Intention for America - The Power of Intention

As creators of our own universes, we are also interconnected in the act of creation with each other and our society and then across the continent even into other universes. Our thoughts are the electrical or inspirational force that binds with our emotions to create or manifest all we see. It is this power that we share and it is this power which we can choose to direct together to expand, heal and empower our worlds. Many people around the world are working together to consciously activate a positive force for good in our world. I am a part of a small group of intenders. We are now working on this intention and I wanted to share it with you because you might like to participate with us.

All you need to do is clear yourself (take three deep breaths slowly releasing all concerns in your world and opening to Spirit, the light, God or whatever great power of love you work with.) Feel your body relax. Then read the intention and take ten minutes in silent meditation to activate the field of consciousness within and without you. Allow yourself to see the activation, feel the joy of healing or release the sadness of cleansing. Allow yourself to be fully active in your own divine state.

I hope you find this helpful at this time.  When we are surrounded by chaos, we always find strength in the peace of our own divinity. In this very heart of creation we are embraced by love.

(Please note, this intention can be focused on any nation, city or place, not only here in America; and you can do this with a group of like-minded people too.)

Hurricane Florence - Nature's Force of Change

I know I have lots of friends in the path of this hurricane. Please make sure to stay aware and let your guidance keep you safe. Having lived in the Carolinas and in New York, I have been in a few hurricanes. I have seen them as Spirit's way to transform the land and move people around. Many of us only see them for their destruction and that of course is the most obvious and sometimes terrifying part. But in the long run, each individual is forced to see life differently when they have been in a hurricane. 

Some have no home to go to and it is heart breaking, but on some other level, Spirit is freeing them to change course in life.

We must learn to work with nature and Spirit, so despite the awful experience of this physical power of nature, we see the good or change that will come from it. That change takes place personally, and on a grand scale networking people across states to support each other.

Disasters cross all boundaries and we remember that we are human and we need each other in times of crisis. We put aside all differences and help each other. If only we could remember to do this all the time. All the things that cause division will come and go but our love for home, family, furry ones and nature will sustain.

Everyone in the path of this hurricane is in my prayers.. please join me in keeping them safe, together we can turn down the storm. We must see it as calming down. Breath into the storm with your intention and together it can calm down. We are a great force - humanity - because we can use our intention to manifest anything. Join me in creating a calming energy for the hurricane and let us tame it together.

Intention Creates Your World - Love Joy Money Opportunity

I woke up this morning with a directive to share with you. Take your intention to a new level. It is time to realize that every thought you have that activates your emotions creates into the physical reality. This of course is alchemy. The mixing of fire (electrical activation of the mind through thought and inspiration) and water (the emotional excitement or fear) manifests gold - only when what your mix is of a positive nature. The negative fear based stuff makes coal - the 666 carbon based substance that takes centuries of pressure to purify into the diamond. Haven't we all had enough of those pressures? Let's change that now.

In our divine essence, we are all diamonds, but with all that we have done over the millenniums, diverting and forgetting who we are, we have come to a place of chaos. Just as our planet appears to be filled with chaos and our oceans with waste, we each have forgotten who we are and the process that created all of this - both our original essence and the chaos we stand in. It is time to clean up.


Yes we can recycle and clean the environment - that is important on a daily basis. But what is most important is cleaning our own thought process. When we do this every day, we not only discover peace but we create it throughout the world.

I created this painting just for this note. I call it:
"Human Balancing The Divine"

