Winter
Solstice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The Sagittarius solar month begins on November 21st</span></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> with a close alignment of the recently stationed
retrograde ruler of Sagittarius, Jupiter, dark moon Lilith & the Moon in
the lunar home sign of Cancer, all widely trine Saturn, Mercury & the lunar
north node in Scorpio, & recently stationed direct Chiron in Pisces. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a loose grand water trine,
reminding you to manage your emotions this month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s how this planetary set-up asks you to do just that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Cancer conjunction:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
happens when I deepen my faith in the support of the Universe?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
I see my needs evolving, & how can I plan to support my future needs,
rather than my present desires? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
needs am I afraid of acknowledging?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Am I projecting these “unsightly” needs onto others?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Scorpio conjunction:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
responding appropriately to my needs, & to the needs of those I’m closest
with?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
effectively communicating my needs, or am I expecting others to just know what
I need & provide it for me, like a mother for an infant?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Where
do my needs & my deepest desires meet, & where do they diverge?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the most important responsibilities in my life - those things that having
attended to them will allow me to die in peace, when my time in this body comes
to a close?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Chiron in Pisces insights:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
situations in my life will shift with the salve of FORGIVENESS?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hint: Consider those wounds that will
never go away in your most intimate relationships, & in your family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgive the unforgivable, & see
what happens.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
being compassionate enough - with myself as well as with others?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">With
the Sun in Sagittarius, the glues that will hold you together this solar month
will be to maintain your optimism, deepen your faith, & do some
behind-the-scenes work on taking right risks on yourself & your
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Sagittarian ruler,
Jupiter in retrograde, you may find it difficult to act outright until the
spring, or if you do get big plans set in motion now, expect them to revise,
revision & realign in the coming months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>November closes with Venus in the shadow of her coming
retrograde in Pluto-tinted Capricorn, & Mercury out of his recent
retrograde in Scorpio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
in-depth chapter closes, & another one opens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">In the first week of December, things lighten up a bit</span></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> as Mercury enters optimistic Sagittarius on the
4th, & Mars enters Libra on the 7th.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This follows closely on the heels of the December 2nd Sagittarius new
moon, so you’ll leap into a more hopeful, fresh start feeling around then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Mercury in Sagittarius:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
happens when I “zoom out” the camera of my perception in the various
situations/relationships in my life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
philosophies glue my experience of reality together in a way that inspires me
to feel a vaster faith in the Universe, in humanity, & in myself?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Mars in Libra:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
compromising when a need to relinquish is necessary?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
standing up for myself when it’s necessary to stay my ground?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
doing the above in direct, effective & appropriate ways?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">On the December 17th Gemini full moon</span>, </span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">electrifying Uranus grinds to a halt
in the sky as he stations direct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At this point, the on-going Pluto/Uranus square - that challenges us as
individuals & as a species to evolve the greater structures of our lives
& governments while also managing outbursts of revolt against constrictions
& jolting insights that rock our sense of reality - is now a grand cardinal
cross, with Jupiter in Cancer & asteroids Vesta & Ceres in Libra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">Uranus stationing direct:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
have my revolutionary visions shifted since mid-July?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
my inspiration now?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
my muse now calling me to do that requires a new level of courage?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%;">The cardinal cross:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I better balance activating my personal vision with nurturing & tending my
most important relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
can I do to live in better harmony with the earth, tending & stewarding
this precious home we share with many other beings?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
being disciplined in my attention to the vaster shifts I’m making in my life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
acting on my insights, & bringing them into reality in a way that accounts
for the greater context of our shared reality?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Capricorn (December 21st, 2013 - January 31st, 2014) in next month’s
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sun in Scorpio: 10/22/13 (PDT) through 11/21/13<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury Retrograde: 10/21/13 - 11/10/13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Lunar Eclipse in Aries: 10/18/13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Copperplate; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Copperplate; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Solar Eclipse in Scorpio: 11/3/13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
fly in your dreams?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know
that keen lightness of being that occurs in those Morphean moments of deepest
sleep, when some part of you remembers, “Oh, all I have to do is let go,
and...” suddenly you’re floating, soaring, weightless, & in a state of
consummate grace?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The coming
month, pregnant with Scorpio-infused death-and-rebirth invites you to bring
this elevated state into your waking life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be clear, however, a Scorpio invitation is neither polite
nor genial if you resist it or delay your response to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That invitation then becomes a
superlative-soaked insistence, & eventually an out-right ultimatum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
first question, then, is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
feel backed into a corner?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If so,
you have ignored or delayed too long the invitation to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there’s hope!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve been backed into a corner with a
door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your only choice now is to
suffer the constraints of your cloistered position, or go through that doorway
into the uncertain & unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">There’s
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">A few notes about Friday, October 18th’s lunar eclipse in Aries:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This is
a stage setter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
astronomically minor eclipse is important in three energetic ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One, it offers you an opportunity to
release some garbage in preparation for the total eclipse in Scorpio on
November 3rd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two, it is your
