Dear Friends, Happy Mother's Day!
We hope you continue to be well during this time. With the external world feeling very unpredictable and just more than a bit confounding, the best place to spend most of your time is present with yourself. In this space, you have the permission and authority to direct your course or simply to appreciate your world.
This newsletter highlights some important retrograde transits taking place in the next couple of weeks that can provide a great time to have a few "conversations" with the planets!
We have also extended our $50 discount into May.
Thanks for sharing the journey with us and may you stay well!
Blessings and peace, Wolfram and Sappho
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A Conversation with Retrograde Planets
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Capricorn is back on the menu as Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn move retrograde through the zodiac over the course of the Summer.
During this period of retrograde motion, all of the “re” words come to mind and hold the potential for you to re-consider, re-inspire and re-energize your life.
Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter (and Venus too, but not in Capricorn), invite you to have a “conversation” with them in order to gain new insights and discover alternative approaches that bring the potential for renewed vision, greater success and deeper fulfillment.
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A Conversation with Pluto
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Around April 26, Pluto turned retrograde around 25 degrees of Capricorn. He will travel retrograde until October 4 and remain in Capricorn for a couple more years.
Pluto is the ruler of the underworld, the mythic land where our unconscious memories and wounds are stored and buried in the silent depths of the mind and become our “shadow”. While Pluto is retrograde, he is inviting us to have a conversation about our shadow.
We accept that invitation when we honor the notion of time associated with Capricorn and slow down and create space for patience. In that patient space, the quiet moments allow you to explore your deeper feelings, which are most often ignored or denied, especially when we are busy.
In quiet moments, whether in meditation, on a meandering stroll or contemplation at sunset, allow any fears or concerns to arise into your conscious awareness. These darker, Plutonic memories and feelings are the samskaras or imprints from your karmic past.
In your conversation with Pluto and as you explore these feelings, you will see them for what they are: memories from the distant past that only wound us if we hold on to them.
Ultimately, Pluto wants you to see a higher truth in them and, when we do, they hold less power over us and we can be released from these old, karmic wounds.
Pluto's wish for us is that our life be transformed.
Pluto whispers:
“Release your fears &
transform your life”.
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A Conversation with Saturn
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Saturn has been in Capricorn, the sign he rules for almost 2 years now. But, on March 21, he took his first leave of Capricorn and jumped into the sign of Aquarius.
Today, on May 10, Saturn turns retrograde just before reaching 2 degrees of Aquarius and he will travel retrograde back into Capricorn until he reaches 25 degrees of Capricorn on September 29. After that, he moves direct and finally leaves Capricorn on December 16, 2020 not to return for approximately 29 years.
As Saturn turns retrograde in Aquarius today, he wants you to have a brief conversation about the sign of Aquarius and the need for authenticity.
During Saturn's time in Aquarius (since March 21):
Did any new perspectives arise in your mind?
Did you recognize how your authenticity
reveals your capacity for wisdom?
Did you realize that your individuality
can be integrated into your daily life?”
This is an important conversation to have as it provides a brief glimpse of what is to come at the end of the year when Saturn finally departs Capricorn for a 2.5 year run through Aquarius in mid-December.
On his retrograde journey, around July 1, Saturn will leave Aquarius and travel back into Capricorn for the summer and the conversation will move from the authenticity of Aquarius back into the reality of Capricorn.
Since Saturn is retrograde, this is the perfect time to have a conversation about your plans and make appropriate adjustments to the blueprint for your life. Saturn reminds you that you are the architect of your life - not society, not family, not friends - you!
Since Saturn is presently in Aquarius, if you feel the need for greater authenticity, put that authenticity into your blueprint.
When your blueprint embraces your authenticity, it is a blueprint for greater ease and the pathway to wisdom.
Saturn’s message is that
wisdom is authenticity
brought into reality.
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A Conversation with Jupiter
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On May 14, Jupiter turns retrograde at 27 degrees of Capricorn. He will travel retrograde until he reaches 17 of Capricorn on September 13, 2020. After that he moves direct and leaves Capricorn on December 19, 2020 not to return for 12 years.
