Emotional Tug of War: Full Moon in Libra (April 2)

Every War is a Tug of War.

Since war implies conflict you can't have one unless one side is battling against another side.

They're the folk who will be excited with the Libra Full Moon on April 2.

Libra is the midway sign in the Astrological Circle, implying a middle ground, a dividing line. "me" and "you" for instance. Libra is the sign of partnership (we know the rumor about single Libras and their inevitable depression).

Since Full Moons are are a completion, a release and a peak emotional time, and Libra is the sign of the "other", then it's a sure sign of an emotional tug of war in some area of our lives.

Is a relationship about to change? They always are. Will it end? That depends on many factors. What is certain is that when one end releases their end of the rope/bargain/deal the game is up.
Since every fight is a fight with ourselves (nobly brought to us by an outside who plays their role with amazing dexterity to help us "get through it", and every "other" (friend, lover, parent, boss, stranger, enemy, business client) is "us" (us in another form), then this is a funny old time. We get to incestuously play off with another in either a fun and feisty way, or buy into the illusion that there is a "me" versus "them" situation to fight, in which case we're lost chasing illusions.

Remember, as long as we take one side (I'm good, she's bad, I'm right, he's wrong, I am a happy person, they are sad people) you automatically must bring in its polar opposite to balance out. Nature loves balance. Night/Day, Dry/Wet, Hot/Cold, Male/Female.

The Polarity Dance on Earth has always been a fun one, but it's time is waning. As the fFull Moon shines in this particular Libra phase, we're tested on how fulfilled we are with the people we're bringing in - but it goes deeper, how fulfilled we are in ourselves, is determined by how much peace we bring in from the outside (in the form of helpful people) or how much conflict we bring in (because we're torn and divided inside).

I know I'm riddled with irritation daily at the moment, since Change is wafting through my life, and I'm sure you all are. So to claim we're fully at peace would be a pretty amazing and surprising thing to say. It's not impossible, but I guess that most of us are in conflict with at least one person, situation, event or encounter.

Getting off the see-saw, letting go of the rope, ends the game. Remember that, the next conflict you are Just about to step into. Even the one with yourself "is it right to do A, should I have said this instead, should I open Door 1 or Door 5, should I stay or go etc etc. Give up the indecision. When you choose, reality adjusts around your decision and opens up new doors. But you must decide.

What happens now will help you work out which partnerships you want and which you don't. They're all helpful (in aiding you to come to some sort of truce or resolution inside) but which ones are you enjoying? After all, I believe the quest for enlightenment, should be a fun one.
Growth doesn't HAVE to be painful!

This Full Moon hits my natal Pluto (and will hit yours too if you were born late 75 to late 78). So it should be interesting to see what karmic challenges await and what powerful emotions and new pathways will open up as those of us in this time period will get to step into our power and focus on the work we came here to do.

For everyone else, whether the relationship issues are small or large, it's ALL ABOUT US. It's deeply personal. You choose whether to stop or go. You can cut someone off if it's unhealthy or you can sign a new contract because you want to grow with someone. We're dancing with many partners and whoever said we only have one soul-mate, is mistaken.

Each person we meet on the path is a soul-mate. Whether we're single or commited to someone, we're all in relationship - with life, with pets, with strangers, with lovers, with family, with friends. No one is alone. Even the relationship with our mind is a strong and lifelong union. Each person outside of ourselves though, is a bud who's here to help us get closer to ourselves, through the intimate moments spent with another.

Whether we choose to spend most moments locked in an embrace of conflict, or an embrace of mutual respect and sharing, it's a personal choice only we can make.

Since you can never escape the Art of Sharing:

Who are you dancing with

and why?

Love,
Neil

BBC's UFO landing coverage

Did you see it, were you awake?

If not, where have you been. It's on every television, every radio. I didn't get a wink watching it unfold. We knew it would happen and it finally did - contact with another "life form".

It's early yet, but we'll soon see what will happen now. And end to all war, new technology?

April Fools! it is April 1 after all(unless this blog sends this out late in which case the joke totally fell flat). And for those in other cultures - April 1 is traditionally the time we play a 'joke' on others. Annoying, I know. In France they say 'poisson d'avril (april fish) and stick paper fish to each others back, so it could be worse i guess...


Startling News is the order of the day now as Mercury, planet of mind power teams up with Uranus today, planet of sudden insight, inspiration, intuition and surprises. Anything is possible. (Though the fact no one assumes we're the aliens on this planet makes me smile...)

Someone's ready to shoot their mouth off. Someone's coming up with an amazing new idea whose time has come. Computers designed now are lightening fast, or else we're suffering power surges!

Can you keep a clear head while so much is buzzing inside of it? That's the challenge now - brainstorms are on the horizon, keep an umbrella and a notepad handy - and watch what you say - by the time you hit the SEND button or it comes out of your mouth, it's hard to take it back.

Telepathy is being tuned in to the cosmic current zapping through our heads now.

Drivers - slow down!

Pedestrians - walk faster!

Remember, meditation isn't something you need to do sitting crossed-legged eating mung beans. It's a 24/7 thing, a way of Being. No matter how crazy energy gets, we can keep a sacred space inside where it's quiet always.

Enjoy the lightening fast pace, the neon, the cars screeching by, the new books, magazines, conversations, gossip and possibilities of this weekend. I wonder what will land next week after all the dust settles?

As you think so you become!

Love,
Neil

Past Lives, Present Path

This April, I have a Special Reading on offer: the Past Lives Present Path Reading. This is a unique Reading that details your soul's journey using your Astrological Chart, which outlines where you've been and where you're going.

This Reading covers:

* Your Soul's Path using the Lunar Nodes
* Moon aspects and patterns showing habits formed through the past, childhood and family
* Where you're used to placing your focus and where your new focus should be now
* Saturn's karmic promise, and your Life's Work
* Planetary Aspects showing tests and allies along the way
* Your area of greatest weakness and greatest strength
* What to avoid and where you keep tripping yourself up
* Possible past life scenarios (which you may have recreated this time around
* Your "soul-habits" and how to break them
* What to do for maximum success
* Relationship Patterns and how to change them
* Personal Questions based on your Chart

The Reading is $80 and lasts 45 minutes, and comes with a CD copy.
You can order yours here.

April is a time of new beginnings, and often it helps to know where we've come from, in order to choose the new direction our soul is hungering to explore in this lifetime.

Enjoy these Readings and I look forward to exploring your past with you!

Love,
Neil

We're Dying

I had an interesting conversation with a dear Scorpio Soulmate of mine tonight that brought up a lot of symbolic material that I'd like to share with you.

Pluto about to turn retrograde isn't easy stuff. it's not light and fluffy. It's where we really get to grips with spirituality. I remember telling someone once that spirituality isn't about chanting, burning incense and singing mantras. It's about pulling back your sleeves and wiping the shit off the wall when the toilet explodes one day. It's dirty, grimy and you risk losing your body in the process.

Right now - it's all about Death.

If you're standing in a 'safe space' and nothing is changing, don't be so sure. it's all changing, in each and every moment. As Pluto turns backwards from our point of view we're forced to accept that we're in a period of letting go, release and purging.

