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Good for the Gander

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Sunday’s lunar eclipse marks the final punctuation in the story that has been playing out since this time of year in 2016, when we had the first lunar eclipse in Leo as the nodes began their slow journey through the opposing realms of the ego and the collective.

Like a celestial metronome, the eclipse cycle structures time in a way that allows us to see the unfolding of various musical phrases, calls, responses, and developments playing out in the realms of our life where those eclipses fall.

We have seen how the themes of tension between the fixity of the individual will and the fixity of collective responsibility have played out both for good and for ill, indeed. Each time the Moon’s dark body blocked out the radiant Sun, each time the Moon passed unseen through the Earth’s ruddy shadow, we were given a window into the deep magic where will and responsibility hold one another in tension.

This has played out on the stage of our national life, within our cultural discourse, as well as within the silent and secret chapters of our lives. So, what have we learned?

Those of us who have been able to work constructively within the measures tapped out by the Sun and the Moon in these last two years have seen that the individual and the collective will are connected to one another. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

For those of us who have found our wills drawn to that which we desire most in life over the last two years, and who, under Jupiter’s beneficent patronage in Sagittarius have discovered again what it means to aim high, I offer this line from the writer Wallace Wattles:

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.” And one of the best ways to do so is to employ the creative, effusive powers of Leo, where identity and expression reign, so that they may be united to Aquarius’ social ethic.

If we have not yet learned this lesson, we will be given another opportunity to do so when, in nine and a half years, the eclipses return to Aquarius and Leo, but the shoe will be on the other foot this time.

If you’ve not learned this lesson, do it now. Do it today. Do not put if off to tomorrow. We have a fantastic opportunity to do so this week, not only as a result of this final eclipse in Aquarius, but also because of the story being told by the trio of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

The day after the eclipse, January 21st, Mars on a warpath in Aries strikes a stoic and staid Saturn in Capricorn, who refuses to yield to Mars’ assault—for Mars in Aries reminds Saturn of times in which Saturn has had to engineer clever Saturnian solutions out of the most unlikely materials available, as though he had to build a house out of fire.

Saturn is on the defensive and can withstand Mars’ siege as long as he needs, for he lacks for nothing in his frigid earthen fortress.

We will encounter stopping points and dead ends in our campaign towards our desires as a result of Saturn retaliating against Mars’ excitement with a deadening glare, but that’s not the end of the story for this week.

Mars’ blade throws sparks and a scintillating shower illuminates what it is that we desire. We’ll see that what Mars wants is not war, but simply to cut a new path to move forward, to blaze new trails in whatever area of our lives fall under his fiery demesne.

What better power to help him do that than Jupiter?

As Mars continues his journey forward, he carries with him the structuring power of Saturn as a result of this spat, and on the 25th, he brings this power to Jupiter in Sagittarius by a munificent trine, asking the All-father to help him find a new way.

It helps quite a bit that Jupiter’s daughter Venus has seen what’s been going on between Mars and Saturn and is bringing advance notice to her father as she visits him at home, carrying news of her brother Mars’ plight. Jupiter’s primed and ready to help.

Defeated but determined, Mars pleads his case, and Jupiter straightaway grants Mars the ability to accomplish what it is that he has set about to do, for Jupiter sees both Mars’ intensity and sincerity in his approach.

Since Jupiter sees Mars approaching from allied territory (for Jupiter is a stakeholder in every fire sign), Jupiter’s aid to Mars is in his own best interests, too. Goose and gander, once again, and Mars will be given what he needs to make the most of himself.

Wherever it is that we are striving and investing in our energy, signified by the place that Aries holds in our natal charts, we will encounter a barrier at first and then a breakthrough this week as the lesson of the Leo-Aquarius eclipse cycle sets more deeply into our bones.

Learn this lesson: the very best thing we can do for ourselves is to make the most of the whole world, and that the very best thing we can do for the whole world is to make the most of ourselves. In spite of barriers. Without delay. Today.

ARIES RISING

As you strive to manifest the most positive possible outcomes for your health and your personal circumstances, look for your spirit-attuned teachers to show you a new way to rise above the present challenges through fixing your eyes on that which is noble, true, and just in all things.

TAURUS RISING

Mars is on his warpath in places unseen to you, striking down those who would seek to undo you with a smile on their faces, and you will find secret and silent aid coming to you from the energies of people who you may have counted as enemies otherwise. “Love your enemies.”

GEMINI RISING

As you are striving to expand your social circles, be ready for challenge to come from people to whom you owe a debt of responsibility. New and gracious partners to assist you in connecting with communities where your insights can be validated and put to utmost use in motivating collective action.

