Sunday's Aquarius Full Moon continues to play out this week, bringing the future to our door. Second chances. Groundhog Days. Busted illusions. Painful relationship/financial situations will need to be dealt with. Important conversations/information that brings us to a crossroad. Focus on the details - it's Virgo season now baby.
Let's unpack the week!
MONDAY - Venus trines Saturn
TUESDAY - Mercury opposes Neptune
THURSDAY - Venus opposes Chiron, Mercury trines Pluto
SUNDAY - Sun squares the North Node
MONDAY - Venus @ 8 degrees Libra trines a retrograde Saturn in Aquarius
Venus rules love, money, our values, women, beauty, our self-esteem,
and in Libra, one of the signs she rules is currently concerned with
our relationships, partnerships, attaining/maintaining balance/fairness/peace. Saturn rules structure and things that are real and have weight. Time, goals, hard work, discipline, fathers, older men and
responsibility. Retrograde in Aquarius he is currently concerned with re-vising/re-viewing the new rules, our obligations to groups, technology, our innovations, our friendships, our freedoms.
Trines create smooth energy - the brakes are off, obstacles are removed - the vitality will flow and work together naturally. This trine will apply to our natal Libra and Aquarius houses and their themes. People with natal Venus/Saturn aspects will find this week's energy particularly useful.
If Venus and Saturn were people they would be a young, loving, attractive woman and a serious, responsible older man. You can see how these two people could bring out the best in each other (not in a sugar-daddy kind of way - Saturn ain't nobody's free ride). We all carry both these archetypes within us - what can we do now to cement their merger?
We could make a commitment (Saturn) within a relationship (Venus) or improve our relationships by behaving in a mature manner. We could get serious with our money. We could make a commitment to
valuing ourselves. We could commit to the hard work of being more
beautiful (ie Venusian) or birthing something beautiful. We could
beautify (Venus) our career (Saturn). This would be a great time for
cosmetic changes within a business. Spruce ups now will pay off over
time. Mentors (Saturn) and muses (Venus) can show up. Renewed ties to old friends/relationships are possible. This is also about the Libra/Aquarius energy - partners and friends, balance within groups, fairness with our social obligations.
Take what you want (Venus) seriously (Saturn).
Maybe you will get it.
Keep in mind the whole 'brakes off' thing, which is mostly a good thing as obstacles are removed, but there is another side to this, because if we are trying to keep some problem at bay/the lid on something - the restraining force we have been applying can come off, too. Still, this will be a good thing over time - we talked about this in the Full Moon post HERE (remember the next two weeks postings, until the next New Moon, are really the Full Moon post coming to life).
TUESDAY - UPDATED - the Moon is moving through the end of Pisces now. Her final aspect a sextile to a retrograde Pluto at 5:29AM EDT. She is void until 2:57PM EDT when she moves into Aries. In Aries, she moves quickly into an uncomfortable inconjunct with the Virgo Sun. The inconjunct is this month's Waning Inconjunct - Aries/Virgo, an adjustment to Sunday's final Full Moon in Aquarius. Signs which inconjunct are as difficult to merge as signs that are right next to each other. Here is mutable earth vs cardinal fire. Virgo wants to work through the nitty gritty, practical details and Aries just wants to get moving and has no patience for that.
In the meantime Ceres making her way through Gemini now, conjuncts the North Node at 6 degrees. Ceres in Gemini is about smart, mental, light, talkative mothering/nurturing. On the North Node this is our way forward with something. Information. Communication. Details. Or maybe with Gemini's dualistic nature we are dealing with two of something now.
Mercury (home in Virgo and ruler of that North Node) moves into his opposition with Neptune (home in Pisces) - it should be easier to separate fantasy from reality. HERE is the thing we haven't been able to see clearly or maybe HERE is the thing we have been avoiding. With Mercury in Virgo this might be about a health information, a work conversation, a situation with a pet/a daily obligation/an employee or something pertaining to the theme of your natal Virgo house.
Neptunian themes might be pulled into our day-to-day experiences in uncomfortable ways - endings, hospitals, healing, viruses/illness, things put away, things/people from the past, addictions, medications, meditation, spirituality, imagination, music, art, sleep, rest.
Mercury is clear headed and strong in Virgo. Practical. Knows which way the wind is blowing/what needs to be fixed. With Neptune retrograde, some old/foggy situations can get cleared up. Oppositions are closing aspects - they brings results/culminations. This can sometimes be a time of disappointment as fantasies dissolve. This can also be a time when we are releasing something that cannot be fixed/perfected. Neptune oppositions sometimes bring 'let go and let God' moments.