introduction to the Aries/Libra axis eclipses that will grow stronger over the
next couple of years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The themes of
I vs. thou, will vs. compromise, force vs. grace are now introduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Third, it is an opportunity to begin
some deep work on the ways you are in relationship, which will be up for major
shifts in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If you
are up for an impromptu adventure in the desert, come to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/483546475076173/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">this extraordinary
gathering</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> this weekend (October 18-20),
where I will be speaking further about this eclipse in conjunction with several
seasonal ceremonies & celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mercury stations retrograde on Monday, October 21st.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">These
Mercury retrograde cycles are famous for causing pesky problems in
communication and transportation - cell phones falling into buckets of paint,
voice mail messages disappearing unheard into the ether, a rash of flat bicycle
tires, public transportation systems out of whack, car troubles that have been
manageable suddenly refusing to be ignored any longer, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general rule of thumb with all of
this is back up your computers, pull the glass bits out of your bike tires,
tune up your car, and so on <i>before</i> the retrograde cycle begins, &
then be calm & flexible through the wonkiness that will inevitably ensue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But
there are deeper and vaster forces (see below) acting in conjunction with
Mercury’s inversion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rule of
thumb is let go of your vexation that you may access the profound
transformation that awaits you beneath the facade of mundane mis-events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sun enters Scorpio the next day, on
Tuesday, October 22nd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence the
solar month will be colored with Mercury’s near-still, subtle backwards
motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, among many other
planetary influences in the coming weeks - the time of “the thin veil” between
this reality & the beyonds - ask you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
let go of the world’s claim to your time, energy & perception?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
let go of everything you think you are or ought to be?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
get out of your own way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
trust that your true path, your truest way of being will emerge if you simply
let it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
be patient with the timing of things you cannot control?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
acknowledge that you are not in control?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
find & be in your deepest point of stillness?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
answer to all of the above questions, no matter who you are, is, “Yes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may or may not be easy for you to do
some of those things, but you most certainly are able.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unknowable, however, is <i>will</i>
you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is another matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The most significant event of the Scorpio month is the full
solar eclipse in Scorpio on Sunday, November 3rd.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Moon’s shadow will pass over the
earth on this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We won’t see it
in North America, but we will most certainly feel that specific alignment of
the Sun, Moon & Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will
feel the massive conjunction of retrograding Mercury (realignment of
perceptions with a deeper truth), the Dragon’s Head (karmic point of evolution
urging you to take right risk), the Moon (deeper needs coming to light), the
Sun (deeper calling makes itself felt) and Saturn (step into your true
responsibility, exercise patience & steadfastness), all closely aligned in
Scorpio (release of ego in favor of Truth, thus accessing true power).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Your “homework” - tap into your subconscious (the “stuff” of
Scorpio!) with some automatic writing.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of you new to automatic
writing, set a timer for two minutes, start writing & do not stop moving
your pen until the timer goes off, even if all you can write at first is the
prompt over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let these
prompts also lead you to more prompts with specific meaning to you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Shadow<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Power<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sex<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Death<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Communication<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Letting
go<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“I
need...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“I
want...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“I
value...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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noteworthy events that add to the general sludgy stickiness of this time are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus enters Capricorn on November 5th, where she will be
gracefully dancing to and fro until early March.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally, Venus transits through a sign
in less than four weeks, but she’ll be kicking off both winter & 2014 with
her relatively rare retrograde cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More on that in December’s report, but for now, take note of issues that
surface around relationships, finances, values, patience & responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Jupiter stations retrograde on November 6th, & will continue
to move backwards in Cancer through early March 2014.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
won’t be as overtly disruptive as a Venus or Mercury retrograde, but note what
arises for you in the realms of nurturing, nourishment, tenderness and
trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Scorpio asks us to
let go of what we cling to in order for something truer to find us, Jupiter in
Cancer asks us to let go of needing to have a plan, of needing to know how
things will turn out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
influence asks you to take just that next step, not knowing where it will
lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Jupiter retrograding,
the steps will be inwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will
be creating a vaster space within in order to receive a vaster embrace in the
outer world in spring 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Neptune & Chiron station direct in Pisces in mid-November.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
will ask you these riddles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have
you let go of any martyr tendencies you may have, and the anger that seethes
beneath?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your capacity for forgiveness of yourself & others?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
true perfection - not the kind we strive for in this reality, but something
more profound?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
allow yourself redemption - what signs of change do you see in your seemingly
unsolvable issues?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you
allow for others’ redemption - what signs of change do you see in the people
you perceive to be stuck?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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dear reader, is enough nit and grit for this month’s report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to true freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish you well
on your journey through the darkness of grasping into the light of open
trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I’ll
let you in, dear reader, on a little trade secret:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The experience of chart interpretation illustrates the
energy of the chart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fancy
word for this is metalogue, in which one experiences the very thing one is
