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Astrological Insights for 9/16/23 - 9/30/23

9/16/2023

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Relationship and Finances
​Venus in the Current Astrological Forecast

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In my last blog article, Venus was just emerging from retrograde on September 3rd. 

Our discussion on Venus in the current astrological forecast continues! 


Venus is a fast-orbiting planet (coming in second place for speed after Mercury) and is never more than 47 degrees from the Sun from the vantage point of the Earth. In astrology, we can look to the astrological insights of faster-moving planetary transits to help us understand more about the day-to-day affairs we find ourselves in. For the longer overarching life cycles and transformations that evolve over a more extended time frame, we draw astrological meaning from the analysis of slower-moving planets, such as Saturn or Pluto.  

​Venus’s transits are short-lasting, but when it’s retrograde, it holds a more prolonged effect. You can refer to my last blog article below if you’d like to learn about the most recent Venus retrograde. What I would like to bring into this current astrology report regarding Venus retrograde is that although it is now direct, it will still be in its shadow period until the end of October. This shadow time relates to how long it will take for Venus to return to the same place in the sky it was just before it went retrograde. Therefore, you may continue to reprocess, revisit, and come to resolutions around dynamics you’ve been in since the beginning of summer involving Venusian issues: relationship matters, finances, and how you manifest beauty in your life.

Over the next couple of weeks, as Venus continues its track toward its pre-retrograde position, it will make aspects with Jupiter, Chiron, and Uranus, opening more influence to Venus’s energetics. 

Venus Squares Jupiter 
September 16th - 20th


Venus and Jupiter will form a square aspect with each other during the 16th - 20th. Squares can offer more internal conflicts for us to sort through while providing opportunities for personal growth once we learn how to shift and evolve through and out of the conflict. Jupiter and Venus are known as the benefics in astrology; they bring more positive elements to life. As a result of this leaning toward optimism and goodness with these two, a square aspect is usually not particularly conflictual. However, there is a possibility of influencing you to get out of balance by partaking in behaviors that disregard your limitations, such as overindulging in food, sensual pleasures, or overspending. 
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Jupiter brings good luck and opportunities to help you become more expansive towards your interests and what’s drawing your attention. Venus connects you to the sensual aspects of life and represents the part of the human experience that allows you to receive by simply “just being” and allowing things to come to you. Venus also influences your connections to intimate relationships, friendships, and finances, and brings beauty and aesthetics into your life.

If you know what house Venus is in your birth astrology chart, this is the area in life where you may find yourself easily receiving what you need with little effort. Similarly, if you know what house Jupiter is in, this is where you will feel supported with opportunities for learning new things for personal growth and expansion in your life. 


While Venus and Jupiter are in a “challenging” square aspect during 9/16 - 9/20, here are some things to look out for: 

Your budget
- there may be a tendency to feel optimistic about an expensive purchase, only to feel regret later. Jupiter and Venus are planets we look to in the chart to help us understand more about money and finances. A square between them makes it difficult to curb spending if something feels like you must absolutely have it. You may want to buy that beautiful thing for your home. I recommend pausing or waiting until after the 20th to see if you still feel the same about the purchase. This can also be true if you want to invest your money in something new during this time. 

Relationships - Be mindful of overlooking things that may come up in dating or your intimate relationships that would be important matters to consider. Again, this square aspect can make you feel more fancy-free, ignore red flags, or want to stay in the feel-good pleasures with pure optimism. What may feel delicious at the moment might lead you down a pathway that might not be right for you. Again, give pause and allow more time to develop new relationship connections, and/or resolving emerging relationship issues.  

When Venus was retrograde, it also made a square to Jupiter in August. 
Think back or look back to what was happening in your life related to finances and relationships from August 20th - 25th. A similar theme may be coming up from September 16th through the 20th, allowing you to see what more internal patterns need shifting. 

One last thing to consider for more clarity: Go further back this summer, Venus and Jupiter made a Square aspect from June 9th - 14th. This may have set off the cycle of these relationship/financial themes you've been in all Summer and will be into Early Autumn.  Reviewing the dynamics of that time period can provide insight into what issues are looking to come full cycle now.  
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Venus Trine Chiron + Mars Opposes Chiron
September 19th - 27th

From September 19th to 27th, Venus will make a flowy trine with Chiron, the Wounded Healer, bringing supportive energy for beautiful healing in intimate relationships and opening the energy to heal aspects of your relationship with money. Perhaps you’ve had some Venusian issues to sort through over this recent Venus retrograde. When Venus Trines Chiron during the last week of September, it’s a supportive time to take what you’ve learned and allow yourself to have healthier patterns for yourself. It’s also a good time to allow yourself to receive (Venus is our receiving planet/aspect of ourselves), which can also be healing.  
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It is also important to note that Venus Trine Chiron coincides with Mars opposing Chiron from the 22nd to the 28th, adding stronger urges to take action towards healing. Mars influences can activate you to go after what you need, and when it is opposing Chiron, you might feel triggered by something that, by taking care of the matter, you can experience some healing for yourself. We can call this “healing-action”. 
Venus Square Uranus + Full Moon in Aries
September 28th - 30th 


As we continue to follow the orbit of Venus till the end of September, it will move into a Square aspect with Uranus in the last couple of days of the month. Uranus’s influence connects you to a desire for freedom and can have you suddenly making shifts to create such freedom. Furthermore, Squares between planets can be experienced as frictional energy related to the astrological qualities of the planets, requiring your action toward resolution. 


Squares are most often felt as an internal conflict that has perhaps been brought on by a circumstance that has you pausing and feeling like there’s something you need to do about it. If you try to sit on the matter, it will only get louder and worse. Squares are where we ultimately grow and create new and healthier patterns in our lives. 

As a side note, if you have planets making Squares to each other in your birth chart, this shows areas where conflict in your life CAN provide you with opportunities for personal growth. I say “can” because some may accept the conflicts as a part of life and make little progress in overcoming their challenges. We all have free will! Life tends to get harder as the knocks get louder when we ignore the calls to shift. Astrology can teach us to see these patterns better and make conscious shifts, learning there are more ways to be with the challenge that allows you to move into new and happier places and ultimately no longer in the unhealthy pattern. 

Now, back to Venus Squaring Uranus on the 28th and 29th. Notice what’s happening these days concerning your finances, intimate relationships, and friendships. Are you feeling any internal conflicts with a call to break free from habits or stuck patterns? Tune into your needs and find a way to bring in new ways of being. Uranus’s influence can create a sense of “suddenness” around changing something you weren’t expecting. The change either is self-initiated by you or happens to you. If either or both happens, keep an open mind and recognize how this change is an aspect of becoming free from feeling stuck. 

The Venus/Uranus Square will also combine with the energy of the Full Moon in Aries on the 29th. Fiery Aries connects us to our independence and need for self-care. You may feel an extra emotional emphasis on the need for freedom if certain relationship circumstances get you down. 
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On a final note, as mentioned earlier, Venus won’t leave its shadow until the end of October. Therefore, it is possible that the end of September will bring you to the next place, or have you taking the next step. However, there may be still more to work out through the month of October in connection to topics of the Venusian aspects mentioned in all the sections of this blog.
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With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based
on your astrology birth chart and life situations.


