Hello you beautiful people and welcome to Aligned Advantage for July!
We’re so excited to go on this deep dive of each month’s calendar together using the power of the woo-woo tools my momma taught me. 😉
Hooray!
It’s time to tackle the calendar so here we go!
Our Zoom on July 23rd will be about August’s magic. Scroll down to get registered to be a part of that *next* session! ’til then, it’s all about July.
As always, we’ll cover what the numerology of the days mean, what the moon phases tell us, and of course how all this plays out in your favor in the most intriguing and powerful ways! During the Zoom, you’ll get a chance to hop in the hot seat — be sure to bring your birthdate so I can work my magic with you — and we’ll talk about how the woo of the month aligns with YOU!
Please feel free to ask questions in the comments area below and while some will be best-suited for our live Zoom, certainly I’ll do what I can to help explain some of how I make the calendar work for me in the comments before and after our Zooms.
If you need support materials for interpreting the various notations on this calendar, head back over to your Aligned Advantage Welcome page, where I have stored all sorts of goodies for you!
And now… the replay of our live Zoom session about the July calendar and all its juicy goodness! Enjoy!
A few links for you: The handy tipsheet from Soulshine Astrology, Planet Watcher (for current astrology positioning; retrogrades are numbered in red), that handy moon phase/body part/surgery guide; and the Time Passages app (for Windows and Mac on your desktop, for iPhone and Android too)! Hooray!
Questions? Keep ’em comin’! I love these discussions SO MUCH and really enjoy sharing all this learning with you.
Y’all, thank you for joining me in this exciting woo-woo venture! I’m so proud to be the astrologer’s daughter and I know Charlsie is so happy to see this happening right now. 🙂
All my love,
Wanna join us for our next monthly LIVE interactive Aligned Advantage meeting? Register here ASAP! Our next meeting will take place via Zoom on Thursday, July 23rd, at 12:30pm PDT. Translate that to your time zone here.
After you register, you will receive an email with information on how to connect. You are welcome to go on camera for this Q&A session, or simply unmute yourself to participate live audio-only. Yes, we will be recording the meeting and putting its replay up (along with the next calendar) in next month’s page for you to consume. Hooray!
Before the Zoom, please post questions *here* (even though the robot email from Zoom includes an email address for questions). Thank you. 😉
If you’ve never Zoomed before, we recommend you get all set up *before* our meeting. Zoom is free, and there’s info on how to get going here.
And of course, any questions for us, pop ’em in below! Woo HOO!
I wanted to share a fun resource with you all in case you don’t know about it!
I found it in one of Kate Northrup’s materials.
Apparently, Google Calendar has other calendars that you can add to yours that are based on other things like sports, etc. – AND the moon!
So, I found the main one that the article talks about (see below), and added that to mine. It seems to be just the new moon, full moon, and the quarters with their exact times they go into those. But, the article lists a few more places for moon/astro calendars, so I’m going to check those out to see if I can get one(s) with even more info.
The article has more detail on how to add other calendars with just the URL of it, too.
Yay for technology! 🙂
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/technology/personaltech/adding-the-sun-moon-and-stars-to-google-calendar.html
Cooooool! Thanks, Abs!
I won’t be able to make it to July’s meeting. 🙁
I’ll be in class (online). But I’ll see you guys in August.
Homework: my Venus is in Aries in the 12th house (very close to my Mercury). Based on Time Passages, this placement means that my love is quick and energetic, and I have a deep connection with the spiritual world. Or something like that. I value mystical things, and I might even be psychic. Lol.
Now I just need to come up with the lottery numbers :).
How wonderful! 🙂 We’ll miss you, Ivett, but I love what you’ve uncovered about your Venus already. Will be sure to leave you lots of goodies in the replay. XO
thank you for the replay!!
here i thought merc retro didn’t really affect me and i’m trying to get into our Zoom for the the following month and couldn’t understand WHY i couldn’t get into the meeting and why it began 30 minutes prior to what i had on my calendar. it didn’t! & i thought it was the new waiting room situation. so sorry & good grief! haha!
so interesting to learn more about my mercury in taurus & 9th house.
that 9th house miscommunication thing happened with me recently re: words i carefully chose all in combo with the mercury in cancer sensitive stuff — sooooo, it really got me!! i’m not sure what else i could have done to plan better (this was a wednesdayfare post that i didn’t feel i could back away from), but i suppose i did the best i could under the circumstances. i took my time, double-downed with my choice of words in a response, and took a LOT of time working communication with another person who misunderstood a form of communication. it took time with that latter person to make sure communication was thoughtful and respectful so we could reach an understanding, but that’s the place to do the work, i think. AND, what’s interesting is, these events give me more information about those folks, too. dispassionate labeling, right?!
