Shuistrology

Your Stars:
Staying true to yourself is a major theme for you this month Libra, but with an eye towards restructuring who you are at the moment. With strict taskmaster Saturn sitting squarely in your 1st House of Identity, knowing who or what ‘yourself’ looks to be a little challenging. In fact, you are in process of undergoing a life altering transformation that will ultimately be both rewarding and revealing and that promises that all your hard work is getting ready to pay off. The boost to your personal bottom line begins as early as November 2 when the Taurus Full Moon will fall squarely in your 8th House of Other People’s money. This moon is full of feisty too so be sure to come prepared to do a bit of battle with your own sense of logic and reason. This become most incumbent when the energies all ask you to step outside your current comfort zone in order to do something completely new. Embracing and then employing your usual easy-going and charming manner will do much to make you even more likeable than normal while also making potential adversaries quick allies to any new causes you choose to champion. Your ruling planet, the loving and lovely Venus enters sexual and seductive Scorpio on the 7th, triggering a new three week period that accents and highlights issues involved with intimacy. Regardless how wonton or wily or even wistful you feel be sure to exercise some amount of caution in all of your dealings. Especially the ones that surround your deepest and most intense desires. And, well, speaking of exercise; getting in step with the stair master might just help to quell that sense of longing and intensity attached to these energies as well. Although practicing restraint might be harder than you think, it’ll be well worth all the effort as things seem to heat up around the 9th and 10th. But do be aware that temps raise in a good and sweet and definitely satisfying way. Good thing you have that heat to cool the harsher energies that immediately follow from the 14th through the 16th when Saturn squares off against Pluto. When will those two ever learn? And when will you? Go ahead and break the ritual and the routine and do something totally out of character. If you do something special for yourself as the New Moon rises on the 16th, you will feel positive and powerful special effects for the foreseeable. Think about this one. Believe me, with your key planet Venus showering good hair days and even better vibes all over you as the month comes to a close you will feel like you have plenty to be thankful for. Don’t spend too much energy and/or money on frivolous things now but do be absolutely sure to give yourself full permission to enjoy every delicious moment. In fact, during the tail end of this November the energies are pretty much gravy for you and you should find yourself far more able to express your needs, your wants and your desires smoothly and without lumps or obstables. This last effort will pour forth most easily when Mercury the Messenger and warrior Mars meet up on the 26th giving you the go ahead to bask in the beauty that you can only get from loving family and friends. Look, this month is totally and completely all about putting your nose to the grindstone and getting back to work so you can actively enjoy all your just desserts before the next New Year drops. Just try to remember that these desserts don’t have any calories though. Ummm, ummm, good!

Your Shui:
It really is true. What does not kill us does actually make you stronger. And sometimes being disappointed by something we really really wanted and didn’t come to bear can spur us to work harder and harder to fulfill other dreams and goals. Take the obstacle and turn it into an opportunity this month Libra and you simply won’t believe the eventual pay-off. Yes, you’ll have to return to the drawing board but it appears that there will be a lot of artists hovering around who are willing to help you color outside the lines. Whatever you do this month (and mark my words here) DO NOT SPEND ONE SINGLE SECOND FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF. This sort of pity party will not only be counterproductive AND intuitive to everything you’ve yet to accomplish but it will call in more of the same sort of defeats and disappointments. Rather, just make new plans and then do everything in your vast reservoirs of power to put them into place. While you are doing that, be absolutely and positively sure to put a round, crystal ball on the upper right-hand corner of your desk. While you work to manifest a dearly held and much desired dream, that Feng Shui cure will be doing everything in the Universe to crystallize your goals and intentions as well. One quick though..women ONLY put that ball in the upper right. If you are a man and taking advantage of this advice then position your globe on the upper left-hand corner of your desk. Believe me, this is as close to you being the change that you want to see as it can get. Look into that crystal ball and then see success staring right back.

