If you’re waiting for something to happen sometime after December 22 you might see some action. This lunation is on the solstice point and for that reason can pack a wallop. The combined influence of Mars, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Venus and Pluto makes you feel you are coming and going and going and coming again.

The Full Moon has the promise of action and disruption followed by restraint and illusion then blasted by some nuclear thing that has a boomerang momentum. More to come on the Trump et al front. The surprise event of some mystery guest taking a star turn and more to the point the next Mueller shoe dropping will make this a Christmas to never forget.

If you have been waiting for something to happen this might be it. If you’ve been waiting to: get paid, hear about a job or a critical interview, get news about a beloved, the other shoe to drop, the results of a test, the ending of some long endless process, if he or she loves you, your time is here. The Full Moon brings some critical something to a head. Just be prepared for the thing to go in a variety of inexplicable and irrational and unpredictable directions.

Setting up for the Eclipses in January, there is a hushed moment before. What will the moment bring? The Markets are volatile and unsteady and will continue to rise and fall and fall. Real estate will steadily correct and then descend this year. The government will implode and explode with Mr. President Trump continuing his Titanic behavior. The instability and mental gyrations he goes through will get more frenetic before he exhausts himself.

This period brings times that are celebratory then just as quickly plunge to feelings of despair and purposelessness. To offset the astrology of the time, maintain a countenance that is unequivocal and non-reactive. Watch how all the ghosts dance on the head of a pin. Things you have not done, not said or said too much come back. Self-critique and desire to get back at another with resentments nurtured and attitudes you cannot shake come at you. Be Zen, be calm and don’t get provoked.

Mercury catches up to itself on Christmas. What was unforgivable or misunderstood suddenly passes. Venus comes back to itself on December 18. The questions about love and attraction get clearer. You know what love means or what you desire for the time being. The old excitement and drama of the hidden third party passes temporarily. Between December 31 and the beginning of January the full impact of what Saturn means for 2019 is clearer. Money and the markets and politics will have a debt to pay this year.

Tune in for our 2019 newsletter. I want to thank all the people who have sent their good wishes and comments to me through the year. I appreciate your readership and your acknowledgment. Have a great and happy holiday. The Chinese New Year is around the corner. Pay attention to what happens before January 1. The end is no different than the beginning and tells the whole story.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has the sleepless nights and overthinking ghost of Christmas Past bothering you. You keep thinking about what went wrong and how you could have avoided it if only you had noticed it happening. The overthinking and over working don’t seem to add up. Resentments blow up into a big balloon of aches and pains and bad feelings. Stop the madness of trying to only please another. Be true to you.

The Full Moon makes the family and home a place of agitation, duty and power plays. You don’t have to participate in the things that grab you on the guilt level. Try a new tact, give what you can and remember you are just one person. You are not one stop shopping. Enjoy peace within when family keeps the line dance going. Rest and don’t reanimate any behavior you don’t like. March can’t come soon enough.

TAURUS has anxiety about the Unknown and how to control it. You keep trying to figure out how to communicate a difficult emotional truth and balance your truth with another’s reality. Money and the family dominate the picture. The same old cast of characters are still up their old tricks. Nothing seems to change. Yet the dawning of a new way to handle everything is getting clearer.

The Full Moon brings some issue with siblings to a head. If they have been angry, pugilistic and resentful then take a step back. If they are forthcoming and open take a step forward. Coming with an “ask” that is out of reality and/or self- involved, expect a Christmas Ghost story that is another sad and angry tale about being wronged or cheated or misunderstood. Try to not spend a lot of time making sense of nonsense. Some power play about money or inheritance or responsibility is on the door. Kick the can down the lane.

GEMINI has the added irritant of some work project going on and on. Your overamped schedule is too big to coordinate all the demands of family and work. This holiday you won’t rest too much. Due to Mars you are circling some new model of accomplishment yet the closure keeps getting extended. The Ghost of Christmas future wants to expand in a totally new way with an upgrade on all fronts.

The Full Moon in Cancer brings that money and resource angst to the surface. The worry and fear that you don’t have enough time or money or energy is toe to toe with needing to change the routine. Friends are not so sympathetic. They might go on and on about their pain and their problems and themselves. Anger moves into reaction then avoidance then obsessing. Refocus on what you need. You can be sensitive to others but remember to remember yourself.

CANCER is dreaming about the future. You get angry about too many tasks and commitments and feel tired or poor or overextended. The nuclear blast comes and might go off on someone or on you. Then you feel the Guilt. Try to access that endurance that Cancer is known for. This has been a hard year full of tests of patience and perseverance and energy. You have struggled and still are hanging in there. The Ghost of Christmas future cautions against too much overperforming.

The Full Moon in Cancer resets your balance. The emotional body needs rest from everything and everyone. Don’t shortchange yourself on time spent doing nothing. The irritation and volatility and depression and closing the iron door will keep repeating until you give yourself the benefit of your own company. The marathon race is over. You can relax and not go to jail. Let the partnership house restructure into a whole new form.

LEO has that electric current of energy pulsing through you and it’s not stopping. The money/power/psychic draw of it all makes travel and exploring new vistas a big deal. The stress of how your ego suffered a few blows recently is turning a corner. Leo is strangely retributive. You will wait but get someone back if they disrespect. The Ghost of Christmas Past might find something still lingering.

The Full Moon makes that love affair or secret desire whether it be endless chocolate or exotic romance a reality. First you get enticed then when the thunderbolt hits you worry about rejection or boredom then you either devour, are devoured or withhold. You are a complex person full of secrets and memories and taboos. The Full Moon might be about money or personal value. Your internal process is about to be exposed. Take your time and do not act on impulse. Be a mountain not a molehill.

VIRGO is experiencing your world or the Other’s world with too many questions and too much opposition. You have been through some feat and need to recover. The money/debt/power thing just won’t come together enough for you to relax and see the light at the end of the tunnel. For the time being its work, work, work. The Ghost of Christmas past advises you to consider the direction you’re going in and the consequence of choice.

The Full Moon in your ideals sector brings a dream to a head around a group or the interaction of friends and colleagues. A friend might be testing you by being passive aggressive, then inspiring, then supportive, then abandoning you. If you don’t know where you stand with someone ask them. Being direct now is golden. So is silence.

LIBRA wants the year to end and be done. A hard year with business that was up and down and then up again, you are looking for the solace of security and consistency. The money and career option is still up for grabs. Your Other or client or partner is anything but settled. Wait until March to know which way the wind blows. The Ghost of Christmas Past will visit with the gift of empathy for a beloved pet.

The Full Moon at the top of the chart makes your career and reputation need more focus. Agitation and moments of chaos and internal strategizing go on and on. Your career will be more regulated after the Spring. Have a holiday that draws family close. The next year things will be more far flung and blue sky for you all.

SCORPIO has the desire for family to get along and be happy. Yet something or someone is gone or going. The challenge of keeping everything real and harmonious and peaceful is matched by those feelings that just don’t move on. The mind is capricious and extreme. One minute you’re up and then suddenly down. Work should be flourishing. The Ghost of Christmas Past wants you to say good bye to the old comfort zone. Magnetize something that you doubt can be manifested.

The Full Moon wants your love life/love affair/creative juices to flow. The changeable nature of this aspect periodically desires, is impulsive, detaches, freezes and then lights a fire. You might consider that a short trip will shake things up. Your psyche is suddenly bending and flexible. Spirituality moves to a new phase. The clean -up crew is waiting in the wings to help purify the fears that have held you hostage. This holiday roar and then rest and reset.

SAGITTARIUS is aggravated by a situation at home. There is something going on with the family or the home life that is passively keeping you from realizing a dream. The love life or love of your life is hiding or retreating from an emotional fire storm. They must face themselves while you stand by. Support the beloved but remember to not fight their battles. The Ghost of Christmas Past wants to splurge with something big but cautions against too much too soon.

The Full Moon in the house of debt and big money brings to a head any project. You are antsy with ideas to plans to strategy to power moves. Your past habit is to jump in where angels fear to tread. You got to move on something this year. Jupiter brings the blessing of luck. Learn to focus your x-ray vision so you don’t hover but grow.

CAPRICORN’s moment is approaching. The month before the big Eclipse in Capricorn prepares you to see the writing on the wall and hatch a new plan. This next year brings Saturn full cycle. If you have avoided or “forgotten” about yourself the consequence will manifest soon. If you have acted on what life has offered you just might flourish. The Ghost of Christmas Past advises caution and quiet confidence.

The Full Moon promises that your partnership house will go through many changes. Maybe hot maybe volatile, maybe sad, maybe withdrawn, maybe brooding or waiting for a rebirth, your job is to be the Companion with every step. The emotional moodiness that is your defense needs to go. This year Saturn will have no patience with sidestepping. Your identity is strengthening if you let it.

Aquarius has a lot of energy regarding money and resources and how you might be investing in a fantasy. Make sure your dream is in the here and now and doesn’t allow you to escape from your reality no matter how non-dramatic. Overthinking and going away for a brief mental vacation doesn’t serve you or anyone. The hidden price you pay might add up to a lot of anxiety and nervous stress.

The Full Moon in your house of health and routine makes something from the last six months come to a head. You might go through stages of being highly motivated then manic then overwhelmed then want to just walk away. First consider what was the initial emotion that started this ball rolling? You are at the high end of some breakthrough. Go through the process with eyes wide open.

PISCES has the get up and go of passion, desire, competition and vitality. Your energy is on high. Use it well. Set up exercise programs and work plans for the next two years. You can take offence at almost anything now so go slowly with reactions. Easy to be on fire and get fired up.

The Full Moon in Cancer makes for the love/romance sector to come alive periodically with desire, sexual magnetism, disappointment. and obsession. Don’t overthink about you don’t have; look at what you have and remember to be grateful. Neptune rules music, art, spirituality and dreams. Try to focus on the positive side of Neptune and tend to your emotional life. Don’t go back to old habits out of boredom or loneliness. The planets inspire you to go beyond yourself. Go there.

Tanda Tashjian

December 14, 2018

ASTROLOGY MINI NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 1, 2018 – DECEMBER 15, 2018

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The cracks are starting to show. In the economy, government, environment and with Mr. President Trump. Getting ready for the Eclipse in January, all the good times suddenly are not rolling and all the bills that were going to get paid are about to come due.

If you forgot to prepare for an exam you could forget about it for a while and really think you were going to get away with it. Then the day came. You were found out. This period is the same. If you have forgotten to prepare you will feel it. Saturn catching up with Pluto brings all that was put on hold come due. Personally, and publicly.

The environmental scare is scary. It’s either a planetary event or an event on the planet that will make us need to pull together to survive. But first there are a few more events.

Mr. President Trump is preparing the ground for his good-bye tour. After his attempt to politically assassinate Mueller and Rosenstein goes wrong, he will reassert all the good he has accomplished and remind us that the world is not ready for his particular brand of brilliance. When he can fight no more, he will disappear himself with a shrug of the shoulders and grandly walk into a golden sunset. He cannot risk the exposure that Mueller is about to show.

As Mercury goes direct on December 6 we go back and forth with more confusion and catch up. The last Full Moon on November 22 brought some crucial issues to the forefront which distract us through Christmas. On a personal front if you are waiting to buy a dryer or a phone, wait some more until December 6, ideally until December 25.

The New Moon on December 6 brings the dewy promise of illusion and the backlash of anger. The Sun and Moon in Sagittarius is squared by Mars and Neptune. The promise of something out of this world grates against the anger of what is. Watch out for too much, too rich or too good to be true. Whatever the promise, it is augmented with extravagance or escapism and a passive rage with underlying torrents.

Be aware of any come-on that seems too good to be true because it will prove to not be. Romance, business and negotiation starts out strong and ends with a passive aggressive reaction. Do not accept things on face value and don’t be massaged into agreeing with something that you know is off.

Chiron at the end of its cycle propels you to wonder what you are doing and why – and why bother. It’s not exactly depression but feels like a depression going around in circles. You might feel defeated or tired or just overwhelmed. Sit back and meditate – or contemplate or dream… Or watch movies, eat chocolate and shop online. Indulge yourself but not too much; there are bigger fish to fry.

The Markets will dip and come back for a short time. This starts a period of volatility that affects real estate and powers a financial correction that progressively becomes more serious as 2019 goes on.

There might be another big weather/earth crisis that involves an extensive loss of power and a slow recovery. The fact of global warming is a fact. The need for us to bond together to get something done to arrest the destruction that has been loosed is more immediate. Many older people and facilities will not function in the wake of this event. The extremes of heat and cold and rain and snow will prove all the naysayers wrong. Just be sure to be on the right side of the weather this winter. Have an escape plan and be prepared for more problems in 2019. The planet is instant messaging us. Let’s listen and act on what is obvious. No matter how chaotic or distracting the White House is, be strong about our home and survival. The gods are stirred up. Let’s make peace and put everything back in balance in our own life as a stepping stone to bigger things that are coming.

The mess that is Washington gets messier. As Mercury gets going, the real story will begin to emerge between now and Christmas. Expect more distractions, more pronouncements, and less reality. In the end, Mr. President Trump will step down before he is confronted. Good that the military does not belong to the White House, good that the blue wave happened, good that Mueller is on it; what will be the next twist in a reality show that is playing out on every channel?

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES is having a semi tantrum and auto-destruct period. Mars in your 12^th house makes you need to sleep off any unconscious rage that is misdirected and that you want to escape from. You cannot escape yourself. The New Moon makes you hopeful about love or travel. Yet you are still going over the anger and resentments of the last year. Any opportunities to deal with a passive-aggressive situation suddenly disappear. Mercury direct reflects an emotional debt not paid.

The New Moon makes you want to travel or getaway. Fantasy is not balanced by internal anger. It’s better to do martial arts or snack on carbs. Exercise and write in your journal about the offending party. Your next few months until March show you what is what in your life around anger vs. ideals. You’ve been here before. The next few months tell the tale. Get ahead of what doesn’t make sense. And correct where you have done or given too much to people that don’t appreciate you.

TAURUS has Mars in your house of friendship. Your ideal about a person is face-to-face with your illusion about them. The New Moon brings conflict about money, debt and decisions. The desire for freedom is matched by the reality of what you must do and accomplish every day. Overstressed in many areas of life, you are aware of the long, slow slog ahead. Hidden problems could emerge. Make your actions count.