question re: 6th house — i don’t have any planets there, but i *think* my 6th is in capricorn. (or is it aquarius?) anyhoo — might you have a moment to tell me more about that?
and what you describe with taurus and her throat/thyroid — YAAAAS! i have a thyroid issue for which i take meds and when i’m upset i either hold & feel pain in my throat or i feel my gills bristle on the outside of my neck. it’s ALWAYS a signal! it used to upset me and now i welcome the physical signifier!
thank you and looking forward to seeing y’all and learning more VENUS/VALUES this month!
smooches!!
Honey, honey, HONEY! Let’s be sure you flag the emails that come from ZOOM!! Those are what have the link to the meeting and they show up right after you register (and I think again the day before). Of course, one of Mercury retrograde’s favorite tricks is having us THINK we’re not impacted by the snags… so we move too quickly to ever slow down, stop, and really check for what we’re missing. LOL I’m so sorry we missed you but of course I’m thrilled you loved the replay. We’ll jam in person this month of course. 🙂 A few times, even!
You’re right on about that being the place to do the work and it sounds like you’re doing a spectacular job of gathering DATA as you do this awesome work! Yay, you!
So, your 6th house is actually Aquarius. Sixth house = day to day, health. Aquarius = innovation, diversity/inclusion, groups. We can chat about this on the Zoom of course, if there’s time.
My sweet Taurus momma had thyroid stuff to the point that at some point (before I was born or either when I was super young, but I think the former) she had a procedure that left her with those scars at the neck/throat and she had to take synthroid. She was always upset by how she had a “tell” when she got angry because she would “light up like a roman candle,” she would say. I remember the sweat dripping off her hair on the back of her neck when she would get really lit up.
Of course, today, I’d talk with her like you’re doing with yourself and us here, about how much a miracle it is to have a physical SIGN that is so freakin’ clear as to help us make different choices or have calming tactics at the ready. So freakin’ good, Connie Con Con. I love you!
Holy shit. I just had a major aha/thought from reading this and need help, please, to see how to put it together, if it all relates.
I remember you, Bon, talking about the thyroid on the call and I related to it at that point because I’ve had thyroid issues for years. But, I didn’t think of it much past that point.
UNTIL reading Connie’s note about getting the signal in her throat, and then your note about your mom’s throat.
It hit me then that when I’m in an intense session in therapy, or deep in a moment of processing things in somatic experiencing work – in other words: processing deep, intense, traumatic, hard feelings – I ALWAYS have the same sensation in my throat. It’s hard to explain – but it’s like a blockage. It’s hard to swallow, I feel sort of a lump there.
Once it happened multiple times, I knew that was apparently my “go-to” place that would flare up when processing things. But didn’t really know why. I thought maybe it was related to the throat chakra and being a sign of needing to release things via talking, singing, etc. Or something. Who knows.
But – now I’m wondering how (if) it ties in to this stuff here.
The only Taurus I have in my chart is my Chiron.
And/or – could this also happen in areas where Taurus presents itself like a Taurus moon?
Bon – does anything relate here or nah?
Thank you!!
Definitely when we’re in Taurus season each year or in a Taurus Moon each month, this is especially important to notice. The signs/body parts thing is legit whether it’s showing up in your chart in a certain way OR on the calendar in the day to day.
I don’t track Chiron since this particular asteroid-like discovery hadn’t yet happened when my mother was learning, but Rachel Lang and Natalie Walstein (AKA Soulshine Astrology) and other teachers I’ve studied under do. Here’s a recent podcast Natalie did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mZrU75UneI. Check it out and see if it helps answer some of those questions for you!
Even outside of the astrological tie-in, I would say this is worth tracking simply because our brains DO use the “easiest” parts of our bodies to get our attention and there would be value in tracking this from a mind-body healing perspective no matter what, I’d say!
Awesome. That’s all so very helpful, Bon! Thank you!! <3
I am Sean Frost, and Actor has been working with Bonnie for the last few years and found her advice, tools and guidance very helpful. Hope you all are doing well.
Sorry! That was meant to say “hello folks “, not what it says. Argh. But par for the course.
So excited to be onboard for the upcoming Woo! Wondering how/where we need to register birth details to get our chart done with the Aligned Advantage membership.
