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Monthly Column 2024

“The stars we look up to, reflect what’s within us.”
–Rumi

 

“If you want to make a Dream come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
-JM Power


“A Dream doesn’t become a reality through magic, it takes a lot of hard work.” 

-Oswald Boateng


“Think about it, there must be a Higher Love

Down in the heart, hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time.
Look inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine”
-Steve Winwood

March glides in on the waning lunar tide that began after the Full Moon in Virgo on February 24th. That Full Moon brought to light health issues, daily habits and the practical actions required to manifest the luminous inspired dreams, and visionary ideas we are committed to. As we glide into March the Sun traveling with Saturn and Mercury, all in oceanic Pisces, the final sign of the zodiac, assists us in releasing what stands in the way of our beloved visions and the strengthening our conscious connection to the Loving Source that animates our lives, and inspires our dreams. Neptune is also traveling through visionary Pisces in the later degrees, inviting us to open to our visions by Divine Design that are calling to us this month.
 
The first week of March as Luna wanes, is a great time to align with the oceanic Pisces energy that knows just how to release what it is time to let go of on the outgoing tide…We will have a great deal of energetic support in releasing outworn dreams, outgrown habits, and all that no longer serves us, on March 6th, when the Aquarius Moon merges forces with transformational Pluto, offering powerful energetic support from beloved friends, allies, community and the Higher Self, that assists us, both what we are releasing, and what we are dreaming up. On March 8th, Pluto joins up, first with Mars, then with Venus to turbo charge our evolution, assisting us in the release of disempowering energetic imprints, and the transforming of relationship patterns that require upgrades, and point us to a much Higher Love.
 
On this same day, Mercury in Pisces joins up with spiritual Neptune, to inspire visionary thinking, higher consciousness, and deep compassion. On March 9th, the Pisces Moon merges forces with executive Saturn to help us release dreams that it’s time to let go of, and to nurture our capacity to crystalize and manifest the dreams and visions we are comitted to, in advance of the New Moon in Pisces on the very next day.
 

On March 10th, the Super New Moon in Pisces begins a powerful lunar cycle for actively manifesting our dreams. On this New Moon, Saturn, the New Moon, the Pisces Sun and visionary Neptune are traveling together like a pod of dolphins in search of our inspired brilliance and beloved visions in the river of dreams that is now flowing into our awakening consciousness. Mercury at the zero degree of Aries, also travels with them, providing energizing light, like a single ruby on a strand of aquamarines, that activates our power to take initiative, and manifest the dreams that we feel called upon to bring forth!

All of these planets as well as Chiron, and the North Node in Aries are found in the material sector of the chart, calling us to take action to tangibly manifest the dreams we are committed to. Pluto, Venus, and Mars in the sector of self of the New Moon chart invite us to step into a Higher Love and begin to operate at a higher frequency as we connect with a Higher Power. Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus nurture our evolving power to stay grounded and manifest!

This growing lunar cycle carries us into the spring, which begins on March 19th at 11:06 PM EST when the portal of spring opens and the Sun glides through it as he heads into Aries to illuminate the path to the spring time! The Aries Sun energizes our life force, and fuels our capacity to act on our visions, which get a boost on March 22nd when Mars, the planetary ruler of spring heads into visionary Pisces to nurture our inner spiritual warrior and our capacity to take daring action to make our dreams come true.

This lunar cycle culminates on March 24th with the Full Moon/ Lunar Eclipse in Libra which calls us to get centered, balanced and committed to the partnerships that support and align with our dreams, visions and increasingly elevated wavelengths. This Full Moon illuminates what has been lurking in the shadows of our relationship patterns and what shadow behaviors keep us from peace in the world. Take note of what arises for you.

 
Luna begins to wane her way out of the month after the Full Moon in Libra, inviting us to get organized and ready for success in the new season. The last  few days of the month are a perfect time for spring cleaning. Sweep away what stands in the way of the luminous path to your Bliss!
 
 
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Highlighted creature of the month is the Dolphin who brings frequency healing and great joy, while building community and carrying messages from the dream time. It’s a beautiful month to swim through the visionary waters of your imagination with dolphin as your guide. Find the current that brings you to the sunken treasure of forgotten dreams, talents and visions that it is time to reclaim, retrieve and crystallize. Dolphin also provides healing frequencies to our bodies. They remind us of the sheer joy of surfing the waves of life and going with the flow as the seasons change. Dolphin cheers us up with their sweet smiles and playful natures, reminding us to be playful and light.
 
Enjoy this beautiful month by spending time near water, listening to music, finding the flow and going with it. Take salt bathes, dream, connect with your favorite body of water. Try some water color painting, listen to soulful music, Moon gaze and Dream! Wear oceanic blues, Aquamarines, and surround yourself with sea treasures, pearls, and shells. Connect with your inner mermaid or merman as you dive for inner treasure!
 
With Love to All,
 
Demitra
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

FEBRUARY 2024

I’m gonna fly like an Eagle to the sea, fly like an Eagle let my spirit carry me. gonna fly like an eagle till I’m free….Steve Miller Band

Our depth precisely describes the height of our consciousness. Demitra Vassiliadis

 

 

 
February begins with the Sun approaching the  the 10th degree of Aquarius, illuminating the path of liberation, elevation and true fellowship that are open to us, as mighty Pluto keeps his focus on the first degree of Aquarius clearing the way for the Aquarian Age that we are poised to enter. This year the Sun and Pluto entered Aquarius together back on January 20th, indicating that we the people are called for a collective awakening, liberation and empowerment that requires an encounter with the collective shadow.
 
As February begins the Moon is waning after the powerful Full Moon in Leo, back on January 25th that was opposed by Pluto and the Sun in Aquarius, which illuminated the path to our hearts, while also illuminating what has bound us personally and collectively, and kept us from our authentic heart centered expression and contribution. On the 1st of February, at 3:37 PM EST, the Moon glides into Scorpio’s depths to illuminate all that we need to confront, and integrate in our personal and collective shadow so we can be mature, responsible, liberated adults. The focus on maturity is further emphasized this month with Mercury, Venus and Mars traveling through Capricorn, the sign of the executive disciplined intrepid goat, who reminds us that nothing worthwhile is accomplished without commitment, consistent, disciplined effort and devotion.The first week of February looks stellar for crystalizing and clearly defining the goals and beloved relationships we are committed to, while making use of the abundance of Capricorn energy.
 
On February 5th Mercury dons his winged sandals and flies up into the elevated intellectual frequencies of Aquarius where he joins up with Pluto who is shining a light on all that binds us in our depths. Mercury and Pluto will also be turbo charging our minds, providing the highest perspective on blocks and the shadow while awakening brilliant empowering high frequency ideas.
 
