Mars Trine Jupiter, Ceres Into Sagittarius | just START, the braver we are the luckier we get, life is helping us get out of the things that no longer make sense, moving from grief to hopefulness, support for caregivers and nurturers, time to find a way through

Today we have Mars (in Aries) trining Jupiter (in Sag) at 16 degrees. Mars - our passion, initiative, how we go about getting what we want - in fiery Aries (his home sign) is the ultimate energy to START. Trining (brakes off) our lucky and abundant Jupiter - another powerhouse in his home sign - tells us it is the time to get something GOING.

Be brave!

The waxing Libra Moon (the Moon moved into Libra last night at 11:02PM EST) and the Aquarius Sun are trining, too. This is great energy for collaboration, cooperative ventures, taking action within a group or in a public setting. Promotion. BOLD communication.

Whatever it is - do you know the themes of your natal Sagittarius and Aries houses? It's a GO.
 
Mars will give us the courage to try and the trines will allow the right energies to fall into place smoothly.

There is no beating our head against the wall with this one.

The only fly in today's ointment is the Moon squaring Saturn late in the evening. This could have us butting heads with authority/limits/time or forecast tension between our partners/partnerships and our goals/career.

Another positive today, and this one is long-lasting, is Ceres (who is set to play a big role in January 2020's meeting of Saturn/Pluto - energies in play now) is coming up from the depths of the Plutonian realm of Scorpio and flying into the blue skies of Sagittarius.

Life has been trying to help us get out of the things that no longer make sense. We are creatures that are literally created from a craving for what is familiar. It is hard to let go.

We are like, "sure I can get rid of things/beliefs/situations/people .. oh wait, THAT?, no, I don't want to get rid of THAT!"

Ceres out of the underworld will help.

It is not about forgetting - our loss/lack of control - but now able to get to a loftier perch we can see the big picture or maybe a glimpse of those bluer skies available to us in the days, weeks and months ahead.

Ceres out of Scorpio and into more optimistic Sag is good news for caretakers and nurturers.

Ceres will be in Sagittarius (including her retrograde) until the middle of November. This is good news for our Ceres storylines - lack of control especially involving losses, cycle of life changes, nurturing, loss of beloved pets and loved ones. We can feel better.  The first step is wanting to feel better. We can have faith that things are falling into place even in the times they look like they are just falling apart. Bigger hands than ours have got this thing.

Jupiter is the sign of faith and we have the great gift this year of Jupiter in his home sign. Faith truly can move mountains. 

Mercury is finally in a friendly air sign. Ceres is out of Scorpio. Mars is playing nicely with Jupiter and Mars won't be in Aries for long folks, we better get MOVING.

Saturn is moving into a sextile with Neptune next week

(remember in 2016 when we only had Saturn/Neptune squares that seemed to erode what was genuine/all hope of things just being normal and ordinary, we couldn't tell what was real - well in 2019, we are getting the opportunistic sextiles - the spaces where reality and our dreams can come together! the disillusionment and surreality of the past leading us to some solid understandings).

Yes, there are challenges ahead. There are always challenges.

But, things are looking up today. We can be, too. Lift your head. Have courage. Find a way through.


xo all

Mercury into Aquarius thru February 10th | the conversation changes, our thinking shifts, seeing situations from a less emotional perch, don't look backward you aren't going that way

Mercury (our thinking, information, communication) FINALLY gets into an air sign today with his/her move into detached and future-focused Aquarius.

Yes, it's fixed air, so people are not always flexible, but at least we've got some air!

One less planet in cardinal Capricorn and, now, without the South Node in Aquarius - detachment can be our friend. We step back. We view our situation from an observer position.

Does what we are saying/signing/thinking/writing MAKE SENSE?!

Some people think Aquarius represents independence (Aries), but more accurately Aquarius represents individuality. Think about it. There is an independent spirit here, yes, but since Aquarius rules the 11th house of groups, it shows people bound together by a cause. So, in Aquarius we find a better way to work together so it benefits everyone or else we go our own way.

These are the only two outcomes for Aquarius. Aquarius is the space in your chart where it's never going to work to follow the crowd just for the sake of fitting in, you will always have to do things differently. Our rough, uncomfortable rebel edges are there for a reason.

So, three things happen when Mercury changes signs.

Mercury changes (the conversation changes, our thinking changes, we are more innovative, we can detach emotionally from our thoughts, there is more air in this room so maybe we can breathe easier). The house Mercury exits changes (Cappy house slows/relaxes a tiny bit). The house Mercury enters changes (Aquarius house - roused by the Sun just a couple days ago - gets busy).

Poor Mercury has been through hell these last few months - and now I am going to write a disclaimer before I go any further because my natal Mercury has been dealing with transitting Pluto (can we deal with Pluto? I think maybe not, Pluto simply deals with us and we survive it ... or we don't) - exact now for the third time within the last two years, with two passes to go - I am far from thinking straight. Plutonic transformations are incredibly painful and challenging. When Pluto combines with another planet, he hides that planet's influence from us. That paradigm becomes a blind spot. Mercury is tricky (and he is the trickster, so eternally tricky) for me to clearly see my way to these days, so keep that in mind when I write about him/her. On the other hand I could be seeing things clearer. I am zeroed in here (on the stuff I can no longer see) like a laser beam. It's difficult to explain. Perhaps like breathing we can only get truly focused on this stuff when we are drowning.

OK - back to our collective Mercury energy.

In just the last few months he has had to walk through Scorpio - the spaces Venus, retrograde in Scorpio, had dropped her landmines, then flew up into Sagittarius - where Mercury, the ruler of Sag's polarity sign Gemini, is debilitated. And in Sagittarius, she had to meet up with Jupiter and do their annual forest vs the trees thing, but this year Jupiter, in his home sign was uber strong, so the trees got lost. Then she went retrograde squaring dreamy/foggy Neptune, not fun for Mercury who just wants facts and details and to keep moving forward. How do we make decisions? How do we make plans? How do we know what the hell is going on? Then Mercury finally gets out of Sag and into Capricorn and immediately runs right into Saturn. A limit. A wall. A "no". A delay. And then he had to deal with the Eclipse cycle and square the planets in cardinal signs like Chiron and Mars and Uranus and then last week she had to meet up with Pluto.

Airy Aquarius will be better.

This isn't going to last long though - only until February 10th - because next stop is Pisces (this is our brain on drugs) and he is going to get all the way to the very end of Pisces and then station retrograde, the day before Uranus gets back into Taurus and Mars will be in Taurus, too. Unless you are over 84 years old and maybe not even then, we have not had Uranus and Mars both in Taurus at the same time. And Mercury will be retrograde ... in Pisces. March is going to be cray-cray.

For now though, we have all the energies moving ahead. We have multiple planets in their home signs. And now we have Mercury very happy to finally get into an air sign where he can be himself!

We can see the information we need to see from a more detached space. Say what needs to be said. Hear what we couldn't hear before when maybe the words triggered us too much emotionally. We get more logical. Also more innovative. The facts will be presented in a more cold and clear fashion, but at least we know they are facts.

Mercury in Aquarius is about clear-headed, dispassionate thinking focused on the future. Its clarity comes from the space that is generated from detachment. We mentally step back a little bit and the pictures in our head get a little clearer, our words a little more sharp. She can also focus us on what "the crowd" is doing. Not only so Aquarius can join in (if she wants to), but also so she, as we, can think about what the crowd hasn't thought about yet!

Aquarius is fixed air, so people will still dig into their positions, but we will all be subject to flashes of pure genius.

Aquarius rules the collective. It's time to get out and talk to people. Aquarius wants most of all to advance, so HERE WE GO.

xo all

Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Mercury Conjunct South Node | now would be the time to ask yourself - do you feel lucky? - a leap of faith, attraction on steroids, optimism is magnetic, defining words, conversation from the past, saying it/hearing it again, a line in the sand, an ending, a powerful good-bye

Our heart-centered and fun-loving Leo Moon makes nice with Jupiter (11:29 AM EST) before going void off another trine to Uranus at 8:19PM EST - a good night to do something different; something liberating. She will move into organized Virgo tonight (10:22PM EST) focusing us on Virgo themes for the next couple days - our work, day-to-day activities, paperwork, planning, pets, cleaning, editing, the dotting our i's and crossing our t's stuff, you get the idea.

TODAY is all about Venus (love, money, values, beauty, women, resources, self-esteem) and Jupiter (expansion, optimism, the kind of luck that comes from feeling lucky) meeting at 16 degrees Sagittarius.

