12 Sep ALACAZEM 2013.09.12
September 12 to 18, 2013 Visible Planets:Morning: Mars, Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Venus, Saturn
As we roll around the wheel, revolve around the Sun, we experience the ups and downs, starts and stops of life. The Mother Earth is a magnificently beautiful, abundantly generous provider and sustainer of that life. She gives us everything we need to live and survive. The tricky part is our part – how we wash our faces, make our beds, weed our gardens. Choices in life are huge. We create our days and manifest our destiny by the choices we make, minute to minute, hour to hour, year to year.
Looking back on my life, I see rainbows of choice. Big and small, easy or difficult, fast or slow, the colors fan out before me. Some have sealed my fate, others simply tinted it with possibility.
Today I live in a remote, southwestern corner of Colorado, the state of my birth. It’s stunning and awesome, nature is up front and personal. Eagles, hawks, bears, badgers, cougars, ravens and coyotes interface with cattle, sheep, horses, goats, chickens and pigs. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in the past – cedar posts and barbed wire fences, blazing western sunsets and cowboys in the saddle, rodeos and wild sunflowers dancing in the breeze. Seasons are distinct and, today, summer is ending.
This week I am filled with the emotion of another changing season. Autumn is fast approaching, and it’s been raining now for days. This evening, around half-past six, the setting sun burst out behind lavender clouds and bathed the mesa in golden light. To the east, a blue-grey sheet of rain hid the Telluride mountains and lands beyond like a thick velvet curtain hides the actors and set behind a performance stage.
Painted on the curtain was one of the most vibrant, brilliant rainbows I had ever seen. Arcing above verdant green fields and pinon juniper forests, it reminded me of all that I have loved and lost. All that I have lived; my choices, my hopes and dreams. Success and failure, all the same, the recipe of a life. As the Buddha said, life is a series of agreeable and disagreeable experiences. I am a droplet of water in the Mother ocean, a grain of sand upon a million sandy beaches, a woman living in the remote corner of southwestern Colorado, watching the seasons, in awe of a rainbow.
Blessings and peace. May we walk in beauty, make good choices and embrace our destiny…
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr.19) Amidst chaos and confusion, expectation and disappointment, you must remember and respect the ongoing Uranus/Pluto square in Aries/Capricorn. Then throw in Jupiter in Cancer. All this translates as a mumbo-jumbo mix of ups and downs, personal upsets and new starts, confrontations with authority and ultimate growth. Go with the flow.
Taurus (Apr. 20-May 20) As you wind your way toward the Virgo/Pisces Full Harvest Moon of Sept. 19th, practice the arts of humility, compassion, acceptance and discernment. The long-in-orb Uranus/Pluto square continues to upset your applecart of inner peace, forcing confrontations of spirit and belief. Stay the course, continue the journey. Evolution happens.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Each day delivers a new beginning. Every evening the Sun sets upon the new day. Checklists and daily inventories help keep you organized, responsible and productive. Make and take them. As the merry-go-round continues, practice the art of gratitude. Good things come to those who focus on realistic, practical solutions, do the work and then let go.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Giant planet Jupiter in Cancer continues as a cheerleader, good luck charm and guide through the multi-faceted forest of old patterns, new opportunities and shimmering horizons. While it’s easy to get caught up in frustration and what’s wrong with this picture, wise ones practice the art of present moment living and breathing. Be here now. Do your best.
Leo (July 23-Aug.22) For many, these times are unbelievably difficult. Powerful, transformational cardinal squares pull rugs out from underneath us, force confrontation and demand change. In a holographic Universe, everything is a reflection of everything else, and a river runs through it. Stay in the current, relax and go with the flow.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep.22) Candles are lit and cakes are cut as the Virgo zodiac month marches on. Meanwhile, the cosmos resonate with eternal themes of chaos and creation. Getting in synch with the Universe is easier than it sounds. It’s all about relaxation, acceptance and present-moment awareness.. Recognize the power of choice and be the change you want the world to be.
Libra (Sep. 23-Oct. 22) With autumn knocking at the door and an upcoming Harvest Moon around the corner, it’s time to take stock of what’s in the pantry and who’s in the house. You can feel seasonal changes deep within your heart and soul, stirring up long-forgotten memories and strong emotions of love and sorrow. Breathe, relax and accept. It is what it is.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) Voluptuous Venus entered Scorpio on Sept. 10th and will remain there until Oct. 7th. And with serious Saturn already a relatively long-term tenant there, you can expect to see the hard-core structural changes and endings you have made in your life begin to feel better and bear fruit. Maintain gratitude as an attitude and focus on basic goodness.
Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 20) Planets in mutable signs and cardinal signs show up in a competitive square dance of endings, beginnings, awakenings and change. Emotions run deep as issues of freedom and independence interact with themes of forgiveness and acceptance. The blue road of spirit is the only way through the forest. Take the high road and follow the light.
Capricorn (Dec. 21-Jan. 19) Virgo energy favors Capricorn practicality and ambition. Pisces encourages compassion. Cardinal sign squares force facing issues you might otherwise attempt to forget or ignore. Scorpio wants you to restructure and follow your dreams. Surrounding yourself with people and places that inspire you helps tremendously. Stay on the path.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A rather disjointed, here and there, scattered feeling of being over-burdened and overwhelmed dances with the reality of reward and harvest as summer wanes and autumn approaches. You understand the power of responsibility and are willing to take on as much as you can. Remember that balance is your golden key to success. Be cool.
Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) These days are full of one-to-one interacting and doing, sharing and pairing. Each year, as summer ends and autumn begins, you experience a period of process and evaluation regarding relationship. With whom do you live, love and play? How do you show up for others? What is your part? We teach people how to treat us. Give what you want to receive.
Cynthia is a third generation astrologer living on a high mountain mesa 40 miles west of Telluride. Visit her website @ www.alacazem.com.
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