Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, September, 7th, 2020 - Grand Trine in Earth - a solid opportunity

 

 

The Moon, exalted in Taurus today (and most of tomorrow) met up with Uranus last night (2:00 AM EDT) then trines the Sun at 12:09PM EDT (this month's Waning Trine Virgo/Taurus), trines a retrograde Jupiter at 4:07PM EDT - Grand Earth Trine - and finally sextiles a retrograde Neptune at 8:35PM EDT. She makes a couple nice aspects tomorrow morning and then spends most of tomorrow void, but, exalted in Taurus, continuing to perform. 

 

So even though this Grand Trine is a lunar event, so usually fast moving we have this for SEVERAL HOURS TODAY as the trine to the Sun is followed by the trine to Jupiter. This is the smooth progression of our New Moon in Leo beginning, coming through the stuff from the past we have been re-doing. Old opportunities can come back around. The gold we missed the first time through. HERE IT IS. And we have to be smart enough and practical enough to RECOGNIZE IT this time.

 

Taurus/Virgo. Grounded practicality. The details working together to make something real. Soemthing that can be counted on. Stability. Nothing has to be pushed/forced here. Remember our Lao Tzu (ancient Chinese philosopher and father of Taoism) quote from yesterday - we are doing the work/our thing and letting it speak for itself.

When the Moon trines Jupiter at 4:07PM EDT (Jupiter is strong and still and nearing the end of his long summer retrograde) - this is success/expansion/optimism/confidence. Grounded in real world things we can touch. Again, this is smooth (brakes off). We won't have to push for this. Whatever we returned to/or slowed down near when Jupiter went retrograde back on May 14th - well, here, is where, if we've used the retrograde to our advantage re-visioning/re-working  - here is where something can fall right into place.  

 

Don't judge the size of it - small is the new big. From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow - you know the drill.

 

Finally, the Moon sextiles (opportunity) Neptune - "the dream" is pulled into this positive energy. Magic working through us. Mystical forces. Our ancestors. Our past. Pray. Meditate. 

Taurus is all about our resources/products, our money, our values and self esteem. With Jupiter in Cappy - this is about business, responsibilities, our authority and outside authority. Virgo is about our work, our service, our health, our daily activities/schedule, our co-workers/employees, our pets. All of this stuff, plus those Neptunian dreams - are working together today. 

Everyone has access to this. If you have planets/points in the earth signs near 15-17 degrees that is even better! This will also be about your personal house themes - Virgo, Taurus and Capricorn. Today is a holiday in the United States, but some of this good lunar flow will continue tomorrow plus tomorrow is the day the Sun trines Jupiter - so a light on an old opportunity! Our confidence returning.

 

xo all 

 

Keep in mind the way things grow in the Earth - over time (and requiring Sun - attention, and water - an emotional investment) also that Mars is going to station retrograde tomorrow, so there will be some necessary back and forth with all of this over the next few weeks (until mid-November, when full steam ahead).

photo by the talented Mike F Shaw

 

Weekly Astrology Forecast | September 7th - September 13th, 2020 - changing directions, luck, loss, painful words that lead to healing, more options

 

 

This is a BIG week with two planets standing strong and still and then changing directions. This mean we will be changing directions, too!

 

We start the week with Mars strong and still in his home sign of Aries. Right between Eris and Lilith. What a line-up! Have you been able to control your temper the last couple days?! Whoa - it's been challenging, right? Are we supposed to let it happen or fight against it? And who has the strength? Maybe we will be too worn out to fight. Maybe this is life's bottom-line plan for us. Maybe not.

 

Either way I think I need better vitamins!

 

MONDAY - Saturn squares Juno - what are we committing to? Who is in charge? What are the rules? Are the old rules (within close relationships and familial systems) still working? This is a closing square, so what is unwinding/wrapping up? Note this won't really be wrapped up until they meet in Aquarius in April 2022. So, I guess we will spend some time with this!

WEDNESDAY - Mars stations retrograde until November, Sun trines Jupiter (luck!)

THURSDAY - Mercury opposes Chiron (painful words)

FRIDAY - Sun opposes Neptune (karmic ending, maybe a disappointment/loss)

SATURDAY - Jupiter stations direct (expansion)

SUNDAY - Venus trine Chiron (a healing balm)

 

Midweek Mars stations retrograde until the middle of November. Remember Mars is just coming off that square to Saturn (blocked by rules, limits, authority, reality checks) and he will face Saturn again at the end of this month. If that last square - August 24th - was challenging for us, we want to be doing whatever we can to prepare for the next one - September 29th. We don't always get second chances and now we do (actually a third chance in January, but let's keep our feet here in September for now!). 

 

We are backing up. Probably re-doing some previous actions. Regaining our strength/our courage over time. We will know more/do better. We can act more responsibly. Apply focus. Patience. This is not the time to give up, but know we are going to have to circle back with a few things. Something slows down. 

 

Our yang goes yin. 

 

Life becomes even more of an inside job - our strength to accomplish comes from within. And we will find we have more resilience/power than we thought we did. This is almost surely not a mental figuring out, because our minds in Libra could have us saying yes to a whole lot of things that leave our body nodding off! This will be part of the process of figuring out what we are passionate about now.

 

Also midweek - the Sun (in Virgo) will trine a retrograde Jupiter in Capricorn. Sun trine Jupiter is auspicious. Expansive. Confidence enhancing. Maybe our work/or whatever has been the focus of our day-to-day life is getting ATTENTION. Trines remove roadblocks. There is an ease. Our faith can be restored. The Sun is our life-force - we move toward MORE. This is considered by some astrologers to be one of the luckiest days of the year. Buy a lottery ticket. Someone is going to get rich - maybe it will be you!

The fly-in-the-ointment is the Sun's dissolving opposition to Neptune a couple days later, so some of the MORE may not quite materialize the way we are expecting. Some hopes will be dashed. We could be tired. Confused about what is real. We could feel invisible. Remember this is a very karmic time where we are in between worlds - dashed hopes are designed to show us what we really want. Losses here are a karmic re-balancing (ours, past life, ancestral) - let it go.

 

Finally Jupiter, having done his job (as us) with his LONG retrograde through the end of Cappy (near where "time ran out" back in January) - stations DIRECT. We are back to March 2020, older and wiser now, we hope, and retracing our steps for the THIRD time.

 

After months of internal expansion - we could feel like we have outgrown our skin! - life will start to expand externally again. Here is a gift for the kids who did their homework. Keep in mind Jupiter is still in Capricorn until December, so answering to a strong and restrictive Saturn in his home sign. Saturn is still retrograde until the end of the month though, so, Jupiter gets a little breathing room. WE'VE GOT OPTIONS!

 

With Jupiter is Capricorn for most of 2020, there was never going to be a million open doors this year, our expansion was always going to be limited - we get what's truly ours and not a morsel more. There is something opening up this month. And next month looks very dicey and November, too, actually, so we want to be laying any solid groundwork we can NOW.

 

In September - these Virgo trines and even Grand Earth trines! - are designed to rise something practical from the crumbs of 2020's Capricorn demolition. It can be slow going, but it will still be GOING, growing over the next few months as we move toward the Winter Solstice when Jupiter meets Saturn (in air for the first time in hundreds of years) and kicks off a brand new WORLD. 

 

And the world we are living in then will depend, to the extent we have freewill here, on what we do with the next 15 weeks!

Mercury, in Libra now, will oppose Chiron later in the week. Painful words/conversation/information comes in. At the very end of the week though, as Venus (love, money, self-esteem, our resources), in fiery Leo trines Chiron (brakes off) we should see progress from the pain. A healing balm. Beauty. Happiness. Love!