The New Moon in Aquarius on February 9th, invites another step into the Aquarian Age as the Sun and Moon merge at 20 degrees Aquarius joined by Mercury and Pluto at the earlier degrees. This line up is all in the sector or healing, work viewed as service and refinement, inviting us to find the people, practices and groups with whom to heal, get free and collaborate on projects that call to us. Meanwhile Venus and Mars the lovers travel hand in hand through Capricorn keeping us grounded and devoted to all that we love enough to commit to with steadfast perseverance.
 
On February 13th Mars heads into Aquarius to join Pluto in shining a beam of Higher Light on all that has bound us, and on all that we project onto others: the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. Mars will be providing the daring courage of the warrior to face and integrate the shadow, and the blank canvas of freedom, which through desired, can also be daunting. A few days later on February 16th, Venus will join Mars her consort providing the love that calls us to our freedom, to our love of humanity and to the pursuit of our authentic happiness, calling and contribution. Venus will also join us with Pluto on the 17th to infuse our shadow work with mighty love that can face all endure all and consecrate all inner work to the highest love and the greater good.
 
On the very next day, the 18th Higher Love gets a boost when the Sun glides into spiritual Pisces, illuminating the sea of dreams, compassion, and higher love that can dive into. The Pisces season invites us to connect with our dreams and begin building them. On February 23rd Mercury wades into the visionary waters of Pisces, inspiring our most visionary thinking and our most spiritual consciousness that it is time to seek. The Full Moon in Virgo on the 24th, illuminates the path to mental, physical and spiritual healing, inviting us to purify ourselves as instruments of Divine Light, Higher Love and practical service. We end the month on the waning lunar tide that invites us to release into that waning tide all that stands in the way of our personal and collective evolution.
 
The Totem for the month is the Eagle, who flies at the altitude of freedom, yet is also associated with the Alchemical process associated with Pluto, newly flying through the heights of Aquarius.
 
Beautiful crystals to work with are Lemurian Seed Crystal which connects us to advanced civilizations, Cathedral Crystal that helps harmonize and amplify group energy, and Amethyst, Celestite, Clear Quartz, or any crystal that clears and elevates frequencies.
 
It’s a beautiful month to regularly connect with your Higher Self, Higher Mind and the Highest Frequencies of thought. Seek out a higher perspective and friends with whom to get free and elevated. Make time for friends, beloved causes and delightful group activities and collaborations. Find your birds of a common beautiful feather and fly together! 
 
 
 
JANUARY 2024
 
It’s your road and yours alone
Others may walk it with you
But no one can walk it for you. 
Rumi
 
The God on the Mountain is still God in the Valley    Tracy Dartt
 
 
The New Year and new month begin with Mercury stationing direct in Sagittarius on January 1st after weeks of retrograde travel, inviting us to get our minds in forward gear as we head into the New Year. The year glides in on a waning lunar tide that culminated with the Full Moon in Cancer on 12/26/23 which illuminated family matters, mother issues and all things domestic. We will still be in the waning phase of that lunar cycle till the New Moon on 1/11/24, the New Moon in Capricorn that energetically begins a New Year that promises to be one filled with revelation, epic changes, dizzying heights, cavernous depths, and evolution that ushers us further in to the Age of Aquarius.
 
January, presided over by Capricorn, the mountain scaling goat and its ruling planet Saturn, is associated with Sacred Mountains and the long hard climb that leads to successful achievement. This January is the last January for the next 240 years or so, that Pluto, the god of the depths and the deep valleys of the soul, will be in Capricorn for the winter season. Pluto has been working since 2008 to reveal the collective shadow within personal and collective power structures, that has been holding up the Aquarian Age and the liberation of humanity.
 
We are coming out of a year characterized by at times as many as 7 planets in retrograde through the summer and autumn. Back in December Neptune and Jupiter peeled out of retrograde leaving Mercury, the planet of mind who stationed direct on the 1st (we will be in the opposite shadow till the 21st) and Uranus, the planet of liberation and higher Mind who will station direct on the 27th. By the end of this month all planets are moving forward and so are we!
 
It’s a stellar month to look within as we traverse the opposite shadow of Mercury’s retrograde, and see where we still need structural changes and further empowerment that Pluto has been inspiring in the basement of our psyche and the basement of the power structures of the world. Since depth is height, if we continue to face our personal and collective shadow, we will be propelled upward on the climb up the sacred mountain of  higher consciousness and toward our chosen beloved goals.
 
We will have planetary support with goals, intentions, business plans and all things executive on 1/4/24 when Mars heads into Capricorn, the exalted placement for Mars, to fuel our capacity to put our energy into practical goals and commitments. The New Moon in Capricorn on 1/11/2024 cast for Washington DC is a triple Capricorn! with the Sun, Moon and ascendant all in Capricorn, and Pluto traveling with the Moon for a turbo charged New Moon of revelation, transformation and executive empowerment for the last New Moon in Capricorn traveling with Pluto in Capricorn for 240 years!
(To register for my New Moon in Capricorn  Go to my events page)
 
Two days after the Capricorn New Moon, Mercury the planet of thought, heads into Capricorn, where he began his retrograde back in December. Mercury will be nurturing our executive intelligence, beloved goals and capacity to focus, commit and succeed. It’s a stellar time to set goals and create the structure that will support them. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, remains in visionary oceanic Pisces, invoking the mythical sea goat a creature of both land and sea. Saturn invites us to be visionary executives and practical dreamers this year. It is time to put a solid foundations beneath our dreams and visions.
 
This growing lunar cycle gets a massive energy shift on January 20th at 9:07 AM EST in the morning when the Sun heads into elevating, liberating Aquarius followed by Pluto at 7:50 PM EST. The Aquarius Sun and Pluto form an extremely potent planetary tag team that indicates a collective shift of consciousness is on the way. This illuminating awakening should have a liberating effect on humanity as a whole, provided we are willing to face shadowy, uncomfortable personal and collective truths.  We cannot be free till we become aware of what is binding us. Five days later the Full Moon in Leo will also be spotlighting truths and issues that we are ready to face and evolve out of. It’s time to free our hearts, our inner child, inner artist and create a world that supports the unfettered heart of humanity, our collective creative spirit of brilliance and innovation, and the innocence and freedom of the children of the world.
 
The biggest shift in the year ahead will be Pluto leaving Capricorn this month after transforming and revealing all that has been going on in the basement and underworld of the world and within our psyches since 2008. Pluto will begin shedding liberating light on all that we need to be free of, or aware of,  as he steps into the first degrees of Aquarius the sign of liberty, equality, and humanity. In September, Pluto will retrograde back into Capricorn till November, inspiring us to dive deep once again after giving us a taste of the elevating heights of Aquarius. Once Pluto returns to Aquarius on November 19th, 2024 the true Age of Aquarius begins! This back and forth of Pluto is like the energetic contractions and birth pains as the New Age is born in the Light of Higher Truths.
 
