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From 09.22 to 10.23, the Sun transits every year on Libra. Ruled by Venus, the planet turns around the star in between Mercury and the Earth. Libra is assigned to just one Egyptian Tarot card (Kier Ed.): Hope, of multiple meanings, and wide enough about past and present times. With a similar broadened view, Greek gods Hephaestus and Ares are the ones ruling the sign, who both are related to unions and beauty as well as to separation and horrors.
During the solar month, a new season begins: Autumn in the North Hemisphere, and Springtime in the South, two special moments to be prepared for and keep in mind close and far away futures. The Sun and Moon rule almost equal time periods during these weeks, and I Ching alludes to these moments in two hexagrams of vital relevance. When their times come, we should get organized and consider circumstances seriously: the Sun and Moon cannot be equals for too long, and we should make a temporary choice to take a definite path.
In classic and esoteric Astrology, Libra counts on several rulers: Venus, Uranus and Saturn, planets of great importance for developing cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, the very Libra & Capricorn). And, according to Karmic Astrology, Air signs (Gemini, Libra & Aquarius) usually go through changes as years pass by, and meet mundane expressions of dualism, inside and outside.
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Libra is assigned to just one major card: Hope (17).
Card of LibraThis is one of the rare exceptions in Kier Ed.'s deck. Libra is only included as exalted, and Venus the ruler is not mentioned. Instead, we find the planet of the exaltation: Saturn.The card means transcendence. A cycle ends and it is time to make a stop. Feelings, attachments and affinity are left behind, and remain where they had their chance and were experienced once. Not beyond those spaces.Time has passed by. Now, the counting is over. Trascendence is an end and, sometimes, it also means death. Moments to be aware of equals, make a balance, adjust and find the right callibration for valuating past and present situations. If the path goes on, imbalance will return to people's lives and circumstances, chains will be reproduced, extended, and karma won't be depleted.If getting this card, it's better to face the current moment or process. All is prepared to go away and also leave this world. The card tells of the chance to say goodbye after the best meetings we could have had. The only problem might be emotional or deeply rooted feelings, since the idea has already been manifested and has already been displayed.Ideas and feelings, as a single form, made things grow in the past. A relationship, a business, an exchange, have had their time for a while, as it was possible, with greater o lesser awareness of the design they unfolded. But they are completed and done now: if they go on, they'll repeat themselves until staying fixated. Which will take them to the same ending anyway, although by going through Saturnine hardness as it crystallizes the energy, rules the bones and even breaks them if it has to in order to be free from old ways.The card's vision is wide: letting go, setting free, is what keeps flows alive and balanced.index
Northern Hemisphere
P'I Stagnation
12. Motion finds no place and ceases (productive cycle).
During the month, the way to approach goals might not be working. Consider the lack of objective perspectives to move forwards, as well as some missed opportunities. The potentiality offered by creative forces may fall out of hands (at least for a while). When the energy doesn't flow, that's a dire situation since it's a state contrary to life, and the tendency is growing. Situations may lead to an involutional path if development dismisses whatever is blocking the flow. If so, then even chaos would be a better option. For avoiding all of that, take a second look at the ways, techniques and action plans meaning an obstacle for circulation.
Southern Hemisphere
T'AI Peace
11. Actions find free space and take it (reductive cycle).
A month to reconsider needs at each time, to know when and how to try changes if circumstances require so. Especially during these weeks, remember the main characteristic of life: constant change. Whatever happens, unions might come to an end, things be disorganized, order be turned upside down. Even counting on stable ways and harmonic relations, don't forget about what may disturb reciprocal commitments, comprehensive views, understanding, and common sense about big and small things (if interested in granting good relations for the future, both in private affairs as well as in distributions or assignations). Injustice and imbalance will be progressively closer.
Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are all cardinal signs, always quite active during times of beginnings, vital turns and periodic endings. They are the engines impulsing foundations, leave signals on the path after every achievement, and are usually the ones to get the awards for reaching goals. When the Sun is in Libra, the four cardinal signs are developed in a very particular way.
