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Intuitive Astrology: Libra Season 2019 ~ September 19, 2019


By Tanaaz

On the day of the Equinox, September 23rd, the Sun moves out of earthy Virgo into the air sign of Libra, moving our focus to our need for connection and creating balance in our relationships.

The Sun moving into Libra also represents a turning point. Mother Nature starts a new season and we also reach the halfway mark of the astrological year. Symbolically, this represents a shift to a higher level of consciousness.

With this shift, we are now encouraged to bring our awareness to not only how we can be healthy and balanced, but to also how we can create healthy and balanced connections with others.

Under Libra Season, it is the perfect time to bring our focus to the people we are choosing to surround ourselves with.

Who is supporting your growth and helping you to be the best? Who is tearing you down and making you feel bad about yourself?

People themselves are not toxic, but they can become toxic for us if conflicts are left unresolved or if we develop unhealthy attachments. Certain relationships can also become toxic when there is continued action out of fear or ego.

Under the Libra Sun, all of us will receive support from the Universe to work through relationships that have become toxic either by setting boundaries or figuring out a new way to tackle the issue.

We may also have to decide whether we want to keep certain people in our lives or if the time has come to let them go.

Very often the challenging relationships that come into our lives help to expose our wounds. In fact, many of us tend to play out our wounds, triggers, and insecurities on the people around us.

Unless we become conscious of when we are doing this, it can lead to dysfunction in our relationships, and these dysfunctions can sometimes be a clear eye-opener as to what needs to be healed or addressed within ourselves.

When it comes to dealing with challenging people in our lives, sometimes it helps to remember that everyone, including yourself, is just doing the best they can from their level of awareness.

Sometimes it also helps to think of challenging people as parts of your soul that have come into your life to remind you of the lessons you wanted to learn and the growth you were destined to achieve in this life.

When we view things from this vantage point, it allows us to stop passing blame or getting caught up in what the other person is doing and instead, allows us to reflect on how we can use this experience as a catalyst for growth.

This doesn’t mean that we learn to tolerate bad behavior, we can of course, take this approach and still set boundaries, but it does sometimes lessen the strained emotions when you choose to look at this challenging person as just a part of you that is trying to get your attention. After all, at our core, we are all connected and we all One.

In 2019 as the Sun moves into Libra, we also have a configuration of planets beckoning us to heal and release our past wounds around our relationships.

In fact, this Libra Season could be especially healing and revealing, so see if you can identify a pattern, habit, or belief that you would like to be free of, and ask the Universe for assistance in helping you to move through it.

Libra is represented by the scales, so our key through navigating whatever comes our way under this Season is to create balance.

While the focus is around our relationships, we also want to strike balance between looking after our own needs as well as the needs of others. We want to work on being compassionate and understanding but also assertive and ready to set boundaries if necessary. We also want to focus on collaboration rather than compromise.

When we team up and work together despite our differences or beliefs, the possibilities to achieve, succeed, and lift each other up can be endless.

Under the Libra Sun, let us enrich our lives by focusing on creating balance and harmony within ourselves and with the people around us. Let us not be afraid to let unhealthy relationships go and to see even our greatest enemies as teachers on this journey of growth.

Libra Season wraps up on October 23rd when the Sun moves into Scorpio.

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Intuitive Astrology: Jupiter Mars Square September 2019 ~ September 11, 2019


Editor’s Note: In some ways, this weekend and continuing on through the end of September 2019, will be “crunch” time for those seeking to embark in, or join, in understanding of the spiritual journey we are all truly undertaking.

This is why this coming Full Moon in Pisces (Sept. 13/14) is called the “Harvest Moon” in reference to souls that may seek to become more knowledgeable about “who” they are, and “why” they are here. All souls, regardless of action they do, or do not take at this time, will return home to Source and the timing of their return will be perfect for them, so…no worries there!

Pay attention to your own mood swings and emotional responses, know that you are soooo tenderly loved and cared for, and BE…

InJoy!

