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The Astrology of September features Mercury, Venus and Mars, plus another powerful Full Moon toward the end of the month, bringing the Pluto-Saturn-Uranus T-square, now temporarily fading, back into a brief but sharp prominence.

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Mercury is still retrograde as the month begins, remaining within its shadow period until nearly the end of September. This has so far been a particularly strong Mercury retrograde period, especially for those with planets in the Mutable signs of Virgo, Gemini, Pisces and Sagittarius. Mercury conjuncts the Sun on Friday morning, September 3rd and returns to direct motion on the 12th. These are two highlights of this retrograde period, times when the usual madness will be at its peak: missed connections, mechanical breakdowns and having to redo everything. When Mercury stations direct on Sunday, September 12th, it makes aspects to Pluto and Saturn, so this is sure to be a particularly dicey day.

Meanwhile Venus and Mars continue their dance into Scorpio, where Venus is preparing to make a rare retrograde of her own as early as October. They were conjunct in Libra during the last half of August, and will be conjunct again in Scorpio as Venus slows down, during late September and on into October. Relationship-oriented Venus together with Mars, in Mars' own sign of Scorpio, will be interesting to say the least. We will be looking under the covers of all types of partnerships, attempting to discern the deeper motive. Intensity of emotions and also of desire becomes our relationship watchword. As Venus retrogrades on October 8th we will be refining and revisioning our concept of the relationship energy that we have for others and with regard to specific partners in our lives also.

Another even more significant dance being played out by the planets throughout the years of this very climactic decade is of course, the square of Uranus with Pluto. Even though Uranus has slipped back into Pisces, remaining there for the next few months, this square is still a potent factor in the astrology of our times, reflecting the collective and individual angst that we all feel in the face of massive and dramatic change. Uranus in late Pisces is still only 4 degrees away from its square with Pluto during September. Uranus in Pisces is however definitely somewhat muted in its effects until March, when it once more enters Aries, shepherded in by Jupiter. The Uranus-Jupiter conjunction remains active in Pisces all during the intervening time, an inclination for breakthrough which accents the transformational component of the Uranus-Pluto square. Thus a quieter and more empathetic and compassionate energy that wills new ideas into being is still a potent factor for change throughout the winter months and on into spring. In that point the impulse for radical changes in ourselves and in the surrounding society becomes much stronger.

The Full Moon of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, September 22nd and 23rd, occurs exactly on the Aries point, and is therefore coincident with the Fall Equinox. This configuration briefly re-emphasizes the Uranus-Pluto square – and these planets in T-square with Saturn – just as the fullest intensity of this aspect from the summer months begins to fade slightly. At the time of the Full Moon we therefore might expect a resurgence of the urge for transformation in our lives that supersedes every other factor, even personal safety. In another way of looking at things, we aren't really safe as long as we remain stuck in dysfunctional patterns that do not ultimately serve us. It's a question of experiencing the slow and lingering death of our most cherished ideals versus the relative danger of seizing the moment for change and choosing to ride it; for change after all is the essence of life itself.
Transits to the U.S. Chart

Last month we indicated that the period from the 4th to the 11th, leading up to the Solar Eclipse that took place on the U.S. Sun / Mercury midpoint, and the days immediately following the Full Moon of Sunday, July 25th, might be an important time for media revelations that serve to shake us up and expose the hypocrisy and deception of our American age. Why the exposing of deception? As the Cardinal T-square makes difficult aspects to the U.S. Midheaven, representing the powers that be, transiting Neptune (deception) remains on U.S Moon, representing the public, and was closely aspected by Saturn as well during this period. It is interesting to peruse the headlines before and immediately after last month’s key lunations. Many of these headlines occurred on July 7th, a day when both transiting Mercury and Moon strongly aspected U.S. Mercury, representing the media.

BP Oil Spill of 2010. This is of course the news story that is on everyone’s mind, almost as big in its own way as 911. The country has been shaken to its very foundations, especially by the manifest lack of competence and intentional misinformation, as well as the absence of governmental oversight or control of Big Oil in general and BP in particular. Last month the revelations continued. Leading up to the Sunday eclipse date, on July 8th Democracy Now! reported:

BP meanwhile says it’s now aiming to seal off the well by the end of the month, weeks before the company’s public deadline. The new July 27th target coincides with BP’s date to report second-quarter earnings and speak to investors.

