Shuistrology

Your Stars:
Even though Halloween is over and done, you still may need to watch out for a wolf parading around in sheep’s clothing this month. According to your astro energies, there appears to be some potential during second week for a tense moment or two with someone less than authentic and more than jealous. That said, those energies should be the only ones that cause a moment of pause during an otherwise expansive and even watershed November! Just remember this, you have an abundance of strength, empowerment and courage heading your way during these stellar days so go ahead and let that wolf huff and puff all he wants because it’s you and your potential that will be blowing everyone around you away. All the action starts as early as the very first day when Mercury shares a message with Mars that could eventually find those two first seething and then sparring. Don’t get caught up in their private pissing match even if you too feel a bit more argumentative than usual. This aggressive overtone eases as soon as the second day dawns with an easy going Full Moon inviting everyone to seek shelter from these friendly fire storms. However, the peace and quiet is somewhat short-lived as the big boo hiss event that I alluded to earlier starts taking shape on November 15. This is when strict and sometimes too stiff Saturn squares off with omnipotent Pluto; an explosive pairing that very often results in a break up of some sort. In this case, these energies are acting edgy in your 7th House of Partners and Other Important Relationships potentially setting the scene for a long overdue showdown. On the one hand, this personal challenge could be just the obstacle you needed to turn that frown upside down and find the hidden opportunities that you otherwise might NEVER have seen. On the other, the days do darken mid-month and you will find yourself tested and stressed, so, take whatever measures necessary to keep an attitude of gratitude regards each lesson you are graciously and gracefully being given to learn. And, really, what better month to embrace actionable gratitude than this one? The GREAT news is that the Full Moon in Taurus that rose on the 2nd illuminated your 2nd House of Income and is soon to be complemented by a New Moon rising on the 16th that could actually net you a surprise windfall or at the least some pleasing and positive change in your current financial status! And, well, let’s face it, after the heated situations that occurred just 24 hours earlier, some coming out of the blue cool cash is just the welcome temperature shift you need! Believe it or not, your bottom line is also a major theme this month what with the Sun, Mercury and Venus all moving through Scorpio, your solar 8th House of Other People’s Money. Looks like they’re anxious to give some of theirs to you. Luckeeeeee! Just be careful about mixing money and friends. Forewarned is forearmed Aries! Otherwise the end of this month makes you a veritable magnet for beneficial friends and helpful people. These could be relatives, family or friends or even persons that you’ve yet to meet. Try not to turn down any invites at the end of the month as one or two of them will give you yet more reason to be grateful from the bottom and the tip top of your happy and healthy heart!

Your Shui:
Budgeting your time and your emotions this month will take total precedence over budgeting your money, but, conservation in every one of those arenas will bring you closer to your goals and dreams than any other action you can take during November. Keep a stiff upper lip and a smile on your face during a somewhat tense middle of the month and then go ahead and schedule important meetings and discussions for the days following the 15th when you become the apple of everyone’s eye. In fact, some exponentially enhanced magnetism surrounding you at end month brings a cornucopia of opportunities that promise to play out pretty positively and well into the start of the next New Year. BREAK THROUGH RESISTANCE AND LIMITATIONS by engaging the help of others around you who have nothing but your best interests at heart. Start by invoking all the assistance promised by Feng Shui by visualizing or seeing in your mind’s eye the faces of five people who can help you live your dreams. Literally see them helping you achieve and accomplish specific and treasured intentions and goals. Do this every night for nine consecutive nights right before you go to sleep and then watch as you bring your dreams to life during the day!

