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Your Daily Horoscopes for Monday, June 4

Aries

Today’s Full Moon is a lunar eclipse, with deep links to a force that has been trying to get to the surface for too long now and finally finds a crack in your resistance. It’s a sense of adventure that interlaced with today’s moonbeams will soak into your pores and into your very being, making it hard to hide behind your excuses. Whether it’s a sense of wanderlust or curiosity that has you in its grasp, dare to follow where it takes you.

Taurus

It was 2 weeks ago to the day that the Sun and Moon not only returned to your income sector but aligned to form a solar eclipse and now the tables have turned, with a lunar eclipse in your financial sector. This time, instead of the Sun and Moon aligned they’re in opposition, bringing forces on the income and financial fronts to a head and into conflict. As a super charged Full Moon, this has the power to bring financial matters to a tipping or turning point.

Gemini

Today’s lunar eclipse in your relationship sector is the last before the North Node leaves in August and therefore the last in a series of eclipses here to help point things in the right direction or put things on the right path. As a super charged Full Moon, with deep links to forces that have been building on the relationship front, behind the scenes, this is more the tip of an iceberg, giving you insight into what’s happening beneath the surface and behind the scenes.

Cancer

It was nearly 4 weeks ago that an active and defining 3 professional months ran their course, but the Moon’s return to your work sector today and the lunar eclipse this creates is throwing one final wildcard on the table. Until now there is likely to have been a sense that a piece of the puzzle was missing, but as it’s played today and things come to a head everything is now on the table. This could bring things on the work front to a tipping or turning point.

Leo

Just as you’re fighting to find the right balance between work and play today’s Full Moon is likely to influence which way the scales tilt, even if it is just temporarily. No ordinary Full Moon but instead a lunar eclipse in a romantic, playful and creative part of your chart, this will unleash strong and previously suppressed feelings, giving you a clear sense of what you want and need. This makes listening to your heart a must today.

Virgo

Just when you’re ready to fly professionally, today’s lunar eclipse in your home and family sector brings a reminder of the need for the right work/life balance. Just 2 weeks ago the Moon aligned with the Sun just after returning to your career sector, forming a solar eclipse that opened some major new doors. Now the Moon is directly challenging the Sun, making sure your home and professional lives are evenly balanced.

Libra

A Full Moon in your communication sector will always bring an interesting mix of intuition and logic, imagination and intelligence together in a smart, intellectually savvy and articulate part of your chart, creating just enough pressure to push through your excuses. Today’s Full Moon is a little stronger as it’s a lunar eclipse, creating a chance to clear the air and get unsaid words off your chest.

Scorpio

At a time when there is a lot of focus on your financial situation as a whole, the Moon’s return to your income sector and the lunar eclipse this creates brings a chance to put things into perspective. While this puts the Sun and Moon in opposition and may create some financial pressure, it’s also likely to create a breakthrough on the income front and provide some timely financial wake up calls. The money gods are making sure you’re not asleep at the wheel.

Sagittarius

The halfway point in every solar year is marked by a Full Moon in your relationship sector, which puts the Moon in your sign and the Sun on the other side of the sky and halfway through your 12 month solar year. That point is reached today, but for the second year in a row it’s not marked by a Full Moon, but by a lunar eclipse, bringing much louder and stronger wake up calls. No matter what buttons are being pushed, it’s because too much is on offer to remain on autopilot.

Capricorn

Today’s Full Moon is packing a little more punch than is usually the case, due to the fact that this is not only a lunar eclipse, but the second lunar eclipse in an intuitive part of your chart in as many years. This is a Full Moon that works from within, stirring up strong emotional and intuitive responses that can bring unexpected shifts in perception. As the truth dawns this may challenge previous perceptions, but a truth once heard can’t be ignored.

Aquarius

There is a powerful mix of fate and synchronicity in the air today as today’s Full Moon, a powerful Wishing Moon, morphs into a lunar eclipse. Falling in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, that rules your hopes and wishes, this lunar eclipse will provide an outlet or a trigger for forces that have been building behind the scenes. While the chances are high for some serendipitous moments or encounters today, they shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Pisces

Just 3 weeks before new doors are due to open on the work front, the Moon not only returns to your career sector today but becomes first a Full Moon and then a lunar eclipse. This is likely to see everything that has been building on the career front since late last year and behind the scenes since then come to a head and as the last lunar eclipse here for several years, will bring things to a turning or tipping point.

Your Pet’s Weekly Horoscopes for June 4

Aries

If one eclipse can play havoc with my nerves, then 2 in one week is really going to drive me nuts, especially as they are sending conflicting signals. It’s when I feel a little out of control and I can’t understand what I’m feeling, that I gain a sense of security and safety from everything around me remaining the same. It’s routine and all things predictable that will save my sanity this week.

Taurus

Strong forces in the air this week are unlikely to rattle me, which is surprising as I’m usually quite prone to the effect that eclipses have on me. This time around this is going to infuse me with a new sense of confidence and see a desire for change fill me with a sense of entitlement. Expect me to turn into a bit of a diva this week, wanting my own way and very sure about what I do and don’t like.

Gemini

My birthday month reaches a critical point this week, where I’m being influenced by forces that make me feel threatened and by those that fill me with confidence and a clear sense of what I do and don’t like. One minute I seem fragile and in need of reassurance and the next I’ll be ready to take on the world. They don’t call me the sign of the Twins for nothing, with both sides of my personality coming out this week.

Cancer

Don’t be surprised if Monday’s lunar eclipse inspires a burst of activity from me, especially as until then you may be worried that I’m becoming a little too lazy and a little too fond of dozing and my all day naps. If you want to encourage me to move more and get active, then the early days of the week are the best, when you’re more likely to catch me in the right frame of mind. By mid week I’ll be wondering what came over me.

Leo

A sense of playfulness and a desire to exercise my social butterfly wings becomes unplugged this week, moving to extremes. I’m in such a need for fun that you might even find me howling at the Moon, especially during Monday’s lunar eclipse in a fun and playful part of my chart. An even rarer Venus eclipse in a social part of my chart will have me just as eager to be the centre of attention.

Virgo

Any week that has 2 eclipses is going to rattle me, as it will all pets and even you humans, but I’ll cope best if I have some predictability and balance. Chances are this will turn me into a bit of a home body, feeling best when I’m surrounded by all things familiar. Yet by midweek I’m likely to find my inner confidence, doing a complete flip flop and demanding my independence.

Libra

I’ve been under the spell of a sense of adventure and wanderlust for some time, but this week the voice in my head just won’t keep quiet, telling me to just ‘go for it’. While I’m normally well behaved and enjoy having rules and boundaries and enjoy even more the ‘atta girls’ or ‘atta boys’ I get when I abide by them, my inner gypsy is just too strong to be ignored.

Scorpio

If you’re looking to introduce change into my life, then strike while the iron is hot this week. I’m not only more open to change this week but actually want you to bring it on, but I’m going to have a boost in confidence to help me cope with getting what I wish for. For while I want change it’s just as scary for me as it is for you, with an extra dose of confidence a useful panacea.

Sagittarius

I’m so ready to stand up for myself this week, saying ‘no’ when you try and tell me what I should do or to get what I want when you try and stop me, that I’m likely to do just that whether you do or not. Even when you’re not trying to be the boss of me I’ll be standing up and telling you that you can’t. So yes, I am going to get a little loopy this week, but I blame it on all the eclipse energy in the air.

Capricorn

You may start to wonder if my missing twin has all of a sudden showed up from out of the blue and that at times we’re switching places, just to play with you. For while there will be two sides to me this week, they are so extreme and are likely to flip flop so much, that you may be left wondering which is the real me. At times you’ll get the action me, running around like an Eveready Bunny, while at other times you’ll get the sloth.

