Shuistrology

Your Stars:
You contract a serious case of wanderlust this month as a raucous planetary party taking place in your 9th House of Explorations and Higher Learning uncorks a flow of energies that open wide your innate sense of curiosity and wonder. These planets also promise and predicate a trigger for a true desire to actually set off and see some new scenery. As if all this weren’t enough, the prevailing energies of November additionally accent all of your communications and conversations while also advising active efforts at maintaining an adjustable and adaptable attitude. Whew, said a mouthful there didn’t I? Let’s begin at the beginning when a lovely Venus-Neptune trine brings an almost magical air of romance to your day on the 2nd. The connections are electric as are some seriously (unexpected?) enjoyable encounters. Do all you can to be sure and put your best foot forward. Just be sure it has a fresh pedi when you do! Look, I know how sensitive you really are and even though you put on that tough front and act
like you could care less what anyone else says or thinks about you, deep down I think we all know differently. I know you really do care. Probably waaaaay too much! Develop a thicker coat from the 8th through the 10th and don’t be provoked into any provocations no matter how much you want others around to like you. Really really really like you. Keep your focus on what’s truly important and just let everything extraneous go. Don’t over commit or make promises you can’t possibly keep as mid-month approaches. And, for goodness sake, let everyone else fend for themselves for once. You’re already spread too thin. Period. Just make time for and put your efforts these days into handling the most important and pressing details and everything else will fall into full focus before too very long. It does look like you might just try to take that trip after all, since there are some stellar influences surrounding the 16th that will allow you to be comfortable in unfamiliar situations and settings. A word to the wise says that you should try to stick closer to home than you might like though. Snafus and delays color the travel landscape and could cause needless stress and headaches. If you decide to travel extensively or far be sure to keep a cool head as things look like they could conceivably heat up. You might want to take a trip in your head and brush up on your Shakespeare as opposed to brushing off your passport. As the Sun enters beneficent Sagittarius on the 22nd, you will feel like the fog is clearing and you can most surely and safely take to the friendly skies. Go ahead and put your head in the clouds during this beautifully abundant time. These days are earmarked for you taking time just for you. Believe in you! Love you! Honor you! The energies say that those same sorts of efforts, expended at this specific and particular time, will reap more joy, harmony and happiness in your life than anything else you could do at this time. And, well, any actions taken towards that same end of recognizing the very beauty of your being during the days surrounding the 23rd will also bring a whole new meaning to gratitude in a month chock full of thanks. Always to quick to sacrifice your intentions and stuff your feelings in order to meet everyone else’s needs, this time now belongs to you. In fact, the only thing you should be stuffing as this month comes to a close is a big, fat Butterball. Or, better yet, let someone else do that for once. All you need to do is give yourself permission to be a bit full of yourself and, then, all other sorts of positive potential and fulfillment won’t be very far behind. You’ll see.

Your Shui:
Pack your bags Pisces and pick up a new passport too since it looks like you’ll be doing some transformational traveling this month. But it does appear as if there could also be some persnickety detours and problematic delays as well. In order to make the most of your authentic energetic connection to a Universe who that only wants smooth sailing for you, you may want to try the following before embarking on any trips or travel: Take a warm bath immediately before heading out the door being sure to pay special attention to cleansing both the hands and the feet. In fact, Feng Shui considers washing the feet very important sine they symbolize embarking on a journey while the act of consciously washing them clears away any potential bad energy or Chi. Step lively now while remembering the Feng Shui axiom that “wherever you go you should bring good luck with you.” This bath guarantees that very result. Bath Voyage!