The New Moon with Neptune and Mars temporarily affect your mood. Optimistic and then irritated, walk the middle line. Some issue with a partner/family member needs to be clarified; the mixed messages are flying. After Mercury goes direct you will get things that have to do with money straight. Catching up on the gerbil wheel, having a good life seems possible. The who am I? question comes back with no real answer. Get it together before March.

GEMINI has the New Moon opposed you. Partners/clients are alternately inspiring and maddening. Your resource house takes a hit wherever you have been out of reality. Authority and bosses give double messages. Mercury direct shows a work/health/pet condition that needs attention. The current expansion you are considering needs to be moderated by action that is balanced, idealized and real. Don’t go off on any tangents trying to help or work too much. Your instinct is activated. Listen to your gut but don’t walk off a cliff.

The desire to travel, leave your day job or buy the farm must be matched by what is the long game. Think about the future but don’t act like it’s here already. Any sore spot with a partner improves. The pretend part of your job is subtly driving you crazy. Get out and walk around. The friend/colleague that comes and offers help has an agenda. Believe in people, but listen to yourself. Sports and workouts relieve that gnawing feeling that makes you want to scream.

CANCER has the New Moon in your work house. A health or work condition improves but don’t move too fast. The idealistic dream still must deal with and process conflicts about your own or another’s authority. Partners are slow in learning how to reset wherever they took a nose dive. The lesson of partnership is grueling, needs patience and requires forgiveness. Expansion in work/health is followed by expectation and then reality. Emotionally, you go from despair to insight to redemption.

Mercury direct identifies the next stage of work or health interventions. Your deep, dark self resurfaces in another form and prepares for January’s face off. What you have forgotten returns, and any debt comes in another form to get paid. You might feel battered by some condition that is hard to comprehend. As Chiron finishes in Pisces, the big wheel turns and you get an answer.

LEO has the New Moon in your house of love/children. The positivity you currently feel is undercut by hopes and dreams and passive irritation. Your ideal self is sunny and positive, yet you feel achy and small. Someone dealt your ego a blow and the recovery is spotty. Try to accept a child or love interest as they are, with no embroidery.

Mercury direct makes for decisions about a property or home/office. Deep processing of a questionable interchange resets any confusion about another’s motivation and loyalty. You are working on making a move that changes the form or structure of your business or routine. This transition results in a change around expectations about the future. Your hidden feelings about someone close are not clear and hard to read. The next two weeks and six months ushers in a period of redefining your ideals about intimacy, meaning and power. Take it easy.

VIRGO has the New Moon in your house of the family and home. Your positive momentum might get sidelined by a partner’s/client’s confusion. Where are you are going? Discouragement that comes as a result of criticism from another can be a drag. The T-square on you from Mars, Neptune and the New Moon make a new start professionally necessary, but complicated and hard to plan.

Mercury direct makes for a series of precise decisions with resources, money and energy. Make what you offer count. Be simple and direct. The illusion that another will be there for you unconditionally makes for mistakes about your perception in the world. The issue is to do your work and redefine what your commitment to work is – no matter if someone is there applauding you or not. You are on the verge of understanding that dreams and projections are important to get you from point A to point B. Things seldom turn out the way our expectations imagine them as. Psychological maturity takes time but makes everything better. You can free yourself and open up to something within you that is high and real. When you stop wounding yourself with the illusion of being a victim, the progress you make is spectacular.

LIBRA has the New Moon in your house of decisions. Short trips and classes bring expansion and take the edge off the daily grind. Work and health are king now. Plan for the unexpected. Partners and clients are still unpredictable and take a few left turns. Mercury direct makes for some final decision about money. The house or home transforms as a result.

The long range of travel and the future is sunny, yet must be integrated with what happens next with the family. The surprise reveal with a love could shock or inspire. Your career moves forward, if you can stick to your ideals and trust yourself. The optimism you feel breaks the ice of the last six months when it seems like everything has been an uphill battle. The change coming in March relaxes the constant tension of the last 7 years. Sit back and plan your next move.

SCORPIO has the New Moon in your house of resources. The angle of conflict comes through children or romance. Any illusion you are incubating will have a repercussion in the next 6 months. Try to be real with children and your hopes for the future. Travel, and a new attitude about freedom, can release the old fear-mongering that holds you hostage.

Mars brings the dream of a faraway place. The educational aspect of life is about to prod you into a whole new study. An important person or relationship that is just beginning will be a source of much learning and growth. Stick with what is real. Any suffering from the past brings the same lesson; fantasy is a one-way street. After March, life goes on a wholly different path. Stimulating new people and a new environment bring a freedom you didn’t know existed. Your thought pattern around the past is nuclear.

SAGITTARIUS has the New Moon on you. You are motivated to go on a new adventure, yet you feel restrained by anger and hazy plans. The future means everything to Sagittarius. Your future is unclear and constantly changing. Your emotional bond with someone echoes the past, not the future, and your future needs a reboot. Relationship can be a way to not be alone – or an invitation into someone’s world. Let the future inspire a new reason to be with another.

Mars makes some wrong or reactive decisions when love and romance keep hitting the same note. Your home or house needs a revamping or purging. Burn some incense to release the patterns that keep compelling you. Your way of seeing things from the same perspective is becoming old. Questions about meaning and spirit keep cycling with no answer. Your next six months are a blend of action and escapism. Bring these two incongruous aspects you experience into a whole new incarnation. Luck is with you this year.

CAPRICORN has the New Moon in your 12^th house. Any emotional secret you are hiding can be the basis of a new opportunity for growth. Your last six months have been limiting and sobering. You have given up on something or someone. Any remorse about what you left behind can weaken or transform you into a stronger person. The review from the last 13/14 and 28/29 years can knock you down. Your limits and mistakes stare back at you.

Agitation and fantastic thinking don’t go together. Anything around short travel or decisions about a home or sibling are a source of trouble and confusion. Feeling bad about yourself is a waste of energy. The upheaval you keep experiencing around a home, property or family problem will change in March. An unpredictable aspect of your life will change and the security you crave will return. Partners act like enemies with secrets or people that are from another planet. Keep to a routine and don’t cry into your soup. Everything goes around and comes around and then goes around again.

AQUARIUS has the New Moon in your house of friendship and colleagues. Someone is bugging you and not being truthful. Don’t take everything on faith. The emotional aspect of work/routine is beneficial but also maddening. Your support system seems to disappear when you go through a mini crisis. The angst you feel is a childhood flashback of problems unlived or unfelt.

Saturn makes any fears take hold. This feeling of being paralyzed is a continuing reaction. Your ruler, Uranus is at the end of its transit through March. A reveal about the last seven years surprises, and maybe shocks, you. It’s clearer why you stay stuck when you can just as easily be free. This koan needs to be meditated on. Why do you keep making the same mistake? Look at the past and how someone didn’t do right for themselves. Your heart unlocks when you forgive fate and the world for not seeing you more clearly.

PISCES has the New Moon in your house of career and the public. Anger and helplessness make for consistent conflict. You cannot decide what to focus on and what to do next. Either too many choices, or nothing. Organize the environment to be free of clutter. The daily routine gets easier when there’s less distraction.

Chiron is ending its transit through your sign. This 50-year transit through all the signs ends with Pisces. You are the one to make the next step up into a whole new consciousness. You can lead or lag behind. Release that victim consciousness that holds you back. A career expansion or opportunity might surprise and beckon. Try something new and maybe the pattern of being so alienated changes. You are a true wanderer. Let that free spirit guide you to the next opportunity. A partner gets closer or fades away. Take everything in stride.

Tanda Tashjian

November 30, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, November 15 – December 1, 2018

The Full Moon on November 22 at 0 degrees of Gemini is with Jupiter. The potential of this time is positive in that many remedies can be broached for political and group improvement. You might see an upturn in your business or your mood. Just don’t get carried away; this period represents potential not achievement. And with Mercury going retrograde on November 16 there could be a tendency to get lost in self-righteousness or posturing.

On Thanksgiving Day, remember to invoke the heart chakra and be grateful for what is. With Venus going direct on November 16, you emerge from an introverted cocoon of the last month, deeper and more awakened about what you want from love/with a lover and what you give. The issues of any abuse of power or sexuality now resonate with some form of healing or dedicated attention.

The recent election represents a rising up of the feminine from the repression of the past. Wherever politics and corporate policy have ignored or put down the feminine, time is moving towards an integration of women in positions of power and authority. The inner aspect of this energy makes for a deepening relationship with yin energy. This shift accounts for the burgeoning interest in meditation, yoga and the contemplative arts. Rather than walking on fire, we are contemplating the fire. Where yang energy acts, yin holds and maintains and nurtures.

What will this energy produce in our government and world? With the nodal axis now in Cancer/Capricorn, the extremes of nurture and structure will play out. With the South Node in Capricorn, many will experience a shortfall somewhere. Saturn’s influence predisposes us to limitation. Money, time, energy, health and love can manifest some problem that needs solving. Especially potent for Capricorn and Cancer, the conflict between work and what you must do to survive is opposed by the comfort of home and family or with whom you feel safe will dominate.

The Capricorn aspect makes for limitation in some area. Coupled with Pluto, this aspect represents a revisiting of what you have lost or what has left or died since 2008. The coming together of the South Node, Saturn and Pluto in April 2019 presage some world and/or personal event that might be fated, and which is particularly consequential to how we go on living in the world.

The buffer of Jupiter in Sagittarius allows for an uptick in positive action, positive belief systems and positive power. To have any future, you must believe in yourself and what you are doing. Many could go through some sort of test in terms of what they believe. This time starts the beginning of an apex of change to the planet. Global warming and political vacuity form the background of pessimism and negativity. Try to not go there by keeping the heart open. After all, we created it and we can uncreate it. By it I mean the insults, anger and contempt for others and life.

Watching the animals running for their life through the fires shows us how far we have gone wrong in terms of what we value and support. Skyscrapers and metal monuments are accorded more respect and protection than the mountains, animals and nature that the fire took.

Mars in Pisces on November 15 brings a desire to opt out of consciousness and responsibility through escapism. Mars can make a difference in how you carry yourself and what you do with your energy and vitality. Neptune( ruling Pisces) goes direct on November 24. Mars can make a difference by integrating your beliefs and idealism with how you act — or you can have a beer and float off into the beyond.

Mars in Pisces makes for sensuality in life and with sexuality. You might recapture a groove with your partner or find a new partner. Watch out for fantasy love triangles and temporarily forgetting any commitments. Devotion to an ideal or spiritual path will magnify.

Venus directly opposed Uranus, November 16-30, brings back an old love or project that you have a new beat on. The innovative aspect of Uranus brings insight into any art or commerce thing that you feel ready to deal with on different terms, and from a renewed spirit. Love/cash/design is suddenly new again.

This is a time when Mr. President Trump will fast dance to keep his beat up. His retelling of the election story and the immediate firing of Jeff Sessions merge into outside decrees that will vanish more freedoms. Pressure on Mr. Rosenstein and Mr. Mueller increase, and perhaps accelerate to another misguided action on Mr. Trump’s part by December 22nd. Mueller will stand firm and strong as Trump tries to cut him off at the knees.

As we move closer to the holidays, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol comes to mind. The ghosts of Christmas past haunt us all. The ability to reach out in the present and not repeat the same old actions of the past is an option. Cupidity, and what isolates each of us from another, can change. Jupiter inspires change. We can change aspects of the past that influence the future by what we do now. Look around you. Life is streaming past each of us. The present creates the future and Jupiter gives you that extra edge to go the distance. Believe in yourself and know that what you do, think, and say has the power to create what comes next. Change is around the corner. Be conscious of every thought and belief as they move through you into the Beyond.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has Uranus back for a spell. You can revisit and review how your life has been chaotic, unpredictable and erratic for the last seven years. Something or someone that you expected would be around for a while got struck by lightning. There is truly a rhyme and reason to what happened or didn’t happen. You can start to understand why things went off track. What was the purpose of all that overstimulation and nervous energy? Some dream or ideology didn’t go right, and what you were attached to either went away or went ballistic. Surprises (not in a happy, smiley sense) manifested, and you bore the brunt of them.

The Full Moon in Gemini makes for a new perception about a decision, a partner or some communication/contract finale. Rethink your agreements now, regarding travel, the future and your partner(s). If someone questions your authority, don’t shout back. Don’t act on plans until the New Year, and take some long naps and then go to the gym from mid-month on to Jan. 1. You are certainly not Superman, but you still fly in your dreams. Home and career need a new connection.

TAURUS has a break before Uranus goes into your sign in March. Learn from the times you have been impatient or secretly impulsive and how that tripped you up. Your professional life is undergoing a changing of the guard. It’s the calm before the electrical storm of the next seven years. Time and money are pressuring you to make a plan. There are only so many hours in the day, yet you are working overtime. Don’t push the river. Self-care is king.

The Full Moon brings a more positive outlook on money, resources and siblings. Run a mental check regarding what needs to go and stay in the way of expenses and future travel. An old way of thinking about the long-term must be updated to reflect your current situation. Angling for more security brings up anxiety. Don’t clamp down and over control. Watch out that the Moon doesn’t make you irritable or snappy. You are the lover in the zodiac, so love everyone and everything, and stop complaining about what hasn’t gone right. Smile about what has.

GEMINI -Uranus in your friendship house has the revisit of a friend or group with the opportunity to work out what angered or hurt them or you. What went by the wayside is about to come back for a second look. Psychology/ repetitious patterns/ random electricity and progressive plans or a new worldview you’re considering can grow and accelerate. You have a wake-up call about how ambivalence took a toll on something you wanted in the last seven years. Gearing up for a professional change takes longer than you thought.

The Full Moon in your sign brings some new option to a head that has potential. Luck, education, travel, money or a legal decision is poised on the brink of manifestation. You can have your cake and stash it. The negotiation with a partner or client goes on through Christmas. Activate and you get professional kudos this month. Work and routine take on a rigid reality. Unlock your muscles and float a little.

CANCER has Uranus back in your career sector for a short term. You understand that the professional ups-and-downs of the last seven years created a new palate of opportunity and alternative. A parent/ family member has a senior moment month. They are back-and-forth with reality. The childhood crisis about what you learned to tolerate and go beyond (that made no sense) is about to reveal itself. You are stronger in your emotional being. Any caretaking experience of the past pays off in some non-material way, shortly.

