There is alot going on this week and next. Alot of ups and downs. All three of our personal planets are active with the outer planets - chickens being brought home to roost. Mercury, Venus and Mars all have challenges and opportunities.
MONDAY - Mars squares Saturn (retro) 19 degrees
TUESDAY - Mercury trines Uranus (retro) 10 degrees, Venus opposes Jupiter (retro) 17 degrees
WEDNESDAY - Mars sextiles North Node 26 degrees
THURSDAY - Venus trines Neptune (retro) 19 degrees
SATURDAY - Mercury trines Jupiter (retro) 17 degrees
SUNDAY - Venus opposes Pluto (retro) 22 degrees, Mercury opposes Neptune (retro) 19 degrees
We begin the week with the Sun having just left his home sign of Leo (this could make us feel a little let down maybe, a little like that end of summer feeling, maybe a little tired) and moved into practical Virgo - that back to work/back to school vibe will be starting to kick in now.
Right out of the gate, Mars - our passion, our actions, our anger - moves into his first (of three, over the rest of the year) squares with "line-n-the-sand" karmic Saturn. So whatever we are trying to do/push forward is meeting resistance in terms of rules, limits, timing problems, etc.
(now this is his third Cappy square because he has faced off with Jupiter and Pluto for a first pass already, so we should feel a let-up for awhile once we get past this one)
We want to do this, whatever this is, and we can't. Or we don't want to do this and our feet are held to the fire. Our focus could be on what we can't do/can't have. Saturn is karmic energy. Cause and effect. Mars is our courage/initiative, without which we might never do anything new or challenging, and then once we do those things (or don't do them) Saturn holds us accountable for our actions/in-actions. They can work well together, but here we get the 'butting heads' part.
Patience is needed. Endurance is needed. Work can be demanding. We are playing a long game - keep this in mind.
Mars is strong in his home sign of Aries. Saturn (authority, limits) is strong in his home sign of Capricorn (and he's got his posse with him and Mars has already moved past them), but he is retrograde. These limits/responsibilities are probably not brand new. We are really feeling them now because Mars is lighting a fire under us via some situation/emotional tension. We have to be smart and focused and continue taking the actions we can take. We can't get all wrapped up in having something exactly a certain way. But we all know this by now.
Squares with Saturn can be exhausting/can burn us out if we keep pushing or fighting. So, we better be sure this is all worth it! We better be picking our battles! Because, yes, with Mars in Aries for the rest of the year - there will be battles. Also keep in mind on a whole other level these Capricorn blockages are unwinding hundreds of years of collective karma and will surely trigger uncomfortable emotions as old ideas about who we are are broken down.
Normally Mars squares Saturn, the energy lasts a couple days because Mars moves fast - we hit an obstacle/hear a "no", then we re-group, we move on. But this year, although yes, we re-group and we move on - because of Mars' upcoming retrograde, and because Jupiter and Pluto are with Saturn in Capricorn, too - we get to do this multiple times with multiple powerful energies (all answering to Saturn). These are major, major karmic release points - so much karma that has been holding us stuck is being shaken loose - there is just no way to know where this is all going. We can't see there from here, BUT it will be the things we do now that set up what happens later/what we have to deal with later.
With so much uncertainty, there is no easy road, but there is a road. Make your life as simple as you can. Think small. Think local. Think about what you can do with what is right in front of you. Collectively, we are in the thick of the most challenging energies of our lifetime. Winter is here. Bad decisions are biting us in the ass. So are good ones that don't work anymore/line up with the future.
After Mars gets past Saturn (he, as we, moves from 19 Aries to 26 Aries in TWO DAYS) his next aspect/portal is an opportunistic sextile to the North Node (our collective way forward) and trine to the South Node. There ARE ways to move forward after we get past this square! So although these blockages create tension/frustration - they also have the effect of making sure we’ve divested ourselves of everything old and worn out before we move on again. So, after Monday and until Mars stations retrograde on September 9th - WE ARE FULL STEAM AHEAD.
Mercury is trining Uranus (unexpected good news, new ideas being considered and Uranus is retrograde, so this will have its roots in the past) and then Mercury is trining Jupiter (again with roots in the past, now broadening our view, making us more optimistic, more hopeful) - we would have a Grand Earth Trine here - and we will in a couple weeks actually - if Mercury wasn't moving this fast, but this is still good news which could present itself as actual good news.
Mercury rules the post office, a much needed service, and here in the United States hopefully we get some good news for them!
At the same time, Venus (feeling her way through emotional Cancer) is moving through her own challenging oppositions to these Cappy planets - this week and next!
Our relationships, our values, our money. In Cancer this can be about a home/family/mothering/home business/family business situation. She has a nice trine to spiritual/imaginative (and retrograde) Neptune, so we need to hold onto our dreams, even as we release our grip and expectations about how we are going to get to them. It’s time to make sure we can stand the life we have built, and not only, and not simply that, it’s time to make sure we are building our life into a journey that taps into, that relates to, our deepest desires. These are water signs - Cancer/Pisces - so this is more about how we want to FEEL anyway. What we need to feel safe/secure.
At the very end of the week though Venus will oppose powerful Pluto just as Mercury is opposing powerful Neptune.
Venus can get kind of needy in Cancer and Pluto can intensify this feeling of "must-have". Oppositions are well, oppositions, yes, but also projections, so we are probably assigning too much value to something outside of ourselves. If we don't actually need what we think we do, Pluto is just the fellow to yank the rug right out from under us. On the other hand, oppositions are like Full Moons and can deliver results - here is what we have attracted. Maybe we do get more.
With Mercury opposite Neptune at the same time it will be hard to know what is real. Some things that seemed too good to be true earlier in the week, might flip around on us at the end of this week or into next week, so although we want to allow ourselves to dream and hope and feel good, yes, please, just let's keep our feet on the ground at the same time. The realistic Virgo Sun will help with this.
This is alot to have happening in one week and since all these aspects involve our personal planets, this stuff will impact us personally as well as collectively.
Basically we are all dealing with an underlying intense frustration, some with mind bending anxiety and it’s all below the surface (until it isn't), and happening while we attempt to maintain a facade of OK-ness, so we don’t lose everything and plummet off the face of the earth.
That about sums it up I think. Or is this just me? 😜
Back with some dailies where we factor in the uber important Moon and I have a big picture just about ready to post as we continue the Wuhan/Pandora series.
xo all
photo by the talented Milan Vopalensky
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