It’s been a while since the planetary positions of Saturn Square Jupiter Square Neptune in the sky are thoroughly testing the substantiality of your belief, system of values and dreams for the sake of a unique reality check that calls for incorporating the spirit into the „western mechanistic paradigm“, well pointed out by Dr. Stanislav Grof in the words that a radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope in the current global crisis.

Self-Improvement has been a burning issue for a while now, as an imperative of self-management and self-preservation, being the only way towards the self-maintenance and health protection. In the frame of the current celestial aspects the only real hope on the way to overcoming the karma grind wheel is exactly the conscious effort to purify the shadow and release the fears, complexes and prejudice that basically stand on the way of happiness.

The famous quote that Saturn Square Jupiter represents the perishing without the apparent guilt  based only on the will of God is now being put in force enough to remember that every word, action or deed is being measured carefully for the sake of passing this unique Checking Up Point of Saturn Square Jupiter when it seems the world is crumbling down, however only in the sense of filtering the energy and washing up the spirit thus ennobling the people through suffering, introspection and self-examination when all the questions are being answered in the flashes of conscience. It seems that we have been collecting points in the battleship of life that Higher Power has been carefully notifying thus leading us to the point where substantial lesson has to be learned through as many rounds as needed enough to comprehend the truth. Sooner or later we play by the rules Saturn is calling for, particularly now, when in Sagittarius, imperatively implying to the fact that the voice of conscience has to be respected and put in force operating as an everyday habit.

To be or not to be who you are, that is the question, now that Saturn Square Neptune reality check of your dreams reveals that after entanglement of social compromises and personal wanderings to find your own fate by realizing your own reality, God has sophisticated ways to remind you that your dreams represent your reality you have to live in accordance with or else you will end up in a wrong alley streets as long as you cannot make out the highway through the valley of shadows where fears, prejudice, complexes, illusions or weaknesses are cradling you into semi-solutions. To fight alone demands courage and only after facing the truth about the true identity and standing for beliefs, values and dreams, sooner or later you meet the God’s will being the best version of yourself set off for action to live the life as meant to be.

The truth cannot be hidden and after a long way of manipulation of Uranus Pluto Square, misinformation, lies, illusions and self-comforting prejudice, Jupiter in Virgo enables you to pick up the pieces and realize the truth through conscious effort of finding the light of reason by establishing the facts Mars in Scorpio now surgically detects. In the world of massive power games,  the real question is what you can do for yourself to individuate for who you really are and not individualize for who you want to be and to start living your own truth, being the light that God has shining upon you in order to avoid misplaced thesis of what is really the most important – the soul. There are no compromises with the truth, this very Square of Saturn Jupiter is throwing at you. Now is the time to show courage and really see it and let that inner baby play safely and express itself through all the means of personal power on the way to salvation.

The Saturn Jupiter Neptune Squares are testing the substantiality of all the systems, beliefs, values and power for the sake of maintaining the best ones that actually function and bear fruits as the quality of living. This refers mostly to personal development and built-up systems of personal integration and power as well as your past actions that now stand the unique Checking Up Point.

The upcoming new Moon in Taurus in a few days is calling for settling the burning issues by putting them on the ground level. „It just depends how close to ground level you are“ says the famous quote and the reality of your developing game is about to reveal the basic facts for the sake of resolution on a very practical level by showing the perspective, thus allowing you to make the safe move towards the firm establishment of the frame of your monoeuvring space.

Being entangled in the repercussions of the complicated business and intimate relations since 2012 that have enforced you to deal with your own shadow snares of the issues of the unconscious, now is the time to finally bring them to consciousness, grasp the reality of your situation, face the truth that you already know somewhere deep inside, thus showing you that the most apparent, logical reason is actually the right one. In spite of the complicated ways you have been searching the way out from, you might realize that the realistic outlook  reveals the simplicity of resolution that have been there all along.

You might realize that the entire entanglement might have been a projection of your own prejudice, fear or a complex, as the prevailing drive that has put you in a position where you are now. If you get down to basics with respect to the rules of the game, everything might reveal to you as the simple outlook on the fact that things actually seem a lot better than you initially thought they were. Moving around in circles, chasing your own tail for four years now might turn out to lead you to the first starting point where the things have originated from in the past, along with the experience of the full circle accomplished of your game.

Having been rooted in the nature of the very development,  the testings of the substantial basics of the initial game-set reveal the lesson of Saturn regarding the system of values and realization of your own true self-worth. Namely, the New Moon in Taurus occurs in the house of values, spiritual and material gain that results in the realistic benefit only after accomplished realization of the true self- worth. The overall evaluation of the individual personality versus the world, being the reciprocal process, eventually  comes down to having the true system of values incorporated into the material plan thus safely resulting as the material equivalent and the awareness of the value of the true self being the spiritual accomplishment in the first place.

In the frame of celestial aspects at the moment, the very realization seems to be well grounded in reality of the most important accomplishment of all – the affirmation of true values and the self-worth. Having that in mind, the lesson of Saturn evokes the facing with the conscience thus building the super-ego as the guiding light of reason that prevails upon the illusions of the dreamy Neptune. Nevertheless, these planetary influences enable you to safely incorporate the dream into the reality of your aspirations and ambitions that stand the test of your being worthy of them when daydreaming in solitude and wishing upon the star. It seems that your lucky star is your own purity of the heart that kept faith along with the intensive self-improvement you have been investing in yourself for the sake of realization of your own true-self, being the only way for your dream to come true.

Therefore, the award Higher Power has in stash for you comes along your way as the blessing of the hard-working personal and professional development throughout the years. Spiritually uplifting, the Moon in Taurus awakens the soul in its full glow to make sure everything is just all right, and the way it should be. The highest quality of the exalted Moon, after all the battles, brings forth the nobility, the goodness and the fulfillment of the soul, being able to feel the soul power in its way to salvation in the times of crisis of the „anima mundi“.  Essentially, what comes forth are the things that truly matter with this New Moon, remembering that there is only one way towards the well-being that reveals upon us in the words of Leonardo da Vinci as the Simplicity as the Ultimate Sophistication.

„To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?“

This ingenious Shakespearean quote represents the very essence of the existential philosophy adherent to any man, ancient or contemporary. Namely, Hamlet’s flash of a genius in the moment of dire straights at the point in life when faced with the difficult circumstances reveals the most notorious dilemma of the human nature. Of course, this paradigm reveals the ultimate choice we all have to make when building the life philosophy and personal integrity for the sake of affirmation of the Higher Force i.e. the God’s will.

All the world literature is interpreting the manifestations of reality with just one goal – finding God, particularly in the times of Saturn in Sagittarius when the world is facing the crisis of „Anima Mundi“  i.e.  the Soul of the World and is calling for doing so. It seems that there are two ways of establishing a life attitude when facing reality: a holy warrior being the Jesus follower or the „wisely passive“ nobleman, in the words of William Wordsworth, thus cherishing the cult of Virgin Mary. Either you choose to fight for what you believe or accept the reality with the full faith in God’s will thus building wisdom, the ultimate aim is to find purpose. It turns out Hamlet was fully aware of the dilemma in the process of self-integration, each and every one of us is being faced with sooner or later.

Well, the time is now. The retro Mars in Sagittarius is calling for the re-examination of action so far, for the sake of making sure we actually know where we are going. It is not the time to make a breakthrough or action of any kind, it is the time for revision, revocation, interpretation of the past actions with the aim of working out the way according to the personal philosophy. Or at least in the endeavor to build one. Mars is Square Neptune at the moment, evoking confusion, illusion or vague circumstances when it is not possible to act justly. Soon enough, after May 27, it should be much clearer to surgically detect the truth, when in Scorpio, with the revealing development Big Time so as to put things in motion after June 29 when it goes Direct.

The Celestial screenshot at the moment is quite complicated and for all the justification of the ultimate demonstration of power and the successful management of personal driving force, there is a rising frustration of Venus close to Uranus Square Pluto, undermining all our sense of value and usurping the love life with manipulation and forceful demonstration. If You are getting impression that nothing is sacred to people any more and that all is allowed in war and love, mind yourself and your own true motives since the Saturn-Jupiter Square might turn out to be a unique wake-up call in the sense of accepting the karma consequence. Harmonize the subconscious with the conscious, raise awareness on who you are and figure out what you are doing. Above all, trust the Higher Power. The question such as whether what you are actually doing is what you essentially want or whether it makes you right although it feels good vs why doesn’t it feel right when you are doing good or why it hurts when you did everything right might enable you to seek answers in the big picture of the past choices and actions and in the higher perspective of how much it is being rooted in reality. Also, mind that what doesn’t kill you actually works for you in the higher perspective.

