Soul ~Focused Astrology

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A garden underground ~

New Moon in Scorpio ~

Oct. 28th 2019~

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Do you feel the vulnerabilities arise like a sensitive exposure on the surface of your skin? Or perhaps

feel the loss,

feel the abandonments and betrayals, a little extra, like a close up?

Please let them penetrate love.

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We currently have so much energy in Scorpio, following this New Moon in Scorpio, opposite Uranus in Taurus.

The aspect with Uranus may carry with it some unexpected. Such as unexpected triggers or unexpected insights.

Either way, the abundance of Scorpio energy aids us to confront our limitations that keep us in cycles of stagnation.

Through the intensity, these themes throw us back so deeply into ourselves,

so deeply so as to touch -

the core soul essence within.

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Oppositely, to integrate balance,

rests our ability to tap into our innate most simplistic ways of being holistically (physically/in the body), and deeply rooted in our most cherished, nourishing values and needs.

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“What do I need right now in this moment?”

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I love this question when there is a need to check in with ourselves always,

but especially when we feel a moment arise.

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Captured with the New Moon in Scorpio, Mars is in the sign of Libra, and this aspect may have us in more external interaction with our environments, identifying what aspects of our lives feel out of balance and need adjustment,

perhaps in curious engagement with the diversity of people, and their values, interests, lives, and identities,

and as we interact, due to much of the Scorpio energy, have us in deep internal reflection as we process everything absorbed.

Although this energy may feel as though it gives us “a lot to chew on” at times, it really nurtures the soul as we deepen in our relationship with ourselves, as well as in our relations of all kinds.

The more deeply we meet ourselves, the more deeply we hear and understand others.

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Confrontation, internal or external may aid as a gateway to a more honest, intimate and liberating way of being.

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With Mars in Libra, through diverse interaction and sampling, may help us see ourselves more clearly through identifying what we do not like.

For example, say I enjoy coffee shops and nature, but I have a friend who loves punk shows and riding motorcycles. So I go to sample these values of my friend, and may find the experience interesting and enjoyable, but find I do not identify wholly or personally with these values.

Libra helps us see and discern where we are on the grand spectrum of many things and aspects of life.

To hear ourselves truthfully, helps us not get lost in the diversity of life, but remain rooted in ourselves (Aries), while in interaction with the world (Libra).

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Libra is much about listening,

and at this time may reveal where we hear ourselves deeply through our interactions with others,

and also where we are able to hear another through their own shoes.

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For example, someone may express,

“how do I be happy alone?”

We reflect and may find this relatable to our own current internal reality.

Or we may simply empathetically hear the person in their totality, with a sense of sadness, anxiety or grief, and be able to respond accordingly from there.

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Where do we find we have (or are)

met ourselves more deeply through others?

What has the other (people, places, things, environments, habits) mirrored back to you?

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When you touch all the pain,

and you feel into the sore soft spots,

do you feel the depth of your soul in its truth?

the most real, raw, vulnerable, authentic parts of yourself?

What a deep, beautiful home you have, love.

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As authenticity continues to deepen and birth, sometimes to lose things we’ve loved and held so deeply, so dearly,

shows us how deep our infinite well of love, goes.

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~ my deepest of love, Amy <3

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As we are in the season of the Sun ☀️ ,

although there are many aspects to our self-actualization process, I wanted to give a brief description of,

the Sun through the Houses/Zodiac Signs ~

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Sun in the 1st house or Aries:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your self-discovery through your instinctual actions, your journey to freed independence and greater self-awareness

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Sun in the 2nd house or Taurus:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your self-reliance, your relationship with yourself, your inherent values and resourcefulness

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Sun in the 3rd house or Gemini:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of the way you give language to, connect and communicate the ways you process and see reality

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Sun in the 4th house or Cancer:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your inner security, the ways you identify with yourself, and the way you nurture your inner-home

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Sun in the 5th house or Leo:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of the ways you self-validate, to give expressive life to your hearts crafts and specialty

