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Category: astrology
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Newsletter: 17/March/2025 Wargames? Trump, Zelensky, Putin, Starmer, and… St Patrick!
Astrology Monday! War games? Trump, Putin, Zelensky, Starmer and… St Patrick! 🥳 -
Sun-Sign Forecast: Libra 2024
Sun in Libra!
Your forecast for the next 30 daysThe Sun has entered Libra and will be there until 23 October. The following represents an aspect of the energy you can expect to encounter during the next 30 days. For a more complete look at all the intricate aspects of your astrology, contact David at astrologyofjoy.com.
Libra Sun-Sign
Happy Birthday, Libra! Work shows possibilities of recognition that helps improve your confidence. The big challenge this month is keeping those pesky pigeons from the past at bay. Don’t feed them and watch them fly away!Scorpio Sun-Sign
Reaching your creative potential begins with accepting yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being. Being attached to past stories hinders this acceptance. Focus on the story now and watch your heart come alive.Sagittarius Sun-Sign
Settling old issues around teachers, mentors, and the father opens new vistas that can help increase your income. Be cautious in communication, but in creativity, open the door wide and turn your vision into a reality.Capricorn Sun-Sign
The pot of karma is simmering. If you want to make sure it becomes a tasty soup, put those ideas you have about work and activity into action. Right action makes every recipe delicious and makes everyone want to come back for more!Aquarius Sun-Sign
Relationships get a boost when you look for the hidden possibility within them. Remain confident, and let your natural grace and charm lead the way.Pisces Sun-Sign
Like the Pisces symbol of two fish going in different directions, there are two energies at play. One is health: take care to remain true to what you know is good for your body. The other is mind: seek the stillness and the angels of mysticism will reward you.Aries Sun-Sign
Watch for old flames or old stories dragging your relationships down. Better is the possibility that what HAS been dragging your relationships down can be resolved when you stop thinking and simply observe. Become the witness and you’ll become a ‘seer’.Taurus Sun-Sign
Insight into health matters can benefit you greatly. Be sure the home is a healthy place to live and not part of the problem. Home should be a refuge and a place of rejuvenation. Do what you can to make this happen.Gemini Sun-Sign
The desire to create can actually interfere with creating when we unconsciously allow our past to corrupt the desire mechanism. Step back and watch the breath, then create what is born. Stillness is the womb out of which the world began.Cancer Sun-Sign
Creative ideas around work and activity help bring contentment and a feeling of security. Allow past connections to home and childhood inspire you, not trap you.Leo Sun-Sign
There is a strong spiritual current moving through your creative mind allowing for creative solutions. For support, make the home your castle, but don’t get stuck behind its walls. Nature beckons and promises good health.Virgo Sun-Sign
Communication remains strong and even puts on a teacher’s vestment. I think you have something to share, Virgo. Are you sharing it? Don’t let past experiences colour the road ahead. -
Today’s UK Election: Does It Matter?
Today, Brits will go to the polls to elect their next government. Will it be a landslide victory for Labour (liberal) as most everyone predicts or will the Tories (conservatives) rise up from the dead and, like the ailing-but-still-alive Monty Python character from 1975’s Holy Grail who protests being thrown out with the dead, shout “I’m not dead!” Perhaps the upstart Reform party will make their mark as a force to be reckoned with in future elections. Yet, after the dust has settled at the polling stations, will it even matter?
Elections come and go and somehow it seems that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Or do they? Following on the heels of this election and the US election in November, Saturn’s dance with the North node in January and its debilitation several months later combined with stronger than usual solar activity points to a period of global instability and disturbance. Is this saying that no matter who gets in, the world is in trouble?
As an astrologer, I regard the approaching storm as a “done deal”, a fait accompli, if you will, simply because steering challenging planetary alignments towards a greater good requires a higher consciousness free from fear, hate, greed, pride and all the other human foibles that arise from the pain of separation, the primal wound. Do any of you trust the world’s leadership to make choices that are truly for the benefit of all? What about the world’s populations? Will we vote from a place untouched by our own conditioned mind?
Since time immemorial, exalted beings like Jesus, Buddha, and myriad other great ones have walked this earth and though they have offered solace to the weak and weary, their presence seems to have done little to stem the tide of hate and aggression which has plagued every known period of human history. Does this mean we throw up our hands in apathy as many of us already do and sigh, “What’s the point?” Does not the Game of Life still ask us to play the game to the best of our ability?
What does this say about the coming elections in the UK and USA?
It seems we are between a rock and a hard place: simply voting from familial and social conditioning as most do will empower the forces of ignorance and inflame an already increasingly chaotic world. Our vote matters, but, as with everything else in life, only if we vote consciously. Too often we lead with our emotions and fail to see that, as Sadhguru suggested before the 2020 presidential election, “Don’t vote for the good man; vote for the capable one.”
Life is always more than what we see and it’s our duty to find out.
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Sun-Sign Forecast: Cancer
21 June — 22 July
Your monthly horoscope according to your birth sign (Sun-sign).
This month, the Sun entertains Cancer where it is joined by Mercury and Venus. Cancer is the zodiacal sign relating to the subconscious and represents the seat of emotion. Cancer embodies the feminine and speaks of the importance of home both outside in the world and within our own being. This month, use the higher aspirations of your Sun to help you identify your natural talents and proclivities.Cancer Sun 🥳
Happy Birthday, Cancer! Conscious manifestation requires both the masculine and the feminine. Just like a baby is born from the union of masculine and feminine, allow the Sun (masculine) to warm your emotions (feminine) and create a perfect opportunity to find your authentic self, especially through home and family.