Everything now is a practice run for the ultimate transition of all. The passage out of here. And how do we achieve this? By getting into here first.

Going inside and rooting around in our symbolic cellar is never a pretty thing. There's cobwebs down there. Possibly a boogieman, and maybe even a live cockroach that flies. And it's dark. Bulbs don't work and who knows if even our flashlight batteries or our resolve will hold long enough til we find what we came down here for.

And what was that again?

Some glimmer that we're more than this, that our life means more than this, that we can handle this and still survive, that we must have some power here and we're not at the mercy of a sort of cosmic pinball machine bouncing us around with no free-will.

We're shedding skin so fast during Pluto Retrograde. All those inner blocks are about to give way, the dam is about to burst, the volcano about to blow. Are you ready?! I know I am.

Scorpios are our light bearers now - they can show us the way ahead because Pluto is their planet. They understand about the darkness within and about the true power we have (and how the stuff that goes wrong, the stuff we lose, the stuff we cling to that vanishes, are all fake things that block us from who we truly are, exposed, bare and vulnerable yet amazingly powerful because it's REAL).

Sagittarians can tell us how to do this - since they've spent the better part of the past few years clearing the decks over and over. Just when you thought you knew who your Sag buddy was, another phase of detoxing cleaned out even more 'stuff' they no longer need. They've lost so much spiritual weight, they can help us now in this period, to understand the process of "letting go".

So everything is a practice of Death now - hold a funeral for everything leaving, everyone you're saying goodbye to, and every path that seems to be closing itself off to you. If something breaks and you have to toss it, if some feeling you've held onto no longer seems appropriate, celebrate its passage and its part of the old world as you continue ahead into your New World.

Horror abounds now and we face the Monster.

And we'll come to see that the true horror lies inside - and its name is CONTROL. For once we operate with a need or a desire to control anything - ourselves or anyone outside of ourselves, we are no longer in the "flow" of life's cosmic current. And flowing is the only way to manifesting true health. All the rest causes dis-ease.

I love horror, I love Scorpios. I love Death.
It's all connected. It's all One.

This week, look around at your own life and see the part of the equation die that no longer 'adds up' to your ultimate happiness.

In that frame of mind, there can be no loss, for we cannot lose what we are, and who we are. We can only, finally, see clearly with no distractions obstructing the view of ourselves.

Love,
Neil

Photo by Ben, EmptySpaceStudio.com

Waking up Together

"When enough of us remember enough of
what we already know enough of the time,
we will all be unable
to keep our eyes closed.
And, according to the ancient legend,
we'll all wake up together".

Paul Williams

Forecasts are up!

Check out this weeks forecasts by clicking here and see what's going on in your corner of the world!

Enjoy,
Neil

Power Check: March 31

(Photo: Sculpture, Ana Maria Pacheco, 'Dark Night of the Soul', 1999. London, National Gallery.)

Pluto, the planet of hidden things, underground and underworld activity, secrets, manipulation, sexual intensity, passion and purpose, and transformation is about to turn retrograde on March 31.

Are you powerful or powerless right now?

You're always powerful. it's just in how you choose to exercise your right to choose, your right to act, your right to not react, your right to turn away, your right to stand firm. Your right is your power and power is your right.

As the energy of Power goes retrograde it is inverted, moving back in on itself. We feel this as a questioning of our own power, bubbling away as a sort of intensity of frustration or else an intensity of excitement. one is liberating one is destroying.

Reclaiming our inner power is the mission we're all facing now. The Dark Underworld stands before us, not outside in the form of the next enemy (though it may) but most importantly inside our very psyche, in the form of fear - fear of losing power, fear of being annihilated not by someone else, but by our own dark sides - our angry, our passion, our repressed frustration, our inner and secretive crazy sides and the wild animal we all house in our souls.

Scorpio, as the sign ruled by Pluto, will be the sign feeling this shift - as they venture inside, further away from prying eyes, to work on releasing blocks inside, and realizing, remembering and restoring their natural and powerful lives as healers, alchemists and magicians - transforming their own darkness into Light.

Sagittarians (with Pluto in their sign now) will feel this as a need to go back over old ground and see if the monster is really down. Is it sleeping? The horror movie scenario could play out where there's one last fright, one last resurgence of an old shadow force coming back to life for one more attempt to hook itself into their lives, but knowing this, Sag can refuse to feed the fires of the past and to truly walk away. Darkness is an absence of light, and all they need do is turn it on.

How about the rest of the signs?

Keep an eye on the forecasts for next week. Each sign has a way of reacting to this new shift, but it's all a common theme - inner power expressed and enjoyed or else inner power left unrealized causing pain.

Whatever situation we find ourselves in, we have a choice to feel at the mercy of someone else (who is no doubt manipulating based on their own fear of being controlled) or we get to take a Higher Road. Any conflict you get into now is based on the attempt to exert authority so that we stay in control and safe.

Pluto doesn't like safety - safety traps up, confines us and eventually can define us. Pluto destroys things that we cling to to hide behind. Inside of us is a deep, deep well of primal power. Feel it. it's there. It wells up during the moments before an orgasm, it powers up as we know we're about to sneeze. When the mother lifts the car off her injured child, Pluto's force of cosmic power is behind it. Life and Death situations (or those we just FEEL to be) cause a welling up of Pluto power.

Pluto retrograde is here to help us sniff out the deepest parts of our souls. The things we haven't forgiven, the things we won't let go of. The parts of our pasts, and ourselves, that we cling to, to define who we are (by telling the same stories over and over again).

There IS no power abuse, only ourselves not trusting we're okay in each and every moment. Letting out pain is letting out power. Some will turn to Art, some will turn to Horror Movies, some will turn to violence and actual murder, some will destroy themselves in a final act of release (and unforgiving), some will go for therapy, some will fight old battles, some will decide enough is enough and blow up one area of their life, some will manifest illness in the body as a sign of the inner fight they are denying, some will have a showdown with their 'enemy' manifested finally in front of them in the form of a physical person, situation or issue.

All are valid, all are accepted and acceptable. Some are more joyous than others but all involve the act of DESTRUCTION. The seeds of change. Endings. "Death".

It's Choose Your Own Adventure Time.

Power is Power. It's neither "good" nor "bad" it's not "evil" or "angelic", it's an energy. As it pulls us inside, we get to witness just how powerful we forgot we are. Watch your dreams, watch your mind, your thoughts, watch your feelings.

As April begins and March ends, we face the dark side of our soul with an invitation to accept us as we are, all sides. Light and Dark combined.

You are an intense, sexy, powerful magician. What spells are you casting by the focus of your emotional energy??

Harry Potter, eat your heart out...

Love,
Neil

P.S Ana Maria Pacheco (see photo) is a painter, sculptor and printmaker who was born in Brazil in 1943 and has lived in England since 1973. Her work deals with issues of control and the exercise of power, drawing upon the tensions between the old world of Europe and the new world of her Brazilian birth.

Full Report Special - ends March 31!

