If there was one full moon that could give you the inspiration and the impetus to save the world, it would be this one. Your powers of influence are at an all time high and you can really make some waves, which you almost always like to do. The one thing that you have to guard against is unrealistic expectations that you might project onto others. Not everyone is where you are at this time, so you’ll have to carve out some space for those that aren’t willing to get out as far on the ledge as you are. Don’t judge them or shut them out. They’ll be ready when it’s time. In the meantime, make a stand for what you know and party like it’s 1999.

Jupiter is about to go retrograde and since it’s in your own sign, it will give you pause to think about whether or not you are achieving the goals you set forth this year, or whether those goals are truly worthwhile anyway. It’s a time for you to reflect upon the big picture and reformulate the path you are on. Are things not looking the way you thought they would in the world, with a president in your opposite sign? Remember, this is your time, your year and you have unique opportunity and responsibility to create a better world for yourself and the rest of us. It doesn’t matter if you work for a Fortune 100 company or The White House (which look an awful lot alike these days) you can still imprint the world with your creations, inventions, innovations and new ways of relating to and with one another.

We’re counting on you to bring the big magic out of the box and turn it loose upon the world. June is the perfect month for such a reappraisal of your process. The key to it all is to allow yourself to entertain creative possibilities that you haven’t given yourself permission to explore and experience. What are you waiting for? Make sure you take care of yourself while you’re burning the midnight oil. The energy of Taurus suggests some very timely help on this front, where you are nurtured and fed on a very real level. Don’t get all detached and impersonal though — you’ll spoil the reward for the other in the act of giving.

There comes a time in some of our lives when we have to make ethical choices in our careers. Is what we are doing for money and self-actualization aligned with who we really are? Is the gap between our inner selves and our career selves getting wider to the point where we are getting perilously close to being cognitively dissonant? This full moon cycle is a major moment for you in terms of how healthy the relationship is between your soul and the corporate soul. Are you doing work that is getting dangerously close to standards that you do not agree with? This is important to ask and to know, because it doesn’t just affect you; it affects all of us in some way shape or form. Maybe you’re working on some vaccine that hasn’t been thoroughly tested and is about to get released or maybe you see the product cycle as being increasingly obsolescent or maybe you just don’t like the way the company is treating it’s employees. You need to take some sort of a stand, because your actions affect the rest of us in ways that we cannot calculate, even if they seem mundane. Do the right thing.

If you’re catching American Idol right now, you’re probably witnessing one of the greatest, singular talents that show has ever showcased. I’m talking about Adam Lambert, who each week turns tunes inside out and arrangements on their head. I have rarely witnessed any vocalist so dialed in, so aware, so self-possessed and so conscious. Lambert has the rare gift of being deeply into a song but also deeply aware of every nuance and falsetto run that he unleashes. This is the power of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron, all conjunct, all lifting Lambert above the din…aiding and adding to his considerable talent on the big stage.

Well, you may not be Adam Lambert, but that star power is coursing through the life of every water bearer. Don’t shy away from it — Lambert sure as hell hasn’t. Own your own unique and particular genius and let it shine like no other time. This is an incredibly instructive and empowering phase for you and others that know you. You have the ability to really demonstrate your unfettered self-expression, while being so aware of it’s presence in your life that you do not fall into arrogance, or some self-deprecating device that shifts the attention and focus off of you. You’ve earned these rare moments so live them as fully and authentically as possible. Add Mars and Venus cavorting through your own house of hopes, dreams and wishes for a better life on this planet, and you’re almost approaching avatar status. Heady stuff. Just go with it as long as you keep your heart open, you’ll be just fine.

If you’re not hatching a plan for world peace in your spare time during this full moon cycle, then you’re asleep at the wheel because there has never been a better time. In order to do so, you’ll need to look at who is in the room around you and then focus in on the most personal aspects of these individuals. Therein lies the portal of potential. Drill down and see eye-to-eye instead of your usual third-eye-to-third-eye. See the horizontal experience of all sentient beings and you will be blessed in your ability to get down a little closer to the ground. If you can’t go there, then ratchet up to the immortal truths of the ages for all souls and then hit your highest mark, like launching a dart onto the bulls eye of life. Let ‘er rip.

