I have been creating a new 7 step VIDEO SERIES about how you can use all the different tools and aspects of astrology for a happier life style with more inner balance & a higher wisdom perspective to give you better choices.  Astrology is an old Art of Divination to help you take charge of your life. The key to controlling your destiny is the state of your consciousness. With astrology you can align yourself with the celestial forces of the planets and “The Force” will be with you…

Today we will start with how to use the natal birth chart, your map to your higher destiny…

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There will be two eclipses this month which is pretty auspicious: Solar Eclipse in Taurus May 9-10  & Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius May 24-25, 2013

Eclipses can be compared to rebooting your computer with new updates on various themes. A Solar Eclipse reboots your conscious mind. The area of the new evolving understanding is defined by its astrological sign. A Lunar Eclipse is rebooting, expanding and opening your inner world of feelings to a new perception. This forms the possibility for a new response to your life’s situations.

Moon in Taurus Astrology
The South Node, the New Moon and 4 planets are in the sign of the earthy Taurus. We are called to be practical, grounded and in contact with our inner instinctual nature. When we upgrade our relationship to our environment, our home planet, our life affirming values can transform. As a result you might enjoy being outdoors relaxing in Mother Nature’s arms.

Taurus New Moon & Solar Eclipse
A Solar Eclipse is always a New Moon and a moment of interruption of the familiar flow of consciousness. With that, we have a chance to wake up from our normal, very patterned and habituated flow of thoughts and usual way of doing things.

Taurus connects us with our physical needs and we learn to honor the temple of our body as a vehicle for our soul. I suggest: take care for your well-being, get a massage or a facial, eat healthier than usual, take a cooking class, get a blender for smoothies, make your own sauerkraut (cultured vegetables with good bacteria for your gut), try out that yoga class or learn paddle boarding. We just finished a gardening project. The possibilities are endless!
Venus is the ruler of Taurus and this month she will spend time in the sign of Cancer. This Venus appreciates good healthy food in the company of her loved ones, beauty and comfort at home. Take a moment and allow your focus to take in all of the beauty around you here on our beautiful home island. The colors are so vibrant and  our many artists are endlessly trying to capture that beauty and vibrancy in their paintings. Discover you inner artist; try out a class at  your local art center.

Lunar Eclipse Astrology
A Lunar Eclipse is always a Full Moon and is created by the earth’s position between Sun and Moon, blocking the sunlight from touching the Moon. The Full Moon of this  eclipse is also called a Super Moon, because it is closest to the earth and has a stronger gravitational and electromagnetic influence on tides, tectonic plates and our emotional attunement to the world around us. With this particular strong moon in Sagittarius we feel a sense of generosity, optimism, expansion. It is a good time for you to grow into a fuller self-expression. You might ask yourself about who you need to be in order to fully live your destiny with courage and passion.
 Moon in Sagittarius Astrology
Sagittarius asks questions such as: where and how in your life have you been underestimating yourself? How are you holding yourself back? Why do you think you are not good enough yet? Are you living a courageous life? Do you trust in the goodness and unfolding of life? Do you step out of your comfort zone once in a while?

This Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius prepares you to respond intuitively from your higher mind. A higher wisdom perspective of life can evolve instead of just automatically reacting to circumstances. When we are stressed, we respond automatically and instinctively and usually not in the best way. Neptune’s close square to this eclipse adds the possibility of another layer of intuitive higher guidance, if you are ready to listen. For that you need to calm down, listen, meditate and contemplate the endless diversity of life. Only a calm state of mind and heart will allow you to truly contribute to life from a higher perspective…

Shakti Carola Navran evolutionary astrologer, blogger and published author: “I have been giving astrological readings professionally for 35 years now. I love to do this work! Looking at a chart through the evolutionary perspective of the soul adds a deeply meaningful and significant perception of yourself in your life, giving you better choices to align yourself with the current cosmic flow.” Call me at 808 878–8182 Hawaiian Time or check MauiAstrologyReading.com

Aries New Moon April 9 & Scorpio Full Moon April 25, 2013
Aries is traditionally the sign which marks the beginning of spring and the astrological year. Aries also starts the next cycle of the zodiac. With 5 planets in the sign of the warrior we feel invigorated, full of optimism and energy. This is the time for spring cleaning, to clear out the cobwebs and implement new strategies and ideas into your life.