A hesitance or dread of the future evolves into a desire for more security. You are safe and sound. The Full Moon brings up the old fears that haunt you about work, functionality, health and power. You are arguing with yourself up to Christmas. Going through a reconstruction of your ego and identity translates differently. The falling out into exhaustion hits soon, so take a trip and don’t overthink what it all means or if things will change. Everything becomes clearer in 2019. A partner who has let you down turns a corner. You go beyond self-blame and self-guilt, and strategize a system that can work for you on all levels.

LEO has Uranus back in your 9th house. The desire to get away and travel or learn something that helps with an erratic, unknowable or eccentric partner reactivates. What you have been through in the last seven years becomes clearer. The detachment of a mate or partner confused you. Leo is passionate, dramatic and overinvolved. The partner you often draw is not. Your overheated romantic self has been at the receiving end of some not-so-intimate correction.

The Full Moon moves you to consult or talk with some wise person or guide. You need to describe what is nagging in the back of your mind. Whatever has fallen apart and keeps trying to be put back together is rocky. It’s not the time to spill your secrets. Try to go through the process of working with the recent and surprising emotions that have awakened. The last 18 months reveals a purpose and a meaning to all those late-night panicky times.

VIRGO has Uranus back in your house of debt and passionate attachments. With Venus in Libra, Uranus brings back the last seven years of instant messaging from the Unknown. Get your house in order, and don’t keep looking for trouble. Have a plan to pay off the debts so you can stop dancing. Plan the future, and remember to include money as the currency for more freedom. Tired of being bound by drudgery, Virgo has a get-real reality on the flip side of every interchange. After mid-November, through January 1, don’t fight with partners or co-workers. Keep vitamin C handy.

The Full Moon brings some career decision to a head. This is one you have gone to-and-fro about, and you won’t make the commitment until after December 19th. Mercury retrograde brings something or someone back with an offer or a plan. Look at the positive side if the offer has backing, interest or the promise of expansion; don’t lag in a holding pattern. Listen to your friend or mentor and go the distance. Virgo has been trying to harvest what you have cultivated. Time draws closer; soon you will have the fruits of your labors.

LIBRA has Uranus back in your partnership house. The last seven years brought the ups-and-downs of chaos in marriage or partnership. Holding your breath everyday took away your sense of safety and security. The next few months might bring someone back who has a speech, apology or part to play. Trying to get with a friend and turn it into love can be a thrilling experience or a slow series of endings. The reveal of what you were doing, and why, is coming. The fast-frame movie memory will come in ultra-dimensionality. You won’t want to visit too long. Meanwhile, take a beat to deal with low energy and improve your diet.

The Full Moon brings a decision to a head about travel, school or something legal. Your professional life needs the support of more and new information. The back-and-forth of Mercury in your decision house brings the last 18 months of tests with friends to a close. Some stay and more go. Don’t cry, it’s better to have a few close friends than an army that’s secretly fighting you. Be diplomatic with everyone.

SCORPIO has Uranus return to your work, health and routine sector. You are angry at what has turned into a long slog towards something promised to you. Any upheaval with family has got your attention. Someone might do something out-of-character that upsets your plans, and you might need to reorganize. You are waiting on someone else’s decision. Remember, patience is a virtue. Money, inheritance and any payoffs might take time to get right.

Venus, direct in Libra with Uranus, brings a new wrinkle to a past, flashy kind of love. Just stick to reality and not a script. Love and romance are overstimulating, unpredictable and periodically exciting and alienating. Children are reaching out in new directions. Your revisit of past love and it’s happy moments gives a hint for the future. If your mind is heavy with time, space and decisions about where to go and what to do, meditate. Listen to your inner guidance and don’t be hasty or reactive.

SAGITTARIUS has Uranus back in your 5th house. The ups-and-downs of love, romance and either a physical child or your inner child get stirred up. Look at the thinking behind a present decision, and a commitment will suddenly make sense. The energy is passionate and pressured when it involves a big step forward. A new love, a new child or a new creative project culminates by utilizing the lessons of the last seven years. The chaotic feelings start to relax and come together under one roof.

The Full Moon opposing you requires the need to concentrate on everything from the get-go. Don’t let the process work itself out as you go. Plan for it all. Mercury retrograde makes the beginning immediately more complicated. Your writing or thinking self is not all there, and won’t come together until Christmas when you get a thumbs up, or down. Don’t be casual or thoughtless about what you are setting in motion. A sibling wants a change. Your need to obsess about all that money or power that went down the drain doesn’t get you anywhere. Try a new tact when dealing with ambition. Acknowledge the frustration that comes from missed opportunities. Focus, and pare down your list.

CAPRICORN has Uranus make another pass at the family/home base. The disruption of money matters is so very old and tired. Your agitation and sense of impotence keeps raging, regarding what has happened or gotten lost since May. This chapter is about to come to a close. You receive new insight about yourself. Maybe you got in your own way and cannot find your way back. That reaction of bad timing can be reversed by March.

The Full Moon in your house of work and health conjures a similar dilemma. What you have forgotten about since October rears its three-sided head. You get another chance to commit or turn some opportunity around. Mercury retrograde makes the back-and-forth of yes and no escalate through Christmas. You are a little lost about what you want. Saturn brings a setback or obstacle to correct for the next chapter. Any shortfall evens up in the New Year when you take things slowly; look before you leap and don’t skip any steps.

AQUARIUS has its ruler back in Aries until March. Your mind is overexcited, overstimulated and going into overdrive. Trying to figure out the future only confuses it. Your essential self is changing at a cellular level. The mind cannot control what is happening. Nervous energy is very amped up about rewriting your story. Take a short trip or a long hike to work out the mental state you are boxed in by.

The Full Moon in your house of love brings dual options to choose from. Mercury retrograde brings different dreams throughout the night about what you want to achieve. Friendship and love allow for you to address your inner secret self. Professional issues are back on the table, to expand past the times when you’ve been blocked. Through Christmas, contemplate what is possible. Meditate and get closer to your higher mind. A new friend reaches out from a place of solace and peace. Love is a mysterious convection of Eros, reserve and the dream of release. Be yourself seamlessly.

PISCES – Uranus is back in Aries and about to summarize the last seven year of unpredictability with money. Your secret -self questions where this is going. The reality is that you can have a new idea, product or service that will make money. Your innovative self comes up with a solution. Secure the money, or it will keep moving down the line. Mars from mid-November through January gives you the vitality and moxie to see things through.

The Full Moon in your house of the home brings up two options about change. Wait until Christmas to sign any papers. Examine every option and research the particulars. The uncertainty you feel about a new home or home improvement is a result of how most everything has been unfocused over the last year. Happiness and joy, sadness and loss all float around the center. Almost every Pisces has lost something they valued. The mystery of why it ended is still unanswered. The spiritual self needs a reboot. If you enter an enchanted forest, make sure the Prince or Princess doesn’t turn into a demon. Romance and love take second place to safety. Don’t mess it up.

Tanda Tashjian

November 15, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, November 1, 2018 – November 15, 2018

Jupiter rules Sagittarius and enters its own sign on November 8th, coincidentally on one of the four high days in the Buddhist/Taoist calendar and the day after the New Moon in Scorpio. This series of aspects is not necessarily a get out of jail free card but it is a turning point for all those who are tired, worn down and at wit’s end.

The aftermath of the Pittsburgh shooting added to the everyday extremes of good versus evil, makes for a group mind that is hopeless, desolate and near breaking. There’s only so much bad news a person can take. But here comes Jupiter, who could possibly bring some rays of positivity, hope and the sun shining again.

Jupiter is not a fix-all, but it can fix a lot. The expansive nature of Jupiter, especially in Sagittarius, brings help with the group zeitgeist, education, the Courts, religions, tolerance, benefit through foreigners, and prosperity. It can bring back humor and a spirit of positivity. It supports a can-do attitude.

All you Sagittarians and anyone who has a planet in Sagittarius (or wherever you have Sagittarius in your chart) can get a blessing and possibly an advantage. The strength of Jupiter can move mountains. And it just might be able to move the seemingly immovable mountain in our political system.

The New Moon on November 7th at 15 degrees of Scorpio (and the day after Uranus retro back into Aries) brings a new opportunity. Ruled by Pluto, this New Moon continues to have a Saturn influence so the rebuilding part is a real beginning. What started in 2008, with the financial collapse that eerily produced the Trumpian turn, can now possibly be turned back. The restructuring that Saturn is known for involves literally rebuilding the bones of the foundation. You have to build back up what has broken, and make it stronger. For anyone who has broken or fractured a bone, you know that you need to relearn how to adapt to what is broken and rebuild/recover to become that much stronger. This is what’s ahead for us as a group.

The New Moon linked to Jupiter, moving into Sagittarius, says the option is open. The North Node, which rules the future (manifested by the present), moves into Cancer for the next 18 months. Approximately at the same time as the New Moon, this influence carries the themes of home, homeland security, what is safe, what is nurturing that grows, Mother, and the emotional needs. The North Node, opposed by Capricorn, in this case represented by the state, the dictator or Strong Man (unmasked Wizard of Oz), what is sparse and weak, or what is lame and whose power is based upon fear.

The Elections will have another questionable result. What is tampered with and what is the true result? Confusion could produce another dilemma. During the dark of the Moon it is probable that there will be uncertainty and discord. Not a clear shot for either side — and hopefully not a “Strong Man” stepping in to declare the winners/result or some kind of wonky proclamation “for the safety and good of the country.”

The planets have a life of their own in tandem and proportionate to “as above so below, as below so above.” The shift of Jupiter to Sagittarius should bring a turn to the big cliffhanger of Scorpio. Some deus ex machina finally arrives a bit late. It might take time to unfold but it will come in the form of a truly strong man or woman or strong set of beliefs that could overturn and undo what’s been done so badly.

Rome fell because of excess and political corruption. In history when a despot overcomes a benign ruler chaos results. Uranus goes back into Aries and aspects Venus. What predominates politically is turned upside down and could bring a reaction of more upheaval and revolt. The Rightist extremes might polarize with not-so-random acts of violence to create distraction and provide a cause for military intervention.

Jupiter is wisdom. The themes of history repeat and reveal. Mr. President Trump is a Gemini with a Sagittarian Moon. Some could say he is a stabile genius who makes the country money. If money falls, what does the genius do to keep the stability? If the Other Leo comes knocking with an inquiry to Mr. Trump after November 8th, what happens next?

For your personal chart, examine whether your present relationship is triangulating with a third partner or a third component. Any relationship that is teetering might shake. Sex, love or money (and of course power) will be the issue. Venus going direct on November 16 brings back the reality of who you’re really with and what is the reality of your connection?

Mercury retrograde on the same day brings evidence or learning about the Other since October 5th full circle. You cannot ignore what has come to your attention and consciousness about your lover or True Love/ partner. Those in hot water financially might catch a small break at the end of this month.

November 15 sees Mars enter Pisces. The deviance of Mars in Aquarius on and off since May 15 has produced a back and forth, one way or another, unpredictable and chaotic atmosphere. The ending of Uranus in Aries portends the end of a 7-year siege of fighting, violence and rage.

Approximately around March 6, 2019, the end of this unpleasant and pugilistic period rests. After January 6th, a clearer understanding of the meaning of the wild card in your life over the last 7 years brings insight, release and the strength to adapt.

Jupiter brings Zeus’ blessing and the power to understand. Insight changes how we live and love. Perhaps the blessing in disguise is an appreciation for life, others and self. Tolerance for all is Jupiter’s realm. The seeding of a new 12-year cycle starts November 8; this brings the potential for growth and a peace that comes from acceptance. Accepting yourself initiates the Big Change. Bring it on.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has the New Moon in your house of big money owed, and owed to you. Obsessing over the meaning of things does not pay your bills. Deep changes in the career highlight a need to have it your way without a power grab. The new sense of a higher power gives you a choice. How to direct it so that it doesn’t swallow you up in its primal jaws?

Jupiter brings the possibility of a Big and Enjoyable Trip in the next year. A philosophical breakthrough or an Answer to your question comes through a dream, a wise person or the touch of a god. Mars keeps you on edge and your big reveal about the last 7 years will blow into town between now and the beginning of January. Get the message, and don’t make the same mistake twice. Don’t fight yourself or your timing. The object of your affection is up and down and unpredictable; don’t stop the music but make sure you hold onto your own dance card.

TAURUS has the New Moon opposed you. The partner/client/Other goes through some ending that changes them irrevocably. Finality comes from Pluto, god of the Underworld. For the time being, you are a companion to your friend in this hidden realm. Maybe you can function as a guide too. Help others distinguish what matters now and encourage them not to hang onto the past.

Jupiter brings a credit improvement and increase of your resources. Belief systems about what is significant change an everyday reality. Suddenly, what was nailed down is not. The peace you are looking for is not based on a bank balance right now. Your “chaos under pressure” period is about to morph into many alternative realities that were never on the table. Now the table is set for change on all fronts.

GEMINI has the New Moon in your 6th house. A powerful ending precedes this new beginning. Your day job can crater or expand to a higher calling. What goes is ready to end. Money and the resources you’re familiar with will sidestep a few choices. Siblings appear grand on the outside but covet what others have. An iffy project reanimates.

Jupiter opposes you for the next year. A new job, promotion or job security brings new potential. Your plan for what you desire to do will be inspired. Go on a short day-trip or retreat and observe what you dream about doing when sleeping. Waking up to a different mood tells you all you need to know about what’s next. The reality of your life revolves around forgiving something that was fundamentally created in your mind. The freedom that comes from getting unstuck absolves you from being someone’s whipping boy. Take a break from fear or stress.

CANCER has the New Moon in your house of romance. For many Cancerians, romance is dead, the door cemented shut on and off since 2008.The romance with the self is another concern. You are about to embark on a project or opportunity that will change your life long range. Saying no to fear, please choose from strength. The partner/client/Other goes through an unexpected detachment and ending. You might be recruited to point the way to the next whiskey bar. Exercise restraint.

Jupiter brings joy and healing in your work and health sector. Your belief in the goodness of people returns. Your 14-year cycle recreates the past in a new format. This time is bittersweet and sad and full of potential. The health/work situation that has been a handful will become more of a molehill than a mountain. Everything feels better this year. Take on the mythos from the ashes of what’s gone and arise. Things actually improve.

LEO has the New Moon in aspect to your home and family life. The recent ending and new beginning is based on your perceived limitation in work or a health/energy challenge. The challenge involves moving on to a new direction without it being a reaction or retaliation. Keep the motive pure. Your resistance around letting go of old patterns might complicate your family life and inner sanctum.

