Learning to Live Underwater

Every time you pick up trash or clean your surroundings, you evolve.

Every time you strive for improvement, however minor, things do get better.

Every time you learn something useful and apply it, you ascend.

Every time you release an attachment to something harmful, you blossom.

Every time you choose Calm over Chaos, things lighten.

Every time you clean up a mess, you grow.

Every time you release old emotional patterns or baggage, 

you unfold the agenda of your Soul.

Right now, with so many planets in Pisces, the final water sign and the very last sign of the zodiac (or the "one before the first") there are so many feelings surrounding us and within is, it's like learning how to live underwater. Panic sets in for controlling types since everything is changeable and in flux now. Go-with-the-flow types may actually find this season 'too much of a good thing' offering chances to dissipate, dissolve and deplete back into old, redundant, unhealthy and ultimately untenable ways. Everyone faces the moment-by-moment choice between venturing back to the twilight surreally sublime swamps of Illusion... or venturing up the many winding steps of Healthy Improvement.

We all hurt. And we're all healing.
We all suffer. But we can all help.

This Week, find something Helpful or Healthy that you're willing TO DO DAILY.

Guaranteed, it will keep you away from Emotional Overwhelm, and back into Healthy Human Functioning.

Need some tips? Read the suggestions for Cycle 6.

And this would be a great time, to listen to your special Neptune in Pisces Video Horoscope, at my Youtube Channel (Just look for your Sun Sign and Rising Sign videos).

Cycles not Houses

2015 is the year I stop talking about "Houses" and instead speak of "Cycles" because actually, each House in the Birth Chart is a Process, an Initiation, a Rite of Passage - each segment part of a greater whole. What you learn in one, goes into the next. This is how we evolve.

There are 12 Cycles.

I discuss these in my book Surfing Your Solar Cycles: a Lifetime Guide to Your Stars.

The book was written through me as an addition to all Astrological Libraries as a fundamental building block book to support all further Astrological research, study and practice.

If you were born with Venus in the 5th House, for example, it's the same as saying
Venus is in Cycle 5 - going through Cycle 5 themes and growth challenges.

We now have planets going through certain Cycles, and this gives us a richer look into what is actually going on with this placement. Planets in Houses now becomes evolving Planets moving through initiations.

If you remember that PLANETS represent DRIVES WITHIN YOU, you can understand your Chart from a new perspective (Sun - drive to be, Venus - drive to relate, Jupiter - drive to learn etc). Find out more about each Planetary Drive at the Astrology 101 page.

If you were born with the Sun in the 9th House, you can now say your ego (Sun) is moving through a Cycle 9 initiation complete with Cycle 9 people, themes, opportunities and challenges.

You represent a Sign going through a Cycle.

As a 4th House Pisces Sun, I can now say I'm a Pisces evolving through Cycle 4 this lifetime.

How about you?

Find out more about the 12 Cycles, play around with them, have fun with this. And if you can, please pick up a copy of my book. It not only supports me further in my astrological adventures (and helps me while I write my next two books!) but it also is a killer book that you will use time and time again! It is after all, a Lifetime guide...

Keep Pushing Through: Virgo New Moon & Mars/Saturn in Scorpio

A New Moon in Virgo and Mars/Saturn conjunction in Scorpio?

Hmm, I smell something in the air. It's beginning to reek? You've noticed too, of course.
Something needs to be fixed and something must change for good (or for evil, but we'll get to that...).

Virgo New Moon opens a window where any problem revealed can at least be tackled.
You either sit and groan about the errors and mistakes or you make a plan and set about trying to do something about it.

Under Virgo New Moons we all renew our dedication to our health, the welling being of plants, pets and our surroundings. Which means most people reading this will feel some amount of guilt at not taking care of themselves as well as they should. But even those who have lost touch with their inner healthy-mother, have another chance. The Virgo New Moon. Thank goodness. We also see what needs to be improved, and what new projects and plans we need to initiation (New Moon) and implement (Virgo).  We first see all of this through the lens of what is not is working. That's where we:

Throw in a Mars/Saturn conjunction in Scorpio of all signs!  Together with the Virgo Moon we have a team up between Cycle 6 (Virgo) and Cycle 8 (Scorpio). If you have my book (Page 303), you'll find in the back the list of cycle combos (if you don't you can check them out free!). These are the keywords to describe the flavor of Cycle 6/Cycle 8 and thus these current times to you:

                SURGERY, 
                                                      SEXUAL HEALTH, 
          QUITTING BAD HABIT,                                        HEALTH OBSESSION

                                      HELPER/HEALER
  MINIMALIST, 
                                     
                                  CUT AND DRIED, 
                                                                                 THE BOTTOM LINE.


Doesn't sound fun but sounds "necessary". Yuk.

We can get to the bottom line or we may have to hit rock bottom to have any solid serious, sober and REAL ground (Saturn) to build on. Reality is a great awakener. When you get down to the roots, you can see what's there (Mars/Saturn). Enough Nutrition, or creepy crawlies or viruses feeding on you?

The New Moon in Virgo is the earth-builder helper who knows which seeds to plant and which weeds to pull. If,...you Trust your inner Technician, Farmer, Critic and Boss. But beware. And be aware of and wary of anger, fears and mental phantom testing you. Remember that 'evil' I told you about earlier? Some characters DO turn evil. Is this the great "pole divide" we've been hearing about since way back? A parting of the ways? In the movie of your life then, and for the next few weeks especially, simply be alert and aware to enemies posing as friends and people hiding a real ugly truth behind a truly alluring lie.

Be Smart (Virgo-style - in other words discriminating)

Fix, Change, Develop, Create, Let Go, Transform!
 At random moments. At any time. In any order.

Your Astrologer,
Neil
www.NewWorldAstrology.com.

P.S HP got me back my laptop after 3 weeks AWOL for a 3 day repair. They messed up the warranty and now tell me I am stuck without one. Nothing I can do (Mars/Saturn). Even though there was nothing wrong with it, the Hard Drive was taken (Pluto at his best) so I am in the process of again rebuilding the store, reports etc so I can send out orders. I'm behind. As you know. Bear with me, I'm doing the best I can. I do believe in evil now. There are forces that threaten to thwart our plans. Sometimes those forces can be people. Companies. (Pluto is in Capricorn, after all). If you find it hard to trust, under this Virgo/Scorpio vibe, be trustworthy. That's one magic wand guaranteed to create some type of magic. It always does. 

I finally got the Scorpio Rising message this week (as Mars meets Saturn one degree from my Ascendant). That life can send its thunderbolts (I have Uranus Rising in Scorpio so take your best shot!) but rebirth is inevitable. It is unstoppable. It is the human spirit itself. Even after those moments of curling up in its closet and just crying.

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