To ARIES, Libra offers a bit of control during quite creative and opened weeks. Meeting Libra's month is an unusual chance for Aries to combine original ways with normal ways. Libra will also show how to avoid disruptive moves and sudden changes, as well as how to stay in tune with everybody else without leaving aside the own impulses and without missing other people's circumstances.To CANCER, Libra's month is a chance to take some distance, look at oneself and also look at the others. There are differences, and they must be noticed. It's just a primal awareness, since the process will go on for a long time. But now is time to find new ways to share feelings and belong to: instead of taking for the own, let's consider each partner, component or sector in a more autonomous way. This is both for personal affairs as well as for all kinds of relations (social, partnerships, etc.).LIBRA, during its own month, is for finding a mate, coming back together after quarreling, leaving aside negative thoughts, and enjoy meetings. You only have to connect and feel other people's life paths, so everybody join and adapt to each other. Giving and giving yourself at the same time and place is the best of Venus, the planet making people come together as it creates sentimental ties, in private relations and in social experiences.To CAPRICORN, Libra's month may bring a provocative influence. Environments and relations might push the goat to go over boundaries, out of the usual ways, and change the state of things. Libra enlightens chances that may remain unnoticed otherwise, so Capricorn might find new interests during these weeks, both in personal areas as well as in social or laboral environments. It's just about considering how far things have gone now in terms of consolidation, since it will indicate if changes and options will mean a tolerable disturbance or not. Is development taking a new impulse or are we stepping aside the road?index
Among the Olympian gods, Libra is related to Hephaestus and Ares: the art of love and war. About Hephaestus, read the previous newsletter delivery, since Geek deities rule two signs of the Zodiac: Hephaestus rules both Virgo and Libra.
Ares, god of warSon of Zeus and Hera, he carried the courageous spirit to armies. He ruled over wars, slaughtering, rebellions, lootings, disturbances, riots and uprisings, and also commanded the forces of order. The god was present in both war and peace, which is one of the many dualistic expressions his mythical stories tell of.The other Olympian gods considered him as a barbarian, and disliked his wild, ragious and blood-lust temper. But other deities were more attached to him: his sister Eris (whose name means Hate), his lover Aphrodite, and Hades the god of the Underworld. Eris frequently started wars by spreading rumors and making lovers jealous, Aphrodite was passionated by him, and Hades welcomed the god every time he started a cruel battle.Weapons, blood and death are his classic signs. And, related to animals, he was alluded to by owls (birds announcing bad omens of war and sedition), poisoned serpents (watchers of the god's forests) and vultures (birds usually overflying battle fields in search of dead bodies to feed themselves). Symbols related to the god were found at high and low zones, overflying the skies and crawling on the ground.Another sister of the god, Athenea, seemed to be more mentally oriented at the time of fighting, whereas Ares, who counted on overwhelming strenght and physical dimensions, was more inclined to take ahead straight actions, no matter the reasons of the involved parties, without taking one side or the other, even if he was enlisted in one of them.The god fought against titans and giants, and defeated them. He also commanded Trojan soldiers during the war against Agamenon the Greek. But he didn't always find a victory: in one occasion, Athenea threw a stone and knocked him on the ground, and Heracles didn't just beat his spear on the god's shield until he fell but also left a wound on his tight. And when Efialtes and Otus the twins started a rebellion against the gods and planned to reach high the Olympus, they firstly took Ares' weapons away and captured him, so they could start climbing up. They put him in chains and confined him inside of a bronze cauldron during 13 months until Hermes rescue him when he was almost fainting away, after the invaders destroyed themselves and the rebellion ended. In another occasion, by the time Zeus and Typhon faced each other, Ares along with other deities had to run to Egypt to be transformed into animals, since Typhon was on a hunt.The god had a lot of relationships, couples and descendance. Aphrodite was his greatest lover, and she gave birth to Eros, Anteros, Harmony, and the twins Deimos (Terror) and Phobos (Fear), a group who seems to form a dualistic descendance. Eros used to make people fall in love although sometimes they didn't find mutual love, which created complicated relationships. But Anteros was a winged god who created mutual love ties, although also used to take revenge if it didn't happen so.When Aphrodite cheated on him with Adonis, Ares got jelous, and transformed himself into a bear to kill the rival. He also killed one of Neptune's sons because he had raped Alkippe (one of his daughters, from his union with Agraulos, princess of Attic). Murdering Neptune's son caused Ares to be judged, although he was not condemned. Experiencing both love feelings and assassin hate is another dualistic expression in the life of a god who was caught in a trial although found no punishment since there were no probes to make the balance incline.Nevertheless, unions or private partnerships had a main role in Ares whereabouts, even during war times. It seems the god was not alone but surrounded by a close company. Along with Eris, they invented horse-drawn chariot competitions. She, and their children Deimos and Fobos, drove his chariot during battles, and it is also said that Kydoimos joined the group to make sound the din of war. Besides, Nike the god of victory is mentioned many times as taking the role of a kind of a minister of the god.