Oh, fabulous, Suzanne! I’m so glad to see you here. 🙂 My team actually has a to-do list item for when they clock in tomorrow to reach out to you to collect that info! 😉
The THANK YOU page that opened once your payment completed is where everything was, but I know some folks like to close tabs/windows pretty fast after hitting “submit.”
Here’s the direct link to the form (and thank-you page, in case you’d like to see what you missed there). Please let us know if you have any questions! (For fastest help, email help@bonniegillespie.com but of course I’ll be checking in here on the daily.)
Looking forward to jamming with you!
Perfect. They hooked me up. Thanks.
Curious how to make our chart our screen saver on Zoom for the aligned advantage call instead of using a picture so its handy for you for faster reference — if anyone has any idea…
Yay! Glad you’re all set. 🙂
We won’t need to consult your chart on screen during the Zoom. As long as YOU can see it, you’ll be able to use what we talk through to identify where things are in your chart. (And of course, once you’ve filled out the form at that thank-you page, I have everything *I* need about your chart on my end as well.) Woo hoo!
Excited for our jam sesh!
Hi there, Bon. I found out my birth time, and it’s different from what I entered. It is 2:21pm, not 6:30am.
Hi All,
I feel like I jumped into Woo Grad School when maybe I need Woo Kindergarten. I’m new to all of this (sort of). My grandmother was very into astrology as she got older and always tried to get me to listen when she explained my charts. Sadly her lessons didn’t stick on Teen Marie and now Adult Marie wishes I’d paid more attention. Anyhoo….I’m here to learn and soak in all the Bonnie goodness.
I’ve had some interesting eye-opening experiences lately with manifesting and MercRetro (#gimmeyourbestshot) and want to know more about how to really take advantage of star stuff so I can weaponize it for success and learn when to just hunker down and let go. I’m a huge workaholic and very driven…but maybe I shouldn’t always be since some days I think the Universe punishes me for not pushing pause more often.
Are there any newbie resources I should be looking at beyond this Dojo and the things Bonnie shares? I feel like I need an Astrology for Dummies kickstart.
M
Oh, Marie, you are SO in the right place. The main part of next week’s Zoom is going to be my version of that starter kit for the woo. I’m going to go through the signs, the planetary placements, the houses, elements/modes, and numerology. This is going to be your totally approachable but incredibly comprehensive overview of the things you need to know to start in on this.
Meanwhile, the goodies on the welcome page will get you ready for the calendar portion of each month’s Zooms, and you may want to visit this category at my blog for some inspo/overviews (and feel free to post in the comments there too to “yes, and…” or “huh?!? what?!?’ any of that — I’ve put you on preapproval for comments there now too).
Don’t stress about prepping for this. I think you told yourself the advice you need: “some days I think the universe punishes me for not pushing pause more often.” Let’s not turn this into an exam you have to ace. 😉 It’s just friends hanging out, talking woo, and making some stuff that didn’t make sense before feel like “Ooooooooh! THAT explains it!” to us all.
Cool?
I’m so glad you’re here!
Hell yea! Thanks Bon, as always…you rock! Can’t wait to dig in and learn more.
M
I had such a great moment today! I keep a separate calemdar in my Google Calendar where I enter in al the moons and things as all day events, so when I check my calendar app to get a review of the agenda, at the very top on Monday, for example, I saw “Taurus moon”. Today I did not see a moon, and I thought wait it can’t STILL be Taurus moon. WHAT IS IT? And I remembered that I never finished putting in the moons for this month on Google, and I thought, UGH now I need to go turn on my computer and all that to see the pdf. Then I thoight…wait a minute. You KNOW Gemini comes after Taurus! Double check — my husband’s birthday is early May, he’s Taurus, a couple of my Gemini besties had theirs early June, my Cancer friends are having theirs. So yes, Gemini is between Taurus and Cancer. And let’s see, it goes Fire Earth Air Water ForEver&AlWays, So yes, we just had earthy Taurus (and if you have no Earth in your chart and are with a Taurus 20 years you will never be able to forget that Taurus is Earth!!!), so we’re due for an Air, Gemini is Air. Quadruple check — Before I even got dressed I was seized with the need to start working on my 750words entry for the day, and I opened up Evernote on my phone and used the mic to dictate over 1400 words on my thoughts regarding ONE WORD of my daily affirmations. Yesterday I could barely grind out the 750 by 11:30pm, and MOST days I totally forget about it or miss the goal. OF COURSE, it was an air day!
And of course, I have to do FOUR checks because I do have so much fire and air, and am generally not all that grounded, so I came up with that today was a 7…not because I did the math wrong but even staring at my phone calendar, I was convinced somehow that it was the 14th.