Aquarius

Whether I’m normally shy and hesitant when there are strangers around or not, my social butterfly wings will be getting a full work out this week. There is a sense of fun in the air this week that I’ll want to tap into, so much so that I’ll be afraid of missing out on anything, showing up just in case. This is being spurred on by a lunar eclipse in a social part of my sign on Monday, which will help me to come out of my shell.

Pisces

Pets and animals as a whole have a sixth sense, relying on and trusting our instincts, which has served us well for thousands of years and works well for me now, knowing how to wrap you around my little finger. Us Piscean pets are even more sensitive, but the downside is that I pick up on everything and with two eclipses this week my senses will be going haywire. This may play havoc with my nerves, but keeping things as routine as possible is all the panacea I need.

Your Weekly Career Horoscopes for June 4

Aries

The Moon’s visit to your career sector from Wednesday to Friday will not only sharpen your professional instincts and give you a chance to get your bearings on career matters and situations it will have a big impact on things on the income and work fronts. The Moon returns to your career sector on the same day that Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos moves into his last 4 weeks of his 8 month visit to your work sector and just when you’re ready to put everything you have into everything you do. This will give you the insight to pick your battles wisely, making it important to have your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground. This is the Moon’s last visit to your career sector before Jupiter leaves your income sector next Tuesday, giving you an intuitive sense of where the money is.

Taurus

You reach two important road markers on the work front this week, just as you’re moving into one very powerful and auspicious week on the income front. With Jupiter, planet of luck returning to your income sector next week, you’re on the doorstep of some very auspicious times on the income front and it seems you’ll have the professional clout to back it up. It’s on Monday that Saturn reaches a point where he’s just 3 weeks away from turning direct in your work sector, while on the same day Mars reaches a point where he’s just a month to the day away from arriving. This sets the scene for a massive turnaround on the work front early next month, which income forces are already lining up for. Use the chance you have now, while the doors to the past are still open, to work behind the scenes.

Gemini

After the Moon spent the weekend in your work sector you’re able to move into the new week with your finger on the pulse, your ear to the ground and your instincts sharp. Monday is when your instincts will be the sharpest and it’s also the day when Neptune will be spending his last full day in direct motion in your career sector, before turning retrograde on Tuesday. Still in direct motion but at a standstill, but not yet in retrograde motion so not yet able to retrace your steps, Monday provides an opportunity to simply stay in the moment and with the Moon having just left your work sector, you’ll have your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground. It’s from Thursday that you’ll have a chance to focus more on where the money is, with a smart head for money kicking in.

Cancer

Your week begins with a lunar eclipse in your work sector, which may take you by surprise considering the Moon only returns on Monday, the day of the lunar eclipse. It’s where things have been building behind the scenes, either on or off your radar, that eclipse energy has the power to bring things to a head or to a turning or tipping point. Even though the day might pass uneventfully, you’ll eventually look back at this time and recognise it for the turning point it actually is. With the Moon not returning to your work sector until Monday that means it will stay on until Wednesday, giving you a further 2 days to digest any strong messages and insights. As with all eclipses it’s important to get out of the way and let what is meant to be, be.

Leo

This is your last week to give your professional year as much of a push as possible but chances are, if you’ve been working with the stars over recent months there might not be much left in the tank, in which case it’s more about tying up loose ends. For this is Jupiter, planet of luck’s last full week in your career sector and when he leaves next Tuesday, he won’t return until 2023 and with no planetary activity here at all until April 2013, things will ease right back. It’s the Moon’s visit to your work sector from Wednesday to Friday that gives you a chance to touch bases with Pluto and forces on the work front, for from next week this is what will keep your professional game on track. This week is all about tying up loose ends and putting them on the path you want them to continue on.

Virgo

This week is being dominated by a pair of eclipses, both having an impact on your professional game but in very, very different ways. The week begins with Monday’s lunar eclipse putting direct pressure on the Sun in your career sector, bringing any work/life balance issues to a head. But considering what’s coming, this gives you a chance to tweak things before things really start to move. It is Wednesday’s eclipse that will have the biggest direct impact on your professional game, for this is a rare Venus eclipse in your career sector, not to be repeated in your lifetime. With Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion returning to your career sector next week Wednesday’s eclipse will get things moving ahead of time. This will bring both your professional desires and realities to a head.

Libra

This is one week when a one size fits all approach won’t suit, for there is a divergence taking place that will see things on the work and career fronts go in different directions. You’ve had no planetary activity in your career sector since September 2011, so as you move into the new week the focus is as it has been all year, on matters on the work front. But Neptune’s retrograde turn in your work sector on Tuesday will almost see work forces drop back, making room for new doors to open on the career front. For just 2 days after Neptune turns retrograde in your work sector, giving you a chance to work behind the scenes, Mercury returns to your career sector. Mercury’s return on Thursday unlocks the door to new opportunities and the 3 most important career months of the year.

Scorpio

The closer you get to Mercury’s return to your career sector on the 26th June, which is a lot closer than it sounds and is in just 3 weeks from Tuesday, the closer you get to the next professional surge. It wasn’t even a month ago that an active 3 months on the work front ran its course and with the next surge on the horizon, what you really need is a chance to work behind the scenes and with the cards already on the table. While work pressures won’t peak until later in the month, just days before Mercury is due to reach your career sector, it will begin building this week. Refuse to see this as a sign that you can’t afford to rest on your laurels, though use it to remain on your toes. A lunar eclipse in your income sector on Monday should bring some interesting developments into play.

Sagittarius

With Jupiter, planet of luck spending his last full week in your work sector and Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos reaching a point on Monday where there’s just a month left before he leaves your career sector, each will be fighting for your attention and for rights to make their agenda the more urgent one. Yet with Jupiter in your work sector since last June and Mars in your career sector since last November most of your cards will already be on the table. It’s on the work front that there is more urgency, for once Jupiter leaves next Tuesday he won’t be back until 2023 and there’ll be no planetary activity here of any kind until April 2013. The Moon’s visit to your career sector from Wednesday to Friday will sharpen your professional instincts and provide some valuable and timely clues.

Capricorn

Saturn reaches a point on Monday where he’s just 3 weeks away from turning direct in your career sector and moving into his final weeks in retrograde motion he’s slowing right down and with Venus not turning direct in your work sector until 3 weeks from Thursday, this should be slowing things down across the professional spectrum. However, while the door will remain open to second chances on both the work and career fronts, the Sun and Mercury are making sure that this is not at the expense of any forward momentum. Things come to a head in a spectacular way mid week when Venus literally runs across the Sun. This creates a rare Venus eclipse which falls on Mercury’s last full day in your work sector, with the power to bring things to a turning or tipping point.

Aquarius

Since the Sun left your career sector last November you’ve had no planetary activity in either of your professional houses, with only the Moon’s monthly visits to your work and career sectors to keep things on track. That all changes this week with Mercury’s return to your work sector on Thursday, with this intellectually savvy planet arriving with the keys to unlock the doors to the first professional planetary activity for the year and to 3 of the most important months on the work front. This is the first planetary activity in your work sector since September 2011 and while things may be a bit rusty, the Moon’s visit to your career sector over the weekend will help you move into the new week with your professional instincts sharp, your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground.

Pisces

Your working week gets off to a bang, with a lunar eclipse in your career sector bringing things to what might appear to be an unexpected head, turning or tipping point. Chances are if you look back you’ll have see there were signs. The Moon only returns to your career sector on Monday, the same day as the eclipse, so this might catch you off guard, but staying on until Wednesday this gives you time on the other side to get your head around anything this triggers. This is the last lunar eclipse in your career sector before the North Node, the trigger for this eclipse, leaves in August so will be a last push to get things out in the open. With Mercury returning to your work sector on the 26th June, whatever this lunar eclipse triggers will have plenty of resources to keep in motion.