Your Stars:
For someone as sensitive and psychic as you are matters of money and the mundane are rarely on your radar. But this month holds a few challenges on the financial front that can make navigating the aforementioned money matters more tricky then treaty in October. Both the Full Moon and the New Moon rise and fall in houses related to all things income and investments, bringing a sort of topsy-turvy nature to this agenda. One minute you are a bit worried about next month’s mortgage but the next you can see the solutions and have peace of mind over what could conceivably be considerably more coin in your proverbial pocket. In fact, the astro influences you feel in October can actually increase your bottom line but also can, as well, trigger extra added expenses that just might curb your enthusiasm. Your best bet this month is to assess and evaluate your current fiscal status in order to maintain order and equilibrium in your accounts in the days and months to come. Careful considerations and calculations can not only empower you to push past any obstacles but can also allow you to gather ye rosebuds while ye may so that your garden gets really healthy from here on out. The Full Moon on the 4th starts this preponderance on the prosperity front when it rises in your 2nd House of Earned Income. These energies can sometimes lend a false feeling of security and thereby trigger the urge to splurge. Just don’t. Period. NO SPENDING. Rather use these energies to your advantage and ponder some new ways and fresh ideas of creating more income or bringing more bang for the buck. This moon can be a wolf in sheeps clothing and, well, since it’s too early to be heading out in costumes, just let it go huff and puff and blow on someone else’s door. Check and re-check the information that comes to you while this moon’s on the rise as there’s bound to be a bit of hazy, spacey falling from the heavens above. Try to stay clear and focused so you don’t waste one bit of unproductive time on projects that aren’t going anywhere. With Mercury speaking back to Saturn in your 7th House of Partners on the 8th, you just may be well advised to watch what you have to say and how you say it as well! Just think before you speak and carefully consider the point you are trying to get across. Relationships might be a bit wobbly during this and the days that follow so remember to make wise choices and to keep your knees and their jerks out of ALL of your reactions. Careful considerations…remember? If you can avoid overreacting and maintain manageable perceptions and perspectives you will be allowed insights and glimpse into the overall (and much more realistic/less emotional) big picture. If you take one piece of advice away from this entire month’s assessment, it’s this: DON’T TURN MOLEHILLS INTO MOUNTAINS! Period. Step back. Speak only when spoken to and, even then, try to stay positive and productive. If you follow this advice then by the time the sweet Sun-Neptune trine comes trundling along you will find forgiveness and compassion and kindness, you know, your usual companions, all back home in the fold and bringing you better balance and harmony where a certain relationship is concerned. Then, once the planets restore harmony and balance to your love life you can do the same to the one accorded your bank account. The New Moon on the 18th shines on your 8th House of Other People’s Money and what that means to you. This influence could actually bring an opportunity to partner with someone who can help you fix your finances, or, conversely, could help you out of a fix you’re currently in. As Martha might say, “it’s a good thing.” Take advantage. And take out a loan if you need to. Just don’t get too enthusiastic or go overboard about his pairing especially as a Mercury-Jupiter trine makes you marvelously optimistic in the days surrounding the 20th and 21st. The real world is where it’s at these days, just remember that no matter how tempted you are to engage and then marry your fantasies to reality. In fact, Mercury hangs around to bring a blast of brilliance to your incredibly strong powers of intuition and insights on the 24th. Even or especially if you just cannot seem to put these powerful thoughts into words, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater because these influences are showering you with visions that can absolutely change your future for the better. Don’t try to explain or even prove the rightness of these instincts and observations to others. What a waste of time that will be. Rather, believe in yourself and your talents and your unique gifts. After all, they’re what got you here in the first place. Just be crystal clear and concise in what you expect from others around you and remember that what goes around comes around. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. It’s a two way street. And this month you’re heading down it with va-va-vroom!

Your Shui:
With a posse of planets crowding your financial sector this month, speaking up and asking for what you need to make you feel safe and secure is going to be of paramount importance. Don’t expect others to read your mind just because it comes so easily to you. You need to be passionate but not mistake that for being pushy. Honest and open communications filled with faith and trust and love will get you everywhere you want to go. And, oh, the places you’ll go. But, first, just in case you start thinking you can’t afford the ticket, try this (and, remember, this is ONLY for when you are in a real cash crunch!): Put a pinch of sesame seeds in a lidded jar every day. Do not remove any unless you really need the financial fix. When that happens however, remove a pinch of the seeds in your left hand. In a pinch. Get it? While you are holding them, spit on them while visualizing solution to your situation and then immediately toss them onto the Earth. “Open sesame” now takes on a whole new meaning! Go ahead and seed your financial future and then get on with living your extraordinary life.

