The sextile is a 60 degree aspect.
When two planets or points form a sextile they create a channel of COLLABORATION. It's a soft aspect - supportive and considered favorable. There is an opportunity for the two planets or points involved to reach each other in a comfortable way and work together.
Sextiles in your natal chart are your super-powers. By transit, they create OPPORTUNTY where it didn't previously exist - we can act or we can let it slip on by us - it's a free will aspect.
Unlike a trine, where things fall right into place (or run off a cliff depending on our current trajectory) sextiles, because they require effort (and assuming we are not 'efforting' against ourselves, which we sometimes are) can move things forward and help things move IN THE DIRECTION WE WANT THEM TO GO.
One reason I feel things are not nearly as bad as we think they are, is this year's repeating Saturn/Uranus sextile. The ancient and modern rulers of Aquarius working TOGETHER for the first time in many years. The first sextile is exact on April 4th, the next will be on August 11th (with both planets retrograde) and the final sextile will be on January 20, 2026. It's a kind of 'background music' to 2025's big CHANGES - the unprecedented changing of all the planets into new signs within such a short time frame.
The sextile involves the planet of the old tradition (reality, structure, the past) and the planet of the new freedom (higher mind, tech, the future).
Even when things here on planet Earth feel very out of control (and they are - Saturn in Pisces! plus all these changes) - the background energies are COOPERATING.
This is good news.
Neptune is now in Aries (temporarily) for the first time since the United States Civil War.
When the Civil War began back in 1861, Saturn and Uranus were making a series of tense/frustrating squares. This time, Neptune begins his "preview" cycle in Aries with Saturn and Uranus - again, the old tradition vs the new freedom - making a series of OPPORTUNISTIC sextiles.
NOT squares.
We had the squares back in 2021, so now we are lining up with the opportunities - the sextiles - that come from working the squares of 2021. The tension/frustration we were dealing with then.
And when Neptune gets into Aries for the long haul (after his summer and fall retrograde back into Pisces) in January 2026, Saturn and Uranus will AGAIN be tightly sextile - exact just a couple days before. CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY.
In the Saturn/Uranus story this sextile is waning. TRANSITIONING US FROM THE PAST.
We had the conjunction - three, actually, back in 1988 ON THE GALACTIC CENTER that started the new cycle. We had the opening squares around 2000 (dot.com bubble). We had the opposition - FIVE (!) between 2008 and 2010 (the housing crisis). We had the closing squares back in 2021 - the battle between the old God and the new God that we talked about here many times. We all know what was going on in 2021 as the world started up again after 2020! In between we had the smooth trines - times of growth and soft landings. We can see the Saturn/Uranus cycle that started back in 1988 on the Galactic Center in Sagittarius has had alot to do with the ECONOMY (not exclusive to the economy, but the economy clearly reflects the cycles).
And now, in 2025 and into early 2026 - we have three sextiles. All waning - closing out the cycle.
TRANSITIONING US AWAY FROM THE PAST.
And, again, these are opportunistic aspects. I think this is a good sign that although, yes, the world/the economy is being re-structured - mostly through all the planets changing signs, but is it being de-structed? I don't think so. And I am basing this on the astrology which I trust more than the news headlines and what any one person is doing.
We don't actually have to fight for the new freedoms this time - we just have to let go of the old world by moving toward something new. But can we do that? The United States, for example, has a 24 degree natal Mercury in Cancer (media focused on security, preservation of what was, prone to scaring the hell out of people via talking about safety/security incessantly), currently conjunct a fiery, debilitated and exhausted Mars - the media is working overtime glooming and dooming. It is hard to know how important anything actually is. It is hard to know what will be STICKY. Hint - with these retrograde inner planets and Saturn in Pisces - probably not much.
This cycle is going to wrap up and start anew on June 28th, 2032, at 27-28 degrees Gemini. This is almost exactly opposite where the whole thing started back in 1988.
Mark that date on your calendar. Let's make a pact to be here on planet Earth for that.
I will have Pluto on my Sun/Saturn, exact on Saturn, exactly opposing my Mars and tightly squaring my Ascendent/Neptune, the North Node on my Ascendent, Mercury on my North Node - so look to be hanging on by my fingernails. Note to self - better grow some :)
27-28 degrees Gemini is exact on Nikola Tesla's Mercury (ideas, etc), and, this has me thinking about FREE ENERGY, and, of course we have all the Tesla news now, via Musk. This will be Musk's progressed midheaven and Tesla's (the car company) natal Venus/midheaven, so this year (with the sextiles) and 2032 look important for him. Musk has his Ascendent EXACT on the United States Sun, so is kind of an avatar for the United States in a way. And, as I've said here many times, Trump with his natal Uranus/Sun/North Node conjunction IS Uranus.
On June 28, 2032, Chiron (the wounded healer) will be at 24 Taurus, so right where Uranus is now (the midheaven/top of Trump's chart, public chaos) and Chariklo (Chiron's wife) will be then where Saturn is now.
