Sorry I didn't get the monthly up. Still hoping to make time for that - but let's dig into the week ahead in the meantime!
Buckle up and BACK UP THOSE FILES RIGHT NOW ...
MONDAY - Venus conjunct Chiron
THURSDAY - Venus square North Node/South Node, Mars on Galactic Center
FRIDAY - 3rd Quarter Moon in Scorpio
SUNDAY - Mars into Capricorn, Mercury stations retrograde
We begin the week unwinding from our annual Leo Full Moon - who has the center stage and who doesn't? Who is living from their heart? What has culminated/reached a peak? The Leo Full Moon is always a reminder to step forward with what we came to do - no more hiding out in the audience. The Oscars is always so well-timed, isn't it? A little, or alot, of Leonine inspiration, just when we need it!
On MONDAY, Venus, in early Aries, is going to meet wounded healer Chiron.
We could be dealing with hurts and imbalances around our value, our worth, our self-esteem, our money, maybe our ability to take care of ourselves and stand on our two feet or just be ourselves. Maybe love hurts. Or we have to be brave enough to allow ourselves to be vulnerable!
Situations provoking self-doubt or requiring us to work through issues around self-worthiness might surface. Aries energy can be impulsive and hot-headed, so we want to take care with fiery words and actions we won't be able to take back.
This doesn't mean we sit on uncomfortable situations, stuffing our own (or someone else's) anger into our cells - the gold is always found tucked beneath the dragon, keep in mind. Sometimes things need to come up and out. It might pay off though to think/talk it through with a third party before any shots are fired from the hip.
Chiron/Venus in Aries forms a natural opposition to Libra, so this could be a time when the other people in our lives, and the people we meet, who have the energetic frequencies that can easily re-wound us (trigger our early wounding/past life wounds/familial karma), will do just that. It can be painful, but this is the path to self-love.
And yes, it will be strewn with roses and thorns.
Big girl pants on.
Mercury will be sextiling smart Pallas, so we can find (or absorb) the words and ideas that are strategic and wise if we take a breath and reach/search for them.
On THURSDAY, Venus (in Aries) squares the North Node in Cancer at 7 degrees (and at the same time the South Node in Capricorn at 7 degrees).
Any square to the nodes triggers a CHOICE (although it can sometimes feel more like our back is against the wall) via tension/frustration - we can stay with the South Node - what needs to be completed/the past, in this case CAPRICORN - so our Cappy house theme or the collective theme of our career, work in the world, our goal, old rules, our ambitions OR we can move toward what needs to be developed/the future, in this case CANCER - so our Cancer house theme or the collective theme of home, family, mothering, mom, real estate, home business, family business, what feels more authentic to who we really are and more emotionally satisfying.
With Venus in warrior-mode in fiery Aries - whatever we do will likely require courage and initiative, maybe even acting alone which Venus doesn't really like to do since she is a partnership sign, but in Aries she (as us) can make this stuff work.
At the same time Mars (Aries ruler) is at the very end of Sagittarius, so crossing the Galactic Center on his way into Capricorn at the end of the week. Things are different now. We can't unsee what we see. We can't have what we lost. We can no longer avoid what we need to do. So, what are we going to do?
On FRIDAY, the Scorpio Moon will square the Aquarius Sun.
This is the Moon between the Full Moon and the New Moon - she will rise at midnight, peak at dawn and set at noon. Here we have that deep-diving and truth-seeking, often to the point of being uncomfortable, Scorpio Moon squaring off against our detached and analytical Aquarius Sun.
Our Leo Full Moon agenda is unwinding/waning. Scorpio/Aquarius are fixed signs, so we are probably dug in, ankles deep, in something here. We need to shift/adjust - we need to evolve. Neither of these planets are happy/strong in these signs, so there is no natural flow here/no natural winner - this could be quite stressful. And, yes, this is Valentine's Day :) The Moon will make some nice aspects though!
On SUNDAY, things start to really shift and get even MORE INTENSE for most of the rest of the month and well into March, as first, Mars moves into Capricorn - where he is exalted and on a path toward his destiny, and, second, Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces (for the second year in a row) where she/he is in her detriment.
Mars in Capricorn wants a PLAN. Mars is extremely effective in Capricorn (answering to Saturn), kind of the way a hot-head tossed into the serious, structure of the military can thrive. In Capricorn, Mars (as us) has goals and deadlines - he can't be just mucking around town causing trouble.
