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The Day of the Public Appearance: Birthdays and Planet News

If Your Birthday is Aug. 31
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Have patience with yourself when it comes to fulfilling your aims. You may be progressing faster than you realize, and to some extent at least this is a slow and steady kind of game. Gradually, you’re bringing to life a concept that is unique and meaningful, from within the fundamental depths of your being, and thus a part of you. Be careful not to underestimate its significance, and grant yourself whatever time, resources or permissions you feel are needed.
— by Amy Elliott

If your Sun, Moon or rising sign is Virgo, You are heading into a most unusual solar year, set up to do the thing Virgo is designed for: integrate the elements of your being, find your direction and purpose, and act on it. Eric will lay it all out in your 2019-2020 Virgo Astrology Studio.

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This weekend ends with the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. But no matter what country you live in, you’ll likely find that getting down to business on a project and getting physically active — rather than lounging around idly — will feel better. The Sun is currently conjunct Mars in Virgo (exact Monday). In any sign, a Sun-Mars conjunction describes a need to occupy yourself with creative and constructive pursuits. In Virgo, however, the potential increases for un-channeled energy to manifest as irritability, or as mental restlessness and insecurity. So get busy.

Additionally, Mercury in Virgo is in aspect to Uranus in Taurus and Ceres in Sagittarius. This also describes stimulation and activity. Maybe try tackling a problem with a new solution; consciously step out of routines (including mental habits) and explore new interests and locations. If you find yourself becoming bored, whether with an activity or whoever’s in your company, seek out those with unusual opinions and new insights.

There will be a day to stick with the tried and true, but this might not be it. That said, there is a difference between adventurousness and recklessness. Sometimes that difference is a matter of the role your ego is playing in your urges and responses. Are you really in disagreement with someone, or do you just want them to recognize who you are and what you’re doing?
— by Amanda Painter

It is difficult to feel good these days; it’s challenging to focus on your growth and self-care, or even to relax. We are pulled out of ourselves constantly, and often distracted from our core purposes. IN THESE TIMES, the Planet Waves autumn reading, will help.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Saturday, Aug 31, 2019

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries weekly for December 31, 1999.

You are your dreams. Many astrologers would say that Aries are more likely to identify with their desires, but desires represent a present and rather focused state of wanting or need, even if that points to some success or achievement in the future. You are entering a much looser and more versatile reality, one in which there are less likely to be fixed points of reference, and in which you are free to use your intuition with far greater certainty than ever. It appears that an entirely new system of guidance has taken over our reality, though it may take some weeks for you to get a sense of things, including why, in the past, you have been so afraid of your own imagination.

It is difficult to feel good these days; it’s challenging to focus on your growth and self-care, or even to relax. We are pulled out of ourselves constantly, and often distracted from our core purposes. IN THESE TIMES, the Planet Waves autumn reading, will help.

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The Day of the Rock: Birthdays and Planet News

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If Your Birthday is Aug. 30
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Your birthday this year is accompanied by a rare New Moon, which denotes a new level of emotional maturity, and possibly an unprecedented sense of completeness within yourself. This is an achievement well worth celebrating with relish. It means you’ve come a step closer to perfecting that art which many people need a long time to master: that is, getting out of your own way. Now you have a much clearer path to your goals, and can move at greater speed.
— by Amy Elliott

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This morning’s Virgo New Moon is a special one: the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and the asteroid Juno (with a few other minor points and objects) are all lined up in early Virgo — loosely opposite Neptune in Pisces. Along with the New Moon itself (which is a conjunction of the Sun and Moon), Mercury and Juno also make an exact conjunction today. Normally, we think of New Moons as the quiet, internal part of the lunar cycle, and Full Moons as the ones about high-energy interpersonal situations.

Yet, while this event definitely has its internal facet, there’s a description here of the many ways we sometimes project our internal ‘stuff’ onto others — often as a way of avoiding dealing with ourselves. You might carefully notice today where your attention is drawn. Are you focused on ‘a relationship’ or on the experience of a partner?

Or do you feel able to guide your attention back to yourself: your present circumstances and vision for the future, your most immediate healing needs and growth challenges — as opposed to getting stuck in some story about the past? You might also consider any inner voices stirring up tension, given that Ceres in Sagittarius is square the New Moon. Which ones are the internalized voices of those who would hold you back, by insisting that you not change? Which ones are the echoes of teachers, mentors, and fellow adventurers-in-growth who might spur you on and inspire you to continue becoming all you’re capable of being? There are cycles ending, and cycles beginning currently. See each of them for what they are.
— by Amanda Painter

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Friday, Aug 30, 2019

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo weekly for July 11, 2008.

You may feel some old stories percolating to the surface — material dating back to around 1999. Even if not, I propose it’s time for the nine-year eclipse cycle reality check. August 1999 was meaningful because that’s when solar eclipses returned to your sign for the first time in 18 years. By an oddity in the Saros cycle (which tracks the pattern of eclipses), there were “missing Leo eclipses” in the early 1990s, and by late in the decade (when they returned) you were catapulted forward in ways that were unexpected, potentially unpleasant, but ultimately necessary. Now the cosmos is warming up for a new set of eclipses across Leo/Aquarius, which will move stuck energy for you, your partners, and for all the fixed signs. I suggest you set your own agenda for this event, rather than allowing your circumstances to set it for you. (Timeframe: less than three weeks.)

