A Lunar Return Cycle Holding the Eclipse Season

Helllllloooooo My Beautiful Soul Tribe! It is the day post the last Taurus-Scorpio Lunar Eclipse for quite a while and I am laying here in bed with gratitude pouring out of my Soul. I am so loving this energy and feelings of being productive weaving in and out of worlds as I embody the essence of my Gemini Moon conjunct Jupiter. There has been a change. I can see that now, as the picture is getting bigger. I knew quite a while ago that major transformation was on its way, but I am actually feeling it now, and this is just the beginning of this phase.
The last few years have felt like molasses compared to the last few months. My days shapeshifting as a writer to home health care nurse to home organizer-packing to move technician to massage therapist to Mom back to writer to retail specialist. Sometimes I am all of these in one day, keeping myself on my toes. But there has been a deeper, more palpable shift.

I really am quite blessed with all the clients I have attracted into my life and the clients I have now, no matter which hat I am wearing for the hour of the day, each and every person is totally amazing. I love what I do. Absolutely feel so blessed, so privileged, and in complete spiritual alignment. Feathers, hearts, the perfect number at the perfect times, baby cows and baby goats munching away enjoying their serenity as I smile at their presence on my drives. The simplicity of life that makes me smile as I bust my ass so gorgeously feeling time whirl in its surreal movement.

My October Lunar Return began on October 4th this month. And what is a Lunar Return? A Lunar Return is cycle where your natal Moon reaches the exact same degree every month. This creates a whole new chart for the month ahead witch an Ascendant and Sun, and your Moon, living in a different house. I have been following my Lunar Returns since 2014, observing and feeling the energy to see what the upcoming month held for me and as a guide as to where I can focus my energy more efficiently instead of resisting against the energy perhaps with my intention and tunnel vision. There is a fine balance between surrendering to Spirit and working on my intentions.

I often cast my Lunar Return then cast a Lunar Return against my Natal Chart and go from there. Lessons learned, Sabian Symbols are muy importante and the Ascendant’s degree and Sabian Symbol have definitely proved to be quite predictive of the energy honed there within. When I say predictive, I don’t by any means “predict” what is going to happen, but I mean, the energy of this degree shows up somewhere shortly after my Lunar Return date and there is the instant….”Aweeee, okay, so here we are.” I work intentionally with the expressions that the chart exudes, framing my intentions with the most positive expressions and holding space for the challenges that may come up, also, viewing any challenges as lessons that I need to learn and as motivational factors.

So for October, my Lunar Return fell on October 4th. My Ascendant was at 3° Taurus, my natal Ascendant, exactly conjunct my natal Chiron. So I automatically knew this month was somehow going to change my life, my identity. The Sun was in Libra, conjunct Pallas Athene, and the Vertex, which made a conjunction to my natal Pluto, and Mars was conjunct the South Node, conjunct my Natal Vertex. Woo hoo hoo, oh yeah, mad, powerful action coming from the past. The South Node represents the past, meaning bringing up events, issues, people, that need to be revisited and reevaluated. What needs to be let go of, and what does not.

My Moon, the most important point of the Lunar Return was in the 2nd of Gemini. So emotions, intuition, and nurturing themes directed my emotional, intuitive, compass. The number of aspects from my Moon guide me to exactly how busy I may be. This month, I had eight aspects from my Moon, so I knew I would be fairly busy, and that was reiterated by the number of Grand Aspects. The first thing that caught my eye was the two Yods, or more appropriately known as the “Finger of God.” This meant I had some serious missions to work on this month.

Yod number one had Neptune retrograde and Spirit retrograde in Pisces as the apex with a quincunx to Venus and Juno in Leo sextile to Mars and the South Node in Libra, which then was a quincunx to Neptune retrograde and Spirit retrograde. Hello themes of spirituality, unconditional love, and the creative way to work with Venus and Juno’s feelings of commitment to shine and really work on those feelings of committing to that shine, this conjunction also happens to conjunct my natal Saturn retrograde in Leo. Leo is my 4th house in my chart. Home, sanctuary, ancestral lineage, beliefs, since my IC happens to be located in Leo as well. The doorway to my Soul. And Mars conjunct South Node, conjunct my Vertex, the sextile offers opportunity to heal with news ways of love and habits put into action, and remembrance, not just from when I was younger, but remembrance, as to my core of existence in all of my lifetimes here, finding a way to walk between worlds and creating a balance, its quincunx to Neptune.

