There is Hope for Humanity

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Decades into my project of studying the planets, I’ve figured out that the story never resolves. The cycles describe many potential points of resolution, but it rarely seems to happen. When it does, those few truly determined people are the ones who make it happen.

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Studying the planets means studying people and what they do; the issue is coming from the human realm, not the astrological or the symbolic.

One of my approaches to the horoscope column and my recorded readings is to find the point of resolution. I look at the planets, and I identify the pattern and the potential courses of action. Then I describe the way through, and forward. This is always based on action that you must take — not something that will happen to you.

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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

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.

Written in the Planets

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

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 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
The Day of Structured Action | The 2019-20 Virgo Astrology Studio can now be pre-ordered | All Other Signs

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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Welcome to the Movie Theater of Your Mind

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By Amanda Painter

I was meditating this morning on the chart for Friday’s Virgo New Moon (which is exact at 6:37 am EDT / 10:37:01 UTC) to see if a new angle on it might emerge. And an image did come to me: people collected together in a movie theater, watching a film being projected onto a screen.

Cropped still from Alfonso Cuaron’s 2018 film Roma.

It surprised me how tangibly the scene came through, and how appropriate it was, with an unusual collection of Virgo points clustered together opposite Neptune in Pisces.

For example, all of the ‘personal planets’ — the ones that describe our most basic traits and urges — are in early Virgo: Mercury (the mind, communication), the Sun (ego, conscious self-expression), the Moon (emotions, the unconscious), Mars (drive, ‘masculine’), Venus (receptivity, ‘feminine’). Along with them are the asteroid Juno (relationship needs), a hypothetical point called Transpluto (narrow focus, learning wholeness and integration) and a few other minor objects named for ancient deities with all-too-human characteristics.

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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
The Day of Language | The 2019-20 Virgo Astrology Studio can now be pre-ordered | All Other Signs

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.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

Read more here.