Astrology with Salina Rain, Blue Lake, CA (2026)

09/08/2026

September: Integrity and Essence

As the eclipse portal has closed ideally we’ve become more easily accepting of whatever has been lost, one of the Pisces lessons so crucial to our evolution in present time. Along with that is found the wisdom needed to land just right into the next chapter of our lives. The sweeping energies at work can be overwhelming at times, physically, emotionally and energetically. The lunar eclipse unleashed an absolutely take our breath away event with earth elements and more blessed souls leaving en masse, as well emphasizing the huge number of souls lost in the multiple genocides ongoing. All prayers to the beneficent forces in charge of ushering those beings to their next destination are heard, please be assured, as the celestial entities of our Solar System announce in consciousness expanding ways. Uranus for one, recently joined with asteroid Atlantis as the eclipse approached, bringing ancient memory to the fore. Collective memories of events arise, consciously or beneath consciousness, where we humans have, in so many times and in so many places, exited the Earth plane in large groups. Of course natural causes and human causes have very different karmic lessons/repercussions as our species faces an unprecedented time of facing all of it.

That also comes with unprecedented support and resources for getting to the essence of our shared lessons while individually working with our own part in all of it. Into the Virgo month we’re all about refining and simplifying from the shifts, insights, experiences of the eclipses over past weeks. Re-organizing most likely around improved tactics, techniques, work habits and at the same time routines supporting vitality and well being.

The Virgo New Moon on the 10th is accompanied by the lightening bolt energies of Uranus in its annual turn to retrograde motion. Quieter, more restrained Virgo influence energized into its utmost possibilities. Liberation of the sacred qualities mutable earth sign represents is happening with wholly unexpected turns of events and overall attitudes. We can and must re-learn the earth based rituals of how to live on a planet reliant on all life forms to behave as their species was designed rather than race off into nether lands of artificially created nightmarish realities as a small but powerful portion of the human species has. All other species remain in total integrity with the their earthly-cosmic design, in harmony with the whole. We’re ultimately headed there too.

At present we’re faced with the alliances, partnerships, interactions between individuals, and very importantly for the safety and well being of the entire world, nations. The whackadoo (what could possibly go wrong except everything?) approach to USA unprovoked all out assault on the soveriegn (centuries old, steeped in wisdom, non-threatening) country Iran has led to utter failure on the part of US War Machine. Also, to the great relief of the rest of the world and unbeknownst to US citizens paying for this “war”, the destruction of US military bases in the Gulf region. And the disabling of US naval presence. Our “news” remains unable to report such crucial events, but tiny glimmers seem to be appearing.

Uranian explosions of many kinds include the area of information as more and more breaks through barriers of tightly controlled media. Also increasingly activated volcanic eruptions, one of which is related to the biggest one recorded in world history in late 1800’s, Krakatoa, as the Indonesian Anak Krakatau (both in the Sunda Strait) continues to announce “new earth”. Tellurian realm speaks to us in the almost forgotten language of inner Earth which we must become conversant with again, and that can be as simple as becoming more engrossed in the natural environmentevery day, even just in breathing the air with new awareness.

Startling experiences with light and how it affects us, a perhaps subtler but crucial aspect of Uranus in Gemini, should be noted to absorb maximum benefits that will be with us for ages to come. Light therapies are coming back into use as so many ancient healing ways prove to be effective and non-invasive. As we engage in the extensive sorting and refining needed during most of the fall season, and in so many areas of our lives, much will be accomplished. Nothing less than finishing the sometimes brutal work of 2026 in greater clarity, integrity and self validation is promise of the earth to cosmos connections in this work.

This is a period rich with support for gaining greater clarity and making the best decisions for how to proceed. Private sessions available with fees ranging from $100-225 depending on type of reading, including a sliding scale.

