MONDAY - 1st Quarter Moon | Capricorn
WEDNESDAY - Mercury square Jupiter
FRIDAY - Mercury opposite Chiron
SATURDAY - Venus conjunct the South Node
Let's dive right in!
MONDAY - the Moon in sober Capricorn squares the Libra Sun. This is our month's First Quarter Square, so a challenge/tension between last week's New Moon and next week's Full Moon.
Quarter Moons require action. Avoiding action has consequences later.
The Libra Sun wants fairness, harmony, to be nice/liked, to balance things out, almost always pulls in some kind of 'avoidance'. The Moon, debilitated in Cappy, so maybe making this extra uncomfortable just isn't feeling it. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, so the Moon here speaks in the language of duty, discipline, limits and reality checks. It reminds us that balance isn’t just about keeping everyone happy/smiling - sometimes it’s about setting boundaries, drawing lines in the sand and saying “no.”
Sometimes a Cappy/Libra square inspires situations that ask us - "What matters more to you, what is more important - being liked or being respected?".
The Libra Sun doesn't want to make anyone feel bad/wants to maybe fence sit BUT the Moon's message is loud and clear - “ENOUGH”. Enough procrastination, enough people-pleasing, enough circling around the issue. It’s time to take responsibility, big girl/boy pants on. Note - this doesn't mean we need to be jerks about it. We can be firm and kind.
EXAMPLE (since I have been advised by a long-time reader, I need to give more :) A friend asks you to go out, and you have a work project due the next day. The Libra Sun's instinct is to respond something like, "oh, I'd love to, but, maybe, I don't know, let's see". I am exaggerating (sort of), but my point is the Sun doesn't want the other person to feel bad and might, yes, actually want to go out. This tosses the ball back to the other person or will end on a sour note with work project not completed or the Libra overthinking the encounter all night. The Cappy Moon comes in to HELP (remember we are going for - firm, but kind), "I really appreciate the invite and would love to catch up. I have a deadline tomorrow, so need to stay in and focus, how about Friday?". You get the idea. Steer the ship. Really any situation where the best thing to say would be ENOUGH is when we need to. Maybe to someone else or maybe to ourselves.
WEDNESDAY to FRIDAY - Mercury in Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer while opposing Chiron in Aries
Let's unpack this - Mercury in Libra is about communication, negotiation, weighing options, seeking balance. It has a lot to do with other people/partners. Mercury's square to Jupiter in Cancer might indicate something like, exaggeration, overstating, inflated expectation, over-doing, over-promising - maybe connected to home and family. Their contact speaks of OPTIMISM but also tension and frustration around reconciling BIG feelings with CAREFUL reasoning/words.
It will be easy to promise more than we can deliver or to have our mental energies run the show - spinning possibilities, over-thinking, rationalizing/justifying. Mercury in Libra wants cooperation and diplomacy but Jupiter in Cancer amplifies something like 'emotional truth-telling' ie, "this is how I feel, deal with it". BUT know that a casual remark can CUT DEEPER than intended because ..
at the same time Mercury is opposing Chiron.
Words touch very old wounds. Maybe health situations are spoken about. Maybe news comes in about other people/other people's vulnerabilities/wounds or health. Communications can be triggering and feel more personal than even makes sense. We might find we don't know everything we thought we did. We could be more sensitive to conversations around our identity, independence or feeling that we are not being heard or are being misunderstood or even talked about. Keep in mind other people will be feeling the same thing. We will want to be balancing honesty with sensitivity in our dealings with other people. Maybe the, "this is how I feel so deal with it" line isn't going to work out so well if actually spoken out loud, so we have to be smarter.
WATCH OUT FOR - miscommunications that escalate in the wrong direction quickly, resentments around over-serving, over-explaining or over-apologizing (Mercury is in Libra - choose differently!), feeling talked over or minimized, people using 'family values' or their beliefs to justify dismissing someone else's pain. Collectively we want to be leaning toward compassion - North Node in Pisces.
Avoid words like, "you always" or "you never" which will be very triggering and then we are suddenly emotionally back inside of every conversation we have ever been in where we felt under-valued and then everybody is over-reacting!
The way through this, especially with Mercury answering to Venus and Venus applying to that South Node - we can take the time and LISTEN. We can think about how the current situation is triggering us based on old situations. This is EXCELLENT ENERGY FOR RELEASING OLD STORIES. Great for journaling how triggering words and relationship patterns and family dynamics now are connected to old patterns and for seeing how the energies are actually a gift to us allowing the old patterns to resurface and be seen/felt/released.
We want to be seeking that middle ground (Libra) without something bullshitty just because we want to be "nice" (also Libra). Watch for teaching/learning moments and opportunities to hold your shape without being an asshole.
SATURDAY - Venus conjuncts the South Node. Remember nothing is really ever happening in isolation - this is all connected even if different/separate incidents are playing out. Notice how this is echoing Mercury's work this week and the Cappy Moon we started the week with.
Venus in Virgo crosses the South Node in Virgo. Venus is about our relationships, our money, our resources, our values. Virgo is the sign of the servant/discernment and rules our health, our work, our daily obligations including our pets.
Tied into the South Node (the past) maybe old relationships/things we used to love RESURFACE - exes, family, maybe with the Mercury/Chiron patterns of giving more than we receive or maybe themes around needing to work for love/connection?
In a more general sense Venus with the South Node suggests it’s time to release the need to prove our worth through perfection or caretaking and instead move toward the North Node in Pisces - compassion, surrender, connection beyond critique.
So, MAYBE, this week's events conspire for us to look at themes around, “How do I speak and relate without falling back into old wounds of not being enough?” The Mercury/Jupiter/Chiron tension makes the wound visible. Venus on the South Node shows where the pattern has lived in our relationships and our finances/self-worth and WHAT NEEDS TO GO. Things from the past come up to be re-evaluated.
This is a time to release what isn't fixable or WHAT WE JUST DON'T WANT TO FIX OR TRY TO FIX ANYMORE! Venus in Virgo is about the love of the harvest, but is this actually yours to tend? Or is your work to let it be imperfect and release it (the North Node in Pisces)?
MIDWEEK - Tensions rise in conversation (Mercury/Jupiter//Chiron). Old hurts echo in words exchanged. The reflex to rush in and fix could be strong. END OF WEEK - Venus crosses the South Node - the old grooves in the record are coming in loud and clear. The recognition hits us, “I’ve been here before, doing the same dance.” Note to the universe - please no disco. Any kind of 'low self-worth' reflecting scenario HAS TO GO. WHOLE WEEK = the chance to lay something down. To consciously decide not to pour energy into something anymore.
I hope something here is helpful. I am going to do a big picture post once Pluto is direct and Neptune gets back into Pisces. Part III of the Kirk assassination will be this week sometime.
xo all
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