September 2023 Energy Report

September 2023 Energy ReportJennifer Hoffman – As we enter a new month we have a new mission and it is the harvest, the gathering up, processing, and storing of food for the upcoming winter.

Until the birth of grocery stores, refrigeration, and freezing, this was the focus at this time of the year, and I think we should bring some of that back. We have lost touch with the natural rhythm of life and have traded convenience for congruence with nature.

Don’t get me wrong, I love modern conveniences but if you know me you know that I do enjoy more traditional methods of food preparation and this is a time when I harvest my garden’s bounty, can, freeze, and prepare my food for winter, and begin to think about cooler temperatures and warmer clothes. Continue reading

A September Month of Twists and Turns

A September Month of Twists and TurnsHenry Seltzer – This is an unusual month, beginning as it does in the wake of the Leo New Moon that featured a partile or same-degree square from the Sun and Moon to disruptive Uranus in Taurus, indicating unexpected events and surprise enlightenment.

We must note that this lunation cycle still has the first two weeks of September to go before its thirty days have ended. This unusual emphasis on the Trickster is coupled with the inner planet retrogrades of Mercury and of Venus as the month begins.

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Ready for Retrograde

Ready for RetrogradeJennifer Hoffman – Every calendar year we have a number of planets that have retrograde cycles and this year is no different. Except this year and specifically this month, we will have 7 retrograde planets and that is a lot. The only planet that is not retrograde will be Mars and it did a 3 month retrograde in Gemini in 2022, ending it the first week of January 2023. That Mars retro is significant to what is happening now, more on that later. If you wonder why I don’t mention the sun and the moon, it’s because they never go retrograde and they don’t figure in here.

Technically we can include the Sun in this group of retrogrades because Venus is currently retrograde in Leo, which is ruled by the sun. So that gives us a total of 8 planets in a field of 9. I think that is significant, don’t you? Continue reading

Mercury Retrograde And Uranus Stationing Retrograde in August 2023

Going OfflineLorna Bevan – Expect to really feel the elemental shift this week from Fire to Earth, as the Sun exits Leo on August 23rd returning to Virgo where Mercury is stationing retrograde on the same day. The Messenger rules Virgo so this retrograde between August 23-September 16th and 21°- 8° Virgo will be especially strong.

This is the 3rd Mercury retrograde of 2023 in an Earth sign – channel the potential by being practical, grounded, strategic and resourceful, tending to the small stuff before it becomes the big stuff. Continue reading

Mercury Retrograde: Slow Down and Listen to the Past

August 23 to September 14, 2023

Mercury Retrograde: Slow Down and Listen to the PasGillian MacBeth-Louthan – As the vibrations of Mercury wraps itself around us we once again journey to the land of ‘nots’. In this land of many knots (nots) you are asked to look at what still binds you in body, heart, and soul.

Mercury retrograde asks you to look at what you do not want to acknowledge, what you do not want to let go of, what you do not want to heal. The winged messenger Mercury has a small limp at this time, as he sits upon a stone beckoning the sacred waters from the healing well to run across his stress lines.

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