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08/27/2026

Pisces Lunar Eclipse: August 27-28 2026

AstroRain Report August 26 - September 1
A week of shifts of significant proportions in progress as we’re steeped in the intensity of cosmic/earthly energetic relationships. The next phase of changes, ready or not here it comes. We’re now virtually ejected from one realm into the next, with ever deepening layers of the larger reality exposed. Exciting, elevating, disturbing the norm and most likely discombobulating too.
The Pisces-Virgo axis for upcoming Moon-Sun opposition can have relatively hidden qualities, or something of significance missing our attention that’s seemingly too small to matter much. And since Solar Eclipse on the 12th was in highly visible, in some ways flamboyant, Leo it may be easier to miss what needs full attention and commitment. Do not be fooled by whatever may sneak through the back door so to speak, as more subtle awareness is required.

This lunation is one of the most important this year in acknowledging the depth and breadth of our personal and collective sorrow. So much of it, as we’re increasingly aware, stemming from the disconnect from nature’s elements and rhythms; psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and our bodies, their cyclic rhythms, their muscle and bone and beating heart decidedly part of nature. We’ve been “conditioned by artificial rhythms that fragment our perception. As a result our perceptual range has narrowed, cutting us off from deeper levels of awareness.”. (apologies I lost author’s name).

Another prevalent aspect is the level of deception that’s been used to keep us citizens of the world in the dark about most crucial matters impacting us, arising more vividly with the release the Lights create in completing a partial black out. That applies of course in terms of world governments and techno dictators building a digital cage around us in ever increasing limitations and control over our lives. Breaking out of the digital cage is major work of the coming months requiring our most creative and rebellious tactics and well though out actions. As the increased assault on our privacy and sovereignty has already been receiving serious push back from individuals, local communities and rising political players. But politics will never be where the needed changes come from. To last change must always come from the ground up! Also in the mix of rising concerns are our misconceptions about the people in our lives, for good and ill, and most importantly about our own self delusions.

Moon’s darkening at her brightest time in the monthly round is always felt whether we actually get to witness these celestial events or not. Moon represents many things, among them the People. Full Moons bring completions of one kind or another, sometimes apparent and sometimes not so much in conscious awareness. For each of us in the signs and Houses in the natal chart where the Moon and Sun come into exact opposition.

Sun, joined by Mercury, quincunx Pluto and Neptune form a Yod aspect with the solar body as the point called “finger of god”. This potent pattern endorses, or perhaps demands, a big adjustment in how we go about even the smallest details of the day to day. Where there have been any blindspots they may become uncomfortably apparent, so much so we’re compelled to make a change. Of course this energy field is prescient of what evolves over the next 6 months to a year, making it crucial to be aware of the prevalent themes at this time, or whenever experiencing the most powerful cosmic/earthly patterns. The indicators are right here, up to us to give them full attention.

Lunar Eclipse at 5th degree of Pisces demands adaptability and self forgiveness. Sun-Mercury merge exact today extending the power of that “finger of god”, an aspect pointing to to something fated. Particularly relevant showing up in the event of a lunar eclipse where a completion is occurring with the seed of the next cycle being planted. Mercury rules Virgo giving the multi-layered Yod indicating more potency in the realms of useful information, effective tactics and techniques to use in service of our purpose, benefits of ancient wisdom traditions and sharing, communicationg, creating through any or all of these areas. Rituals in the mundane and in the sacred abundantly supported while opening the crucial connection between those 2 areas of life we’ve been indoctrinated into separating. Finding the best we can offer as our unique way of serving in a world crying out for authenicity, creativity and dedication to ethical and honest choices in all we do, and all with a generous helping of Heart!

We’re in the midst of discovering, in some cases re-discovering, the simplest solutions and remedies for the most daunting problems as a collective, in communities and in the personal challenges of bridging the worlds; the one ending and the one being birthed. As Mercury, Sun, Moon in another major aspect square Uranus a tense and productive T-Square is formed releasing a flood of surprising, shocking and altogether liberating ideas, information, messages and overall clearing, cleansing energies. That includes wind and water, quakes and eruptions increasing over coming months most likely. An important time to have emergency protocols in place to weather the storms with greater ease than being caught way off balance. Remembering we’re equipped for whatever comes our way that doesn’t seem apparent in the most trying times. The brilliance and innovations emerging from this seeding time will take our breath away.