talking or thinking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
pour my consciousness over the charts I consult to write this report (insert
mental image here of a golden, viscous elixir pouring from a silver pitcher,
& spreading smoothly over symbols that weave themselves in shifting
multi-dimensional webs), I experience conflicting bursts of insight, periods of
disenchantment & distraction, & tugs between my private affairs and my
responsibilities & relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The crux of this preamble</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> is we
have many conflicting energies to deal with in the coming month, &
throughout Autumn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time
period requires strong staying power to keep on task once you determine what
that task is for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, it
won’t be just one task, although you’ll probably wish it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good news is there will be profound
rewards for these efforts, so roll up your pant-legs & slog on through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">First, let’s explore 9/19’s Pisces Full Harvest Moon, which
you’ll feel stronger on 9/18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Generally, at this full moon, we kiss summer
good-bye, reap our harvests (figuratively & metaphorically), & ideally
take some time to feel & express deep gratitude for the abundance in our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pisces’ influence can add
qualities of overwhelm & overindulgence, or profound gratitude &
transcendence - choose your own adventure, as always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The big
to-do at this full moon, however, is the conjunction of Saturn & the North
Node - i.e. the heavy hitters in karma-land - in “dig-deeper” Scorpio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This combination asks for enormous
release in order for a truer path to emerge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Venus moves through these two points this week, you can
expect transformation to occur in your relationships - closure, new
relationships, new phases within existing relationships, power struggles, &
profound sexual encounters are all fair game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
your deepest, core values indicate as your true responsibilities?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is
there anything in life that you are experiencing pain about?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is
there something you’re grasping at in relationship to that pain?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
might come forth if you let that go?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
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</span>What are you harvesting?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Pluto stations direct in the days between the full moon & the
equinox.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could be fruitful to review any major internal shifts
you’ve felt since mid-April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
big questions in this regard are: <i>What new sense of power have I discovered
since April?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the limitations of my power?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Autumn Equinox occurs as the Sun enters Libra on 9/22.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
chart cast for this season shows various flavors of tension & conflict, but
also potential for big rewards for work done honestly, thoroughly & with
devotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take a risk, this
Autumn, on following those inner longings, but be sure to see them through
whatever set-backs, delays, & losses may occur along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus is the queen in this chart</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> -
ruling the Sun in Libra, conjunct Saturn and the North Node in Scorpio (<i>be
responsible for & take action on what & who has deepest value to you,
& let go of anything<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that does
not resonate with your heart of hearts</i>), square Mars in Leo (<i>conflict
between your deepest values & your need for joy & enjoyment, as well as
strong potential for impatience & ego-infused disagreements</i>), trine
Jupiter in Cancer (<i>here’s that reward for taking a leap of faith on your
deepest longings, but Saturn’s influence will add delays & setbacks</i>),
and opposite the South Node & Moon in Taurus (<i>the imperative for change
& risk trumps desires for stability & serenity,</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a busy gal, that Venus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow, amidst all of this, she
imparts her sense of style & grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The colors this season?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With Venus in Scorpio, & conjunct Saturn, it’ll be black, deep reds,
burgundy, greys & earth tones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, astrology affects fashion too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
energetic intensity knob turns up in <span style="color: black;">early
October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The New Moon at 12
degrees Libra on 10/4 hearkens back to <span style="color: black;">last month’s
Cardinal Cross</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may
review </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2013/08/sun-in-virgo-grand-cardinal-cross-sun.html"><span style="color: #cc0033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">last month’s report</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> for details
on this energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The short version
is use your growing awareness of what really, truly matters to keep you focused
as you feel pulled between inner & outer responsibilities - personal &
relationship needs, worldly calling & family needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t attend to all of these needs
in any one moment, but try to keep the balance right in the greater time-context
of your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to this
drawn-&-quartered potential, Mercury is moving into a conjunction with the
North Node & Saturn as h<span style="color: black;">e enters the shadow of
his retrograde in Scorpio (10/21 - 11/10)</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This combination brings more clarity to the questions posed
at the beginning of this report (see the full moon homework above).<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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October</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> 2013 is interplanetary back-up
your computers & other devices, & service your cars & bicycles
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take care of such pesky
details in the first half of October, so you can really dig into the Scorpionic
depths of painful loss in exchange for profound gain & true empowerment
without any mundane distractions getting in the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More on that in next month’s report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Although
New Moons are generally times to be quiet & internal, the forces pulling
you outwards at this time will likely overwhelm that sense of return &
renewal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Grand Cardinal Cross is
anything but internal, pulling you in every worldly direction imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even stronger than that, <span style="color: #990033;">this new moon marks the build-up towards the Aries Lunar
Eclipse on 10/18</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eclipses
are extremely powerful forces that affect us for months before & after the
actual eclipse date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, that
means you’ve already been tasting this fine Aries/Libra wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This eclipse is the first in the next
year & a half of Aries/Libra eclipses, so it functions as an introduction
to the themes we’ll be working with through the spring of 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Aries/Libra axis brings up questions of self versus “other,”</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> who/what we are versus who/what we are not, how
much to stand up for ourselves & how much to compromise for the sake of
harmony in relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expect
to confront your fears & have your courage tested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expect to face some tricky
decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the next year and a