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Sun in the 6th house or Virgo:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of the ways you are of service, and your resilience and self-improvement through times or periods of crisis

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Sun in the 7th house or Libra:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of attaining balance, fairness and harmony within yourself, through your relations with others and your relations with life itself

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Sun in the 8th house or Scorpio:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your authenticity and self-empowerment and the ways in which you confront and evolve through feelings of disempowerment

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Sun in the 9th house or Sagittarius:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your philosophy of life, what feels most naturally aligning with your intuitive perspectives, and your expansion of consciousness

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Sun in 10th house or Capricorn:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of how you structure, protect and give guidance/direction to your life in ways that feel most nourishing and meaningful to you

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Sun in the 11th house or Aquarius:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of how you individuate yourself, or liberate yourself to live freely as your own unique accelerated higher aspirations, your unique way of being

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Sun in the 12th house or Pisces:

The self-actualization of a special destiny through the creative unfoldment of your sense of spiritual fulfillment, surrender, your connection to a higher power, and how you feel connection, a deeper meaning in life

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~ Like a potion mixture,

the house and sign our Sun sign lands in, in our birth chart, gives us a combination of flavors of our unique Sun’s expression.

Just as the Sun grows plants, similarly we are growing with/into our Suns!

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~May your lights shine, teach and nourish us all with your unique solar medicine 💓

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~my deepest of love, ♥️ Amy

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(Image: Sun Curl. ClarkLittle Photography)

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New Moon in Leo ~

July 31st / August 1st, 2019 ~

As Mars (our conscious driver) is slightly halfway through the sign of Leo, the Sun and Venus have also recently entered Leo.

After the intensity of eclipse season activating the nodal axis,

where we traveled through the depths in our see-through (possibly sunken) canoes,

pulled up, touched and examined our guts,

- we now have three planets in the fire sign of Leo, which Mercury soon- will also renter.

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Leo, ruled by the Sun, relates to the feelings we all carry within of having a special destiny. Everyone has a Sun sign, and the zodiac archetype that our Sun is in will show us what gives light to our life.

It is what gives our solar panels the energy, to sustain our creative purpose.

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If we observe the Sun in nature, it is ever giving, and takes part in nourishing and supporting life in a variety of creative ways.

For example, sometimes on a bleak winters day, when the snow has turned muddy browns, and the trees are nakedly dead,

the sun on such a day gives us a refreshing sense of hope, joy and warmth, as it melts what feels like chore-bearing snow in the thick of winter.

Imagine if the sun never came out again, and how much life would be thwarted in this process.

This is how vital the Sun and it’s role,

is in our birth chart.

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In addition to the need to self-actualize ourselves, Leo also correlates to the heart.

The Leo within us gets us in touch with our hearts antennas. It is the fluttering warmth and joy we feel when we first get a puppy,

and the disheartening we feel when we lose our puppy.

Leo teaches us to open more to the hearts sensitivities and to allow them to move us into deeper levels of expanded heart-centered awareness and understanding.

It is the part of us that senses when someone needs a hug.

This openness has the potential to infuse and instinctually align our lives with more of an effortless, natural, heart-centered form of wisdom, as well as expression.

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Purposefully, Leo also teaches us about self-validation - how to be our own best cheerleader.

Self-validation is,

to make up the dance because we love to dance,

to paint because we love to paint,

to make music because we love to make music,

to share photographs, because we love to take photos,

- it is acts or expressions from the heart, that are shared and given light to,

simply because we genuinely love them.

Like the inner child who plays, to play.

It shows us how we keep our fire pit warm and glowing, regardless of how many others are sitting next to us.

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The Leo within us wants to march to the beat of its own drum. At the same time, to balance the Leo energy, we need the polarity of Aquarius, which helps us ground back into our objectivity.

We may march to the beat of our own drum, but we are also apart of a band and co-creators with life itself.

- just as the Sun is co-creating with the moon, and other elemental forces to breed and support life and it’s natural cycles.

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Leo; my co-creating creator self. Aquarius; the unique group collective.

