Saturn enters Sag for good on the 17 of September and will stay there until December when it enters Capricorn on the Solstice 2017. However from today until September 9, 2016, it will square by sign with Jupiter in Virgo. While both of these large planets are in mutable signs, the result is going to be quite a bit of friction where Jupiter will want to expand in Virgo it will run into problems with Saturn which will make facts and ideology mesh into quite a mix up.

Saturn is the great judge, the measuring rod, the fundamentals that we can count on. It will test and try all ideas, especially in ninth house issues like governing, the law, the higher dimensions, international affairs and trade. In the mundane world the election rhetoric is going to be the worse we have yet to see and we have seen a lot. Religious issues like abortion and the rights of the minorities will come into focus. The separation of church and state will be challenged. The rights of immigrants, both along the border of Mexico and the Syrians in Europe will get more and more muddled. Jupiter in Virgo will want to expand rights and analysis of these perplexing issues, while Saturn will want to restrict them. We will be returning to this conflict several times in blogs to come.

On the personal level Jupiter in Virgo will try to expand health issues and it is wise to get a checkup. The pressure of stress in our individual lives will be driven by even more intrusion of digital devices into our personal life. If Saturn has his way a lot more big brother, big data will be pushed on us. This is a good time for all examine all personal issues that are bugging you. These little tatters of behavior that we have yet to get straightened out will get more severe. The identity of involvement will become more relevant. We cannot withdraw, things will change while these two are fighting it out in mutable signs. The issue is how will they change. There will be a compulsive drive to change ourselves for the better and yet the question of what to do will not be apparent. The personal environment will Topsy turfy. Make sure you have your personal and moral compass aligned with the direction you want to go for personal achievement. Be patient with yourself. Relationships will change, new associates will enter to force you to sort out those people who are helpful and healthful for you and those who are not. It will be time to evaluate your highest idealizations of life and sort them out with the light of Saturn who will check your every move.

After all the fanfare and the hoopla Venus is now rx (7/25 -9/6). The question in forecasting about an event like this is the way it should be handled.

Retrograde starts with “re” and it stands in its interpretive forecast and cognitive functions–review, re-assist, reconsider, rewrite, look at esthetic views and see if they should be modified.

Don’t be surprised in an old love interest calls up to see how you are doing and if you are single. Just plain old good friends may get in touch.

Finish projects that have been needing attention. Rewrite your novel, screen play, the cook book that will be a best seller, revisit old creative projects of any kind. You may be able to breathe new life into them at this time.

Look over your work processes and see if they need streamlining and ways to save time.

A relationship started now must be tested in late September to see if it can last in the new, Venus as rising star era.

Leo is about showmanship. Are you presenting your best face (ascendant) forward. Do you need to change how you make impressions?

Expect the unexpected. This is the time that you find a wonderful object at a garage sale and are amazed at its value.

Rethink the way your furniture and rooms are arranged. This could be a great time to change what goes where.

Maybe it is a time to renew your commitment to your lover, spouse, family.

Socialize with an eye for how well you like who you are with. Are they worth it.

Keep your eyes wide open and your diplomatic and esthetic self operative at all times.

Conversations about Love – with Spencer

Come and join Spencer Grendahl (Ed.M. Harvard) in a conversation about love’s manifestations in our lives. This month’s topic will be, “Can you have more than one ‘soul mate’? How would that manifest?” Drawing on his years of experience as a consultant in spiritual and cognitive counseling, Spencer will lead a stimulating discussion on intimacy and the soul – relationships that leave us different than before. Spencer has written one movie and four books as seen on the website.
Thursday, July 23, 2015, August 27, & September 24
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Mystic Journey Bookstore: 1624 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 Fee: $20 Includes a copy of his book, “Secrets of Love”

Now that Jupiter is direct in Leo and Uranus is direct in Aries, these two planets of (Jupiter) expansion and change (Uranus) are in a dance of a trine. Starting in late June and onto to early August they trine each other and send end out the fire of growth, evolution, expansion, uniqueness, large issues and the energy to create massive movements.

Wherever you have these two planets in your chart, look for lots of action. And the action should actually bring on some movement, some breakthrough, some way that a resolution of a problem, the actual launch of a new idea or project, the intuitive answers that you are seeking will somehow manage to pop up. It is exciting in that so ofter we do not get fulfilled, ideas can come and go, projects can flounder in indecision or blockages that preclude our desired outcome.

Yet with this planetary configuration you find things adding up actually happen. There is also a sense that there is a hidden momentum starting, there is that surge of an inner tide, a magnetic sense of being drawn into a river of time that is going to ripen and nurture so many things in the world.

This is a time to shoot to finish a project, this is a time to start one. The joy is that there can be enough to do both, finish one and start another. THINGS MAY WELL SURPRISE YOU! You might change jobs, lovers, living location, experience a big “overview” experience, travel and learn new customs.

And guess what in August Jupiter goes into Virgo, so we can put polish and finish on our adventures. And then
MARS AND VENUS ARE TOGETHER IN LEO — and also make trines with Uranus Venus has goes retrograde back into Leo as Mars enters. It takes until the end of September for the energy to work through.

Venus and Mars can herald so much,. romance, artistic projects, mending fences with friends or business associates.
If you know Tantra this might be a great experience or an experience that exhausts you with so much kundalini power surging through you.

THIS WILL BE A SUMMER OF SUMMERS TO REMEMBER

There is a triple hit coming up for those who follow the astrology of the time. The last (perfect) Uranus/Pluto Square,which says thanks goodness these past two and a half years are over and we do not have to deal with the continuing process of sorting out the intellectual, psychological, emotional and also soul wrenching that we have had to endure, not only in some individual way, but also as part of the world consciousness, the history of our times as well. Thankfully cooler heads will come to shore up the situation and bring some better planning and a better blue print for the global community–the climate change is expanding, the shortages of water and staples is threatened, the dominance of a few economic cliques running the monetary situation which is at a huge imbalance.

The Solar Eclipse is on the Pisces Aries cusp. I think this spring will be bringing vision and action together. Look where it hits in your chart, expect a jolt of energy to give you a boost.

The Lunar Eclipse of April 4 the day before Easter–in Libra. Let us hope that there will be a resurrection of justice, that somehow diplomacy will win and the matters at hand can be solved without violence, that the awareness of the need for justice will predominate, compromise will rule and some coalition of energy fields will ease us into a better sense of the harmonic.