Happy Full Moon Saturday!

WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW

For those on Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-5) or in some zone west of Eastern Time, you get a Full Moon at 11:19 pm tonight (ET).

WHAT YOU CAN ANTICIPATE

Between this past Tues. (Sept. 27) and next Wed. (Oct. 3), odds are good that you experience some sort of TUG-OF-WAR (at least INITIALLY) between two forces or principles…

(1) COURAGE

AND

(2) HARMONY

…. in some sense or senses of those two words…

… playing out or cropping up in one or more parts of your life.

This tug-of-war started (or at least has significantly increased) over the past two weeks or so, and it reaches a peak or "boiling point" sometime during the aforementioned “Full Moon period.”

(It’s likelier to peak by today’s Full Moon, but it could peak sometime in the four days or so after it.)

HERE’S MY ADVICE TO YOU

Aim to balance (at least), if not also to integrate "courage" and "harmony" somehow, whether you do it…

(A) within yourself (between two "voices in your head"),

(B) between you and some other individual person and/ or

(C) between you and some other external force, or situation, or entity (such as an organization, the economy, etc.)

Whichever of those types play(s) out in YOUR life between mid-Sept. and early Oct., the two elements in question PULL IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. But that's what happens INITIALLY.

With time, effort, patience, and maturity … and with a modicum of both civility AND daring, it’s possible to get to a better place.

TWO APPROACHES: AIMING FOR BALANCE AND AIMING FOR INTEGRATION

To get there, aim to get beyond an "either-or approach" to whichever issue(s) the tug-of-war center(s) on. Push for some sort of "higher-path" break in the "logjam."

For example, you might aim to have one half of the tug-of-war act in a way that BALANCES (or COMPLEMENTS) the way that the other half acts.

If you do this, then it’s like two halves of a romantic couple (made up of  Partner #1 and Partner #2, say) who agree that P #1 will do X while P #2 will do Y in the same situation Z.

In effect, P #1 and P #2 act in such a way that both bases (that is, both “X kinds of stuff” AND “Y kinds of stuff”) get covered in that same situation, and BOTH parties WIN in the end.

That's ONE approach during such a Full Moon period.

ANOTHER APPROACH is to aim to go even farther in a sense--that is, to aim to INTEGRATE…

(A) P #1's approach (what one might eventually consider the particular “gift” that he or she contributes) to the situation

with

(B) (B) P #2’s approach (and possible gift).

HERE’S ONE--OF INNUMERABLE—POSSIBLE EXAMPLES OF HOW TO TAKE SUCH AN APPROACH

For example, if partner #1 and partner #2 have been arguing over whether to …

(A) be diplomatic and encourage harmony

OR

(B) be direct and assertive

… while interacting with the local neighbors / the local neighborhood association, then P #1 and P #2 might aim to take an approach that is both diplomatic AND direct, an approach that encourages harmony AND is assertive.

Specifically, one partner of the couple might say the following to a neighbor (or to the representative of the neighborhood association)…

“Betsy Lou and I simply insist  ; -)  that you come over for coffee and dessert tonight…  We’d like to thank you for showing how much YOU care lately about what happens in our neighborhood and how it gets done… We’d also like to tell you about something that’s been concerning us both … and then maybe we can all put our heads together… put on our thinking caps … and then see where we might go from there, working together for the good of our neighborhood… After all, I think that it’s fair to say that we all want to live in what we think of as a great neighborhood…. How does 7 pm sound? … Lovely! … We’ll see you then.  :-) ….”

LIFE’S LIKE A MOVIE; WRITE YOUR OWN ENDING

I believe that how happy / unhappy an ending YOU’LLL get by the time that the final curtain falls on YOUR PARTICULAR Full-Moon-related drama(s) (meaning, sometime between today and next Wed.) …

… depends largely (though not necessarily solely) on THE CHOICES THAT YOU MAKE.

No particular ending of this story is guaranteed, and YOU have a lot of “script-writing power” in your hands.

For example…

You can shrink in fear, or try to force your will on someone or something else … or you can act indecisively or manipulatively toward someone or something … or you can even go back and forth between two such approaches.

You can throw a temper tantrum or two… or you can act authoritarian and condescending… or swing between two such approaches.

You can also muster the bravery that it takes to face some important, necessary challenge (inside yourself, or between you and someone or something else) in spite of whatever fear you might be feeling.

You can strive for a true peace, one that’s “negotiated” either formally and explicitly or informally and tacitly. The choice is yours.

To quote the song “Rainbow Connection” as included at the end of “The Muppet Movie” (1979)…

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending
Keep believing, keep pretending
We've done just what we set out to do.
Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers, and you.”

GET THE SCOOP ON SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS TO *YOUR LIFE*

The example that I shared above is ONE of INNUMERABLE possible examples.

Some examples are much more likely for some of us than for others.

Which ones are more likely for YOU depend on the astrology that pertains to YOUR PARTICULAR month, day, year, time, and place (i.e., latitude-longitude combination).

To get the scoop on how such relatively short-term temporary “astrological weather patterns” apply specifically to YOUR LIFE … or to find out how longer-term patterns (such as those that last for months or years each) apply to your life, consult your favorite local (or virtual) astrologer.

For instance, you can go to

http://www.proudphoenix.com/transit.html

and order a predictive reading (i.e., an Transits & Progressions reading, a.k.a., a Ts and Ps reading) from me (professional astrologer Paul Habit, in Raleigh, NC)

NOTE: I’m still in the process of “retooling” such pages on the site for my business (Proud Phoenix Astrology) to reflect recent changes in such types of products and services that I offer, etc.

Paul (a.k.a. Brian)