The coincidence of dates is too good to be accidental. Of course the issue is PR versus actual benefit to the environment; a similar concern to what was raised when BP took out millions of dollars worth of ads in the wake of the disaster. BP has also been accused of being more concerned with image over substance in initially under-reporting the actual estimated flow from the ruptured well. Interestingly, on July 12th, the day after the Solar Eclipse, a former contractor of BP was quoted on New Orleans radio station WDSU (according to Democracy Now) as follows: “the bottom line is just about money. There are some very cutthroat individuals. They’re not worried about cleaning up that spill as it is... I will never have loyalty to this company. I will always have loyalty to my country. And my country comes first. What this company is doing to this country right now is just wrong."
In other news – on July 7, Democracy Now reported that a US Army whistle-blower named Bradley Manning was charged with releasing a video of indiscriminant killings of civilians in Iraq and over 50 State Department memos to the Wikileaks site. This story had a follow-up at the time of the subsequent Full Moon on July 25th when over 90,000 memos from Iraq were leaked to the same Australian Internet site. For the full story see Democracy Now! and Democracy Now!
In a follow-up to the McChrystal firing, the U.S. Military announced new guidelines for magazine or other interviews. This item also appeared in the week between July 4th and 11th, namely on July 7th. Under the new rules, top-level Pentagon and military officials must first receive clearance before agreeing to any interviews or public engagement. Democracy Now!
Also on the same day, President Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asserted that Israel has “shown restraint” in recent months, this while the issue of West Bank settlements is still brewing and after the well-publicized attack on a flotilla coming to the aid of Gaza that killed 9. The statement seems calculated to allay suspicions of any rift between the two countries. Israel also attacked Gaza for 22 days at the very beginning of 2009, just before President Obama took office, although he has always failed to comment on this act.
Finally, on July 9th a story surfaced that a tape existed of a conversation between Kissinger and Nixon discussing a CIA assassination in Chile on the eve of the overthrow of Salvador Allende. The only newsworthy part of the disclosure was that the U.S. had previously claimed no CIA involvement. For the full story see Democracy Now!

The above referenced news items all show a powerful undercurrent of information counter to the official Government story, that is becoming available over this summer timeframe, and of course in particular during the key lunations that trigger these strong outer planet alignments. Next month the same argument applies to both the New Moon of August 9th and also to the Full Moon period surrounding August 24th.

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Please note: dates given in this column for astrological events are based on U.S. Pacific Time Zone (UTC +8), for other locations dates may need to be adjusted depending on the number of hours of separation.

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For everything, Aries, there is a season, and this is the time to pull back and turn contemplative regarding the changes that are still coming down. You are entering an almost holy space of time in which nothing is entirely as it seems and where partners protect you and also challenge you within your deep dream of eventual rebirth. Partnership is powerful for you during this time, bringing limitation to the way that you manifest the important relationships in your life, and also a sense of fulfillment. A certain fuzziness you are experiencing feels somehow correct although perhaps startlingly so from the standpoint of a strictly logical viewpoint.

As the month begins, you are deep in a brown study, feeling pulled to the inside by the ongoing Mercury retrograde period as you examine your role in this life and how far it goes toward matching up with soul purpose as you currently understand that concept. There's a way you've been extremely productive lately and yet in another way you are paradoxically out of step, productive but not in any sense of the word that matches up with consensus thinking. Your beliefs have been changing lately as well. You are starting to get the idea of a different raison d'etre for the life of worldly activities, one that takes as its basis a more definite reliance on the unseen aspects of the universe and of human nature. At the time of the New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, there is fresh energy for your purpose, and it only remains for you to figure out what exactly that purpose truly is. It is likely that your sense of mission in this lifetime will be enhanced by the arc of development that you are experiencing over the course of this month. It is an on-going process of understanding that takes you ever closer to the goal of finally getting what it is that you came here to do and be. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, might put further wrinkles in your brain around these issues as you struggle somewhat with how you might actually instantiate some of the ideas emerging out of cosmic consciousness for you in recent weeks. You are also putting some of the new concepts to practical tests, in terms of health and fitness programs which could be one focus now, and also issues of intimacy that could be coming up for you as you struggle to integrate novel concepts of relating and of soul growth within the mundane round of ordinary life events. With the Fall Equinox and Full Moon of Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, September 22nd and 23rd, you are striving for a new balance point of all areas of your life. This is particularly evident in the way that you actualize yourself and bring your forces to bear in the outer world of career and professional achievement, which continues to represent a moving target for you. This is a time when you will appreciate how far you have come, and also perhaps recognize how far you still have to go to get to the place that you really want to be. In any case, it is worth remembering that nothing worthwhile comes easily. As the poet says, once it is that you have climbed to the very top of the mountain, you become aware of the higher summit that still awaits you, as "hills peep over hills, and Alps on Alps arise!"