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If we march to the beat of our own authentic drum, this also naturally, gravitationally (by heart resonance; Leo) leads us closer to bands that’s beats match our own field of vitality, skill and taste,

as well as add value to that of the groups.

For example, along your way, you may be an acoustic guitar player, that adventures to an underground show, where you may naturally interact and exchange crafts and find they are in need of an acoustic guitar player.

The continuation of our unique contributions, feeds our innate ability to nourish ourselves and our path,

and also to nourish others.

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Our specialty is of value to the collective whole, and the collective whole is of value to our specialty.

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Exercised, these muscle-ing crafts of ours are being especially infused by the unfolding embodiment of our truest (Jupiter in Sagittarius),

sense of identity (North Node in Cancer).

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Although we still have quite a few planets in retrograde, we are finishing up Mercury Retrograde, which may help lift some post-processing perceptional clutter.

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In conclusion, to speak of the balance between the Leo and Aquarius archetypes within each of us,

I love this quote -

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

~ Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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Our expression wants life,

and life wants our expression.

May the Sun’s dance- open, flow with, and heal our hearts.

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~ my deepest of love, ♥️ Amy

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the lunar eclipse in Capricorn in its beauty 🔭 📸 🌕 ~deepest of love ♥️😊

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Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn ~

July 16th, 2019 ~

With the Lunar eclipse in Capricorn, in relationship with the South Node and Saturn, anything that may have been bottled up, may show up now, perhaps accompanied with an intense urgency to review.

Capricorn energy, the armor; was once our protection and brought us it’s own matured wisdom through endured hardship, life experience, and self determination.

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Imagine a mother nursing or rocking a baby to sleep.

Cancer (which is our North Node at the moment, our evolutionary direction,) helps teach us how to care underneath the armor,

how to feel safe to de-armor again,

and how to mother ourselves.

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The psyche is deep and complex and deals with the subconscious mind. We may find ourselves reflecting on our current situations and what kinds of subconscious behaviors may have unconsciously led us to certain circumstances.

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Because Capricorn has much to do with the structures and boundaries of which we have created or exist within, we may now have greater insight into what has existed within our internal world.

For example, when there is a tornado, we rush into the basement for safety, but we don’t often pay as much attention to what actually exists within the basement at that point in time, as we are preoccupied with other things.

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In addition to family and societal matters, as well as close ties (Cancer-Capricorn), because Mars is currently in Leo, these dealings may have close, deep-seated ties to matters of the heart, or may reveal the heart of matters,

carrying with it emotional density in process (Mercury Rx Leo, back into Cancer).

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Guilt, loss, shame, betrayal, neglect, remorse, apathy, anger, fear, grief, restriction-

are all intensified core emotions that Pluto calls for review, purge or break down.

On the other end of the spectrum, to balance the intensity, this process calls for the polarity point of Cancer: TLC. Tender, loving, care.

It also requires that our boundaries provide us with enough space and safety to honor ourselves and our need to process, as this will also allow us more stability within,

to continue to show up “out there”.

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It is just as important for us to honor and tend to our own emotional realities, and vise versa, in balanced ways. And this shows us where we are able to grow in maturity regarding care and respect for ourselves, as well as for others.

With Venus in Cancer during this cycle, it allows us to tap into and bring more awareness to our deeper needs and resources of nurture and nourishment.

No one else has the ability to feel into and meet our needs,

as much as we, ourselves do.

It may aid to show us how we, and the importance of, cleaning and tending to our wounds before we band aid them- like removing the pieces of entrenched gravel.

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Post tornados and gravel-ed knees,

as we confront things within ourselves and the world around us, that reveal to us untruths, harshness towards ourselves and others, and limitations;

we grow more space to form new foundations, a stronger relationship with ourselves, and refreshed brain synapses,

that help us link into new insightful perspectives and truth based on our more intuitive, naturalistic ways (Jupiter Rx in Sagittarius).