Just a reminder that the full Birth Chart Natal Report is currently on special and ends March 31. This is the 80+ page extensive Report on your personal chart, personally compiled and one of the most in-depth Reports available online.

Chapters include the 12 houses of your chart, planets within, your karmic lunar nodes (past lifetimes and present destiny pointers), relationship patterns, evolutionary Astrology outlining your souls choices to experience certain things in this lifetime, personality profiling, descriptive passages outlining why you do the things you do. Things that trip you up and ways to channel your energy. Each Report is a different length depending on what your Chart says, but all are a guaranteed 80+ pages long. All About You (always a good thing, right?)

Normally $75, currently $50.
Offer ends March 31.

Enjoy!
Love,
Neil

Video Reminder....

...to remember that though our Moon emotions seem overwhelming at times, they are always before the backdrop of the Light of our inner Suns.

This video shows the passage of the Moon in front of the Sun. From Earth they appear the same size, but this shows the reality of the event: Check it out here!

Emotions are our driving force, but our eternal never-changing inner Light and personality shines brighter - and actually is the light that GIVES the Moon its own light, since without the Sun our moon (and emotions) would have no chance to shine.

We create our emotions and can choose to enjoy them, change them by shining light on each feeling we suddenly find ourselves holding.

Shine Shine Shine!

Love,
Neil

Just Keep Swimming....

Mars (planet of energy, action, assertion, desire and drive) is currently "conjunct" (dancing alongside, hand in hand, mingling with and otherwise aligning 'vibes' with) Neptune (planet of drifty, dreamy spiritual release, escape, magic, mystery, fog, illusion, surrender etc).

Here on Planet Earth if we're not experiencing foggy conditions externally, we're feeling it inside - as Mars energy seeks to express itself through evasive, non-confrontational means. How can you fight (mars) what isn't seen (Neptune). Fighting only gets you so far until you realize that all you are in conflict with outside, is a mere manifestation of some basic internal struggle you have, and that often by letting it be as it is, situations can resolve themselves much faster, because you no longer feed the fire of conflict, which ultimately ends in its resolution.

That's our current dilemma - to battle or let it slide. Can we do what Dorey says in the Piscean tale 'Finding Nemo'....to Just Keep Swimming?

The answer to all questions now is spiritual in Nature. We can run away from connecting to our core, or we can champion activities and projects that feed our souls. Art, music, dance, meditation, swimming, surfing, channeling, writing, communing, daydreaming, watching movies and so forth.

What does your soul urge you to do now? If you're experiencing escapism tendencies it's a sure sign your soul is calling, asking you to give up control in some area, and now it's manifesting as an intense need to give it up in areas that may not be feeding your soul but are feeding the hunger to escape even further.

Tune-out from the outside, and tune on in to the Inside - as Spirit calls this week asking you to pick up the phone and find something to do to remember your divinity.

Happy Celestial Surfing!
Neil

March 23: On this day...

On this day in 1989, a mountain-sized asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of Earth. According to NASA, this was a very close call. It would have hit with the strength of 40,000 hydrogen bombs, created a crater the size of the District of Columbia, and destroyed everything within 100 miles in all directions.


Thanks to my good friend Russell for this news. Puts my day in perspective!

Love,
Neil

Haven't you heard?

...Today is the first day of Spring!

Astrologically, we just entered the first sign of the zodiac. The Spring Equinox.

You know all those things you were battling yesterday, all those emotions you were being swamped by, the hurts, the confusion, the questions, the escapism...?

Forget them.

We just entered ARIES. It's a fresh start, so give yourself permission to wake up to a new dawn today and start over.

Enjoy!

Love,
Neil

Eclipse Forecasts are up!

Read this week's extensive forecasts for more information on what your sign is learning during this Eclipse period. if you know your rising sign read that too and if you don't, you can find it at the article link at the top.

Enjoy!

Love,
Neil

You can read the horoscopes here, under the HOROSCOPE menu at the bottom of the page as always, updated each Monday.

Sweet Surrender: Pisces Solar Eclipse March 18

Sunday March 18 (around 6.42pm PDT) is the Solar Eclipse in Pisces.

This is a Major Manifestation period, when we get to plan 'wish seeds' for what we desire. It's a focal point of energy when the Sun, Moon and Earth align in the final sign of Pisces.

New Moons are about new beginnings, especially under a Solar Eclipse, but this is the final sign of the zodiac, and related to endings. What does all this mean?

Let's break it down - it's emotional. Even though this is a Solar Eclipse (related to our solar side, or ego and identity) it's an emotional one. It's an emotional time when we get to see ourselves in our true light (not as we appear to be to others or ourselves nor how we want to be, or how we used to be. It's how we are right here right now reading these words and living this moment.

Who are you now?

As the Sun is covered by the shadow of the Moon, emotions (moon) cloud our very being momentarily. Suddenly we're irrational creatures, operating entirely through our unconscious motivations (namely all those reactions that have been repeated so often as to become part of our 'auto-pilot survival system'.) So expect some old patterns to play out which will force you to stop and say 'Whoa - this again?'.

This time we get to do it differently, by choosing to DELIBERATELY REACT DIFFERENTLY.

Pisces is the most sensitive sign because it involves a surrender of sorts - a cosmic orgasm, a sigh of "reality-relief" when we exhale, let go, release and give it up. Give what up? The emotion, the desire, the game, the fight, the trying, the maintaining, the working, the stress, the frustration, the elation, the hope, the anxiety, the excitement, the possibility.

We just are.

Everyone on Earth is participating in this grand Letting Go. Some people will choose to exit their bodies at this time (which is a regular daily occurrence but which may become significantly higher at this time, whether in the public eye or the person on the street) because death is a form of letting go. There are many manifestations:

Suddenly you don't want to keep pushing and you stop all activity and just breathe.
You decide to go swimming instead of sitting around stressing about what to do next.
You sleep in an extra 12 hours with no alarm clock.
You cry - at a memory, a movie, something happens to dissolve your inner walls and helps you feel again
You drink like a fish and stagger home chuckling
You drink like a fish and wind up in hospital
You're high on drugs and repeat the first two steps
You tap into some Spiritual Power than enables you to paint THE most amazing picture, writ e a blockbuster novel or wind up helping someone out just when they were going to give up

There's a big difference between giving up now, and surrendering it up. One is quitting, the other is quitting pushing/blocking/forcing/manipulating energy and becoming stressed out because things aren't working "the way you want them to work".

This Solar Eclipse is wonderful for taking a break from reality - for getting "high" in a way that brings us closer together with our real selves (the stripped down sensitive soul we all have hidden not far beneath the surface) instead of further away from that core, through playing victim to life's tumultuous tides.

So - Make Your Wish. Choose your Reality. Design your Destiny.
Focus. Give it full emotional power - how much do you want it.
Finally - breathe out and let it go.

Life teaches us one thing, no matter what else is happening - to take it in, but then let it out.
Like breathing. No matter what is happening, we can't forget to exhale. To let go of what we've taken in.

The Great Karmic Completion is here, but the new dawn begins when we can release the night and not hold on, by keeping our own Suns down - our sun sign in Astrology is the gift given, the life path chosen, the energy we're here to shine into the world.