It's an interesting road that you are on these days, Taurus. After all that running around this summer, you are slowing down right now, retrenching. You have been getting serious about what you want to do with yourself and this requires that you create a truly imaginative interface with the world around you, including partnership alliances. Your self-expression is blossoming, and relationship issues continue to dominate your planning. Through it all, you are striving to resolve a tug-of-war between the practical and the spiritually ideal. As you mull over your possibilities for these next few weeks, you are holding out for balance within your evolving worldview.

As the month begins you are enjoying the expansiveness of this time of the year for you, with the Sun residing in your sector of creative self-expression. At the same time, you are feeling the indecisiveness implied by Mercury retrograding through this same area of your chart. The Mercury retrograde period includes the usual miscommunications and mechanical breakdowns, but the positive side is that this reflective period of time enjoins you to look more closely within yourself and attempt to discern where exactly it is that you are heading at this moment in your life. Mercury conjoins the Sun on the 3rd, and this will be one peak of the retrograde period. As you reflect, with several planets in your Sixth House you are also thinking more concretely about what you are truly about in this lifetime. Noted humanistic astrologer Dane Rudhyar referred to this sector of the chart as that of "discipleship to your higher self," and you might feel like you are finally getting closer to understanding what that sense of mission could imply. Spiritual truth contrasts with practicality as you explore your choices. The New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, gives you fresh impetus for your ongoing development as you continue to redefine yourself and your approach. Partners come more firmly into the picture too at this time, since your ruler Venus crosses into your relationship sector. There is a way that your own point of view is currently modulated by the opinions of others, and that yet allows you to retain your own unique individuality as you feel your way into an uncertain end of the year. One thing that is for sure is that your vision for future possibilities is a moving target right now. This could be scary or else exhilarating, depending on your perspective at any one time. The First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, September 14th, is a time when the rubber meets the road with what you have in mind to accomplish in terms of your own personal contribution. Mars enters your seventh sector at this time, and so relationships in your life are more active than ever, and remain so for at least the next several weeks. With the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, you come to a kind of culmination which is also a further jumping-off point for new adventures. Your demeanor is likely to remain thoughtful, as you continue to assess the changes and challenges of the summer months and cast your eye more definitely on the future that is arising from them, as your worldview continues shifting in response to circumstances.

This is a time for a different kind of progress, Gemini. You are revving your engine but you are not covering much ground. Although your ideas are coming fast and furious, opening up a novel way forward into a future that you can really believe in, you are also at the moment feeling somewhat stuck. But, just as a fallow period is good for a field, and as the butterfly must wait out its time of dormancy in the cocoon, so you must watch and wait. By the end of the month you will emerge stronger and wiser and ready to more fully inhabit your new skin.

