Expanding Who You Really Are

PDF

Jupiter in Taurus will be the one cycle we don’t want to miss. This is our opportunity to anchor consciously, what is good for us and own it. As you read through Jupiter’s description, hopefully you can find something of value you can relate to that has been a long time coming. It’s as if you’re giving yourself permission to love and empower what matters to you without caving to other people’s pushing, demands, changing your opinions or causing you to question if it’s okay to want what you want. Assuming these priorities and values are within reason, this Jupiter can help us grow and build confidence and mainly trust in the divine calling from within regardless of what we are facing externally. Well, let’s jump into our update, shall we?

Stardrops May 14 2023

May 14 2023 Mercury leaves retrograde at 5* Taurus

With Mercury moving direct, we are leaving our approximately three weeks of unique experience assisting us in adding to our lives a special piece of information, experience and resolution much needed. Can you recall what that special additional thing was you learned or incorporated into your life during these past weeks?

May 14-16 – 2023 Mars at 26-28* Cancer trine Neptune at 27* Pisces

Mars is always welcome when it is in a harmonious aspect such as a trine. The energy of Mars, is funneled through the power of water, emotions, feelings and security needs. Cancer is energized now and issues with maintaining our harmony, refusing to entertain negative feelings, harsh feelings, bouts of self pity, victimized thoughts and records….hurt past situations – might come up to be dealt with. Also, rummaging through your old sentimental stuff and deciding if there is anything in your possession which could be holding you back and needs to go – house issues, house transformation, family resolutions, emotional. psychological and sometimes physical healings can occur during this time. The power of Neptune and Mars connecting like this creates healing, resolution and takes our energy field to a higher place of greater vision and clearer feelings. Greater compassion can occur plus seeing a more profound picture of life, so we can grow. It is good for all forms of medical, spiritual, yoga, meditation, counseling, therapy and dreams as they can sometimes guide us to a much more insightful and happier place.

May 16 2023– May 2024 Jupiter enters Taurus for one year leaving Aries

Taurus is the builder. It can always bring in very physical building with materials, structures, or tech and computer programs and apps, businesses and increasing our financial abundance and handling money. It enhances concern and productive nurturing of our body and wholeness.

But. Taurus also represents what you own. Yourself, your stuff, your self esteem. Your values and priorities and holding onto these things which matter to us, while improving on them.

Taurus with Jupiter will hyper-focus upon these things. Building your internal list of what you care about regardless of others’ opinions. It’s your opinion – your values- your belief of what you feel is good for you and will enhance your sense of thriving and expanding. Taurus really doesn’t have anything to do with original creating, such as a piece of art or project etc….that’s Leo energy. Taurus is more basic, down to earth like practical obvious things that we should have such as owning and putting energy into our next step of development at work or private life, in order to get better at some skill in order to accomplish something such as earn a better salary, or reach an obviously important next step, work your garden, fix a door, decide to go to the gym and build your body better, etc….work your money, open a savings account.. things like that.

This cycle is about who you really are inside, what matters to you genuinely, versus the opinions in your head which could have been implanted in your deepest subconscious every once in a while surfacing as a voice in your mind, telling you things that are always negative. These opinions might still cause you to doubt, delay, hold back or be too cautious with what you know is truly right. These voices from our past people we were subjected to, were abusive. They may be still in you holding your real self back. Jupiter in Taurus wants to empower your confidence in your own beliefs which come from your Higher True Self in the higher dimensions. They are always positive, uplifting, confident and encouraging. You are one with this divine perfection. Nothing negative comes from this real place. Remember that!

For one year, my sense is we’ll all be increasing the trust in our own needs and allow ourselves to protect those needs, nurture them, and not get talked out of them, even from our own negative mental conversations in our head. We’re becoming more solid and confident that it’s okay to want what we want. For Scorpios, this might be weird as you guys are all about sacrificing for the needs of the moment of what others in your life are desiring, needing or demanding. So for Scorpios, it’s time to take a stand on certain things you’ve been delaying caring about for yourself and start finding a way to love yourself more than the other person. In a balanced way of course. You might need to swing back and forth this year between self and others, but it will be difficult to try to blend the two at the same time.

Jupiter in Taurus not only expands Taurus qualities, but educates us to a stronger belief and attitude that these things should matter to us – you matter. You count. Self esteem, worth and value personally is at the core, then, construct rings around that core and you have your food, money, housing, friends, you have circles of values surrounding the core primary value.

If you have squares and oppositions with this Jupiter for one year, you’ll have tests of compromising, caving in, realizing you have to do things you don’t feel like doing or something doesn’t feel right…..someone elses’ poor judgment yet there’s no way out, you think. But all the while the tests are helping you see what matters to you, and that others’ are not valuing or correctly assessing.

For those who have trines and sextile, conjunctions from Jupiter, your life will flow and become much more accomplished in all the above wonderful qualities. It’s very common to have both weaving in and out of each other month by month. Getting your astrology updated for a year will reveal when they are happening.