half, let this quote from Hillel be your guide:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“If I
am not for myself, who will be for me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I am not for others, what am I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If not now, when?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
these Aries/Libra eclipses will affect you depends on whether you tend towards
the me-first side of things, or the compromise-until-you-snap side of
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of those attitudes
are somewhat valid, depending on the greater context of your situation, but
neither of those extremes is helpful or effective as a catch-all solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By spring 2016, if you stay on top of
your Aries/Libra eclipse lessons, you will be a master at knowing when &
how much me-first force to apply, & when & how much compromise to give
in to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In the
meantime, however, there will be growing pains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lunar eclipse finds the Moon aligned with the exacting
planetoid, Eris, goddess of strife & discord, & both luminaries square
Jupiter in Cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s safe to
say you can expect some emotional ow-ies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eris’ strife occurs when something essential is left out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until the missing pieces are
acknowledged & integrated into the whole (the whole of yourself, the whole
of your relationship, etc), there is discord & suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because lunar eclipses pull us apart so
we can put the pieces back together in a truer way, perhaps you’ll find a new
way to fit that missing, strife-inducing black sheep back into the fold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bare in
mind that these energies are affecting us on the global level as well as the
personal level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another aspect of
the Aries/Libra axis is war versus peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Consider the war & suffering in the world, & do what you can to
balance it by maintaining peace within & peace in your relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may seem esoteric, but we are
interconnected in ways we cannot sense or comprehend with our rational
minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mystics have known this for
ages, & physics has proved this, but society has yet to embrace it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s your chance to be ahead of the
curve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instill peace in the world
by <i>being</i> peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <i>is</i>
a kind of direct action - subtle but immensely powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Aries Lunar Eclipse Homework:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do I
tend to be a me-first person or a compromise-until-I-snap person?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hint: You might be both.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
situations in my life would shift & improve with more of a me-first
attitude?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
situations in my life would shift & improve with more compromise?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the strife I am experiencing?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
that strife indicate what is missing in my life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
discord am I encountering in my relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Does
that discord indicate what is missing in my relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Some
final advice, in regards to Uranus, Eris & the Moon in Aries during this
eclipse:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This is
volatile & potentially hurtful energy, made more incisive & critical by
Aries’ ruler, Mars, transiting through Virgo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curb your anger & impatience by drawing upon the compassion
& forgiveness available from Neptune in Pisces opposite Mars, & the
expansive, gregarious & generous energy of Venus in Sagittarius, ruling
that Libra Sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember to relate
the parts to the whole, keeping your sights on both the details & the context
in which you find them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be
generous with your kindness, forgiveness & love - for yourself, for those
you are in relations with, & ultimately, for humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may go </span></span><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">here</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> to schedule</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a private <a href="http://raediamond.com/planetary_reports.html" target="_blank">astrological consult</a>, a <a href="http://raediamond.com/energy_healing.html" target="_blank">Coalithesis energy healing</a> treatment, or an intensive <a href="http://raediamond.com/alithesis.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Alithesis</span> healing session</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you enjoy these reports,
please forward this page on & repost it as you see fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until next month’s posting (on
Mercury’s retrograde & more), maintain that tricky balance of inner &
outer needs, practice kindness towards yourself and others, & shed your old
skin so your true self can shine forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I hope
you’re ready to grow because staying safely within comfortable limitations,
within the bounds of the known, within the same-old, challenge-free &
familiar status quo is about to be officially and cosmically disallowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are stern & firm orders from
the big balls of rock and gas out yonder in the solar system, so I suggest you
roll up your sleeves, and get to work doing those things you know in your heart
it’s time to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But
first,<span style="color: black;"> let’s take a moment to orient ourselves in
solar time.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s orient
ourselves with the Sun - the center of our solar system, the massive ball of
nuclear fission-fueled fire that keeps all of these other balls of rock &
gas in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the Sun completes
its transit through Leo, its home sign, in the next few days, we are still in
the phase of connecting with & expressing our heart’s joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Once the Sun enters Virgo on 8/22, we will be in the time of
harvest.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Virgo’s unfortunate reputation as a hyper-critical
fuzz-budget is an over-inflation of this rich sign’s shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The light of Virgo is wholeness &
mastery, which is attained first through understanding the order of things (how
all the parts fit into the whole) in this material realm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mastery brings forth a great harvest,
which Virgo is intended to thoroughly enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shadowy critical side of Virgo comes forth if Virgo
forgets to relate the parts to the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Here are some guiding questions through the time of sensitive
& sensual Virgo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
I perceive as the order of things in my life, in my relationships, in my
career, in my family, in my past, in my present, & in the world around me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the contexts within which I find myself, my various relationships, my
career, my family, my past, my present, etc?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I ground myself & my perceptions within these greater contexts?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What am
I harvesting?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hint: harvests can
be joyous &/or painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note
both.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What am
I mastering?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Who are
my teachers?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Who are
my students?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are my skills?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I improve
upon them, or improve upon my sharing of them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
ways am I of service?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does this feel