It would be the time to speak with a practical kind of caution (am I saying what I really intend to say, what I really feel, what I really KNOW to be true?). Listen the same way. Avoid gossip. Keep a clear head. It can be hard to get solid facts from other people, so turn off the nightly news. At a mundane level this can bring up the contrary themes of work/reality vs escape/illusion. On the flipside, if we have been crunching numbers, over-thinking or too immersed in details, we could be mentally tired now and need some rest and relaxation.
THURSDAY - UPDATED - the Moon is finishing up in independent Aries. We are nourished by starting/action, our passions, time spent alone, time spent with men, having someone/something to fight. She squares Pluto at 2:01AM EDT and goes void off an opportunistic sextile with a retrograde Jupiter at 5:14PM EDT. She will be void for the rest of the night before moving into Taurus (the sign of her exaltation) at 12:27AM EDT.
Mercury @ 24 degrees Virgo trines a retrograde Pluto in Capricorn while Venus @ 12 degrees Libra opposes Chiron in Aries
Venus, fresh off her smooth and stable trine to Saturn earlier in the week moves into an opposition with wounded healer Chiron. This can bring relationship/financial hurts or disappointments. Partners/other people (lack of support/balance/fairness) can trigger some very old wounds. A relationship might end. Sometimes oppositions bring the need for decisions.
Take advantage of today's positive trine between Mercury and Pluto to go deep with your thinking/words. Communication/words can be healing. This trine is in Earth energy so practical, cuts to the chase. Remember Chiron's wounds are hurts we learn to live with.
Venus's next aspect is an awkward inconjunct with Uranus on SATURDAY, so there will be some give and take with change, the future, something outside our comfort zone. This can also pull our money/resources/values into the mix.
Off his/her foggy opposition to Neptune, Mercury moves quickly into a smooth trine (brakes off) with powerful Pluto. Our words have power. It becomes easier to focus. Sober conversations or communications with authority can go well.
Maybe here is where we are getting serious with whatever became clear to us as Mercury opposed Neptune.
We take what we know and go further with it. Good for research/diving into the details. Just watch we don't analyze something to death now. And speaking of death - this is excellent energy to kill intrusive thoughts/transform our thinking. Also for something to feel like life and death. Keep an eye/ear out for solutions which can be especially effective now and should flow pretty effortlessly. Look for answers. Pluto is retrograde so many will be found within.
FRIDAY - UPDATED - the Moon is in Taurus now, the comfortable sign of her exaltation. We are nourished/nurtured by touch, good food, money in the bank. She trines the Sun at 9:19AM EDT and squares Saturn (tension/frustration around commitments, limits, responsibilities, authority) at 5:04PM EDT.
Her trine to the Sun is this month's Waning Trine - Virgo/Taurus. Earthy. Practical. Solid. Forward movement with something we can touch/grow/take to the bank. Small steps/fixes. We are confident/shine. The fly in the ointment here is the Virgo Sun's testy square to Black Moon Lilith (in Gemini) - here is challenging news/information/conversations. BML in Gemini is instinctive/perceptive/rebellious and answering to Mercury who is inconjunct (rock and hard place) a retrograde Jupiter. Maybe our beliefs are incompatible with the details, so instead of moving toward the details that support our beliefs (which is what we unconsciously do) we need to stay open to new information. Keep in mind Jupiter is retrograde so we should be questioning our beliefs anyway. With Mercury/Jupiter we don't
want to over-promise/exaggerate or skim over the details and miss
important information. Mercury in Virgo can have a sharp tongue/focus too much on the flaws, so we want to watch that, think - is this information/conversation helpful? Remember this is an inconjunct - Virgo/Aquarius. Despite Virgo's ability to see the details/be specific, Virgo isn't always right. Despite Aqua's keen intelligence and ability to see/intuit the future, it is fixed air, and isn't always right either. Something needs to be finessed here.
The way through things will be that Waning Trine - small steps, the next thing that is right in front of us. The Moon's next move is that tense square with a retrograde Saturn in the early evening EDT, so that's kind of sobering/there might be a "no"/stop sign here somewhere. The Moon is exalted though and tomorrow's lunar aspects are all good, so work that square and then enjoy the rest of your Friday night!
SUNDAY - the Sun @ 6 degrees Virgo squares the North Node in Gemini
As the Sun echoes Mercury's journey from the middle of August, now a light shines on a health/work/daily obligation cross-road (or the theme of your natal Virgo house). Which way are we going? Squares with the nodes require a pivot before we can move forward.
Note with the South Node in Sagittarius it should be our beliefs/hope adjusting TO THE FACTS/DETAILS. The foreign to the local. The forest to the trees.
Don't be afraid to change your mind.
xo all - I will update with the Moons as we move through the week!
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