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The article below might interest you – it came all the way from Australia – isn’t technology wonderful?

Hope your skies allow you to see it – I mean weatherwise. It has to portend good things – probably spiritual ones in the face of all the Pluto stuff going on at the beginning of Capricorn on the solstice point. The three benefics coming together to grace our visible heavens – this is what got the Babylonian/Chaldean Astrologers going 5,000 years ago – and here it still happens to us now. Wow!!!

Blessings, Dawne xx

A spectacular conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon!

Go outside tonight when the horizon is turning red and the zenith is cobalt-blue and look southwest. You’ll see Venus and Jupiter beaming side-by-side through the twilight. Glittering Venus is absolutely brilliant and Jupiter is nearly as bright as Venus. On Nov. 29th the two planets will be less than 3 degrees apart and you’ll think to yourself “surely it can’t get any better than this.”

And then it will. On Nov. 30th a slender 10% crescent Moon leaps up from the horizon to join the show. The delicate crescent hovering just below Venus-Jupiter will have cameras clicking around the world. Dec. 1st is the best night of all. The now crescent Moon moves in closer to form an isosceles triangle with Venus and Jupiter as opposing vertices. The three brightest objects in the night sky will be gathered so tightly together, you can hide them all behind your thumb held at arm’s length.

The celestial triangle will be visible from all parts of the world, even from light-polluted cities. People in New York and Hong Kong will see it just as clearly as astronomers watching from remote mountaintops. Only cloudy weather or a midnight sun (sorry Antarctica!) can spoil the show.

Although you can see the triangle with naked eyes–indeed, you can’t miss it-a small telescope will make the evening even more enjoyable. In one quick triangular sweep, you can see the moons and cloud-belts of Jupiter, the gibbous phase of Venus (69% full), and craters and mountains on the Moon. It’s a Grand Tour you won’t soon forget.

At last – Pluto leaves Sagittarius and enters Capricorn on 27th November, 2008! So, finally all the 4 Mutable signs can breathe a sign of relief – or party, party, party! All you Geminis, Virgos, Sagittarians and Pisceans are now able to emerge from the Stygian gloom of Pluto’s realm and start living on the surface of Earth again. And as Pluto will not return to Sagittarius for another 240 years or so, it’s something worth partying for.

It is always suggested that Sagittarians are generous and optimistic types, and your behaviour does seem to bear that out. Jupiter is your ruling planet, and is known as the “Greater Benefic”  – in other words, the Giant Good Guy in the sky. I think that part of your reputation for generosity lies in the fact that the period that the Sun traverses your sign is the one directly before Christmas. Most people are preparing feasts and buying gifts over these few weeks in readiness for the “Coming of the Light” that is the Christmas period. I will write more on that on my Capricorn page at the end of December.

Jupiter has a 12/13 month residence in each Zodiac sign and is just coming to the end of his stint in Capricorn – not the happiest sign for him to be placed in, to be honest. This could explain why many of you Sagittarians have been somewhat subdued over this past year, and have felt hemmed in by the sheer necessities of life. The sign change into Aquarius occurs in the first week of the New Year and will herald a year of opportunities and openings. It will offer you a more interesting future, which is after all your favourite view – your eyes firmly fixed on tomorrow  – no looking back for you!!!

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NB – The readings below can either be read from your Sun Sign – ie your birthday – or your Ascendant sign, which is calculated form your time of birth. Try also reading it from your Moon Sign, as Hindu astrologers suggest. 

Please note that this year is a Leap year, which means that a day has been added to the calendar. so, you may notice that the beginning and end dates in some cases are a day earlier than usual. The Full Moon in Libra, that traditionally heralds Easter, always presents relationship matters in your face, whatever your sign happens to be.

This Sagittarius New Moon unites with both Mercury, planet of communication and Mars, the Red Planet of Action. When these two planets combine, they can create a sort of black belt in verbal karate – suggesting that this could be a month for ALL the signs to be expressing themselves, each in their own particular way, in a somewhat fiery, ego-oriented and super-charged fashion. Sounds like fun!!!

Aries : 21st March – 20th April – the New Moon falls in your 9th Solar House as it does every Christmas period – so focusing you on your long range future and plans for the new Year. You may be in communication during this month with people from a distance – this area on your solar chart is also associated with your in-laws and your partner’s family.  You may decide to go travelling for the festive season. In all the excitement of buying gifts, you may need to pull back on your expenditure and think about the financial global situation right now – just be sure that you prioritise your outgoings – and have enough left for the important bills.

Mars, your ruling planet sitting so close to Mercury can indicate that there may be some clash of wills with siblings. You may also find that your journey to work has to change for some unforeseen reason, which could be irritating, but not the end of the world. 

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This is NOT about loss of money, folks, it just seems like it. In reality, it’s about changing our ATTITUDE – individually – to living in the real world, connected with everything in it – fish, fowl, flowers and you and me. And every time we are pressured into attitude shifts by the Universal energies, whatever we hold as our over-riding value, will be challenged and reworked, by hook or by crook.

And we’re bang in the middle of one of those Universal pressures right now – just as we were in the mid-Sixties, the early Thirties, the 1890’s (with Freud’s work), and many more examples, right back to the Axial Age, when Buddhism,  Hinduism, Judaism were all born around the same time.

And here we go again, everywhere we turn we are being bombarded by the various news media – TV, newspapers, radio, etc – that we are now on the verge of a recession and things can only get worse. And for many people, this will be true – but why? Because they believe it – and why do they believe it? Because they/we are being told that it is so, and we always believe what we are told by the media, don’t we?

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