Your Stars:
This could conceivably be a watershed month for you what with all its advice to tie up loose ends in order to make way for some inevitable new beginnings. And your perceptions will be pivotal. Period. And exclamation mark! There will be a time in the future where you will look back on this October as the month that changed the direction of your life. A month that gave you scores of opportunities to resolve long-standing and lingering issues, conflicts and concerns all in preparation for a very exciting phase of fresh and new growth. But, like with any big burst or spurt of growth, well, there are bound to be some growing pains. But these aches and ouches are far outstripped by the pot ‘o gold that’s waiting at the end of this rainbow. Just like the frontier that waited for the pioneers or the vast expanse of space that welcomes our astronauts your astro energies are mapping out the next stage of your life’s blueprint and that wide open invitation begins to beckon right now. Clear away the physic debris and the people who clutter your life. Complete old business and clean up your past. Tie up loose ends and do all of this with a sense of wonder and expectation, never giving way to marinating on what or who didn’t work well in your life. An anxious Aries Full Moon that rises in your 7th House of Partnerships on the 4th allows you’re the first of many opportunities you’ll be graced with this month to address irresolvable differences in a few critical and close relationships. These energies promise that you can either overcome the conflict or ignore it. I think we’re pretty clear on the direction you should take in order to embrace all the blessings you have heading your way inside the next two year time span. Harmony and balance can be yours if you just stop overanalyzing, intellectualizing and having key conversations inside your own head. Come out of that crowded space and take some serious action steps to pick up the pieces and put them where they belong. Speak your truth and be authentic. Come from the heart so that everyone’s on an equal playing field. Confrontation and communication continue to hold sway over the energies of the 8th, 9th and 10th when Mercury and Saturn collide. Just remember that every obstacle holds the seed of opportunity and every cloud has a silver lining and when one door closes..okay, okay, I’ll shut up, but you get it. Bygones. By the time mid-month comes calling you get a respite from all the introspective extroversion when Mars lights up your 10th House of Recognition and Rewards. These days are sweetly filled with all sorts of allowances for you to find love your work, love yourself and love your love. And if there is no love to love, well, these are certainly some of the finest days to find that soulmate too. With your ruling planet, the lovely and oh so loving Venus, arriving home in your sign on the 14th you’ll find other reasons, besides your birthday, to celebrate the special month. She promises to bring a big boost to your innate charisma and charm as well as rocket blast to your powers of attraction. You are bound to feel at peace and at one with yourself with all her help here fill of confidence, self-assurance and ready to take on the world! I’m so happy for you I could burst! Make some important wishes and dream some big dreams during these days. You won’t even need to blow out one single candle to make these dreams come true. And I’m not just blowing smoke either! Your perceptions and your perspectives need to remain positive and strong when the Sun enters Scorpio on the 22nd. Your emotions intensify during the following days when you really begin to realize how critical releasing your past is turning out to be in order to make way for a fabulous future. Or, you can stay stuck. Entirely up to you. But with a beautiful, wonderful, grace-filled Venus/Jupiter trine flooding your world with abundance on the 28th, well, you’ll want to make room for that right? Don’t indulge feelings of loss or that something you want is being taken away from you, but, rather, look at this period of growth as the blessing that is really is. Saturn comes to stay for a full two years on the 29th and, as previously mentioned, this will be a time to adapt and adjust in order to pave the way for a brand new you when he gets ready to move on. No need to thank me now, you’re assured success in the months and years to come is all the thanks I need! For a change of pace why don’t you thank YOU? That gratitude, my friend, is well deserved.

Your Shui:
This month is knocking at the door to the next level of your life. But, before you open it you’ll first you need to take out the sharpest shears that you can find cut away all of the people and places and things that can hold you back from taking a positive part in this transformation. Contrary to popular opinion, that trend is not always your friend so it’s time now to cut a new swath, head in a new direction and bring closure to conflict and consternation. And, then, ohhhhh, the places you’ll go! According to the spiritual law of transformation, whenever we suppress negative emotions they don’t just simply disappear but, rather, transform internally into that which can hold us back from reaching our highest and most satisfactory fulfillment. Burn a white candle and then write, on separate small pieces of paper, what or even who you now need to release from your life in order to move forward. Look at the candle and then, piece by piece burn each piece of paper with the flame from the candle. When you are done, flush the ashes down the toilet and watch your past go down the drain. Freedom and happiness will now keep you company as you walk with confidence into your future.