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By Tanaaz

If you have been feeling extra irritable lately, impulsive, or even a little burnt out, it could be due to the Jupiter Mars Square which will peak just before the Full Moonon September 12-13th and last until around the 19th of the month.

Jupiter and Mars align in a square configuration at least once a year, but in 2019, their energy is amplified as both planets have been very busy and very active.

Jupiter turned direct on August 11th, and has been hovering over the Great Attractor ever since, which acts as an energy amplifier. Jupiter won’t do this again for another 12+ years.

Mars has also been busy and earlier this month it aligned with the Sun, which is something it only does once every two years. This alignment would have helped to supercharge Mars, allowing its energy to be active all through the month.

Now that Jupiter and Mars are aligning in this sacred and potent formation, we are going to get a double dose of their energy and feel the effects of what these two heavenly bodies have been trying to instill in our lives.

Mars is the planet of action, energy, motivation, and also guides us to overcome our fears. Jupiter is the planet of expansion, abundance, and optimism, and can magnify things to their fullest expression and potency.

Mars and Jupiter come together to create a productive time but also a time where we need to think about how we are using our energy and where we are putting our attention.

Are we using our energy to further ourselves and better ourselves or are we using our energy to further distract us from the truth in which we are?

Under this Jupiter-Mars energy we can also feel everything from:

  • Increased motivation
  • A sense of urgency to get things done or bring resolution to things
  • Confidence to take on bigger or riskier projects
  • Increased enthusiasm and optimism 
  • Ability to overcome obstacles with more ease
  • “The show must go on” mentality
  • A feeling of running out of time
  • Impulsiveness
  • Feeling threatened or tense
  • Feeling the need to call others out
  • Ability to make quick decisions
  • Defensiveness 
  • Heightened emotions, especially anger and frustration
  • A need to exercise or exert creative energy
  • Feeling burnt out 
  • Risk-taking behavior 

Jupiter squaring Mars is also an aspect that can bring conflicts, court cases, and legal issues into our lives. It can also force us to look at how we are spending our energy and what we are choosing to give our energy to.

Energy expended in a positive way under this aspect can lead to heightened creativity and heightened confidence when it comes to making decisions and getting things crossed off our to-do lists.

Under this energy, we also have to be careful about what we say to others or reacting in a hurry. We also need to be mindful of working too hard as burn out can happen under this aspect too.

All of us will feel the energy of this Mars Jupiter Square in our own unique way. While the energy is there for all of us to use, in order to be received, it has to filter through our being and merge with our own energy field in order to become real in our lives. How it merges with your own energy field is how you will experience the manifestation of these energies.

Pay attention over the coming days to what events may align with this Mars Jupiter energy in your life.

Overall, Mars and Jupiter coming together is considered a positive aspect, but if you notice any conflicts or uncomfortable energy emerging, exercising, taking time to rest, and thinking of more productive and positive ways to use your energy can all help.

Most of us spend a lot of time in the day getting caught up in stressful and anxious thinking. We think about the past or about the future, and get stuck in judgment about ourselves and others.

In order to shift out of this energy, we first need to become aware of when we are doing it, then we need to work on redirecting our thinking to something more positive and productive.

In the long term, practices like therapy, journaling, and meditation are all wonderful for helping us to keep our stress levels at bay. Spending time in nature, getting some fresh air, and taking time for the ones we love can also help too.

Our minds are powerful and our actions are powerful and under this energy, we can take both of these and marry them up to create something wonderful in our lives. We just have to be mindful of how we are using this energy and check in with ourselves to ensure we are not allowing our ego or our fears to take the lead.

The Jupiter Mars Square is also going to pave the way for the final square Jupiter will make to the planet Neptune, which happens on September 21st. This is big energy and will be guiding us to wrap up a pivotal cycle we have been working with all year. You can read more about that here.

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Intuitive Astrology: Jupiter Aligns with the Great Attractor ~ August 10, 2019


By Tanaaz

Our Universe remains very much a mystery. There is still so much to explore, so much to see, and so much to understand.

In the 1970s, scientists discovered that remarkably, our galaxy was being pulled towards a specific point in the Universe. This point has been called the Great Attractor.