The other big planetary shift of 2024 comes in May, when massive Jupiter will also change signs. On May 24th, Jupiter will leave beautiful constructive Taurus, and glides into quicksilver, intellectual Gemini, to expand our thinking and provide massive opportunities that come from writing, teaching, big ideas, and communication projects. This shift compliments Pluto in Aquarius who is also elevating and transforming our consciousness. It’s a stellar year to deepen, widen, elevate and expand our consciousness!
 
On January 27th, as the month comes to a close, Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius, stations direct in earthy Taurus, after months of retrograde travel, inviting us into a February when all planets are traveling forward, inspiring us to advance goals and ideas as we embody energetic freedom and the ascent to higher consciousness that the Aquarian Age promises. It’s a perfect time to actively reach for higher ground and liberating, elevating solutions to all that bogs us down. Dare to embody and express your unique brilliance. No one else can!
The astrological totem for this month is the mythic sea goat ( See Image Above) which can help us dive deep for our authentic dreams and inner treasure, then scale the metaphoric mountain of achievement that requires both visionary brilliance and disciplined practical action.
It’s a stellar month to get organized for success. Make lists, create structure that will support the goals you are committed to. Vision Map the visions you are committed to. Submit to daily practices that build all manner of muscle and self respect. Keep celebrating the beauty of winter with pine boughs, candle light and walks in the bracing weather. Breathe back your power from those you surrendered it to. Step into the executive suite of your life, remembering that you are the CEO of your life!
Dare to act like it!
 
With Love toAll,
Demitra 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER 2023
“Don’t be satisfied with stories of how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Rumi
 
 
December begins on a waning lunar tide that is receding after the Full Moon in Gemini on 11/27, which left us much to reflect on regarding our patterns of thought, feeling, and the beliefs, either true or false they have crystalized into. The Sun and Mars, are in the saddle and traveling together through equestrian, adventurous, wise Sagittarius, inspiring great daring and plenty of energy to harness and use to take aim at the goals, desires, adventures and projects that we most want to pursue.
Sagittarius the sign of mythology, stories, travel, wisdom, higher learning, publishing, philosophy and intellectual freedom, loves all forms of exploration that increase our margins of knowledge, understanding, and actual terrain. Sagittarius invites us to explore the stories that give life meaning, and invites us to view our own life as a mythic adventure, casting ourselves as the hero or heroine of our unfolding story.
It’s a fantastic month to actively pursue travel plans, studies, myths and projects that excite and delight us, reflecting on where we are in the unfolding epic story of our lives.
The New Moon in Sagittarius on 12/12/2023 is traveling with Mars, and receives supports from Chiron and the Moon’s North Node in Mars ruled Aries, inviting us to hop in the saddle of inner and outer travel and actively pursue healing, as we take aim at beloved goals and desires, including those that will require revision when Mercury stations retrograde on the day after the New Moon, 12/13. ( To Register for the New Moon in Sagittarius tele seminar click here: https://heaventoearthastrology.com/new-moon/
 
Mercury, the planet of thought, defines much of the astrological focus this month. He leaves Sagittarius on December 1st, and heads into executive, responsible Capricorn, where he will station retrograde on December 13th, inspiring weeks of reviewing, rethinking and reconnecting with big ideas, goals, commitments, and professional projects that we intend to pursue in the New Year.  Mercury’s retrograde in Capricorn, also invites us to review with the habits, structural support, and self discipline, required to achieve success.
 
Mercury will retrograde back into Sagittarius on December 23rd, inspiring a review of our mission statements for business and life, along with the beliefs, myths and higher truths that give our lives meaning. Sagittarius the sign of mythology and stories reminds us that we are each here on an epic and mythic adventure, with dragons to slay or tame, and victory to be won! It’s a beautiful month to reconnect with your life as your own mythic adventure. 
 
Venus begins the month finishing her journey through lovely Libra, one of her home signs, inviting us to pull out the stops in manifesting, embodying and creating all levels of harmony, peace and beauty. On December 4th she heads into Scorpio, shedding love and light in our depths, inspiring us to deepen our love for ourselves and those we are closest to. It’s a beautiful month for shadow work, which invites us to accept and integrate our most beautiful luminous qualities, our golden shadow and the parts of ourselves we disown the dark shadow. Love is the healing balm that Venus provides as we travel inward to transform. Check out Melanie Ryan’s work on the Golden Shadow Method here: https://www.melanieryanlcsw.com/the-method
 
The Winter Solstice on 12/21/2023 invites us into a winter of executive review, asking us to reflect on our true commitments, and the visions that we intend to manifest along with the philosophy that drives our visions and our sense of success. On the winter solstice the Sun heads into disciplined Capricorn, joining Mercury retrograde in Capricorn and transformational Pluto at the end of Capricorn, inviting us into a winter of review, transformation and some weighty reversals. It’s a perfect season to cultivate maturity, and commitment to our deepest sense of duty. 
 
Pluto spends his last full month in Capricorn this December till September of 2024 when he will be back for his final months before leaving Capricorn, the sign of executive intelligence, corporations, celebrities, the financial markets, governments, heads of state and people in high places for 248 years. We can expect some revelations and powerful changes this year as Pluto continues to illuminate what has been lurking in the shadows of the world’s power structures. It’s a great month to take stock of the structural changes you have made in life and business since 2008, and those you are committed to continue making.
 
The Full Moon in Cancer on 12/26/2023 illuminates the path to emotional security and domestic peace and tranquility. On December 29th Venus leaves Scorpio’s depths and puts her dainty foot in the stirrup of Sagittarius, inspiring our love of beautiful, jovial cultural adventure as the year winds down. On December 30th Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius stations direct in earthy gorgeous Taurus, inspiring forward motion regarding our biggest, most beautiful plans as the New Year begins.
 
The totem of the month as the Sun and Mars travel through mythic Sagittarius is Pegasus (see image above) the mythical winged horse from Greek mythology, who can fly between realms, (useful during a Mercury retrograde as we explore higher consciousness, subconsciousness, everyday consciousness and the realm of imagination.) Pegasus can create spring water with his hooves (helpful when on a mountain trail, the trail of our dreams or any trail) and his wings clap like thunder when he is angry! ( I can think of many scenarios where this super power could come in handy!) He also retrieves lighting bolts, a dandy power to harness!
 
 
It’s a gorgeous month to deck yourself in turquoise and lapis lazuli. Delight in shades of Blue symbolic of the azure skies that Jupiter, the planetary ruler of Sagittarius, presides over. Prepare your home with beauty, warmth and waves of gratitude for the winter season. Delight in the bracing winds, candle light, roaring fires, the holidays, stories, myths and adventures. Gaze into the light of your hearth and let your story unfold! Be of good cheer as you journey inward or outward with a heart full of gratitude and a traveling song on your lips!
 
