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9/5/2024 Thursday by Wangmo

Theme: The complexity of relationships

With a crowd of various planetary bodies and other significant points, in Libra it’s a moment of illumination about how both our past and our more hidden habits, including jealousy, can sabotage our relationships. This conjunction invites self-honesty and genuine reflection and yet it also speaks to our capacity to tap into our love for others and the strength of our commitments.

In dreams and love there are no impossibilities. ~Janos Arany

9/4/2024 Wednesday by Wangmo

Theme: Connections

With the Moon moving into Libra today and conjunct Venus and the South Node there is more effort and energy in seeking harmony and rapprochement. Whatever is holding you back in relationships can be closely examined now, allowing you to move forward. Mars energy, to assert oneself, is muted as Neptunian energy in its highest form is about selflessness. This square aspect between Mars and Neptune creates tension about fulfilling ones personal needs. Transformation occurs in letting go your ‘need’ goals, while being mindful of the physical world you live within.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology.. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life.~Anthony de Mello

The Moon is Void of Course today between EDT USA 12.05pm until 12:12pm. Avoid starting new projects, making new purchases, planning big events or signing contracts during this time. Take time for inner reflection and self-care.

9/3/2024 Tuesday by Wangmo

Theme: New beginnings

With the new moon you can draw on lunar energy for starting new endeavors. It’s an outward-looking and optimistic time. The Sun and Moon in Virgo helps with your attention to details, practical communications, attention to inner health and care of small animals. Mars is still in difficult aspect to Neptune producing a gap in your perceptions and reality. Slowing down has benefit when weighing the options. The beneficial placement of Venus in Libra helps offset difficulties.

Beware the Jubjub bird and shun the frumious Bandersnatch.~Lewis Carrol

9/2/2024 Monday by Wangmo

Theme: Walking backwards

With many major outer planets retrograde – Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn – you can retrace your steps and work out a clearer, better path to your destination. Sometimes revisiting the past isn’t a wallow but an opportunity. Venus continues to generate beneficial connections with others, also from the past. With both the Sun and Moon in mutable Virgo you can be flexible in response to changing situations.

The dividing line between samsara and nirvana is between knowing and not knowing the self-cognizant original wakefulness. When there is knowing, it is nirvana; when not knowing, it is samsara.~Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Theme:  Extraordinary Times

Pluto is having its last day in Aquarius until November 20th. Tomorrow is the beginning of its last visit to Capricorn for the next few hundred years.
It’s like a mopping up exercise, what hasn’t been completed should unfold over the next 2-3 months. We’ve had a taste of Pluto in Aquarius already. Accelerated focus on AI and its impact on freedoms and morality. Elections- future versus past, democracy versus tyranny. We are poised on the cusp of major change and by July next year all 3 major planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto will have changed signs.
Do not fall asleep at the wheel. This is the time to really make decisions about how you wish to impact the future by letting go of old habits and ideas that are holding you back.

“ Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

The Moon is Void of Course today from 8.25pm until 11.48pm EDT. Do not make any big decisions during this time period

Theme:  Creative Expression

The last day of August sees the Moon move into Leo, radiating warmth, generosity and enthusiasm. Because it’s not strongly aspected to any planet its Leonine qualities shine brighter than usual. You may wish to get involved in a group creative art project and enjoy a supportive and encouraging atmosphere with co-collaborators.

“ You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou

Theme: Poking the Wounded Bear

The moon opposite Pluto today may trigger reactions that are habitually self defeating. Closeness and intimacy can be elusive due to issues around trust, particularly toward women in power positions in your life. It is important to move beyond negative images from the past. Therapy can be beneficial.

“ One’s mind becomes hard as horn because of discrimination, the conceptualization that is involved with the idea of ego, because of the pride and arrogance that arise from our belief in  self nature being inherently real.”
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

The Moon is Void of Course today from 11.24am until 1.09pm EDT. Do not make any big decisions during this time period.

8/29/2024 Thursday by Wangmo

Theme: Seeking harmony

With Venus moving into Libra today the focus turns to getting along with others and creating the causes for harmony. There is more appreciation of beauty and design and less of the critical approach when Venus was in Virgo. Venus is trine Pluto creating an added depth to relating. Saturn opposes the Sun creating barriers and delays in some areas. It is a good time to be disciplined.

When you are critized, accept it as an opportunity to acknowledge your hidden faults and increase your humility.~HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

8/28/2024 Wednesday by Wangmo

Theme: Home

The Moon moves into Cancer today connecting us with our lineage, our home and family in a diversity of ways. Nurturing is a major theme. Mercury turns direct by the close of the day allowing clearing up time for mis-communications and improving the chance of better, future communications. There is a better feeling of alignment today in spite of the heft of dealing with a certain heaviness in the atmosphere right now.

Meditation is about learning to recognize our basic goodness in the immediacy of the present moment, and then nurturing this recognition until it seeps into the very core of our being.~Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

8/27/2024 Tuesday by Wangmo

Theme: Insights

With Venus conjunct the south node events of the past are illuminated, thus enabling you to see what keeps you comfortable but not necessarily growing. Three planets in free-wheeling Gemini assist with insights today helping make connections between seemingly unrelated moments. With the Sun and Venus in Virgo it’s a good time for communicating your intentions in more detail and loosening or re-jigging your routine.

Stillness or movement of attention are like a person sitting and moving about, Whether you move around or not, you should still recognize your own face.~Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche