Libra Taurus Moon Phases

Sue: Welcome to Talk Cosmos, the show where Sue Rose Minahan and her guests bring you insightful conversations to awaken heart and soul consciousness. Come journey with us, exploring the meaningfulness of astrology's energetic cycles. Get ready to understand your path in the cosmic roots of the stars. Wonderful. We shall begin again. And here we are in the month of Libra. And Taurus, as it turns out, with the moon cycle. And w it's what date is it? It's the eleventh. It's the eleventh. It's almost in the middle of the month as as the autumn season lingers on. And Venus is in command. She's in Scorpio. She is intense and what matters really makes a difference. We're renegotiating our power structures of what we're resources are and what is dear and close to our heart because that will give us empowerment and that is really the part of life's journey. Taurus knows that it's a struggle and a not a struggle, but a self-actualization. So let's get started. Here we are. We're back again. Okay. Thank you. Top Cosmos explores the journey from the dark new moon to the full moon's blossomed brilliance. In this second week of the month, we look at the moon, our emotional anchor, as the luminaries weave the past into the present through our memories, feelings, and habits. To decode this month's lunar beats shaping our world, let's meet the astrologers who will connect the moon's emotional story to our lives here on Earth. I'm Suros Minahan. An evolutionary astrologer and host of Talk Cosmos. I offer consultations, lectures, and workshops, and I study vibrational astrology under Linda Berry. I have a lifelong passion for mythology, and I'm a visual artist and musician with an associate of fine arts and music and a certificate in jazz. As a writer and author, I'm developing an astrological teaching memoir, exploring the meaningfulness in life's turning points. And I'm Amanda Moon. I'm a soul-centered astrologer with a background in psychology, blending intuition into my practice. I believe the universe is always working for our highest good and seek to empower my clients in our readings. I teach a four-week series of empowerment-based meditation classes designed to connect you deeper into your own intuition and innate power. I'm passionate about healing and helping others create new realities and shift old paradigms. And like the Sufi poet Rumi says, You are the entire ocean in a drop. Of a hi Amanda. Hello. Yeah. Good to see you here, Sue. It is, it is. In so many ways. It's a new day, a new life. And I think that's what well, we're not I keep thinking of Scorpio because the Venus and Mercury are so involved with it. But Libra loves that friendship of life. So here we are. Yeah, and you know, every every moon cycle we kind of get a fresh restart in a way and we get to kind of redo things if we need to. It is a beautiful part of it. I'm glad you brought that up because here we go. Let's see, there's nothing on stage yet. If I go like this, check my share. maybe I'm not sharing. Yeah. Okay. Let's do that. Am I sharing? Yes, I am. Okay. Well, this explains a little bit, folks, why it took me a little while to learn the process because we have a new cycle. KKNW is now a country western station. And they have a new life. And so here we too have the opportunity of beginning and we're very happy about it. It's been a good eight and a half years. It's a long time. It's nine years. It's like a completion, a cycle, a nine year completion because we're in the ninth season and a time of realignment and astrologically with Scorpio it it's just magical the way life re-threads and recomposts and re begins. So we're independent and we've got new music, new voices, and this beautiful slide to just share with you. Meanwhile, if anybody is cluing in, just email Subscribe because I I send out a newsletter every week. It's also on my website. Besides the fact, of course, Facebook, but mostly YouTube. Everything is on YouTube. All right, folks. Well, we'll get started here. Well, and just to just to say this is very fitting for a fire horse here, isn't it? You know, you gotta things change like on a dime and you just gotta pivot and kinda flow with it. So You're doing that. you're showing us how it's done, Sue. I got goosebumps. Thank you. Well, all the yes, yes. Well, I had friend help here. I've got a wonderful support system. If anybody wonders, I've got a great soundboard engineer. So let's go forward. All right. I have to remember where to click. Here we go. Why isn't it happening? Stop sharing, I don't wanna do that. I wanna go forward. Well, there's gotta be a way to go forward. Let's Bottom left of the screen. Aha, there it is. Magic places. Goody. Well, change. Change exactly that's Learning on the job, right? Yeah. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. There's a different spot on the screen. But look at all these people, whether it is Scream bigger. Yes, it's Norman Vincent Peel who says the same idea. It's you what did you say, Amanda? I missed that. I said learning on the job. We're just, you know, this is part of the that flow. Yes, indeed. And ki chaos, like Jose Saramango, is merely order waiting to be deciphered. And I've thought of that so many times, whether it's music that I don't understand, I I love jazz, but there's other musics of of of the world where they have their synthesis at a different point of resolution. So like Nietzsche says, one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Woo! Well we're talking about that a little bit in this talk, Venus Star Point. This article really struck me. It was a little tiny article in our little tiny newspaper here in Kailua Kona in Hawaii, but it is from the New York Times news service, and Robin George Andrews wrote it. But it's the moon, it says is a war zone because of the idea that it has asteroids and comets slamming literally into it all the time. If we had a moon station there, we need to consider that. it could be damaged. There was a crater, the most recent one, was alm seven hundred seven hundred and twenty-eight feet in diameter. That's really big. So but isn't that interesting to realize that emotionally we get struck by things. The past, the present, all the time. It's a constant process of of ping pong, you could say, you know, or tennis, you know, trying to incorporate to to feel that way. Well the moon is also where we kind of protect ourselves and where we look to find safety. So it kind of it kind of fits like that that sense of like needing to really kind of shelter yourself from From what's what's coming at you. Yep. That's As an overview, we're we're doing the two moon cycles, the predominant ones, the new moon, which is yesterday, actually on the tenth at seventeen degrees and twenty-two minutes. But we're in that crest where the light is beginning to show. And as you mentioned, Amanda, perfect time to do our vows, our intentions for what we want, if of how we need to find our relationships that are on par of equality and friendship and the the balance of how we're rebalancing life, you might say. And then in two weeks on the twenty-sixth, we'll be right after this Venus star point, which is a huge cycle. Last week we did it with Louise Ellington and Dr. Laura Tad. You can find that. And next week I'm doing another one about relationships with Liz Michette. And it but the full moon will be at two degrees and forty-six minutes Taurus, both ruled by Venus. It's rather incredible. Yeah, it's it's a very Venusian month. And given