May we meet on the trail,
 
With Love and Blessings to All,
Demitra

 

You were born with potential

You were born with goodness and trust
You were born with ideals and dreams
You were born with greatness
You were born with wings
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
 
Rumi

 

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November glides in on the current of the waning lunar tide that began after the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on 10/28, that brought the October eclipse corridor to its culmination. The ring of Fire Solar Eclipse in Libra on 10/14 that unbalanced the world, and the Full Moon eclipse in Taurus, left us much to review, release, transform and reflect upon. The first two weeks of November, as Luna wanes her way out of the tail end of the eclipse corridor, is an excellent time for doing some deep diving to determine what we must ruthlessly release or heal, so we can embrace the big opportunities that Jupiter in Taurus is, and will be providing.
 
The Scorpio season is well underway as November begins, with the Sun, Mercury, and Mars, the ruler of Scorpio, in Scorpio, to turbo charge our transformational abilities. Mercury is inspiring our deepest insight and capacity to peer beneath the surface and face feelings, fears, motivations and outworn patterns of thought and feeling that no longer serve us. Mars, is providing us with the energetic fuel to face the dragons of our fears and dare to make changes that are required if we want something different and better. 
 
The first big planetary event of November, comes on the 4th, when Saturn stations direct in Pisces after months of retrograde travel. Saturn has been traveling retrograde since June, providing us with plenty of time to review, revise, rethink or reconnect with visionary goals and dreams. It is time now to crystalize the visions we are clear about, and take practical action to begin to adjust and advance them. We are called to be executive visionaries, and put a foundation beneath our dreams.
 
Mercury will be in Scorpio till November 10th, when he saddles up in Sagittarius, to give us a higher perspective, and a needed reprieve from our depths. Mars remains in Scorpio till November 24th, to keep our energetic focus on epic decluttering, deep healing and deepening our capacity for true intimacy and mutually empowering mergers. Venus begins the month in Virgo, assisting us in getting organized, and properly diagnosing any healing required in our lives. On November 8th, she heads into Libra, one of her home signs, to nurture our beauty, poise, diplomatic skill, and our capacity to restore the balance that the eclipse corridor may have disrupted. Venus will be encouraging peace within us and in the world at large for weeks to come.
 
The New Moon in Scorpio on Monday, November 13th, traveling with Mars and partnering with evolutionary Uranus, begins a new cycle of empowerment and turbo charges our capacity for evolutionary transformation. This always requires releasing and dissolving the past, like the caterpillar in the cocoon, before new butterfly wings can begin to grow. The week after the New Moon looks especially good for making empowering changes in our lives. As the Scorpio Sun and Moon take turns merging with Mars and Pluto to turbo charge our transformational powers.
 
On November 22nd, the Sun leaves transformational Scorpio, and rides his solar chariot into wise, jovial Sagittarius, to illuminate the path to wisdom, truth, adventure and gratitude, just in time for Thanksgiving, the following day. On the 24th Mars saddles up and joins the Sun and Mercury in a planetary posse that is riding through the sign of the archer, inviting us to take aim at our highest goals and greatest adventures as we ride into the holiday season.
 
The Full Moon in Gemini on November 27th, sheds rational light on our deepest patterns of thought and feeling, showing us where we still need to adjust how we habitually think, and the effect of thought on our emotional states. This Full Moon also illuminates our most beautiful, brilliant, profitable ideas and the actions required to advance and complete them. We end the month on waning lunar cycle, just as we began it, that helps us build in the insights gleaned through the growing lunar cycle, as we clear the way for the next one. 
 
It’s a stellar month to embrace change and dare to cultivate trust in the Divine Providence that carries the caterpillar through its miraculous changes. Enjoy the intense beauty that Scorpio is an expression of. To inspire yourself, read about people who have made miraculous changes and transformations in their lives. Rather than fearing the reaper, notice how nature is always reborn. Scorpio the sign of the ancestors invites us to light candles and cultivate an ongoing relationship with loved ones on the other side of the veil, through prayer and blessings which travel faster than the speed of Light and are impervious to any boundary of time space or dimension. 
 
Totem of the Month: In honor of the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Taurus that kicked off Scorpio season we take the Luna Moth as the totem of the month. It goes through the same transformational cycle from caterpillar to butterfly, but symbolizes change, transformation, intuition, the Divine Feminine, spiritual enlightenment, inner guidance, new approaches to nurturing and adaptability. These creatures also symbolize good luck. May that good fortune find you and bless you through the evolutionary changes you make this month.
 
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It’s a gorgeous month to wear intense colors, especially deep blue green and enjoy the intense beauty of November Sunsets, the change of the seasons and even the lessening of daylight. Light candles in your home. Beautiful your hearth and home with bouquets, harvest gourds and autumn bouquets. Make gorgeous chances in your life, your home and your person. Be the radiant Light, that illuminates the world as we head into the dark months.
 
With Love and Blessings To All!
Demitra

 

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. Rumi…

 

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Rumi

 
 
October glides in on the waning lunar tide that is preparing us for the eclipse corridor that we are fast approaching. The outgoing Lunar tide began after the Full Moon in Aries on September 29th, which sets the stage for the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Libra on 10/14. The Full Moon in Aries, illuminated our deepest wounds, and how they manifest within our relationships, as well as our capacity for healing those wounds, and our attachment patterns. The Full Moon in Aries also illuminated actions needed in order to face conflict and heal, as well as with our biggest healing contribution to the world, within works of art and acts of love. 
 
As the month begins we are finally out of the shadow of Mercury’s retrograde in Virgo, but still in the shadow of Venus retrograde in Leo for another week. The Sun and Mars are cruising through beautiful poised Libra, illuminating the path to beauty and reciprocal relationships, while inviting us to deploy the strength, fortitude and courage of the inner warrior to cultivate unshakable poise and the ability quickly return to balance when we feel triggered, unbalanced or provoked. On October 4th Mercury will leave Virgo, the sign of his recent retrograde, and head into Libra, inspiring mental balance, verbal poise and harmonious, diplomatic communication through October 22nd, when he heads into Scorpio to nurture our deep emotional intelligence.
 
Venus, the ruler of Libra, continues her glide through Leo, where she has been igniting our passion and re lighting the flame of love in our hearts since late July when she stationed retrograde in the sign of the mighty lion. On October 8th, she will head into beautiful, practical pristine Virgo, to help us implement the adjustments required to follow our radiant bliss that was illuminated while she traveled through Leo from June 5th-October 8th.
 
On October 10th Pluto, the planet of power and transformation, stations direct in executive Capricorn, after months of retrograde travel that began back in May. Pluto has been illuminating the need for executive, administrative, and structural changes in our lives. It is time to slowly begin to make those changes going forward. 
 