Scientists are still trying to figure out how and why we are heading towards this Great Attractor. While they have tried to look into what the Great Attractor holds, it lies on the other side of the Milky Way, making it very difficult to see what is there.

What they have found so far is that the Great Attractor holds the mass of over 1,000 trillion Suns and our Solar System is hurtling towards it at a speed of 2.2 million kilometers per hour. Yep, 2.2 million! Think of that the next time you feel stuck in the same place!

Here’s some good info from UniverseToday.com–

“Our galaxy and other nearby galaxies are being pulled toward a specific region of space. It’s about 150 million light-years away, and here is the best part. We’re not exactly sure what it is. We call it the Great Attractor….. We can see how our galaxy and other nearby galaxies are moving toward the great attractor, so something must be causing things to go in that direction. That means either there must be something massive over there, or it’s due to something even more strange and fantastic.”

In astrology, the Great Attractor is located at 14 degrees of Sagittarius, but as its discovery is relatively new, the significance behind it is still emerging.

Phillip Sedgwick is the leading astrologer when it comes to understanding the Great Attractor. You can read his full write up, but here is an excerpt-

“People born with the Sun, Moon, ascendant or another important planet close to, or aspecting, this point will often find that they have a polarizing effect on people around them, making unusually close friends and intense enemies as well. They can give the impression that they hold the key to the mystery of the universe, correctly or not. The perception is that people on the Great Attractor have unusual appeal or potency. They find themselves in vast circles, accidentally. Or they have impacted masses of people and think they have created no influence in their lives whatsoever.”

From Sedgwick’s work and my own intuitive feelings, here is what the Great Attractor may represent-

  • We are all magnetic beings with the ability to pull things towards us and be pulled by things too
  • Fate vs. free will: we are moving to a point we have no control over and yet we still feel free to make choices
  • All things lead here, so perhaps this is a clue as to our purpose and our reason for being- we are all being led to it whether we realize it or not
  • We can’t see it but we know we are moving towards it- kind of like death or change
  • Located out of sight on the other side of the Milky Way as a symbol for a new truth emerging or a greater truth to be revealed

While this is just the tip of the iceberg, it can help us to begin to understand what the Great Attractor may symbolize or represent.

Those born from December 6th-8th or those with the Moon, Rising Sign or other planets on the Great Attractor may also resonate with some of the above points.

So, where does that leave Jupiter?

Jupiter has been retrograde since April 10, 2019, and will station direct on August 11, 2019, at exactly 14 degrees of Sagittarius, the home of the GA.

This is going to amplify the energy of already expansive Jupiter and help us to receive energies and understand the GA with more clarity.

Just reading this very article brings more awareness that there is this huge gravitational force in the Universe that is pulling us towards something.

As Jupiter stations direct on the GA, we may also find ourselves asking the same question- Where do we feel pulled? Where do we feel we are heading?

Sedgwick shares that in the past, when Jupiter Retrograde was active over the GA, the Titanic sunk. It was the ship that wasn’t supposed to sink, but it did, creating doubt and questions in the minds of the people.

A deeper questioning of the truth was stirred and perhaps that is what we will find as Jupiter moves across this sensitive point in the cosmic skies in 2019.

Because this energy is Galactic, there is also an element of needing to shift out of our own reality in order to understand it.

We definitely don’t feel like we are moving at millions of kilometers per hour and yet we are. So, what is reality really? It can’t just be what we can rationalize with our five senses, it has to be more.

Many great spiritualists and quantum physicists have always felt that this Universe is just a hologram and we are living in a type of matrix controlled by our unity consciousness.

We are all co-creators building reality together by what we think, act, feel, and do. We are all threads in the same tapestry, weaving together in order to make the whole.

If you think about the word, “Great Attractor” it also reminds us of our own individual power to attract things to us using our vibration and our own individual magnetism.

When we vibrate higher we change our reality but that doesn’t mean we are still not part of the tapestry and not part of the same creation.

We are in this together, all of us. It is just that by raising our vibration we can see that there is so much more, we can shift our perspective and understand the journey from a more loving point of view.

