Let's take a look at the week ahead! The Moon is waxing (growing) and something in our life is, too - everything this week is influenced by the supportive New Moon in Taurus from Saturday. There will be stressors, but all is well that ends well somehow. Keep this in mind.
MONDAY - Mercury into Taurus
TUESDAY - Venus squares Saturn and the North and South Nodes
WEDNESDAY - Sun sextiles Neptune, Mercury conjuncts Uranus
THURSDAY - Venus trines Jupiter and squares Pluto
FRIDAY - Venus conjuncts Eris
SATURDAY - Sun trines Saturn
What a week!!
There is alot of Venusian energy this week (also Mercurian) so there will be relationship, women, values, self-esteem and money situations. The shifting world is asking us - are we loved and loving? what do we need to do to be cared for financially? who do we need to be? what do we need to believe? can we manifest just by holding a frequency? do we still need to do things we don't want to do to bring home the bacon and send little Abby to Montessori?
On MONDAY, Mercury leaves fiery Aries (where out tongue was courageous, but sharp) and moves into the more soothing energies of Taurus. This slows down communications and conversations and our thinking. That's OK.
Snap decisions and snappy comebacks will be less snappy, but there will be less snapping at each other, too.
Communications and our thinking turns to more practical things. Taurus gets results through self-sufficiency, by bringing ideas and concepts 'down to earth', by being sensible.
It's a time to acquire (Taurus) new skills, new information, new learnings and teachings (Mercury).
We will be making more sense/cents!
Rushing through ideas, conversations and decisions won't work well now.
Take the time to think things through and get it right. Life will encourage/force this process, so fighting it is futile anyway. If a person or situation is pushing us to make a decision we are not ready to make, events will likely conspire to give us more time. If we can't decide - we should wait. If we are the one doing the pushing we will be frustrated during this transit. Mercury likes to move lightning fast, but Taurus likes to stop and smell the roses.
The fly in the ointment with Mercury in Taurus is its fixed nature. One of the reasons for the information slowing down is that everyone becomes entrenched in their position and digs in. Compromise becomes a four letter word and there aren't alot of choices. The answer is either yes or no, there is no maybe with Taurus. Our resolve is strengthened though.
Mercury in Taurus is the time to mentally recharge our batteries. Simple language will get our point across better than long winded sentences now. Straightforward ideas and communications are favored. Simple beats complicated.
Things will speed up when Mercury enters Gemini on May 21st.
On TUESDAY, (big day) Venus will square Saturn and the North and South Nodes. Venus is still in her detriment in Mars-ruled Aries - wanting what she wants RIGHT NOW (until maybe she wants something else 10 minutes later) or maybe she (as us) is just really motivated by something NEW.
Well, now our Venus (love, money, women, beauty, self-esteem, our values) is restrained/cornered by Saturn (time, authority, responsibility).
We can't go any further without changing something - we have to pivot. So, maybe we get a 'no". Maybe whatever is happening has us feeling less than desirable/beautiful right now. There could be some kind of reality check. Women are challenged. A relationship is challenging. A limit is reached. The money isn't there. Time's up.
Maybe we face a professional challenge or issue with authority.
At the same time she (as us) is squaring the South Node in Capricorn (what we are releasing) and the North Node in Cancer (our most effective way forward). Nodal aspects tell us to pay attention. There are karmic consequences playing out here. We are releasing old goals/fears/out-dated definitions of success/our paternal inheritance and moving toward a more personally meaningful/softer/home and family oriented/nurturing/maternal interpretation of success. Do we really need another thumbs up? Pat on the back from the boss? Trophy on our shelf?
(well, actually I do have a shelf full of trophies (don't hate me), won by other people, but so what, they look adorable and no one is getting that close to them anyway)
This is a turning point. Face the music. Adjust or move on.
There are old responsibilities and commitments that need to be dealt with though.
To look a little deeper the Moon will be in Gemini and the Moon is going to sextile Venus, so possibly this could play out through a Gemini lens - through a conversation, a meeting, information, a local neighborhood issue, a sibling, a neighbor, a transportation or electronics issue. The sextile to Venus speaks of an opportunity, but she is in a challenging square to serious Saturn. We have to go into this Gemini situation KNOWING we are going to need to bend a bit to authority, to the established order, to "the way this has always been done", maybe to an older person. BUT there is a Venusian opportunity here, too (women, money, love, relationship, beauty, self-esteem, values).
