A Woman’s Gotta Eat
I’ll say this for my mom: she was unfailingly supportive of my goals. After I begged for a guitar, she scrounged up the cash and ferried me over to White Entrance division retailer to purchase an affordable little 6-string acoustic. After I was decided to win the weekly expertise contest at an area country-western membership, she took me each Tuesday night time till I succeeded. She believed in my singing and music and helped me in each approach.
However she was additionally a Taurus with the Moon in Virgo, who had grown up on a farm through the Despair. She knew that goals don’t at all times come true and a woman’s gotta eat. So she insisted that I take secretarial programs in highschool, and people typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping expertise paid the lease all through my 20s, between the tip of the music dream and the start of my astrology profession. They usually’ve served me properly in my astrology enterprise, too.
This week’s highly effective Taurus Final Quarter Moon (August 8, 2023, 3:28 am PDT) is the part for reviewing previous efforts and bringing initiatives to a conclusion. This Final Quarter Moon is in a supportive conjunction with Jupiter (large goals) and Uranus (surprising turns of occasions), and trine to earthy Mars (decided effort) in Virgo; iIf we’ve been working diligently towards sensible targets, this trine will carry rewards of some form. However there’s nothing improper with having expertise to fall again on, simply in case they aren’t the sort of rewards that pay the lease.
All that Glitters Isn’t Gold
This week’s sq. between Venus retrograde and Uranus (Aug. 9, 2023, 4:08 am PDT, 22º54’ Leo and Taurus) is the second in a sequence of three (the others on July 2 and Sep. 29). Taken as a gaggle, these features remind us that each one that glitters will not be gold, and that it may be time to go away a once-promising state of affairs that has left you feeling unappreciated.
That features relationships, and this week may carry stunning developments on that entrance. When Venus and Uranus join by sq., tensions come up across the acceptable steadiness between togetherness and independence. However this side can even awaken us to take a look at our accomplice with new eyes, or to take a second have a look at somebody we’d beforehand missed – together with, probably, somebody from the previous.
The Embroidery and the Silk Hat
For forty-five minutes on the morning of August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit walked, danced, and lay on a excessive wire suspended between the unfinished towers of the World Commerce Heart – 1 / 4 of a mile above the streets of Manhattan.
Like all astonishing acts, this one was years within the making. It required hours of analysis, a group of compatriots, and the refinement of Petit’s pure grace and steadiness by means of hours of observe.
Even in down-to-earth Taurus, Jupiter pulls us towards the clouds, urging us on to spectacular adventures and inconceivable goals. However practically each dazzling Jupiterian endeavor begins with Mercury, which asks: How is it to be carried out? What do I’ve to be taught, and what expertise should I purchase, to perform this audacious feat?
This week, Mercury trines Jupiter (Aug. 9, 2023, 5:47 pm PDT, 14º31’ Virgo-Taurus) on the Sabian symbols 15 Virgo, Decorative handkerchief and 15 Taurus, A person muffled up with a rakish silk hat. Take away the embroidery and the silk hat, and also you’re left with an unusual, utilitarian handkerchief and muffler. Stripped of the excessive wire and the sensational setting, there are hours and hours of exact, exacting work.
As Mercury meets up with Jupiter, breathtaking efficiency achieves the miraculous: Making hours of perfecting and planning disappear, so that each one we see are the embroidery and the silk hat.
Intoxicated
On August thirteenth at 4:15 AM Pacific Time, the Solar and Venus come collectively in a conjunction at 20º28’ Leo. The precise second of the conjunction between one other planet and the Solar known as cazimi, and when a planet is in that situation, it’s terribly sturdy. Just like the Solar abruptly breaking by means of the clouds, the cazimi planet shines in its most good kind.
It is a second in Venus’ cycle when the center of the Solar combines with the great thing about Venus. Even the Sabian image for this conjunction, 21 Leo, Chickens intoxicated speaks to me of being out of our minds, intoxicated with love.
With Venus retrograde in Leo, this conjunction is an invite to fall in love with ourselves once more. As we let go of destructive interior chatter, the methods we criticize ourselves as unworthy or unlovable – all that’s unloving – cazimi Venus opens the center house to make room for the stuff you actually love.
The conjunction of the Solar and Venus repeats close to the identical diploma of the identical signal about each eight years. The Solar and Venus final joined close to this diploma on August fifteenth, 2015 at 22º39’ Leo. One thing connects this time with that one, and connects what the center desires now with what it wished then.
Writing and pictures © 2017-23 by April Elliott Kent
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