CANCER RISING

Even though your workload seems like it has been growing beyond your ken as of late and you meet with resistance from your associates, the beneficent aid you’ll receive from far-sighted allies will help you manifest a tremendous payoff in your professional status. Remember to give credit where credit is due.

LEO RISING

As you strive for deeper understanding and a higher perspective, do not let the drudgery of your search have the final word but rather seek after new and creative ways of seeing as peers and superiors enrich your capacity to open the doors of perception.

VIRGO RISING

Striving for a way forward in your obligations to other people finds itself against creative blocks; you can’t keep doing the same thing. A return to ancient and nobler ways of advancing will give you the insight that you need in order to find this new way. Try going back to go forward.

LIBRA RISING

Willingness to engage in new ways of conversing—and perhaps putting some financial skin in the game—will allow you to find a new way forward in partnership with your beloved as they come up against the carefully constructed boundaries and restrictions defining your home life these days.

SCORPIO RISING

The tremendous effort you’ve been putting out to construct the best circumstances for yourself has met with utter resistance in your day-to-day environment (how are those resolutions going)? A new way comes when effort joins itself to viewing your financial powers from a higher perspective.

SAGITTARIUS RISING

Expect the energy you’ve been investing in your creative output as of late to trigger a notable breakthrough for your circumstances despite throttled resources. Knowing how to say “no” to the wrong materials will help you say “yes” to the right ones, even though “no” isn’t in your vocabulary. Think less Michelangelo, more Mondrian.

CAPRICORN RISING

All the recent motion at home isn’t unsettling you in the least—if anything, it’s creating new advantages by which to steel yourself against the enemies wearing friendly faces. Don’t accept more help or advice than you need—not that you’ve ever had a problem saying “no” to officious advice, anyway.

AQUARIUS RISING

Getting the word out to new audiences is continuing to prove a challenge due to resistance from the dark and deadening walls that contain you, but you’ve got friends in high places who stand at the ready to help amplify your messaging and thereby get you out of the box. Since when was cardboard so strong?

PISCES RISING

Against the sensible urging of your friends you’ll probably make a tremendous investment in furthering your view of the world this week, using your cash or your cache of energy. The return on investment looks promising, as does the view from up there.

Daily Horoscopes – 31 July 2018

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The Moon continues her trip through supernal Pisces, where her journey through an electric fog brings her face to face with Venus in an open confrontation. Venus is especially inclined to hear what the Moon has to say as the Moon comes to her smelling of her favorite vacation spot.

Aries

A figure from the past whom you had once believed to have fallen by the wayside brings an arresting word from an unconsidered source that offers wizened council as regards your current fruitless striving to make your figures work, whether your financial projections or your relational projections. Said wisdom might get lost in translation, though.

Taurus

An amicable neighbor with questionable boundaries makes a sudden appearance at your dinner table. They bring with them electric advice about how to throw down a wider spread and draw the focus away from your own pleasure so that you can draw other people into the feast—and, perhaps surprisingly, you take them at their word.

Gemini

If your dues didn’t get paid yesterday due to having missed your signal, you’ll have another startling chance to do the same today—and perhaps the starkness of the bill might cause you to reconsider how deep your life’s foundations have been built. All the same, a deep delight lies hidden among the darkness into which it has fallen.

Cancer

The day reminds you that the crucible of partnership is one of the most vital ways in which your self-concept and your view of the world around you have cracked open and grown exponentially in the recent season. Such reminder comes when you find yourself in a face to face confrontation with an old friend thinking aloud to yourself, “how would my parents handle this?”

Leo

It will be very easy for your internal anxiety to seep through the cracks in your effulgent exterior today when your awareness of all the ways you don’t measure up to your own expectations are brought to bear in a conflict with a superior about your paycheck. Get your money but don’t lose yourself in the process; the anxiety is an illusion.

Virgo

A supple and subtle friend not-so-gently nudges you out of the seemingly endless spiral of self-reflection that you’ve been caught in for the past few weeks as you’ve been mindfully re-arranging your mental furniture to create a cognitive schema worthy to be featured on HGTV. Go with them when they bring with them an invitation to party.

Libra

If your vocation is not giving you the satisfaction it once did, how much of that is rooted in facts outside your control and how much is simply part and parcel of your self-concept right now? Consider the ways that you feel indebted to balance the other. Have you boxed yourself into a corner by attempting to seek peace with others at all costs?