Jupiter in Capricorn inspires how your thoughts bring your future into the present. When Jupiter turns retrograde, he invites you to explore two sides of the same coin.
One side is the inspiration you feel that comes with a welling up of optimism, confidence and joy.
Imagine Jupiter sitting with you and pointing forward into the future and inquiring: “What is the future you see?” Allow Jupiter, the Guru planet, to open your mind to re-imagining and being re-inspired by your vision on your own terms.
The other side of the coin is the first step you must take to bring your inspiration into reality.
Now imagine Jupiter unrolling a parchment map and then pointing to your destination. As he points to the page, you can feel the inspiration! Then he moves his finger and points on the map to where you are sitting and bids you to get up and take the first step to achieving your goals. “Remember, you cannot cross the bridge five miles down the road unless you begin your journey!” Jupiter reminds you that you must make progress one step at a time. Take the first step.
Then he shares a final word of advice, “Before you arise, remember to enjoy each step on your path. Hear the birds sing and the breeze rustling the leaves in the trees. Share moments of wonder and connect with those you encounter along the way. The journey is to be enjoyed!”
Jupiter’s message is to
re-visit the map of your vision,
take the first step &
enjoy the journey.
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A Conversation with Venus
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On May 13, Venus turns retrograde at 21 degrees of Gemini and will travel retrograde until she turns direct at 5 degrees of Gemini on June 25, 2020. As the goddess of love, Venus in Gemini explores love, beauty and life through sharing thoughts and ideas.
At her temple at Mount Olympus, Venus has two fountains:
one with sweet water that attracts love, and
another with bitter water that denies love.
In Gemini, Venus wants to have a sweet conversation so that she can find beauty and joy in life and attract love. When the words we speak are a true reflection the love in our hearts, we experience greater joy and love in life.
While Venus is retrograde, sit with her at the sweet fountain of love and have a conversation about life and love. Ask her if the words you use in your daily life represent the beauty, joy and love in your heart, or if you unconsciously communicate out of frustration or fear.
Venus does not want you to interpret the sweet fountain as being someone you are not (being a people pleaser and agreeing with everyone all the time).
Rather she wants you to speak the words of love that naturally flow when you know yourself and honor your heart in order to attract joy and love to your life.
Venus’ message is to embrace
the sweet language
of beauty, joy and love.
Nodes enter Gemini and Sagittarius
One final note is that, on June 4, 2020, the South Node moves from Capricorn into Sagittarius and the North Node moves from Cancer into Gemini, where they will remain for about 18 months.
This change shifts the messages of life
from one of feelings and belonging
to one of ideas and inspirations.
Be sure to honor your feelings as the nodes have their final three weeks in Cancer and Capricorn.
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We extended our $50 Discount to the May 2020 calendar.
About 8 appointments remain in May 2020 to take advantage of this offer:
90 Minute & 2 Hour Consultations:
$50 Discount
3 Hour Trilogy Package:
$75 Discount
How does this work?
You can click the links below to read more about the services available. Then, simply submit a request for the consultation you want.
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The Trilogy Package
The What, When & Where of Your Personal Astrology
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In December of last year, we introduced a new service on our web-site and we have not yet introduced it via our newsletter: The Trilogy Package.
The Trilogy Package is a 3 hour consultation that combines the what, the when and the where of your personal astrology into one consultation:
Your Purpose - Your Birth Chart
Your Timing - Your Transits
Your Supportive Locations - Your Astrocartography
Since we are offering a $75 discount off of our 3 hour consultation for April 2020, we thought some of you might be saying 'what 3 hour consultation'... So, we felt it was time to introduce this service more broadly.
Note: This reading started out as 3 two hour sessions for a total of 6 hours with a ton of unique and specialized information. But, we felt that was too much and we decided to scale it back to a 3 hour session. Maybe the 6 hour consultation will come back someday because it was really great! Please share thoughts....
We have developed a nice web-page to explain The Trilogy Package in greater detail:
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Consider a Location Report
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