January - February Horoscopes

Insight From Stellar Influences

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3
(Times specified are Pacific Time)

When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything that you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course: Jan. 4 after 6:44pm; Jan. 6 after 4:55pm; Jan. 5 before 7:46am; Jan. 7 before 10:12am; Jan. 9 before 10:14am; Jan. 11 before 9:41am; Jan. 13 before 10:33am; Jan. 15 from 6:37am to 2:30pm; Jan. 17 after 6:46pm; Jan. 20 before 9:30am; Jan. 22 after 8:24am; Jan. 25 after 10:56am; Jan. 27 after 9:13am, and Jan. 30 before 7:25am.

LUNAR ACTION

Waning Periods: Jan. 11- 25 begin with the full moon. It's a time of completion. In candle magic, it's known as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: Jan. 26 - Feb. 8 begin with the new moon. It is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. In candle magic it's known as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: Jan. 25, 11:55pm in Aquarius. The waxing period focuses on new ideas, inventions, friendships, communication, eccentric, and unusual contacts.

FULL MOON: Jan. 10, 7:27pm in Cancer. The waning period focuses on completing emotional issues concerning family, home, real property and mom.

PLANETARY NOTE

Mercury Stations Retrograde, Jan. 11 @ 8:44am at 7:42 Aquarius, and will Station Direct Jan. 31 at 11:11 pm at 21:47 Capricorn. During this time communications tend to be muddled or fail, so be extra careful getting directions, avoid signing contracts, or purchasing any types of communications equipment from cell phones to computers and cars. Better to wait till Feb. 6 to make these kind of purchases or to finalize any contracts. It's a good time for repairs and re-negotiations.

How to Use This Column: As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time. Test: is the issue or experience, which will test your focus. Key: is a little gemstone, which can help you pass the test if you will use it. Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.

Aries:
11-25: Focus: Home situations. Test: Examine the details before taking action. Key: Words and acts are indelible. Caution averts regret. Action: You're challenged to end a situation at home. Now is the time to express your feelings.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: New friends. Test: Be ego-less. Key: Others mirror what you want to learn. Action: New levels of freedom of thought are yours, as a result of an inventive new friend.

Taurus:
11-25: Focus: Family. Test: Honor your family despite your differences. Key: Achievements are most enjoyable when shared. Action: The feelings of security, and love, as you complete a family project is emotionally fulfilling.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: New ideas. Test: Let go. Key: Change is only chaos when we stand still. Action: New progressive people challenge you with freedom and change.

Gemini:
11-25: Focus: Irritating emotions. Test: Focus on key issues. Key: Don't proselytize. The facts will speak for you. Action: Resolving a frustrating situation at home requires focus and wisdom.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Breakthroughs Test: Go with the flow. Key: Three deep breaths on the hour instill calm and help maintain focus. Action: Opportunities seem limitless now. You receive sudden offers from unusual friends.

Cancer:
11-25: Focus: Emotional fulfillment. Test: Give others breathing room. Key: Clinging will back-fire. Action: Your guidance directs you to complete an old situation involving family and property.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Feelings of martyrdom. Test: Permission to enjoy life. Key: Your beliefs are the basis of your woes. Action: New friends cause you to reevaluate your feelings and your need for freedom.

Leo:
11-25: Focus: Irritating issues. Test: Home and heart. Key: Stuffing your feelings will resolve nothing. Action: Frustration reaches a conclusion as denial and irresponsible indifference surface. Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Humanitarian or king? Test: Balance the ego with the needs of others. Key: Without the people, there is no crown. Action: New love, children or friends tug at your need to be number one

Virgo:
11-25: Focus: Loving home. Test: Express without analysis. Key: Family love is the greatest treasure. Action: Finally getting family together gives you great satisfaction.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Evaluating new ideas. Test: Speak freely and logically. Key: Progress is built on past success. Action: Conversation with a friend exposes new ideas and a need to reinvent yourself.

Libra:
11-25: Focus: Fairness at home. Test: Treat yourself with kindness. Key: Emulate Solomon and wisdom will prevail. Action: Ending a family situation challenges your sense of fairness and your need to be nurtured.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: New friends, lots of gossip. Test: Avoid telling everything about everyone else. Key: You can't erase your words. Action: A new opportunity for friendship, love and wild adventurous conversations.

