Kim Woods, Business Strategist & Master Astrologer, is on a mission is to create rich and powerful leaders through her success-making Do You Know, Like and Trust Yourself® Methodology that combines ancient feminine wisdom with masculine logical strength. She teaches business leaders how to achieve their personal, professional and financial triumph. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and welcomes her children, Nick and Katy, when they return home from college. She loves being on the ocean, gardening and cooking.
“All parents should be leaders and all leaders should be parents,” I say a few weeks ago to a group of managers who I am leading through a strategy session.
What? Where did that come from? Although not completely off-topic, it does not directly relate to the discussion at hand. Uh oh. I’ve lost it. Perhaps I am doing too many different things and I have lost my edge. Crap. So far, I have…
– Managed to keep the two companies completely separate.
– Managed to keep my business clients separate from my Men in the Head ® initiative.
– Not irrevocably let one interfere with the other.
– Man, it must be the heat.
Ugh, Crap. Crap. Crap.
Well, too bad for me, because I now have to speak to this subject as if I meant to bring it up. I look around the room and notice many eyes on me waiting to see where I am going with this comment. I take a deep breath gathering my thoughts…
“With leadership, you lead a group of people to a common goal with an eye on the long game, but managing the day-to-day details,” I pause, “How many of you are parents?”
I look around the room and see that most of the people have raised their hands. Oh, thank you God, perhaps I have dodged a bullet.
“With parenting, it’s the same thing, but with parenting you have more compassion while with leadership, you have more objectivity. You actually need both for each role, so perhaps the better way to describe it is leadership and parenting share many of the same activities and you need to apply both objectivity and compassion in equal measure.” Oh yeah, that’s what I meant to say.
Thankfully the meeting’s not derailed and we actually accomplish what we set out to do. Phew.
However, on the ride home I start thinking about my comment and I realize while it’s not necessary to have one person be both a parent & a leader, there’s much to be said for looking at parenthood through the leadership lens.
In leadership; as a leader, you need to be a good role model. In parenting; as a parent, you are a role model with every look, thought, deed, act, and engagement. Your children are observing and following everything you do – every single day. They
– watch the way you drive, how you talk on the phone or to your neighbors.
– observe how you treat yourself, your friends and your family.
– monitor how and what you eat, watch on TV, how much time you are on your laptop or mobile device, and whether you have a beer or glass of wine with dinner. You are modeling everything to your children, every minute of every single day. So, parents as role models – check.
2. Inspiring a Shared Vision in Leadership and Parenting
A good leader inspires a shared vision. As parents, we have a vision and sometimes it may be just to get through the day, but most times, it’s to provide a foundation for our children from which to launch their lives. Everyday, we get our children ready for school, drive them to their activities, help them with homework, allow them to spend time with their friends and take them on family vacations. All the while, we are talking to them about making good choices, advising them on navigating the pitfalls of growing up, and motivating them to make the very best lives for themselves. So, parents inspiring a vision – check.
3. Challenging the Process
A good leader takes risks, makes decisions, makes mistakes and then learns from them. Yeah, I think parents have that covered. Who knew there would be so many risks, decisions, or mistakes? Yikes, parenting is not for sissies. I remember one of my friends said to me, “The last day you knew anything for sure was the day before your first child was born.” (Thanks Kathy) She was JUST SO RIGHT. As parents, we make decisions on every single thing from the smallest, should they have a blanket covering them to the largest, where should they go to college and everything in between. I could go on for hours on this one, but I won’t. We all know what we do all day – everyday. So, parents as challengers – check.
4. Enabling Others to Act
A good leader is a mentor, disciplinarian and coach. He or she encourages, motivates, and yet has a strict operational code. Parents provide boundaries for their children while giving them the freedom to live their lives. The limit of the boundaries depends upon their ages and as I say to my two, their attitudes, as does the extent of their freedoms. So, parents as mentors, disciplinarians and coaches – check.
5. Encouraging the Heart
A good leader recognizes and rewards their employees for their efforts and accomplishments. I think parents do this better than most leaders. I especially like it when it involves family time together as a reward instead of a material good, but that’s a personal choice. So, parents recognizing and rewarding their children – check.
One thing is for certain, both leadership and parenting are living breathing things that need to be tended and nurtured every minute of every day. You need compassion and objectivity in equal measure.
For me, I feel that my leadership experience has helped with my parenting. I am more objective and can take a long view on some things that I don’t feel I would be able to do otherwise and that is particularly helpful these days in the tween and teen years. Also, I would like to think that my parenting experience lends itself to my leadership skills. And, I think I have more patience and compassion and am more apt to celebrate accomplishments.
However, next time I’m in a strategy meeting and I mention the parallels of parenting and leadership, I will be sure to handle it more elegantly. Yikes, that was a collision I could have done without.
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The zodiac is for everyone. No matter race, religion, gender, age or geography. The stars are here for every human to use to their FULL and COMPLETE advantage.
How can you do that?
Astrology is tied to astronomy, so the first step is understanding that the stars and planets hanging beautifully in the sky have impact on you.
Then, here are a few simple tips:
Appreciate the limitations of horoscopes.
Here’s why astrology gets such a bad rap. There are horoscopes aplenty online – everything from daily to weekly to monthly and are based on your Sun sign. Most people know their Sun sign, so it’s easy for people to search and connect with their solar horoscope. However, these horoscopes are severely limited. Yes, the Sun is central to your astrology, yet it’s still only 1 of 10 planets. Plus, there’s so much awesome information in your chart – house behaviors, planetary aspects, lunar nodes, your heart’s desires, soul mate imprint, life mission destiny and arc of intimacy to name only a few. It’s your complete cosmic blueprint. Completely ignoring it is unreliable. But, you can have fun with horoscopes. I’m not saying don’t read them. I’m just saying take them in complete awareness of their limitations.
Understand the cosmos
Knowing what’s happening in the cosmos every month is really helpful to navigating your best interests on a daily or weekly basis. This is the reason I spend hours analyzing and interpreting the monthly energies and lunar cycles every month. It’s important to know what’s going on generally with tips on what to do throughout the month. Other people do this too. Find your person – the one you like, the one who speaks to you – then sign up for their monthly messages. I offer a FREE monthly forecast to help you navigate each month’s energies. Here you can sign up for my monthly forecast to be delivered to your inbox each month.
Follow the Sun.
Here’s some fun for you. It doesn’t matter what your Sun sign is, you can lean into the solar energies every month. You just need to know the zodiac calendar and what it means. I’ve done it for you here:
Dates (ish)
Sun Sign
Meaning
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Aries – ♈
Aries likes to lead.
Be brave, bold and confident. Go on an adventure. Get physical. Start something new. Seek inspiration and act with enthusiasm. Get others to follow you.
Apr 20 – May 20
Taurus – ♉
Taurus likes stability.
Take a deep breath and seek the silence of nature. Explore anything sensorial – taste, smell, touch, sight or sound. Play with animals. Find the ability to simply be.
May 21 – Jun 20
Gemini – ♊
Gemini likes communicating.
Talk, travel, explore, learn – anything and everything. Open your mind to the wonders of the world. Read, teach, speak. Present. Debate. Solve problems, think critically. Do everything mental – literally.
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Cancer – ♋
Cancer likes to experience emotions.
Sink into your intuition, Nurture yourself. Be affectionate, sensitive and caring. Heal yourself and your family. Go inward. Stay at home – feel safe and loved.
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Leo – ♌
Leo likes to be in the spotlight.
Get cheery, have fun, be generous and inspire others. Be regal, kind-hearted and charming. Express yourself. Open your heart to joy. Trust and celebrate life. Delight in being alive.
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Virgo – ♍
Virgo likes order and neatness.
Get to work. Assume your duties and responsibilities. Get organized and set a schedule for routine. Check in with your health. Analyze, research or gain a skill. Find your mentors. Be in service to the world.
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Libra – ♎
Libra likes balance.
Collaborate, find your teammates and work together in harmony and justice. Seek balance. Discover calm through art and beauty. Make a commitment in relationship. Find your partners.
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Scorpio – ♏
Scorpio likes to live a secret life.
Dive deeply into honest self-reflection. Pursue the mysteries of life. Confront uncomfortable topics. Tell the truth. Investigate the darker edge of your life and heal with penetrating intensity. Forgive and let go of the past.
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Sagittarius – ♐
Sagittarius likes meaningful experience.
Socialize, communicate and explore new experience. Open your heart and mind to differing viewpoints. Travel to learn other cultures. Expand through higher learning. Broaden your philosophy of the meaning of life. Begin your quest.
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Capricorn – ♑
Capricorn seeks Great Work.
Focus your will, assume responsibility and get to work. Go inward to know yourself to determine your true desires. Be discerning and achieve greatness. Make effort to discover your mastery.
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Aquarius – ♒
Aquarius likes individuality.
Be original. Shake off conformity. Go your own way. Express your truth. Create your own rules and structures. Use technology. Invent. Reach for the future. Be a visionary, create and innovate.
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Pisces – ♓
Pisces is one with the world.
Imagine. Dream. Intuit. Connection to the oneness of the Universe. Love universally. Find joy in the wonders of the world through your imagination and sensory perceptions. Be gentle with yourself.
Note: ‘Dates- ish’ as the dates may vary by a day or two. It depends on the year.
Have fun with this. I encourage you to lean into the strength of the solar energies each month to take the most advantage of the zodiac.
For example, get stuff done during the early part of January, have so much fun in early August and delve deeply into introspection in the later part of October. The zodiac signs are more supportive of these activities due to the Sun’s entry into them at these times.
Have fun – the stars are here for you!
As always, wishing you joy,
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Stars + Strategy Invites You to Take it Slow for Good Luck
The stars either work with you or against you and it all depends on whether you know what their up to or not. This monthly forecast sets up you to take advantage of these powerful forces. Using the stars strategically helps you clear the pathway to your success and achieve your personal, professional and financial triumph.