Mars and Venus, the lovers, are in a wide conjunction with the New Moon and add the spice of a renewed interest in love and the daring dance of relationships. Most of us know that relationships are complicated by nature but we will feel fresh optimism and courage to give it a new try. Applying your highest wisdom and maturity to your existing relationship or to the new found love connection will set the stage for the month.

Relationships can make you feel deeply happy or devastated. Intimate relationships and friendships need your attention to keep thriving or they become the source of deep pain and suffering. Learning more about the dynamics of relationships will keep your love growing and deepen your intimacy.

Love astrology is all about how to make your relationships run more smoothly, lovingly and supportively by finding new understanding for each other with respect, kindness and compassion. Even if you are not in a relationship an astrology reading can help you to gain clarity about how your natural mate would look.

Aries New Moon
We embark on a new adventure with this New Moon in Aries. We feel more fiery, passionate, sensual, energetic and optimistic this month. Life presents opportunities and you are invited to take charge. In order to grow and evolve we always need to push our imagined boundaries and limitations. The high archetype for Aries is the warrior who appreciates courage in the face of his fears and steps up to protect the ones in his care.

How does that translate for you in your life? What is worth fighting for in your eyes? Who is it you feel committed to protect and care for?

Lunar Eclipse & Full Moon in Scorpio
The Sun in Taurus is giving the full blast of light and consciousness to the Moon in Scorpio.
Scorpio means intensity! Get ready for a ride! Scorpio is highly emotional in its potential for extremes and might expose you to your deepest desires and deeply seated fears. You might be more self-critical and critical of others, maybe more easily upset then usual. It is a time for soul searching and looking inwards instead of acting out and projecting your fears onto someone outside of you.

We also learn about the gifts of earthly grounded Taurus, the potential goodness and conservative values of life and how they complement the honesty, depth and intensity of feelings in Scorpio. Taurus wants to keep it simple and practical; Scorpio wants to dive into the complexity of human nature.

A Lunar Eclipse
A Lunar Eclipse is always a Full Moon and is created by the earth’s position between Sun and Moon, intercepting the sunlight touching the Moon. For a short duration there is the interruption of Sun’s rays on the Moon.

This is a moment of interruption of the familiar flow of consciousness and with that we have a chance to wake up from our normal, very patterned and habituated flow of thoughts, feelings and self-expression.

Because of that interruption, the Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio will stir things up from deeper layers of your unconscious. The potential of this Lunar Eclipse is to discover your soul’s true purpose and ponder if you are in alignment. The transformational energy of this Moon pushes you into new experiences and forces you to integrate higher values into your daily life.

Shakti Carola Navran evolutionary astrologer, blogger and published author: “I have been giving astrological readings professionally for 35 years now. I love to do this work! Looking at a chart through the evolutionary perspective of the soul adds a deeply meaningful and significant perception of yourself in your life, giving you better choices to align yourself with the current cosmic flow.” Call me at 808 878–8182 Hawaiian Time or check MauiAstrologyReading.com

Moon Reflections & More for February 2013
This month it is all about taking inventory of who you are and who you want to be!
Do you feel like an outsider? Do you feel like you do not quite belong to the mainstream around you? Welcome to Maui! Come visit us and feel the Aquarian vibes of aloha all around you… Many people living here make up a very colorful mix of true individuals, representing many different nationalities and culturally diverse groups. I love this about Maui! It is indeed a very Aquarian Place and seems to attract many Aquarians or people with a strong Uranus.

It seems like here on Maui there is an open minded spirit of Aloha which embraces many of our differences and focuses on the higher truth of our oneness. Individuals who seem not to fit in more conservative areas might find it easier to connect with like minded souls here on Maui. As you know, some of our visitors come here on their quest to find a space for healing and deepening their individual soul search for a more meaningful life. Mother Maui provides a serene environment, with beauty and transformative energies for those on such a pilgrimage.