So, that’s the stronger theme for the entire year, our Jupiter moving into the very practical earthy grounded sign of Taurus, so we can focus upon what is good for us. Typically, we do accomplish physical things such as build projects, increase business, physically engage in anything requiring fixing, building, construction, or expanding our work. Much can get brought into the physical during this. And we feel greatly rewarded!

May 14 – 23 peaking May 17, 2023 Jupiter in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius

This is one of those cycles discussed above from Jupiter in Taurus in conflict with Pluto in Aquarius. It’s simple.

We know where we want to be to transform many things in our lives, yet it seems either doubtful, distant and hard to get to. Patience and concentration upon these ideal beliefs and goals will be good to recognize – and not allow other situations to threaten or sabotage, interfere with your belief you can reach this goal. The problem as we said earlier with Jupiter squares, is that typically we are urged to over reach, over spend, over assume and speculate, over commit or trust when we should be doing the opposite. It’s a week of practicing moderation, conservative cautiousness in our commitments,our confidence to be able to reach someone with our wisdom. Any time someone else’s orders, authority, or opinions are interfering with what we know to be correct.

It’s a time maybe, to suspend our own opinions as we might not have all the pieces to the issue.

Or not trust completely what someone else is attempting to push us towards as they also don’t know everything or their perspective could be limited to their own interpretation.

Also, something could pop up where you are at odds with someone else s’ opinion or where they stand on something. It’s a simple task to either correct them or find another way to circumvent this interference and don’t get upset over it, but realize this square can aggravate opinionated stubborn attitudes with others who are absolutely convinced they are correct and you need to change your perspective.

After this week is through, there is a better chance of making your point, deciding you don’t need to spend all that money, or be talked into a decision which you regret later. If this were in your personal astrology, it would be 100% on point. Because it is in the world, it very well could bypass you personally, but you could be observing it in others or in the world, this bizarre influence of poor judgment upon others at this time. It could manifest as territorial conflicts, economic issues, or just plain Limited what ideas, decisions or actions.

May 18 Sun in Taurus sextile Neptune in Pisces and Mercury sextile Saturn in Pisces

The Sun in sextile brings bright focused and highly intuitive and practical conversations, exchanges with others. The sextile from Mercury to Saturn, brings one point of the conversation into practical commitment which is very good. This cycle is right in the center of the other Jupiter problem however, so I see May 18 dates as more of a lucid moment to get self and other back to reality where an important fact is revealed which can assist us to not make any mistakes. It should come up conversation, a discussion or within a meeting of some kind. It might be something we hear or read, or something we must convey to another to settle a situation and get the facts straight. It’s a positive moment within a week of weird conflict of opinions.

May 20 Mars enters Leo

(May 20 – July 10, 2023 )

Mars entering Leo is the beginning of more confidence in your life. Mars energizes any one of these situations:

• Fun
• Vacation planning
• More positive energy put into our children
• Leadership, taking charge, powerful performances for musicians, artists, as well as actors, athletes or stars. Your work performance and all forms of leadership.
• Events, holidays, planning parties etc..
• Beauty, art, music, décor, fashion and design enhancing
• Love and fun, pleasure and recreation – taking more breaks – focus upon thriving versus work and other menial tasks.
• Finding more Joy in life.
• Giving presentations – regaining ones’ self respect, dignity and position.
• Self improvement in any way including taking classes, self education.

Another fantastic cycle enhancing these qualities will be the entrance of Venus retrograde in Leo beginning July through end of September 2023. It will bring another enhancement of good fortune but at a more magical pace and softer influence in our worlds. More on this later.

May 20 – 22 Mars in Leo oppose Pluto in Aquarius

Don’t lose the above vision of this empowering Mars in Leo fire energizer as it opposes Pluto for a few days. This two to three day energy could simply create a head on collision with another ego. Personal convictions versus someone else s’ position they’re taking where they actually believe the group or team’s best interest depends upon this or that new action or situation to change. Conflicts, challenges over who’s truly in charge, someone thinks they are, but maybe they are out of line. Facts are facts.

Both sides could have a point, but it will appear as an extremely ego motive stuckness.

Some hard days maybe with children, creative work, art or music and getting things back on track again. Once again, there’s an energy of some lower vibrations causing the problems.

May 21 2023 Sun enters Gemini

trines Pluto in Aquarius

sextiles Mars in Leo

Finally a day of high energy, great communication, logical thinking, excellent for writing, sharing, making decisions, signing papers, running errands, reaching conclusions and feeling on the same page with others. Much cooperation, lightness of discussions and progress is experienced on May 20-21

May 21 -23 Mars in Leo squares Jupiter in Taurus

After our great days above, we’re on a roll and desire most likely to continue at this pace, but the square brings either nervous exhaustion, or we keep pushing and things begin to get blocked or mishaps can happen. Take it slow. Pace yourself. Don’t over do, concentrate upon all your tasks, decisions and especially planning, driving, ambitions Mindfully. We can overdo it and find some projects or decisions were ill thought through now.