May 2023 Summary
From the annual forecast:
May: Universal Support
Sun signs – Taurus & Gemini
The stars do everything in their power to give you a boost. They gather the shaking you received in March 2020 and tell you, “It’s time. Now, it’s up to you to reclaim your unique gifts. The world needs you. It’s time. We’re doing everything we can, are you?” Luxury, ease and abundance is all around you. Can you see it? Will you see it? Relief is right in front of you. It’s here – open your eyes. Better yet, open your mind. Best yet, open your heart.
STAR DANCE
Big Star Events: (in chronological order)
May 1st – Pluto retrograde
May 5th – Lunar Eclipse
May 14th – Mercury direct
May 16th – Jupiter enters Taurus @ 0°
May 17th – Jupiter square Pluto @ 0°
Mars is active – sextile Ceres, trine Neptune; opposite Pluto; square Jupiter
Big Star Event: Pluto Retrograde
Pluto retrograde – May 1 – October 10 @ Aquarius 0° – Capricorn 27°
Since Pluto so recently entered the sign of Aquarius, this initial retrograde time is especially powerful. No one alive has felt Pluto retrograde in Aquarius as the last time was the late 1780’s. New territory is entered.
These 4+ months are also a reminder of the confrontation between Saturn and Uranus from January 2021 – October 2022. Your past and future wrangle for your attention, while Pluto makes you see yourself in wholeness. What have you been doing right? What have you gotten wrong? Pluto also asks you to go with your intuition to determine your forward direction. Your intuition becomes your best advisor during this period.
This is also a time to fully understand your power and to realize how others around you are using theirs (for or against you). Power plays, hidden agendas and secret lore is a fascination. Focus on you and let the drama around you fall away.
Week 1: May 1st – May 7th
Access the desire for home renovations and design as they take center stage. Success, love and money are boosted mid-week. Heart-based leadership gains ground and allows the deepening of connection with the right people and engagement with the appropriate opportunities.
Avoid busyness, confusion and fake information. The mind runs amuck, all stirred up, with nowhere to go. Money issues arise and imbalances with others are crazy-making. What’s real? What’s fake? It’s impossible to tell.
Tips: Spend time appreciating your home, giving it a loving boost. Balance your checkbook and check your financial position. Your investments are asking you to pay attention. Your power and influence awaits. Drop into your heart and your inner knowing to avoid the cacophony around you.
Week 2: May 8th – May 14th
Access patience and discipline as fortitude and energy become available for your health and wellbeing. Your life purpose comes up for question, along with rewards and recognition when you’re on your true path. Unexpected change jolts you at the beginning of the week creating shock waves throughout every area of your life. Your future is here now.
Avoid the divergent energies pulling you toward complacency and lassitude or drive and aggression. The push-pull can tear you apart until you align your energy with the cosmic ones. Your inner drive doesn’t withstand a chance against the cosmic one. Flex and flow are called for right now.
Tips: Be patient throughout the week, no matter what happens. Your mature response is rewarded versus a negative reflex. Trust that all will be revealed and is for your highest and best. Analyze, assess and adjust to get on the pathway of your true purpose. Develop a healthy routine for your overall wellbeing.
Mercury stations direct on the 14th with the post shadow period lasting until May 31st.
Week 3: May 15th – May 21st
Access the creative, artistic and romantic leanings as well as the intuitive nudges. Luxurious, supportive energies as well as indulging in a new look with style and flair. Suddenly you want to take center stage. You have the courage and bravado to make yourself known in the world. Your influence and genius shines for all to see.
Avoid power plays, greedy or lack reactions to others stepping into your lane. Competition rises as selfish and entitled tendencies seem completely normal. Forces of fight or flight distract you from your purpose. Hurt feelings and sensitivities are glossed over, leaving you wondering whether you’ve been gaslit. (The answer is yes by-the-way).
Tips: Be visible. Take the time to ponder what you want to say and say it. State your great ideas and solutions with conviction. Get creative with your artistic pursuits. Drop into romance, especially at the beginning of the week. Be social at the end of the week.
Big Star Events:
May 16th @ 1:19 pm ET Jupiter ingres Taurus
Jupiter enters Taurus showcasing how hard work and compassionate effort bring luck, fortune and ease. This is a time of humble prosperity, lasting abundance and comfort and luxury. Financial security gets a boost with this transit. Success finds meaning and power quiets to lay sustainable pillars in business and money pursuits. The Earth benefits from innovation, research and wealthy philanthropy. Be mindful to avoid over-extension as excessive risk-taking can lead to bad ends.
May 17 @ 9:10 pm ET Taurus Jupiter square Aquarius Pluto at 0°
At zero degrees, this configuration sparks new beginnings that bring lasting change as both are in the fixed signs of Taurus and Aquarius.
The first part of the cycle begins back in March 2020 when Jupiter blends with Pluto, sparking this new cycle. This is the opening of the energy.
It’s all or nothing. Personal possessions, values and luxuries compete with societal norms and conventions. This is a shake-up to the core – individuality is at cross-purposes with the collective. Saturn and Uranus laid the groundwork throughout 2021 and 2022, but that was a grind, a slow-mover, a frustrating act of ‘let’s get on with it.’ Be careful what you wish for now, it’s all or nothing.
Week 4: May 22nd – May 28th
Access the burst of energy to break out in the world, get on stage, sparkle and shine. Massive success awaits mid-week. Responsible choices, long-term focus and strategic growth are the cosmic intention this week. Surprisingly new, zany ideas come out to play. New ways of appreciating your value to open your financial flow just needs a positive response.
Avoid questioning and second guessing. Urges to taking the easy and fastest route abound. Leaping without any clear direction and saying yes to the first thing that presents itself is likely to bring you short-term gains, but long-term losses.
Tips: Move into your intuition to affirm the new, even when it seems too far out there. Be wary of things that sound too good to be true with promises of, “Simple, easy, 1-2-3”. Ask questions, prod and prompt. Assess the answers you’re given. Do they seem genuine? Does the person or company have your best interest at heart? Take care to act within your own tendencies as excessive risk-taking isn’t the answer. Be responsible and go with the flow, without losing your footing.
MOON MAGIC
The Moon phases help manifest things you want, celebrate things you have and get rid of things you no longer want. Here are the phases and what you should do:
The New Moon is for setting your strategy.
From the New to Full Moon, it’s the time to manifest, appreciate and create.
The Full Moon is for taking stock in gratitude and refinement.
From the Full to New Moon, it’s the time to celebrate, release and merge.
Full Moon: Is this mine or yours?
Details: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon Sun in Taurus/Moon in Scorpio 15° at 1:36 pm ET
From the annual forecast:
WHAT’S MINE & WHAT’S YOURS?
A penumbral eclipse occurs when the Earth’s shadow isn’t fully covering the Moon’s reflection of the Sun. It’s a darker, softer ecliptic energy.
The Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio opposes what my life means to me by myself and what my life means to me with you in it. Balancing between the two brings satisfaction and pleasure into relationships. When out of balance, either I’m satisfied or you are, but not both. Thankfully, Venus and Jupiter provide a positive blast of thought provoking love energy during this lunar eclipse.
Positively, sharing and coming together is the antidote to the imbalance. Negatively, being selfish, accusatory and dramatic relieves the tension, but doesn’t create the lasting change required to bring real relief.
This has been going on since November 2021 and will come to its natural conclusion during the next eclipse in October.
New Moon: Power of Now
Details: May 19 New Moon in Taurus 28° at 11:55 am ET
This super cuspy New Moon in Taurus also includes a stellium with Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus and the North Node here too. These are powerful forces supporting your entry into the new way of living and leading. Pluto’s pressure with Mars and Jupiter gives you all of the tenacity, energy and drive to make things happen to bring your future into the present. What are you willing to do? How are you willing to say YES to yourself? Now is the time.
MAGICAL TOOLS
The oracle cards bring insight into what’s coming for the month. They give your mind something to focus on and remember as you go through the days and weeks. You can ponder the card or go into the guidance in the book when you need more than mental reminders.
The power of animal and crystal energy are easy to employ to help you create the success and satisfaction you desire. Spirit animals are always willing to assist. Simply call on the animal to bring it into focus and ponder its meaning.
Crystals: Grab the crystal and put it on your desk, purse or kitchen table. You want to align with your success and this month’s stone helps you do that.
Flower essences: Put 3 drops into water 3 times a day and feel the gentle support for your body and emotions.
Oracle card: #8 The Path
Queen of the Moon oracle cards, Stacey Demarco, and her message is “The way is open for you; the path is illuminated… and now is the time to walk upon it.” You see it, don’t you? Or you at least feel it… the path… or the fact that you are not on it. When we are on our path…
– we feel comfortable, at ease, in the flow of all that is unfolding.
– it can feel as if we are walking through molasses or a fog, unable to even imagine where we will end up.
When we accept where we are, acknowledge what needs to change to grow and begin to love ourselves more completely, the direction of our lives begins to change…. our desires become more aligned with the needs, wants and values of our true selves.” Allow the magical flow to open the pathway before you.
The soul is set free from the trappings of the human condition when sufficient work is done toward true life purpose. The calling and mission are revealed through the Akashic Records with the help of this crystal. This stone is known as the Candle Quartz, due to its revealing or shedding light amidst confusion or lack of direction. This crystal supports healing of Mother Earth through the alignment of her inhabitants.
Seek respite in the Celestial Quartz to help you release old patterns and wounding to bring the cellular body into vitality and vibrancy.
Moving from savior mentality to the bearer of light conserves energy, allows for deeper understanding and opens self-acceptance. Instead of outwardly focusing on getting people on board with your ideals and beliefs, you focus inwardly gaining poise and objectivity. Nervous, impulsive and excessive behavior dissolves into mature authority. You illume from within to inspire and influence. Your impact grows along with your relaxed wisdom.
