Dates of Important Astrological Transits

Sep 17 – Mercury stations Retrograde in Libra 15 deg – 0 deg.

Reevaluation of information/ideas/thoughts/communication that’s taken place with others since around  Aug 27 – Sep 17. Hold off on important decisions regarding new projects, commitments, new ideas and plans until new information comes in between Sep 17 – Oct 8. Give time for delays, mishaps & changes. Pay attention to surface details and possible miscommunication/misunderstandings with others.   

Sep 17 – Saturn enters Sagittarius until Dec 19 2017

Saturn leaves Scorpio after 2.5 years in transit thru underworld bringing more commitment and tough lessons to Scorpio, Taurus, Aquarius and Leo about all that has been hidden. Won’t return to Scorpio for 30 years. Now bringing more commitment and tough lessons to Sagittarius, Gemini, Pisces and Virgo for next 2.5 years. Check if you have any planets in these signs. This shift of karmic energy is asking for big picture truth in your personal beliefs, opinions and life philosophy. Why do you believe what you do? What do you believe about yourself to be true, and why? Are these beliefs based on a firm foundation of reality, or were they placed there from others long ago? Saturn will be putting pressure on some people to concentrate, study and learn new things that heightens the intellectual potential and understanding of both the world and self or the matters symbolized by the planet in that sign. Opinions & beliefs will be challenged by others in authority. Life expansion has to be done slowly, maturely, wisely and practical. Contraction vs expansion.

Sag – check your dogmatic beliefs & opinions. Virgo – check how critical & narrow your perspective is on self and life; widen/soften if need be. Gemini – think wide, big and long term, expand knowledge past what’s in front of you now. Pisces – ground yourself, get real, stop self-sabotaging; check addictions & illusions. Build upon dreams & imagination.

Sep 21 – 1^st quarter square with sun – Moon enters Capricorn for 2.5 days

Push thru emotional challenges & obstacles. Focus on business, commitments & responsibilities. Emotions feel better when acting with integrity, maturity, punctuality and loyalty for these few days. Circumstances are serious & mature. Do what needs to be done for best results.

Sep 22 – Last day for sun in Virgo – Venus trine Uranus

Sun at 29 Virgo makes day critical & nitpicky with urgency to take care of last minute work, organization, planning, details, etc.

Venus trine Uranus round 3. Connected to desires from 1st round June 29 and  2^nd round Aug 17. Night time creates unusual social situations, desires and attractions. The inner feminine is mischievous, rebellious and wild. Creative energy is high & impulsive. Self-expression is dramatically bold, flamboyant and eccentric, yet moon in Capricorn makes mood & circumstances traditional, serious and mature, creating unstable energy between emotional needs and impulsive desires & attractions. Get work done – then play. Relationships desire something new, fun, creative, impulsive and authentic. Incorporate authentic heart felt needs/desires into your most important values planning on how you will create this for your future. Take your partner, friend, and or lover to something different, exciting and adventurous, yet be mature, wise and somewhat traditional in your behavior (Capricorn, opening doors, etc.) for best results.

Sep 23 – Sun into Libra - Fall Equinox - changing of the seasons; Moon into Aquarius next 2.5 days trine sun; Mars last degree of Leo; Venus trine Uranus continuation. 

The solar energy leaves critical earth element Virgo and enters social Air element Libra at 1:21 am PDT for the next month changing energy and focus to relationship activity. Libra season is about balancing self with other important people in your life. This helps with more objectivity and diplomacy, wanting to keep peace, listening and considering what others think and feel as just important to your own thoughts and feelings. Venus now rules this month which is still in positive alignment to Uranus suggesting possible activity with you and others the last couple days changes something within relationship. People become less critical and more willing to compromise where it’s needed. Activity such as art, music, beauty, harmony, photography, social grace. etc. gets energized.  Moon into Aquarius changes emotional energy and circumstances to social and friendly, though eccentric and alternative, emotionally detached from heaviness thinking of long term future with self and others; able to easily break social rules these two days, being authentic in expression, though somewhat rebellious and impulsive. Last day for Mars in Leo, critical need to take action on manifesting creative desires. Strong egos, prideful assertions; actions and expressions are bold.

Sep 24 – Sun conjunct North Node Libra; Mars into Virgo square Saturn; Mercury square Pluto; Pluto stations direct; Moon opposition Venus.

