When Venus, the planet of the divine Feminine, appears to station for its retrograde phase in the sign of Scorpio, it can bring up issues surrounding sexuality, women’s roles, and all the associated underlying wounds still embedded in the psyche of our society. Stay posted. Venus is retrograde from October 3rd thru November 14th, and will soon be banished from the heavens by the rays of the Sun. However, she remains undaunted. No matter what setbacks she might endure, whatever wounds are being revealed, the divine Feminine will rise again. 

As Mars gradually positions itself for a direct opposition to Pluto, we may all be subjected to the exhaustion this transit can bring. Use the weather this week to seek healing, rehabilitation and strengthening to compensate. But most of all use the glorious Full Harvest Moon to connect with your innermost knowing and wisdom to guide you through the treacherous reefs and shoals that can await us when Mars opposes Pluto.

The Sun enters Libra on the Equinox this coming Tuesday. This is a time of balance. Balance between day and night. Balance between light and darkness. And it is a time to reflect on what we have achieved in the previous year and what we are most grateful for. 

As we are being launched by the recent New Moon in Virgo, we begin to see, hear, feel, more of what the general themes are going to be about over the next several months. No matter how transcendent, or how deep we go. We are being led where we need to be.

The New Moon in Virgo on September 10th (or 11th depending on where you are in the world) is both complicated and incredibly motivating.  Use it to find your footing, follow through with pending changes, and get your life in order. There is much more than meets the eye with this Moon.

We open the week on the heels of the Lunar Eclipse which was attempting to illuminate our lives. Something that we can not ignore. And now that the dust is settling, we may even begin to see the patterns and the plans and the means that allows us to create a strategy. Our Big Vision for the Future is seeking purchase. 

At the end of next week, on August 28th(27th), we have a final Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. Square unpredictable and sometimes surprising Uranus, we can expect things to both speed up, and even change on a dime. We all might want to wait until after the eclipse, when the dust settles, before making any major long term plans. 

In the space between the eclipses we may become aware of a void. Things are in the process of transition, and it is all we can do to merely step through the veil between the past and the future. In this space can be found some murky waters. All the more reason to keep our wits about us, in order to see things as they actually are, not what we want and/or fear them to be. 

On August 12th we have a Total Solar Eclipse in the sign of Leo. Magical and Mystical, we are being shown what needs to be released in order to grow in ways that we might not have even thought possible. Welcome to Eclipse Season.

In the aftermath of the Cradle, and the station of Saturn, Chiron stations on Monday, entering its 5-month retrograde phase.