Working with the Planets
Working with the Planets
[See Mars opposition Neptune chart]
The intensity of this Mars/Neptune opposition is best used to
cut through to the essence of the issues and problems that have
pressed themselves upon us through recent weeks. Minds, if
calmed by relaxed observance during the recent lunar eclipse,
will be ready to forge ahead with new ideas as Mercury conjoins
the North Node and makes a direct station in early Libra. With
Venus entering Virgo to square Saturn on 11 October, there
could be much disaffection to answer.
excitement of so much that is unexpected. How do we want to
live? Constantly pushing ever harder in a losing battle to hold
back the door of insistent change? Or easing step-by-step to
allow change to play a part in our world? Mutable times can be
truly liberating if we have the courage and kindness to allow
the way.
Major astro-events September to November
2015
Lunar Eclipse
Sep 28 2015 2:50:27am UT +0:00 London, UK
Mercury Retrograde Station
Sep 17 2015 6:09:27pm UT +0:00 London, UK
practised properly for just one lunar eclipse day, leads to seven
million times more benefit than on an ordinary day. After all
these first four weeks have confronted us with, this kind of
observance on this lunar eclipse day will be the most beneficial.
After the eclipse, it will become quieter. With Mercury
established in retrograde motion, catch up and correct
oversights and errors, left over from more hectic times.
[See Mercury Retrograde Station chart]
The period’s first eight days will be full of reckless impulses and
possible over-reaction, as we build to this uneasy 13 September
partial Solar Eclipse, focussed on the Antarctic. Venus conjoins
Mars in Leo, and Sun in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces. on
the first day of the period. Then the Sun trines Pluto on Venus’
direct station day, just before the third quarter Moon. Two days
later, Mars trines Uranus, and Mercury in 1