September 29, 2023| 2:57 am (PST) | Keyword: Weakness
Changes occur through a move, travel or visits from relatives. Alliances at a distance may be important or involvement with educational or religious activities. Possible focus on legal matters or ceremonies.
The Moon is moving in haste through Aries urging the initiation of new ideas or scientific and intellectual projects. Boosted by creative vision with an eye to the future, those with leadership skills can influence through technology, innovative concepts and unique solutions geared toward problems or emergency situations. The cycle may highlight persons who feel the need to defend a cause even at the expense of their own personal needs. For others who strongly align with a mission, idea, or passionately follow a vocation, it’s the promotion of a social concept such as the ability to mold public opinion with regard to religion or politics. Whatever the focus, a strong sense of purpose is underscored with a convincing talent for speaking out. Events that occur include activities involving intellect, travel, and communication and are likely to involve persons with strong Aries in the natal chart (sun, moon, rising sign) as well as the understudy of persons with prominent Leo placements.
True to the nature of Aries and the appetite for action, a restlessness stirs the desire to break with the normal routine. To pacify your thirst for new experiences, you may be considering educational training or benefits and may decide to return to school or take a course. Travel, both domestic and foreign, can also be beneficial through your exposure to other cultures, backgrounds or beliefs. These situations tend to encourage an evaluation of your own beliefs to determine if they can actually be applied in useful practice. Given your current outlook or lifestyle, some beliefs may be discarded in favor of new ideas that feel more revolutionary, progressive or liberating. It’s important to know what you believe and why, yet be open to the developments of new beliefs and ways of being. Alternatively, you may be asked to explain your perspective through teaching or writing. In some cases, explanations are required due to involvement with a legal matter, the legal system, or consultation with a lawyer.
In addition to beliefs, your focus is on personal values and making changes in consideration of getting what you deserve. Because of this, a radical change in your professional life, change of profession or social status or conflict with authorities are possibilities during this time. An erratic energy acts abruptly and out of the blue through some unusual circumstance that’s likely to interfere with the smooth flow anticipated which causes the need to alter your plans. Uranus, planet of surprise is making tense aspects to Venus which could bring sudden and unexpected loss in financial matters as a warning to curb extravagant and unnecessary spending on pleasure and social affairs.
In the positive, some surprises may be advantageous in the long run, but with Hamal, the forceful star of action sitting high in the heavens, the strength of independence is emphasized with either negative or positive consequences. Its presence bestows a certain strength and determination that can manifest as the useful ability to be focused and direct or can express as temper or frustration and the inability to deal with authority figures whether within the family or within one’s career.
Perhaps an even more fortunate influence is Schedar, the symbol of the queen, resting atop the MC highlighting the natural ability to command respect through wisdom. (This moon is also conjunct asteroid Queen.) While there’s belief in persistence, the conviction is to maintain a pacifist position. This energy represents the ability to take a leadership role based on the feminine model which incorporates mysticism and intuition, just as the masculine incorporates strength and focus. In some instances, it reflects feeling linked to the environment and working towards the protection of the land. Circumstances surrounding these concerns may bring into focus a strong woman who exudes dignity and rules by the power of her respectability and honor. Additionally, the message is to rely on instinct to always function with propriety, and to know that dignity is the source of one’s own power.
You’ll attempt to move ahead in your profession, career, social status or reputation. Power in the work place can be an issue and you may decide to use your personal power to leverage your success through negotiations for a higher salary or promotion. For some, the cycle will mark a major career change where you switch from one career to another or to self-employment. Professional freedom is important to you and you’ll defy authority figures, especially if they’re unpredictable or seem to frustrate your efforts at success. The goal to function as independently as possible for creativity to flourish may be the factor in consideration of self-employment.
If already self-employed, you may find it necessary to raise your fees or you may need to hire someone to help you free up time to work on other projects. Workaholic tendencies suggest you need to organize your time to work productively. If working for others, you may decide that you deserve more money and will assert yourself in the renegotiation of your salary. However, before doing so, you’ll need to do a great deal of planning and research to have the supporting factual data at your disposal to avoid overestimating your worth or productivity.
If you volunteer your services, you may feel undervalued or unappreciated. It’s important to direct your energies toward your own needs, rather than those that drain or deflect you from your intended goals. Benefits, comforts and money come through advancing your own efforts, abilities and creating self-made opportunities. You should limit contact with people who don’t support your efforts or respect your needs to avoid situations that aren’t beneficial to you.
In fact, if you’re unhappy, it may be time to request a transfer, change jobs, or enhance your present situation by seeking promotion. If you choose to remain in an unsatisfying position, you may feel restless and bored with repetitive tasks, disruptions and a work environment that feels oppressive. Extenuating circumstances can make it difficult for you to plan out your day or function at your best, especially if you have very little power over your own schedule or expectations.
