The Sun is the Invincible Spirit. So great is this universal wonder that it must come in small doses, distributed as it travels around the Zodiac over the course of a year.  The Sun's position symbolizes the active presence of the Divine.  The Autumnal Equinox occurs on Friday September 22, 2017 at 4:02 PM EDT. The Sun's movement into Libra creates the perfect balance of equal day and night. for the next month, we get to experience what it means to be engulfed in the qualities of harmony, peace, beauty and sociability, and also what it means when those qualities are offset by extremes.  

The Moon is the Receiver.  As the Sun energizes her, she receives and moves through her angular relationship with him over the course of the month.  She delights in shape-shifting.  She delights in the repetitive ebb and flow from night to day,  from New to Full in predictable sequence.  She delights in being able to portray the Sun's invincible spirit through her silver light.  We see this dance every month, beginning at the New Moon, timed for the Moon's alignment with the Sun. This month's New Moon occurred on Wednesday September 20, 2017  at 27 + Virgo.    At this late degree, this Moon involves clean-up to ensure health and well-being. This is particularly emphasized due to the Moon's opposition to Chiron at 2 6+ Pisces.  Are there wounds that still have not healed?  Are you required to go even deeper?  Are there reverberations from March, 2015 or September, 2016?  Check the details and do the work.

 Mercury has 3-4 Retrograde (Rx) cycles every year, each lasting approximately 3 weeks, and each offering a period of reflection, recalibration, revision, and resolution, as Mercury and the Sun exchange the message of a particular degree of the Zodiac.   Mercury is now Direct, racing through the  sign of Virgo, where he is quite comfortable,  through September, then Libra and Scorpio through October. 

The Venus cycle is complex and mysterious, beginning while Retrograde as an Evening Star, moving through conjunctions with the Sun, and shifting from Evening Star to Morning Star, and back.  When a brilliant Evening Star--calm, mature, settled, and knowing her brilliance is best seen outside the clutch of the Sun--she begins her new cycle. The current Venus Cycle began  on March 5, 2017 at 13+ Aries, and runs through October 5, 2018.  This start degree is one to watch for the entire cycle, when contacted by other planets.  Transiting Venus is currently a Direct Morning Star, and has passed this sensitive degree.  In this phase of her cycle, she is rushing into love and life for 9 months (April-January). She has entered the sign of Virgo, where she will travel through mid-October, when she enters her own sign of Libra.   On January 9, 2018, she will  make the Superior Conjunction with the Sun and disappear for 2 months. Then she will reemerge as an Evening Star to shine brilliantly for 7 months, before turning Rx again.  

Mars, too, has entered the sign of Virgo.  He picks up the scent of Venus' perfume when she enters the sign, and is full of charm and chivalry  when she catches up to him. He will liaise with Venus on October 5, 2017  at 18 degrees of Virgo, activating the perfection of love and energy between these two dynamos, then it is Venus who rushes off.

Jupiter is Direct, closing out his great relational work in the sign of Libra for the last year. Jupiter moves into Scorpio on October 10.  The mood will downshift for a plunge  into the depths to find and acknowledge passions that are swimming like  little minnows or Great Whites, to provide more opportunity for growth and evolution. 

Saturn has been in Sagittarius since December, 2014 and remains there until December, 2017, eager to build the strong structural base, by keeping everyone in line. This is needed for spiritual work, but also for the global social witnessing currently underway.  Saturn, hovering  at the Galactic Center, was Retrograde from April 6 - August 26.   Now Direct, momentum is building to revisit that arena in November, and will move into his own sign of Capricorn on December 21, 2017.   Saturn takes all prisoners, if need be.  The themes from the last three years are ready for integration:  diversity/insularity; inclusion/exclusion; broadening/shrinking, to name a few.