Shuistrology

Your Stars:
Listen, Joseph Conrad already plunged head first into the heart of darkness making it completely unnecessary for you to duplicate those efforts. This fact holds true regardless how much you will feel pulled towards embracing that same exploratory attitude this month. It’s always okay to spend time in some conscious self- reflection and interior re-designing but it’s never alright to throw yourself into a period of doubt and despair while doing it. In fact, that sort of behavior defeats the whole purpose of taking a journey that can ultimately not only lead you right to the end of the rainbow but can also plunk you squarely on the proverbial yellow brick road. If you want to get to the Emerald City in time for the holidays then you must be content to simply place one proactive foot in front of the other all along the way. Patience is a virtue as is persistence and, well, when you couple those qualities with the pursuit of excellence and the one of happiness too, you pretty much have the broad overview of what the energies this month have to offer you. Be careful not to engage in petty and silly arguments as early as the first day when aggressive Mars and talkative Mercury go toe to toe. Dance around the issues and you’ll avoid any and all conflict. The early days all seem to have a sort of edginess about them making you eager to move on and move out to in efforts to go and explore the unknown. Determine where you are simply bored and looking for something new to do or where you truly want to bloom and grow and then plant yourself wherever you can activate energies associated with the latter. Be sure to send me a postcard from the edge while you’re at it. A Mercury-Jupiter face-off on November might make you want to pack it in as overload and overexpansion accompany that planetary pairing. Look, just don’t make promises that you can’t possibly keep or even tend towards exaggerations. Better to be quiet, um, I mean, safe, than sorry. And, for goodness sake, whatever you do during the days from the 8th to the 11th, don’t gossip. That sort of backbiting will come back to bite YOU right where it will hurt the most. A powerful Pluto-Saturn square mid-month starts to charge the wheels of change that are slowly sputtering before hitting a rhythm and propelling you on to a fantastic future. First you must be fully on board though. NO half-hearted attempts at cleaning out old nonsense (in your life AND in your psyche) will ever yield anything more than an utter waste of time. You have the opportunity now, dead smack in the middle of this month to take a good look within and get rid of everything that’s holding you back. The Sun helps to shine a bright light of welcoming warmth on your month as it enters your sign on the 21st. You are at your height of charm and grace during these indulgent days and have all the right impressions to show for it. As in days prior, watch out for exaggeration and, these days especially, be cautious towards excess. The desire or propensity to overspend, overeat and even oversleep will be strong. But YOU, my friend are stronger. Generous Jupiter brings up the rear as end November finds him hovering and you both smarter and more self-confident than you have been in a very long time. Your intentions and your actions align and all of a sudden everything surrounding Sagittarius starts to make sense. Oh happy days!

Your Shui:
Meditation, magic and mystical flights of fancy will all influence your energies this month as will the desire to uncover and unveil anything stale, stuck or stalled. It’s truly time to uncover all that is preventing you from moving forward on your personal journey. One sure-fire way to spend quality time unearthing and then washing away the old in order to make way for the fabulously new is to take a special effects bath that promises to whoosh unwelcome energies right drown the drain. Add a quarter cup of bicarbonate of soda and half cup of sea salt to a full bath and soak. As you soak, be sure to submerge yourself three times fully (head and all!) under the water while visualizing that all negativity and bad juju is dislodging from you both inside and out. Consciously imagine all bad energies being washed away. Then, with the water still in the tub, go and shower and rinse off. Once you have completed the rinse, go back to the bath and pull the plug on anything and everything that was holding you back. A nice, clean, fresh start. Ahhhhh, that’s more like it.