Namely, in all the planetary mash up of karmic devastation, personal childhood memories that have shaped you the way you have to deal with today for the sake of resolution of Uranus Pluto seismic activity Venus is being exposed to,along with the liberating impulses of Uranus that enforce an independent action you might think you have succeeded upon, what is being called for is the necessity of grasping the truth beneath the surface of sweet wishful thinking and essentially reconsider how grounded in reality you are for the sake of overcoming the snares in the jungle of every day life and passing the test of your life.

The beautiful grand Trine of Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto enables you to  grasp the reality of your situation and manoeuvre on the ground level for the sake of accomplishing simplicity in communication, action and thinking. Mind you, what you cannot articulate well enough you don’t understand well enough, so that the Retro Mars just calls for a step back to figure out what you have done and what the name of the game is.

If you have already on top of the game and are waiting for the resolution in order to claim your prize, the Retro Mars time up to June 29 would be the time for relaxation along with ennoblement of spirit with good writers or good writing why not. Anyhow, the time is perfectly appropriate for shaping up an attitude in accordance with the life philosophy you are building, for purifying the spirit with good music, for creating the masterpiece of your life. Creativity is surely the best way to express the perspective of your own karma development and bring about something new to the world that has seen it all. These are the times of forging the spirit in the frame of global crisis when the best you can do is self-improve, study, explore the manifestations of God and invest your experience in becoming somebody new.  The best way to contribute to the world and to find the purpose of your existence, the only way to live. If you self-improve enough and dive in and out high enough to the mind of a genius and reach the top of a diamond then your dilemma is a already resolved. It’s your call – To Be or Not to Be.

Horace Walpole used to say: „This world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel“, so accurately displaying the twofold perception of the world depending on the center of gravity. „Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right“ a famous song quotes, however sooner or later you might find yourself stuck in the middle where it is hard to gain ground and establish an attitude, particularly after the seismic development of Uranus-Pluto-Square in the previous four years of overall disturbances within the Psyche, resulting in an urge for diplomacy gaming on the social and partnership scene. With this very Eclipse, having its repercussions in the next six months, it would be of the greatest challenge to incorporate the emotional habitus of your personal experience of the „tragedy“ into a cognitive comprehension of what actually is nothing but a „comedy“ if you succeed in reaching out for the supreme state of mind. Having in mind writers who used to say that in laughter there is a specific human outcry, you choose whether your experience grounds as the game that you win when you solve the puzzle of yourself in the light of the fact that life turns out to be an intelligence test after all.

Libra is the sign of the balance and the urge of this Eclipse is exactly finding the balance between the rational and emotional, between your own persona versus the world, your own attitude towards the partner. If you have had the feeling that you are losing ground and having to cope with your most intimate disturbances within the Psyche that proved to be as the collision between your spiritual and material reality, now seems to be the right time to settle the conflict by raising awareness of what is truly important to you as your personal motivation, along with the justification of your fixations in the frame of the Higher Power endowment, as well as the conscientious shaping of your contemporary point of view that undergoes a substantial karma check development.

What seems to be the major conflict, in this frame of celestial influences, is the conscious versus subconscious kind of discord and basically finding the middle ground requires healthy integration of the „shadow“ into the realms of ego, resulting in picking up the pieces of your own game from the perspective of sought and done, being your true motive, you just might not be aware of. Keep going ahead and work it out until you fully understand yourself and when you do that, life just might seem to be a comedy after all. At least as in one of the Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works” kind of development.

The essential urge for diplomacy at this point refers to foggy and confusing circumstances around you, in the light of Mars Square Neptune aspect that requires substantial clarification of facts before you make short cuts or demonstrate the willingness that you just might regret later when the truth comes out. Carefully threading network would be the good advice for the sake of putting things right where they belong. It just might feel mesmerizing or confusing in the process of gaining prospect, thus reaching out for the truth would be the best attitude in the first place. They say that diplomacy is about knowing what not to say or if you will, make sure diplomacy is letting someone have your way. Anyhow, the deceptive atmosphere of the apparent circumstances might soon prove to be clarified after Mars re-enters Scorpio and surgically detects the truth as the matter of fact.