Astrology readings with Laura can help you:
~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​
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Astrological Insights Sept 1st - 15th

9/1/2023

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Planetary Retrogrades: Revisit, Review, Reintegrate

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We can feel it in the air; the seasonal wheel is turning. Summer is winding down. We, too, are turning (inwards) as we embrace Autumn’s approach, and I am returning to this Blog - writing what's current in astrology. In re-evaluating my approach to this offering, I have decided to provide more focused astrological insights instead of giving a general overview to allow for a richer experience for you, the reader. There are multiple planets presently in retrograde; this edition will center on how to best work with them.
We have three key planets moving in and out of retrograde over the next few weeks. I am dedicating this blog post to the planetary retrogrades of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. I feel it’s helpful to pay attention to how a planet’s retrograde motion offers an opportunity to reintegrate and more fully metabolize particular material present in our lives. There is a popular narrative about Mercury retrograde (Mercury is the planet most frequently in and out of retrograde) as a time to expect SNAFUs in communication, tech, travel, and such, and to expect the unexpected and take extra care. Retrogrades are much more than this. It may be helpful to think of them as a time to rein in our typical ever-forward bearing and to reevaluate and re-integrate our current intentions and direction. Retrograde periods offer the gift, if we choose to accept it, of an opportunity to back up, review, and re-process our recent life experiences.          

We can look at the astrological sphere of influence of a retrograding planet and at the themes in our life occurring during retrograde to gain insight into the specific opportunity for integration that is more available during this period.  

Understanding the simple basics of a retrograde planet’s motion helps to bring meaningful understanding to the gifts and challenges of a retrograde period. We know that the planets’ orbits always move around the sun in the same direction. Because of the different orbital speeds each planet cruises at, they periodically appear to move forward and then backward in the sky, from night to night, relative to the fixed stars. As a planet begins its appearance of retrograde motion in the sky, it’s “walking backward” . . . retracing its steps over its recent forward motion, and thus backing up over the same sky territory it already covered in recent weeks and months.  We can see this in the sky by tracking a planet’s location among the stars from night to night.
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Here is an embodied, helpful way to understand how planetary retrograde periods create a unique time to re-work through something in your life. Visualize walking on a sidewalk; you reach a certain point, stop, and then take ten steps backward. You have now covered the same ground twice, once when walking forward and again when walking back. After ten back steps, you stop again, take another ten paces forward, and this time, you keep on walking along.  Notice you covered the same stretch of sidewalk thrice as you’ve walked an additional 20 on top of the original 10 strides. Planetary retrogrades, similarly, take us back through our life processes. Even though time is moving ever, always forward, the thematic narrative of a retrograding planet is re-traversing the scene of the same stretch of our lives.

Each planet brings astrological tides to realms of ourselves and how we relate to the human experience—knowing what parts of ourselves the planet influences can help us understand what themes to focus on. As one particular planet retrogrades, it offers us more time to simmer in a life process. The theme of your particular area of focus is personal and relates to how the planet’s expression is moving through you and the current situations evolving in your life.

This month, we have retrograde motion occurring with three planets: 
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Venus Retrograde
​7/23/23 - 9/3/23

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Venus influences intimate relationships, friendships, finances, and how you bring beauty into your life. Venus goes retrograde approximately every 18 months for about 5-6 weeks.
September begins with Venus in retrograde but will shortly turn direct a few days into the month on the 3rd. Venus started moving retrograde on July 23rd.

This Venus retrograde period remains an opportune time to explore and refine your quality of presence in your loving relationships. It’s powerful to reflect on how you manifest your love! It’s a profound time to become more attuned to the processes in play between you and your dearest ones.  

When Venus is in retrograde, holding off on making new high-impact decisions related to the Venusian aspects of life (relationships, finances, costly aesthetic purchases, etc.) is advisable. Like any planetary retrograde time, optimal clarity and direction may be challenging, and it is more effective to work through existing matters than starting something new.

For example, if you’re in a process with your partner(s) regarding navigating your relationship, continue to work out what’s already there. Revisit issues not fully resolved from the past before making new moves towards the future.

It also holds true for making expensive purchases or other financial decisions. Give yourself more time for clarity after Venus has gone direct to decide if this is the right thing to buy or invest your money in.

Venus’s retrograde path takes us back to where it was in the sky on June 20th. As it goes Direct on the 3rd, it will cover the same themes regarding relationships, connections with beauty in the world, and finances you’ve been in all summer. As Venus moves along after the 3rd, it will take until October 27 to return to the position in the sky before it went retrograde. Therefore, it may take until the end of October to feel fully clear on the current issues in relationships or financial matters you’ve been in the process of working out.
Jupiter Retrograde 
​9/4/23  - 12/30/23


On September 4th, Jupiter begins to retrograde and will do so until December 30th. Jupiter retrogrades approximately every nine months for about four months. Jupiter influences the part of ourselves that feels optimistic about moving towards opportunities for growth and expansion in our lives - embarking on new adventures. Jupiter also brings allies, supportive means, and connections with the greater community.

During the up-and-coming four-month Jupiter in retrograde, accessing new ways to grow and expand outwardly in your life may feel less accessible. A way to focus this energy is to consider how to grow and refine these dynamics internally. It is a potent time to explore how your work and connections with the world fit together and how best to authentically lean into what you do each week. What is happening to generate your sense of purpose and optimism? How can you better hone your capacity to bring your gifts to the world?

​If, from Sept 4th until the end of the year, you suddenly feel like you want to reorganize your work, change hats, seek more education, or plan extended travel to faraway lands, it may be good to take more time for consideration. Wait (if you can) until Jupiter is out of retrograde to get more clarity on approaching these new urges unless these plans were already in the works before Jupiter retrogrades.
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Mercury Retrograde 
​8/23/23 - 9/15/23


Mercury retrogrades 3-4 times a year for three weeks; it recently retrograded on August 23rd and will go direct on September 15th. During these first couple of weeks of September, Mercury will be in retrograde, and it is a supportive time to review, reprocess, and integrate your current thinking about your life. It’s a good time for recollecting, reflecting on, and metabolizing your recent thoughts about your experiences. It’s a great time for journaling, talking things over with confidants, walking, hiking . . . taking time for gaining perspective. 

When we avoid this opportunity and try to conduct our affairs by charging ahead as if Mercury were moving with a direct forward motion, communication and thinking processes go haywire and run wonky. When we allow the retrograde period as an opportunity to welcome a retreat into integration, we can take the opportunity to recalibrate ourselves and move in harmony with the nature of this time.

It would be advisable not to make big decisions until after September 15th. Decision-making and processing may not be fully clear during Mercury retrograde.

Mercury will retrograde to the place it was in the sky on August 4th. Whatever mental processes, plans, and communications revolving around what has been going on in your life from August 4th may continue to be rehashed/worked out until Mercury leaves its shadow (gets back to the place it was before it went retrograde) on September 30th.

It’s also a supportive time to finish projects taking up psychic space. Spend time with these activities during the next couple of weeks. Clear clutter in closets, garages, workspaces, donate items, etc. Mercury rules our minds, and when you clear out the physical clutter, you are also helping clear your mental clutter. When Mercury goes direct again on 9/15, you can feel more mentally refreshed if you take advantage of the Mercury retrograde, rewind, review, and clean out period.
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With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based
on your astrology birth chart and life situations.


Astrology readings with Laura can help you:

~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

Please get in touch to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading
with Laura to help you navigate your life!


