What Does the Blue Moon Mean to You and Albany?

By now you probably have heard that the Aug. 31 Full Moon is a Blue Moon, a name given to the second full moon in a month by none other than the Farmers' Almanac. Besides being an interesting footnote, this Full Moon shines its light on personal and planetary transformation. Your rare beauty and uniqueness is being called forth. The Full Moon in Pisces, our dreams and inspirations, is directly opposite Earthly practical detail-oriented Virgo. If you pay attention you can begin to realize your dreams in very practical ways. Or you may feel pulled too many ways. Take time to feel the ebb and flow of light and dark.

The Pisces Full Moon happens every year, but this year Neptune has journeyed into Pisces in its own sign, making the pull toward finding our collective dream even more powerful. This weekend each of us will be called upon to look into our unconscious to see if we are swimming toward a greater good and where we need to take "swimming lessons," which we all do. There may surprising wake-up calls.   Just think of them as challenges to grow and expand! Open to the Unknown!

A Blast From The Past!

We are being whisked back to the mid-1960s because this Full Moon occurs at the same time as second Uranus Pluto Square out of 7. If that is Greek to you, this might help: We are being asked to look at where we began to change, grow and rebel in the 1960s, then take those qualities to a deeper level. Since the Question of the present is if Whole Foods is on our minds, here's an example from a friend who had a health food store in the 60s.

She was part-owner of a health food store and the other owner burned patchouli incense every day. It was exciting and counter-cultural back then to be able to buy herbs and vitamins and organic vegetables, but we have learned along the way about chemical sensitives and, for the most part, stopped such practices. We have become wiser but at the same time our health food stores have grown to giant business. The cosmos can't answer whether or not Albany should have a Whole Foods, but here is what I believe might help us decide our future:

If I could say one thing about NOW it would be: It is the time to fine tune our youthful dreams to be reminded what we hoped the world would be like in 40 years. Even if you weren't alive back then you still will feel the pull to refine your earlier goals and dreams.

What question of purpose is the Blue Moon lighting up for you?