Sep 24 looks important as well, as sun aligns with the North Node in Libra suggesting important relationship development/activity that affects future. Pay attention to whom you are dealing with on this day as it’s a clue to how significant that person is to your life and future. Any communication should be of interest & important. As the Aquarius moon builds opposition to Venus it will be important to emotionally detach from strong needs and desires, not letting dramatic heavy feelings/desires disempower you and your plans to get what you want. You could have new realizations/ full illumination around what it is you do in-fact desire the most. Mercury retrograde squares Pluto round 2 right as Pluto stations direct, intensifying transformational energy afternoon/evening. News and information will be intense and powerful, possibly with conflict. Power struggles with in communication is likely related to communication/thoughts from Sep 9 causing people to rethink something between self and others but won’t be finalized for a few more weeks. Mars leaves expressive and creative Leo and enters grounded critical Virgo at 7:18 pm PDT instantly picks up on square to Saturn in Sagittarius thru Sep 26. This will change the universal action, passion and confrontation energy to a noticeable degree of criticalness and feelings of frustrations with what you can and can’t do, or at least how much progress you can make with creating what you want in the short term. For these three days there are roadblocks and obstacles in your path with need to slow down and take smart well-thought-out action to getting what you want. Authority is not being supportive to what you want and intend to do. There might be narrowing of focus to details yet there is also a need to incorporate bigger picture, long term objectives and planning into the short term action you want to take around this time. Take action on the details but broaden your perspective for best results. As Mars transits Virgo for the next 6 weeks, it’s best to take grounded, practical action with solid plans in place, only doing what is most useful and practical, incorporating organization but at same time keep the long-term bigger picture in mind. Expect delays in getting what you want from around Sep 24 – Sep 26. Moon

 Sep 25 – Moon enters Pisces square Saturn opposition Mars.

Feelings of frustrations, roadblocks, obstacles and challenges with authority around this time become noticeable and likely. The emotional energy in Pisces creates confusion and need for escape/retreat from anything too critical and abrasive. Yet circumstances call for logical, analytical, practical thinking/activity, being sharp and focused. Tap into your faith and spirituality, allowing a few hrs for down/alone time while still taking care of responsibilities. Incorporate compassion and sensitivity for self and others along frustrating lines. Disillusionment about something is possible around this time. Be willing to face facts, truth and higher understanding with any disappointments.  We have all gone thru some inner transformation these last several months. Now with Pluto moving direct our outer life will also transform along these new lines in more noticeable ways.

Sep 25 – Sep 27 moon in Pisces  with Neptune and Chiron will create sensitive energy, feelings of old wounds trying to be healed might sting a bit. Spirituality and compassion will help.

Sep 27 – Aries Full Moon/ Lunar Eclipse -  sun/moon/earth align.

Moon into Aries at 12:29 pm PDT trine Saturn builds to full moon, bringing emotional courage and need for independence while being responsible. This full moon eclipse will be exact at 7:50 pm PDT at 4-5 degrees Aries, opp the sun at 4-5 degrees Libra. Check your chart for any planets around 3-6 degrees of Aries, Libra, Capricorn or Cancer. If you have energy there this full moon eclipse will pack a punch for that particular energy placement bringing surprises and changes, along with full emotional illumination to what has been hidden in the past. Planets at 3-6 Leo or Sagittarius will also be effected but with more positive easy flowing results. Events taking place around this time are extra powerful and significant, affecting your future in unforeseen ways, especially strong over the next 6 months. Feelings and thoughts about someone or something you never had in past could come up now. Circumstances could force changes. Some kind of release from past or past relationships is necessary in order to move forward, OR, making new commitments to people from the past, or new people in general in order to move forward. The need for impulsiveness and independence doing things your own way will have to be balanced with commitment to what others need as well. Something between self and others is very much out of balance and forced to release or realign over the next 6 months, at least. Something important and serious might have to be dealt with before progress and change can be made. Emotional intensity peaks and starts to release the tension between self and others over the next two weeks.

Mercury Retrograde in Libra - Sep 17 - Oct 8 2015

Transit Mercury will start its three week retrograde phase on Sep 17 - Oct 8 in the sign of Libra. Transit Mercury is the universal mind and perception. It's the news and information that comes into your life. This means that the information, communication and thoughts that have come into your life about you and others including ideas and plans since Aug 27 2015 are unsettled and will need some rethought and readjustments before they can truly move forward. Even though Mercury will only be retrograde for three weeks, the entire time frame of what will be uncertain and changing is the thoughts from Aug 27 - Oct 23. So the last week in Oct is when we can finally have all the information needed to move these matters with others forward. A lot of this rethought and redoing will be about relationships, partnerships, creative plans and ideas you've been communicating about since late August.

Now, don't get carried away with perceiving this retrograde phase as a negative. It gets over hyped by the internet and does not mean bad things will happen. Retrograde phases are not bad. It just means the universal mind is in deep thought, sometimes about the past making it easy to over-look surface details, tripping you up because you're not paying attention. Miscommunication is only most likely at the time of station, which will be from around Sep 8 - Sep 20 and then again around Oct 4 - Oct 11 as the energy is changing directions. Give yourself extra time when needing to be somewhere and be conscious of the here and now while you let yourself think deep about certain issues with you and others. If you have to start something new it's best to do that right after the new moon on Sep 13 but is always best if you can avoid new things during the retro phase because once Mercury turns around and passes this time frame thru Oct you might think and feel different about what was started. This is a good time  to go back over what has already been started and make some adjustments - rethink, rewrite, redo, getting caught up on what's unfinished. If you do have to start something new, make sure you pay close attention to the details, read all contracts closely including fine print. If you were born with Mercury retrograde, you are a deep thinker that perceives life a little different from the mainstream flow but now the universal mind will be aligned with your own making this a very productive time for you, especially with being clear and understood within important relationships and what you're communicating. So for those folks, this is a good time to get communication matters out there.