Individualization versus individuation as realizing the personality as wishful versus the realistic is the snare of each and every one of us who seek the realization of the full potential. With this Eclipse in power, along with Jupiter Square Saturn development of karma justification of your past endeavors, get ready to face the consequence of seemingly indirect responsibility of your four-year decisions and actions and if you feel  tricked,deprived or underestimated for what you have done, you will just have to trust the Higher Power in the settling-accounts kind of development.  Bear in mind that only after you doctored your own personality, you are being able to expect the award in the material reality for what you have figured out you essentially want.

Therefore, before you reach a decision, make sure you understand the underlying messages and writings on the wall of your most intimate war development for the sake of finding the middle ground where the Eclipsed Moon (Psyche) in Libra incorporates the emotional experience into a rational workout for the benefit of your own self-maintenance and future prospect of the opposed Sun (Ego) in Aries , where it is being exalted and ready to dominate. You are being capable of dominating only after you have proven yourself as an authority and recognized as the fully realized individual who has passed through the karma check, learned the rules of the game and established the position of power. In order to get there, prepare for the next six months of  facing the social scene, partners and publicity in the frame of establishing an attitude towards the challenge of being offered a compromise from life. If you have individualized enough to know if you are a person of compromise and if you settle for one or not i.e. if you are an all-or-nothing player or not, get ready to join the playground of life, that seems to be uncompromising these days, to get what you want anyway and to win your own Diplomacy Game.

Within the artistic outlook, it is probably not accidental that the Precious Pearl of Wisdom is exactly in a shell at the bottom of the sea. Spiritually, this time around, it takes a deeper insight into the realms of the spirit in order to grasp the Truth. About oneself as well as the world. Whether you are already at the bass frequency or you tend to learn the Truth the hard way, this very Eclipse makes sure you really comprehend the mysterious ways of God in your life, the reasons, the motivation, the experience of your own with the aim of purifying the spirit from the long-term tectonic disturbances we have all been put through for the last four years.

The pain and what to do with it. The birth of the Salvador Dali’s new man out of the egg requires the growth, individuation and self-improvement, and above all, awakening from the shadow that almost unmistakably enforces issues to deal with, for the sake of becoming the integrated personality who is in compliance with oneself. The famous snares of the shadow are the internal mechanism in the process of realization of one’s own true personality thus enabling us to face the dreams as the reality of the soul. This disclosure time of the Reality Check development of Saturn Square Neptune implies to the conclusion that the Dream has been cancelled. However, the all-so-precious Neptune makes sure the Dream is still alive, although very hard to reach due to the entanglements of cause-and-effect kind of development in the personal Karma. When you consider reaching the Dream as the fulfillment of one’s own personal idiosyncrasy i.e. one’s own individual realization with integrated higher perception of oneself that is ennobling the spirit, you are on the path of becoming a complete personality. However, sooner or later, you are being forced to face the voice of the conscience implying to all those issues you have set up in motion for the sake of empowering your ego in the game of demonstration of your own personal exhibitionism.

What people often experience as the limitation in the outer world is exactly the self-imposed, self-judgmental being-fair-to-yourself kind of subconscious treatment in compliance with one’s own personal choices that often differ from rational and conscious striving. In the frame of planetary positions of New Moon Square Saturn in Sagittarius Square Jupiter in Virgo, facing-the-conscience kind of imperative, you are being challenged to accept the reality of your position from the perspective of your own earnings. Nevertheless, the difficulty of this Eclipse lies in the aftermath of the long-term Uranus-Pluto Square upheaval and distress with the result of „settling the score“ kind of development where it all comes down to Karma leveling even without the apparent cause. Namely, the unquestionable will of God puts you through the experience of hardship as the justification of the consequence of your past choices and overall behavior. The aftermath of the battle makes all the generals wise in order to pick up the pieces of the puzzle and dive into the sea of spirit for the sake of reaching the Pearl of Wisdom.

