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Hello, and welcome to our newsletter. It's starting to be gorgeous hiking weather in the desert: warm days, cool mornings, and mostly balmy nights.

We are in a pattern of five oppositions of Saturn and Uranus:
* on 11/04/08 at 19 Virgo (Saturn) -Pisces (Uranus)
* on 2/5/09 at 20 Virgo-Pisces
*on 09/15/09 at 25 Virgo-Pisces
* on 4/24/2010 at 29 Virgo-Pisces
* on 7/26/2010 at 1 Libra-Capricorn

Transiting Uranus galvanizes whatever planet or point it is aspecting, and whatever house it is passing through in your birthchart. It asks you to overhaul and transform these areas, particularly where you may have been clinging to traditions, habits, fears and restrictive conservatism about them. The more "trapped" you have felt here, the more acutely you may feel this Uranian call to progress and freedom. To work well with these transits, you must use the Uranian virtue of *being fully yourself*--not someone else's idea of you, and not a living symbol of "the Revolution" at the expense of your own identity. Transiting Saturn asks you for a realistic and objective assessment of what is and is not working about whatever planet or point it is aspecting, and about whatever house it is passing through in your birthchart. It asks you to use the Saturnian virtues of good reality-testing and shrewd consistent effort to make a concrete, practical change of whatever isn't working for you.

Read more: October News

We are now offering select recordings from Jodie's astrology Mentoring Program. To purchase, you must have attended one of Jodie's previous programs. We ask this out of respect for the privacy of the material shared in the workshops. 

Titles Available:

Basic Natal Astrology
4 day workshop
CD Set: $110
MP3 Set: $90

The Ascendant
2 day workshop
CD Set: $65
MP3 Set: $55

Aspects Workshop
2 day workshop
CD Set: $65
MP3 Set: $55

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We are now offering select recordings from Steven's AP program in Calistoga, CA through Seven Paws Press. To purchase, you must have attended one of Steven's AP programs previously. We ask this out of respect for the privacy of the material shared in the workshops. 

Titles Available:

Synastry Practicum

The Nodes of the Moon (Yesterday's Sky material)

When the Karmic Wave Breaks (part II of  Nodal Story work - working with transits to the nodes)

Sex, Death, and the Occult (recorded 9/09 - coming soon!)

All titles include all 4 days of workshop material, approx. 18 cd's each. 

by Jodie Forrest

Recently I've been thinking about Mars a lot. Why? Partly because I'm teaching an astrological apprenticeship/mentoring program on Venus and Mars in Oakland, CA in October, and partly because it's transiting over my Ascendant just now, and will be in my first house until mid October. Mars transits over our Ascendants about every two years. Last time it went over my Ascendant, I spoke at UAC, the major astrology conference that happens every 3 or 4 years. I was psyched for the lecture and it was well received. Later in the conference, I caught both a cold and a stomach bug and, because of a hotel key malfunction, I got locked out of my room while I was sick. The red planet does seem to bring challenges and stress! Yet it brings excitement and adventure, too. Which will it bring? The choice is really up to you.

Where Mars is in your chart, natally and by transit, you will need to develop your willpower (Mars). You will face a kind of cosmic assertiveness training (Mars). You can do this on purpose--have an adventure or take on a challenge that you've always wanted to do, even though it may scare you a bit or a lot. Or, if you chicken out, the universe will nonetheless send you the Marsy raw material that you need in order to grow, and you will probably experience some kind of stress or challenge or fear that you did not *choose* to experience. Dealing with Mars pro-actively is better than dealing with it reactively.

Read more: Venus and Mars

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