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Astrological Insights for June 17th- 30th, 2023

6/16/2023

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 Healing Conversations Circling Solstice

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The longest day of light arrives, and Summer stretches across the land. The astrology is quite active over the next few weeks, especially with bringing ease and opportunity for creating the conversations you've needed to have. It's also a supportive time to take steps towards something you want to grow in your life.
6/17/23 - 6/18/23
Mercury Sextile Venus
New Moon in Gemini 9:37 PM, PDT



June 17th and 18th brings New Moon energy with Mercury and Venus making a positive Sextile with each other. Mercury influences our communication, internal mental processing, intentions, and conscious focus. During this transit, Mercury's connection with Venus opens the energy for having pleasant conversations. Mercury is in Gemini, its natural rulership, and creates more emphasis on conversational engagements with others. The New Moon in Gemini adds more layers of this Mercurial mind-stimulating energy as Mercury rules Gemini.   

Based on the astrological energy during the week leading up to the 17th, you may have felt more restrictions around communications. If this is true for you, the 17th and 18th will be good days to open up and engage in conversations you’ve wanted to hold that have been blocked recently. This time also brings good energy to start new conversations, especially with the New Moon on the 17th.

The strong energy of the Gemini New Moon not only activates your mind’s capacity for communication but also brings out the flexible multi-tasker in you. You may find yourself in various activities and tasks over the weekend with the potential to feel more scattered. If you find yourself flitting about and feeling a bit ungrounded, then I encourage you to take a moment, recalibrate and reset. Overall, it can be an enjoyable, social weekend. 

6/19/23 - 6/29/23
Jupiter Sextile Saturn

On June 19, Jupiter will come into a Sextile aspect with Saturn, which will last until the end of the month. Jupiter Sextile Saturn creates an opportune time for ease and stimulation towards being productive towards the things you want to expand upon in your life. Saturn allows focus and dedication; Jupiter opens the optimism and growth for more things. Sextiles stimulate each of the planet's highest qualities to open up in you. 

Jupiter creates a great sense of abundantly available energy with where you place your focus. Although the summer’s coming in and playful adventures are on the rise, I recommend utilizing the last two weeks of June to see what’s been in your field of focus to grow in your life and put some dedicated attention towards it. You may find your actions successfully get you to the next place. You may find real benefit comes from brainstorming sessions and taking steps towards your goals in the last weeks of June; this could prove especially helpful in your overall life plans. 


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6/21/23
Summer Solstice - Sun in Cancer
Mercury Sextile Mars
Mercury Sextile Chiron


The Summer Solstice is on June 21, when the Sun enters Cancer. This year’s longest day of light is accompanied by Mercury making a Sextile with Mars and Chiron. This could be a day for supportive communication and healing conversations. You may find yourself saying or hearing the things that move things forward around current situations in your life. 

Mars urges us to act toward what we want to be doing. When Mercury stimulates Mars, it can bring ease in communicating directly and powerfully. Chiron physically orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and astrologically, it influences the energy of the wounded healer. When stimulated by Mercury, conversations open up to repair what needs mending between you and another.
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6/24/23 - 6/28/23
Mars Square Uranus


During the 24th - 28th, Mars makes a square with Uranus, which can open you up to more impulsive actions throughout your day. Square aspects from planets create internal impulses to respond to circumstances in a certain way that can seem like they are coming from the unconscious. You may feel sudden urges to go in a different direction or do something you weren’t planning on doing without much thought. These quick decisions, although impulsive, can create big feelings of freedom when you follow them. 

While Mars and Uranus are in a square during the 24th - 28th, and you notice yourself in a tight situation that feels too restrictive to your being, you may end up wanting to just quickly break out of it.

However…

Be aware of this energy. Moving too quickly is often how accidents happen. There’s a higher probability of being accident-prone during this Mars/Uranus transit. During the 24th - 28th, notice any sudden urges to make a movement emerging from within, pause and bring to consciousness any patterns around doing rash and impulsive things just to break free. Slow down and proceed with more awareness of your next best steps, and all the while, be open to freeing yourself from the restrictive circumstances you are finding yourself in.  Listen to your inner promptings and be embodied! 


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6/29/23 - 6/30/23
Venus Trine Chiron
Mercury Trine Saturn


The month ends with Venus making a positive Trine with Chiron on the 29th and 30th, which opens you up to flowing with opportunities for healing in your relationships. Venus’s energy influences our sense of feeling ease and lovingness in relationships, and Chiron points to what needs healing. 

In addition to the Venus/Chiron transit, Mercury will be Trining Saturn, creating opportunities for getting grounded in real conversations that can add to the healing layers. Mercury influences our communication pathways and mental processes, while Saturn lets us see what’s practical and realistic. When Saturn influences the mind, you can clear through what’s not so important to focus on what needs restructuring in your life so you can align more with who you are and your purpose. Saturn Trine to Mercury easily offers focus and concentration. 


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With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based
on your astrology birth chart and life situations.


Astrology readings with Laura can help you:

~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

Please get in touch to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading
with Laura to help you navigate your life!


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Astrological Insights for June 1st-16th, 2023

6/1/2023

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Singin' a New Tune in June 

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June has arrived. The glories of Summer's beginnings are emerging. Mercury is now out of its shadow from the retrograde motion of last month; the road ahead starts to appear more clearly. 
Over the next few weeks, astrology points to opportunities for opening more into creative expression through communication, intimacy, art, and other visionary, manifesting endeavors.
6/1/23 - 6/4/23
Venus Trine Neptune


During June 1st - 4th, Venus Trines Neptune and opens the flow for your artistic expression, allowing you to channel more strongly into imaginative realms of creation. It’s an excellent time to explore what more is possible, especially in the creative aspects of marketing and business. 

Have you been in a lull and hoping to get into the right emotional and energetic space to delve into a creative project? If so, give yourself some dedicated time on the first days of June, tune in . . .  you are more likely to have access to channeling visions of inspirational beauty during these days.  

Venus Trine Neptune is also helpful with creating beauty in your home - adding a new splash of color or redesigning a sacred space. It’s good energy to be coupled with the Full Moon in Sagittarius on the 3rd. Full Moons open up our emotional bodies, from which much creativity can derive. Sagittarian energy opens up the explorer in you, expanding your horizons and discovering new things. 

Venus also influences our intimate relationships. When in Trine with Neptune, it can open you to more idealistic romantic places regarding the close people in your life. If, during the 1st - 4th, you’re meeting someone of interest for the first time or still in the beginning stages of getting to know them, this planetary configuration can intensify your lens of seeing the other through “rose-colored glasses”. It can be joyful to experience someone in all the goodness you may be interacting with, falling in love with all the positive aspects. And it can also create a presence of overlooking other, less-desired parts. If you find yourself exploring a potential new relationship the first week of June and getting excited about the possibilities, then I recommend slowing your roll and giving it more time and space before making any decisions. 
5/4/23 - 5/6/23
Mercury Conjunct Uranus

Mercury, the messenger, is joining its energy with Uranus in Taurus on the 4th - 6th, strengthening your communications around personal expression. Mercury influences our thought processes and communications, while Uranus influences our sense of needing to respond from an open, free, and expressive place. With Uranus, there’s no holding back, and it feels liberating. Uranus’s energy can urge you to break free from people, places, and situations holding you back. If there’s a conversation in the works with someone where it’s essential to express yourself, then the 4th-6th would be good days to choose to have it. 

Another thing to note is that there can be sudden changes when Uranus is involved. With this notion, you may unexpectantly communicate in a way that allows you to break from a situation you have been stuck in. On another note, someone who you haven't spoken with in a while could suddenly contact you out of the blue. 

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6/5/23 - 6/7/23
Venus opposes Pluto 


Working through relationship issues may come into focus on the 5th through the 7th when Venus makes an opposition to Pluto. 

Pluto, the ruler of the underworld, influences the death and birth process of letting go of the old and birthing new things -  anywhere from our inner psychology to our life circumstances. When we clear out what is no longer working for us, it opens the pathway to take things to a new level. 

