All New All the Time

 August gives us a beautiful opportunity to begin our month and lives afresh.  The month opens with a brand spanking New Moon dancing on the cusp between July and August.  For those on the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the New Moon occurs near midnight on July 31^st.  Anyone west of the Mississippi, however, the New Moon enters August on the First.  For all, it is best to hand write and cast your wishes and goals on August 1^st or 2^nd.  Either plant them in the ground or cast into a moving body of water. 

From here, everything follows.  You can firmly hear the Roar of August’s signature Leo the Lion.  Four, yes 4 planets are in this fiery, fertile sign:  Venus (love/money), the Sun (our will), the Moon (emotions) and Mars (our energy); three of which align with Generous Jupiter.  Be very clear about your goals and wishes; because this tour de force in creativity and expansion marking the New Moon yields what you ask for.  Prepare to receive.  Be very thoughtful about your hopes and desires.

Heightening the horse power of this New Moon, Messenger Mercury turns direct motion the very next day.  For the last three weeks our mind and communication turned toward reflection and remembrance and other RE words.  As it moves into forward gear, Mercury finishes its second cycle in the sign of nurturing Cancer before re-entering Leo.  Push on now with projects, ventures and relationships.  Proceed with any major contracts and purchases.  It is GO time!

The dovetailing of the New Moon on August 1^st immediately followed by Mercury direct offers unmistakable cosmic guidance.  Our emotions (New Moon) and thoughts (Mercury) are given license to chart new chapters with creativity (Leo) and care (Cancer).  Leo incites our actions:  how big can we dream? Meanwhile, Messenger Mercury conjoined to the North Node in Cancer supply infinite imagination.   Our hearts and our minds are invested for sure.  Leo provides endless stamina and courage.  Feel the Break-Out energy?  We feel we can conquer the world!

The caution with all that fiery Leo is drama and narcissism.  Watch for overly needy people trying to pull you into unnecessary complications, doing their work for them, prey upon your feelings and good nature.  Radical Uranus exactly challenges Venus and the Sun at the time of the New Moon.  All are in fixed, stubborn signs.  Uranus in Taurus calls us to approach relationships, values and earning income differently, more pragmatically and to apply our will with ingenuity.   The Venus-Sun pairing in Leo are super romantic while Uranus awakens a sensual realism.  Expect surprising relationships, either new people in your life, sudden shifts, unexpected shakeups (possibly dramatic), triggering moments.  These can be positive and negative twists but one thing is for sure:  August leads with ground breaking measures.  All new all the time is this month’s theme.  Uranus is called the Great Awakener with good reason.

The good news is that heavy hitters Saturn-Pluto in sturdy Capricorn keep it real.  The duo sets limits and says NO even when we are reluctant to do so for ourselves.  The heavyweights align with Neptune and the North Node (our directional calling), guiding us to follow our intuition:  what makes sense?  What feels right yet also yields common sense answers and solutions?  We may be tempted by the fantasy and illusion that the continuing Jupiter-Neptune conflict prompt; so the caution is avoiding smoke and mirrors, falling for spin and spin doctors.  Best to refrain from hitting the escape button, laziness in all its forms, relying on others to formulate opinions for you.  Apply focused thought and attention to matters at hand.  Take a step back, observe, detach, listen and observe.  See for yourself what is real and what is not; The trio of Leo planets incites us to create our own reality while Saturn-Pluto give us the grit and tools to accomplish our goals.  Ask:  what is possible?  If you do your own work now, you will be rewarded down the road.  You reap what you sow.

And the possibilities are endless now.  The first two weeks of August overflow with powerhouse energy.  Take advantage!  It builds like a steam engine toward mid-month.  Sunday, August 11^th, Jupiter turns direct motion in adventurous Sagittarius, continuing its alignment with Venus-Sun in festive Leo.  How big can you go?  How broad do you want to expand?  Your world, your vision, your goals?  Truly, this is exciting energy.