You gotta ask yourself - do you feel lucky?

To get lucky in Sagittarius - and this transit has added oomph because this is happening in Jupiter's home sign - we need to be optimistic.  

We need to be reaching for something outside our comfort zone.

This isn't about more of the same old same old. Venus in Sag has one eye on the distant horizon anyway. She has faith in it. That green grass over there. No, way over there - she wants some of that.

Watch for an opportunity - within your Sagittarius house - that involves a leap of faith.

ARIES/ Aries Rising (and this is about our collective 9th house/Sag's home house so applies to all of us, too!) - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 9th house of travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, your beliefs and higher thinking. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

TAURUS/Taurus Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 8th house of other people's resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money, spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, sex, reproduction. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

GEMINI/Gemini Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 7th house of partners and partnerships. This is Venus's house so has some added oomph. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

CANCER/ Cancer Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 6th house of day-to-day activities, your routine, work, co-workers, pets and your health. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

LEO/Leo Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 5th house of creative projects, your self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and recreation. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

VIRGO/Virgo Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 4th house of home, family, your roots, mother, mothering, your ancestry, real estate or a home business. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

LIBRA/Libra Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 3rd house of communication, information, writing, teaching, learning, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

SCORPIO/ Scorpio Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 2nd house money, your values, your resources and self-esteem. This is Venus's house so has some added oomph. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

SAGITTARIUS/ Sagittarius Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 1st house of yourself dear Sag. You are growing, attracting expansion. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

CAPRICORN/ Capricorn Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 12th house of what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, addiction, healing. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

AQUARIUS/ Aquarius Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 11th house of the collective - your friendships, groups, causes, the internet, the public, the goals that bring you into relationship with other people, your advancement, technology. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

PISCES/ Pisces Rising - the planet of attraction and the planet of expansion are meeting in your 10th house of your career, your calling, your achievements, your achievement goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility. You are attracting expansion here. Stay positive. Stretch yourself.

The other BIG news now is we have Mercury (communication, news, information) meeting the South Node (ending, finalizing, the past) in serious Capricorn.

This could be connected to the Venus/Jupiter attraction/expansion or something else and keep in mind just because these aspects are exact today we might not experience this today.

Mercury/South Node speaks of information from the past or carried by someone from our past (or something/someone familiar).  

There could be information that finalizes something/lays something to rest. That was then. This is now.

Something (conversation/information/official paperwork) clarifies where we stand.

There is a line in the sand, an ending, a powerful good-bye.

Both of today's powerful conjunctions were in play during the Eclipse. And time is extra tricky around eclipses - so this might have already happened.

Today's Leo Moon's trine to Jupiter hasn't already happened though and that is magnanimous and "lucky" all on its own.

xo all

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | the week of January 21st - from obstacles to optimism this week, breakthroughs and breakdowns, our energy supply is exhausted - really avoid those vampires now - a limit is reached, the more we want the more we can get, BIG love, words from the past, a conclusion, an ending, unexpected news, our actions make us lucky and yes, we can get there from here, but it won't be by traveling in a straight line

Ouuu by Dzagna

This is another BIG week.
Today we have the exact square between fast moving, impulsive and youthful Mars (in his home sign of Aries, so strong and brave) and "the wall" Saturn (in his home sign of Cappy, so strong and solid and able to outlast Mars) - we talked about this in the Eclipse post - scroll down to Saturn/Mars.

Maybe our energy reaches its limit. These times are exhausting many people. People who are used to standing on solid ground need to expend a whole lot of energy to maintain their balance when the ground is shaking.

Mars runs into Saturn early in the day (EST) so it could be we run right into an obstacle. 

Mars/Saturn is heavy. It can be depressing. It can even be cruel. Hang in there. If something really doesn't need to be done today (and maybe it actually never needs to be done at all) this would be the time to cross it off your list. Saturn rules time and (even though it's another construct that isn't as firm as we think it is and won't always be needed here) won't see it wasted.

Take some action somewhere though. When Mars can't move at all he gets mad. Work up a sweat. Just know your limits. Don't go beating your head against a wall. The wall will win. And you will be stuck with a killer headache and a hole the size of a basketball (yes, I've noticed that big head you have - me, too).

On Friday, Mars is going to trine Jupiter - things will ease up and UP. Is it hard to believe in just a couple days we will be feeling lucky? It is for me!

Maybe the struggle early in the week will pay off later in the week.

At the very least some optimism will return.

Tomorrow is a big day. Venus is going to conjunct Jupiter (love grows, money grows) so there are blue skies right over there. Believe it.

The more we want, the more we want, but also the more we can get.

And Mercury is going to conjunct the South Node. There could be a message from the past or a concluding situation with a sibling/Mercury theme. Paperwork could be finalized. Good-byes are permanent with this one.

On Wednesday, Mercury is going to square Uranus - unexpected news/information. Plans move in a new direction. Stuff goes off-course.

You can see this week is up and down with the possibilities for major breakthroughs and breakdowns and for those breakdowns/breakthroughs we have experienced over the last month some opportunities for movement and process.

The Moon is in Leo today - there's fun to be had somewhere ...

xo all

Mercury conjunct Pluto, Venus trine Mars, the Sun square Uranus sextiles Chiron | the power of information, secrets are revealed, deep conversations, solutions, decisions, words come up and out, psychic communications, announcements, lucrative ideas, our actions getting us what we want, change hurts and heals, wanting to BOLT

Lots of aspects today as we build toward the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on Sunday/Monday. I wrote about it HERE

We have Mercury conjunct Pluto at 21 degrees Capricorn (right on my natal Mercury and I have been working with Mercury/Pluto for a couple years. I am going to write tonight about how all this is playing out ... this morning I am going to acupuncture to have some needles stuck in my head which sounds about right, too).

Venus (in Sag) trines Mars (in Aries) at 11 degrees. The Sun (still in Cappy for a couple more days) squares Uranus (!), sextiles Chiron AND we have our monthly waxing inconjunct between the Sun and the Moon - this time from Capricorn and Gemini. The Moon goes void at 8:32PM EST (off a sextile to Uranus - do something different tonight) and then comes home to family/real estate/mother focused Cancer at 10:44PM EST for the weekend.

Other than the Moon - everything here is in play during the upcoming Full Moon Lunar Eclipse.

Did I already say I wrote about it HERE?

With the Moon (in Gemini) answering to Mercury, deep in Pluto territory the stage is set for honest communications. We get to the bottom of things. Conversations (usually light and chatty during Gemini Moon days) go deep - and maybe dark. Information is dug up. It may not all be things we want to know. Although on some level we are seeking any painful revelations. Discussions can be intimate. Good for research. Secrets are unearthed. Words (Mercury) are powerful (Pluto). Power struggles, communications with powerful people or where our own powerful underpinnings are awakened are possible. Shadow issues and what we do in the dark (sex, death, taxes, reproduction) are talked about. It's good energy to verbalize what we are carrying inside. Keep in mind the Sun is squaring Uranus, so we are all one step from bolting/running away from something and our words are powerful now.

Mercury in Cappy - picture the serious reporter with the pencil behind his ear and his fingertips on the typewriter getting the important story out because he is doing his job - who meets up with Pluto today giving Pluto (transformation/death) a voice.  

Words will really deliver a punch now. Maybe even a knock-out blow. Keep this in mind.

Venus and Mars are playing nice - so our actions (Mars) can get us what we want (Venus). Our masculine and feminine energies are working smoothly together. Flames are fanned. With Venus in big-thinking Sagittarius and approaching her conjunction with Jupiter next week - there is an ability to see the bigger picture with whatever is going on and especially with love/money issues. These two energies together in the signs they are in have a definite "GO" feel to it.

The Sun squaring Uranus is a need for freedom/liberation/trying something new. Plans change, so expect the unexpected. Disruptions. Chaos. Anything can happen. The Sun's sextile to Chiron at the same time speaks of an opportunity for healing (remember Chironic wounds are healed through acceptance of what we have to learn to live with) coming through whatever gets stirred up here. We are healed through the change/disruption. If you need a mental health break you will really need to take it now.

