FULL MOON IN ARIES BEAMING DOWN TO US THE REFLECTION OF SELF-LOVE

On Sunday, October 16 early in the morning the Moon reaches its Full Phase in Aries, first Sign of the Zodiac, Element of Fire (energy and transformation). Aries symbolizes the Seeker, experiencing life as a means to know oneself. Aries wants to assert its individuality, its uniqueness. Aries perceives  existence as a struggle to survive. It is always on the move, full of energy and new projects, finding out ways of expressions not yet explored. These are the issues brought about by the Full Moon for the next 2 weeks. 
When the Moon gets full, the Sun is enlightening it from an opposite position, in this case from Libra. Moon and Sun are there, face to face, Female and Male facing each other, dark and light, void and matter. While interfacing, their Archetypes are giving shape to a dialogue between polarities, building up a rainbow bridge including every possible nuance. So no aspect of the Self is left behind. 
Every month is like a path developing along a growth in consciousness lead by our satellite beaming down to us from a different Zodiac Sign. 
A new pattern is traced by the New Moon, when the Moon is dark and conjuncts the Sun. Then, during the transition between darkness and a renewed brightness, here on Earth we are experiencing a certain issue, depending on the astrological positions. 
In October the New Moon was in Libra, placing main priority on relationships. Libra has an open issue with loneliness, therefore accepting too many compromises with others, mostly inside the couple. So the question was: what does it mean to be oneself? When is it possibile to consider a relationship healthy? Are we uncomfortably in need of the other or rather do we think our couple can have a good life? But above all, can we accept the idea that what we cannot stand in another person is exactly what we do not like in ourselves? We can hold this vision? We should be grateful to those next to us, for they allow us to experience who we are, and they mirror that back, with a great accuracy. 

During the process of the Crescent Moon, our satellite is moving away from the Sun, until they reach an opposition. And that's the magic. In that transforming phase there is the reflection within us of a the process of individuation, when we are shaping our uniqueness. A Human never wants to be on his/her own, that is natural. Yet the care we give to ourselves, choosing to love what we do not like of our aspects, our own shadow, is the answer to so much sorrow and pain caused by a lack of love. We are the only ones that can heal our wounds, learning to find an expression for every colorful flow rising from depths, listening to the natural poems our heart treasures, nourishing our minds with beautiful visions. 
Our partners are there to awake our awareness about ourselves and the relation we are entertaining with who we really are. 
This Full Moon, down to the next New Moon in november, is a lesson to learn how to accept, how to breathe in the freedom of being with someone we love and care despite the conflicts. Because those conflicts are nothing but a reflection of what we carry within. If we learn to make peace inside, our relationship with the other changes drastically and we can be free to choose.
Stefania Gyan Salila

OCTOBER PORTALS: NEW MOON IN LIBRA ON 10.01, 10.10 PORTAL, FULL MOON IN ARIES WITH THE CARDINAL CROSS

Let us take a vision of October's energy flows.

As written in a previous post, we have just come out from the immense portals of 999 in September to be taken by the New Moon in Libra on 10/01 into the Path of Balance and Equality (key-words of Libra).

Our evolutionary path is taking us face to face with our deepest fears, such as,  for example, Death. What threatens a human more than death and loss? All of us are getting close to these concepts in everyday life, all of us. Common People, Researchers, Light Bearers, Light beacons, we are all facing our own Truth, and this is requiring a total honesty, the great gift we receive when feeling the courage of giving up resistance. In that moment we are getting rid of our masks and tenderness and strength, and vulnerability and presence arise from within us.

No need to write many words of interpretation. In front of the Great Silence we can only learn what Dignity is, the humble majesty we cradle inside, our everyday-hero self. 

The Path of Balance and Equality started on 10/01 with the New Moon in Libra - a chance to heal our relationships or to focus why it is so hard to stay in a relationship or even to find a partner. What is requiring a death in this case is our Ego (judgment and victimization). Read here to learn more.

Now we are heading towards the Full Moon of 16/10/2016, and the planets of our System will display this wonderful Sacred Geometry:

Cardinal Signs are giving shape to a Cross: Cancer and Capricorn are the Soul Portals between the worlds. Their axis goes from Earth to Heaven, from Imum Coeli in Capricorn (cusp between III and IV House - the starting point from which you are moving to find the resolution of an old problem), where Mars joint Pluto represent the strength of the past that makes its way in to be loose and let go of once and for all. Past and its consequences in our life can be seen now. We are no longer blind in front of the manipulations of our own ego. We can be open to awareness in this Soul Journey towards Medium Coeli, at the top, between the IX and X House in Cancer. Lightheartedness is the gift, letting go of the old soul agreements that kept us anchored to situations that now have been destructured by each crucial step during the 999 Portals. Free from the shackles of the past.