The erratic, inspiring and shifting qualities are with us full strength with Uranus intimately sending its lightening bolts of divine energies to Sun-Mercury. Emotions are high this whole week. Getting caught up in others’ reactions and meltdowns likely separates us from our most wonderful insights and visions. If having our own meltdown making healing space for that will help tremendously in unburdening ourselves from some very deep stuff. As well extra caution in movements, in and around vehicles, or in jumping to conclusions urged as the patterns this week are dynamic, fast moving, unpredictable.

Painting: Susan Seddon Boulet

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08/20/2026

Eclipse Season: Presence and Simplicity
August 19 - 25 2026
As Joan Halifax points out (something I’ve been writing about but not as eloquently) the collective angst we’re steeped in cannot and should not be approached as a personal challenge to be dealt with in the ways of contemporary, inadequate for the job, psychological practices. The grief we experience whether consciously or underneath consciousness, it’s there. It cannot be placed in such a small, enclosed box. Psychology techniques or so called spiritual approaches fail to address the essential human experience of care for and connection with each other, encompassing the deeper dimensions of being together in a world of pain. And particularly the angst for children being killed, maimed, starved and traumatized for life, something that carries into the generations to come.
Part of being fully human is experiencing the commonly shared core, the interconnection joining us all at the heart center. Absolutely nothing political about that contrary to what the fiends in charge have been drilling into the minds of the masses. It’s no longer working. The potency of universal celestial patterns elevates, supports and inspires in this phase, moving us into the great Unknown of a future, both near and far. A future where our interconnectedness is all encompassing, acknowledged, acted from in all important decisions and actions. We can’t see that future, but increasingly we feel it when entering the stillness, unwinding from the ambient influences that are not of earthly/cosmic nature.

Wed 19 First Quarter Scorpio Moon square Leo Sun perfects 7:46 pm going aimlessly void of course at that meeting. What has been developing from the eclipse last week is prominent right now, and most likely requires facing the most unsavory, hidden or shadowy aspects. The most profound insights and experiences present in relation to how committed we are to our own transformative process. Fixed water sign asks full honesty and authenticity. Wherever that’s not the case it’s a time for even more situations and out of integrity power players to be exposed. Question is how we endure even broader and deeper dives into the darkest parts of our collective and personal worlds. Despite old beliefs and major propaganda campaigns bombarding us nonstop, whether plugged in or not, we are absolutely equipped to maintain through the worst of it. In fact that’s the biggest part of the work we all have to do in this last eclipse season of an epic year.

Thurs 20 Sagittarius Moon begins with contact to Pluto elevating the darkest themes into a higher perspective ideally, but we must be willing participants not just about the daily routine without consideration of major concerns as communities of humans and as individuals. Aspects with Neptune and Uranus quickly follow by 12:33 pm adding wisdom and perhaps a shock or surprise helping to wake up the heart-mind connection even more. Mid afternoon lunar tension with Mars in emotional Cancer presses for a shift out of getting caught up in repetitive responses. That’s good work to be done in this especially rich energy field carrying us through inevitable personal and world shaking changes.

Fri 21 Venus in one of her home signs Libra opposes retrograde Saturn coloring the day with concerns about boundaries and limits, the right commitments and the wrong commitments, in relationships of all kinds. Saturn’s reference to the past may take us back to times when our sovereignty was challenged or suppressed leading to long held, even unacknowledged anger or frustration. Sagittarius Moon supports all such attempts at putting things right from the past with a clear eye to the future ideally. Valuing self and other, gaining more inner and outer harmony in the process. Love in any form, and there are so many, is afoot with quite serious intent. Part of that is revealing the aspects of love expressed by taking care of business no matter how that challenges the interaction may be. Also impacts our social world and group involvements, great day for getting to important work including any long term plans.

Meanwhile the actual condition of the world’s women becoming clearer as the collective’s more aware of what inequalities and injustices must be seriously addressed. As the patriarchal cultural overlay crumbles under its own massive weight much of what arises is beyond hard to integrate into our world view. But Saturn’s retrograde in Aries over coming months insists especially with Venus’ retrograde October into November moves from early Scorpio back into Libra, meaning right now is the beginning of a crucial stage in the personal, social and societal work we have to do.

