Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.

Aspects of Note this Week:
All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 7 hours.

Monday: Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn, Venus opposite Saturn
Tuesday: Pluto stations direct, Sun opposite Chiron 
Wednesday: Venus sesquiquadrate Chiron, Mars enters Scorpio
Thursday: Mercury quincunx Jupiter
Friday: Mars trine Saturn, Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn
Saturday: New Moon/Solar Eclipse, Mercury opposite Chiron 
Sunday: Sun quincunx Uranus, Jupiter opposite Ceres

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RING OF FIRE ECLIPSE: October's New Moon, which occurs this coming Saturday, will be accompanied by an annular Solar Eclipse. This type of partial eclipse is known as a "ring of fire" eclipse because, although the Moon is passing in front of the Sun, it does not completely cover the Sun's disk. Instead of seeing the darkened circle of a total eclipse, with an annular eclipse we see a band of bright light blazing like a burning magician's hoop in the sky.

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