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Taurus Full Moon: Another Crest of the Wave

With Eric Francis

We’re approaching another peak in the lunar cycle — the Taurus Full Moon (exact at 1:23 am on Saturday, Nov. 4). For many reasons this is a deeper event than it may seem on its face; it’s not just another lunation. Still, we’re talking about the Full Moon here, which typically comes with the sense of the emotional tide rising, the pressure to make decisions and a touch more than usual of the microwave-induced insomnia of our times.

For months now, every time the sky aligns in an particularly focused way, we see some kind of horrid event manifest in the world. While we cannot (and will not) predict additional crisis based on the Full Moon chart, there is a level of collective fear that when things get intense, something new will go seriously wrong.

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Four Winds Report for Oct. 29, 2017

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The Only Thing Missing From This Almanac Is Your Daily Horoscope

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Today is Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017
Hebrew date is 9 Cheshvan 5778
Islamic date is 9 Safar 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 9 B’en
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.16.13
Julian Day is 2458056

Today’s Birthdays: Caterina Scarpellini (1808-1873), Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), Carl Djerassi (1923-2015), Dominick Dunne (1925-2009), Robert Hardy (1925-2017), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Bob Ross (1942-1995), Kate Jackson (1948), Dan Castellaneta (1957), David Remnick (1958), Randy Jackson (1961), Rufus Sewell (1967), Winona Ryder (1971), Tracee Ellis Ross (1972), Gabrielle Union (1972), Fleur East (1987).

“I’ve lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.”
— Dominick Dunne

Len Wallick | Watching the Lunar Flow

In keeping with all you can (and can’t) see in the night sky right now, Len Wallick encourages you to watch the lunar flow this weekend. Based on where the Moon is, and what it is moving towards, you can gather valuable clues about how to be in that flow yourself.

Moon Phase: Moon is in First Quarter phase and enters Waxing Gibbous phase on Oct. 31 at 12:16 pm PDT / 3:16 pm EDT (19:16:05 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Taurus on Nov. 3-4 at 10:23 pm PDT / 1:23 am EDT (05:22:49 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Scorpio is on Nov. 18 at 3:42 am PST / 6:42 am EST (11:42:03 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Aquarius and enters Pisces today at 4:46 pm PDT / 7:46 pm EDT (23:46:14 UTC).
Sun Degree: 6-7 Scorpio.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Moon enters Pisces at 4:46 pm PDT / 7:46 pm EDT (23:46:14 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Sun opposite Pelion at 12:03 am PDT / 3:03 am EDT (07:03:14 UTC).
— Mars conjunct Makemake at 12:11 am PDT / 3:11 am EDT (07:11:39 UTC), and Logos at 2:23 am PDT / 5:23 am EDT (09:23:39 UTC).
— Saturn conjunct Ixion at 3:50 pm PDT / 6:50 pm EDT (22:49:42 UTC).
— Mercury conjunct Ceto at 7:37 pm PDT / 10:37 pm EDT (02:36:44 Oct. 30 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Oct. 29
(The Day of New Ideas) | Scorpio Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
You must shake off your attachments to the past, and live with your heart in the present moment, and your eyes looking forward. The past is not what you think it was, and all those things that once existed are no longer relevant. You of all people have the power to go beyond the expectations of your family. You are a pioneer of the future.

Written in the Planets
Aspects involving the Sun and Mars imply that your range of options may be wider than you think. It might help you to consider the present moment as a clean slate. If there are particular circumstances that would normally restrict you, set them aside — if only as a thought exercise. Then wait and listen for your heart to speak from its depths. Chances are, you’ll see things from a whole new perspective.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Libra weekly for Dec. 26, 2003.

At this point in history, both personal and community history, we face many questions about what makes us feel safe. It’s worth pointing out that most of the time when we feel like we’re not safe, we are in fact perfectly safe. Based on this, the idea or thought form of safety is more important than the reality. Why not experiment with this? One thing I’ve noticed is that the more we say to the people we love, the more grounded, loved and safe we feel. Yes, it takes a small risk to go there, but it’s a small risk with a large reward.