Jupiter makes a real improvement in your creative/romantic life. The themes of hope and belief and expansion and education all spill over into your inner child destiny. November brings a relief from the drudgery you might have felt at work or in everyday routine. Mars opposed you since May makes your antagonistic side and/or self-drama criticize any opposition. Be careful to restrain your anger and transition into a higher value like courage and bravery. Face the negative chatter within and close the chapter on those who do not respect or value you but want to use you for their own purposes. Be harmless in the Buddhist sense. True power moves silently.

VIRGO has the New Moon in the house of the mind and short travel. This psychological sign has you working overtime to understand the inner workings of siblings and neighbors and contacts. The limitation you have felt about having any joy in life is about to change. Becoming richer in spirit can distinguish between what is real or not. The dreams you cherish are often a result of an unsupported childhood that sprouted resentment and agitation. Wake up, stand up and free yourself from any melancholy or guilt.

Jupiter brings the opportunity to expand your base of support with teachers or leaders or those in a social position to change things. The fear you have about not getting your due is matched by the fantasy of being discovered and loved all that much more. It’s never enough for you lately so make peace with what is and invite the inner self to guide you towards a career move that is enough. Time to marry dreams with practicality and deal with what’s at hand. Luck comes when you least look for it.

LIBRA has the New Moon in the house of money and earning. Whatever has changed or gone out of your life is about to be replenished in a totally new way. The recent limitations on your energy and time have taken a toll on you. The last six months brought a host of new challenges that are just beginning to clear up. The family and household or office will renew and what is contracted flows again. The love and affection sector brings good news and more ease financially. What you give comes back.

Jupiter brings expansion in mind and community. The anxiety that sometimes overtakes you mentally has a respite. Worry about money, the future and your part in it moves into a more optimistic mindset. The dark moods improve and become more positive and balanced. Don’t entertain the ghosts of the past. Think about what you want to do and grow and how to improve your health and your family’s health. Use the energy in a new way to build strength so as to not chip away at yourself with random fears.

SCORPIO has the New Moon in your sign. Your new beginning birthday year starts this month. You have a phoenix moment when you rise from the ashes of whatever has gone or seemed lost. The time it takes to recover for Scorpio can take years or centuries. This New Moon offers the potential of healing now. The opportunity to change is an option yet Scorpio holds onto losses and grief and gets fixated. Your time to release yourself from this old habit is now. Thinking the same thoughts manifests the same old.

Jupiter goes into your money and resources sector and expands your realm of operation. A new sense of freedom from compulsion changes the emotional imbalances of the past and works the miracle. Clinging to the negative is a magical thinking way to keep the bad thing away. Let the mind relax the controlling strategy of seeing loss around every corner. Try to make this year a new start in a personally innovative journey towards transcendence.

SAGITTARIUS has the New Moon in your 12th house. The secret emotional life you have been living is about to become nuclear. What is bothering you could stage a coup on your pocketbook or your heart. A sense of self-worth is paramount to good feelings and good luck. Any internal obsession tick tocks round and round about something to do with power and secrets. Money and the limits you are now facing can become a drag if you can’t talk about them. You are your own teacher; study yourself and observe how you undo yourself when not committed to a future.

Jupiter in your sign all year brings good luck in business and social contacts. Your mood is usually effervescent but can go pop too soon. Keep it real and lose the rosy glasses. Pick a few things/ projects/goals/trips that you want to manifest this year and stay with the program. Do not jump on an ocean liner just when things are about to come together. Your ship comes in every twelve years. Make the most of this moment.

CAPRICORN has the New Moon in your house of aspiration. Your social calling and Saturnine ambition come together to harness power for the greater good as well as your own. The partner has a vision about what the two of you are about. Don’t let their dreams sit idle. You are the one that manifests in this dyad, so manifest some reality. Feeling oppressed or dominated or controlled by a partner/ Other/client/ representative is not so much fun. Utilize the best of the New Moon in Scorpio and pull the sword from the stone.

Jupiter moves into your 12th house; you can court favor from the gods. Protection and guidance are yours. Your secret dreams materialize this year when you stay constant. If you have lost something conjure something better from the ashes of what has disappeared. Your energy is stronger. Don’t dwell on how everything is against you. It isn’t.

AQUARIUS has the New Moon in your house of career. A metamorphosis comes with your public image. Whatever has died or shrunk needs to move on. Do not keep trying to resurrect the tired old job, feeling, self. Any emotional losses you have suffered revolve around how you felt it should be not how it is. You weaken yourself when you keep whacking yourself about a mistake or not being there for another.

Jupiter brings the good luck around a group or your colleagues. The new friend or confidante stands by you by being there for you. Your uneven feelings about love and romance become more balanced with reflection. Try to go past what has undone you. You are about to have a renewal of spirit. Keep to your path. And don’t look back.

PISCES has the New Moon in your house of seeking. The spiritual or emotional grail about where/ who/ what you thought you wanted is revealed to not be the true desiderata. The last six months of disappointment around friends or a group regenerates in an emotionally new sense of self. Pisces thinks their only choice is to pick the blue or the red pill like in the movies; better yet pick the personal process that activates a Big Dream in your personal movie. Your sense of fear is exceeded only by your doubt about yourself. Put doubt and fear aside and take a chance on life.

Jupiter in your house of career brings an opportunity to go forward with creating a new plan or business. This year brings more possibility with something that you want to do and have wanted to experience for a long time. The inner or outer authority in your life gives a thumbs up to going off the traditional grid of work and experimenting. Allow what is internal and yin to ascend. You rule your future when you stick with yourself. Don’t be scared of any dream that could actually come true. Sit by the ocean and meditate to still the choppy waters. You are about to strike some hidden gold.

Tanda Tashjian

November 1, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, October 15 – November 1, 2018

Flipping through Facebook recently, I saw a group of men holding an exquisite condor with its magnificent beautiful wings stretched out. The only thing was it was dead. One of the guys had his hand up. He was the one who killed it. So proud. Why do people kill animals and birds and all of nature? Why does rage and greed continually overpower innocence?

The rage, and terror of life and death is taking its toll now with cruelty and a crazy toxic pride. Since September 30, Pluto went direct and is transiting its own South Node. Power, dominance, oppression and control are the name of the game. The planet, many Scorpios, and all Plutonic types are about to be faced with a situation that can take them down or transform them.

We watch speechlessly as assassinations, nepotism and power grabs together with the public shaming of women and abuse survivors come every day. And no one does anything about it. Some even applaud.

Mr. Kavanaugh is in and subsequently the indictment of any President appears to be out. Mueller and Rosenstein suddenly don’t really need to be fired, though it still might happen. What they find is guaranteed to not be acted upon by the Supreme Court’s newest judge.

Not so many days ago the planet was given ten years to survive before global warming threatens all life. The elections are on the door. Trump et al are polarizing the country with a riff of us against them and“winning”. Rage, power and greed again killing the condor.

Individuals and families facing continual ruin is a result of the extreme weather that comes from global warming. Couples are dealing with the option of staying together to strengthen or weaken each other. Each person is up against some challenge that can bring an end or a totally new beginning. The patina of civilization is out the window. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a daily prediction come true every day.

Pluto on the South Node, with Saturn as the ruler, allows restriction and the Shadow to come to the fore. The Shadow is a hidden aspect that lives within the group as a group shadow (attitudes towards those not like us, immigrants, those who don’t win/losers) and within each of us (the individual shadow), projecting what is bad, greedy, violent or cruel on another. It is the part that is disowned, projected and overcompensated for with sweetness, light and “positivity”. Now, with Pluto and Saturn, the Shadow is out of the planetary bag.

In your personal life, be aware of when your deepest fear grabs you. Is it about money, health, surviving, being alone or unloved? Does it involve getting old or being helpless or betrayed? The fear that comes will be embodied by a person or situation where you feel you have no control. Because you don’t. Come up with a new strategy to deal with your present fear that centers on controlling yourself.

The Full Moon on October 24th is another issue. At one degree of Taurus, the Full Moon is with Uranus. Venus is the ruling planet of Taurus. Venus is retrograde in Scorpio, which goes back again to Pluto. The Plutonic circle is unbroken right now. You can run, but hiding is out of the question. Your challenge will find you. And the very thing you fear can now devour or transform.

If you are looking for solace, peace and quiet, or things stabilizing — this period is not it. Something or someone will go through the roof and blow. This aspect brings a surprise, a disruption, a sudden ending, an explosion or an accident. The Prometheus part of Uranus tells of the trickster god who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man. Zeus punished Prometheus by having him bound and sent an eagle to gnaw at his liver which would grow back every day only to be gnawed at again. Whether you kill an eagle or a condor the effect is still the same. The liver is gnawed. Remember that liver in Chinese medicine rules anger and rage. Anger and rage reanimate no matter how many tricks are played.

The gnawing at the source of life, the arrogance, the pride and competition of the gods all figure in the current mash-up. Make sure you keep your balance and walk a fine line with anything/anyone in your life that is tricky or unpredictable, between October 20, 24 and 28. By the way, did you know that Mr President Trump has Uranus prominent in his chart? Is he a Prometheus wannabe?

Something might unsettle you or disrupt your serenity. You can balance this time by not acting on rage, from greed or going off on anyone. Be temperate, not volatile. Don’t play chicken when driving; do not give in to a righteous bender of anger or retaliation even if everyone else is. Gender issues will continue to ignite. The Full Moon chart shows the possibility of a fast one, with technology that boxes in the November vote by interfering or negating a particular group of voters.

All this marinates a mythic stew before November 6 (which is during the dark of the Moon). More on this next time. In the meantime, be careful and do not take chances or count on a long shot coming through. Venus retrograde usually brings a graceful review of love, the past, a reevaluation of beauty and any love commitments. Under Scorpio’s rays however, this retrograde brings a seductive attraction of the moth to the flame that burns, eviscerates or destroys. The Ultimate realization of this period involves going past your fear and facing what weakens you while the ante goes up every day. Watch who or what you fall in love with now or who you cut a deal with. You could be destroyed or healed. Remember, Scorpio stings with a poison that kills both you and themselves. In the right balance, what is poison can heal.

Let La Danse Macabre dance on, into a dark night of every soul. When facing a fated aspect that is deep, dark and intense, be a ray, a bolt, a beacon of Light. Know that your darkest Fate is waiting around every corner. It’s a Dead Man’s Party. Choose to do the dance.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES is a little bit up a tree. You are trying to choose something that will not kill you, but help you thrive. You don’t have any reference for what you’re doing now since you’re in a time vortex. The tunnel seems endless and goes on and on. Pluto compels challenge around death, shared money, sexuality, power and significance. You are trying to go up against your background, yet you need to be cautious. The authority/career house wants a radical shift.

The Full Moon in Taurus brings something to a head about money and/or a different sense of valuing colleagues and friends. You want a change with a partner or rep but need to watch impetuousness and impatience. Venus makes you want to love but need to strategize, while Uranus makes for some volatility around home or family and the routines you’re used to. Money and love are the two options up for grabs. Be the Ram that you are – however, be careful not to rush in where there are no angels.

TAURUS is being challenged with how you live and what you believe. Can you respect another’s belief system even if it opposes your own? Your partner/representative is faced with a compelling choice. There are high stakes options on the table. What can take you down can also transform, in the right ratio.

The Full Moon brings a surprise or disruption that will blow something out of the water. A father or father figure could have a turnaround, while your job has an exponential change. Neighbors or siblings are demanding something that you don’t want to give. Your mind needs to find serenity and peace. It not happening externally, so go inside. Create a new and progressive future from a different vision.

GEMINI has Pluto in the work/health sector. Some challenge that seems insurmountable is making you nervous. A power/resource issue around life and death, intensity and sexuality demand that you make a decision, immediately – even though the fallout from this decision will go on and on. You are surrounded by pressure in your immediate/family environment. Healing the aspects that are causing problems takes time and detachment.

The Full Moon in your house of secrets might bring an unscheduled stay in a hospital or retreat for you or a female relative. A dream or meditation process brings some startling insight that could change your point of view. Be aware that your gift to predict world/cultural changes might be extreme this month. Take everything to heart and be open to all around and within you.

CANCER’s partnership/ Other house threatens to obliterate or transform you. Whatever happened in the last 13-14 years has uprooted your safety and stability. The inner child or creative self needs to metabolize any extremes of emotion that can unblock what has frozen. Watch out for any obsessive/destructive energy you have towards (or from) a partner, which can undo what you have created. You can heal yourself when you control the mind by accepting some form of neutrality around all those scary demons. Health needs care and attention.

The Full Moon brings a quick or unexpected change with a friend or professional group. Your love connection with someone or something needs to go up several notches. The emotions you might feel under this Full Moon will be radical and produce a big change. Your commitment to yourself — your mission — is about to explode. Get your ideals sorted out, so you know what you’re fighting for. Past loves and crises will start to fall into place. You understand how passivity can be balanced by direction and commitment to self. Cancer seeks to disappear itself; are you ready for your closeup?

LEO, you have Pluto making trouble for you in your house of work and health. Sorting through a complete regeneration of health and work regimens, any limitations you encounter must be faced. The newer way of working is a mountain to climb. If it seems too much to take on, remember there is not much left from before. The home/family cycle changes only when you heal what is hurt, wounded or afflicted. Any past trauma, loss or betrayal has a hand in this confusing time. When you accept the role of Fate in your life, a way develops out of the dilemma. Partners might not be so receptive.

The Full Moon makes for a sudden and unexpected disruption of plans at home or with your foundation. Love, money and the career are a current theme that has its eternal return. Any manipulation or exploitation by another leaves you cold. The secret inner life of a yellow brick road of full of love or opportunity, is a little unreal. Limitation and boundaries are the friends that help realize those big Leo dreams. Your need for love has been mythic and sometimes tragic. If the operatic highs of romance addict you, consider deepening your soul connection. Redirect high passion towards achievement and self-purification. Your gem needs more polishing before it is presentable as an offering. You are the Sun card in the tarot desk. Let your light shine, even when you’re feeling gothic.

VIRGO has Pluto passing through its South Node portion in your love house. Aware of how you have fallen short of the Lover, stop blaming others. Make amends for any past mistake and go on to the next lesson. Thinking obsessively about how you messed something up is not healthy. The beauty of your sign is its capacity to understand how to help. If you can help so many others, why do you withhold help from yourself? The goal is not perfection, but purification. Compassion is not just for others. Thoughtforms and judgments of others will ricochet back to you. When you compulsively bring yourself down it weakens the whole edifice and the illusion of a savior wears thin. Be your own advocate, and stay in the center of the storm.