The waxing inconjunct is a rock and a hard place between Capricorn and Gemini - maybe those answers/plot twists Mercury is digging up leave us with no where to hide anymore .....

xo all

Full Moon, Super Moon Lunar Eclipse in Leo | January 20-21, 2019 - the wall, patience, major endings, an unexpected change of direction, a female leaves the table, raising our vision over that wall, the final leg of that 'following our heart" thingie which might come from what feels like the other legs being kicked out from under us

Let's step back and look at the big picture - we are living under the drumbeat of Saturn (the patriarchy, the "man", the establishment, that someone/something who knows better than us and keeps us safe) walking the Green Mile toward Pluto (death/transformation).

That shaking ground is real.

Saturn is going to get all the way to 20 degrees Capricorn (this April) then station retrograde. It will be January 2020 before he finally reaches Pluto (22 degrees Capricorn). Checkmate.

But the chapter where Saturn (as us) is called to cash in his chips - has already started. 

(Saturn's changes are happening in the metaphysical realm but also in the physical world. I wasn't too surprised to find THIS article just a couple weeks ago)

This is the evolution of consciousness and it sounds like a very big deal because it is a very big deal.

Not long ago we lived in a world comfortably made up of things - like protons and electrons and leather reclining chairs and now we live in a startlingly more uncomfortable world - because comfort comes from familiarity - made up of energy - that creates stuff like protons and electrons and leather reclining chairs and people and then goes back to being energy again AND this energy cannot be destroyed and most importantly - what this energy does is totally dependent on who is observing it.

We see things differently because we actually see different things.

(and I'm not talking Facebook, but yes, one billion of us on Facebook is part of this - as above so below, thoughts become things, etc)

Cue the shaking ground.

Our quantum paradigm has changed everything. The world shifted as soon as someone figured out the world didn't really work the way we thought it did and once one person knew/remembered WE ALL DID.

And we might not know we know, but just had a thought like "what the hell is really going on here? what the hell is true?". 

When Kelly-Anne Conway coined the term "alternative facts" on January 22, 2017 (yes, almost exactly two years before this eclipse and yes, I am quoting Kelly-Anne Conway now, WTH people!!) - she didn't know the "truth" of what she was saying. It wasn't actually her boss, the former reality tv-show host that killed reality (again the whole as above so below thing), but it might feel like he did. Getting rid of Trump isn't going to flip us all back to one-reality though!

People are uncalibrating all over the place. No one knows what to believe anymore.

The one-reality world has gone/is going bye-bye and it will make us totally insane to try and hold onto it. It served us well for a while as a way to stay safe, but now that need for other people "to see/believe/experience things the same way we do" is chewing us up and spitting us out.

Our world being shaped by the observer means that we truly are all living in different worlds; worlds that we are co-creating as we go along.

The time when we looked for someone over us to explain it all to us is ending.

At the same time it is not our job any longer to convince anybody of anything.

We can share what we think/believe. We can be inspired by what they think/believe (or triggered if we want to stay playing a losing game, which to a greater or lesser extent we are all still playing). But if we are still searching after some kind of absolute something, some kind of pecking order of truth where one fact/belief is more important or more true than another fact/belief we are barking up a tree that was long ago chopped down to build a pedestal someone is about to fall from.

We have no clear idea of what this is all going to look like, this world without the structures and pedestals and beliefs (in government, in religion, in hierarchies), we have depended on to keep us safe (that have also been keeping us stuck) because we are co-creating this whole thing as we go along!

We have to work the process.

This eclipse (a culmination event from our journey of the last two years) - is part of that process. So, let's take a look at it.

The Sun (at 0 degrees Aquarius) opposes the Moon (at 0 degrees Leo) at 12:15AM EST on January 21st (which is Monday, but this is really late Sunday night). So close to the Nodes of the Moon this is a Lunar Eclipse so close to the Earth, this is a Super Moon Lunar Eclipse.

Full Moons are times of fullness. Stuff reaches a culmination, a peak, an ending. Eclipses eclipse things out of our life or out of our way. Lunar eclipses sometimes denote the loss of a female energy - a nurturing energy or an actual female person or animal. And like every ending, the Full Moon Lunar eclipse is also a time of beginning - and zero degrees Leo means an especially fresh, especially heart-centered start for any new beginning. Keep in mind the timing of eclipse events is tricky because eclipses work backward as well as forward. I often see events one month before or after, give or take a day or two, or one week before or after, again give or take a day or two. Lunar Eclipses give the Full Moon chart added oomph and added staying power allowing the energies to play out over 18 months instead of the usual six.

With this Full Moon, the Sun and Moon (and North and South Nodes) are squaring Uranus - the planet of fast change, chaos, the future. With the Moon in Leo, the Sun (ruler of Leo) rules the Eclipse and with the Sun in Aquarius (answering to Uranus and Saturn) that T-Square to Uranus is even more powerful. Saturn is strong and home in Capricorn and exactly squaring Mars, strong and home in Aries. Venus and Jupiter (strong in Sagittarius) are conjunct (exact next week) and sextiling Saturn and trining Mars - they are our golden ticket here. And of course, because the golden ticket always comes with a bit of a "buyer beware" (that fly in the ointment thing) the chocolate bar it is wrapped around good for cavities and sugar headaches, I guess - the good stuff is squaring dreamy Neptune. Most of Pluto's stuff is pretty wide, but he is conjunct Mercury - this is the deep truth, unearthing/merging/purging/financial/death stuff we have been talking about this week.

This is alot to unpack and my head is still clogged with a head cold/sinusy/flu thing, but we will give it a go.

Saturn/Mars speaks of the need for patience. Something is slowing us down - maybe the rules are not permitting something or the document isn't signed correctly. Whatever we are trying to get moving is stopped or slowed. No point going all cray-cray about it. Cooler heads will prevail, so be one of those. With Mars/Saturn both strong in their home signs - any battle - crisis/tension - will be won by Saturn (yes, he's on a death march, but he ain't dead/transformed just yet). Saturn wins here. The rules are enforced. The document must be notarized. Pushing only gets us a sore back. You get the idea. Time is on our side.

That square to Uranus speak of pressure/chaos - fast change, something unexpected. I know this seems like the opposite of "time is on our side", but really it isn't. The T-square is moving us into a possible change of direction. In March, Uranus is going to square this eclipse Sun, so something happening now will connect to that time period.


The Venus/Jupiter conjunction that trines (brakes off) and sextiles (opportunity) Mars and Saturn is our golden ticket/escape clause here. In Sagittarius luck is on our side here. That sextile to karmic Saturn from the mountaintops of Sag makes me think we win by seeing our situation from a loftier perch. From a wider/higher perspective. We know why what is happening is happening.

Maybe the real opportunity (sextile to stable Saturn) luck/expansion (Jupiter) and attraction (Venus) comes from a fast change (Uranus) in our perspective/beliefs. Or some other Sagittarian thingie done quickly - a fast trip, an out-of-the-blue instruction, a conversation with a foreigner, a visit to a church, a wedding (a quickie wedding? I don't know!), something optimistic and stretchy!

Keep in mind our benefics are both squaring Neptune - remember the Jupiter/Neptune square in play for most of 2019 - making for excellent manifestation potential, Neptune adds magic, but also the potential for things to appear better than they actually are/delusional. Avoid excessive anything. Don't overspend. Don't over invest any part of yourself in anything too pie in the sky.

If this eclipse is hitting your chart you are already feeling it or about to be and it is BIG.

The bottom line though is that this is the last of the Leo eclipses - following our heart, taking the center stage of our own life, creating something we can be proud of, taking care of the children/our inner child, the tender romance, the theme of our Leo house. Something here is being impacted. Mars/Saturn usually indicates hard work (maybe also cruelty, so be careful with your personal safety now, too), but also that our actions (Mars) can amount to something real (Saturn).

xo all

I would say don't forget to get out and walk in it, but eclipses are powerful, so I will leave that up to you - do make some space for it (maybe appease/barter with the 'eclipse something out' part) by giving something away.

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | the rest of the week as we build toward the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse - letting go, looking at our roots and the ties that bind, this is how power structures crumble, secrets, power plays, what is being unearthed, more merging and purging, back to August 2017

Jelly fishes by ankazhuravleva

This is a really HUGE week and I do everyone a dis-service by writing about it in a daily/piece-meal kind of way, so I'll push my clogged head to look a bit further this morning.

All week we've had our Capricorn Sun moving toward the South Node (exact on Thursday, but events don't always transpire when energies are exact, so this is in play all week - major endings, major decisions, forces that have previously stabilized us exiting stage left) and then when the Sun finally, finally gets the hell out of Capricorn and takes his first breathe of Aquarian air he (as we) gets hit with the Full Moon Solar eclipse (on Monday EST) squaring Uranus. Wham. Bam. No thank you ma'am.