Your Weekly Financial Horoscopes for June 4

Aries

Chances are you’re coming out of a weekend that saw some buttons pushed and financial tension come to a head or at least that’s what the Moon would have been hoping for. For as you move into the new week the Moon is leaving your financial sector, having spent the weekend sharpening your financial instincts but also putting pressure on Jupiter, over in your income sector. Yet while this may have pushed some buttons it was timely and necessary, for this is Jupiter’s last full week in your income sector for another 11 years and the one week where you can’t afford to be asleep at the wheel. It’s what you’re willing to invest into your income situation, either in terms of expectations committed to or concrete steps taken, that will define your experiences for weeks, months and years to come.

Taurus

Despite the fact that Jupiter won’t return to your income sector until next Tuesday, kicking off your luckiest and most expansive 12 months on the income front in 12 years, it seems that the money gods are impatient, for they’re all turning up this week. It’s a pair of eclipses within 48 hours of each other that is set to send seismic shockwaves through your money game, with potentially game changing results. It starts with a lunar eclipse in your financial sector on Monday, bringing things on the financial front to a head or to a turning or tipping point. But the real show stopper is a rare Venus eclipse in your income sector on Tuesday, revealing what you want, need and expect to a point that there’ll be no going back. When your luck turns you’ll be more than ready.

Gemini

Until now all your focus has been on your financial situation as a whole, with your income situation barely getting a look in from the money gods, with only the Moon’s monthly visits keeping things on track. That all changes this week with the arrival of Mercury, planet of communication and smart thinking and your ruling planet into your income sector on Thursday. While Mercury will only spend 19 days here, leaving later in the month, the smart head for money this gives will help kick off the 3 most lucrative months of 2012. Don’t expect this to be all plain sailing, for this will put Mercury in competition and opposition to Pluto in your financial sector. While this may push some buttons over the next few weeks, it will keep you on your toes and force you to pay attention.

Cancer

The closer you get to Mercury’s return to your income sector on the 26th June the more you’re going to sense that turnaround ahead. Yet it’s when something is so close that you can smell and sense it that frustration can set in as well as anxiety, as your inner voices starts to ask ‘what if you’re wrong’? The reality is that you’re not, with the 3 most lucrative income months of the year kicking off in just 3 weeks from Tuesday and this year there are no roadblocks or unchartered pitfalls. This makes it important to pay attention and work with the lunar eclipse in your work sector on Monday, for it will help point things on the work front in their most authentic direction. If you’re on the right professional path when new doors open on the income front, nothing can slow you down.

Leo

It was only a few weeks ago that the last opposition between forces on the income and financial fronts played out, but already their different agendas are not just operating independently, the dynamics on both fronts is changing dramatically. With Mars due to leave your income sector on the 4th July there is a new sense of urgency setting in, especially with Jupiter also spending his last full week in your career sector. With Mars speeding up, things are not only more likely to be moving quickly on the income front, your fighting spirit is reinvigorated. Yet with Neptune turning retrograde in your financial sector on Tuesday and Chiron slowing down ahead of his retrograde turn a week later, on the financial front as a whole you’re able to pull back and work behind the scenes.

Virgo

As you move into the new week you reach 2 important milestones on the same day, both destined to have big implications on your income reality over the coming months. It’s on Monday that Saturn reaches a point where he’s just 3 weeks away from turning direct in your income sector, which is when the tide will turn. However, it’s on Monday that Mars also passes an important road marker, one that puts him a month to the day away from joining Saturn in your income sector, for the last time for another 30 years. Mars is the muscle that will bring things home and due to return just 9 days after Saturn turns direct, when the tide turns it will really turn. These final weeks are about learning from the past while working to bring powerful career forces up to speed.

Libra

Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion’s last full week in your financial sector is all about making a commitment to the future and to both the financial expectations and concrete steps you’re able to take now, to both walk the talk and keep Jupiter’s spirit alive. For once Jupiter leaves your financial sector next Tuesday he won’t be back until 2023 and there’ll be no planetary activity here at all until April 2013. Yet Jupiter is still here and you still have luck on your side and just in case that wasn’t advantage enough, you’re moving into the new week with a nose for money, thanks to the Moon’s visit to your income sector over the weekend. You’ve also had some timely wake up calls, with any financial tension making sure you’re not asleep at the wheel.

Scorpio

You have not one but two eclipses in your two money houses this week, just 48 hours apart, something that is incredibly rare considering that a solar and lunar eclipse can’t fall closer than 2 weeks apart. The week kicks off with a lunar eclipse in your income sector on Monday, bringing anything pending or building behind the scenes, either on or off your radar to a head, fruition or to a turning or tipping point. It’s the Venus eclipse just 48 hours later that is in a very different category, for this is only the second but also the last in your lifetime. Falling just 6 days before Jupiter, planet of luck is due to return to your financial sector next Tuesday, Wednesday’s Venus eclipse will trigger some strong financial desires along with the laws of attraction.

Sagittarius

Pluto, planet of change and revolution has been enjoying the fact that he’s the only planet active in either of your money houses and that as well as having no challenges to face, he’s received nothing but support from forces on the work and career fronts. The only real danger that Pluto and your financial situation face is complacency. Two events take place this week that will ensure that won’t happen and while both may trigger some financial pressure and push some buttons, it’s more to make sure you’re not asleep at the wheel. Both events take place on Thursday, with Mercury’s return to your financial sector coinciding with pressure from Uranus, who is ready to shake things up. Yet with any financial tension comes a smart head for money and a chance to take your power back.

Capricorn

You reach an important road marker on Tuesday, one that puts Mercury just 3 weeks away from your financial sector. With most if not all of your income objectives already banked, it’s your financial situation as a whole that has lacked any support or interest at all from the money gods. With Mercury destined to spend 2 months instead of his usual 2 weeks and with no roadblocks to face, it won’t be long before you have a chance to take control of your financial situation and money matters. This makes procrastination a viable option this week, with nothing to be gained by jumping the gun. Instead, the Moon returns to your income sector on Friday and the nose for money this brings gives you a chance to redefine your income expectations, in light of some major professional developments.

Aquarius

Money matters are splitting into two distinct camps this week, with financial matters going one way and income matters the other. With Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos due to leave your financial sector on the 4th July, as you move into the new week that’s just a month away, with a new sense of urgency setting in. Expect to feel a new fire in your belly, ready now to grab the tiger by the tail and tame it, once and for all. This puts the focus on the future and as things speed and hot up, a chance to really get things moving. On the income front the very opposite is happening, with Neptune’s retrograde turn in your income sector on Tuesday giving you a chance to pull back and reflect on where you’ve been, with Sunday the day when you’re most likely to have a strong nose for money.

Pisces

As you move into the new week you reach two important financial road markers, on the same day and they both offer a lot of hope and anticipation for what the future holds. For while Monday is the day that Saturn reaches a point where he’s just 3 weeks away from turning direct in your financial sector it’s also the day that Mars reaches a point where he’s just a month to the day away from arriving. With Mars due to return to your financial sector 9 days after Saturn turns direct, when the tide turns it is destined to be fairly dramatic and not the slow, drawn out affair that it usually is. This gives you the confidence to make the most of these final weeks where you have a chance to work behind the scenes, learning from where you’ve been and working to deal with whatever needs resolving.

Your Weekly Love & Romance Horoscopes for June 4

Aries

A pair of eclipses this week is bound to shake things up a bit, but it’s the Venus eclipse in your communication sector on Wednesday that will have the biggest impact. Already in retrograde motion and on a mission to give unsaid words a voice, Venus steps out of the shadows to make her voice one of the most powerful in the solar system. This comes just as Mercury, planet of communication is reaching out to Saturn, in retrograde motion in your relationship sector. With Venus and Saturn both turning direct later this month, Mercury is working to ensure that as well as having the communication lines running into the past, that they are operating well into the here and now and when it comes to moving on. This makes communication the key to everything this week, with authenticity a must.