Your Stars:
There’s no other way to say it, September will be a true turning point for you but the direction you could be headed in once you definitively decide where it is you want to go will more than make up for the stress associated with this trying month. If I were to give you one key and critical mantra this month it would be “keep both eyes on the prize” Libra while doing your best to keep your mouth shut. That last piece of advice will come in particularly handy during the first days of the month, especially on the 3rd and 4th when Mercury and Mars clash and even potentially crash communications across the board. With Mercury also turning retrograde on the 4th as well and a sensitive almost psychic Full Moon lighting up your 6th House of Work and Routines on the that same day, you are bound to feel, well, bound. This bound however is not the one that gives glory a good name but, rather, more like the binding involved in the ‘my hands and feet are tied and I can’t move’ sort of way. The planets promise that this entire first week could be an almost overwhelming pressure cooker for you so be sure to let the lid off and get out of your own way. Remember, it’s your perception and your reactions as well as y our choices that form and frame your reality. NO ONE can take any of the afore mentioned away from you! They comprise and constitute your personal power, the same power that always sees you lending a hand even when you yourself could use one. You are the best friend anyone could ever have but it’s time to show yourself that same compassion and nurturing. Even if you’d rather not. I swear it gets better especially when Venus plays kissy-kissy with Jupiter into your 11th House of Hopes and Dreams on the 11th and 12th. For the first time in a long time you will experience pleasure without having to wait for the other shoe, pain, to drop. Invitations abound and you are glad to get out of your own head. It was getting really crowded in there anyway. All of a sudden and without warning you feel like all the ties that bind that were strangling the life out of you a few short days ago can all be untangled and untied now. With ease. And grace. You might even, GULP, find yourself able to sit back and enjoy the view. Really! As the energies of the 12th take hold you will find that there really is a blessing and a benefit to both nurturing and nourishing yourself as you also begin to allow others in your realm do same. Note to self: there is a difference between taking a time out and avoiding things altogether. The former is mandatory the latter just isn’t a good plan. The middle of the month ups the ante and makes everything a bit more interesting what with an exact Saturn-Uranus opposition on the 15th making you made as a heck and just not willing to take ‘it’ anymore, you know, whatever ‘it’ is. One of the reasons you are feeling this stinky stupid opposition so acutely is because on that same day, Venus, your ruling planet is also opposing Neptune, the planet that powers fantasy and dreams. Ow! Rest assured you won’t have to carry the weight of the world for too too much longer as the New Moon that rises on the 18th also rides to your rescue. This orb is illuminating your 12th House of Serenity and Peace, tow gifts that will soak you out of submission and back into a place of preparedness and pleasure. By the time Venus sidles back into Virgo on the 20th you will feel like you have been on the roller coaster ride from here to eternity but will also begin to realize that the reason they call it the present is because it truly is a gift. Forget what’s happened in the immediate past and try not to get too caught up in what the future holds, but, rather, lighten do your best to lighten your load now. There are great changes ahead and in store but you have to get in a position of preparation in order to be able to embrace all the wonders they are getting ready to offer. As the month ends you feel empowered and even a little bit emotional as you too begin to intuit what I have known all along, you are worth it. The difference is that in just a teensy tiny bit of time, the Universe will be showing just how much! Walk the walk. Talk the talk. We’re following. And listening. And it’s about time too!

