COSMIC HOROSCOPES

Excerpt: "It's imperative to defend your views sometimes, but the tricky part is figuring out whether the issue is real or just an abstraction...."

Excerpt: "The lunation will help you to instinctively know when you are close to achieving the right balance between giving and receiving if you find it difficult to find a balance between the two....."

Excerpt: "You are trying to get back in society's mainstream, and you probably are, but you wonder if this acceptance is genuine and valid...."

Excerpt: "If you must rely on others for opportunities to prove how resourceful you are, then do so without any charge or preconceived notions that you can somehow convince them to follow your beliefs..."

Excerpt: "Under this Full Moon, you are enterprising, but you need more than just careful planning to get ahead......"

Excerpt: "A complete upheaval of your personal life (moving, losing your job, etc.) could be necessary to force you to leave your comfort zone in search of satisfactory answers..."

Excerpt: "You'll get the support you need to make the most of your creative potential if you work constructively with others to find real solutions to existential problems....."

Excerpt: "When you confront someone who strongly influences you, you will be forced to undergo some kind of ideological transformation, causing you to change your perspective....."

Excerpt: "Although you may disagree, a more tolerant attitude toward one another can only coexist if your capacity for compassion has evolved to allow this....."

Excerpt: "...turning your fantasies and abstract interests back into reality will require anchoring them in earthy routines....."

Excerpt: "...those bound by the rules but who feel powerless to change them, look to you as their champion or advocate when social norms benefit the powerful and harm those who have been left behind...."

Excerpt: "You want to branch out, broaden your horizons through travel or higher education, or even join a movement or a cause that you strongly believe in, but you feel conflicted about what you are leaving behind...."

Excerpt: "You must watch for tendencies to have your mind become messed up with erroneous ideologies that stem from unreliable sources..."

Excerpt: "Here, on this first post-eclipse lunation, you may see all negative things that happen are a blessing in disguise and all positive as quite the opposite, perhaps a curse..."

Excerpt: "Whilst this urge to attain the inaccessible is, to many, a waste of time, for you, it is not. By making blunt attempts to leap ultimate hurdles, you reach the unattainable..."

Excerpt: "You may have to rely on others to provide opportunities, but you will make the most of them only on your own...."

Excerpt: "Realising your ambitions requires constantly looking for ways to improve your skills. Mediocrity, either in yourself or those around you, is not an option..."

Excerpt: "If you can listen to your heart, events around this lunation will powerfully guide you to discover that the entire world is your home, not just the couch you choose to sit on..."

Excerpt: "It seems the old way had to be destroyed, you had to become lost before you could be found..."

Excerpt: "Seldom can you be restrained, if ever, but this New Moon in your sign is your affirmation that you are ready to be true to your nature without filters or boundaries and woe to those who try to test you..."

Excerpt: "...you have to give in order to receive and avoid the Scorpio trait of being stingy with yourself. Too much accumulation becomes toxic and corrupts creativity and good will..."

Excerpt: "Your inner conflicts become more intensified, and so does part of your energy field which is sensed by perceptive people. Alienation can occur...."

Excerpt: "You have never been so restless and fired up to turn everything over. You may have quite a bit of support behind you..."

Excerpt: "In your ability to speak the ultimate truth, you offer an antidote or remedy to the world's anguish and despair, producing the perfect solution ever imagined as a way forward..."

Excerpt: "This Lunar eclipse will provide an enormous flash of awareness, forcing you to look honestly at yourself, define your values, and apply them as innovatively as possible in daily life...."

Excerpt: "You're reaching the end of your tolerance, rejecting, questioning, or opposing any pressures you disagree with or believe are trying to hinder your freedom and autonomy...."

Excerpt: "An in-depth evaluation of societies' many 'unfair' restrictions and limitations may reveal their potential transcending, too, indicating the right way forward...."

Excerpt: "In order for this 'revolution' to occur, either individually or collectively, a fundamental detachment from any emotional involvement in the pre-existing patterns of structural reality must occur...."

Excerpt: " Feeling suffocated and resentful towards ignorance and inability to understand their clutches over you, you make significant growth when you can see the actions of others as reflections of your subconscious...."

