 I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please
Fold 'em, let 'em hit me, raise it, baby, stay with me Love game intuition, play the cards with spades to start And after he's been hooked, I'll play the one that's on his heart ~Lady Gaga To stay or to go. To push forward or submit. To act or relax. We come into a rebalancing full moon tomorrow night. With Mars charging away from Saturn we are starting to feel the relief of having our own initiatives back into our hands without the feeling of being held back. Though a caution on the moon ahead, a Swati moon is like throwing sand into the wind. The energy scatters and can take us in many directions. The key here is to implement change in your life now that transforms your current reality in a positive way. A headless run will only invite many walls (I just made that up but it sounds about as poignant as a lot of Confucius type quotes). If we can master the somewhat chaotic energy we can get a lot achieved and quickly. There is strength in the sky with the sun exalted in Aries and Venus at home in Taurus. These two will help strengthen our courage and our connections at this time. So with these winds of change blowing it is vitally important you become the eye of the storm to hear/see/feel the right choice to make to take you forward. Remove negativity and choose positive action WITH the hand you are holding at the moment. Remove any self righteousness, fantasy or arrogance - play well. Stay light, Mark :)
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 Wow! What a kinetic new moon we have tonight. Often new moons are associated with internalisation and slow introversion. Not this new moon! Not only are all the planets trapped inside the clutches of the serpent of karma (the karmic lunar nodes), but then we have Mercury with Neptune and Mars with Saturn all in Pisces. Things are SENSITIVE.
Though if we can detach from that sensitivity, volatility and intensity we can find many solutions over the next lunar cycle. It's this strange combination having so much collision in Pisces, a sign of endings, illusions and liberation and then a new moon with the Sun in fiery Aries. What do you get when water and fire collide? Steam. And like a boiling pot we need to make sure we don't boil over and spoil things out of our own saucepan. Containment is strongly encouraged and in that containment there is much to swiftly course correct many an ailment perplexing you of late. The good news is healing is quickly on the way - whether that is physical or mental. The bad news is there is frustration and confusion. My astrological counsel is guidance from karmic axis this Ashwin New Moon: let go of your need to be right, to be seen or special. See the bigger picture with objective awareness and through that objectivity a great healing can occur. There are alternative ways to operate, innovative perspectives to find ahead but if you cling to who you've been and what you've had you'll only be pedestalling the past and not breathing your way into the genius of the future. Don't hold onto your pain out of pride, let yourself embrace different ways to get to the same outcome. Try it a different way and see how quickly and more interestingly you arrive at your target. Stay light, Mark :)  Pressure pressing down on me
Pressing down on you, no man ask for Under pressure that burns a building down Splits a family in two Puts people on streets It's the terror of knowing what this world is about Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!" Pray tomorrow brings me higher Pressure on people, people on streets ~Queen/Bowie Mars, our planet of combat and defence, has had a lot to say of late. Last month it was with the karmic axis Rahu amplifying and distorting tension internally and externally for us all. Mercury was retrograde at that time creating confusion and a lack of discernment of logic. But now we will see the realities of this as both Mercury and more effectively Mars march toward reality bringing Saturn. This next fortnight is tense. No way to escape that. It will bring frustration. It will require patience. It will be challenging not to act and feed into illusion/fantasy/escape. By the new moon this Friday these feelings will be most intense (I will post about the new moon later) for the next week onward and should start to break the following Friday 24th. But what does that mean for you personally? Well depending where this conjunction is playing out in your birth chart you have to be extremely careful. It is like balancing fire and ice. Or acceleration and delays. Action and detachment. It is teaching you endurance. Resilience. Big picture longevity vs immediate satisfaction. How can you act or resist reacting to further your expansion long term. What is your dream and how can you make it happen by using your energy in a more liberated and wise way? This will most certainly reflect the tension in the world right now and bring a lot of confusing and hysterical actions - but can you personally do the opposite and use it to your benefit? With all this in Pisces it will take compassion, adaptability and empathy. Yet with Mars we need to act with courage, with Saturn we need structure and reality and with Mercury we need to communicate from the heart. This is a challenging time when in doubt take time out for contemplation and take your time. Stay light, Mark : |