Jupiter is the most expansive planet in our Solar System, and especially as it stations direct right over the GA, we are going to really be able to feel into the magnetism and mystery of our cosmic world.

The Great Attractor is where we are heading, whether we realize it or not, but it is definitely not the end of the road and not the end of the story.

There is so much out there that we still don’t know about our lives, our Universe, and what we are all doing here.

Jupiter going over the GA from August 11-29, will help us to think bigger, wider, and more abundantly.

During this window, think about your own power and ability to attract and manifest whatever you think and feel into your own life.

PS. On November 19-23, 2019 Jupiter will also pass over another sensitive point in our Universe known as the Galactic Center. While it’s not as powerful as the GA, it will help to amplify the energies of Jupiter and will be another good time for manifestation and attraction work.

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Intuitive Astrology: August Full Moon 2019 ~ August 8, 2019


By Tanaaz

The Full Moon on August 15th falls in the sign of Aquarius and is going be shedding a light on what we can do to serve each other.

Aquarius is the sign of the humanitarian and is represented by a woman carrying a jug of water. The woman symbolizes the healer in us all and the water symbolizes the heavy emotions, the pain, and the suffering of the world.

As the water bearer, Aquarius has the natural gift and ability to take these heavy emotions and transform them into something lighter. She doesn’t absorb the water or take it on as a part of her, she is an air sign, and uses her higher mind, her search for the truth in order to transform and cleanse the water before returning it to the Earth.

All of us have Aquarian energy within us, and on this Full Moon, we are going to be guided to bring healing, lightness, and love to the world.

One of the biggest hurdles on the path to enlightenment or higher consciousness is the suffering of the world. 

How can we be truly happy and a beacon of love when there is so much pain and suffering in the world? How can we live in this bubble of love and light when there is war, terror, and famine happening every minute of every day? 

These are common questions and good ones too, as the reality is – When someone else suffers, so too do we. This is because we are all connected, we are all one.

However, just as we feel everyone’s suffering whether we realize it or not, we also feel everyone’s love too. When someone loves so too do we, and herein lies our power to change the world. 

You are only one person, so it is perhaps an impossible task to go out there and house all the homeless, feed all the hungry, and speak out to end every war. Of course, there are organizations you can support and volunteer positions you can take up, but right now, right from where you are sitting, you can become your very own water bearer, simply by choosing to love.

Try it – think about someone or a group of people you would like to send love to. You can choose to send love to – every grieving mother, every person affected by a recent natural disaster, or someone you know that is going through a hard time.

Close your eyes and quietly repeat to yourself three times- “I send love to…..”

Feel the words as you say them, feel yourself sending out the love, and know that you just created a ripple that will be felt all over the world. 

While sending love and praying for peace is powerful it is far more powerful to act with love and to be at peace.

This Aquarius Full Moon whispers the words of the humanitarian Gandhi- “be the change you wish to see in the world.”

This theory of starting with yourself is also something shared by many great humanitarians. Mother Theresa once said- “if you want to change the world go home and love your family.”

It was her belief that everyone can start making a difference in the world by starting with their own family.

The famous poet Rumi also shared- “yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world, today I am wise so I am changing myself.”

It all begins with the individual for when you take care of your own needs, when you start loving yourself, it creates a ripple and that ripple flowing from each and every one of us is what will change the world. All you have to do is be responsible for your own ripple.

It is also worth remembering, that one of the greatest gifts of the water bearer is her ability to carry the water without bearing the burden of it. She doesn’t allow herself to get absorbed by the dark emotions she carries, instead she uses her Air sign qualities to rise above it.

As an air sign, Aquarius is about using her mind, her intellect, and the power of her voice to make a difference. Aquarius is not concerned with what is popular, what is written in the media, or what her friends and family believe.

Aquarius wants to make up its own mind and is always on the search for a bigger truth. The absolute truth. The truth that goes beyond perspective and into a higher place.

Under the energy of this Aquarius Full Moon think about how you can bring these qualities into your life.