Your Stars:
This month promises to be frightfully fun for you. There will be days filled with optimism, enjoyment and whimsy while your nights are tinged with magic and tons of opportunities to play, play, play! Your charisma and your creativity are at an all time high, although it will be incumbent upon you to orchestrate and initiate your amusement while all these supportive energies are afloat. The Full Moon that rises on the 4th shines the spotlight on your 5th House of True Love and Self Expression, so, you should be on the lookout for opportunities to engage both. You should also definitely be on the haunt for ways to work your magic around others but in a lighter, more expressive, expansive and jovial way. Why not host a spooky soiree? Or, if planning’s not your particular strong suit, then just give yourself permission to be as spontaneous as possible in your pursuit of pleasure. “No pressures” should be your mantra this month. You’ll understand this most acutely when the Sun and Jupiter hook up on the 10th giving you the charm of a snake oil salesman. You could sell ice to the Eskimos on this and the days that follow, so strong is the positive influence and impact of that planetary pairing. Get your message out, it will get itself across. Remember though that the devil’s in the details so just keep is simple and strategic. With Jupiter, your ruling planet, turning forward on the 12th, you’ll be sure to see some prospects and some projects that are both very near and very dear to your heart start to sprout wings and take flight! Open your eyes and your imagination to the opportunities that are sitting right in front of you. Just because they seem more like fun than stressful work doesn’t make them any less real. When Venus brings her beautiful self into Libra on October 14, you can pretty much count on the sensual, the sizzling and the soulmate to all wrap themselves around you. Just don’t let party pooper Pluto ruin a good thing on the 15th when some potential problems can arise. Take it all in stride and remember your “NO PRESSURE” mantra. Your efforts at effective communication stay success filled on the 20th when Mercury the Messenger whispers secret Shui into generous Jupiter’s willing ear. The days surrounding this one would be simply perfect to point anyone else willing to listen to your plans and ideas. You are persuasive beyond belief right now and your perceptions and perspectives make perfect sense to all. And it only gets better from here. Venus and Jupiter snuggle up on the 28th to end this fab month with more fun as they bestow even more blessings on you. These blessings promise to come in the way of new friends and colleagues who just hit it off with you right from the get go. In fact these high energies might have you feeling a little hyper and nervous as they are so aggressively stimulating so be sure to shed some of that electricity by taking a walk or engaging in some sort of physical activity. When Saturn settles into your 11th House of Groups and Friends on the 29th, where the planet plans to stay for the next three years, recalibrating and rebalancing relationships will be your balliwick so, be sure to enjoy all the abundance available in that same arena this month. This month is a joy. Literally and figuratively, so, well, en-joy Sag, enjoy!

Your Shui:
If there were ever a month to activate and trigger the supportive energies associated with the Feng Shui ‘Children and Creativity’ area, this one is it! The planets promise pure spontaneity and plenty of pleasure in October while also showering your projects with potential and possibility. Act like a child on any and every occasion that gives you the opportunity and watch your own personal faerie tale filled with friends, both old and new, begin to unfold. One surefire way to lend cosmic support to these energies is to bring a clear quartz crystal into the ‘Children and Creativity’ area of your main floor. According to Feng Shui, wherever a crystal is placed is sure to be both brighter and lighter once this critical key is turned. Tasked with creating lots of movement while activating happiness and sparkle this crystal could conceivably be a metaphor for you this month. Leave the crystal in this space until Saturn sets up shop on the 29th and ease your way into this next new transit. Are we clear? Crystal! And we all lived happily ever after. The end.

Your Stars:
Okay, so here’s the good news: This is the final time this year that taskmaster Saturn aligns with that unpredictable, spontaneous Uranus setting up an all too familiar struggle between responsibilities at home and work versus your need for sweet freedom and any sort of independence. Or maybe just a weekend off? Deja doo doo all over again. Now, hang on, there’s actually more from the good news front where you and September are concerned. See, mighty Mars is set to hook up with Cancer in your 8th House of Other People’s Money which could potentially predicate a positive upturn in your bottom line. Let’s face it, finding a little extra cash that seems to come out of the blue can certainly soften potential problems that can cause you to get red in the face. The biggest challenge for you this month will be in finding ways to seek restorative and relaxing downtime while not avoiding authority and obligations or any combination of those last two thereof. The month begins at a hurried pace when a mental Mercury-Jupiter sesquisquare pushes additional responsibilities into your arena without bringing along a lot of extra time for you to assume and assimilate. The energies of the following few days don’t do much to help this trend but you just have to take it one moment at a time. And, whatever you do, try to think before you speak. Count to ten. Okay? You’re welcome! Rather, why not take these energetic intensities and channel them into one of those projects that just careened into your corner of the world? That’s right, let’s use the force in a constructive way Luke Skywalker, whaddaya say? And speaking of speaking, if you do manage to keep mouth closed and therefore stay on everyone’s good side the first few days of the month you will be well rewarded on the 11th when lovey dove Venus and generous and lucky Jupiter join forces and bring their party fever to your hot social life. With the Moon heating up your 7th House of Partners on this same day you should certainly finally find the outlet on the outside that you’ve been praying for. Let loose Mother Goose but keep your eyes open for someone (possibly from your past?) who only has eyes for you! It looks like the eyes have it on this spectacularly special day. I swear the days surrounding September 11 will bring you back to a place of peace and enthusiasm and once again you will absolutely know that hope floats! Too bad these feelings can’t last forever though (alas nothing ever does) as the energies of the 17th come in to crash the party. Like all the rest of the whole globe you will be feeling some overwhelm and some pressure to perform on this tense day or at least feel like you are in the middle of an ice storm. Cool off, it’s not as bad as you think. Stand back and observe and don’t get pulled into anybody else’s fray. In fact, from this observational standpoint you just might be able to see something that no one else can or does. A critical piece of information that can catapult you to a place of power is right there and waiting if you can hold that vision as well as your temper. DON’T GET INVOLVED. Stay neutral. Be Switzerland and eat a lot of chocolate. Power struggles actually invade the last days of this month as well with Mercury and Uranus opposing one another causing a trickle down that spreads like wildfire. Everyone seems to retreat to their specific corners with their sharp tongues and flinty razor edges. Think temperance and tolerance. Or just tolerance. You might need a drink as this month ends. That all said, by the time the Fall Equinox has ushered in another new season you just might find some supportive and imaginative individuals who just might join you at the bar. As they raise your current one and keep you on your toes. They are here to encourage your enthusiasm while also helping you to reach for you dreams. Take advantage, these are surely some stellar energies. And that’s a nice way to end a sometimes not so nice month. Cheers!