in proper alignment with the wholeness of myself & the contexts in which I
find myself?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Because
Virgo enjoys being of service, you may enjoy helping me a wee bit by posting this <span style="color: #cc0033;"><a href="http://raediamond.com/intro.html">introduction to my work</a></span> in your emails & f-book pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much obliged, dear readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And now it’s time to dig into the nitty-gritty of the Grand
Cardinal Cross</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> - the major energetic
imperative of this solar month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
true Virgo fashion, let’s look at the parts, & relate them to the greater
whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case, the whole is
a grand cross in cardinal signs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cardinal signs are initiators, so this is time of new beginnings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A grand cross occurs when four or more
planets form a cross in the sky - two sets of opposing forces that are
simultaneously at odds with each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are overthrowing the old, & bringing some new vision into four
major areas of life (in this case selfhood, relationship, nourishment &
calling).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another imperative of a
grand cross is to consider a united whole (further supported by this Virgo
solar month), rather than being drawn & quartered by the various needs that
pull at you from hither & thither.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">At the
crux of this configuration, we have the </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-moon-in-gemini-summer-solstice.html"><span style="color: #cc0033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">longterm square</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> (2010 through
2015) between Pluto in Capricorn (death and rebirth at the structural level)
and Uranus in Aries (revolution now, often in sudden & aggressive
ways).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is similar about these
two energies is the imperative for change, but the difference is in style &
timing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Capricorn and Pluto
are in it for the long haul, making slight shifts that lead to major change
over time, & focusing on the big picture & on major goals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uranus & Aries, on the other hand,
are more sudden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aries is
impatient & interested in proving itself, while Uranus is inspired &
revolutionary, & tends to act in disruptive ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This energy is affecting us on the personal & collective
levels (hence all of the revolutionary activity in various countries,
overhauling of governments, massive earthquakes shifting the tilt of the
planet, etc).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Part
two of the Grand Cross is Jupiter in Cancer - opposite Pluto, & square
Uranus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This energy has been
building throughout the Leo solar month, so you may already be familiar with
the three-way tugs between your family/nourishment needs, your outer world
responsibilities, & your personal freedom/desire for newness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
final element of the Grand Cross is peace-loving Libra, initially graced by its
ruling planet, Venus, & then swiftly traversed by wily Mercury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Venus is in this Grand Cross
position at the time of the Sun’s entry into Virgo, however, her energy permeates
the Grand Cross throughout the solar month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In layman’s terms, we now have the added elements of right
relationship, wise compromise, grace, beauty, & fair communication thrown
into the mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Add it all together, and what do you get?</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">1,
Death and rebirth at the structural level with attendance to appropriate
longterm goals & right use of power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2, in
proper balance with increasing personal nourishment, attending to home, family,
& a more buoyant sense of personal history,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">3,
while at the same time balancing personal revolution based on fresh insights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">4, with
fairness, beauty, & grace in relationships, with the added help of open
& honest communication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Here are some leading questions to help you bring these opposing
energies into a whole picture:</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bringing
out the best of Jupiter in Cancer:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I be more nourished by my career/calling?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I be more nourished in my various relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Which
relationships do I need to nourish more, & which relationships do I need to
back off on?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I alter my sense of self so that I receive more nourishment, just from being
who I naturally am?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bringing
out the best of Venus & Mercury in Libra:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
making compromises that are equally fair to myself & to those I am in
relationship to?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
able to effectively articulate my perceptions, while maintaining openness to my
partner’s perceptions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do I
need to learn better communication skills (good listening as well as right
speech)?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the beauty in myself, in my relationships, in my home, in my calling, & in
my life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I increase my experience & awareness of beauty?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bringing
out the best of Pluto in Capricorn:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
my true calling?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I better
answer that call?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How
might I alter the structures of my life so that they are more nourishing, &
allow for a healthy balance of inner & outer world needs?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
dying in my life, & how can I let go, & allow it to die?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the rebirth, already in motion, that follows that death?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I create space for that
newness?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Bringing
out the best of Uranus in Aries:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Who am
I now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hint: Forget, for a moment,
who you have been, & who you would like to be.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I perceive & express myself in ways that deeply nourish me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I perceive & express myself in ways that are respectful of those I’m in
relationship with?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I perceive & express myself in ways that move me in the direction of my
true calling?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
ways have I freed myself since 2010?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For fun, write up a 5-year self-liberation plan.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Well,
friends, thanks for reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next
month’s posting will cover the lunar eclipse in Aries, & get you prepared
for October/November’s round of Mercury in retrograde.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may go </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/">here</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> to schedule</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a <a href="http://raediamond.com/astrology.html">private astrological consult</a>, or an <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://raediamond.com/alithesis.html">Alithesis</a></span> healing session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I transition into Oakland, CA, I’ll be available for astrological consultations over the phone, &
for Alithesis house calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My studio will be up & running by October 1st.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until next month’s posting, return to the wholeness of
