MARCIA SACKS

​The Full Moon is on Thursday, May 23 at 8:52 am CDT in 2° Sagittarius.  There is a whole network of aspects to the Full Moon that make it a time of vibrant communication and opportunities for expanding your philosophical or spiritual horizon of awareness. Exploration of foreign countries and languages - virtually or IRL - can expand you past intellectual limits or boundaries.

Pluto at 2° Aquarius is making a strong positive connection to the Full Moon continuing whatever transformations began for you at the Pluto stationary point on May 2. Keep moving forward toward your highest priority goals. 

​Jupiter at 29° Taurus makes an exact sextile to Neptune at 29° Pisces also on May 23. It's a good time to make charitable donations. Keep in mind that symbolically (and literally) your donations to charity represent the world you are trying to create. Keep those in need in your prayers as well. 

Coming up:

May 25 - Jupiter moves into Gemini and will transit through that sign until June 2025. That makes it a good year for learning something new especially related to communication, journalism and social media. It may help people in general to be more flexible about seeing multiple sides of an issue or various solutions to a problem.

May 29 - NEW: Beginner's Guide to Natal Astrology - Live! With Marcia Sacks
Wednesdays, May 29 - June 19, 7 PM CDT via Zoom
$180 includes Goswami Kriyananda's recorded lectures and text on the basics of astrology - planets, signs, houses and aspects PLUS a 4 week live class with extra content and handouts. Registration and more information:
https://templeofkriyayoga.org/product/beginners-guide-to-natal-astrology/

Online:

If you missed my talk on "Karmic Astrology: Where You're Coming From, Where You're Going to" on May 12th, you can purchase the video recording for $5 from the Northern Illinois Chapter of NCGR. Email [email protected] for more information. My lecture from 2023 on Planetary Containment is also available from them.

If you are reading astrology charts for others, you might want to check out this chapter "Consultation Tips from a Long Time Astrologer" from Ray Grasse's new book "So What Am I Doing Here Anyway?" https://www.skyscript.co.uk/tips.html
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Goswami Kriyananda's book "Beginner's Guide to Meditation" is again available in paperback from Amazon: 
​https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Meditation-Goswami-Kriyananda/dp/096130992X/ref=sr_1_7

The New Moon is on Tuesday, May 7, at 10:21 pm CDT in 18° Taurus. The steady down-to-earth nature of the sign Taurus is still experiencing the urge to grow and expand creatively as four planets transit the degree of last month's Jupiter Uranus conjunction at 21° Taurus.  Even though that aspect is now separating (with Uranus at 22° Taurus and Jupiter at 25° Taurus), when  planets transit the point in space where the conjunction occurred, there's still an energy memory of their meeting that lasts for awhile.

Did you take note of what happened for you in the days around the April 20th Jupiter conjunct Uranus? Did you think a new thought? Did you feel restless and rebellious?  Did you give or receive a gift? Did you learn something fresh or original?  What was your emotional response to events at that time? The Jupiter Uranus conjunction will be revisited by this New Moon on May 7th plus the following dates: 

May 11th - Sun conjuncts 21° Taurus 
May 16th - Venus conjuncts 21° Taurus
May 29th - Mercury conjuncts 21° Taurus *
July 7th - Mars conjuncts 21° Taurus

The benefit of paying attention to the repeating cycles we find in astrology is gaining useful information that helps us to plan ahead and take advantage of these patterns.
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* My beginning astrology class starts on May 29th. It's auspicious because Mercury rules teaching and communication in general. I'm totally looking forward to it - see the announcement below in the "coming up" section.

We're still under the influence of the Pluto stationary point on May 2 at 2° Aquarius. I wrote about this last Full Moon. The key word is 'transformation'. With Pluto, the transformation is usually an event or idea that you have been aware of for a long time. It's rarely something new or sudden. But the strength of Pluto's motivation multiplies your desire or brings the event or idea to the forefront so you have to deal with it now!  Maybe that has happened already for you this week but the New Moon's nature of new beginnings may trigger it this week.

Coming up:

NCGR, Northern Illinois Chapter
Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 pm via Zoom
Karmic Astrology: Where You're Coming From, Where You're Going To
With Marcia Sacks

Your natal horoscope holds important information about the momentum of past actions and their influence on your life today. This talk will include five different techniques to explore past lives, the lessons of this lifetime, and how to improve your path toward the future, including future lifetimes.

• Discover the role of the moon's nodes in multiple past lives.
• Identify your karmic eclipses and their relationship to your parents.
• Contrast Mars and Saturn as powerful forces of the past and future
• Interpret the containment of the Sun and Moon
• Analyze the story told by the 12th, 1st and 2nd houses
• Receive tips on using your everyday life to get clues to past life patterns.

Please bring a copy of your natal horoscope to this talk. Something to jot down notes is also suggested in case the astrological clues give past life insights or intuitions.

Members: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
Register and pay with Zeffy using this link:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/fe2e55b3-21ef-4ede-bbee-8d223cb9e61e

NEW: Beginner's Guide to Natal Astrology - Live! With Marcia Sacks
Wednesdays, May 29 - June 19, 7 PM CDT via Zoom, $180

This course includes Goswami Kriyananda's recorded lectures and text on the basics of astrology - planets, signs, houses and aspects -  PLUS a 4 week live class with extra content and handouts.

Registration for this class should be online sometime this coming week. Look for it on my Facebook and Instagram and I'll have it in the next Astrology Update. 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this class.

Online:

I was fortunate to be part of the Babaji Festival at the Temple of Kriya Yoga (on Zoom) at the Jupiter Uranus conjunction. Here's the video including my talk which is at the 1:12:59 mark.