Your Shui:
You mission this month dear Sagittarius, you know, should you choose to accept it is to find different ways of dealing with your usual myriad of responsibilities and stress while also watching to clock in order to find some truly swell “me” time. If you can budget this balance then the potential towards frustration and short fuses will not impede on any of your energies and all you’ll find from September is a bit of extra cash and a whole bunch of influential people who want to see you succeed. The coin flip that will decide which way you’ll come through this month will be your ability to hold your tongue as well as the innate one that you have that allows you stay above the fray and find that one important thing that everyone else missed while they were ironing out their power struggles. Did I say this was a coin toss? Not with this advice it’s not. Heads. Bring balance to your body mind and spirit by taking time to take this bath: Place one tablespoon of rose petals, one tablespoon of wheat grains and ten chopped dried plums in a net of some sort. Suspend that in your bathwater and then add ten drops of rose oil. Massage your temples while taking this bath and balance will be yours while every other negative thing just gets washed down the proverbial drain. Ahhhhh.

Your Stars:
All work and no play makes Sag, well, kind of crabby. This month though get ready to get happy as August pledges, promises and then delivers opportunities to bring much needed balance to both of those aforementioned agendas. And this month does that all while throwing some fantasy and fun in between! With both a Full Moon AND a New Moon illuminating, respectively, your houses of communications and also the one related to travel, there will never be a better time than now to plan a little vacation that will pack a lot of positive, interesting and potentially very informative punch. It’s okay to let go of the fear that the other shoe is about to drop while you are high-stepping it around town this month too. Just because you are having a semblance of a personal life in August doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll fall behind or get backed up in your professional one. You can do both! With Mercury, the planet holding the line on the communiqué front firing energies into your 10th House of Fame and Honors on the 2nd, you will feel the start of this month long foray into a sort of faint tug of war between work and play. It will behoove to begin thinking of employing stricter strategies that are self directed and disciplinary towards your job as Mercury’s appearance early on really will enhance your career status. It appears that everyone now notices your competence and confidence and your innate leadership qualities. Those same ones that have been there all along???? Apparently all you needed to get the recognition you deserve was Mercury pulling the trigger and firing the shot heard ‘round your office. This will become even more acute when the innovative Aquarius Full Moon rises on August 5, lighting up your 3rd House of ALL Things Communications. This particular skill set is a strong suit of yours so be perfectly assured that you can now turn an impressive array of ideas into positive actions. In fact, these ideas into actions will support you in the days, weeks and months to come. This Mercury transit and the ensuing Full Moon is actually setting up a busy September that will have you face to face with key and critical decision makers whiles also making an almost indelible mark with some well received (and prepared) projects and presentations. Yeesh, even I need a vacation now. Which is exactly how you are going to feel as well when Mars and Saturn square off on the 10th. This planetary pissing match might make you feel like you are chafing at the bit to feel some freedom and release from the daily demands that you are always so adeptly handling. But encouragement and beneficial blessings from allies and supporters put you in the perfect place to compartmentalize your commitments at the office and the adventure you’d like to go in search of in the big, wide world. Well, just wait because come the 17th you will all of a sudden feel like you can take on that world and then have the best of both. Know why? Because you can! A Sun-Mars sextile as well as Mars trining Neptune during these most super stellar days of your month virtually guarantee that your intuition and instinct are indeed intact and that you can overcome any obstacles towards your dual intents. You find your passion for play and feel like you’ll fit perfectly in anyone’s sandbox thanks to these planetary pairings and waves of energy. Enthusiasm remains intact at end month thanks to the New Moon on the 20th adding an electric charge to your 9th House of Travel and Learning. Imagination and adventure can be found packed inside the pages of a great book or even anywhere an actual weekender ends up getting unpacked. Just be sure to get out of your own way, preferably while getting out of town and you will be so, so, so much the better for it!