Excerpt: "Whatever you choose to do, you cannot remain idle, for inside you is a restlessness that knows this world is changing. Its skills-based marketplace requires you to stay ahead..."

Excerpt: "This period marks an end to old value systems for you, a death of some sort, and a total rebirth of appreciation as a more profound process of social relating is waiting to be explored...."

Excerpt: "During this period, your desire to control or take back something you feel is better held by you is met with remarkable resistance. Finding ways to balance this desire to manage others’ business will be emphasised strongly..."

Excerpt: "The challenge involves mastering the art of the ‘quiet revolution’ and a focused use of ‘invisible electricity’, now shuttling through your nervous system to achieve a practical outcome...."

Excerpt: "This eclipse period allows you to redefine yourself and approach life with a new spirit of understanding. Perhaps you realise that you took some things far too seriously, and it's time to lighten up and enjoy the moment...."

Excerpt: "You may feel like an outsider, intensely restless, and require more space and freedom to search for your true 'spiritual' home or family..."

Excerpt: "...when questioned about the abruptness of shifts to what’s happening around you or your reaction, you may shrug and say it all seems perfectly natural, for you… But is it?"

When Mars turns retrograde, his fiery energies become directed inwards. We may start to reflect back on events or incidents where we feel we failed to act appropriately to protect or defend ourselves. What are those instances and what are they trying to teach us in order to move forward?

Excerpt: "Fortunately, this eclipse indicates that all your psychic trash will gather in one place for you to manage and clear. How you go about it will be interesting...."

Excerpt: "Under this eclipse, you will experience strong polarisation wherever fundamental differences in values in your dealings with others cannot seem to find reconciliation..."

Excerpt: "You may experience an extreme power outage in the entire work spectre, especially among persons with whom you want to feel more emotionally secure and comfortable....."

Excerpt: "Sometimes the time comes, and under these eclipses, you will have to learn that if you genuinely love someone, this is the moment to loosen the bonds and set them free..."

Excerpt: "During this period, you struggle to recreate or regenerate the type of home atmosphere and family life in which you feel emotionally secure without lingering connections to your dark, traumatic past......"

Excerpt: "The darkness of Scorpio is best explored not just using your piercingly analytical mind but your selfless heart, producing enough emotional clarity and light, mirth and groundedness in order to navigate into the psyche's recesses with grace and gentleness...."

Excerpt: "The main challenge now will be your ability to rummage some way out of the depths of your financial predicament and build up enough strength to rebuild and regenerate into an emerging new world....."

Excerpt: "If you have failed to consider others, really listening to them and their heart's desire, this period will blast you with a series of wake-up calls you cannot deny....."

Excerpt: " To experience the magic of this Scorpio eclipse, you must be genuinely open-minded and fully willing to embrace the most devastating, darkest and most uncomfortable truths lurking within your heart....."

Excerpt: "In the bigger picture, we have no idea where this is all taking us. Still, you like to ponder and scheme while the world around you wonders whether your plans are optimistic and utopian or frightfully Orwellian......"

Excerpt: "Those in power may have rallied desperately to quash your intense need to take charge, but this eclipse sees the old guard weakening, and in the coming weeks, you will start to mobilise....."

Excerpt: "You may be searching for something higher, a comprehensive answer to the meaning of it all, but as these eclipses may stress, it's been extremely difficult for you to explain precisely what you're searching for or why....."

Excerpt: "As you might be experiencing through your increasingly more contentious interactions with others, there is a call to take responsibility for the world you wish to create instead of blaming and battling with everyone else over the obstacles that hinder or prevent your progress..."

Excerpt: "Conflicts around this time could compel you to "remember" what it was like to follow the passion within, fight for your rights, yell at others if that is what the situation asks for, and be honest about everything on your mind..."

Excerpt: "Although it can be easy to make new friends, holding on to them for very long may be difficult, and the Moon's activation of Chiron may bring up old wounds from past friendships that have not turned out so well..."

Excerpt: "...you may feel like you're being pulled in every which direction, torn between your past and future – your primal instinct is to look after your family and the strange, wholly unfamiliar new destiny that lies before you..."

Excerpt: "Putting your talents to use and keeping the fire in your belly constantly burning to live a long, creative and healthy existence must not come at the expense of others' happiness and well-being..."

