This is a busy week astrologically, starting with two planets—Jupiter and Mercury—finally zooming forward after various cosmic slowdowns, a loud Full Moon in Aries midweek, and intense Scorpio Season starting up by week’s end.
Jupiter Retrograde Ends 10/17:
Since June 20th, the big Santa in the Sky Jupiter has been slow-moving and hiding his gifts from us, no matter how many plates of cookies and glasses of milk we leave out for him. Luckily, that all ends on Sunday, when he resumes his normal course and speed!
Expect your stalled plans to come out of hiding and start to move forward now, even if other planets (ahem: Pluto, squaring our Sun and making us feel intense pressure) are mucking up the sky. What are your dearly-held dreams you were hoping 2021 would put within reach? You can still go claim them.
Nothing to “Hack” about this! We LOVE this aspect!
Mercury Retrograde ends on 10/18:
Communication planet Mercury has been in Retrograde since September 26th in the charming and social sign of Libra. So you already know that the past month hasn’t been the best time when it comes to scheduling, making agreements, traveling, or even making big and/or electronic purchases, like computers or cars.
And you probably all know how to navigate a Mercury Retrograde by now: if you can, postpone signing contracts or purchases until the retrograde’s over, triple-check your emails/posts/tweets, try to think before your share, and expect things to take longer than usual, or for people to reschedule/cancel/not get back to you in a timely manner.
You also know the beauties of a Mercury Retrograde: reconnecting to projects and people from the past, researching, revising, and revisiting!
Yet, despite the good parts of the Retrograde, most of us still desire for it to end already, and that’s exactly what happens on Monday!
Before you applaud, do remember that Mercury can act up the WORST at the beginning and end, so it might not exactly FEEL like relief quite yet. And also keep in mind that it’ll take the chatty planet until about November 3rd to feel like it’s back to his regular, quick-witted speed. But we all will start to feel relief, especially in one certain area of our lives that’s felt held back lately.
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To ease any scheduling or communication hiccups that can happen at the end of a Mercury Retrograde, I always turn to certain plants’ essential oils to help me think clearly (Lemon), move all the stuck energy (Cypress), and transition from low mental acuity to quick mental acuity (Rosemary).
AstroOils® End of Mercury Retrograde Diffuser Blend:
💧💧💧 Lemon
💧 💧 Rosemary
💧 Cypress essential oils*
Full Moon in Aries on 10/20 at 10:57AM EST / 7:57AM PST:
The Harvest Moon on Wednesday gives us a chance to resolve anything related to struggles, competition, and contests. In the days surrounding this annual Aries Full Moon, look out for information, mounting pressure, or a big decision you’ll be forced to make. It’s also possible that you’ll reap (“harvest”) the rewards from all the past effort you’ve put into something that started after the April 11th New Moon. Do a little research in your iCal to see what was going on at that time that needs your attention now.
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During the 4-5 days before and after this Aries Full Moon (basically, ALL WEEK), I like to use emotional and energetic support to help me rationally make decisions (Cardamon) while holding my ground and boundaries (On Guard blend).
AstroOils® Aries Full Moon Diffuser Blend:
💧💧💧 On Guard blend
💧💧💧 Cardamom essential oils*
Scorpio Season Begins on 10/22:
When the Sun moves into the mysterious and provocative zodiac sign of Scorpio for the next month, it’s generally a time of deep healing on the subconscious level. It’s when our hidden patterns and shadow selves to come into view, so we may finally transmute the “dark” into gold.
Once Scorpion skies are above us, we’ll be able to take the pain and anguish from the past year and transmute it into something greater. We’ll be forced to. I mean, we feel things at 1000% when Scorpio rules our cosmos! Our choice is either to feel it so intensely that we transform ourselves from the inside-out…OR to keep our truths hidden and deal with a resurgence of passive-aggressive activity that makes a bigger mess of the muck.
Our shamanic selves can come to our own rescues, if we allow them.
Hack Your Horoscope
Under Scorpio skies, we’ll bounce from one emotional extreme to the other, feel intensely, and be dark and serious, indeed! To use the gifts of Scorpio Season, I choose to be proactive in my shadow work and healing during this month. To help me transmute pain into gold, I use pure essential oils to uncover my subconscious patterns (black pepper), heal the emotional pain there (helichrysum) and see the beauty of what exists on the other side (Lime).
AstroOils® Scorpio Season Diffuser Blend:
💧 💧 💧 Lime
💧 💧 Black Pepper
💧 💧 Helichrysum
*Not all essential oils are created equal! Only use Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG®) essential oils. If you don’t currently have these oils and would like to purchase them, please support my work by ordering them through me here.