When the MOON is VOID OF
COURSE whatever you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight
hours this month when the moon is void of course: Aug. 2 from 11:59 a.m. to
1:59 p.m; Aug. 4 from 5:15 p.m. to 7:28 p.m.; Aug. 9 after from 2:02 p.m. to
4:10 p.m.; Aug. 13 after 5:14 pm; Aug. 14 from 10:09 a.m. to 3:56 p.m.; Aug. 21
from 9:53 a.m. to 11:38 a.m.; Aug. 23 before 2:48 p.m; Aug. 25 from 2:52 p.m. to
5:18 p.m.; and Aug. 27 after 5:13 p.m.
LUNAR ACTION
Waning Periods: Aug. 17-30 begin with the full moon. It's a time of completion.
In candle magic, it's known as the time of banishing.
Waxing Periods: Aug. 1-16 and Aug. 31- Sept. 15 begin with the new moon. It's a
time of new beginnings and fresh starts. In candle magic it's known as the time
of gathering.
NEW MOON: Aug. 1 @ 3:13 a.m. in Leo This waxing period focuses on new
creativity, children, love, social events, and personal investments.
Aug. 30 @ 12:58 p.m. in Virgo. This waxing period focuses on new health and
workplace situations, as well as issues with small animals.
FULL MOON: Aug. 16 @ 2:16 p.m. in Aquarius. This waning period focuses on
completing issues concerning: friendships, hopes and dreams and membership in
large organizations.
How to Use This Column: As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each
section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will
find yourself focused on during this time. Test: is the issue or experience
which will test your focus. Key: is a little gemstone which can help you pass
the test if you will use it. Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Aries:
1-16:
Focus: Personal Fun. Test: Enjoy each moment. Key: The real winner is
the one who acknowledges that it takes competitors to win. Action:
Possibilities for new love arrive while attending social events. Your
childlike nature finds a new passion for competition. 17-30: Focus:
Friends. Test: Trust. Key: Listen, answers come conversing with
friends. Action: Conversations offer unique insights to help you
complete a project. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Taurus:
1-16:
Focus: Creativity. Test: Explore. Key: Loosen the clenched hand to find
discover the new. Action: You're challenged to see the albatross you
hold and let go. Now a new adventure can begin, go for it! 17-30: Focus:
Understanding friendship. Test: New ideas. Key: Honor the eyes of
another, through them the world is unique. Action: Progressive ideas
challenge a friendship while completing some project. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Gemini:
1-16:
Focus: Social Fun. Test: Focus before speaking. Key: Lessons in this
time will be discovered if you journal. Action: New opportunities for
romance, fun and creative self expression. 17-30: Focus: Ideas and old
friends. Test: Listen. Key: When you digress, you lose track of what is
important. Action: Old friends suddenly reappear to strike-up old
conversations. They will help you complete something important.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Cancer:
1-16:
Focus: Competition. Test: Judging others. Key: Look behind the happy
face of the clown. Action: You're irritated by the lack of manners and
egocentric behavior of new acquaintances. 17-30: Focus: Stressful
conversations. Test: Listen without fixing. Key: Nurturing does not
include didactics or criticism. Action: Completing a situation with a
friend is stressful causing you to reconsider your communication
skills. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Leo:
1-16: Focus: Party, laughter, children. Test: Share the limelight.
Key: Too much of a good thing is still too much! Action: New outings
lead to new social circles, fun with children and the opportunity to
show off. 17-30: Focus: Social indulgence. Test: Honor the input of
others. Key: Detachment is a gift of logic Action: You're torn between
taking all the credit for a project finally completed or sharing it with
the people who helped. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Virgo:
1-16: Focus: Irritating people. Test: Critical thoughts. Key: The woes
of the world are the karmic choices of each soul. Action: Your critical
tongue is sharpened when a new superior demonstrates wasteful choices.
17-30: Focus: Fixed Opinions Test: What is progress? Key: It is the
whirlpool of opinions that gives balance to the world of duality.
Action: A conversation about a project you just completed cause you
stress. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Libra:
1-16: Focus: New responsibilities. Test: Enjoy without losing focus.
Key: Winning an award loses value if you regard it as more than a step.
Action: Easing into a new level of leadership and recognition makes you
feel like overindulging. 17-30: Focus: Talk, talk, talk... Test: Avoid
gossip. Key: Conversation is valuable if it precludes negative imprints.
