July 2010

Insight From Stellar Influences

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3

When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course:  Jul. 3 before 6:44 a.m., Jul. 5 from 2:24 p.m. to 5:29 p.m., Jul. 12 before 5:53 a.m., Jul. 14 before 6:15 a.m., Jul. 16 from 6:46 a.m. to 7:24 a.m., Jul. 18 from 7:26 a.m. to 10:42 a.m., Jul. 20 from 4:43 p.m. to 4:48 p.m., Jul. 25 from 7:20 a.m. to 12:38 p.m., Jul. 27 after 8:47 p.m., Jul. 29 after 8:44 p.m., and Jul. 30 before 1:42 p.m.

LUNAR  ACTION

Waning Periods: Jun. 26-Jul. 11 and Jul. 25-Aug. 9 begin with the full moon. It's a time of completion. In candle magic, it is known as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: Jul. 12-25 begin with the new moon. It's a time of new beginnings. In candle magic it is known as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: Jul. 11, 12:40 p.m. in Cancer. The waxing period in Cancer focuses on new: home, family and emotional projects.

FULL MOON: Jul. 25, 6:37 p.m. in Aquarius. This waning period focuses on fulfilling friendships, eccentric, inventive ideas, projects involving big organizations.

How to Use This Column: Because both your sun and moon sign are important, please read the sections for both of them. As you do, note that each section is broken into Insight & Picture. Insight: offers a key to what the planets may be trying to teach you during this period. Ponder it, and your consciousness should expand. Picture: is a broad picture of what may occur in your world during this period in time.

Aries: 1-11: Insight: When we live in the present moment, there is no need to rush. Picture: Superiors challenge you to complete an ambitious project. 12-25: Insight: Love knows that each does the best they can at every moment in time. Picture:  Home life challenges your need to feel in control. 

Taurus: 1-11: Insight: Waiting for fulfillment is wise but of little value unless we act upon its arrival.  Picture: Finally old investments manifest and you must act to achieve your goals. 12-25: Insight:  Acknowledge what you have and be grateful. Picture:  New projects at home bring family together.

Gemini: 1-11: Insight: Achievement is the result of consistent action. Picture: You must reexamine your goals and come to terms with the rules of discipline. 12-25:  Insight:  Focus on one issue at a time. Picture:  New needs for nurturing irritate you and you feel annoyed at your own response.

Cancer: 1-11:  Insight:  Nurture without smothering, restrict without inhibiting. Picture: The desire to complete a long term goal feels like a tight rope walk between love and money. 12-25:  Insight:  Comfort stills awareness.  Picture:  New love, family and/or home situations focus feelings of warmth and contentment.

 

Leo: 1-11:  Insight:  Leadership is built on seconds of focused self discipline.  Picture: Fulfillment of a long term goal can only manifest after a stressful reassessment of your priorities and self control. 12-25:  Insight:  Leadership is in the actions, not the words. Picture:  Your desire to have fun interferes with new family responsibilities.

Virgo: 1-11:  Insight:  Humility does not refuse rewards, but honors the giver by accepting. Picture: Finally an opportunity for a promotion, whether at work or in your personal life. Take it, you've earned it. 12-25: Insight: Contentment, once experienced may be returned to at will. Picture: You ease into a new emotionally gratifying situation at home.

Libra: 1-11:  Insight:  Choose your timing and words with care. Picture:  Your need to fulfill an old goal is challenged by an emotionally controlled superior. 12-25:  Insight:  Sacrificing to keep the peace can also be a reaction used to avoid the truth. Picture:  Your need to be nurtured challenges you to speak or remain in pain.

Scorpio: 1-11:  Insight: A beloved king honors all contributions from his people. Picture:Completion of an old project brings applause from superiors. 12-25:  Insight:  Even a psychic likes to hear words spoken and expressed physically. Picture:  You take advantage of the new opportunities for love, nurturing, and home comforts.