Let's start with WEDNESDAY - the Moon is in comfort seeking Taurus doing her best to provide us with some kind of grounding. We have to meet her halfway here by taking the time to breathe through whatever we have going on. Get out in nature. Eat some roots vegetables. Take a bath. You know the drill. Before her Void at 1:34PM EST - get things done early today, folks - she will trine Pluto and then the Sun, so something can fall into place here - steady and solid, not fast though since Taurus is fixed earth, PROGRESS.

Having the Moon in Taurus the last couple days has been a HUGE help to us.

Her trine (brakes off) this afternoon from her perch in Taurus to the sober Sun in Cappy will grant us the ability to make some progress - especially after any obstacles of the last couple days - keep in mind Taurus is all about our existing resources (time, money, valuables, beauty, self-esteem). We are working with what we own here. Whatever we have going on is building on the solid structures we already have, the trine assures that even in the most shaky situations, there is solid ground to be found here.

By THURSDAY - the Moon will be in busy, communicative Gemini for the next couple days - in Gemini she is going to oppose Venus (in Sag), sextile Mars (in Aries), square Neptune (in Pisces) oppose Jupiter (in Sag) and sextile Uranus (in Aries). You can see how by just following the Moons you can know so much about everyday and week! And you can also see how your Taurus planets - which had all smooth aspects when the Moon was there - are having an easier time of it than your Gemini planets right now, where things are more up and down. This also indicates that until the Moon goes Void on Friday night at 8:32PM EST and then slips into family/home centered Cancer at 10:44PM EST Friday night - things could be very up and down (emotionally) for us, too.

The Sun will conjunct the South Node at 26 degrees Capricorn - this is one of the reasons our leaders and governments (all Capricorn ruled systems) are breaking down! And the reasons the structures in our lives - something we counted on - is shifting now. The Sun is also under all kinds of other stress, too. Now, that Cappy South Node also rules limits and boundaries, walls and rules. When the structure goes (didn't you want to topple the patriarchy?!), so do the roots of the structure. These things, in the world, and in our own lives, these ties to the past are illuminated now. Not everything is being tossed on the trash-bin, but it might feel like it is. Our bodies are well-trained to crave what is familiar so these transits don't always feel so good. We are seeing/experiencing what needs to go and depending on what it is we feel we are losing (it's obviously easier to lose your favorite tattered chair than a job you hate but that has stabilized your income or God forbid an actual person) and our own native tendencies toward collection and maintaining things the way they have always been and greed (yes, there is greed here tangled up in our Cappy roots) - this will be as painful and complicated as it needs to be.

And we are still in the energy of that karmic South Node Solar Eclipse from January 5th and headed toward an even bigger one - which may have already played out for you, but still likely has some twists and turns ahead with its Uranus square!

Hang in there the Sun is set to move into humanitarian-fueled Aquarius in just a couple days, and keep in mind, this entire time period is a pre-cursor to the BIG energies of 2020, after which BIG (and more lasting) shifts into the Aquarian energies are coming!

On FRIDAY the energies are all over the place. Mercury meets Pluto so some information is dug up. There are power plays. Secrets. Conversations/communications/words are powerful and matter. Life and death conversations. Wills. Money talks. You can imagine how all of this is going to play out in the collective news!

And we have Venus (our feminine energy wanting, wanting, wanting in the sky is the limit Sagittarius) finally making nice with our pushy and aggressive Mars in Aries (masculine energy). Maybe this is where Nancy - with her eyes on a sky without walls - and Donald with his Mars/Ascendant always needing someone to "fight" can come to some kind of agreement - let's hope before the Eclipse! Of course the Sun will be squaring Neptune so some things will be happening behind the curtains folks.

All of which sounds good for relationships seeking a deeper level of intimacy.

I will still do some dailies this week, but wanted to get something a little more "big picture" up.

And keep in mind we are building toward a big LUNAR ECLIPSE - the FINAL Leo/Aquarius eclipse and remember this cycle started with the Great American Eclipse back in August 2017 (!) that hit Trump's chart BIGLY (!), so we are headed back there.

What was going on in your life in August 2017?

HERE and HERE are the posts on that if you want a reminder.

xo all

An exalted Moon and the Sun squares Pallas | wonderful lunar aspects today and we try a new tactic with that authority/responsibility/limit thingie

Bonnie and Clyde 6 by Natalia Ciobanu

The Moon is in Taurus today and she makes multiple good aspects. In Taurus she turns our attention to what we need to feel comforted. Our income, resources, our values and self-esteem, the important things money can buy and the important things it can't, are highlighted. It's a good time to take the time. In Taurus, she will trine Saturn, sextile Neptune, trine Mercury and Pluto then finally our Capricorn Sun. All good aspects today.

She will be in Taurus only until tomorrow afternoon (1:34PM EST) when she goes void (until 8PM EST) off that lovely trine to the Sun. After the Void she moves into busy and communicative Gemini, so if you need some space to catch your breath before then - do that now. There are some great aspects today that greatly increase our chances for success you won't want to miss though.

Keep in mind she is waxing (growing) toward Monday's Full Moon Lunar Eclipse which is going to square Uranus, so outcomes with whatever we have going on/growing now will tend toward the "unpredictable".  

Liberation would be an appropriate goal when we see Uranus coming!

The challenge today is a square between our Sun, nearing the end of Capricorn, and Pallas (Athena) in Libra at 25 degrees. Squares are stress/tension. This feels somewhat similar to yesterday's Aries/Capricorn battle since Pallas is our warrior Goddess energy. In Libra though, and being the extremely clever feminine energy she is, she (as we) will likely try a different tactic.

Maybe something along the diplomatic lines of "more flies with honey". That stubborn Cappy Sun (the rules, the limit, authority, the line in the sand) still feels rather unmoved toward compromise and Pallas, smart as she is, isn't quite the beguiler as, say Venus.

Still we strategize. We seek toward collaboration.

The win-win Pallas seeks in Libra probably isn't going to work out today though and keeping the peace at any cost is surely a lose-lose.

We can do better. Maybe just not right now.

 (although the Moon's trine to Saturn in the early afternoon is helpful and could prove me wrong - the Moon IS answering to Venus after all and the Sun to Saturn!)

xo all

Take the time to enjoy that Taurus Moon - she is exalted and fleeting. Get out in nature. Take a hot bath. Get/give a massage. Eat a warm meal with foods grown from the ground.

Mercury sextile Neptune, 1st Quarter Square Moon - courage vs clout, the rules, the way we've only done it, going for what you want and are passionate about, visionary language, ideas are in the air and can be picked like apples, thoughts become things, the eclipse spin cycle

pillow-fight-by-sliwka

I was sick again yesterday (damn you unending sinus thingie), so we'll have to muddle through the week without the weeklies.

Some aspects are:

SUNDAY - Jupiter square Neptune, Mercury conjunct Saturn
MONDAY - Mercury sextile Neptune
THURSDAY - Sun conjunct South Node and opposing North Node
FRIDAY - Mercury conjunct Pluto, Venus trines Mars, Sun squares Uranus
SUNDAY - Sun into Aquarius, Venus squares Neptune

We are in between eclipses now. The Lunar Eclipse on January 21st is one of the biggest of the year and finishes up the Leo/Aquarius cycle. This is a Super Full Moon with the Moon closest to the Earth. The Sun will be sitting with the South Node, Pluto and Mercury and squaring Uranus (this eclipse is  another major "cheese stands alone" moment for Trump ie Uranus - who shut down the government on December 21st, exactly one month earlier. Eclipse events often happen almost exactly one month to the day before or after the actual event). Mars will be squaring Saturn. Things are volatile.

On MONDAY the Moon is void until 1:31PM EST this afternoon when she moves into Taurus - the sign of her exaltation.

Today's Mercury sextile Neptune is subtle. This is good energy for storytelling - for using our imagination. Good for visionary ideas and language. We might wake remembering our dreams. Ideas are AVAILABLE for the right person - the person who can make them REAL - to pick them like apples in an autumn orchard. This is good for learning (Mercury) through osmosis (Neptune), so would be a good time to hang out with the smartest person you know. Compassionate (Neptune) language (Mercury) is helpful (sextile). Siblings may be illusive or confusing. But Mercury in Capricorn is giving a Neptunian dream a structure to work with. Again this whole thing is subtle, but available. Talk to other people. The opportunity comes as one thought/conversation/idea drifts into another. People with planets/points near 14 degrees Capricorn or Pisces will feel its influence most.