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron and Eris are still traveling retrograde this month, inspiring further reflection, reconnection and revision. 
Jupiter and Uranus both retrograde in earthy, constructive Taurus, are inspiring review, reconnection and revision regarding big plans, upgrades and quantum leaps in our fiscal, emotional and material lives. It’s a great time to reclaim our self worth and new ways of embodying our beauty, and review projects and efforts that involve the use of technology.
 
Saturn and Neptune are both retrograde in visionary spiritual Pisces this month, inviting us to open to, review, or reconnect with our Vision by Divine Design. It’s a great month to vision map, and review dreams and plans for soundness, and for the depth of our true commitment. 
 
Eris the planet of discord and of disowned parts is also retrograde, and traveling close to the Moon’s North Node in Aries, along with Chiron the wounded healer also in Aries, inspiring a potentially healing time to be brave and do the shadow work of integrating parts of ourselves we tend to disown. 
 
On October 14th, the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Libra, brings the possibility of new dynamics into partnerships. If we spend the first two weeks of October doing some inner clearing, and healing core wounds and attachment patterns, we will be ready to begin exploring new dynamics and returning to balance and poise as needed. This eclipse highlights the need for new approaches to communication especially within partnerships.
To Register for my New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Libra tele seminar click here: https://heaventoearthastrology.com/new-moon/
 
For assistance with safe communication see links below:

Safe Conversations with Rev Doc Lisa workshop on 10/22/23:

 Harville Hendrix Book, Getting the Love you Want: https://harvilleandhelen.com/books/getting-the-love-you-want/

 
On 10/22/23 Mercury heads into deep, penetrating Scorpio, to illuminate deep inner emotional patterns that are a result of habitual thought patterns and core beliefs, some of which require updating. On the very next day 10/23/23 the Sun joins Mercury in Scorpio, to illuminate our depths and the hidden talents and buried treasure that it is time to retrieve as we also integrate disowned shadow parts.
 
As we advance through the waxing cycle after the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Libra, we will have the opportunity to deepen with ourselves, partners and loved ones when the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on 10/28/23 assists us in releasing emotional patterns that no longer serve us, so we can say yes to the big beautiful opportunities that are blossoming as we deepen our capacity for true intimacy and mutually profitable mergers. This is a great time for epic decluttering on all levels and for healing from trauma. (See links below) It is also a beautiful time to reflect on the big beauty and bounty we want to manifest, build and grow in our lives.
 
Internal Family System: https://ifs-institute.com/
 
The Full Moon will give us much to reflect on, as the month comes to a close, reminding us that our angels and ancestors are blessing us and walking with us into November.
 
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SEPTEMBER 2023
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” Rumi
 
The Summer winds down on a wave of energy that calls us inward, where the spiritual kingdom is found, to reflect. There are six planets retrograde as the month begins, seven if we include Chiron that amplify the need to go inward. September is always a transitional month, ruled by pristine Virgo, a mutable sign that presides over the end of summer, the ripening of the fields and preparing for Autumn.

 
This Virgo season began on August 23rd, the very day that Mercury, the ruler of Virgo, stationed retrograde in Virgo. This year the Virgo season is characterized by the need to reflect, revise, reorganize, restructure and recover on many levels. Mercury traveling retrograde in earthy practical Virgo is calling us to effect some of the tangible changes that Venus retrograde in Leo has been illuminating the need for since July 22nd, when she stationed retrograde. Venus will be stationing direct in radiant, passionate Leo, on September 3rd, inviting us to slowly begin to advance the beautiful revisions and reconnections we feel called to, while keeping the flame of our passion lit going forward. Mars is traveling through Venus ruled Libra all month, inspiring us to advance beautiful plans, loving relationships, and fair partnerships, while keeping poised and balanced.
Mercury retrograde in Virgo, defines this Virgo season, and can assist us with organizing the revised ideas, desires and goals that we are ready to advance now that Venus as of 9/3 is moving forward again. We will be in the opposite shadow of the Venus retrograde through October 6th, a great time to take actual steps to embody the beauty we have reconnected with and pursue the love, passion, and bliss that we recovered, while lovely Venus was traveling backwards through golden passionate Leo.
 
Mercury will be retrograde in Virgo through September 15th, inspiring us to actively review revise and rethink ideas and enterprises during the first 2 weeks of the month. Of all the retrograde planets this month, including Saturn, Pluto, Uranus Neptune, Mercury, Chiron, Jupiter as of 9/4 and (Venus till 9/3) Mercury is in the solar spotlight this month, and can assist us with all of the others. While the Sun illuminates all things Virgo, a sign that loves to revise, repair, edit, refine, declutter and reorganize, Mercury can help us put the practical intelligent spotlight on other areas in need of review, inspired by the posse of retrograde planets. 
 
Virgo can focus our minds on intelligently analyzing and revising visionary goals, business structures and professional commitments inspired by Saturn traveling retrograde in visionary Pisces. 
 
Mercury can help us review innovative, liberating, groundbreaking ideas and tech issues ideas inspired by Uranus traveling retrograde in Taurus. 
Mercury can shed discerning diagnostic light on our deepest emotional issues, as well as business and fiscal structures that require restructuring inspired by Pluto retrograde in Capricorn.
Mercury can assist us with vision mapping, and reviewing, revising or releasing dreams that we are reflecting on, inspired by Neptune traveling retrograde in visionary Pisces. 
Added to these on September 4th, the day after Venus comes out of retrograde, mighty Jupiter will station retrograde in Taurus, initiating months of review, revising and reconnecting with the biggest and most beautiful plans that now require tweaking. Mercury retrograde in Virgo can help us analyze and organize these efforts as well.
Mercury can also assist by inspiring our diagnostic intelligence as we attend to any healing of body, mind spirit, environment or relationship patterns inspired by Chiron traveling retrograde in Aries.
 
The New Moon in Virgo on 9/14/2023 at 9:40 PM EDT, the day before Mercury the ruler of Virgo stations direct, invites us to begin advancing the ideas, dreams, revisions, efforts and visions we are truly committed to. This healing New Moon cycle will carry us into the autumn season which begins on 9/23/23 when the Sun glides into gracious balanced Libra and the portal of Autumn opens. This year as fall begins the Moon’s north node in Aries conjuncts Eris the planet of discord, indicating that conflicts are in the air but so is conflict resolution. It’s a beautiful autumn to commit to beauty, poise and peace. We do not have to attend every argument we are invited to. We can also be curious about the feelings and needs that conflict inspires within us.
 
