The Sag full moon takes to another plane — literally. If you’re not off somewhere far away from home right now, you’re missing out on a real adventure. But fear not dear ram. Get yourself out in nature, out away from the dim glare of city light that steals the glow of stars and soak under the radiant moonbeams, raw, naked and exposed. Let the energy draw you out and away from your relative comfort and safety and experience the fullness deep in every cell. You won’t regret it.

The month starts off with Venus in the last days of your sign. Your social calendar will begin to slow down a bit and it’s going to be time to take stock of your partnerships, especially those that have taken off in the last month. Your thoughts of possibility in relationship turn to more serious and grounded places and spaces. You’re concerned with what’s real now, especially with both Mercury and Mars, both in the sign of the bull. While slowing down is not always your strong suit, I would highly recommend that you take a breather. Focus on your resources, especially as they relate to the long term. Use that great Aries ingenuity and ability to improvise as it relates to long cycles of investment and prosperity.

On the 16th, when Gemini returns to 1 degree, where it went retrograde, it’s time for you to begin the process of signing documents and agreements, some of which you have been putting off. Can you say new car? Moving cross town? Don’t stress. You’ve got a clear path now for those types of acquisitions and movements. Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron, all doing time in your house of friends, groups and associations, is still asking you, want kind of world do you want to live in? What kind of world do you want to create? As the white dove of inspiration flies into your life, let your visions for this world take wing.

If you could your receive messages from the depths of your unconscious what would it look like? If you could have a hotline to your psyche, would it be an iPhone app or would it be flat screen in your mind that lights up in full HD in your dreams? Your full moon challenge is to find that connection and then watch and listen with all of your focus, because over the course of the next 72 hours, something very important is going to rise to the surface of your consciousness and it will cause you to re-think many assumptions you’ve previously held about the nature of reality and the validity of receiving signals, messages and portents. Pay attention. The unreal will be more real than you’ve ever imagined.

If I can give any advice to people dealing with you in your life, it would be to invest in an asbestos suit. You are smokin’. You’re dynamic, sexy, provocative, edgy and did I say sexy? Whoa. The only thing that you need to watch out for is being too much of a good thing for others. You might steamroll someone without knowing how powerful you are. For you, you’re just being that dynamo hum that you have always been (or so it seems) and in reality, you’re scorching the stage around you. Things will cool off in a month and you’ll have to step it down just for the sake of your own sanity, but for now, who needs sleep? You sure don’t? Just make sure that you don’t overtax your system. Add all of the massive Aquarian energy coalescing in your house of hopes, dreams and wishes and you can start your own country if you want.

If I were you, I would hook up with an Aquarius or three. The energy that these two signs now share is almost epic. Go find a water bearer and change the world for the better. Mercury’s shift on the 7th will enable you to revise your blueprints for world domination, fine tune and tighten things up. But for now dear ram, go forth and conquer, just make sure that you leave that inner dictator at home, preferably in the basement, with chains and steady supply of Mr Rogers videos.

Years ago, the film, My Dinner With Andre was a gust of wind that changed the course of my life on many levels. One of the fascinating concepts offered up by maverick play write, Andre Gregory, was the concept that in the prison system, the citizens would play the roles of the inmates and the wardens in an extremely complex web of a self-policing society. You, dear ram-child, need to take a brief inventory and see where you fit into the complex web of reality. You may think that you are holding all the cards, calling the shots, running the program, but in reality, are you? Perhaps the inmates are, in actuality, your wardens and without their supervision, you yourself would cease to exist.

What am I getting at? No matter how much you think you’re on top, from another point of view, you’re actually on the bottom. The solution? Employ compassion with excess and you’ll free yourself from that infernal hierarchy.

Woo hoo, I think your theme song for much of April has to come from an Aries brethren, (sun and ascendant in Aries) Eddie Murphy, and his gloriously bad attempt at crossing over to the realms of pop and R&B. You know the song I’m talking about, don’t you? “Party All The Time.” Your in full-power mode now, but just wait until the Venus-Mars conjunction that occurs at month’s end. Watch out. You’ll be a force to be reckoned with, but just make sure that you don’t scorch the rest of us mere mortals with that fiery sizzle with which you’ll be melting your reality.