So let me share a little on how to do this easily and effectively.
Each morning when you wake, instead of going through a list of to-dos, begin your day with gratitude for your breath. Realize you are breathing and feel its impact in your body as the oxygen excites your blood and your body comes alive. Feel the energy as it moves through your body and be grateful for being alive on this beautiful planet. Now ask the beings, angels, guides, ancestors, elementals and all the helpers around you to keep you consciously grateful throughout the day. Give them a physical means to remind you to shift to gratitude. Maybe ask them to show you a symbol, a feather, a license plate, a bird, a color. Or if you are more auditory, then perhaps a sound, a song, a word or anything that you will recognize. If you are kinestetic, then ask for a feeling, a twinge in your hand, a pinch on your arm, a breeze through your hair. Consciously intend to manifest only what you want today. Joy, laughter, peace, abundance, love, wonder, etc. Say out loud: "I, Michele (insert your name here) am consciously manifesting my world now. I am filling it with ... (add all things you want to fill it with here.. if money is an issue, use words like abundance, resources or opportunities instead of money or cash because words like money have too many negative connotations.) Next get out of bed and stretch your arms out from your sides and consciously open all the chakras in your hands, your head, your feet, your spinal column. That will include feeling and imagining or actually seeing light flow through and shoot out of: every finger, the palms of your hands, every toe, the bottoms of your feet, every bump of your spine in your back and neck and the top of your head. Feel the energy flow from the top of your head through all these parts of your body. Feel it flow out flooding your world with energy and light. Now feel it come up from the heart center of Mother Earth - Gaia and let it flow again through all these points. Finally put one hand over your heart and point your other hand to the heavens; and begin to breath through your heart. As you breath in feel love fill your heart expanding it, and as you breath out feel the love energy flow out of your heart into the world. Now you are ready for the day. You should feel light and loved because you have just loved yourself, allowed the beings around you who adore you to love you, and connected with your Earth Mother who has created every cell in your body, to love you. During the day pay attention to how your emotions wrap around your thoughts and as you do, make sure your thoughts are ones you want to manifest. They should be productive for you, not filled with fear or anger or challenge. If you do this for just one day you will start to notice how you are thinking and how you are creating your world. You can change it and make it what you want. Stop thinking about the details of how things will happen, leave that to Spirit - that is how we have miracles. Yes we do have miracles and we can have them every single day. We are the creators of our own worlds - so create the world you want. I challenge everyone who reads this, to do this simple technique for 21 days. Mark your calendar, if you miss a day, continue at that moment and fulfill this challenge. I guarantee it will change your life into the miraculous one you only thought happened in fairy tales. Sending hugs to you.. you are always in my heart.. xxxooo Michele Avanti CAP, is an internationally Certified ISAR Astrology Professional, an award-winning author & artist and a metaphysical consultant. She has been teaching and consulting in metaphysics since 1972. Click the consultations tab above to learn more about what Michele offers.

Solar Eclipse Aug 11, 2018, 18 degrees Leo, 19 year cycle

Been very very busy and so I have missed everyone for a while. But despite the fact that I am packing for trip tomorrow, I wanted to make certain everyone has a heads up about Saturday's solar eclipse.. this is a biggie and it can be a life changer for you.. it is one that happens once every 19 years, and it will amplify - help manifest anything you create as your intention at this time.. so tonight and tomorrow.. please state clearly your intention for the next 3.5 years. Abundance, true love, career advancement, a child, a home, etc... make it clear and let your emotions fill it up. If you know your chart, the eclipse is 18 degrees Leo, so if you know what house it lands in in your chart, that will also indicate how it will best amplify, expand or add to your life. (occurs at 2:56 am PT / 5:56 am ET)

Here is a quick run of the houses, so you get the idea and if you need to see your chart (since I will be out of town) go to the link below and you can make your chart and see where this eclipse will land.

1st house - all about how your appear, your looks, your ability to attract based on your looks, how people see you.

2nd house - your income, how you spend your money and what you really value.. what's important enough for you to spend money on.

3rd house - your communication skills, how you think, who you talk with in a personal way, your neighbors and your siblings.

4th house - your home, where you live, your relationship to your mom, your emotions, how you sleep at night, your dream-state.

5th house - everything you love from people to things, your children, your investments, your social life, your hobbies - this is the house where you fall in love - with anything.

6th house: your health, your workplace, how you serve the world, and how you eat.

7th house - your one on one relationships, those people you hold close including best friends, business or marriage partners.

8th house - sharing of resources with others, this house includes all the ways we share our resources from money to our bodies, it is the house of reproduction, taxes, inheritances, mortgages, loans & credit cards, etc.

9th house - higher education, legal matters, international travel, internet, publishing, media, spirituality, religion, imports & exports.