The first week of the Autumn looks lovely for advancing beloved partnerships and exploring any healing and recalibrating required within them. It’s a great time for attending actively to revisions that were spotlighted during the Mercury and Venus retrogrades. It’s a beautiful time to reclaim our relationship to beauty, and advance, revise or repair relationships that we want to nurture through the new season and beyond. The Full Moon in Aries on September 29th, illuminates our desire for healthy balanced relationships and healing the sense of self and attachment patterns that we bring to them. The Moon’s North Node will be traveling with Chiron and Eris calling us to heal inner and outer discord. It is a stellar month for diagnosing, organizing, healing and going within where the spiritual Heavenly Kingdom and Flawless Guidance to navigate the retrogrades are to be found.
“You have no need to go anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies, and bath in the splendor of your own light.” Rumi
 
ARIES: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your work, health and organizing sector, calling you to focus on the skills and activities that will set your life in order, while Mercury traveling retrograde in Virgo in this same sector inspires all manner of review, repair and decluttering and reorganizing. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your sector of art, romance recreation and children, inviting you to advance the pursuits and relationships your heart feels passionate about. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your fiscal sector, initiating months of review about big fiscal or constructive ideas you are considering. Meanwhile Mars your ruling planet planet is in Venusian Libra all month, awakening the lover and the diplomat within you. The Full Moon on the 29th spotlights your desires, some conflicts and the beautiful healing that is now possible.
 
TAURUS: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your romantic, creative, child rearing and recreational life, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a detailed review of all these areas. On September 3rd, Venus, your ruling planet, stations direct in Leo in your home and family sector, inspiring you to begin to advance beautiful ideas, family plans and a renewed commitment to a home life that warms your heart and fills you with love. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in your sign Taurus, initiating months of review of your biggest most beautiful plans. It’s time to digest the big expansion you are in the midst of and review plans that delight you and support your personal expansion.
 
GEMINI: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your domestic life, while Mercury, your ruling planet, retrograde in Virgo inspires pre emotive fall cleaning, clearing, and organizing. It’s also a great month to release outworn family patterns as you review family plans. On September 3rd, Venus stations direct in Leo in your sector of mind, and it’’s time to slowly review and advance the golden ideas, romantic plans and recreational activities that it’s time to pursue as you follow your bliss. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your sector of dreams and visions, initiating months of review of big beautiful visions that you are in the process of manifesting. Mercury, your ruling planet, stations direct on 9/15, and it’s time to advance new domestic plans.
 
CANCER: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your mind and your best ideas and plans, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of these plans and a review of disempowering patterns of thought that it is time to release. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your fiscal/material sector, inspiring you to slowly advance the beloved, golden, profitable ideas and enterprises it is time to manifest or market. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your social sector, initiating months of review and reconnection to big ideas involving friends, community, networking and your social life. The Moon your ruling planet, inspires a new approach to thought and ideas on 9?14. The Full Moon in Aries on 9/29 spotlights career and all that requires healing in your relationship to success.
 
LEO: The month begins with the Sun, your ruling planet, in Virgo illuminating your material and fiscal life, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of fiscal plans. It’s a stellar time for decluttering, housekeeping and organizing fiscal records. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in your sign Leo, in your sector of self after weeks of retrograde since late July. It’s time to step into your reclaimed beauty, power and passion with a renewed commitment to follow your bliss. Venus will be advancing through your sign through October 8th, blessing you with beauty, radiance, magnetism and creative power. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your career sector and it’s time to review big career plans and reconnect with beautiful and profitable ideas and goals.
 
VIRGO: The month begins with the Sun in Virgo illuminating you and your pristine beauty, analytical intelligence, and skillful brilliance, while Mercury, your ruling planet, is retrograde in Virgo, inspiring a stellar month to reconnect with yourself and review how you think about and speak to yourself with an eye to healing. It’s also a fantastic moth to review ideas, and reconnect with those that truly resonate with you. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your spiritual sector, inviting you to advance golden creative ideas, especially those involving children art and your heart. Saturn is also retrograde in Pisces in your partnership sector, inspiring a review of the structure of partnerships and your commitment to them. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus, inspiring you to review big plans and profitable ideas you are considering and reconsidering… 
 
LIBRA: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your spiritual sector of dreams and visions, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of  dreams you are reflecting on. It’s a great month to reconnect with Source to guide you to your vision by Divine Design and the practical action that will achieve it. Mars is in Libra all month, inspiring you to cultivate diplomacy poise and balance within all relationships and any conflicts within them. On September 3rd Venus, your ruling planet, stations direct in Leo in your social sector, inspiring you to begin advancing warm, loving social plans, and brilliant collaborations as we head into autumn, your season! On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus inspiring you to review big ideas regarding mergers. On 9/23 the Sun heads into your sign for the fall equinox and autumn begins. The Full Moon in Aries on 9/29 spotlights partnerships and some adjustments or healing required within them.
 
SCORPIO: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your social sector, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of your social life, collaborations and group activities. It’s also a great time to reconnect with friends and allies, as you recalibrate some friendships. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your career sector, inviting you to begin to advance the golden, beloved professional goals and creative projects you feel passionate about. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your partnership sector, and it’s time to review or reconnect with big plans involving business or romantic partners. Meanwhile, Mars, your ruling planet spends the whole month in Libra in your spiritual sector, inviting you to put your conscious relationship to Source first as you cultivate, inner peace and outer poise with which to pursue dreams and goals.
 
SAGITTARIUS: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your career sector, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires you to rethink and review your executive approach to success and the built in structure that supports your success. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your publishing sector, and it’s time to advance the golden ideas, presentations and publishing projects that your beautiful heart feels passionate about. On September 4th Jupiter, your ruling planet, stations retrograde in Taurus in your work and health sector, and it is time to review and rethink the nuts and bolts of your work life that will support a big expansion. It is also time to reconnect to and recommit to big constructive or publishing ideas that could be game changers.
 
CAPRICORN: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your publishing sector of travel and the higher mind, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of ideas, presentations and travel plans. It is time to focus on the details and the nuts and bolts of ideas, and plans. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your sector of emotional depths and mergers, and it is time to advance the ideas, relationships and pursuits that you feel passionate about, with a renewed commitment to follow your bliss. On September 4th, Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your creative sector, inspiring a big review of creative, romantic and child rearing plans. Meanwhile Saturn your ruling planet and Neptune both retrograde in Pisces in your sector of mind, are calling you inward on a weighty vision quest to review dreams before committing to them, while Pluto retrograde in Capricorn calls you back into the cocoon of transformation for further changes that will effect decisions. As you change, your choices will also change.
 
AQUARIUS: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your emotional depths, shared finances and mergers, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires an intelligent analytical review of your deepest feelings and needs, your financial life, investments and mergers you are considering or releasing. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your partnership sector, and it’s time to advance the revised plans formal kinds of partnership and relationships that put your hearts needs first. It’s time to follow your bliss. On September 4th Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus in your home sector, inspiring a big review of domestic plans. Meanwhile Saturn, your ruling planet is traveling retrograde in Pisces along with Neptune also retrograde in Pisces in your fiscal sector. It’s time for a weighty realistic review of financial plans, holdings and the dreams you want to manifest.
 