It is difficult to feel good these days; it’s challenging to focus on your growth and self-care, or even to relax. We are pulled out of ourselves constantly, and often distracted from our core purposes. IN THESE TIMES, the Planet Waves autumn reading, will help.

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The Day of Structured Action: Birthdays and Planet News

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If Your Birthday is Aug. 29
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It would appear you’re approaching a turning point in your personal journey, which involves you learning to understand yourself possibly more thoroughly than ever before. Part of this might relate to accepting facets of yourself you’ve potentially avoided acknowledging in the past. The experience may feel like an initiation, or a moment of sudden enlightenment; regardless, it’s thanks to groundwork you’ve laid assiduously paying off. Don’t forget to honor yourself duly for your efforts.
— by Amy Elliott

Written in the Planets

Early in the day, Mercury joins the throng of points in Virgo — one of the two signs it rules (the other being Gemini). Mercury in this sign is said to describe stability of mind, and thinking that’s practical and logical. Yet that tends to work best when you have something tangibly productive, creative or analytical to focus on; this type of mental energy needs a job to do beyond idle daydreaming. So what projects have you had on the back burner, and what would be the first steps to reviving them?

With Mercury in Virgo also indicating strong communication and critical faculties, it’s also not a bad idea to watch out that ‘constructive criticism’ actually includes the constructive part. Or, you know, lean more toward asking questions about how and why something is the way it is, rather than offering unsolicited opinions.

On a somewhat related note, Venus is making aspects from Virgo that suggest the usefulness of learning to recognize the guilt trips others may try to lay on you. When it comes to prior agreements, there’s a difference between honoring your word and subjecting yourself to co-dependent or other unhealthy treatment. Abuse does not require your loyalty; your most sacred promise is to your own healing and wellbeing, from which place you can support that of others. Later this evening, the Moon enters Virgo on its way to tomorrow’s New Moon conjunction with the Sun. What smaller parts of your life’s whole could stand some reorganizing, realigning or integration?
— by Amanda Painter

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Thursday, Aug 29, 2019

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weekly for June 6, 2002.

Either you must meet the world on its terms or it must meet you on yours. Only you know whether your level of strength clarity and integrity are sufficient to afford you the right to make certain demands. And while others may be speaking in no uncertain terms about what they want and while they seem to have all the luck (or is it money) you have something that they do not. So let me revise my original idea. If all parties are vividly clear and acting in good faith then a genuinely productive collaboration is possible. Everyone has so much to gain but the most precious is seeing the world a new way in a truly new moment.

It is difficult to feel good these days; it’s challenging to focus on your growth and self-care, or even to relax. We are pulled out of ourselves constantly, and often distracted from our core purposes. IN THESE TIMES, the Planet Waves autumn reading, will help.

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The Day of Language: Birthdays and Planet News

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If Your Birthday is Aug. 28
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You could well cover a lot of ground in the months ahead with regard to your emotional healing. The main thing to bear in mind, perhaps, is that safeguarding your wellbeing and promoting your own happiness are not only reasonable but important practices. Stay in touch with your intuition, and pay attention to your dreams. Don’t fight down aspirations, or even flights of fancy; instead, follow them along the winding tracks of your mind and take note of the places where you land.
— by Amy Elliott

Written in the Planets

You may want to figure something out all on your own, rather than accept instruction from another; or maybe the adventurous advice someone offers is at odds with a current plan or analysis you’ve been working on. These are just a couple ways today’s Virgo Sun square Ceres in Sagittarius could manifest. It’s also possible that the details you’re focused on aren’t quite squaring with the broader vision you’ve been using to feed your spirit.

Whatever the situation and however you choose to navigate it, bear in mind that there are times when we reject the nurturing we need simply because it does not match how we see ourselves. Maybe file it away, but consider revisiting later what’s offered to you today? Perspective can shift over time, and sometimes does so quickly under certain circumstances. This week’s Virgo-intensive sky might describe just such a situation, given its emphasis on focusing inwardly to incorporate various facets of yourself. With the Sun conjunct Mars and trine Uranus, there’s mental and physical energy you can draw upon for this process, even though the Moon is waning.
— by Amanda Painter

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Wednesday, Aug 28, 2019

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries daily for February 28, 2018.

You have enough energy to power a small city; though, even still, you can conserve some of it. You don’t want to burn out, and you will need some reserves for important tasks the next few days. You may have already accomplished what you needed to do. Take some time and chill out.

It is difficult to feel good these days; it’s challenging to focus on your growth and self-care, or even to relax. We are pulled out of ourselves constantly, and often distracted from our core purposes. IN THESE TIMES, the Planet Waves autumn reading, will help.

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