The second Yod had Venus and Juno as the apex. Talk about reiteration. Their quincunx right back to Neptune retrograde and Spirit retrograde, Neptune sextile Pluto retrograde, and back to Venus. The power of spiritual commitment, remembering exactly what I came here to do, and the power I have to change exactly what needs to be changed to align with that purpose. The Yods do not end there, the many aspects bouncing back and forth, two Grand Kites with Venus as the apex of one, and Neptune the other, again. Reiterating themes back and forth this month. While the Grand Kite apex with Neptune and Spirit foretell me flying in the spiritual realm, it is Mercury on the cusp of Virgo and Libra and holds the tail, a Earth trine using communication and shapeshifting between the heart of Virgo 5th house and the balance of my Libran 6th house. There has been quite the blend of loving my work and what I do, hobbies very much setting the fusion of my mutable hopping from one side hustle-career choice to the next. A very crystal-clear ease of manifesting my gifts in this earthly realm with huge epiphanies and moments of lightning quick awakening that have induced that clarity. The sextile from Neptune and Spirit sextile both Pluto and Jupiter conjunct Uranus, all three planets retrograde, an ease of powerful transformation in the spiritual sector, and my, my, my, has this theme played out significantly this past month.

 The second Grand Kite with Venus and Juno as the apex opposes Saturn retrograde, a Saturn opposition holding strong this tail end. Saturn has offered the gift of more discipline both in the spiritual world as I serve the collective and that of my sanctuary as I build more and more key habits that develop a committed response to how feel, magical alchemy. The Grand Water Trine of this kite has heightened my journeys to other worlds, offering the intuitive action and transformation of my Moon, Mars, and Pluto.  

There is Cardinal T-square with Pluto as the apex, stepping into my spiritual power, my ability to transmute through this discipline as Pluto squares the North Node in Aries in my 12th house and Mars conjunct the South Node in my 6th house. There has certainly been a push and motivation towards growth and reprogramming my subconscious through my actions and remembrance of the “past.”

To reiterate the ease of alignment and lessons, my Moon sextiles Venus and Juno and the North Node as the hold the energy of this Grand Minor Trine. The intuitive ease of committing to that which I hold dear in my heart, my beliefs, and the lessons in life that reiterate that my intuition rewards those moments of inspired action.

So many components of my Lunar Return that have expressed themselves this month I feel as if I have lived years within a month and my mood, my emotions, my life has become significantly better each and every day.  The Lunar Return’s Ascendant conjunct my natal Chiron with Chiron’s transit in my 12th house opposing my natal Pluto, and Pluto’s transit conjunct the Lunar Return’s Midheaven sextile Neptune and Spirit which conjunct my natal Sun expressed itself as identifying and solidifying myself as Shaman in all that I do. My work with astrology clients and my bodywork clients took off. The crystal healing, the Reiki, the intuitive knowledge that rose to the surface and well, the continual epiphanies that happened every single day.
There are asteroids that I use as well, depending on the information that I am looking for, but for those of you just learning astrology, this beautiful way of communication can be a bit overwhelming. Like the body, learning how the different systems work and interact together only keeps getting deeper. My avid hunger for knowledge, for the depth that these two subjects hold for me, seems like Alice in Wonderland sometimes, actually, more often than not. The work just keeps getting deeper, the more I know, the less I know, and the more I want to learn, the more I want to teach.

I will be working on an astrology planner-journal-guidebook for the month of November. This book will be focused on learning how astrology works in your life, bringing self-awareness, the power of your intention, and a journal to record these thoughts, feelings, and ideas according to your Solar Return. Why not a New Year’s Resolution, some may ask? For the last several years, my Soul, Body, and Mind have become increasingly aware of seasons. I have always loved Autumn and miss it intensely every year. Southwest Florida has a different set of seasons. I am a New England girl at heart, actually scratch that, I am a Mountain Girl. I miss the Mountains all the time and that is where I often escape too.

But the New Year has not resonated with me, the months January through March seem to be a wrap up time for me. With my Solar Return in March, this is when I feel the start of the New Year. I am sure there are others who resonate with this too, hence the birth of the Solar Return Intention Journal and Planner, a place where you can track all the ways you communicate with Spirit, learn how you connect with your astrology, and keep your life in track. Black Friday is the day I set for this publication to be available.
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On to the busy work, my beautiful Soul Tribe. I am so grateful that you have taken your time to read this. I am so looking forward to creating and birthing so much this year, my mission to elevate your self-awareness and support those going through their own awakenings. I thank you, thank you, thank you, from the tip of my toes. Until next week, make every day a beautiful day and see the silver linings.