While we slept the Aries Moon squared the Capricorn Sun at 23 degrees - the First Quarter Square; our monthly call to action. We'll likely feel its influence greatest until the Moon moves into Taurus at 1:31PM EST.

(or we could be feeling the Void Moon's call to rest!)

This is the young man with his fresh approach stonewalled with "this is the way we've always done it" or these are the rules. Young vs. old. Inexperienced vs tried and true. Courage vs clout. Anger/passion vs self-control. The young masculine energy fights with his father. The thing standing in our way is the thing that has always been standing in our way. Squares are tension/stress and so they make us uncomfortable. It is this very discomfort though that pushes us through.

We are past Mercury's meeting with Saturn - some things have already been decided.

Although Mercury is meeting Pluto at the end of the week, so who knows, time to push for what we want/are passionate about I think!

Aries/Capricorn is actually a love fest that only looks like a boxing tournament. After the fight is over - Aries bloodied and battered and Capricorn with tie askew and pockets picked clean - they always hit the pub for a beer.

And I guess that's where the Mercury/Neptune can come in .....

xo all

The Moon's move into comfy/cozy Taurus this afternoon should feel good!

the Sun conjunct Pluto | will-power, the truth comes to light, the ability to influence our outcomes, let go and let God, the urge to purge, the urge to merge

parallels by Natalia Ciobanu

The Moon is void today from 9:25AM EST until midnight. This is not the day to start anything brand new or push anything into the world we need "something to come of".

The Moon magic from yesterday continues as she goes void off a sextile (opportunity) to the Sun, followed by a sextile to powerful Pluto.

The Sun meets Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn. This has been happening annually in January since Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008. Pluto starts a new cycle.

So, we have the Moon in Pisces - answering to a powerful Neptune, home in Pisces - sextiling Pluto and the Sun conjuncting Pluto. This is powerful energy. Self expression. Personal authority. Will-power. This transit can increase our ability to influence our outcomes. It can also feel heavy. We can come on too strong and rock the boat. On the other hand, someone is going to come on strong - it's OK to be that someone sometimes! Just be standing in your own truth, so you are still standing when the boat quakes. And if you are not still standing, know this is exactly the energy that allows us to get up again.

The Sun/Pluto shines a light on what is buried including complex relationship issues.

The truth comes to light. Our will (the Sun) unites with deep power (Pluto) or, if we are projecting this instead of owning it,  we meet this power outside ourselves in the form of a potential slap-down/manipulation. The lunar sextile lets us know there is opportunity from the actions we take with whatever comes to light now. It's not the time to hide from what is happening.

If something upsetting is going on - keep in mind, Pluto rules death and rebirth - and as the Sun moves off Pluto -

WE START A BRAND NEW CYCLE.

That sextile to the Moon in Pisces is saying - let go and let God. Make art. Listen to good music. Meditate. Pray. Start a spiritual practice. Rest. Heal.

This is excellent energy for purging, for eliminating the dead wood. Clear out your inbox. De-clutter. Eliminate manipulations/obsessions/compulsions. Just stop. Turn your attention to what you want and not what you don't want. Great energy for deep research. There is great energetic support right now for a clean up and fresh start.

I double dog dare you (yes, here is a manipulation to get things started!) to watch an episode or two of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and not be inspired to get rid of something.

xo all

Note the stuff that is happening in your own life and in the collective is a precursor to the huge 2020 energies (and the government in the U.S. is shut down and 800,000 people are out of work). There is a little bit of wiggle room here ... for now. What needs to be wiggled?

making something REAL | Pinocchio aspects, stay in your magic baby

New dress by Natalia Ciobanu

Today (and tomorrow) our waxing Pisces Moon provides the fertile soil our New Moon last weekend was lacking.

Over the next two days she will sextile (opportunity) communicative Mercury then stable Saturn, square (creative tension) expansive Jupiter, conjunct (immerse herself with and in Pisces, she is answering to Neptune) dreamy, imaginative Neptune and finally sextile (opportunity) Pluto and the Sun - both in "make it real" Capricorn.

In older times magicians would be gathering their spell-books, healers their herbs and priests their flocks. All would be taking their words and actions seriously. All would be wanting their words and actions to be congruent. We will be as successful as we allow ourselves to be.

We have outer planet aspects on Friday and this weekend that connect to our story in the spring - so whatever we are doing now - deciding, eliminating - in the spring we will be either celebrating our actions/in-actions or kicking ourselves for them.

So, let's use this time intentionally!

We have had Venus back and forth through Scorpio for weeks and weeks - we know what we want!

(and if you think you don't, maybe ask yourself if you might already have it or if you are too burned out to feel it and then you need to give yourself a break!)

We want our words and actions to be crafting/casting for positive change. 

The Sun meets Pluto tomorrow, so it's not the time to be holding on to something that is dead/dying.

A new cycle is being birthed from the ashes.

1. Clear a space - honestly we could spend this entire two day period cleaning our house and it would be time well-spent; setting up a clean slate, giving ourselves the gift of tidiness, showing appreciation/love for our physical space. Intending for much to flourish here over time.

2. Keep a personal focus - we don't want to be focusing/thinking about/taking action on spaces that are not our spaces. Unless we have direct responsibility for someone else - they are our young child or we have their legal power of attorney - using this energy to influence/manipulate someone else (this is called black magic, folks) is not a good idea. We all have free will and it can't be interfered with.

Think about what you are thinking about. Think about the actions you are taking.

Do you own this?

If you knew the stuff you are to do/say/think over the next couple days matter more than they look like they do - how would you spend your time/resources/attention?

3. Take some kind of action - spellcasting (intentionally intending) has to connect to the real world or it just stays in the ethereal realms - which isn't a bad thing, but is maybe not what we are hoping for. Things have to line up - our word/thoughts with our actual deeds - for things to function. We are a few days past the New Moon now - the Moon is waxing (growing) - it's action time.

For Pinocchio to become a real boy, he needed to prove himself to be "brave, truthful and unselfish", but first Geppetto had to actually carve him from a piece of wood.

It doesn't have to be a big thing. But it might be.

Doors are opening. Mountains are moving. Your muses/angels are standing by. Stay sober and present. Don't toss this energy away with alcohol or Netflix marathons. Connect with other people. Promote yourself. Send that email.

If you find yourself drifting into something unintentionally now, pull yourself back to yourself.

Clean the bathroom.


xo all

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of January 7th - in the eclipse spin cycle, being rebooted and uprooted, breakthroughs, death and rebirth, keeping our word, walking our talk, saying no to something so we can focus somewhere else, increased potential, all in or all out, the final answer, purging, obstacles create change, get some extra sleep and take your vitamins

Persephone by fae-photography

Mercury is meeting Saturn this week and the Sun is meeting Pluto - keeping our word/walking our talk is VITAL. The congruence of our language and our action, doing what we say, is about more than reliability. It gives the other person, and our entire collective, a sense of their own substance.

Our congruence places ground beneath the feet of other people.

The following are the major aspects I see for the week and keep in mind we are in between eclipses now, so stay flexible, rested and hydrated - anything can happen!

We are being rebooted and uprooted, folks!

SUNDAY - Uranus stations direct at 28 degrees Aries
MONDAY - Venus enters Sagittarius
TUESDAY - Mercury (in Capricorn) squares Mars (in Aries)
FRIDAY - Sun conjuncts Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn
SUNDAY - Mercury conjuncts Saturn, Jupiter squares Neptune and the Sun squares Eris

With Uranus now direct in Aries - all the major planets are direct. We don't get this often and it only lasts for a few weeks, so take advantage by moving ahead with your projects and plans.

Uranus has only a few more weeks in Aries (remember he went into Taurus in mid-May, then stationed retrograde and returned to Aries in early November) before he will be back in Taurus for several years. He won't be back in Aries in our lifetimes, so whatever still needs to be shaken and stirred in that Aries house - well, expect the unexpected, because it will be!

If you didn't feel a kind of "all systems go" on New Year's Eve when Mars came home to Aries - Uranus's direct station could do the trick.

On MONDAY the Moon moves into airy Aquarius (answering to that newly direct Uranus) - finally some air! - and she moves on to sextile (opportunity) Mars (action, initiative), giving our ideas some fire/passion. Opportunities/our attention could be focused on our groups and friendships and the goals that bring us into connection with other people.

