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Jupiter goes into Leo, July 17th

Jupiter into Leo for all the signs

Aries
This is a great year for romance, to meet your soul mate. If you are already in a relationship, you may be discussing marriage or getting more committed. You might decide to have a baby. This is a good year to start a business that is in entertainment, or anything connected with children or games. You will have an opportunity to go on a big trip of a lifetime. This is a year to take risks, to trust your intuition, to think BIG. With the favourable trine to Uranus, you could have a huge breakthrough and achieve sudden success in your field.

Taurus
This year is a turning point for you because whatever seeds you plant now you will reap in 6 years from now. This is a great time to move house, city or even to a different country. Anything concerning real estate and land is under a favourable aspect. This is an excellent time to find your ideal place to live. You may start a successful business from home. You will be blessed by the people around you who will be supportive.

Gemini
This is a wonderful year for networking and connecting with important and influential people. You might host your own tv or radio show, or be interviewed by an important media channel. You’ll have the opportunity to be seen in the public eye, your website can take off and anything with communications brings you luck. It’s a year when you should feel more optimistic, more self-confident and exciting new people will come into your life. Make sure you get out and about to make the most of this expansive transit.

Cancer
If you’ve been working assiduously on your career, this is the year it can really take off. This is a potentially lucrative time financially for you. Visualise your goals as though they have already happened, and take daily action steps to achieve them because this is a great year ahead for you. You may meet someone new with whom you have an instant magical connection. Some extra money could appear without warning. Make sure you declutter in order to make space for it!

Leo
With Jupiter in your sign, this is your year! Be prepared to take risks, to get out of your comfort zone, to stretch yourself in every possible way because it will pay off! You have a wonderful opportunity to meet a romantic partner, or to strengthen an existing relationship. You may go on a second honeymoon. This is your year, so THINK BIG, and put your strong will and intention behind your desires and you can manifest whatever you desire.

Virgo
This year, you may reunite with a past love, make peace with a situation from your past, let go of a great deal of baggage that you’ve been carrying around with you for years. This is a year of trusting your intuition even more and developing your psychic abilities. You could meet someone special who is a healer. This is an excellent time to train in the medical / alternative healing profession. The exciting news is that next year, Jupiter comes into your sign, so this year is a time of endings and planting seeds for the new beginnings to come.

Libra
This is your year for extending and growing your social circle. Exciting new people will come into your life who have the potential of becoming lifelong friends. Your existing friends will be very supportive and helpful. Joining a new organisation or learning something new can lead you to some new and interesting people. These contacts can help you achieve your goals and dreams. Working with others this year in a team will be very beneficial. Reach out to others and look for ways in which you can collaborate.

Scorpio
Career success and recognition are under favourable aspects this year. You could be promoted, you may receive a salary increase, a bonus, appreciation for what you do. You may decide to take your career into a completely new direction and this is a good time to do it. Going back to college to study and extend your existing skills is under great aspects. You could win a scholarship, grant or some investment towards the cost of your studies.

Sagittarius
Great news for Saggies: You will have opportunities for travelling that you’ve never had before. An exciting trip could change your life completely. Your health can improve especially if you are taking good care of yourself and you do things in moderation. You may meet someone from overseas who becomes a close friend and even a romantic partner. Widen your thinking and don’t allow yourself to get into a rut even if it means taking a trip at short notice to get you to see your world from a totally new perspective.

Capricorn
This is a year when you can receive financial help from someone else. This could be an inheritance, a tax refund, a reduction in your mortgage, an investor into your business, a grant or scholarship towards study or research. This is a great year for getting crowdfunding for a project or business you want to undertake. Studying anything in the metaphysical field could lead to a business that can be lucrative.

Aquarius
If you are planning on getting married or committing yourself to an existing relationship, this is your year! If you are single, you could meet someone special with whom you feel a deep connection. You’ll have several different opportunities, so don’t move too quickly into the first one that comes along. You’ll see growth and learning in all your relationships. This may mean moving on from an existing relationship or expanding it and getting counselling to deal with difficult issues so that you can have more happiness in the long run.