I would highly recommend that you explore as many different ways to communicate as possible over the next 40 days. Your role and goal is to make as many breakthroughs in communication as you can. Go to a zoo and strike up a conversation with a hippo, hit the aquarium and reach out to an eel. Go find a new social network that isn’t over-used and over-hyped. Sit at a cafe an imagine that you can hear the thoughts of others in your own mind decoding their inner dialogs. Speak directly to a blooming Tulip and listen with rapt attention. Learn some sign language and few, key curse words in Portuguese. You are truly an explorer in communication and language and the more you experience and learn, the more that you understand that separation is merely a concept and in so doing you begin to open up to the vast body of knowledge that we all have at our disposal at all times — a collective field of intelligence is waiting to communicate with us and you, your rascally rebel, have the power and the access codes to begin to have a dialog with this awesome force. It starts with unknowing and surrendering your disbelief.

Say “hi” to a sow bug in passing, you just might be greeting the Buddha. Venus’ retrograde back into Pisces will offer you the opportunity to heal the rift between who you are and what you perceive to be your worth. There’s a whole lotta judgment going on right now with people thinking that they didn’t invest enough, or invested too much on the wrong things — just a lot of imbalance, and you can do your part in healing the financial wounds we’re suffering by seeing how you bring value to the lives of others, simply by being you.

I know a young, Aquarian woman who is really struggling with money issues, but she is an amazing Thai massage therapist who spends over two hours pulling, moving and stretching bodies almost twice her size. People feel amazing after she works on them. If she could somehow understand how they truly feel, she would be enriched to the point where her confidence would override her scripted version of lack. Realize who you are and what you do for those you love and put that in the safety deposit box of your soul.

Your Kosmic hero this month? The Sub-Mariner.

Much like Cap, you’re flying high, but for different reasons. Jupiter and Neptune are imbuing you with a sense of purpose and vision that seems natural to who you are and what you are here to do. Most days are filled with confidence and possibility — except for the next few. In the movie Dune when Paul M’uad Dib Atrieades sticks his hand into the box and the Benne Gesserit make him think his hand is on fire, “fear is the mind-killer” is the constant refrain.

This moon is a lesser version of that scene for you. Your thoughts and dreams are unlike other times and they reveal aspects that are incredibly emotional, deep a vulnerable. The normally analytical Aquarian can be at a loss when it comes to dealing with the psyche as it unleashes itself without the censor of the conscious mind filtering the intensity. Your job is to invoke the witness self and interact with these phantasms and seeming illogical feelings in ways that you can both learn from one another. In essence, don’t judge of fear the intensity — what you resist persists.

The wunderkind of the cosmos is still in celebration mode and will be for most of 2009. In fact, this year might be the longest party you’ve ever attended. Lucky you. With Mercury in Aquarius still around during the first part of the month, along with Mars until the 15th, Jupiter of course and Neptune, you have the power of inspiration and the ability to act on it for the first two weeks of the month. It’s kind of like knowing that you have the odds on your side or the wind at your sails, or some other useful cliche that I will spare you.

Make it happen, take some risks in areas that promote you and when you promote you, it’s probably got some cause or idea attached to it, so you would likely be promoting it as well. While the rest of us might be indulging in doubt, you can still carry the torch and show us that we can still be inspired and make changes on many levels, if we are aligned with something that is intrinsically reflective of our nature, ideals and self. Do it now, because once Mars moves into Pisces mid-month, you’ll be spending more time sorting through what’s important for you when it comes to security, finances and your own well being.

Think of this time as exhalation and from the 16th on, one, deep, inhalation. For you, this Venus Retrograde causes you to re-think key friendships and familial relations, etc. Changes are definitely in the wind and you’re the one that’s instigating them, the catalyst, especially if you follow through on my directions at the start of this reading. Ultimately, this Venus Retrograde is about restoring some balance in relating and you’re the one tapped to do it when it comes to your own house.

Well, you’ve done your very best to put this off for as long as you can, but the moment of truth in relationships has finally arrived, and it won’t go down as some mellow accord, a simpatico meeting of hearts and minds. No, you will have to abandon your detached perspective and be drawn into some very personal assessments regarding feelings. Instead of being clinical and analytical, I would advise you to open your heart and drop your persistence in being right. Even though you might be, using the force of your estimable intellect to make your points could be very damaging to you in the long run. Surrender, come into your body and feel the other’s position. You’ll be amazed at the perceptions you derive as a result. How cool is that?