Your Quest for Your Higher Vision with the New Moon in Aquarius
This month everybody is invited to revisit and re-evaluate their personal visions and long term plans. Aquarius is not only interested in revolutionary change and visions, he is the one who stirs you in the direction of individuation from the inside out, learning to trust that inner voice of your soul, instead of complying with “how it always has been done”. With the New Moon in Aquarius, the need for individuation is the key to your happiness and joy. Trusting those inner dimensions to accurately guide you will enhance your sense of well-being and harmony.

Mercury Turning Retrograde in Pisces, February 23 till March 17
Mercury retrograde means that things connected with Mercury might not go as smooth as expected and he has gotten a bad reputation for putting sand into the turning wheels. Mercury governs all areas, such as all kinds of communications, transportation, electrical equipment, computers, traveling, contracts, cars, relationships and public relations. This influence of Mercury might provide you with some trouble, annoyance and delays.

The Potential Benefits
And with all its challenges, Mercury retrograde in Pisces is working well, together with the New Moon in Aquarius and is offering you the chance to deepen and grow your consciousness and reconnect with a higher soul vision.

Full Moon in Virgo
When the Moon is full in a sign it reflects the light of consciousness to the fullest. It is a time to be fully engaged with life in that specific area. With the Full Moon in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, you are invited to contemplate your right livelihood and the specific gifts only you can give to the world. You are sensitized to the highest vision, the connection between your head and your heart, your sense of well being and how you can serve the greater good. The shadow side of Virgo is negativity, overboard criticism and sickness.

Judgment and resentment closes our heart and can toxify our system and truly make us sick. Virgo can be very self- critical but it is also the sign for healing and proper self-care.

Chiron, known as the wounded healer is in conjunction with the Sun in Pisces. Indeed five planets are in Pisces, the sign of oneness, compassion and highest consciousness.

One of our local Hawaiian healing traditions is the path of forgiveness with “Ho’oponopono”, which is a powerful healing practice for you. The healing mantra here is:”I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. I thank you.” I believe that part of our personal healing process is forgiveness and the realization of the interconnectedness of all life. This is a wonderful month to first re-establish your highest vision, do your inner healing work, and align your body, heart and soul.

Shakti Carola Navran evolutionary astrologer, blogger and published author: “I have been giving astrological readings professionally for 35 years now. I love to do this work! Looking at a chart through the evolutionary perspective of the soul adds a deeply meaningful and significant perception of yourself in your life, giving you better choices to align yourself with the current cosmic flow. Call me at 808 878–8182 Hawaiian Time or check MauiAstrologyReading.com

The Age of Aquarius is Happening right Now
If you’ve heard the song from the musical Hair—“This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”—you know that Aquarians are such original thinkers and nonconformists that they can change the world. They are not interested in how things have always been, but how they can reshape the world. They always have their eye on the future, not on the past.

Change is in the Air
Changes in the economy have hit us all and each one of us needs to adjust and learn how to keep our center in the midst of tumultuous times to not get swept away by fears and anxieties.

Gemstones can play a significant role as a focal point for your intentions and help balance your emotional body through their specific frequencies.

If you are an Aquarius or have a strong Uranus or some of your other planets in your 11.house or Aquarius you might really enjoy the energies of the Aquamarine.

Aquamarine: One of the True Birthstones of Aquarius
It is found around the world, with the most important sources in Brazil and Madagascar. The most expensive and desirable color is the darkest blue. The Aquamarine belongs to the Beryl family.

•    The Rebel & Visionary

This is the gemstone of rebels and visionaries fighting for a better life, supporting goodness and necessary changes. It urges us to seek freedom and independence and to express your uniqueness. Aquamarine is the stone of innovators, ahead of their time in many ways. It encourages you to always question your limiting beliefs with an open mind and to be willing to grow beyond them. It can help you to find your own vision and purpose in life and the courage to live them.

