Astrology Newsletter: Leo 2018

Enjoy the Leo Newsletter for 2018!

The Signs of the Time–I wanted to start the column off this month with a few caveats. There is a lot of turmoil in the country right now and some see no hope for change and more righteous governance. If we wake the dead they would remind us of coming to Ellis Island awaiting citizenship beginning January 1, 1892, and World War I and II and Korea and Viet Nam as well as the Great Depression. We all remember the housing and market meltdown in 2008. My suggestion is to remain proactive, fight for what you believe, cast your one vote and then see what happens. Until things change, change you to change the world you touch.

There are a lot of people who write columns and blogs and appear on radio and television with the latest tips on how to be a better person or, whatever. My sensibility is that we are born alone and most of us make our transition back to the Upper World solo. My Vedanta faith asks that I take care of myself and my internal world where God lives, and where I can find peace and comfort. This monthly column offers tidbits to all signs in a general overview for what lies ahead. What we do with the hand life deals us is a personal and individual matter.

Mars is retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter went direct in Scorpio on July 12; Saturn is retrograde in Capricorn until September 6; Neptune is retrograde in Pisces until November 25; Pluto will be retrograde in Capricorn until October 1; Uranus will go retrograde in Taurus beginning August 8 and will remain retrograde through the end of the year. Remember, classmates of mine, that retrogrades lessen the affect of the planet in that sign in which it is retrograde, and also can cause a lot of confusion. Find your inner sanctum if you want to keep body and mind together and functioning healthily.

Fire Signs

ARIES (March 20 – April 20)–You probably think that this Solar Cycle is tailor-made for you. In some ways it fits like a hand to glove for you Aries. On the other hand let’s see the draw backs. The Leo Solar Cycle certainly blesses you in all ways. Your ruling planet Mars in Aquarius seem to be going your way until you realize that Mars is in retrograde. Retrograde planets give off confusing messages. Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn are doing you no good as well. The best you can do is to understand that Mercury in Leo goes retrograde on July 26. Stick to what you know and don’t go out on a reckless limb financially or otherwise this month.

LEO (July 22 – August 21)–You Leos start your Solar Cycle on July 22 with the Moon in compatible Sagittarius. However, Mercury goes retrograde at 23 degrees of Leo on July 26. It will go direct on August 19. Since Mercury is in Leo all lions and lionesses must watch their P’s and Q’s because anything can pop up and cause a rip in the best laid plans. The best way to spend time during this period is to review, alter, and be open to an idea that best waits a few weeks after Mercury goes direct to implement. Being kind and generous to those who need is a good idea as well. Most of all stay within you and don’t take uncalled for chances with time or money.

SAGITTARIUS (November 21 – December 20)–Your ruling planet Jupiter will not move into Sagittarius until November. But remember Jupiter will stay in the Sign of the Archer for one year. Some of us are apt to call Sag the Sign and House in which God lives. Now before you mount your high horse remember you are living in the Lower World where Ego reigns and rules. Your job after November 8, if you accept it, is to continue to resonate with God’s life plan for your life. There are those of us who believe that the nature of Synchronicity is to bring like minded souls together. Those in sync will make enormous changes in the Lower World, whose inspiration for the New World Order comes from the highest authority in the Upper World.

Earth Signs

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21)–Since Uranus sidled into Taurus on May 15 Venus-ruled Taurus has been feeling anything but settled and secure. The prime nature of Taurus is to feel solid and in control, but when Uranus came aboard all that feet-on-the-ground prime characteristic went out the window. Uranus stays in a sign 7 years so you better get attuned to expect the unexpected. Heraclitus, a wise old Greek philosopher said wisely, “The only thing that is constant is change itself.” Where you will feel this most of all is altering your perception of the power of money and also being more open to relationships that do not always soothe and nurture you.

VIRGO (August 22 – September 21)–Since Mercury is your ruling planet you might want to scan the section for Leos. Some signs like Aries and Sagittarius are stirring and moving too fast during any aspect–but Virgos are better at pulling over to the side of the road and wait until the craziness passes. God thoughts for you Virgos would be to stay attuned to meditation and go back to yoga classes. If you need to lose a few stone as the Brits say, hang out with a trainer and reconsider your eating patterns. What Virgos do best–and to some degree too much–is journal and inventory their thinking and behavior. Chill. Stay still. A few weeks of a retrograde won’t upset your life that much.