Scorpio

A sumptuous banquet becomes the battleground on which your stupendous vision of the world will come up against the very ways that you unduly limit yourself when a conflict erupts with a friend or partner about this very thing. There is no need to believe what you are told simply because it’s in the neighborhood’s water supply.

Sagittarius

Fear for a friend’s wellbeing after a wash of disconnection from them causes you to charge in with all the powers at your disposal to come to their aid. But do beware of helping overmuch in your eagerness to be of dutiful service to them; their friendship has never been predicated on what you can do for them, but rather the way you enrich them simply due to your presence.

Capricorn

Connections with your old stomping ground are in flux today as you push the envelope at a neighborhood barbecue. Not everyone wants to be told how problematic they are, even less so from their obnoxious neighbor. The transformation that you want to effect won’t be done with grandstanding and pontification; small conversations and quiet moments of joy are where the real transformations happen.

Aquarius

Hard work doesn’t seem to be ameliorating the ever-present diffuseness of your bank account, much to your chagrin, but at least a jolt of recognition catches you today and helps you to understand ways to structure your energies more efficiently. Perhaps considering the task ahead of you not as a mundane task but as a spiritual discipline might be the turn of understanding you need.

Pisces

The joy that comes your way today, with intensive support from the joyful company you keep, can offer a resplendent suggestion to a neighbor with whom you’ve become close. Look for such an opportunity as the day wears on for in joining hands to share the riches a good Earth has to offer you will make your own joy complete.

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Daily Horoscopes — 30 July 2018

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The Moon makes collaborative contacts with a number of heavyweights today as though surveying the damage from the eclipse with an outside consultancy, her boss, and her priest. Each planet has a different suggestion as to the best ways forward for her, but the advice that really shines is that of Jupiter, who is inclined to hear whatever it is the Moon has to say and who steps in to aid her.

Aries

Don’t neglect to pay attention to the ancient currents that are running deep beneath the level of your conscious awareness, for those very currents prove today to be the matter that will usher forth unsettling, stark, and ultimately beneficial avenues for the expansion of your horizons. Do not be afraid of the dark, for it is in the dark and holy cloud of unknowing that the Divine has pitched its tent.

Taurus

Folks usually come to you because of your staid and steady posture, but recent events have caused you to bend and flex in new and unexpected ways, drawing the attention of others who had written you off as rigid and inflexible. Those chaotic vapors waft off of you and attract a new collaborative partner from your workaday world. This nascent connection proves to be one that puts taproots deep down into both of your psyches.

Gemini

The bills get paid today—and not just the lingering credit card statement that you’ve let slide to the bottom of your inbox, but rather, the dues that you owe in your career. Your hard work is not going unnoticed despite the emergent web of chaos that has kept you feeling boxed in over the past few months. The spotlight will never fall on you if you remain stuck in the wings.

Cancer

As your attention is drawn to parts unknown, you meet with an unsettling and exciting upset among the company you keep that causes a bond to form between you and someone you had never considered, like a passing star knocking a comet into orbit around the Sun. Keep a close watch on the joy that erupts from this new connection for it can either become a drain on your energy or cause your heart to grow three sizes.

Leo

If you feel hemmed in at the moment by dependence on the benefices of other people, stay the course, for after a day of work chaos that demands much of you and over-structured collaboration you will meet with sudden and exciting motion that causes your feeling of indebtedness to them to catch fire and turn into a source of deep and lasting joy.

Virgo

A friend wants to join with you in a collaborative business partnership, and it isn’t any ordinary Amway-style pyramid scheme but rather it may prove to be a way to create a lasting legacy of structured joy among the people with whom you bump shoulders day in and day out. Listen to what they have to say because their idea may be the diamond in the rough you’ve been seeking.

Libra

Welcome the boons with which life presents you, even ones as insignificant as a kind face turned in your direction. If you’re having trouble at the office, stay the course; there is an end in sight as regards a potential draining situation in your career, and it will likely come to you in the form of a coworker who picks up an extra hour or shift out of the goodness of their heart to help you by staving off the encroaching madness.

Scorpio

What may seem like nonchalant dalliances with big ideas and bigger mysteries will yield to a deeper commitment to the joy of truth-telling and truth-seeking today. That commitment will become a weapon in your heart’s arsenal in short order as you remain mindful of the ways that the truth has indeed set you free—and you can’t wait to bring that truth to others, can you?

Sagittarius

The fear of losing a parent, or losing any connection to our roots, is something that every person must face, but you find it occupying your thought life today as news of goings-on in your neighborhood cause such matters to hit home with especial poignance today. Although such worry could inundate you easily, allow it to cause you to redouble your efforts to love those around you with fierce devotion today.

