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August 30 - September 5: BACK TO SCHOOL

This week begins in a post-eclipse mood, with the Moon waning and swimming with retrograde Saturn in Pisces, reminding us to let the detritus flow toward the drain as we lift our eyes toward the road ahead. The story of August centered around the intense eclipse cycle that demanded digging deep, finding new perspectives, and letting go of legacy behaviors and situations that are preventing finding momentum in forward movement.

As the Moon wanes through Aries and Taurus mid-week, we may feel a bit more mental clarity as the Moon remains bright even though it’s waning. The Moon will be traversing empty signs, putting less pressure on our reactive minds. Aries and Taurus will help us as we come into the present moment after a couple of weeks that may have forced us to reconcile with past choices. Reacquaint with the plan, initiate actions, and clean the drawing board as new details and ideas emerge.

Venus moves out of debilitation in Virgo on Wednesday, which included the aspect of both pushy Mars and heavy Saturn. Venus moves into Libra, her own air sign, which is a heads up for some of the upcoming retrograde energy in October and November as both Venus and Mercury buzz into retrograde motion together. This looks like the tides changing as we move into the fall season, so use the weeks of September to simplify, clarify, and calibrate plans to the current landscape. Moving into Libra, Venus leaves behind the fitted structures of Saturn and Mars’ aspect but moves into the windy, amorphous aspect of Rahu from Aquarius. Be not surprised at the cascade of outrageous, creative ideas that may begin to swirl as this week comes to a close.

Jupiter spends two more months in Cancer before setting off the second set of planetary interest that will form in November and December as Jupiter, Ketu, and Mars begin to gather in the cauldron.  For now, with Jupiter alone in Cancer until Mars joins on September 15th, find your groove in the sense of getting ahead of, integrating, and processing the life lessons that are guiding you back to your path. This week, Mercury, the curious student, the intellectual mind, the commerce, and the communications, races ahead of the Sun, eager to move toward putting his energy into studies, remedies, harvesting, and digesting information. A great time to get back to lesson plans of all kinds.

Daily Keywords & Notes:

Sunday Aug 30: WEIGH ANCHOR. Moon Pisces/Uttarabhadrs/K3. 

Actions: assess responsibilities, finish difficult work, make mature decisions, organize resources, determine what is worth carrying forward. Don’t hurry the departure.

Monday Aug 31: SLIP THE LINES. Moon Pisces/Revati/K4. 

Actions: finish, release, clean, cancel unnecessary obligations, complete journeys, organize for transition, consciously leave something behind

Tuesday Sept 1: STAY THE COURSE. Moon Aries/Ashwini/K5. Mars in Gemini moves from Ardra to Punarvasu

Actions: repairs, remedies, exercise, decisive problem-solving, restart something that stalled, return to a useful plan.

Wednesday Sept 2: REPLENISH STOREHOUSE. Moon Aries/Bharani/K6. Venus moves to Libra. 

Actions: edit budgets, prune projects, simplify systems, clean, organize, make practical cuts, improve diet/routines, eliminate inefficiency.

Thursday Sept 3: TRIM THE FAT. Moon Taurus/Krittika/K7.

Actions: edit budgets, prune projects, simplify systems, clean, organize, make practical cuts, improve diet/routines, eliminate inefficiency.

Friday Sept 4: BUSINESS UNUSUAL. Moon Taurus/Rohini/K8. 

Actions: creative business, design, purchases with discernment, gardening, production, unconventional problem-solving,