CAPRICORN (December 21 – January 18)–You are definitely in a refining mode at this time of your life, and have been for a few years. What the Goat does better and more effective than any other sign is to keep plugging away, more often than not in anonymity. It’s like someone has secreted their project and said don’t look until it is ready to be seen and/or used. We as a world are in major overhaul and redo and Capricorn is one of the key players in this operation. The key to the workload is Saturn in Capricorn, which is the sign that it rules, as well as Pluto in Capricorn for a few more years.

Air Signs

GEMINI (May 22 – June 21)–A wrinkle in time you Twins should feel this Leo Solar Cycle is July 22 – August 7 when Venus is squaring you from Virgo. Then it goes into Libra, a sign compatible with Gemini. But a bigger worry for you will be when your ruling planet Mercury will be retrograde in the sign of Leo until August 19. You know the drill: don’t sign any important documents, make any long-term plans or say “yes” to anything that is being decided under Mercury retrograde. If you are careful to not misstep with Mercury retrograde the Sun in Leo is very compatible for you. Affairs of the heart are sure to touch you and make you aware of the importance of special people in your life.

LIBRA (September 22 – October 21)–The Leo Solar Cycle is just what suits and fits you Venus-ruled Scales of Justice brilliantly. On August 7 Venus strolls into Libra. Nothing could be finer. However, it is important never to forget that we have to look at the whole chart and to see where all planets in signs are in our personal astrological 12 Houses. And although Mars is retrograde in Aquarius the connection with Libra is still a factor to consider. Throughout this month no sign can forget that Mercury will be retrograde. The most critical part of Mercury retrograde for you Libras is that you are a deal maker. Cool your jets until Mercury goes direct August 19.

AQUARIUS (January 19 – February 17)–Mars in Aquarius this Solar Cycle is the source of a lot of your problems the last few months. Now that your ruling planet, Uranus is in Taurus you had better be careful about choices you make, especially for the long term. The cardinal characteristic about you Water Bearers is your independence and willingness to go to any lengths to discover what is your life mission. In the Lower World we are impeded from that mission by the interference and blocks from our Ego. Your challenge is to listen to the still small voice within you–recognizing the authentic messages from the allure of the devil Ego.

Water Signs

CANCER (June 22 – July 22)–You Cancers must still be on a high from the Solar Eclipse New Moon at 20 degrees of Cancer on July 12. Eclipses are in affect from one eclipse to the next. The last one was on February 15, 2018. The Solar Eclipse on July 12 could have uprooted you–you may be in the process of buying a new house or rehabbing one. Health issues are on firmer ground and the family seems to be in a good place with one another. Career-wise, this is a prime time for a promotion or new job in another company. Whatever you do, know that you are moving in the right direction.

SCORPIO (October 22 – November 20)–Since Jupiter went direct in Scorpio on July 11 you are ready to walk the tightrope without a net. That Solar Eclipse New Moon on July 12 in Cancer also added to your power points to pick and choose what you want to do with your life. After Mercury goes direct on August 19 a work opportunity that seemed closed will blow wide open. There is no sign like Scorpio, referred to by the ancients as Masters of the Celestial Realm. The only problem you will face is your own insecurity. When ifs and maybes arrive, go inside and get quiet. Ask for a sign and one will appear right in time to help you.

PISCES (February 18 – March 19)–With your ruling planet Neptune still retrograde until November 25 you had better learn to tell the difference between the truth and a lie. Neptune is oftentimes the Master Deceiver, lying in wait for you to be weak enough or desperate enough to fall for one of the slick schemes in the Provocateur’s bag of tricks. Your ally again this month is an active prayer and meditation life. Find a sense of purpose in helping others. The hardest lessons any sign will ever learn is that the Lower World is Reform School. We make our amends and change our ways when we return from the perfect Upper World to become again who we were born to be. Keep the faith, Fishes.