Taurus

Having spent the weekend in your relationship sector that Moon allows you to move into the new week having had a chance to get your bearings, having come full circle from a Full Moon early last month. Having got that out of the way and having had a chance to address any relationship issues or to simply give your relationships some much needed attention, the focus shifts back to all things romantic. For on Monday it’s just a month to the day before Mars, planet of passion is due to leave your romantic sector, wrapping up an 8 month visit that began in November 2011, his longest visit here in 47 years. Now that you’re coming into the home straight it’s time to throw everything you can into your romantic passions, leaving no room for regret.

Gemini

A pair of eclipses is set to polarise things on both the romantic and relationship fronts this week, leaving you in no doubt how you really feel. The week kicks off with a lunar eclipse in your relationship sector that is set to bring things to a turning or tipping point and is followed up by a much rarer Venus eclipse on Wednesday. It’s in your sign that Venus will cross the face of the Sun to reveal in very clear and certain terms what your heart really feels and what you really want and need from love. It’s this pair of eclipses, just 48 hours apart, that will create vibrations that will send ripples out into the past and the future, creating a new level of authenticity on both the romantic and relationship fronts, while at the same time sending a clue for anything waiting in the wings.

Cancer

A sense of both romantic and relationship nostalgia is only going to intensify, but rather than fight it this is something that you need to embrace. Having spent the weekend in your romantic sector the Moon leaves in the early hours of the week, leaving behind clues to what the future might hold and what you might need to do now in order to start lining up for that future. With Venus not turning direct until later in the month and not returning to your sign until August, this gives you time to continue with a trip down love’s memory lane. Avoid a temptation to over think this, telling yourself that it’s time to move on. The Moon’s visit to your relationship sector from Wednesday to Friday might push some buttons, but comes just when the communication lines are most likely to open.

Leo

You have arrived at one of the most exciting romantic weeks of the year to date, with a pair of eclipses electrifying things and bringing the element of fate and the laws of attraction and synchronicity into play. The week kicks off with a lunar eclipse in your romantic sector on Monday and as a super charged Lovers Moon this brings the element of fate into play, creating vibrations and ripples that will bring anything pending to a head, as well as sending signals out into the future. It’s 2 days later that a much rarer Venus eclipse, in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, brings the laws of attraction and synchronicity into play in a powerful way, setting the scene for some serendipitous moments or encounters. Both have the power to bring things to a turning or tipping point.

Virgo

With Pluto already in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, having turned retrograde in April and staying in retrograde motion until September, you’re already taking a trip down love’s memory lane. This week your relationships join in this nostalgic and retrospective focus with Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies turning retrograde in your relationship sector on Tuesday and Chiron, planet of healing slowing down ahead of his retrograde turn here next Tuesday. It’s Chiron’s retrograde turn next week that will begin what has now become an annual healing process, but until then Neptune is your tour guide, which means viewing the past with rose coloured glasses. The reality checks can come later, with a chance this week to revisit the past and recapture something lost or missing.

Libra

The Moon’s return to your romantic sector on Friday will set the scene for a romantically charged weekend, especially as you have no planetary activity here and only the Moon’s monthly visits to keep things on track. In any other week this would have been the high point of the week for all things romantic, but this is literally being eclipsed by an event mid week. It’s on Wednesday that Venus, planet of love and romance will cross the face of the Sun to form a rare Venus eclipse, unleashing all the hidden and suppressed longings and feelings your heart has been holding back on. Falling in an adventurous part of your chart this will bring both the opportunity and the courage to take a leap of faith, making a bold move to escape from a romantic rut or from simply going through the motions.

Scorpio

Romantic and relationship forces are battling for your attention this week and while you need to honour both, it’s your relationships that need to come first. For this is Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion’s last full week in your relationship sector and as he’s not coming back until 2023 and there’s no more planetary activity here once he’s gone until April 2013, you’ve got to make it count. It’s what you’re willing to invest into your relationships this week, either in terms of the intentions set or concrete steps taken, that will determine what you get back over the coming months and years. Meanwhile, Neptune’s retrograde turn in your romantic sector on Tuesday gives you a chance to take a trip down love’s memory lane, preferably wearing your rose coloured glasses.

Sagittarius

While a lunar eclipse in your sign on Monday will put direct pressure on the Sun in your relationship sector, creating some relationship tension in the early days of the week, any buttons being pushed are more a case of the love gods making sure you’re not asleep at the wheel. For it’s just 2 days later that everything is set to come together in the form of a very rare Venus eclipse, in your relationship sector on Wednesday. This will see Venus, currently too close to the Sun to be seen in the night sky, spend 6 hours moving across the face of the Sun and across the brightest stage lighting in the solar system. As the planet of love takes centre stage this is going to bring your deepest relationship desires, wants and needs out of the shadows, making this impossible to ignore.

Capricorn

This week marks the end of one era and the start of the next, with a crossover between the two creating some continuity and a chance to integrate one into the other. For this is Jupiter’s last full week in your romantic sector and due to leave next Tuesday, not to return until 2023, this is the final week for laying everything on the line. Your romantic sector has been continuously active since April 2011, but after the Sun and Mercury left late last month it’s been up to Jupiter to wrap things up, a job he’s taking seriously this week, helping you to put things on the path you want them to continue on. Yet it’s on Thursday that Mercury returns to your relationship sector, kicking off 3 active months on the relationship front which will allow you to take things to the next level.

Aquarius

Having Venus in your romantic sector for 4 months, instead of the normal 4 weeks, is one thing and even having Jupiter on his way and due to arrive next week is a big deal, but the real magic starts this week. It’s a pair of eclipses, falling within 48 hours of each other that are set to unleash the laws of attraction, synchronicity, fate and destiny, making this a week for taking your hands off the wheel from the get go. The week begins with a lunar eclipse in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, which operates under the laws of synchronicity. This sets the scene for some serendipitous moments or encounters, but it’s a much rarer Venus eclipse in your romantic sector on Wednesday that is the real game changer. From this point on denying something real is no longer an option.

Pisces

You reach an important milestone on Monday, one that puts Mars just a month away from leaving your relationship sector and wrapping up his 8 month visit. It has been a rocky, an up and down and often roller coaster ride on the relationship front, as the warrior planet of the cosmos makes his longest visit to your relationship sector in 47 years. Normally here for just 6 weeks, this has been anything but a brush over, with a chance to get right to the bottom of relationship issues and to establish what you’re fighting for and against. It’s time now to bring things home. However, what you need is some light relief, with Mercury’s return to your romantic sector on Thursday kicking off the 3 most romantically charged months of the year. It’s then that your heart will find its voice.

Your Love & Romance Horoscopes for June 4

Aries

With some potent eclipse energy in the air today, an alliance between forces on the relationship and communication fronts create yet another opportunity for a breakthrough. It’s where there are strong emotional responses or your buttons are being pushed that you’ll have the opportunity and resources to give unsaid words a voice.

Taurus

As the Moon wraps up his first visit to your relationship sector since last month’s Full Moon this leaves you with a much better read on where things stand on the relationship front, but also how far you still have to go. With the Moon returning later in the month this has given you a chance to get your bearings.

Gemini

From out of nowhere forces on the relationship front are likely to come to a head, as the Moon not only returns to your relationship sector but becomes a lunar eclipse, with the power to bring things to a head or to a turning or tipping point. Yet chances are what might appear to blindside you has been hiding in plain sight, with fate stepping in to take the wheel.

Cancer

As the Moon wraps up his first visit to your romantic sector since last month’s Full Moon he leaves you with plenty to mull over, including the promise of big things destined for the second half of the year. Listen to both what you do and don’t want to hear, knowing that you have time to work on anything revealed.

Leo

Today’s lunar eclipse in your romantic sector is a super charged Lovers Moon, bringing the ultimate eclipse of the heart. While the Moon visits your romantic sector each month this is by far the most important visit of the year, evoking feelings that can’t be ignored. This has the potential to bring things on the romantic front to a turning or tipping point.

Virgo

As Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies spends his last full day in direct motion in your relationship sector he’s come to a standstill, creating a situation where you’re no longer moving forward but you haven’t yet turned back. This has you stuck in the moment which is exactly where you need to be.