Your Shui:
I simply cannot say it any better than this: your vocation might be entirely and even enthusiastically fulfilling for you this month, but, your vacation…ah…your vacation will bring even more inspiration, attitudinal adjustment and positive adventures than even you could have hoped for. You say poe-tae-toe, I say poe-tah-toe. You say toe-mae-toe, I say toe-mah-to. You say vocation and I say vacation. Go on now and pack those bags and beat feet to the nearest agency that can take you to the farthest destinations! Don’t worry about the dichotomy set up between the world of work as the stars are now presenting plenty of grounds for you to get out and play. Their case is made and yours should be packed once you locate the ‘Helpful People and Travel’ area of your home and/or office. Try to hang a six-rod metal windchime in this area to kill two intentions with one chime. Hanging this piece in this place will allow the energies to shift in your travel directions in order to make that goal easy and effortless. At the same time, this adjustment will also begin to ring out your reputation to all the necessary and key players who will now climb out of the woodwork to bring you whatever assistance you need to make your professional dreams come true. All while you’re off on a beach somewhere! This August, just let the rest of the world go by. You’ll be able to catch up and then take your usual lead all too soon enough!

Your Stars:
Let freedom ring! Financial freedom that is! With July’s emphasis on your solar 2nd/8th House axis permeating this heated month, get ready to find yourself dealing with any and every money type of situation you could conceive. That’s right, the planets are promising to birth a real barn burner of a month both for you and your bottom line. It will take some labor pains though before you can see or even get a head. And, even though you might just begin shooting off the fireworks on the 4th, you’ll be taking aim at an extraordinary way of increasing your net worth or a different route to establishing some savings or even finding ways to initiate an investment plan for the future in the days that immediately follow. All this comes to light of day when a lunar eclipse lights up the night as well as that aforementioned 2nd House of Income on July 7. This doesn’t look like any flighty Full Moon though, but, rather, one that promises to push a long-term project or goal forward with sustained success attached. Just be careful not to be your usual Pollyanna self where everyone else is concerned this month as they (whoever “they” are) just might now always have your best interests at heart. Especially early in July. Just sayin’. There might be some people hanging around who will, in fact, start out to intentionally mislead or dupe you. Just be on your guard and listen to your instincts. Remember Sag, if it sounds too good to be true, believe you me, it is! Keep your wits about you and your frenemies closer or something like that! You are really too busy developing a new strategy or business plan or even upgrading your skill set to care about careless and confusing colleagues anyway. Move on, because, soon enough, you’ll be moving up. Now, all that said, there are no worries where your true and loving relationships are concerned. How could there be with Venus kissing your 7th House of Romance on July 5 and her canoodling consort Mars adding some spark to that same space on the 11th. These two planets sprinkle social skills all over your energies and lead a lot of new faces your way. Oh baby. Networking opportunities will heat up alongside the temps so be sure to have your game face on and your spiel ready to spill at a moment’s notice. Consider yourself JT as you find yourself totally ‘N Sync with everyone around you during the lucky days that unfold at end month. Guides, mentors, supporters and teachers pop up seemingly out of nowhere. Believe me, they are all there to make sure that you get somewhere. And, just like any labor, there won’t be any immediate gratification as you push your plans forward. There might even be a painful contraction or two along the way. Honestly, Sag, slow and steady absolutely promises to win this race but it sure will be great to finally take delivery on your dreams in July. Like I said before, Oh baby! Congratulations, it’s a healthy happy future!

Your Shui:
According to mystical and ancient Taoist Feng Shui, when you open your front door at a forty-five degree angle, the first spot your eyes fall upon will be a personal prosperity position. Put a crystal ball and/or a lamp right there so that every time you come through that same door it will be the first thing you see. This will help you accumulate wealth, precisely what this month’s money energies are all about.