People born between 09.22 and 10.23.24 will display an unusual and very ancient karmic disposition. With no hard parameters nor fixated statements, they'll stay very focused on relations, in a stable, subtle and constant way, and will be hardly deviated from their most deep inner purposes. Silence, decisions and inner processes will be unfathomable, even to themselves, and trying to question them will be useless. They'll stay very close to Venus, especially those born before 10.05. Whereas people born between October 14 and 23 will count on highly intense, dynamic and productive birth charts and, many times, Virgo will be a key factor in their lives.
Northern HemisphereMoon's rising sign: Libra. Ruler: Venus.They'll always find a matter of interest, whether be studies, subjects, environments or people seeming to be different to them or making them curious about. And, if they even come along with some kind of challenge, they won't hesitate and will take it to experience it, for leaving it behind later, anyway.The karmic past has assigned them tasks and involved them in affairs that can be now freely managed, whether be to produce something new, potentiate it or change it. They'll know how, and the first three decades of their lives will be used for working on those fields and keeping in mind later developments.After that period, they'll search for less agitated places and activities, less visible or exposed areas. They'll even prefer all tending to stay, settle down and grow in roots. Fire, always alive and more changing each time, will be taken inside their homes, and the karmic path wont' be so accelerated as before. They'll search for places to lie and rest, and the tendency will be especially felt by their closest relationships.
Southern HemisphereMoon's rising sign: Aries. Ruler: Mars.They are born focused on the present time and the future they will work for since now. But they'll show the ways of a karmic legacy, especially until they reach 29-30 years-old. It means a particular way to establish relationships and join other people will be expressed quite clearly since young age. Libra is the past, and also the current compass.During those years, many goals will become mirages or will just disappear on the horizon. Illusions, fantasies and irreal dreams won't last too long, and only what count on very ancient roots will survive. Only time will show what it is, on a path that will clear out karma from confussion and frauds.Later, they'll remain deeply connected to seeds on Earth. Present times will point out the path into the future, living years to find the next space, time, desire, a sound for a new physical connection to born. There won't be too many roads because, fortunately, only what is real will remain.index
Lunar months last approximately 29 days, and are a very useful reference to consider short-term purposes. The beginning of the month is for setting tendencies, and the effects can be fully observed 15 days later. The rest of the month is for decreasing the initial tendency and freeing space for the new cycle to come. Full Moon in Pisces was on 09.18, and the past lunar month ends on 10.01. The new month will need of the mastery of the Sun in Libra to bring some dynamics to these complicated lunar phases.NEW MOON. After the equinox, the lunar month begins on October 02 with Moon and Sun at 10º Libra. Meditate on hard karmic problems involving relationships. Just consider that desires and feelings are no longer together: avoid pursuing blindly and fixating the energy, both in mind and heart (it may remain concentrated on those problems). For Latinamerican regions from South Peru to South Argentine: a SOLAR ECLIPSE will take place at the beginning of the lunar month. Between days 1 to 3, it's recommended not to focus on any thought or feeling, avoid meditations and do not perform rituals, just wait for the sky event to end. Much more vital energy will be needed to set the New Moon's karma in motion and transform it.FULL MOON. The Moon will shine on October 17 at 24º Aries, and the Sun at 24º Libra. If affairs are not clear enough or people don't know too well what the situation is about, the Full Moon will display all the problems introduced by the New Moon, in a quite conclusive way: different interests, different ways to move, different parameters to decide what to do and how... The light reflected by the Moon will expose obstacles and divergences standing against matches or agreements. Quite clear and clearing on hard contrary positions.
