SAGITTARIUS
Listen. Listen. Listen.
Listen inwards. Listen outwards.
Your body is a listening instrument.
Your heart is a listening instrument.
Your intuition is a listening instrument.
Listen before speaking, acting, deciding.
Listen deep. Listen deeper.

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Hello, Sagittarius! Welcome to your month ahead horoscope for Libra season, September 22nd through October 22nd, 2021. I'm thinking about Libra season and the way that it is opening from a full moon just a couple of days before Libra season commences. So the season itself starts on the equinox on the 22nd of September, and two days before that there is a full moon in Pisces. And on that full moon day, a couple of things happen that are very much tied to the energy of Libra season. So depending on when you're listening, think back and think towards mid-September. Maybe you keep a journal or follow the moon, and so look back at any notes for that full moon and what you were thinking about. There are some themes this season that carry us through the entire season. So a lot of astrological seasons have certain things going on over here, certain things going on over there—I'm going to try and bounce around between different areas of your life that are getting stimulated. Libra season keeps a pretty steady theme throughout the entire time. So I'm going to speak to that. And throughout this 30 days, there are some different variations of this theme, but these are the themes you're working with the whole time. 

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So beginning with that full moon on the 22nd, it feels to me like you are coming to a new perspective when it comes to either, or both, things that have to do with your social experiences, your friendships, who you're spending your time with, and/or projects that you're working on, details that you're trying to manage, and potentially some future plans. So think about both of these realms in your life: friendships, social groups, where you feel aligned, connected, collected with others. Community is a big word, and for my purpose in this horoscope, I'm going to define community as a group of people who gather together over a common interest or some kind of shared intent. And so you might be thinking about community. You might be thinking about friendships, solidarity, or sustainability with your connections. And these relationships, may in some ways, have to do with how you're imagining different projects happening or futures—outcomes that have not yet been realized. 

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Now over the course of Libra season, there will be new information that comes in, and you may be starting the season with some significant questions. So the first thing that I want to say is that your questions need time, don't rush them. If you feel that there are communications that are unclear, or you're not sure what to do about something, or if something isn't happening as quickly as you'd like, or in the way that you thought it would happen—take a step back. Get some distance between you and the thing, or the person, or the people. Check in. Feel into your own energy. How are you approaching this person, these people, these ideas, these projects? What are you bringing into them? 

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It's important for you, right now, to really recognize your value systems, and how the foundations of your value systems have been built, and where there may be faults in those foundations. For example—and I do want to say that this is an example—there's a lot of Sagittarian identified people out there, so if this example doesn't land for you in the specifics of how I'm giving it language, then try and think broadly around what I'm saying and listen for the energy of what I'm saying, not just the specifics. Okay? So for example, you might have plans about some kind of future that involves money, being able to make money, being able to spend money, being able to share money—I don't know what it is—but let's say that it involves money. When I'm talking about the foundations, what are the foundations of your relationship to money? Where are you coming from? Who is your family? Who are the people who taught you about money? And of course, it's not just your immediate family, or caregivers, or parents, but it's how you've been raised. It's the body that you live in, it's the conditions around your body in the time and the space that you are alive. What are the foundations that have to do with your relationship with money? There may be some faulty foundations built in. And for all of us, money and finance certainly have some fucked up foundations, I think for most people. And in the Sagittarius solar chart, money and resources are definitely one place where I would say you want to check in with the foundations, and how you're orienting towards the deeper roots of your behaviors and beliefs about money or resources. 

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Now, I do want to say that, when it comes to the broader sense of what this part of your chart can speak to, we get to values in general, and your value systems. And what you value needs to be examined right now. It needs to be looked at. Do you value the appearance of something more than the experience of something? More than the lived truth? You probably are going to say that you don't. But many of us—I'll put myself in this camp too—have certainly had experiences where we might be valuing the appearance of something more than the experience of it, looking at someone over wherever seeing our far away glimpse into their life and having some story about it, like, "Oh, I wish I was like them, I bet they're happy. If only I could blah, blah, blah, then I'll be happy to blah, blah, blah." But the experience is probably a lot more complex, right? Way more complex than we can imagine. And we're just looking at the appearance of something. So this is really important for you to be thinking about right now is appearance versus experience, or the superficiality, or the surface of something versus the depth of something. So if you're saying that you want something, you want this future plan to succeed, you want to be friends with these people, you want to be included in this particular group. Why?