Venus FINALLY leaves intense Scorpio and moves into Sagittarius for the next few weeks.

Sagittarius Suns and Ascendants (1st house cusps) get more attractive now - both able to attract what they want and need and easier on the eye.

All of us get a visit from Venus in our Sagittarius houses  - what house holds Sagittarius in your natal chart - that house gets more attractive/magnetic - what houses does Venus rule? those houses get more expansive and optimistic.

Sagittarius is the sign of the archer. If we were archers - we would gather our energy. We would pull back our bow. We would take aim (and we would aim a little high because, well, first of all, gravity, but also because Jupiter, who rules Sagittarius, is known to inflate things - we might need to overshoot our goal to actually hit it). We would hold our bow "in tension".

This holding position is important to landing our arrow where we intend it to go.

(of course, if we are in some kind of life and death battle with that arrow then I guess we just let it fly and hope for the best, but most situations we are facing are not quite so dire)

The same way an archer's "in tension" allows her arrow to hit her mark, our own "intentions" release our energy where we need it to go.

Intentions are not wishes; they are not hopes. Wanting to do something is 180 degrees from intending to do it.

Intention releases the potential the thought/idea/situation is carrying.

(In this time of winter and long season of Saturn it will pay to keep in mind the wise expression - "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" - the end doesn't justify the means. It never has, but it especially will not for the next couple years. The means will give us the end. What we do to others we do to ourselves and to our own now. And yes, with the South Node in Capricorn we could be paying for the sins - missed arrows - of our fathers/ancestors/past lives. We always have been, but now the chickens are coming home to roost. At the same time we are shedding the limits/boundaries set for us within those same Capricornian constructs. That is the reward for doing the work and over the course of this year and the next few years we will see just how great the rewards can be.)

So, we have Venus (love, women, beauty, what we value, our self esteem, money) moving into the sign of "potential".

Experience is more valuable than stuff with Sagittarius.

Money (Venus) spent on travel will be well spent. Money (Venus) spent on other Sagittarius themes - higher education, legal issues, weddings, politics - will probably pay off, too, in the experiences we get back.

The search we began when Venus dove into Scorpio continues. But now instead of looking at the stuff that is underneath, the messy underpinnings none of us really want to deal with, she looks way out into the horizon at the stuff we might one day line up with.

Sagittarius is the sign of faith. Do we have faith that better days are ahead for us? We have the GIFT of Jupiter in Sagittarius this year. By the end of the year Jupiter will be in Capricorn, too. So, let's keep this gift in mind as we move through 2019!

This is the season of faith and potential for all Venus ruled themes - love, money, women, beauty, self-esteem, our values. How are we going to use this energy? Remember the archer.

The archer stays focused and holds herself "in tension" through all the noise. We have our bow drawn and we are focused on the target, but suddenly the cat jumps in our lap, the phone rings, the guy next door starts blasting Imagine Dragons and we have to stop and listen to that.

(and sometimes this noise can last a while and sometimes life sends us noise to test our intentions and see how badly we want something or sometimes the noise could be there to delay us because there is something better for us later or maybe we are shooting at someone else's target!)

Because once that arrow is released, it is released. There is no grabbing it midair and straightening that baby out.

(unless you have some super power that I would be totally jealous to find out about)

Venus will be in Sagittarius until February 3rd. Don't do anything too crazy - it's winter. Your ancestors froze to death if they weren't careful. But take some kind of "act of faith" toward your dreams this month. The end of the month (20th-25th) in particular - when we have Mars trine Jupiter and Saturn sextile Neptune looks especially good for bold moves!

On TUESDAY, Mercury is going to square Mars - this could indicate an argument, maybe challenging news that creates stress/tension, this could be an issue with authority. This is conflict. Mar's squares can create the "push" we need to get through a problem/blockage. At the end of the week when Mercury meets up with Saturn will be when we get the final, final with this. Either a rock-solid commitment/contract or on the disappointing side a final "no". Whatever it is - it's serious/heavy. The rules are laid out. Reality is unavoidable. If you commit to something now - verbally, written, etc - know you will be held accountable for it.

This square is from the Aries/Capricorn spaces - new actions/youthful energies vs the old established rules/authority creates the challenge. There is tension. This can all be happening within us - maybe we want to do something new and we are stuck working with/finishing the old now or working within limits/rules we are weary of.

With Saturn in Capricorn on his journey to meet Pluto and with the South Node in Capricorn, too - "accountability" is everyone's word of the year.

As Saturn speaks to/through us via Mercury this week, as the divine masculine rises, as we are all handed back the stuff (responsibility for creating our own lives) that, through our patriarchal paradigm, Saturn has carried for us - THANK YOU SATURN - we are ready (ready or not) to take back the controls. This is about using our wisdom. The life we are creating now, the life we will be living in a few months, in a few years will be all on us. Does this thrill or terrify us? Did you just scream "BOTH!", smart reader?! Yes, I will second that one! Ack!

On WEDNESDAY the Moon goes void at 11:53AM EST until 2:44PM EST when she moves into healing, imaginative Pisces focusing us on Piscean themes for the next couple days - what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, ancestors, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, healing, art, music, movies, addiction, escape.

On FRIDAY, the Sun meets Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn. This is pretty huge and was building at the time of the New Moon Solar Eclipse last weekend. This is also only two degrees from the big January 2020 stellium in Capricorn. Shadows (Pluto) are illuminated (the Sun) - manipulations, power plays, gas-lighting, obsession, transformation, death and rebirth, abuse of power, narcissism, shame, blame, bullying, trauma. With the South Node in Capricorn - we aren't going to be able to blow this stuff off (or get away with it) anymore. Life is calling bullshit on our bullshit.

Pay attention to who/what is trying to dominate you and what/who you are trying to dominate. What is really going on?

The stuff underneath (Pluto) of whatever situation we are dealing with is brought into the light (the Sun). The truth (Pluto) is revealed (the Sun).

This is an excellent time for purging and deep cleaning! Excellent for beginning a therapy program.

This transit can also draw attention to the fact we are running on empty. Being ‘positive’ can be a recipe for disaster in the winter. We can't ask for the help we need and half our soul gets cut away in the name of what’s best for us. When the Sun meets Pluto the part that's been cut away comes into the light. Maybe through an almost compulsive interaction with someone/some situation tearing us down. Ugh. Stuff can also be "resurrected" now. This is excellent energy to see our shadow instead of casting it on other people. Plus with perfect universal timing Pluto starts a new solar cycle.

The Moon is void all day, so nothing to chew on but this Sun/Pluto.

We wake SATURDAY morning with the Moon in fiery Aries. She plays well today with both Venus and Mars - so the day should be active/passionate/productive.

On SUNDAY we have Mercury meeting Saturn - here's the final, final we talked about earlier.

The answer. The deadline. The "no" - we either hear it or say it. The time to sign on the dotted line. The commitment. Here is where we give our word and it is taken seriously. We could be speaking with authority or speaking as an authority. And although this is exact on Sunday it is building all week and unwinding for a couple days after.

Be careful with your language now. When Mercury aspects Saturn our spoken/written words, and maybe most especially the things we tell ourselves about what is possible, create iron-clad contracts. Only make promises you know you can keep now because you will be held accountable. If you say you are going to do something, you are actually going to have to do it or it is going to come back and bite you in the ass. Talk like a grown-up. Text with punctuation. Yes, I am serious. Seriously, serious. Talk less, say more now.

This is where we have to say no to something, so we can focus - devote out time/energy/resources - somewhere else.

Between this one and the Sun/Pluto yesterday we are all in or all out now, folks. 

This is also the day Jupiter and Neptune make their first of three squares of 2019.

Both planets are strong in their home signs. Both are expansive - Neptune through connection, blending together and the dissolving of boundaries between us and other people and between us and what we are wanting and Jupiter through optimism, growth and the kind of "luck" that comes by thinking we are lucky!

Take note of what this aspect brings - this will be between our Sagittarius house and our Pisces house - because it is a three-peat. These major players will square again on June 16th and September 21st, so something now could connect later to those dates. This is going to be a big story.

If we have been too trusting/overly optimistic someone could let us down or we could let ourselves down. This is not the time to bet the house on that "sure-thing" crypto your brother-in-law told you about.

