The planetary influence over this weekend, leans towards the positive!

As the Sun and Venus still in a close conjunction, increases our desires.

However the problem will be... to keep a balanced perspective. As our Moon in Taurus... makes us stubborn and overindulgent.

Saturday is the easier of our two weekend days. With a moon, Jupiter, conjunction at around 6:00 a.m. EDT. Putting us in a optimistic mood, that can reign throughout the day.

Just be aware that your enthusiasm might get out of hand, and be watchful of a tendency to go to the extreme in wanting to have all the control? You can't! And a bossy attitude will just create needless disputes.

Sunday's morning hours? Best to sleep late...to avoid mix ups with communications.

Retrograding Mercury..will  tangle with the moon early by 5:00 a.m. EDT

And then most of Sunday ...egos are apt to clash... due to a Moon, Sun, Venus aspect, called a square.

 Not an easy day to keep your emotions running smoothly, especially if it involves, how you like to be seen or appreciated! Patience everyone.

Try to get out and enjoy yourself, but with a cautious courteous eye!

What Astro.Graph.com... Henry Seltzer has to say...

about this August 21, 2011 moon.

Last Quarter Moon

The Last Quarter Moon taking place this weekend, on Saturday, August 21 – at about 3 PM on the West Coast, 6 PM on the East Coast – represents an excellent chance to look back over the course of the month and evaluate where you have been and how far you have come internally. This phase is not so much about action, but rather about reaction to events that have transpired over the course of the three-week period that preceded it, and comes with an extra strong push in this direction from the Mercury retrograde period with which we began the month...At that time, Mercury occupied the initial degrees of Virgo, and now at this important crossroads, Venus enters Virgo practically coincident with this Quarter Moon, which features the Sun in the 29th degree of Leo in very nearly in exact opposition to Neptune, just as Mercury was when it began its backward motion nearly three weeks back.


With Neptune in the picture there is always an emphasis on paradoxical situations and feelings, along with an especially strong dose of synchronicity. Music and poetry are favored as expressions of mystical meaning; truth that is non-rational and that goes beyond the more obvious factoids of merely logical ratiocination. This mystical factor is very important to keep in mind as we ponder our position in an expanding personal universe. As a society we are in the midst of immense change, and we are striving mightily to discern what our own portion of that change might encompass, because it is going to take all of us. Part of what holds important clues for us now is our ability to see beyond the immediate concerns of putting bread on the table to what constitutes the largest possible picture meaning of what we as humans are up to at this important juncture in a radically transforming civilization. It’s a truly excellent time to journal, and to reflect on our transition, both personal and societal.


With this philosophical backdrop in mind we might begin to see where we fit in, and how the changes that we are going through personally contribute to the larger trends of either what we would appreciate or what we would like to eliminate as we look into our deeper motivations and the ultimate consequences of our actions.


More from me...soon  as I check to see what...You can,

 "Just Blame It On the Stars"