May 24 -26 Mars in Leo square Nodes in Taurus/Scorpio

Along with the above challenge, here is when we run into discovering other people in our lives might not have been in agreement with our attitude, decisions or pulling them into our ideas and projects. Maybe they were good ideas but not the best judgment or motives. Sometimes with the nodes we spent money unnecessarily, or there is some conflict with our money or anothers’ finances. Fixing money issues could be a priority at this time.

May 25 – 27 Venus sextiles Uranus

A better day for Finding creative solutions to any problems that have come up in the previous days. Especially nice for social connections, group/team/community events. Honesty, transparency and much sharing in a light productive way brings to us revelations. Ideas we might not have thought of before.

It’s a great time for going out with our favorite people and doing something which refreshes ourselves. We need these sort of times for a change of routine for sure! You might be invited somewhere or have a wonderful heart connection with a special person/people.

May 24 – June 3 Peaking June 1 Jupiter conjoins North Node in Taurus

Globally, Jupiter in Taurus (economy, finance, money, currencies) conjoin Node (social trends and money) could powerfully launch a new event in the world. Because this Jupiter is still in a slight active square to Pluto in Aquarius, it will be based upon huge missing pieces, over confidence in it’s effectiveness, and a waste. Conflicts from other power sources could block it.

Personally, it’s simply a powerful time to assess your assets, your net worth, values in life, and possibly launch some project. That would be good, but again, because Pluto is still in a slight square to Pluto, every detail must be clear, nothing left for chance. Cover your bases and concentrate upon others’ being in tune with what you want and need in any sort of conversation and arrangement, especially if financial arrangements are at stake. But it could be anything. Just don’t assume anything. Whatever the proposition, don’t assume it will turn out the way you are envisioning. Get the details.

Once it’s clear, by June 11 on …..we’re back into Pluto in Capricorn again for a while, which means we’ll engage back into our last run of powerful achievement of our goals.

May 28 2023 Sun square Saturn

A tight day, some reflection on our creative endeavors. Some conflicts with karmic people or situations. Some delays and low energy. This does not have to impact everyone…just a possibility. Try not to take this square too seriously – but do pay attention to your thoughts and movements, stay focused and careful how you drive, move and what you say.

Jun 1 2023 Mars inconjunct Saturn May be felt as early as May 29 – June 2, 2023

Accidents and mishaps, frustrations and inconveniences can be experienced under this astrology cycle. A slight sense of being disconnected and even sad or lonely. Something could trigger this. It would be a good day to spend time with compassionate people and recharge oneself with loving people, activities, books or reminders you are special and loved. You are not alone, it’s only an illusion. If you run into a situation of disappointment with others, realizing they may have let you down, you couldn’t count on them, try to let it go. If it has been a pattern, maybe this day is to help you face the realization, for certain things they simply can not stretch to get your needs met in a particular area of your life. It’s time to find a person who gets you in this one area, and make friends with them if you truly have this need. It might be a friendship thing, a work assistant for a project, or hiring someone else to do a specific job rather than count on your go to person for everything who is now too busy or not showing up.

June 10 2023 Pluto leaves Aquarius and goes back into Capricorn.

We had an interesting and accelerating run with Pluto in Aquarius, March 23 – June 9, 2023… erupting with events which either exposed major situations which required massive improvement along with motivations and inspirations to bring greater truth and progress in our own lives and globally for humanity and communities.

As Pluto returns for a while into Capricorn, our drive will be much more pragmatic goal achievements with your typical businesses, projects, order and organizational activities. It’s putting your nose to the grindstone and truly sensing deadlines and important tasks which are on your mind to get out of the way, one last time. It has to do with reaching important goals you don’t want to lose or neglect, no matter what. It’s back to business as usual. A bit dry and overworked, yet able to accomplish much.

A very intense materialistic driven cycle. It can have a spiritual overlay, yet it should be practical stuff that must be put in order and achieved, quickly. You’ll feel the shift on June 11, many are already sensing it now. Let’s finalize some physical important things which we’ve been working on for years now, and wrap them up, so when Pluto returns to Aquarius on January 21 2024, we can finally move on to more higher broad minded community and humanity values.

Well, that’s it for today. Don’t forget the larger themes we’ve been discussing In our recent articles, the big Solar Eclipses in Aries trends along with the major Pluto in Aquarius for 21 years and Saturn’s movement into Pisces.

You’ll find these recent updates HERE> (Saturn in Pisces, Pluto in Aquarius) and HERE> Solar Eclipses for three years, especially the April 2023 for the next five months. Link

Thank you again and again for all your support!! You are what is keeping this world glued together, I’m totally convinced!

Christine

Here are two versions of Hamlet. If you don’t know the story, it is an incredible lesson of one man taking upon the task of trusting himself, his insights and digging to discover the truth of the Royal deceptions, murder and betrayal. The first is a short version, animated, which I love! The second is quite old, the entire version with the magnificent Lawrence Olivier. Enjoy!