The energy is kind of drifting so it will be easy to lose things, drift into something we didn't intend to drift into, feel confused, catch a cold or catch another cold. The Mercury/Saturn should help though. Great energy for spirituality, healing work, art, music, imagination. You can grow (Jupiter) the dream (Pisces).

Jupiter/Neptune and Mercury/Saturn is excellent manifestation energy - for making thoughts into things. We'll talk about this later in the week and we'll talk about 2019.

xo all

Remember the North Node is in Cancer - take care of yourself!

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Capricorn | January 5th, 2019 - clues about the year ahead, the space we need to get our act together, getting down to business, accepting the changes of a new season, letting go, starting with the end in mine, a year we need to take seriously

At 8:27PM EST on Saturday, January 5th, the Capricorn Moon meets the Capricorn Sun at 15 degrees giving us our annual New Moon in Capricorn and because of its proximity to the North/South Nodes - this year's Cappy New Moon is also a partial Solar Eclipse giving it extra oomph and staying power.

You can see in this New Moon chart - the Sun and Moon sandwiched almost exactly between Saturn (11 degrees) and Pluto (20 degrees) and right in the middle of serious Capricorn.

For our challenged Sun and Moon this looks like about as much fun as going to the dentist. Without novocaine. And just when you are finished and thinking to yourself "well, maybe that wasn't so bad",  the dentist hits you in the face with a hammer. And then steals your wallet.

Hmmm.

Keep in mind the Capricorn New Moon is always challenging because, well it's CAPRICORN. We are planting seeds in a frozen ground, so we know we are going to have to work hard to keep them alive. 

We don't just get to pop them in the ground and GO. 

This year is especially challenging. The Sun and Moon are wedged between two powerful and challenging energies. One that wants to toughen them up with trials and tribulations and one that wants to ... well, kill them. The seeds will need bootstraps to pull themselves up. And their bootstraps will need bootstraps, too.

OK, so we know this going in. Whatever is starting now, whatever we have going on for the next month - it is going to take work. Don't kid yourself that it won't. And yes, I see that sextile to dreamy/easy-peasy Neptune and that Grand Water Trine between Venus, Neptune and the North Node. They will make this all bearable (and shows the manifesting potential available to us throughout 2019!) ... and emotional, but not really any less hard. And there are no air signs in this chart. We can't think our way through this.

A New Moon is a fresh start (in the dark) and an eclipse is a cosmic reset - something gets eclipsed out of our life or out of our way. Eclipse events are tricky to time, so if this is hitting your chart, the "eclipsing out" thing could have already happened or happen in almost exactly 30 days, or sometimes even later.

Saturn (authority, limits, structure, hard work, time) is making his way toward Pluto (death, transformation, rebirth) and because of his retrograde, they won't actually connect until January 2020 and by that time Jupiter - which expands everything - will be in Capricorn, too. Saturn hasn't met Pluto in Capricorn in 500 years!

This Saturday's New Moon is a kind of pre-cursor to that. A heads-up.

A last chance (we have six months until the Capricorn Full Moon) to get our acts together.

We really don't want to screw this up.

Don't clutter up your life with loose ends now. Take care of your physical body. This isn't work til we drop stuff - nothing in the universe supports us hurting ourselves ever. Don't take on too much, but don't take on too little either. Capricorn is all about hard work, ambition, common sense, perseverance, survival, efficiency, organization and responsibility. It can also be so dry and brittle that stuff can ... break.

Luckily we have a Grand Water Trine to keep things lubricated!

This is first chakra security stuff. Capricorn rules bones, skin and joints.

So, if you are not getting what you need from relationships or activities that you spend considerable amounts of time on, your body and mind (depression is here, too) will tell you now.

First center physical problems like fatigue, skin problems and joint pain that are ignored (ie we don't look at what we are getting back from what we are giving our energy and time to) lead to worse stuff like arthritis, allergies and autoimmune problems.

This is an excellent time to create new routines for physical stuff.

This year, and especially the next six months are very important, because the summer will be especially gnarly and probably leave us hanging on by our finger tips. Don't bite your nails. You might need them in June and July for extra grippiness.

We want to be thinking/acting/talking/walking responsibly. The structure/stability of our lives is shifting (this is what the end of patriarchy feels like folks). The institutions we thought were strong will be shown to be weak. We won't be able to count on the people/things we have been counting on because they will be shifting/barely hanging on, too. We are going to have to pull ourselves out of that well, so let's not go peering over the side, or dancing on the rim and fall into the well in the first place, OK?

Let's look at this Moon by sign. The Aries post is longest (not because I run out of words as I go along ... really ... really) because it APPLIES TO ALL OF US since Aries rules our collective 1st house.

Check your Sun sign and especially your rising sign and maybe the signs around them if nothing seems quite right or email me/leave a comment to know what house holds 15 degrees Capricorn in your natal chart. For example, my hubby is a Virgo rising, but 15 degrees Capricorn is his 4th house not his 5th house, so he would need to read Libra rising - something like this could apply to you if the info sounds off.

This area/theme of your life has been rocking with activity for awhile so it shouldn't be hard to find!

ARIES/ Aries Rising - this New Moon Solar Eclipse is happening in your 10th house of your career, your calling, your achievements, your goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility, your reputation, your calling. This is your shifting sand. Situations that put you at the mercy of a boss/authority/power structure are designed (over the next 6 months and year) to put you in touch with your power. Misuse of power on your part could result in a fall from grace (over the next 6 months and year). NOW is the perfect time to start a job search, get a promotion/pink slip/new job, start a business. Maybe your boss leaves or your company hierarchy shifts. Maybe a major client comes or goes. Whatever is happening, with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. This New Moon is squaring your house creating tension/stress/crisis around authority/control. Now is the time to redefine your career/ambitions/goals. If you are struggling with something that has outlived its usefulness here - start letting it go or 2020 will see it crashing in a big way. If you have been loafing you will pay for it. By January 2020 you will either have stepped into your authority or authority will have stepped on you. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 12th house of what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, the ethereal realms, imagination, dreams, hospitals, spirituality, addiction, healing. How can you use something here? Uranus is in your sign for just a few more weeks Aries demanding you prioritize your freedom and release anything/anyone that won't allow you to be yourself. When Uranus turns direct on Sunday you will have a few more weeks to make any final adjustments as you bravely reinvent yourself - what else needs to be done? AND you have Mars (your ruler!) in your sign. Get on it.

The best use of Saturn's journey toward Pluto for you is to redefine your career/calling. Let what is dying go. Holding on will just pull you down with it! Work hard. Be ethical. Don't cut corners.

TAURUS/ Taurus Rising - this New Moon Solar Eclipse is happening in your 9th house of your beliefs, travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, truth vs false prophets, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, religion, your grandchildren and higher thinking. This is your shifting sand. This is the perfect time to start something in one of these areas - travel, study, change of beliefs. This New Moon is trining your house so changes should be more stabilizing than for some other signs. But whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 11th house of the collective - your friendships, groups, causes, the internet, the public, the goals that bring you into relationship with other people, your advancement, technology. How can you use something here? You have a few more weeks before Uranus is back in your sign Taurus (what has changed in your life since last May?) - if changes need to be made, make them yourself now, so there is less for him to steamroll.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is to push your boundaries/expand your beliefs about what is possible via education, travel, publishing, legal situations, contact with people and experiences outside your comfort zone. Let dying beliefs go or they will pull you down with them. 

GEMINI/Gemini Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 8th house of other people's resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money, spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, death, rebirth, sex, reproduction. This is your shifting sand. This is a challenging house because it rules all the stuff no one wants to talk about. You could take on a large debt now or pay one off. You might be dealing with a tax issue or inheritance issue or changes to your spouse's income. Intimacy/sex/financial/life and death issues are highlighted. Purge, Purge, Purge Gemini! Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 10th house of career your calling, your achievements, your goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility, your reputation, your calling. How can you use this?

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is to release financial, intimacy and sexual baggage. Pay down debts. If you are cheating on your spouse/sleeping around you will get caught. Situations will arise to encourage greater intimacy within your relationships - take advantage. Let emotional trauma go (good year for counseling or astrology studies) or it will pull you down with it. Don't be afraid to look at the stuff you don't normally want to look at - look under the bed, check your financial statements, set boundaries around intimacy/money.