The full moon on the ninth, however, causes you to pause, albeit even momentarily, to take stock of your emotions. Are you being fair with yourself? With others? As Venus retreats back into Pisces, just on the other side of the Libra full moon, the chance to experience emotional healing for all signs is present, but you in particular can heal some incredibly deep wounds, especially when it comes to betrayal. All personal betrayal is an outgrowth of the mythological betrayal of Eve in the garden and God expelling our immortal selves out onto the mortal plain of the fall…of suffering and the illusion of separation.

This original betrayal gets played out in the drama of our relationships, from the cradle to the grave. With Venus, stepping backward into Pisces, you have the opportunity to begin to heal the sense of cosmic betrayal that resides in our DNA. The solution? Forgiveness. Deep, compassionate forgiveness for all of your relationships, even to that jealous and vengeful God that allows suffering to seemingly rule the day on this planet. Go deep, then flame on!

Your Kosmic hero for this month? The Human Torch.

With all that’s going on in your life right now, especially with that Venus Retrograde causing you to re-examine nearly every relationship in your life, the very last thing that you need is stress and drama with your job. Well, there’s nothing like multi-tasking to get an Aries moving. The level of expectation and even criticism for you at work is almost off the charts. Some of this is fueled by your own need to achieve, but a lot is being generated form the outside as well as the pecking order is now nipping down at you. Your boss’ boss’ boss’ boss was likely threatened at fork point by a bunch of people that haven’t done any real work in the last twenty years, or perhaps their lives and yet, their entitlements are not quite what they used to be, so in order to feed their insatiable appetites, the heavy vibes are spreading in your direction. You are asking yourself questions like, “Why them and not me?” And, quite frankly that is a very good question for you.

But the real trap is to dwell in the unanswerable. Simply keep your head down, your powder dry, get things done and live in the question. Let it burn in you until you cannot contain it any longer, then use it as a flame thrower in your life to burn away everything that keeps you from being your own version of the ultimate success story.

Turnaround is fair play, they say, unless it’s on your shift. This is a tricky time for you on the emotional front and you need to treat all of your most important interactions with those you love with kid gloves, because if you take those gloves off, it’s your knuckles that could be hurt as well as someone’s nose.

The Sun and Mercury are giving off divine signals, calling you to go deeper and open up to the vast expanses of Spirit, but here, on this plane, it’s a hall of mirrors and the ugly face staring back at you in the mirror might be your very own distorted visage. I doubt that you would want to hurt another or yourself and yet you need to draw lines, make distinctions, create healthy boundaries, all without overreacting. This isn’t easy for most of us, least of all the hothead of the cosmos. But if you can hang in there until the last week of March, when Mercury comes to your rescue and provides you with blessed clarity and relief, you’ll learn a lot about not projecting your shadows and fears onto those you love.

But if you do, no worries, you’ll be able to sort much of it out by the time your birthday rolls around and as “The Oracle” tells “Neo” in The Matrix, “You’ll be right as rain.” In the meantime, retire to the mountaintop whenever you can, where you’ll find considerably more clarity and inner calm than the world is offering up in its fragmented and fuzzy reflection.

Both you and Leo must defer to your natural innocence for the next forty-eight hours. When I refer to innocence, I don’t mean to resort to a child like state of dependence, immobility, petulance and fear…but to see the world through humble eyes and an open heart. It’s critical for you now to do your best to understand that there is a higher plan at work to bring about some purpose and meaning in your life, even though you may not understand it right now. Don’t fight against the tide on this one. If you can remain relatively open and blame-free during this eclipse and moon cycle, you have the opportunity to open your heart to a greater source of love than what you are accustomed to. However, don’t be deceived by false imitations that promise the succor of love and forgiveness. You’ll know the real thing when you don’t have to fill in the blanks or justify why it isn’t enough.

