October 2012 Astrocalendars, Venus Illuminated, and...Chatter

October is going to be a month to remember, no doubt about that with Saturn and Mercury - fingers interlaced - moving into Scorpio on the 5th, Jupiter turning retro early in the month, and the looming Mercury retro (coming up November 6th, but he enters the shadow period Oct 18) urging us to prepare for the 'party' scheduled for December. Venus moves into her own sign of Libra right before Samhain so we will surely spend a lot of time thinking about our relationships at the end of the month.

I suspect many of us are quite tense - ok, I know this is true - but I feel that the underlying theme is that we are being asked to learn how to glide and land gently. If you have a crash landing, tend to the wounds but never give up your dream of learning to fly.

I will eventually get back to my intense forecasts but I'm too Neptunian at the moment...I should be more grounded by March, but I've long since learned to flow and never push it when it comes to my writing :) I have to save what energy I have for my clients right now. In the meantime, I recommend Tom Lescher's weekly video forecasts and Planet Waves with Eric Francis. These are my personal favorites...very different in approach but both call to me.

For now, I have managed to create the October US East Coast Astrocalendar and the Australia East Coast Astrocalendars. I apologize to everyone who uses the US West Coast, Hawaii, or the UK edition of my calendars...I simply don't have time to get them ready before the 1st, so I am offering the most popular editions. My Aussie clients and site visitors would hog-tie me if I didn't have it ready for them on time (just kidding, but there is some pressure there, lol) - I love that I'm so loved Down Under :)  I will be back on track for November.

I also wanted to announce that the new Venus Illuminated site is now, finally, being built and rapidly at that. Everyone who knows me well knows that I think I am 10 people rolled into one and I think I can accomplish things anyone else would consider insane...this is my super Venus/Jupiter/Moon in the 1st, lol. I promised the new site, what, 2 years ago???  Instead I cracked down and finally wrote the Saturn-Neptune book, Dangerous Love, Sacred Love and THAT was due in 2010 or something like that? I don't remember!  Irfan is doing a fantastic job (thank you!) and keeping busy adding hundreds of new items to the site so check back often to see what is available...we are expanding and adding 3 new jewelry lines over the next few months, including the Sweet Romance line, Nebula Jewelry, and bringing back Dryad Design as they've sold off to a new vendor (lucky for all of us who absolutely love Dryad Design jewelry and statuary, myself included!). I'm mulling over a few other new lines but I will wait for Spirit to move me on those. The old site and the eBay store will continue to function as always, but I will eventually integrate the new Venus Illuminated with the old, to make a sort of Super Venus store, with so many high-quality beauties to select from that Libras will spend hours just looking, unable to make up their minds...this is why I started Venus Illuminated in the first place back in 2002, because there were so many things I loved but I could never possibly personally own them or keep them for myself...I HAD to share it all with others. Venus will love the new Super Venus store built in her honor...and I love her :)

Have a blessed Full Moon!

Love, light, and blessings,

Dena