As the month begins, you are delving more deeply into home and family issues that have been on your mind for quite some time now. This is actually an excellent opportunity to refine your viewpoint and to embrace a more expansive attitude on your life in general, since your ruler Mercury is retrograding through your root sector – home and family concerns, psychological basis – and this continues in one form or another until nearly the end of the month. This means that you are rethinking all aspects of your physical and psychical existence, including the sense of security you need to remain content, which is usually wrapped up in some aspect of your home environment. As you attempt to redefine yourself in this area in some way, this is an excellent opportunity to journal or to converse with a trusted confident concerning your situation. There could be issues that come up for you now of familial relationships versus your own deeper needs, or those of private versus public or simply reflections involving the physical nature of your surroundings. The Last Quarter Moon in your sign at the very start of the month, taking place on the 1st, makes for a degree of tension in your process as you contemplate these factors and try to make sense out of your summed-up perceptions. There could be surprising developments in this timeframe, and also a few days later, on the 3rd, when the Sun and Mercury are conjunct. Then things could change again the following week, with the New Moon, which comes along on Wednesday, September 8th, in the same sector of deep inner process and family issues. This mid-week time period marks what is theoretically a fresh start with whatever it is that you are attempting in this area, but in another way all bets are off with Mercury also retrograding through this same sector of your chart. Creatively, you are also on both stop and go at this time. You have tons of productive energy but you feel the need to impose limits and set boundaries on that very productivity so that it remains more firmly grounded in real-world parameters. Another peak of the Mercury retrograde period comes a few days later on the 12th, when the messenger of the gods changes direction turning once more to direct motion. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, signals a time of trials when you are attempting to discern what portion of what you are currently instigating might indeed be viable in the months to come. With the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, you might be able to come closer to an answer. This is a powerful time for you, when once again you are enjoined to take a closer look at how your visionary impulses mingle and coexist with hard-nosed practical advice from others around you and from your own inner voices. It is difficult walking the tightrope between them but good for your spiritual evolution, which is benefiting from your successes and even from the failures at achieving your idealistic aims.

Your world is changing, Cancer, and information is the enabler. In spite of multiple levels of feelings, it is ideas that have your attention right now, and your ideas change everything. You are continuing to experience the tides of change that have been active all summer. It seems in some ways that it is an embattled stand that you are taking but you are also empowered to handle it and stay the course. It is a painful place that you are visiting as your philosophical viewpoint and your deep emotional basis transforms. Not all of this transition can be pleasant, including partnership fluctuations; but all is necessary however for your evolving emotional health.

As the month begins, you are contemplating the deeper layers of your existence. Mercury remains still retrograde in your communications sector, and you are in a reflective rather than an outgoing mode. Your conversation, when you feel like making it, is very likely slow and serious now, and dwelling on cosmic verities. It's an ideal time for journaling. There have been developments from the past few months of an entirely revolutionary nature, and they have not perhaps been fully integrated into your day-to-day thoughts. These radical challenges to your more ordinary thinking involve your relationship dynamic with significant partners in your life and how this affects the exteriorization of your private self out into the world. In this first week of the new month you are busily mulling over these and other way stations in your progress toward transcendence. Mercury conjoins the Sun on Friday, September 3rd, and this signals a time when you will find yourself even more internal, and embracing or else resisting the transformation that is currently coming over you. The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, September 8th, represents a powerful tide of new energy for this process of integration. You are now in a more communicative mode with others around you, although with Mercury still retrograde there could be more wavering and introspection than action in this regard. Of course it is well to allow yourself the leisure to contemplate, and not necessarily to be always doing, even though this notion runs against the grain of modern fast-paced industrial society. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, might bring a moment of tension to your process as your vision for a personal new world order collides with the real-world requirements of practicality and the expectations of others. Mercury is still within its Zodiacal shadow for the next two weeks so that any hard-and-fast decisions might be better off if postponed, although this does remain an excellent time for research. With the Fall Equinox and Full Moon of the 23rd, the time has come for you to acknowledge the depth of the changes that have been in motion for many weeks now. Although this is an ongoing process and the final results are not anywhere nearly all in, there is courage to be taken from the gains thus far. Sometimes the enormity of what has been achieved is only available with the perspective of time.

You are in the midst of a fallow period right now, Leo, gathering the data that you will need as you prepare the way for further changes still to come. There are important lessons now, not least that seeking security can be an illusion unless firmly grounded in the spiritual basis of soul purpose. The outlook for eventually achieving your goals remains bright, but you might find yourself pulling back from the fray as you re-examine your values. You will spend the next few weeks and even months mulling over where you are going and exploring your root psychology that serves as the vehicle for getting you there.