Action: A friendship becomes more as your conversations extend into the
night. |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Scorpio:
1-16: Focus:
Personal needs. Test: Be kind while refusing to answer. Key: Look at the
half that is full before taking action. Action: A new romance, child or
social event challenges your need for privacy. 17-30: Focus: Full
disclosure. Test: Open up. Key: Trust is built on honesty. Friendship is
built on trust. Action: To fulfill the needs of a friend you are
challenged to open up and tell more than you usually consider prudent.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Sagittarius:
1-16: Focus: New
passions. Test: Risk. Key: While the heart soars, the mind keeps the
feet from walking off the cliff. Action: New experiences expand life,
creativity, and fun. 17-30: Focus: Issues with friends. Test:
Detachment or nonchalance. Key: Logical actions may appear complacent
but are actually prudent. Action: A conversation resolves an old issue
bringing you closer to someone you love.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Capricorn:
1-16: Focus:
Passionate stress. Test: Speak what you mean. Key: Emotionial
expression is the joy of a healthy heart. Action: A social event
causes stress when someone you love is not aligned with your new
ambitions. 17-30: Focus: Interruptions. Test: Breath. Key: Awareness is
required to see the value in every encounter. Action: Sudden
interruptions create stress as you attempt to complete a project.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Aquarius:
1-16:
Focus: Creative people. Test: Obsessing. Key: Balance is the result of
prudent, conscious focus. Action: New children or childlike people tug
at your need to keep a balance between logic and creativity. 17-30:
Focus: Resolving old ideas. Test: Releasing old opinions. Key: Sometimes
we must look in the mirror to see the clothes no longer fit. Action: You
sort through old attitudes and ideas with help from friends.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
Pisces:
1-16: Focus: Stress Test: Rationalizing. Key: True love gives one
freedom to speak on any subject. Action: The stress of not speaking can
cause heart problems romantically or physically. 17-30: Focus: Who are
you? Test: Boundaries. Key: Opinions are the shards of perception. It
is the differences that make the whole. Action: You need to resolve an
issue with a friend which is the result of an old irritating
conversation.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO!!
• Fifth Sign of the Zodiac • Masculine • Fixed Fire Sign • Ruler: Sun •
Color: Gold • Gemstone: Peridot • Flowers: Sunflower, Marigold •
Herbs: Saffron, Rosemary • Cell Salt: Mag Phos • Rules: Heart, Spine, Back
• Key Phase: "I Act!" • Most Compatible Signs: Aries & Sagittarius •
Leo, you're the children and the leaders of the zodiac. Filled with creative
energy and driven to express yourself, you're basically, happy energetic
people. You love to demonstrate your creativity and enjoy being the center of
attention. On your good side, you're filled with optimism, creativity, courage,
playfulness, confidence and a loving, sensitive attitude. On the dark side,
you're vain, boastful, arrogant, dictatorial, extravagant, intolerant, pompous,
overbearing, a show-off and the too-trusting fool.
Your desire to be superior,
in the limelight, the recognized leader drives you. You need to be recognized as
a leader at work. While your mate must be your biggest fan. Respect is very
important to you. You're happiest in creative ventures which are filled with
excitement and
action.
You excel in all the creative
arts from acting to debate. Your love of children can be satiated by being a
teacher, puppet master, theatre owner or coach. You're a natural actor, totally
at home in the limelight and too often you're the ham. The limelight can
include: politician, monarch, dictator, nightclub owner, entertainer, circus
performer, public relations expert, director or producer. Your creative juices
also flow in writing the material from poetry to screenplays and in making
anything that shines from goldsmith to costume designer. Lastly your love of
money and risk taking is fulfilled as a gambler or stockbroker.
Famous Leos include: Henry Ford, Mata Hari, Alfred Hitchcock, Benito Mussolini,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Herbert Hoover, Carl Jung, T.E.
Lawrence, Alfred Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Giovanni
Casanova, Fidel Castro, Coco Chanel, Claude Debussy, Cecil B. DeMille, Neil
Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, Helena Blavatsky, Aldous Huxley,
Willie Shoemaker, Robert Taylor, Sandra Bullock, Confucius, Rudy Vallee, Melvin
Belli, Betsy Bloomingdale, Guy de Maupassant, Ben Affleck, Dino DeLaurentis,
Gustav Krupp, Alexander Fleming, Benjamin Harrison, Midori Ito, Lillian Carter,
Julie Newmar, James Cameron, Mae West, Shelley Winters, Roman Polanski, Gene
Roddenberry, Robert Mitchum, Robert Redford, Walter Scott, Jack Weston,
Jacqueline Susann, H.P. Lovecraft, Andy Warhol, Simon Bolivar, Rose-Marie,
Victoria Jackson, Mathew Perry, Carroll O'Connor, Martina McBride, Vincent Canby
and Peter Duchin.
Michele's Award Winning Fantasy was
Released In Paperback January 1, 2008
The new 6x9 perfect bound paperback first edition sells for $14.99
It has 304 pages, 13 illustrations, and a peek at
Chapter One from Book Two, Potemkin Search For The Manuscript.