Libra is about balancing the self with others and so in general this is what needs to be rethought out and given some more time for new information to come in before you make any kind of commitments or decisions. This is very much about matters on your mind since Aug 27 +. Find the area of life Libra rules for you in your chart - the first 15 degrees is the area of concern. Also see if you have any personal planets in the first 15 degrees of Libra, Aries, Cancer, or Capricorn. If so, the energy associated with those planets are also unclear right now and will have some readjustments in the coming weeks. Contact me if you need help figuring out what that is, but in general it should be easy to know what this is by looking at what you have been thinking and talking about since Aug 27.

Mercury is in hard alignment to the planet Pluto which will peak three different times, the first time was on Sep 9 second time will be Sep 24 and the 3rd and final time of this square will be Oct 22. This means there is a transformation happening around these thoughts with others that is not easy. We are being asked to change our mind and perception about certain things we may have tried to reject in early September. It usually manifests as tough conversations with others, power struggles and not willing to change your mind about something. It's best if you keep an open mind and try and flow with the information and thoughts coming in during this phase. The more you hold on tight to what you think is true or right the harder this transformation will be. There WILL be a transformation to your thoughts and perceptions about you and others regardless if you like it or not but might take more time for some people, than others depending on how open minded  they are. Don't fight your own thoughts or those from others; ponder them all, they could be important for being able to move you forward with others this fall. The eclipse coming up will bring some shocks and surprises with new beginnings so could be connected to these thoughts around you and others. For more on the Virgo New moon Eclipse coming up you can read about that here -- http://astrohawk11.blogspot.com/2015/09/virgo-new-moon-partial-solar-eclipse.html

Venus rules Libra, which just finished its retrograde phase so it seems if we connect these two events , then Venus gave us a better idea of what we want and desire at this point in our life, willing to create it but that realization and upgrade has been on a deep personal level so it's possible that other people are not yet on-board needing to be informed of your new values ,wants, and needs, communicating what that is during this phase so the creation process has a clear intention forward. The eclipses will give more info and illumination so don't rush it, let it all play out over the next month but there will be some changes and adjustments to what you have been thinking and communicating about. Keep an open mind.

Again, try not to make this Mercury retro phase a negative as that would just show you don't have a clear understanding what it's about and would also make it easier to create those negatives you don't want to happen. Try and be clear in communication, listen and pay attention to the surface details while  you are in deep thought giving yourself time and everything should be fine. Although relationship communication will be a little more challenging than before especially if the person you are speaking to is unconscious of all this backwards energy. I hope this helps. If you need more understanding on what this personally means for you please feel free to reach out to me. Thank you. and good luck.
Rik
Astrohawkastrology.com

Virgo New Moon/ partial Solar eclipse Sep 12/13 2015

Virgo New Moon forming a partial Solar eclipse will be exact on September 12 2015 at 11: 41 pm PDT. This eclipse will not be visible in the United States and because of the late timing on Sat night we will be waking up to the new moon on Sunday Sep 13. Let me try and get right to the point. This is new beginning energy for one or more areas of your life. The eclipse intensifies this for the next 6 months making this new moon extra critical, bringing surprises and uncovering what was hidden before. It's different for everyone but on universal level is about health! This means the Sep 12 eclipse could be the start to new heath crisis for you or people close to you. If people have not been taking good care of self, then this could be a wake up call they needed to get back on track. How disciplined have you been in your health routine? If this doesn't manifest as health issues then it could give the feeling and desire to start something new around health routine, perhaps or feeling like cleaning up a certain area of your life in some way, purging and starting fresh and new. The events seeding around this time have the potential to flower into something very powerful and significant in the coming weeks and months. Find Virgo in your chart, 20 degrees.That's the hotspot. But also Libra as Virgo's ruler Mercury is there slowing down and in hard alignment with Pluto (the planet of transformation) and Uranus the planet of shock). This could be a death crisis as well, or at least very critical events in the coming weeks around health matters. On some level, it's also about relationship health. Mercury will station retrograde Sep 17 in Libra, right before Saturn leaves Scorpio, the most critical spot of all, bringing a final lesson. Saturn won't be back in Scorpio for 30 years. Mercury will track back over the hard news for a total of 3 times before we are done thinking and dealing with whatever circumstances come up for each of us. Don't wait for the universe, take the action needed and set new intentions Sunday on for a better health routine where things have gotten dirty. Whatever happens is all for our higher good, just remember that. It won't be major for everyone, just those that needed it
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