Pisces
This transit of Jupiter gives you a unique opportunity to get your health into the best shape you’ve been in for years. You will meet just the right people who can point you in the right direction: a good nutritionist, healer, massage therapist, chiropractor, homeopath etc. You may decide to go into the healing business yourself so that you can help others become fitter and healthier. It’s a great year for studying and gaining more skills to make you more marketable in the workplace.

New Moon in Cancer, 27th June

How will this New Moon in Cancer affect you?
  • Aries – how can you nurture your career? pay attention to your emotions at work and if you’re not happy, resolve to take action to change it.
  • Taurus – do something nice for a friend or someone in your social circle.
  • Gemini – go into nature, be near water, feel the nourishment of the earth feeding your soul.
  • Cancer  – nurture yourself, do something soothing and calming for your nervous system.
  • Leo – beautify your surroundings, do something that makes you feel comfortable and secure.
  • Virgo – have an intimate discussion with a close friend or family member.
  • Libra – do something domestic: cook a delicious meal, invite people over for dinner, plant some herbs, veggies or flowers.
  • Scorpio– start a creative project: e.g. writing a blog, starting a business, painting, playing a musical instrument, etc.
  • Sagittarius – get a massage, go to a spa, do something nourishing for your body, eat a healthy meal prepared with fresh ingredients.
  • Capricorn – tell someone you are in a relationship with how much you appreciate them.
  • Aquarius – look at ways in which you can protect your finances e.g. pension, insurance, bank etc. What do you need to change?
  • Pisces – create some new beliefs that nourish you. e.g. people are kind and caring and you will see kind and caring people enter your world.

Mercury Retrograde – The Do’s and Don’ts

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde from June 7th – July 2nd
Many people go into panic when they hear that Mercury is going retrograde. Generally, it’s not major things that go wrong, but rather annoying little details that can be very frustrating.

The key is to use it in a constructive way.

Mercury rules anything concerning: communication, transportation and technology.

Good things to do during the retrograde:
–        Research, writing, revising
–        Reconnecting with old flames, friends, family members, work colleagues
–        Back up all your important data and change your passwords
–        Anything with ‘re’ in front of it: rewrite, reassess, reorganise, review, repair, reconsider, revisit, renew, rejuvenate, relax!
–        Find lost items
–        Complete a project you already started
–        Catch up on paperwork

Avoid during the retrograde:
–        Don’t sign an important contract if you can avoid it. If you have to go ahead, have at least 2 professionals check it over to be sure you haven’t missed anything
–        Don’t buy anything technological or mechanical. E.g. computer, phone, car. If you must, make sure you keep the receipt and any warranty just in case you have to return it.
–        Don’t launch a new product, business or important project. Do all the preparation during the retrograde and launch it once Mercury goes direct
–        Don’t go into any partnership: personal or business. 
–        Don’t agree terms on an important business deal.

As long as you know when Mercury goes retrograde, you can prepare for it and make best use of its energies.

Try to see the funny side of everything that happens during the retrograde. Keep in mind that people’s thinking processes are generally slower, so you might have to be a bit more patient and understanding.

How is this Mercury retrograde affecting you??

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How will Mars going Direct affect you?

Aries: If your partner or your work associates have been distant, expect them to be more supportive and helpful. Relationships that have been a little shaky will get back on track. Make sure you follow through with social invitations and new business contacts.

Taurus: You will be able to move forward with new and exciting changes both in your career and in your relationships. Make sure you upgrade your exercise routine and eating habits. It’s important you don’t slip back into old destructive patterns.

Gemini: Your social life will become more active and you’ll be getting involved with lots of recreational activities. If you are planning on starting a business, this is an excellent time as the forward movement of Mars will give you momentum. If you already have your own business, there will be many opportunities coming to you.

Cancer: You’ll be putting lots of energy into your home and family. Redecorating, renovating, moving home, relocating are all going to be much easier now. If you want to sell, buy or rent, the energy is moving in your favour.

Leo: You will be more honest and direct in your communications with other people. Things that you’ve been hesitating about expressing will be heard more easily now. Social networking and connecting with people will go smoothly.