Scorpio:
11-25: Focus: Trust and love. Test: Be vulnerable. Key: Intimacy develops by revealing your secret self and trusting your mate. Action: Opportunities to resolve an issue at home will increase intimacy.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Independent people. Test: The need to control. Key: Freedom has no ulterior motive. Action: New friends challenge you with their spontaneity, honesty and independent life-styles.

Sagittarius:
11-25: Focus: Loyalty challenges. Test: Wanderlust. Key: There's no place like home. Action: Conclusion of an emotional matter makes you reassess your need for family.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: New unusual friends. Test: Avoid exaggerating. Key: Truth is fresh air to those who hear with their hearts. Action: A new friendship develops filled with wild ideas expands your opportunities for love

Capricorn:
11-25: Focus: Balancing goals. Test: The point of satiety. Key: There is a time for everything under heaven. Action: Completion of a home project brings family back into focus. Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Irritating thoughts. Test: Work with progress. Key: Revolutionary ideas are the basis of all inventions. Action: You're annoyed by progressive people, and their new nonstop opinions.

Aquarius:
11-25: Focus: Stress. Test: Don't project. Key: What we see in others - good or bad - is a reflection of ourselves. Action: Family ties, household projects and food preparation need redefining.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Friends and irreverent ideas. Test: Opinions. Key: Silence is a time of knowing truth. Action: A new wave of freedom and understanding emanate from unusual conversations made at odd hours.

Pisces:
11-25: Focus: Nurturing. Test: Take action. Key: Trust yourself. Action: You have an opportunity to have the house and/or family of your dreams, but you must take action.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 8: Focus: Annoying changes. Test: Be honest with your feelings and avoid trying to merge into the background. Key: The gift in change is seldom recognized until later. Action: Sudden changes frustrate you. Speaking with eccentric friends makes it worse.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPRICORN!

• Tenth Sign of the Zodiac • Cardinal Earth • Feminine •

Ruler: Saturn • Colors: Burgundy & Dark Reds • Gemstone: Garnet

• Flowers: Ivy & Pansy • Herbs: Comfrey, Hemp & Hemlock •

Cell Salt: Calc Phos • Rules: Knees, Skin, Bones & Teeth

• Key Phase: "I Discipline!" • Most Compatible Signs: Taurus and Virgo •

Capricorn, you're the conservative, ambitious, punctual, practical, serious, inhibited, and unemotional people, who rule nations, corporations, and courtrooms. You use everything around you, from material things to people. You're driven to achieve in your chosen career. You tend to be melancholy and do not smile easily. You love the old and think in terms of long-term outcomes. Everything in life is an investment to you. Career comes first and marriage second. If you marry, it will be late in life or to someone older than you. You like to be challenged and then recognized for your accomplishments. You tend to be a loner and act superior but have a deep fear of failure. You excel in corporate environments, politics and government. You could be a jailer, scientist, watchmaker, chiropractor, osteopath, miner, mathematician, orator, serious actor or school administrator.

Famous Capricorns include:

Benjamin Franklin, Elvis Presley, Kevin Costner, Tiger Woods, Carolyn Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Maureen Reagan, Janis Joplin, Cassius Clay, Kit Carson, Al Capone, Thomas Becket, Clara Barton, Joan Baez, Albert Schweitzer, Loretta Young, Daniel Webster, Paul Cezanne, Andrew Johnson, Joan of Arc, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover, Alexander Hamilton, Barry Goldwater, Kahlil Gibran, Edward Teller, A.A. Milne, Woodrow Wilson, Conrad Hilton, Mao Zedong, Millard Fillmore, Marlene Dietrich, Cicero & Robert E. Lee.

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3 is an ISAR, Certified Astrology Professional, a metaphysical minister, an Emotional Freedom Practitioner, and an award winning author. She has taught and consulted in many areas of metaphysics since 1972.

Michele offers personal consultations (taped session $144 per hour) Call: 541-863-6631

October Lunation Astrology - Horoscopes

October 2008

Insight From Stellar Influences
written by Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3
(Times specified are Pacific Time)


When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything that you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course: Oct. 2 after 3:47 p.m.; Oct. 3 before 8:14 a.m.; Oct. 5 after 6:08 p.m.; Oct. 7 after 12:37 p.m.; Oct. 8 before 9:03 a.m.; Oct. 10 from 4:13 p.m. to 6:31 p.m.; Oct. 21 before 7:35 a.m.; Oct. 23 from 10:53 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.; Oct. 25 after 6:02 p.m.; and Oct. 30 before 3:41 p.m.