•    Mother’s Milk
Aquamarine also has a female aspect, represented by the Moon. The Moon symbolizes your soul, your emotional needs and wants, your ability to give and receive. Through its female aspect, Aquamarine supports and nourishes you, as if with mother’s milk. Feeling full and nurtured, you are able to share from the abundance of your own heart.

•    Sharpens the Mind
Aquamarine also sharpens your mind and your powers of discernment and helps you tap into the collective unconscious mind with all its creative resources.  In so doing it helps you develop your intuitive creativity.

•    Opens the Throat Chakra
Aquamarine opens and balances the throat chakra, which helps you to express your personal truth, including your true feelings. The throat chakra is an area where we all have many blocks; thus we often feel limited in our self-expression.

Thus versatile Aquamarine represents the qualities of freedom, growth, moving beyond limitations, a sharp mind, creativity, self-expression, and balance.

But if you really want to know about your personal astrologically based gemstones you look at…

Your Astrological Gemstone Profile Report
You can order your Gemstone Profile Report, a list with 14 of your main healing gems, describing the metaphysical properties of your personal  gemstones based on your horoscope. This is your individual treasure chest of ideas about gemstones, Soul Jewelry— how to use gemstones, or select, purchase, and wear jewelry that will enhance your body, heart, mind, and soul.

 
I wish you a very enchanted journey into the mysterious world of healing gemstones and looking at them in a new way! If you have a friend who could need some support for change in their life please forward this article to them. Remember to sign up for my newsletter…
Aloha and many blessings, Shakti

Capricorn: The Conservative Pragmatist
Capricorn is a feminine earth sign ruled by Saturn. Their home is the 10th House—Public Image, Career, & Destiny.

As you move through the zodiac you will notice that the qualities of the signs reflect a process of evolution from self-centered toward greater social consciousness and responsibility. Saturn is associated with social order (rules, laws), duty, concrete reality, and the material world.

Capricorns seek to be in visible positions of power and prestige in society. Their high degree of organization, discipline, ambition, and intelligence make them perfect as leaders of organizations of all types, in government, business, and the military. Their conservative values and black-and-white thinking can make them inflexible with respect to morality. They are bent on success, holding high standards for themselves and others.

How Gemstones Can Enhance Your Capricorn Experience
Gemstones are the perfect way for Capricorns to both focus on their goals, and to bring more emotional and spiritual balance into their regimented lives.

Gemstones have both physical and metaphysical qualities that can enhance all aspects of your well-being. The perfectly aligned crystal structure of gemstones creates an energy field that interacts with our own when you hold it or wear it on your body. In this way, the gemstone can be used to calm you, bring you mental clarity, increase your energy, enhance your creativity, and much more.

Astrology and Gemstones
Astrological principles manifest at all levels of creation, from the largest bodies in the cosmos to the tiniest particles of atoms—all are part of the same network of universal energy. The universal principles that govern the planets are also seen on the much smaller level of gemstones, crystals, and metals.

The Signature of Gemstones
Each gemstone is associated with specific planets. You are already aware that each planet has its own personality in astrology. And each gemstone has a personal “signature”—specific metaphysical qualities, different for each stone, that arise from the stone’s association with its planets based on their individual color, crystal structure as well as the chemical composition.

How to Make Gemstones Work for You
By considering the individual signature of gemstones, you can select the right gems for very specific purposes, according to their astrological qualities.

Your Astrological Gemstone Profile Report
You can order your Gemstone Profile Report, a list with 14 of your main healing gems, describing the metaphysical properties of your personal  gemstones based on your horoscope. This is your individual treasure chest of ideas about gemstones, Soul Jewelry— how to use gemstones, or select, purchase, and wear jewelry that will enhance your body, heart, mind, and soul.

Crystal Quartz: Your Guide to Higher States of Consciousness [1]
Crystal Quartz is one of the true gemstones of Capricorn. This is one of the most common and well-known crystals in the world, found virtually everywhere on the planet.
Quartz is a very sociable being, growing in groups and clusters and very often found together or in close connection with other minerals; thus it teaches us to have close, friendly relationships without loosing our individuality and center.