Spirit Animal: Squirrel
Deal with all of the changes upon you by lightening up and handling each and every thing as it comes up. No procrastinating – the time is now. Focus on your own pathway, without distraction or shiny-object syndrome as this is about you and no one else. This isn’t a race or competition. Your soul is calling you to be fleet of foot without excessive baggage. Are you ready to answer its call?
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Following my success-making Do You Know, Like and Trust Yourself ™ methodology, tap into the energies of your Intuitive Success Type for the best results this month.
Wise Strategist – You love the slower pace and the call to focus on what’s before you. You can step through your to-do list in a linear fashion. Oh, sweet heaven – finally! Keeping an eye on the long-term without distraction helps you stay on the pathway of your true purpose. Having an open heart and mind isn’t difficult for you right now. Take advantage. Develop a routine to connect your mind and your heart – Mercury helps you do this in his retrograde state. Also, remind yourself to ignore the noise and chaos flowing around you. It’s not yours. Make that your mantra.
Intuitive Visionary – Dealing with the tension of your desire to claim your current brilliance and genius with the abundance of new ideas and solutions is crazy-making. The allure to capture and make progress on the old, the now and the new gets to be too much. Your mind swims with possibility, yet no one is ready or available to hear you until the end of the month. Ugh. You have so much to say and want to say it now. However, take my advice and wait. It’ll be worth it for two reasons. #1 – you’ll weave your ideas and solutions for even more brilliance and #2, people will be able to relate to your ideas. If don’t wait, you burn through your energy without gaining any ground. When the time comes toward the end of the month, you’ll have the energy to beguile and inspire.
Collaborative Explorer – You can see and feel the hidden agendas and power plays, but they don’t become evident until mid-month. It’s as if there are two months for you, split exactly in the middle. During the first ½ of the month, gather your ideas and energies without casual engagement with lots of people. Keep it small, targeted and deep. Revisit those you’ve reached out to in the past. Make a more solid connection with them. There’s hidden treasure here. In the 2nd ½ of the month, people sense what you’ve known all along. They’re ready to hear from you now. Amplify your engagement. Better yet, make plans at the beginning of the month to connect with small groups of people or teams to talk (or present) to them at the end of the month.
Ruling Warrior – Your impatience has reached its highest point. You have no tolerance for waiting another moment. It’s been too long as it is. You rail against the meandering energies without forward movement. You don’t have the time or inclination to take it slow. So, no. You rebel and end up getting nowhere. It’s best you take this opportunity to streamline and optimize. Better yet, plan a team or client retreat. You can get everyone on board with your vision when you plan how you’re going to communicate and engage them. Your growth explodes when you take the time to solidify your foundation. Expansion without solid footing doesn’t last. The roller coaster you abhor continues. It’s best to use the energetic forces when they’re available. May is your time for strategy and planning, not sales and growth.
Creative Superstar – There is so much surprise and delight with the creative energies, available solutions and unexpected connections. The zany and sassy energies lift you up and give you the boost you’ve been desiring for too long. Get clear on your definition, stay in your lane and keep your eye on the prize. Your value deepens when you gather yourself this month. Express gratitude and appreciation with an open heart. Creating solid footing this month makes June into a bonanza of value for you. You can still have fun by getting romantic and social. Indulge in a few well-thought extravagances. You deserve them.
Loving Alchemist – You want it and you want it now. Enough already. The swirling and back-and-forth forces have stripped away your patience. You think you want to shine brightly and brilliantly, yet have you focused on yourself and your offerings? Are you well-positioned to make a burst onto the scene or have you been swept up in other’s dramas? Pluto retrograde hits you hard and your heart knows your best bet is to drop into your heart’s wisdom to find the treasure offered there. But, your mind beckons, ‘It’s been so long, surely now’s the time.” No, it’s not. Any and all outward effort this month backfires. Gather your value and wrap it around you. June is your time.
BOTTOM LINE
May is complicated with a push-and-pull of energies driving your mind crazy and your will wild. Patience is called for, but it’s been the mantra for too long now. You’ve worked so hard and so diligently, where are the rewards? For those who’ve said the insane HELL YES, your time has come. You will see gains this month with concerted focus and openly expressed appreciation for all of your growth to date. For those who’ve played it safe and held on to the comfortable and familiar – you’ll keep getting pushed until you say yes to yourself. Why are you waiting? The star force only grows in pressure from this point forward.
Thank you for reading & sharing with family and friends.
The stars either work with you or against you and it all depends on whether you know what their up to or not. This monthly forecast sets up you to take advantage of these powerful forces. Using the stars strategically helps you clear the pathway to your success and achieve your personal, professional and financial triumph.
April 2023 Summary
Theme: Blind Leap into the New
Sun signs – Aries & Taurus
Simple truths come from the chaos. The restrictions continue and the world comes together and moves apart, simultaneously. The choice is here and blind faith is the answer. It will all work out – of this, I am sure. Dial into the frequency that soothes and helps you see the light. Attune to your own truth. Your belief system is put to the test. Yet, it holds. Stay steady. Breathe. Take tentative steps into the new ways of living and leading. Leadership is required. Let’s be ready.
STAR DANCE
Big Star Events: (in chronological order)
April – All planets direct until the 21st
April 17th – Venus out of bounds
April 20th – Ring of Fire eclipse & Sun square Pluto
April 21st – Mercury retrograde
Week 1: April 3 – 9
Access the confident, deliberate and solution-oriented influences. Empathy, compassion and love win the day. Weather, food supplies and transportation issues take center stage. Hope for healing the climate, technological remedies and scientific innovations shine light for the future. Chances open to be part of the way forward.
Avoid the fear, doubt and confusion that breakdowns and limits create. The news continues to be explosive and scary. Problems appear to stack up without relief, especially about social and environmental justice. Powerful people take advantage of fixed opinions to sway the masses toward their point of view.
Tips: Pay attention to the discoveries coming into the open. Remain detached and flexible. Think about what’s worked for you in the past and stay the course. Patience isn’t easy to come by, so remind yourself of your long-term goals. Small celebrations bring levity and relief.
Week 2: April 10 – 16
Access the benefits of committed and loving relationship. Deep feelings and intense emotions can strengthen your connections. Fortune favors the bold and it’s courageous to be dedicated to your convictions, even when they seem to take a beating. Your power grows by steadily racking up your accomplishments.
Avoid expending your energy on things that aren’t yours or distracting yourself with overindulgence. Money woes, physical obstacles and relationship doubts continue to build. Feelings of isolation and disconnection push you to seek support in inopportune and rash ways.
Tips: Remember the adage, “Being happy is more important than being right”. Review what’s truly important for you and trim down the rest. Read over your values every day to deepen your commitment to what’s true for you.
Week 3: April 17 – 23
On April 20th, Happy birthday Taurus, Hello Ring of Fire eclipse and confrontation between the Sun and Pluto.
Access flirty, sassy playfulness with Venus in Gemini and out of bounds. She’s eclectic and unusual in her tastes. The fun, lightheartedness paves the way for ease and simple truths. Simplicity and creature comforts are desired. Wealth and power come to those who exhibit patience and commitment.
Avoid overindulgence and over-spending recklessness. Tensions and confrontations make it nearly impossible to find your footing. Power plays and competitive grabs trigger you and threaten your peace of mind. Typical processes and systems break and fall apart.
Tips: Stand in your authority and keep your eyes facing forward. Yet, notice what’s happening around you with an open heart. Ask yourself what you’re willing to do and not willing to do in world events. Ask how can this be provocative versus provoking. Remember you get to choose how you respond.
Big Star Event: Mercury Retrograde in Taurus
Mercury Rx: April – May 2023: Connect to Your Future
Details: April 21 – May 14 in Taurus 15°- 5° (during an ecliptic cycle)
Through the fog of another ecliptic cycle, Mercury expects easy answers to difficult questions while churning everything in your path – people, technologies and schedules. You can’t find your way through the fog and suddenly, the floor seems to be shaking beneath your feet. The explosive square between the Sun and Pluto isn’t helping either. Shock waves reverberate through your core. Mercury giggles and flashes mirrored reflections from everyone around you. He’s helped by Venus and Mars being out of bounds, adding more pressure to your love life by complicating how you show up for yourself and others. Ugh.
As for Mercury, what’s his deal? Mercury wants you to believe – without any logical reason to do so. A helpful mantra during this time is “I believe”. Say it over and over again until you actually do. 😘
Note: For Taurus signs and those with packed 2nd houses, add the shadow periods for this retrograde cycle. Add the shadow period beginning on April 7th and until May 31st. For Virgos and Capricorns, your world is shaken too, however, you have more certainty, so lean into it. For the fixed signs of Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, use your powers of self-persuasion, with an eye on the future, for the answers you seek.
Access the abundant, brilliant new ideas with the will to implement them. Creative solutions for the Earth and her resources abound. Imaginative pursuits and intuitive leanings expand and become interesting to the mainstream. Dissolution of old patterns. Unfair fix-it solutions get attention. Willingness to take action based on these insights.
Avoid feelings of righteous, judgement and smugness. Responding to unjust and out of balance happenings isn’t productive. Things come to surface and get buried just as quickly. The doing and undoing causes confusion and the desire to react swiftly.
Tips: Do things that bring you comfort and help you feel stable and secure. Connect to nature by spending time outdoors. Simplify your life. Expend excess energy through physical activity. Cook your favorite foods, garden and entertain family and close friends.
MOON MAGIC
The Moon phases help manifest things you want, celebrate things you have and get rid of things you no longer want. Here are the phases and what you should do:
The New Moon is for setting your strategy.
From the New to Full Moon, it’s the time to manifest, appreciate and create.
The Full Moon is for taking stock in gratitude and refinement.
From the Full to New Moon, it’s the time to celebrate, release and merge.
Full Moon: Awaken to the Future
Details: April 6th Sun in Aries & Moon in Libra 16° @12:37 am ET
Today is a glimpse into the nodal shifts in July and the fiery energies of 2025. It’s possible to either create the world you desire or destroy it. Full acceptance of the heart and soul as part of everyday existence is the key to unlocking the New Earth for the masses. Will they accept? Or will they revolt? With chaos, comes creation.
