Shuistrology

Your Stars:
In astrology, every once in a while there are events that are so magical and so wonderful that we call them “miracle makers.” Well, get ready, because this month you’ll be able to turn water into wine while walking on top of it at the same time when a series of these events infiltrate your everyday existence. This is all thanks to a threesome of sorts that shoots three times the amount of extra special energies directly into your hopes, your wishes and your dreams. The heavenly Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron super-conjunction that causes all of this mystic mayhem occurs inside your 12th House of Deep Secrets and the Subconscious bringing a sense of the sacred to both. The month begins beautifully with loving and sweet Venus orchestrating a threesome with those aforementioned merry makers predicating a pretty great first few days. You float through early June ignoring everything but the all the attention you are attracting from everyone around. Once mid-month arrives you will be able to not only love the person you see in the mirror but you’ll be able to get the genie out of it as well. Reflect on what it is that you really and truly want in your life now. Not what you thought you wanted in the past. One or two of those dreams and desires might even manifest from the 11th to the 15th when your intentions turn into solid and stable actions. Woo hoo! With the Sun supporting those Three Magicateers on the 16th and 17th your confidence and esteem as well as your long term view of the future are all filled with spun sugar and creamy goodness. These early summer energies almost feel otherworldly and unreal. Unfortunately, the Solstice comes calling on the 21st just in time to throw some water on all those airy fairy feelings along with a timely reality check. Don’t leave a tip. Just follow the ones I offer. There is a hazy, lazy quality to the days that hug the end of the month that might make you feel like slowing all this activity down a bit. The beauty part here is the realization and the knowing that no matter what you do, wheels are already in motion and that you wouldn’t want to stop them if you could. It’s pretty clear that no matter what you ask for this month, you can probably get. So dream big. Think big. Ask big. No small feat. But with the planetary alignments you have in June it’ll be completely worth the effort.

Your Shui:
Cultivate a bright body inside and out that will match the brilliance that it set to shower you in June. Stand with feet shoulder width apart and arms at your sides. Visualize bright and shining sun sitting 3 feet above your head but directly in front of you. Raise your arms over your head and put your palms up to face this sun. Inhale slowly, imagining this golden light filling your body through both palms and through your forehead as well. Exhale when you are full of light. This meditation is, literally, sensational. And, now, you’re golden!

Your Stars:
As Walt Disney once reminded us, “ a dream is a wish your heart makes, when you are fast asleep,” and that Cinderella-esque sentiment holds more than a modicum of truth for you this month as well. In fact watching dear desires come to fruition could be a favored pastime in May whether your eyes are wide open or tightly shut in slumber. Your dreams will actually hand over some messages for making more wonderful wishes come true, especially at end month, but you’ll need to pay pretty close attention. That said, I probably wouldn’t want to be wearing any glass slippers if I were you. See, Mercury retrograding at the front of the month can cause some potentially troublesome bumps in the middle of this road. And those bumps might not only break the bottom of a fragile stiletto but can casually break your stride as well. In fact, when Mercury starts making mischief with all things communications on May 7 you might want to stay close to home. Even if you have to clean up after your slovenly step sisters. If you must go out, take the carriage. This retrograde happens in your House of Home so to say that you might have some words with family is practically and understatement. Don’t overthink the energies surrounding mid-May, it won’t be worth it. Instead, anticipate the relief from resistance that comes with the Full Moon on the 9th, opening you to other perspectives and liberating perceptions. It would be wise mid-month to try not to be so serious and give your self big permission to explore inner promptings while planning escapes from the everyday. You might want to go ahead and pack your bags as well since it appears that your inner journeys will be complemented by a short trip or two. Try to get away if even for a long weekend. As active and insightful as your dreams can be, taking in a new landscape could literally feed your imagination as well as keep it from running wild. As Jupiter, the giver of gifts and big luck joins forces with forgiving Chiron and then those two huddle up with nebulous Neptune, all around the same time as an inventive New Moon of May 24, you may just feel like the belle of the ball. You won’t even care if the Prince takes notice because your true calling is coming present and it indicates that other dreams are about to turn into reality. There’s no ticking clock counting the minutes at the end of this month, just a swirl of super energies that promise possibilities and potential. What you’ll understand now is that even if the clock does strike twelve and the carriage does turn into a pumpkin that midnight is YOUR hour and orange is YOUR color. You can go ahead and whistle while you work because whatever is happening on that front is doing so with the full cooperation of a host of supportive and participatory planets. If you take the time and make the effort to do some soul searching and then some deep investigating, you’re sure to find that the Fairy Godmother who lives within is about wave a wand in real time too. Bye bye Stepmonster. Nice knowing ya!