What seems to be gaining ground is the professional outlook of one’s own personal and professional history in the light of all the accomplishments and ambitions that need to fit in the disclosure frame of a cycle of endings whereupon picking up where you have started carries the weight of personal and professional experience well ground in the Karma wheel. Now is the time to face one’s own professional history and re-examine the professional prospect, but only after passing through the test of perfection-standard-imperative in the light of professionalism, dedication and professional orientation. If you have been mislead or ended up in wrong alley street with no sound perspective ahead, now is the time to consider the God’s given gifts, dreams and ambitions of the pure spirit that wished upon the star of realization long time ago before the circumstances and weaknesses carried you away from your true path. However, if you have been playing your cards right, following the rules of the game with the clear insight in your own potential, goals and perspective, this very Eclipse enables you to double check the quality of your performance so far and gain the wisdom indispensable for the further strategic and purposeful professional endeavors. Make sure you have improved and become as pure as the Pearl in the shell of wisdom-shielded personal power since it is the only way towards realization of so precious the Dream.

Pisces hold the key of all the doors and guard the highest quality of the spirit – Faith. Within this frame of planetary and celestial configurations, try to avoid any victimization whatsoever but reach for the light of conscience awareness for the sake of meeting the demands of the personal and professional perfection standards the Higher Power has bestowed on us, regardless of the times of decay, crisis and darkness of morality, culture and the “Way of the World“ . The Piscean Faith is an independent act of the spirit maintenance that undergoes the test of human ability to secure the most important heritage of mankind through all the civilizations’ cultures, mythologies, literature, arts and sciences through a unique Wisdom Check.

The latest caption of the dwarf planet Pluto out there in space with the unassumingly well-shaped heart on the surface made of ice and rock of the slightly nuanced orange, black and white color. The geology of substances such as nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide alchemically reveal as well the possible toxic influence in the psychological history of mankind, being more than 10 million years old as a matter of fact.
Being known as Hades in the Greek mythology as the god of the underground, death, resurrection, the ruling planet of Scorpio within the realm of the Dragon, the Phoenix bird, flying over the river Styx where all the dead are being transferred to the other side, Pluto has always been associated with the mystery of life, the hidden, the occult, the Fatale manifestations in the life of the individual.

The depth of Plutonic fierce impulses that shake the very core of the psyche, the Plutonic insights that reach the bottom line in all the matters of the world, being the psychology, the research, the surgery, the mysterious and occult knowledge, the multi-million business and the stock market, the oil market, the military and the firearms, the war, the secret societies, the espionage, the mob, the underground, the fatalism, the destiny, the power.
Perfectly well shaped heart made of ice on this uncompromising warrior – Pluto. The mortal combat known as the Love Fatale. Does it ring the bell? I’m sure you have had this kind of experience of hurricane, tornado, tsunami or better to say the volcano eruption changing your life forever. Or at least you will, sooner or later since Pluto always lurks from beneath the visible.

Pluto is being exalted in Leo, the sign of the heart, physiologically and psychologically, denoting the occurrence of the heart shape on the surface is hardly accidental, meaning that Pluto finds its ultimate expression of potency through the sign of Leo i.e. the heart.

In the astrological heritage, the Pluto, being the ruler of Scorpio, represents the Eros, the libido, the sexual potency and what is more, the overall psychological energy there is, the concept being established by the Carl Gustav Jung. Hungarian-Swiss psychologist Leopold Szondi (Interesting name you would say) by the means of his famous “Szondi Test” has been searching through the world of impulses and basic drives varying from hermaphroditic, sadistic and maniac drive needs just to name a few, in the search of the cause of the basic instincts, or, speaking of drives, the “Will for Power” being established by Friedrich Nietzsche along with the development of the psycho-sexual stages of Sigmund Freud that puts sexuality in the centre of behavioral motivation of the individual, all being the fruit of the ingenious in-depth Plutonic psychology. Pluto exactly endows these researchers the awareness of human motivation being the source of the diverse demonstration of human power.