New Moon: Window into the New
Details: April 20th Sun & Moon in Aries 29° @ 12:15 am ET
The middle is missing, it’s been hollowed out. The Moon steps in to give power to the middle, literally and figuratively. During this blind leap of faith moment, the edges have all of the energy due to their vibrancy and intensity. It’s alluring to become part of a faction. However, it’s just that – a faction. Where’s the middle? Does the middle show up or does it hide?
Big Star Event: The Ring of Fire Eclipse
Within 2 minutes of the New Moon, the annular effects of the eclipse create a ring of fire as the Moon covers the Sun’s center to peak around the edges as she gets between the Earth and the Sun.
In the last breath of Aries, the solar eclipse begins to bring a fiery, awakened response to what’s happening around you. This spark ignites and ripples for 6 months until the next eclipse.
The Moon’s energy combines with the Sun’s, making you live and breathe Aries forces of courage, independence and authenticity. Who are you and how do you want to live are questions that arise once again. It’s time for taking action, making changes and starting something new.
Pluto’s influence suggests challenges and overcoming fears as you wrangle with how to begin something new, while Jupiter urges you to take calculated risks instead of reacting impulsively.
MAGICAL TOOLS
The oracle cards bring insight into what’s coming for the month. They give your mind something to focus on and remember as you go through the days and weeks. You can ponder the card or go into the guidance in the book when you need more than mental reminders.
The power of animal and crystal energy are easy to employ to help you create the success and satisfaction you desire. Spirit animals are always willing to assist. Simply call on the animal to bring it into focus and ponder its meaning.
For crystals, grab the crystal and put it on your desk, purse or kitchen table. You want to align with your success and this month’s stone helps you do that.
For flower essences, put 3 drops into water 3 times a day and feel the gentle support for your body and emotions.
What you crave, craves you. It’s time. Your offerings are needed in the world. Come out and put yourself forward. It’s time to inform, invite and offer. The message of the card is: “Selling is a part of being a business owner. This card wants you to make those calls, invite those prospects and extend those offers.”
Quick tip: Print out your client roster and lead tracking sheets. Close your eyes and point your finger on a name. Call the person whose name you chose. There’s a reason that name was selected – make it count.
Seek respite in the stone of the month: Fire Agate
Agate is a grounding stone with a powerful multi-level cleansing effect. It balances yin and yang, soothes and helps with self-acceptance and speaking the truth. It heals anger and facilitates spiritual growth. Fire agate promotes inner security and is antidote to emotional vulnerability. It’s an all-around healing stone as its grounding, mellowing and protecting.
Change. This essence helps us deal with changing circumstances without losing balance. It provides protection from change and unwanted influences. It heralds new beginnings, fresh starts and futures all of which are components of our work in the world and beyond.
Spirit Animal: Skunk
Skunk symbolizes reputation and respect. You’re confident, charismatic, playful and nonchalant. You exude calm, courageous and love to pursue information yourself, rather than to rely on others.
Call on skunk when you need to defend yourself, want to regain your self-respect and self-esteem or want to be more playful.
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INTUITIVE TYPE FORECASTS
Following our success-making Do You Know, Like and Trust Yourself ™ methodology, tap into the energies of your Intuitive Success Type for the best results this month.
Wise Strategist – Get ahead by stepping into the third week’s energy. Let Mercury Retrograde move you to the top. You love the review, refine, redefine, reassess requirements of this energy. All other types don’t. Use this time to your advantage. Get to the bottom of what really matters. Prioritize your activities. Choose those that utilize your strengths to give you the best results.
Intuitive Visionary – Gathering the momentum around your key offerings propels you to the next level. Focus on the bottom line, not your top revenue figures. Get back to what works for you and disregard everything that’s superfluous. Fine tune every aspect of your business. The success is in the details. Your concentrated effort now pays off for years to come.
Collaborative Explorer – Your rebellious side comes to life this month. Allow the fiery tones to boost your exploration of your definition of love, wealth and success. Your competitive side has been slumbering for so long, you’ve forgotten how to access it. Healthy parameters to achieve your goals and get the results you desire need to be created. Spend the time to do so this month. It pays off during the next eclipse in October.
Ruling Warrior – You adore the fiery energies, but are impatient with the lack of results as things appear to come together and then fritter away. It’s best to remember what’s meant for you remains and what’s not, disappears. Appreciate the helpful elements of this energy – you won’t waste time. Saving time supports your efforts to optimize and streamline to improve your bottom line.
Creative Superstar – Alternating between feelings of being wronged and feeling entitled spins you into a frenzy. The urge to overindulge pushes at you daily. There are too many wishes and desires that aren’t being met. Your relationships intensify to the point of requiring commitment from you before you’re ready. Dive deeply into your core to find the answers. You know what’s right for you.
Loving Alchemist – Close loving and family relationships get added energy this month, yet it’s unclear what each require from you. Each asks something of you on a daily basis. You get off track due to other’s needs. It’s important not to forget yourself. Now’s the time to figure out what you want. Your desires for success and wealth matter too. Let the eclipse be a time to refine your intentions.
BOTTOM LINE
This year is a series of gates that open for you to walk into the new energy that combines ancient wisdom with innovative methods. The feminine aspects of intuition and cyclic cosmic influence weave with the masculine forces of logic, reason and expansion. The Ring of Fire eclipse hearkens for the resonance of the future. Are you listening?
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The stars either work with you or against you and it all depends on whether you know what their up to or not. This monthly forecast sets you up to take advantage of these powerful forces. Using the stars strategically helps you remove the blocks to your success and achieve your personal, professional and financial triumph.
March 2023 Summary
Theme: Edge of the World
Sun signs: Pisces & Aries
There’s a crisis of understanding as threats to your stability and security ignite the greatest fears you have. Staying close to what’s familiar and comforting support you as the world swirls, seemingly into chaos. Remember, you are infinite and filled with the universe. Your potential and your future await. Give over to love, as it’s the only thing that’s real. Power punches peak at the end of the month. Be mindful of what’s actually true for you at this time.
There are 2 MAJOR star events in March involving Saturn (Hard Choices) and Pluto (Transformational Hell) as each are moving from one zodiac sign to the next. For Saturn, this happens every 2 ½ years, so his cycle moves through the zodiac every 30 years. For Pluto, this planetary cycle is 248 years and due to its elliptical pattern, spends between 10 – 25 years in each sign. Pluto also creates generational change in the world.
This is, without a doubt, a BIG deal.
STAR DANCE
Big Star Events: (in chronological order)
March – all planets direct
March 7th – Saturn enters Pisces @ 0°
March 12th – Aries Jupiter conjunct Chiron @ 14°
March 20th – Equinox: Sun enters Aries @ 0°
March 23rd – Pluto enters Aquarius @ 0°
Week 1: February 27th – March 5th
Access fortune, luck and success through connections for business and love. Diligence, details and serious discussions create excellent opportunities. Solutions, ideas and strategies present themselves. Ask and you shall receive.
Avoid stepping back and riding the ease of the energy. Feelings and thinking about taking time off, sleeping late or calling in sick aren’t in your best interests this week.
Tips: Say ‘YES’ this week. Put the time in, work late and push yourself to make those calls, schedule those appointments and do the outreach.
Big Star Event:The Right Questions
Details: Saturn enters Pisces on March 7th @ 8:33 am ET
What is real and what is fake? It’s almost impossible to tell and will remain this way for another 3 years. Saturn and Neptune are in concert with each other as they both reside in Pisces from 2023 through 2025. Then, they co-join again in 2026. This time in Aries – a reckoning for resolution like no other.
Right now? There are no answers, only questions. And for the next 3 years, asking the right questions is critical.
Catch the video on YouTube as Mariah and I explain everything you need to know about the next 3 years. We also have star peeks. Everyone goes crazy for them.
Week 2: March 6th – 12th
The first BIG star event of the year happens on March 7th as Saturn enters Pisces within the hour of the Full Moon in Virgo to open the gateway to the wholeness of you.
Access the fresh point of view and exciting news pushing you toward healing your relationships in business and love. When you do, you have the ability be unwavering in your commit to your full potential. There’s good news when you open to all aspects of who are you and expand your willingness to remember your internal wisdom.
Avoid playing it safe and going into protection mode as your creature comforts are pushed to the edge. Be wary of defending your current position and letting your prior actions dictate your future moves. Good fortune favors the bold.
Tips: Be brave. Welcome the powerful potential of this time. Do the unexpected.
Week 3: March 13th – 19th
Without the Moon, there are 14 star aspects this week. This is a FULL week!
Access information coming to the surface that sheds light and awakens leadership tendencies. Bold ideas and out-of-the-blue innovations become known. Serious connections abound in your personal and business lives. Creativity and compassion serve to open feelings about what’s happening around you.
Avoid busyness, impatience, aggressive thoughts and distorted reactions. Jealousy, hidden agendas and elbows thrown to jockey for attention are everywhere. Short-tempers and messy feelings add confusion and wrong moves in business and at home.
Tips: Drop into your intuition or use your instincts. Do research and study diligently this week. In business, hire an expert and let them support you in negotiations and deal-making.
Equinox: Cliff Diving
Details: March 20 @ 5:24 pm ET Sun 0° Aries
Leadership is awakened. Which type of leadership is the question. Tons of charm and magnetism enable influence and persuasion for your point of view. This can be positive for the greater good or abused by narcissistic desires. Entitlement and nepotism are up for review. Who’s telling the truth and who’s lying?
Dancing on the edge works when the core is deep and strong. Otherwise, the edge may pull you too far.
Big Star Event:The New World
Details: Pluto enters Aquarius on March 23rd @ 8:12 am ET
Pluto in Aquarius creates generational change. This planet stirs up the revolutionary tendencies of Aquarius as a stellium resides in Aries at the time of the planetary transition into a new sign. Freedom, individual rights and quest for the future awakens NOW.