that Venus is in Scorpio and retrograde, you know, this is there's some meaty stuff for for us to be digging into this month. Yep, it is indeed. Venus, we can talk a little bit about her archetype. You know, it is magnetic, it's what we're drawn to. It's what's w when you love something, it it's that magical We we call it magical, but it's that magnetic, some kind of energetic ions of negative, positive forces, you know, everything that gravity that we understand and yet we don't understand when we experience it that we're drawn to or repelled by. It it is the other i well Venus, but that that's more Libra. Definitely brings in relationships, right? All partnerships, yes, on one to one basis. And our values. That that's very much of the Tarian side, but all values. Like because if we love something, what's our value? And is our heart and our mind really talking together? How are we looking at things? Yeah, and Venus is the things that we find worthy of our love and investment as well. So this is where we really we want to put our energy towards and and that magnetic piece, like Venus is the attraction principle. So it's what we're attracted to, but also what we attract into our lives. So there is this manifestation energy that aligns with Venus. And things that you know we attract in that we might like and we might not like. Because we may not be honestly understanding what it is that we're feeling deeper. And that in Scorpio is a key to help us. So true. Like there is so much depth to us, right? That we we're just like skimming the surface most of the time. And so this Venus and Scorpio period where we're going retrograde, we get to go deeper within and kind of look at these pieces for ourselves. That's right. Because then we get self-worth too and self-value, our self esteem of of how it it and looking at our shadow side too, perhaps that's something that we really recognize is uncovered through the mirror of another person of that relationship. Relationships are tricky that way. They they seem to you mirror, mirror on the wall. Yeah, and that's the ugly witch. Ugly in the sense of her inner heart, not in her features. Yeah, and that's that that piece of the type of relationships that we attract in are Tell us about what's going on within us. And maybe it's pieces that we aren't quite familiar with ourselves yet. So this is that that's that mirror. And that's where this Scorpio, Venus and Scorpio period is really gonna we're gonna get we're gonna get deeper with ourselves this month. It's just beginning. It's just beginning. Just beginning, folks. Yeah. I don't know. I'm giving a little notice that's saying that if you move closer, but whichever, maybe because of your connection. But I think Nate's got that covered too. Well, let's see. We have Libra, we've she, you know, sh Venus rules both Venus and Taurus, both of these signs. And because we have the Libra new moon, that's our emphasis. And she's the only non when I say Libra, she. Libra is the only non-person or animal, it's an inanimate sign, it's the scales. Used to be Libra used to have the the scales used to be part of Scorpio, the claws, but now been given to Libra. And back in Egypt it was where the value of your life was shared by the weight of your heart. And if the heart was lighter than a feather, boink, you go into the afterlife. That was the idea. But really, Libra's considered with friendship. Because that's evolution, not evolutionary, but vibrational astrology. David Cochran did research and realized that, and I love that, that Libra sees friendship. And friendship isn't on an equal basis. It's give and let give, you know, it's that compatibility where you you see that someone might be very different and might actually argue you argue with you about things, but it's not a personally directed about you or this or you or that. It's more the context of what you're talking about or what you're wanting to do. So it's like removed somewhat it it's it's the focus is on what is is is is focused on. It's not the person. And it allows that that compatibility. It's really a beautiful energy. Yeah. There's such a striking difference between Scorpio and Libra. And this Venus retrograde cycle goes through both. And with Libra, it's like the goal is balance and harmony in relationships and this desire for everybody to win. which is which is not a Scorpio thing. Scorpio wants to get down to the deep truth. whereas Libra wants everybody to win and there's no right or wrong. They're both they're both wonderful wonderful goals. so it's but yeah, striking difference between and one can build as they do, because the zodiac is one sign builds into the next, it releases and gives and develops something that is really integral. Because to have that relationship that is of a a a a flowing nature where it you you're supported You're able to provide, you know, it's not needy but yet it it provides substance. Then to be able to exchange your resources in Scorpio has empowerment for both where you can start developing empowerment which you know for different areas. But codependency, you have to be careful of that in Libra, because we can depend on that support. It's so easy. You know, whether it's a parent person or an early friendship or a a a city that you lived in, a home, a house, whatever it was, your f family's financial, your own financial, somewhere, your political structure, however it is, you've become dependent on. And in it That's very honest and and truthful and necessary, yet when it's absent, that's when a person needs to recognize, ooh, I need to find that within myself. that something it's yeah it's such a it's it's such a part of the human condition to look to others to complete a piece of us you know and we just we it's you you gotta really like kind of start to to look at it because it it just happens unconsciously for for most of us and you gotta really want to be aware of it and really want to to n to find that place where you complete yourself because that's really the only place where it's it's actually going to feel good and correct. This is right. Looking at the Sabian sign symbol, that is, because we round it off to the next one, and it's eight. Actually, it's eighteen, eighteen libra. It's a very interesting one. Two men placed under arrest. And so with AI, I came up with something that. works. And some of this idea is is that you're under you know, society and other people will check and balance a person. You know, we go into Libra with the idea that we've perfected ourselves and we're now ex entering these partnerships of exchange, but that doesn't mean like you we'd said we're perfect by any means. You know, there's we can attract something that's with our shadow, we can overstep and d disavow that friendship, wittingly or not wittingly. You know, there's so many ways. And so we're learning our limits. In a way it's that cardinal cross, you know, with Capricorn that's saying, there's a boundary, folks. And cancer that's saying, you're getting pretty personal there. You know, and Aries that's saying, Aren't you th you know, thinking about yourself a lot too much? What about me too? Because Libra is me too. You know, it's this the other, the self of the other. It's a yeah, it's it's such an interesting symbol for this month that we have coming up because of the it's it's such a a Venusian month to see to have a a symbol where it's two men that are placed under arrest. It's it's like okay, this masculine principle that we all have within us, we we're