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The New Moon in Aquarius on Jan 29th coincides with the Chinese New Year, welcoming the year of the Wood Snake. In the video above, Kathryn and I explore insights for connecting with your inner genius, embracing your wisdom, and taking action on your creative pursuits this year. Our talk includes a guided meditation to help you tune in deeper to these Aquarian aspects for yourself and in community. If you were born in the year of the Snake, you will also be experiencing your Jupiter return this year. It is your year to move into the next level of growth and expansion in your life. During this New Moon in Aquarius, embrace the creative energy and cultivate a deeper relationship with your inner wisdom, uniqueness, and what you want to spread your visionary waters through this year. 
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Full Moon in CancerAs we experience the first Full Moon of 2025 on Jan 13th, I am thrilled to have teamed up with my colleague, Dr. Kathryn Kloos, to share our insights.
Watch the video above to attune to the aspects of the Full Moon in Cancer and learn how to nourish and support yourself during these ever-changing times. Guided mediation included. Cancer, being deeply connected to our emotional well-being and nurturing instincts, encourages us to embrace authenticity in our feelings. By acknowledging and honoring your emotions, you open the potential for them to guide you toward understanding your true needs. This powerful connection fosters self-awareness and paves the way for actionable steps to enhance your well-being. Let’s embrace this transformative energy and cultivate a deeper relationship with ourselves during this Full Moon in Cancer time. Hello!
I will be pausing from writing astrology blogs to shift my focus on teaching astrology. New devolopment is on its way for Autumn. It has been a pleasure writing bi-weekly astrological reports for you and stay tuned for what more Northwest Astrologer has in store! Enjoy the Summer! -Laura May Flowers You Forth In the last couple of weeks of May, Venus has a very full dance card. Making transits with a variety of planets will create opportunities to seed, sprout, flower, and grow forth many layers of your relationships. 17th -19th Mercury Square Pluto Venus Conjunct Uranus Mercury and Pluto are in a square aspect to each other from the 17th to the 19th. The signature here reflects dynamic tensions between the powers of our unconscious depths and our normal conscious thought processes. Communication may seem more dramatic and challenging if you are trying to resolve a conflict inside yourself or with another. Unconscious verbal power struggles can arise if your ego is more focused on being right than solution-oriented in your conversations. The 17th - 19th are valuable days for you to become more aware of your thought patterns and to see if exploring new, more deeply reflective ways of thinking about your current situation(s) can allow you to resituate your thoughts and shift perspectives that can hold you stuck in conflict with yourself and/others. I encourage you to explore within yourself if there are specific ways you think about things that could have your mind stuck in past stories and circumstances that are no longer relevant to your present self. Ask yourself if they are really true. When Pluto is involved in planetary transits, it deepens the experiences to uncover what needs transforming inside yourself. In its connection to Mercury (influencer of communications and the mind) from May 17th - 19th, you may find yourself in situations that allow you to see what ways of thinking and speaking are ready to be released and transformed so new ways can come in. At first, the square between Pluto and Mercury can make it harder to know what you can shift. However, as you move towards consciously working out any situations and letting go of the old ways of thinking, this transit can support better ways to process and communicate so your thoughts will become more readily aligned with your authentic being. During the same time as this Pluto/Mars square, Venus and Uranus will join up in the sky in a conjunction aspect. This Venus/Uranus energy can activate more spontaneity and creativity inside yourself and help free you from the potentiality of communication conflicts, especially in relationships. The 17th - 19th can also be support days to find fun and freedom with social activities encouraging the expression of your unique self from a place of ease and love. If you have a sudden spark of interest in doing something outside your norm this weekend, open up, follow the flow of the idea, and see what new possibilities come your way. 22nd -24th Venus Conjunct Jupiter After Venus conjuncts Uranus (see previous section), it will come into a conjunction with Jupiter from the 22nd to the 24th. This transit can allow for even more positive expansion in your sense of love and connection to others. Venus and Jupiter move with more access to optimism, expansion, and ease of connection with whatever activities you get involved with. A certain level of “good luck” comes with this planetary combo; it’s a supportive time to pursue matters that benefit from having your “mojo working” with an upbeat, snappy, blessed fortune in the air around you. A kind wind is forecasted to fill your sails - chart a good course!  