July 7 - Aug 5 2009

July 7 - Aug 5, 2009

Insight From Stellar Influences

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


VOID OF COURSE MOON

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:

July 3 before 7:11 a.m.;
July 5 from 12:17 p.m. to 7:07 p.m;
July 8 before 8:03 a.m.
July 10 from 7:17 p.m. to 8:44 p.m.;
July 13 before 7:40 a.m.;
July 15 from 8:08 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.;
July 17 from 1:48 p.m. to 7:41 p.m.;
July 19 from 3:12 p.m. to 8:51 p.m.;
July 21 from 7:35 p.m. to 8:28 p.m.;
July 23 from 1:28 p.m. to 8:23 p.m.;
July 25 after 4:14 p.m.;
July 27 after 7:54 p.m.; and
July 30 before 1:10 p.m.


LUNAR ACTION

Waning Periods: July 7-21 begin with the full moon. It is a time of completion. In candle magic, it is know as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: July 1 - 6 and July 22 - Aug. 5 begin with the new moon. It is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. In candle magic it know as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: July 21, 7:35 p.m. in Cancer. The waxing period in Cancer focuses on new: family projects, home purchases, property and emotional insights.

FULL MOON: July 7, 2:21 a.m. in Capricorn. This waning period focuses on completing issues concerning: long term goals, ambitions, organizing large projects and maturing attitudes.


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

7-21: Focus: Long term goals. Test: Follow through. Key: When we live in the present moment, there is no need to rush. Action: Superiors challenge you to complete an ambitious project.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Self Esteem. Test: Control. Key: Love knows that each does the best they can at every moment in time. Action: Issues at home cause you to question who you are and how to control your life.



Taurus

7-21:: Focus: Maturing Investments. Test: Take the offer. Key: Awaiting fulfillment is wise, but one must take action when it arrives. Action: Finally old investments manifest and you may have to let go of something now to achieve your goals.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Home. Test: Contentment. Key: Acknowledge what you have and be grateful. Action: New projects at home bring family together.



Gemini

7-21: Focus: Emotional Awakening. Test: Disciplined focus. Key: Achievement is the result of consistent action. Action: You must reexamine your goals and come to terms with the rules of discipline.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Frustration. Test: Listen. Key: Focus on one issue at a time. Action: Confusion over a need to be nurtured irritates you. You're annoyed at your own response.



Cancer

7-21: Focus: Balance. Test: Emotional manipulation. Key: Nurture without smothering, restrict without inhibiting. Action: The desire to complete a long term goal feels like a tight rope walk between love and money.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Family. Test: Energy. Key: Awareness is more difficult when one lapses into comfort. Action: New love, family and/or home situations focus feelings of warmth and contentment.



Leo

7-21: Focus: Rules. Test: Self-control. Key: The steps to leadership are built on seconds of fully focused self discipline. Action: Fulfillment of a long term goal can only manifest after a stressful reassessment of your priorities.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Responsibilities. Test: Why? Key: Leadership is in the actions, not the words. Action: Your desire to have fun interferes with new family responsibilities.



Virgo

7-21: Focus: Fulfillment. Test: Over analysis. Key: One who is humble does not refuse the reward, but honors the promoter by accepting. Action: Finally an opportunity for a promotion at work or in your personal life. Take it.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Security. Test: Emotional expression. Key: Contentment is a gemstone, once experienced can be re-experienced at will. Action: You ease into a new emotionally gratifying situation at home.



Libra

7-21: Focus: Ambitions. Test: Speak up. Key: Health requires that you express yourself. Choose your timing and words with care. Action: Your need to fulfill an old goal is challenged by an emotionally controlled superior.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotions. Test: Face yourself! Key: Sacrificing to keep the peace can also be a reaction used to avoid the truth. Action: Your need to be nurtured challenges you to speak or remain in pain.



Scorpio

7-21: Focus: Power. Test: Avoid gloating. Key: The most powerful one is filled with compassion. Action: Finally the opportunity to arrives that will provide security and long term strength.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Fulfillment. Test: Express your feelings. Key: Even a psychic likes to hear words spoken and expressed physically. Action: You take advantage of the new opportunities for love, nurturing, and home comforts.



Sagittarius

7-21: Focus: Restrictions. Test: The value of discipline. Key: To win, one must fight on a level playing field. So, the reason for rules. Action: Completing an old project, while following the rules frustrates you.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Family. Test: Emotions and logic. Key: Expanded feelings lead to compassion. Action: Events at home cause stress and new emotions surface. Now you must evaluate your real feelings.



Capricorn

7-21: Focus: Long term needs. Test: Feelings. Key: Intense focus brings success but at what price? Action: You experience the maturing of a relationship or investment and know you can make a long term commitment now.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotional indecision. Test: Your rules or love? Key: The leader who nurtures is followed and revered. Action: You must balance your desire for love with your need for control.



Aquarius

7-21: Focus: Priorities. Test: Rebellion. Key: You can catch more bees with honey than you can with vinegar. Action: Monetary restrictions frustrate your efforts to fulfill a progressive ideal.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotional comfort. Test: What is freedom? Key: The one who works to control only what can be controlled knows freedom. Action: A new desire to be free of responsibilities at home forces you to reassess your work.



Pisces

7-20: Focus: Regulations. Test: Walk in their shoes. Key: Law makes order out of chaos. Action: People in positions of authority irritate your need to daydream and flow with life.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Love. Test: Drama. Key: Each moment in life is unique. Enjoy each for they are your own creation. Action: New opportunities for emotional fulfilment. A good time to be with family, buy a home or fall in love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER!

• Fourth Sign of the Zodiac • Feminine • Cardinal Water Sign •
• Ruler: Moon • Color Silver • Gemstone Moonstone •
Flowers: Geranium, White Rose, Water lily • • 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, Julyian 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 visionary fiction author. She consuts with clients by phone. For personal consultation, call: 541-863-6631. Ask her questions on her blog at astrologyandmore.blogspot.com or on Twitter @tamoor

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