A double-cross opposition is balancing these deep issues, and it is involving the Axis Virgo-Pisces, where the Collective Consciousness is developing its lesson, thanks to the presence of the Lunar Nodes, and Aries-Libra, where the Full Moon is facing the Sun. Aries and Libra are the other two polarities of the Cardinal Cross. All these planetary influences are building up a way that lead us to a deep integration of sorrow and joy, tears and laughters, light and darkness. We are stepping towards a Sense of Unity like never before. Thanks to us, thanks to our will to heal.

From a geometrical point of view there is a central straight line around which two triangles with converging centers intersect. Everything is pushing towards the center. Everything is converging towards a common point. Towards the center of the central core.
Although not everyone of us is used to sail through the Oceans of our Soul, this is chance to pay attention to a certain feeling coming from our depths, from our Core. Isn't your chest expanding? Cant't feel an unspeakable joy, even if outside life is not going so great? This is the healing brought about by the October energy. We can be Explorers of our Sacred Heart, each one of us in our own way is learning how to feel at home there.
Stefania Gyan Salila

TIME OF COMING OF AGE - DO WHAT MUST BE DONE - SUN AND JUPITER IN LIBRA SQUARE MARS AND PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

We are entering a very peculiar week in terms of planetary movements (October 08/15). Since the end of September Jupiter, the giant planet in our system, is conjunct the Sun in Libra and now Mercury is joining them. This aspect is amplifying every issue regarding relationships and our place in the world. We may feel the urge to develop an attitude as centered on ourselves as possible, an inner position which may put aside pride, curbing the infinite whims of the Inner Child. It's time to grow up and to stop pointing fingers towards the others. The Sun-Jupiter-Mercury conjunction in Libra (birth of a constructive dialogue between people) is giving shape to a square (an aspect of inner tension) involving Mars in Capricorn (underground force pushing on usually quiet emotional energies). The planet of Fire, of action and movement is getting closer to Pluto (the inexorability of life cycles, initiation steps we cannot leave behind because now we can only go forward. No more delays). All this becomes particularly strong on October 08, 09 and 10, when the Moon joins Mars and Pluto. Our satellite symbolizes our individual unconscious. In this position the Moon is holding us right there where it hurts, whatever it may be, until we are able to overcome the pain by accepting it, accepting to grow up, to take our own responsibility for what actually happened, for what we suffered. This is the chance to make peace with Life, each of us in our own special way. This is the chance to  overcome the anger unleashed by fear when we had to face the magnitude of our pain, part of those experiences that left us naked in the street. Yes, it is very difficult, but even if anger and frustration are shaking us, it is necessary to get straight to our core, our heart, breathing in and out, slowly. We are learning not to get lost amidst the storm. This is what is happening, this is the gift. We are grounding, and our roots are spreading towards the heart of our Mother the Earth. Finally peace may come. 
Once we accept the pain and let it through us without resistance, breathing in and out inside every sensation, we allow pain to do its job: we become wiser and brighter, centered and sensitive. This is the coming of age we can get at thanks to the recent 999 Portals of September. It is the real opening of the heart, because there is no other way to ride on. Even if we wish we got there in many other ways, without necessarily passing through all that nakedness, yet now it is possible to widen our vision, looking at ourselves from beyond any sense of identification with a human body or with a life that is still full of fear. This is a very delicate moment. We are stepping out from old mind programs structured on control. The paradigm has changed during the month of September. Now we can feel we are changing reactions and choices regarding life. So let us take a deep breath and feel the inner and outer space getting wider and wider. There we can fly and get to know our eternity.
Stefania Gyan Salila

