Taurus Horoscope for September 2013

You are coming from an essentially good place, Taurus, making the best of challenging circumstances. Partnership has powerful lessons for you now. A responsibility there could be feeling like a burden, or holding you back. Is this strictly a matter of other people's expectations and of outer events, with little to do with your own process – or is it somehow a part of yourself that you struggle with' You have a need for inner freedom that is hard to get a handle on and is yet fundamental to your process of detaching from old and outmoded beliefs and perceptions. The pain that you feel could be a question of getting used to a different internal mandate for fundamental change, not only for yourself but also for the society that surrounds you, from which you inevitably draw nurture.

As the month begins, you are riding out the energy waves from the tension-filled Last Quarter Moon of the middle of the previous week, when your ruler, Venus, participated in a grand cross with both Uranus and Pluto. Although the intensity of this aspect pattern has subsided by the beginning of September, Saturn in Scorpio begins to closely sextile Pluto as early as the 5th, and this further emphasizes the combination of revolutionary insight (Uranus) and dramatic action for change (Pluto) which is therefore all month long resonating more thoroughly through your being. You could take this a harbinger of further transformational stresses still to come, in the weeks leading up to the next installment of an exact square between these two powerhouse planets at the end of October.

Uranus is located in your sector of dream imagination and inner work, the relatively unconscious portion of your solar chart, manifesting as a form of deep intuitional knowledge without the need for rational explanation. A powerfully placed Neptune in your sector of future plans echoes this idea of information without words for it. You benefit from taking in this deep intuitive sense from inside your psyche, even though this might feel like a push for you who are so practical. The inclinations that come upon you now through the aid of these cosmic forces could also be recognized as angel guidance or the intuitive information from your higher Self, and providing the vision for the place that you somehow feel that you really need to be at this point in your life, and that precedes more concrete steps that you might take to actually get yourself there.

With Pluto currently residing in your sector of higher mind, the changes that will continue to take place within your psyche over the next few months, and even years, will have a lot to do with shifting belief systems and new mappings of the reality that you ultimately find yourself to exist within. You are indeed stretching in your perceptions, and it alters the very fabric of your life, the background from which you move and feel that your life has its meaning and its purpose and this is no small thing.

The other planetary archetype that is strongly emphasized in this month's configurations is Chiron, the Wounded Healer, also prominent in your solar chart, and located in the same sector as Neptune, of friendship, group affiliations and future plans. The emphasis here on feelings of pain and grief could reflect fears for such massive departures from existing plans and structures as are indicated by the level of change that is happening to you over these important weeks of transition. There is also the strong potential for you to be able to more directly tune in to deeper and perhaps more deeply wounded places within yourself. Your higher Self is thus gently nudging you to generate greater wholeness and health as you accept these more difficult places, along with the joyous parts of your psyche, and honor them as well.