Keep in mind - it's Virgo season - time to be practical, dot the i's, cross the t's. The outer planets are ALL retrograde. Still we know we can't just wait, can't just sit this one out. There is a reason we are being slowed down though. There is a reason Saturn is in his home sign now - bringing all our chickens home to roost. There is a reason Mars is in his home sign showing us what we are most passionate/pissed off about (OUR TRIGGERS!) AND allowing us to see the ways we have numbed out. There is a reason we have lost our passion for many things. Life is going to look/feel very different later and the retrogrades are helping us get clear on what we want/what we need to finish/clear up. There is a reason Venus is in Leo, so we are attracting through what makes us most special. There is a reason Mercury is in Libra desiring balance, wanting us to finesse it, speak cordially, collaborate/cooperate, talk about contracts/relationships. There is no faking this stuff. We can't pretend to care about things we don't care about anymore. We can't attract through anything other than SHINING.

 

We are going through the eye of the needle and there may not be a hell of alot going with us.

As the Sun continues to make his productive trines from Virgo to the Cappy planets over the next week or so, 

 

and then especially when we get to the New Moon in Virgo trining (brakes off) sober Saturn mid-month (instead of the restrictive Moons we've had this summer opposing and squaring Saturn) - we are starting to open up the next chapter; a stronger, better chapter. Not much will come fast and easy, but that's because it will be strong and long-lasting. 

 

Our only real security going forward coming through our ability to say YES to being alive.

xo all

 

"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back."

.... Lao Tzu

 

 photo by the amazing Julie-de-Waroquier

 

Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, September 4, 2020 - the pressure cooker day 2 (of three)

 

It's a very Martiany day. Cue the guys with the big eyes in the space suits.

 

First - and this isn't in chronological order, but just the order it is popping into my head - the waning Aries Moon inconjuncts the Virgo Sun (12 degrees). 

 

This is a rock vs hard place aspect; a regular part of our monthly lunation cycle. We get the Full Moon, then we have to make the adjustment to the Full Moon.

 

The Full Moon earlier in the week brought something to light, to a culmination, to an ending and offered a new/possibly chaotic way forward. Now as the Sun (who remember opposes the Moon at the Full Moon) works his way through diligent Virgo ie dealing with our natal Virgo house theme, considering the details/facts/information, being of service, doing the work, taking care of our health/our pets - the Moon, pushy in Aries now and answering to a strong, but still Mars (in Aries) says, "OK enough information gathering or enough perfectionist procrastination - DO SOMETHING". This is an inconjunct, that win-win, that can feel like a lose-lose, if we are too heavily invested in either side. 

 

We need to adjust. Everyone gets a seat at the table this year. Our brave, but maybe too impulsive Moon. Our practical, but maybe too critical/proscrastinating Sun.

 

At the same time, Mars and Venus reach the exactness of their frustrating square.

 

What we want won't be had by pushy/impulsive actions. What we want won't be had by just our wanting it either. 

 

Venus is in Cancer desiring mothering, safety, a home baked apple pie. Mars, strong in home sign, but frustrated by his slow down and approaching retrograde (5 days and counting, people!) is antsy/angry. So, we show vulnerability we get slapped down or we make an impulsive/selfish move and we feel the insecurities we have wrought. Our more gentle nature vs our need to assert ourselves. This could all be happening within us or through situations with other people. 

At the same time Venus and Mars are having their spat - and I don't say this to make light of it because this is actually quite an intense pressure cooker, especially for relationships and finances - we have Mercury (news, information, conversations) inconjunct Mars and sextile Venus. 

 

So, again, like the Moon (our emotions), our thinking (Mercury) is not so compatible with our actions. Maybe we are burned out. Maybe we are overwhelmed with the details. We can't choose/decide. We can't seem to get going. Analysis paralysis. Or maybe we've made impulsive moves and now we have to figure out how to make them work. 

The only smooth aspect is a sextile from logical Mercury (strong in his home sign of Virgo and at the critical and final 28th degree, so this relief probably comes after the tension) to emotional Venus. Here's our way through this. Caring and practical language. Talking about what we need without sounding needy. Compassionate facts. Thinking about our security.

 

Remember Venus is in Cancer and Cancer is the sign of the mother and the baby. 

 

Let's be kind to ourselves. Let's nurture ourselves. Let's LISTEN to other people. Know that any unsteady ground (instability) or unsure decisions will be exasperated now and trigger other times/spaces we didn't feel safe/sure. The sextile to a thinking/practical Mercury in Virgo speaks of our minds and our feelings working together. 

 

Keep in mind - reasonable language will make others feel safe/nurtured. Babying other people or looking for them to baby us will get us push back. What we see as helping, the other person can see as criticizing. We don't have to pick anything apart, especially someone else's argument. Think - compassionate language. Think about the difference between an open mind (staying curious) and a critical mind (seeing the flaws, the dragons, snapping shut and closing other people out). Both are attributes, but only one will work right now.

Yes, this is a tightrope walk and instead of those grippy shoes and an umbrella to manage the wind, we have our practical brains and our caring hearts. Our actions can trip us up, but we can't just sit on our butts either because Mars is about to go retrograde - did I say 5 days, yes, I did - and things are really going to start to SLOW DOWN. 

 

Tomorrow will be dicey, too, then Sunday will start to open up and by Monday the Moon will be exalted in Taurus, smoothly trining all kinds of goodies. 

 

Get through the next couple days by being gentle with yourself and other people. Soften any critical eye. Almost always good enough is good enough. Know actions will be awkward and we will probably have to make them anyway (and remake them because as I said Mars is about to go retrograde and will be retracing these steps). Speak kindly. 

Keep in mind the Full Moon's best move was something different/new, maybe even radical. That is our ace in the hole. Do something NEW.

Hang in there.

xo all

 

(Example - Virgo/Cancer stress - can be a situation where one person is very focused on the details of something the other person sees as not contributing to security/stability. This showed up for me this morning as hubs spent 30 minutes cleaning an old cutting board to cut up peppers to freeze, irritating the hell out of me for no reason other than, because he, in my mind, should be doing something else that needs to be done - triggering all the ways his over-doing/hyper focused machinations have contributed to our instability and conveniently forgetting all the times they have contributed to our stability. I can use the astro to not be a rude jerk and shoot from the hip with my words and make a big deal out of something that isn't - because small things are not small things right now. Does this make sense?)

photo by the amazing oprisco

 

Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, September 3, 2020 - practical action, staying flexible, the pressure cooker day 1

 

The Moon continues her journey through Pisces today - she sextiled Pluto and Saturn while we slept (cooperation, blending the work and the dream, getting along with authority), opposes Mercury at 8:56AM EDT (challenging communications, the details vs the dream/illusion) and goes void off a productive trine to Venus as 10:34AM EDT (good for creative work, social connections) - she will be void until 4:22PM EDT when she moves into fiery Aries. 

 

During the void - go with the flow, do productive stuff, but nothing we need something to "come of", keep in mind situations that flare up during this time won't amount to much, so don't make a mountain out of a molehill. 

The Moon's move into Aries late this afternoon should energize those who have been worn out by the Pisces Full Moon, but it can also turn up the pressure. Time to get moving, good for independent work. Keep in mind, if we don't want life to feel like a battleground over the next couple months - we need to stay flexible. 

 

Mercury is trining Saturn while squaring the North/South Nodes. 

 

Saturn is retrograde so still focused (as us and as authority) on re-working something, old responsibilities. We can't yet move forward/know what will happen. We can't yet release what needs to go/go back and change the past. We have to stay focused on the facts and taking care of the details. The uncrossed t's and undotted i's that are biting us in the ass - we have to focus on those. 

 

There could be one big thing, and this won't be a totally new thing, but it could be something the Full Moon energy has 'brought to light' - that needs our focus/attention/manning up to deal with this. 

 

This is Virgo season - take the next solid step. Virgo opposes Pisces (the final sign), so we can't see how this all turns out from here - just do the next practical thing. 