Another fun fact: I have noticed that during Earth moons, I tend to be drawn to listening to pop music from my teens and also music from earlier that I discovered in my teens…lots of Barbra Streisand, Gloria Estefan, Cyndi Lauper. During Air moons, I tend to want to listen to newsy podcasts. Sometimes that has been good for me but now…no no no. It’s all bad and there’s nothing I can do about it but stay inside, which I was going to do anyway. So I said, no, stick with Gloria, listen to the words for inspiration, practice your Spanish, take a dance class and try to communicate with your body, practice singing, read lines, go clutter up your story on IG, DO NOT LISTEN TO DOOM for your communication fix. And I actually took my advice, and here I am, actually having had a productive day during an air moon instead of spinning out, while isolating.
Woman!
This is epic and you are inspiring the hell out of me!!
Oh, and this: “Fire Earth Air Water ForEver&AlWays” is brilliant and I will be using that forevermore!! How wonderful!
I love how you’re tracking patterns and learning to trust yourself with what you’re feeling and KNOW it’s probably true. You’ll double check less over time. 😉 And HONEY, on the 1400 words thing? Gemini just had me write this after the Expansive Capacity meeting. https://bonniegillespie.com/circles-of-safety
Because OF COURSE.
LOL!!
You may also appreciate that for the Fire Earth Air Water mnemonic, I STARTED with imagining Elmer Fudd trying to say FEAR, so FEAW, but then I said, “You know, you think about this a lot, do you really want to be saying even a silly version of “fear“in your head that often?“and I probably would not have thought about that without the mindset work. But anyway, I took a couple of minutes to think of a more positive, or at least neutral, idea, thus ForEver&AlWays was born.
Very much looking forward to continuing this journey I started last year! In prep I spent all day yesterday creating a spreadsheet with all my personal and general Woo info: astro, numerology, natal chart, fascinate. My Woo Cheat Sheet if you will.
Couple quick Qs.
1. I continued tracking the numerology days from the Aligned calendar you gave me back in August 2019 for September. Comparing my current July calendar with the SMFA one I am somehow a day off. I quadruple checked my ability to count to 9 and then repeat and don’t see where I could be 1 number off. (I have July 18th as a 1 day whereas you have it as a 2. The only thing I could come up with is that there was a Feb 29 this year. Does that affect things? Do I need to recheck my calendars AGAIN? Have I been living the last 9 months incorrectly?!??!!?
2. More contemporary numerology (and in Dan Mellman’s book) talk about double-digit birth years because of people being born later in the decades of the last half of the 1900s. What’s your philosophy on that? I’m taking a deeper dive into my family and one ends up being 39/12. Stop there? Reduce it to 12/3 and maybe there’s some 9 mojo in the background? Birthdate is 6/18/1977.
Thanks!
So glad you’re spreadsheeting the shit out of this. And seeing your chart, I have no question why you would do that. 😉
I think the flaw in your calendaring comes from your assumption that whatever the last day of the month’s numerology is, the first day of the next month has the sequential number as its numerology.
It doesn’t.
For example:
October 31, 2020 = 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 9
November 1, 2020 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 7
So, if you were always starting a new month with whatever the sequential number after the last day of the month before’s numerology was then, yes, you have been living off-kilter from the actual numerology of the days probably almost always. I’m sure there’s one month in there, just statistically, that COULD HAVE started on the same day as your system.
As for the Dan Millman goodness, I don’t use any of the “angel number” theory that he does. Not in terms of the raw birth info or in terms of the way the numbers add up. So, for me, someone who is a 33/6 is just a 6 who gets there by way of the 3 (vs. a 24/6, who gets to 6 by way of a 2 and 4, energetically). Similarly, someone whose birth year happens to be 1977 is no more numerologically special than someone whose birthday is 11 (like me!!) or 22.
I think some of the bigger-than-the-basics woo-woo stuff is just authors, practitioners, gurus trying to put their own brand or spin on things, hoping they’ll take root (and often those things do). But I kick it old-school (and super simple, to boot, since I was so very young when I first learned all of this, which required that it all be stupid easy for my still-developing brain to grasp). 😉
Excited to jam with you like this!
Well, shit. That’s enlightening and makes complete sense. Now I can’t wait to go back and renumber the calendars and compare. Thanks!
I knew there was 1 more question. When figuring out a person’s current year, if it adds up to 0, that’d be a 1 right? Since the year before adds up to a 9 and the year after ads up to a 2. But does the 0 have any special significance? Or does it have… 0 significance?