Libra

You’re moving into some important times on the relationship front, where there is a new call for honesty and authenticity, but also where the laws of synchronicity are in effect. It’s today’s lunar eclipse in your communication sector that creates an unexpected opportunity to not only connect, but holds the potential for a breakthrough.

Scorpio

While there is a new sense of urgency on the relationship front, with Jupiter now just 8 days away from leaving your relationship sector, on the romantic front there is a sense of timelessness that is encouraging you to stay in the moment. Take a proactive approach to relationship matters, but when it comes to love it’s all about the here and now.

Sagittarius

At what is an important time on the relationship front, today’s lunar eclipse in your sign creates a need and a call for personal authenticity. With the Moon in opposition with the Sun in your relationship sector this may create some personal and relationship pressure, yet it provides a timely wake up call on both fronts.

Capricorn

With Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion just 8 days away from leaving your romantic sector and with all your cards now on the table, what you see and what you feel is what you get. Knowing what you want and need from love and with both luck and the love gods on your side, all that’s required now is that you walk the talk.

Aquarius

Don’t be surprised if the path to true love doesn’t run smoothly today or that you encounter some roadblocks or pressure, refusing to see this as a sign that you’re on the wrong path. It’s simply today’s lunar eclipse challenging your romantic attentions, with a heart and love that is true likely to come out stronger and more determined as a result.

Pisces

Mars, planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos is now just a month away from leaving your relationship sector and he’ll be doing everything he can to encourage you to make this final month count. Where before it was challenges that you had to respond to, focus now on taking your relationships into the future.

Your Daily Cosmic Calendar for June 4th

Stop, look and listen! Silence is golden in the early hours as the Partial Lunar Eclipse strikes first at 4:04AM PDT followed 9 minutes later by the Full Moon at 4:13AM PDT (activating 15 degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius). Individual and group meditations are encouraged during what some esoteric groups call the Festival of Humanity. Send out your inspiring thoughts and prayers to friends, colleagues, relatives and the kingdoms of nature. Worrying about your own personal needs is a no-no. Think more about your higher destiny in this lifetime and how you can be of greater service to the invisible host of teachers, angels and spirits that orchestrate the universe from their elevated perspectives. Giving your religious beliefs and philosophy of life extra support is Neptune becoming motionless at 4 degrees of Pisces (2:05PM PDT) as it gradually shifts into retrograde motion – a reversal direction that lasts until November 10. All Neptune themes – dreams and visions, psychic sensitivity, the creative imagination, spiritual longings, ideals, artistic genius, universal love-wisdom, fishing and sailing, water sports, illusions, fantasies, confusion and chaos, addictive behavior and being hooked on anyone and anything – are intensified. Adding to today’s carnival-like atmosphere is a Venus-Mars square from Gemini to Virgo (5:29PM PDT). Strive for serenity in affairs of the heart. Fortunately, Venus will also make an inspirational, 72-degree contact with Pallas (6:34PM PDT) – offering encouragement regarding problem-solving and strategy sessions. The Moon, still transiting, adventurous and playful Sagittarius goes retrograde during a Moon-Mercury opposition (10:09PM PDT). Complete odd jobs and old projects on a high note during the next 7-hour uncertainty zone until the Moon enters industrious, earthy Capricorn at 5:32AM PDT on Tuesday.

New Moon Report for Monday, June 4th – Neptune Retrograde

Neptune Retrograde

Monday, June 4, 2:03 pm PDT, 5:03 pm EDT

The planet of dreams’ retrograde turn is a subtle influence that generates inspiration from within. It can also revive previous sources of enlightenment and spiritual practice that have been ignored for a while. Communion with nature and connection with spirituality are gifts that we can give ourselves. Compassion and forgiveness will heal our wounds and restore inner faith.

New Moon Report for June 4th – Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius

Monday, June 4, 4:11 am PDT, 7:11 am EDT

The enthusiasm of this Sagittarius Full Moon is shadowed by a Lunar Eclipse that reminds us to let go of old dreams before we pursue new ones. Beliefs may need to be re-examined when they fail to provide the answers and inspiration that they did in the past. Education and travel could be interrupted and it might be wise to cancel a class or a trip if the going gets too tough. Fussy Mars in Virgo’s square to the Full Moon sparks battles over systems and details, yet worrying about methods is wasteful until long-term goals are clearly defined.

Your Magickal Spell for Monday, June 4 – A Full Moon Wish

A Full Moon Wish

Go outside during a full moon, hold a glass of water up to the moon, so the moon reflects on the water. Close your eyes, make your wish, then drink all the water while wishing all the negative things in your relationship dispersing with the flow of the moon. The waning moon will carry away all the negative emotions.

 

Your Financial Horoscopes for Sunday, June 3rd

Aries

It was 4 weeks ago to the day that a Full Moon in your income sector not only challenged the Sun in your income sector, but lucky Jupiter as well, bringing things on both the income and financial fronts to a head. The Moon has returned to the same spot only to find the Sun gone, so there’ll be less financial pressure but even more reason to pay attention.

Taurus

So far income forces have had an easy ride, with Venus’ retrograde position in your income sector and the tailwind from a solar eclipse almost 2 weeks ago still fast tracking your forward momentum. However, with a lunar eclipse in your financial sector tomorrow you’re about to get the kind of challenges that will raise the bar and declare that it’s ‘game on’.

Gemini

With things about to start moving on the income front, make the most of the final days for some time when Pluto, planet of change and revolution is the only planet active in either of your money houses. Look at where there are fundamental financial matters that you need to take responsibility for, ensuring that when money starts coming in it doesn’t flow out the other end.

Cancer

There is absolutely nothing in today’s stars to suggest that you’re just 24 hours away from a lunar eclipse in your work sector or just weeks away from new doors opening on the income front. This gives you a day where you can get away with taking your work and your money hats off, while feeling confident that something is in the wind.

Leo

Where before income and financial matters were interlinked, their agendas are starting to separate. While things are speeding up on the income front and your fighting spirit is coming into its own, on the financial front as a whole it’s time to pull back and keep things ticking over, behind the scenes.

Virgo

Due to turn direct in your income sector in just over 3 week’s time, Saturn is slowing down to a crawl and will eventually come to a standstill. This is going to make it feel like things are becoming stuck and may appear to stall, but in reality once the tide turns you’ll find that the turnaround will be more extreme than you anticipate, so hold the faith and hang in there.

Libra

It was 4 weeks ago to the day that a Full Moon in your income sector not only created some valuable triggers on the income front, but also some wake up calls as the Moon went head to head with the Sun in your financial sector. While the Sun has moved on Jupiter is still there and the wake up calls, though not as strong, will be even more urgent.

Scorpio

With a lot of focus on your financial situation at the moment and the Moon not even in your income sector yet, it’s no wonder there’s nothing to support that you’re just 24 hours away from a potentially game changing lunar eclipse. An ordinary Full Moon in your income sector is enough to trigger events on the income front, with a lunar eclipse having a lot more clout.

Sagittarius

Over the weekend is the perfect time to take financial inventory, for with Mercury just 4 days away from your financial sector and Pluto already starting to feel some pressure on the income front, this is not the time for putting things off. It’s where you’ve told yourself that you’ll deal with something later that you need to deal with it or at least acknowledge it now.

Capricorn

When Venus visits your work sector the rule of thumb is, that where your heart leads the money will follow. Right now Venus is opening the door to second chances on the work front and with even bigger developments over the coming week, the scene is set to start reaping from what you’ve already sown, especially if you’re following your heart and working smarter.

Aquarius

With Neptune due to turn retrograde in your income sector in just 2 days time and Chiron a week to the day later, things are slowing down to a crawl. Yet rather than a sign that things are becoming stuck, this gives you a chance to process things, at a time when Mars is speeding things up on the financial front as a whole.