We also have Juno (in Libra) opposing Black Moon Lilith (in Aries) The wife vs the other woman. The commitment to the contract/partnership vs personal freedom/autonomy. Oppositions can bring endings. They show us what we are projecting - the dutiful wife clinging to the contract needs more freedom, the other woman needs some solid ground. Life is a mirror.

 

Let's use the Mercury/Saturn trine to deal with authority, our responsibilities/goals. The practical stuff that needs our attention. Let's use the Moon/Venus trine to allow ourselves to dream/feel good - somehow we need to combine these energies without looking too far ahead or getting mired in the past.

 

Use the void to chill out/rest if you need to! 

There is alot of complicated Martian/impulsive/sometimes angry energy coming up, so let's not do foolish stuff. Stay safe and smart. 

 

We will get through 2020!

xo all

photo by the amazing oprisco

Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - change, feeling the past, results delivered, sober commitments, staying flexible, keeping our eyes open

OK, so where are we? The Moon is still in Pisces - we know she opposed the Sun last night (1:14AM EDT - Full Moon), then went on to sextile Uranus (change that enables growth) at 2:04AM EDT.

Today she moves into a sextile with a retrograde Jupiter at 3:47PM EDT (expanding on the dream, creativity, collaboration, emboldened to act), then meets up with ruler Neptune at 8:09PM EDT (connections, feeling the past, spirituality, imagination, addiction).

If we are running on empty already, Pisces Moons can be exhausting.

This is the day Venus (relationships, money, values, self-esteem, beauty) will get to her exact opposition with a retrograde Saturn (25 degrees).

We talked about this in greater depth in the Weekly and the Full Moon post.

Oppositions can bring things to a conclusion (results good or not so good can come in now) or, in this case with the opposition involving karmic and sober Saturn, to a firm commitment. They can also pull in outside energies (that are really inside energies) that will oppose us. Venus in Cancer wants to be comfortable/safe, wants to be cared for, so this can feel harsh/cold. Stuff upper lip, pulling ourselves up with our own boot straps, going cold turkey - all come to mind. This would NOT be a great day to have to deal with authority. We don't want to be projecting that! And if we are stepping into our own, we want to use that Pisces Moon to show compassion no matter what kind of news we are delivering.

This IS good energy to figure out where we are now/what we have and how this works with our goals/responsibilities, what we will need later to play the long game.

We could be required to work harder at a time when we are tired/sick (for some people this opposition is about mothering vs work responsibilities) and we are going to have to figure out some way to balance the needs of our physical body with these energies.

Keep in mind those Full Moon energies. Opportunities/ideas connected to our 'life purpose' - the direct connection to infinite intelligence now. AND the need for new/direct action, yes, even when we are tired! Although, with the Moon in Pisces we will feel a need for more sleep, so can't skip that. Also keep in mind our North Node (way forward) in Gemini now - small quick steps, communications, conversations, sticking to the facts, staying flexible. 

What changes need to be made in our day-to-day life to allow our dream to flourish? WAKE UP!

That square to Mars is building ... and the Moon will move into Aries tomorrow. What do we need to release right now?!


xo all 

photo by the amazing iNeedChemicalX

Full Moon in Pisces | September 2, 2020 - softening our resistance to change, liberation, strokes of genius, endings, disappointments, let go and let God

On September 2, 2020 at 1:14AM EDT the Pisces Moon opposes the Virgo Sun at 10 degrees giving us this month's Full Moon; our annual Full Moon in Pisces.

Full Moons bring things to light, to peak energy - to a culmination, to an ending. It is the space in our breath cycle when our lungs are full and we need to exhale. Or maybe if we have been holding our breath, now is the time we must noisily gasp for air ...

This Pisces Full Moon brings smooth endings and soft landings that can ease us toward something ELSE (and with the major players all retrograde, this could be something with its roots in the past). 

Maybe something we weren't ready for before (or desperate enough to try!).

With an opportunistic sextile to change-maker Uranus divinely timed, maybe watery/limitless Pisces will soften our resistance to change!

This Moon (in addition to being uber potent in its own right) is preparing us/clearing the road for the September 17th New Moon in Virgo when this previously unrealistic/impractical DREAM might finally be well-timed and DO-ABLE. Virgo ensures this will not be all about us - this is about the service/work we are here to give the world. Which we are about to find out is all the same thing!

Any loose ends that need to be tied up over the next couple weeks need to get tied up.

Endings/disappointments can be emotional now, but keep in mind there is something else behind door number two. Look around!

With the Moon in Pisces and the Sun in Virgo, the Virgo/Pisces polarity is activated.

Pisces ruler Neptune strong in his home sign of Pisces, though retrograde (so whatever we are dealing with now, won't be brand new). Virgo ruler, Mercury, strong in her/his home sign of Virgo. Pisces/Virgo is a dance between the infinite (infinity)/wholeness/non-judgement/the dream/Pisces and the finite (the here and now)/the pieces/discernment/the practical steps that make the dream work/Virgo.

Pisces rules the 12th house of what we do last, what is hidden and put away, the ways we self-sabotage because from our vantage point in our 1st house we can't see what's behind us/don't know what we don't know, illusions and delusions, escape, sacrifice, our addictions, our imagination, lack of boundaries, connection, compassion, charity, hospitals, prisons, the things we have forgotten, our distant pasts, our ancestors, water, sleep, illness, healing, spirituality, GRIEF, God.... it is a mystical space of MAGIC where anything can happen.

Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon, at 10 degrees Pisces, opposes the Sun at 10 degrees Virgo.  

The Moon is exactly sextile Uranus. The Sun exactly trine. The Moon sextiles a retrograde Pallas. The Sun trines Pallas. The Full Moon is making nice (giving each other some space this time!) with the Cappy pile-up - more good news and no small thing! Mars squares Venus and Saturn (both waning) and Venus exactly opposes Saturn. The Sun is inconjunct Vesta. The Moon is inconjunct Chiron. Challenges with what we value/hold sacred. Challenges with old triggers/wounds.

I don't want to muddy things up and cloud the water with all these asepects, but I don't want all of this to sound too simple either, although I doubt anyone thinks by now anything about 2020 will be simple.

The Moon's sextile to Uranus IS THE BIG ASPECT. This speaks of LIBERATION, letting go, getting out of our own way. Change. The future. Genius.

Keep in mind - these are both BIG energies.

Far out there. We are talking Neptune/Uranus. We can get really lost in portals like this (luckily we have the Sun opposing from Virgo to keep our feet on the ground - and that's where you want yours ... on the ground).

I am talking about escaping into lalaland, rose colored glasses wearing rose-colored glasses, rebelling through drugs/alcohol.

If the best use of these energies are realized we are talking compassion AND progress. Magic and science. God and technology.

There could be signs now, whispers, synchronicities.

We might be faced with a sudden choice or maybe the choice is out of our hands. We could feel a fast push (no dawdling near train tracks this week, ok?) out of our comfort/discomfort zone. We let go. Then we let go a little more. Then our hands open and WE LET GO. We can't control this ending and anyway - look over HERE (I am pointing at your Taurus house now!) - here is something new, forward-leaning. LIBERATING. It's always easier to move toward something new than it is to move away from something old, isn't it? Or maybe there is nowhere else left to look. Life will use whatever it takes to get us to that lifeboat that only looks like a harebrained scheme that might not work.

And it might not work because that's how life works.

There are no guarantees here. But the thing that doesn't work will be the thing that gets us to the thing that does. There might not be a train from you to New York, for example, so you might have to take the train to Philadelphia and then another train to Newark and then finally a train to New York. Which is where the Pisces trusting in God/life/the Universe/your ancestors part comes in. Bring snacks. And a good book.