I’d shake your hand and wish you a happy birthday if I wasn’t afraid of getting electrocuted. Talk about running some energy! I think that the greatest birthday gift that you could give yourself this month (or perhaps already have) is to allow your most eccentric qualities come to the fore in all of their curious glory. It’s your stage now and the rest of us are captive audiences to the fairness, equanimity, big picture and universal space you’re holding for the rest of us. To say that “you’re on” is like say that Lindsay Lohan is looking like she lost a few pounds recently.

Go ahead and dive into your on-ness with passion and humor. Don’t allow anyone to bring you down either. You’re too good for any haters or nattering nabobs of negativity. Shine that refracted Solar light that you split into 1,000 different fiber optic filaments and touch each and every one of us. However, while you’re beating your own drum, others, ones that have a decidedly more personal interest in relating to you might be wondering if you’ll ever return to the horizontal plain of mere mortality. They are scared by your rapid ascent into the higher vibrations and quite frankly, want to stir up some shit, just to prove that you are human. Love them as much as you’re coming to love yourself and you will heal any rift, conquer any fear and get closer to unconditional love than at any other time of your life.

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Take some time out to purge over the weekend. From tears and fears, to taxed kidneys, drink enough water and healthy juice (wheat grass?) To allow some of the rare negativity you’ve allowed to attach to yourself to pass over, around and through you. Staying fluid is the name of the game for you this weekend, especially around situations where you have to deal with critics, both within and without. Like the moon, which passes from phase to phase, so will this crazy and challenging period of your life. Go to the ocean and witness the rise and fall of the tides to give you some perspective, This weekend is the high water mark. Get through it.

Boy howdy! Jupiter is your ticket home in many ways. What I mean by that is that Jupiter will unlock the final pieces to your personal puzzle, allowing you to really stretch out and expand into your blessed uniqueness. Neptune has been your guiding light for the past few years, opening up new pathways of consciousness, preparing you for this time when you can expand your vision into whichever field you want. Aquarian artists will have the confidence to bring radical and challenging works to the surface. Aquarian educators will find breathtaking new ways of connecting with their students. Aquarian business types will make new connections to build, market and sell new forms of technology. If this were a parade, you’d be leading the band with a crystal baton that projects dancing images of Winnie The Pooh, Woody Woodpecker, Tennessee Tuxedo, Yogi Bear and Sponge Bob doing the merengue, out in front of the parade. You get the picture. What you do this year, will not just impact your own life. but the lives of many others as well. The world needs as much visionary energy as it can get during the days ahead and you’re just one to remind us of how it’s done. This is your time to shine water bearer. Make it count.

The Mercury retrograde will bring up past slights and wounds especially as they relate to authority figures in your life. It’s a very good time to review those wounds and make sure that you can forgive, while finding your own inner authority. If this is your year and your time, you’ll need to be able to serve while you lead the band. You don’t have to completely eschew your inherent anarchy, just make sure you don’t take any criticism–up through the middle of February–personally. Objectified and detached are key words for you.

Your peak months during 2009 are: January, February, March, April, June, October and December.

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If there was one sign besides Gemini that I would hang a big, red warning sign on when it comes to any kind of holiday bash over the weekend, it’s you. This crazy moon is hanging out in your house of romance and spontaneous connection is in the air for you. There’s a feeling of fate with people you meet this weekend and then type of instant connection can move rather quickly, in fact so quickly that you’ll find yourself in the midst of a intense affair that could delight, beguile and perplex you in the weeks to come. If you’re up for it, then great. Be as conscious as you can and enjoy the ride. If you’re not, well you’re an expert at detaching. Just make sure that fate doesn’t turn into fatal when it comes to attraction.