yourself, & thoroughly enjoy the fruits of your personal harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please forward this posting on &
repost it as you see fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks
for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
great summer sea voyage of 2013 continues with another watery month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True, we have some islands popping up
in our midst, enabling us to rest & replenish now & again in the
warming sun as it creeps out from behind the drifting & shifting Cancerian
clouds into its full & fiery Leonine blaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, more than ever, your heart is your compass, &
synchronicity is your guiding star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With Venus entering Virgo shortly before & the full moon exact only
a couple hours after the entry of the Sun into Leo, the month promises to be
full-throttle, with a need to push outwards & upwards, & all the while,
managing both the details & the big picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ready?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Set?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But
first, a public service announcement: Come see </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/589122074465895/?context=create"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">my last art show in Seattle</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, up at
</span><a href="http://columbiacitybakery.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the Columbia City
Bakery</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> through 7/27.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a magical retrospective of my
favorite works from the past decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m moving to California, so some prices just might be negotiable...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The mind grinds to a halt in the last few days of the Cancer
solar month</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> as Uranus (insight) stations
retrograde on 7/17 & then Mercury (perception) stations direct on
7/20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, we have no
major planets in air signs for a while, so we must rely on our emotions (half
of the major planets are in water signs) to guide us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although we’re in the bright days of summer, we are feeling
our way through the darkness of our subconscious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for Uranus’ retrograde (7/17 - 12/17), whatever your big
push for freedom is, allow it to change form as needed, perhaps in sudden &
even shocking ways in the coming months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With Mercury’s shift into direct motion, you can expect things that have
felt hung up to get rolling by the end of July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best question to answer as Mercury finishes his
thrice-long swim in Cancer is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In what
ways are my perceptions based on my past experiences, rather than what is
actually happening here & now?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The grandest version of 2013’s Grand Water Trine is exact during
the week of the 15th, further activated by Mars towards the end of that week,
just before it morphs into a Grand Sextile at the end of the month. </span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is a use it or lose it opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe you’re trusting that everything will take care of itself, or
day-dreaming a lot, or feeling swept up in shifting emotional tides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s all well & good, but there
are profound opportunities showing up during this time that do require
action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general rules of thumb
to follow are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">1,
Think bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dream bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Explore with & expand from your
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">2, Put
effort into manifesting what has deepest meaning to you, but be patient as this
may require more time than you had anticipated, & you’ll need to stay open
to surprising turns & detours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">3,
Leave space & time for dreams & meditation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice & welcome synchronicity, & above all, allow
life to surprise you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">It’s a
tricky balance of <b>trust</b>, <b>effort</b> & all the while <b>leaving
space for magic to come in to play</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">7/27
through 7/31 are massively potent days with Mars activating a T-square with </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-moon-in-gemini-summer-solstice.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pluto & Uranus</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, & the
extremely rare occurrence of a Grand Sextile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two configurations offer a nice blend of the kind of
discomfort that forces growth with the kind of ideal conditions that allow for
growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, I remind you
to <b>seize opportunities that come your way</b>, & give them your all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Grand Sextile is a double grand trine, forming a six-pointed star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider that astrology is based on how
the planets appear from the perspective of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, <span style="color: #990033;">on Monday, 7/29, the
earth will be surrounded by a six-pointed star</span> - a potent mandala for
those of you who enjoy meditating on images & yantras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One triangle is the grand water
(emotions) trine, made up of slow & fairly slow moving planets<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(giving the configuration more potency
because it lasts longer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
other triangle, facing in the opposite direction, is a grand earth
(manifestation) trine, lasting only that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most basic interpretation of this energy is we are
granted the ability to manifest our dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds good, eh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As always, however, there is a potential dark side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must first make sure you are
dreaming the dreams that are right for you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Have I
been ignoring my needs or the needs of my family in my strivings for personal
freedom & attainment of major goals?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How can
I advocate for myself & make sure I’m being nourished, even as I strive for
freedom & for the attainment of major goals?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are my Big Life Dreams, & what will it take to actually manifest them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are my
dreams my own, or have I taken on the dreams of my family, of society, or
otherwise obscured my true desires?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
my body actually capable of doing from this point on, in regards to these aims?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do my
dreams, & my plans to manifest my dreams feel deeply nourishing to me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
dreaming as big as I can, while remaining within the realm of what is actually
possible to manifest?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Am I
walking my talk?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I better
walk my talk?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Is
there anything (dream that doesn’t fit, a used-up relationship, work that no
longer nourishes, etc) I need to sacrifice in order to attain those dreams that
are truest & most important to me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let’s
take an energetic look at the concept of sacrifice, which is a strong element
in this grand water trine, & further potentized by that edgy T-square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sacrifice entails a massive release of energy
- giving up something big, but also giving up the energy it took to hold onto
& maintain that big thing - for the purpose of honoring something even
bigger than that which was released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is, in this act, the opportunity to break a curse, to break free