Your Taurus house (Uranus) has the goods - the way through this baby. Collectively this opportunity will be about our resources, money, our values, our self-esteem.

Neptune - ruler of this Full Moon - is trining Venus (brakes off). And Venus is past this trine (exact last Sunday), but it's still in play and now Venus has moved into her exact opposition to Saturn. So, what we want is not just going to be given to us here.  We are going to need to work for it. Put in the time/make an investment. This could feel heavy. We might hear a "no" and then have to figure out how to deal with that. Maybe it's a bump in the road and we can get over it or maybe it's the mountain that sends us in the brand-new direction.

Venus in Cancer (as us) is a little needy/wants what she wants.

And if necessity really is the mother of invention and I think she is, then this obstacle isn't really an obstacle.

And I don't mean to make light of it because yes it will feel like an obstacle. Venus/Saturn can make it hard to feel the love. Hard to see the value. With Saturn retrograde, maybe we have this new thing we want, but these old responsibilities/limits seem to be standing in the way. No time. Not enough money. I's we didn't dot and T's we didn't cross that are biting us in the ass now. Whatever this is, keep in mind that Saturn delays things we aren't ready for. His squares and oppositions are necessary - they are the blocks/stop signs/obstacles that we realize later on we needed for motivation, grounding, stability, integrity. But they might feel like sh*t when they are happening.

The Moon is sextiling (opportunity) Pallas who is stationing direct in just a couple days, this makes for good instinctive problem solving. We are blending our instincts/intuition with our intellectual abilities. Change is coming. Change is here. If we want the world to change - we need to change.

God, the universe, our ancestors, our past lives and every good thought/action we've ever had in this one are lining up to support us. Make sure you get out and walk in this one. Pray. Meditate. Listen to music. Get into water. Mercury is making oodles of good aspects this week. Talk. Write. Reach out.

September looks challenging, so let's use this kick-off energy for the best start we can get. The best use of this Full Moon's energy is to 1. let go and let God and 2. make welcome whatever arrives. Yes, you could have skipped right to this paragraph and saved yourself 10 minutes - sorry :)

Alot has changed in our lives since the Pisces New Moon last February. Our daily lives, our relationships, our money/resources. Not much has been left untouched. So what do we value now?

We've had years and years of Neptune/Saturn and now, almost like passing a baton in a relay race, Saturn, readying Uranus for their work ahead (through us) as co-rulers of Aquarius, passes a baton to Uranus.

The future won't be stopped.


xo all

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, August 31, 2020 - relationship and security triggers

The Moon in Aquarius floats through the day unaspected. She will go void at 12:56AM EDT tonight until 5:34AM tomorrow morning when she moves into Pisces drifting toward her opposition to the Sun and tomorrow's Full Moon.

The Sun (in Virgo) inconjuncts Chiron in Aries today. We might feel this as something like - "how do I do this service or this work or whatever this Virgo thing is and take care of myself/stand up for myself/be myself, too." We have Mars in Aries now, so tempers can be hair trigger.

The high-minded Aquarius Moon lets us detach, step-back far enough to get some needed perspective, not go off all Rambo on anything.

And speaking of Rambo - we also have lovely Venus (in emotional Cancer) squaring, first, Juno - the maiden vs the wife - and then Lilith - the maiden vs the other woman

(Lilith is Black Moon Lilith or BML and note Black Lives Matter, BLM, as an acronym is an anagram for Black Moon Lilith and on the night the words, that have gone on to trigger so many people toward action or anger, were first put together by two women in California in the summer of 2013 - Lilith (BML) was exactly conjunct the U.S. natal Venus in Cancer).

This stressful triangle of feminine energy could represent multiple people or could be something happening within us.

Venus in Cancer wants nurturing/love that is "mothering". Take care of me, keep me safe, pay my bills. Juno, in Libra, for what has felt like a lifetime, is like, "this is our contract dude - we need to bring things back into balance". Lilith, in Aries, might say, "I'm not your freaking mother, get up, do it yourself".

Lilith, as per her usual, triggering not only our need to escape, but also our primal fears of losing our comfort zone, our security, the garden.

What are we going to do with this?

This is a Cardinal Grand Cross that will pull Saturn into the mix and last for a couple days (and has been building for a couple, too). Saturn is retrograde, so although events/situations can appear to come from out of the blue, they are based on stuff that's been in play for quite a while. Shadow stuff will make itself known. We, our personal selves/sovereignty might feel challenged within our relationships or maybe through financial situations. And the reality police are on patrol. There are limits. Rules. Maybe these are to our benefit somehow. So, if something is limited now/prevented - maybe its cost is simply too high right now - maybe things will work out better later than if we had gotten what we wanted or pulled a "burn this whole city down" Rambo thing now.

Again that un-aspected Aqua Moon can help. We can process this through our instinctual nature - without our 'history-based' (historical/hysterical) emotions, without over-thinking.

Yes, she might numb our feelings a bit, but the city/our hearts/our bank balance will thank us in the morning.

And, on the other hand, because we always have at least two, we are building toward a freedom-leaning culminating Pisces Full Moon tomorrow, so if something really has come to the final/final, the stuff that comes out of the shadows now can help us put something dead to bed.

The monsters are out of the closet.

Which doesn't have to a bad thing. It's Virgo season. Time to clean them anyway.


xo all

(note Mars will activate these energies later in the week maybe requiring action/forcing our hand, temper or passion)

painting by the talented bronart

Weekly Astrology Forecast | the Week of August 31st - September 6th - serious news and information, commitments, decisions, magical Full Moon, change, motivating tension, a busy week

A busy week with alot of aspects. Some very good and the Moon will finish each sign on a positive note, so that's good news - all's well that ends well, even when there is some muck to deal with before we get to the end. Keep this in mind.

All good closing aspects?! Am I awake or am I dreaming?! Well, there is a magical Pisces Full Moon this week, so I might be dreaming!

Oh course, when I look again I see that Mars is slowed down and not making such great aspects, so there's that, but challenging Mars aspects are MOTIVATING, so there's that, and we are going to be feeling the pressure to ACT one way or the other, so there's that.

Especially on news/information from last week.

But, Mercury is making some smooth moves. Who taught this guy how to dance?

So, our thinking, news, information, writing, communicating, local situations - all serious, all practical, all a GO.

Two of our three personal planets are changing signs at the end of the week, so expect fresh air and a renewed passion. And next week we have one of those infamous "luckiest days of the year" as Jupiter contacts the Sun - so what are we waiting for?!

MONDAY - Saturn inconjuncts the North Node
TUESDAY - Mercury trines Pluto
WEDNESDAY - Venus opposes Saturn, Sun trines Uranus, Full Moon in Pisces
THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn
FRIDAY - Venus squares Mars, Mercury inconjuncts Mars, squares the Galactic Center and sextiles Venus
SATURDAY - Mercury into Libra, Pallas stations direct
SUNDAY - Venus into Leo

MONDAY - Saturn, retrograde (until the end of September) in his home sign of Capricorn is focused on re-structuring, altering old ways/definitions of "work", old rules, traditions, limits, how we handle responsibilities and authority - bread-winning, our careers, our status in the world.

Here he reaches a tight spot through a rock and a hard place aspect to our North Node best way forward - which involves our communication, how we talk to people so they can actually hear us, how we listen, keeping things local and small.

Inconjuncts require adjustments. The win-wins, that often feel more like lose-lose, but not a total loss if you see what I mean.

This can be about adjustments with the structures we have put into place to keep things local - which can mean everything from connections within our local community and the ways we keep in touch with siblings/neighbors, to limiting our time/attention to news outside our sphere that alters our mood/thinking in a negative way. What needs to change?

TUESDAY - Mercury has been flying through his home sign of Virgo and will be in Libra in a couple days bringing more diplomacy (YAY for that), but for now we get these last few days to dot our i's and cross our t's.