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Why do you want that? What is the reason? Is the reason superficial? Is it on the surface? Is it because of some idea that you have of what it will be like? If so, okay, where did you get that idea? What is it grounded in? What is it rooted in? Where is it coming from? And then the question for you to really look at is, is it coming from a place inside of you that has a faulty foundation? A value system, place in your self esteem or your self regard, or some kind of roots in a supremacist whether that's white supremacist, male supremacist, religious supremacists? Especially if you're thinking about money, but also, especially if you're thinking about anything that has to do with values. 

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This is a time on earth when it's really important to look at your value systems. Is capitalism making the world the place that we want it to be? No, right? We can see that capitalism is one of many streams in a world that is full of interpermeating harm and interpermeating destruction. It's not to say people shouldn't be able to work towards their livelihood, or work in ways that bring them joy or work to build their own self satisfaction, etc. But we can't continue to invest in systems that are based on extraction and exploitation, that continue to uphold hierarchies of power, power of very few over the many. So if you have plans right now that have to do with money, look at those plans. Are your plans rooted in a faulty foundation? Will they actually get you the thing that you want in the long term? If you consider the state of the world right now, if you look objectively at what's happening in terms of climate, in terms of social climate, in terms of all the isms? If you have a plan that involves money, is it going to get you to where you actually want to be when you consider the future of your life on this planet? 

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Now, I know that my listeners if you're tuning in with Embodied Astrology, you're probably already on this tip. And so you may be like, "Yawn, okay, thanks Renee,  preaching to the choir a little bit." And I'll just say it's always worth it, right? It's always worth it to do these deep dives, to look at where are my intentions rooted? What are they rooted in? What am I not seeing? And we are moving towards a Mercury Retrograde and Mercury stations retrograde on September 26th and This is a day that the sun makes an important aspect that has to do with future directions and future outcomes, and for you, Sagittarians, this Mercury Retrograde is going to have a lot to do with the future. And also it has a lot to do with your social dynamics, with your relationships, across the realms of relating. So this includes your close friends, it includes people you're kind of just vaguely acquainted with, it includes the people who you haven't met yet, and you really want to meet, it includes your neighbors that you don't even really know even though you see them every day. It includes your partners, it includes your lovers, it includes your family. 

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This is a Mercury Retrograde to slow down in and to consider why you are moving in the directions that you are moving—with whom. It is a Mercury Retrograde to really consider your value systems. What do you value? Especially when it comes to your relationships. Especially when it comes to other people. Do you value the surface superficial appearance? "Oh, it would be so great if I was friends with them, if I was part of that group, then people would like me." Right? Versus, do you value the experience? "Oh, wow, I have this amazing connection with this person who is not part of that cool group, but look, we're really clicking, we're hitting it off. I feel seen. I feel at ease in my body. This feels good."

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Move towards what resonates for you on a deeply embodied level, as a vibrational match with what you want to be moving towards, right? If you're imagining something for yourself in the future, check it out in real time. Does the energy that you're bringing into this future plan, into this future desire, into this future relationship match what you imagine will happen? If it doesn't match, then it doesn't match. So take a step back and look within and ask yourself, where is this coming from? Where is this impetus coming from to reach out, to make plans, to take action in the ways that you are. This is a period of time where it is so fruitful and beneficial for you to pause your plans. And this is counter to a lot of the societal narrative that we need to be moving forward and need to be productive all of the time. Gladly, that narrative is changing a little bit in certain circles. So I think we can all use the reminder these days, productivity is not just about action or making things happen to really produce and to manifest what we want to build in our lives and in the world. We have to take time for reflection, we have to take time for pause. And we actually really have to take time for death, for letting things go, for feeling into ending and failure and impossibilities, we have to let all of that in. We have to make space for discomfort and for not knowing. If we're forging ahead and just like trying to force something open and not listening to the voices inside or outside that are going hey, I don't know, then we're doing a disservice. We're doing a disservice to our own vision. So please take the time. 