By the way, Pluto is the God of Hell.
Pluto has no patience. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius, 1778 – 1798, it sparked the American and French revolutions. For everything you need to know for the next 20 years, join our Star Pass program.
Week 4: March 20th – 26th
Integrity and decency are challenged this week.
Access the powerful forces to do the right thing. There’s an ignition or flash point awakening thoughts, feelings and actions. Your value, status and physical comforts are under the magnifying glass. Solutions to complex problems and healing energies are available when you say YES.
Avoid plunging into the darkness to protect yourself. Closing off, putting up barriers and taking a defensive posture seems like the answer. As does, following those who say, “I have the all of the answers. It’s as simple as 1-2-3,” or “I’ll save you. I’m the only one who can help you.” Neither benefit you.
Tips: Take a deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. In fact, take 10 breaths. Do this every day.
Week 5: March 27th – April 2nd
Access the willingness to be bold and original. Activation and ignition spark the pursuit of innovations. New ideas and suggestions position you for new heights and opportunities for success.
Avoid frivolous and distracting purchases. Self-soothing escapism and shiny objects. Impulsive and explosive moves. Breaking up and away just for the sake of breaking up and away.
Tips: Fill yourself with self-care routines and satisfying actions. Then and only then, dance on the edges. Get creative to pursue brave and new ideas.
MOON MAGIC
The Moon phases help manifest things you want, celebrate things you have and get rid of things you no longer want. Here are the phases and what you should do:
The New Moon is for setting your strategy.
From the New to Full Moon, it’s the time to manifest, appreciate and create.
The Full Moon is for taking stock in gratitude and refinement.
From the Full to New Moon, it’s the time to celebrate, release and merge.
Full Moon: Crisis of Understanding or Embodiment of Full Potential?
Details: March 7th@ 7:42 am ET Full Moon Sun in Pisces & Moon in Virgo at 16°
Full Moons are opposing forces making both available when you act from the core and destabilizing when you choose one over the other. The polarizing actions over the last few decades come to a head later in the month, but are felt keenly now.
The softness of Pisces meets the hardness of Saturn and that of Virgo, when she’s threatened. Gun violence, severe weather and political positioning (autocracy versus democracy) are ignited by the third week of the month.
Will the world respond and take long-lasting steps for the wellness of its citizenry or will it choose ‘simpler, easier and shinier’ actions?
New Moon: Point of Origin
Details: March 21st @ 1:26 pm ET Sun & Moon at 0° Aries
The stellium in Aries with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Chiron in this sign of spark, ignition, and fire. This is a point of origin, a new beginning, an awakening. Finding the structural components that are necessary to sustain, support and provide for the world is possible. How will the world respond?
Every month, the New Moon signals a new beginning and this month is especially true with the Sun and Moon at zero-degrees. This is a flash point of energetic force. Typically, it’s like lighting a match, but this month, it’s like lighting a powder keg.
MAGICAL TOOLS
The oracle cards bring insight into what’s coming for the month. They give your mind something to focus on and remember as you go through the days and weeks. You can ponder the card or go into the guidance in the book when you need more than mental reminders.
The power of animal and crystal energy are easy to employ to help you create the success and satisfaction you desire. Spirit animals are always willing to assist. Simply call on the animal at this time, to bring it into focus and ponder its meaning.
For crystals, grab the crystal and put it on your desk, purse or kitchen table. You want to align with your success and this month’s stone helps you do that.
For flower essences, put 3 drops into water 3 times a day and feel the gentle support for your body and emotions.
The essence of this card is perfect for March – Expand the trust you have for your business. It’s absolutely perfect when you’re standing on the edge, trying not to look down. I also love the words to ponder: Develop. Elevate. Enrich. I can taste these words and want to savor them. I’m going to wrap these energies around me, especially the 3rd week this month.
This oracle card is particularly helpful for Collaborative Explorers and Creative Superstars.
Its’ true that emerald is a stone of love, as I’ve mentioned in previous monthly stone segments, however, I want to emphasize a few other qualities.
Emerald is a stone of awareness as it allows reason and wisdom to enter into your consciousness to accept the unknown. It promotes an ability to be discerning and a deeper inner knowing. It improves all of your bodies, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, bringing harmony in all areas of your life.
This crystal enhances intuition, clear vision and clairvoyance to help you communicate with the Divine. And, emerald is indeed, a love stone activating your heart chakra, increasing joy and harmonizing relationships.
Call on emerald this month – often. Carry it with you and/or put it on your kitchen table or in your family room. Use it whenever you feel the need throughout this month.
I have a bowl filled with emerald, lapis and sunstone. As this was the stone of the month in June 2020, I’ve moved this bowl into the center of my kitchen table. It’s been there ever since. (Not ironically, the Tarot card that month was The Chariot – 2023’s card). The universe is like a hammer to the head in its messaging.
Emerald is excellent for Every Intuitive Success Type. However, Wise Strategists and Ruling Warriors, in particular, benefit the most from this crystal.
Move from isolation to connection by taking water violet throughout the month of March. Specialness, elitism, over-rationalization of being separate or feeling above the rest is resolved with this flower essence. There’s nothing special about anyone, every person is unique, brilliant and filled with potential.
Furthermore, people benefiting from water violet control their emotions and hold themselves back with stoicism and aloofness. They
– enter the world putting up walls and defending themselves against intimacy and connections.
– tell themselves, “I need to put up boundaries because people take advantage,” or “Everyone is too much – too loud, too arrogant, too ignorant.”
– feel superior, when actually it’s their lack of confidence in being able to relate and their fear of intimacy that holds them back from fully experiencing life.
Loving Alchemists take note of this flower essence.
Spirit Animal: Swan
The swan is intuitive with instincts to know what lies ahead. When this spirit animal shows up, it’s nudging you to accept your inner knowing and to trust it. Swans are excellent at seeing the truth and looking beneath the surface. When something presents itself, swan wants you to determine what it means for you and reminds you it may mean nothing.
Swans are loyal in relationships and commit to their partners for the long term. They are graceful and poised, no matter the circumstances happening around them. The swan loves going to the depths to avoid the chaos at the surface. Most importantly, call on swan when things become overwhelming.
The swan supports Intuitive Visionaries for grounding their brilliance and deepening their power.
SHOPPING
Get Calm & Certainty:
There are 2 ways we help you gain calm and certainty during these chaotic times.
Following our success-making Do You Know, Like and Trust Yourself ™ methodology, tap into the energies of your Intuitive Success Type for the best results this month.
Wise Strategist – This month is your kryptonite. There’s nothing of redeeming quality to these energies for your need to have predictable, clear and detailed guidance. March is anything but, as it swirls forth, picking up additional energies as each week passes. Water burns into fire on the Equinox, yet feels as if it’s burning a hole in your heart and mind. Stand in your core, remind yourself of your strengths and focus on the long-term. This month will pass and you’ll be standing in your power.
Intuitive Visionary – Captain chaos! You get swept up with all of the activity at every level. You love the distractions and chaos-creating energies as ideas are plucked, seemingly, from the sky. The pure potential that’s available this month belongs to you. Stick to your path. Put your head down and act in your own best interests. You’re the only type who can take complete advantage of everything happening. You can embody your full potential by grounding it into your being.
Collaborative Explorer – This month is everything you don’t like. All of the hidden agendas and feelings coming to the surface widens chasms and urges argumentative behavior. All of the power plays and manipulations intensifies tensions and increases chaos. Diving beneath the surface by focusing on yourself, your goals and your needs is the antidote. Acting only on the things directly in front of you eases your mind and soothes your nervous system.
Ruling Warrior – The emotional side of the energies push you to soften and dissolve into vulnerability. This, quite frankly, is one of your worst fears. You get defensive and protective of your position of authority. But, authenticity is the new professionalism, so vulnerability opens you to engage with others and deepens your connections. The fiery forces after the Equinox aligns with your energy. Be careful not to overdo.
Creative Superstar – You adore the Piscean creative, intuitive vibes the first 3 weeks, but loathe the fiery powerful forces after the Equinox. Diving deeply beneath the surface works when it’s balanced with taking physical steps to be active in daily life. Use the fiery influences to prompt you to show up with your audiences. You can be the shining star among the chaos.
Loving Alchemist – Providing for loved ones is your favorite thing to do and this month, every one of them needs your love and support. You thrive with all of these family needs, however, push yourself to reach beyond your four walls into the outside world. Your type can deal with the edginess, so reach into your vast reserves and stand in unwavering power. Be a beacon for all to see.
BOTTOM LINE
March 2023 will go down in the history books. The good news? You’re part of history. The bad news? It’s going to feel like you’re on the edge of the world.
NOTE: I want to be wrong about what I’m seeing for this month. I wanted to be wrong with CO🦠😷D in 2020, the insurrection in 2021 and the crazy weather events of 2022. I hope the 3rd week of this month awakens the New Earth for solving the difficult problems we’re facing. Also, I hope it doesn’t ignite powerful and violent forces.
Thank you for reading & sharing with family and friends.
This star story focuses on leadership, discipline and hard choices (Saturn), imagination, emotion and transcendence (Pisces) and health, food and work (Virgo) to prepare you for the morning of March 7th when Saturn enters Pisces within the hour of the Virgo Full Moon.
With these huge planetary forces, the influences come over days and weeks, so are being felt now. However, the exact dates are often momentous. Certainly, as there’s no turning back once the configuration is complete.
First, Saturn
Saturn’s ultimate quest is integrity.
Saturn is a tough teacher bringing you to your highest achievement and greatest works.
Saturn is the task master, traffic cop and illustrious engineer of structure and logic. He adores doing the right thing and is the captain of integrity. He moves slowly, grinding you down until you’ve become a sharpened tool for your own good. Dealing successfully with him, requires patience and virtuous intention while wrangling with him fuels frustration and often tears.