Like the Diamond, Quartz is very closely connected to our search for light and love, our longing to awaken to a higher state of consciousness, and it is our guide on that quest.

Crystal Quartz: The Manifestation of Light
Crystal Quartz is the manifestation of light, clarity, concentration, and perfect crystallization, a metaphor for our own search for perfection. If you examine a single crystal you will see that as it grows it becomes more and more clearly developed and defined toward the tip. In this way Quartz is a perfect mirror for our own process of growth as we move from confused or unenlightened to a state of increasing awareness and clarity on our path to higher consciousness.

As you can tell, I am very passionate about the potential of healing gems and all the different applications of those enchanting allies to raise your frequency for more balance and joy. I have even written a book about my over 30 years of experience in the fields of healing gemstones, meaningful jewelry, and astrology.

I wish you an enchanted journey into the mysterious world of healing gemstones and looking at them in a new way!

Aloha and many blessings, Shakti.

Shakti Carola Navran: astrologer, jeweler and author
[1]Adapted from Jewelry and Gems for Self-Discovery: Choosing Gemstones That Delight the Eye & Strengthen the Soul © 2008 by Shakti Carola Navran. Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125-2989. All rights reserved, used by permission of the publisher.

Lunar Astrology: Moon Reflections & More for January 2013

Happy New Year 2013 to you! May it be a year of great wisdom and inner growth, health, love and abundance for you!

I don’t know about you but lately I feel time is speeding up like crazy. It is customary around New Year to reflect upon what happened for us in the passing year. Didn’t we just do that?

With five planets and the New Moon in Capricorn, the sign associated with wisdom, maturity, old age and the physical realities of time and space, we are in alignment with the stars for a reality check and a moment of truth. It is also a great time to envision what directions you would like your life to take in the foreseeable future.

The Sun and Moon conjunction forming the New Moon is starting a new cycle. This gives us the possibility to truly show up in life as a mature, responsible participant, treating others as we would like to be treated. I believe a lot of suffering in the world could be alleviated if everybody would follow this idea.

With Mercury joining this conjunction you will be able to bring awareness around your personal sense of reliability and self-organization. On the low end of possibilities it could also bring out feelings of melancholy, with the supercharged Capricorn and his ruler Saturn in the intense sign of Scorpio. It is a time for the Truth.

Pluto is the God of the underworld and deep transformation, of death and rebirth and will be in Capricorn till the year 2024. His ongoing square (2012 – 2015) engaging
with Uranus, the God of earthquakes and revolution, has provided us with many fireworks in our personal lives and of course in the political and social realms.

All the client readings I gave lately were about the question, ‘how to integrate the tremendous challenges of Neptune, Pluto and Uranus into their lives’.

The most pressing question is always around how you can reinvent yourself and what you can do when your life is falling apart.

If you know how to walk the higher ground, how that would look for you, you can orient yourself accordingly. You can offer the “planetary Gods” your insight and the law of synchronicity can trigger magic. We are truly magical beings in a magical universe if we know how to work the universal laws.

Throughout the month Venus will travel into a conjunction with Pluto and relationships will be the playground for major adjustments.

New Moon in Capricorn
Capricorn is also concerned about governmental organization, societal structures, power and control. The dark face of Pluto in Capricorn is showing its face in brutal ways, trying to control the masses, the revolutionary momentum and evolutionary change everywhere in the world.

For you and me personally, it is important to have awareness of where our deepest fears of change lie and how we try to control them–because we try to control the uncontrollable and we could use that energy to move forward into new dimensions and new experiences.

Full Moon in Leo
When the Full Moon is culminating in Leo, the Sun has to be in Aquarius. Aquarius represents the morphogenetic field of group consciousness and human evolution. Your individual work of integration of higher consciousness into your daily life has an impact on the whole. Our personal identifications with ego and self-image, gender, race, religion and country will shape the global manners of how we are treating each other on a bigger scale.

