Drawing Down The Stars

In this episode, we explore the October new moon and the 8th lunar month—Octem—a powerful threshold between worlds, seasons, and states of being. The Sun and Moon meet in Hasta, the lunar mansion of the alchemist, setting the tone for a month of transformation from the earthly to the heavenly.

We dive into the gates of Mundus, the honoring of water and promises, health as the bridge between past and future, and the planetary influences of Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars. Plus key dates for ritual, health practices, and planning your next year.

If you’ve been feeling the pull to purge, rebuild, or step into a more limitless version of yourself—this month is your invitation.

Sending lots and lots of love. Ciao a tutti.

🔮 Book a person reading

Mentioned in this episode:

* Hasta lunar mansion

* Gates of Mundus

* Fides (goddess of fidelity)

* Fontinalia & Fons (god of waterways)

* Rasayana & Panchakarma (Ayurvedic practices)

* Jupiter exalted in Cancer conjunct Mars in Pushya

* Venus exalted in Libra conjunct Mercury

* Jupiter’s transit into Leo

This Total Solar Eclipse influences our 6th lunar month of reaping and preparation, into an order change both within our physical world, but more potently within the collective consciousness. It doesn’t stir—it unmakes. It carves space between waking, dream, and astral worlds, inviting detachment from the “I” in your story.

The order change, the perception and projection shift, altering experience of life, dreams, memories, and even time.

Jupiter and Mercury merge, turning rational thought into playful, inexplicable wisdom. The collective takes a big step forward in unity, shifts from material grip toward the sacred, from individual attainment into collective nourishment.

26 Sept - 2 Oct Tuscany Yoga Retreat, 10% off, code: GEMMA

Astrological Yoga Series

This 5th lunar month is about returning. Nestled in Jupiter’s nurturing nakshatra of Punarvasu, and conjunct a retrograde Mercury, this lunar cycle rewinds time to reconnect you with forgotten promises, abandoned dreams, and the parts of yourself you left behind. A trifecta between Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn unfolds the inner world of within and without.

Known as the “return to light” Punarvasu offers the reprieve you’ve been waiting for, only requiring your inward attention. With Saturn in Revati and Jupiter exalted in Cancer, the cosmos are triangulating a powerful relay between wisdom, communication, and spiritual evolution. This is a month to rebuild from the inside out, using service, inner awareness, and a surprising dose of playfulness to integrate past inspirations into material form.

Mars and Saturn work behind the scenes to restore your foundation, while Mercury retrograde heightens your cognitive awareness, unveiling secrets and helping you observe your mind like never before. The energy is lighter, more optimistic, and deeply introspective. The question is: Can you navigate with dexterity, maintain faith, and approach your life like a game you know you cannot lose?

Tune in to explore how to nurture what is trying to become, shift your relationship with your inner world, and return to the light of your own promises. This month is about felt knowledge, not learned knowledge—and the present is your operative word.

Tuscan Yoga Retreat, September 26 - October 4

(USE GEMMA for 10% off your retreat)

Astrological Yoga- Sync with the Moon in the Signs

This week, we journey into the heart of the fourth lunar month under the enigmatic New Moon in Mrigasira.

In this episode, we explore the esoteric depth of this lunar mansion, from its symbolism, to the astral world, and to its parlay into the law of multiplicity. to the deer—the soul wandering through the forest of Maya—to its ruler, Soma, the god of divine nectar. This New Moon asks us to look beyond the material and into the “finer worlds.” It’s a powerful moment for moving through the levels of the mind’s “connection,” for exploring the link between our inner visions and outer reality, and for understanding how proper thought and speech lead to material manifestation.

A gateway of restless curiosity and profound creation. It’s a time when the eternal spark of inspiration meets the vessel of the individual creation through divine projection.

Join us as we discuss how to work with this energy, especially as we approach the retrograde of Mercury, and how to harness the power of the 4th lunar month to reflect on your legacy and co-create with the universe.

🔮 Book a Reading

🍇 Yoga Retreat in Tuscany

🧘🏻‍♀️ Astro Yoga Series- Align with the Moon in the signs

🫶🏼 Follow on Instagram

Saturn takes it's final turn through Pisces for this epoch. A monumental transit that will work solely towards spiritualization, with a bit of restructuring and forays into the psyche. This 13 month transit crosses the final and the beginning of the next karmic evolution, 10 years in the making.

In this episode, I dive into the spiritualization, how Saturn, Mercury, and the Moon will work to elevate conscious unity and the depths of spiritual sight.

Join me each month, on Skool at Ad Astra Tantra as a collective to work with Saturn's grand tour with specific Tantric practices to awaken spiritual sight and ease a monumental evolutionary restructure.

🌙 Lunar Yoga- Practice with the Moon in the Signs, Work with the subtle body to align with the moon's position against the stars.

🍇 Tuscany Yoga Retreat- Sept 26-Oct 2, all-inclusive, use GEMMA for 10% off

🪐 Book a personal reading or Astro Ayurvedic Consultation

This third lunar month, the Sun and Moon meet a 1° of Taurus in Krittika, the zodiac’s razor, calling us to guard the tender fruits of spring as we bridge fire into earth—a sacred passage of spiritualization of will, embodiment of wisdom, and discernment through sensitization.

For our collective evolution, this is not a time for expansion, but for descent, where the unconscious is rising through the courage of receptivity. A soothing of self, is fueled by the fire to illuminate the sacred, and open the heart to receive deeper knowing.

This month calls us to expand into the depth of spirit, and merge our unconscious into our known, a new ordering of understanding.

Lunar Yoga Practices

🌙 Moon in Taurus

🧘🏻‍♀️ New Moon Guided Meditation

🪐 Lunar Astrology Yoga Series

🔮 Consultations & Readings

✨ Guidance Reading (Specific event, question) - NEW OFFERING

🇮🇹 Tuscany Yoga Retreat

Sun & Moon meet at 3°15’ of Aries in the Lunar Mansion, Ashwini. This lunar month will be the emergence the soul-self. Driven by the nodes, and awakening into being. The subconscious and unconscious mind work into a new reality, and the power latent within.

In this episode we dive into the unique pattern occurring between Saturn the Sun and Moon. A karmic reflection that will work to evolve us into new spiritual heights throughout the year.

This month, begins not only the 1st lunar month, and the start of the lunar year, but it awakens the hidden depth of our potential, offering a retribution and reorganization of past and future.

I cover the connection to the Babylonian Saros Cycles. Here are the articles to learn more:

Part I : https://gemmac.substack.com/p/eclipse-series-cycles-of-evolution

Part II : https://gemmacelento.substack.com/p/eclipse-series-cycles-of-evolution

A spiritual reset. The Sun and Moon meet in the Lunar Mansion of Uttarashadha at 4°31’ in Capricorn. Known as the ‘Universal Connector’ or ‘The Moon of Later Victory’. Another month begins in a highly spiritualizing position, and carries a 5 planet conjunction (Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury) in Capricorn. This position amongst the stars is directly connection to the evolution of consciousness, the highest aims of spiritual ascension (mountain tops) to the lowest descent of human (deep waters). It holds a unique point of duality between the worlds heaven and earth, or spiritual and profane.

SHOW NOTES:

* Calculate your Natal Moon Phase & Lunar Mansion

* Understanding Your Lunar Mansion’s Karma & Qualities

* Book a Lunar Astrology Reading

* Retreats

* Lunar Sync 11th Month

Events & Resources: www.gemmacelento.com

LuniSolar- Synodic Calendar: https://calendar.online/138bc27744b6b8c3208e