Your Stars:
If ever there was a month to transform your fantasy life into reality, well Aquarius, this is it. It’s one of the months that you have been preparing for during the last hectic and harried seven years. You have built and have been assured that if you laid all the groundwork and put in the proper foundation, brick by hand-hewn brick, that “they” will come. Well, guess what, ‘they’ have finally arrived. The only problem that you’ll encounter now is which opportunities to meet head on and what LBD to rock when you choose ‘em! In fact, as tongue in cheek as that last statement may be, you really MUST be careful not to bite off more than you can chew! It is imperative to point out however, that any and all of this excitement and any and all of these incoming opportunities should never, ever, ever preclude you attending to the obligations and responsibilities that you have on the home front. See, your calendar and your schedule is just going to be so chock full that your nearest and dearest may just be feeling a little out of the loop. Time spent with those you care for now, as well as expending energies sprucing and spritzing up your space, will go a looooong way towards heading off any potential problems that could happen down the proverbial road. You may have to walk a bit more gingerly at home and in the office beginning as early as the 2nd when Mars and Venus, normally lovuhs and consorts, have a spat that spits some venom all around your sign. Be careful and cautious of wolves in sheeps clothing. They may seem like good friends but sometimes they are just plain baaaaaahd for you. Why not spend the first few days of this month taking advantage of all the networking invitations around and meet some new peeps? That effort could net a lot of new friends as well as a whole lot of fun. The days that surround the 8th through the 11th could bring that same overloaded energy that I warned you about earlier onto the already crowded scene. With the Sun squaring generous Jupiter on the 10th especially, you might find yourself overcommitting and promising to do things you can’t conceivably accomplish with only 24 hours in the day. Try best to think out of the box as unconventional and inventive solutions save these days and bring you out of a binding agreement that might have tied up way too much time with little to nothing to show. And you’ve had quite enough of those sorts of energies over the last years now haven’t you? Don’t let the tense Venus-Uranus sesquisquare on the 14th ruin what could otherwise be a pretty terrific night for relationships and romance. Use your imagination and turn this potentially awkward evening into one that sizzles with excitement and adventure. All the hard stuff leaves by end month and you’ll feel so much softer when the 25th rolls around. This time, Venus is trining Uranus. You see, they’ve kissed and made up and are all lovey dovey now. You should find that same sort of scenario unfolding for you as well. Harmony and hook-ups continue to gather your attention and elicit and evoke your gratitude as mental Mercury engages gift-giving Jupiter on the 29th, showering you with ingenious ideas and ways to marry both your burgeoning and booming professional life with your sometimes neglected personal one. It’s now that the lightbulb over your head will burn brightest and bring you illumination from the unlikeliest sources. Maintain the emotional status quo and do remember to take a moment for yourself now and then lest this lightbulb burn you out in the current. This month will allow you a glimpse into a future that finally says ‘so long’ to survival mode and welcomes ways to work more effectively and efficiently while propelling you on your path. All good reason to be very, very, very grateful!

Your Shui:
Fame and fortune. FINALLY. This current success, however, comes complete with an ever increasing workload and tons more responsibilities. That said, it’s your job to consistently and consciously address all those very situations and circumstances with inventive ideas, aplomb and solutions that will eventually have you preening in the catbird seat. And speaking of birds: the crimson phoenix, in Feng Shui, is believed to bring wonderful opportunities that result in recognition, honor, wealth, abundance and prosperity for the whole family. The image of the phoenix placed in the ‘FAME’ area can activate the energies to fulfill those very same promises while also bringing stability and support to all other efforts as well. Putting the crimson phoenix inside your living space will bestow your wings upon you. Now you’ll only have take to the skies and fly!

Your Stars:
You are certainly going to be busy, busy, busy this month with a very full social calendar, a demanding workload and detailed demands on the domestic front all promising to keep you occupied and on your toes. Organization will be instrumental in November while creating and keeping to a strict schedule will be music to your ears. Maintaining authenticity and an incredibly strong sense of self while remembering how important you are to everyone around you will make you a magnet for health and happiness and prosperity. And isn’t this the most appropriate month to remind you of the tremendous and attractive power of an attitude of gratitude? On the flip side, surrendering to shaky emotions and intermittent stresses both at home and at the office will work the opposite magic making hopes and dreams harder to achieve and then even harder to hold on to. Choose success over surrender. Especially when trust and loyalty between friends and co-workers could be called into question as early as the first week when the Full Moon on the second falls into your 11th House of Friends and Groups. This lunar event shines a light on the resentment that the strain of keeping everybody else happy is having on you. Always the bridesmaid while never having the time to be the bride, you feel as if it’s the plank instead of the aisle that you’re walking during the early days. You’re over your head and you haven’t even been forced into the water yet. Fortunately for you a beautiful Venus/Neptune trine comes on the heels of all this dancing as fast as you can bringing with it an energy of love that’s hardy enough to heal the wounds of any bruises inflicted the first few days. Even or should I say especially, the self-inflicted ones. Be kind to others. And then be kinder to you! Take some time early in the month to make you the center of your attention and do something absolutely decadent and indulgent. You won’t be spending time alone for long though with loving and lovely Venus blowing kisses to Scorpio on the 7th and then Mercury and Pluto squaring off on the 8th. Both of these energies on both of these days suggest intense and intimate conversations with a significant other that might predicate some power struggles. These struggles could then be capped off by ongoing issues with controlling but ultimately unproductive behaviors. Just try to count to ten and at all times remember why you came together in the first place. Try to mine more from what or who is sitting right in front of you before going out to find an affable and affordable replacement. No matter how nice the brand spanking and shiny new might look to you right now. The New Moon sitting in your 7th House of Partners and Loved Ones on the 16th (and the three or four days that follow) throws some sparks into this highly charged atmosphere allowing you to see your love and life in whole new light. Express your desires and ask for demonstrations of affection for that’s the fuel that keeps you keeping on! You have the ability these days to totally take someone’s heart hostage for good and forever. As long as you put that heartnapping plan into place with a very light touch. Coming on strong in these efforts will make you appear weak. Go figure. Step gingerly and lightly while looking to lock in this love for that force is with you! The end of November brings more delicious things than just a table full of culinary delights. In fact, a Venus-Jupiter square on the 23rd increases your appetite for fun and frolic and finds you spending the following few days engaging in both. Don’t spend one more second at the end of this month worrying about reason or self-control. Not when you are actually invited experience the unfamiliar with whimsy, wonder and joy! Go for your BIG dreams as this month comes to a close, they are ever nearer than you can even imagine!