10th house - Career - this can be the career you do every day as well as the way you see your purpose in life.

11th house - the house of wishes & dreams.. what do you desire for not just yourself but for the world at large, it is also the home of international organizations.

12th house - areas of imprisonment, how do you imprison yourself, how do you sabotage yourself.. these are often issues that lie more in the subconscious than in the conscious and this house links them up to past lives.

Link for your chart: https://www.astro.com/cgi/ade.cgi

How to identify the houses.

Please enlarge the chart that I have posted and you will see the numbers of the houses on it. They read counter clockwise with the first house starting below the horizon line on the left. Each piece of that pie is called a house in astrology.

Mercury Retrograde Begins - Perfect Storm Approaches for Trump

Mercury Retrograde Begins Today July 25, 2018

So begins another Mercury Retrograde... I expect you have been experiencing it already as we have been in the shadow for the last two weeks. At 10:03 pm PT tonight (1:03 am ET) Mercury will station retrograde at 23 Leo 27. For Aquarius, Scorpio, Taurus & Leo born with their sun between 18 & 28 degrees, you will likely have some people or social events return out of the past. If your Mars is within these degrees, you want to be more cautious driving or using anything metal today, because your mind will likely be out of sync with your body. So pay attention.

Leo is such a social sign that I expect this to be an easier retrograde than those we have experienced in the recent past. 

Though for the American president, it is not likely to be that at all. His social past will be on display as it began last night with a tape released. This 23 degrees directly semi-sextiles his natal Saturn creating more friction in his workplace, and close relationships, as it reveals hidden investments from love affairs to money.

But this is only a set up as the planets continue to move into a perfect storm, which occurs around September 6th when Saturn stations and some form of judgement arrives.

Saturn is the planet of discipline, hard work, structure. As it travels through our charts, it forms aspects that ask us to examine our structures and to work through the issues regarding what we have learned from our fathers or those in authority. It is a planet that can take everything away from us if we have not learned the lessons we set for ourselves before we were born (as seen in our charts.)

For this president, a perfect storm is gathering when Saturn stations in a quincunx to his progressed Saturn, while Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune also activate other planets and luminaries in hard aspect in his chart. This day could be a physical event as well as a legal one.

Michele Avanti CAP is an ISAR Certified Astrology Professional. She has been teaching and consulting with clients since 1990. Michele works with clients around the world by phone. Her expertise is in natal, relationship, relocation and fixed star astrology. Visit this link for more information on the CONSULTATIONS she offers and how to connect with her for an appointment.

Summer Solstice - Cancer Ingress - Astrology Outlook

Early this morning the Sun entered 0' 0" Cancer, signaling the Summer Solstice, or beginning of summer. A time celebrated for centuries as the longest day of the year, the beginning of the harvest season. Many traditions from watching sunrise at Stonehenge to bonfires in Norway, and Yoga publicly performed across India are ways the world celebrates this day.

Astrologically it is a day of power, where the energies of second Cardinal sign, Cancer open a doorways of nurturing, nationalism, family endeavors, reunions, resolutions, as well as possible new challenges. Most significantly in mundane astrology (the study of the resonance of planets and luminaries on nations, cities, governments, kings and rulers) it creates a new chart by location of what will ensue over this three month period (June 21 - September 21.)

Here is the 2018 Cancer Ingress* chart for the United States of America.

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The first geometric configuration that we notice is Neptune at the Midheaven (top of the chart.) It is in, what astrologers call a Grand Trine (120 degrees apart) with Jupiter in the 5th house and Mercury in the 1st house. This Trine is not fully activated in this chart because Neptune and Jupiter are both retrograde and thus not fully engaging Mercury. Jupiter will go direct on July 10th and begin to connect with Mercury, but the implications of this grand trine will likely not be clearly visible till after August 23rd. 

So what does this Neptune, Jupiter, Mercury trine indicate? 

Neptune at the Midheaven indicates lies, stories, illusions, fantasies, conspiracy theories, as well as at a more physical level, oil or other underground resources like natural gas, etc, will be in the public's eye and keenly associated with the mission, or work of the United States, its president, and those who run this government. They will also either be noted or promoted by judges. 

