A Little Bit About Venus in Sagittarius...

Venus is in Sagittarius right now, adding a greater depth to our sense of beauty. She is increasing our desire to create and make beautiful things happen, and adding a sense of desiring something successful with an idea, deepening our desire for beauty and harmony to be infused into whatever we are doing, and a desire for joy and beauty to be a part of the structure of all we do.

The major aspect to watch out for is that Venus energies can set things up so we feel drawn to our baser desires, stopping at nothing to bring those desires into our lives. Examples are things like greed for power and money (there is nothing wrong with power and money in energetic terms, but rather the problems come in when we infuse them with things like greed, anger, and so on), recognition for the sake of feeding our ego and fame, everlasting beauty and youth without grace and dignity in honoring the Grand Old Wise Woman and Man.

Venus is on a long journey of transforming that started back in June of 2004. This specific Venus cycle will end in June, 2012. This journey of Venus involves values, what we value, how we value, how we value ourselves and others, how others value us and how we let them value us, money and the general systems of trading energy and matter, how we treat women and children and the feminine aspects of men, what beauty means to us individually and culturally, justice taking a front row seat, and balancing and harmonizing life as we create the foundation of our new dimensional home.

Patti

New Moon in Sagittarius - December 16, 2009

This is an especially easy time to begin activities, creative endeavors and/or anything that needs more spark, creativity and energy infused into it; a time to have greater insight into what might be a good group to market your ideas to or who to connect with about an idea or who to connect with to help unblock if you feel you can't get to your ideas or creativity. But give it some good old-fashioned hard work first - you just might be surprised at how you can get the problem solved!

Our Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels and Elemental Beings are working like crazy to make sure the right ideas get to the right people, so pay attention to dreams, "aha" moments, things that capture your attention and imagination, things that give you "goosebumps". Those are signs and are pointing you in the direction you need to move in.

This Moon cycle reminds us that there is dark and light within us all. These energies also remind us that there is no such thing as a complete polarity any more, but rather a blending of different shades of light and dark along the continuum of light. We just believe we need to have an opposition in order to be "right" or to feel safe in our belief system, or to point a finger away from ourselves and not take personal responsibility and change what needs to be changed.

This Moon cycle also serves to remind us that no one is completely right or wrong. Sagittarius is about many different groups, ideas, beliefs, politics and religions coming together to create a diverse, unique and strong larger group from many different groups working together. Sag seeks to find the common themes within all the diverse stories to weave together a beautiful strong tapestry that serves the needs of the entire community in joyful ways. If we look around right now, there are too many who are resisting finding the common humanity within all the diversity and are stubbornly holding to their polar and individual positions, making assuptions about others and ultimately not getting anything healthy accomplished. Many are not willing to take the time to listen to the stories, others are not telling their stories but rather tell stories put into their heads by someone else. In the end though, even these energies will serve to bring some consciousness raising light to us all.

Our quest for taking an idea and turning it into something might be challenged by a desire to follow the "dark" path of our inner self (ego) - to perhaps have a pity party or blame others for our situation. Much of the pull to the darkness may stem from a sudden awakening and the lack of emotional balance with conscious awareness to go along with it. It is a matter of being patient and allowing our other parts to awaken and find balance within ourselves...our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual selves, that is.

At the center of this pull to go within is the naturally-timed desire to be at-one with the Source of all life. There is a deep pull, especially at this time of the year, to float in the universal waters that create life, that heal and restore us - to rest and be within the womb of the Divine Mother.

This pull has two directions. One is toward the downward spiral of life and one is toward the upward spiral. The downward spiral takes us to places of self-pity, the feeding of our addictions, destructive thoughts and feelings and beliefs, the misuse of our innate psychic abilities, the locking away of our creative powers which can cause us to twist into a ball of fear and deep sadness, and blaming others rather than taking personal responsibility.

