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Improving Life through Self-Awareness and Conscious Action

One practice is regular and thorough self-reflection.  Every 19.2 months Venus, the planet of relationship, values and essential needs, has a Retrograde cycle which encourages this deep look within.

This time it is in the water sign, Scorpio. More thoughts about the significance in our emailed Quarterly Newsletter.

Venus Retrogrades happen every 584 days. Every 8th year, Venus returns to the same sign. Sometimes awareness can develop through looking backward at previous retrogrades.

What was happening back then concerning intimate or contractual relationships, for example? Or in other areas of life that have a tendency to have more emotional focus, intensity or control.

With the New Moon in Libra and Full Moon in Taurus, both Venusian signs, this promises to be a valuable time period in the area of human relations.

The current Venus in Scorpio Retrograde cycle began in 1962 and ends in 2050 had 12 ‘hits.’

• October 1962, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1994, 2002, 2010, 2018, 2026
• September 2034, 2042, 2050

This PDF chart lists Venus Retrogrades from 1900-2100.

Wishing you masterful results.

Soon, even this month, Daniel Fiverson, returns to explore natural archetypes, with a look at another water sign, Cancer, along with its counterparts, the Moon and 4th House. We are delighted to present an article from Daniel, an Evolutionary Astrologer from New Mexico.

Whether you are an astrology enthusiast, practitioner, or somehow have experience with this language, please consider submitting your thoughts or creations, poems, pictures, teachings. Contact me for more information. More about the benefits and information about our website.

October

4. Venus Retrograde in Scorpio.
8. New Moon in Libra.
9. Mercury enters Scorpio.
10. Venus Rx in Scorpio square Mars in Aquarius (2/3).
11. Juno Retrograde in Gemini.
19. Mercury in Scorpio square Mars in Aquarius (1/3).
23. Sun enters Scorpio.
24. Full Moon in Taurus.
29. Mercury and Jupiter in Scorpio conjoin (1/3).
30. Mercury enters Sagittarius.
31. Venus Rx in Scorpio opposite Uranus Rx in Taurus (2/3).
31. Venus Retrograde returns to Libra.

October 2018

The Venus in Scorpio Retrograde starts October 5, 2018 followed by a Mars in Aquarius/Venus in Scorpio square October 10. With Jupiter in Scorpio the possibilties to expand and evolve intimate relations boggles the mind.

Book of the Month

Your Sun Sign as a Spiritual Guide
Swama Kriyananda
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How I never managed to read this gem of a book, I’ll never know.  I heard about it through an OPA webinar for members with Alexandra Karacostas, whose topic was the Uranus in Taurus ingress.

Your Sun Sign as a Spiritual Guide by Swami Kriyananda

As you probably know there are quite a few people who do not “get” the attraction to astrology. In fact, in many circles and families, it is a taboo topic, one receiving little support or only considered as a hobby by family members or friends.

Whether the problem is lack of openmindedness, a need to prove something solely through current scientific means or buying into over-simplified definitions of a complex system, thus deciding it is a less than serious study possibility, astrology is a mystery to much of the population.

For sure, it is about as easy a study to fully describe (or learn!) as technology or computer science.

Best to start with quality information and simplicity, and add more high caliber information as desire demands. Share the basics in easy to understand language without negativity and with highest potential of outcome of each archetype. This succint volume, Your Sun Sign as a Spiritual Guide does just that.

Part One has several short segments on history, “how the planets affect us”, modern and ancient astrology and a simple discussion of “precession” and why we are not yet in the Age of Aquarius and won’t be for quite a long while yet. Precession is the gradual shifting of the earth’s rotational axis which changes timing, and eventually zodiac signs, of the equinoxes.

Part Two, most of the book, describes each of the Zodiac Signs, then teaches what it means to be born when the Sun travels through the sign. Learn how to use your Sun sign to make positive choices, become self-aware and develop spiritually, finally not requiring astrology as a guidance tool at all. All of this, is written, with a sense of humor about human foibles.

As the back covers reads, this book “Speaks to Your Soul”. It does, and in a way most anyone can directly relate to without needing to understand the technical constructs of astrology.

You’ll understand yourself better and your friends and family. It’s a book to come back to again and again or read to a friend.

Swami Kriyananda (1926-2013) was a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and established Ananda, a spiritual intentional community.

Level: Novice through Professional.
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