This Eclipse:

Aries shines by letting go of inner demons and tapping into their Dreams
Taurus shines by letting go of confusing directions and friends and daring to drift and dream
Gemini shines by letting go of the illusion of control and flowing into work that feels the spirit
Cancer shines by letting go of beliefs that separate them from others and take a spiritual pilgrimage into new realms
Leo shines by letting go of all lower energy feelings and letting themselves off the hook
Virgo shines by letting go of confusion and painful partnership patterns and swimming with sensitive souls
Libra shines by letting go of unhealthy habits and dedicating more time to just Being
Scorpio shines by letting go of their unfed need for approval and sharing their spirit of creativity
Sagittarius shines by letting go of their pasts and feelings of victimhood and being in the feeling of the Moment only
Capricorn shines by letting go of nebulous thinking and clouded vision and communicating their intuitive feelings
Aquarius shines by letting go of insecurity and financial avoidance and using their emotions as a tool to use to bring greater abundance
Pisces shines by letting go of old scripts of how they need/should be and allowing a new sense of worth and strength and sense of Rights in Being Here.


We're all diving in the ocean - whether land snaps off and we're left coasting along without a surfboard, or whether we're intuitively prepared to swim, sail or snorkel our way into deeper waters and the possibility of being shipwrecked onto a new island.

The depths of these current Pisces waters leads to either the pearl in the oyster, a shipwreck, or shark infested waters. It all depends on whether we fear, whether we trust, whether we have faith or whether we avoid diving in.

Spring awaits us, with an Aries promise of a new miracle. But first, we must get off the diving board. Sure it may seem a long way off (your dream or desire) but you never know, if you don't let go.

You never know,
if you don't let go.


Let go...

Love,
Neil

Solar Eclipse on its way - March 18.

Stay tuned for more on the Solar Eclipse coming up on March 18.

We're between two key points in time (Lunar and Solar Eclipse) when Major Change is in the air - and we're usually poised between two worlds. Anything can happen, as we all sit and ponder - Where Now?

Stick around - the Journey gets even more interesting!

Love,
Neil

My first Saturn Return

Well...here it is.

The infamous Saturn Return.

Anyone with any knowledge of Astrology, and anyone with absolutely no knowledge of Astrology knows what it means when you "turn 30". No one escapes it (unless you decide to leave the planet before the 30 candles are installed on your cake), and no one escapes the necessary shifts that accompany it.

I wonder...where and who were you at 30?

Marriages, divorces, new jobs, losing old jobs, gaining wisdom, applying knowledge, realizing the mistakes you're making, seeing the Light yet surrounded by Darkness, realizing you ARE the Light and yet knowing you are the darkness too, having hope for the future and courage to face everything - including your past, and certainly your future - yet all the while allowing and embracing your Present - however poised between two worlds you are?

Phew.

This is my very first Solar Return (in this lifetime at least) and thought I owed it to myself and my public (the cool readers that you are) to note some of my own experiences of this time.

My Saturn lies in Leo in the 9th House (for those who care to know).

It's funny how the day before mine was one of the most profound of my life in so many ways.
It arrived with a feeling of mourning, of sadness, when Birthdays are often a time of Joy and magic for me. So many amazing things are manifesting in my existence now, yet so many things pulled so many emotions out of me.

Letting feelings be there seems key to moving though any of them. Not trying to shift them, deny them or ignore them but just to feel how you feel - however elated, however rotten.

This Saturn Return time is called Hell by some and Heaven by others - Hell, as the structures of safety and security (we perceive them to be anyway) crumble...and Heaven to those who want releasing from the very same structures. In many ways we experience both - two sides of the same coin.

We are strong. And Saturn comes to show us that, strangely enough, by enabling us to feel (or be, momentarily) "weak".

We are spiritual beings here not to try and become spiritual, like we're told by so many. Because we cannot ever NOT be spiritual.

We are here to be Human, and I think for the longest time it's easy to use knowledge in a way to disengage from the true humanity of our hearts. Information isn't experience.

And since my natal Saturn lies in the 9th house (of the Sage, the Teacher, the Seeker) I too now face the momentous task of putting together all I have "learned" and being able to live that learning. Walking your talk is what some would call it.

I know the path ahead asks that of me, and of us all - and I will endeavor to do my best to share the Truth of my own Journey and light the way for others on theirs. Whether we actually get to walk side by side on each others paths, that's a beautiful thing, but we all share the same journey anyway - whether we leave graffiti on the walls, or leave a pile of rocks at the side of the road for others to add a rock to, we all walk the same path, at different times. Only the scenery changes, but we don't.

I'm reading a book (surprise surprise that I'm reading more with Saturn in my 9th House of Wisdom) entitled Waking Up Together' by Paul Williams and enjoying it immensely. It reminded me of the simple things in life, the life I have always been drawn to, but often forget about.

So this Saturn Return in Leo reminds me to love myself, open up to Joy, open up to sharing the simple wisdom of life. I just looked at the cover picture and didn't see its significance the first time - a sun blazing through the clouds.

To realize our Sun, and the power of our inner Light, we need to march through the Night. Only then can we see how truly bright we are.

I think that sums up my Saturn Return. You may experience, or have experienced, another kind of Return. Saturn shows the way by helping us master our fear. Then we discover our true power.

Since Saturn has looped around our charts fully at least once now, we are free of the 'karma of our former selves'.

I like that. So I'll take it.

Here's to all souls everywhere who are yet to experience their Saturn Return or are now, or will soon. It is a time of profound depth - sometimes quiet, sometimes sad, sometimes celebratory, sometimes concerned with outer achievement, at other times inner solitude. But we come face to face with the mortality of some areas of our lives, and with that comes a humbling sense of safety and comfort.

That, in all actuality, living as a human is like standing on the Titanic in its closing chapters, and continuing to play the violin, to sing, and dance, because in the end we all know will end up in the waters of the abyss once more, whether we feel able to swim or not.

And it is our choice, as the ship continues to sink, to rise up in that moment of realization, to stand and dance and sing and play and laugh while watching the stars, or as the ship continues to sink, sink into a depression of knowing that soon it will all be over.

Does life begin at 30? No, it started when you started this sentence. And just has again. And again. And the only choice and power we have is how to use the minute we find ourselves in, 60 seconds stretched out into an eternity of its own.

This first 30 years of my own journey has been...un-friggin-believable.

How can one use words to describe and how many adventures (9th house!) I ended up on that I never planned or thought possible? The Universe is truly the greatest tour guide I've ever met.

As Chapter One closes and Chapter Two opens, I can only be filled with the wonder of the stars (inner and outer) and wonder where the path leads next and how I can share with that path what the path has shared with me.

Here's to not knowing in the next 30 years! That way, more will become known and shared and the journey continues and (shh, don't tell Saturn) never truly ends.

Love,
Neil

Moon Magic or Mayhem

March 12 (which is my Solar Return by the way) is an interesting day and afford us all the opportunity for some emotional pressure relief. The Moon teams up with Pluto on March 12, a profound event that happens once every month.