Your Stars:
Childlike expressions of enthusiasm and joy, whimsy and wonder are all available to and for you for much of September. And all of this frolic and fun is courtesy a magical Mars dancing through Cancer, a stellar configuration that consequently lights up your solar 5th House of Wonder and Delight (and True Love too!) You will have many and much opportunity to engage in frivolity and flirtations which will more than offset some of the upsetting times that September potentially has in store. Particularly from that ages old struggle for freedom where that static stranglehold of personal responsibilities is concerned. That’s right, those ties that bind begin to get a little too tight again this month making you not so much blue in the face as green with envy at others who don’t seem to be as hemmed in as you are. Stop hawing and do something about it. Towards that same end it does look like the shift in seasons might also represent a pivotal turning point in one close relationship or another. If September does say that this is where the rubber meets the road, then you should be sure to take the proverbial higher one and just graciously and gracefully end a relationship that just doesn’t work. Conversely though, please do also bear in mind that these energies could also trigger a renewed commitment with this same special person. This outcome apparently will depend quite a bit upon your own ability to adapt and adhere as well as to adjust to the changing needs of all the parties involved. Just know that an ongoing issue and concern can quite effectively if not quite so easily be put to bed now if you just let the past rest and choose a real workable resolution instead. But, first, let’s begin at the beginning. The first few days of September could see you feeling over exuberant and enthusiastic about an issue that doesn’t deserve to be quite so crowed over. However, a strict semi-square from even stricter Saturn sharpening a barbed attempt at getting Venus’ loving attention does create and cause you to embrace self-discipline and control, especially on the 2nd and 3rd. Watch for overindulgence and extravagance during these days or risk some negative results from engaging in impatience and bad behavior. You know better. Just exercise your trademark discipline in order to not be branded the troublemaker. Besides, practicing some focus and fine tuning your attention on the things that really do matter will give you a leg up when the crash and clash between Mars and Neptune happening on the 9th. The tension between these two will more than likely offer up a host of distractions that just don’t serve your immediate energies or your vision. Time to get back on track. Your course does start to correct on the 11th when the Sun and Jupiter join forces to bring a brighter and prettier picture to your future. Just don’t get too caught up in what will be when there’s still plenty to be done in the here and now. Seriously, don’t overinflate your expectations of what’s to come until you blow off what’s not working in your life at the present. That way when Venus and Neptune both come calling on the 15th and the Sun shines on Neptune the very next day, you’ll be able to enjoy and engage in all the aforementioned frivolity and fun, flirtations and deeeee-luxe delight that these energies promise. Act like a kid. Play with kids. BE a kid in every and any way possible. And, yes, you should even begin to more appreciate the authority figures around you as opposed to provoking potential battles that you just cannot win. Even a war of words will degenerate into sticks and stones so don’t go breaking anyone’s balls during these mid-month days. Rather, realize how tremendously your profound insights are always appreciated by everyone you surround yourself with and then find a creative way to blend your need for freedom with the pressures and responsibilities that all this authority represents. Once you have assessed and evaluated what’s and WHO is important to your advancement (on every level), then, if you must, go tell whoever you have to that they can go fly a kite! Or, maybe, you should do that very same thing for yourself? Certainly anything you do now that invokes and evokes childhood during these days will more than make up for any stressors you are feeling as time marches on. If need be just wait until after the emotional New Moon on the 18th to make any BIG relationship changes. See, with loving Venus entering your 7th House of Partners and Special Others on the 20th, relationship rescue is on the way! Now you have huge opportunities abounding to affect damage control as opposed to feeling any loss of same. The Sun entering fair and balanced Libra on the same day as the seasons shift on the 22nd allows you a fine opportunity for creative compromise. It is critical however, that you understand the impact and influence that clarity can have during these days. You can stay or you can go. Or, they can. Stay or go that is. It’s that simple. But, first, you need to have ALL the facts and with a series of planetary quincunxes that are just itching to promote potential misunderstandings you are bound to be a little dazed and a lot confused as September starts to fade away. Take it slow and take it easy as this is a time that could conceivably mark an entirely new chapter in the book of your life. This one’s written in the stars. Look, with a retrograde Mercury, the planet associated with all things communications, stalled in that aforementioned 7th House of Significant Others from September 7 through the 29, it’s time to look squarely in the face of old issues that are holding you back so you can either change them or move on. The planets do promise that no matter what decision you make, if you account for all the facts and act from a place of compassion and clarity and not from any kneejerk emotional or angry space, you will end the month happier, healthier and far more joy-full than you might have ever once have thought. It’s time to get your life in order and these influences are about to give you the giant hand you need to do exactly that! While we’re at it, let’s all give you a hand. You deserve it.