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Four Winds Report for Oct. 28, 2017

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The Only Thing Missing From This Almanac Is Your Daily Horoscope

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Today is Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017
Hebrew date is 8 Cheshvan 5778
Islamic date is 8 Safar 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 8 Eb’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.16.12
Julian Day is 2458055

Today’s Birthdays: Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986), Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), Jonas Salk (1914-1995), Virginia Held (1929), Joan Plowright (1929), Graham Bond (1937-1974), Howard Blake (1938), Jane Alexander (1939), Hank Marvin (1941), Annie Potts (1952), Bill Gates (1955), Sheryl Underwood (1963), Julia Roberts (1967), Ben Harper (1969), Brad Paisley (1972), Joaquin Phoenix (1974), Matt Smith (1982), Frank Ocean (1987), Nolan Gould (1998).

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
— Evelyn Waugh

November Monthly Horoscope for Scorpio by Eric Francis

Jupiter has arrived in your sign for one year. If there’s such a thing as an astrological need, this fulfills one: for Scorpio to have an infusion of water (provided by the Jupiter connection to Pisces) and of spiritual leavening (provided by its connection to Sagittarius). The last time a major planet visited your sign was the Mars retrograde of 2016, which was not exactly wet and juicy; Saturn, for part of 2015, was not exactly a ripe mango, either. Now you have extra resources to work with, and room to maneuver. You’re likely to be feeling more optimistic; not just about life but about who you are. That’s most of what you need to go on in life. When you feel good about yourself, you can accomplish just about anything. At the end of the year, another planetary move will have a similar effect: Saturn enters Capricorn, which will take the brakes off of your self-esteem. Between now and then, however, you must fully claim your self-respect; something you’ve been struggling to do in recent years (with some success). You will know you’re doing this because you feel demonstrably better about yourself. You will be less defensive, and more supportive of the people around you. You’ll be more interested in whether you’ve kept your promises to others than whether they’ve kept their promises to you. That’s true self-confidence.

You may read all 12 signs here.

Moon Phase: Moon is in First Quarter phase and enters Waxing Gibbous phase on Oct. 31 at 12:16 pm PDT / 3:16 pm EDT (19:16:05 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Taurus on Nov. 3-4 at 10:23 pm PDT / 1:23 am EDT (05:22:49 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Scorpio is on Nov. 18 at 3:42 am PST / 6:42 am EST (11:42:03 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Aquarius and enters Pisces on Oct. 29 at 4:46 pm PDT / 7:46 pm EDT (23:46:14 UTC).
Sun Degree: 5-6 Scorpio.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
No changes today.

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Mercury square Praamzius at 11:48 pm Oct. 27 PDT / 2:48 am EDT (06:48:08 UTC).
— Venus trine Asbolus at 5:36 am PDT / 8:36 am EDT (12:36:08 UTC).
— Mercury conjunct Deucalion at 6:42 am PDT / 9:42 am EDT (13:41:54 UTC).
— Sun opposite 1992 QB1 at 2:06 pm PDT / 5:06 pm EDT (21:05:48 UTC), and Pallas at 4:37 pm PDT / 7:37 pm EDT (23:37:24 UTC).
— Jupiter square Crantor at 8:57 pm PDT / 11:57 pm EDT (03:57:21 Oct. 29 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Oct. 28
(The Day of Research) | Scorpio Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
Take special care to discern what is true from what is false. Make an effort to be truthful in all that you say and do. Take the time to understand your feelings before you act on them. All of this is part of a commitment to being impeccably honest, especially with yourself. You’ve learned that there’s no happier way to live, and no more fulfilling.

Written in the Planets
It would seem that you’re being shown the threshold you can (must?) cross into a new phase of life, and also the best strategy for doing so. It’s likely this is being shown by another person, or through a relationship dynamic — possibly even through confrontation, though it could feel more like a dance. With the Scorpio Sun making an opposition today to asteroid Pallas and unnamed object 1992 QB1 in Taurus, certain themes are being emphasized in this situation. Although the physical, material or values-related parts of the threshold and the plan seem to come through someone else, the emotional awareness, expression and transformation needed are all up to you. Go ahead — Jupiter still has your back, and the signs involved are juicy.

Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries weekly for May 7, 2004.