allowing that to kind of fall back. And allowing this the feminine yin energy of Venus to come forward so that we can evaluate it with more depth. Libra is yang. I just as you were speaking, Libra is a yang energy. It's cardinal and it's a yang, you know, as they alternate around. So it is that assertive energy, you know, one reaches out to be to make amends of of harmony. to try to restructure a balance and balance is not equal. Balance can be any kind of pH, you know, like an ascitic to to base scientific you know ba restructuring balance of life. Yeah. But so it is. That's a that's a very good point. Libra is yang and the other sign that is ruled by Venus Taurus is yin. So there is a yang yin to Venus, but as a whole, Venus is is about kind of diving into that that yin energy and Scorpio itself is a yin sign. That's so we will like that is this Venus in Scorpio is kind of guiding both the Libra new moon and the Taurus full moon. And so what we may be there there There are gonna be levels, you know. This is these are this is layers of things. So we will have yin and yang, and we will have the masculine feminine through our our That's part of the balance, isn't it? It is part of the whole process. And I did add this little in yellow. Society pulls terms of justice. In other words, that's it's exercising its justice, you know, when something needs to be personally Readjusted, you could say. Yeah, perhaps it's one I don't know if I hope that makes sense. Well, astrologically beginning that focus here that we're e reviewing or our perspective. Uranus is retrograde, has been since September and will be all the way until February. And Pluto is retrograde, has been, but shortly, just in a few days, in four days, 'cause today's the eleventh, will be direct. That'll be quite significant. Because Pluto is, I don't know if I put that, but Pluto is going to be direct. no, that's Pluto. That's Pluto. Yes, Pluto is going to be direct. That'll change things significantly. Yes. Yeah, I mean, this is Pluto going direct. It's now time for us to to move forward with that, with our soul's intention, really. Pluto is the soul. And so when it goes retrograde, which it does often, we we get a chance to review and reflect, as we're doing with Venus. But we're doing that at a deeper on more of an unconscious level. And when Pluto goes direct, there's just there's a shift, a subtle shift that happens where we start to say, okay, I'm I I've I've reviewed. I'm I've revised I I'm going forward on my soul direction now. Ready to transform, ready to take the real willing. Perhaps that's it too. That transformation, that and that obsession of of whatever it is, your your energies that are again magnetically and because it's out of bounds too. It's really truly working on its own volition of the deep underworld, like uncovering. Maybe you're really ready to undercover those scorpionic values that you've had that that are affecting everything, that'll help direct your path forward. Really and at three degrees, I know it's been mentioned by other astrologers, Anne Ortley, for instance, that I closely revere and and listen to, that it's developing itself as an archetype, but at three degrees it's ready to launch. So Here we are. I know my own Jupiter is at a degree ahead just before that, at almost two degrees. So it's been affected, you know, the whole belief systems, the outlook of things. And and it's in Aquarius. So perhaps we're finding how we can really get involved in a network. How can we really participate? Like what is it that we're wanting to? To go forward with. Maybe we're changing. I think that's it. We're changing how we're networking with things. I know I no longer, for instance, have the radio station, but we're functioning fine. And we have YouTube and we have the well, yeah. And you know, it's like we've been talking about for the last couple months, it's in that PowerPoint three to 17 degrees Aquarius. Those are the powerpoints of Pluto out of bounds. And they're they're it's associated with when in Aquarius, it's associated with revolts and rebellions. And this we see that in society, but this can happen within as well. You know what what is it that this is a powerpoint, what is it that we really want to shift and overthrow? within ourselves. And overthrow, you know, that might be a little bit of a harsh word. Maybe it's integrate, but just a new a new machine. Overthrough are within is good. I think that's very good, Amanda, because it it does take. Sometimes it needs to be direct. That's what I I like. Something like aim right to the the source and and and you know it's just very scorpionic and In a sense, you find it, you take it, you yank it, you reveal it. Yeah. We want we want that regime that's gonna that is going to help us, you know, step forward in our power more. So that's that internal speaking of within, yeah. Well, the Libra New Moon, this is a c little synopsis of some of the important elements astrologically. But the new moon itself, which is the moon when the moon and the sun are, you know, from Earth's viewpoint aligned. And you can't see the light of the sun reflected on the moon, although right now, as we say, it's just cressing out, and it's a good time to bring up those values. But it is opposing on the other side's the big planet Saturn of our boundaries, of what the fundamental importance of the essence is. So that's part of this picture, plus the fact Venus, which we've talked about, you know, our hearts what we love, and desire, you could say, and Mercury, our brain source, are both in Scorpio. They're conjunct. They're down in the underworld. And and they're And meanwhile you have the bright light of Mars, the action going, you know, essentially a ninety degree square, but it's shining its light. It's got Leo saying, Hey, you can't see the light with the moon, but I'll show you some light. Just look down a little bit further, look over there, you'll you'll figure it out. Yeah, it's the Venus and Scorpio, Mars and Leo, are are in a square as well. And so there's there's there's a bit of tension with it. It's they're both fixed signs. So they both have a set way of doing and thinking around about things. I like that connection of Saturn though to Mars because that's that's going to help stabilize that potentially dramatic energy that Mars and Leo might bring to us. This is the view of it with a on the horoscope chart and this is an Aries zero Aries chart and it is seventeen degrees twenty-two minutes of Libra and the timing for the East Coast was just after midnight, 1150 AM on October 10th. That's yesterday. And of course Venus is ruling their energies or the guide. Let's stick on trying to learn to say the guide, which I've always wanted to do and love that word better. It just connotes more. Truth, you could say, of of the of the idea. And but yet the dis so but Venus is in Scorpio. And so it's dispository they have Scorpio has two dispositors, both Mars and Pluto, as guides. And they're opposite each other. So here you have the heart and the mind. working, you know, in a square, active, what kind of steps can I take to for this transformation that's about to go direct that's not is still retrograde. And the actions of really my heart and the sunshine in Leo. He said Comments? It's strong. Yeah, yeah. I I mean, yeah, there's so much to this because Pluto and Mars are both the the the guides for for Venus here, and they're opposing each other. They're you know, this is when you see Mars and Pluto opposing each