Managing the madness of one step forward, three steps back!

October 18, 2019 / Estere / Anxiety relief, Astrological Projections and Forecasting, Celestial Gossip, Daily Cosmos Watch, Estere, Getting unstuck, Healing, Mars in Libra, Mercury retrograde, Neptune, Neptune retrograde, Self-care in transitional times, self-LOVE, Stress relief, The Flower Channel, Venus, winds of change / No Comments

Relax with Arthur and Estere on The Flower Channel

Let’s just concur that we are living through some really mad times. If you check in with the news at all – I do a superfast check-in on the phone a few times a day so I can track the insanity – or if you have secluded yourself in a literal or figurative bunker, the chaos of the times will infiltrate one way or another. The chaos takes on various shapes and forms, depending on where the energies are playing out in your own life (schedule your reading for clear navigational input!) but no way around the Scorpionic emotional delving, the core crap rising to the surface, and the general mayhem of Uranus retrograde in Taurus. It is the flavor of our times.

Yesterday I helped a friend pack up her kitchen for the sale of her house which has been on the market for years. I left her house and got insanely lost on roads I have been traveling on for over 30 years and know like the back of my hand – or so I thought. What should have been a 30 minute ride home took me three hours, highlighted by various road closures, mountain road paving – a sticky, cliffside adventure – I actually saw one car that didn’t quite make it hanging off the side of the road. I finally got home only to receive a message that the buyer for her house had pulled out of the deal. One step forward, three steps back.

Here’s what’s happening in the Heavens this week

The Sun is completing its journey through Libra,

entering Scorpio on October 24

Mercury is in Scorpio slowing down in preparation for its 3-week RETROGRADE November 1- 21

nothing but fun there

Venus is in Scorpio scooching right up to Mercury

relationship stuff is UP

Are you getting the Scorpio theme yet?

Deep emotional delving to buried treasure or buried crap?

Your chart knows!

Mars is in Libra soothing ruffled feathers

Jupiter is in Sagittarius encouraging expansive, big picture perspective

Saturn is in the mid degrees of Capricorn

what must be tended to must be tended to

Uranus retrograde at 4 degrees Taurus

chaos on the material realm – oh yeah

or liberation?

Neptune retrograde at 16 degrees Pisces

confusion begets confusion

or is it rapture? hard to tell

Pluto direct at 20 degrees Capricorn

dismantling of systems continues, taking its toll on your nervous system

Do things to relax you, if you know what they are!

And if you don’t know what relaxes you, best to investigate that

Scorpio deliciousness – grapevine wreath adorned with sparkly acorns on The Flower Channel

My sanity solution: I make gorgeous flower arrangements. You can too! Check out my how-to videos on The Flower Channel! Arthur is my assistant and what a help he is!

New videos just posted:

Pumpkin centerpiece

Necessary Tools

Sparkly acorn Grapevine wreath

Arthur the cat, Estere, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Mars in Libra, Mercury in Scorpio, Neptune retrograde in Pisces, PLuto in capricorn, saturn in capricorn, Scorpio, the Flower Channel, Uranus retrograde in Taurus, Venus in Scorpio

First snow of the season 2019

October 12, 2019 / Estere / The Flower Channel blog / No Comments

Full Aries Moon – 10.13.19

Full Moon madness with square to Pluto 10.13.19

October 11, 2019 / Estere / Anxiety relief, Astrological Projections and Forecasting, Daily Cosmos Watch, Estere, Full Moon, Self-care in transitional times, self-LOVE, Venus / No Comments

Full Aries Moon – 10.13.19

Nothing like waking to freezing snow blanketing the autumn yard! Such are the vagaries of Mother Nature. I feel like Uranus transiting the earth sign Taurus for the next 7 years is sure to bring more and more weather surprises so keep your range of outdoor attire readily accessible and delight in the surprises! Staying flexible, resilient, and open to all possibilities makes for such a better ride.

I was thinking about how when you’re in the throes of new love you go with the flow flow flow. Whatever life serves you up you find delicious. Be in love with life (what’s the alternative really?)

and the ride is as good as you let it be.

Full Moon at 20 degrees Aries

Sunday, October 13

3:08pm Mountain time

Full Moon makes exact square to Pluto

Full Moons can be trying for many reasons, mostly because everything feels so intensified. I would imagine this one coming up will be nothing if not intense.The areas in your chart where the Full Moon aspects will undoubtedly showcase all kinds of people, circumstances, and situations challenging you to show up, show up, show up! Show up for yourself with LOVE. Show up for others with LOVE. The only thing you have to lose is your distorted ego perception and there’s a massive trash bin in cosmic consciousness waiting to receive that crap, that detritus, that distortion and turn it back into the abyss of nothingness from which all things are born anew.

Pluto is parked at 20 degrees Capricorn right now so the Full Moon will make a direct 90 degree angle, a square, to Pluto. Don’t be at all surprised if your core fears are up in your face. I mean the deep fears, the dread fears, the ones that make you stop in your tracks and question your sanity.

We all know how fun that is.

Fear is like the bully that waits around every corner of your consciousness, planning and plotting all the perfect ways to torment you. We also know that bullies only respect strength and nothing is as strong as LOVE, nothing.

Focus on what you love, on what brings you joy and happiness.

No matter what.

Mercury and Venus are both transiting the deeply emotional, sensitive sign of Scorpio, adding to the overall intensity of the weekend.

This is the time when you need all your tools, all your metaphysical tools, to stand strong in your knowing that LOVE is all there is. Everything else is story, illusion, habits, other people’s crap, and roadblocks to your own sanity. Don’t expect the outer world to care one hoot about your sanity. The outer world is just that – outer. The inner world is where all the shift of consciousness occurs and it is from that inner space, your connection to Source, relaxing into the knowing that you are a spiritual being having a physical experience and you get to direct and manage your experience through your inner state of awareness. if you dwell in LOVE it is only LOVE that manifests outwardly.

Autumn bouquet- check out more on youtube: The Flower Channel. This Aries Full Moon is hot, firey, angry. and combative. Pluto adds the extra boo-wah of dredging up crap that has been buried so long in your subconscious – toxic feelings of rage, anger, disappointment, and existential fears. Will you engage in the battle or will you stay in your inner sanctuary of peace and tranquility, tending to the things you treasure and love? Nobody said it would be easy, but it certainly is alive! I have been thinking a lot about Tem Terriktar, beloved creator of The Mountain Astrologer, who passed earlier this year. You can read tributes to him in the Oct/Nov issue of The Mountain Astrologer. He was born one day away from me, same year. Poof! He’s gone. And would he not have given anything to have one more day, one more breath, on this crazy orb? What are you going to do with your day, your breath today? Dwell in emotional broohaha and freakout (do! if this is fun for you!) and revel in the delight of one more day to do good, to bring more light and love to the planet?

As always, the choice is yours. LOVE or FEAR?

Choose Love. Choose Life.

Full Moon in Aries, Love, Mercury in Scorpio, Pluto squares Full Moon, Tem Terriktar, The Mountain Astrologer, Venus in Scorpio

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