The Full Moon brings a not-so-subtle moment of illumination. The way out comes in a dream, or through intuition. Listen to the small, silent voice within. Friends, or an important person, offer you a new job or comes back for another look. Use your voice to inquire about possibilities that blend your new style with the old way. Health can become tweaked by nervous strain. Let food be your medicine, let meditation be your companion and let your world be made anew by trusting what is within.

LIBRA has Pluto transiting its own South Node aspect in your home and family house. The very things you fear about being alone or about your family being alienated are frustrating, and create doubt about a changing role and how it impacts you. Money and consistency will be an ongoing readjustment through the middle/end of November. Your hesitancy to expand is valid.

The Full Moon brings some unexpected condition with a loan, bill or tax/insurance question. The career aspect wants to push forward. There will be some surprise disruption or interruption in the home or office, around work or family plans. Try to keep everything calm. Don’t give in to anxiety about maintaining your home or space. There might be a delay with some customers or guests. You need to project an aura of calm and peace to your public. Many troubled people need your attention now, so give freely of yourself and don’t worry about what comes next. Stay connected to your core, every day. A vision of tomorrow softens your defenses.

SCORPIO has Pluto making a tour of duty in the house of the mind. Any obsessive overthinking or second-guessing past decisions will bring doubt and anxiety. Have confidence with new people and any new arrangements that you’ve agreed to. The nervous energy you feel is part of this time and will change next month. Any past habits that were once so secure are changing. The mind working overtime is an addiction that needs to go to a higher place. Back into meditation through yoga.

The Full Moon in your house of partnership brings a sudden ending or some unpredictable change/departure. Your year of positive luck summarizes in money or ambition by the beginning of November. The Full Moon requires you to plan a trip or a breakthrough decision about a legal issue. Your love connection is being reevaluated, and power and control issues are the obvious culprits. This is your chance to love and not count the cost. Heart chakra moments heal a past that still feels unredeemed and lost. Listen to early Bruce Springsteen and relax with his spontaneity.

SAGITTARIUS has Pluto in your 2nd house. Money is the subtext right now many exchanges. Try not to lose or betray yourself with any dealings or negotiations. Don’t alienate those close to you by requiring more. Demands go nowhere now. The secret underbelly of Sagittarius is power and control. Under that lightshade smile is the same Dark Knight that you are now at the mercy of. A dark night of the soul is asking you to let go of one thing so to commit to another.

Jupiter goes into your sign next month and the good ole days roll back in. Offers and opportunity help reinstate a sense of security and benevolence. The Full Moon in your house of health asks you to examine where you have gone off track with your regimen. Channel mental power into your projects, and lessen the ruminating. You are burning too many candles at too many ends and might get burnt. Be kind to friends and compassionate to family who are doing the best they can and need your support.

CAPRICORN has Pluto on top of you, crossing its South Node. You are all too aware of your weaknesses. Feeling vulnerable, you might wish you hadn’t burned those bridges. Help comes in the way of the unconscious mind, dream therapy and the Unknown. Ask for help and be humble. The alarm could go off with friends or a collaborative group. Do not be used or exploited by anyone now, no matter what you get from the transaction. Your whole life is changing. Don’t fear that you will mistakenly do something wrong and blow it all up. What goes is fated, and what comes is something to build upon.

The Full Moon in your house of love and creativity brings a sudden gain or loss with a creative project or a partner. Love and children are unpredictable and erratic. A sudden ending or left turn with a group or important person might have you return for a meeting, or another possibility. A nervous dilemma with a partner can be resolved by the end of October. The last six months hold possibilities that might coalesce into a true surprise. Be careful and detail orientated and don’t jump to conclusions.

AQUARIUS has Pluto haunting your career and authority sector. Your power feels at odds and uneven now, especially since you are invested in something or someone. Feeling at a loss because some opportunity ended or going away is too much to bear. Your dream didn’t manifest the way you saw it; this doesn’t mean that your vision is wrong. Don’t auto-destruct because a group didn’t come through. The need to approach what you want from a different perspective is clear. Try it a different way, and release the need to have it your way.

The Full Moon in your house of the home brings a disruption or causes something to go in a completely different direction. The emotional worry around health or a pet issue is distracting. Try to heal what is off in your own system and remember to give your pet the benefit of a healing touch. Your ruler is with the Moon, so roll with whatever emotional surprise comes. Be clear with what you need, and be fair without indulging in too many extremes. You are going to another level of autonomy and it feels new and unknown.

PISCES has Pluto in your house of group consciousness. Your fear about a secret becoming exposed is creating internal chaos. The South Node aspect involves the negative power of Saturn. Restriction and correction are positive when directed towards a goal. Define what you want, and how to deal with a child – or your inner child. You might be starved for love, fun or enjoyment. Anger can still be repressed around the same old thing. Power, passion, sexuality, desire or money seems to elude you.

The Full Moon is in your house of the mind. Some new insight surprises you with its acuity. Perception usually comes to Pisces by amorphous observation. Observe yourself and those around you. The answer to that deep internal question is imminent. The turning point moment between October 19, 24 and 29th is a result of some internal genius or guidance within that you have ignored. Don’t keep making the same mistake. Meditation eases any attachment to the mind allowing the waterfall to flow.

Tanda Tashjian

October 15, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter – October 1 -15, 2018

“Don’t look away from me.”

Venus goes retrograde in Scorpio on October 5, which is exactly the one-week timeline of the FBI investigation into Judge Kavanaugh. During Venus in Scorpio retrograde, any past themes around sex, violation and power resurface to be reviewed. Scorpio disposes to Pluto and Pluto is now transiting its’ own South Node. This transit of the South Node by Pluto started last year, synchronous with the beginning of the Me Too Movement. This transit represents a challenge to the patriarchy that will take another turn as Pluto goes direct September 30.

If the FBI probe goes past October 5, the Kavanaugh nominee will be withdrawn. If the investigation concludes, he is confirmed. Whether he stays or goes, the events that happen when Pluto turns direct continue what started with Me Too. The days of “boys will be boys” is waning, and the body language says it all. Watch the hearing with the sound off and see who you believe.

Mars moves past its retrograde position (since June 26 in Aquarius) around October 10. Mars direct allows what was stalled or going backward to start moving. Mars in Aquarius invokes disruption and rebellion. Chiron back into Pisces brings back what was not forgiven; who is the victim and who is the victimizer?

Mr. Kavanaugh has an Aquarius Sun T-squared by Neptune and Jupiter. This could manifest as some kind of illusion about one’s self and one’s identity, or the feeling of being a special person having a special calling. These aspects often express in terms of an inflated, escapist or secret persona. A form of addiction or a substance/sugar problem often accompany Jupiter opposed by Neptune. In Scorpio, it could revolve around sexuality, power or transformation. His T-square will be transited by Mars on November 6-8. By then he will be Chosen or conquered. Neptune opposed his Pluto can bring power literally eluding him, or a great illusion about being empowered and getting away with something.

Is Brett Kavanaugh a sacrificial lamb, inflated and deluded and a preview of someone Else? Or is he truly the pious, sensitive, principled best friend to women that he presents? The country is even more polarized. The whole male/female, action/receptivity, elite/egalitarian duality is now being played out in the Supreme Court.

Venus retrograde in Scorpio rings the bell on abuse of power and sexuality. No accident that the 8th house rules sex, death and big money – as well as psychological crisis and power. Whichever way the nomination goes, this bell won’t be unrung. Everyone watching the hearing experienced their own interpretation. Venus in Scorpio unwinds Persephone’s descent and rape by Pluto in the Underworld.

Taken from the innocent sweetness of her mother, Persephone was plunged into the darkness of the Underworld and, in some interpretations, raped by Pluto. This kidnapping was the result of a deal between Pluto and Zeus. Sound familiar?

These myths live on in the group unconscious and are playing 24 hours a day on every cable channel.

The Erinyes were the wild-women goddesses of vengeance and servants of Hades (Pluto) and Persephone. They avenged homicide, unfilial conduct, actions against the gods and (ironically) perjury. Friday’s Elevator scene, and what happened afterward, unloosed swarms of Erinyes when almost every female who watched that CNN clip got triggered.

Pluto going direct on September 30, reawakens the Erinyes in all of us – especially where there’s a crime against a Persephone. The retrograde motion of Venus on October 5 will bring something back into the public eye that had seemed put to sleep. For each of us, this time can involve the review of wherever you were violated, diminished, used or mocked by another. Dr. Ford and Mr. Kavanaugh are the unwilling actors in a passion play that has gone viral.

The New Moon on October 8, at 15 degrees of Libra, sets up a series of legal and ethical confrontations for the next month, and six months. Trump and his band will either ascend to Coup d’Etat stature or fadeout kicking and screaming.

Some leaked bit of business around October 5/6 initiates another deception, caught by accident. The trade wars will upset some business balance that will be hard to explain or account for later.

This period is one of watching the detectives and the Court. The many injustices will find their outlet in a loophole or a hidden truth. The base, anxious for their moment, will push further into their Kingdom with more missteps. Like a carny with his audience wrapped around a finger, the geek takes a bite of the raw chicken and what seemed like a cautionary tale suddenly becomes a Greek tragedy.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES, your ruler is now catching up to the point it was at June 26. The back-tracking and seeming twilight zone of the past two months saw you reflect on your hopes and wishes in the light of what you have learned in the last seven years. Up through March 2019, consider how your group (or the important people in your life) have changed or moved on, or how they have affected you. Venus retrograde in your 8th house makes past desires around money, love or desirability morph into better self-esteem – or not. Some money thing might surprise you and bring a debt or bill that you didn’t see coming.

The New Moon in Libra focuses on the present partner and/or how the partners of the past have wounded or healed you. Whatever power/love issue you have been struggling with over the last two years turns around, one way or another. If money has been tight, love has been loveless, or your sense of self obliterated, November changes how you value these things. The crisis of being used or using someone breaks your heart; try to forgive the person that you see from the past in a dream or an unbidden memory. You are the face in the crowd looking back at yourself yearning for connection.

TAURUS has Venus retrograde in the partner’s house. Consider how money, power and sexuality intersect at this time. The struggle of the past two years now presents a different facet to be healed. Mars forward in Aquarius brings underlying and ignored issues in family become more combative. Power is the unpleasant subject clothed in “favors” or cash. How do your self-esteem and belief system work together? The partner or client or representative force a cutback or reorganization. What has been stalled since the end of June starts moving again with home repairs or any matters that have been secret or blocked.

The New Moon in Libra in your house of work and health highlights the need to allow self-esteem to lead. How you affect others now depends on how you give to yourself without guilt. Past themes when you have used, or been used, return for clearing. Money might go backward through November, as cash is tight or in the mail but somehow doesn’t come on time. A family member has a big favor to ask and is not sensitive to your mood. Let bygones be bygone, but don’t be a fool.

GEMINI has Mars catching up to itself in your travel house. The trip that keeps getting put off is now almost possible. Any anger you have towards a friend or colleague keeps firing up and then is quelled by logic and rationality. Your work schedule or/health regimen needs a revaluation. The pressure on you around sexuality, death and money has been non-stop. Any secret longing to experience love and intimacy needs to be dealt with. Self-esteem gets a wakeup call by understanding how it is undermined by another, or by you. Venus is cash, love, enjoyment, beauty and décor. Where does Venus take a backseat in your life?

The New Moon in your house of romance highlights tension with obligations and love. Any compulsive escapism keep you boxed in with past choices. Remember that diplomacy and peace are central to getting along. Some work situation returns to be dealt with when someone doesn’t want to help with what’s asked. Children are a boon, but can be too much sometimes. Count your secret blessings and don’t lose your cool. Life is but a dream.

CANCER sees Mars catching up with itself in the 8th house. Money, bills, and debt start to get figured out. This process has gone on forever. Unexpected expenses that are seemingly endless will start to lessen. What you have learned in the last seven years about authority and its power is intense. You better understand what restricts your progress, autonomy and freedom. Venus retrograde and the love/art/romance sectors come back to be reevaluated. Any intense partnership or marriage is looked at again. Some experience with a love from the past has a replay.

The New Moon brings attention to the home and family. The partnership house goes through a correction with either a separation or more commitment. Where are you bound to a family member that feels like too much? The connection to others is Plutonic, compulsive and deep; it can take you down or heal you. Going into the underworld, this journey brings you face to face with something you’d rather forget about. Cancer can be dependent. It’s time to realistically adjust your dreams and hopes to find what can be possible with another and on your own.

LEO sees your partner (with Mars now in Aquarius) act out erratically. Find a way to go forward in a partnership with a more constructive manner. The lessons of the last seven years around freedom, partnership and love have come to a finale. Venus retrograde makes the home and early family life and all that has been toxic or overpowering need reevaluation. Have you replaced love with money, or do you (or someone else) use money as currency for love? Your love life has been disrupted again and again by the unevenness of someone’s temperamental demands and your own romantic dreams. Work has been in a revolution with power, or those in power.

The New Moon in Libra has the feeling of a new beginning with writing, a decision or a new strategy. The love/partnership part is controlled by a work or service commitment that has been going in one direction since April, but now turns another corner. You are impatient for your needs to be met, and your truth to be told. When you feel manipulated, it rings a bell from the past. Be patient and pacific with a person or a situation that is pushy or passive aggressive. Home is where the heart is, but where exactly is your heart?

VIRGO has Venus going retrograde in your house of ideas. A strategy needs to be reevaluated for its efficiency and potential. Creativity has been blocked by some childhood loss or trauma, and you are facing it again. Don’t allow the past to keep repeating; use your voice in a new form. Self-muting and holding back keeps everything frozen. Mars catches up to itself, and what’s been stalled around work or health starts to move. Aggravation with someone at work, the erratic nature of work, or the relationship between work and some inner crisis reaches a high end. Listen to your inner guidance, and don’t collude with a rosy picture. Your evil twin is itching to step into the ring. The compulsive need for escape or release only complicates what is already messy. Remember, Virgo likes everything neat and tidy. Peace rules.