other, there's kind of a standoff energy that can often show up. So that can show up in relationships where maybe you need to take a stand against something. it does cut things away. There is part of that. It does cut things away. But things will get cut away from you. And that means because if I hope I'm okay here jumping in. Yeah because you inspired that idea of that it it it happens. You know, it isn't always a voluntary but it's an experience that we then are working with. And it so it promotes more of that, I think it's synergetic. It's a beautifully just like that in that picture, you know, where the light is being shown in a sense by your actions, by taking actions, you're able to see in the dark, symbolically speaking, you know, which you haven't noticed things, but why, maybe the why, the psychological, because Scorpio is very psychological. It doesn't care just about what, it wants to know why, so that it can figure out the deeper. values and experiences that you've harbored or or that maybe sometimes there's grief involved. You can't always you know, that's another slide that I have forward. Grief is mourned. It's not always forgotten. You just work with it in a different way. So it's not holding you up. Well another interesting piece around this the Mars Pluto is we talked Minutes ago about Pluto being at a PowerPoint. Well, Mars also is at a PowerPoint. It's three to 17 degrees, Aquarius and Leo, those two specific signs. And when we're talking about Leo, so so Aquarius, it's that overthrowing, revolt, rebellion energy. And with Leo, it's about embodying or embodied power and looking to no one else. For your own authority. So bring that into this energy. And you can see that this may be a piece where you're like, okay, I need to go my own way in relationship, which doesn't necessarily mean cutting people out. It may just be I this is what I believe, this is what I stand for, and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna stand with it, I'm gonna speak it. That's Mercury, you know? And it can that is very eloquent. And it could be in so many ways related partnerships. Like for instance, I keep mentioning it, but it's appropriate, you know, that we ha I had a partnership with KK and W, which beautifully has now shifted, but we're independent. I have groups, I I that I've been participating with and some I've decided no I need the time. I need my time to develop other areas. Like I am trying to write a book that I'm still in the draft form. But there's other purposes. So yes, you're or maybe you're a you're absolutely true. I can go on with too many examples. One other thing about T squares. So we've got three We we've got three elements involved. We've got Mars and Leo, which is fire, Pluto in Aquarius, which is air, and Venus, Mercury in Scorpio, which is water. And so we're missing one element that would help balance this out, and that's Taurus. And so just remembering to ground, remembering that sometimes simple is better. We can often overindex at the apex point of a T square, which would be Venus and Mercury and Scorpio, which Scorpio knows no bounds in terms of complexity. You know, like as humans, the deeper you go, the more complex it gets. It is interweaves. And sometimes just ta taking a step back, taking a breath, grounding yourself in the moment. maybe what helps kind of like settling and give us that that way through when we have like complicated energetics here. And with Taurus, once again, Venus is gonna help us out. In two weeks we're gonna get that Tarian energy. Plus I was thinking as my examples that finding ways of self-care really work. And that's so Tarian. you know, taking time out to whatever it is, whether it's physical exercise or whether it's an art form or especially something like tactile where, you know, maybe you want to take a bath or you just want to get out in nature and feel the wind on your your face. We finally our weather has finally returned not to be so humid. It's been with that storm all summer. you know, lock the house up, which is so antithesis to me. And I decided to go swimming. But the problem is the sand, we have a place called Magic Sands, because half of the year there's no sand. Well there's all that lava rock and that's why I could get a park there. I certainly couldn't swim, you know. And the other yes. Okay. Yeah. So yes, it's finding ways to do I'm looking at Mars here as an energy because of do I do two of them? Let's see what happened. No, okay. Mars energy is a divine warrior, divine warrior. It using that idea of the assertiveness to on an internal basis, as we're thinking of, to cut through and defend or understand, protect and go forward with what we want. And It's an so Mars was a lover with Venus. They had a child harmonia. You know, you think of that of of of peace, not necessarily peace, but of harmony, you know, where there is that. But also that spear represents a courage and the shield is of power, you know, the home protection. But it's chariot because of the idea that it can be really assertive of fear and dread, which even heroes often say, all everybody, just about every heroic heroism is moving forward despite your fear and your dread. You just pick up and move. So And I and I guess I'm bringing this out because of meaningfulness, because of its relationship between Mars and Venus, there is a square that we're going to be looking at with Mars and Venus. That that there is that potential harmony. Even whether there's conflict, because there's life has its conflict or what appears to be conflict until we find some way to harmonize, leave it, adjust it, do something with it. Or using our bravery. Yeah, and where where are we Where and how are we using this Mars element of fighting and war? Are we doing it in a way that is beneficial for us? Are we beneficial for others? or are we is it is it more shadow content? Because that is that's the Venus and Scorpio. energy that we're we're looking to evaluate are there some shadow aspects where maybe we're yeah we're over indexing and maybe a little overly react finding fault like in that exchange of energies whose fault who did this first or who did that first or whatever instead of recognizing hey back here please you know three fingers go back to your own self yeah my sister once was reminding me of and did did somebody her husband Reminded her of. And the point is, is that yes, and we have that empowerment to shift. here. I'm always clicking the wrong screen. But Pluto, you know, as that co-guide, Pluto, who's the modern guide to Scorpio here, besides the fact that Venus and Mars are at this action point exact at seven degrees, as the chart will show. But it's we've been showing this slide for some time, you know, because in Pluto is retrograde, but it's shifting paradigms to use that word and it's it's redemption. It's a reform time. It is really that period where we're plunging forward. Yeah. Yeah. Here we are with this and we're going we don't necessarily have a time limit because we're independent. We're not trying to keep it too long, but we're kind of exercising our way. We'll take a break in a moment. Little bit of a moment. Are you okay? We'll go on here. So let's do it. Goody. So there we are. The new moon, the sun and the moon in Libra is a midpoint actually at 17 degrees to its opposition. Because you know, up within eight degrees, let's say, of an within an eight opposition, we have Saturn at 10 degrees, almost 11 really, all the way up. And then we have this cluster with