If You Were Born Today, October 6

You are an idealistic, warm, and family-loving person. When you aren’t feeling confident, you are prone to withdrawing, sometimes appearing aloof. It’s certainly not because you are unfriendly. Instead, it’s due to a somewhat cautious nature. You crave a spiritual connection with another person–something that lifts you above and beyond the ordinary. Routine bores you, yet you are not attracted to crises or high-change situations either, as security is important to you. Highly creative, you need to express yourself in a few different avenues in order to derive the most satisfaction from life. Once befriended, you make a fabulously devoted companion, as you value quality over quantity in the people department. When you find people to adore, they are certainly well taken care of! Famous people born today: Carole Lombard, Elisabeth Shue, Le Corbusier, Matthew Sweet, Jenny Lind.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

This is a year in which you seek out nourishment and naturally nurture and support others. Needs and cravings are in strong focus, and you’re drawn to those things you feel are more wholesome, healthy, and natural. This can be a year in which you make significant lifestyle improvements and/or positive changes to your home and family life.

Nevertheless, this can be a period in which you are bolder, more assertive, and energetic. You are especially interested in setting goals and challenges for yourself this year, as well as taking the necessary action to meet them. You may meet or interact with others who encourage or inspire you in some way to have more confidence in yourself. Independent work is favored and competitive activities may also thrive this year. Your passions and enthusiasm run high, and the trick is to channel this extra energy constructively.

You’re also quite driven to make improvements and effect positive change in the year ahead. This impacts many areas of your life beyond the personal, including relationships and work.

Your need to investigate and read between the lines is strong this year. It’s best used for research and increased awareness of psychological motivations, both of others and yourself.

Saturn forms a transiting square to your Sun in January, and January can be a little more challenging than other months, but it’s also a great time for getting organized. This can be a time of fixing problems or taking on responsibilities so that your life runs more smoothly.

Venus harmonizes with Neptune around the time of your birthday this year, and you are more imaginative and attuned to the world of beauty and romance in the year ahead. Gentleness with others is the best way to harness this energy and to attract what you want into your life. There could be truly “magical” times on a romantic and social level. You are especially romantic this year, and you are likely to idealize and expand a relationship through sensitive interactions and a more giving approach. Benefits come through paying attention to your dreams and intuitions, as well as through creativity. Mind you, Venus also squares Mars, and while some relationships are gentle and inspiring, others (or a key one) can be competitive or temperamental.

The year ahead is likely to be an especially enterprising one. Some relationships (or a key one) can work quite well, while others can be up and down. Your creative and love urges are powerful indeed. Focusing will be the key to success. You are taking on new responsibilities, but generally, you enjoy the challenges. Emotional balance benefits you across the board.

2018 is a Number Nine year for you. Ruled by Mars. This is a year of completion and transition. It is a time when we need to let go of things that no longer serve their purpose, and hold on to things that have a future. It is a time of cleaning out dead wood, not necessarily for new beginnings. It can be a time when a burden has been taken off your shoulders, and it can be a year of giving of yourself. Advice – let go of things that are holding you back, give of yourself and express your sympathetic, compassionate side.

2019 will be a Number One year for you. Ruled by the Sun. This is a year of action. The seeds you plant now, you will reap later. Others might find you less sociable, as you are busier than ever and you focus on your activities and your needs. Still, you are outgoing and your initiative is stronger than ever. Advice – Stand alone, take action, start fresh, express independence.

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Evidence, thoughts, theories, and folklore about the effects of the lunar cycle

• The Moon and natural phenomena
  • The link between the Lunar Cycle and the oceanic tides is well established. In a strict sense tidal motion does not respond directly to the gravitational pull of the Moon but follows a pattern of resonance. This resonant pattern has been set in motion by the gravitational effect of the orbiting moon on the rotating earth over a long period of time.

• The Moon and plants and animals
  • Marine biologists on the Australian Barrier Reef informed me that coral mates at the full moon.
  • Herbivores ovulate around the Full Moon. The world’s leading expert on deer states that the height of the deer rutting season occurs around two full moons. One of the two will be the Leo Full Moon. (late July – late August)
  • Migratory Birds appear to follow the patterns of the moon for timing and finding their path of migration. Zoologists in Alaska noticed that animals: bears, caribou, salmon moved at the Full Moon.
  • An expert on animal behaviour reported that his hamsters turned their wheels ‘more dizzily’ during the full moon.
  • Game birds tend to return to certain locations at the time of the Hunter’s Moon.
  • Studies into healing revealed that the full moon amplified the electrical charge in living cells. A sensitive voltmeter, he had attached to a tree picked up a faint electrical force. However, at the time of the full moon, this force soared upward on the scale.

• The Moon and Agriculture
  • The Harvest Moon occurs in late summer [at or after the autumnal equinox]. Farmers and farm workers would take advantage of the additional hours of light and work through the night in order to complete the harvest.