Because Neptune is in the second deconate* of Pisces, it emphasizes families and children, as well as all issues of nourishing or care. 

Additionally the Sabian symbol for Pisces at 16 degrees: The Flow of Inspiration

Blain Bovee, a Sabian Symbol* specialist states:

Pisces 16 is expressive of free flowing intuition and inspiration. It is natural, but sometimes out side the bounds of our idea of civilized behavior. When ego-identity and refinement of character fit easily with genuine, raw life energy, the impact is impressive, compelling and deeply alluring.

Adding all of this together you can see that the focus of this nation over the next three months will center around a variety of questions regarding 

• lies, 
• conspiracies, 
• families, 
• children,
• our idea of civilized behavior, 
• ego-identity and 
• character. 

I believe this has already begun its activation as we look at issues now emerging regarding our immigration system, but it will get bigger. It will include judges and judgments. 

Mercury at 16 degrees of  Cancer in the first house is the second leg of this trine which dominates this chart. Mercury is the planet of communication. It indicates what we are speaking and thinking about. Thus all the issues of focus pulled in by Neptune are not only seen but being discussed. Since it is in the first house, it is talk about this nation, about who we are. 

The Sabian Symbol for 16 degrees of Cancer is: A man before a square with a manuscript scroll before him

Without question this indicates the people of American examining the details to find the truth. This is the Mercury that questions and looks deeper than what is being said for what is hidden. 

Mercury is in the second deconate of Cancer which add the Scorpio influence to this discussion. Scorpio always looks behind the king to see who is in control and then it figures out how to take control itself. So consider this as you consider what Americans are discussing and thinking about at this time. 

Jupiter at 13 degrees Scorpio

Now we will add Jupiter at the transformational number of 13 degrees in the transformational sign of  Scorpio in the fifth house, the house of all the things we love and invest in, from children, to hobbies from social fun to monetary investments. 

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system and astrologically it expands and makes things more noticeable or bigger. It also rules the internet, all forms of media from television and film to magazines and advertising. Additionally it rules imports, exports, international travel, religions, higher education and even legal processes such as court hearings and legal paperwork.

The Sabian symbol for 13 degrees Scorpio is: An Inventor Experimenting

This symbol is such an amazing one in this chart, it shows Americans at their best creatively working together to solve the issues that involve our national character, situations involving children that may be foreigners, issues perhaps of immigration, as well as how we invest our money and how we work with the court systems. Even issues of import/export may come under the inventive minds of the American people. 

Jupiter here is in the second deconate (as are all three of these planets, the number 2 is the number of choices) which is Pisces. Pisces is the dreamer, the one who creates through imagination. Pisces can be joyfully creative or dismally drugged. But the trine is a doorway that activates opportunities to step beyond what may be holding one back. Thus it gives us the opportunity to leave the drugged state of lies, mis-information or fake news to see the truth and thus take action to transform. 

There is so much more to discuss in this chart... I will return to add more info... but if you are student of astrology, I welcome your input.. we all come with different eyes, different backgrounds, so each can add an angle to understanding that expands knowledge for everyone. (and yes that is Jupiter in a nutshell..lol) 

Michele Avanti CAP is an ISAR Certified Astrology Professional. She has been teaching and consulting with clients since 1990. Michele works with clients around the world by phone. Her expertise is in natal, relationship, relocation and fixed star astrology. Visit this link for more information on the CONSULTATIONS she offers and how to connect with her for an appointment: 

*Ingress means enter, in this case the Cancer Ingress refers to the Sun entering 0 degrees of Cancer.

*Deconate is the word used in astrology to denote the energies of planet as it travels through a constellation. In this case Neptune is in Pisces, thus Pisces would be the energy of the first 10 degrees of this constellation, Cancer would influence the next 10 degrees and then Scorpio the last 10 degrees. The influence is based on the element of the constellation, which in the case of Pisces is Water. 

*Sabian Symbols - this study comes from The Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Marc Edmund Jones written in 1953. There are many new books on this subject, You can find them on Amazon