The Moon represents our emotions, our habits, our homes, our families, our Mothers, our needs, our childhood patterns, our past lives if you follow that school of thought.

Pluto represents the cosmic function of obliteration - destroying things around us to show us we're survivors, death - killing things off to show we don't need them, enforced removal and loss - to remind us we're not what we own, who we date or even how we feel, rebirth - to help us move though tough times and come out fresh and new and more ourselves, passion - to show us what we truly desire above and beyond all else.

Put the two together and it's a good time for:

Therapy - as old emotions hit the fan and old buttons are pressed. Why? How? What's the point of it all and what's the root cause? Can you 'get over it' and kill of a childhood issue you're still experiencing. Is the past trapping you?

Emotional Intensity - channeling your feelings into amazing sex or work. Using emotions as a source of renewal and power inside, like a magician, transforming things you touch with the sheer force of your feelings.

Endings - letting go of old chapters so they can be burned up and reborn from their own ashes. Situations resolve often when we stop resisting and start assisting the process of Change.

Sniffing out the Hidden - finding things lost, fragments of ourselves, pieces missing or forgotten about. Great time to enjoy some intrigue, mystery, magic, detective work. Will you be suspicious and skeptical, or will you use your intuition to help heal an old wound or else assist in finding new meaning to old situations.

Past Life Recall - whether you call it childhood, your genetic ancestry or an actual time you lived in Egypt, the past can be transformed before our very eyes by interacting with past events differently in the present. Can you change yesterday? Actually yes you can - by changing the feeling of what happened right here in the present.

Explosive Emotions - a pressure relief ending in fireworks, fury, murder, revenge, excitement, intensity or just a deeply satisfying time. All depends on WHAT YOU DO WITH HOW YOU FEEL?

So today, emotions are energy-in-motion - we may not be in control, as much as Pluto likes to be, we're at the mercy of our hearts, but this is the human drama and on EART-H it's all about the H-EART.

Lose yourself in how you feel, just come up for air

and realize that any emotion, if held onto long

enough to define us, is an addiction.

Moon/Pluto days are about relinquishing reliance on anything but the honoring of how we feel in a moment and, perhaps, choosing a better emotion and one we're rather feel with intensity than the icky ones we may be feeling.

All feelings are valid - but some lead to that 'party feeling' and others lead to physical degeneration. It's, as always, up to us to choose.

Explode in all good ways!
Neil

Forecasts up

In case you missed them, the forecasts for the week are still up, and change every Monday now. So this is your last chance this week to take a peek.

Get the full scoop here: click the Banner at the bottom of the page for Horoscopes.

Daylight Saving Time - March 11!

Don't forget - this year, Daylight Savings Time begins March 11 at 2:00am, a day before my Solar Return, so I'm conned out of an hour of my old annual cycle!

Not to worry, it just means I'll be racing into my new solar cycle sooner than expected, and what a fantastic year I'm expecting.

Be sure to set your clocks, and enjoy more daylight hours doing whatever makes ya smile.

Love,
Neil

Current Books I'm Reading...

...that you may find of use now that Mercury is Direct once more...

(you may need to activate images in this message if you're reading this blog through your email service to see the images of the books).


Ask And It Is Given, by Ester and Jerry Hicks.

An explanation of the Law of Attraction and how create our reality whether we know it or not.


The Vibrational Universe by Kenneth James Michael MacLean, for an outline of the manifestation process and how it works. Includes scientific info to help explain it in easier terms.

The Secret, DVD. Widely mentioned now, but a well presented explanation of the Law of Attraction and how to manifest what you desire. You can rent this now.

I came across this website which you may find of interest, I haven't yet read the book but will be taking a look.

Hope you enjoy these as I have,

Love,
Neil

Walkin your Talk: Mercury Direct

Okay, so you've mulled it over, rethought it, looked at it from 50 different sides, asked 80 people their opinion of it, wrote it down, scribbled it out, re-drew it, re-designed it, re-vamped it, had a further re-think...and then had to re-schedule it....

...and here you are.

Mercury is no longer retrograde. He's what we call "Direct" which means just that - he's on course again and directly sending messages right to their target. Or otherwise, lef to his own devices, spinning you in mental circles. For all the extra information that flew your way the past 3 weeks, it's now time to do something with it all.

1. Decide what to do with what you now know.
2. Decide where to direct your mental energies with a view to actually Creating something you want instead of dwelling or mentally-doodling over it.
3. Make up your mind on something finally.
4. Let go of all other thoughts that distract you from your main objective.
5. Quieten your mind and file away all info, so you can sift through it again at the next retrograde.

It's been an interesting 3 weeks. But at this point it doesn't matter what has been and gone. It's done. It's over. What IS is important now is what you DO with what you know, how you ACT now that you have extra insight.

Decisions, decisions.

There are truly only two paths open to us all now:

Path A - towards who we are and what we desire.
Path B - away from who we are and towards what others desire or what we do not desire.

Desire creates action, and Mercury asks us now to throw our mental powers behind ourselves, on whichever path we choose. It's our free-will.

One final thought for Mercury Direct:

It's said that what we think about, we become...

at least vibrationally.

Since all is vibration,
you truly do become
that which you think about.

Mind your mind!

Love,
Neil

Full Natal Report Special!

For those of you who have not yet seen a copy of your Full Natal Report, it is now being offered at a special discounted rate of $50 (normally $75).

(Order here for a limited time.)

This is one of the most extensive Reports on offer, 80+ pages personally compiled for you, based on your own Birth Chart. It covers your Houses, Planets, Aspects, Karmic Nodes, past Life Patterns, Soul Path. For those who desire something more in-depth than most reports, this one is the one to go for.

Obviously, it's the Astrologer's job to put it all together for you, and that's why you truly can't beat a Personal Reading, but these Reports are my way of putting together something for those who want a tool to refer to time and again, in order to gain more insight on who they are, why things are happening and what patterns they carry with them in their vibrational signature (their energy field) in this lifetime.

During this Eclipse time, this information can help unstick us and help us see that what we are experiencing in our reality is a reflection of us, called forth from within us, and a holographic reflection OF us. This Report will give you a bigger picture of what you're working on, and with in this lifetime, and how a lot of it can stem from your soul's past.

Enjoy the Special, and I look forward to helping you untangle it even further with you during a Personal Reading. You can order the Special Report now for a limited time here.

For now - enjoy the emotional ripples of the Eclipse, as we find new horizons to sail towards, even during the most turbulent tides.

Much Love,
Neil

Path of the Eclipse

Here's the map of the Eclipse - so you can locate where you are. Areas of max visibility are areas traditionally connected to where events are more extreme or strongly affected. Weather patterns, major events and so forth.

If you're in one of those areas - it's a mega Eclipse, and you can use the Power of the Full Moon to truly shed a skin and release yourself from old patterns.

In other places it's still strong, but the feelings may creep over you gradually, and it may take a little more work to outgrow the past, but the effort is worth it.

Today, emotions are high - scream, dance, laugh, cry or howl your way out of one mode/mood and into an even greater one.

The only way is up - here's to the high!