The New Moon in your money house brings some new fortune to your door. A new contact or a decision about how to deal with a connection unblocks cash flow. Any bad luck that keeps getting in the way is balanced by staying in reality and keeping to your plan. A book, a class or some new project is the magic wand that starts the ball rolling. Use your ingenuity, and be deliberate when looking at the underlying emotions that affect health. Know that Virgo is the bright vessel of the next two thousand years; your message of work, modesty and devotion is a laser that lights the way. If you can find a way to embody this message, everything that was lost comes back.

LIBRA has Mars catching up with itself in your 5th house. Kids and love are activated, and there is movement with both. Your partnership/client house might have been blocked since the end of June. Venus retrograde in your money house tends to slow down the flow. The review includes your attitude about yourself and how you approach self-worth. The stress of a home/office situation calls for an examination about early family and their attitudes with love, prosperity and power.

The New Moon in your sign makes for a new cycle of personal and professional growth in the next two weeks and six months. This period with Venus retrograde is sensitive to past love experiences, especially the traumatic or unhappy ones. The career and your Father or authority sector is about to go through another metamorphosis. Any anger you might have repressed because of another’s abuse of power or authority needs to be integrated into your sense of self-love. Acceptance is hard when what you need to accept is someone’s lack of love. The money/career/security part intertwines with your acceptance and love of the self. The Other now reflects a difficult journey of anger, aggression and confrontation that needs the soothing peace of Venus. Try for peace in the heart.

SCORPIO has Mars catching up to its place in your house of family. Unpredictable situations with family are exposed and more activated. Venus retrograde in Scorpio puts your love life under the microscope. The past comes back, and a dream, conversation or doppelganger is all it needs to get set off. Your Plutonic self closes the iron door when you feel used or exploited. The present situation is either a repeat or a healing. If someone has gone or passed, their return on another wavelength is possible. Love is the crucible for Scorpio to redeem, or defile, the self.

The New Moon in Libra in your 12th house makes what was hidden or repressed rear its snaky head. The love/sex piece needs a reboot so that you don’t get fooled again. This period has a pause button involving whoever or whatever you’re involved with. Decide to go forward or walk away. Ouroboros is the center of your identity; make strong what is strong within, and cast out the part that has a poisonous bite. Compulsive thinking about what you did wrong or what was done to you is an unending maze. Don’t distort your perception with bitterness or contempt. Be the eagle that rises above.

SAGITTARIUS sees Mars catching up with itself in the 3rd house. Any discord with neighbors or siblings is revisited and resolved. Agitation returns with children or love that acts unpredictably or irrationally. Deal with the situation by understanding the psychology of anarchy or resistance. Venus retrograde in the 12th house exposes your love life and hidden desires or needs. The need for love and intensity is extreme. Repression and control does not work. Cash flow might be late or held back for some reason. Do not lose yourself to the past with what hurt or alienated you.

The New Moon in Libra sees your connection strengthen with important people or a group. This group or person has part of your future in their hands. Social mores and diplomacy are at the top of your to-do list. Work with what presents itself. You are about to be offered an opportunity that is sweet and/or karmic. It might be the result of what seemed so lost, but now returns.

CAPRICORN has Mars catching up to you in your 2nd house. Money, earning and resources going out have been the main topic since May. Your annoyance about what disrupts your home or family life keeps triggering you through November. Venus retrograde brings something or someone from the past. Love, work or cash is the theme. How you incorporate your sense of power or powerlessness is key. Letting go of over control releases you from whatever is binding you. The last year has brought many obligations and confrontations with authority. Your awareness is changing, and it needs to include more diligence with taking care of the self in a practical and realistic form.

The New Moon in Libra brings the opportunity of a partnership or business alliance that is solid, calm and genuine. It is not frothy, frilly or fattening. Your connection with a group depends on how you can fit in with their mission and not lose yourself. Sometimes Capricorn can be harsh, brittle or ascetic. Link the good qualities together, and be flexible with what comes. Even if the invitation is not on a silver platter, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth; be open.

AQUARIUS has Mars going back to its late June position. Your power time is now in full force. You can exercise, stand up, act, and be a general. The energy that was lacking returns, and so does your passion for something or someone. The last seven years has made you more aware of how often you hide behind your mind. Your emotional life is kicking up its heels and needs attention. Don’t intellectualize your heart. Venus retrograde brings career and social life a repeat moment. The return of love or the infatuation with it starts the engine that has been stalled. Reevaluate what you love and why, and how it can take you down or lift you up.

The New Moon in your house of travel means you should look at everything now with the backdrop of the future. How does this play in the future and what is the future that I’m creating? The love connection and your unconscious are trying to control each other. Love, and the need to work and live with yourself in peace, is central. Don’t throw away what you have worked so hard to secure. This period is a defining moment.

PISCES has Mars in your 12th house. Too much negativity or self-destructive actions mentally waged against the self are wearing you down. Sleep, a sense of security, and trusting the self are pivotal for you. A sense of self-esteem that is not contingent on money means freedom. Your life is your own, and this period offers a new leaf. Venus retrograde aspects from your travel house. Look to the future for your purpose and meaning; love in action is universal.

The New Moon in Libra sees a new opportunity for investment with the resources you share with another. If you have felt controlled by a friend or group, this is a good time to let go. The people that stay will stay, and the ones that leave will go. Your new vision of creativity, a project or an ideal brings a fortunate change. The gullible or vulnerable part can be strengthened by faith, hope and inner truth. Children are opening up to other options; love is a heart beating in unison with yours.

Tanda Tashjian

October 1, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, September 15 – October 1, 2018

The Full Moon on September 24 in Aries squares Saturn and conjuncts Chiron. Mars reentered Aquarius on September 10, and is now retracing its past pattern since May through the end of June. The stress leading up to and following this Full Moon is intense. If you’ve been waiting for something to happen or to activate, this period will bring it. Along with a lot of anger, aggravation and resentment, there might be an explosion of violence or accidents that are fiery and destructive — especially around September 17-19.

A lot of people could suffer in some form, due to the Chiron aspect. Some area of the world might get destroyed or go down. Hopefully the hurricane will not result in setting off fires, extensive destruction, a shutdown of technology or a nuclear accident.

The politics of this time brings Mr. President Trump front and center. The true story is about to be told — at least in part. With many defendants standing in a chorus line around him, some tiny dancer might run right up and tap him on his head. And Jeff Sessions with his Sun, Mars and Moon in Capricorn could get blasted by Saturn shortly before or during the Full Moon.

The release point for the Full Moon is 2 degrees of Cancer. Wherever you have this position in your chart brings a restriction, limitation, karmic adjustment or the exiting of someone in your world. Any partnership that needs an adjustment, a correction or an ending will get tweaked. Aries and Libra and Capricorn and Cancer are especially affected.

Some unprecedented experience/exchange/accident might set off a shutdown or extreme situation, making what seems impenetrable break apart. The next installment of the silent coup will either ignite or vaporize. Wherever nerves are frayed, something or someone snaps.

If you are caught in an untenable situation, it might get worse if you cannot change your attitude. Pluto goes direct September 30 at the degree it’s been traversing since the beginning of 2017. The Saturn aspect says keep on trucking, hold onto your hat and stick with a plan that’s responsible and effective. Do not go in the deep end right now.

This period requires you to be practical and solid and not skip any steps. Patience with others, the environment and the wheels of justice will win out. Mars with the South Node brings the repetition of a past historical period where something that was not fair or correct gets replayed. This replay could ignite a reaction that builds and doesn’t stop or back down. Watch what happens at the end of September and beginning of October.

Venus in Scorpio brings the past love or past experience of love to replay intensely. Where Venus sits in your chart brings the opportunity to look beneath the surface of that thing that never heals and keeps getting wounded or wounds. As a result, the compulsive desire for an outer love intensifies. Stick to what you know, and don’t get caught up in too much drama and passion. You might get with someone very quickly and then get dropped or run away. The desire to be close competes with the same desire to get away. The dance of self with space and attachment/non-attachment is on. Something or someone you have resisted might compel you. If you’re not with anyone romantically, watch for past patterns of compulsive behavior around love, eating, sexuality or feeling undesirable to emerge.

On a lighter note, do not buy fancy clothes, cars or do any cosmetic procedures. This period can make something not go the optimal way. If experimenting with a new look or presentation wait until after December 18.

This period from October 5- November 16 (with the shadow September 3-December 18) marks a Persephone period in your emotional life. The internal feminine goes down to the depths of darkness to find herself. If you have lost yourself with someone, you might be able to emerge at the end of December with a deeper sense of self and wisdom about love, possession and the tradeoff of power for love. You will be more aware of where you go off-track in relationship, especially in terms of giving yourself away or trading something for love and security. Look at how you may be too quick to diminish yourself for the promise of a close bond. This intimacy is based on obsession and the power that comes from being the one chosen over her, them, him or it. Healing comes with a stronger sense of self acting from the dignity of self possession.

The replay comes in the form of seeing the person again, or a doppelganger on your doorstep or in a dream or beckoning you on a stairway to heaven. Something will emerge and you can catch the wave but don’t get drowned in the current.

In summary, the coming two-week period through September 29 will be harsh, abrupt, self-absorbed, and limiting. If anyone acts out this way in your life, don’t be offended; it’s just Mars with a fiery plume of rage and power and ego stomping around. Be unassailable, stay close to yourself, and keep ahold of your temper; don’t get caught up in another’s passion play or wave too many swords around. All the heroes will be out with those big silly feathered hats, posing, posturing and tripping over themselves trying to be bigger than life.

Stay with yourself and walk alongside the parade; just another day on the asylum planet.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has the persistent problem of trying to get something off the ground. After a summer season of frustration and false starts, you are finally tracking with some decision you’ve made. Commitment is hard — and super hard for your sign. Always in a hurry to get to the next thing, you can hardly stand still for the thing you’re doing or the person you’re with. This Full Moon might drive you a little crazier, as it limits your circumstance, movement or time. You have no patience for restriction of any kind.

Home is where the heart is, but where is home? Your anguish with a friend, a group or a dashed hope is insurmountable. A desire to have and to be held keeps receding. Venus in the shadow starts the replay of your obsession with finding that love connection. Whatever has blown up in the home/family or taken hostage of your peace of mind needs attention. Leisure time is not leisure now. Things keep going sideways. The gift of keeping your balance keeps trouble away. You cannot fight everything and the self. Take refuge in peace and love with who is close and loyal.

TAURUS sees the Full Moon bring a challenge that has been hidden, secret or ignored. A series of decisions around work, or a decision that is off the beaten track, comes to a turning point where there is no going back. An out-of-control situation at work, or with your authority – together with the need to get along with another – is trying. Your plan to travel, expand or legally win a point might be delayed, put off or denied. The thing that you are afraid may undo you might visit you in your sleep, or in private moments. It is a shadow on the threshold. Wherever there has been any kind of security in your life might inexplicably flip. Watch out for surprise health developments for yourself or another.

Venus in the shadow will start opposing you; your partner replays some return experience that is based on power, possessiveness or obsessing. Something that surprised you in the last seven years will return for an adjustment. Siblings and neighbors will be changeable and hard to approach. The theme for the next two weeks is live and let live and don’t count the cost of what you give. It might look real, but what you see is confusing. The gift of this period is to not take freedom and all that you have lightly. Be grateful, even if things are not so perfect.

GEMINI has the Full Moon bring a turning point with a lover, a child or a friend. Discouragement with another is a possibility and brings a wakeup call. Someone close needs your help, and you must decide how much to give or to do. Your resources might take a hit in money, time or energy. The house of debt and taxes and money owed brings some serious news and demands more decisions. You might have to work harder to stay in place.

Venus in the shadow starts to expose a secret about a love or about the nature of your love life. You might need to do some process work with an old ache/pain. Deal with an animal friend that needs more affection. Any possessions or conditions that are rotting or obsolete need to be changed and repaired. This condition involves teeth, a home or a physical purification process. Your work life might need more zest from an energy boost. The gift is to be able to see the light and not cower in the shadows.

CANCER has the Full Moon in your career, authority and public relations house. Any anxiety or discomfort you’re feeling about career and reputation is matched by stress around money, debts and all that’s going out. This Full Moon brings a sense of scarcity, restriction and possibly fear. You might need to slow down energetically. The money situation does not start resolving until mid-November. The release point of this T-square is at 2 degrees of Cancer. Try to let go of feelings that are not conducive to moving forward. Feel safe, and trust yourself to find a way out of the quicksand.

Venus in the shadow starts to identify where there is a creative blockage. The oppressive energy you experience when obsessing about any love or past relationship gone wrong comes back to be noted and addressed. An evolving situation with a partner is transformative as it can go beyond getting stuck with the usual set of problems. Let go of your need to control every outcome, and look into the eyes of who is really out of control. The gift of being centered brings a huge leap forward; you can go in the right direction with faith in self.

LEO is holding the answer to a difficult riddle in your unconscious. The challenge comes when you hit a philosophical high and then are mentally brought down by demands of work and self-care. This part of your life needs more insight. Your secret inner life is all over the place and needs balance and reordering. Emotionally you are looking for a love that will free you from the psychology of being bound by fulfilling a preconceived role.

Venus in the shadow makes the allure of mystery, intrigue and exotica beckon. Yet you are stuck in the doldrum of work, reality and too much responsibility. When you look for distraction you find trouble — and when you flirt with trouble you end up with problems. Stay focused, and don’t get bound up by the intensity of your desires. The gift of understanding what compels you helps to avoid trouble, heartache and alienation and allows you to know how to satisfy your real needs.

VIRGO has the Full Moon in the house of debt and earning. You are conflicted by wanting more pleasure and having so much more work to do. Your romance with life is picking up speed, yet the gruesome twosome of credit and debit live on. Wanting to be free to ramble is limited by the need for discipline in order to attain personal aspirations. Anxiety and the stress of making yet another professional commitment pulls you in different directions. The tipping point of how to balance your resources and take care of obligations without losing your enthusiasm is pivotal.

Any deceit or fantasy played out with Other is hard to grasp. Venus in the shadow helps you see how everything you think and express can actually create your immediate reality. The obsessive part of you keeps going round-and-round with what is not working. Anger and impatience don’t help break through this blockage. The gift of awareness is to see when you set yourself up with unreal expectations of another (or self) you feel abandoned, ignored or threatened. This insight turns the tide of what seems overwhelming. Now is your birthday time to reset all those old demands and criticisms that just won’t shut off. Love the self, all of the self.