MATCHING THE OPPOSITES - VENUS AND LILITH CONJUNCT IN SCORPIO

We are now still under the influence of the New Moon in Libra (October 1st - read here), where we could reconcile with our opposites, being our partner or even one of our aspects. Through this, it was possible to regain a new sense of unity and wholeness and, as a consequence, we can now go back to ourselves, taking care of our own sacred space. When there is a conflict with someone, that situation is often mirroring a lack of acceptance towards something deeply hidden inside. Anger and tension require a lot of energy to be controlled, so once we manage to make peace with that side or at least to feel more at ease within the very discomfort, then we can retrieve a lot of energy flow, which will help us to gain a wider and deeper breathing and centering. From our core we have a spread view on the Void we contain and the Void indicates where the energy stopped flowing within ourselves, where Love could not make its way to us. What is happening now is that Venus, planet of Love, Beauty, Healing and Harmony is joining its dark side, Lilith, the Dark Moon, the Great Rebel. Venus has been transiting in the Water Sign of Scorpio since September 24, 2016 and will lead her way up to October 18, 2016, emphasizing the feeling side of life. Lilith, the Shadow of the Moon, is traveling in the same Sign from October 2015 to February 2017. She was Adam's first wife and she could not accept to obey him, as they were created alike. She had the strength to say NO to even her own Creator and willingly abandoned Eden. Now, talking from the misty hidden emotions of Scorpio, she is saying: you human, get in touch with your own shadow, look at your ego and love it, for it is you more than any other aspect. So you'd better love it, not to be its slave.

In this time, Lilith's transit in Scorpio is running its last months, taking us to a final encounter, and Venus is helping us to find a balance with what we have never wanted to make peace with. We have never even accepted we could be that! So breath, stay calm and keep on looking, for Life now is telling you how to integrate and overcome your deepest fears, teaching you to remain inside the storm without being taken away.

Venus and Lilith are conjunct from October 2 to 17, while on October 6 they find themselves on the same degree (15°). 

For women is getting in touch with a deep sensation of unconscious anger. Pay attention, for this is not our anger. It comes from our ancestors, and we feel it because we have the same DNA. Lilith is a very strong Archetype, it is anger and it is immediate, no filter is functioning here. Yet it has something to teach us, for Lilith only wants to obey herself. And there you can find the push and the strength to say NO, which is a magical word that can save us, even from ourselves. 

Venus and Lilith are two opposite aspects of the Feminine. During their conjunction, men will experience the real relationship they are entertaining with women, the real feeling linking them to the female side of life, which they inherited from their father and grandfathers. So, most of the times, men prefer having to do with a tender and sweet Venus, rather than struggling with rebel Lilith. It is a time for reflection for both genders about their own relationship and the way we, men and women, men and men, women and women, face each other.

People living a hard time in this sense can find a new balance between these two so very different aspects, between asking for tenderness and feeling wounded. Venus and Lilith create an atmosphere where there is only instinct and body feelings putting us into our basic truth, which often we are ashamed of, for the nakedness we are confronted with. Well, since this aspect will be strong throughout this week and further, we can become familiar with the power of feelings, urgent wishes and need for space that no longer pass through compromises and barriers. A plunge into the shadow to reemerge into the light. Little steps towards our very core, where our true Self abides.

Stefania Gyan Salila

NEW MOON OF OCTOBER 2016 - BRINGING PEACE WITHIN THE DEPTHS OF OUR SOUL - JUPITER CONJUCT NEW MOON IN LIBRA

On October, 01 there was an interesting planet conjunction in Libra, the Zodiac Sign symbolizing the balance between two opposite ends - just like in a couple, where the different parts of male and female are trying to match to each other. This is of course true also within us, in reference to any of our inner aspects that makes us feel distant from our own core.

This conjunction is created by Jupiter - social deals, but also soul vows we pronounced in other times and spaces - at 4 ° Libra, getting very close to the New Moon, delicately embracing the Sun at 8 ° Libra. Jupiter and the Sun together form the two Suns, as mentioned in a previous post. While in the New Moon, the Sun is mingling with the Moon losing itself in this embrace,  especially when this happen in the sign of Libra, where the Solar/Male Archetype is on exile, due to the  declining daylight of the autumn season. Jupiter may expand the sense of dissolution of the ego, when our Self becomes deeply conscious of the existence of other  Selves, within and without, at any level of the Existence. How tightly are we identified with the mere ego? Can we allow ourselves to interact with someone next to us without expectations or projections, or requests?

