Over a lunch conversation, someone recently asked me, “Where is the peace now?” as we discussed the recent national corruption issues, interjecting this with sharing what we were all picking up in the global world via social media. 

The chaos is so loud. The extremes are louder in today’s transitional world where everyone is straddling two paradigms. One crumbling, the other not fully formed; the negative materialistic ego versus the hoped for better, just world; the spiritually awakened versus the total materialistic atheist. As someone who reads the energies of the times, I am always being asked now — how much longer will all this chaos go on? My answer: We are just really beginning!

Even the most seasoned astrologers are feeling the strain because of too much happening too fast and everywhere. It is pretty exciting but also difficult to make sense of everything. 

This October is not gentle. The cosmic tides are in flux and the questions arise like whispers from our soul: Where is the peace? Where do we look for peace when everything is in turmoil?

There is fire in the full moon in Aries coming up this 17 October. Stillness in the fire of the boldest sign? Aries is all about bold beginnings and personal fire. But this is no ordinary full moon. Aries, ruled by Mars, ignites the warrior within us — assertive, individualistic, raw. And when the moon is full in this sign, emotional waves rise in tandem with primal instincts. We may feel an urgency to act, speak, react. The energy is fast and furious. The energies are confrontational – internal and external. (And no, it is not about how much coffee we drank this morning!)

So, let us watch ourselves even more carefully as words may wound, and emotions and desires surface in uncomfortable ways. More hidden truths coming out will piece through illusions that may make us angrier and fiercer. What to do? The challenge is to be present in the fire — and not to escape it.