Sat 22 Sun leaves Leo as the lion’s expressive roar recedes into the refinement of how to best implement those inspirations and urges to carry them into the world ruled by Virgo. With heart’s open ideally from fixed fire sign’s month we enter this grounding phase. It’s time for gathering the tools and techniques, ideas, allies and work habits, integrating all we’ve learned so far into our own synthesis. The rituals of life, from mundane to spiritual and everything in between, are where Virgo reigns supreme. Never underestimate the power and the glory of consistent practice of any kind says mutable earth sign with great confidence. Luna has entered Capricorn by 1:59 pm and less than 2 hours later forms a major grounding aspect with Chiron that helps brings practical matters into the realm of the sacred while Sun is so close a Grand Earth Trine is created. Powerful timing for significantly improving health and/or work routines. Today’s planetary relationships at the start of the Virgo month ensure an entire 4 weeks of rare opportunities for more essential grounding with our planet’s core, effective strategizing for the work ahead and down to earth, simple healing routines, substances and techniques.

Sun 23 Capricorn Moon endorses all the most pressing things on our plate as the sign’s ruling planet backs up in direct action oriented Aries. Along with Uranus and Jupiter all the resources we need to shift from fears and negative projections to the healing, resolving work are available. That may require some adjustments on our part to access what wasn’t in clear view before now. Evening lunar squares to Saturn and Venus provide both discipline and a certain amount of ease, 2 qualities that go together especially well this year if we stay with our best practices.

Mon 24 Lunar Eclipse on the way this week perfecting Thursday and coloring the whole week. In important ways it’s a shedding time where whatever and whoever is lost has primary significance. Making way for what needs to come in for us, free of fuss, self doubt or trying to hang on brings us to another layer of much needed wisdom. Today Capricorn Moon’s void of course into wee hours tomorrow. It’s aimless path encourages us to operate in a similar way while remaining awake and aware to the larger journey. Beware any urges to feel not enough or behind, just going at one’s own pace one step at a time.

Tues 25 Aquarius Moon has arrived fueling the winds of change in aspects with Sun, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Mars from early til mid evening. More unexpected, surprising and/or innovative developments may occur in this eclipse charged atmosphere. Checking in frequently with emerging feelings and paying full attention to the signals coming in from others and from the personal environment crucial. This level of presence is once again, and more than ever, required to maintain stability and the capacity for optimal functioning within chaotic change. We’re all equipped, that’s why we’re here!

Here’s the full quote from Joan Halifax:

“Let us be unflinchingly clear about what the destruction of Gaza is not. It is not a private sorrow to be managed with breathing exercises. It is not a mental health crisis in the individual hearts of Palestinians. A child starving under blockade does not have an attachment disorder. A mother trying to pull her children from rubble is not deficient in resilience. This is suffering meted out, in Coates’s phrase, suffering with authors, budgets, supply chains, and votes. To psychologize it, or to spiritualize it into the general tragedy of samsara, is to become quietly complicit in it. When the word genocide must be spoken, and there are times when it must, it names precisely this: suffering that is collective in its infliction and that therefore can only be met collectively, through witness, through protest, through refusal, through solidarity, through the protection of the vulnerable, and perpetrators brought to account. There were rabbis and imams and priests and Buddhist teachers among those who said so publicly, and I was one of them, because silence, too, is a position.”

And for support with more personal grief a Native ritual, grounded, powerful and simple:

1. The ritual was called “Wičháŋpi Wóyute” — star feeding.

Lakota healers used it for those who lost loved ones or survived violence.

The person didn’t talk about the trauma.

They fed it.

They’d gather stones representing the pain, then carry them to a river and release them one by one while speaking the memory out loud to the water.

The final stone was kept as a reminder that grief was witnessed, not erased.

2. The practice was banned by missionaries in the 1800s as “primitive superstition.”

But in 2019, Johns Hopkins trauma researchers recreated it with PTSD patients.

They found the physical act of releasing objects while verbalizing trauma engages both hemispheres of the brain — something talk therapy alone doesn’t achieve.