Like her husband Chiron, Chariklo has a connection to the healer archetype, too. She is also connected to the future via the mythology of her son's gift of prophecy. For me, she is connected to darkness, time in the dark, the chaos of new beginnings, maybe something about making amends or getting some kind of restitution, but the restitution isn't about getting back what you lost. Chariklo was the nymph/mother who asked Goddess Athena to give her child his sight back after Athena unintentionally blinded him when he saw her naked. Athena could not undo her own curse, but did give him the "gift" of prophecy. I read, (haven't checked) that the asteroid Chariklo is prominent in the charts of all the Dr Who actors/actresses, cast of the Star Treks, etc. Maybe something about time travel, outer-space,"beam me up Scotty", who knows.
Sam Altman, the ChatGPT AI guy, was born with his Moon exact on Algol (losing our heads via the star of Medusa's third eye, turning men to stone, algorithms - Algol was the name of the first algorithm programs and they are certainly creating a collective that is 'losing our minds' and via overwhelm - turning to stone) and exactly opposing his Saturn - an EXACT Moon/Saturn opposition with Moon on Algol - can you imagine?! Ouch. AND one degree away from his Moon/Algol he has an exact Mars/Chariklo conjunction - if anyone is going to birth some kind of futuristic baby creature it's this guy.
Chariklo is also said to have been a shape-shifter and her son, Teiresais spent several years as a woman. With everything landing in dualistic Gemini ruled by he/she Mercury and with Pluto in Aquarius, a sign often connected to Ganymede (same sex relationships) - LGBTQ issues/situations/emphasis will almost certainly be part of the future, too.
My mind, one track as it ISN'T, is still on FREE ENERGY with the Nikola Tesla/Musk's Tesla connections. It will, of course, be MANY THINGS and with Uranus it will never be exactly what we are expecting.
Saturn/Uranus alignments are rare and set the stage for MANY years. This series of sextiles will take us all the way to 2032 (with some re-balancing inconjuncts in the middle somewhere).
Saturn, even in Pisces, is about what is old and stable. He rules structures and reality and karma. He is about fathers and hierarchal structures. Things we count on. He is about work that is ambitious. Goals. Commitments. Dedication. Sometimes endings as the ruler of time. Patience. Sweat equity. Management. Saturn wants what we build to last and he rewards things that are built over time with this in mind. No shortcuts.
Uranus is about change and invention. Liberation and freedom. Geniuses and criminals - rule breakers. Uranus is about breakthroughs and breakdowns and break-ups. He is about anxiety and excitement - start languaging anxiety as excitement and watch your life change. Uranus rules the unknown future. Old trauma - often collective. Technology. Electricity. He is the lightning strike of genius and chaos and the actual lightning strike - we talked HERE about both Benjamin Franklin and that Mercury/Uranus at 0 degrees Aquarius guy who was struck by lightning about a gazillion times. Uranus is about inventions and re-inventions and pretty much everything that is uncomfortable solely because it is NEW. As the modern ruler of Aquarius, our collective 11th house, he is 'past the achievement/past the goal' and in it for the group/the cause and his individual ADVANCEMENT, he is all about shortcuts.
You can see how these planets make strange bed-fellows and we are blessed right now to have them working together in a year when EVERYTHING CHANGES.
The next few weeks are an excellent time to work this temporary link between your late degree Pisces and Taurus houses. In the United States this is about the 3rd and 7th houses. Communications and deals and contracts with partners and open enemies, among other things. The August sextile will transition to Aries/Gemini. In the United States this will move into the 4th and 8th houses. Home, country, security and other people's resources, debts, taxes. Then in January 2026 the sextile moves back to Pisces/Taurus - the 3rd and 7th houses. So, the middle/summer sextile, with the planets retrograde and both in their new signs - is the ADJUSTMENT/re-negotiation period.
The astro doesn't show reason to panic. Markets rise and market fall.
We hope to sell during the bull market and buy during the bear. Sometimes we get personally a bit unlucky with timing, but almost always - and remember we have both VENUS AND MERCURY ABOUT TO TURN AROUND AND THEY RULE MONEY AND CONTRACTS, etc - things work out in our favor over time. 401K's and portfolios rebound, and, of course, some people - the ones able to 'buy the bear' - will get rich. Saturn always speaks of a certain amount of patience/things built over time - things we have to work for, etc. Uranus (Trump, chaos, change) moves fast, but Saturn (stability) does not, so keep this in mind.
Look at last week's astrology as Trump (truly a human Uranus with Uranus conjunct his Sun/North Node of Fate and a human Mars with Mars tightly conjunct his Ascendent) announced "liberation day".
There is probably nothing more iconically Saturn Uranus than an old man announcing "liberation day". I mean I can't make this stuff up!
We had Venus retrograde on the North Node. We had Mercury retrograde on the North Node (exact and ruling the chart for DC through that very, very early Virgo rising - too soon to tell what anything here really means). We had Saturn sextiling Uranus for the first of three times - the background music. We had a MINI GRAND TRINE with Mars (exact with Minerva, the Roman Goddess of wisdom), Saturn and Uranus. We had the Moon on Jupiter. This chart speaks of inflated expectations and changes of direction, but, still, it's clearly a chart with potential for bold and beneficial structural change - the end of the world's economy/something terrible - NO, not likely. Not this chart.
Ok, back with the weekly next.
xo all
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