The very next day, Messenger Mercury re-enters Leo while Uranus turns retrograde motion.  The cosmic change agent, Uranus offers unpredictability, instability for some, and for others a whole new refreshing perspective.  Leading into the Full Moon on August 15^th, with four planets in playful Leo, all bets are ON.  If you have been yearning to take a chance, pursue your passion, break out of a rut, create an entirely new you, lifestyle or career, this week is it.  More than impelled, we feel compelled.  So go for broke.

The caution is Uranus retrograde, especially as it challenges Messenger Mercury (communication), along with three other Leo planets; watch for anything involving fire, escalating arguments, unrelenting turf battles where each digs in its heels, and accidents.  At a minimum, exercise caution with any heat-based or electrical appliances.  Make sure ALL are turned off after use or when you leave your home.  Take care with any sharp utensils or tools.  Uranus is the change agent.  It can redirect our lives on a dime.  Turning retrograde right before the Full Moon heightens its unpredictability. 

A few days after the Full Moon, a series of planetary shifts occurs.  One right after the other like dominoes, the trio of planets in Leo switch into efficient Virgo.  Motivating Mars (our energy) leads the charge on the 18^th, followed by Venus on the 21^st, then the Sun (our will) on the 24^th.  Within the span of a week, the party Leo hosted for much of the summer draws to a conclusion and the real work, nitty gritty details of life starts.  You will feel the sea change in attitude and action.  Vacations gradually end and give way to a return to work, school and routine.  Welcome Virgo!  Industrious, precise, and health-conscious, our creativity and imagination stoked by Leo and Cancer energies now turn ideas into productivity, making manifest our goals and visions.

The great Planner of the Zodiac, earthy Virgo harnesses resources into an uber efficient production line.  Always prepared for every eventuality, Virgo forms methods and algorithms to solve problems and find solutions.  We just start acclimating to this energetic shift when Messenger Mercury (our thoughts and communication) joins the Virgo stellium.  Heightened the very next day on August 30^th by the New Moon, five, gulp 5, planets in Virgo seek details, to know how, want answers.  The trick is not losing the forest for the trees, being too tightly bound by schedule and routine to squash flexibility and creativity. 

Planning and preparation are essential for successful execution just as much as over-thinking and submission to perfectionism can kill accomplishment.  The great news is the sheer drive of this New Moon.  All five planets in Virgo align skillfully with ingenious Uranus and four align with taskmaster Saturn.  Harness your resources and potential to realize your summertime ideas and dreams now.  Now is the time to put these to good work.  Behold what unfolds!

Of Special Note:

Beginning next month in September 2019, I am so pleased to partner with owner Scott Denardo to offer astrology readings at his metaphysical store Earth's Hidden Treasures in Assonet, MA.  Sessions with me are available twice a month, the first and third Thursday of each month.  To book a live, in-person reading, please contact Scott at 508-644-7398 or via email:  earthshiddentreasures1@gmail.com.  Earth's Hidden Treasures, 63 South Main Street, Assonet, MA 02702.

My schedule and the store's most recent newsletter are below:

Astrology readings with Hilary Harley at Earth's Hidden Treasures
September 5 and 19
October 3 and 17
November 7 and 21
December 5 and 19

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An Invitation to Dignity and Decency: The July Eclipses and Mercury Retrograde

July is a very active celestial month.  Right out of the gate BOOM go the fireworks!  We barely scratch the surface of this first full month of summer when on Tuesday, July 2^nd the New Moon occurs.  Not just any old New Moon, July kick starts a fresh lunar cycle with a Solar Eclipse at 4:04 pm EDT.  This eclipse will not be visible in North America.  We are impacted by it nonetheless.

The solar eclipse takes place at 10 degrees Cancer the Crab.  All things home, food, mom, nation/homeland, family and psychological roots are on the table, the focus of our attention.  Through much of June we must concentrate on what works and what does not work in this sector of our lives; the need for crucial decision making and the most compassionate strategy about family roles, house and home needs takes center stage through July.  Both the Solar and Lunar eclipses as well as Mercury’s retrograde backslide into Cancer guarantee it.