Believe me, it’s better to deal with Saturn than tangle with him. If you tangle with Saturn, he’ll win and you’ll lose, while working with him helps you both win.
Words associated with Saturn are: responsibility, authority, leadership, maturity, form, structure, tolerance, effort, role model, dignity, self-respect, integrity, tradition and stoic, aloof, cold.
Next, Pisces
Pisces quest is spirituality.
Pisces is the last of the zodiac signs and concludes the path through the other 11 signs. You come back into wholeness with Pisces. Your soul breathes, your heart sings and your body rests.
Pisces is the dissolution of structure, boundaries and order. Pisces is soft, expansive and ethereal, allowing you to melt into a hazy, dreamy state. You can get lost in the vagueness, lulling yourself into a wakeful sleep. Think scrolling endlessly on social media, binging on Netflix or imbibing too much. Pisces says, “Everything’s fine. There’s nothing to do. Don’t worry about it.”
Saturn’s been on steroids since the end of 2017, so going with the flow after the last 6 years feels heavenly. Easing into the tender side of life softens the edges and the relief is intoxicating. Take respite while pursuing the intuitive, creative aspects of life.
Words associated with Pisces are: receptive, imaginative, empathetic, fluid, sensitive, psychic, gentle, soulful, artistic, and overwhelmed, deceptive, escapist.
Finally, the Full Moon
Virgo’s aim is to embody the highest potential.
Virgo is tidy, service-oriented and biddable. Virgo is aware of what’s going on in nearly every aspect of life. She sees how things are and knows how they should be. She strives to fill in those gaps to make everything perfect. Virgo loves to help others, while sometimes overlooking herself. She’s also a hard taskmaster. She pursues to the point of exhaustion, so cautions herself by making health a priority. Discernment is a super power of Virgo when she’s connected, otherwise she’s anxious and overcritical.
Words associated with Virgo are: orderly, organized, detailed, humble, analytical, helpful, hard-working, skillful, healthy and nagging, critical, perfectionist.
The Combination
Saturn urges you to do the things you don’t want to do, so you finish your work before you relax, eat your vegetables and not just sugary treats. You roll up your sleeves and tackle your to-do list, instead of scrolling mindlessly on your phone for hours. Pisces is the opposite. Pisces beckons you to let it all go and be swept away with your idle musings.
The influence of Pisces on Saturn either heightens creativity, blends the sweetness of life with its success and gives you ease while pursuing your dreams. Or, this combination serves to deceive you to bask in false glory, join others on an elusive journey or follow those who persuade with lies and deception.
Virgo’s participation, while short-lived, flavors the energies at the outset. Work, health and service are involved in the Saturn-Pisces 2 ½ year odyssey.
Your Star Chart
What does all of this mean for you?
The stars in the sky interact with each other during their spins and cycles, yet they also interact with you through your natal or birth chart. Your birth chart is a picture of the stars the minute you were born, representing the life you long to live. Your birth stars depict your signatures of love, money and success and your expressions of bravery, mastery and destiny.
As Saturn enters Pisces, the effects are worldwide, affecting everyone on the planet. Yet everyone feels this star configuration differently, depending on where Pisces is on your chart.
Phrases associated with your Star Chart are: map of potential, what you might become, your chosen life, pathway to you, process for your growth.
Steps for You
This is the purpose of this entire guide. First, you’ll want to get your natal or birth chart. If you don’t have one, you need your date, time and place of birth. The astro.com site will run your chart for free. Once you do, you’ll get a circle with a bunch of hieroglyphics. No worries, this article explains it all.
Once you input your information and click continue, you’ll have your natal chart. Click on the blue transits button to get the stars in the sky.
Step #3: Find Saturn & Your House Number
You’ll get a picture with green symbols outside of the circle. These are the stars in the sky called transits.
On your star chart, look for the green ♄ Saturn, which is outside the circle. It should be near ♓ Pisces. Saturn doesn’t enter Pisces until March 7th, so depending upon when you’re reading this, the ♄ will be near Pisces.
Once you find the ♄, move into the center of the chart until you get a house number.
Note the number.
In the example above, the house number is 5. Here’s another example below, where the house number is 9.
Saturn in the Houses
Look at your own chart. Note the house number. Once you have your house number, refer to the Saturn in Pisces table below. Find the number and read the description.
The planet is the energy, the sign is the flavoring and the house is the behavior or action in your life. The higher expression is goal to fulfill your highest potential and the lower one is what you sink into during times of stress.
I’ve interpreted everything for you. 😉
House
Saturn in Pisces
1
Higher expression: Your leadership style is called into question. Compassion, sensitivity and idealism are necessary to engage your team and followers. Your style is softer and more empathic. Your success depends on creativity and intuition for the next few years. Get real with what’s true for you. Being authentic is the key to getting what you want.
Lower expression: You feel pressed upon by others and absorb the negative vibes around you. You lose yourself and fall prey to moodiness, displeasure, and perhaps victimhood. Stand in your own gifts and be certain of your life purpose. If you can’t do this on your own, hire someone as a guide or mentor.
2
Higher expression: The way you create resources is muted and your value is blurred. Focus on your heart to create confidence and connections based on your inner wisdom and less on outside influences. This is tricky as Pisces lures you into thinking everything is going great when it may not be. Pay attention to your instincts and let your internal compass guide you. This time can be empowering if you let it.
Lower expression: Limits to resources make you optimize your connections and rank your priorities. Be wary of too-good-to-be-true money schemes. Your ability to make money is hindered by doubt, confusion and a lack of motivation. Take actions steps toward doing something to bring money to you.
3
Higher expression: Saturn asks you to get really clear on how you communicate, teach and inspire others. Saturn wants you to develop a routine to connect to your higher self and use its guidance to find your true voice. Take a healing workshop and think about folding it into how you connect with others. Now is the time to roll up your sleeves and present yourself to the world.
Lower expression: Lack of focus, inattention to details and loss of scheduled appointments makes you scattered and frazzled. Your memory may be lacking too. This is frustrating and makes you impatient. Take more detailed notes, double-check your appointments and dot your I’s and cross your T’s.
4
Higher expression: You love your quiet time and want to stay close to home. Take advantage of being home by creating a home-based business or redesigning your spaces. Make your home a place where friends and family meet. Dive into your ancestry or family roots to find healing. Genealogy and family story becomes appealing.
Lower expression: You become isolated from others by staying home and ignoring others outreach for socializing. Your isolation makes you doubt other’s motivations, so you further your disconnection. You sleep more, perhaps eat too much to self-soothe and spend the next few years feeling depleted and low.
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Higher expression: Karmic healing is available to you for the next few years, so notice who comes into your life right now. Falling in love and having crushes take on a long-term and serious view. You also feel creative, playful and expressive, when you discipline yourself to stay in the imaginative mood and generate gorgeous creations.
Lower expression: You’re confused about what you’re looking for in your love affairs and are willing to accept less than you deserve. Put your antennae up to avoid lovers, crushes and friends pushing you to put their needs and desires before your own. At the same time, stay open to widening your perceptions on how you express yourself.
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Higher expression: Work, work, work. Take steps to create clarity in your work life to take right action toward achieving your life purpose. See the big picture and take strategic steps to reach your highest potential. Leadership pursues you, so step into it. If it involves mentorship, say YES. It looks good on you.
Lower expression: Stress impacts your body more than usual, so take care of yourself by allowing time for relaxation and rejuvenation. Health issues may arise, seemingly out of nowhere. Get ahead of any looming issues by seeking healing. Develop a regular routine to keep yourself healthy. Also, disruptions to routines and schedules throw you off your rhythm. Be patient and go with the flow.
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Higher expression: The next few years are an intensive in compassionate commitment. Take the high road without losing yourself. Maturity is called for as each of your relationships experiences opportunity for growth. Acceptance and allowance open your ability to foster connection.
Lower expression: Others seek you out to help them in inappropriate ways. They expect too much, pushing you to the edge. Uncertainty in your close relationships has you vying for control and mitigating the opportunity to soften the exchange with those closest to you.
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Higher expression: Choose the ways you love to be intimate and relish the wealth you have in your life. Shoring up your closest bonds and treasuring your wealth is the priority for the next few years. Relating to finances, pay off your debts, save your money and research solid investments. Your shared foundations can be strengthened.
Lower expression: The mysteries require proof as practicality comes crashing down on the etheric, magical side of life. Intimacy halts, awaiting your approval to let that person get closer to you. Feeling separate and alone in your closest relationships creates isolation and depressive tendencies. Focus on sharing and caring, not on control.
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Higher expression: Saturn pulls your desire for travel and adventurous explorations toward pilgrimages and spiritual quests. To feed your soul, deepen your knowledge and philosophical view on life by taking classes, talking to others and opening your mind to new and different ways. Plan on going to summits, conferences and other educational trips that feed your intuitive expression.
Lower expression: Ambiguity arises in regards to your pathway of discovery for what intrigues you. You question everything about your foundational perspectives and the meaning of life. Your quest is filled with confusion and doubt. Drop into your heart and make decisions based on your intuition and wisdom. Use Saturn’s discipline to be discerning.
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Higher expression: You’re stepping into the new way of leadership in a very big way. It’s time for intuitive wisdom to help you define your role in the world. This creates a solid foundation and ever-lasting impact on your success. Make plans, take steps and make the most of steady action. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Mastering your inner knowing and demonstrating it to the world is your aim.
Lower expression: Your authenticity is tested as people may not see you for who you are. This difference between your integrity and others becomes glaring. Saturn pushes you to be true to your intuitive side, regardless of consequence or stature. The pressure to do something easier is high. Being true to yourself is everything. There is no lesser alternative. Gather your sense of self, your purpose and direction. Avoid straying off your true path.
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Higher expression: Strategizing and planning for your future entails leveraging your strengths and gifts. Widen your perspective to appreciate your softer qualities. Colorful and eclectic people come into your life and you enjoy their presence. Connect authentically with people who share these interests. Enjoy the spiritual lift in your social circles.