of bondage, & to open to a reality that may actually surpass the bounty
& beauty of our dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
final set of questions, then, to ask yourself throughout the remainder of July
is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What am
I holding onto that is holding me back?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
I feel bound, or perhaps even cursed?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
might happen if I gave up something/someone I never thought I’d give up?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
the newness that is aching to emerge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What nourishes that newness, & what squelches it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
I love that loves me back?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
stands in the way of that exchange?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In
regards to this issue, you can keep that old saying in mind: If you love
something, let it go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it comes
back to you, it’s yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it
doesn’t return to you, it never actually was yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds like another version on the theme of trust, eh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
first half of August gives us an opportunity to assimilate the shifts
instigated in the latter half of June & all of July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you assimilate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rest!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be present, & above all, BE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be plenty to do in late August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take some time out in solitude at the
New Leo Moon on 8/6 to connect very intentionally with your heart, perhaps
through some creative outlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Express yourself to yourself, & see how you’ve changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
brings you joy now that you are who you are in this particular time &
place?</span></i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Well,
friends, thanks for reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next
month’s posting will go into the nitty-gritty of another round of T-square
activity, & more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until then,
please wish me luck in my move to California, & drop me a line if you know
of a nice cottage for rent in Oakland or Berkeley!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may go </span></span><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">here</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> to schedule</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a private <span style="color: black;">astrological</span>
consult, or an <span style="color: black;">Alithesis</span> healing session in
Seattle (July 18th is my last available day).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In August, I’ll be available for phone consultations &
for Alithesis house calls in the Bay Area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By September, I’ll be practicing in Oakland, CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until next month’s posting, <i>carpe
diem</i>! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please forward this
posting on & repost it as you see fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">“Shall
we go for a swim?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a friend
asks you that question, you could say, “No,” if you weren’t in the mood for a
swim, or if you didn’t know how to swim, or if you happened to be by some icy
or shark-infested water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when
the bulk of the Solar System asks you that question, you will be getting in the
water, like it or not, seemingly safe or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will all be going for a swim this summer, & we’ll be
learning some new strokes & techniques for better swimming this month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The metaphor breakdown:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">All
things watery symbolize the emotions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will be learning about what makes us tick emotionally this
month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we’ll have plenty of
opportunities (i.e. there will be some nice, gritty salt rubbing into some raw
& nasty old wounds) to learn how to work with our emotions better throughout
the summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">From
another perspective, water is profoundly cleansing, clarifying &
reflective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many things dissolve
in water, so that they can combine in new ways, or be carried away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, profound transformation &
letting go is possible in the coming months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reflective capabilities of water allow for new insight
& perspective - the ability to see what is right in front of your face
(often those things that everyone other than you can see).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clarifying aspects of water can
simplify heretofore complex or murky issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this is possible this summer, so long as you (insert
descending cello notes here for dramatic effect) take responsibility for your
emotions, exercise compassion for yourself & others, & dig down to the
heart of matters to reach the Truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How’s that for some summer fun?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whoopee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Sun enters Cancer, & ushers in Summer</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> on the evening of 6/20 (10:04, PDT) & the
morning of 6/21 (1:04 EDT).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>A
chart cast for this day affects not only the Cancer solar month, but also the
entirety of summer.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the
Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year - classically, a good time to
honor the apex of light, fire, & esoterically, masculine qualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the strongest element with the
most momentum in the Solstice chart is water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put those two elements together, & you’ve got Hot Water,
so you can expect to get cooked - this is a good opportunity to bring things to
fruition if you harness this energy consciously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Operative
in this solstice chart is the Big Astrological Event of the summer that all of
us astrologers are clucking about - the Grand Water Trine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grand trines have an unstoppable
momentum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The element of water
will give this summer a sense of really getting swept up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emotions can run wild with this
configuration, so the Mercury retrograde that begins on 6/26 will help you in
deciphering the seemingly secret code that is your emotional/mental
patterning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More on that below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
grand water trine involves Neptune & Chiron in Pisces (rather than
releasing your wounds themselves, you can release their grip on you or your
reactions/resistance to them), Saturn in Scorpio (take responsibility for what
matters most), & a stream of various planets in Cancer (various lessons in
nourishment & the cyclical nature of life), most potent of which will be
Jupiter in mid-July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
Solstice, we have the Sun & a Lilith in this spot, suggesting both extreme
light & extreme shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further potentizing this configuration is the slow movement of the three
main planets involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gives
our water wheel a slow pace, but a great force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expect things to change radically, but exercise
patience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good rule of thumb: <span style="color: #990033;">You will never be the same again after this summer.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, that’s always true - we’re always
changing, but thinking in those terms will help you seize this energy more
effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If you
were to be “never the same again,” what would you want that change to be?
