As the summer ends and children and adults return to school, it is a good time to unwind as the Last Quarter Moon heralds the end of a very busy month and a very odd season. In fact, where did that summer go? It seems as though it was winter for a very long time, then summer shot in like a cannon and now it is over. The subtlety of the last few months, however, and the deep changes it brought are yet to be discovered and its secrets revealed, particularly as we get closer to the end of September and mid-October of this year.
More immediately, however, the coming weekend presents some very nice social opportunities as Venus embraces both Neptune and Chiron for a few days. This is always a great time to do ‘dream’ type activities like going swimming, walking by a river or a creek, catching up on your favorite movie viewing, painting that picture, designing that photo album, organizing your art box, or just doodling and scribbling while listening to your favorite music. There was a time when friends got together to listen to music before the onset of multiple visual inputs like televisions and computer monitors and smartphones. Just listening to music shifts something inside of people opening up new perceptions and discovering new insight.
Communications improve as Mercury and the Sun line up on Friday setting into motion a very busy fall season. Come Monday, Labor Day, we see Saturn reaching its shadow point (the point at which it went retrograde on January 13, 2010). I love it when Saturn gets to its shadow point — because it is like picking up a dropped stitch or addressing a disconnect with regard to attacking a project or how to get something done. The Saturn shadow point is like the coveted missing link of information that provides the know how needed for finishing something important. This affords the opportunity to start planning and structuring things so that they work this time.