Virgo: You’ll have a strong urge to spend money impulsively, so make sure you are buying things that you really need and can afford without stress. Making financial plans for the future will be much easier, and the right people will be there to help and advise you.

Libra: You’ll have a great energy boost and you’ll be able to move forward with confidence. Your previous hesitation and dithering will be in the past and you’ll be able to proceed more easily with new and exciting ideas. You’ll be feeling more decisive and stronger. Make sure you keep it up!

Scorpio: This is a time of spiritual awakening and personal growth. You’ll have renewed energy and it would be very fulfilling for you to get involved with some kind of community or charitable work. Anything involving the development of your psychic and healing abilities is under great aspects.

Sagittarius: Working with teams of people will be very productive and energising. Expect to make many lovely friends in the next few months. Make sure you are getting out and connecting with new kinds of people. Some can become lifelong friends.

Capricorn: If you are self employed or in a managerial position, things will move forward at a much faster pace. If you’re not happy in your job, now is the time to make a move as the aspects are favourable for you. Make sure you are not too focused on career and that your home and family life is getting enough attention.

Aquarius: Opportunities to travel or relocate will come your way. Set some long-term plans and take baby steps daily towards those goals. Teaching, training, coaching, learning, sharing information and networking will all bring positive results.

Pisces: If you’ve been looking for outside funding for a project, for study, for a start-up business, this will move forward now. Avoid taking out loans and stressing yourself financially. Look for other ways to get the money you want and you will succeed.

Cardinal Grand Cross – A New Paradigm for the Age of Aquarius

Cardinal Grand Cross New Paradigm for the Age of Aquarius

There’s so much negative press about the Cardinal Cross, here’s some of the good news:

With Uranus in Aries making challenging aspects to the other planets, we’re going to see BREAKTHROUGHS in every field. Medical Breakthroughs When Pluto went into Capricorn at the end of 2008, and Uranus went into Aries during the spring of 2011, this was the start of huge breakthroughs in medicine and in anti-aging research.

More and more scientists are coming to an agreement that we can live to at least 150 years and be in GOOD HEALTH.

Except for a very small minority, no one wants to age and die. Most of use would like to discover the secret of eternal youth, health and vitality. And now, with the advent of the Age of Aquarius, with our information age gathering momentum, this is becoming a possibility and by the middle of this century or sooner it will probably be a reality.

There are scientists whose research is showing that we can maintain, renew and upgrade our physical bodies and enable them to live healthily for many more years and possibly even forever. Twenty years ago, this information would have been unheard of. It’s not quite mainstream yet, but I don’t think it’s far off.

Only last year, Google started a company called Calico which is dedicated to solving the problems of aging.

Stem cell therapy is becoming more and more popular, despite the fact that governments are aggressively regulating it. Who would have heard of saving your baby’s stem cells? This is becoming more and more widespread and what was once a prohibitive cost is gradually becoming more accessible to the majority. It’s not quite there yet, but it didn’t take long for the mobile phone to be so inexpensive that even people in the 3rd world have access to it. I have no doubt that within the space of maybe 5 or 10 years that this will be something offered to parents as a matter of course.

For adults, it’s not too late either. There are stem cell banks opening up everywhere around the world. It’s still in the early stages, but what was once at least $100000 is now down to around $3000-10000 and I have no doubt that within a very short space of time, as the technology for stem cells advances further, and more positive results ensue, that this will become accessible to the vast majority.

With Pluto in Capricorn involved in this grand cross, governments and the powers that be will not want to lose their control. So I am expecting that they will try to make it difficult for us to access our stem cells, they may place huge taxes on the technology, and somehow they will try to suppress our freedoms.

This is where Uranus in Aries has to come in and lead the way. Uranus is all about the new. It rules astrology and anything that is not necessarily accepted by the masses. And you can certainly say that about astrology. Scientists are predicting that we can have no age related ill health. Elderly people will be able to contribute wealth rather than deplete it from our systems, they will be able to retrain for new careers and best of all they won’t be a burden on their children.

