A HUGE week ahead with Mercury doing this week what Venus did last week, multiple planets changing signs, Venus meeting Uranus and a Full Moon in Scorpio! Whah!
MONDAY - Sun inconjuncts Jupiter and trines Pluto
TUESDAY - Venus sextiles Mars
WEDNESDAY - Venus comes home to Taurus and Mars enters Cancer, Mercury sextiles Neptune
THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn
FRIDAY - Mercury trines the South Node
SATURDAY - Mercury trines Pluto, Venus conjuncts Uranus, Full Moon in Scorpio (27 degrees)
On MONDAY the Sun reaches 22 degrees Taurus and trines (brakes off) Pluto (retrograde in Capricorn). This is in play from 5/11-5/16. Major life changes. This is solid, practical power and transformation. This is us having the power/control over our own lives. Interactions with authority should go well. Taurus themes (love, money, values, self-esteem) and the theme of our natal Taurus house are empowered now. We can be bossy or we can be the boss.
Time to bet on ourselves as we move toward a more authentic version of success/security.
This can also be a time when Plutonian themes come into the light (Sun) so we know what we need to know to stabilize a situation - other people's money, other people's resources, secrets, sex, mergers and in Cappy - career stuff, goals, etc.
At the same time the inconjunct to a retrograde Jupiter (home in Sag) speaks of the need for a give-and-take with something (without which we get the rock and a hard place); an adjustment via a Sag theme - legal issues, travel, publishing, our beliefs, education, foreign issues, weddings, politics, media. This could be a fear of the unknown/big change.
With both Saturn and Jupiter retrograde this whole thing will be rooted in the past - maybe we are getting a second chance with something this week!
On TUESDAY, Venus (at the very end of Aries) will sextile Mars (at the very end of Gemini). Good for romance, socializing and getting what we want. We know what we want and we are taking action to get it. We are walking our talk. What we want and what we are doing to get what we want are working TOGETHER. We can be assertive and cooperative. Our masculine and feminine energies are simpatico. Now both planets are almost immediately going to change signs (tomorrow) with Venus coming home to Taurus and Mars entering Cancer for the first time in two years.
So, things are in flux. Stay flexible.
On WEDNESDAY, Venus exits Mars ruled Aries and moves home to stable and sensuous Taurus (through June 8th). Mars leaves multi-tasking "let's start a million things and finish none of them" Gemini and moves into Cancer for the next 6 weeks.
Venus loves (and rules) Taurus. After her weeks in Aries trying to be a lover and a fighter, she is quite content to settle into herself again. Taurus Suns and rising signs get more attractive (both physically attractive and more able to attract what they want). All our Taurus houses get more attractive, too.
For everyone, this transit, particularly when coupled with all this retrograde outer-planet back pedaling, can help us really appreciate what is right in front of us.
In Taurus, Venus will be intent on manifesting love and prosperity!
Once in Taurus, Venus will be on a collision course with unpredictable Uranus, so BUCKLE UP.
Mars (action, initiative, anger, passion) is not quite so comfortable in Lunar-ruled Cancer where he is considered in his fall.
This is because Mars can't be all Martian - fired up and passionate and out in the world testing his courage, running onto the battlefield thinking only of himself and how good it will feel to swing that sword - when he has these pesky emotional Cancerian things to contend with.
Things like feelings (it's harder to take the instinctive action he needs to take when he has to feel his way through what he is doing instead of just doing it). And home and family and security (harder to be putting himself first when he has a family depending on him and harder to fight most effectively when he needs to stay alive to come home at the end of the day).
This stuff can make Mars like a pot of hot water ready to boil over at any minute. Like the too-young father who wants to be out bar-hopping with his buds - he is trapped.
Collectively we will be more security and safety conscious. We will be more emotional. We could be more focused on home and family, real estate, a renovation project, a home or family business. We could be taking action to be more protective of whatever we have going on within these themes.
Individually, our natal Cancer houses will experience more initiative, action, passion and anger. Where is Cancer in your natal chart? Wherever it is, Mars is not the usual way we deal with the things ruled by this house (unless of course, you have Mars there natally).
Once in Cancer he will be on a collision course with the North Node in Cancer and an opposition to the Cappy pile-up (Saturn, South Node, Pluto) - this will all be hitting in June and is one of reasons June will be challenging.
So, BUCKLE UP.
Mercury will also sextile (opportunity) Neptune today - good for healing words, creativity, making affirmations, meditation, making art and music, our intellect and our intuition are working together. Good for sales, publicity - words that connect us and what we are doing to other people.
On THURSDAY, Mercury - following Venus's path from last week - will trine a retrograde Saturn (in Capricorn). We want to be purposeful with our 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 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.
Avoid gossip. With Saturn being the king of karma and all that, it has a way of coming back around.
Opportunities come through careful planning and preparation as Mercury (communications, conversations, ideas, thoughts) trines serious Saturn (time, stability, hard work, authority) now.
With Saturn retrograde the past is factoring into all of this somehow.
Deliberate, thoughtful and sober words create the most impact. If we want to be taken seriously we need to take ourselves seriously. Conversations should be respectful. Do we know what we are talking about? If not, it's time to connect with someone who does. Lessons learned now stay with us, so what are we learning?
Communications and conversations with authority figures are helpful now. ANSWERS COME IN. Pay attention to what you are hearing. Be sure you are understanding what is being said and that you are being understood.
This aspect gives us the perseverance and concentration that creates stability and is good energy for paperwork that requires accuracy. We can focus on what is most important rather than what might at first appear most urgent.
It is perfectly alright to say, "no", "not yet" or "I have to think about it". We may hear these words now, too.
With Mercury then moving into a trine with the South Node on FRIDAY - there could be news of an ending this week. We could be nostalgic. Talking/thinking about the past.
SATURDAY'S Full Moon in Scorpio is HUGE and shocking and needs its own post. Stay hydrated.
xo all
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