The atmosphere of this New Moon has shifted the Ego barriers towards the Other, from the single to the couple, thus taking us back in time, in a point where we left our first deep love. No matter how far our heart will have to travel back, even lifetimes, as the Libra New Moon conjuct Jupiter allows the opening of a portal on the infinite, simply because time does not exists in the fifth dimension, where Heart rules. This effect will be experienced throughout the month of October, as Jupiter and the Sun will be triggered by the opposition of Uranus retrograde, planet of Light, which, although far away, at 23° Aries, is polarizing the axis Aries/Libra (I AM/WE ARE) creating a bridge between opposite dimensions. 

What happens is that, going back to where it all began, we will understand the reason why we are now experiencing uneasiness in our couple. Or why is it so hard to attract a partner that can contain us and who we can contain. It is like facing our own truth in relations. Putting all the blame on the other, aren't we just projecting an unconscious self-judgement? It will be the time to face the mother of any battle ever fought, right there where it all started - within us. Until the Sun will be in Libra (around October 22) there will be a deep alchemical process going on inside of us. It will also be interesting to examine the nuances that will be created by the transition of our Star in Scorpio, where It will meet Her, the Great Rebel and Teaser, Lilith. Everything is calling us to fall in love, out of love.

Stefania Gyan Salila

The Second Opening Of The 999 Portal – 18/09/2016 – The Gift Of Inner Peace And Healing Of Conflicts

In order to complete the whole picture about the three 999 September Portals, here is the link to read about the second:

THE SECOND 999 PORTAL - 18.09.2016

Stefania Gyan Salila

09.27.2016 - AN ASTROLOGICAL VIEW ON THE THIRD 999 PORTAL - THE QUEEN WELCOMES THE HOMECOMING HERO

On the ninth month of a 9-year we are closing a cycle that started on day 9, and its completion is the Third 999 Portal (2+7+0+9+2+0+1+6 = 9). To read about the previous two Portals: 09.09.2016 (in Italian) and 09.18.2016 (in English).

Preparing a Star Map of the day there is a very interesting path to discover thanks to the planetary symphony - a path leading back Home. The Portal will introduce us to a place we have been looking for our entire life. The melancholy ever flowing unannounced from within was originated by a call we were not aware of. Now we can hear it more clearly, yet a little bit more focus is required to step aside from our ego's illusions. This is the sacred place each of us calls Home, whatever that means. All of a sudden we will see familiar faces around, rejoining with our beloved. A job we have long planned to do, traveling to a new place to start again, a new house where to live in comfort. Whatever it is, there a great chance to see it coming forward. Because this is the Time of the Return, even if we have never been there before in this lifetime. A place, a situation, a relationship we feel we belong. It is the Time of Returning on the path our Soul chose for us, aligning with our Life Mission. 

Comparing the Star Maps of the three Portals interesting geometric patterns can be observed:

On the first one, on 09.09, a Portal opened on a purification process through Fire (Moon and Saturn conjuct in Sagittarius). Fire is the Element representing the Astral Plane, the Mind and its Belief systems. We were asked to develop a new Vision where our very mission in life had to come on stage. Were we ready to believe in it, in ourselves been able to perform it? 09.09 Portal was a big challenge, a tough comparison with reality. Was our Vision strong enough to survive third-dimension reality? So an Awakening into our Presence was necessary to test us.

The second one, 09.18, performed as the grounding of this new Fire energy in everyday life. Moon in Aries (a Fire Sign, again) was still bringing forward the Power of Transformation, creating a Trine with Saturn in Sagittarius. Their conjucted rays gave our consciousness the right push to ground this Fire into our Heart. The Flow had a much sweeter impact on our daily life. We received acknowledgements from Existence itself, a response of gratefulness for the efforts we made.

On the third Portal, 09.27, we can let ourselves go into a warm embrace. Moon in Leo (Fire Sign, again!) turns to be the Queen welcoming the Hero (us) on his arrival Home, thus investing us with Knighthood. We well-deserve it. We are stepping into a new state of consciousness. Now we are feeling relieved, knowing we did the best we could and with all our heart. The gates are opening to let us into the most sacred and intimate inner place. There love abides. So let us breath love and let us bring love outside, whatever that means for us. Energy can circulate freely, from deep within to the world and from the world back to us. Everything gets to flow.

During these three September Portals the Moon, symbolizing the intimate relation we hold with ourselves, is always visiting one of the three Fire Signs - Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. Fire is the Element related to purification and renewal. The Moon is emphasizing the sacredness of the Hero's Journey. We are all heroes. There is no gesture requiring more courage than responding to Love's call unconditionally.

Stefania Gyan Salila