well, close to it is Pallas Athena, which is a strategist. You know, Pallas was a sister of, or not the sister, but the the strategist. And then we have on the other side of 17 degrees, Vesta, the hearth, what we're protecting like in the home, the hearth, the fire. The flame, keeping it lit. And Aris, which is at twenty-five degrees, which has been hanging out at twenty-five, twenty-four. I don't think it went to twenty-six yet, for years, because it's such a huge orbit dwarf planet, way out there, 507 years orbit. And it's at still heading back to 24, which is on my north note, thank you. And it's inclusivity. It's like she was rejected, but she's saying, Nope, can't do that. Gotta have everybody included. So We have the sun moon smack down in the middle at seventeen degrees. Which is interesting because it is involved in that with Ceres saying, Compassion, folks, you nurture you can you can reclaim your grief if you ha you know, she was the one who lost her daughter. in is about grief, which is very appropriate with Scorpio, because they're all, as you're saying, flowing, inter intermixed. Yeah, the this sun, moon, Libra combination, opposite, all of this Aries energy, there's there's there's a real integration that we're looking to find here. Of how do I stand on my own and keep my own values, keep my own just what is me, and not not succumb to the the Libra dynamic of codependence, like we were talking about earlier. You know, what's leaving yourself away. Yes, saying you can do it yourself, lead forward. You may not know the way because Really, what Aries person really does know the way? I I mean I'm not sliding at all, but I have it's Aries North. It's the Aries energy. Yeah. It's like you figure it out as a goal. Go see the adventure. And and it's that pioneer energy. Like that is Aries. And we all have Aries within, and so we all have that pioneer within for ourselves. And so it's finding that balance between that and Keeping our relationships healthy and happy. I think with Venus and Scorpio retrograde guiding this sun and moon, we will be looking at a bit more of the shadow of Libra. So that c tendency to move ahead. Projection is another big one where we don't really own our own stuff. We just project it onto others. For good or bad, yes. For good or bad. And but it really isn't but what the what what happens when we do that is we don't own who we are. And Aries wants you to own who you are. Yes. You need to be honest with yourself. That again is what vibrational astrology sees. I love that because to move forward it you have to be honest about yourself. And and that's what Aries thinks they're doing is an honest move. But Aries also expects others to be honest with themselves. And again, it like that Libra dynamic, you can differ with them about ideas and whatnot, but yet be honest, be true to yourself. Don't be manipulative and trying to get power and doing all these revenge things and all that, because Aries will just walk away. It's like I have had it, you know, I I don't need to go there. I mean it they will fight eventually, but that's not their first instinct is to fight. And in series of our Grief, reclaiming our grief. She's in cancer, which is very protective again, to to to to look out for what is going to support and nourish nourishment. What's going to nourish? Nourishment, nurturing. Those are the the pieces that we can potentially, you know, bring into this. It it in some situations it might be hard to get to. But it takes time. It's there. It yeah, these are it takes time and and these are this is these are squares, T squares. So, you know, it's you don't figure it out immediately unless you've been working it already. Like maybe this is this is an element that you have in your chart and so it's gonna come a little more natural. But for most of us this is we're working through this during this time period. In one way or the other. Yes, indeed. Mm-hmm. Pardon. This is one more the second of the two slides I have because another set of energies that are back dropped or forward. The Yod, which is the finger of God, meaning there's a focal planet that is needing to adjust to two other planets energies that are connecting to each other. They're doing fine. They're thinking, hey, we got this work, we're working it out. But meanwhile, this third planet's going, you know if your ideas need to it's not quite working with what I ours. And so the focal point here is Hygia, w it's which who is a asteroid of purity, of health. How can we be healthy? And she at zero degrees Virgo is on Regulus, the star, the fixed star that's moved, the the royal star of Leo, in that, you know, of the lion. And it's it's of in Virgo of discernment, you know, choosing all these threads that are moving through, how to be pure, how how to be healthy, how to get rid of toxicity. And the ones that are working with it is Neptune that is just looking at the whole world as a vision. Or maybe escaping if they don't really like it. There's that, you know, imagination can go into illusion at times. And Pluto that has been just intensely but is soon going to be well on on its path of r reform. Yeah, and a yacht is it kind of demands transformation and it's often called like a archetypally like a a birth canal. And so we're pointing at this hygiene. So that we're birthing something new with hygiene here, and when we've got it in hygiene in Virgo, Virgo is can can sometimes be you know mentally overactive and so there can be like overanalysis of things and there can also be a critical energy that comes in with Virgo so we want to clean up our mental space and our mental hygiene so that we're not we're not like being self-critical towards ourself as we are learning how to to move forward on this journey, especially this Pluto soul journey that we've got and this Neptune dream that we are building for ourselves as Neptune has moved into Aries. So yeah. And and just to feed on that idea that you're saying about clearing the space, thankfully with Virgo. We have the dispositor, which is Mercury right there with conjunct, you know, our our headspace that's in this deep emotional area of Scorpio. So we're going to have to clean out and we're going deep. We're going deep with that. Plus it could be our space physically, our our you know, files and go ahead. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The because you know, what's within is is is Is magnified on the on the external as well. So cleaning cleaning up your your space helps clean up the mental. Yeah. And mercury not mercury, but Venus. That's what I'm trying to say. I'm staring right at her right there at seven degrees, Scorpio, folks up in the eighth house in the natural chart. But she is a making an adjustment to things that are happening every day to Uranus. So it's like a a a merry-ground of of new music or up and down. You know, it's a lot of activity. You just gotta keep flowing. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's there are So many connections to Venus in this chart and not easy connections. Mars, Pluto, Uranus. You know, this is this is challenging stuff, but Scorpio does not like to do things lightly, you know. Will it It wants to go all in, can't do it. We're all going all in on our stuff. Yeah, it's not intellectual, even. It's just like the glacier moving. Of course, that's more Scorpio. Well where's Scorpio? And then you have Pluto. It's yeah deep. Yeah. But those entanglements and relationships are gonna be you're working to get reconciled. And I loved what you said in our pre-chat. It seems a little bit like a bombardment of Mars and Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, but hey, I guess the Venus is all bombarded, but this is this is all stuff that we are we're capable. Yes, it's like a shredder and a compost. You go out to the garden, work do a little work. Some plants make it, some don't. Well, I think we are at a natural time and we'll just have a little break getaway. Whoops, we have the well we'll come. Yeah, for Scorpio and Venus. I think we'll come back to this. All right, let's take a little break and we'll be right back, folks. You can regather yourself with Amanda Pearce and myself, and we'll go ahead with a little bit about the Venus Star point that's just before the full moon in Taurus. Venus is on a voyage. We're gonna go with her. See you in a minute. Venus guides the Yang period of Libra, leaving the lower hemisphere focused on the self's development. Libra energy involves a completed self, meeting the other-than-self to form one-to-one partner relationships. As a cardinal air sign on the descended angle, occurring with the equinox of light, Libra's energy requires equality in friendships. Libra learns through comparison and extremes and relationships with the intention to integrate and rebalance polarity energies. Talk Cosmos ignites astrological conversations to awaken heart and soul. 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What was hidden? What wasn't really revealed? Yeah, Scorpio does not shy away from from seeing the darkness. And it wants to really it it wants to really like not necessarily embrace it, but really see it clearly so that it can say, yes, this this should continue, or no, this should go. Yes. And that is like, that's the life-death angle that Scorpio often often takes where it's like this I want to see this clearly so that I know if it needs to die or not. Yep. And I can get rid of it. Otherwise it's it's in us and it's dead. And it's kind of deaf energy that we're holding on to and leave. We don't have any way of exchanging because nobody can support everything they have. No nation, no person, nothing. I mean, you you know, p people at this point, you may have a surrogate mother or something in in the tet, but still you had an egg that came from somewhere. In other words, life has two factors. T there's companionship on some basis. There's a commitment, there's there's There's my resources, my grain for your cattle, whatever it is, even in back old days, whatever it is, there's joint finances, merging, legacies. You know, they it needs to be Continued. Yeah, and there's otherwise there's a crisis. You know, it it we need to have that empowerment. Well. And this pretty much says everything because it it is of extremes. But it's regeneration. I think that's and rebirth. There is rebirth. And that's the Yeah, and and you know, the beautiful thing here with with this this Venus Scorpio retrograde transit and this the Scorpio energy of like really being willing to see. It takes a lot of energy and strength, and courage to this and The traditional ruler of Scorpio is Mars. And that is that that courage, that warriorship that we can bring in here to actually look deeply at these things so that we can alchemize them and and shift them and integrate what we need to so that we can be reborn as a newer version of ourselves. I think part of it also is realizing you can go through it. Maybe not as quickly. That's the I think that's where some of the fear comes along and Neptune can just sabotage, like even the Odyssey. Odysseus got lost on his for ten years. Because the point you're going through your traumas, you're going through your experiences. There is a shift. There is a it takes a while to catch up with our emotions, how you're feeling about things. But if one remembers it, if one Powers if one continues taking a step or allowing it to be that you can eventually go through it, you know, and in that process discover things that you you need that are helpful, that are really beautiful for your yeah, rebirth. Well, it is a Scorpio Venus star point, and not to belabor this at all, but because last week with Louise Eddington and Dr. Tad we did it, and next week with L Liz Machette we're doing relationships. But one of the factors just to bring out is this yaw that and it really it accentuates pretty much what I was saying about V Neptune, that we might have that fear and by having the fear, you know of of the what vision we're trying to say is to escape, you know, to just think of of some other means of delusion or or whatever. Because but doing the course and but it's not a real yacht, it's sort of angled off in different directions. But there's this adjustment period that we're going through for what to find pure along with our values. It's right here. It's in process and that'll be on the twenty third, just before the the the full moon. Yeah, and this is one thing to note about the Venus Star Point is that it is a casimi. It's Venus Casimi the Sun. And so what what that means is that Venus gets her her royal connection with with the sun, with the king, and gets to sit and have the king's ear. That traditionally the sun would be the king. And There is so there is an exchange that happens and the and Venus is gifted with a new trajectory or a new mandate given by the king, by this spiritual leader, essentially. And so this is it's it's just it's just a beautiful piece that we can think about as we're moving deeper into this Venus Scorpio retrograde. And this new Scorpio Venus star point is starting for us to to think about where we want to go in terms of our own depth. And that point, I I appreciate you expanding on that concept because the Venus star point will be the last of its hundred years cycle. And that will stay as a point for the next four years until Libra comes into replace its whole next hundred year cycle. Now how it does its relationships will alter, but for right now it is directing the scene as far as that five Venus star points, which we'll talk about next week. So just remember zero degree Scorpio is like your nodes i in the sense that it is an important point to keep because it will have that connection between the passions of what your heart wants. Like you you brought up with the sun in the sign of Scorpio. Like what is our truth? Well I am with Amanda Moon just to bring up right now and you can get a hold of her at Amanda Moon astrology. And She does consultations. And next week will be Scorpio Venus Star Point relationship with Liz Mouchette, who has been with us in the past over many years and returning as a guest, which I'm quite excited to talk about with on the concepts. Her Venus Star Point happens to be Cancer. Mine is Aries. So we're both involved with that Scorpio, you know, in different ways. It's It's very exciting. And then the following that will be US midterm elections with Rob Pichetti and Justin Elsey. And Justin will be returning too for a as a guest on because they have a lot to talk about, not so much politically speaking, but what are these energies leading up to what is really another momentous development in our history here in this country and the na and the world. And these are a few that we've had that you might look at. There was with the nodal turning rod and the vibrations. And because we're the moon, there's a sponsorship for the year. Laura Tad Mythic Sky has a book that she's produced and also does a free meditation that's in support of that. So go to Mythic