Speaking of Compassion:  the intense cosmic activity asks us as individuals and as a nation, where is our compassion these days?  Are we acting in the most nurturing way possible for all involved?  For the United States, this is notably highlighted by the children separated from their parents at the Southern border.  Nothing underscores the plight of family quite like the disastrously inhumane conditions of the immigrant families seeking asylum in the USA.

Expect drama to heighten around this national issue as well as all family and home life at the beginning of July, as Motivating Mars enters Leo joining Messenger Mercury.  The pair directly challenges Radical Uranus in Taurus.  Think Face Off:  each person in opposing corners of a boxing ring or across a mediation table from one another, staring each other down, neither willing to give an inch.  There you have the energy of the first two weeks of July.

In Festive Leo, Mercury (communication) and Mars (our active energy) want to enjoy life, have fun and create; while Uranus in Taurus demands change along practical lines:  how are you going to pay for all of your fun times, parties and creative endeavors?  Oh yes, and what about how your pleasure seeking is impacting Mother Earth?

The caution with Leo is narcissism, pride and drama; the caution with Taurus is steep frugality and stubbornness for the sake of it.  This challenging energy is embedded in the solar eclipse for us to take a hard look at.  Uranus is The Great Awakener.  With the Sun-Moon wedged in between the planetary standoff, this Solar Eclipse is a wake-up call to our most basic functions as human beings:  how we take care of ourselves, our home (including Mother Earth) and especially the most vulnerable among us, the children and elderly.  What good is a booming economy if we can’t feed ourselves in a few years due to climate change?

Compassion is not limited to human beings; but as of right now, the animal kingdom is showing humanity how best to be kind and nurturing.

Eclipses are doorways, a gateway passage and threshold that mark distinct events or phases in our lives, especially if they impact our astrological chart directly.  So whether you are preparing to launch a child into college, giving birth to your first born, changing your diet, buying or selling a home, getting divorced, becoming an empty nester or a grandparent, ALL things home, food, mom and family demand attention this month.  We have been feeling this energy building for a while now and it will continue into the fall. 

Helping us out over the July 4^th holiday weekend, Venus shifts into Cancer on the 3^rd.  At a world attention-getting degree, Venus, planet of love, money and relationships does her best to smooth out family relations and the home front.  As she gradually joins the Sun through the rest of July, the pair reduces tension between Mercury-Mars in Leo butting heads with Uranus in Taurus.  They gently remind us that if everyone draws a definitive line in the sand, makes a big stink and claims, “my way or the highway,” what a sad, lonely and hard world this will be.  So harken to the energy of the Cancer Sun (our will) and Venus (love/relationships).  Build a sand castle, take a moonlight swim, cuddle up with your loved ones, or eat some home-baked pie.

Most critically, Sun-Venus ask us to feel and not think so much.  To move from our heart center, intuition and imagination rather than our minds.  Can you do it?  What a more gracious and loving world we’d live in if we acted from our hearts and souls, empathizing with how another feels.  Let’s put aside the Rah-Rah, Me First approach and accept this very kind invitation to dignity and decency now.

Ideally, we allow for the higher minded aspects of Leo and Taurus, so abundantly fertile and creative, to graciously take turns.  Instead of digging our heels in over an issue, as the lower forms of this same energy might provoke us to do, better to harness the wild ingenuity they offer.  Through the first two weeks of July, Mercury-Mars in Leo form an alliance with healer Chiron in Aries.  Apply your creative mind to solving long-standing problems.  Leo is as generous as it is creative.  While Chiron in Aries finds all new methods to heal and mend what is broken.  Additionally, this pair forms a grand fire trine (super alliance/flowing energy) to Ceres in Sagittarius.  When we ask questions, educate ourselves and teach others, refrain from assumptions and projections, solutions arrive.  Listen instead of talk.  Silence instead of noise.