Sagittarius: 1-11: Insight: A fight is only fair when played on a level field. Picture:  You're frustrated by superiors and their rules, as you attempt to complete an old project. 12-25:  Insight:  Expanded feelings lead to compassion. Picture:  New emotions due to home situation cause stress and reexamination of how you express yourself. 

Capricorn: 1-11:  Insight:  Intense focus brings success but at what price? Picture:You experience the maturing of a relationship or investment and can make a long term commitment now. 12-25:  Insight:  The leader who nurtures is followed and revered. Picture:  You must find a new balance between your desire to be loved and your ambitions.

Aquarius: 1-11:  Insight:  You can catch more bees with honey than you can with vinegar. Picture: Annoying restrictions and controlling superiors frustrate your efforts to fulfill a progressive ideal. 12-25:  Insight:  Your attitude holds the answer.  Picture:  A new desire to be free of responsibilities at home forces you to reassess freedom.

Pisces: 1-11:  Insight:  Law makes order out of chaos. Picture:  Taking action now can result in fulfillment of a long term goal. Invest in yourself, stand up and have your say. . 12-25:  Insight:  Enjoy the moment and honor change. Picture: New opportunities to have emotional happiness, love and property.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER!!

• Fourth Sign of the Zodiac • Feminine • Cardinal Water Sign • Ruler: Moon •

Color Silver • Gemstone Moonstone • Flowers: Geranium, White Rose, Waterlily

• Herbs: Verbena & Tarragon • Cell Salt: Calc Flour • Rules Breasts, Stomach & Pancreas •

Key Phase: "I Feel!" • Most Compatible Signs: Scorpio & Pisces

            Cancer,  you're the emotional, intuitive, nurturing, family-oriented sign of the zodiac. You're very protective of your family, property  and homeland.  Your most positive qualities include: being helpful, imaginative, receptive,  nurturing, motherly, kind, gentle, sympathetic, and quiet. You can also be tenacious, stubborn, moody, possessive, brooding, melancholy, dependent, narrow-minded, touchy, gullible, crabby and a worrier.

            You have a hard time accepting criticism and too often feel sorry for yourself. You have an outstanding memory and do not forgive or forget easily.  You have a good mind for business and  size people up quickly. You prefer the seclusion of your home and make an excellent homemaker. You tend to be vain. Self pity is your greatest weakness. Living too often in the past makes you a worrier. You love owning property, tend to collect antiques, are a pack rat, keep track of your ancestors and have a need to be touched.

            You prefer to work out of your home or in a home environment.

            You excel as a Realtor, homemaker, caretaker, interior decorator, caterer, baker, land developer, contractor, curator, landscaper, antique dealer, nurse, public relations specialist, restaurant or tavern owner, cook, obstetrician, pediatrician, and apartment manager.

Famous Cancers include: Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Leona Helmsley, Jean Cocteau, Shelley Duvall, Michelle Kwan, Angelica Huston, Nikola Tesla, Richard Roundtree, James Whistler, Richard Simmons, Buckminster Fuller, Bob Crane, Charles Scribner III, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Red Skelton, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Paul Sartre, Julian Huxley, Diana Trask, Ralph Reed, Sidney Lumat, helen Keller, John Elway, Stokely Carmichael, Mike Tyson, Lena Horne, John Quincy Adams, Louis Armstrong, Phineas T. Barnum, Yul Brynner, Pearl Buck, Julius Caesar, John Calvin, Calvin Coolidge, Phyllis Diller, Mary Baker Eddy, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Garibaldi, John Glenn, Nathanial Hawthorne, Susan Hayward, Henry VIII, John Paul Jones, Empress Josephine, Gina Lollobrigida, Gustav Mahler, Maximilian, Marcel Proust, Giacomo Puccini, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Cecil Rhodes, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley,

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3, is a certified astrology professional, metaphysical minister, emotional freedom practitioner and award winning author. For a personal consultation (taped session $144 per hour) call: 541-863-6631.