When I cast my inner eyes upon your chart and your life in general, the song and artist that comes to mind is “Freedom” by Jimi Hendrix. It’s such a prophetic track for him as it’s recorded with The Band of Gypsies, Hendrix’s return to his roots with Buddy Miles on drums and Billy Cox on bass. It was recorded for the Cry Of Love record. For Hendrix, freedom was paramount and it became something of a problem for those that didn’t think that millions of people needed more freedom in their lives. With five planets in Aquarius, all in your house of radicalese, you are a rebel without a pause. Then we’ll throw in Venus in Aries to throw a little gas on your romantic fires and voila, you’ve got the flames of liberation licking at your navel. The question for you, is how far, how fast and how much? If you were to ask me? I’d burn the bridge and not look back. I hear the view from the other side is exceptional. You just have to figure out who you want to share it with, at least temporarily, since the immediacy and expediency of this time for you does not promote longevity. Blaze like a phoenix, like Jimi, strings and wings on fire and leave the gravity of your current reality far, far behind.

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Batten down the hatches matey. This moon gets into your head like a virus. You think about what it was like to be five-years-old, that little kid that was on the chasm of blank slate and socially indoctrinated self. It’s a bittersweet time where you see your life through a deeply emotional lens. I think that if you have ever struggled with any sort of inconsistencies around your emotional nature and how you present yourself to the world, this moon offers you deep insight into how to bridge the disparity those two disparate states. For all male Aries, simply surrender and lift the veil of tears, which will in turn bring you into the laughter of your soul. For female Aries, claim your righteous state of being ninja-daycare-goddess and fiercely love all of your most intimate relations.

Jupiter will give you both the courage and the ability to make major changes in your life during 2009. Cover as much ground as you can, challenge yourself, take some reasonable risks, go to places you’ve never been, do things differently. Different is very, very good for you in 2009. Break the patterns, the habits, the modes of thinking and seeing the world in ways that you have become used to. Systematically blow up your preconceptions about what reality is and your role in it, then dare to dream new possibilities. You need to do this because in 2010, Saturn in Libra will oppose your sign for two-and-a-half years and your will will be challenged, particularly in relationships where you will experience your greatest challenges. But why fret about what hasn’t happened yet? Cover as much ground as you can and allow your identity to impress itself upon the collective and vice-versa. Be big, be bold and be prepared to go beyond your limitations in 2009, but most of all, be prepared to share your radical discoveries with the rest of us. You need witnesses and we need the stories.

This month, when Mercury hits it’s retrograde position on the 12th, you need to make sure that all of your communications in the corporate world are clean, tight and above board. Don’t try anything fancy, simply stay the course and make sure that you hold others as accountable as they hold you. This will dovetail with a greater, collective energy that will impact the whole as well, especially as it relates to the economy. Uphold your ethical standards at all cost and be prepared to offer solutions to challenges at the highest levels in your work when Mercury goes direct on the third of February.

Your peak months this year are: February, April, May, July, August, November and December.

The moon rises in your communication sector. You’ve got a helluva lot to say and you’re not going to be denied any opportunity to air things out emotionally over the weekend. I advocate your speaking your mind (notice I didn’t say truth), but you need to be very cautious as The Gemini Full Moon opposes the heavy Sag activity in your house of wisdom and knowledge. What you might think passes for “your truth” might simply be an annoyance to others. Engage in dialog versus making proclamations. Ask questions instead of offering unsolicited advice and make sure that you would not ask something of another unless you would subject yourself to the same standards and circumstances. If you can perform these simple acts, while others are losing their minds around you, you’ll be able assume a leadership position in almost any situation. Listen, think, listen some more and act. That is your manual for successful full moon engagement.

You’ve seen fire and you’ve seen rain, but this month fire and air conjoin to give you a much needed blast of inspiration. With The Sag Sun peaking in your house of higher consciousness along with Mercury and Mars, the blinders should be off and the answers to your questions along with the path of action needed in order to break through your recent inertia are yours if you have the courage to listen and move on what your higher self is insistently trying to communicate with you. Synchronicities rule and you should not discount any seeming coincidence in your life. There are answers in them if you are willing to untangle their often bizarre manifestations. Uranus has moved forward and this is, along with the power of Sag is what is turning your inner life inside out. It’s important that you act and not wait until conditions seem more suitable as Mercury and then The Sun will move into Capricorn, asking you to take a more familiar leadership role, so prepare yourself now, by taking decisive action in any area of your life that demands you be truthful, authentic and spiritually rigorous with your own personal standards. Your move.