Your Shui:
How easy it would be for me to just tell you that your dreams will be the biggest messengers of this month and that some of them will actually show you the way to your heart’s desires so you should keep pad and pen close to the bed and be sure to record every significant one. But, there’s actually another exercise concerning dreams that I learned long ago that is so accurate and so effective that I want to share it with you this month so that you can squeeze every last drop of magic and mystery out of this potentially life altering May. Okay, maybe I wrote a little too soon because you actually will need to keep a green pen and some paper close by your bed. And you actually will need to copy down any and all recollections of what went on in your dreams when you wake up. Whether that’s at 3 AM or when it’s time to let the dog out. Just be sure to scribble whatever you can remember. Then, anytime after or around that magical time of May 24, take your notes and that green pen and do this: First, take some time to ask the Universe a question. It should have something to do with a dream or desire that you have. Now, take your recordings and your dreamy ramblings and form them into a story of some sort. That’s right. Write! Put pen to paper and make up a short story weaving all your thoughts from the world of sleep into something that makes sense to the wide awake. Don’t stress over this and certainly don’t take a lot of time. Simply look over your notes and make up a short story incorporating those details. Once you have finished this assignment, ask your question again and then read your story out loud. The answer to your question will be somewhere inside that story. And it will change your life. Don’t worry about becoming the next Shakespeare. Just sleep perchance to dream. Because those dreams hold the key to your true purpose and it promises to be perfectly, well, dreamy. Just like you.

Your Stars:
That winged messenger, Mercury, has some mighty and magical messages in store for you this month as that planet of chat travels through your 3rd House of Communication for almost the entirety of April. The energy of this event even peaks around the April 24 Full Moon which is when you may just hear the news that you have been so optimistically and enthusiastically waiting for. There’s even a promise of travel or two pervading your astro outlook, but, before you go looking for the perfect chateau or even a chapeau to pull the proverbial rabbit from, let’s look at the energies of the first few days. With Venus taking a tough stand as well as a sort of shape by forming a prickly square to persnickety Pluto on April 3 and then Mars and Saturn deciding to have it out on the 4th, well, you will be well advised to slow down before you crash into an emotional wall. Thank goodness then that there’s a saving grace that almost immediately follows these tense times with the social Full Moon that rises on April 9. This moon is whispering sweet somethings into your 8th House of Other People, Intimacy and Abundance where generous gift giving Jupiter has also been hanging of late. There is an electricity in the air that currently goes right through your whole system charging you with a sense of possibility and wonder. When high wire act Uranus sends more energy tip toeing into your nervous system on April 15, you will more than likely need to plug in to your own powers of expression, either mentally, emotionally or physically, to bring balance and beauty back to the fold. And, believe me, when Venus and Mars rendezvoux on the 21st in your 1st House of Self Esteem and Confidence, balance and beauty will already be there to brighten this passionate pairing. Oooh la la! Your charisma, charm, sex appeal and all out attractiveness are at an all time high and now, it appears, magic takes the place of nervous anxiety in the air. So, go ahead and pull that bunny from the bonnet, since it’s really the best time of year to do that anyway. Whatever it is that you have been working towards for months and months, well, there really is no time like now to get to that present! Believe me, this month, no one will lock you in a straight jacket and throw you in a dunk tank or even try to saw you in half when you finally find the right words and positively ask for what you want. It’s all right there for the taking as long as you have faith and use patience no matter how fired up to reach the finish line. I’ll say it again, with so many planets positively supporting any and all efforts at asking, say something. Or as the beautiful John Cusack might say, “say anything!” Slow and steady Pisces, slow and steady. Abbracadabra and poof, you’ve won the race!