Pisces

While nothing may have actually changed on the money front, the nature of the conditions impacting both your income and financial situations lends itself to a growing sense of confidence. You’re able to look back at the past in a way that says ‘that was then and this is now’, allowing you to take ownership of the past without getting hung up on woulda, shoulda, couldas.

Current Moon Phase for June 31 – First Quarter

Moon Phases: First Quarter Moon

(waxing 90-135 degrees)

by Jan Spiller

Emotions begin to stir coupled with recognizing that the new beginnings you are making must also increase personal security to be worthwhile over the long haul. This is a time when it’s appropriate to get in touch with your gut instincts and begin to guide your life more deliberately, with an awareness of using your “6th sense” as well as your enthusiasm. Obstacles may emerge that require you to reevaluate how to better integrate yourself into your immediate environment.

Your Weekly General Horoscopes for May 29th

Aries

With Jupiter on his own in your income sector but getting ready to leave in a few weeks time, this is a week for consolidating things on the income front, cementing your expectations and beginning the process of walking the talk. This comes just as Mars is about to move into his last full month in your work sector, with a visit from the Moon from Monday to Wednesday sharpening your instincts and evoking the kind of emotional responses that will get your passions moving. Meanwhile, although Jupiter is still another 2 weeks away from your communication sector there is something special developing there, with the communication lines now running in all directions. This is having the most impact on the relationship front, where the door is open to second chances and making up for lost time.

Taurus

The Sun and Mercury both left your sign last week, wrapping up your birthday month and setting your new solar year on the course you want it to continue on. Yet with Jupiter still here the much bigger job of laying down the foundations for a Jupiter cycle of expansion that won’t run its course until 2023 is still under way, although due to leave on the 12th June this has become a lot more urgent. Already the focus is shifting to your income situation, which is fast becoming the biggest game in town. Jupiter will return to your income sector on the 12th June, kicking off the most expansive year in over a decade for both income matters and for expanding your expectations across all the currencies in your life, but already the door is open to both new opportunities and second chances.

Gemini

After a solar eclipse in your sign last week and a lunar eclipse in your relationship sector next week, a week off from the intensity eclipses bring is just what you need. While the Sun returned to your sign and kicked off one of your most important solar years in a decade last Monday and Mercury returned last Thursday this is the first, last and only full week that they’ll spend here together. You begin the week with the Sun and Mercury aligned in your sign, giving you the clarity and intellectual savvy to take your power back and start making informed choices and decisions. It’s Mercury’s alignment with Venus over the weekend that not only puts heart and mind on the same page but the past and future as well, a time when the door is open to both new opportunities and second chances.

Cancer

More and more there is a need and a desire to pull back, for you’re not only now in the wind down period of your current solar year, a time when there is a need to review and look back over the year that has been, but heart and mind are also in need of respite. If life has been hectic, then this gives you a chance to step back, though any thoughts of being able to retreat to your cave and stay there will soon be discarded. With Jupiter now in his final weeks in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking and Mars coming into his own in your communication sector, the need and the call to connect is just too strong and too important to isolate yourself completely. However, you do need time to stop, recharge your batteries and hear yourself think, so set some clear boundaries.

Leo

Already the professional focus that over previous months has been all consuming, is starting to wane, especially after the Sun and Mercury’s departure from your career sector last week. Even Jupiter, here since June 2011, is getting ready to leave and in just 2 weeks from Wednesday you’ll be left with no planetary activity in your career sector, something you haven’t experienced since April 2011. With Pluto staying on in your work sector there is no danger of losing your professional momentum anytime soon, though the focus is shifting more to your income situation, where your fighting spirit is starting to emerge. Where all the energy that was focused on your professional game is shifting to is social, personal and professional networking.

Virgo

The only thing that is stopping your life from becoming professionally dominated is Jupiter, who won’t return to your career sector until 2 weeks from Tuesday. However, with the Sun and Mercury not only spending their first, last and only full week together in your career sector, but moving into the week aligned and Mercury aligning with Venus here over the weekend, this is still going to be a professionally dominated week. But with Jupiter still in an adventurous part of your chart there is a reluctance to fully throw yourself into your professional game, with a chance instead to keep your options open. With Mars igniting your personal passions, chances are you’re looking for a new quest to get excited about or at least an unwillingness to engage in anything that doesn’t excite you.

Libra

Give yourself a week off this week, either literally or metaphorically and embrace a sense of adventure. With things slowing down on the work front ahead of Neptune’s retrograde turn in your work sector next week and Chiron’s the week after and Mercury not returning to your career front until next week, regardless of the conditions in play this week this was always going to be a week for taking your professional hat off as much as possible. However, it just so happens that the Sun and Mercury are spending their first, last and only full week of the year together in your sector of travel, adventure, learning and discovery and that a desire for adventure and richer experiences finally has something concrete to latch onto. Life is too short for simply going through the motions.

Scorpio

After a solar eclipse in your financial sector last week and a lunar eclipse in your income sector next week, regardless of what the stars are up to this week this was always going to be a week where money matters were likely to dominate. This is doubly so with Mercury spending his first, last and only full week in your financial sector, giving you both a smart head for money and a chance to tap into the forces that are opening new doors and those that hold the door open to second chances. Until next Monday’s lunar eclipse the focus is on your financial situation as a whole though. Yet as much as this is a week where money matters may dominate, this is also an important week on the relationship and romantic fronts, with a reminder that there are some things in life that money can’t buy.

Sagittarius

Next Monday’s lunar eclipse in your sign will bring you to a fairly dramatic turning point in your solar year, marking the halfway point where you have a chance to look back at where you’ve been and forward to where you’ve gone. In the lead up to this, in what is an important and busy week on the relationship, work and career fronts, it’s more important than ever that you remain true to yourself. What you will find, especially the closer to next Monday’s lunar eclipse, is that this is being tested and that there are likely to be plenty of situations where standing up for or being true to yourself might mean rocking the boat. Yet this gives you a chance to come up against the very blocks that stopped you from being true to yourself in the past, this time with the support to push through.

Capricorn

It’s hard to imagine a more professionally focused week, except I don’t need to imagine because I know things are set to become even more professionally focused over the coming weeks. You begin the week with the Sun and Mercury aligned in your work sector and over the weekend Mercury will be the first planet to align with Venus since she arrived in early April. This is Mercury’s first, last and only full week in your work sector, with his intellectual savvy the clue that holds everything together. This comes just as the Moon’s last visit to your career sector while Saturn is in retrograde motion for another 30 years sharpens your professional instincts and hindsight. Yet playful Jupiter vibes and Mars’ passion for adventure won’t let you get away with life becoming all work and no play.

Aquarius

Mercury’s return to your work sector next week will open the door to the first planetary activity in either of your professional houses since November 2011. While it will be good to finally find your professional groove and get your professional year up to speed, it’s also important to make the most of one of the last weeks between now and mid 2015 that you can take your professional hat. For once the tide turns there’ll be no going back. Yet it’s where forces are now gathering in a playful, creative and romantic part of your chart that instead of dying down and giving over to busy work forces, will only get stronger over the coming months. The message coming through loud and clear from the stars this week is that finding and maintaining a balance between work and play is a must.

Pisces

Despite the fact that you begin the week with the Moon in your work sector and you have a lunar eclipse in your career sector next week, this is a week where the majority of the focus is on home and family matters and on your relationships. After a solar eclipse in your home and family sector last Monday the Sun is settling into his month long visit with a lot less fanfare than it started with and with lucky Jupiter returning in 2 weeks from Tuesday, this is becoming an increasingly important area of your life. With Mercury, planet of communication spending his first, last and only full week in your home and family sector, communication is essential, not only on the home front but on the relationship front as well, where things are finally catching their second wind.