Our actions (Mars) are ambitious (Capricorn). Our results come over time. With Mars in Capricorn if we make some serious commitments and apply some serious discipline, we can make some SERIOUS PROGRESS.
Again big girl pants on.
Now, we know Capricorn is a sober (maybe I would add dangerous) space right now because both Pluto and Saturn and the south Node and Jupiter are all in Capricorn.
And Mars is going to hit, not only the January eclipse degree and the Saturn/Pluto degrees from January, while he is in Capricorn, he is going to meet Pluto (and then Saturn after they both move into Aquarius), so we know our actions are going to have CONSEQUENCES.
Mars is also going to meet the South Node in Capricorn (exact on February 26th, but in play once Mars gets into Cappy) which hasn't happened since mid-September 2001 (yes, that September 2001!), so the stakes are VERY high while Mars is in Capricorn this year.
Some of the good news though, I think, because Neptune is hard to read and Jupiter expands everything, is we have a waxing sextile (opportunity) between Neptune in Pisces and Jupiter in Capricorn (exact on Monday).
If - and I am talking about the collective here - nothing goes terribly wrong now and over the next few weeks, THIS WILL PROBABLY BE THE REASON.
We have to have faith. We have to hold onto our dreams and our connection to each other and to something bigger than ourselves.
I don't want to be a fearmonger with the 9/11 references and I am definitely not saying another 9/11 will happen, but the next couple weeks with Mars on and near the South Node could be kind of gnarly. Because the chickens can come home to roost. Keep in mind this isn't the same as Mars crossing your personal South Node (unless it is) - which yes, might rip you a new one. These are collective energies. Some people will be more impacted than others.
The South Node almost always activates uncanny reminders of the past. Groundhog days. From this lifetime, from our past lives, from the familial DNA we carry. With Mars, very strong and stable in Capricorn, we are here now to make better, more responsible choices. If we are just repeating our old behaviors, we will just be getting the same results. Watch out for instinctive, in-grained responses that didn't work last time.
Just keep in mind there are positive energies, too, to help us through whatever this is. There is always help. Always.
That gold under the dragon thing again.
By the time Mars leaves Capricorn at the end of March if we put in the necessary work and end the stuff that isn't working anymore/is blocking our new path - we could be amazed at what we have accomplished.
SUNDAY is also the day Mercury stations retrograde at 12 degrees Pisces (we had this retrograde at the end of Pisces last year, so now we get the re-do's with the degrees we missed last year!).
Another look is needed. We missed something. The "i's" are not dotted (and no, hearts don't count). Maybe there is a "t" left uncrossed, somewhere back in chapter seven. Everything is not the way we thought it was. The truth shifts. Our reality shifts.
We have to re-think this!
And we have to re-think this with a brain that is frying on the sidewalk.
We are going to have to DOUBLE CHECK everything.
And yes, it makes me tired to hear this, too. I want ease and comfort and somebody to tuck me in and read me a bedtime story ... and someone to finish this annoying jigsaw puzzle that is taking up my entire coffee table with its excessive amounts of baby poop colored browns and winter-dreary grays.
What do we really know?
Keep assumptions to a minimum because we could be looking through rose colored glasses now (or baby-poop colored glasses - things won't be quite as good or quite as bad as they seem). Boundaries are blurry. It can get harder to stay in our own lane. Answers only bring more questions. Avoid alcohol and drugs under this aspect because the effects will be magnified.
Mercury is going to make a sh*tload of aspects during her retrograde and at the same time Mars is going to make a sh*tload of aspects as he moves over this loaded Cappy stuff.
Something big is happening. We are going to be back and forth and all over the place with something.
Basically at just the time we need to know what we are doing, we aren't going to know what we are doing. And we are probably still going to have to do it.
A karmic re-balancing is happening - yes, again or still, or however you want to think of this - this time through the early Cappy and early Pisces degrees. The stuff we missed last year or maybe another shot at some of that stuff that we mis-handled or avoided.
There is no stopping this ... and please don't try, because you are just going to have to do this all over again (or your children or their children will) and you will just be holding the rest of us up (not exactly, but since Pisces is also connected with 'guilt' I thought I'd toss that in there). The Age of Pisces is ended (ending) - the Age of Aquarius is here (coming). By the time Pluto moves into Aquarius in 2023, we will have already had Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius - everything is going to be different. Everything.
If we can release the need to try to control how this whole thing works this is going to go a whole lot easier.
Just do your part and you'll know what that is because it will be right in front of you. We'll flesh this all out in some dailies when we factor in the Moons.
xo all
photo by the talented VasiDragos
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