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Just to say before you read your sign readings, that if you look at the evening sky through the winter months you will see Mercury, Venus and Saturn in the Western horizon, setting after the Sun. They shine so beautifully and give us the experience that the ancient priest-kings had when they began to note down their stellar observations thousands of years ago.

That is, of course, provided you have clear skies. Here in Scotland we have had cloudy skies for nearly 2 years now - I have seen the Moon about half a dozen times in the last 2 years - so I certainly can’t see the wonder of the planets setting.  

Happy Birthday Virgo 

I imagine that Virgos have been feeling pretty hard done by since last summer (2007) with Saturn, the planet of structure and reality checks entering your sign for his 30 month visit. Earthy Virgo is THE sign of perfectionism and minimalism and you can feel quite happy with some reality - however, there does come a point when it all gets a bit in your face. 

So for early Virgos ( 23 August - 5th September) who have been going through it all over the last 9 months - throwing out the old stuff and not quite sure where you’re heading - that’s all rather perfect for you, really. And, happily it’s over for another thirty years or so. Now it’s a new fresh start that you can begin to put in place. It is often suggested that this transit (passage) of Saturn over the Sun can signal a period of greatest success - but it is hard won - and totally your own making. So congratulations!

For mid-Virgos (5th - 15th September) this year is a real roller coaster ride. Saturn is making demands that you seriously look at the things that no longer serve your long term goals and start the process of letting them go. You may not wish to throw them out completely yet, but you will have done that by next August, 09. And then a brand new thirty year cycle will begin - a bit like being reborn, I guess.

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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, which traditionally heralds Easter, always presents relationship matters in your face, whatever your sign happens to be.

Aries : 21st March - 20th April - This is a good time for you to seriously work on your relationships with your co-workers due to a pile up of planets in Libra, including your ruler Mars. This puts huge emphasis on negotiation, and cooperation in all your relationships - both business and personal - and it will put you in good stead for the future in your profession. It’s hard for Aries to be a good team player but you have to bite the bullet and do it this month, for your own sake. You may find that one of your colleagues seems to have a down on you and you need to use some diplomacy to put it right.

However, you are the stronger one here and will easily overcome any challenges thrown at you. You may be asked to take a course in some practical subject as well, in order that you really understand the deeper workings of your business. 

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Friday’s Solar Eclipse was only total across Northern Canada, Russia and China i.e. completely blocking the light of the Sun from the land - however, it was still visible as a partial eclipse right down to Spain and across those same latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Traditional mystical teaching suggests that the Sun brings consciousness, which is obvious really - we either see the light or are in the dark about something. Those same traditions also suggest that the Moon represents our unconscious function - the past, memories, dreams and our hidden motivations. So, when a Solar eclipse occurs we go unconscious in some way.  

It made interesting reading that many people on BLC (Boundless Living Challenge) wrote on their blogs published around 1st August, that they couldn’t get anything together, felt down, uninspired or emotionally flat. This is exactly what I would expect people to feel when they are deprived of their light and left to the darkness of Lunar mind. The reaction to that event is equal to the effort made by us to deny our connection with the so called feminine energies - so if we feel depressed we have to ask who is the me that is holding down and denying my emotions, my connection with my past, my feeling life and my collective?

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

Happy Birthday, Leo

With Friday’s Total Solar Eclipse it’s quite a momentous birthday that will have significance for Leos through the next 6-12 months. It’s a funny thing the way the planets whizz around the Zodiac, sometimes regularly and predictably and sometimes quite erratically. This eclipse is more on the erratic side of things, and I’ll explain more below.

Usually, we can trace an Eclipse on the same degree of the Zodiac every 19 years - for Saros Cycle fans, this is something Zodiacal rather than Nodal. However, occasionally we get a rogue eclipse that doesn’t fit that particular pattern - a little Cosmic Joke, perhaps, who knows? And there’s probably a technical explanation that I once knew and have since forgotten - sorry about that, but forgetting things happens as we get older!!

Eclipses tend to repeat in the same sign for about eleven and a half months - so we usually get two hits in the same sign over a year. Not this time, however - the next one in July 2009 falls in Cancer. So this is a one off, folks, peculiar to Leo on 1st August - no wonder the Chinese are claiming it as their very own Olympic Eclipse! Incidentally, the shadow cast across the Earth by the Moon covering the Sun, falls across Northern Russia and China, where it terminates. This is how we can often predict earthquakes and political disturbances for a nation by tracing the Eclipse’s shadow and seeing which nations it covers. I feel another article coming up - later, I promise!

An eclipse usually leaves its effects over a period of about 6-12 months, over which time many of the predictions are likely to pan out - things like babies being born, older people leaving, creative ventures being launched, money being made and even lost. A time of rich pickings. An eclipse effects us all no matter which sign it falls in and we will respond to it differently each according to our birth signs.

So Leo here we go:

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NB - The readings below can either be read from your Sun Sign - i.e. your birthday - or your Ascendant sign, which is calculated from 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.

The eclipse on the 1st August is sitting with Mercury in Leo, so I have taken into account the houses that it rules with each sign below as well. Please note that an eclipse can have an effect in your life for around a year.

Aries : 21st March - 20th April

The eclipse falls in your 5th house of creativity, children and romance. If your children are teenagers, they may decide to leave home or go to college that requires many short journeys for you all. If they have already left, be prepared, they may come back for a while and again need you to help them put their futures in better order. Your daily routines could be changed as a result. You may acquire new neighbours who could challenge your domestic peace and quiet for a time, by doing a make-over, for example. A co-worker could cause more work to be put on your shoulders by, for example, going on maternity leave or something similar. In the romance department, if there’s no one on the horizon, then this may change over the next few months, because you’re giving off good energy.