Your Shui:
Say what you mean and mean what you say! That advice came from a magical elephant who reminds us that “a person’s a person no matter how small.” So, you see, it doesn’t matter how insignificant you may have thought your requests were in the past, since, this month you have time, energy and the planets all lined up and ready to lend an ear whenever and wherever your communications are concerned. Commit to speak up about anything that holds any importance to you. Tell anyone who’ll listen (and, this month, that practically means everyone) what you think and what you feel and, most especially, what you want. This isn’t just magical thinking, this is actually strategic speech. That way, when the month is over and gone and May is springing up all over, at least you’ll be able to say, “I meant what I said and I said what I meant” and then be filled with faith, one hundred percent, that the Universe has heard you loud and clear. And that really good news is already on the way. Beginning on April 9 and continuing through the 29th (the entire time that mercurial energy of enhanced communication is highlighted) have a small round mirror under the mattress in the place where the pillow or your head rests while you are asleep. The first thing each morning, breathe on the mirror until a slight fog appears and then wipe the mirror clear. The entire time that you are doing this, visualize a clearer and calmer mind and get a true idea of what it is that you really want before going ahead and placing the mirror back under the mattress. After the 27 days you can either soak this mirror in salt water or leave it in the sun for seven days before using it again for any other reflective purposes. This exercize will help to strengthen your communication muscles in a month where that promises that you’ll end up a perfect 10!

Your Stars:
With all the friends and family pressing on your last nerve and sucking up a substantial amount of your energies early this month, March could be compared to a veritable Twilight zone for you! Thank goodness then for the bounty and the beauty that comes calling in the final few weeks after the bloodshed of the first few goes buh bye! Just in the nick of time too! The top of the month really is a pain in the neck though as Venus, the planet that predicates a lot of the astro action where love and money are concerned, starts to stop and then move backward heading into a six week stall that starts on March 6th. All of this back action happens in your 2nd House of Income and Self Worth. Uh oh, that’s not even a House that you feel very at home in. And now, with Venus going back and forth, mostly back, over some old issues relating to your innate sense of confidence and esteem, you may just find yourself revisiting some self worth agendas that could potentially cause some consternation. Even though you will feel strongly prompted to, don’t worry about finding a magic bullet to shoot some courage and confidence into your image. No need to look for a silver one either. Rather, you should be looking for the silver lining since having Venus revisit some recent financial opportunities that might have appeared to disappear from the light of day could actually bring one or two of them roaring back to life! And, then, just when you thought you could leave the house without a string of garlic hanging around your neck, this month starts to stink a little more when the Full Moon casts shadows and doubts into your 7th House of Relationships. This tricky, tense and persnickety moon rises on the 10th but the adversarial after effects with loved ones and friends could last as long as three days following. Try to keep a low profile during these days because the ones that immediately follow also immediately change your luck and your life. That’s right, as soon as the Sun comes out to brighten and lighten the energies of the Spring Equinox, it will warm you as well. Finally! Out of the darkness and into the light. All of a sudden and as if by magic a genuine glut of enterprising adventures and invitations begin to pour your way. The first day of Spring, March 20, really will blow a fresh breath of air into your image, your esteem and your opportunities. And all this happens right before the New Moon brings a true turnaround inside that same 2nd House, causing all of the previous perils associated with a analytical Venus retrograde to turn tail and actually work in your favor. Watch for some newfound confidence to be coupled with some newfound money all heading your way on the 26th. Look, there is a fresh feeling in the air everywhere you look at the very end of the month. And, although you are anxious to push through terra firma and reach for the sky, you still need to get through the end of winter and wait for all your heart’s desires to spring forth. Believe me you will be branching out and leaving all this past behind soon enough. For now, just count your blessings, count on yourself and count on the planets to bring you a big boon and bonus as soon as April showers bring May flowers. Don’t be surprised to hear that “this bud’s for you!”

Your Shui:
The beginning of this month might just cause you to think that where there’s a will there’s no way but that sort of sullen discouragement only lasts for the first half of March. Once Spring come calling on the 20th, everything’s once again coming up roses for you while all the other bad stuff just gets sort of stripped away! A sweeping and grand breath of fresh air that fills you up and brings you the breath of life is coming to you at the end of March. So, it is only fitting that you follow a specific breathing sequence called that very same thing, “The Breath of Life.” Take this air anytime this month you start to hold everything in. Go out of doors and tilt your head gently upwards so that you are easily looking at the sky. Open your mouth and very slowly inhale through your nose. It is critical to receive the overwhelmingly positive side effects of this exercize that you make sure to breath in through the nose. Visualize that you are pulling in pure air from the beautiful skies above. At the natural end of the inhale, instead of starting to exhale, first swallow this air. Just swallow it as if it were liquid sunshine. As you swallow, see this energetically infused air traveling through and spreading into every area of your body. Go ahead then and finally exhale through the nose only and repeat the breath from the beginning. This is a tremendously powerful body recharge and so you should not perform this more than two or three times in a row. This secret Shui will help to heal any issues of self worth while filling you with renewed vigor and an appetite for life. Speaking of appetites, this technique has also been known to kill hunger as well, so, you’re also invited to try this before each meal. Strengthens your aura, kills your appetite and fills you with life? Let’s face it the complexion of your month just got a whole lot better already!

