Elul 5783: Goodbye to The “Gimel” Year

 CHODESH ELUL 5783 (August 17 – September 15, 2023)

ELUL 5783: GOODBYE TO THE “GIMEL” YEAR

“Gimel” Running After “Dalet”

Get ready to say goodbye to 5783, the “Gimel” year (Tav Shin Peh Gimel). The letter Gimel (ג) resembles a person running to do good deeds.  The theme of the Gimel year is generous giving. Coming straight ahead of us is the year 5784, a “Dalet” year. Gimel Daled means "give generously to the poor." (Gemol means to give generously; dalim are poor people). The Gimel pursues the Dalet in order to generously give the Dalet what they lack.  If you gave generously of your time, energy, resources, attention, Torah – next year, the Dalet year, you won’t be poor. Now comes Elul, the last month of the year. Elul is Virgo, the mazal of analytic discernment. We turn our consciousnesses towards teshuva, examining ourselves to discover how we can become better. That’s why Elul is teshuva time!

The Aries/Libra Lunar Nodal Axis squares Pluto all month. This Cardinal Grand Square empowers the energy of initiation. Starting a transformative practice now makes all the difference. With Mercury/Kochav stationing retrograde in Virgo, August 23 through Erev Rosh HaShanah, it’s time to make up for lost time!

The wildest, most imaginative, and most miraculous dreams reveal themselves at the Full “Supermoon” in Pisces on August 30. There’s no shame in dreaming big! Be conscious of what your unconscious mind is telling you. These inner truths come to the surface to wake you up to your own reality.

Venus/Noga ends her rather dramatic retrograde in Leo on September 3 but doesn’t fully emerge from her retrograde shadow until October 3, so don’t bring the curtain down yet. Jupiter/Tzedek in pleasure-loving Taurus stations retrograde September 4 through December 30; maintain vigilant guard against expensive excesses. The only thing you should be going overboard with during the last month of the “Gimel” year is generous giving!

Read Individual Horoscopes for Chodesh Elul HERE