Capricorn

If you make plans with a friend today, you can expect this small yet surprising getaway to a place not too far off proves to be the perfect opportunity to reconnect with yourself after all the tension that you’ve been experiencing over the past several days. Indeed, “getting away” is the very thing you need to get out of the thistle patch in which you’ve been entangled.

Aquarius

If you have a pet, you’ll find them unusually important to you today as they assist you in reconnecting with your essential priorities amid the storm of chaos that threatens to consume your sense of connectedness with home and your very roots these days. Not only that, but their companionship proves to shake you out of any funk you’ve been in. Treasure their presence.

Pisces

The day brings a cluster of good tidings despite the resonant aftershocks of tectonic shifts happening in your neighborhood. Await a joyful word from people younger than you which will serve to motivate you to redouble your searching and fearless examination of the ways in which your non-existent boundaries can benefit from even the gentlest suggestion of a definite form.

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Daily Horoscopes — 29 July 2018

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The Moon stands off against a brassy and bombastic Mercury prior to moving into Pisces as she decreases in light. The Moon has Face rulership at her degree in Aquarius and happens is in Mercury’s triplicity at the time of the opposition, meaning Mercury is only slightly inclined to hear what she has to say… but Mercury is retrograde at this point, so he’s slogging backwards toward a confrontation and the Moon isn’t keen on it.

Aries

Opposing volleys of words at a family get-together superheat the air and you can’t get enough of it. If there’s a way for you to take delight in the exchange without making it worse for all parties involved, go ahead—but be careful that you don’t put yourself in a position where you find the remarks might be made about you.

Taurus

An interesting situation arises at work where the foundations you have been laying for a creative endeavor are now under studied scrutiny by your coworkers, and yet, you seem to enjoy having the opposition as it gives you the chance to dig in your heels even further, adamant that your vision for a way forward with the project is right (as it always has been, you’re sure). Enjoy that fun while it lasts.

Gemini

You don’t need to go far to find your fortune falling all around like pennies from heaven—just a few trips around town will do the job, and you’ll be able to find them wherever you end up today. Just remember that these serendipities are only worth pennies, and you can expect them to sting a little when they hit you from a distance.

Cancer

What emerged as a wash of anxious inner dialogue yesterday is shown to be what it is today when a financial concern reveals that all of the froth you’ve gotten yourself worked into is just a web of words that stands in the way of you taking right action to resolve the problem that has presented itself. Keep this lesson close to your heart moving forward.

Leo

You’ve got big talk, but do the actions you choose to take match the expectations that you build for yourself and your friends with your winning and wanton words? Where this comes down to is a challenge that will emerge in a collaborative partnership that will require you to look to the ways that the trouble you have created for yourself is no match for the assistance you have from your friends.

Virgo

A friend’s illness causes your heart to leap out of your chest in compassion towards them, and this interior motion reminds you once again that you are the one with the most control over the actions you choose, and the multifaceted ways in which you are perceived in this world. If you want to be perceived as a force of healing, then behave as one.

Libra

Tensions erupt in what was supposed to be a fun project when your understanding of the end goal doesn’t line up with the vision of your mentors and teachers. Those who initially seemed to be on your side may prove to be false friends when they see the way in which this weighty undertaking will contribute to your abundance. Stay true to the fixed course of your initial ideas.

Scorpio

A teacher takes a friend to task in a way that you haven’t quite seen since elementary school. Consider who or what comprises the “teachers” you have in your life now, and consider how watching their interactions with others in your world has been formative in showing you how to use your deep wells of intensity for good rather than for ill. What can you learn from this outburst?

Sagittarius

Just as word of money owed came to you yesterday, the question of your extant financial obligations will generate tensions in your partnership and your professional life today as you consider the cruel teacher the bondage of debt can be. This fleeting tension will pass (it is no catastrophe waiting in the wings), and perhaps it will pass easier if you attend to the lessons your present struggles are inviting you to embody.

Capricorn

Once again, a trusted partner or collaborator is at your right hand today, fighting lividly on your behalf. Don’t be surprised if today’s showdown has to do with educational debt. What did you do to attract such a person into your life? And with what obligations of thanks and generosity will you show your gratitude for their presence at your side? Treasure them.

Aquarius

You’re still recovering from the shock of yesterday’s sudden physical setback, however minor it may be, but today your body’s harsh lesson draws your attention to the way you view a trusted partner or collaborator with an admixture of both joy and fear. By its very nature love requires sacrifice, and you realize today that your current physical illness might be the result of having over-sacrificed for the sake of enjoyment.