It is all about sex, they say, except that sex is about power. Who would depict it better, the power games in the Love Fatale encounters with supercharged sexuality, passion and unbreakable heart-bond: The realm of Pluto. When it strikes, the arrow of Love Fatale just doesn’t let go, pumping the fuel of the heart-bond against all the rationalization, conscious choices and common sense. For whatever the normality, sobriety or morality you are being used to, the destructive force of Pluto evokes the primary instincts up on the surface, emanating from the deep-rooted pathological knots of childhood that could drive you up to a tragedy. Dangerous game. It leaves you with that “gotta do it” taste in your mouth. What is certain is the uncontrollable element of desire, fascination, obsession that just might turn into a target forming, blood-thirsty urge that easily turns love into hate. The war of love or the Power Games. Someone said sometime that Love is exactly the trial of strength between two people in the battle for dominance, with the aim of eventually winning supremacy. However, very often it seems the battle is just being conveyed within oneself.

Namely, the Pluto encounters essentially represent “meeting a shadow” i.e. that very loving someone that represents the “shadow” of oneself, revealing that the battle actually takes place in the psyche. For all the blame you place on your “shadow partner” is exactly the issue of your own “shadow” you just have to face sooner or later, enough to realize that the psychological burden that you place on accusations represents the unresolved personal entanglement in your own subconscious part of the being. Embracing the shadow, accepting the shadow, knowing the shadow is the ultimate result of what has to be done and that is raising awareness, waking up from the unconscious and finally accepting the fact that “you thought you were someone else, someone good”. Essentially, the self-awareness takes place internally as the form of psychotherapy with the aim of comprehension of one’s own true motives and impulsive drives. What seems to be a reward for self-improvement of this kind is the greatest accomplishment of Pluto and that is exactly the diamond as the philosopher’s stone of one’s own accomplished perfection.

Pluto is not a joke, but creates a polygon of the vicious Test that is being preformed for the sake of passing the key task of the Pluto in the words of Don Corleone (the significant name again): “Do I have Your loyalty” since the Code of Honor is exactly in the root of the Pluto phenomenon so well expressed through the lords of the underground. If Saturn evokes the question of Trust, suspicious minds being the apple of discord of so many relationships, the crucial point of Pluto is exactly – The Loyalty. All the game testings that pass through so many “crime and punishment” phases, possibly lasting for a life-time, “love being nothing but a business going on” phenomena, due to the power games of the “Crocodiles In Venice” kind of development, often leading to tragedies, are just the demonstration of Plutonic inexorable will imperatively demanding respect of the Heart-Bond. It all comes down to Respect – sooner or later you play by the rules Pluto demands you to in order to allow you approach happiness.

Within the area of archetypes, the Greek mythology so well expressed the power, the fatality and the so precious love through myth of “Persephone” as well as the myth of “Eros and Psyche”, perfectly explaining the nature of Plutonic love. The abducted Persephone by Hades (Pluto), being the daughter of Zeus, who yields to the destiny of the inevitable and becomes the Queen of the Underworld, represents the metaphor of necessity of acceptance of the unavoidable in every individual chart, i.e. being able to be equally present is both worlds during the day and night represents the balance one has to accomplish between subconscious and the conscious impulses and drives of the psyche. The love that keeps her attached to the underworld is the same Love Fatale of the abducted heart who basically doesn’t rationally choose who to love.

“Eros and Psyche” myth is also a perfect example of the love phenomenon in the psycho-dynamics, whereupon the Psyche is not being allowed to see the real face of the husband, the “monster” Eros thus denoting the true nature of the essential driving force as the source of life needs to remain the mystery, just like the true nature of Love. However, she does make the trespass and sees the true face of Eros, in all his beauty and brilliance, hence being punished by Aphrodite to dive into the river Styx to fall dead, Eros kissing her back to life again for the eternal marriage to come. This very archetypal image represents the heroic deed of the Psyche in its quest to face the true nature of love, being so very Scorpionic psychoanalysis, almost every human being on Earth has faced or is to face in a lifetime, as the ultimately powerful experience of love as the greatest mystery of all.

Being stricken or not, the mystery of Plutonic realms of love remains the power of the united opposites as the greatest magnetic force deprived of immunity for all the human beings that experience the essence of true love. Being the ultimate result of this complex internal process of self-examination and improvement is the transformation that takes place in every individual for the sake of shaping up the personality enough to become balanced, improved and worthy of love. You just want to pass that test, win the game of the lifetime and experience the most powerful love of all. Pluto – The Love Fatale.