Disability is going to be a thing of the past. No longer will people have to be confined to wheelchairs, to suffer blindness, deafness and many other afflictions. These will all be mastered as technology and medicine unite. The latest technologically made limbs are stronger, more flexible and durable than our actual body. Technology is making the way for all kinds of gadgets to be worn outside the body that will protect it from injury during exercise, and also enable us to do far more things than we can currently even dream of.

Isn’t this exciting news?

Financial and Economic

Since the near-total collapse of the financial system in 2008, it’s evident that our economies and our financial structures need to urgently change. The greatest news is, that over time, an economy based on scarcity is giving way to an economy of abundance, changing the very nature of society.

With the advent of 3-D printers, free online education and open-source software, this is going to change the world and how business is done.

We are gradually moving away from the materialistic model of people wanting MORE, MORE, MORE….and it’s never enough, to a new economy where so many of the things that we want and need will be FREE.

Let’s start with FREE ENERGY.

Germany already produces 25% of its energy through solar and wind power. They have achieved this in just 7 years. The big electricity companies have gone out of business and they now hold less than 7% market share. This trend is set to continue in Germany and other countries are beginning to follow suit. Rapidly advancing technology and the huge reduction in costs are enabling people to create free resources using the power of the sun and the wind.

Climate change – the major threat

With duality in our world, there is always another side to the situation that needs to be examined. We mustn’t underestimate the impact that climate change can and will have.

With Neptune in Pisces we are already seeing flooding and major water catastrophes around the world. Remember that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There will be more hurricanes, tsunamis, sinkholes, roads just collapsing even while cars are driving on them (like the one in Maryland this week)………volcanoes erupting, more droughts and extremes in climate. As a result, our food and our water supplies are going to be at risk. So no matter how wonderful the technology is around us, without our basics, we are not going to survive.

As an eternal optimist, I don’t envisage that the whole planet will be consumed with disasters, but there will be many places that may become uninhabitable. The advantage of our technology and my hope is that help and moving people to safer places can happen more quickly than ever before.

Technology going EXPONENTIAL

No one would have thought in 1989 with the launching of the World Wide Web that just 25 years later, the massive adoption of the internet, the pc, the tablet, the iphone and the imminent wearable technology would happen so quickly. Things that used to take years and generations to overcome and to change are happening within 5 years or less now. It’s tremendously exciting on the one hand, but also can be very frightening on the other.

As a result of this huge upsurge of technology that utterly changes our lives, we are moving towards an age of automation of many of the tasks that needed labour. More and more people are finding that they are not employable or the skills that they learned have been taken over by robots. There are factories now that are utterly automated. Google has its fleet of automated vehicles and it’s growing. Soon we will have vehicles that are run on solar energy or fuel cells and we won’t need oil and to destroy our world in order to transport ourselves and goods around the planet.

This was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. What is the Age of Aquarius all about? Aquarius is all about social justice, equality, resources for all, not just the wealthy few. This is what is starting to change: Aquarius is an air sign – and it rules the air waves – how appropriate that our internet is run along invisible air waves. As an air sign, it specialises in communication, but it wants communication for everyone for the good of the whole.

That’s the key difference between Aquarius and the other air signs. Gemini is interested in its environment, in learning, in sharing information. Libra is interested in sharing with a partner, while Aquarius wants to share with humanity as a whole. And this is the Age of Aquarius that is now happening.

It’s now a SHARING community People directly engage with each other. This NEW TECH REVOLUTION – URANUS IN ARIES – IS AS IMPORTANT AS the founding of electricity The future is the end of work in the way we have known it. That’s the reason so many people are feeling lost, directionless, unsure which direction to go in. We are between paradigms: some are living in the old paradigm, a few have moved to the new one and the vast majority are somewhere in between the two.

I predict that with AI, robotics, virtual retailing, workerless factories, driverless cars, where the notion of work and its place in our lives is going to be transformed.

Here’s the exciting part: the AGE OF AQUARIUS is heralding SOCIAL NETWORKS, a CONNECTED and CARING WORLD. More and more people will work in culture, sports, arts, human community and thus bringing meaning into our world. It’s so exciting and inspiring!!