Sky. You can look at her book and That's interesting. Well, let's focus, Amanda, on our next sequel. We won't take the full we'll we're going over an hour, I realize, folks, because we have that liberty now. We're not trying to, but it's a natural evolution. And we won't take an hour. We'll wrap this up. But we do have a few important points. And Taurus at two degrees at the very beginning on October 26th. It's two degrees 46 minutes. Right on my husband's moon. So there is a constellation. And there's a Sabian involved. And maybe we should go a little bit about what Taurus is. Taurus is, but let's talk about the Sabian. Shall we do that first? Let's do it. Yeah. Okay. What an amazing, another amazing visual spiritual imagery. Natural steps lead to a lawn of clover in bloom. So it is tactile. It is Out in nature. And it's a gradual thing of what we're realizing, which is really a supportive, beautiful, soft, you know, our feet are being cushioned gently by all of that clover. We might even find a four-leaf clover, as in this picture. But it's it's the three natures of man, I suppose, is what Rujar mentions. which is the Trinity, I guess, of the self, the spirit, the I'm not sure what to be honest. Well, it's it's a very Taurean symbol here. You know, it's it's nature based, it's there's it's leading to a a beautiful landscape. Clover symbolically represents abundance and growth. protection, positivity, hope, luck, renewal, harmony. So these are really beautiful energies that we that naturally we're moving towards. And so that I think that's the key is is these are natural steps. We're we're moving towards the this organically and to just allow that to unfold. To remember to keep that that grounding energy that that Taurus is known for and and stay in the flow. Yes, it's a natural fulfillment. That's very that's actually after the last one of two men being held in jail. This is get we'll get through this. And we've just started that as of yesterday. So we're this is leading ahead that just by going through this. the process that we're in that we're able to embody because Taurus is very much to go about the Tarian archetype, our body, the spirit that has come into form, that is our senses, our resources, our sense of survival. You know, it takes a lot for that plant to go through the earth, to reach to the sun, to be established. Yeah, it's it's it like Libra, it wants peace, you know, it really wants harmony and it will do whatever it takes to keep it and to keep keep things stable when it can. So this is it's a lovely moon. The moon loves being in Taurus, so to have that as a full moon. With this Sabian symbol I I really like. It it really is is saying like all this digging deep that we're doing in this new moon period, there's gonna be a fruition of it at the full moon. Yes, diligence and determination. Venus again rules Taurus, as we've been mentioning, but just to bring that out, it will be two degrees 46 minutes on October 26th in Taurus. Uranus is still retrograde, as she or as he at bose is since September until February in Gemini, between the early degrees, five degrees to one degree. You know, give or take some. But and Pluto's direct. So we have weathered. In fact in four days as I mentioned on the fifteenth, Pluto is direct and that's at three degrees Aquarius out of bounds still moving a little bit more out of bounds. So we're still on our individuated path going forward. I think the thing about Taurus is so self reliant. You know, it's not naturally codependent. It it's those resources that really are used in exchange that Scorpio, which is polarity point, says, you know, I'm gonna take my resources because the that's the problem is you can get in a rut with Taurus and not want to change. You know, it's a fixed sign and it's earth. know, it's very fixed and it takes a lot to dislodge it. So that is the shadow side of it. But yet it gets to a point where it's scarcity, it's not abundant because it doesn't have what it takes to feed it. It needs either the water, perhaps, it needs the grain, it needs the software, it needs something, you know, somebody else has it. You've got to trade or barter or some kind of work. But in the meantime, you you have to produce that those resources within so you have something to exchange. Yeah. And and the the guide of Venus is has gone back now into Libra. So we're not in that Scorpio energy as much. Although, you know, it's still there. There's still gonna be some some waves of it. And we'll be heading back into it eventually. But for this this full moon period, it's a little bit lighter, I think, as well with with Venus in in Libra. Yeah, they're both relationship signs, but Libra again isn't looking so much as to why we're exchanging and we have this committed relations exchange to have a deep re committed relationship. It's rather what's the the terms of our relationship? Can we really just get along? Are we seeing one-to-one with each other, you know, or just enjoying that aspect. But part of this, because it's a it's a healing process. Across the way is Chiron with the moon in and Chiron has also returned to its eight year cycle in Aries of identity. So in a really it's looking at can I be my identity? with this relationship is this an on is this an equal relationship where my identity is really living. You get a chance to review it because it will be there for a period of time. I think it's up until April or so I have it written down in another slide but Chiron is is going to be in Aries for a while so we have a chance this is just the beginning to to to reassess our identity. Well, and we've been going through that up to this point. We will have been going through that Venus Scorpio retrograde. So we will have uncovered quite a bit to work with. And with Venus now in Libra opposite that Chiron, you know, there may be some we may have greater clarity because of the work that we did to kind of dive deep within. And so There yeah, there's an opportunity here to really heal around these pieces where we may have given ourselves away for a relationship in the past or or where we've had to stand on our own and and and let go of relationships in the past, like healing around that where we we find that That place where we we know how to independently stand on our own and yet also be in relationship. So good points because the sun, you know, we think of a moon, it is a new moon, as the moon is the quickest action in the in our solar system and in shifting. But meanwhile, in a full moon, the sun is in the opposite sign and it's in Scorpio. And so Scorpio is having its own operations happening. as our emotionally as we're healing in this, but the sun is where it integrates into our our how we express our will, our ego, as we could say. And it's under that transformation that's really working on that emotional basis. Yeah, such a good point. But also in it's interestingly the apex of a yod. So it's not an easy adjustment. But it goes back again to what had been it which is ongoing, which is this business of the outer planets. Well, in that yaw, the the sun being the apex point, this is the the rebirth. And we're rebirthing ourselves after we have done all of this deep, deep You know, deep diving, excavation of ourselves and our relationships and how they've been and where have we been, maybe operating out of shadow and reclaiming that for ourselves so that we can be rebirthed. Now, a birth process is not always easy, like you said. And so this we've got Neptune, we've got Uranus. There