The other direction takes work and facing your fears and anyone or thing that puts you down, tries to silence you, belittle you or keep you from expressing your creative powers and standing up to them (this could be your own self, too). Ultimately all relationships lead back to ourselves and the Creator anyway so even if it seems like someone else is "blocking your way", look at that relationship and see what that can tell you about yourself and the overall situation.

This spiral upward takes courage to build appropriate boundaries whereas the downward spiral leaves you open to boundary breakers and you feel the pain from their pounding.

Self-confidence is a keyword here...believe in yourself! This is, after all, the best time of the year to BELIEVE in that which we cannot see or feel, but FAITH deep in our hearts tells us it there or will come. That it is good and powerful in all ways. The major faiths, including the old religions, honor this time of year for miracles of light, rebirth of the life giving Sun, the birth of the Son of God and the Divine Mother. These are all based on belief and faith that the Sun will return and that miracles do happen.

This is a time of foreshadowing of what our dreams can grow and mature into. Coupled with a strong desire to make contact with other living beings and the desire to prove ourselves. We are now driven toward new experiences, whether they are constructive or destructive. The ultimate combination of energies gives us the initiation period of opening up to the new, the desire to connect with others and experience new experiences and offer us pathways to walk along to make the constructive choices, the joyfully creative choices as we create the structure for the new dimension we have moved into.

The energies of this Moon cycle also speak to forgiveness - it would be easy to find a dark space and choose not to forgive. It might take a bit of work to reach for the space of sparkling light and choose to forgive. The power of forgiveness is magnified right now, so if you forgive with integrity and honesty, let's say one inch, the Universe will magnify that one inch a thousand-fold.

This also means forgiving ourselves. The current cycles point toward the most basic of relationships - the relationship we have with ourselves and with the Divine. If you find yourself suddenly being very hard on yourself it is part of the lesson to open your heart to your own self and forgive yourself so you can move forward in life, lovingly and with an openness to meet others with a curiosity and a sense of wonder to listen to their stories and revel in the diversity of all lives as well as the common threads we all share as beings on this planet Earth. This is necessary because very soon things will get REALLY interesting!

Some suggestions to work with this Moon cycle are: Work with colors, light, fragrances and beautiful sounds to find the path to light and creativity, success and forgiveness. Wrapping up in a blanket that makes you feel safe with the warm glow of candle light and some uplifting orange and/or pine frangrances with the powerful sounds of Mozart or Beethoven or your favorite jazz or celestial music or what makes you feel good, while sipping herbal tea, hot chocolate or warm apple juice with a cinnamon stick would be a very rejuvenating thing to do. Make this YOUR experience by resting with whatever fragrances, music, comfy and cozy things speak to YOU.

Another restoring activity would be to consciously choose something you would like to do (i.e., art, a new business, writing a story, designing a garden or a house...the list is endless) and with deep breaths of joy, begin to happily work on it. It doesn't have to be perfect; the perfection comes later. Just know this the perfect time to begin this passion that comes from your heart and soul.

Right now one of the greatest gifts we are being blessed with is the strong presence of will and strength of the spirit/mind connection. We have the ability to choose to use our willpower and strength of mind to shift the direction of energies from moving toward the pity party and head instead toward your personal path of creativity, connection with positive and powerful like-minded beings and people as well as success toward any new project or idea you undertake during this New Moon. Find methods to feel yourself in a safe, womblike space to regenrate, heal, grow, be in that state of restful peace to help you regain and restore your energies so at Solstice and the Full Moon, leading to Imbolc (beginning of Spring) you are in a good place to step out with whatever you have chosen to work on with this New Moon cycle. And if you don't really choose anything, know that you are still working on things even if you don't conscsiously know it and that's perfectly fine!

Patti

New Moon in Scorpio, November 16, 2009

This New Moon Cycle is about transformation and rejuvenation, ghosts of cycles past, and being able to see the deep inner structures of everything in order to determine whether they are still good, have some problems and need adjustments or are rotten and need to be completely transformed/released in order to move forward in a stable, sound, sustainable way that works for the highest good of everyone.