We are on the CUSP OF AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION With so many free resources, studies are showing that the majority want meaningful work. They want to have easy access to transportation and goods, but they don’t necessarily want to own everything. Instead of being money-motivated, their first priority is soul satisfaction.

With Mars still in Libra, the unrest and the threat of war in the Ukraine and Russia is very real. In July of this year, Jupiter goes into Leo and will strengthen Uranus in Aries, the power of the people, but there will be more tension with its quincunx to Pluto in Capricorn. The powers that be will try more and more underhanded ways to control us, to dupe us, to rob us of our freedom.

However, we the people have more power in our hands than we’ve ever had. We might not yet realise it because we are still being swamped with lies and nonsense from mainstream media. But many are awakening, and if you are reading this article, you are definitely ready for something new. This is a perfect time for us to come together, to find new ways of working together and to bring about a brighter and happier world.

Cardinal Grand Cross – how is it affecting you?

Many of you have already started to experience the effects of these powerful eclipses and the Cardinal Grand Cross coming up. I certainly have!

I never expected to be coming to Vienna for dental surgery. I came for just a couple of weeks or so to see some of my lovely friends, to collect a few things and to go back to Greece to experience my first ever Greek Orthodox Easter.  

What should have been a relatively simple root canal filling turned out to be a nightmare. After several unsuccessful attempts to redo the filling, the tooth was finally pulled out, I expected to feel relief immediately. Not so. More acute pain which had already been going on for months. The dentists couldn’t understand it. It seemed to be healing beautifully on the outside, but I was still in agony.  

Finally I turned to my psychic and asked her if she saw anything. She doesn’t do health readings any more and I didn’t hold out much hope. But she said, go back to the dentist, have him open it up because there’s festering bacteria behind the gums. She was concerned that it could go into my jawbone creating a serious problem.

The dentist fought with me because he couldn’t see anything, either on an x ray or on a CT scan, and he didn’t want to cause more damage to the healing process by opening it up. I insisted. He opened it up and said, you were right, there is a big infection here and we’ll drain it out. Every day for 2 weeks I went to have it drained, but it still wasn’t healing properly. I was still in more and more pain.

Eventually I went to another dentist and he opened it up even further and scraped the jawbone where there was more infection lurking.  

In even more pain, I went to the top jaw and face specialist at the hospital. He did more tests and said once again that there was nothing wrong and now because the area had undergone so much surgery, it was a chronic pain condition and no longer an infection.

What to do? I had to trust someone. The psychic wasn’t seeing anything else, but she did say that the jawbone-scraping was very important and was glad it had been done. After 3 different sets of antibiotics, I was hopeful that the last set with the maximum dosage had finally gotten all the infection.

So I am trusting the latest surgeon, I’m being positive and even starting to put a few pounds back on after living on liquids for so many months! It may take a little while to get back up to full steam again, but being pain free now is such a gift and I am very grateful to be on the mend. 

I am extremely fortunate, because no matter how sick I might be feeling, nothing has ever affected my work. When I am preparing and giving readings, all the pain goes away, and my focus is completely with my client. As well as continuing doing readings, which I love, I’ve even been able to write articles, continue writing my latest book and of course prepare my videos. Nothing ever interferes with my work.

Not everyone will have intensely difficult experiences, but most of us are aware that something major is changing in our world, both globally and personally.

In your own chart, look at the houses that the planets are transiting:
Mars retrograde in Libra indicates where you may be feeling defensive, where you need to negotiate, compromise or agree to disagree. This shows you where you may have to be prepared to fight for your rights and find the warrior within.

Jupiter shows the area of your life that needs to grow, where you need to broaden your understanding, where you need to gain a larger perspective, where you need to have more faith.

Pluto shows what is being destroyed in your life, which aspects need to die, where you need to take your own power, where you must face your fears.

Uranus shows where change is needed, where you feel rebellious, where you need space and freedom, where you are waking up and where you need to reinvent yourself.