30^th January 2016 at the doorstep of the Year of the Fire Monkey. The psychology of  the Chinese sign of the Monkey is a very interesting phenomenology  of the archetype in the collective unconscious in Chinese and Japanese mythology.

Some would quote Henry James in here in the Madonna of the Future “ Cats and Monkeys – Monkeys and Cats – all human life is there!”, however let’s make an effort to contribute to the kaleidoscope of the astrological interpretation of this complex and ingenious sign.

Monkeys are known for their intelligence in the first place, manageability and playfulness with the exclusively one purpose: getting the business done. In the psychology of the Monkeys, the unconscious impulses are being lead by the tendency to accomplish some, very often, practical goals, realize ambitions and make a breakthrough in the area of influence within the professional background.  If you care for a good manager, hire a Monkey and he would do the best work in organizing, multitasking, coordinating, networking and communicating with the utmost success. Those people are really know-how and very often without even being able to provide a recipe or a piece of advice. Monkeys do it without even planning to do it, it is the opportunistic skill of making the most of a situation.  Improvisation is just a challenge they meet with success. Rarely you will meet the Monkey that is not successful, merely be the reason of not being motivated enough  or having the preferable priorities  to satisfy oneself with, but even then the Monkeys feel themselves as  being successful in what they want to accomplish.

They say that the head of the Monkey is always mesmerized with thoughts and impressions of the outer world, so intelligently processed, being the subject of enjoyment. Mind games, puzzles, difficult  entanglements of any kind, are just the challenge of this ingenious creature that is never at peace and always  seeks the resolution of an issue. Monkeys don’t stand still, but are always pushing things forward, constantly searching for that very something that might be the bridge over the troubled waters and  eventually find it.

In the psycho-dynamics of everyday life, personal relationships and intimate cravings,  the period from 2012 up to 2016 was the time that initiated the seismic activity within the psyche, reflected mostly on the personal lives of people who barely managed to secure the relationships if they managed to do it at all. Break-ups and complicated circumstances evoked the re-examination of the past choices that actually brought you there when the overall dissatisfaction of Uranus-Pluto Square called for immediate self-improvement for the sake of overcoming the discontent i.e. personal issues of suppressed fears, complexes and prejudice that needed to be purified in this four years time. In case you have been intensively working out your own issues that actually took place as difficulties in your love life from the perspective of self-improvement, now you might stand the chance to pick-up where you have started. Monkeys have fantastic intuition and very often sense the right thing-to-do-in-the circumstances without being able to rationalize on it and the very incomprehensible feeling might just manage to turn you around towards the person who might be the right one or the one of the greatest benefit.

In any case, you might just monkey your way to happiness, now that Uranus-Pluto Square finishes and the time for happiness comes. In case you have already settled your personal issues with that special someone, this year might bring you the mutual productivity and the couples might generally prosper for what they have been trying to accomplish for a long time. What’s the most important, the playful Monkey might shake off the chills of suppressed anxiety, present throughout these years, and step into the zone of all-so-loving-games with the accumulated experience of accurately figured out game set developments for the sake of realizing there is only one love that is important – The Self-Love. It represents the base of a healthy character and healthy relationships. For all the gamers that seek to enjoy the life this year, the playful Monkey might bring various opportunities, the Fire Monkey often creates himself, for the sake of so precious – The Spark. For the sake of the argument 2016^th  might as well be sparkling enough. Knock yourself out and “feed the Monkey”.

If we could depict the Monkey in just one word it would be – SURVIVOR. Namely, it is considered that in the full wagon of people who get killed, the Monkey survives. The famous Shakespearean quote – It’s going to turn out well in the end. How? It’s a mystery! – would be he the typical description of a life of the Monkey. Either this fascinating creature is in the blissful favor of God or it is just the unbeatable skill of having its way with what often called “monkey business” turns out to be success in the end.

This year brings out the Monkey in all of us to play for the sake of ongoing businesses in particular, that might have been brewing in the previous years or the ones we are seeking resolution for. It seems that the world will be super busy this year when everyone should get the chance to get a “piece of cake”.  Monkeys  will probably have the chance to have the whole cake for themselves, they have been baking for so long and the quality of that entrepreneurial  energy might mark the entire year.