Results after 6 sessions:

• PTSD symptom reduction: 73%

• Intrusive thoughts decreased by 81%

• Emotional regulation improved 6x faster than traditional therapy

(from Garth Drury)

Checking in with one’s natal chart can reveal so much about how to optimize present opportunities for resolutions, healing and clearer forward movement. Using 2 people’s charts for gaining more wisdom about a relationship and strategies to address any challenges goes deeper into the existing dynamics and possibilities. This is a period rich with support for gaining that clarity and making decisions about how to proceed. Private sessions available with fees ranging from $100-225 depending on type of reading, including sliding scale.

707-672-9164. [email protected]

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08/12/2026

The Heart Rules: August 12 -18. 2026

Back to being human is our mission and mandate, but we find ourselves in an evolutionary process that hasn’t occurred in at least 26,ooo years. Meaning we’re re-learning what our species is capable of and going beyond. To predict those probabilities is impossible but that’s the joy of life. We’ll find out! For each of us the possibilities remain so open ended it’s be a challenge worth taking on to stretch the imagination enough to match them.
Eclipse season upon us, the trajectory forward is safe to say mega energized and having a life of its own. It includes a much needed release from the past version of self we’ve been attached to while discovering who the new version is becoming. Available creative energy off the charts at the doorstep of a new cycle.
Moon’s void of course passage right after sacred marriage with the Sun on the 12th brings the burning question of ego and its place in our lives to the fore. The quest for a balance with ego in service to higher self a big theme, as well the thorny matter of the mostly pathological egos we choose for leadership in government. Also the sociopath egos we allow to thrive in industry at greater and greater cost to our lives and future generations. Moon’s void period into the wee hours Thursday creates space for us to wander through these themes, feeling our way while refraining from taking action on any of until another day.
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Wed 12 Total Solar Eclipse 10:37 am PDT at 20 degrees Leo with South Node and Jupiter both in the fixed fire sign as well. It’s a continuation of a huge theme this year. Past meeting future, this turning point offers expansive and previously unimaginable opportunities to create something beautiful with 100% Heart Intelligence. That’s bypassing the currently all consuming monster AI, standing for Absence of Intelligence. It’s dark, cynical, dangerous folly to believe anything artificially put together could surpass human consciousness, entirely absent of the very crucial aspect of the human heart, highest intelligent of our species. (Look up research from HeartMath Institute for those who need scientific verification). Recognized in many ancient traditions and spiritual lineages that rational thinking that doesn’t combine with wisdom of the heat is sorely lacking, leading us down the most delusional and destructive paths we can take. Leo rules the heart with the eclipse ejecting us all into the next level of experience and the necessity for increasingly operating from that place.
Only uses for Ai should be highly monitored and regulated as our current Frankenstein’s Monster can and already has gone rogue in unalterable ways. Billionaire investors, themselves part of the contemporary monsters we’ve created as a culture, are perfect reflections of the serious lack of Heart Intelligence evolving over long periods of history. It’s peaking now as the House of Cards comes tumbling down. The chaos already ensuing from the takeover of many jobs and functions will take the masses further along the road to waking up to what amounts to a global monster freight train with no engineer as I believe one prominent figure described it. Mars and Ceres in Cancer at a World Axis degree, meaning most potent, assure action around what nurtures and nourishes in place of what undermines and destroys those elements.
Food production, how it’s grown, processed and distributed is major along with the need to stop the devouring of agricultural land for technology benefiting only the ultra rich, and in reality being the means of their own destruction along the way. Inevitable nightmare of massive proportions while on this unconnected path of artificial over natural, profit over people, death over life. Frankenfoods hitting the market disguised as nourishment already appearing and without clearly labeling as artificially produced. Mars-Ceres in the sign of the People push for real nourishment on all levels and in the many aspects of how we’re nourished.
Wherever first degree of cardinal water sign appears in natal charts the planets enable a new start in our own self care and nurturing practices and elements. Mars also sextile Chiron requires a second or third look at what we’ve been doing, checking in with the results, being honest about what works. However Chiron in Ta**us demands patience, giving things time and consistent dedication.
Jupiter-Mercury in eclipse sign oppose Pluto-Juno sparing in depth interactions, conversations, even passing encounters. Relationship issues of all colors and combinations are up for solutions, while Neptune’s favorable influence supports forgiveness, compassion while staying with our own need for respect and validation. This is an important decisive moment for so many alliances, personal, professional, commercial and all other ways. A major aspect forms called Mystic Rectangle with those planets plus Venus amplifying the possibilities in relationships while Venus in a Grand Air Trine with Uranus and Pluto-Juno.That’s an enormous amount of opportunities for taking care of old, festering issues and obstacles making our connections unnecessarily difficult and unfulfilling
In the realm of social justice the stakes are high with the rare and powerful outer planet configurations joining up with inner planet concerns and how we operate in the here and now, individually and collectively. Social values interface with personal values, inseparable as they are and becoming more and more evident. We’re all responsible for the actions, habits and intentional practices we adhere to that either create benefit for self and others or not. Most often there’s a mix of the 2 in the overly complex centralized social systems we live within, the very ones that are undergoing necessary changes. Going along with the changes has become a big job for all, whether living right in the thick of it, on the outer fringes or somewhere in between, everyone affected.