Pisces

A desire to lay the foundations for new and exciting collaborations by entering into a creative silence will be washed out by the torrent of words levied at you by collaborators and relatives. Their complaints are not so much “about” you as they are “at” you, but assuaging them calls you to step up to the plate unexpectedly to fulfill some big-hearted obligation you didn’t know was yours in the first place.

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Daily Horoscopes — 28 July 2018

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The Moon, still reeling from her trip into the Earth’s shadow yesterday to fight the dragon, reaches out to a piercing Jupiter for a hand but is met with a reality check. Just as wound dressings must be peeled off and changed for the skin to knit, sometimes the path to healing requires a little more suffering.

Aries

In the fallout from yesterday’s tough decision, you continue to be richly imbued with an uncharacteristic generosity towards those who have need of you. The discomfort from this out-of-the-norm position may lead you to realize that you are at your best when your holy drive is placed in the service of others, even if doing so causes you to lose touch with your own concept of yourself so that the real you can shine forth brilliantly.

Taurus

What did you let go of as you were allowing old ties to pass away yesterday? Someone in your everyday world reaches out for assistance, having had a hard time with their own experience of yesterday’s difficulties, and your own idea of where you’re headed misaligns with what they need from you in this moment. It may very well be that you have chosen to let go of this particular tie, but they didn’t get the memo.

Gemini

An aftershock from yesterday’s blowout rattles you when the resources you’ve been sending far afield creates tension with your partner and your profession, thrusting you into a situation where you need to acknowledge that the path of integration in either circumstance will require a bit more discipline than you initially bargained for. Be careful not to let the vastness of the task undo you.

Cancer

Your interior dialogue becomes an endless wash of insecurity when an unexpected contact from a faraway fling drives you to reconsider all the ways in which your view of the horizon has been steady and staid for the last year. Is this a call to break out of the ol’ Cancer shell? Maybe, but consider the cost and the return-on-investment before you text them back.

Leo

Yesterday was not an easy day for you, and today will present an opportunity for you to assess and evaluate how the tension you have been experiencing in your relational life has either been tilling the soil to make ready for new life or has simply been keeping you boxed in to a pattern of anxiety that has robbed you of a sense of joy. Has joy truly perished, or is it hiding like a grain hid in dark earth, and waiting to arise green again?

Virgo

Did you cross the road for someone yesterday? If not, such an opportunity presents itself again in the tension charging the air when a friend crosses contentious paths with a relative or collaborator. This may be the opportunity you were looking for to move forward by moving back, turning yourself toward service once again, as both parties will have need of you.

Libra

“You gotta spend money to make money” seems to be the message in the air as you regroup from yesterday’s tough reality check. Part of the challenge is that your perception of the amount you have at your disposal has been over-inflated while in reality your access to resources has been circling the drain. Today’s tension reminds you to be realistic about what’s achievable with what you already have.

Scorpio

Despite the swell of abundance that seems to have been making its way to you for the last few months, a sudden poignancy catches up with you when you when a conversation with someone from your past draws your attention to the way in which having “a lot” can sometimes be having “too much.” Though you don’t need to worry about it right this moment, be prepared to ask the question: “how much is just enough?”

Sagittarius

The day brings word of a debt that you owe, whether financial or relational, and such word reminds you of the ways in which you have felt boxed in over the last several months. It remains up to you, however, to determine whether your present sufferings are the throes of imprisonment or the disciplines of an asceticism that will allow you to soar to even greater heights in a few months’ time.

Capricorn

Your partner is roundly in your corner today as the fallout from yesterday’s imbroglio continues to settle to the earth, but today, the tensions emerge between your partner and your own shortcomings as you find yourself pressing to maintain the sanctity of your oh-so-comfortable bubble that you’ve constructed for yourself. What happens when breaking free feels like being enslaved?

Aquarius

A sudden ache or illness demands that you pay attention to the way your current financial situation and plans for your future are not setting you up to lead a life that is in accordance with your ideals. What lesson does this physical pain have to teach you about your priorities and how you will go about setting them? As you work through the tension, strive to hear the voice that speaks a better word of vision.

Pisces

What did you learn yesterday in the quiet moments of listening to your body? Today the lesson continues as you are invited to retire to a far off place of enjoyment and rest as you reorient yourself to your understanding of what it is you are supposed to be doing in this one wild and precious life. The wisdom of the body will prove to be rich grist for the mill of the soul.

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