Your Shui:
Your astro energies in November bring you much to be thankful for and it’s exactly that ongoing attitude of gratitude that will keep you healthy, happy and whole. And, oh yeah, prosperous too! Remembering then that attitude is everything, hold as positive a one as possible in your consciousness while watching as your relationship resentments, domestic agendas and work-related issues practically melt away. In fact, reflection on relationships is a key factor or overriding energy of this month making it the best time to hang a mirror, mirror on your wall. Feng Shui says that the energy of a mirror can attract and expand healthy relationship energies especially if it’s a round reflector. See, circles or other round shapes symbolize harmony and unity. So, then, hanging a mirror in the ‘Relationship’ space of your bedroom can either add more oomph to an existing relationship or could even call in a nice new one. When you look in this mirror see yourself as happy and peaceful and strengthened by your love life. Then, well, you will be. A nice addition to already being the fairest of them all!

Your Stars:
Okay, how many times do I have to tell the perfectionist in you to sit back and count your accomplishments while building up to that next set of incoming blessings? I know, I know, it’s so easy to see the glass as needing someone to wash it, dry it and then fill it to half empty when all along, if you just let it be, you’d have seen that it was perfectly fine sitting beside you half-full. You are ambitious and an over-achiever and are also under the mistaken impression that you still have so very much more to do in order to embrace and enjoy the fruits of your labors. Nothing could be further. Unless you make it so. Your choice. You choose. The energies of this month could either represent a somewhat challenging and demanding period that serves to remind how very much more still needs to be done, OR, they can support you while you join in the collective and give thanks for everything and all you’ve accomplished so far. You need to look beyond only what you can see in the immediate and trust that you are waaaay more than half the way up that ladder of success as well. You should be enjoying the view. Especially if you want to see more. Push beyond your limiting thoughts and behaviors. Trust me when I tell you that there is nothing half-way about you at all and that everything is still moving full speed ahead. It’s just that your torpedoes won’t be exploding with the expansion you desire until well into 2010 and, let’s be honest here, you simply don’t want to wait that long. Do not, do you hear me, DO NOT allow discouragement to creep in and test your transformation. Rather, hold the vision and the positive attitude that supports same. Keep on trucking baby, you’re in it for the long haul. Big wheels keep on turning, that much I can promise, whether you hear an annoying squeak there or not. The practical path to success just doesn’t have to be so complicated. Simplicity should be your new middle name. Simplicity and determination will bring you to the place of peace you have been dreaming about. Eyes wide open, the end is near. Can’t you already see the light at the end of the tunnel? But, first, we need to get through November. Watch your words the first few days when a cranky Mercury tries to start something up with aggressive Mars. Partnered with some less than optimal Full Moon energies on the 2nd, arguments and things said in the heat of anger can cause tempers to flare. Just stay out of the fray. Period. In fact, you might want to keep away from the crowd when a tense Saturn-Pluto square settles in from the 6th through the 8th. Keep it zipped. Discretion and valor and all that. Be the hero everyone else thinks you are and keep the proverbial peace. Don’t let any of that put a damper on the days that surround the brilliant Sun-Uranus trine on the 16th, allowing fabulous energies to clear both the air AND your path. Tally-ho! Trust. Trust. Trust. And then trust some more. The end of November finds a planetary party happening high in the skies that will have you spinning and twirling and generally feeling pretty darn good. Romances and bromances and relationships with ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages will be sweet and fulfilling and exciting as well. As long as they don’t become distractions from the real work that’s still at hand, all should be swell. Harmony and happiness have you in their sights as the holidays approach. Two great gifts that just keep on giving. Unwrap them at will since there’s no time like the PRESENT!

Your Shui:
Alright, I could probably say that one word and the concept behind it is going to do more to influence and impact your life for the next year to come than any other words could ever begin to cover; and that word is TRUST (and trust and trust and trust and trust and…) In fact, I have a feeling that I could keep repeating that word to you (as well as telling you to embrace the entire concept behind it) until I am blue in the face. But something tells me that you’re getting a little antsy to see some forward movement and progress in your personal and professional quests and goals, so, let’s give those energies a slight shove so that they now can show you how very far you’ve actually come. Long considered one of the four celestial creatures of Feng Shui mythology, the Black Tortoise promises both personal and professional movement and support, longevity and protection. And they bring darn good fortune too. Put an image of, or better yet a small statue, of a tortoise, turtle or terrapin in the ‘Career’ area of your home and then watch as your slow and your steady waaaay wins your race!