This Moon seems to be a maturation process for Scorpio energy, in general and wherever it is in all of our charts. This process is about making the conscious choice to choose to transform and take the action to transform with personal empowerment rather than allowing the energies to just destroy or cut out what isn't working based on the decision of some other power outside ourselves.

To me, this feels like we are taking the "traditional" myth of Persephone being kidnapped and the lives of everyone being forever changed, broken, sad, disempowered versus the myth of Persephone taking control of her own power and destiny and consciously choosing to do the work of her Soul's purpose and choosing to go to the underworld and work with lost souls and heal and doing this with full consciousness that this is indeed her true path and calling. She also chooses to create a balance of powers so that in the end, everyone benefits from the changes of the seasons, the time to go within and heal, the time to plant, time to grow, time to harvest, time to rest. Through this conscious and empowering choice Persephone teaches us that the journey inward, the journey into our darkness is healing, restful, powerful and empowering. She also shows that it can be transformational and help us find our courage rather than allow our fears to destroy us.

Pay attention to what's inside and how things are working or not working...if there isn't a sense of harmony, beauty, balance, win-win or win-learn, or if there's an out of balance amount of stress and challenges, then give some thought to re-structuring from within to make things flow and work in greater harmony with the Divine plan that you are feeling and seeing.

Scorpio energy also cuts out what is no longer relevant. Rather than waiting for something to be yanked away, use this time to decide if the inner structure and the relationships are at a point where you feel destruction is imminent. It may be time to make a conscious choice to let something go that is beyond repair or that you have outgrown.

Through this process of New Moon in Scorpio we can come to a place of forgiveness if we are willing to let go of the need to control versus being open to co-creation, tolerance and inclusion.

Over the next three years we will come face to face with our "isms" and any areas where we lack tolerance, forgiveness, centeredness, balance, harmony.

As for ghosts of cycles past, we are dealing with some of the choices made over the past 30, 40, 50 and 60 years, all coming together in one range of time. Ultimately it is about making the conscious choice to protect our children, the Earth and all or our resources in sustainable and respectful ways. To conserve what we have and be sensible with what we have and what we do so that others no longer have to suffer and so our children, grandchildren and so on, not only have what they need to live, but to be able to thrive and hopefully take what we start and transform it into really wonderful things. All of this must happen now.

During this Moon cycle we may be more sensitive to feeling the wounds of others we love or feel some kind of kinship with...but if you are particularly sensitive you may feel even more of humanities pain. In spite of feeling more psychically sensitive, the channels are a bit "off", so be careful with interpreting what you are picking up on...you may be picking up something that is true, but applying it to the wrong thing or in the wrong way. The question is: can we transform this knowledge into useful action by detaching from the emotions in a way that allows to understand the feelings and work with them to make the best possible changes?

This is a time of great cleansing, great transformation and a great gift of being able to get to the very essence of our beings. To get to the heart of our dreams and our Soul's purpose. To clear out the clutter and baggage that keeps us from these fundamental truths.

What we do from now until the New Moon on January 15, 2010 will be what we use to create the foundation, form and structure into the year 2010...both personally and globally.

Right now we are feeling, intuitively picking up the clues about what we are to create; what the resources are that we need; how to work with the Divine in partnership to make these dreams a reality on Earth; what the connection to humanity is; what we each need to do in order to bring out our power so it is balanced, harmonious and sees no boundaries of sex, race, religion, education, socio-economic status, political philosophy, nationality and ethnicity. We are being asked to dig deeper and find our integrity and live with and in integrity as much as possible and give up our need to control in order to force outcomes rather than allowing things to flow from the Truth.

With the New Moon in Scorpio, you may feel like hiding, and that's fine. Not only is this a sensitive time frame, but this time of year calls us to want to rest quietly and seek out time with ourselves by going deep within our Souls. Answering that call can help you find rest, healing, and clarity.

Patti

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