Leo in its highest expressions is the sign of self-empowerment and creative contribution as a benign leader and force. This can work well for you in setting yourself up for a successful year.

With the Sun in Aquarius, you can clarify your highest vision for this coming year now. Ask yourself: Who do you want to be in these times of tremendous changes? Who do you want to be for yourself, your family and friends and your community?

Shakti Carola Navran evolutionary astrologer, blogger and published author: “I have been giving astrological readings professionally for 35 years now. I love to do this work! Looking at a chart through the evolutionary perspective of the soul adds a deeply meaningful and significant perception of yourself in your life, giving you better choices to align yourself with the current cosmic flow.

Call me at 808 878–8182 Hawaiian Time or check out MauiAstrologyReading.com for more information.

November was a month with huge events; big celestial configurations, with a Solar and Lunar Eclipse reflected in the devastating impact of the hurricane Sandy, and the surprising re-election of president Obama. There is no end to the challenges presented to us to grow in consciousness, with the thrust to learn how to deeply care for each other. The bigger picture is that we will only thrive as individuals in our society if the driving force of creation is coming from a higher perspective of oneness, instead of being driven solely by greed for power and money.

The alignment of the Winter Solstice 2012 is said to be an extra special moment in time, highlighting the precise alignment of the earth with the Galactic Center, the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This moment in time is referred to as the end of the Mayan Calendar. It is said to be the end of a 26,000 year cycle and deemed an advance in collective consciousness. Girl, do we need that!

I want to emphasize that we have plenty of celestial markers to indicate that we are indeed living in times of big changes of consciousness …

Highlights of the Month
The highlights of the month are the conjunction of Venus with the North Node in Scorpio Uranus, turning direct just a few hours after the New Moon which is also a Super Moon; the Sun being squared by Uranus on Dec 25 and the Sun conjunction with Pluto. All this gives us plenty of compelling reasons to integrate shadow material into our collective and individual consciousness. In order to experience true self-empowerment and shine forth from higher levels of consciousness, we need to learn how to be in alignment with our highest integrity, showing kindness and love.

New Moon in Sagittarius
This New Moon is a Super Moon which means it is closest to the earth, increasing the electromagnetic and gravitational pull on earth’s tides and tectonic plates. I remember that it was a similar situation when the earthquake in Japan hit. On the same day that happened, Uranus also entered into the fiery sign of Aries.

Sagittarius always wants to teach us a higher wisdom perspective by pushing us beyond our boundaries in order to grow. It is a sign which values freedom and adventure. The New Moon always starts a new round of growing into higher levels of emotional awareness. This month you want to become more aware of how you have been underestimating yourself in your life. Be more outrageous and daring! Give life a chance to lift you up into new dimensions of understanding yourself and others. This is your contribution to the possibility of a quantum leap in collective consciousness supported by Uranus turning direct.

Cancer Full Moon
The Sun Pluto conjunction opposing the Full Moon sheds light into shadowy corners of your individual life as well as collectively. I expect the dysfunctions we have been putting up with in governments, organizations and our society will become even more visible. The Cancer Moon wants to take care and nourish, heal and guide.

In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy we are put to the test about how we handle this from a humanitarian perspective. Do we truly care or do we just go back to business as usual if we are so fortunate to live in an area which has not been impacted? I believe in the Red Cross as a wonderful place to donate in situations like this.

Originally being from Germany, I was brought up with the stories of the American Care packages arriving in Germany after the Second World War. Imagine the amazing American spirit to give to people in dire need, not only in another country but a country which started the war to begin with…Let us strive as individuals to make a difference for each other in whatever way we can!

Shakti Carola Navran evolutionary astrologer, blogger and published author: “I have been giving astrological readings professionally for 34 years now. I love to do this work! Looking at a chart through the evolutionary perspective of the soul adds a deeply meaningful and significant perception of yourself in your life, giving you better choices to align yourself with the current cosmic flow. Call me at 808 878–8182 Hawaiian Time.