LIBRA has the Full Moon in your house of the partner, client or open enemy. Your need for discipline, and to bring things down a notch, is key. Any suffering around the other, or dealing with a client who is suffering, brings a palpable awareness of your empathy. You might need to hustle a little to deal with a minor business slowdown. Insight about connectedness helps ease the sense of loneliness you feel. Career is moving in different directions, from old to new. Progress takes time to stabilize and you can’t push the river.

Venus in Scorpio in its’ shadow, brings the old problem of self-esteem and values back. You often give to the point of exhaustion and then feel underappreciated or undervalued. Time awakens these old feelings. Trace their origin from the family. You can obsess about love but it’s better to let go of identifying with the family’s collective idea about power and worth. The gift of this time is to release what is not working for you psychically. This period is not the end of anything, only a transition to a different relationship with the cycle of prosperity.

SCORPIO has the Full Moon in the house of health and work. You are seeing the cards you were dealt and feel you have no choice. The self is exposed is some way, and you don’t like it. This restriction or suffering involves your psyche‘s habit of secretly desiring a love that will never leave. Something has left, and you’re still standing. You are the psychic center of your world, so embrace the life force of the moment. Everything is a bardo for Scorpio. Always seeing things from the vantage point of an ending, you don’t want to be surprised.

Venus in the shadow in Scorpio makes love, and what you’re currently involved with, all too real and different. It’s either everything or nothing. The extremes in your emotional/sexual/psychic nature are operatic and screaming. Control and obsession are battling with the fear of being devoured or abandoned. Get ahold of yourself and reflect on how you’re the one that keeps upping the ante. The gift in this cycle allows you to go through more purification when facing the nuclear fire burning your heart. Peace in the heart is the only grail that’s worthy.

SAGITTARIUS has the Full Moon in your house of the child, the lover or creativity. The tension to come up with something new is stretching you past your limits. The demand for money and resources slows down your exuberance for anything. Your release point has to do with reinstating a sense of faith in yourself. You can come up with a plan to pay the bills and still enjoy what you have. Teamwork versus the individual can make you feel pressured. The child in you (or literally a child) is having a small tantrum about accepting the reality of how difficult work and obligation can be. Consider balancing the demands you are under with the dreams of an open vista.

Venus in the shadow raises the specter of past loves and how you secretly suffered from a lack of being valued or a lack of valuing the experience. The process of self-healing brings the same old problem in a different form and the same person (actually or symbolically) back into your life again. Swapping a lack of emotional control with financial over control will not work. The gift is to not have to put on the superhero cape. Just be yourself. Being needed is not always a love supreme. Love is unitive, not based on what feats you perform.

CAPRICORN has the Full Moon in your house of home and foundation. The stress you feel around a need to bolster your career and secure the home is pushing you to the max. Your release point is through the partner/client, with tension building right up to (and shortly after) the Full Moon. Don’t identify with being the sole source of the problem. It’s in the air and it’s the karma of the time to review all your options and decide to take a step towards or away from some occupational or personal commitment. This Full Moon brings a family experience that is instructive and healing.

Venus in the shadow makes you question your strategy of quietly going along with everything as a means to avoid loss. Important people help you because they believe in you, not because of a mysterious strategy. Obsessing over power and control makes you the one that’s out of control. The next step is in your hands and yours to decide. The gift of this time is more autonomy around what you choose rather than who or what chooses you. Balance the capacity to cope with the opportunity to choose.

AQUARIUS has the Full Moon in your house of writing and decisions. Something from the last 6 months comes to a head and demands a decision or commitment. Are you up for the next step? Your hidden resistance suspects that the consequence of any decision now will be deep and limiting, and possibly humiliating. Time is at play. The angle of the T-square points to the tension between your values and your mind. They are at odds. The doubt you have about some choice is constant and inescapable.

Venus is in its shadow and the theme of life and death is everywhere. Obsessing about what you can’t have, what is lost or what went away will not help. Your hidden world of control and fear of endings and the forever part is obscured by you over-functioning with small things. The gift of understanding what the family defined as love helps you overcome a blind spot. The ability to get deeper with everything revolves around letting your values and your experience walk hand in hand into the sunset.

PISCES has the Full Moon in your money house. The stress of some debt, burden or commitment coming to a head affects your dreams and plans about stability. Anxiety about a past commitment or action has been creeping up on you since May and activates shortly before the Full Moon. Your energy is low; you need more rest and a break from everyday demands. Fear of disruption – and the claustrophobic feeling of being imprisoned — is building. The issue of suffering due to another’s choices could hit you in your pocketbook/self-esteem sector. You are impatient to see that a money or advancement opportunity can add up.

Venus in its shadow makes the desire for travel and getting away all you can think about. Your past obsession with intensity and having it your way is where you might have taken a wrong turn. Love was a distraction from being with the self by totally being with another. Use this time to consider an alternative that is based on ideals and friendship. Someone from the past shows up, and you can see a difference in how you extend yourself. The gift of sharing what you think and are with another brings a new alchemy. You are your own best friend when you move from avoidance of self to self possession.

Tanda Tashjian

September 15, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, September 1-15, 2018

What goes up inevitably comes down. The New Moon on September 9 brings sex, lies and opportunism. Shock will flood media and information like a tsunami. Emotions rock some money or power center as more legal wheeling and dealing gets outed.

When Mars conjoins with the South Node at the end of September – “plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is”- something or someone that was flying high will go plop when he creates waves of insurrection out of fragments. The Rebel Yell whimpers.

When personal or group beliefs get involved, it gets messier. Hysteria and forgiveness make for dramatic turnarounds and strange bedfellows. The extremes taking sides will draw more lines in the sand as sandcastles fade away.

People in love see a vision or projection of the beloved and what they can bestow on them. Cults have a leader that can carry the projection for the group. They think they will get the great “Whatsit” the leader promised. Being in a cult gives you a place to stand and something to identify with. To be a member, you have to lose yourself.

And there’s an outside chance that some very outside event might make all the above moot.

Neptune is the Great Deceiver or Inspiration. It rules Maya and the illusion that makes it seem like it’s all happening when there’s really nothing there. The New Moon is opposed by Neptune. Wherever you have any illusion of love, of being saved or redeemed will start to go plop, and in the next six months disappearance and dissolution will reign. This is especially true for Virgo and Pisces, Sagittarius and Gemini — and wherever you have these signs in your chart. Something you counted on might not come through – or might not come through the way you hoped it would.

Saturn goes direct on September 6. What spun out of reality in mid-April returns restructured and stabilized. Something about 2008 gets rebooted and more possibly replaced by a whole new standard. Can the Market withstand a sudden turnabout with some authority. The structure of our government and financial worlds will be tested and provide the leadup to a Big Change that start a chain of events towards long-term change.

Mr President Trump might not be able to contain himself; his manic persona is busting apart at the seams. He wants and needs to act on his own mandate of being Top Boss. Skating very close to firing someone, sometime after the New Moon, he could move in the dead of night and strike while a major distraction lights up the sky.

The chaos that comes upends any pesky legalities and adds more fuel to his base. By mid-October we will see the extent of his destructiveness and the reality that he still can take the whole show down. He might go out shrugging in ignominy – as if the country wasn’t ready for his vision. Or he can stir up a lot of mess that will confuse and bring a peculiar sort of anarchy. Reactivity can be nuclear.

Pluto gets ready to go direct on its South Node at the end of September and the problem with our political power dynamic threatens to reverse. Meanwhile, each of us faces a decision about some commitment and what it could take from us. Is the love affair worth what you’re risking? Is the new job really that great a step up? Is the new and shiny path beckoning truly an opportunity, or a mirage?

The questions of “what’s it all about?” and “why bother?” return. The end of Chiron in Pisces toggles between escapism and entropy vs. standing up for your rights. The falsehood and lies in the unbelievable period we are slogging through will blow out what truth actually is and redefine reality.

Be careful with any decisions or signing on the bottom line now. Some wave or tsunami or watershed moment makes this period outdo all the others, in hindsight. If something gets leaked that is unbelievable, watch it and believe it. Living through the reign of the red or blue, each it’s own bitter little pill to swallow. Don’t give into the illusion that something will save us from the Great Whatsit. It’s coming, and it’s big.

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has it in for whoever/whatever has hurt or slowed you down. The New Moon enables you to see clearly what is real and what is not realistic in health and work matters. The phantom pain syndrome keeps kicking back up in some form. What you thought was over and done is still not. With Mars gone direct, a friend who disappeared returns as if nothing happened. Can you pick up where you left off?

Saturn going direct in your career house makes for a promotion, more work or the return to a professional position that is demanding and top heavy with the need for endurance and strength. The secret suffering you go through on a daily basis is belied by your competent face to the world. That old suffering returns, and it’s a lonely walk. Agitation in the family is intensified by how your professional life is going. If there’s too much suddenly happening, you are depressed and a little lost. The wellspring of demands from others is too much. Finalize what has gone up in smoke over the last 7 years. You can’t go home again – and who wants to anyway? Stop fighting yourself; lay back, and enjoy the ride — even if it seems a little rough.

TAURUS has the New Moon in your house of children and the lover. What is ideal or fantasy needs to be checked at the door. Deal with the reality of what you can see and touch and know is real. Don’t overdo it with sugar or substance. Someone might derail your progress and grin in your face. The money thing blows up and something threatens to be way more expensive than planned. Disillusion with a friend is possible. You want to go faster but are slow to get going in the morning.

Saturn going direct in your travel house makes for an emotional or personal obligation with someone leaving, moving, or far away. The surprise anticipation of plans affects what needs to be done in the house, pronto. A takedown you suffered in the last 7 years morphs into more detachment and more space. Either you or someone close to you wants more blue sky. The anger or hurt you have hidden evolves into a different way of dealing with the problem. Love and communication is the key to healing any rifts. Team work unites what has grown apart and family is the testing ground for progress and hyper strength training.

GEMINI has the New Moon in your house of the family. Water, or a deluge of feeling, might drown you. This period starts out with worry about money and becomes more concerned with what is false, counterfeit or not living up to its’ promise. Staying close to your belief system is the basis upon which to find success. If you align with what matters to you and stay genuine, your resources flow.

Saturn going direct in your house of debt makes it obvious that you need a new plan about how to recover from whatever drain on your finances you have recently suffered. Too many bills or credit or obligations laid on you by others is tiresome. It’s the four of cups in spades. You’ve had enough of this lesson. Wishing to be freed of whatever burden has been placed on you is not going to make it go away. Your serious mood needs to break out and enjoy some simple fun. Love the one you’re with, run wild on the beach with your dog; twist and shout.

CANCER has the New Moon in your house of writing and thinking. Some work project or health process that has eluded you needs to go to another level of perception. Don’t try to get it mentally but on a more spiritual/ ephemeral level. The anxiety you experience stems from something that is hard to accept about yourself or your self worth. Money is the old saw that keeps on cutting.

Saturn going direct makes the last 6 months come together. The work or stress or restructuring of your identity and partnership has been an uphill battle for early Cancer. Money or time and the past 13/14 years have been on the line. You might see the end of some relationship/cycle of time come to a close. This is a turning point in your life that has to do with a new sense of discipline, obligation and responsibility. Any tiredness you have changes into strength if you can be patient. You are deepening in understanding what has caused trouble in the past. What once was negative and troubling morphs into wisdom through lessons learned from 14/28 years ago.

LEO has the New Moon in the house of resources. If you have been kidding yourself about some money or security thing, you might get a wake- up call. The confusion that comes is a result of losing touch with reality about a relationship or your values. Your sector of debt and sexuality and power is going through a purification that might feel like a purge. Leo is bright and light and warming yet lately you’re not feeling it so much.

Saturn going direct makes health/ work need a new program. You’ve been working on something for the last 6 months, and it just might stabilize shortly. Either way, you will have a series of insights about what to do next. Love and romance are not high on the list right now — more of a headache than a high. You can get centered in the next few months to run the romance gauntlet again if you want. Don’t jump in where angels fear to tread. Keep it simple. Keep everything simple.

VIRGO with the New Moon in your house of self (on your birthday month) makes any fantasy you’ve been nurturing become enmeshed in vapor. It can be a divine fantasy or a nightmare. Some dream of love and romance, or fame and fortune, becomes more heavenly — or is revealed as fog and mist. The main issue now is to get paid for fulfilling work that can be constant, consistent and worthwhile. Your great gift of organization and purification is your calling card. Stress at work, or about work, is driving you up the wall. Change your schedule to allow more regeneration and recovery.

Saturn going direct makes for more love/romance/creative stability with what you’ve been working on for the past 6 months. Your hesitation in a love commitment is real. Try to find a higher calling with purpose by linking the spiritual to the practical. Let the two connect. Your partner/client might be in a bit of a funk about their wish not getting granted. Be Glenda the good witch now, and bring a bit of peace and vision to your morale when you resolve a spiritual problem with new eyes.

LIBRA has the New Moon in your house of secrets. Some dream you’ve been incubating is about to be revealed. Your fantasy about love, romance or a career triumph is ready for a close-up or an edit. The emotional quest you’re on is causing stress when something doesn’t go right. Some person you work with who is a key player is not being so very helpful. Any condition with an animal companion needs to be checked out to see if it’s real or just nervous stress.

Saturn goes direct and makes for a correction or promotion for early Libras. What has been on the back burner of the last 6 months manifests in a clearly positive or negative way. Your home life gets grounded and ordered, especially if you have a home office. Some new inquiry might involve your work or a commitment. Be the absolute diplomat; deal with each question with directness and grace. This new client will in time become your best advocate. Stabilize a condition with the family, it has been a challenge or a burden and is about to change.

SCORPIO has the New Moon in your house of dreams and hopes. Any unconscious fantasy about escape needs to be made conscious. Something you don’t want to deal with is haunting your dreams and disturbing your sleep. Your Plutonic self is gearing up to do battle, yet there is no enemy. Your anxiety is time-and-space related. Stress is mainly the result of how you deal with or avoid problems leftover from the past.

Saturn going direct brings mental progress wherever there’s been stagnation since April. You are at a crossroads about a decision regarding your next move. This has been incubating since last December, and was put on hold in April. Now you must bite the bullet and make a commitment. You are coming to the end of Jupiter, which has given you more breathing room. You can see a future; the question is how to get there from where you now stand?

SAGITTARIUS has the New Moon in your house of career. Any confusion or hesitation in a career project might cost you. A fantasy you share with another about expanding the home/professional life needs to be addressed in realistic terms. You’ve got to keep your nose to the grindstone and not take your eyes off the prize. The New Moon in Virgo wants everything to be pristine and in order yet if you are too casual or in a hurry you could make a false move.