Pluto’s energy activates us to get below the superficial layers and open up to what’s lying under the surface. The shadows get highlighted to see what needs to shift, and the unconscious comes to the conscious. 

Venus influences our relationships, and when it comes into opposition with Pluto, 5th - 7th, you may be confronted with seeing what needs to be let go to transform your relationship towards better ways of being with each other. Things could become intense these days, and I recommend allowing whatever comes up as an opportunity for transformation and growth versus staying in the conflict. 

When planets oppose each other, a mirror is held up, and you can see yourself more clearly; the challenge is not to fight or reject what you see but allow for more personal integration from a place of awareness. 
6/11/23 - 6/14/23
Mercury Trine Pluto 
Venus Square Jupiter


Mercury makes a positive and flowing Trine with Pluto on the 11th, which may add power and strength to your communication voice. If you’re scheduling an important meeting, presentation, or interview, it would be a supportive day to choose if you want to exude more power in your voice. 

In Addition, Venus makes a square with Jupiter on the 11th, which will be active through the 14th. Venus and Jupiter bring good luck and good things, even in a challenging square aspect. It can be easier to see difficult situations through a positive lens. Venus square Jupiter can also open up energy towards overindulging in sensual pleasures, food, and spending.

Notice your activities during the 11th - 14th and if any choices you’re making are being met with overlooking the balance of what’s appropriate for you. For example, you may buy that expensive thing thinking - I can afford this, even though it may be out of your means, but you’re too overly optimistic to see it. This same level of awareness can be applied to anything you’re making decisions about. If you’re noticing you're caught up in a big wave of optimism, I recommend waiting until after the 14th to see what’s still right and real for you. 
6/15/23 - 6/17/23
Mercury Square Saturn


During June 15th - 17th, Mercury makes a Square aspect with Saturn, which can bring in challenges around communication. Your ability to express or convey a message may feel more restrictive. And, in opposition to what I mentioned in the Mercury Trine Pluto section above, there are better days than the 15th-17th to choose a meeting, presentation, or interview as you might feel more fear than ease and flow while Mercury is in Square aspect to Saturn. 

Saturn activates a need for more caution, whether warranted or not, to ensure you are on the right path. It can also urge change by restructuring whatever it is influencing. Squares between planets can be complex as one planet's impulse blocks the other's impulse. In this case, between Saturn and Mercury, Saturn’s constrictive energy makes it difficult for Mercury's communicating power to express itself freely. You may spend more time feeling blocked by overthinking what you want to say.  

Overall, you might feel more mental restriction during the 15th - 17th, and I suggest planning accordingly if you have essential communications, creative writing, or tasks that require your mental attention. 
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​​With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based
on your astrology birth chart and life situations.


Astrology readings with Laura can help you:

~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

Please get in touch to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading
with Laura to help you navigate your life!


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Astrological Insights for May 17th - 31st, 2023

5/17/2023

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The second half of May presents longer-lasting planetary transit effects, encouraging your evolution—some point to tense currents of life that require resolution. On a lighter note, the month ends with a shift towards creative playfulness and celebration.

5/11 - 5/22
Mercury Sextile Saturn


As Mercury is out of Retrograde, it continues making a positive Sextile with Saturn, as my last astrology report discussed.  This Sextile began on May 11th and continues through May 22nd and is a helpful transit for mental focus and direction. Mercury Sextile Saturn can help you discern what’s worth your time to put your attention towards during these dates. If you have been feeling scattered in the uprising of Spring energy, this is a support time to feel mentally grounded. 

Mercury Sextile Saturn can also have you continuing to turn your attention towards having matter-of-fact conversations and feeling mentally focused on the practical matters of life. It’s a good time to figure out things around communications with others. Saturn brings practical grounding; the Sextile makes for harmonious interplay in Mercury’s realms of thought and communication.   
5/17 - 5/29
Jupiter Square Pluto 


Jupiter makes a challenging square aspect with Pluto in the last two weeks of May. This planetary configuration can strongly emphasize your exploration of the directions you are taking in your life. You may feel a persistent urge to move forward and do whatever it takes to get to the next place in your journey. 

Any difficulties showing up during this time can allow you to take inventory of what is and isn’t working in your pursuit of success. Ultimately, one of the best ways to work with this transit is to look at whatever conflicts or challenges are showing up to help you become more aware if you’re genuinely on the right path for growth and expansion. From May 19th - 29th, notice if the urge to push through on something is making things worse or better for you. If it’s seemingly worse, ask yourself: Is your ego in the driver's seat of your decisions and making things more difficult for you?  Pluto has a way of transforming whatever needs to go through a death & rebirth process, and this transit with Jupiter has the potential to help you sculpt your path of expansion forward by chiseling away and refining aspects of your forward arc to allow for a renewed and clarified sense of forward momentum.  What needs to be hewn off or sanded away to give your bearing a more accurate vision? 
5/19/23
New Moon in Taurus 

On Friday, May 19th, we have a New Moon in Taurus. In astrology, when the Moon is in Taurus, it is in an exalted position; our fluid, ever-changing moon of reflective feelings shines well with the stability Taurus brings. This year’s Taurus New Moon is accompanied by a great assembly of planets in Taurus adjacent to the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, and North Node. This crew offers a possibility for expanding and evolving your state of mind with grounded awareness. 

Close to the Sun and Moon, we have Uranus also in Taurus, pointing to evolutionary movement. This Taurus New Moon offers a doorway for grounded presence as a springboard towards a quantum leap in consciousness. 
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5/20 - 5/27
Mars opposes Pluto 


When Mars opposes Pluto on the 20th through the 27th, ego drives can activate intensely, and more conflicts could occur. The energy of this transit helps you push forth from your own conviction and direction. Still, the challenge is to not do it in such a way that inappropriately presses on others’ boundaries, as it’s a vital time for self-assertiveness.

A way to work with the Mars/Pluto energy during these dates is first to recognize if you're operating from a place that needs to compete or fight on something. Conflicts with others during the 20th - 27th can point to areas where you can be more cooperative to have the overall outcome you are looking for regarding any matters at hand. 


This period could be a good time to take advantage of the more assertive energy you may feel coming through you. If you are having a difficult time, then this energy can help you take appropriate action for yourself or make your boundaries clear. 
5/21 - 5/27
Mars Square Jupiter


Along with Mars opposing Jupiter and Jupiter Squaring Pluto, Mars will make a Square with Jupiter during the same time (May 21st - 27th). You may experience intense circumstances or interactions with the people around you. Jupiter’s energy can make things bigger with whatever it influences, for better or worse, and with action-oriented Mars Squaring Jupiter, it can cause any problematic situation to seem worse. Mars with Jupiter can activate you to assert yourself in more significant ways than you might be used to. 

On a less intense note, Mars Squaring Jupiter can have you moving and taking action on things in many directions. Notice if you have too many irons in the pot, scattering your physical energy from May 21st - 27th. Mars is about taking bold action, and Jupiter is about feeling optimistic about expanding yourself in various directions. Think about everything you have going on these days and notice if you’re trying to “do it all” in a way that takes you further away from your center and tips your scales to feeling more scattered and less accomplished. 

