INTERPSYCLE ASTROLOGY
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Interpsycle Observator: 28 October – 3 November 2025
The highly anticipated Mars Pluto opposition (3 Nov) is about to drop this week. Hang on to your hats, this is an explosive, confronting and volatile combat that’s about to take place. The battle of wills, the fight for power and the aggressive force for control are characteristic of this Mars Pluto opposition. At the same time, there’s an ability to tap into an immense level of inner force which you can direct towards something productive. It’s a superhuman power that you never thought you had. Remember, this force doesn’t necessarily need to be an external one. It could be an internal force that could be harnessed through your spiritual practices, self development, manifestation or the conscious enactment of your will.
Interpsycle Observator: 21 October – 27 October 2024
Last week, Mercury squared Pluto in Capricorn for the last time and entered Scorpio shortly after. This week, it’s the Sun’s turn to bid farewell to this version of Pluto (23 Oct). This could potentially bring to light important topics and issues that have been seething away in the background. Perhaps you could have been introduced to this last week when Mercury led into the Pluto square and Scorpio zone. But as the Sun traverses this region this week, there’s no denying the obvious details of the matter. Long standing issues that have been unresolved, possibly containing a degree to toxicity are things to be on the lookout for. It may hit you deeply into your shadow traits as you also encounter the shadows of others. Issues of power, control, ego and the fight for one’s individual agency may be prominent themes.
Interpsycle Observator: 14 October – 20 October 2024
Mercury makes its Evening Heliacal Rise this week and will become visible again in the western sky just after sunset. This is a time of deep wisdom where you may be inspired to learn something more deeply or to disseminate information freely. A teacher or mentor might appear for you with an important lesson. As Mercury makes it rise and inspires your mind, it does so with great importance of something urgent that needs to be dealt with. Mercury makes a square to Pluto in Capricorn (14 Oct) for the very last time in our lifetime. Your mind might be occupied with important tasks this week that will finally complete a significant cycle or project that may have started sometime in the past 16 years. You could become quite preoccupied with this task, perhaps even obsessed. A deep focussed mind will be the gift of this week so find something constructive you can use this for. Avoid the more sinister environments that a bored mind could gravitate towards such those involving manipulation, control and power games. Mercury’s entrance into Scorpio territory (14 Oct) could create many stinging situations if its behaviour is not kept under control.
Interpsycle Observator: 7 October – 13 October 2024
If I was to split this year into two parts, I would consider the month of October to shift us into the second portion of the 2024 year, starting with the eclipses that we’ve just been through. Those two eclipses we’ve just had opens us right into the official Mars Retrograde shadow period, which starts this week. It’s the beginning of a six month journey involving trials, quests, conflict and frustration that’s sure to test your patience and adrenal levels.
Interpsycle Observator: Libra Eclipse – 2 October 2024
Time for our next eclipse – a Solar New Moon Eclipse in Libra which will happen over the evening of 2 October to the morning of 3 October. This eclipse conjoins with Ketu, or the South Node, which means that purification, spiritual liberation and internal cultivation will be of great importance. New Moon energy is extremely inwards as well, so the best medicine for this eclipse will be to cut off from the external world, purify yourself, cleanse your environment and focus on your purpose. This is a great time to do ritual fasting and space clearing.
Interpsycle Observator: 23 September – 29 September 2024
The past few weeks have been dominated by big outer planet movements, indicative of long held stories or broader geopolitical frameworks. This week, it’s the inner planets which are active, meaning that things are being stimulated at the private or interpersonal level.
Venus has been quite happy over the past month being in her home of Libra. However, as we open this week, Venus will square Pluto (23 Sep) and then enter her sign of debility, Scorpio (23 Sep), which might feel like quite the mood change. Scorpio is a much lonelier place for Venus to be in which might see some lower vibration creep through the week. Her square to Pluto only intensifies the level of alienation or disconnection that you could experience this week. Not least, we are also in between two eclipses, with the next Solar Eclipse in Venus’ sign of Libra. Expect some old wounds to resurface.
Interpsycle Observator: Preview of the Pisces Eclipse
You may have already felt the intensity of this week’s eclipse over the past fortnight but this is the beginning of a new global theme that will become very familiar to everyone over the next two-year period.
On 18 September 2024 there will be a Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces – essentially a Full Moon forming from a Moon in Pisces and the Sun opposing it from the sign of Virgo. Every six months until the first quarter of 2027, there will be an eclipse in either Virgo or Pisces. You can expect to experience shifts in the areas of life ruled by this axis in your natal chart. A reorientation can also be seen in the external social, cultural and geopolitical context as this new eclipse story unravels.
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Hi, I’m Shu.
As a professional astrologer with nearly 20 years of study, I do more than read charts for clients. I embody astrological lore in my every day life as a grower, beekeeper, mother, art hobbyist and a dabbler of planetary magic. Guiding, translating, writing, timing, observing, crafting, counselling and teaching are all things I do bring astrology to the world.
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