This could be due to relocation, renovation, someone who regularly disrupts you from trying to do your job, power struggles with coworkers or someone who has power over you. In response, you may feel guarded in the need to protect yourself from underhanded manipulative tactics. Backroom maneuvers and undercurrents drive contention making it difficult to confront what’s never openly communicated. Differences of opinion, conflicts with your employers or disputes over new procedures can make it difficult for you to continue in your present position and you may decide to quit. Choosing to remain in a job you hate could take its toll on your health.
In some cases, you may be released from a difficult employment situation that hasn’t been fulfilling. The slight possibility exists that you’ll be fired unexpectedly if your performance doesn’t meet standard or your present employer undergoes some type of reorganization. Alternatively, you may be placed in a position where uncomfortable concessions are asked of you or compel you to maintain a relationship with superiors that may not be in your best interests in the long run. Your own poor judgment could lead to missteps that compromise your business ethics.
On the other hand, coworkers may make greater demands because they view you as capable of accomplishment and you may begin to receive recognition. However, this distinction won’t come easily–your abilities will be tested through confrontation with others requiring that you do your best and understand the nature of your relationship with others and what is expected. It’s vitally important to live up to the agreements you have made.
If looking for employment, available opportunities suggest you may get a new job with little or no effort or serendipitous encounters may lead to benefit. If self-employed or in need of clientele, you may find customers or clients come on their own accord without you actively seeking them. Perhaps you improve the work environment or office conditions in some way or decide to expand, relocate your business or branch out into new areas of growth. You may be presented with opportunities for working with new techniques or beginning a revolutionary new enterprise. If you’ve built a solid foundation, it will be much easier to advance, network or make professional connections.
If you’re not employed, you may still make major changes at this time in your life direction. In some cases negative change is forced because of actions your peers consider to be socially unacceptable. Decisions may include divorce, separation or major relocation, possibly overseas. You may move away from parents or they may relocate. If you’re living at home with your parents, you may disagree with their authority over you, especially if you’re of age and need greater freedom. You might also initiate these changes because the children are grown and gone.
You may feel as if you have little control over your psychological and physical health, especially if overwhelmed by compulsions or addictions to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes or junk food. Long-standing and poor health habits create problems that must now be dealt with, and this is a good time to break negative patterns to take control of your health. Additionally, the greater the stress in the environment and/or the more you’re manipulated or controlled by those in your environment, the greater the possibility for health issues to arise. No-win situations are especially emotionally upsetting and illness inducing.
With regard to intimacy, most significant relationships will have an issue that needs to be addressed before the relationship can move forward and develop. For some this may prompt questions surrounding sexual orientation or if you’ve been indiscriminate in the past you may reconsider your criteria for involvement. The caution is that new found friends and attachments can be odd, strange, unpredictable and costly. While you can form a new love relationship, the energy stimulates the opportunity to meet the wrong kind of people. If dating and not yet married, the relationship will likely not be defined because of some limitation or restriction.
Awareness of basic personality differences will heighten and close associations will test you through increasing demands that require great effort on your part. Some relationships will end under the pressure because the demands on you will be more than the relationship is worth. For others, a blatant refusal to love and share and the inability to trust can lead to denial of commitment and restrictions so severe that the relationship eventually dissolves when walls meant to ensure the safety of one partner compromises the needs of the other. While not readily apparent, lack of commitment is usually reciprocal. Initially, you may compensate for the lack of commitment by lowering your demands and expectations.
Many changes now occurring also require you to make monetary decisions that affect your immediate financial needs, expenditures, income or household budgets. The assessment might highlight concern about the amount of money you earn, especially in relation to the quality of work you put out, but also because of confusion or uncertainty surrounding the resources you share with another person. Any expected funds from a suit, debt, settlement or claim may be unavailable for a time and without a definite date for receipt.
Alternatively, a partner may experience situations related to his/her income that have an effect on you. Perhaps he/she is laid off, sick or unemployed or your partner is faced with circumstances such as wage freezes, delayed promotions or negotiations that make the future unclear. If dependent, others will tend to be unreliable and may not give as often or may stop giving altogether. If others are dependent on you, you can be taken advantage of by sacrificing your own financial security to help someone else.
The start of this moon begins with the warlike ardor of Aries to push the necessary impetus to move forward, overcome inertia and change the status quo. However, the keyword for this cycle is weakness which seems incongruous unless the applied reference is to the body overcoming illness which is now possible. But it also denotes one lacking self-confidence and relying too much on the weaker things that bind one to circumstance. In this respect, it is luxury that’s hurtful requiring the need to rise superior to external conditions and the tyranny of senses.
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