Your Shui:
Relationship remedies are the order of the day during a month when one or more of your nearest and dearest may be about to depart your life. This parting of the ways however might be just what the doctor ordered where your own prescriptions for refilling and re-fueling your personal power is concerned. The wild card during September is retrograde Mercury potentially causing misunderstandings and misplaced judgements and even anger to cloud the clarity of these critical relationship issues. Feng Shui to save the day! And the month as well! Look, we all want you to be happy and happiness is the name of the game when relationships are smooth and supportive. Speaking of smooth and supportive; Place six clear crystal balls (small glass marbles will do nicely!) in either the northwest (if you are a man) or the southwest (ladies!) corner of your living room in order to bring creativity, clarity, balance and beauty to any and all partnership and/or relationship agendas. This adjustment offers, well, adjustment, balance and big blessings. Like I said, just what the doctor ordered!

Your Stars:
One small step for Pisces, one giant leap for mankind! That should be both your motto and your mantra this month as you move towards the fulfillment of a project that you totally know has tremendous outreach and potential. It’s frustrating however that only you seem to understand the enormity of what you have been diligently investing your energies in. No worries. I promise that if you hold your magnificent vision and do the same with your expectations, success and slaps on the back will all unfold before year’s end. You know you deserve it and so do I. Unfortunately August isn’t the time to take umbrage at the uneducated and underachievers who surround you. It is the month however to master the minor details so that you can continue to lay a solid foundation from which to jump into the stratosphere in a few short months time. Keep your eye on the proverbial prize and don’t get drawn into a disagreement that starts in the skies August 1 and 2. Venus and Pluto squaring off on those two dates shouldn’t have you running in circles for someone who doesn’t really appreciate all that much anyway. Simply step away and allow Mercury to spread some star dust on your open lines of communications as he chats up for your 7th House of Partners on those same dates. There might be a disagreement or two following this dust up, so, be prepared. Get into the fray if you can focus on finding what needs to be worked on in this relationship. And then are willing to do the work. Either walk the talk or walk away in early August. That’s darn good advice. You’ll see. You’ll like life so much better when Venus sidles up next to Neptune on August 9 creating an atmosphere of enthusiasm and optimism especially on the home front. You might want to spend serious efforts the next few days paying attention to a domestic project that has been in stall forever. Get it moving back forward again and reclaim your power over this seeming impossible and until now stagnant situation. There are alternative solutions floating in the ethers that will bring bright consequences as a result of your energetic commitment to finally completing this task. In fact, thanks to an overly indulgent Mars and Jupiter trine on the 13th and 14th, you will feel fueled by an otherworldly energy that puts a bounce in your step. Even though you might feel you could conceivably do all same off of all the restrictive walls. If something seems too big in scope or overly ambitious at this time, just take the time to break it into bits and then you’ll be back in the driver’s seat again. Just be sure not to get a ticket for roaming reckless around the 18th when Mars and Uranus decide to take the wheel. This irritating atmosphere is agitated by a boisterous New Moon rising on August 20th in your 6th House of The Daily Grind. This is also the house that holds the key to your health, so watch for running out of gas on these few days as this could help to bring on a summer cold. Trust me, you’ll need to feel as good as it gets on the 22nd when the Sun heats up your odds at finding the perfect person to complement and compliment your competence and your cuteness. This relationship could potentially put someone on your path who can turn up the heat in your confidence levels while shoring up what you knew all along, that you are brilliant, sensitive and smart. You know, the same thing that can be said about your pending plans! Don’t ask Jesus to take the wheel in August Pisces. Rather, put your own petal to the metal and believe me when I tell you that you’re doing just fine!