LUNAR ACTION
Waning Periods: Oct. 15-28 begin with the full moon. It is a time of completion. In candle magic, it is know as the time of banishing.
Waxing Periods: Oct. 1-14 and 29-Nov. 12 begin with the new moon. It is a time of new beginnings. In candle magic it know as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: Oct. 28 @ 4:14 p.m. in Scorpio. This waxing period focuses on meshing resources with another in new ways, this includes mortgages, taxes, inheritances, and intimate relationships. It is also a time when new secrets are established.
FULL MOON: Oct. 14 @1:02 p.m. in Aries. This waning period focuses on completing issues concerning: appearance, self image, competition, and personal ego.


How to Use This Column: As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time. Test: is the issue or experience which will test your focus. Key: is a little gemstone which can help you pass the test if you will use it. Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.

Aries: 1-14: Focus: Relationship. Test: How selfish are you? Key: Review your shortcomings before judging others. Action: You're emotionally torn between the desire for a partner and the need to be alone. 15-28: Focus: Competitive project Test: Enjoy winning without gloating. Key: Today you may win but tomorrow, you may not. Honor those who lose so that you may win. Action: You have tremendous energy now and will win in aggressive sports you love.

Taurus: 1-14: Focus: Relationship stress. Test: Defiance. Key: When you speak from your heart as you wish others would do, you touch the soul. Action: A new relationship reaches a stress point and calls for renegotiation. 15-28: Focus: Pushed to complete things. Test: Avoid stubborn comments and glaring. Key: Centering with deep breathing brings peace in chaos. Action: You feel pressured to complete a project and are frustrated by aggressive people.

Gemini: 1-14: Focus: Creativity. Test: Control. Key: When we listen wholeheartedly, we encourage our partner to express themselves. Action: Opportunities open for socializing and expressing your creative side. Communication brings a new partner. 15-28: Focus: Competition. Test: Burnout. Key: Take what you need as you rush out to compete. Enjoy! Action: It's fun, completing a project with competitive chatter. You may win love.

Cancer: 1-14: Focus: People. Test: Be fair not dominant. Key: Peace and harmony arrive when issues of who's the boss leave. Action: Your ideas of dignity and respect challenge an important relationship. 15-28: Focus: Aggressive people. Test: An open mind. Key: To see clearly, let go of your opinions. Action: You're threatened by a superior's 'get things done' attitude. Listen or you'll lose in a confrontation.

Leo: 1-14: Focus: Diplomacy. Test: Listen. Key: What we admire in another is a reflection of the best in ourselves. Action: You ease into a new partnership and discover ego-less diplomacy. 15-28: Focus: Fun, energy, sports. Test: Share the credit. Key: The lion needs not boast for everyone knows he is king. Action: Opportunities abound to compete and be noticed. Fulfilling passion or winning a competition is strongly indicated.

Virgo: 1-14: Focus: Irritating relationship. Test: Be fair! Key: Wisdom listens to all the facts. Righteousness only hears itself. Action: You're irritated until you give your partner the opportunity to present the new facts. 15-28: Focus: Who am I? Test: Self-criticism. Key: Only the one who does the work knows what it takes to do it. Action: You're stressed because people around you have no idea what it takes to complete the work you do.

Libra: 16-31: Focus: Talk. Test: Be your authentic self. Key: You are still in control of your life when you consciously choose to compromise. Action: You're more magnetic now and feel the need to share. A new way of relating begins. 15-28: Focus: Us. Test: Peace. Key: Blending passion and peace achieves wisdom. Action: You must choose between peace in a personal relationship or fulfilling something you're passionate about.

Scorpio: 1-14: Focus: Gossip. Test: Emotional drama. Key: Words can mislead, but actions speak volumes. Action: You're annoyed and frustrated by the newest gossip. It really is a gift for you to see the choices you make. 15-28: Focus: Reevaluating yourself. Test: Manipulation. Key: Knowing what another feels is a gift to help others, not to gratify oneself. Action: Power struggles cause you to take another look at who your perceptions.