As the month begins, you are in some ways fully grounded in the real world of practical events. This summer has placed you in a siege of contrasting energies, in which brilliant flashes of insight have occurred, although sometimes these seem only designed to make you pull back into the safety of tried and true ways of being. They have taken you thus far, after all, and still relatively intact. It is a dilemma that has likely left you with the determination to see your changes through in spite of obstacles. This first part of the month is a thoughtful time of respite when you are spending more time mulling over the transformation that you are in the midst of than actually living it. The dice are rolling and you must in any case follow their fall and trust they will take you to a closer understanding of your true purpose in being here. With the New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, you are pledging more than ever to take a stand. Your finances are fluctuating, but these and other resources are there to help you grow and not the other way around. In any case they might easily receive a boost at this time, since the New Moon is lighting up that sector of your chart. This is an educational moment for you as well, when you might find that the information you receive from others brings disparate factors together for you and allows you to envision spiritual opportunity that still remains grounded in practical concern. You might need to beware somewhat of idealism at this time, especially in regard to partnership with others, remembering to keep your own council as the last and best resort. When the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, comes along, you will more clearly see what the realistic probabilities are and also the inherent difficulties. You have a focus on home and family concerns now that contrasts with your more expansive outer and social presence. With the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, you reach a culmination of what you have been struggling with, but further and taller hills rise beyond this first eminence for you yet to climb. You might be forced to take another look at where you thought that you were going, and at issues of service and self-sacrifice that have been coming up for you over these last few weeks and months. There is an important purpose in these trials and it is that you get a better handle on your true destiny.

This is an excellent pause period, Virgo, with your ruler Mercury retrograding through your sign. Your on-going metamorphosis has entered a new phase with the cooler weather. Change continues but not so rapidly. Like a loaded spring you have plenty of energy for forging ahead if you only knew where to direct it. Janus-like, you are inching forward and yet you are also looking backward, reviewing everything that you have done and planned to do. Your finances too are settling down and pinching back, leading up to a conservative end of the year. As you consolidate, you are simultaneously opening up a new way for moving ahead.

As the month begins, you are reveling in your new-found feelings of self-sufficiency, which you are also a little scared of as well. It is been an interesting summer for you, a time when you have been more aware than before of your major ongoing transformation in self-image and in your resultant creativity. There are also implications for how you feel about the place you stand in order to be able to make your own way forward, independent of the voices of others. Since your ruler Mercury is currently in retrograde motion through your sign, it is a time right now of reflection on where you have been and more importantly where you are going in your present-day situation. One important time and moment of even more poignant reflection is the conjunction of the Sun with Mercury on Friday, September 3rd. Then the New Moon in your sign of Wednesday, September 8th, represents another important moment of time, when fresh energy is available for your process of ever-increasing understanding. You are on the road at this time to a more profound balance, a deeper integration of all your parts. What holds you back is what holds you together right now, a super-reliance on physical process as a grounding for everything else that is to come. You just have to beware falling into the common trap of imagining that this is all that there is. It is in fact not even in the majority. With the station of Mercury on Sunday, September 12th, you might feel a shift in the energy. You are even more aware of this sense of physical grounding and also perhaps sensing the drawbacks as well as the advantages. This is a powerful time for you, a sort of a time out when you can step off the moving planet, at least in your own mind, and peacefully survey the scene that you are normally in the midst of. A couple of days later, the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, represents another important crossroads when you might feel the inherent conflicts in what you are attempting as well as the progress implied. You are emboldened by your unique path that helpful partners have partially enabled for you to truly be all that you can be, no matter how difficult it may seem or how much it might seem to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. The Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, represents both a continuing triumph of self-assertion and a realization that new challenges still await you, as you tune into the tension between idealized inspiration and hard-nose practical limitation in your struggle for finding your true self amidst the chaos of the workings of the world.

This is a time of action and of contemplation, Libra. You are participating in both inner and outer realms these days, with Mercury retrograding through your sector of dream imagination until at least mid-month. You are feeling into renewed soul purpose that helps you to gather up the pieces of your life and attempt to put the puzzle back together in a different way. A new vision of what is possible could emerge with the aid of helpful partners, based partly on a re-evaluation of what you have to offer, and partly on a sense of spiritual mission that you are only now beginning to fully comprehend.