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Zoom out of the scene momentarily to objectively observe all the times;

when we didn’t know what we were doing, or we made mistakes, or life threw us into hurdles or situations that scraped our knees and bruised our elbows, and maybe someone else’s along the way.

Life is school, and we must also consider, life also requires humanity.

To be human, also requires grace periods-

grace periods of reflection with compassion for ourselves, and in result - therefore others.

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To seek the truth of what is behind the veil requires courage and faith.

No obstacle is too great when our faith and actions are centered humbly in the honesty of our heart (Mars in Leo).

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To be vulnerable with ourselves, free of judgement, in the face of the unknown and through the storms of our deepest of pains.

To see all the deep muds you’ve trudged through thus far, despite turmoil, you look down, and you see your two feet.

To show up for ourselves where we once may have not been able to, and to do so compassionately,

one day at a time.

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So if you feel like you’re being taken out by the waves, violently uncertain, let it be, you’re not alone. Air guitar with your paddle on the way down if you must. Not in a self-destructing way, but in a form of playful (Mars in Leo) surrender.

A power higher than even comprehendible,

- always on call,

although unseen, unknown, and uncertain,

has already caught you.

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In contemplation,

as you change and switch lanes and let go and ride waves -

what do you want to expand, that holds true meaning to your soul,

while you care for yourself, as you unravel deeper into the layers of who you really are,

- along the way?

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Please have heart for yourselves and others during these intense times.

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With love, I leave you with my favorite quote by Jeffrey Wolf Green:

“The interaction of perfection and imperfection reflects the interaction of the unmanifested and the manifested. In this way compassion, love, acceptance and forgiveness of our imperfections will replace critical, harsh and abusive judgements.”

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~ My deepest of love, ♥️ Amy

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Post, Solar Eclipse in Cancer Astrological Update~

July 7th, 2019

With the Sun and North Node in close contact with the recent Solar Eclipse in Cancer on July 2nd, encased with it much loaded emotional energy and upheaval for us all.

In addition to the charged emotion,

Pluto, the South Node and Saturn also intensified this process, as the Solar Eclipse played a tug of war with its polar opposite.

It has been a tug of war between withholding and an allowance of the flood;

the attempt to keep things in order or under control, and oppositely, let things flow through us-

similar to removing stuck pieces of trash found in a river.

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These emotions that may have arisen may not be as light hearted with the influence of Saturn, the South Node, and most impacting of course, Pluto.

The times call for deep nurture, as we access the depths of our emotional realms and continue to experience the manifestations or physicality of it all through our perhaps and rather intense experiences.

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In addition, we have Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, and as of today Mercury, all in retrograde motion. And so this may also add to the intensity or amplification of the internalization and inner processing retrogrades tend to bring us into for later better clarity.

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Mars, our conscious driving force, has just entered Leo. With this current energy, Mars in Leo may help us tap into our hearts in a deeper way that lets us access our heart felt sensitivities, as well as our hearts juice (authentic craft and creative expression),

like a re-access to a part of yourself (North Node in Cancer) that reunites with a needed blood transfusion you may find is essential to fuel your life through possibly heavy times.

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Venus also just entered Cancer, and we may find our lives more attuned with our deeper values and relations/communities that equally nourish, genuinely care, and sustain the core of who we are, while simultaneously supportive of our own process, as well as respect for our boundaries and the sprouting of our own sense of inner security.

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Like a detective retracts their steps, this is also a great time to see into things we may have previously missed and help us gain a wider perspective of situations at large,

which then allows us to use the insights gained as a compass to guide us towards adjustments, greater internal security, and most importantly more compassion; for ourselves especially, as well as others.

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As we journey and evolve through the intensity of our emotional cores, we create more space and awareness of our ability to cultivate the feeling of safety within, despite any turmoil we may experience. It also gives us the opportunity expand in our innate wisdom and feelings of liberation.

Please be gentle and take great care through these times.

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If you have interest in reflecting on how this may be manifesting for you or would like more insight into your own astrology, please feel free to contact me at www.moonlitloungeastrology.com

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~My deepest of love, Amy♥️

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