Lower expression: Reality and fantasy become blurred when envisioning your future. Dreams take on a vague edge and pursuing them without discernment would be foolish. Taking time to plan your next steps is critical to achieving lasting success.
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Higher expression: Spirituality is your new focus and becomes central in your life. Let the mysteries guide you to yourself and help others discover their connection to the unknown. Explore your intuitive gifts and look for your hidden strengths. Allow them to come to the fore.
Lower expression: The unfamiliar and the unknown is uncomfortable for you right now. Saturn presses you to explain the realities of life, but Pisces wants you to dissolve into the spiritual side. The balance between the two is possible when you expand into possibility instead of an existential crisis.
Saturn Returns
For those with natal Saturn in Pisces, you’re coming up to your Saturn return.
If it’s your first one (28 – 30 years old), then you’ll be required to embrace the holistic sense of what it means to be a role model in your life. You’re being looked on as a mature, responsible adult with tremendous compassion. Be compassionate to yourself too.
If it’s your 2nd one (58 – 60 years old), you’re being asked to become the wise elder. To be filled with the wonder and curiosity of life, while leading others to become more of themselves.
Refer to the house number to determine the particular actions Saturn requires of you. You’ve been living with these energies your entire life, so they are vastly familiar. The next few years adds a boost to the ability to achieve mastery.
Conclusion
Pisces
dreaminess and tender expressions offset the hardness of Saturn for the next few years, creating a lift in your ability to achieve satisfying success.
expands Saturn’s quest for owning your expertise.
softens the edges of Saturn’s single-mindedness.
However, Pisces also creates delusion and confusion which can hold you back from any initiation to push toward your future.
It’s best not to do that.
In 2023, the window opens for the next decade. Losing the first few years puts you at a disadvantage if you succumb to the lure of Piscean illusions. Success is attached to the Saturn expression and he’s the toughest one to get moving, making this the year to take meaningful action.
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The stars either work with you or against you and it all depends on whether you know what their up to or not. This monthly forecast sets up you to take advantage of these powerful forces.
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MONTH IN A NUTSHELL
February: Fill Yourself Up
Sun signs – Aquarius & Pisces
Break-through to shed the expectations of others as committing to your big dreams is required. This is the time to be you – authentically and uniquely. Fresh ideas, perspectives and ways of thinking propel you to new heights when you do 2 things: 1. Buckle down and get to work 2. Invite the unfamiliar and original. Filling yourself up this month feels so good. Take advantage as you prepare for the next few months.
POWERFUL TIPS
Get back to basics in sleep, nutrition and movement
Do things that make you happy
Be indulgent
Resolve problems
Make connections
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The oracle cards bring insight into what’s coming for the month. They give your mind something to focus on and remember as you go through the days and weeks. You can ponder the card or go into the guidance in the book when you need more than mental reminders.
The power of animal and crystal energy are easy to employ to help you create the success and satisfaction you desire. Spirit animals are always willing to assist. Simply call on the animal to bring it into focus and ponder its meaning.
For crystals, grab the crystal and put it on your desk, purse or kitchen table. You want to align with your success and this month’s stone helps you do that.
For flower essences, put 3 drops into water 3 times a day and feel the gentle support for your body and emotions.
Personally, look to the numerology of this card as 4 + 4 = 8. The blessings of support and creation of opportunity is indicated. You’ve outgrown some aspects of your life. Which ones? Some aspects may be let go while others require someone else to support you. Ask and receive.
For business, delegating creates opportunities for others and as you’re seeking opportunity for yourself, it makes sense to create it for others. Your power is being held back by YOU. Step into effective leadership by letting go of control. Open your heart to the realization that your business needs this even more than you do (and you need it A LOT.)
Herkimer Diamond clears the chakras and increases the flow of spiritual energy as it activates and opens the crown and third eye chakras. This is great for knowing your life purpose and connecting to Universal support.
This stone connects to your dreams and helps you remember them. It imprints energies in careful harmony to increase your understanding of the essential being within you. It allows you to accept and appreciate all within you without having to become anything. You are already what you are seeking.
Herkimer Diamond is the perfect stone to allow yourself to be magically and unapologetically you.
The energy movement is unfamiliar as it’s been 3 years since these forces have been felt. Your emotional body could use the support to realign your external world with your internal life.
Become revitalized and mentally renewed with Hornbeam. This flower essences uplifts, energizes and motivates. The dread of listless activity and boring routines threaten to completely exhaust you. Funnily enough through, once you relieve the structured approach with a change of activity, this fresh perspective lifts your attitude. Hornbeam helps dissipate mental fatigue and creates energy for new discovery.
Spirit Animal: Peacock
Peacock is filled with grace, perspective and good fortune. The peacock is showy, lucky and flashy, yet also wise, powerful and regal. With the peacock, you are protected at all times. Call on peacock when you require discernment, need a boost in self-esteem or want a guardian for any and all power plays.
STAR DANCE
Big Star Events:
All planets are direct
Week 1: January 30th – February 5th
Access the genius, problem-solving and magnetic forces for connection and resolution. Your mind activity is high, while you ideate and imagine your best life. These energetic forces feel unsettling, but also new and exciting.
Avoid outbursts, tensions and power plays. The uncertainty and chaos cause worry and stress, pushing you beyond your limits. Change is in the air forcing you to make decisions and prioritize your focus.
Tips: Be bold and daring when making connection. Follow your instincts when resolving issues. Connect to stillness for grounding and centering.
Week 2: February 6th – 12th
Access originality and zany energies to become the person you’ve longed to be. There are new ways for old issues, particularly emotional ones. Sparkling, loving and healthy relationships get a boost. Serious and deep solutions to complex problems become evident.
Avoid manipulative and controlling thoughts. Your mind is running amuck and has been for months. Competitive thoughts led to judgmental ones. Holding onto grudges is entirely too easy. Complications arise when defending against healthy release.
Tips: Be wary of the stories you tell yourself as becoming too attached to them leads you astray. Seek healing to find relief. Say yes to like-minded people who lift you up and may you feel positive and lively.
Week 3: February 13th – 19th
Happy Birthday Pisces!
On February 18th, there’s a softness in the air. Everyone gets to dream, imagine and create when the Sun enters Pisces. Spending time with loved ones, with spirit and with artistic endeavors are beautiful ways to celebrate Piscean energy.
Access powerful love, attraction and connection. Harmony and peace reign as ease and relief are the objectives for the week. Tenderness, romance and creativity balance hard work, diligent efforts and strong discipline. Intense and deep feelings support committed pursuits.
Avoid isolation and stoicism. Powerful feelings deepen the longings of your heart, but may war with your mind. Your mind is still on high alert always looking for protective actions. Defensive postures inhibiting solutions are as likely as mutually fortunate outcomes.
Tips: Listen to your heart’s wisdom. Make strides in developing your intuition through creative activities. Take advantage of the powerful forces at play in love and success. Get romantic.
Week 4: February 20th – 26th
Access energies for quick-thinking and flexibility to invite different perspectives. Opportunities are creating on-the-fly this week. The desire to break free supports efforts to expand and grow. Calculated bold actions manifest positive financial and relationship connections.
Avoid feelings of being trapped by others and crossed communications with them. Only you influence your freedom to live life as you truly desire. Holding onto the past becomes impossible when it doesn’t align with your future.
Tips: Open you mind. Be flexible, especially when dealing with others who may or may not agree with you. Access your brave heart to take action, even when it seems selfish.
Big Star Events
When all of the planets are moving in seemingly direct motion, the air seems to pulse with activity. The star forces put the Earth and all of her inhabitants on full throttle. Things speed up, making you restless, sleepless and untethered. Grounding, centering and balancing are crucial daily habits. Getting back to basics and forming regular routines are your best bets to harness this incredible energy.
MOON MAGIC
The Moon phases help manifest things you want, celebrate things you have and get rid of things you no longer want. Here are the phases and what you should do:
The New Moon is for setting your strategy.
From the New to Full Moon, it’s the time to manifest, appreciate and create.
The Full Moon is for taking stock in gratitude and refinement.
From the Full to New Moon, it’s the time to celebrate, release and merge.
Full Moon: Your Heart Whispers
Details: Full Moon @ 1:30 pm ET Sun in Aquarius & Moon in Leo at 16°
Break into you by listening to your heart and following its wisdom. New ways of being feel more available to you now when you let go of restraints. What would you do to live the life of your dreams? Your heart whispers the answers. Will you slow down and take a moment or two in stillness so you can hear them?
New Moon: Only Love is Real
Details: New Moon @ 2:09 am ET Sun & Moon in Pisces at 1°
There’s great energy for inventions, especially those that help the Earth. The climate gets positive focus and attention. New thoughts and excellent news herald the future. Relationships experience wholeness, filled with love and forces for transformation. Pursuing healthy connections and seeking truth in each of them supports you in the months to come.
Wise Strategist – You’re not loving this month as the acceleration of activity feels chaotic and all of the romantic pursuits seem frivolous. Yet, merely sticking to your plans closes you to opportunities. Open your mind to refining your plans as new information becomes available. These new insights contribute positively to your growth and success. Carve out time on fulfillment and satisfaction to fortify yourself and strengthen your position.
Intuitive Visionary – You’re swept away with all of the mental acuity available to you this month. You may ignore your heart’s desire as you ideate, see patterns and envision solutions. Invent and seek solutions with your heart as well as your mind. The magic involves both and lifts others up as well as you. Your following becomes enamored with you when you do.
Collaborative Explorer – This month is made for you. Hooray! The connections, ability to negotiate harmoniously and the impulse to see things from various perspectives is finally available to everyone, not just you. Setting time to explore your heart and its creations may be hard to come by as you’re sought after by everyone. Taking time for you keeps you centered and makes things easier over the next few months.