How can you send love and healing to create a positive effect on your life and the world? How can you hold your own truth without absorbing and getting stung by the voices of the media or those around you?

Working with your higher mind, venturing into your own truth, and walking a path of love, will help you to learn the ways of the water bearer.

We have enough love to go around for everyone, so on this Aquarius Full Moon, which is bathed in light, in compassion, and in truth, start with yourself and then share some of that love around with your family, your friends, your community, your country, and with the world. 

For more guidance under this Full Moon, download my Aquarius Full Moon Reading.

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Intuitive Astrology: Black Super New Moon July-August 2019 ~ July 23, 2019


Editor’s Note: this is a very nice message about figuring out what the next step is in your life. Just before reading/writing this message, I asked my guides for inspiration for what the next move (literally) might be for my life…and this message appear!

We are in control of our lives, but it just may take a bit of “time” here on Earth right now to discern which direction is best for us. So…take that time, allow your heart to be open to what you truly wish, and be…

Injoy!

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By Tanaaz

On July 31st or August 1st, depending on the time zone you live in, we have a Black Super Moon in the sign of Leo.

A Black Moon is the name that is given to the second New Moon in a calendar month. Even though some countries will experience this New Moon in August, it is still considered a Black Moon due to its proximity to the start of the month.

This Black Moon is also a Super Moon, meaning that it’s nice and close to planet Earth. When this happens, the tides are more affected by the vibrations of the Moon, and so too are we.

The Black Super New Moon also brings the start of a new lunar cycle, and this new cycle comes after a series of very potent and transformative Eclipses. 

In many ways, the start of this new cycle will be helping us to integrate and settle into the wounds, transformations, and changes the July Eclipses may have triggered.

If the Eclipses have stirred things or brought change in your life, this Black Moon will allow you to soften into what has unfolded so you can begin figuring out your next steps and seeing things in a new way.

Under the influence of this Black Moon, potential and new beginnings will begin filling the cosmic skies however, we are going to have to take things slow and give the energies time to work their magic, as around the same time as the Black Moon, Mercury will be preparing to come out retrograde. 

New Moons have the potential to draw things to us which is why they are a great time to set intentions, but with all this new energy floating around and the effects of Mercury Retrograde, we may have to sit with ourselves first before we can know which intention is best for us.

We have changed. The Eclipses have elevated us. They have transformed us, and we have to make sure that our intentions are a reflection of that.

We can certainly be inspired by this New Moon and think about what we want to bring into our lives, but we do have to be patient, get still with our breath, and tune into our hearts to allow the energy of the cosmos to integrate with the energy of our soul.

If we do, we will be able to take that hit of fresh inspiration that is waiting for us and make magic with it.

As this New Moon falls in Leo, we are also going to be encouraged to take greater ownership and leadership of our lives.

We all have the power to take control and to take charge of our lives; we all have it in us to make the decisions we need for a brighter future.

No one knows us as well as we know ourselves, so under this Black Moon, take time to retreat within and to get cozy with whatever is in your heart.

You are intuitive, you know what is right for you and what is wrong. Stop fighting against what you think you should do and settle into the truth of your being. 

Repeat to yourself- “I know myself, I trust myself, I know what is right for me.” 

Under the Leo Black Moon, we all have to tap into that courageous lion energy and remember that deep down we always know what is best for ourselves.

Leo also rules over the heart, making this a perfect time to think about working with heart energies.

Imagine pushing up all the anxious energy you have in your gut straight into your heart. Imagine pushing down all the foggy energy you have in your brain straight into your heart.

Imagine these streams of energy entering your heart and shifting and transforming it into wisdom, truth, and something that is drenched in love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

There is a reason that Leo is ruled over by the heart and that is because the lion is the most courageous and is the best ruler of its domain when it is leading with the heart, when it is leading with love.

Under the energy of this Black Moon, remember: you know yourself. In fact, if there was a mantra for this Black New Moon it would be- “no one knows you better than you know yourself”.

You know what is right, you know what is best for you, you know which way you need to travel and what you need to do.

Tune into the courage you have inside of you and begin navigating these fresh energies with love leading the way.

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