Excerpt: "Under this Aries Full Moon, the underlying cause of any upsets or discourtesies rooted in your emotional fear of abandonment could reach a sore point, which, once triggered, could activate life-changing climaxes..."

Excerpt: "Sometimes it feels like nobody gets you, and the struggle to maintain the facade of peace and harmony is futile, even if you temporarily succeed. Ultimately, there comes a time when it's best to capitulate and move on....."

Excerpt: "...your tenacity to stamp your unique mark upon this world can often create significant upheavals, most notably among those at your workplace or concerning everyday work practices...."

Excerpt: "Maybe it's time to ask yourself whether your most imposing friendships fail to serve your better interests. Are you being afforded the best possible chance at peace and tranquillity you wish to obtain right now?"

Excerpt: "You can convert the fear of losing total control into dedication by engaging in a worthwhile purpose that will benefit others and yourself...."

Excerpt: " Only your capacity to critically examine public officials' behaviour and hold them accountable will give you the balance of power, for you know that without this, they can determine your fate...."

Excerpt: "...you must understand that your continued development means generating trust that what you're doing for others will not take away from anything you already have..."

Excerpt: "Specific encounters spark into incidents that may temporarily throw you off balance, prompting you to question who you are and where you stand on critical issues...."

Excerpt: " In maintaining a healthy relationship, you may need to consider the difference between self-sacrifice and self-annihilation. Holding strict boundaries around what you believe is true is essential in the context of the beliefs of others..."

Excerpt: "If you feel left out or at least not as important as the other members of your 'tribe', perhaps you are not treating yourself with the utmost respect and kindness you feel you deserve..."

Excerpt: "...incidents around this lunation will inspire you to fight for the preservation and legacy of all that you find symbolic or culturally significant...."

Excerpt: "This powerful lunation highlights many ego challenges unless you are truly enlightened and fully aware of your infinite capacity, including the understanding that nothing should be taken personally..."

Excerpt: "...you will have to look more insightfully into the needs of others, recognise value where most people don't see it; and go with strongly-felt intuitions about where current trends will lead in the future..."

Excerpt: "Since you don't like being alone, this lunation will also test how skillful you are at avoiding the political minefield of upsets ahead for you in the coming weeks and months. The greatest challenge you may have to overcome is accepting anger and constructive conflict..."

Excerpt: "External obstacles may obstruct or test your mettle, confronting you with situations that pose dilemmas and evoke your character weaknesses...."

Excerpt: "...you may begin to discern an underlying meaningful pattern to the changes you have recently undergone and the wide variety of experiences you have lived through, especially in the past year...."

Excerpt: "Being judged to be a hypocrite by your own rule is a sure sign that you've skipped out of rhythm, and if you can stop now and take a good hard look at yourself, you'll be saving everyone a lot of unnecessary grief and pain not too far down the track..."

Excerpt: "Through clever reasoning and civilised debate, you might discover that you have as much to learn about this world from others as you think they have to learn from you...."

Excerpt: "Seeing where you fail to be more assertive helps you to know where you must confront your self-esteem issues and points to where you become triumphantly more competent in establishing true self-worth...."

Excerpt: "Despite everything nagging at you, you may refuse to fully embrace the world and its version of reality because you are aware, if only vaguely, that the universe encompasses much more than your rational mind can handle....."

Excerpt: "We see those who once made more sense now seem entirely incomprehensible. They reflect an old, outdated version of you...."

Excerpt: "Though you may imagine that it’s OK to continue living in your bubble – that isn’t something that you can sustain for much longer...."

Excerpt: "If you listen to your conscience (check your world-famous gut instinct), you will discern whether what others believe fits in with your ethical framework....."

Excerpt: "Are you prioritising the right things, people, goals, and spiritual pursuits? Do you have what it takes to keep certain relationships and interests going in your life?"

Excerpt: "...you seek a supremely angelic being whose virtue and piety cannot be met by any mere mortal. At best, others may be able to play along with this charade to get out of a fix, but as we see, the whole damned thing cannot be faked for long...."

Excerpt: "...your intentions and plans often fail to take into account that, at some point, you will become swamped by the insurmountable details and drudgery of practical execution. So how can you become free of a profoundly oppressive situation?"