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Person of the Month: Kelly Watson

Kelly Watson was the co-founder of women’s recovery and outpatient centers in Arizona, and worked with National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors to achieve mental health treatment parity in insurance coverage. Kelly earned a bachelors and a doctorate from UCLA where she also graduated from the UCLA School of Dentistry. She worked in the mental health and substance abuse treatment field to ensure that women’s issues were addressed, and remains active in the recovery community in both Palm Springs and Sequim, Washington, where she lives with her wife, Dr. Ronni Sanlo. Kelly’s political activism was ignited when she became the executive producer of the award-winning documentary Letter to Anita. She continues to support LGBT issues in film as Executive Director of “The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen” and an Associate Producer of “Kiss Me, Kill Me.”

Kelly’s most important goals are to participate in ongoing loving kindness in her community.

Birmingham Holocaust Education Center Fund Raiser

Although I am not officially Jewish I am a devotee of the Holocaust Center in Birmingham, Alabama. My dear friend Cathy Ovson Friedman made me aware of BHEC and I decided I wanted to make friends of the Sedona Intensive aware of their unbelievably deep and abiding work for the  Center.

I encourage everyone to support this Center’s efforts to educate everyone about the work being done to make sure that through awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust the world will never have to survive such atrocities again.

The Sedona Intensive is making a donation to BHEC for $1,000.00.  Please join us in making a contribution as well.

Love and Gratitude, Albert Gaulden

More from their website: The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC) seeks to educate the people of Alabama about the history of the Holocaust so that new generations will apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the construction of a more just, humane, and tolerant future. By preserving and sharing the stories of local Holocaust survivors and commemorating the events of the Holocaust and the lives of those who perished, the BHEC seeks to promote a moral and ethical response to prejudice, hatred, and indifference for the benefit of all humanity.

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NEW! Stay-at-Home Sedona Intensive™

I now use SKYPE to be able to see and be seen by clients as I counsel them. This allows those who choose to stay at home and work through life issues to use a service we are now offering called Stay-at-Home Intensive™. Inquire now, 928-282-4723 or albert@sedonaintensive.com to find out more about this service. This Intensive is spread out over several weeks right from your home rather than the 5-days in Sedona.

NEW BOOK by Albert Clayton Gaulden
Moments and Windstorms: Take Back Your Power

This ground-breaking book offers an in-depth journey through the author’s eye-opening addiction to alcohol and how he eventually got sober. Gaulden has written a number of books as well as being Founding Director of the Sedona Intensive, one of the country’s most highly regarded alternative personal growth programs.

The author shares all the ways God was leading and guiding him even when he was still drinking. “Most of us look at false paradigms to measure success in our lives. So much of where I went and the jobs I took helped me remember what I was to do as my life’s work.”

Gaulden’s book is divided into five parts. Each section explores different parts of his journey, incorporating all the places he’s been, the studies he’s made and the people he’s met. His point of view is that each client who sought his help made him a better person. At the end of the book, he has some daunting but hopeful words about the conditions of the planet Earth and what we need to do to survive as a race.

Purchase Moments and Windstorms: Take Back Your Power here (Kindle and Print Editions) 

MELT AWAY YOUR ACHES AND PAINS with GAIL BELL

The MELT Method is a breakthrough self-treatment technique that restores the fluid state and the supportiveness of the body’s connective tissue to combat chronic pain, improve performance and decrease the accumulated stress caused by everyday living. People find their sleep and digestion also improves. The method uses props…three small balls on your hands and feet and a soft roller for your body.

For more information contact Gail at gailgalvanibell@gmail.com.

“I have benefitted from Gail Bell’s M.E.L.T. expertise for several years. It is amazing what a few small balls and a roller can do to de-stress and rejuvenate the whole body. Gail is a practitioner for my Sedona Intensive clients. Her breath work is miraculous, especially for performance work and acting. If you’re in New York, call her and sign up for a class or private instruction. You will realize a significant change in your body from the first session.”
–Albert Clayton Gaulden, Founding Director, The Sedona Intensive™

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Albert is offering weekly sessions via SKYPE or phone that can serve as a push in
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How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood

The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation. Learn through these aphorism how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. This translation draws on the inspired commentary from both Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood.Our flagship title has been completely reset in more readable type, with a new index.

The book is widely used in yoga classes as an important introduction to Raja Yoga. Promoted by George Harrison and featured in his last album.