Your Shui:
Avoidance is not a really ever a good long term plan and/or strategy but certainly could (and should!) be employed during some trying times in September to help you get up, over and around a sometimes overwhelming bend. In fact, it will be in keeping your eyes firmly and FAITHFULLY laser focused on the proverbial prize that will ultimately bring you eyeball to eyeball with the inevitable fulfillment of a specific dream. But first you have to wipe off your rose colored glasses while climbing down off the ‘poor pity me’ bandwagon. It’s true that you have an awful lot on your plate this month, but, alas, to whom much is given much is also asked. Or something like that. Concentrate on and count your blessings on those days when you want to scream bloody murder instead. The idea this month is not to cave in to the pressure but rather to stay the course of preparation. Clean up what you need to now so that you can move into a totally transformative place in a short while. One way to move those energies rapidly along is to pick a place of clutter inside your space and, well, clean it! I always suggest giving your closet a good going over. And, since we are changing seasons in September and coming up on sweater weather, it makes perfect sense to address your warmer months wardrobe in order to make way for au courant couture opportunities. I know you will be thinking that it would be insane to add one more responsibility to your overloaded list, but, this effort will pay off in bigger better ways that I can even say. Especially if you find the time to do a thorough cleanse and then give your ‘stuff’ away to others who are in need. Creating good karma while de-cluttering and making way for a fabulous future, now, what can get better than that? Oh, right, October. Just you wait and see.

Your Stars:
Your sun sign of Libra has long been associated with a specific set of scales, in fact, the scales most associated with the concept or quality of justice. However, this month, your astro energies are so all over the place that those scales tip back and forth and back and forth rising first on one side and then on the other in herky jerky movements. No justice there my friend, none really at all! Clearly, you will need to stay consciously centered in order to maintain any sort of balance. Now, of course, all these erratic energies don’t sit particularly well with you since Balance, with a cap ‘B’ is essentially your middle name. But don’t give up Libra because if anyone knows how to deftly and adeptly handle instability, well, it’s you. The good news is that as Mars advances in Gemini, your solar 9th House of Travel through the 24th, mid-month would be as good a time as any to head out of town for a friends and family trip that will somewhat stabilize this month’s constant juggling act. In fact, the more I assess the more I see that your August calendar seems perfectly content carving out tons of time for some swell summer outings. The push me to pull you energies engage as early as August 1 when usually warm and loving Venus takes a swing at potent Pluto. This causes that same old/same old agenda of trying to take control of certain critical aspects of your life to come to life yet again. This exact same recurrent theme arises again at the tail end of the month when that warrior Mars puts his aggressive two cents in on the 26th. That’s the worst of it. The tippy top and the tail end of this month will both see you struggling to maintain equilibrium with the same circumstances that have pushed you off kilter too many times in the past. However, all that said, the middle of the month allows you a big breather and even, dare I say it, some down time to relax and unwind! For example the creative Full Moon that falls on August 5 actually flies into your 5th House of True Love and Play. This house is also associated with whimsy and joy and all things childlike. So, don’t be surprised if you find a whole new wondrous approach to dealing with the aforementioned and challenging oppositions. You might even feel magnanimous enough to begin to find opportunities hiding inside those obstacles. You own version of Hide and Go Seek. However, just when you thought it was safe to tred back into deep emotional waters, both Jupiter and Saturn sling a sideways glance into your 12th House of Conclusions bringing that latter word to literal life. As these planets muddy those waters on the 19th there might well be some inner promptings to part company with someone who keeps making you promise after promise but can’t ever seem to deliver. Although your instinct will be to pucker up and kiss off, you’d be better advised to kiss up and move on. See with these planetary tensions rising both beginning and end month there’s just not much of anything that will be accomplished right now. Except possibly conflict and confrontation. Yuck. The best attitude adjustment you can embrace is to simply sit on the sidelines until this sideshow is all over. Otherwise you are simply courting frustration and, well, don’t say I didn’t warn you. For this month at least, the ones who you are constantly trying to get to actually hear you are still stone deaf. Don’t push. Don’t pull. Just be. Soon enough you will find a special someone who is dedicated to fulfilling your needs and desires. Just not this month. I tell you truly that if you can just accept the unacceptable and even sit squarely in the extremes you’ll find it’s not as uncomfortable as you might have thought. And, as previously mentioned, it is only temporary. The Leo New Moon lighting up your 11th House of Friends and Loved Ones on the 20th gives you the best break of the month while also giving you cosmic permission to go out and play, play, play. To your heart’s content! And this is just the ticket to turn your waning confidence around and bring you a clearer sense of purpose and power. Stay in that space even as the month ends and you’ll be amazed at how truly temporary this unstable atmosphere really was. I promise that positive change is peeking out from just around the corner. You just need to watch those same sharp edges in August.