You seem to be struggling with the effects of recent astrology, but the storm is clearing. You need to play it very cool today because more is developing than you currently know. The advantage of the celestial set-up as it’s developing is that, at least, certain factual information and the necessary course of action will become far more clear in the next 24 hours. You could say this is a test of faith, but you would do well to ask, faith in what? Do not invest your faith in anything outside yourself. If there is a test involved in this whole process, that is it.

Watching the Lunar Flow

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The Moon is now moving through Aquarius until late Sunday. Such a lunar position by itself highlights deeply felt issues in common. The fact that the Moon will also be in its first quarter phase tonight (Friday) is informative for those who seek an empowering resolution of those issues.

Each of astrology’s twelve signs is a unique combination of element (fire, earth, air or water) and quality (cardinal, fixed, or mutable). Both Aquarius and Scorpio (where the Sun is now moving) are fixed signs.

Signs which share the same quality are either at right angles or in opposition to each other on the zodiac’s circle. Because of that, any two objects which are expressing through the same quality of background will be in what astrologers call “hard aspect” to each other.

The word “hard” comes with baggage. For astrologers, not all of that luggage is appropriate. Granted, correlations with challenge can rarely be ruled out when interpreting the most prominent of hard aspects. Yet, by the same token, the inevitability of a corresponding reward for acting on difficulty should not be forgotten when reading conjunctions (objects in the same degree of the same sign), squares (90 degree separations on the zodiac) or oppositions.

Interestingly, the best known lunar phases (New Moon, Full Moon, first and last quarters) all represent hard aspects from the Sun to the Moon. Tonight’s lunar first quarter, for example, is the “opening” square – a separation of 90 degrees from the Sun to the Moon which takes place one week after the immediately preceding New Moon and one week before the Full Moon to follow.

Appropriately, the Moon at quarter phase is half lit and half dark, a fitting symbol for both the challenges and rewards a square aspect represents. That’s where you come in.

Much as with politics, astrology is everybody’s business. In both cases, participation is rewarded with a proportional amount of influence. Lack of involvement, on the other hand, usually results in a forfeit.

It should be pretty clear for anybody paying attention that politics is too important to be left to professional politicians. The same principle can be said to apply to astrology. Either way, informing yourself is a crucial requisite for participation.

Simply being aware confers you a surprising amount of power. Acting on that awareness empowers you even more. It should therefore be no surprise that history’s most infamous authoritarians all have at least one thing in common: discrediting or blocking access to any source of information which is at odds with what the putative leader professes.

Of course, it takes two to tango. Despots could not exist were they not enabled by those who choose to be not only ignorant, but also hostile towards anybody who contests a dictatorial point of view.

All of which leads back to tonight’s lunar first quarter. Because the Sun and Moon are in square aspect to each other, a challenge some sort of is likely to go with your territory this weekend. If you know simply that, you have a leg up on those who don’t.

Beyond being aware, perhaps the most salient meaning behind this particular First Quarter Moon has to do with what the nature of any challenges will probably be.

With both Sun and Moon in fixed signs, the most likely difficulties will have to do with knowing the difference between maximizing the light (for instance: persistence and definition) and minimizing the dark (for example: intransigence) sides of that quality.

That’s because, with a Full Moon coming, all which light represents in the context of fixed signs will implicitly prevail over this next week. If you will but act to have the same thing happen in your life (and ideally, in community), the two weeks which follow will be all the more likely to see an integration, rather than a dominance, of darkness in the second half of our current lunar cycle.

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Nick Turse: From Niger to Somalia, U.S. Military Expansion in Africa Helps Terror Groups Recruit

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Links to today’s show transcripts:

Nick Turse: From Niger to Somalia, U.S. Military Expansion in Africa Helps Terror Groups Recruit
As U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley travels in Africa and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a classified briefing Thursday with Pentagon officials on the deadly ambush in Niger, where five Nigerian soldiers were killed along with four U.S. soldiers, reporter Nick Turse says U.S. military activity in Africa is a recruiting tool for terror groups.

Neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart: People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance
Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is directing the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency—walking back his plans, announced in August, to declare it a more serious “national emergency.” The shift means the federal government will not, as of now, direct any new federal funds to address the opioid crisis, which killed 64,000 Americans last year.