Whenever I think of Aquarius and Sag, I think of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. Weird, isn’t it? But Pitt (Sag) and Anniston (Aquarius) to me, represented the sympatico that the two signs share(d). There was an ease to their relating from a distance–a connection that we often saw through pictures on a beach or a yacht somewhere in the adriatic. Of course, this was before all of the psycho-baby-mama-drama provided by Gemini Angelina, the fateful opposite of Pitt. Even to this day, Anniston has fond memories of Pitt and wishes him the best. Why am I going and on about this cinematic menage-a trois? It’s because there is something inherently healing in the air for you right now when it comes to people that are born under the sign of Sagittarius. Take note of all Sagittarian connections, but perhaps even more importantly adopt the broad and free wheeling spirit that is engendered when these two signs get together. There is a spirit of forgiveness in the air for you over the holiday season, so much so that your cup will be overflowing and you will go from receiver to giver in just a few short weeks. So what kind of gifts of forgiveness can you bestow upon yourself and others this holiday season? Give big

Getting really grounded in your home life is essential for you starting on Thursday and moving into the weekend. Starting and finishing projects of all kinds around the home are highly favorable for you. In fact, beyond favorable, you need it. You can’t put it off any longer. Whether it’s new pipes, a new roof, or foundation don’t put it off any longer. Domestic concerns could really be a drag on your energy, especially as it relates to your work. But you can’t take that energy and channel it into your work, because it just won’t work. Take care of the home front and deal with the details and small stuff. It will free up your psyche considerably for the bigger picture, which you already have and know, but are simply frustrated by the seemingly mundane aspects of living in a home. There’s a greater lesson here on a macro-level for you, but chop some wood and carry some water if you want to know the full story.

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Pluto is about to settle into your house of secrets for the next 16 years, linking you up with the cosmos in such way that you even by your own quirky standards, your would is going to get very strange. At first, you’ll find it slightly unsettling as Pluto in Capricorn can manifest in authority, usually an anathema to you. When it manifest through the 12th house it does so, often out of the blue, like something happens “to you” so be prepared for the external manifestations of internal power struggles. What you’ll be learning quite simply, is just how powerful you are, once you submit to your own inner authority, the part of you that knows without a shadow of a doubt what is right for you. Pluto is going to help you get very, very clear on that concept. You’ll discard old notions of authority in the process and with it your relationship with rebellion will also transform.

There might be some things from your past and personal legacy, which you rejected many years ago out of spite that will return to you with new and greater appreciation. With the Saturn/Uranus opposition, you’re being called upon to show much greater restraint with your personal finances or simply let them go. Like some other signs, November will be a make or break month for you on the financial tip. You’ll have to figure out what works for you and what doesn’t. You might not have to throw thew baby out with the bath water, but you might have to keep some of that bath water around to soak your garden. Get my drift? Affirming and letting go are essential concepts for you in regards to finances. Decide what’s real and let go of the rest.

The eighties song for the soundtrack of your life in November; The Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Knock Me Down.”

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Moral outrage seems to be the order of the day with this full moon and you are on the front lines, along with Leo to get your message out and off your chest. With The Libra Sun and Mercury challenging you to speak your truth in a diplomatic fashion, The Aries Full Moon is making that oh so difficult. The water bearers of the world have had just about enough and they are ready to pop. You’re a generally amiable and utopian bunch, but right now, your anarchic energies are being stirred and when they do, there’s no more radical sign than yours. From Johnny Rotten, to Dick Cheney, Aquarians do what they want and don’t give a damn when they’re motivated…and trust me, you are motivated. The key for you is to find the middle way if you can. You’ll be much better off and frankly, so will we.

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The higher laws of equality and fairness are paramount for you as you have access to the big picture, but this is truly potentiated with the active presence of the other. In the alchemical tradition, the alchemical bride is the inner wedding of opposites, closing the loop of duality within and without. This is part of your journey at present, but as the great alchemists throughout the ages have realized, you can’t do it alone. Wholeness requires the disparate elements of the self to bind to the concept of total and complete, unconditional love. For the mostly solo-flying Aquarian, this isn’t always an easy act to perform. Resolve the conflict of opposites inside of the self by accepting your quarks, strangeness and charm and you will attract the inner mate that reflects your free and uninhibited embrace of the self. In your career, you’re forced to get heavy, or someone wants to get heavy with you. This is also another very powerful lesson for you as Scorpio represents The Serpent ascending in your 10th house, squaring your own Sun, representing The Eagle. The table is set. Break the spell.

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This full moon may not give you the sense of security you’re looking for (hello Sarah Palin). But that’s not what it’s about. You have to time travel and go back into the people and traditions of The Earth itself. Go down deep and journey into the places where The Hopi, Maya, Dogon and Maori dwell, listen and learn of their simple, yet deeply connected way of listening to the cycles and the rhythms of the planet and how to care for it and themselves as a result. Move beyond the gatekeeper of your own mystery and feel the primal heartbeat of the mother. You will be transformed.