24th -26th Venus Trine Pluto Venus continues to transit along the way of merry May, shifting out of conjunction with Jupiter and making a positive aspect with Pluto from the 24th to the 26th. As this Venus/Pluto trine occurs, you may notice a natural, effortless movement toward more profound transformative dynamics in your relationships. It’s an opening time to feel and explore the depths of your love and passion in intimacy and to allow the flow of love in and out of yourself. It’s also a supportive time to notice your attachments to others in friendship and intimacy and if they are in a healthy alignment for yourself. Pluto/Venus transits can intensify your desire to be with others in such a way that you can see more clearly how you’re feeling in connection to them. Do your emotional responses feel balanced and secure or destabilizing and dysregulated? Allow any emotional awareness in the realms of attachment coming through on the 24th - 26th to support your emotional stance into making shifts where needed. With Pluto comes a death and birth process. What needs letting go so you can bring yourself into new places of connection and attachment that feel aligned with your present self? Astrology helps us see the specific nature of growth opportunities and emerging needs that arise, even in secure, well-balanced relationships. There is always a need to adapt our bearing. We navigate and hone our tact through the ever-changing conditions unfolding both inside ourselves and outside us (in our beloved world), which is populated with all the “other ones” in whose presence we coevolve together in this life. 30th -31st Mercury conjunct Uranus May ends with Mercury and Uranus joining up in the sky in conjunction on the 30th and 31st. This planetary transit moves with the excitation of your mental faculties, and creative ideas may suddenly flow into your thoughts. Uranus’s transits can find us dance-stepping out of old, stuck ways of being, allowing for more alive, bold, fresh ideas to emerge. It’s more specifically related to your thinking patterns when Uranus joins Mercury. What are the personal, workplace, family, or community projects in your sphere that are in need of more creative thinking? The upcoming holiday weekend is a great time to tune in and see what new sparks of insight and thought are entering your mind as fresh downloads from the universe. Write these thoughts down for later access if you’re not ready to implement them. Uranus’s visionary energy can help you tune into new horizons on your path ahead. Allow the messages you receive at this time to benefit your world. ~  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! Taking the Next Steps As May arrives, the fullness of Spring is in full swing. We often feel stirrings welling up inside us to grow forth as our inner momentum entrains with the procession of blossoming flowers. It's beautiful and sometimes unsettling, with a necessary, urging sort of insistent suchness. You can notice a natural inclination to make plans for the months ahead. May's positive planetary influences help you progress with your life ambitions. May 1st - 5th Mars Sextile Pluto The planetary arrangements in the first days of May can amplify your physical energy as Mars and Pluto are in a stimulating sextile aspect with each other in the sky from the 1st through the 5th. Sextile aspects between planets indicate a stimulation in you of the positive representative qualities of the planets involved. Mars moves with the parts of you that drive you into action and take care of business. Pluto’s influence on Mar’s motivating energy enhances your ambition and ensures you move towards what you want. As Pluto’s influence aligns with your deep depths, this transit on the 1st—5th urges you to take bolder steps toward your overarching life intentions and goals. These are good days to feel your inner drive and take active steps toward success. Mars and Pluto Sextile can also allow you to more easily offer up what you need to let go of so you can bring in new ways of building success in your life. Pluto can bring to the surface buried, unconscious patterns that may have kept you stuck in old ways of approaching things. This awareness of noticing what may be holding you back can be enough to urge you to shift these patterns into new and healthy ones, energizing you into action. The 1st - 5th are helpful days to recognize new patterns of taking action emerging from you and, in the process, allow yourself to let go of old habitual ways of activating your forward momentum.  