Mars Square Jupiter can give you a sense of having an abundance of physical energy. If you want to tackle many things from the 21st - 27th, I recommend picking 2-3 things that are the most important to put your energy towards, which will give you tremendous success at accomplishing what you set out to do.  It’s a charged and potent time to work some things out. 
5/26 - 5/29
Venus Sextile Uranus


From May 26th through the 29th, as we head into the holiday weekend, most of the intense astrological energy will likely lighten up. You may find yourself shifting into more accessible spaces that connect you to what new things you’re creating out of your recent transformations. When we genuinely move away from old ways of being, we feel a sense of wild horse freedom that allows us to move forward. 

As the final weekend of May comes in, Venus Sextile Uranus opens more flow for you to engage socially in ways that connect you to creative play, beauty, and art. Allow this fun and exploratory opening to provide new and loving experiences with people, places, and things, combined with your unique expression of who you are!  Venus brings all the beauty of love, the arts, sharing the pleasures of the moment like food and music. Here Uranus being in harmonious Sextile Venus, fosters the qualities of a Bacchus-party essence with a flare of novelty and playfulness in the celebration of life!

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~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
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Astrological Insights for May 1st - 15th, 2023

5/1/2023

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Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse + Mercury going Direct

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Magnolia in Washington Park Arboretum, Portland OR
Welcome, May! Magnolias are blooming beautifully in the Pacific Northwest; our season of renewal has sprung into life. Are you feeling the urge to burst into new pathways? The astrology over the next few weeks can help you navigate what you're considering and the timing on when and how to move into new terrain.
5/3/23 - 5/5/23
Venus Square Neptune
Venus Sextile Jupiter


On May 3rd - 5th, Venus makes aspects with Neptune and Jupiter. This is an interesting combo, as all three planets are the money planets; when we look at the astrology chart to see into money, one of the things we look to see is the planetary placements and aspects of Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune. Therefore, if money has been a strong topic in your life recently, whether you want to save, invest, sort out debts, or make an expensive purchase, then it’s essential to consider the astrological aspects occurring during the 3rd through the 5th. 

Mercury continues to be in retrograde until the 14th. It would be advisable not to make big decisions until after the 14th. Decision-making and processing may not be as clear during Mercury retrograde. We are also in eclipse season, making it not the best time to start new things.  (More on the May 5th Eclipse below)

Amidst Mercury's retrograde and a Lunar eclipse, Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune present interesting dynamics: On May 3rd - 5th, Venus is simultaneously making both an easy and positive aspect (Sextile to Jupiter) and a challenging aspect (Square to Neptune). If you are thinking about money decisions (spending or making) during these days, it would be wise to consider what’s happening astrologically. 

Venus and Jupiter are the benefics of astrology, meaning they open you up to experiences that can bring good things. Venus allows for ease, love, beauty, and receiving of gifts. Venus and Jupiter in Sextile can open you up to feeling optimistic and seeing the good things that can come your way. However, when Venus makes a Square with Neptune, the things you feel good about can glow brightly with allurement that is idealized and illusionary.  It’s wise to enjoy the grandeur of what may be possible and take care not to lean too far from your own center of gravity and grounded sensibility for what is truly possible. This is a great time to catch a vision and let it settle before acting.  

Therefore, I recommend noticing what’s coming up for you and your ideas and feelings about your money from the 3rd through the 5th. You may be able to open up to ideas you haven’t thought of, opportunities that are now available to you… and it is astrologically indicated to give it more time and thought before you jump in. In addition, if you can hold off until Mercury goes direct on or after the 14th, you may enjoy a clearer sense of what is the right move for you. These aspects can have us jumping in too big or biting off more than we can chew, so before you decide to execute big ideas, wait until this transit is over (after the 5th) to see what is still real for you. 

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5/5/23
Full Moon Scorpio 10:34 AM, PDT
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 10:22 AM, PDT 


We are in an eclipse season. First, there was a Solar Eclipse on the New Moon of April 19th. Then a Lunar Eclipse, two weeks later, on May 5th, as the Full Moon in Scorpio occurs with a Lunar Eclipse. 

(Solar Eclipses always occur on a New Moon; Lunar Eclipses always happen on a Full Moon.) 

During eclipses, it’s best not to start new things, especially on the day of, as the energy is more about releasing old things versus building or creating new things. Unexpected things can happen when adventuring onto a new path during the Eclipse time, so it is good to heed this oft-cited astrological advice. FYI, the type of eclipse on the 5th is called a penumbral Lunar eclipse, where the Moon’s light isn’t entirely blocked (as is with a total eclipse) due to its position with Earth at this particular time. Although you won’t see a total eclipse of the Moon, the energy of an eclipse still holds sway.

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Full Moons are good times for releasing, and the Scorpio energy is good support for letting things and emotions go. It would be helpful to hold this understanding on and around May 5th and work on releasing what you know in your life is showing you it’s time to let it go. The energy of eclipses can linger on for weeks to months, depending on how it interacts with your personal natal chart.  

The Eclipse on May 5th is happening at 14 degrees Scorpio. If you know how to look at your birth/natal astrology chart, you can see if the eclipse energy touches or influences particular personal realms of your life. 
5/11/23 - 5/13/23
Mercury Sextile Saturn
Mercury Sextile Venus
Venus Trine Saturn


The astrological transits for May 11th - 13th, involving Mercury, Venus, and Saturn, emphasize getting grounded in communications and relationships. These are also good days to create positive and stimulating conversations. 

Three transits are happening, and the first one - Mercury Sextile Saturn, can turn your attention towards having matter-of-fact conversations and feeling mentally focused on the practical matters of life. Mercury also makes a Sextile with Venus, with the second transit, and is helpful in business, negotiations, and communication aimed at profitable activities. People will want to hear what you have to say. Venus also influences our connection to relationships, and you may have opportunities for good chats with those close to you or in your intimate relationships. The energy supports mental processing with others in loving ways. 

Venus will make a Trine with Saturn in the third transit from the 11th to the 13th. Beauty and practicality come together nicely— these are good days to experience relationship balance and harmony in close friendships and intimate relationships. 
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5/14/23
Mercury goes Direct 


Mercury has retrograded since April 21st and will go direct on May 14th. When planets are retrograde, they appear to move backward in the sky from Earth’s vantage point. Mercury’s retrograde motion that began on April 21st covered the same celestial sky terrain as it did on April 7th - 21st. This retrograde energy can put you in rewind, review, and rework mode regarding the matters of your life during these April dates. Mercury goes direct on the 14th, so you may continue to work out the same things as it covers the same terrain again for a 3rd and last time in forward motion. Mercury will take until June 1st to return to the same place it was in Taurus before retrograding. June 1st will be when Mercury "gets out of its shadow”.

This whole time from April 7th - June 1st may ask for your mental patience. The decision-making and communications you’re involved in may take longer to work out. If things have been confusing or you’ve been uncertain about how you will wrap your brain around situations in your life, things should become more apparent the closer we get to June 1st.  

Until Mercury goes Direct on the 14th, I recommend following the guidelines for Mercury retrograde; refer to my last blog post (April 17th - 30th) for tips on how to focus your time.

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~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
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~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

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Astrological Insights for April 17th - 30th, 2023

4/17/2023

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Sun enters Taurus; Mercury goes Retrograde

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4/19  -  4/20

New Moon in Aries
Sun Enter Taurus
Sun Square Pluto 



On the last day of the Sun’s annual, month-long journey through Aries, it conjoins with the Moon on the 19th, making a New Moon in Aries. Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, creating vital energy for action and initiation. What New beginnings this Spring are stirring excitement within you? As nature buds and blooms, connect with this New Moon energy and see what initiations are ready to emerge in your life. What are your action steps (Aries Energy) to support the movements of these sprouting new shoots of life?