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Your higher ideals and aspirations are met with equal appreciation this month by like-minded souls. No other Aquarian exemplifies this better than Sarah Pallin, the presumptive candidate for vice president of The Republican Party. Literally falling into the mainstream, out of the wilderness, her conservative yet at times, breathtakingly progressive values will find a surprisingly willing and wide audience. While she is staunchly conservative on the right to life, her views on ecology and energy resources are very refreshing, coming from a party that seems to have long ago viewed Earth as way station for profit and gain. In a very prototypical Aquarian spirit, she also detests corruption and big government. There’s something of the anarchist in all Aquarians, just ask Johnny Rotten and Axl Rose and Ms. Pallin is not immune to an occasionally radical stance, it’s just that this time, this year, this moment, there are a lot of people willing to listen, learn and even embrace such characteristics. Her mission is also yours in some way: take your vision to the next level and prepare to be blown away by how many others feel the same.

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Everybody’s got to go crazy sometime and guess whose turn it is this month? Yup, you guessed it. Your ticket is punched. That’s ok; you have our permission to go over the edge, as long as you don’t hurt yourself or anyone else in the process. Your head is high in the sky and your ability to be loving and detached is unparalleled, however, with Leo stationed directly opposite the moon in your first house, you may want to follow the beat of a different drummer, but others, more likely one specific other wants to come along. You may not want the restriction or restraint that goes along with a partner right now and this could lead to some tension in your relationship, if attached. You want to be free. If you do allow someone to join you in your quest for emotional freedom, just set the expectations that you are in no way responsible for their experience.

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When Leo settles into your seventh house, it’s serious stuff, because we know how independent and aloof the water bearer can be. This Friday, your heart can open like a lotus blossom and the type of love that most folks experience, you know that maudlin, sticky-sweet-goo, yeah that love, well I hate to say it, but even you are not immune. I am reminded of an old episode of Star Trek where Spock is on a planet full of hippies that have had their heart opened by a potent flower that seems to be a vegetal version of ecstasy. He gets hit with a blast of the flowers’ powers and starts to hug and kiss and sing and look longingly into his alien lovers eyes. This is your script for early August. You can analyze it and break it down later in the month, but please hold off until then. Let the moment move and groove you.

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This is not an easy moon for you. The normally fluid and flexible water bearer is forced to deal with internal blocks and an overall inability to get to the heart of emotion and feeling. There is a rune called “Isa” which symbolizes this condition. The image is that of a frozen pond. Your internal freeze is simply calling you to crack the ice, break through and submerge into the bracing waters of awakening to spirit. You have a tremendous opportunity to connect with a source of love and wisdom that will help inform you of deeper level to your purpose. But it will take some work on your part, an active meditation of some sort that tires the mind and shatters your conditioning. A level of submission is critical. But giving in is not giving up.

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For any water-bearers that are interested or actively involved in the healing arts, July promises to be a breakthrough month as the energy is ripe for discovery and innovation in those fields. The normally eccentric and objective Aquarian is moved by empathy and feeling, allowing them to go deeper in their discoveries of new modalities, connecting the heart with the mind and making the connection between healing and the power of faith. For those water-bearers that aren’t, this is a good time to check into a check up. Get a diagnostic on some level and make sure that everything is kicking and clicking just fine. Venus moves into your seventh house near months end and you have the opportunity to connect with others in search of others wanting to connect. All you have to do is reach out and let them in.

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The Archer and The Water Bearer get along great. They both stand for higher ideals, higher orders and both can be incredibly tolerant of others. Truly progressive partners in the pantheon of the cosmos, the Sag moon resonates right in Aquarius’ home house, highlighting principles such as brotherhood and utopian ideals. This is a great time for you to promote and espouse your highest goals, dreams and wishes when it comes to such trivial matters like world peace, the end of hunger, etc. You are locked in right now by what is true and others know it. Build bridges, don’t play the rebel and tear them down—that is unless, of course, they’re erected on the faulty foundations of ignorance and inequality, in which case you have my permission to tear them down with nothing but love in your heart and a smile on your face.

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