He, as we, may have been distracted, finishing errands, attending to the details, now he makes a smooth trine (brakes off) to powerful Pluto at 22 Cappy (this degree is uber amplified and clear now, since it was basically wiped out back in January). This is a closing trine and brings us back to their conjunction in January 2020. Powerful information/truth is accessible to us now, use it or lose it. 

Communications with authority, paperwork, power moves via emails and conversations are all a GO.

Virgo rules our day-to-day situations, our work, our co-workers, employees, pets, our health - what moves can we make to take charge of this stuff? Who has the authority to help us? Reach out. Pluto is retrograde so this could be an old situation, something we started before and we pull back out now, maybe old work that needs to be finished off/polished up, etc.

This energy can also be about something that resonates with us as "true". Is everything going to turn out to be true? All possible theories finding a way to exist simultaneously? I think my head right explode.

WEDNESDAY - Today we have a powerful Full Moon in Pisces - BIG Post to follow!

This is also the day, and we will talk about this in detail in the Full Moon post, the Moon sextiles Uranus (inevitable change, mystical awakenings) and Venus opposes Saturn (ouch, reality check, commit or quit, but Venus also has a way of moderating Saturn, so we'll have to see how this falls when we look at the entire chart).

More in the Full Moon post.

THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn. This is the closing trine of the Mercury/Saturn cycle that started back in January. Maybe we get some good news about the virus now. An improved plan of action. Commitments. Serious news. Personally, we are talking about our Virgo/Cappy natal house themes and collectively our work/career/practical goals. We are buckling down now. Maybe getting good news/rewards/recognition. Communications with authority go well. Another GO.

Keep in mind Saturn is retrograde, so this won't be a totally new situation. If you are looking for work, this would be a good week to contact prior contacts/old employers, etc. Saturn will return to this exact position around the middle of October, so maybe some contact/communication that is initiated now will finalize then.

Virgo/Cappy is strong and solid builder energy. Where we put our foot down we make an imprint on Earth soft enough to feel it. Heads up - longish void Moon today.

FRIDAY - Venus squares Mars. A motivating tension between what we want and how we go about getting what we want. This is Cancer/Aries - maybe some frustration between that home/family situation and us personally. Our pushing will just cause the other person to withdraw. These are both personal planets, so we might delegate one of these energies to someone else and battle it out. Cue the boxing robots.

At the same time an active Mercury, at the end of his home sign of Virgo is sextiling Venus (opportunity to get organized with resources/money, that home/family situation) inconjunct Mars (a rock and hard place with our actions/thinking, putting an idea into practice, being able to walk our talk) AND squaring the Galactic Center - our homing signal. This is too much to untangle. Expect opposing views/polarization. Frustration. Don't think for a moment that you don't need a crisis because sometimes you do. Still I'd focus on that Mercury/Venus sextile - something is falling into place here. We won't need to push.

SATURDAY - The Moon in Aries squares the Cappy planets and brings some tension/intensity.

Mercury (communication, ideas, thinking, siblings, local neighborhood) moves into Libra (balance, fairness, diplomacy, passive-aggression, indecision, peace, art, beauty, women) today where he/she will hang his hat until September 27th.

Successful words are more tactful now - more focused on what the other person needs/wants. That splitting hairs and checking for typos Mercury did back in Virgo cedes way to saying it nicely.

Our thinking could be more indecisive now. Not because Libra is wishy-washy so much as just able to see both sides of any situation. Libra's polarity sign Aries can make fast decisions because the energy can focus most easily on one point of view - their own. Ha! And because this is the way life seems to works we will often be faced with a decision at exactly the time all this energy makes decision-making hard - go figure.

Libra is the natural ruler of our 7th house of other people. Life gets more complicated after the 7th house. Do you have any planets in your 7th house or in Libra - these are the archetypes we usually set up our lives to have played out by other people - how's that working for ya'?

Libra wants everybody to be friends. Diplomacy, both in our personal lives and the larger collective, if actually attempted, can improve tense situations now. The gentle art of persuasion via a lighter touch can work, too. Mercury in Libra is a good listener because Libra actually cares about other people! Words that make people feel loved and appreciated and beautiful will be the right words.

Our natal Libra house gets a visit from multi-tasking, inquisitive Mercury. So things in the area of our life naturally ruled by Libra get busy.

Cooperation/compromise are the name of the game now.

With a personal planet in air it is also an excellent time to get a head cold. Do whatever you normally do to prevent that.

Pallas stations direct in Capricorn. The first of our current Cappy pile-up to station direct - here is where our strategies/plans can begin moving forward. Pallas notices patterns/makes sense of things. Having her, "the head", begin to move forward FIRST is more good news.

SUNDAY - Venus moves into Leo until October 2nd. YAY - some fiery Leo again! And Venus rules Uranus in Taurus, so double good news, I think. Our Leo house, hosting the lovely Venus, becomes more attractive. Leo Suns and rising signs are more attractive, too (both easy on the eye and able to attract what they want).

We attract what we want and need (Venus) through Leo - so by standing out, standing up, being passionate, taking the world by storm - you get the idea.

We could, of course, go overboard with all of this. Leo (ruled by the Sun) doesn't really like others blocking their light. Competition can get ugly. We could become downright diva-like. Being in love with being in love fits here, too. Our passion and confidence will be what attracts others to us and what we are attracted to in others now.

Wanting to be adored will make being ignored harder to handle.

We are more likely to gamble with our resources (even risk our reputation or relationships) for the next few weeks. Keep this in mind.

In Leo, Venus wants FUN and romance and creativity and passion. Girls really do want to have fun - cue Cyndi Lauper.

Back with that big picture I keep promising and the Full Moon post plus a couple dailies to add in the Moon!

Have a wonderful week. Mars stations retrograde on September 9th - if you have something to get going you best get going with it!

Keep in mind I am writing about these aspects for the day they perfect, and you might feel them more as they are building, or sometimes, even as they are unwinding. All days are based on EDT.

xo all

photo by the amazing iNeedChemicalX

Saturday Night Mystery | the astrology of the disappearance of Kyron Horman - June 4, 2010

Kyron Horman was an adorable and bespectacled seven year old boy living with his father, stepmother (who had been his custodial parent for four years) and sister in the United States west coast city of Portland, Oregon.

On June 4, 2010, Kyron goes off to school with his stepmother and 18 month old sister. It's a special Friday, science fair day, so different from his usual routine. We can imagine Kyron was excited. A picture of Kyron taken by his stepmother and posted to her Facebook account that afternoon showed a smiling boy in front of a rather impressive display about the red-eyed tree frog.

Kyron was seen, along with his stepmother and little sister, by a teacher at 8:15AM, so we know for certain he was at the school that morning.

According to his stepmother, after spending some time together checking out the exhibits, Terry (maiden name Moulton) and Kyron separate briefly with Terry and her daughter, heading up one set of stairs (the school had two staircases)  and Kyron heading up the other staircase (it seems they had done this 'race to the top of the stairs' thing before).

When Terry reached the top of her staircase she could see Kyron at the other end of the hall near his. She says she waived good-bye to him as he headed to his first period math class and she exited the school with her daughter at about 8:45AM.

Kyron, left just a few feet from his math class, in what must have been at least a semi-crowded hallway ... never got there.

At 3:30PM when Kyron fails to get off the school bus, his father and stepmother go to the school and this is when they find out he was not in school that day. The school places an emergency 911 call to the police (3:45PM) and the search for Kyron, which became the largest search in Oregon state history, begins.

This is a well-known case and over a decade old, so I am using everyone's real names. The step-mother has long been a suspect, but has never been charged and Kyron has never been found.

I have added asteroid Terry and asteroid Moultona (Terry, the stepmother's maiden name is Moulton) to the charts.