May 5th - 8th Mercury Conjunct Chiron Sun Sextile Saturn In one of my blogs for April, I discussed Mercury and Chiron joining together (in conjunction). This union signifies an opening for opportunities to have healing conversations with yourself and others. Mercury connects to your mental process and communications and has been in and out of retrograde recently. Through its retrograde motion from going forward to backward to forward again, Mercury is now joining up with Chiron, the wounded healer in you, for a third time in its post-retrograde forward motion. To hone in on what shifts may be happening for you, reflect on what your overarching mental processes and conversations have been revolving around in the last two months. To get more specific on dates, the first two waves of this recent Mercury/Chiron aspect occurred on March 20th and April 15th. If you journal or have photos or other material to reflect on what was happening for you on and around these dates, you may see similar themes at play May 5th - 8th. This third wave of the Mercury Chiron conjunction gives you another opportunity to say the things you haven’t been able to fully speak to in March and April, which will allow you to heal something inside of you regarding how you communicate or think about certain things. Take some time out on the 5th - 8th and see what is asking for healing shifts in you. What ways of thinking are keeping you in woundology? How can you reframe your thoughts to healthy thinking about your life and situations to allow you to move out of woundedness and into wholeness with yourself? The wholeness we feel is the healing we experience in the process of coming back to ourselves. We can share our integrated experience and foster shifts and healing for others through these internal processes of returning to our wholeness. The Wounded Healer, Chiron, in action! The Sun will also be in a Sextile with Saturn during these same days, highlighting a quality of feeling sincere and realistic about creating healing conversations - even the ones you have with yourself. Things that can shift under Saturn's transits are fundamental, palpable changes. You can see the actual manifestation of your dedication to making changes to better places within yourself.  May 12th - 14th Venus Sextile Saturn May 12th through the 14th can emphasize the practical aspects of your close relationships and partnerships. The sextile aspect between Venus and Saturn can stimulate you to get real about your relationships’ structure and inner workings. These are good days to examine what is and isn’t working and create new agreements and ways of doing things with each other. Are you are in a problematic relationship or a challenging patch? This Venus/Saturn transit can align with the energy in you that supports your ability to recognize what structure you need to create in your life around relationships. This planetary duo can activate your inner knowing in such a way that you can get honest with yourself and take appropriate action. If you’re noticing a need to transform or break off a relationship, the 12th - 14th may be days to tune in and notice what your inner Saturn authority is guiding you toward. This is a valuable time to get grounded about what is happening in your relationships. ~  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! Break Free & Express Yourself Spring comes with a natural uprising of movement, and the planetary influences occurring in the last weeks of April amplify the active forces moving through you. Mercury will be going direct, and there are strong urges to help you break free, enhancing the expression of your unique self. April 17th - 22nd Mars sextile Jupiter Mars sextile Uranus Mercury conjunct Venus April 17th—22nd brings a cluster of supportive planetary energies that open a more active creative flow inside you. Mars and Jupiter will be in a positive Sextile aspect from the 17th to the 22nd, and you may feel more physically energized during these days. Mars represents the “take-action” part of yourself and stimulates your inner Jupiter’s feelings of optimism and expansiveness. If you’ve been feeling blocked or hindered recently, the 17th—22nd would be good days to take advantage of the good feelings and get plenty done. From the 18th through the 21st, Mars will also be in a positive Sextile aspect with Uranus, strengthening your creativity and inspiring you to “do you” in your endeavors. This Mars/Uranus aspect can give you a level of freedom to express your unique self. If you need to tap into more self-driven creativity, these are supportive days to do so. During the 19th -20th, Mercury and Venus will conjoin in the sky. The combination of these two planetary energies can ease the way for lovely and pleasant conversations. The influence might be subtle, but these would be good days to have conversations if you want ease and softness in your communications. These are also good days to engage your mind in ideas to bring more beauty and art into your life. Mercury is still in its last few days of retrograde, and the 19th - 20th are great days to continue to clear out things that are not bringing you a feeling of beauty and joy in your life. Look around your home, closet, wardrobe, and decorations and even notice the thoughts you engage your mind on and ask yourself: “Is this (fill in the blank) allowing me to feel good and beautiful”? Your answer will let you know what to do next.  