As the month begins, you are fathoming your depths and reviewing the intelligence gathered. The daily papers and the Internet convey a certain quality of message; what we might call news. At any rate it is information of the outer world of events and stated reactions. The information coming your way now is of a different order altogether, deeply spiritual, and connects you rather to your own inner process which might be little known to you in the ordinary run of events. This comes at a most opportune time since you have had the world a little too much with you lately. As an antidote to scurrying around in the ant heap of the modern civilized world, you might try a little candlelight and ritual. Mystical card images could also help to sort things out. The New Moon in the second week of the month, taking place on Wednesday, September 8th, brings fresh energy to the picture but it is energy more appropriate to this realm of non-events and symbols. Additionally, since Mercury occupies this same sector of your chart and remains in its retrograde shadow for another several weeks, you are more tuned to your inner world of reflection and introspection for this period of time than to outer levels. In the meantime you definitely have at least one foot in the outer world, with finances very much on your mind. It is important however to recognize that all that glitters for you now is not the gold of outer circumstance but that of deeper and harder won wisdom. There will be revelations to absorb and integrate that stem from both concrete successes and the shadow side of the recognition of potential failures as well and of the darkness that resides within you. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, might present you with some glimpses of inherent difficulties in what you are attempting right now, which is the integration of your private and your public life, and of inner and outer concerns. Partners too might come into the picture at this time, partially as a reflection of your own internal powers that are perhaps largely disowned. The Fall Equinox and Full Moon arrives late Wednesday and early Thursday morning, September 22nd and 23rd, and brings yet another phase of this energy for transformation into prominence. This is a powerful transition for you and brings significant others in your life more directly into the picture of the balance and the integration of all your forces that you seek.

This is a very special and contemplative moment for you right now, Scorpio. It is a strange and contradictory period of time, one in which you are busily looking for new answers to old questions regarding intimacy and inner direction. You are all fired up with ideas, and yet also feel the need to be holding back, mulling things over, reviewing your past and looking for the key that makes sense out of it. Having sorted out prior events you will be ready to move on with renewed vigor and a fresh take on partnership with others, but not until nearly the end of the year.

As the month begins, you are more aware than ever before of voices that seem to emanate from deep within you and that have a new tale to tell you regarding past events and future plans. You are seeking a balance right now between inner and outer, and between past glory and present accomplishment. As you find a way to restructure your internal dialogue regarding how and why you have arrived at the psychic space that you currently occupy, the lessons are there in plenty for you to harvest so long as you remain true to your most fundamental instincts. Only then will you be able to fully embrace the prospective world that is waiting for you; a world that includes a revised and more sensitive pattern of relationship with others as a potential outcome. The New Moon that comes along on Wednesday, September 8th, brings powerful medicine to your process of integrating the past while mentally embracing a more vibrant future. You have tons of energy for charging ahead, but you must be careful to actualize only what you feel represents a continuation of the arc of development that you have been sensing over these past few months; it is not a good time for radical departures from an existing script. With Mercury retrograde in your sector of societal connection, this is also a terrific time for journaling or for conversing with close allies regarding your situation. You are also attempting to discern exactly when you might be able to move forward in a manner that remains in alignment with your emerging sense of soul purpose. Venus enters your sign this same day, and it reminds you that others' viewpoint can become an important touchstone and bolster for your own concept. A week later, on Tuesday, September 14th, comes the First Quarter Moon in your resources sector and the entrance of your ruler Mars into your sign. At this point you get another boost toward discovering your own unique way forward. This could represent a moment of tension as you grapple with inherent contradictions with what you are attempting at this time, as you reinvent yourself and your path forward. Then the Full Moon of the following week, on Thursday, September 23rd, signals a rich period of contrasts and reassessment, as you feel your way into a more resonant truth for yourself. You have been slowly transforming in your style of communication with others over the past weeks and months and are perhaps only now becoming fully conscious of how far you have come. The past is melding into a future vision for yourself and for significant others in your life that has more credibility for what you are actually intending with your whole heart and mind.

This is a mixed-up transition into fall for you, Sagittarius. You are pulling back from an emphasis on an expanded sense of self that has been your joyful preoccupation lately, in favor of inner exploration. Something is causing you to remold your outer world approach into a softer and more compassionate stance that allows you to go easier on others and also yourself. In the midst of these considerations your achievement orientation continues. You will come to find that inner realities are fully as important for consideration as outer ones, and perhaps even more influential in determining the outcome that, in your heart of hearts, you seek.