There are a few other astrological blogs, etc, especially focused on the last seen chart, around the internet, with various interpretations - guilt of stepmother, opportunistic stranger abduction, theories that he never left the school, etc - but none pulling these named asteroids into the chart, so we will see if these additions, provide any fresh insights.

And of course we will also look at the centaur/dwarf planet Chiron (name pronounced the same as this little boy) and see what he was up to. My sister and niece lived in Portland when this happened and Kyron has been on our minds for a very long time.

What happened to this adorable little boy?

His wikipedia story (lots of twists and turns after his disappearance) is HERE.

We are going to look at three charts. A chart for the time Kyron was last seen. A chart for an hour later to see where he went/what is happening to him. And a chart for the time of the 911 call from the school - when the event becomes known.

Let's unpack the charts!

We are starting with the last seen chart.

The chart is a Cancer rising chart - remember, the Ascendant represents Kyron as does the Moon. Since the ruler of Cancer is the Moon normally we might only have the Moon to use as a stand-in for Kyron, but since we have a planetary body named Chiron (pronounced the same as our young boy) we will see if it fits to use Chiron to represent Kyron, too.

A Cancer significator could indicate our victim is short, round face/round pretty eyes, disorders of the teeth (which anyone Kyron's age would have in a sense and he does). He was known to be a shy, gentle boy. A Cancer archetype seems to fit here.

The Moon (Kyron) is in the 9th house which rules education, but usually higher education. In this case I think the grammar school's less strict structure on this particular day and the science fair event itself fits a 9th house scenario.

The Moon (standing in for Kyron) is conjunct (by just 1 degree!) asteroid Terry (keep in mind there are 360 places/degrees asteroid Terry could be). We know Terry, his stepmother, is with him at the science fair - remember this is the chart for the time the teacher sees them together at the school. Chiron is also in that 9th house confirming his position as a significator for Kyron. Chiron is opposing Mars at the critical 29th degree warning of danger ahead and exactly sextiling (opportunity) Ceres (mother).

The Moon is in Pisces, so answering to Neptune. Neptune is also in Pisces, so strong in his home sign, but instead of being in the 9th house with the Moon is in the 8th house (death) - the 8th house as a final dispositor for a missing person is not good news.

We also see asteroid Moultona (a significator for Terry and again keep in mind there are 360 spaces/degrees asteroid Moultona could be) right on the Ascendant (Kyron) and conjunct Venus in Cancer (the woman who is a mother and with Venus out of bounds/ahead of the Sun, out of control of the Sun, she is not bound by the normal rules here).

Let's take a look at what we can see about the perpetrator.

The descendant (significator for the perpetrator) is 21 degrees Capricorn; a degree of self-sabotage. There are no planets in the perpetrator's 7th house, but we have the North Node (fate), Pluto (death, destruction) and Ceres (mother, mother of stolen or deceased child, smother-mothering) in the sign of Capricorn.

A Capricorn descendent could indicate the perpetrator has authority over the victim, is quite older than the victim. Dry. Serious. Cold-headed. Maybe dangerously depressed (Kyron's father stated Terry was medicated for clinical depression and had not been the same since the birth of their daughter/postpartum depression). With the Cappy planets in the 6th house this might indicate a perpetrator the victim sees everyday - someone who is part of his daily life.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn - here in the 3rd house squaring Juno (the jealous wife from the 12th house of endings/lies/secrets and in Gemini, so she's almost like two people). The 3rd house is our thinking, so another indicator here for depression - Saturn/3rd house. The 3rd house is also our local community, the school, short distance travel, the people closest to us in childhood. Saturn is in Virgo so answering to Mercury in the 11th in Taurus so answering to Venus in the 12th - notice Venus is ahead of the Sun, so out of bounds, the uncontrolled female/not playing by the rules - conjunct the Ascendant in Cancer finally back to the Moon (Kyron in the 9th) and with the Moon in Cancer to Neptune in the 8th - final dispositor again is Neptune in Pisces - the final sign of endings in the house of death.

So, our loop is 3rd house (school, local community, mental issues), 11th house (friends, goals that bring us into connection with other people - science fair, here as Mercury repping for Saturn a friend of the father), 12th (endings, lies, delusion, here as Venus in Cancer - a female woman, a mother, uncontrolled), the 9th house (Kyron, education, unknown journey) and the 8th house (death).

Keep in mind nothing is ever just one thing.

When we move the chart ahead about an hour and a half - to 9:45AM we get our second chart.

Here our Moon/Chiron have moved into the 8th house (death), so horribly, by now Kyron is probably no longer alive.

We see asteroid Terry is now exactly conjunct the Moon (Kyron), seeming to indicate the stepmother's presence.

Asteroid Moultona has moved into the 12th house of endings/lies/delusion and is in Cancer - the sign of the mother/mothering. Our significator for our perpetrator in the first chart, Saturn is still in the 3rd house, now representing movement/short distance travel/transport by vehicle - the perpetrator is driving around, but hasn't gotten too far away.

Neptune, the final dispositor for Kyron is in Pisces in the 8th house.

Pisces 8th houses sometimes show people passing away in their sleep. So, maybe he is drugged and falls asleep and doesn't wake up. This could also indicate drowning, but I don't think so here, although there could be a connection to water with what happens after he dies. There might be a spiritual connection to a sacrifice - Kyron making the sacrifice. His death somehow saving someone else (?). Maybe his sister? I don't know. That 3rd house Saturn could indicate danger to a sibling, too, or this could be part of the karmic story we can't see.

With Neptune in Pisces Kyron's death can become a mystery and might not be known for a very long time and this is supported by the fact Chiron is standing still in this chart at 0 degrees Pisces preparing to go retrograde, that out of bounds Venus, as well as asteroid Sphinx (the keeper of great mysteries) being exactly conjunct the Ascendant.

This case might never be solved ...

When we move ahead to that late afternoon as Terry and Kyron's father descend on the school and the school worker calls 911 we see quite a bit has changed.

Asteroid Moultona is at the top of the chart now in Cancer (mother) - a significator for the stepmother and certainly the focus of authority/the police (10th house) rather swiftly turns to her. Saturn, another significator for the step-mother has moved into the 12th house of endings/lies/self-sabotage/delusions.

Asteroid Terry has separated from the Moon (Kyron ... ugh) and is sandwiched between the Moon (Kyron) and Chiron. Chiron, strong and still is conjunct Neptune (the end of Chiron/Kyron!) in the 5th house of children. Notice all the Cappy planets from that 1st chart that tie into the perpetrator are now in the 3rd house of the school as the 911 call is made (Ceres - mother, Pluto - death, North Node - fate).

We don't know Kyron's birth time, but we know his birthdate, so we can look at his natal chart and that fateful day's transits.

Kyron has transiting Ceres conjunct his natal Chiron. Transiting Pluto sitting exactly between his natal Chiron and his Part of Fortune. The Sun conjunct his natal North Node which is conjunct asteroid Chaos. And amazingly enough, transiting Juno (the jealous wife) conjunct his natal Saturn (death, karma, endings) just as transiting Saturn conjuncts his natal Juno! One from the 10th house of the father/mother and one from the 7th house of the partner/perpetrator.

Some astrologers who have looked at Kyron's last seen chart see that Saturn significator as a sign an older man is involved, but that isn't necessarily so. Capricorn is a female sign and Saturn can indicate someone with authority over the victim (among other things), sometimes someone severely depressed, sometimes both.

It seems unlikely to be a stranger abduction or that shy Kyron wandered away and once we add Ceres, asteroid Terry and asteroid Moultona to the charts the story becomes rather sadly crystal clear I think.