• The Moon and our Time-table
  Many Religious and Traditional Festivals are scheduled in line with lunar phases.
  • The Chinese New Year is celebrated on the second New Moon after the Winter Solstice.
  • Easter Sunday is the first Sunday on or after the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox.

• The Moon and weather
  • The Moon is thought to influence the formation of tropical hurricanes.
  • The connection between the full moon and frost is so well established that it affects investment patterns. For example, investors on the world commodities exchanges go long of coffee futures around the winter full moons in Brazil.

• The Moon and emotional weather
  • Air stewards report that passengers on aircraft flights are more difficult to handle and there are more incidents at the full moon.
  • Modern investigations into human bio-rhythms have discovered that their emotional cycle ties in with the 28 day lunar cycle.

• The Moon and Madness
  The association between the Lunar phases and mental illness is legendary.
  • The word lunatic comes from the Latin word Luna for Moon.
  • In Britain, the 1824 Lunacy Act stated that people were liable to go mad when the Moon was full.
  • Research found a dramatic rise in admissions to psychiatric hospitals in New York on days of the full Moon.
  • Arson attacks increase by 100% at the time of the full moon. However, arson also rises when there is a drop in the atmospheric pressure, which may also be connected with the phases of the moon.
  • A higher number of mental patients become highly disturbed around the time of full moon.

• Murder and the Full Moon
  • According to a US study, murders – many apparently motiveless – trebled around the time of the full moon.
  • Author, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was inspired by the true story of Charles Hyde. Hyde committed a host of ‘chilling deeds’ at the time of the Full Moon.
  • Various studies have shown that suicide rates are higher around the full moon.

• The Moon and Accidents
  • Alcohol consumption rises at the start and end of the lunar cycle. More drunk drivers, more crashes and more hangovers occur at this critical time. It’s hard to know if the astrological connection between the Moon and liquids or the Moon and emotions is the root cause.
  • At the time of the full moon, hospital accident and emergency units see about 10% more patients. 80% of casualty nurses and 64% of doctors believe the moon adversely affects patient behavior.
  • Crimes of violence increase at the full moon.

• The Moon and Birth
  • Female reproductive cycles respond to the lunar cycle.
  • Medical staff report that women who have already had children are significantly more likely to give birth on the day of the full moon.
  • Fertility expert, editor of Correlation Journal and astrologer, Dr Pat Harris’ initial research into 114 IVF treatments found that astrology, clinic location, and family history (reproductive health problems) all had significant associations with success and failure of outcome. She concluded that her research supports the association of the Moon along with the positions of Venus and Jupiter with fertility and an increased likelihood of having children.

• Health around the Full Moon
  • A research team at Leeds university found a significant increase in visits to medical practices for consultations after the full moon.
  • Doctors report an increase in epileptic seizures and bleeding ulcers at the time of the full moon.

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Lunar Lore

Your Daily Cosmic Calendar for Saturday, October 6

This is a good point in the Cosmic Calendar to remind you that major sky cycles on one day don’t just disappear 24 hours later. Instead, they remain highly influential, but operate more below the surface than on the familiar and easily-recognized astro-psychic radar screens. Therefore, yesterday’s reversal by Venus is sending out warning signals regarding romance, the arts, social activities and money-making endeavors. In addition, Venus is still virtually motionless and this places the planet’s archetypes as front-and-center in your life. Helping you stay grounded and pragmatic is the moon in Virgo making a supportive, 60-degree rapport with Venus (10:17am) as well as a research-encouraging trine to Pluto (11:28pm). The main challenge right now concerns the moon forming its monthly opposition to often confusion-generating Neptune in Pisces (4:05pm).

[Note to readers: All times are now calculated for Pacific Daylight Time. Be sure to adjust all times according to your own local time so the alignments noted above will be exact for your location.]

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In the Sky This Month

The sky this week for October 6 to 14

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Daily Overview of Your Stars & Planets for Saturday, October 6

The Moon spends the day in the sign of Virgo. While its opposition to Neptune this evening can temporarily throw us off our game, the Virgo Moon encourages us to take care of business, focus on details, and make improvements. This morning, we may be dealing with scattered thoughts, difficulties in groups and friendships, and restlessness with our current routine or with people’s thinking patterns and attitudes.

We are looking for comfort, security, and nourishment as the day advances, and our ability to support our loved ones is more important to us than usual as the Sun heads towards an alignment with Ceres. Needs and cravings are in sharp focus, particularly related to our relationships, and we’re drawn to those things we see as wholesome, healthy, and natural.

Moon in Virgo

We instinctively gravitate towards practical activities under the influence of a Virgo Moon. In order to set things right, we might easily find ourselves re-organizing and rethinking plans. Emotional satisfaction comes from solving problems, making order out of confusion, and helping others. Health matters might come into focus. We notice the smaller parts that make up the whole, and instead of letting nagging details bother us, we might work on ironing them out so that we can feel more confident moving ahead.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, services, and routines. Activities that would benefit from tending to details.