Thurs 13 Moon has shifted to grounding Virgo with multiple aspects through the day in contacts with Chiron, Mars, Venus, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus. More of the specifics of the work before us revealed in this intricate array of patterns just in the morning. 12:24 pm Luna sails void of course again asking for a meandering, thoughtful approach. Mercury-Venus form an early sextile encouraging peacemaking words, messages of love and appreciation, benefiting all creative ventures aligned with important values. Maintaining stability is crucial with feet firmly on the ground, heart open and mind willing to adapt to whatever presents itself.

Fri 14 No major aspects as Virgo Moon continues to help with being present and accounted for in all ways. To ourselves first of course, then to wherever else we’re committed for now. A good time to allow ourselves to experience what is free of descending into fears and projections of what comes next.

Sat 15 Mercury joins Jupiter in expressive, sometimes ostentatious Leo with creative juices flowing especially with words. Creative writers in their own version of heaven. Easier to articulate for all of us what’s in the heart and from a higher perspective, not so entangled in imbalanced ego needs. Or for some it is about overblown ego needs requiring our non-participation, if that’s the case. Libra Moon today takes us further into the realms of personal relationships coming into balance, with no room for ego power plays, while becoming ever more clear about the many injustices in human societies globally. And the injustices in our own lives are bound to be getting scrutiny as well in a time where personal agency and authenticity is a paramount theme.

Sun 16 Morning aspects call for taking responsibility in all interactions and alliances. Meanwhile Mars quincunx Pluto perfecting towards evening can bring out stinging emotional situations, inner or outer. There may be a need to shift that tension through our best practices for self care and/or supporting someone else through their angst or anger.

Mon 17 Mars’ next aspect with Neptune perfects 2:52 am but overlays the morning atmosphere with opposing urges. Step on the gas to speed up with bold intention but the tank is empty. That directed fire energy wants to be used with the wisdom only gained by checking within first. Are the actions we’re burning to take for the good of all including self? Inspiring music helps to fuel heart and head together. Void Moon Libra til mid afternoon when it enters Scorpio adds to the more inner focus but Mercury and Venus encourage great care with words and a generous heart. Gracious attitudes combine with responsibility to communicate from most self affirming perspective. Healthy ego in service to Heart Intelligence. Late afternoon Moon-Chiron opposition brings more intense emotions along with deeper understanding of the problem, while late night aspects continue to elevate consciousness or send us into a dark place, our choice.

Tues 18 Scorpio Moon prevails until 1:30 am Thursday. Best use of these fixed water sign ruled days is deep surrender into soul’s yearning whatever that may be. So many wisdom traditions to choose from to help guide us if feeling lost.

Checking in with one’s natal chart can reveal so much about how to optimize present opportunities for resolutions, healing and clearer forward movement. Using 2 people’s charts for gaining more wisdom about a relationship and strategies to address any challenges goes deeper into the existing dynamics and possibilities. This is a period rich with support for gaining that clarity and making decisions about how to proceed. Private sessions available with fees ranging from $100-225 depending on type of reading, including sliding scale.
707-672-9164. [email protected]

Offering one to three question consults to look at important dates coming up in such an epic time of change and opportunities. $35 for written response or $50 for phone consult included.

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