Love,
Neil

HEAL-th or dis-ease: March 3: Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

The Lunar Eclipse on March 3 falls at 13 Degrees Virgo.

The symbol for this degree is quoted as :

Finely lettered names and mysterious lines are seen;
it is a family tree.


Lunar Eclipses are very powerful markers of time. Ancient Astrologers freaked everyone out with doom and gloom predictions. And true, often a major figure dies, often a female (the Moon is feminine). What is certain is that as the Lunar Light is Eclipsed (blocked out by the shadow of the Earth) we temporarily are emotionally lost and confused.

Suddenly, we're alone. Our deepest fears well up. Will we feel abandoned? Are we afraid of the dark? Do we even know what we need?

How was our relationship to our family, our mother? Are we nurturing ourselves or abusing ourselves by denying our needs? Emotional poverty could arise now - to show us where out self-parenting is off-track. Look at the symbol of this degree - we can't escape a look back to chart a new path now. Is our childhood pattern of emotions blocking our present enjoyment, trust and peace within the present?

But this is also a time when the Lunar Energy helps us let go, release, give up and finally free ourselves of OLD emotional patterns.

If you're tired of reacting like this or that, this is your time. If you have a bad habit you want to let go of - now's your time.

Look around your life this week and notice your EMOTIONAL VIBRATION. Are you generally focusing on what you want, feeling good and honoring how you feel (ie, if you don't want to do it you won't). Or are you falling into the clutches of irrational fears and phobias and over-reacting to what others are doing. After all, we can't control others lives, but we DO have control over how we feel.

Happiness is a choice. This week we get to see situations that help us decide what must go, including old feelings, and what we want to create now.

Embrace the feeling, allow it to flow, but don't hold on.

A parting of the ways is upon us - whether it's from feelings, people, situations, events, places, jobs, cities, mind-sets.

One involves moving back into the past, with an eye to finally freeing ourselves of it

The other involves moving back into the past, and trapping ourselves into re-playing old emotional wounds, games, lack.


The Lunar Eclipse in Virgo asks us:

If we're fulfilled in our Health, Body
If our jobs are up to par - are we actually enjoying what we're doing
To re-design our Schedule to make it work for us, instead of the other way around
To have our emotions serving us, and not the other way around
To clean up our surroundings - mess is a reflection of our inner chaos
To truly take care of ourselves
If we are perfecting and improving ourselves or remaining static
Strip away our emotional cling-ons

On the bigger scale, the Planet gets to question its health care system - as we focus on the dis-ease within our world, the vitamins, the illness, the new health and diet fads as we begin to question if it's all really healthy for us - and that perhaps, our state of EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING HAS THE ULTIMATE EFFECT ON OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH.

So the grime, the dirt, the boils, the sores, the hurts - they're our beacon of where we need to re-align ourselves with the well being that is natural to us, in our natural state - flowing with our emotions and not withholding, manipulating, blocking, refusing or repressing them.

In a week of a major Lunar Eclipse "pit stop",
Empty your emotional tank
and refill it!

Forecasts are up! Feb 26 - March 4

Forecasts can be read here.


This is an interesting week with Mercury retrograde still and now Saturn and Neptune opposing each other.

The past is returning to be dealt with once more.

We also are being urged to deal with our issues, our buttons, our touchy spots.

Amazing growth and amazing change. We'll be somewhere totally new soon enough, so ue the Moment fully for the gift it is, to change your paths to something more fun.

And as always....Feel Good.

Love,
Neil

Deja vu?

Noticed you're on repeat? The past returning? Dealt with this before and STILL it returns?

Argh.

Mercury Retrograde continues to pull us back to look and think over our past, and our paths - what was left undone, cast aside, forgotten but not yet resolved. How's that going for you?

You have a second (or third or more) chance at rewriting this scene, how do you WANT it to end?

Meanwhile, we retrograde back to another old issue, that reignites now - when Reality Saturn opposes Fantasy Neptune this Wednesday. On the grand scale we'll get to witness some major news stories in these areas - as the people oppose the hierachy. And people overdose on escapism or else get bent out of shape when the structure of their lives gets bent out of shape, dissolves, caves in or vanishes - like many buildings, structures, rules and systems that are sure to erode or fall this week.

Here's the link to my older post that relates to this in depth, so you can prepare for this time and see what it's all about.

In short - we're wrapping up our old lives, by facing old issues in the very new present.

It's RE-RUN week,
if you're sick of the same drama,
isn't it time to at-tune to another channel?

Forecasts are up!

The Sun moves into Pisces today, the final journey around the zodiac wheel - where we get to dissolve connections with things that no longer are right for us, where we engage in some fantasy, retreat and escapism. Catching up on sleep, taking it easy, enjoying music and magic - it's time to withdraw from life's hectic pace and tune into more spiritual dimensions of life. There's more to life than money, bills, work and cleaning.

The forecasts for the week ahead are up - and you can read them at the site (click the HOROSCOPES link at the bottom of the page), detailing this transition for you into the final sign of the zodiac, and the energies you're dealing with now, at the tail end of the astrological cycle.

Love,

Neil

Downloading a New Direction: New Moon in Aquarius

It's wish time - the Sun and Moon conjunct in Aquarius Saturday Feb 17th, the New Moon.

Wherever you are, whatever you may be doing, take a moment to close your eyes, light a candle, take some quiet time (in whichever way you choose), and focus on WHAT YOU WISH TO MANIFEST.

In Aquarius, we can touch our future selves, and 'download' this information into the present. Where do you want to be next week, next month, next year? Ask for it now. Make your future present.

This New Moon:

Connect with friends
Find a group in line with your goals
Decide what you want to achieve in society
Focus on a new hope or dream
Get moving - life as well as our body needs circulation
Breathe more - oxygen is our life force
Be futuristic
Go your own way and give others space too
Dare to be different
Realize greatest leaps in life come when we go against the grain
Shift your status quo
Electrify your existence with a brave, bold move ahead
Keep a clear mind - aligned solely with your goals
Enjoy the company of Free Spirits
Unleash your uniqueness

As it's the Age of Aquarius - this New Moon is a weekend of celebrating our uniqueness. Look for people with zany hair, crazy clothes - it's INNOVATION TIME, when we get to be truly ourselves. No one else can be you, even if they studied you for a lifetime. Only you get to play your own role this lifetime. Get with the program - Your program.

Making wishes at the New Moon is always guaranteed to shift energy in the direction of your desires with a view to manifesting something in line with them. Try it. This weekend, outline your future vision, and bring it int the present. It's as simple as that. Our goals define us, our hopes guide us and our dreams are our future selves finding us in the present.

Align all three here, this weekend. Free yourself from whatever is currently going on. It's already old news. Whatever is manifest in the physical world, is old. Don't forget to keep creating your future here right now by focusing on your future.

Download a new dream, a new direction and a new desire. All it takes is the energy of attention.

It'll never fly,

if you don't try.

Dare to be different and dare to dream!

Love,
Neil

Mercury is Retrograde (until March 7)

It's finally here - the mental time out we've all been in need of. So drop your major urge to race ahead in life, slow down your driving, and stop talking.

It's time to listen.