The Scorpio Sun, along with Mercury and Mars squares your natal Sun throughout most the month and power struggles abound. You want it, have it, they have it, you want it and as always when Scorpio gets involved, it feels like life or death. With all of that intense power struggle going on, you need a time out is a really big way on Thursday. That’s not to say that your struggles and issues around money aren’t real and need to be dealt with, they do. But once you get them finished and off your plate, I would highly and I mean highly recommend you take Thursday off and get to a day salon or if you can, a spa that has mud baths as part of their package. You need to be wrapped in the soothing balm of earth itself, smoothing out frayed nerves and recharging your connection to the great mother. I promise, you won’t regret it.

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That Uranus/Saturn opposition is sending a lightning bolt through your life, especially when it comes to work. Be prepared for the unexpected as the universe is ready to deliver a major course correction for you when it comes to plying your trade in the world. Saturn has been bearing down upon you, forcing you to deal with things at a pace that is much slower than your usual express train speed. This has been a lesson in following through, attending to details and not always being the one driving the train. Well, that’s all going to change very soon. That doesn’t mean that you’ll be out on the street looking for work. On the contrary. You could find yourself on the top of the heap after the smoke clears in your workplace and after all of the patience, teeth-gnashing and chomping at the bit, your chance to be free and clear of the limitations that you’ve been dealing with are in motion.

A word of caution to you though. Even though things are ready to flip and the energy will be released, the universe has the first move–the last little bit about patience and holding space that you’ll have to learn. Breath deep, hold and prepare yourself for the release you’ve been dreaming, hoping, wishing and praying for. You’re close, very, very close. Pluto moving into your house of career and public standing is the enrgy that will carry you to the top of your field in the next sixteen years. Deliverance is at hand.

The eighties song for the soundtrack of your life in November is: The The “This Is The Day Your Life Will Surely Change.”

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The Moon rises in your house of identity and you are on fire, hot and ready to take a stand, especially since the aforementioned square with Mars and Venus in Scorpio triggers deep and buried emotions that you have been sitting on for far-too-long and The Sun and Mercury in your house of relationships is the trigger. Close, one-on-one relationships is where the action takes place, firing off the emotional reactions that set off a chain reaction. Just remember, below the anger is grief and once you get to the bottom of the rage, you’ll tap into the depths of your pain which will lead you to the blessed grace of forgiving and being forgiven. Don’t back away from the challenge. Your process is our process and the healing you experience adds to the collective transformation that we all yearn for.

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The Libra new moon on the 29th of September should have allowed you to hit the re-set button on relationships, especially with lovers in your life. The love fest continues with The Sun and Mercury urging you to find compromise and take you out of your comfort zone of “my way or the highway.” It’s a little uncomfortable at first but you’ll find that your beloveds will love you even more as a result. How cool is that? Well when you’ve got Venus and Mars in your eighth house in October, the hugs and kisses lead to much deeper mysteries of the spirit and the flesh. With the full moon rising in your sign on the 14th, squaring both Venus and Mars, keeping your cool is critical. Avoid confrontation at all costs and if you have to cross swords with someone, make sure it’s a last resort, because as in back in the days of The Samurai, you don’t pull a sword unless you plan to use it to the death and while the example is a dramatic one, it speaks to the finality of any conflict you initiate. Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo are still squaring your Sun, driving you towards excellence in your work, rewarding you with all of the hard work you’re putting in. Don’t blow it by losing your cool.

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Along with Virgo, The Pisces Full Moon might the hardest full moon for you to deal with. It comes to rest in your 12th house and forces you to disconnect from your head and get down with your soul, especially as it relates to significant others, as the mighty stellium in Libra opposing your natal Sun is demanding that you get with the program in relationships or get gone. Let the Moon guide you with symbols and images from your dreams as to how you need to resolve the gaps between you and your beloved. Let go and let Goddess.