The next day, following the New Moon, the Sun moves into the Fixed Earth sign of Taurus on April 20th. Whatever you’re opening into this season, these weeks of Taurus energy can add layers of solid groundedness with a “fixed” capacity to see it through to completion (or at least the creation of well-established fruitful movement in that direction). 

Something to keep in mind, however, is that as the Sun enters Taurus on the 20th, it will also be making a challenging square aspect with the great transforming energy of Pluto. Squares can bring friction as they challenge you to shift out of old patterns that aren’t working for you. 

With Sun Squaring Pluto, you may feel internal conflicts around letting things go that might not be worth putting your energy towards. On the 20th, tune in and notice if old parts of yourself are pulling on you. The Sun's energy connects to our identities. When Square Pluto, you may see certain aspects of yourself might not fit your present paradigm and need to be released so you can reach new levels of your being. 

The challenge is the attachments we have to these old parts of self. To overcome the conflict, acknowledge the shifts inside yourself and release attachment to what’s no longer serving you.  The blessing of the Pluto Square Sun energy, just after the New Moon in Aries, is something New and better inside yourself will have a chance to emerge. 

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4/21 - 5/14
Mercury retrograde 


Just after the New Moon and Sun’s transit into Taurus, Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st. Mercury always transits close to the Sun and is also in Taurus, directing your mental attention toward creating nourishment through groundedness and stability.

As Mercury, the planet that governs thought and communication, goes retrograde, it will be in “rewind’ mode and going back over the terrain of our recent weeks. More specifically, whatever mental processes, plans, and communications revolving around what was going on in your life from April 7th to April 20th may continue to be rehashed/worked out until Mercury leaves its shadow on June 1st. 

Mercury retrograde periods are an opportunity to review, reprocess, and integrate current events in your life. It’s a time for recollecting, reflecting, and metabolizing your recent experiences. When we avoid this opportunity and try to conduct our affairs by charging ahead as if Mercury were moving with a direct forward motion, communication and thinking processes go haywire and run wonky. When we allow the retrograde period as an opportunity to welcome a retreat into integration, we can take the opportunity to recalibrate ourselves and move in harmony with the nature of this time. 

It’s a supportive time to finish up projects taking up psychic space. Spend time with these activities during these next three weeks. Clear clutter in closets, garages, workspaces, donate items, etc. Mercury rules our minds, and when you clear out the physical clutter, you are also helping clear your mental clutter. When Mercury goes direct again on May 15th, you can feel mentally refreshed if you take advantage of the Mercury retrograde, rewind, review, and clear out period. 

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4/23

Mercury Sextile Mars


On April 23, Mars will be making a positive Sextile with Mercury. Your mind may be pretty active and stimulated towards moving on plans or ideas you’ve been having. If you haven't been able to wrap your mind around things happening in your life, a Mars/Mercury Sextile can help you get more mental energy toward figuring it out. 

Remember, Mercury is in retrograde, and you might have to give yourself more time to think through what you want to do and ensure it’s a solid plan. Mercury in retrograde can sometimes interfere with clarity in decision-making. If you have a big decision, this Mercury/Mars transit may activate you to move in one direction or another. However, I recommend writing these ideas down and waiting until Mercury is out of retrograde (as time allows) on May 15th to see if it still seems to be the right choice for you. Otherwise, if you move on impulses coming to you on or around April 23rd, you may have to rehash your action plan later, which may require more work to get it right. 

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4/27 - 4/29

Mars Square Chiron


On April 27, action-oriented Mars makes a square with the wounded healer Chiron. Squares between planets point to nagging internal conflicts that must shift towards something healthy and positive for you. Under the Square dynamic of Mars and Chiron, you may notice an urge to heal patterns related to how you respond to situations. You may feel encouraged to stand up for yourself in a new way, which may initially feel edgy but ultimately will help you become untangled from a long-held unhealthy pattern. 

Notice what’s happening in your life on the days surrounding the 27th. Are there situations that require you to act in self-love that might feel internally difficult? 

Whatever work you can do on the 27th and 28th will be helpful for when Mars makes an opportune Sextile with Uranus on the 29th, helping you feel even freer from the old patterns.
4/29 - 4/30

Mars Sextile Uranus 


On the 29th, Mars will move into a Sextile with Uranus, allowing you to feel more invigorated toward moving out of restrictions that have kept you from feeling free to be you and create new things in your life. Mars helps us take action toward what we want to be doing for ourselves, and Uranus opens us up to new visions for how to do that. Uranus’s Energy can access breaking free from things that hold us back or areas of life we feel stuck in. We feel free to be who we are and act from that place of personal sovereignty. 

As April approaches its last days, look deeper into how you feel held back, whether it’s situations, fears, or relationship dynamics. See if you feel stimulated and inspired to take a different course of action to create a more self-aligned reality for yourself. I recommend setting yourself free to follow what’s emerging. Recognize how you can free yourself from being controlled by situations out of your control. Fresh new energy is available to explore, creating new pathways for self-actualization.   

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on your astrology birth chart and life situations.


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~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

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Astrological Insights for April 1st-15th, 2023

4/1/2023

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April's Astrology and You

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Spring "Marches" into April; buds and blooms appear; notice what's emerging from within you. As above, so below . . . what's going on in your inner world reflects what's happening in the external world. Over these next few weeks, the planetary arrangements can help you sort out any blocks to your fullest blooming that are in play in your present dynamics.
4/3 - 4/4
Mercury Square Pluto

Mercury influences our communications, and Pluto brings deep things to the surface where they can become known and consciously addressed. Pluto’s power reveals and transforms unconscious material. Pluto’s transformative path can require us to move through dark, challenging material, and with conscious intention, it can ultimately move things into new places that feel better and more appropriate. 

When Mercury and Pluto come into a Square aspect on April 3rd and 4th, you may find yourself in matters that stir internal conflicts regarding resolving issues. Recognize in the first handful of days in April if you see yourself in a communication dynamic or an internal dialogue regarding a challenging situation. Ask yourself: Are you in a familiar thought pattern that holds you in a hostile and stuck place?

​Notice what ways of thinking you must let go of to shift into a new mental space. 


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4/5 - 4/6
Mercury Sextile Saturn
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Following the Mercury/Pluto Square, Mercury will make an easy and stimulating Sextile aspect with Saturn on the 5th and 6th. This energy provides an opportunity to restructure your thoughts in a way that helps you feel more grounded and stable. Saturn helps your mind “get real”. If you’re in decision mode regarding a direction you want to go with what you are planning or building in your life, take note of what’s coming through your mind on April 5th - 6th. Some helpful ideas may be coming in, allowing you to see more clearly what will and won’t work in your planning process. Heed these ideas; write them down!  

4/7 - 4/9
Venus Sextile Neptune
Mercury Sextile Mars


April 7th - 9th brings more energy around communications with Mercury activating Mars in a Sextile aspect. Sextiles occur when planets are 60 degrees apart and invigorate opportunities for you to open up the highest qualities each planet represents. Mars influences your will and stimulates your desire to take care of your needs. When Mars gets activated, action happens. As Mercury and Mars affect each other’s energy on the 7th and 9th, your mind (Mercury’s influence) might be more noticeably stimulated by thoughts and urges to communicate needs or other topics of concern with enthusiasm.

​This transit brings good energy to help you speak up for yourself. If there have been recent challenges around getting your thoughts out to another, this is an opportune time for doing the real work of self-expression.  


Along with the Mercury/Mars Sextile, Venus and Neptune are also making the same 60-degree aspect with each other. Venus and Neptune can add more loving and meaningful communication to the astrological energy of the 7th - 9th.