Four Winds Report for Oct. 27, 2017

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Today is Friday, Oct. 27, 2017
Hebrew date is 7 Cheshvan 5778
Islamic date is 7 Safar 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 7 Chuwen
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.16.11
Julian Day is 2458054

Today’s Birthdays: Mary Sidney (1561-1621), Mary Moser (1744-1819), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016), Teresa Wright (1918-2005), Ruby Dee (1922-2014), Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), John Cleese (1939), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Robert Picardo (1953), Simon Le Bon (1958), Maneet Chauhan (1976), Patrick Fugit (1982).

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
— Sylvia Plath

There Is a Future, and You Are It

Dear Friend and Reader:

So, it’s been a year since we heard, and experienced, the fell news about the supposed election of an insane person to the United States presidency. And as that year has gone on, day by day, the news in the public sphere has been of disaster and disorder, injury and insult, seemingly with no bounds and to no end.

Illustrations by Jess Shepherd.

Particularly since the total solar eclipse, it’s been one national crisis after the next, whether born of intent, neglect, or some seemingly natural process. A series of major hurricanes, followed by a vast swath of northern California burning up, interlaced with threats of nuclear war, escalation of the war in Afghanistan, revelation of a war in Niger and of American military presence in a total of 172 countries, and most lately, a tax plan that would take more than a trillion dollars in new national debt and put it in the pockets of billionaires. God, that was a long sentence. That’s how it is.

We have cabinet officers whose job seems to be dismantling the agencies they run; we witnessed a very, very strange massacre in Las Vegas; we are seeing the belching forth of an entire universe of sexual abuse, including by the president himself; we have American citizens drinking from contaminated wells used to monitor Superfund sites in Puerto Rico, and on and on. Anyone who comes near TV or the internet is getting a steady stream of these things into their consciousness.

This is just what we know about. Here we are, “the greatest nation in the world.” What could possibly go wrong?

Life on Earth is challenging, stressful and at least a little dangerous, often under the very best conditions. Even where things are relatively calm, it often seems that death and danger are nearby; and if not, we still experience the pain of the rest of the world.

Read more…

Moon Phase: Moon is in Waxing Crescent phase and enters First Quarter phase today at 3:22 pm PDT / 6:22 pm EDT (22:22:00 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Taurus on Nov. 3-4 at 10:23 pm PDT / 1:23 am EDT (05:22:49 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Scorpio is on Nov. 18 at 3:42 am PST / 6:42 am EST (11:42:03 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Capricorn and enters Aquarius today at 5:58 am PDT / 8:58 am EDT (12:58:38 UTC).
Sun Degree: 4-5 Scorpio.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Moon enters Aquarius at 5:58 am PDT / 8:58 am EDT (12:58:38 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Sun square Crantor at 11:10 pm Oct. 26 PDT / 2:10 am EDT (06:10:21 UTC).
— Sun trine Nessus at 9:20 am PDT / 12:20 pm EDT (16:19:58 UTC).
— Venus square Pluto at 8:21 pm PDT / 11:21 pm EDT (03:20:41 Oct. 28 UTC).
— Mercury sextile Pluto at 8:25 pm PDT / 11:25 pm EDT (03:24:40 Oct. 28 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Oct. 27
(The Day of Impulse) | Scorpio Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
You may not know where your energy is coming from, though you have plenty of it. And you alone have the power to choose what you do with your precious time, energy and spiritual gifts. If you want to be certain that family and household matters don’t distract you from your larger goals, you’ll need to be disciplined and organized, and get support.

Written in the Planets
With Venus in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn, you might find yourself needing to recognize, accept and work with emerging changes in a relationship. Yet another way to take this aspect is on the level of sex and power. Are you aware of the power dynamics at play in your sexual relationships? Yes, there’s the blatantly obvious and imbalanced, as evidenced by current news events. Yet sexual power dynamics can be surprisingly subtle and complex — such as when someone avoids expressing what they want, thereby making the other person guess and assume the responsibility of the desire, and of taking action. The part of the equation that seems to get dropped in our culture is often ‘pleasure’. What brings you pleasure sexually? And what prevents you from asking for or allowing it, if anything? Mercury in Scorpio sextile Pluto could help you figure things out.