April 16th - 30th Jupiter Conjunct Uranus Jupiter and Uranus are together in the sky for the entire second half of April. This energy connects similarly with the planetary aspects mentioned in the previous section. Jupiter expands the energy with which it interacts, and Uranus brings sudden changes to help individuals and communities break free from restriction and oppression within themselves and from others. From the 16th through the 30th, you may discover quick changes happening on a personal level that allow you more creative freedom in your life to just be yourself and how the universe expresses itself through you. You may notice greater feelings of optimism and freedom for expanding your horizons; these feelings support ever-emerging aspects of yourself that want to be at liberty to explore life. It’s a stimulating time to shake off what’s not you anymore. Allow fresh ideas and actions toward what you’d like to do in your life that you are now seeing on the visionary horizon. I also see Jupiter's energy, in conjunction with Uranus's, playing out bigger in our collective world as global issues intensify. We are also in an election year in this country, and many uncertainties are circulating in our political atmosphere. As I tune into the energy, the words that come to mind are “breaking free from the oppressor.” Uranus can have an erratic, unexpected, sudden-change quality in its expression, and Jupiter can make that energy bigger and louder. Ultimately, these energies are about moving towards new ways of being versus staying where we have already been. Keep these personal and collective Jupiter/Uranus perspectives in mind as you navigate now and the rest of April. See how this energy, with its underlying theme of “breaking free,” manifests in measurable ways in your life and the world. May this movement serve our collective good! May our actions and intentions directly and subtly encourage others to lead and live from loving unity consciousness! April 25th Mercury Goes Direct How has this Mercury Retrograde been for you? Have you found that your path had some unexpected and interesting interludes? Did this teach you something new to incorporate into your daily life? Have you been able to align yourself with finishing up old projects and clearing out clutter? Engaging in these types of activities is a helpful way to focus your mental energy when Mercury is retrograding. You’ll find more ease and stimulation to focus on the undone around your home and in your life instead of pushing forth on new ideas. Mercury will complete its three-week retrograde on April 25th and begin moving slowly forward from there. It will take until May 14th for Mercury to return to the same position it was in before it appeared to reverse in the sky. Therefore, give yourself more space and time to complete those projects. Also, remember that retrogrades are a rewind time in your life as the planet revisits the same places in the sky it was just transiting over. With this Mercury retrograde, you may find yourself in the same conversations, thought processes, and mental planning that have been at play since around March 20th. April 27th - 30th Mars conjunct Neptune The month ends with Mars and Neptune coming together in the sky and blending their energies in conjunction from the 27th to the 30th. Mars represents the part of you that wants to be active, move about, and go after what you want. Neptune represents the part of you that wants to be in flow with your soul’s playful creativity so you can wander about your day without much planning or structure. Neptune's energy dissolves boundaries and merges with enchanted poetic possibilities. When these two join up at the end of April, you may feel less motivated to get things done and more inclined to follow a spark of inspiration. There’s an opportunity to align your willpower with higher octaves of intention. You might set out into your day with a particular intention and feel your energy wanting to go in a different direction. Neptune can be confusing, so take an inventory and see if the direction you feel called towards serves your highest. You may feel more called to read a book, write poetry, dance, creatively paint, etc., then scratch things off the to-do list. Let this in if you feel more of this flow from the 27th to the 30th. You can access more joy by letting your soul guide you in more active play rather than trying to push through on performing mundane tasks. ~  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 Mercury Retrograde + Solar Eclipse: |
AuthorLaura 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. Archives
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