There is no adding up to a zero. 😉
Every combination will give you a single digit when you add it all down.
So, show me the actual combination you’re trying that’s yielding a zero for you, because it’s not mathematically possible to add positive whole numbers together and come up with zero… ever.
I’m excited to see how you make that happen!! Because if anyone can, it’s YOU!
oh yeah. 1+0 = 1. I’m sure at some point logic took over and I realized that, then at some point forgot. I blame my brain being out of commission for the past week.
Am I missing something? Where is the August calendar to print out ahead of our Zoom call tomorrow located? The one here is still July. I have a vague feeling I have this issue every month and then I eventually find it, but I’m asking here too just in case haha…
No worries, babe! The calendar is always changed out on the welcome page for you ahead of time. 😉 There’s a link to the welcome page on this page too. The email is to remind you to get registered at Zoom (if you haven’t yet). The new month’s page will be opened for you along with the replay (for which I’ll also send out an email).
Ahhh ok thanks. I registered for the call already and I also somehow *still*got the day of the call wrong on my calendar! hahaha I am having epic pandemic brain the last few days! 😉 (lots of crying too, as was so astutely predicted in the Cancer moon lol)
Love that Cancer moon! It never disappoints. 😉
Also I just loooove how the screenshot of last months call just happened to be captured when I was shoving veggie straws in my mouth with abandon. sigh.
#soonbrand lol
Yeah… that was the first thing I noticed. It was great.
As usual, I love all this goodness. Feeling more tapped in to so much around me, especially the skies. I have been using the body parts and working with integrating them in to chakra work and studying the chakras more deeply. Integrating the work of the chakras with meditations , mantras and affirmations.
The calendar is on my desk 24/7 and it is one of the MUSTS to check in with it as much as possible.
It is still so wonderfully mysterious and fascinating at the same time. Looking forward to Venus.
My Venus sits 5 degrees in scorpio in the 7th house (lots of signs in the 7th house). Looking forward to learning more. I may be a little intense in the relationship department I am presuming?
Ooh, Bex, go tug out that email from the 13th about prepping for this week’s meeting! We’re actually tabling Venus and I’m doing an overview instead. I detail it in that email. 🙂
I love that the calendar is out for you like it is for me. It’s such a big help!! You’ll have to share some of what you’re learning about the chakra work! Very exciting!!
It’s fascinating how the signs divide dominion over different body parts. As ruler of the head it seems like Aries should also rule over eyes, but nope it’s Virgo. Looking over your Body Parts and the Signs post it was creepy how with some signs, like Virgo, I have had significant issues in everything it rules over “Virgo: Ruler of the digestive system, pancreas, intestines, colon, eyes, and ears.”
Putting that in context with the 2nd house, and old patterns I am seeking to release, it’s eerie to see how deep the feeling that I cannot have what I would like most in life is running and how often I have gotten hurt when my personal values and integrity run against the grain of those in perceived authority including parents and teachers, especially those who were doing deep wrongs or small and constant offenses to basic goodness. Then combine that with the numerology indicators you are teaching about and wow! Insightful and helpful stuff!
As a “new” to the concept of me having Leo in my chart person, it’s been weird adapting to the idea of having significant Leo influence in my chart and make up. I have known sunning Leos and haven’t felt like I have much in common with them. After JFDI the other day I started thinking about what you said and realized that maybe it’s part of why I have often been so frustrated.
Maybe the Leo aspect is one of the things that attracts and repels people that I just can’t help. When I feel safe the Leo aspect must show up stronger as an irrepressible want to help and bring healing and laughter. When I don’t feel safe I shut down and become very, very quiet to the point that people who have seen the “real me” don’t recognize me and would never believe I can be that quiet, whereas the people who have only seen the quiet version of me don’t recognize the creative, happy healer. It’s the people that are more comfortable with the quiet version of me that I have learned to watch out for because I have found they do their best to squash the Leo in me, something about the real Leo me makes them very uncomfortable and even frightened. It’s like the brighter I am, the more curious, happy and open to learning I am, the faster those kinds of people need to do their best to put me in the place they think I should be in.
Sun sign Leos I’ve met and known didn’t seem to get shut down like that or have a quiet protection mode side. They always seemed to shine no matter what the situation.
AAaaand, here we are with the reality of all the natal retrogrades: Everything turns inward. Boom.
Love seeing you work this out. And REALLY love seeing the full(er) expression of who you really are as an artist and healer. Looking forward to full(est), may you feel safe enough to share and strut!!
I will be logging on 30 minutes late, just after 1 Pacific time…finishing up a piano lesson!