Saturn going direct in your money house makes the cash flow mandate central to security. How can you turn ideas and imagination into assets? It seems all too much now — the rent, the mortgage, the bills and the responsibility — yet you are relearning something about security that you might have forgotten about in the last 14 years. This period brings a wake-up call about the price of something you once valued. Either that, or you balance the books and have a moment of relief. Take time to understand and don’t try to escape what comes in the mail, on the phone or by pony express.

CAPRICORN has the New Moon in your house of travel. Your ideal wish now is to take off and forget about the wear-and-tear of stress of your life. If a trip is on the horizon, it might get changed due to a last-minute decision. You and your partner/client might be waiting on a decision that could make or break some shared hope or dream. Neptune often confuses boundaries and deadlines. Try to put off any signing of papers until shortly before September 24th’s Full Moon, so as not to be fooled by something that looks too good to be true. Concentrate on your spiritual center and on finding harmony with all the demands recently placed on you.

Saturn, going direct since April, casts time and your work life in a different light. You can make decisions now based on more maturity involving work, relationship and identity. Some older person or family member is a big responsibility. Trust that you can carry the load up the mountain. A correction or demotion will arrive for early Capricorn by the end of the year. You are not alone, it only feels that way. More work and the inevitable acceptance of some development will in time bring the security you crave.

AQUARIUS has the New Moon in your house of life and death. This lunation makes you want the cake and to eat it too, with another one is baking in the oven. The illusion you are nurturing about the intensity of some dynamic is up and down. The dream that seems to be coming true is offset by the reality of the price. Your money/debt sector is amplified by desire, hunger and yearning. Nothing seems to satisfy you, and you feel like you are starving.

Saturn going direct makes the last six months seem like a prison sentence. Your fears and secrets are on high. You feel you have very little or no choice in a decision. Fate is beckoning, and you are tied up in chains. The forward momentum around you might trip you up if you can’t get your priorities straight. Your values are in flux and you are poised to act on a set of beliefs that are rapidly becoming obsolete. Stay with what you know. Don’t jump the gun and stay away from frying pans.

PISCES has the New Moon in your marriage/partner sector. Your new beginning has to do with a sense of compassion and empathy for the Other. They might be hesitating on the brink of change. Your depth of love might be complicated by impatience or avoidance. You get aggravated when people don’t move at the same rate as you. Attention to the details of any deal is eclipsed by secretly wanting it all to go away and to be left alone with your thoughts. Be aware of the power of fantasy and disillusion. Meditation is a friend who’s always there.

Saturn direct makes the events of the last 6 months fall slowly into place. The friend/important people sector is coming alive. Right now, you need to be disciplined and confidant in terms of how much you can offer. The creative new beginning with a group or a project can inspire you. Don’t be that lone wallflower that keeps waiting. You are coming back to life, and that life is yours to live in any way you want. Be at peace with what is leaving or gone. There is a beginning, middle and end to everything. Don’t ignore the next new beginning.

Tanda Tashjian

September 1, 2018

Astrology Mini Newsletter, August 15 – September 1, 2018

This certainly was the Summer that Wasn’t. You might have had something go wrong or go away. It was hard to get the energy up for anything or anyone, and nothing got started or got going. Things are in a freeze frame until August 27 when Mars goes direct. Additionally, this past Summer brought a let -down of something you were expecting to arrive (but didn’t); something really didn’t take off or go forward. Disappointment and miscommunication was the theme. It doesn’t change until after August 27. Until then you can strategize and plan, but don’t move on anything.

The Eclipses brought more challenges, too. The Node is leaving Leo this Fall. Reflect on what was happening with you back in 1999 when the Node was in Leo. You might be able to connect something from that time to what you are dealing with now. If you’re struggling, try adjusting your life in terms of love, romance, creativity, children or the entertainment business – especially in how it relates to personal themes from 1999.

The aftermath of the Eclipses delivers a reality check around something or someone you love, or how your business is doing. The politics of this time make you want to pull out your hair, as divisiveness continues to become more extreme. Life seems to be at a peculiar crossroads that is not really so clear.

Observe the synchronicity of the following events occurring on the same day after the Eclipse: an aircraft taken by a Horizon tech, which featured a wild and manic ride lasting an hour – out of control with no goal in sight – and which unhappily crashed and burned; contrasted with the surprise discovery of an ancient Sphinx, the symbol of the universal past and the sacred respect for a mystical connectedness to the universe. You pick which road you want to go down.

The Full Moon on August 26 coincides with Mars going direct, August 27. This period will make the engine turn over. The not going anywhere that you are confronting finally starts to move a little. Anger and annoyance are still there, however. Capricorn makes Mars want to check the bank balance a few extra times a day. Money keeps going out and not coming in, or you are at a loss for new resources and must shore up what you have.

The Full Moon makes some illusion magnify. Whether it’s a fantasy about life or work or another, this Moon brings some unreality to a head from the last six months. The topsy-turvy condition of the world will see some poisonous/toxic or environmental problem come to a head as well — or some problem with water will watershed. Usually with a Jupiter/Neptune aspect, one group’s suffering brings an outgrowth of compassion. This time will be no different.

Uranus is leaving Aries in March 2019. The last 7 years brought some unpredictable condition you have been wrestling to resolve this past summer. Trying to go this way and that, the frustration you are stuck in will change after August 27. Slowly, you will feel a release of some tension through October/November, when things will become clearer and more absolute.

Similarly, in the current political scene the hovering anxiety that is so unpredictable will be fully palpable by October/November. What goes up will come down.

If you’re in a romance or business partnership, something could come between you and your partner on the Full Moon. Any compulsive behavior will be amplified, so watch that dessert or sugar habit. The desire to get away or escape will be huge. Many of us are on a razor edge of anxiety and stress that is not going away so quickly.

Something will happen in the next year that will be challenging and may be irrevocable. Saturn will oppose the Sun sign of our country, following in the path of what began with Pluto in 2008. The initiating event will not be so dramatic but will represent a crossroads that could mushroom into something that could go on for over a year. We are a country that is strong, high-minded and free. Hopefully these qualities will continue in our hearts, our actions and our souls. We are at that crossroads… “and I believe I’m sinking down.”

INDIVIDUAL SUN AND RISING SIGNS

ARIES has had the Summer of Trials and very little tribulation. The relentless stress begins to end after August 27, when your ruler goes direct. In Capricorn and Aquarius, Mars keeps undermining the stability you have been trying to maintain through something unpredictable that may concern money or self-esteem. Watch those moods of high and low.

The Full Moon in your house of secrets brings some emotional blurring of boundaries that might not serve you or your goals. You can resolve the ambivalence of any internal reactions by focusing on where you keep illusions and resentments percolating. Smell the coffee and keep on trucking.

TAURUS has the Summer of Family Challenges making its statement in your home and family life. Just when you think it’s over, the same thing/person or demand keeps reanimating. After August 27, let the hidden anger relax around your public persona with some group of wacky or annoying people. You can’t please all the people all the time, so stop trying.

The Full Moon in your house of friends brings a comedown to someone close. A social exchange, romance or business thing that has been embellished will be revealed for what it is. Yours is to maintain the stability that is Taurus and not jump in where angels fear to tread. The peace of mind you are longing for might elude you. The future, and tolerating change, can make you flexible and chill. Your money scene might flip.

GEMINI had the Summer of Freedom go plop. Your debt, money and obligation sector keeps on piling up. You are straining around new bills and less libido. High-minded thinking is hard to live by. You have been cross with friends or colleagues who don’t understand or they have been cross with you. Patience is not your forte, especially now. The past summer has brought a big letdown with any expectation of freedom. You feel hemmed in by something.

The Full Moon makes some status or prestige thing collapse. Any backward movement involves picking up the pieces of yours or another’s reputation around dreams and the truth. Come to the table and rewrite the script. Travel and school are a source of reality and learning. A reunion with a sibling or young person brings you back to life.

CANCER had the Summer of Frozen Assets and locked energy. Your money has been stuck or going out on last minute and unexpected house or family expense. The testing part of any relationship brings you to tears, especially around the remorse of old times, old places and the innocence of what was lost. Agitation with career, reputation, a parent and financial obligation is draining. Any chaos and unpredictability – especially in relation to a partner or Other – is not going away so soon.

The Full Moon in your higher-self sector makes the loftiness of dreams and beliefs seem unrelated to your daily life. You can force yourself to be more tolerant, but sometimes you just want to scream. This emotional frenzy of frustration will end — but not until October. In the meantime you can count sheep, do yoga and take baths. Self care is at the top of the list. Go slow with new options as they might not pan out so quickly. You are your own best guide.

LEO has the Summer of Frustration go on and on. That thing that you cannot account for or explain is still there and unmoving – a pit in your stomach that comes and goes, and there’s no relief. You might feel undernourished and alone, or that nobody is there with you. Your anxiety about a partner or a relationship is enraging and draining at the same time.

The Full Moon brings the illusion of some release bursting. The confusion about money, debt or a secret that is hard to recover from can’t be erased or forgiven so easily. Your emotional attachment to the truth is neck-and-neck with your ideal of how things should be. Some business/marriage thing is undoing itself from about 19 years ago. Try to learn from past mistakes and don’t trust everyone who offers to help. You are a loner in the middle of the circus. Don’t get lost in the drama that will resolve in November.

VIRGO has the Summer of Futility affecting your health and work house. You are going through the motions and wondering what it will lead to. Any annoyance you have at yourself around money, time or energy lost is hard to recover from. You are at the precipice of turning over a new leaf. Whatever is bothering you needs the support and help of friends and advisers. Establish continuity and order to balance the chaos at work or with your health. Emotions need safe handling. If something has failed, you can still get it right.

The Full Moon has a partner dealing with some discouragement or disappointment. A friend is not so present. Colleagues and important people can come to your rescue, but you must be realistic with the results of what they offer. The fantasy island you’ve been exiled to will be overrun with tourists soon. Get your brand on and use this time to strategize a return. The confusion you recently had undid something that you really wanted. You can come back to the table and plead your case to a higher court. Be on the right side of your dreams, and don’t go off on any unrelated benders.

LIBRA has the Summer of Fun and Not so Much Fun go nowhere. A romantic dream, a desire for pleasure, or the connection of career and creativity is a problem. The client or Other has been up and down and around the world. They have been at the end of a big stick and are being beaten by someone close, or by their work life. Yours is to maintain diplomacy and peace. The chaotic partnership events of the last 7 years are about to transition into a series of financial changes and adjustments.

The Full Moon makes you want to hideaway and forget about the emotional stress you have been carrying for too long. The career, your Father, or any authority in your life is working hard at the process of producing a new routine, whether it is a health or daily regimen. Any pets need attention to teeth. Too much sugar or carbs, substance or escape will take its toll on you. Try not to undo all the progress you’ve been making.

SCORPIO has the Summer of Property freeze around a home, a property or some issue with the family. The unpredictability of your plans might be tied to another – or to a group who is dragging their feet. Your decision about moving a home or office depends on time and money (and the Unknown). Your power is at issue now; the way that you use it must come from a spirit of neutrality. Your partner or business rep might go away or go off the path for a bit. They need to recheck their plans and reorganize.

The Full Moon affects your children or lover. The romance or the dream might dissolve if it’s too big, too unrealistic, or not feasible. Your belief system is challenged by love. Take a trip or go on a vision quest. Things are not going the way you thought they would. Before November, make peace with yourself around what has gone or whoever acted badly. Thinking about negative outcomes will just magnetize them.

SAGITTARIUS had the Summer that Wasn’t in your thinking sector. Ideas, decisions and connections have been going in the wrong direction. Short trips have not been “as advertised”. Impulsive decisions based on impatience are not working. Wait until opportunity starts to move in your mental sector. Patience, patience, patience!! Strategize and plan and don’t jump the gun. Your work life will soon be full of surprises.

Don’t be misled around an investment or fearful about any shortfall. The issues of intimacy and closeness are challenged by the reality of what is and what isn’t. Take the time to perceive the constancy of the long run. November begins a whole new cycle of prosperity and optimism. Your inner life can use some quality attention. Wake up to whatever game you’ve been playing with yourself; winning and losing is not the right currency now. Love and forgiveness is key.

CAPRICORN has the Slowdown of Summer around money, and a lot of back-and-forth around the office/home or base. Your money, agitation and impatience are being stoked by conditions that are out of your hands. Mars back in Capricorn makes the review of past actions and mistakes feel overwhelming. You are hungry for some definitive result, but you need to wait and not be overanxious about how slow everything is taking to work out.

The Full Moon in your house of decisions makes for a lot of thinking and rethinking about where you went down a wrong path. The partner or client is a little unrealistic. Help them compare notes with what they did or did not do 14 years ago. You see the light around another when you’re patient and not finding fault. An emotional or professional dream of life that is coming to an end must be grounded in a newer reality which is smaller. Capricorn fights with an ego that is hardly there and which is based on how much they carry of another’s burden. Put down the big suitcase. Do your own work.

AQUARIUS has no time and too much energy. Fueled by a passion for something or someone that hasn’t come to fruition, your frustration is huge. The back-and-forth communication and miscommunication is everywhere. Your home, base or family is a little chaotic or disordered. The inner self is questioning everything and doubting yourself.

The Full Moon in your money house reflects something about reality or unreality within your expectations. The work/health/pet sector is confused about boundaries or about the volume of something. You must be grounded in your plans because they will take longer than you think. Your resources are getting drained by your ambivalence. The partner or client can be erratic or absent. Make the most of this time and plan to come out of a stupor after August 27. Mid-October shows results.

PISCES, your secret life wants attention. The anger you have been repressing is bubbling up. This unpredictable personality suddenly says anything and doesn’t edit their voice. Friends might pull away or start fights around your “attitude”. But you are telling the truth in a more surprising way. Money or self-esteem is up for grabs. Your 180 degree change-up is about doing what you want to do and not just working only for the money.

The Full Moon in your sign puts the spotlight on you. Offers, opportunities and possibilities are suddenly everywhere. Romance, creative life, or kids’ projects provides a focus for all that energy. Exercise to redirect any fear or stress. The need to have a dream is primary for Pisces. Translate what is blue sky into your own little piece of heaven.

Tanda Tashjian

August 15, 2018

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