Life catches up with us now, and our words find us again, the echoes of the past return and we get to take stock of where we've been and where we are. And thus, where we're going. Without a plan we're destined to repeat the past (as we're always reacting to what has been, instead of creating where we'd like to go).

How will the past return for you? Old ideas, mental loops, friends or lovers from the past, reconnecting with friends, salvaging broken contracts or connections, revisiting old places, or finally severing ties with people who you are no longer resonating with? The possibilities can only truly be glimpsed through our own Birth Charts.

If you're stuck or unsure what's repeating or why you're where you are, it's a great time for a mental review. Read your diary, go back over your past, retrace your steps. Forget surging ahead, this period is about working out how you got here. Unpick the problems, unstitch the rug-ruts you've been weaving.

I'll add more as we progress through this period, but for now, you can check out the Relationship Reports and specials (ending Feb 31) on offer at the site - it is valentine's day today after all. And that goes for BUSINESS and well as ROMANTIC relationships.

Even if you're single, you're in a relationship right now. Look around. Mercury retrograde can help you navigate to calmer waters once you let go of the old shore and decide upon the new horizon you're setting sail for.

How will we get there? That's unimportant. Right now, the desire to is enough.

Enjoy reviewing your past - whether you find it in boxes under the bed, in old books, in reconnecting with your childhood, and finding new ways to see old problems, or whether the past finds you in the next three weeks with a letter in the mail or knock on the door or bumping into someone in the street - enjoy it, and ask yourself if you want it to have a place in your present.

The choice will determine the new pathways that open up for you.

Love,
Neil

Here you go...

You can view The Secret for fre with these links - someone posted it online at YouTube.

Enjoy! Let me know the results when you play with the concepts.

Love,
Neil




Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Extra Part:

Mercury Retrograde: Feb 14 - March 7

Coming soon!

In the meantime, get a headsup on what this phase is all about by visiting the Blog and using the Search function to read some of my earlier 'Mercury Retrograde' postings. This one of course is different as it falls in the sign of Pisces, and we're all affected differently, but you'll have an idea of what's going to happen during the period from Feb 14 - March 7.

Stay tuned!

This Moment...

Where are you at right now in your Life Cycle?

At "PMS" time - when everyone and everything seems to kick you between the legs, annoy you and make you wanna break something?

At "Celebration" time - when you're amazed things could work out so well, and you're feeling truly blessed.

At "Anticipation" time - when you have nothing yet everything. A magical moment of potential when the world's your oyster. (You quit your job, move with no security, or else throw yourself off the deep end).

At "Closure" time - when something ends and you're trying to decide where to go or what to do next?

There are so many points along each cycle. That's the beauty of our Astrology Charts. We set sail on a course determined by us prior to birth (the theory goes) and then we cast ourselves in our own drama and see if we can figure our way through it all. It's not our actions that truly matter in the end often, but our RE-actions - how we handle the events that life seems to bring our way. That's how we end up changing your own personal history - by redefining ourselves with each response.

That's where my current book comes in. I'm putting together a special manual of sorts to explain where you're at in your current cycle. Anyone will be able to use it as it does all the hard work for you. You'll need no knowledge of Astrology and gain a vast amount of wisdom by the end (hopefully!).

That's also where you come in: my clients, friends, family and strangers i talk to about their charts are all the teachers on my Path. I learn the more I see and experience (which is true wisdom in the end, isn't it) and I'd love to have your input in some of this too.

Just let me know WHAT is going on in your life or how you feel about certain things. Be as detailed or as bullet-point as you like. "Lost my job","Got married", "Ready to run away", "Excited about my new possibilities" etc. Your call. It'll all help me to put together a manual that is steeped in experience and reality as it is in Astrological Theory. We're all the melting pots where all of this wisdom comes together.

You can find the survey (its confidential and easy) at this page of my site, (on the right scroll down to the menu and you'll find it, along with a Sex Survey if you're so inclined).

Thanks a million billion for sharing your own life experiences - maybe they'll help someone else out on their path too. Being part of something bigger than yourself - you can't beat it.

Much Love,
Neil

The "Void of Course" Moon

Astrologers each use various devices and tricks and tools to interpret the planetary movements. I'm amazed that many don't use the Lunar Nodes - when from my experience they hold SO much information. Others may find it surprising I don't stare ominously at what they call the Void of Course Moon.

The Nodes comprise such a bulk of my work that without them, you really don't have a handle on the Chart of a person (or anything). it's just cycles, blurring into cycles, and energies that come at you from all angles. With no central theme. However the Void of Course is a lesser but much used tool of timing.

The Moon moves rapidly through the signs - 2 and a half signs a day so complete its monthly sojourn. Our emotions follow suit - changing along with the lunar cycle colors. In Leo today we're all feeling the Leo energy but in various ways depending on where the Moon falls within our Charts of course.

In my 9th House, I actually ended up contacting a fellow Astrologer to compliment him on his marvellous book, and we exchanged emails (the 9th house relates to publishing, books, knowledge, teachers). The book is called Sunshines: The Astrology of Being Happy' by Michael Lutin. It actually comprises of a look at both the Sun and the Lunar Nodes together. A much needed addition to the Astrological body of work out there.

The Full Moon will arrive in my 9th house - and I'm expecting to wrap up a lot of work on my own book. I may hear news from overseas, the other 9th House theme. I've been looking into taking a trip out of town to Vegas. The 9th = long distance trips. The themes are endless but they all relate to how I'm using Leo energy in a 9th house fashion.

Back to my original point - I never much cared for the "voice of course" moon. It's a term given to a period of time when the Moon's energy is 'out to lunch' and anything we begin during these times is likely to not amount to much. White Noise. Dead air. A void. Emotionally it's not exactly a fulfilling time for something we want to launch. It is claimed, however, that it's great for napping, staying home or at leats kicking back a bit, self-nurturing and just waiting things out.

I guess with my Aries South Lunar Node I'm not a fan of waiting around for things, so I tend to disregard these timing devices sometimes, because I reckon 'if it's meant to work it will'. (Not that I'm always on time, so perhaps I need to listen to myself more...)

So this is where you come in as your own Astrologer. I'm posting the dates here for you to check it out for yourself. Drop me a note and let me know your findings. It's not a major thing we need to stick to, but it's worthwhile if we want to avoid what is claimed "emotional ARGHS" of this period if we don't.