Your Weekly Money & Finance Horoscopes for May 29th

Aries

After the Sun and Mercury left your income sector last week Jupiter is on his own and after a busy and intense few months on the income front, it’s time to bring things home. Your income sector has been continuously active since April 2011, which has put a lot of focus on your income situation and plenty of time to explore all your options. Yet it’s only been since June 2011 that Jupiter has been here, but due to leave in just 2 weeks from Tuesday it’s time to bring things home and to do whatever you need to, to ensure that you’re on the right track to achieve what you want in the future. The Moon’s return to your financial sector on Friday and position here over the weekend will sharpen your financial instincts, but also provide some timely wake up calls.

Taurus

You have a chance this week to get your bearings and to consolidate your position, especially on the income front. After a solar eclipse in your income sector last Monday and a lunar eclipse in your financial sector next Monday, there is no doubt that there are intense money times, but also a time when you’re able to finally get things moving. For the first time since Venus returned to your income sector on the 4th April she has company, after both the Sun and Mercury returned last week. There is a real sense that things are coming together on the income front, with the Sun and Mercury aligning on Monday and Venus and Mercury over the weekend, putting all your available cards on the table. However, this is still early days, with a need to keep your mind, eyes and expectations open.

Gemini

With Mercury returning to your income sector next week, this is the final week where your sole focus is on your financial situation as a whole. June is expected to be a fairly intense money month, especially on the financial front as a whole with Pluto, in retrograde motion in your financial sector feeling the heat from two different angles. One of those angles will be Mercury’s return to your income sector and the pressure this will put on Pluto, giving you both a smart head for money but also bringing some timely wake up calls. This makes this an important week for focusing on your financial situation and money matters as a whole, refusing to stick your head in the sand or sweeping things under the carpet, without sweating the small stuff or creating challenges where there are none.

Cancer

As you move into the new week the Moon is wrapping up his monthly visit to your income sector, allowing you to move into the new week with a nose for money and having had spent time over the weekend getting your bearings. Hold onto the clues and hunches this leaves you with, for by this time next month the 3 most active months on the income front for the year will be underway and what you’re just getting hints of now will be a lot more tangible. It’s too early to anticipate what lies ahead, but you can be confident that the money gods are already working to make the period from the 26th June to the 3rd October the most lucrative months of the year. Until then hold onto both the clues and the nose for money that you move into the week with, slowly steering things in the right direction.

Leo

Things have settled right back on the money front and forces on the financial and income fronts are still in play they are no longer in conflict, with the challenges and financial tension of recent weeks and months easing right back. With Neptune spending his last full week in direct motion in your financial sector, before turning retrograde in a week from Tuesday and Chiron turning retrograde a week later, things on the financial front as a whole are taking a more background role. This allows income forces to come to the fore, with the Moon’s return to your income sector on Monday and alignment with Mars on Tuesday giving you a nose for money and igniting your fighting spirit. With Mars leaving your income sector on the 4th July, it’s time to come out of your corner fighting.

Virgo

The Moon makes an important visit to your income sector this week, his last before Saturn turns direct. You’ve had some real up and down times on the money front, with forces on the financial and income fronts in opposition over recent months, but you have already moved on from that and there is a chance now to consolidate your position, especially on the income front. While there may be some financial matters to address over the coming week, as far as this week is concerned it’s your income situation that needs your attention. With growing support from a planetary line up in your career sector, the Moon’s last encounter with Saturn, while in retrograde motion in your income sector, gives you both a nose for money and a chance to recognise where there are old stones still unturned.

Libra

When the Sun and Mercury left your financial sector last week they left you with a lot of financial objectivity and a smart head for money, but they also left behind Jupiter, now on a mission to bring things up to speed. Having been in your financial sector since June 2011, Jupiter will leave your financial sector in 2 weeks from Tuesday and not due to return until 2023, it’s what you’re able to invest now into your financial situation and your financial game that will determine much of your financial reality over the coming week, months and years. This isn’t about having the end results in your hands, rather all about putting your financial game on the course that you want it to continue on. There’ll be time to focus on your income situation in the second half of the year.

Scorpio

With a solar eclipse in your financial sector last Monday and a lunar eclipse in your income sector next Monday the money gods are active in your chart, with a chance this week to step back from the intensity that eclipse energy creates. This comes just as the Sun and Mercury not only spend their first full week in your financial sector but begin the week already aligned, allowing you to move into the new week with not only some clear financial objectives and a smart head for money, but on the same page. This is Mercury’s first, last and only full week in your financial sector, with his alignment with the Sun at the start of the week and with Venus over the weekend giving you a chance to get your head around all things financial, ahead of next Monday’s lunar eclipse in your income sector.

Sagittarius

You have one more week before things start to get more complicated on the money front, with a chance this week to focus on income matters, leaving money matters as a whole until next week. This doesn’t mean sweeping things under the carpet or sticking your head in the sand, just that with Mercury returning to your financial sector next week, bringing with him a smart head for money, that if you don’t need to make financial choices, decisions and plans now then you’re best to wait. In the meantime, this gives you a chance to make the most of the last week for sometime where Pluto, in retrograde motion in your income sector, is the only planet active in either of your money houses, with an important week on the work and career fronts giving you a chance to cement your income objectives.

Capricorn

You’re moving into the week with the Moon still in your financial sector, having spent the weekend sharpening your financial instincts and providing clues and hunches. While the Moon will leave on Monday, simply starting the week with your financial instincts sharp, your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground gives you an advantage you’ll retain for as long as you choose not to over think things. This is one of the Moon’s last visits to your financial sector before the first planetary activity kicks off on the 26th June, with a chance to both get your bearings and start pointing things in the right direction. Hold onto the hunches and clues you move into the week with, even those you don’t want to hear. Don’t sweat the small stuff, but don’t stick your head in the sand either.

Aquarius

The Moon makes a timely visit to your financial sector this week, sharpening your financial instincts and giving you a chance to put things into perspective. The Moon’s alignment with fiery Mars on Tuesday might push some buttons, bringing a potent mix of emotional and passionate responses. For on the same day that the Moon aligns with Mars, creating some real financial motivation and some strong reactions, this also puts pressure on Neptune, a week to the day before the planet of dreams is due to turn retrograde in your income sector. Yet this is short lived and with Neptune about to open the door to second chances on the income front and Mars ready to make his final month in your financial sector count, these are the right wake up calls at the right time.

Pisces

The Moon makes an important visit to your financial sector this week, making it important to keep your head out of the sand. The Moon will return to your financial sector on Wednesday and leave on Friday and as he does when he returns each month will sharpen your financial instincts and give you a chance to get your bearings. It’s not the Moon’s visit that is pivotal and more that this will be his last encounter with Saturn while he’s in retrograde motion in your financial sector, not for the year but for another 30 years. You’ve experienced this dozens of times over the last 3 years and even their alignment on Friday will be the fifth this year since Saturn turned retrograde. But as their last this is your final chance to really get to the bottom of old financial issues and matters.

Astronomy Picture of the Day for December 15th

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos!Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2011 December 15
See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.

The Umbra of Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Wang, Letian  

Explanation: The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the southern half of Earth’s umbral shadow, entertaining moonwatchers around much of the planet. In the total phase of the eclipse, the Moon was completely within the umbra for 51 minutes. Recorded from Beijing, China, this composite eclipse image uses successive pictures from totality (center) and partial phases to trace out a large part of the umbra’s curved edge. Background stars are visible in the darker eclipse phases. The result shows the relative size of the shadow’s cross section at the distance of the Moon, as well as the Moon’s path through Earth’s umbra.

Lunar Eclipses – The Science Behind These Events

Lunar Eclipses

The Science Behind These Events

By John P. Millis, Ph.D

What Is A Lunar Eclipse?

Simply put, a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon. (This means that lunar eclipses, by definition, can only occur during a full Moon.) The result is that direct sunlight from the Sun does not strike the lunar surface. However, this does not mean that no light reaches the surface.