If you feel like you’re opening into what could be a more challenging conversation, Venus softens and balances the often pushy energy of Mars to create more harmony. Neptune extends into our soul experiences and can help you see the more significant meaning behind the actions you are taking on these days. One thing to recognize, however, is that when Neptune is involved in planetary arrangements, the soulful opening can blur boundaries creating a more undefined and even, at times, confusing energy to anchor in. If this face of Neptune emerges amidst important communication, and dialogue becomes murky during this transit, remember you can pause and allow clarity to emerge before resolving communication.  

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4/11 - 4/12
Venus Trine Pluto


Venus and Pluto will be in a flowing and opportune Trine on the 11th and 12th, opening energy for transformation in your relationship(s). Venus connects us to receiving love, friendship, intimacy, and beauty. Pluto takes us into the unknown depths to uncover what’s operating from the unconscious so we can transform into present-time consciousness and make choices from this place of awareness.

When Venus and Pluto Trine, there’s a flow of energy that help discharge the things that need to go so you can take your relationships to the next level. Relationships remain healthy and viable when they can evolve and grow as each person naturally changes over time. There is an ease in doing some of this, letting go and transforming during the second week of April, which will be helpful as Venus makes a hard Square to Saturn on the days following the Venus/Pluto transit (see below). 


4/13 - 4/15
Venus Square Saturn 


Just after Venus, ruler of the heart and relationships, makes a flowing Trine with Pluto, it will move into a more challenging Square aspect with Saturn. Square aspects between planets occur when planets are at a 90-degree angle from each other, squaring off and blocking their natural impulses. When the Square is between Venus and Saturn, during the 13th - 15th, you may notice more of  “what’s not working” in your relationships or heart spaces and feel the need to restructure some things. Sometimes this means changing some aspects of how you are present and show up in your relationships; other times, it may be time to break up.

​Squares are more connected to our internal processes that ultimately influence our outer world. Spend time with yourself during the 13th -15th and see what is coming up inside you in connection to your relationships and feeling heart. See if you notice an internal pattern keeping you held hostage from having a more fulfilling relationship experience that needs acknowledging and shifting. 

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​With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based
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~ Align with your unique talents and opportunities
~ Move through life's challenges more intentionally
~ Gain a new awareness of major life changes
~ Know when is the best time to take action 
~ Find clarity on self-limiting patterns ​​

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Astrological Insights March 20th - 31st, 2023

3/20/2023

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Spring Equinox + Pluto Moves into Aquarius

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The Spring Equinox is here; we are halfway between Winter and Summer Solstice when the Sun enters Aries. This Spring Equinox time energy can engender brighter feelings as more light comes in and we head into longer, warmer days in the Northern Hemisphere. The plants are stirring underground, and like Aries’ ram lamb nature, they start to push forth, rear heads, and sprout. How is your life reflecting and manifesting this Arien Spring season energy? 

Also, Pluto moves into Aquarius this month and we are shifting towards a new era in humanity -  Read on to get the full scoop! 
March 20th: Spring Equinox + Sun enters Aries 
March 21st: New Moon Aries 10:23 AM, PDT


Spring Equinox that always comes as the Sun Moves into Aries - the zodiac sign that begins the zodiac circle. The fiery and passionate sign of Aries is considered to be the child of the zodiac. It’s a good reminder to approach the Spring season in tune with your child-like nature, in awe of what’s around you and the exciting possibilities of all the paths you can take. 

To add to the Sun in Aries / Spring Equinox movement towards fresh and new possibilities, we will have a New Moon in Aries on the following day, March 21st. It’s a supportive time for opening into what wants to spring forth in your life. Whether it is a plan you’ve been working on or new creative ideas emerging. These days offer a potent time to set some intentional space for reflection. Explore what action steps you can take this week to support any new beginnings happening for you (internally and externally). Write down your thoughts so you can return to this over the following days and months to help you stay grounded and focused through the Spring season.
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March 26th - 27th: Mercury conjuncts Chiron and Jupiter

Mercury, the planet that influences your mind - thoughts, communications, and mental processes is joining its energy (conjunction) with Chiron, the wounded healer, on March 26th. It is an opportune time to have that healing conversation if you know one is on the horizon. 

Perhaps there’s a “conversation with yourself” you need to get into a better place regarding how you think about a situation or life circumstance. Chiron transits can help us bring healing to patterns of “woundology”.  It’s good to feel our feelings when we have them, and sometimes we might unconsciously interject negative thoughts onto them, creating a dynamic of feeling worse before we notice what has occurred. If you have this pattern, it’s helpful to notice if you’re attaching more negative thinking toward the things you already feel, which can make you emotionally spiral or feel bad about yourself. See where you can be more mindful (pun intended) about these thought processes and shift your thinking to provide more opening and healing versus putting yourself down. 

This Mercury conjunct Chiron transit combines well with Mercury’s conjunction with Jupiter the following day on the 27th, opening up more access to Jupiter’s gifts of positive and expansive movement. The energy of the Mercury/Jupiter conjunction can help you get out of limiting thought patterns and see what more can open regarding the things going on in your life that may feel more challenging and restrictive. 
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March: 30th - 31st: Mars Trine Saturn + Venus conduct Uranus 

March ends with a productive Trine between Mars and Saturn and Venus and Uranus joining their energies in conjunction. From March 30th to 31st, you may feel the urge to create more novel and evolving beauty around you (Venus/Uranus) and the ability to manifest (Mars/Saturn) the inspiration coming through. 

Mars and Saturn, in a Trine aspect with each other, open up an opportunity to use your active energy in a grounded and practical way, productive, balanced, and to the point. When Venus and Uranus blend their energies in Conjunction, you may notice a heart-opening connection to new ideas of inspiration. Venus also influences our relationships with others in friendship and intimacy. At the same time, Uranus’s energy can suddenly urge us to break out of old stuck patterns that feel freeing to do so. With Mars and Saturn in the mix, there’s a sense of direction and steadiness to the potentially changing energy that feels balanced. 

In the last days of the month, tune in to what the spirit winds of inspiration in your being are calling you to do and create. See what sense of freedom you can gain by taking the inspiring action steps moving through you on the 30th and 31st. 
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Planet Pluto
A special addition - Pluto enters Aquarius this month! 

Pluto is the slowest moving planet in our solar system and can significantly transform our lives over a long period. (Yes, astrologers continue to work with the power of Pluto’s influence as a member of the “planet” community) Pluto takes 248 years to make one orbit around the Sun and can stay in one sign from 14 to 31 years; it affects a generation of people at a time. Its effect is like a death and birth process in that things must change at some point, and when they do, a birth of something new in your life or with humanity emerges. The process can slowly happen over a few years or more when Pluto is involved with change. Some things just take longer to transform and get to a new place.

When Pluto enters a new sign, it can be a significant mark at the end of one era and the beginning of the next. Pluto has been transiting through Capricorn since 2008, and on March 23rd, Pluto moves into Aquarius. However, it is in retrograde for six months out of every year, so it will go in and out of Capricorn a few more times before it remains entirely in Aquarius during November 2024. 

Notice the transformations that have shaped your life and the collective since 2008. Pluto in Aquarius will begin a new collective era that will take us to 2044 when Pluto enters the next sign (Pisces). 