can be some it may come suddenly, or it may like the curtain may drop and All of a sudden we see clearly with our eyes and we're like, okay, I'm different now. There are many steps. That's right. Every scorponic, scorponic, is that a word? Any rate, scorpionic. Scorpionic, yeah. Well, Mercury is here to help us out one way or the other. Once again, we have one of the three retrograde processes. It's the quickest around the sun. And this they're in water this year. Which is good because we've got all this fire and air, such as you br reminded us, we're still in the the horse year, the fire horse year, which is straight ahead plow and do it. But it's going to station retrograde just af just before also this. You know, we get the Venus start point, then we get the Mercury retrograde, then we get the full moon. So it's like ping pongs. We don't need to remember, we just know that we're we're in the tides. It's not ri maybe rip tides, you know, like the ocean. You're going this way, you're going that way. And that whole period will be from October 24th until November thirteenth, which is just past the next new moon in Scorpio. And that whole shadow was from early well. October this whole month going all through November, you know, through Thanksgiving and through Halloween, the whole business. So we get a chance to reframe our thinking process. And there Scorp, you know, Mercury is looking around the horizon of in Scorpio. But I like what you had said, and I added this it with this transformation is a whole contribution, a mycelium network of mushrooms. Or tree roots, you know, it's it's involuntary almost you could say. It's this process of of exchange that's working. Yes. Yeah. I don't remember specifically what I was referring to when I was saying that. I think it had to do with with Aquarius energy in particular. But really it's it's true it in terms of the whole process is is There's just all these little pieces under the surface that are working together and then are connecting that we don't always see. So no. Yeah. Well, wrapping up this a little bit, I think it is a painful process. There's no way about it. You know, it's not easy always to go deep into our emotional structures. It goes way back. You know, when you go retrograde, you don't have a sense of time. And it's not just mental, it's emotional. It can be back to many earlier moments of of release. In fact, I was thinking, it came across to me because radio is an arcade. Well, radio is vital. We love radio and it's a matter of transforming these days. But it is an earlier method of communication. And I suddenly was reminded of my music days that I was involved in with. And I did some with big bands. And that's definitely, you know, we love that music also, but we listen to it in new ways, but but we it's not a current style. It can't afford all those those musicians, first of all. So it's like letting go of So I'm just saying that emotionally and and time is hard to always calibrate. But we reclaim ourselves with it. In a sense, it's like recognizing, gee, what an experience, how fortunate I am to have connected on these terms. You're just speaking as as my own self there, but for all of us, it's that process, re putting together our identity, you could say. Yeah. Well said, humanity is it's it's a painful thing, right? And that's part of part of what being here in these bodies with this consciousness is is about. But on the flip side, it's quite quite transcendent. Exciting, really, because Juno, who is our it's been with this is what I was thinking of earlier about from which you brought up from April until December. That's like nine months. It's actually from spring all the way up until summer and fall is our contracts and deeply and the wife to well in that mythology the yeah to well it's a you know it's transforming our contracts yes yeah and and contracts in general but but definitely relationship contracts because Juno is a relationship asteroid and so this is It's very fitting that this Venus Scorpio retrograde is happening during this Juno Pluto conjunction where we're really looking to transform our old karmic dynamics around control, jealousy, possessiveness, dependency, which are happen to be very scorpionic energies, you know? Yep. So so yeah, this is just gonna inform that This retrograde period is and this month in particular will be helping to inform where we're going with those relationship contracts, what needs to be let go, and what can be reborn. Yeah. Broken trusts, lost opportunities, words that we regret perhaps, but yet they're all areas of readdressing deeply in a new perspective. Some information are are just let it it Loving ourselves despite for what we didn't know and going on ahead. This is another one that's coming across a a lot of social media, but I looked into it and in Lakota, which is a Sioux nation here in the United States, had a very fascinating, wonderful phrase. The wound that's held grows, the wound that's released heals. And so there is this idea of gathering the stones, which is Sotarian, taking this form in this sen representing a pain and tossing them into the river if you can or a field or disposing of them in some manner, just returning them to earth and speaking the memory out loud, but keeping one, which I think is fascinating because it's really true whether the PTSD would ever e even to whatever extent your pain is, a grief, that it was real. It was seen and witnessed, you know, that it isn't totally released. It's just recalibrated, re alchemized or alchemized. I don't know about realchemized. And I was just gonna say just gonna use that word. Were you and Lakota means allies or friends. I just again that's very Libra. Yeah. Yeah. Gary relationship, right? Yes. So my goodness. So it's our choice. Yes. I think essentially I just brought up the little chart to say that it we have that will. We have that that's the thing about Scorpio. You have that power to change what's within. That's where the power rests is inside. It's not external. despite the fact we can think of so many reasons how our lives have been affected, but it's also because of our contract that we have held with it. It's not an easy abracadabra thing, but it does it is an insight that helps navigate how to move forward as we go through with this Venus star point, or whether it's the the Libra new moon or the Taurus full moon, we can find some joy. We can get into that heart and say, I'm doing something that gives me a little joy, thank you. It's my life Me. Yeah, and maybe just even finding the joy in the tough times, you know, like it's when it's raining out, maybe maybe like dancing some puddles or something. Or if you do something silly, like I was getting ready here and I sat on my plastic water glass and I laughed about it to myself, and then I was thankful because there wasn't Time where I go, whoa, I'm get mad at myself, but now I'm laughing at myself. I thought, thank you. So I'm moving on. Not to put that in a cartoon or anything, but still, you know, it's like we can live with ourselves and find that happiness and peace, reclaiming ourselves. Yes, rebirthing. Yep. Yeah. All right. Beautiful. Well, thank you, everybody. Thank you, Amanda Pierce. Thank you for listening with us as we've extended our. Journey with you, and we just hope that yours is fruitful, yes, as you go across your clover path. Meaty, yes, a meaty month. Yeah. Shine that light. Okay. Well, we'll thank you so much, Sue. 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