Northern HemisphereHunter MoonA month to stay close to known people and alike environments, for making the best of relationships and joining solidary groups, as long as it is possible. It's not the best moment to go for goals, and surely they won't be set up during these weeks. It's a better time to schedule independent activities for later and, instead, find aggreements, share resources, establish relationships and take care of friends. Horizons and initial impulses should be delayed since now there's too much distance between means and goals, and this will be better noticed as the month passes by.
Southern HemispherePink MoonOctober 2024 seems to be more like Summer than Springtime, and the complicated phases won't mean a problem at all (just be cautious between days 01st and 03rd, when the Moon hide the Sun). A month to go out and find a mate, know people alike, make friends and arrange the final details for a great business. Everything will seem beautiful and nice, and there won't be hard differences. Productive dialogues will bring more than what is expected. Exchanges will go in fair terms, and people may relax about frauds and hoaxes (at least during the first meetings). The door leading to the future is just one step ahead, and wide open: a great month to find partners, join groups and starts projects together. These contacts will be great karmic relationships.
I Ching's double ones
There are eight strong and simple hexagrams working as hinges. And they share a characteristic: the same trigram at the base and heights. The article on medium.com mentions what they mean and how to appreciate the changing balance they go through, even without changing lines. The signs display a primary logics to be considered in several other situations as well, since their meanings even reach other hexagrams!
I Ching in T'ai Chi Chuan
T'ai Chi is mostly considered as an internal martial art. In practical terms, it gathers moves in sequences, and each sequence is considered as a form. Some of those forms also display key characteristics of the structure and composition of I Ching's hexagrams. The article mentions some of those representations, such as master Da Liu points out in one of his books. A brief review of the main moves of the art is included, along with trigrams associated to each one of them.
Native-American Zodiac
Libra's month in the Northern Hemisphere is related to the Raven, a sign quite associated to business affairs and attractive objects catching the attention. People of the sign are usually involved in investments, although after taking some time to made up their minds about it. They're also generous and interested in other people's wellfare. In private relations, they show themselves as romantic and insightful mates.
Libra's month in the Southern Hemisphere is related to the Falcon, a sign considered to be like the eyes of the sky. People of the sign are trustable and well known by their right judgement. Of fast moves and persistence, they like to take the lead and, in laboral activities, are great to work in teams, where their opinions are always taken into account. In their private lives, they're usually involved in long-term relationships as fiery lovers.
Source: Native American Zodiac Astrology.
Trees of Celtic tradition
Tree spirits are assigned according to lunar months, which begin at different dates than solar months do. When the Sun is in Libra, Grape Vine and Ivy spirits flourish. Grape Vine spirit raises until 09.29 although has been present since before, when the Sun was in Virgo. About this spirit, come back to the previous newsletter delivery dedicated to the sign.
People born between 09.30 and 27.10 are assigned to Ivy spirit (also called Gort in Gallic). It's a bush associated to G character, which belongs to the index finger's second phalanx, and the latter is also associated to Pisces and the ruler, Neptune. Ivy plant represents resolution, change and patience, and the other associations indicate a great practical skill to establish empathetic relations and raise passions until creating surrounding ties.
About the physical characteristics, it's a creeper plant that can even reach up to 32 yd high. It needs light although not direct sun rays, and grows easily in different soils, in outer semi-shadow areas and also in internal zones. Nevertheless, it comes from low humid woodlands.
It's also considered as an invasive bush that extends over walls and trunks, creating a kind of an entangled termic isolation around the surface it is clinged to. It grows fast while getting into and adhering easily to cracks on the surface. And a dense foliage protects numerous insects since they find a safe habitat under leaves.
The plants count on fertile branches of lobed leaves and sterile branches of triangular leaves, perennials, sometimes of white or yellow stripes. The flowers are small, hermaphrodite, of yellow-green colors, grouped in umbells at the end of the stems (a type of flourishing characterized by umbrella or half-sphere shapes). Black-blue colored fruits contain just a few seeds although they're toxic for human consumption.
The bush is quite used in decoration, cosmetic products, and stems, leaves and fruits are used to make tinctures. Besides, the leaves are processed in labs to produce bronchial antispasmodic and expectorants.
Source: El Ogham.
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