CANCER/Cancer Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 7th house of partners and partnerships. The way you deal with/experience other people in close relationships (business and personal) is your shifting sand. The New Moon is opposing you so could trigger a culmination/ending. The power structure of your relationship could change or your responsibilities to someone else could increase. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 9th house of your beliefs, travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, religion, your grandchildren and higher thinking. Something here could be helpful now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is the complete transformation of your relationships (owning what you are projecting on other people, releasing what they are projecting on you) with a goal toward greater balance and power sharing. Let go of "blame games", compulsions/jealousy/manipulations, anything you are "putting up with" or it will drag you down with it. You will see yourself and your own issues through partnerships. Be a grown up. Expect other people to act in grown-up, mature ways also.

LEO/Leo Rising  - this New Moon is happening in your 6th house of your day-to-day activities, your routine, work, co-workers, pets and your health. This is your shifting sand. These are the areas you need to put on your big girl pants and do the right thing. Everyday. This is an excellent New Moon to start a new diet/exercise program. Get organized. This stuff will be biting you in the ass all year and by January 2020 you will be looking at a serious problem here if you don't get this stuff under control. The energies are on your side if you start now. Then stick with it. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 8th house of other people's resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money, spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, death, rebirth, sex, reproduction. Something here will be helpful now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is the complete restructuring of your daily activities with a focus on responsible, nurturing action. Get on a schedule. Eat healthy foods. Move your body. Keep your paperwork organized. Take care of your pets. Be responsible with your work and daily obligations. Let go of bad habits and laziness or this stuff will take you down (loss of job, loss of health, etc) as we move through 2019 and in an especially big way when Saturn meets Pluto in January 2020.

VIRGO/Virgo Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 5th house of creative projects, your self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and recreation. This is your shifting sand. This is an excellent New Moon for a fresh start in one of these areas. Keep in mind you will need to commit serious energy, time, effort to get the most from what you are growing here over the next 6 months to 1 year. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges, but the Moon is trining you, so helping to stabilize/support whatever is happening. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 7th house of partners/partnerships. There is help to be found here now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is moving toward your heart's desire - what you want to create, a better relationship with your child(ren), a romance, more fun in your life. Let go of trying to control how this is all supposed to look. Let go of whatever is standing in the way of you creating your heart's desire. Let go of trying to control your child or a creative project or love in an unhealthy way or this will blow up in your face in a very serious way by January 2020.

LIBRA/Libra Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 4th house of home, family, your roots, mother, mothering, your ancestry, real estate or a home business. This is your shifting sand. You could move into a new home, start a new home business, renovate, be dealing with heavy foundational issues or mother issues/responsibilities. Whatever this is, it will require your commitment. The New Moon is squaring you so you will be dealing with power/authority tension, stress or an actual crisis. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 6th house of day-to-day activities, your routine, work, co-workers, pets and your health. Something here can help now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is the complete transformation of your foundation - a new home (built to last and what you can afford), family situation, home business, root re-structure, relationship with your mother/matriarchal inheritance, relationship as a mother. Let go of whatever is standing in the way of this including your own inability to change/bloated dreams that you can't let go of - because they will take you down with them.

SCORPIO/Scorpio Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 3rd house of communication, information, writing, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood. This is your shifting sand. This could be about turning a thought into a thing, stepping into your authority via the written or spoken word, an emerging sibling or neighborhood situation. Walk your talk. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Big changes could come in 2019 in the life of your sibling. Find outlets over the next year to prevent stagnant thinking and depression. This New Moon is sextiling you so pay attention to messages, ideas, information that come in now for breakthroughs. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 5th house of creative projects, your self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and recreation. Something here can help now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is to turn high level thoughts into high level things. Your voice gets heard and your ideas noticed because you have worked hard and put in the time and effort. Let go of ideas that are no longer working. Lifeless ideas/thoughts/beliefs will pull you down. Avoid gossip. Avoid lies. Avoid chatter if you want your words to matter to other people. Write.

SAGITTARIUS/Sagittarius Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 2nd house of your money, your values, your resources and self-esteem. This is the "she works hard for her money" Moon for you Sag! New sources of income will spring from dried up wells, but you will have to work to unearth them. This is not the month/year to take your resources/income for granted. Multiple income streams are a definite possibility. Grab opportunities as they come along. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take this part of your life seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 4th house of home, family, your roots, mother, mothering, your ancestry, real estate or a home business. Something here can help you now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is to maximize your self-esteem, solidify your values, increase your income and shore-up your security. Situations that challenge your bottom line and self-worth will come up. You will need to be strong and centered and wearing big girl pants. Let go of dried-up revenue sources, your fears around money and resources, fears around growing old, release the stuff you think you need but the energy expended holding on to them outweighs the benefits, don't overspend, don't undervaluing yourself. Or else when the chickens come home to roost in January 2020 you will be living in the chicken coop with them.

CAPRICORN/Capricorn Rising - this New Moon (and next two years really!) is all about you, my dear friend! You may be asked to take on a new responsibility or commitment now. The boundaries that have kept you limited are crumbling Cappy. This eclipse (and other eclipses this year on the Capricorn/Cancer axis) are determined to shake you and wake you; powerful cardinal sign of winter. Your reality is being totally re-defined and the world is re-structured because of it. The dead wood needs to go. The past is gone. Now. Whatever is happening with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon things won't be without challenges. Take yourself seriously in 2019. This is your job and we need you to do it Capricorn. Much is on your shoulders and I know they are tired and ache because so much has always been placed there (thank you!). This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 3rd house of communication, information, writing, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood. Something here can help now.

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is transforming yourself into a compassionate/not afraid to be vulnerable authority. Let go of worn out structures, rules around what you should be and do, self-imposed limits, playing small or weak, FEAR.

AQUARIUS/Aquarius Rising - this New Moon is happening behind the scenes for you in your 12th house of what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, ancestors, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, addiction, healing. The New Moon's beginning comes from an ending. Fantasy ends, reality begins. The boogeyman comes out of the closet- what are you going to do now? Self-sabotage yourself ... again OR wield your incredible hidden sources of strength and power Aquarius aka Wonder Woman! Whatever is happening in your life with Saturn and Pluto book-ending the Moon situations won't be without challenges. Take your dreams, your health, whatever is finishing, your imagination, secrets, your ancestors, self-sabotaging crap seriously in 2019. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 2nd house of money, your values, your resources and self-esteem. Ka-ching Aquarius!

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is turning your dream into a solid reality that nothing can shake. Let go of self-sabotaging beliefs/behaviors, the dead stuff you are carrying around, your fears of the man behind the curtain. WAKE UP. Don't fall back to sleep or into a delusion/addiction/escape - the world is counting on you Aquarius to lead the way in just a couple years. We need you.

PISCES/Pisces Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 11th house of of the collective - your friendships, groups, causes, the internet, the public, the goals that bring you into relationship with other people, your advancement, technology. A new friendship, group association, public situation could kick off now just as other friendships, causes and goals that have brought you into contact with other people will end. This Moon is sextiling you, so could be more gentle than for some others. This weekend's Neptune kick-off sextile (opportunity) is coming from your 1st house of yourself Pisces, so what do you want to make of this Moon? Mars is in your money house for the first time in 2 years - what can you do with that?

The best use of Saturn's 2019 journey toward Pluto for you is new, enriching friendships that power up the big goals that bring you into connection with other people. Let go of the spaces you feel like an outside or are feeling "judged", unsupportive friendships and associations or they will bring you down as they crumble when Saturn meets Pluto in 2020.

NEW MOON INTENTIONS

Get grounded - we're in an earth sign now, so this should be easier. Hug a tree. Plant your bare feet on the ground. I know it's cold. That's probably a good thing. Mindfully think about what you are doing while you are doing it. Use a clear, clean space. Always make your affirmations from a positive place (positive meaning certain and positive meaning cheerful) - yes, smile while you are writing them. If you can't smile, take a break and write them later. If you still can't smile, forget the cheerful - this is Capricorn after all, cheerful is probably not that important - and just go for the more powerful kind of positive meaning "certain". Write your affirmations down by hand in script. We want the letters all connected and flowing together and made by you. Speak them out loud.

Do what you are inclined to with the paper. Release your attention from these thoughts knowing that your intention is known.

Know these things are already yours.

xo all

I hope something here is helpful, and keep in mind you do not want my words/intuition to countermand your own. Use your own judgment/instinct with everything this year.

Uranus stations direct tomorrow and Venus finally leaves Scorpio on Monday (this will really help!). We are in the eclipse spin cycle now - in between eclipses (the next Eclipse is in two weeks) - fast change is coming!

Post on 2019 coming, too!