Cosmic Correspondence: Saturn Transiting Capricorn, Mercury Stations Direct, Winter Solstice

Saturn left Sagittarius and just started his two and a half year (approximately) transit through Capricorn.  A shift for everybody, whether or not you are a Capricorn or have a lot of Capricorn in your chart.   Saturn rules Capricorn, so he’s at home there. But that doesn’t mean he’s any less of a task master. We can all expect life lessons and attention being brought to areas of our lives that we may have had in the dark or up on a shelf.  A definite shift in the energy. Saturn is an outer planet and he travels slowly…and his presence in a particular sign is noticeable.

The sun also started it’s transit through Capricorn as well.  That’s a lot of heavy, earth energy.  Stable and grounded, yes. But also…heavy.  In a way, it comes at the perfect time every year (as if the universe “knows”) because it’s a good time to set out some practical goals for ourselves. We tend to do this around this time of the year as one year ends and another is about to begin. And it’s not bad energy to work with for goal setting. Capricorn can be a very disciplined, responsible, goal-oriented energy to work with.  Call them resolutions or goals or focus points…but it’s a good time to spend some time in quiet and really figure out what we don’t want to carry over into 2018 and what we want to start anew.

And tomorrow Mercury stations direct.  So things should start to flow. Or at least feel like they’re flowing.  Communication should be better in a very general, broad sense.  There’s a “shadow period” where things still aren’t 100% moving forward and that will linger until the first few days or week of January. But things should start to feel better for all of us more and more every day.

And the winter solstice is today as well.  The shortest day of the year – the day with the least amount of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.  And as the saying goes, “as the days lengthen, the cold strengthens.”  So colder days…perhaps. But longer days as well.  In my mind, a day to celebrate because with every passing day, there’s more sunlight to enjoy.

Starting January 2, 2018 up until about March 8, 2018, all the planets will be going direct. So it’s a wonderful time to GO. To DO. To CREATE and to MAKE and to START.  We get a few weeks of this every year. The universe giving us all a big shove telling us to get on with it.  Use the Capricorn energy to plan and to set some goals for yourself…and then use those two months to really get things moving.

Be open to what calls you…

OracleIndigo

Cosmic Correspondence – New Moon in Sagittarius

December 18, 2017 there will be a new moon at 26 degrees of Sagittarius.  This new moon is close to Saturn (which will soon leave Sagittarius and start his transit through Capricorn) and Venus.   It also trines Uranus.

That’s a lot of focus on love and the potential for new and exciting relationships.  Uranus adds a bit of unexpectedness to this. Saturn adds the stability.  So it has the potential to offer the best of both worlds.

New moons are also wonderful times for new beginnings.  I believe that the universe is constantly giving us opportunities for fresh starts. Not just with every new day, but with new moons every month. And of course, the start of a new year.  The first of January, Samhain, or when the Sun enters the sign of Aries.

Sagittarius is a sign of movement. Of doing. Not of contemplation or of stillness. Use that energy to propel forward that which you want to see expand and develop. New love, a new, fresh approach to something in your life, putting behind you what needs to stay in 2017 so you can start 2018 on a clean slate.

Be open to what calls you…

OracleIndigo

Cosmic Correspondence – Full Moon in Gemini

The last full moon of 2017 is on December 3. A full moon in Gemini.  Full moons are a good time to release and let go.  They represent the culmination of a cycle.  This is a good time to let go of what you don’t want to carry into 2018.  This time of year is naturally a time of reflection – on what has been and on what we hope for and look forward to.  Use this energy to cast off what doesn’t serve you, so you can move into 2018 free of heaviness.

Mercury also goes retrograde today.  Mercury is Gemini’s ruling planet, so there’s a little conflict with this transit. Mercury retrograde always speaks to some conflict. Having said that, given that it is happening along with the last full moon of the year, it’s an even better time to “re” in your life. Review, revise, re-do (what you can, if you can).  This is also a particularly good time to do this because when Mercury goes direct, it will be when Saturn starts his transit through Capricorn.  A new Saturn cycle for all of us.

One simple way to “release” what you want to let go of is to flush it.  Write down on a piece (or several pieces) of toilet paper what you want to “flush away.”  Attitudes, people, things.  Be sure to also write down that you wish them well – you don’t want any bad energy flowing.  The idea is to release with love and in peace.  Examples can be an old relationship or person you need to be freed from, literal weigh you want to lose (5 pounds, etc), feelings of lack or fear or worries (worrying about money or not having enough)…flush it away.  Let it go. This is an easy release technique you can use at any time. For anything. But it’s particularly useful during full moons.

You have to release and let go of all that weight in order to freely move forward. If it drags you down, if it doesn’t serve your higher good, if it brings you worry and frustration and a lack of peace…let it go.

Be open to what calls you…

OracleIndigo