Leo Sun
Does self-denial make you feel uneasy, Leo? No need to panic; this month, redirect your personal goals towards the greater good. Do this willingly and you’ll discover that the greater good is actually your greatest fulfilment.
Virgo Sun
This month, Virgo, increased income opportunities come through shining your light where important and influential people meet. To paraphrase Marcus Aurelius, where your talents meet the needs of successful people, there you will find your calling.
Libra Sun
Eleventh house Sun in the tenth bodes well for work opportunities and projects. Relationships have always been important to you, Libra. What about the relationship you have to abundance and wellbeing? This month, learn from someone who has a great relationship with wealth, beauty, and good health.
Scorpio Sun
Work this month can be positively influenced by a teacher, mentor, or guide. Know of anyone? If not, then seek to be nourished by the feminine. Better still, seek the advice off a wise woman who can guide you towards your abundant self and, along the way, help you reconnect to your innate spirituality — her real purpose.
Sagittarius Sun
The field of good luck and good fortune is fertilised with right action. This month, have the courage to peer into the dark corners of your mind and shine a light on those debilitating detours you take that sabotage your peace of mind. Life is in the details, Sagittarius, but remember to slow down. Haste makes waste.
Capricorn Sun
Successful relationships are built on love and sustained when doing what is needed supersedes personal intent. Just as in the art of negotiation, the art of relating means you both win. Seek the higher ground, Capricorn, and you’ll avoid sinking into the mud and getting stuck.
Aquarius Sun
Healing comes to you this month when you allow the light of relationship to illuminate a path to sound health. Find someone who will inspire you to greater heights of fitness and wellbeing. This includes emotional wellbeing, too, Aquarius.
Pisces Sun
For the past year and a half, you have been hesitating to spread your wings and fly. Like the movie character Forrest Gump when he broke free from the leg braces, now you have an opportunity to return to your old glorious self. Run Pisces, Run!
Aries Sun
Home is where the heart is, Aries, but it is also where the paintbrush lives. Turn your home into a temporary artist’s studio or writer’s hut and find your creative Self. No need to throw out the furniture; just throw out your old ideas of creativity. And while you’re at it, get rid of those pesky I can’ts”. Like the ad says, just do it.
Taurus Sun
Home and family take on new meaning this month affecting your short term goals and plans. That’s okay. There is a gem hiding in there somewhere. Seek and ye shall find and when you do, everyone benefits.Gemini Sun
Staying on schedule with your individual goals will get a boost when you communicate your ideas gently, but with firm resolve. It’s a balancing act, of course: too little and others won’t take you seriously; too much and they’ll think you are self-absorbed, but you are NOT self-absorbed are you Gemini? -
Astrologer’s Mailbag: Is Suffering Inevitable?
This month’s question comes from India: Is suffering a necessary part of life? Must we suffer in order to learn our lesson and grow?
A well-known astrologer friend once said to me, “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” What he meant is that though life invariably has pain, whether we suffer that pain is up to us. Suffering is always a product of identification with the body or mind. Identify with your unlimited nature, and suffering is no more.
However, the questioner here is alluding to those emotionally painful situations when it was our own actions that lead to suffering. Often we hear from someone, “I needed to go through this in order to learn such and such…” as if given their state of mind at the time, there was not even a snowflake’s chance in the desert they could have chosen a different path. This is just a clever way to avoid responsibility.
Suffering is self-inflicted. In an attempt to escape the primal wound of being separated from God and all its transmutations, we leap unconsciously into the lap of hope and desire only to fall into the abyss of suffering. Blind leaps are made with blind faith, and only darkness and despair shall they find.
As spiritual seekers, we must ask ourself if we are a pack animal that needs to be beat into submission by Life in order to move forward, or are we a human being who can objectively examine the motivations and intentions behind our actions? To say we were simply lost in the moment ensures that such ‘forgetfulness’ will happen again.
Suffering is not necessary in order to learn that which we need to learn. All we need is an awareness of why we are about to do what it is we are about to do. This in itself can save us countless days and nights of untold suffering. In order to have this kind of awareness, we cultivate each day virtues like vigilance, equipoise, and a commitment to dharma, living a life true to our nature.
Living a life true to our nature is the solution to every problem and issue. Our true nature is a direct link to God. It is the ‘divine plan’ emblazoned within us at the moment of creation and when we are aligned with this plan, though pain is still a possibility through the body, suffering is not.
Suffering is a result of deviating from our authenticity. We deviate because of past wounds that masks our true nature and makes us believe fulfilment lies elsewhere in the objects of our fantasies and imagination. Simply familiarising yourself with how these wounds manifest in your life will help tremendously in navigating the waters of desire which become shark-infested with compulsions, obsessions, fears, and all the other modifications of the mind that bring misery.
“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a famous quote attributed to Socrates. I always tell my clients: never regret the choices you made in the past, but closely examine the trials and tribulations that brought you to your knees: you will likely realise how choices better attuned to your true nature would have averted the situations that caused you to suffer. This is good; this is learning from your mistakes. Only a stupid person or one who fails to contemplate their life experiences repeats the same thing while expecting different results… .
Taking Socrates’s cue, if we consider thoughtfully why it is we make choices that lead to suffering, we will discover a multitude of deeply buried pain and hurts that caused us to believe something about ourself that was not true. This caused us to initiate or undertake actions that ultimately proved detrimental to our joy and peace of mind.
The whole premise of astrology is that we can avoid much suffering simply by being aware of the tendencies of the mind. Indeed, I have known many people who averted suffering during particularly vulnerable periods by simply being vigilant to the tendencies which could drag them into challenging dramas and painful circumstances.
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