Under certain types of eclipses, light from the Sun can actually be bent by Earth’s atmosphere, casting the Moon in a red or orangish color. Other types of eclipses will simply block a percentage of the Sun’s rays, making the Moon appear darker. And of course, some eclipses are a combination of the two phenomenon (see below).

How Does This Differ From The Normal Lunar Cycle?

While the Moon does go around the Earth, it’s path is actually normally tilted with respect to the Sun. Therefore the different phases of the Moon that we observe during the normal lunar cycle are a result of only half of the Moon getting sunlight at any given time. Then depending on where you are on Earth, you see the Moon at an angle.

The Different Types of Lunar Eclipses

Boiling lunar eclipse down to the Earth’s shadow being cast over the surface of the Moon is quite an over simplification. As already stated, some of the Sun’s light can still reach the surface because of the bending of the light around the Earth. But to complicate the matter further, the Earth’s shadow is actually broken up into two distinct parts (see image).

The umbra is the portion of the Earth’s shadow that does not contain any direct radiation from the Sun. The focus of the umbra is the point at which all three celestial bodies are properly aligned. Despite this, the eclipse does not completely drape the Moon in darkness because light from the Sun can actually be refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere and find its way to the Moon.

The result of this refraction is that the Sun’s light will be separated into individual colors. The more directly aligned the Earth, Moon and Sun are the Moon’s color will transition to more of an orange hue, then red. This is actually the same phenomenon that causes the sky to appear reddish at sunset and sunrise.

When the Moon is fully contained within the umbra, the Moon is said to be in total eclipse. This event can last nearly two hours, while the Moon can be in at least partial eclipse for nearly four hours.

The penumbra is the region of space where the Earth is only partially blocking the light from the Sun. As the Moon moves from outside the shadow toward the umbra the Moon will begin to appear darker and darker. Again, the Moon never appears in complete darkness because some of the light from the Sun is always reaching the surface up until the Moon reaches the umbra.

Normally the Moon will lie only partially in the penumbra area (known as a penumbral eclipse), but occasionally, the Moon will find itself completely in the penumbra. These events, called total penumbral eclipses, are rare. And they are typically characterized by one side of the Moon appearing darker than the other due to one side approaching or receding from the umbra.

These total penumbral eclipses can immediately precede or follow a partial eclipse where the Moon is partially in each of the umbra and penumbra regions.

The Danjon Scale For Lunar Eclipse Brightness

There are obviously a variety of lunar eclipses, causing a variety of different Lunar appearances. In order to classify what kind of lunar eclipse is occurring a scale known as the Danjon scale was developed by André-Louis Danjon.

Essentially an L value is determined based solely on the appearance of the Moon. Using only the naked eye, the observer estimates which category the eclipse falls into to.

    • L=0, This represents the darkest eclipse, and is probably what most people imagine when they think of a lunar eclipse.

 

    • L=1, While still very dark, there is a grey or brown hue to the Moon. However, details of the Moon are still difficult to identify.

 

    • L=2, During this type of eclipse the Moon will appear dark red, possibly with a slight hint of orange. The Moon still appears very dark at this value.

 

    • L=3, The Moon is now brick-red and noticeably lighter than the previous value. Also, the edges can appear lighter, possibly with a yellowish hue.

 

  • L=4, The Moon now appears bright red or orange, while the edge of the Moon appears almost bluish

The problem with the Danjon scale is that it is not based on an absolute flux or color level, meaning that scientific instruments aren’t used to decide what L value the eclipse represents. Therefore, different people observing the same eclipse can arrive at different L values. So, it’s not very precise, but typically it yields a fairly good idea of what kind of eclipse you are observing.

When Is the Next Lunar Eclipse?

There are always at least two lunar eclipses per year. However, these are sometimes penumbral eclipses which can be difficult to see because the Moon simply appears slightly darker. And given atmospheric conditions, no noticeable different may be apparent.

Total and partial eclipses are far more exciting however, although these are more rare. Typically there are anywhere from zero to three total or partial eclipses each year. To determine when the next eclipse will occur, NASA has put together a handy online tool, which will tell you the date and time of the next lunar eclipse given your location on the Earth.

Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse

In the Earth’s Shadow

By Molly Hall

The Full Moon is always the alignment of the Sun and Moon in opposite Zodiac signs. The lunar eclipse happens when the Earth is smack dab in the middle, altering how the Moon reflects the solar light. Eclipses come in pairs, and usually come every six months, as that’s when the Moon’s orbit hits the ecliptic.

There’s a mysterious, underworld quality to the lunar eclipse. The Moon turns orangey or blood red, because of the shorter wavelengths being filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere. This frightened people in earlier times, as the cool lunar surface turned a malevolent red. Some cultures believed the Moon was swallowed by a three-legged toad (China) or a jaguar (Maya), and was a herald of demonic or destructive energies afoot. They shouted, clanged pots and pans, and banged drums to dispel the dark spirits lurking around.

What does it bring?

 Since full Moon’s are a time of illumination, the lunar eclipse momentarily throws up shadows of darkness. And often it’s the shadows of the “unlived life,” buried potential, being brought to the surface. It’s a bit like the rich void of the New Moon, where you’re in touch with a well of psychic material. It can be disorienting, as your feet are often leaving the ground of the known!

If you’ve been living in a fantasy world, you’re knocked back to earth. It can be destabilizing and rock the foundations. You are forced to be fully present to some event. You may get shattering news. It takes awhile to fully understand what’s happening, and to find your footing again. Sometimes the events of the eclipse are worked out over a long period, say six months.

Full Moons are times of super high energy, and surging emotion across the spectrum. The eclipse intensifies the sense of being overwhelmed, and events are experienced in vivid color. You’ll get this hit in the house in which the eclipse is taking place. It also loosens the moorings of any planet it touches. You’re in the rapid transformation chute, and clues to how it’ll manifest come from the Zodiac sign of the Sun and Moon at the time. Eclipses liberate us from the status quo, and get things moving. It’s a time to trust, though the outcome may be uncertain, that all things work toward progress in the end.

New Moon Report for December 10th – Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini

New Moon Report

By Jeff Jawer

 

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini

Saturday, December 10, 6:38 am PST, 9:38 am EST

The opposition of the Moon in multi-faceted Gemini and the Sun in philosophical Sagittarius always increases mental activity and intensifies conversations. This one, though, is also a lunar eclipse meant to reduce distractions so we can focus on one task at a time. Mars in meticulous Virgo reinforces this principle with its squares to the Sun and Moon. Conflicts may arise over minor matters or system failures. Yet concentrating on the work that must be done will turn nervous energy in a productive direction and replace excessive chatter with constructive action.

Daily Cosmic Calendar for December 10th

Stop, look and listen! Not only is Uranus still motionless in early Aries, but a potent New Moon (energizing 19 degrees of Sagittarius and Gemini) clocks in at 6:37AM PST – just 4 minutes after a Total Lunar Eclipse occurs at 6:33AM PST. Individual and group meditations are encouraged. Send out your healing thoughts and prayers to friends, family, associates, and the kingdoms of nature. Open the gates of knowledge and see yourself evolving as a wisdom-keeper. Realize that the simultaneous station of Uranus is adding an enormous dynamism to today’s potential achievements across the board. New ideas, containing enormous power to change the consciousness of the masses, are streaming into the Earth – just waiting for your eager mind to seize the day and turn your life around for the ultimate good. While everything that is serious and profound is accentuated – thanks to both the presence of the Full Moon as well as a flowing trine from the Moon in Gemini to Saturn in Libra (11:06PM PST) – word, board or card games can top the charts. Put more oomph into beloved hobbies and favorite arts and crafts. Weather permitting – fly a kite, kick a soccer ball around or toss the Frisbee to a pal or well-trained pet canine. Watch out for the shadow side of the Sagittarius and Gemini energy-field which sometimes create split-personality vibrations and dualistic thinking that sustain unnecessary worries and self-doubts. Focus more on helping and nurturing dear ones than pushing your own agenda.