Not very many step-mothers are the dangerous characters from Disney movies, but we have somehow managed to look at two over the last few weeks! With oddly similar stories. This will probably be the last mystery for a bit, so I can continue the series on the rest of this year, the virus/the violence and what we might expect.

xo all

To follow up with that last mystery we looked into - the case of missing mom Leila C. in Florida has had an arrest! If you are following that case, take a look at the man's Facebook ranting, just google around, I don't even want to link to this guy. It is amazing, he is EXACTLY the perpetrator in the charts. He claimed Leila was his intern, that she used to live with him, he is at least 10 years older than she is. She wasn't meeting a stranger she met on the internet and the astrology showed that. He is some kind of self proclaimed witch-doctor (yes, you read that right). I didn't exactly say "witch- doctor" in the post = ha! - but, you might remember the charts showed Virgo (healer) and then Aquarius (eccentric/odd ie witch fits here) for his significators.

Astrology/this cosmic connection between us, the planetary bodies, the archetypes and their patterns is magic people.

Witch doctor indeed!

Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, August 28, 2020 - relationship power struggles can lead to real and lasting change

The Moon continues her journey through serious and sobering Capricorn today.

She trines a retrograde Uranus at 8:51AM EDT (surprises, liberation, committing to a new plan maybe one that we had before, but never got off the ground), trines Mercury at 8:04PM (practical conversations, solid news) and finally meets up with a retrograde Jupiter at 9:55PM EDT (expansion, needing more, taking care of old business).

The Sun, at 5 degrees Virgo, is opposing Ceres (in Pisces) - and this will be more impactful for people with planets/points in your natal/progressed charts nearest these degrees.

The Sun is our purpose - the way we are meant to shine, our ego - as he opposes Ceres (mothering, situations outside our control, season of life issues) in boundless Pisces our attention might turn to situations where we are over-giving/smother-mothering, even nit-picking. Or maybe we want to do something for ourselves (take care of the details of something), and we have to do something for someone else.

Virgo/Pisces can be the healer/patient dynamic or, if things have gone off the rails, the patient has become a victim, the healer a martyr. Any self-sacrificing bullsh*t or spaces we have abdicated our power by playing the victim will be noticed.

At the same time, and this might be all the same thing, Juno (from Libra) is squaring Pluto at 22 degrees Capricorn - and this will be more impactful for people with planets/points in your natal/progressed charts nearest these degrees.

This is a powerful degree (often connected to self-sabotage) ignited back in January!

Juno (marriage, contracts, commitments, old school family traditions) has been making her way through partnership-focused Libra. Some marriages/relationships becoming kind of like pressure cookers determined to reach some sort of balance/fairness/comfortable temperature or get so hot, one, or both frogs either hop the pot or are boiled alive. #kidding #notkidding

This square to a retrograde Pluto is a turning point.

And since Pluto is retrograde, this won't be a totally new situation/conversation/argument. The intensity is familiar.

Who has the power? What commitments are no longer working? Manipulations, compulsions, obsessions related to our fear of endings/fear of loss/fear of change within our relationships/contracts are activated. We can see the truth here.

These are cardinal signs, so this square is a powerful portal for REAL TRANSFORMATION (which through Pluto might feel like death at first), LASTING CHANGE.


xo all

photo by the amazing iNeedChemicalX

Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, August 27, 2020 - time gets stretchy, getting alot done, compassionate connections, wet weather, taking care of business and the details

The Sagittarius Moon goes void off a productive trine to action-oriented Mars at 8:00AM EDT (defending our beliefs, taking optimistic action, fighting for knowledge, moving forward).

Roll with any twists and turns (until 1:37PM EDT), which will most likely not amount to much and keep in mind the same can be said of what we begin now. So stick to routine concerns. Stuff you do all the time. Time gets stretchy. We can get alot done.

At 1:37PM EDT things start to get serious as the Moon rolls into Capricorn, the sign of winter, where our focus turns to our goals, stability, responsibility, authority, the number of cans in our cupboard and dollars in our bank account.

Her only aspect today, a trine to the Virgo Sun at 11:08PM EDT. This month's waxing trine - Cappy/Virgo. Good energy for dealing with authority/our goals/career. Moving forward with our New Moon agenda. Taking care of business/the details. Stepping into our authority. Getting it done.

At the same time Venus, in Cancer and struggling through all these Cappy oppositions, gets a little daylight with a nice trine to a retrograde Neptune (in Pisces at 19 degrees). This is relaxing, taking care of ourselves. Compassion. Forgiveness. Letting down our guard/our boundaries. Water trines can bring wet weather. The downside here, with a water trine and Hurricane Laura looming in parts of the U.S., since this is a "brakes off" aspect - this could have some negative impacts.

Hopefully the benefic presence of Venus here, in home and family oriented Cancer, can help mitigate a bit. Stay safe out there!

With the Moon trining the Sun and Venus trining Neptune - this is a good day for all kinds of interactions with other people. Time to use your magic people!

Keep in mind, and we talked about this in the weekly HERE, we have some big oppositions building, exact on Sunday, (Venus/Pluto and Mercury/Neptune). So some situations outside our control are likely to escalate. Oppositions bring projections and culminations. Part of what is happening right now, for example with the quarantine/limits - this stuff outside of us impinging upon us - is about us experiencing the power of living in the "now". We can't live in the future with things so uncertain and our ambitions literally dissolving. We can't live in the past without feeling crappy about the now.

Jupiter is in Cappy - we are adjusting our expectations.

We have to know/trust that we are transitioning to a better way of living. The 'largeness' of the old world was not sustainable. It's over. This doesn't mean we are going to spend the rest of our lives - masked and boxed.

This has always been more about 'rising from our sweaty death bed sheets' and what we do with that ... hang in there.


xo all

photo by the talented PsycheOphiuchus

Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - doing what is right in front of us, revising our plans, when nothing is certain then anything is possible

The Moon in Sagittarius squared Mercury at 5:46AM EDT (something like truth spoken in jest or finding out things we don't want to know, saying too much, overthinking something) and then squares a retrograde Neptune at 7:42PM EDT (expansion, too much, lack of boundaries). Both aspects speak of tension today between the facts/details and our rose-colored glasses.

In the meantime Mercury is trining a retrograde Pallas in Capricorn (12 degrees). This is excellent energy to be "re"vising and "re"working our plans/strategies. Small changes to our "go-to" solutions can make a big difference. This won't be something that has to be pushed. Smooth integration.

Mars is trining (and this is going to be repeated two more times due to Mars upcoming retrograde) the South Node in Sag. More Sag! The South Node is where we are right now (and the past), so this is brave action we can take right now to either smoothly release something that is past its expiration date (maybe a belief about what we can have or what we have to do to get what we want) or push something that is already happening/has been happening further along. What do we need to do that takes action/courage?

There is a strong energetic right now - as we head into a whole new world - that will make things we don't want anymore feel like they are eating us alive. Life/God/the Universe is saying something like, "I don't want you to do anymore of this thing you don't want to do." And we are like, "but this is what I have to do, this is what I do". And then we keep doing it. And then the pressure gets kicked up another level to make us not do the thing we don't want to do.

There is also a strong energetic right now - as we head into a whole new world - a need to uproot any lack of appreciation of where we are now/this kind of greed for more, that used to push us forward/fuel our ambitions, but isn't going to work in the new world. Jupiter in Capricorn is putting the stakes through the heart of this - which is why this kind of stuff feels so meaningless/bottomless anymore. We can't have it all. And as a trade-off we are released from receiving any satisfaction from our attempts to.

There is a divine reason for the necessary fuzziness/inability to see what lies ahead.

There is a reason the South Node must be in Sag (knowledge, beliefs) for this transition. The last thing any of us need right now is certainty. Imagine yourself a quarterback in the most important game of the season. The crowds are on their feet. Your teammates eyes are on you. Your hands are on the ball. Imagine the tension/the power of that moment. Now imagine one more thing. Imagine you already know the outcome of the game. Wouldn't that change everything? So, you don't get to know that.