Your Shui:
Paintings, posters or even small statues of boats can have a tremendously positive and beneficial effect on so many different areas of your life. Water energizes both your career and your confidence/self-esteem while a boat in full said indicates a happy, healthy, fulfilling and fascinating journey through your day to day life. All great energies to help you sail through a month that might not give you as much recognition and reward as you think you deserve or as you might like. Place some image of a boat by your front door and make sure that it is poised to sail into your space finding safe harbor in your energies and environment. If you use a small statue of a boat, then load it with symbols of treasures and goodies to create an immediate synergy and symbiosis as well as, of course, personal and professional satisfaction. Curiosity might have killed that darn cat but I bet it was a fully loaded boat that bought it back! Ahoy!

Your Stars:
Your planets, your energies and, consequently, even your thoughts seem to bounce back and forth between clarity, chaos and confusion this whole month reminding you to remember to seek out and follow the guidance of someone who you trust, whose opinions you value and who never seems to steer you wrong. That way, while you are spinning round and round and round in July, there will be a familiar shoulder to lean on and a safe place for you to land when all the whirling finally wanes. With seemingly so much to do both at home and on the work front too, you are overwhelmed, overloaded and truly tempted to chuck it all and just go hang at the beach instead. But, and please believe me here, that plan not only stinks like rotten fish but is all wet too. It seems you will be deeply drawn to other magical worlds where the daily grind and the realities attached to the mundane and routine apparently don’t exist. If I could just add, neither does this nifty Nirvana that you’ve created to keep your imagination stoked and your inspirations on fire; all while you keep your obligations back-burnered. Look, addressing the everyday stuff simply won’t be that bad, you’ll see. This same stuff won’t even encroach on your planned playful activities as much as you might think. In fact, July will turn out to be a terrific month for socializing thanks to a bold and bright Full Moon rising on the 7th bringing those exact same active and illuminating qualities to your 11th House of Groups and Friends. And, well, July could even well turn out to be one of the most romantic months of the WHOLE YEAR for you, as long as you realize that soul mate you’ve been desperately searching for is attached to that same set of shoulders that you’ve been running to for guidance all along. Just sayin’. Otherwise you can be sure to be the life of the party, even if it’s the death of you. The New Moon in nurturing Cancer on the 21st represents a solar eclipse in your 5th House of True and Lasting Love, so, if you do decide to wise up and get snuggly with that aforementioned established and intimate voice of wisdom, try to wait until this New Moon to court this new love. It might just be time for you to stop fantasizing and get realistic about a lot of your relationships. At the very least think about commiting or making a positive change in your past, too often repeated patterns. Even if one door needs to close and having to shut it makes you sad, someday soon you’ll be ecstatic you did. As Venus trines Neptune on the 28th, you will begin to feel and even know that your life is indeed a magical place to be. With or without all the worry and the work. Be cautious but courageous and step out of your comfort zone. If you do, you won’t believe all the luck and the love that lies in wait.

Your Shui:
Balancing your lifestyle and arranging your schedule to allow time for some healthy and playful release from the day to day will be both instantly and immediately gratifying this month. Almost as gratifying as potentially pairing with the true love of your life. If you are ready to let go of the past, say goodbye to what’s not working in the current and embrace a fabulous future then go ahead and locate the tai chi, or center of your main floor or bedroom. Or both. Hang a round and faceted clear quartz crystal somewhere in this space with either nine or 18 inches of red thread, string or ribbon. This will bring you some crystal clarity where confusion may have reigned before and spur effortless actions that will serve to support you for a long while to come. Forget the white and the blue, but, definitely embrace the red this month. It’s happy to hug you right back.