Year: 2015

Solar Eclipse in Virgo

“Healing is a journey deep within oneself – a search for the soul, the essence of the self. It seeks to balance the inner and outer worlds, to connect and to integrate. Healing is the reuniting of the body, mind and spirit.” Diane Mariechild
There is a powerful New Moon Solar Eclipse in at 20 degrees of Virgo this Sunday at 2:41 am EDT. New Moon Eclipses usher in a new time of change and are a powerful time for setting intentions.
With the Sun and Moon in Virgo it bodes well to look at mental patterning and how it affects your daily routine. If there are ways that you would like to adjust the way you customarily spend time in your daily routines, look to the mental patterns – the customary assumptions – behind them. It is here where the changes initially need to be made.
This Eclipse is opposite Chiron – the asteroid of the Wounded Healer. A strong Chiron influence is about healing fragmentation or fragmented parts of the self. With Chiron in Pisces there is support for bringing a new or restored sense of wholeness by integrating energies from the higher self. It bodes well to seek guidance through meditation,  visualization and creative endeavors this weekend.
Eclipses are evolutionary doorways and can have a long term influence. This particular eclipse is an excellent time to align yourself more closely with what you see as your personal destiny and to develop a new awareness of the mental blocks that need to be moved out of the way in order to evolve in that direction.

Mercury Retrograde and Saturn

It is in the doing with awareness that the learning comes.” William Horwood
Saturn’s transit through the late degrees of Scorpio has been a challenging time for many people with the fixed signs – Scorpio, Aquarius, Leo and Taurus – placed prominently in their charts. There has been an increased likelihood that unresolved emotional issues – previously thought to have been resolved – could bubble up to the surface once again potentially creating a stormy time.
Saturn’s entry into Sagittarius on September 17 may feel like a relief as it signals an end to the retrograde cycle which began in mid June. The key is related to developing a new awareness.
Mars and Venus are in Leo now -one of the fixed signs – it bodes well under this influence to see how issues of projection and self esteem may be creating smokescreens or may be blocking personal evolution.
Mercury will station retrograde on the 17th as well – look to the two days before the Mercury station and the two days after for perceptions or guidance that may come representing a culmination of information.
The Sabian symbol for Mercury’s retrograde station is, “After the storms of winter a boat landing stands in need of reconstruction.”