Hello, everyone!
I’m back from a very successful trip back East, where I picked up several new clients in both of my vocations: astrology and accounting/taxes. As someone highly influenced by Gemini, the sign of the twins, I always have two businesses that I run at the same time, and each, I’m happy to report, is flourishing.
During the last three weeks I’ve posted the Astro4Business weekly forecasts but not the daily updates. I can tell from my Google Analytics visits stats, which fell about 50%, that my readers appreciate the daily updates so I will continue them. It would be interesting to see how the stats would do with only the daily posts and not the weekly forecasts. I’ll have a chance for that experiment in December when I go to London for 2 ½ weeks. In the meantime, let me know: which do you enjoy more, daily or weekly, or do you regularly read them both?
This week we are firmly in the waning Moon part of the lunar cycle, the time to make adjustments, get our new products into circulation, and get ready to hand off our most recent projects. We may not have accomplished everything we wanted to; we may need to adjust to the realities of what actually did get done. This is a time when the ‘real world’ intersects with our own hopes and dreams and we may have to let go of some of our ambitions.
But as soon as we bring our expectations down to size, we will see how we can work constructively with others. All is not lost and the results from sharing our efforts and our successes may be even more satisfying than trying to go it alone. Let others in this week and let your project morph from your own creative expression to a joint endeavor. Then when it’s time to hand it off next week, you’ll have ready hands available to take it to the next level.
There’s a whole lot of Scorpio energy in the air this week as well which is similar to this lunar phase. Scorpio is a point of crisis at which we have to decide whether we will take other people’s values and desires into consideration or continue to set our own course based on our own skills and resources. This is a crisis point because as much as other people’s resources can support and even bankroll our businesses, there are real consequences to this kind of interdependence. So take every step carefully this week. Think through the long-term ramifications of investing time and energy into more committed partnerships or alliances. They may be favorable or not: I’m just saying to go in with your eyes open and all cards on the table.
Be sure to check in each day this week as we explore these subjects more deeply, including that Venus Retrograde post I promised you a couple of weeks ago.
Do you have a question for Ellen? See the “Work with Ellen” tab at the top of this site for my Straight to the Point Response service.
For an overview of the month, see the Astro4Business Month Ahead – October 2010
#1 by Tesa on October 25th, 2010
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There you are!!
Very glad to hear your businesses are thriving!
Hard choice about daily posts vs weekly…. I love them both! I guess if I had to pick one or the other, for me right now, the weekly overview is more crucial to my understanding. But the daily ones are totally rockin’ too…
Either way, I respect your need to reel it in a little bit, but know how much your blog is appreciated, looked forward to, adored….
YOU’RE AWESOME!
peace!
Tesa
#2 by ruth on October 25th, 2010
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Ellen – I read both, and find them both very helpful, on different levels. The overview helps to see the big picture, and the dailies give more focused elements. I would be sorry if you gave up either (or both –Arrgghh!!), but understand that this is very demanding of your time.
Love – wish I had gotten a chance to catch up with you while you were on this “side” of the country.
#3 by Natalie on October 25th, 2010
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Hi Ellen
Also read both. Like I’ve said before, I love the business approach. It’s something I don’t find anywhere else. Congrats on your businesses! Way to go!
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#4 by Annie B on October 25th, 2010
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I read all of it! Welcome back.
#5 by Barbara on October 26th, 2010
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Hi Ellen,
I read both weekly and daily and find it hard to choose one. Like today Oct 26 is awesome and so important for me ( 5 planets in scorpio – yet I hate conflict but I am not afraid to look at the dark side of things). At other times, the weekly overview gives a persective that I find valaubale.
I wonder if you might alternate between the daily and weekly as you are inspiried to wirte. A week with planets changing signs and a full moon might be a tough one though, just a thought.
So glad your busineess are flurishing
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#6 by Ellen Longo on October 27th, 2010
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Thanks Barbara, and nice to hear from you. I was in your neck of the woods for a few weeks – it is so beautiful there.
#7 by Ellen Longo on October 27th, 2010
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Thanks, Annie.
#8 by Ellen Longo on October 27th, 2010
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Thanks, Natalie and congrats on finishing your project. What’s next?
#9 by Ellen Longo on October 27th, 2010
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Thanks, Ruth. I like to write them both, too. Your “side” of the country is so beautiful at this time of year. It made me long to return.
#10 by Ellen Longo on October 27th, 2010
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Thanks so much, Tesa.
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