(Hint: think of an evolution of your current state)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
emotions & emotional patterns of response are you hanging on to that are
holding you back from evolving?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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nourishes you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What places are
nourishing to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
relationships are nourishing to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do you
acknowledge & nourish your sources?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Hint: support that/those which support/s you)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What do
you have to be grateful for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
does gratitude FEEL like in your body & mind?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Are you
owning your emotions as created by you, or are you blaming other people,
society, or institutions for how you feel?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How are
your emotions affecting your body?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The full moon in Capricorn is just a few days later, on the
morning of 6/23.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the configurations from the Solstice are still in
effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great tool here is the
Moon, powerful through the Sun’s presence in her home sign, & placed in
grounding, steady-as-she-goes, eye-on-the-prize Capricorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who’s ever swam at the seashore
knows that you need to pause every so often to see where you are in relation to
the land, lest you get swept out to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This full moon in Capricorn reminds us to check back in with objective
reality, rather than getting lost in the sea of our personal perceptions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the actual facts & train of events in the situations &
relationships you’re in?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">How do
things look different if you take away your interpretations of those facts?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Jupiter enters Cancer on 6/25</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, where
he’ll be swimming about until next summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the low end of the Jupiter in Cancer spectrum, we may
experience emotional overwhelm that leads to excess, especially with food &
sugar (sugar cane grows in the tropic of Cancer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also watch out for instances of cancer affecting either you
or those you love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disease of
cancer is ruled by the sign of Cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jupiter makes everything it touches Bigger, so that’s a potentially
troublesome combination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the
high end of this spectrum, we are strongly encouraged & enabled to follow
our heart in expansive ways, & to reap major rewards through doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Cancer is an incredibly resilient
& cyclical sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
Jupiter’s keynotes is Faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
things are looking down in the coming year, trust that they will come back
around in some way or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
golden rule with Jupiter is <span style="color: #990033;">trust in an ultimately
positive outcome, & focus on the positive potentials in the meantime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The trick is you need to be
flexible & unattached with your definition of what positive is & could
be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The very next day (6/26), Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer
until 7/20.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the past week has already been quite wonky with all of
this planetary shifting, & Mercury appearing to just barely move at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These directional shifts are
like the moment before a ball tossed straight up in the air shifts from upwards
to downwards motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a magical
moment, the ball is still, weightless - neither acted on by the force of the
throw, nor the force of gravity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">On
6/26, Mercury is free, & you better believe he likes it that way, that
sneaky trickster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has no
obligation to us, either externally (normal motion & smooth functioning of
communication & transportation) or internally (retrograde motion, &
rethinking of communication & transportation). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the time to really let go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let go of how you think things should be or develop, of how
you think you should feel, & especially of how you think others should
feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do that, & this
retrograde will go a lot smoother for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you heeded last month’s advice, & have already
backed up your computers & phones, & tuned up your bicycles &
cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of cars, anybody
want to buy a 2004 Chevy Cavalier?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m selling one... Really.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Evolutionary questions for Mercury’s retrograde in Cancer:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What happens
if you simply witness my emotions when they occur, rather than suppressing them
or acting on them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What is
your diet like?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you need to
rethink WHAT, HOW & WHEN you feed yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Who
nourishes you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whom do you
nourish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are those healthy relationships?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What
are the cyclical patterns in your life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">At what
stage are you at in those various patterns (building, apex, decline, death,
rebirth)?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Other events of note:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Venus enters Leo on 6/27 until 7/23</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, highlighting the arts, creativity, & joyous
times with friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throw a party,
& attend some art events, such as my last art show in Seattle before I
relocate to California, up at the </span><a href="http://columbiacitybakery.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Columbia City Bakery</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> 7/1 - 7/27, with the </span><a href="http://www.communityartscreate.org/Community_Arts_Create/Art_Walk.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Columbia City arts walk</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> on 7/18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do buy my art, & in so doing <b><span style="color: black;">be a keeper of some particular magic</span></b> (that <b>is</b>
why you read this blog - to feel connected to the flowing & mystical side
of life in this regimented & binary world).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Sun
will activate the </span><a href="http://planetaryreports.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-moon-in-gemini-summer-solstice.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pluto/Uranus square</span></a><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> in the first
few days of July, so try to keep your cool as emotions will run extra high,
anger will be easily ignited, & patience will be tested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s good about this tense
configuration is it adds some imperative to change & grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A grand trine can move freely without
obstruction, but it can also create unchecked growth, with an attendant
complacency towards any other potentials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This square offers some much needed perspective, incendiary insight,
& reality check to this summer’s emotional wash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Saturn stations direct on 7/7 (7/8 for eastern folk)</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, which means some things that have felt stuck, or
have been in the behind-the-scenes planning phase since February will get
moving in the coming months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hopefully, you’ve worked on increasing your sense of personal power
(& the limits thereof) in that time so you can set appropriate boundaries
& act from your true strengths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hint: Be clear about what is your responsibility, & what is someone
else’s responsibility, & act accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The new Cancer Moon is on 7/8</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">, with
a massive stellium in Cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
message here is: Emotions are a source of information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allow your feelings to inform you
rather than direct you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cancer is
largely about digestion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take your
emotions in, process them, & see how they transform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you can turn what’s useful into
new energy, & eliminate the waste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990033; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Mars enters Cancer on 7/13 until 8/29, activating another
T-square in the ongoing Pluto/Uranus configuration in late July.</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s just say anger & frustration will be coming up, which you may
experience in yourself or in those around you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling depressed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You’ve probably got some suppressed anger, so this just might be your
opportunity to clarify exactly how you feel thwarted from getting what you
want, or how you may be holding yourself back from getting what you want by
holding onto old angers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hint:
anger is a secondary emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First comes fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>What
are you afraid of?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that should tide you over (pun unintended but duly noted) until next month’s
posting, in which I’ll discuss the most exciting & rare Grand Sextile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to Mercury’s retrograde & my
impending move to Oakland, CA at the end of July, there is a possibility that
next month’s posting may not occur, or may occur late or early or inside out or
upside down or backwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">For
more personalized insight,<span style="color: black;"> you may go </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://appointmentswithraediamond.blogspot.com/">here</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> to schedule</span><span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> a <a href="http://raediamond.com/astrology.html">private astrological consult</a>, or an <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://raediamond.com/alithesis.html">Alithesis</a></span> healing session in
Seattle until late July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
August, I’ll be available for phone consultations & Alithesis house calls
in the Bay Area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By September,
I’ll be practicing in Oakland, CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until next month’s posting, enjoy reconnecting with your heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please forward this posting on as you
see fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cochin; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cochin; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">rae13diamond {at} gmail.com</span></div>
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