PISCES: The month begins with the Virgo Sun illuminating your partnership sector, while Mercury retrograde in Virgo inspires a review of the logistics of business or romantic partnerships and shared goals. On September 3rd Venus stations direct in Leo in your work and health and it’s time to advance work projects and daily practices that you love and feel passionate about. On September 4th Jupiter, your ruling planet, stations retrograde in Taurus, in spiring months of major review or reconnection to big constructive ideas.  Meanwhile Saturn and Neptune are both retrograde in your sign, calling you to a vision quest regarding the realistic dreams and inspired visions you feel called to. 
 

 

 

 

 

APRIL 2023

“The outward spring and garden, are a reflection of the inward garden.” Rumi


April begins with the Aries Sun awakening the spring season along with Mercury, Chiron and mighty Jupiter all in Aries, inspiring big bold, healing, ideas and daring action to advance them.  Mars, the ruler of Aries spends the entire month in soulful, domestic Cancer, awakening our true desires on the domestic front, while providing plenty of energy with which to attack spring cleaning, and nurture the family relationships we hold dear. Mars in Cancer 
also assists our inner development, providing the courage to face and identify emotional patterns that require our healing attention.


We glide into the month on a growing Lunar cycle that began a day after the spring equinox, back on March 21st with the New Moon at the powerful zero degree of Aries, that got spring started with a bolt of energy, and will be the first of two consecutive New Moons in Aries this spring. On April 3rd, Mercury leaves daring Aries, and heads into beautiful earthy Taurus, (where he will retrograde later in the month), joining Venus and Uranus already in Taurus, inspiring constructive ideas and profitable, innovative, practical thinking for weeks to come.


This first lunar cycle of spring will culminate on the Full Moon in Libra on April 6th, illuminating our feelings and needs regarding partnerships and any dynamics within our relationship patterns that require healing. On this Full Moon, the Aries Sun travels in a tight embrace with Chiron, and flanked by Mercury, illuminating injuries to our sense of self and attachment patterns, that show up within relationships, partnerships and collaborations. 

 

As Luna begins to wane, the Passover and Easter holidays occur, inspiring a period of reflection regarding all that the recent Full Moon brought to light. 
On April 11th lovely Venus leaves earthy Taurus, dons her winged sandals, and takes to the air currents of intellectual Gemini to nurture our most beautiful thinking and verbal expression. On April 7th we enter the shadow of the upcoming Mercury retrograde in Venusian Taurus, that occurs on the 21st. Venus in Mercurial Gemini, will be assisting us through the retrograde, by helping us maintain some intellectual detachment and a bird’s eye view of ideas, values and all that we truly love, as we review ideas, enterprises, material concerns and priorities.
 

We are still acclimating to the intense energetic upgrade that Pluto in Aquarius inspires, calling us to confront and transmute all in the shadow that keeps us from personal and collective liberty and empowerment. Saturn at the early degrees of Pisces and Neptune at the later ones are inspiring us to open to and commit to our visions by Divine Design. It’s a great month to take stock of our dreams and the actions and allies required to achieve them.
 

April 20th brings the New Moon Solar eclipse at the final degree of Aries, punctuating the need for further development in our capacity for self assertion, courage, self mastery, individuation and new beginnings. On the very next day, Mercury stations retrograde in Taurus, as the waxing eclipse lunar cycle begins, inviting us to rethink our values and notice how our outer lives and gardens are a reflection of what is occurring within. It’s a beautiful time to carefully nurture the seedlings of our dreams and align the inner garden with what we want to see blossom with beauty and splendor in our lives.
 

With Love and Blessings to All,
Demitra
 

 

MARCH 2023

“ Let your actions be louder than your words, and your dreams bigger than your fears.”  Invajy

March glided in on a growing Lunar tide that began with the New Moon in visionary Pisces, back on February 20th, and peaks with the Full Moon in practical pristine Virgo on March 7th at 7:40 AM EST. An hour later at 8: 35 AM EST, executive Saturn, the planet of disciplined achievement, leaves social egalitarian Aquarius, where he has been traveling for the past couple of years, and heads into spiritual visionary Pisces, for the next 2 and a half years, requiring that we commit to our further enlightenment and our most inspired dreams.

This Full Moon is consequential, and sets the tone for the rest of them month, and the visions we will be choosing to focus on for the next 2 and a half years. On this Full Moon, the Pisces Sun, traveling shoulder to shoulder with visionary Neptune in the spiritual sector of dreams opposes the Virgo Full Moon found in her own sector of healing, refinement of skill and service. Together the two lights of Heaven illuminate our dreams and visions by Divine design, as well as any healing, practical action required to achieve what we are imagining.

This Full Moon also illuminates the path to greater enlightenment and the purification and practices that prepare us for it. Mercury in Pisces is traveling shoulder to shoulder with Saturn at the very last degrees of Aquarius, inviting us to imagine beloved dreams and focus our minds on the logistics that will see them through as we commit to the collaborations, communities and dream teams that will help us build our dreams.

A mere hour after the Full Moon, Saturn will leave Aquarius and head into visionary Pisces for the next two and a half years. This Full Moon prepares our visionary commitment and will inspire us to use the 2 weeks following the Full Moon for clearing, cleaning purifying and doing all that will clear the mental, physical and spiritual path to our dreams.

The Full Moon chart is also a massive call to action with daring active Aries on the ascendant, reminding us that our visions require action, in order to come true. Mighty Jupiter travels in a tight conjunction with Chiron the healer and lovely Venus calling us to face, confront and heal all wounds to our sense of self and our capacity to love ourselves and others as we actively pursue our bliss. It’s a stellar month to commit to our healing and refinement.
On the 16th lovely Venus leaves Aries and heads into earthy Taurus in time for spring, to ground us and inspire us to embody, build and plant the beauty we have been imagining.
On March 20th spring begins when the Sun heads into Aries flanked by Mercury in Aries on one side and Neptune and the Moon in Pisces on the other, inviting us to put our best foot forward as we set into spring resolved to act on inspiring dreams and spiritual goals. On the very next day, the first of two consecutive New Moon’s in Aries get the spring going! We are called to move into the spring with daring courage and soulful commitment to our dreams.

Two days after the New Moon in Aries on 3/23, transformational Pluto leaves executive Capricorn, and heads into Aquarius the sign of “We The People”,friendship and collaboration, indicating that an empowering collective change is in the air. Pluto will be at the zero degree of Aquarius till June 11th when he retrogrades back into Capricorn for residual clean up and transformation of the power structure of the world, inspiring us each to keep after the structural changes we want to make in life that will support our success.Two days after that Mars leaves Gemini after a whopping 7 month stint in the sign of the twins, and heads into Cancer for some much needed nesting and rest in domestic nurturing Cancer. It’s time to nurture the seed ideas we have decided to plant and grow as spring begins.