For today, because one day at a time is what we get here - think about re-vising old plans/strategies through facts/details and smallish tweaks (maybe to your schedule, routine, etc), taking action/initiative with something on your plate right now. Just instead of focusing on having more/or something overly ambitious, keep the focus on what you know you need to be doing right now/what feels right.

The Moon is in Sag connecting us to benevolent Jupiter, offering us hope and faith (and, yes, making us a wee bit or maybe alot restless) - let's allow ourselves some of that, too, now. Hope, faith and restlessness - everyone gets a seat at the table. Keep this in mind.


xo all

photo by the talented Art-Of

Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - a wide angle lens, the forest and the trees, innovative solutions, good news, exaggerated needs

The Moon in deep Scorpio went void at 2:27AM EDT off a sextile to a retrograde Saturn. She will be void until 8:49AM EDT when she moves into fiery Sagittarius. Her only aspect today a square to the Virgo Sun at 1:57PM EDT.

In Sagittarius she turns our attention to our beliefs, the big-picture, optimism, weddings/celebrations, travel, education, foreign people/ideas/places, the stuff outside our local environment.

Today's First Quarter Square (opening square) is a crisis point in our monthly lunar cycle and asks us to look beyond/work with last week's fiery Leo New Moon fresh beginning.

This is Sag/Virgo. We look up from the details we are mired in (the critiques, the edits, the corrections) and bring our attention to the BIG PICTURE.  This is a square so tense and uncomfortable - we probably won't really want to do this/look at this/go there (and with Sag ruler Jupiter in a tangle with Venus, this could pull our money, values, relationships as well as that home, family situation into the mix). But we skip this step at our own peril - or better said, at the cost of being unprepared for the next step. So now we go further. We learn more. Maybe we apply faith, optimism, enthusiasm. Stay flexible. Think wide angle lens.

At 11:17AM EDT Mercury trines Uranus. Uranus in Taurus has been busy updating (via chaos and sudden change) our resources, our values, our habits. Now, here is a smooth connecting aspect with mental Mercury in practical Virgo. A new idea we can use. Innovation that solves problems. Time to talk about something else. Unexpected news/information. With Uranus retrograde something here could have its roots in the past even as it impacts the future.

This is also the day Venus reaches 17 degrees Cancer and moves into her opposition to a retrograde Jupiter in Cappy. Now, even though this is an opposition these are still our two most benevolent planets. They want to help us feel good.

This could bring us an exaggerated feeling of what we want (and keep in mind she will oppose Pluto at the end of the week to kick this obsession up a notch then finally Saturn next week with the reality check). This could, because oppositions can bring peaks/culminations in the way Full Moons can - bring us to a RESULT. Here is what we have attracted. And, remember, this is a process because she has the whole Cappy pile-up to deal with over the next few days. Also, remember the Cappy planets are all RETROGRADE, so we are asked to re-view what comes up here AND remember, that the Moon (in Sag) is answering to Jupiter and squaring the practical Virgo Sun, so pulling in a need (that we skip at the cost of being unprepared for our next step) to keep at least one foot on the ground with anything that is too exuberant/too tempting.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch or count on your lucky rabbit's foot to pull you through (the foot was only intended to help the rabbit and I suppose that didn't end well for her). Work the square - apply a wide angle lens. Bring in more knowledge/more faith. Work the trine. Open your mind to new ideas. Think practical innovations. We will feel the opposition (the wanting more or result process in action), but let's not allow it to go too far unless we will benefit more from the INSPIRATION of the exaggerated feeling (and this could certainly be true because we certainly need HOPE now) than we might be hurt from any let-down later.

If your memory is less swiss-chessy than mine these days - something here might connect back to late November 2019 (sometime around last Thanksgiving).



xo all

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Weekly Astrology Forecast | Week of August 24th - August 30th, 2020 | frustration, choosing our battles, getting past the block, moving forward, unexpected news and opportunities, results, keeping our feet on the ground

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

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, August 21, 2020 - shifting beliefs, rabbit holes, painful encounters, let's give each other a break

The Moon is void until 5:16AM EDT when she moves into Libra.

During last night's void in Virgo, she squared the North Node (in Gemini) and the South Node (in Sagittarius). A road diverges in the woods. We could find ourselves changing our mind now about what we believe to be true. That is OK. This is what the North Node in Gemini is designed to do.

Stay curious. Versatile. Focus on facts and not what we believe about the facts. If we are too wedded to beliefs that are no longer serving us, are hurting us/beliefs that are too fantastical, these kind of celestial road markers can bring us back to Earth.

Older and wiser with maybe a greater understanding of the other side. 

Keep in mind Neptune is back to the degrees he traveled during the 'witch hunts', and he is retrograde now, which is a good time to go inside and get a grip on what really makes sense here! Keep in mind also the axiom of both quantum physicists and magical thinkers - reality is what we make of it.

What are your thoughts (North Node in Gemini) making of yours?!

Asteroid Hygeia is in Gemini now - we are only as healthy as our choices/our thinking. Self-care is about more than hand washing and Vitamin D.

The Moon in Libra will have us feeling nurtured (or not) through balance, through our relationships, through beauty.

Her only aspect today a painful opposition to wounded healer Chiron in Aries, so old wounds could be stirred.

Issues around self-doubt and self-worthiness could surface.
 
Chiron in Aries forms a natural opposition to Libra (and this is part of the Aries/Libra polarity dance), 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 is strewn with roses and thorns. 
 
Tomorrow, our Libra Moon (above and through us below) has all her squares to the Cappy planets, plus will square her ruler (through disposition) Venus, in Cancer, and oppose Mars in Aries.

So today and especially tomorrow look quite dicey.

Rough waters. And the Libra Moon likes things smooth and balanced, so we will feel them. 

Go gentle with yourself and other people over the next couple days. We are all fighting a hard battle and none of us really know what the hell we are doing ...


xo all

Heads up - there is some wonderful energy coming our way during the first two weeks of September - we will talk big picture in the next post!

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - getting organized and moving into our New Moon plans, don't shoot your eye out

Our Leo Moon went void last night (1:38AM EDT) off her conjunction with Mercury. She was void until 4:20AM EDT when she moved into "let's get this thing organized" Virgo. She will trine a retrograde Uranus (the unexpected future) at 9:51PM EDT.

Earth trines are uber productive - what needs to get moving?!

Mercury comes home to Virgo tonight. We talked about this in some detail HERE for Wednesday.

She/he will be in Virgo only until September 5th, so time to get organized, focus in on the details of something, fix it/make it better.

As she enters Virgo she passes over fixed star Regulus (known as the heart of the lion aka the king, although he moved out of Leo and into Virgo a few years back - maybe now he is the heart of the lion aka the people). Virgo themes include our daily activities, the processes of things, work, health, pets, co-workers, paperwork, cleaning, being of service.

With Mercury in Virgo, our thinking, writing and communication will be more practical and commonsense. We will be all about the details. Nothing gets by Mercury in Virgo. But lots of things get dismissed. If it's not real/not factually stated/if it doesn't work - it's outta here.

Also today a retrograde Pluto squares Black Moon Lilith in Aries (22 degrees).

This could be kind of an ugly energy - like we lash out at someone and hurt them before they can hurt us or someone is manipulating/threatening to reveal dark secrets. With Pluto in Cappy, crumbling power structures - the stuff built on lies and other people's backs - are falling. This isn't about hesitating to speak our truth, we probably won't be able to with BML in fiery Aries anyway, just let's not do this in an intimidating or underhanded way. It can backfire. And by 'backfire' I mean we can burn the whole place down.

Aries/Cappy squares can be like David and Goliath aspects, just make sure you know what you are doing with that slingshot ... because you might take a chip off the giant's shoulder, but shoot your own eye out in the process.



xo all

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