Happy Fall! As we move out of the most recent eclipse cycle and into new fall astrological weather, we can all take a moment to appreciate that the intensity of summer’s hot transits are now behind us.
All seasons bring their own astrological challenges, but this past summer was one of the more intense on recent record. The months long incendiary Mars-Ketu conjunction followed immediately by six weeks of a very tense Mars-Saturn opposition was an extremely depleting line-up for a season which Āyurvedically already has the potential to create burn-out.
As we move into cooler weather (in the Northern Hemisphere), the transits also offer some natural pacification to whatever wear and tear you may have been through recently.
The eclipses ended on September 21st with the solar eclipse in Virgo, which was also the culmination of Pitr Paksha or the time of ancestor worship.
Because eclipses have a cleansing effect, the period after them is considered generally beneficial to begin new endeavors. The pressure of those aberrant celestial events is passed, and it is as if new life can be breathed into new beginnings.
The details will need to be accounted for, and a lot of fine-tuning goes into the selection of auspicious dates, but if you are just wading into the territory of astrological timing you might experiment with starting something you’ve been sitting on for a while and take note of how successful it is. You might also note what has happened to the attempts you made at starting things before or during this and previous eclipse cycles, since those endeavors tend to fail or become very complicated.
As for the fall astrological weather, we will see a sneak peak of Jupiter’s long-awaited exaltation in Pisces from October 18 until December 5th, Mars will move into his own sign on October 27th, and Saturn will come out of retrograde on November 27th. There will be other shorter transits, gandantas and retrogrades along the way, which I will cover as they transpire.
For the coming month, significant dates are as follows:
Auspicious Dates
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10/1: extremely auspicious for beginnings
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10/2: also great for beginnings, especially before 7:30am
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10/6: full moon—high social energy, good for gatherings (unstable for beginning important new things, also should be avoided for surgeries)
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10/7-8: Moon’s placement has healing quality, good for starting new medicines
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10/9-10/11: exalted Moon—supports energy levels, optimism, relationships
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10/10: good for starting ‘worldly’ things which you’d like to grow and prosper
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10/14: nourishing energy, supportive for rest, recovering, gathering resources
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10/20: supportive of design related endeavors, or anything related to ‘perfecting form’
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10/31: great day for beginnings; both creativity and anxiety possible (undertaking creative projects can reduce any existing anxiety)
Inauspicious Dates
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10/2 (after morning)- 10/3: combative energy— good for getting work done, avoid conflict
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10/16: combative energy + Sun in transit to Libra (unstable energy, difficult to get things done)
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10/20: empty moon—avoid for all beginnings; good for cleaning things out, getting rid of things and endings; good day for honoring ancestors