Here's February's:

V/C = when the moon goes void of course

Feb 3, 2007 5:55 AM Moon Trine Plu V/C
Feb 3, 2007 9:34 AM Moon enters Virgo (so the VC is over)

Feb 5, 2007 5:37 PM Moon Sqr Plu V/C
Feb 5, 2007 9:15 PM Moon enters Libra

Feb 8, 2007 6:38 AM Moon Sxtil Plu V/C
Feb 8, 2007 10:09 AM Moon enters Scorpio

Feb 10, 2007 5:39 AM Moon Sqr Sat V/C
Feb 10, 2007 10:01 PM Moon enters Sagittarius

Feb 13, 2007 3:45 AM Moon Conj Plu V/C
Feb 13, 2007 6:42 AM Moon enters Capricorn

Feb 14, 2007 10:24 PM Moon Sxtil Ven V/C
Feb 15, 2007 11:34 AM Moon enters Aquarius

Feb 17, 2007 11:14 AM Sun Conj Moon V/C
Feb 17, 2007 1:30 PM Moon enters Pisces

Feb 19, 2007 11:43 AM Moon Sqr Plu V/C
Feb 19, 2007 2:06 PM Moon enters Aries

Feb 21, 2007 12:42 PM Moon Trine Plu V/C
Feb 21, 2007 3:03 PM Moon enters Taurus

Feb 23, 2007 2:47 PM Moon Trine Mar V/C
Feb 23, 2007 5:42 PM Moon enters Gemini

Feb 25, 2007 8:21 PM Moon Oppos Plu V/C
Feb 25, 2007 10:48 PM Moon enters Cancer

Feb 27, 2007 1:03 AM Moon Trine Ura V/C
Feb 28, 2007 6:29 AM Moon enters Leo


That's some Astrological Lore for you. If you're thinking of moving home, signing on a real estate deal, contacting your Mother, or planning conception, these are times it's best to work around and plan for. The Moon relates to all these things. In surgery, Astrologers have worked with doctors to avoid operations when the Moon is moving through the sign related to the part of the body in question (Aries - head down to pisces - feet...we can talk more on that another time). Question? Just email me at Neil@NewWorldAstrology.com.

SO when the Moon is in Cancer, stomach and breast/chest operations are forbidden. It often ends in complications. I'd say this would work doubly so then, under a Void of Course Moon. Maybe it just doesn't solve the original problem.

I haven't tested this as the Moon is such an unstable, emotional energy. It talks about the small niggling things in our day to day lives.

I prefer to focus more on Mercury Retrograde and other energies that seem to throw the world into chaos. That's my dramatic 5th House South Node (the Leo house!). I'm a sucker for excitement.

And what do you know? Mercury goes retrograde on Feb 14, just in time for Valentine's Day! Expect to hear from a past lover (and me), for sure. Good or bad? Depends how naughty or nice you were, doesn't it...

Enjoy playing around with the Void of course Moon times...

Love,
Neil

Feb 1: Souls at Centre Stage: Leo Full Moon

The Full Moon on Feb 1 (late evening PST) falls at 12Leo59 (one minute before entering the 13th degree).

Most Astrologers will probably use the Sabian Symbol for 13 Degrees Leo (since we always round up) but I think since we are so close to the 14th Sabian Degree that in this instance we're urged to move up and evolve to the next level. This symbol is:

"In the form of a cherub,
whispering soft coaxing in words into every receptive ear,
a human soul seeks expression."

I think that sums up this Lunar cycle. Full Moons are always about a highlighting of something. "Under the Light of the Full Moon" we see what's full - what's grown, expanded and is now visible, manifested from the seeds we scattered at the previous Leo New Moon.

What does this symbol mean? To me, it's the sound of intuition whispering in our ears, of the path we KNOW we should take. Will we? Often we go against our own advice (and wonder why no one else is really helping us out).

In Leo, emotions are always pretty obvious. They're either out there in the open, or else we're polluting rooms by withdrawing our Light (Leo rules the Sun) and we're known for the dark clouds we bring in our wake. Either way, our Light is felt by its very presence or it's lack.
Again we're reminded now that "darkness" is just a lack of light. And that there never is truly ever complete darkness in the world, as the Sun is always shining somewhere.

Maybe that's what we should bear in mind at the Leo Full Moon when we're bursting at the seems with Leo vitality that screams to be heard. If we don't receive the applause and respect our Leo side needs (we all have Leo in us somewhere, in our Charts) then we risk sulking, withdrawing and sitting on it, becoming the cold, calculated Aquarius (Leo's opposite sign).

At the Full Moon we always face a conflict to resolve - on the one hand the Sun shines in Aquarius saying BE AQUARIAN. Detach. Support a good cause. Help Society. Be a great friend.
The Moon shines in the opposite sign of Leo saying I NEED RECOGNITION. Can you be a creative and lovable politician? Can you use your stage presence star-status for the greater good? Are you just as good off stage in the supportive audience as you are lapping up the attention from your adoring fans? If you're ignored, what then? If someone heckles you, do you despise humanity? Is your audience limited and are you seeking the wrong people for the recognition you feel you deserve and desire?

We're ALL prima-donnas. We each want a bit of the Leo Sun. Watch American Idol to see how big 'anyone can be a star' ideologies have become. However, as the Moon also opposes Chiron (known as the wounded healer) we do run the risk of a few of our Aquarian "issues" to be triggered. People annoy us. We're told to love the world yet we see our ugliness in the prejudice we witness, in the people who don't give a rat's ass about any else. We see it in our politicians who are clearly NOT "for" the people. Aquarius is the Humanitarian but with Chiron here now, we tend to detest people but love humanity. Who was it who said "the problem with humanity is people"?

We can pretend to be spiritually evolved, but we'll always (this two week period anyway) get to see our wounds, our shadows, our emotional triggers (insecurities and fears) highlighted by others (opposition aspects always relate to relationship issues since we tend to project the problem onto someone else and fight it through them).

So with the Moon opposing Chiron, OTHER people are the ones who are too Leo or too Aquarius. Too show-offy or too cold-and-clinical. No, it can't be us. Our unmet needs of attention projected onto the person we see who steals the show. And the side of us who wants to not care less, is seen through the person whom clearly doesn't have a human heart....

Is this blog getting a little heavy? I agree. So let's move on to the juice:

No matter what, no matter where, no matter how we MUST release our Leo sides now - it's a NEED, a primal urge asking us to:

Get on Stage and Scream our Emotions
Let it rip! Dance your socks off, dress up, show off
Bring color back into your life!
Get artistic - paint a wall, a mural, make a birdhouse, stare at your reflection
Go to Vegas - live it up, go 5 Star to the best restaurant
Give up your childish ways but still remain childlike
Be generous NO MATTER who accepts it or who you think "doesn't deserve it"
Be proud of what you've done. You'll shine for it.
Stop seeking an audience. Be your own number one fan.
Finish up a painting, song, poem or some creative project you've been working on
Release your babies into the world (sell your work, find an agent, put on your show)


In Short - give your gift of your Leo side to the world. Your job. Your humor. Your ability to have a good time. Your smile. Your wink. Your flattery. Your musical/artistic/leadership talents. You're brimming full, under the Full Moon and trust me, there are few things worse than a Leo who has (temporarily) lost (or forgotten more like) their Light. That's Leo's job. To shine. That's it.

And the final point is this: to shine, to truly be a beacon and a Sun, sometimes our only job is to be ourselves, and not to try. Isn't one of the sun's main job to brighten dark skies?

So whatever shadows appear now, dispel them by turning up your own Pride, your own Self Respect, your own Self Love. Saturn in Leo right now is testing us all - to remain Loving no matter what, to remain Giving no matter what, to retain our Life Force - and not to get depleted or drained by life's vampiric nature.

Give back.
Empty your creative genius.
It's the only way to keep refilling.

Love,
Neil