Your Stars:
Let’s face it, turning an ordinary life into an extraordinary experience can sometimes be a full time job and, well, this month there will be times when you will just out and out feel exhausted and could even feel like calling it quits. Don’t! Even though you can expect more of same in the early sledding, and by that I mean difficulties and challenges with both personal and professional relationships, pervading the atmosphere and permeating the energies of February, you should also know that you are thismuchcloser than you think to achieving a that exact extraordinary life of your dreams that you’ve been working so hard for. But let’s not sugar coat it, no matter how many chocolate marshmallow hearts there might be floating around every corner, because that demanding and didactic Saturn/Uranus opposition that in influencing every sign in some sort of tremulous way, adversely impacts yours on the work and relationship front this month. In fact this astro anomaly will cause you to have to work harder than ever making you feel at times indentured, at times explosive and, mostly, just really really tired. Working harder and smarter is not an axiom that’s any stranger to you. But having to work harder and smarter for little results or rewards takes on the patina of the insane. We’ve all heard it, that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over while expecting a different result. Well, get ready for some crazy couture this month as the only outer wear you’ll feel like wearing is a straight jacket. But that would be crooked thinking because you actually are making a great deal of progress and an even better impression on the powers that be, it’s just all happening behind the scenes at this point in time. That Saturn/Uranus opposition on the 4th does eventually loosen its grip just in time for a February Full Moon on the 9th to rise inside your 6th House of Ritual, Routines and the Daily Grind. Oh great! Okay, okay, hang on because the cavalry is about to ride roughshod and to your rescue if you can just hold tight to the reins until the 24th. Listen, the New Moon that rises on that day will bring new and better energies to this whole bi-polar month, aggressive energies pushing you to extremes while doing same to every button that you have. Compromise and moderation are the critical keywords that will help keep you keeled until the promise of the 24th begins to unfold. So, you can capitulate earlier on and go off riding into the sunset or you can hold on and wait for this New Moon to rise offering new directions, new dreams, new goals and possibly even a new ‘do. Take note of your dreams these last few Feb days since they will hold messages that will wake up and renew your sense of optimism for the future as well as enhance enthusiasm for same. For sure. Keep moving ahead because maximum success sits just around the corner. You know, alongside all those aforementioned chocolate marshmallow hearts. Just play nice and know that things are not as they seem. The optical illusions that you are experiencing this month may keep you from feeling as positive as possible but you’ll have to believe me when I say that all eyes really are on you. Just not from an instantly gratifying perspective. Rose colored glasses will definitely help as long as you know that soon enough you really will be in the pink. Exactly where you belong!

Your Shui:
Let’s clear your space and then invite and allow only the positive, the profound and the very nearly perfect to come calling, because, well, no better time than the present to get those gifts. You can use a small and circular mirror for this cure that will absorb all the bad, stale or stuck energies that can be helping those pesky PU planets to influence and impact your energies in any adverse way. Try to select a small-ish mirror about three inches in diameter but also be sure to only use this same mirror for future efforts at space clearing and cleansing. Mirrors used for these purposes in Feng Shui should never then be used for anything else. Starting at the front door, move around the main floor of your house in a clockwise direction, holding the mirror up to reflect the walls and (especially!) each corner. Concentrate and spend a bit more time in dark corners or even in spaces (liked closed closets etc) that don’t normally see a lot of traffic or that are seldom used. Be especially thorough when walking though rooms with “hidden” or “forgotten” spaces like cabinets in the kitchen or showers behind curtains in the bathrooms. Don’t even forget to reflect the actual toilet. After you have gone through the whole house, soak this mirror in salted water for a few minutes so that the water can now absorb all the bad energies and immediately dissolve them. Pour the water down any bathroom drain and pull the drain shut for at least three hours. Wash that mirror and wrap it in a cloth for another use at any other time when you feel you need to get rid of the old so you can clearly see the pending new. Although it’s believed in Feng Shui that you should perform this practice at least once a month, I’m telling you Pisces, that’s it’s a perfect practice for you to do this month. Using this looking glass will put a grin on your face in later February that any Cheshire would be jealous of. Go ahead and laugh cool cat, laugh.