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The whip cracking, order barking, march leading, kid of the cosmos is in a slightly uncomfortable space in September. Yes, it’s true you have to take a back seat to others this month as Virgo and Libra fall into your sectors of service and relationship. Your yoga for the next thirty days is to understand how you can manage to retain your identity while you surrender it in the act of service and partnership. You can still be a catalyst but for now, it’s indirect. Lead by example if you must lead at all, but ultimately it would do you a little good to follow right now, your ego could use a time out, but I promise you, with all of that energy in Libra, it won’t be in solitary confinement, unless of course you choose to cut yourself from the rest of the world in order to maintain the illusion of control. For the next three months, you’re learning more about power from the inside out and how your thoughts, feelings and actions impact others. December will mark a new understanding of your place in the universe with an enlightened perspective. Until then, chop wood, carry water and do it for someone else if they need the help.

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The Aquarian full moon is an elemental soul mate of yours. It allows you to leap out of your “I AM” perspective into the realms of higher ground and seeing the groups will instead of your own. This is never clearer this month than in the workplace, where you will be motivated to inspire others as well as your own performance by setting and achieving goals that promote unity and team building. While you may have the entire blueprint in your minds eye to achieve these goals, it’s very important for you to allow others to share in the lead role and contribute to your vision at a high level. You have the ability to experience a new level of empowerment and as a result, humility by being inclusive and watching how a higher level of intelligence co-creates with you and adds it’s own sense of order. You’ll be amazed by the quality of synergy you can achieve through leading and letting go.

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You are on the prowl, looking for love in all the right places. The heart is not a lonely hunter for you in early August as you’ll have plenty of energy and a directed will that makes it imperative to love and be loved—you’ll settle for nothing less than the intensity and passion firing on all levels. For committed Rams this is a great opening to re-kindle flames and remember why you are with your partner. For single Aries or those with a longing to be, have no fear as you’ll be in demand when it comes to partnering. You can call the shots if you wish, but sometimes it’s just as much fun to receive as well as give. Mid-month however, the party is over and work will demand that you pay strict attention to what’s taking place. Go with the flow and put in extra hours and days if need be. It ‘s critical that you do so now, because in September and October you’ll need to free yourself up for important relating with your beloved. Get it done now and you’ll rest easier if you need to book a quick getaway to a romantic destination for important one-on-one relating.

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While you share some characteristics with the cloven-hoofed-sea-goat, like drive and ambition, your energies are fairly different. Capricorn takes it’s time while time for the ram is often an annoyance and rarely, if ever an ally. This moon tests your patience, especially as it relates to the work place. That sound you’re hearing is your head hitting the ceiling of your patience and perhaps your own ability to rise in your current position. Cooler heads prevail and even though you might actually have the right idea or best course of action, it may not matter though to those in charge based on their vantage point. Take a breath, seek to find the long view and learn what you can while you are being tested on a number of different levels. In other words, just chill out!

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All in the family is your theme at the beginning of this month as the Cancer sun and Venus in Cancer hunker down in your family zone and while you will want/need to spend more time with your loved ones, your situation at work is about to set itself on fire, as Mars joins Saturn already entrenched in your house of work and service. Cancerian energy is not one that you resonate with easily as you find the sentimentality of the sign too cloying and slow, bogging down your desire to push forward. The Crab moves sideways and this month with your family, you’d be advised to follow rather than lead. Mars energy is demanding and you will no doubt feel the increased workload in your career, but the good news is, is that you’ll have the energy to take it on. This is an initiatory time for you in your career and the next month is where you’ll either fly or fall. Try to find balance between your job and your family as both pull you in different directions. Jupiter is still backpedaling around finances and resources, which means you have the opportunity to pay down debt very easily right now. Don’t put it off.

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The Sag full moon is tailor-made for you. When it shines brightly on your house of higher consciousness, you will have a glimpse into a higher order, a working plan that is a blueprint of your highest expression, especially as it relates to the oneness of all beings. This full moon allows you to step out of the highly cultivated persona of self-hood and connect with the logos and your place in it. Get to a mountaintop somewhere to take in the splendor of this revelatory lunar phase, then come back down and share your visions with the rest of us.

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