 

November 2022

From that creeping thing in the dust
To this shining bliss in the blue!
God give me the courage to trust,
I can break my chrysalis too!”
– Alice Freeman Palmer

November begins in an eclipse corridor, as we travel from one eclipse to another. We begin the month gliding along the waxing lunar current that began with the New Moon/Solar eclipse in Scorpio on October 25th, that invited us to zip ourselves into various cocoons of transformation. This lunar cycle will culminate with the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in beautiful, earthy, constructive Taurus on November 8th which will illuminate required evolutionary and material changes, that have been building for a while now.
 
The Scorpio season always invites us to peer into the shadows and transmute or integrate what we find there. This year, the eclipses in transformational Scorpio and constructive beautiful Taurus are informed by Venus, and invite us to utterly dissolve all that keeps us from the love and beauty we long to enjoy and embody. This eclipse season helps us release grief, heartache, loss, betrayal and former ways of being that no longer apply, so we can build or become a new Beauty  that requires systemic change. Mars is the planetary ruler of Scorpio, but this year Venus is leading the charge in the realm of transformation, inviting us to make changes that lead to transcendental Beauty, Grace and ultimately more Love in our lives.
 
Venus presided over the eclipse in October, which set the tone for this month, inviting us to do the deep inner or outer work, with Love as our guide, that leads to change. As the month begins Mercury, Venus, and the Scorpio Sun are traveling together, illuminating all that we must release, dissolve or demolish before something new can be. Within the cocoon, there is much letting go that precedes the architecture of new wings growing and a new life beyond the cocoon. This mysterious process is clearly guided by a Higher Force that we can call upon as we shed the old and grow the new.
 
As the Moon wanes after Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse on November 8th we have two weeks to assimilate the revelations of these intense eclipses that demand ongoing change, real evolution and growth from us. During that time Venus on November 16th and Mercury on November 17th will leave deep penetrating Scorpio and head into jovial, adventurous Sagittarius to give us a higher bird’s eye view of our progress thus far. Some part of us will be invited out of the cocoon at that time to explore new vistas, viewpoints and perspectives, while other parts may be busy dissolving the inner caterpillar or building wings that will support us in the days and years to come. Both energies are possible concurrently. On November 22nd the radiant Sun leaves Scorpio and rides into Sagittarius illuminating new trails and a spirit of adventure that can assist with inner and outer adventures.
 
On November 23rd the New Moon in Sagittarius, invites us to bring our curiosity, gratitude and love of life to this new lunar cycle that reminds us it’s a big beautiful world, with so much to explore once we complete our development within the chrysalis. Minutes after the New Moon in Sagittarius, massive Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius and Pisces, stations direct in visionary Pisces, calling us to begin acting on the blueprints of the dreams we have been developing and revising. What are you dissolving this month in your cocoon of transformation…and what bright beauty are you dreaming up? Invite the flawless Guidance of Higher Love to direct all of your changes, and you can trust in the outcome!
 
With Love to All,
Demitra

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October 2022

“ Life is a balance between holding on and letting go”
Rumi

October glides in like a swan, one of the birds sacred to Venus, the planetary ruler of the month. Lovely Venus has joined the Sun in gorgeous Libra, to inspire our most poised, exquisite, ideas, efforts and expressions. This month will see many planets twirling out of retrograde, and others twirling into retrograde like celestial ballet dancers who pirouette with perfect Grace. The Sun and Venus inspire us to maintain beauty, balance and poise as we also pivot, and review the inner and outer changes we desire, while reflecting on what to hold on to and what to let go of.

It’s time to explore  the need for fundamental balance in all areas of life, and to meditate on the give and take of all relationships, and the beauty, balance or lack thereof within them. As we release what isn’t working, we clear the path for what is in harmony with our vision by Divine Design.

The first planetary shift occurs on October 2nd as Mercury twirls of retrograde, and stations direct in pristine Virgo, ending the retrograde that began in Libra, back on September 9th. We can now take stock of the revelations that occurred to us during the retrograde, regarding partnerships, and any recalibration required within them. It is also time to make needed repairs, attend to needed healing, and the rebalancing of mind body and spirit that restores our peace and power.

Our next planetary pivot comes on October 8th, when powerful Pluto stations direct in executive Capricorn, after months of retrograde travel. As Pluto the planet of energy stations direct, he invites us to reclaim our power and review, revised executive plans that nurture desired success going forward.

The Full Moon in daring Aries, on October 9th travels arm in arm with Chiron, the wounded healer, while opposing the Sun and Venus in Libra, illuminating wounds to the self, that show up within partnerships. It’s a gorgeous day to commit to self love and self acceptance as we actively attend to the wounds that stand in the way of love, romance and fair, beautiful partnerships.

On October 10th Mercury glides into lovely Libra, inspiring us to cultivate mental peace and poise, as we review any need for further recalibration within our relationships and our lives. It’s time to advance exquisite revised ideas and projects.

On October 23rd, just as the new day begins, the planetary dance inspires several energetic shifts, as act two of this month’s planetary ballet gets underway. The day begins with Saturn, the planet of executive focus and commitment, twirling out of months of retrograde in Aquarius. We can now slowly review our revised and truly authentic commitments. It is time to take stock of the friendships, alliances, collaborations and communities that we feel are committed to.

In the pre dawn hours, Venus heads into the crystal caves of transformational Scorpio, to deepen our love and our capacity to make gorgeous, empowering changes, releasing what no longer serves who we are becoming. At 6:36 AM EDT the Sun joins Venus in Scorpio, illuminating the path to beautiful mergers, true intimacy and changes that align with our passion and empowerment.

Two days later on the 25th, the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, traveling conjunct Venus, brings empowering beautiful changes, that require some letting go and some holding on, inviting us into entirely new paradigms.

On October 28th, Jupiter will assist us with our visions, when he retrogrades back into Pisces, reminding us of the larger dreams that we are here to embody and manifest. It’s time to vision map, and clarify those dreams.

On the 29th at 3:22 PM EDT. Mercury glides into Scorpio’s depths to illuminate subconscious issues that it is time to heal and transform, inviting us to retrieve the buried treasure in our psyches within us that it is time to reclaim.

The month ends with Mars, the ruler of Scorpio, stationing retrograde in mercurial Gemini. This retrograde can feel much like a Mercury retrograde, so restraint of tongue and pen is advised! Mars will be inspiring changes of mind, calling us to review, reverse and revise, ideas, patterns of thought, communication projects, plans and strategies throughout this retrograde with an eye to desired success and victory.

May Divine Peace and exquisite balance be with you this month, as the planets twirl and pivot, inspiring us to gracefully do the same.

Bright Blessings to All,
Demitra
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