It’s fine to party on as long as you share the wealth with the neighbors and newcomers, we are so RE-minded as Messenger Mercury turns retrograde on Sunday, July 7^th.  For the next three weeks, Messenger Mercury reverses gear and backs out of Leo and eventually RE-enters compassionate Cancer on July 18^th.  We are pushed and prodded to RE-think, RE-flect, RE-view every aspect of our lives until Mercury turns direct again on August 2^nd.   The good news is that the very same day as Mercury turns retrograde, the Sun (our will) joins the Lunar North Node (our directional calling) aligning with inspirational Neptune.  Dream and flow says this trio. Just don’t get carried away into Neverland.  Keeping our feet on the ground are heavyweights Saturn and Pluto in earthy Capricorn opposite the North Node-Sun.  Firmly plant roots while pragmatically reaching for the stars.

Neptune helps here in its complement to Saturn-Pluto, offering a creative wonderland for artists and for the rest of us aiming to craft our future.  Neptune is the dream, the Sun our will, and Saturn the architect.  With focused attention during this eclipse and Mercury retrograde season, harness this energy to design, plan and prepare to build your dream life.  Saturn-Lunar South Node says release and let go of what stands in your way.  Reduce the obstacles or excess noise inhibiting you from living your best life, while preserving and using the most functional systems and pieces to build further upon.  The energy tees us up for the 2^nd eclipse of the month on July 16^th, at 23 degrees Cancer opposing the Capricorn Full Moon. 

This Lunar eclipse along the Cancer-Capricorn axis is an especially hard hitter.  The sign of Cancer directly opposes Capricorn and they could not be more different.  Cancer’s signature is I FEEL; while Capricorn’s is I USE.  Get it?  It’s great to be all touchy feely and sensitive but how is that going to work in the real world, this eclipse asks.

This Full Moon is in the opposite sign it rules at the time of the eclipse inciting us to get very clear about the choices we face.  Capricorn is black and white, not pink, green or grey.  The ordinarily cozy Moon now sets aside its soft, cuddly emotion, any feelings actually, other than crystal clear, efficient function.  What works and what doesn’t.  Period.  Tightly wedged between heavyweights Saturn and Pluto, the taskmaster and transformer, this Full Moon has us dispensing with any aspect of our lives that is not useful.  “You cross that line in the sand,” says this eclipse, “and just watch what happens next.”

Saturn-Moon-Pluto in Capricorn are utterly no nonsense.  Deadly serious.  “You fooled around so long wasting time, your gifts and talents, it’s payback time.  Time to pay the piper.”  The energy doesn’t care whose toes get trampled, whose feathers are ruffled, whose feelings are hurt.  We feel this cutting across ALL racial, socioeconomic, gender and cultural lines.  It takes us down to our very foundations and core.  From here, we are to build or rebuild every level of our lives:  psychological, financial, mental.  Really? 

Really. 

This isn’t a dress rehearsal.  It is not kind or nice, playful energy.  If you are way off path, out of soulful alignment and in need of re-direction, July can be gut wrenching.  Some may head for the hills, some may prepare for the apocalypse; the rest of us are simply asked to get real.  If you want all the pretty things in life, then this energy demands it is time to do the work.  Now. Not tomorrow.  This minute. Yikes.  You bet.

The following week the Sun enters fiery Leo on July 23^rd where Venus joins on the 28^th.  Yummy.  We fairly burst with inventive fertility.  Yes we have this problem or that to tackle, but if nothing else, with Mars, the Sun and Venus in Leo squaring off with Uranus in Taurus loves a big challenge to solve.  What’s more, the fixed signs of Leo and Taurus have do-or-die stamina and unending perseverance.  How will you apply this boundless creativity in your own life?

Of Special Note:

Beginning in September 2019, I will offer astrology readings at Earth’s Hidden Treasures, 63 South Main Street, Assonet, MA.  If you are near Southeastern Massachusetts, stop by and discover this amazing metaphysical store!  The only one of its kind in the area, Earth’s Hidden Treasures offers a full product line, range of classes and services including salt, sound and aromatherapy.  To book an astrology reading, please contact owner Scott Denardo at www.earthshiddentreasure.com or 508.644.7398.