Sagittarius: 1-14: Focus: New relationship. Test: Enjoy your feelings. Key: Great work can be done better by two than by one. Action: A new relationship develops when a social conversation expands and you recognize your need for love. 15-28: Focus: Enjoyment. Test: Time to consider. Key: Success requires risks, but must be tempered with logic. Action: You're filled with energy and can win in any passionate competition.

Capricorn: 1-14: Focus: Love and rules. Test: Criticism. Key: True love honors one's nature and requires no standards be met. Action: Relationship challenges call for a mediator. Will your stubborn control attitude refuse to listen? 15-28: Focus: Arrogance. Test: Know your strengths. Key: To hope an issue will resolve itself, just allows it to fester. Action: You're challenged to address who is in control. Will you choose confrontation or discipline?

Aquarius: 1-14: Focus: Networking. Test: Recognize the gift. Key: The attitude you choose creates the balance between business and pleasure. Action: You have an opportunity for business and love at a new social function. 15-28: Focus: Debates. Test: Honor your opponent. Key: Beating a dead horse devalues your point and bores the audience. Action: You fulfill a desire to show off your opinions. Your mental speed gets you what you really want.

Pisces: 1-14: Focus: Being Fair Test: Walk your talk. Key: Words can only be defended when done in a timely fashion. Action: New issues of fairness cause stress in a close relationship. Re-examine your words and actions. 15-28: Focus: Annoying egos. Test: Stand up for yourself. Key: At the next moment of silent anger, emulate a spiritual being. Action: Aggressive people push you to complete something. Silence hurts you, speak up.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA!
• Seventh Sign of Zodiac • Masculine • Cardinal Air Sign •
• Ruler: Venus Color: Pastel Blue • Gemstone: Fire Opal •
• Flowers: Hydrangea, Bluebell • Herbs: Mint Cell Salt: Nat Phos •
• Rules: Kidneys & Lower Back • Key Phase: "I Relate and Balance!" •
• Most Compatible Signs: Aquarius & Gemini •

Libra, you're the creators of beauty, the counselors, diplomats and balancers of the zodiac. You have strong desire to be fair and just. You strive to keep an appearance of harmony. In your effort to keep the peace, you often lose track of what is really important. Keeping up with the Jones' can cause a lose of family respect. Your sweet exterior hides a domineering personality. You seldom express your anger and are prone to ulcers, gall stones and kidney stones. You enjoy games, puzzles and plays; frequently spending your money on social fun, art and items that beautiful your body. You're aristocratic, charismatic, easy going, talkative, refined, soft spoken and tactful. When in a negative mode, you tend to be vain, lazy, indecisive, frivolous, a gossiper, needy, thoughtless, extravagant, insincere, self-indulgent and gullible. You love to network, talk and socialize in elegant environments. You have an affinity for luxury and the finer things in life. You can excel as an artist, model, actor, interior decorator, counselor, hairstylist, florist, clothing designer, furrier, cosmetician, talk show host, beautician, manicurist, art dealer, salesman of jewelry and luxury items, marriage counselor, court reporter, diplomat, society events organizer, matchmaker, legal aid, court reporter, energy balancer, romance novelist, playwright and wedding planner.

Famous Libras include: Julie Andrews, Chester Alan Arthur, Brigitte Bardot, Sarah Bernhardt, Truman Capote, Johnny Carson, Miguel De Cervantes, Montgomery Clift, Rutherford B. Hayes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Greta Garbo, George Gershwin, Helen Hayes, Rita Hayworth, Charlton Heston, Deborah Kerr, John Lennon, Franz Liszt, Melina Mercouri, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugene O'Neill, Pope Paul VI, Eleanor Roosevelt, Giuseppe Verdi, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Kennedy, Aldo Ray, William Faulkner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tacy Marks, Andrew Clay, Truman Capote, Roger Williams, Damon Runyon, John Mellencamp, David Carradine, Juan Peron, Adlai Stevenson, William J. Perry, Aleister Crowley, Lenny Bruce, E.E. Cummings, P.G. Wodehouse, Vince Van Patten, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sylvia Browne, and Jim Palmer.

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3 is a professional, published astrologer, metaphysical minister and award winning author. She teaches astrology and does personal consultations by phone (taped session $133 per hour) Call: 541-863-6631 or visit AstrologyandMore.com or TalesofTamoor.com