As the month begins, you are reflecting on the changes that have been coming down lately relating to self-image and your creative output. In this Mercury retrograde time, you are busy right now redesigning your presence in the world and your impact on it. Of course much of what goes on in your life right now is business as usual, but lingering on the outskirts of your experience in this watchful eye. The reflective mode has its advantages in that no real action is required; you can take potshots from the wings on everything that you are doing, whether perceived as right and wrong. At some point however the moment for action must arrive. Hopefully by that time you will be more prepared to re-enter the fray with intelligent course-corrections in the mix of the actions that you will be taking. The New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, gives you fresh energy for your ventures in the world of both an external and an internal nature. You are achievement oriented at this time, but in a different way and with a different outcome than before as you yield to a more inclusive vision of yourself and your possibilities. You are very much present in the world these days, although not perhaps with the verve that you displayed during the height of summer when all your surroundings seemed to be your own special oyster. But there are inner realities to contend with as you progress into fall that must be taken into account. These have a way of making their presence known should you try to ignore them. The First Quarter Moon in your sign of late Tuesday, September 14th, will bring up inherent glitches in the road to progress. This is a time when the impulse of the New Moon becomes tested in its collision with actual circumstances. There could be a modicum of tension in your process now as you seek to resolve potential conflicts between public and private, business and personal. These trials serve the purpose of testing you so that you can more fully experience your own true intention. Remaining philosophical has its advantages, as always. With the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, there are positives to be discerned in terms of greater clarity, but there could also be further and more general challenges to contend with. You are changing, slowly, at the very core of your being, and it ultimately affects everything about you. It shows most clearly in new approaches that you are taking or feeling inclined to take, in life direction and values, or how you make use of the resources at your disposal to effect your outcomes. This is a slowly transforming landscape for you and one that it will take many visits to fully traverse, and perhaps many years before you will understand its full impact.

Your accomplishments are well-recognized these days Capricorn, as the impulse for transformation in your life continues. In this time of harvest you are reaping the rewards of the seeds that you have been sowing all year long. You have spent much time and energy in recent months dwelling on your changing worldview, an internal debate inside your head that still continues into the present moment. Now a season of reflection is upon you, whereby your goals and values, and as well that very worldview as a basis for all that you accomplish are up for revision and redefinition. You profit mightily when you can take this time period for what it is and choose not to push the river for a change.

As the month begins, you are mulling things over. You have been reflecting lately on how you see the world around you and your beliefs in general. The changing vision of your weltanschauung is conditioning a change in your way of being in the world and in relating yourself to it. There is still plenty of real-world activity going on, but with a twist. Everything that you do and say remains much the same, but the intention behind your actions is different, and so is the outcome that you ultimately expect. All the same, you are going great guns as far as progress and career. It's your basic self-concept that is in major transformation although one ultimately does affect the other. With the New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, fresh energy is inserted into your mental gymnastics. There are definitely positive influences asserting themselves with regard to your productivity in the public sphere at this time. You are more inspired at work these days and more inclined to bring your underlying emotional basis into play. You also might be ready to make a major move toward greater networking, thereby keeping entirely up with the tenor of the times. Like a trapeze artist you are flying high along your normal circuit while bending your metaphysical body in an entirely new direction. Since the ninth sector of higher mind also represents new perspectives and foreign travel, you might find yourself suddenly planning a trip; if so it would be wise to wait at least two weeks and maybe three before finalizing your arrangements, since Mercury is also still in retrograde and plans made now might need to be made again after it turns direct and recovers its lost zodiacal ground. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, September 14th, could be a time of relative tension as you find a trace of revolutionary ardor from your depths that interferes with the smooth working out of your schemes and dreams from the impulse of the New Moon a week earlier. This is traditionally a time when what was then conceived becomes tested in the trials of actual experience. The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Thursday, September 23rd, is sure to present you with an even greater challenge as you struggle to integrate your continued presence in the professional world and your business-like calm with the far more radical transformation taking place beneath the surface of your personality. You have come to accept that your world is changing as this information continues to arrive in small digestible steps but now you might be forced to admit as you look back over this past summer that the metamorphosis is more dramatic and more final than you had originally realized. Don't be alarmed, as the song says, its only castles burning, and in the ashes you will definitely find solace and the urge to rebuild. The new structure will be closer to what you – the original architect – had in mind when you designed it long ago.

You are breaking down in order to break through, Aquarius. Still in the midst of a powerful time of change, this first month of the fall gives you both the impulse for further transformation and also a list of mental reservations that cause second and third thoughts to arise. You are placing your heart and your head on the line, finding where you need to continue to make adjustments. It's best to reflect and to ponder your situation right now, choosing not to forge ahead for the moment. As you rethink and revision your position one thing becomes clear; you're going nowhere without a fundamental reliance on Spirit to guide you through.

