The next new moon forms on Saturday, October 17 (It’s on my birthday!!!) at 10:33 PM PDT at 25º Libra, the sign of balance, partnership, and peace. From an evolutionary point of view, the zodiacal signs are not so much who we are, but what we are becoming – the core curriculum and challenges we have chosen in this lifetime. This New Moon offers an opportunity to resolve individual and collective issues that we have been struggling with for a long time. The archetype of Libra seeks to recognize, tolerate, and eventually integrate what seems to be its opposite. It endeavors to establish equal relationships without compromising one’s essential self and values.

Libra also reminds us that peace is an inside job, that the more we know and accept ourselves, the more understanding and compassion we can have for others.

Libra symbolizes the scales of justice, equality, and truth; Saturn, the realities of time and space, cause and effect, law and order. Saturn, the mythic Reaper and Father Time, will be highlighting the sign of Libra for the next three years, as it makes its once-every-three-decades foray into the seventh sign. Saturn enters Libra on October 29, where it remains until October 5, 2012 (except for a brief retrograde in Virgo from April 7 to July 21, 2010). Saturn’s last passage through Libra was from September 21, 1980 to August 24, 1983. During that period, the United Nations General Assembly called for Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan; a United States congressional committee formally condemned the internment of Japanese-Americans duringWorld War II; the oldest college in Cambridge, England voted to admit female students; Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female U.S. Supreme Court judge; Jesse Jackson was the first black man to address the Alabama legislature; and Guion Bluford became the first black astronaut. That period also saw the launch of IBM’s PC (personal computer), the CD (compact disc), MTV, and camcorders; the release of the film Gandhi; and the Voyager I space probe’s first photos of Saturn.

Saturn’s upcoming passage through Libra will again bring to the fore issues of fairness, justice, and progress.

On an individual level, this means examining our patterns in relationships, questioning the roles we play, and renegotiating or completing contracts we have made.

Saturn demands that we let go of playing victim or dominator and work toward a win-win solution. On a social and political level, Saturn in Libra supports teamwork, reconciliation, and equal rights legislation.

What agreements or roles need to be examined? Where have things gotten out of balance? What needs to be renegotiated?

For helpful tools, study Marshall Rosenberg’s book Nonviolent Communication, and/or If the Buddha Dated, and If the Buddha Married, by Charlotte Kastl.

When in doubt, listen to and speak from your heart, for: “The mind is the last part of yourself to listen to. It thinks of everything you can lose. The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.” (Neale Donald Walsch)

Fear separates you from who you really are.

Fear distracts you from what you want in life. Fear is merely a distraction of life, of living your life to its fullest potential;your fullest potential; as is depression, anxiety, etc.

The way to dissolve your fears is to simply face it.

As terrifying and uncomfortable as this sounds and can be, I guarantee you it is teeny tiny in comparison to what your doing now… holding onto your fears and living with your fears day in and day out.

Once you decide to face your fears, they dissolve.

Fear is an illusion in your mind created by the ego in it’s efforts to keep you safe.

It is not rational or necessary.

When it comes to jumping off a 1,000 foot cliff, yes, fear is keeping you safe.

When it comes to moving forward with your life and letting of what no longer serves you; what holds you back and keeps you locked up, fear is limiting you.

What are you afraid of?

What is it that holds you back from shinning that brillant light that lives within you?

How much focus, time and energy do you devote to keeping your fears alive within you?

Fear cannot exist without your attention. Fear cannot exist without your devotion to continuing to feed it with the energy of your thoughts and emotions.

You are the one who continues to feed your fear. Are you ready now to let it go and be who you really are?

Who do you want to be? What is it that you have an inner drive to be doing; that fulfills you from within?

I have the tools to literally set you free from the chain of your fears.

There are many things that can greatly reduce stress and anxiety, promoting relaxation and peace of mind.

Here are two:

1.  Listening to Binaural beats.

Within a few minutes of listening to binaural beats you begin to really relax, releasing stress and anxiety from your mind and body. You can experience vivid visualizations, a separation of the conscious and subconscious mind and a feeling of sedation or total weightlessness.

Binaural beats work by playing two separate frequencies into each ear. Your brain compensates for the difference, creating an internal frequency which tunes you into a theta operating state.

This can occur when are awake or asleep, so avoid driving or operating machinery when listening to Binaural Beats.

You can Google Binaural Beat music to locate CDs right now. I’ll also have CDs available mid-to late September on my website.

2.   Begin with talking to yourself in your mind in   s- l- o -w motion.

This slows and stops everything else that is going on in your mind, focusing the mind on what you are saying in  s -l-o-w motion.

It slows everything down, and calms all the crazy, wild, drunken bee thoughts.

As you continue doing this, your body begins to relax as well.

After a few minutes of this    s -l -o -w dialogue in your mind, you might even notice that most or all thoughts have actually stopped.

If you’ve ever experienced racing mind chatter that seems to be a nonstop, restless self-talk persistently running through your mind, this is a technique to handle it.

This technique works well when beginning to learn to meditate, since it slows and clears thoughts from the mind.