These next 20 years of Pluto’s transit through Aquarius signify a rather large topic, but I will share some things to consider. Pluto, the great transformer, is headed into a sign that opens the mind to pathways of envisioning innovative ways to help humanity move forward. Aquarius can also be about a revolution in all senses of the word. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was from 1778 - 1798 when social and political revolutions were happening all over the globe. To get a bigger picture, study the events and the outcomes of the Enlightenment, American and especially the French Revolution, which occurred the whole time Pluto was last in Aquarius. Many current systems may not only be challenged but revolted. Could this be the subsequent revolutionary era where our collective energy is going? 

If you know your natal chart and what house is ruled by Aquarius in your chart, then you can see where this Plutonian energy is occurring in your personal life over the next several years. If you need help understanding this energy, a private, individualized astrology reading can guide you on best working with what’s changing for you. We can explore this energy together, and you can learn how Pluto in Aquarius brings revolutionary changes to your life over the next several years. 

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Astrological Insights - March 1st - 15th, 2023

3/1/2023

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Saturn moves into Pisces: What structures will shift in your life? 

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This month Saturn enters Pisces bringing its ever-present insistence on grounding, practicality, and need for structure into the transcendent, oceanic realm of the adaptable, flowing, and compassionate sign of the fishes—a significant shift in energy from where Saturn has been over the last five years. This is a potent astrological transition. When slower-moving planets like Saturn enter a new sign, it signals a new chapter.
March 1-3
Venus Conjunct Jupiter 
Venus Conjunct Chiron


March begins with a beautiful Conjunction between Venus and Jupiter In Aries. If you have been “looking up” just after sunset lately, you may have noticed these two planets' magnificence growing closer together each night in the twilight glory of the western skies. 

When Venus and Jupiter’s energy combine in conjunction, it creates a pleasant, heart-opening, and expansive experience. Venus influences relationships and the aesthetic aspects of life, and Jupiter brings opportunities for feeling positive and expansive. It’s a supportive time to get your visionary cap on and also get creative. 

Things may feel more at ease from the 1st through the 3rd. It’s a good time to move through obstacles and create more openness around any issues in your relationships that need working out. Some heart healing alignment may also open up as Venus comes into Conjunction with Chiron, the “Wounded Healer,” on the 3rd.  


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March 3-4
Mercury Conjunct Saturn



Mercury and Saturn join their energies from the 3rd through the 4th, which can shift energies a bit from the aforementioned Venus/Jupiter conjunction and have you focus more seriously on life's practical matters. Saturn’s energy creates more constriction, the opposite of Jupiter’s expansiveness. The sober, sane, and settled energy of Saturn, in conjunction with Mercury, can help your thinking gain valuable focus regarding what are the truly essential things to be working on. 

Saturn’s influence removes the “noise” of the extra things you would typically get involved in that can feel distracting. You might feel overwhelmed on the 3rd and 4th by trying to put your attention in too many directions. Notice what is genuinely calling your attention, and let the rest be for now. This is a good time to create accomplishment and success with what you put your efforts towards. Therefore, if there’s anything you’ve been putting off, like doing your taxes or making an important call … Saturn and Mercury’s combined energy on these days would be supportive to get to work on those things. You’ll be able to put your mind to the task! 

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March 7th 
Saturn moves into Pisces 
& Full Moon in Virgo
 

This is a day of potent astrological transition. Whenever slower-moving planets enter a new sign, it signals a new chapter, this one is initiated with an attendant Full Moon!

Saturn brings the need to restructure whatever areas of your life it influences by transit (relationships, home, career, you, etc.). It spends about 2.5 years in one zodiac sign before transiting to the next. It has been in its comfortable and rulership signs of Capricorn (modern rulership) and Aquarius (ancient rulership) for the last five years. On March 7th, Saturn enters the sign of Pisces, which will be a significant shift in energy from where it has been for the last half a decade. 

Saturn is grounded and realistic and aligns us with creating structure, boundaries, and orderliness. The zodiac sign it is in describes how these aspects get created. Pisces is flowy and idealistic and can be more uncomfortable energy for Saturn’s predictable nature. 

As Saturn enters Pisces on the 7th, a 2.5-year odyssey of restructuring your ideals will begin to evolve slowly. This could bring up fears if you are attached to the structures you are called to change. If you know where Pisces resides in your natal chart, you can hone in on this area of your life and notice if you feel a change is on the horizon. 

Saturn is grounded in reality, and Pisces offers an ability to flow outside your normal boundaries and imagine or dream into other ways of creating your reality. If you work with the Piscean energy of being in flow with what’s changing over the next 2-3 years, you may experience a more beautiful structure for your life than you thought possible. Imagine bringing your dream visions into grounded reality!  That’s the highest vibrational potential that wants to emerge from this period of Saturn transiting Pisces.  

On the same day the portal opens with Saturn entering Pisces (March 7th), we have a Full Moon in Virgo, the sign 180° directly opposite Pisces. It may be a more emotional day as you navigate the flowy Piscean sea of opening boundaries with earthy Virgo's practical, structured, and organized energy. When Planets are in opposites signs (such as the Sun and Moon in this case), the best way to handle the pull to one side or the other is to find a way to integrate and allow both energies to come to play. 

What is the balance for you? How can you embody your grounded, practical presence here and now, with your inner dreamy ideals seeking to manifest and be known? The Virgo Full Moon adds emphasis to the hands-on attending that is required to midwife this Piscean loftiness into reality!

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March 10-12th
Venus Sextile Mars 
Jupiter Conjunct Chiron 
Mercury Sextile Uranus
 

March 10th-12th brings some optimistic and stimulating weekend energy from several planetary interplays. Venus and Mars make a Sextile with each other, activating positive dynamic energies around relationships. Jupiter and Chiron combine their energies in conjunction and open with an expansiveness around opportunities for healing. Mercury and Uranus also make a Sextile with each other stimulating your creative and visionary mind and helping you break out of mental blocks. 

The 10th through the 12th is a favorable time to socialize, ask that special person out on a date, open your heart, and play creatively with your artistry and in relationships. As you flow with these fun Sextiles between Venus/Mars and Mercury/Uranus and allow these movements to bring new and refreshing energy, it can feel healing with the blended energies of Jupiter and Chiron in the mix. 

This is a particularly opportune weekend for creating good connections with partners, friends, and family… all your loved ones.  


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March 14th -19th
Mars Square Neptune 


Following the wave of stimulation energy occurring 10th-12th, Mars and Neptune come into a Square aspect with each other. Squares can be more challenging to navigate as the planets are located 90 degrees from each other, creating frictional energy between the two planets. This can be experienced as internal conflicts where one part of yourself feels impeded by another aspect of yourself. 

Mars activates our will to move towards the things we want to be doing. Neptune allows our souls to open and connect to the larger universal forces at play. When Mars and Neptune come into a Square aspect on the 14th through the 19th, your physical energy might feel lower, and you may need to surrender your will and listen to your soul if it’s calling you to move in a different direction than you intended.  

You may be more drawn to a walk, music, meditation or reading a book than checking off that to-do list. That is A-OK! Permit yourself to go with the flow of your energies during March 14th-19th, or else you might spend too much of your time in conflict with yourself regarding how you are going about your day. 

Neptune has a way of serendipitously bringing us right to where we need to be for something meaningful to happen in our lives, and sometimes this is more possible when we get out of our way. During the Mars Square Neptune transit, I recommend GOING WITH THE FLOW! 

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    Laura Allmacher  RN, LAc, has been practicing in the field of medicine for over 20 years, dedicating most of this time to the healing arts and natural medicine. Along with a current acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice, Laura also provides professional astrology readings as a form of a guide to help bring timing, meaning and perspective to deeper life patterns and situations so one can make the most out of their incarnation. 

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