THURSDAY kind of echos this, but by then the Moon will be in Cancer, maybe pulling a Cancer matter (home, family, home or family business, mom, renovation, real estate) into the mix.
Squares require action.
On WEDNESDAY, the Sun will sextile Neptune and Mercury will conjunct Uranus. The Neptune sextile was what the Moon did on Saturday immediately after the New Moon (within orb during the New Moon for both the Sun and the Moon). So here is something about our New Moon beginning coming to light/taking form. The dream (Neptune) awakens (the Sun). We could be more creative/imaginative and also more sensitive - psychically and to things like colds and germs.
There is magic in practical things now.
Mercury meets Uranus - this is what the Sun did back on April 22nd - so something could connect back to that time, especially if we had a major plot twist. We could get some surprising news or we could speak out in an unexpected way.
Words are disruptive.
This is a good aspect for information to go viral! What can we do with that? Keep in mind Uranus's electrical nature and back up your files! If we are feeling too "wired" get out in nature - it's Taurus season!
On THURSDAY, Venus will trine Jupiter and square Pluto. This is a bit like Tuesday's aspect, so could all play out with that. Jupiter trine Venus is one of the best aspects in astrology. In Aries and Sag we get the EXPANSION OF SOMETHING NEW.
Maybe a sign we are moving in the right direction through some beginner's luck!
WE CAN GET LUCKY.
We are magnetic to the extent we are living our natal Venus and doing our Venus in Aries - staying brave, initiating something new, being passionate about what we want and our ability to cultivate beginner's mind (the state when anything is possible because we are open to it!).
So although Venus is challenged this week with Saturn and Pluto AND the way, she (as we) responds is impacting both our future and our past - she also gets this lovely aspect with a retrograde Jupiter, strong in his home sign of Sagittarius.
There is old treasure here. Something we missed. Maybe something we used to love or an old income potential. Maybe something we used to have faith in (like ourselves!) and now something reactivates that deep faith. This could also play out through a Sag person or a Sag theme (or our natal Sag house theme) - higher education, something/someone foreign, the media, adventure, legal issues, wedding, religion, politics, our beliefs.
The square to Pluto speaks of a power play/manipulation/compulsion. Keep in mind Venus is still squaring Saturn and the Nodes here (see Tuesday), so this is all about us releasing the stuff that is leaving and turning toward something new, stable and comforting in a different, more authentic way.
This whole summer is part of a long good-bye - as we release the stuff - both personally and collectively - that has looked like it has been holding us up because it was, but is now really just keeping us stuck.
This week is part of that process. We will know what this is all about for us by what is happening now.
We'll talk about this more in the dailies and in the retrograde post I will get up as soon as I get past my Mother's Day orders!
From now until the end of the week are good days to start something new with that New Moon mojo!
On FRIDAY, Venus, who has probably HAD ENOUGH by now conjuncts angry Eris. This will probably feel something like when we have been in a situation where we didn't feel secure and were not in our authentic power (just like Venus in Aries) and then acted inappropriately - maybe bitchy or rude. Something probably out of proportion to the situation because we were channeling all the other times we felt like we didn't fit/weren't enough.
The best use of this energy is to be standing in our authenticity and KNOW we belong and don't have anything to prove. We could have an angry female in the news this week.
On SATURDAY, the Sun (in Taurus) trines Saturn (retrograde in Capricorn) - another good aspect.
This is recognition of a job well-done. Rewards for past work. Maybe we get more responsibility, but it isn't something that brings too much added pressure. We move right into it. We make a public commitment. Career issues are defined. We know where we stand. This is a good time for connecting with authority or an older person. Things stabilize. This time period could also denote an ending. The shaky ground left behind if something/someone is leaving will be replaced, both quickly and over time, by a stronger foundation.
The ground is being cleared for SOMETHING BETTER. Much better. More freeing and authentic.
xo all - back with the dailies where we will flesh this all out, keep in mind all of these energies are building and unwinding all week, so things may not play out on these exact days other than Moon aspects
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