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And between the beginning of Libra season on September 22nd and about October 10th, I would say that this is prime time for you to pause everything you possibly can. Keep going with what feels easy, with what doesn't require decisiveness. Keep going with self care, right? Keep going with what you know brings balance into your life and harmony into your existence. But if there are particular projects that you're trying to get off the ground, if there are big decisions you're trying to make, and especially if there's stuff going on with your relationships that you're trying to work out, take the time to just pause. Be in reflection. Be in curiosity. Be in question. If you're in conversations with others that are going to continue through this time, then try and open space in those conversations to not know anything, to not answer questions, to ask more questions, to just be reflective, to listen. I can't emphasize listening enough, especially for Sagittarius and all the fire signs right now. Shut up! You know, like close your mouth, open your ears, open your heart and really try and listen. Listen to what arises inside of you, when you listen to other people talking. Listen to them talking, though, you know, listen to their words, really try and take them in. Notice how you might jump in with your own interpretations. Listen to that, be curious about it. But really try and be open, listen to the world around you. There's information that wants to come to you through other people right now, and you really want to be receptive.

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So during the span of time that I'm talking about September 22nd through October 2nd, Mercury will station retrograde, that happens on the 26th of September. And there is a new moon on October 6th. There's a whole bunch of stuff happening in the planets that I'm not going to fill this space with. But if you're an astrologer, then look to the transits of all the personal planets—Mercury, Venus and Mars—and look to the outer planets stationing direct, that's what I'm talking about.

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This new moon on the sixth of October, and then the couple of days after the new moon until the 10th or so, bring in a lot of new information. And this new information is critical for you. During this time, on the seventh of October, Venus also enters your sign and Venus will transit Sagittarius until November 5th, which is about when Mercury's Retrograde shadow ends. So I want to say that these couple of days, the sixth through the 10th of October, I think have a lot of information, they're opening some new doorways, some new neurons are firing from you, new synapses are happening. And then from the 10th of October until the end of Libra season, the 22nd of the month, it feels like you're integrating and you're putting pieces together and you're getting clear. Clarity does not come before that point. You might have moments where you feel clear, but then you're going to have other moments where you question that clarity or where something happens that makes you look at it with a different perspective. So as your friend who doesn't know you, this voice in your ear, feel it out in your own intuition. But check it out. If you're trying to make some things happen. If you're urgent right now, if you're impatient, if you are trying to figure something out, how does it feel in your body to hear me say you'll know by the end of October, give it until then, if possible, give it until the first week of November. if something isn't absolutely critical to pay attention to put it on the side, you can continue to circle back to it, you can meditate with it, you can consider it, you don't need to take action. If the action doesn't need you to take it, don't take it. Just see, just feel it out. 

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Now especially as we get towards the end of Libra season, the 17th through the 21st, there are some important things happening with Jupiter, which is your planetary ruler Sagittarius. This is your ruling planet. So Jupiter has been retrograde since late March of this year. So you might want to think back to that period of time. Just consider, what have you been working on? What have you been working with since late March? There may have been specific themes around friendships, social patterns, social experiences, projects that you're working on, future plans, and communications. These are all themes I've already been talking about. Now on the 17th of October, Jupiter stations Direct and for the rest of the year, it is going to be helping you make sense of what has been kind of up in the air, I would say a lot of this year, where you might have been juggling a lot of pieces considering a lot of different possibilities or trying to work something out or work something through. As we get into the next seasons and the end of the year there is more and more action with kind of the holding patterns that have been I think a theme in 2021. Holding patterns and chaos but not necessarily so much clarity when it comes to forward movement. And this is especially true for you. So please give it till then the full moon on the 20th of October is a powerful full moon for you. I think it helps you reorient inland in some important inner truths. It helps you remember some very central priorities for yourself that have to do with the truth of your own heart. And that is really an anchor when it comes to discernment between what is superficial or surface and what is really deep and core, is the wisdom of your heart. So, this is my message for you. This is a month to pause, to reflect, to really pay attention to your value systems, to work on your self love on your deep self love. And that means that you love yourself regardless of the appearance, regardless of what you think is resonating in the outer. You have to go deep, deep, deep within and connect with your core truth there. Really listened to that truth. Try and ascertain where you're coming from when it comes to your momentum, to your ambitions, to your ideas about what could be possible, and with who these ideas want to happen. Right. I hope any or all of that is helpful for you, my friend. I'll leave it there. 

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