Your Shui:
Although we all might have heard about how Oprah blew out her thyroid, in times of stress and instability it’s burning out the adrenals that we all need to be careful of. Never more true than for you this month Libra. The emotional debris left by anger, irritation or anxiety can actually begin to shift your body over into an acidic state making balance a physically hard thing to come by. There is, however, a cleansing breath that brings balance back to your body’s ph by reducing the acid load and adjusting the adrenals. It goes like this: Kneel and rest your butt on your heels. Breathe in deeply through your mouth with your lips formed like an ‘O.’ Now, with your tongue at the back of your top teeth, blast that breath out on an exhalation that sounds like “th.” On the exhale bend forward until your forehead touches the floor in front of you and then sit back up again. Th-th-this breath will allow you to feel completely calmed and totally centered. An august and helpful adjustment to a sometimes sour month!

Your Stars:
The urge to splurge could potentially get you in some trouble this July, but, if you can manage to keep the credit cards sequestered, especially mid-month, you might just see your bank balance soaring alongside the sticky summer temperatures. With money-minded Venus bringing financial freedom to your 8th House of Other People’s Money through the 4th and her snuggle buddy Mars touring that same house until July 10, you have all the possibility and the potential to rack up some big gain$$$ as long as you don’t rack up an equal amount of bills. I know that it’s attractive to relieve your wallet of some over-abundance when a financial feeling of largesse is present, but, give the gift of restraint to yourself now and you’ll really learn how much that effort can keep giving and giving and giving. If you must spend, do it on experiences as opposed to things. In fact, with three planets traveling through your 9th House of Travel and Learning at different times of this month, the urge for fresh scenery and new adventures should override that aforementioned spending one. You also have big ole Jupiter conjuncting Neptune on that same day, July 10, drawing both critical attention and support to all of your prospects and all of your projects. This planetary pairing potentially promises that this month could be the single most outstanding one of the whole year where your career and/or confidence are concerned. Talk about hot! For much of this month your focus will be on success, stability and achievements. And, so, you are optimistic. With a capital ‘Ohhhh!’ Whatever you do, release the past and move forward with a positive attitude, even, or should I say especially, where possible pitfalls are concerned. As inviting as it might be during July to keep your head in the sand, the sooner you deal with any challenges that are preventing you from fully and freely expressing yourself, the sooner you can find and fulfill your heart’s desires. And, even though Dorothy told us that our true heart’s desires are always in our own backyards and have been there all along, for you, this month, they are even closer than that. When lucky Jupiter meets up with Chiron the healer one day after a sun sensitive New Moon on the 21st, you’ll be given a glorious opportunity to bring a cosmic band-aid to some old wounds that just won’t seem to say die. Look, go ahead and bury the wounds just don’t do the same thing with the emotions attached. Let this stuff go and then remember that Mercury the messenger is still whispering sweet somethings all over your 10th House of Fame and Honors. Promote and present yourself while finding ways to also enjoy life outside the office. Believe it or not the stars say that you’ll be the most happy this month when you are out and about and having tons of fun. Make plans with friends, seek out the company of loved ones and laugh Spend time and energy, not money and then I promise that July will bring you plenty to smile about.

Your Shui:
On any day between July 1 and July 10 this month, in the 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. time period, place in your bedroom two small and round one-sided mirrors on the walls of the room three inches just below the ceiling. Place one mirror in the ‘Career’ area of your bedroom and one in the Fame area. As much as possible have the mirrors appear to align with one another so that they symbolize an “infinite doubling” of their images. Go ahead and create infinite opportunities for greater recognition and improved reputation. This will reflect back to you in such influential and impactful ways that you almost can’t imagine. But go ahead and try anyway. Imagine.