As the month begins, you are rethinking concepts of intimacy, both with significant others and also within your own heart. You are very deeply tuned to inner levels of your psyche now and seeking a new way forward in this crucial area of your life. There are unconscious aspects of your connection to others that have the chance to become more conscious at this time, and if this is the case, it is definitely to your advantage since self knowledge leads to self acceptance. Your ruler Uranus remains opposed to Saturn and you are also facing a struggle over just how to integrate any new information coming your way at this time. There could be a tendency to reject anything that seems too "far out" or off the beaten track of your long-accepted ideas about yourself and your world. Healthy skepticism is of course a good thing, but every good thing can be overdone at times. When the New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, comes along, there will be fresh fuel for the fire of your internal investigations. Your communication with others around you continues to be inspired and inspiring, and is redolent of the deeper concerns of your being. You are finding your way home through the darkest levels of your inner workings, as though it were a necessary ritual passage for you. This is of necessity a confusing period, but one that may in the end yield rich rewards if you stay the course. This is also a time when long-buried trauma could come up for acknowledgement and acceptance. The mission of your inner self would seem to be to investigate these matters that take you to your very core, and to come to better terms with all your varied parts, both light and dark, in a more integrated and therefore joyful approach. The First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday night, September 14th, marks a time when the arc of development that you have embarked upon becomes questionable and fraught with doubts and perhaps artificial concerns. You are attempting a monumental restructuring of your worldview, over time, and it takes patience and persistence and bringing all your forces to bear. The good news is that in the meantime, life goes on very much like it normally does, while these unseen forces are doing their work alongside it. By the time of the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, some things will doubtless become clearer. Your practical side will come to your aid and this is a big help, especially if there can be a degree of integration of the dark unknown into waking consciousness. It might actually become more obvious at this time that there are vast changes in the works for you. It is helpful to recognize that these will ultimately lead you into another phase of your existence.

It's a long road that has no turning, Pisces. As you look for a fresh start in both life and love, the question comes up whether you can take seriously the messages of your own inner voice, beyond all others. You are still dwelling at least half the time in a dream world of your own devising, but you are nevertheless more serious than ever about your ongoing transformation, and moving forward with relationship initiatives that have been in the cards for you all along. In the push-pull of self and other, you are seeking a third way that represents a fruitful amalgamation of all your possibilities.

As the month begins, you are rethinking and reprioritizing relationships in your life, both personal and business ones. It can well be said that relationship with others provides much of the juice of life, as well as providing an indispensable complementary point of view; however there are also traps implicit in this arrangement whereby we can lose sight of our own way of looking at things or compromise our own best take on a given situation. These considerations and other like it might be a large part of what moves you now, as you reflect and attempt to come to terms with the concept of partnership. You are very much involved with the world right now, partly because of this push and pull of ideas of self and other in your life. At the same time you are also paradoxically drawn, as you have been for some time now to an essentially spiritual point of view that takes your own inner workings and nothing else as its starting point. The New Moon of Wednesday, September 8th, provides fresh impetus for your journey of exploration in the area of connection with others. This could be a time when you are ready to make a philosophic break with past patterns and how you have handled the contrast between the demands of partnership and what you want in terms of yourself alone. You are getting smarter about these things is some ways, and the evidence is beginning to mount that a new way of relating might prove to represent interesting advantages all around. It could also be that the residue of ancient trauma has caused reactions and avoidances that are in fact no longer appropriate to your present sense of self, and that could be recognized for what they are and gracefully abandoned. In any case, the time may have come for a change of style. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday evening, September 14th, will throw up a few roadblocks on the path to progress that will serve to either solidify this movement as you succeed in overcoming them or else to threaten to derail it. This is a time when you are ready to take a stand for yourself, and damn the consequences, but of course, as always, it is not quite that simple. In working out what you need to do you will at least have the courage of your convictions, becoming a spiritual warrior for your cause. You are making a huge shift over these last few months in both worldview and life direction, and this is one element within the chain of circumstances and responses. With the Full Moon of Thursday, September 23rd, you have come to a greater realization of where your struggles might be leading you and a more inspired acceptance of the necessity of change operating in your life.

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