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A total eclipse of the sun will be observed on 1st August 2008. To see a total solar eclipse, you must be standing within the band of its shadow, stand anywhere outside and you only see a partial eclipse.  A solar eclipse is a New Moon that occurs when the moon is on the same latitude as the Earth and the Sun. As this New Moon passes between them  it blocks out the sunlight and casts a shadow across the earth’s surface.

The track of the moon’s shadow on this particular Solar Eclipse will first touch the surface of the earth at dawn in Northern Canada, it then moves across the north polar region and into Siberia, then across the western edge of Mongolia and leaving the earth at sunset in Central China.

It is being highly regarded by the Chinese because it is the eclipse of the Olympics  - hmmm! I wonder who will be eclipsed during the Games? Just a note for the Numerologists - the Games open on the 8/8/08 - the number 8 is the most prestigious number according to the Chinese.

An eclipse repeats its degree every 19 years. One way of looking at what it can bring up on your chart is to ask what was I doing around the beginning of August 19 years ago? I have noticed that clients often say it was when their first child was born, when they got married or some such major event of that importance. 

Many astrologers say an eclipse is only significant if it falls on the Sun, Moon or Ascendant - not so, say I - we are ALL effected one way or another. In my opinion whichever house on your birth chart that the eclipse falls in will be intensified as an issue, rather than just an event.

For example, a client with an eclipse falling in his 8th house of debts, was forced to deal with his debts as a major event and go into a debt repayment scheme. Although he had had many New Moons falling in his 8th previously over the years, it was the eclipse that was in his face, so to speak. And it changed his life - freed him up to look at his future possibilities instead of living in permanent terror. In effect, the Eclipse was the knock on his door. 

So, eclipses are not to be feared - simply seen as a “click” mechanism creating circumstances that can help clear up the old “stuff” in whichever area of your life indicated by where it happens on your birth chart.

My first ever freebie!! And boy was I surprised by your response!

The requests trickled in at first. Then my friend Ann-Marie, of Attractor Factor fame put my offer on her monthly NL, as did my Australian Astro-Pal, Edgar Winter. And the requests flooded in - and to be honest took me by surprise. I had over 100 people asking for readings.

Now, I do tend to leap before looking - so had not written many combinations until they came in - in other words, no data base to draw from. The information was all in my head and needed to be written, request by request. So, I set to and was working for about six weeks to clear the list completely. This is why I have not written much else on the blog - but now I’m clear of it the LoA articles will start flowing again! And I know that the odd requests will still trickle in - and that’s fine, as I’m now much better organised for them. For those of you with Astrological understanding, I have no earth on my chart - ‘nuff said!

Anyone who can do the maths will know that there are 144 possible combinations and I actually had fewer people with the same combinations than I had thought I might.

Having said that, my mini-survey suggests that those with Gemini and Libra Suns or Moons, or both, gave me the biggest numbers, which was predictable, really, as these signs are the most sociable and curious to find out about themselves.

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We are all used to seeing the TV pictures of Druids performing their ceremonies at Stonehenge on 21st June each year. The attitude of those presenting these images in the various media seems to be one of bemusement and amusement - which usually comes from ignorance of what is really happening. 

It was the Romans who wiped out the Druids because they were a “backward cult” with little use to the Roman way of worshipping. However, these backward cultists were the keepers of an ancient secret wisdom that existed to relay information about our Celestial connections. A kind of “lest we forget” moment from the ancient world.

This secret that they acknowledge during their rituals is about the divisions in the sky - or annual time - by four. In other words, the Druids knew that the relationship between the Earth and the Sun have four particular phases. These are two Solstices - Summer and Winter - and two Equinox points. These four indicate the amount of light the Earth receives from the Sun.

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(With thanks to Australia’s leading Astrologer, Edgar Winter)

Ah, at last! Communication becomes less confusing and making decisions is no longer a battle. Ever since Mercury turned retrograde in its own sign Gemini on May 26, you’ve been spinning your wheels and going back over the same data and conversations. Now it’s time to leave that hamster wheel behind and put everything you’ve learned into practice. Sign those contracts, send out your resume or pick up the phone! The time is ripe to communicate all of your great ideas! However, it’s worth pointing out that things may seem to be in a holding pattern for a while yet as Mercury moves ever so slowly for about ten days, then he will finally get his act together and start whizzing around the Zodiac again. Until, the next retrograde phase, that is.

The changeable, fluid and powerful Moon is your sign ruler and it is her phases that fill in the smaller details of your life. The bigger changes in your life are reflected in the movement of the slower moving planets. 

Over the last few years, life has been bowling along quite nicely for you - although with Saturn paying Cancer a visit from 2003-05 things were pretty tough. However, in the grand scheme of things you learned a lot about independence and selfhood, which is no bad thing, as Cancerians can often be dependent souls. Just to confuse things, however, in the middle of the same period i.e. 2004, Uranus the planet of changes and disruption was smiling at you across the Universe from Pisces, offering you exciting new possibilities - and that’s still going on for about 3 more years from now. How good is that?

This is a good year for you, then, filled with confidence boosting and a real sense of getting somewhere in life - can’t be bad.

This month’s New Moon focuses on you - if you have something to put out into the world around this time (3rd July) then this would be a good time to do it. For those whose birthday falls around this period, then you are really stepping foot into a year of new beginnings.

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