The irresistible impression of the spirit of the Monkey year resembles the Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” for what actually  was in the 18^th Century when the seed of the Economic man was planted as the essence of Capitalism and Entrepreneurship. The awareness of the personal responsibility of one’s own accomplishment in life as the realization of one’s own personal potential that lies n the hands of the individual. In the spirit of Mars in Scorpio’s Power Games on the worldly scale until July, the burning necessity of the Fire Monkey is exactly to get in the game of realization of the Personal Power by raising awareness on personal capability and responsibility for one’s own accomplishments and ultimately success.  The Man, alone with the Universe represented as the Survivor in the wilderness  is challenged to secure one’s own existence by means of personal manageability of the Monkey that has only oneself in the battle of life for what it wants to be and for what it wants to have, without relying on anybody else who might bring the well-being on a silver plate.

In the era when people tend to become unbearably cheap and the money highly expensive, with the full respect for Individualism,  being built on the awareness of one’s own personal potential and self-consciousness, in the frame of the cross-examination on a worldly scale through Saturn in Sagittarius for the sake of re-establishing the real values stimulated by Jupiter in Virgo, the keys of your own destiny are exclusively in your hands for what you want to become. The highest quality involves the highest values Jupiter in Virgo is calling for to establish. In case you have already accomplished the balance between old-school and the new school, individualized enough to know who you are and self-improved enough to be able to perform brilliance, the year of the Fire Monkey Call is here – Get in the Game for You are the Business!

Essentially, the task of astrology is the interpretation of Truth. If you settle for the less, stay out of it.

Within the frame of celestial jam-session this very moment, we are the witnesses of cross-examination on a worldly scale for the sake of preservation of spirit, in the light of all the classical values, being evoked by Jupiter in Virgo that reminds us of the choice we have to take in the black-and- white paradigm through the executive Mars in Scorpio with the message: There are two ways out of the mess, up and down. In case you choose to go down, you have to be a Scorpio to know when you hit the bottom the only way is up on the way to resurrection, thus becoming the Phoenix, raising out of the ashes through death and rebirth. However, don’t try this at home.

Supermoon total Eclipse on 27th-28th September 2015 is the rare occurrence of the totally Eclipsed Moon, being closest to the Earth in its cycle. Every Eclipse brings forth changes of the current tendencies and trends, evoking for the switch in the frame of mind relating some particular issue, extending its influence as far as six months. On this occasion it is the area of interpersonal relations, the attitude towards the world on the “Me” vs “Us” axis.

Having coincided with the Autumn Equinox, preparations for the change of patterns in our lives have been made enough to conceptualize the new attitude towards the world, with respect to personal interests in the face of the public, partnerships, social relations, reputation and the ability of reaching compromises thus meeting the challenges of the world. Here comes the time for building a new attitude after the accumulated experience has provided humanity with the insights into what is really important in the light of Saturn in Sagittarius’ urge for acceptance of reality of the “anima mundi”, being cross-examined in the quest of self-preservation.

With respect to the latest tendencies of self-improvement for the sake of the spiritual well-being, raising awareness on the important issues of the world’s necessities such as healthy habits, nourishment, environmental issues, civility and culture imperatives, the emphasis is on finding the place on the worldly scale, being aware of the personal potential for the sake of contribution to the world, however with respect to successful blending in, enough to realize one’s own individuality thus avoiding the danger of personal disappearance. As the result would be the perfect balance and accomplishment of healthy attitude in the frame of personal relationships, publicity, social scene.

It is the time to make affirmation of one’s own identity before oneself first before discussing identity politics in order to show what you have got to the world, worth fighting for. Raising awareness on the necessity of taking pro-active attitude for the sake of finding one’s place under the sun considers ongoing personal and professional improvement with the aim of reaching the best possible “fitness” in every sense in order to make personal fulfillment as well as general contribution.

In the light of realistic comprehension along with self-respect, personal needs, habits, ambitions and plans, this Eclipse sets in motion big decisions regarding the personal attitude towards the partnerships, publicity, social background, thus keeping in mind you have to be who you are after all. Facing oneself versus facing the world might just result in awareness on one’s own personal self that brings forth the opportunity for a new beginning after a thorough “identity check”.