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“No book ever straightened me out about the Divine and Creator like How to Know God. It is stylized much like a meditation text. You can read a page a day and the sensation of a connection with a Higher Power will grow exponentially. Om. Tat. Sat. Om.“
— Love and Gratitude, Albert

Couples Who Went to the Extreme to Save Their Marriage
An interview with Carl and Joyce Gioia in RedBook Magazine

When Joyce Gioia couldn’t think of anything else to save her marriage and solve the trust issues that were tearing her and her husband, Carl, apart, she decided to make an investment into what she hoped could be a life-long, loving marriage.They packed their bags and headed to the Sedona Intensive: A $16,000 week-long intensive therapy session that helps people release all self-destructive behaviors.

The purpose of this particular therapy was to help them become stronger individuals, and the counseling was never couple-based. In fact, they only saw each other once per morning at 7 a.m. when they attended a 12-step meeting. The meetings addressed addictions—but it had nothing to do with substance abuse—it was focused on things like work addictions and co-dependence issues.

Between the supervised journaling, visits with renowned mental health professionals, and their genuine will to make things work, Carl and Joyce were able to recover their relationship.

“I believed that the nature and the intensity of this self-learning experience would help us move beyond the impasse that was preventing a resolution in our marriage,” Joyce said. And she was right. By looking at each other as total individuals, they were able to discover what was most important to their spouse and cater to those specific needs. Two years have passed and they’re more in love than ever.

Q & A

RedBook – Explain what the Sedona intensive is. 

The Sedona Intensive is a rigorous, weeklong self-exploration. During the week, through concentrated journaling and visits with mental and physical health professionals, we each invested a lot of effort and energy in self-discovery. This self-learning experience is designed and managed by well-respected psychologist Albert Gaulden and includes daily meeting with Albert to monitor progress and ensure results.

RedBook – How did you find out about it?

My brother, who is a nationally acclaimed Emergency Department physician, had gone through this experience with his wife Amber and highly recommended it to us.

RedBook – What did you do at the Sedona intensive? 

Every day, we began by attending a 12-Step Meeting with AA. Then, we had a rotating schedule of appointments with a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a yoga instructor, and/or an energy-balancing professional, and of course, Albert. In our “spare” time, we took independent hikes, though the spectacular Sedona canyons.

RedBook – What made you decide to go to this? 

We decided to do it, because nothing else seemed to be working to resolve our trust issues. I believed that the nature and intensity of this self-learning experience would help us move beyond the impasse that was preventing resolution of our marriage.

RedBook – How did it change your relationship?

We both worked very hard to discover why we engaged in self-destructive behaviors that stood in the way of our sharing the loving relationship we both thought possible. Two years later, we are more in love than ever before.

RedBook – Would you recommend it to others?

Yes, absolutely, if the two people are prepared to approach the experience with open hearts and minds and they are truly interested in doing the work to strengthen the relationship.

Lindsay, as I said before, “I honestly do not know what else we might have done that would have been so effective in turning the relationship around”.

Joyce Gioia

From the Blog

What Our Clients Are Saying About The Sedona Intensive

“The Sedona Intensive was a life changing experience for me. I had been searching for happiness and serenity for over 20 years and as a result of the Intensive I found that I was looking in all the wrong places. I not only experienced what happiness and serenity truly are but now understand the process needed to maintain and enhance that state of being. It doesn’t mean that I don’t experience the ups and downs of life but what it does mean is that those downs do not even come close to impacting me the way they used to. There is now a presence of mind that provides clarity and purpose that did not exist for me prior to the Intensive.

It is impossible to put a value on such a quality of life enhancing experience that the Sedona Intensive provides the person willing to do the work.It is by far the most significant thing I have done in my 62 years.

I came across a quote last week that summed up what I experienced and learned while attending the Sedona Intensive – ‘Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free’ -Bodhidharma (440ce – 528 ce), the Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma: A Bilingual Edition.”

— Gary, Ontario

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ALBERT CLAYTON GAULDEN

Transpersonal psychologist, astro-intuitive, author, lecturer, and founding director of the Sedona Intensive, Albert Clayton Gaulden has influenced countless individuals from all walks of life — actors, athletes, financial specialists, teachers, families, psychologists and psychiatrists — from all corners of the earth — helping them to retrieve their authentic selves and to tap into the inner core of their power. Discover Your Authentic Self with Albert Clayton Gaulden

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