Ruling Warrior – Leaning into your heart feels uncomfortable and unfamiliar, so your tendency will be to focus only on your finances and making sales. Doing this, however, makes you lose out on the magic of lasting growth that would set you up for the next decade. Allowing the sweetness of the month to penetrate your awareness and actions creates the solid foundation for ease and satisfaction as well as success. It’s in your best interest.
Creative Superstar – All of the creativity in the air has your heart singing and your mind swirling. Being discerning on what, when and how to pursue all of your ideas can only be ascertained through your heart. When you allow your heart to lead, you set yourself up for your best future. Spending time sweetly and tenderly heightens connection and joy in relationship. Make time for yourself and your loved ones.
Loving Alchemist – You love every minute of the love and intimacy pervading the energies this month. Being sexy and romantic feeds your natural power. Dip into the well of alignment between you and the stars to gain access to wealth, health and success. Focus on the long-term and commit to the daily, even when things feel out of control due to the fast pace. Go with the flow for the best results.
BOTTOM LINE
This month may be the best one of the year. Knowing how you want to fill yourself up and getting back to basics gives you an advantage for the remainder of the year. Success is in sight; however, love is at the fore. Remembering that love has the same energetic influence as prosperity helps your mind allow these intentions and experiences of love.
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DECEMBER IN A NUTSHELL
You
have renewed energy and drive.
also have passionate yearning for fulfillment.
desire social fun as well as success. Why can’t you have it all? The stars will give you what you want, but ask something from you too. Hard work and discipline is a better route than relying on an easier way.
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Support Tools
The oracle cards bring insight into what’s coming for the month. They give your mind something to focus on and remember as you go through the days and weeks. You can ponder the card or go into the guidance in the book when you need more than mental reminders.
The power of animal and crystal energy are easy to employ to help you create the success and satisfaction you desire. Spirit animals are always willing to assist. Simply call on the animal to bring it into focus and ponder its meaning.
For crystals, grab the crystal and put it on your desk, purse or kitchen table. You want to align with your success and this month’s stone helps you do that.
For flower essences, put 3 drops into water 3 times a day and feel the gentle support for your body and emotions.
Oracle Card: #47 – Optimize
Sharpen the arrow of your desires by completely aligning your desires with your resources. You’re on a treasure hunt, so take the time to solidify the areas that bring you ease, joy and abundance. Cut out or tone down those areas that create struggle, frustration or overwhelm. You are the treasure hunt, so what works for you – works for your success.
Crystal: Bronzite
A combination of grace and courage, this stone instills fortitude to deal with negativity, confusion and indecisiveness. Use bronzite for clarity, certainty and discernment, especially for making choices about your true-life purpose. Additionally, this is an excellent stone for emotional and physical harmony.Flower Essence: Chicory
Chicory seems to be overly done for most people as the description speaks to smothering others and being excessively needy. However, the core of the chicory flower essence is satisfaction, fulfillment and offering without expectation. This flower essence is essential for effective manifestation activities. Giving freely from a well that’s full is the maximum peak of successful manifesting abilities. When giving from an empty position, the energy stretches and repels healthy reciprocity. Reach for chicory when you’re feeling empty, unloved or lacking the nurturance you desire.
Spirit Animal: Scarab Beetle
The scarab beetle signals that you’ve come to a crossroads with a choice for growth and enlightenment. There are conditions:
Be true to yourself as you go this layer of transformation.
Rely on your inner strength to stay focused on your intentions for the new year.
Be diligent toward your goals and fortune is yours.
Seek community for connection, not persuasion.
STAR DANCE
Big Star Events: (in chronological order)
December 1st – Venus out of bounds
December 20th – Jupiter in Aries
December 21st – Solstice w. Sun in Capricorn
December 23rd – Chiron direct
December 29th – Mercury retrograde
Week 1: November 28th – December 4th
Access the honest, earnest and respectful energy available this week. People are being authentic and direct when revealing their true thoughts and feelings. Change is in the air, so you may be pushed out of your comfort zone. As always, you can decide how you want to respond.
Avoid hurt feelings, needy expectations and confusing conversations. It’s difficult to figure out where others are coming from and more interaction adds to underlying insecurities. Unstable relationships are shaken and people succumb to arm-twisting to gain control. Erratic behaviors make it hard to understand what’s happening.
Tips: Put your head down and focus on your priorities. If you must interact with others, be as honest and as kind as you can be when having important conversations.
Week 2: December 5th – 11th
Access the drive, determination and confidence to be successful. Connections and collaborations can be fun. High-level strategy and big plans align with the flow of the stars. Excellent leadership techniques are noticeable and sound investments are available this week.
Avoid indulgent, complacent or lazy tendencies at the beginning and the end of the week. Glossing over details and making mistakes is easy. In the middle of the week, aggression, aggravation and anger take root making you want to compete and knock others to the side.
Tips: ‘It should be easier’ is your vibe, yet taking things seriously and expending effort are the keys to achieve the success you desire. Now’s the time to set yourself up for 2023.
Week 3: December 12th – 18th
Access commitment, practicality and goal-oriented energies. There are interesting and satisfying connections coming into your space. The mosaic of life shifts and turns, changing your point of view. This is a great time to learn new things.
Avoid vicissitude and low energy deceiving you into sitting back and letting time slip by, marking time until the holidays. Stopping the natural flow of reciprocity in relationships. Imbalances are possible now.
Tips: Take stock of what you want and ask others for support. Seek connections that are helpful to getting you the results you desire. Use this week to solidify your foundation.
Week 4: December 19th – 25th
Access positive energies for love and money. Sparks of confidence, positive thoughts and soaring feelings propel achievement and success. Financial well-being, desired impacts and good fortune are at the fore.
Avoid taking unnecessary risks, blind leaps of faith and greedy actions. Power plays and selfish pursuits present themselves. Ignoring the healing and supportive energy available this week.
Tips: Make time for working toward your goals – creative and practical. This is a time for dreams and actions. Even though it’s the holiday season, you can make progress. Actions this week pay off for the entire year.
Week 5: December 26th – January 1st
Access love, romance and sexy vibes. Sensuality, compassion and sweet tender embraces are the norm. Desires and passions run deep. Style, image and flair get a blast of the new. Socializing and entertaining still feels good, even though the holidays are coming to an end.
Avoid overthinking and over analyzing. Stopping the flow of dreamy connections. Doubting how things will come together for you.
Tips: Write love letters and have intense conversations about what you want out of love. Journal to reflect on your dreams of romance. Take time to revisit and review what you love about your love life.
As a reminder, here are Do’s & Don’ts for Mercury Retrograde (12/29/22 – 1/18/23):
MOON MAGIC
The Moon phases help manifest things you want, celebrate things you have and get rid of things you no longer want. Here are the phases and what you should do:
The New Moon is for setting your strategy.
From the New to Full Moon, it’s the time to manifest, appreciate and create.
The Full Moon is for taking stock in gratitude and refinement.
From the Full to New Moon, it’s the time to celebrate, release and merge.
Full Moon: Celebrate with Others
Details: Sun in Sagittarius & Moon in Gemini December 7th @ 11:08 pm ET
Balancing your point of view with others is easy right now. Your mind and heart opens to connection and understanding. Dream and celebrate your work and love life. Create a new style or image for the holidays.
New Moon: Success is Here
Details: Sun & Moon in Capricorn December 23rd @ 5:17 am ET
It’s the new you. Success, good fortune, prospects abound. Connect to your values, intentions and opportunities. Make time for you and also for your work. Putting your pillars in place for the new year support you throughout 2023.
Wise Strategist – Make a list of things that are working really well for you and then make one for those things that are gnawing at you. Plan ways to get rid of the gnawing list and to amplify the working one. After you have your list, take a step back and look at it from a higher perspective. Create detailed objectives and develop routines to make strides toward your goals this month. Wrap up 2022 on a high note.
Intuitive Visionary – Avoid taking big risks and getting swept up with the forces for success and achievement. Pause and take a few moments when opportunities present themselves. Review new ideas with your current goals. Then, add more definition to your evergreen solutions and simplify your latest ideas. Simplify them once, twice and three times. 2023 requires straightforward solutions.
Collaborative Explorer – Being swept up with your social obligations and holiday affairs keeps you from focusing on your future. Take the time to conduct an interview with yourself to answer how you value yourself, seek opportunities and desire to be loved. Carve out work space and firm up your themes, intentions and pillars for the next year.
Ruling Warrior – You’re being tasked with leadership, leadership, leadership. Distracting connections throw themselves in front of you, seemingly every day. Cull through the ones that don’t fit with your new goals. Once you’ve taken the time to stop and set your strategy, everything falls into place. Get more detailed than usual to help you navigate through 2023.
Creative Superstar – You adore the energy this month. Love and romance compete with work, but you can float from one thing to the other seamlessly. Your swirling fun and social plans lift you up, inspiring you to buckle down as necessary. Cut through stale ideas and regretful tendencies by doing one thing that’s been hanging over your head for the last few weeks.
Loving Alchemist – The holiday season fills you up by connecting with family and loved ones. You may want to bask in the intimate moments provided by the entertaining and social whirlwind. Do so and also make time to fuel your dreams in the world. You have the ability to add power to your dreams, but only when you roll up your sleeves and commit fully to them. This is the time. If you miss out this month, it gets progressively more difficult to get back on track.
BOTTOM LINE
December ends a difficult year and sets you up for success in 2023 when you take advantage of the positive energies and stay aligned with your true-life purpose. Remembering the themes and intentions from the top of the year serves you tremendously. Hint: Value, Alignment and Momentum. These give way to Power, Success and Love in 2023.
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Seek respite in the stone of the month: Emerald. 
The swan is intuitive with instincts to know what lies ahead. When this spirit animal shows up, it’s nudging you to accept your inner knowing and to trust it. Swans are excellent at seeing the truth and looking beneath the surface. When something presents itself, swan wants you to determine what it means for you and reminds you it may mean nothing.
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Flower Essence: Chicory
