Mercury is meeting Saturn this week and the Sun is meeting Pluto - keeping our word/walking our talk is VITAL. The congruence of our language and our action, doing what we say, is about more than
reliability. It gives the other person, and our entire collective, a sense of their own substance.
Our congruence places ground beneath the feet of other people.
The following are the major aspects I see for the week and keep in mind we are in between eclipses now, so stay flexible, rested and hydrated - anything can happen!
We are being rebooted and uprooted, folks!
SUNDAY - Uranus stations direct at 28 degrees Aries
MONDAY - Venus enters Sagittarius
TUESDAY - Mercury (
in Capricorn) squares Mars (
in Aries)
FRIDAY - Sun conjuncts Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn
SUNDAY - Mercury conjuncts Saturn, Jupiter squares Neptune and the Sun squares Eris
With Uranus now direct in Aries - all the major planets are direct. We don't get this often and it only lasts for a few weeks, so take advantage by moving ahead with your projects and plans.
Uranus has only a few more weeks in Aries (
remember he went into Taurus in mid-May, then stationed retrograde and returned to Aries in early November) before he will be back in Taurus for several years. He won't be back in Aries in our lifetimes, so whatever still needs to be shaken and stirred in that Aries house - well, expect the unexpected, because it will be!
If you didn't feel a kind of "all systems go" on New Year's Eve when Mars came home to Aries - Uranus's direct station could do the trick.
On
MONDAY the Moon moves into airy Aquarius (
answering to that newly direct Uranus) - finally some air! - and she moves on to sextile (
opportunity) Mars (
action, initiative), giving our ideas some fire/passion. Opportunities/our attention could be focused on our groups and friendships and the goals that bring us into connection with other people.
Venus FINALLY leaves intense Scorpio and moves into Sagittarius for the next few weeks.
Sagittarius Suns and Ascendants (
1st house cusps) get more attractive now - both able to attract what they want and need and easier on the eye.
All of us get a visit from Venus in our Sagittarius houses
- what house holds Sagittarius in your natal chart - that house gets more attractive/magnetic - what houses does Venus rule? those houses get more expansive and optimistic.
Sagittarius is the sign of the archer. If we were archers - we would gather our energy. We would pull back our bow. We would take aim
(and we would aim a little high because, well, first of all, gravity, but also because Jupiter, who rules Sagittarius, is known to inflate things - we might need to overshoot our goal to actually hit it). We would hold our bow "in tension".
This holding position is important to landing our arrow where we intend it to go.
(
of course, if we are in some kind of life and death battle with that arrow then I guess we just let it fly and hope for the best, but most situations we are facing are not quite so dire)
The same way an archer's "in tension" allows her arrow to hit her mark, our own "intentions" release our energy where we need it to go.
Intentions are not wishes; they are not hopes. Wanting to do something is 180 degrees from intending to do it.
Intention releases the potential the thought/idea/situation is carrying.
(
In this time of winter and long season of Saturn it will pay to keep in mind the wise expression - "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" - the end doesn't justify the means. It never has, but it especially will not for the next couple years. The means will give us the end. What we do to others we do to ourselves and to our own now. And yes, with the South Node in Capricorn we could be paying for the sins - missed arrows - of our fathers/ancestors/past lives. We always have been, but now the chickens are coming home to roost. At the same time we are shedding the limits/boundaries set for us within those same Capricornian constructs. That is the reward for doing the work and over the course of this year and the next few years we will see just how great the rewards can be.)
So, we have Venus (love, women, beauty, what we value, our self esteem, money) moving into the sign of "potential".
Experience is more valuable than stuff with Sagittarius.
Money (
Venus) spent on travel will be well spent. Money
(Venus) spent on other Sagittarius themes - higher education, legal issues, weddings, politics - will probably pay off, too, in the
experiences we get back.
The search we began when Venus dove into Scorpio continues. But now instead of looking at the stuff that is underneath, the messy underpinnings none of us really want to deal with,
she looks way out into the horizon at the stuff we might one day line up with.
Sagittarius is the sign of faith. Do we have faith that better days are ahead for us? We have the GIFT of Jupiter in Sagittarius this year. By the end of the year Jupiter will be in Capricorn, too. So, let's keep this gift in mind as we move through 2019!
This is the season of faith and potential for all Venus ruled themes - love, money, women, beauty, self-esteem, our values. How are we going to use this energy? Remember the archer.
The archer stays focused and holds herself "in tension" through all the noise. We have our bow drawn and we are focused on the target, but suddenly the cat jumps in our lap, the phone rings, the guy next door starts blasting Imagine Dragons and we have to stop and listen to
that.
(
and sometimes this noise can last a while and sometimes life sends us noise to test our intentions and see how badly we want something or sometimes the noise could be there to delay us because there is something better for us later or maybe we are shooting at someone else's target!)
Because once that arrow is released, it is released. There is no grabbing it midair and straightening that baby out.
(
unless you have some super power that I would be totally jealous to find out about)
Venus will be in Sagittarius until February 3rd. Don't do anything too crazy - it's winter. Your ancestors froze to death if they weren't careful. But take some kind of "act of faith" toward your dreams this month. The end of the month (
20th-25th) in particular - when we have Mars trine Jupiter and Saturn sextile Neptune looks especially good for bold moves!
On
TUESDAY, Mercury is going to square Mars - this could indicate an argument, maybe challenging news that creates stress/tension, this could be an issue with authority. This is conflict. Mar's squares can create the "push" we need to get through a problem/blockage. At the end of the week when Mercury meets up with Saturn will be when we get the final, final with this. Either a rock-solid commitment/contract or on the disappointing side a final "no". Whatever it is - it's serious/heavy. The rules are laid out. Reality is unavoidable. If you commit to something now - verbally, written, etc - know you will be held accountable for it.
This square is from the Aries/Capricorn spaces - new actions/youthful energies vs the old established rules/authority creates the challenge. There is tension. This can all be happening within us - maybe we want to do something new and we are stuck working with/finishing the old now or working within limits/rules we are weary of.
With Saturn in Capricorn on his journey to meet Pluto and with the South Node in Capricorn, too - "accountability" is everyone's word of the year.
As Saturn speaks to/through us via Mercury this week, as the divine masculine rises, as we are all handed back the stuff (
responsibility for creating our own lives) that, through our patriarchal paradigm, Saturn has carried for us - THANK YOU SATURN - we are ready (
ready or not) to take back the controls. This is about using our
wisdom. The life we are creating now, the life we will be living in a few months, in a few years will be all on us. Does this thrill or terrify us? Did you just scream "BOTH!", smart reader?! Yes, I will second that one! Ack!
On
WEDNESDAY the Moon goes void at 11:53AM EST until 2:44PM EST when she moves into healing, imaginative Pisces focusing us on Piscean themes for the next couple days - what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, ancestors, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, healing, art, music, movies, addiction, escape.
On
FRIDAY, the Sun meets Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn. This is pretty huge and was building at the time of the New Moon Solar Eclipse last weekend. This is also only two degrees from the big January 2020 stellium in Capricorn. Shadows (
Pluto) are illuminated (
the Sun) - manipulations, power plays, gas-lighting, obsession, transformation, death and rebirth, abuse of power, narcissism, shame, blame, bullying, trauma. With the South Node in Capricorn - we aren't going to be able to blow this stuff off (
or get away with it) anymore. Life is calling bullshit on our bullshit.
Pay attention to who/what is trying to dominate you and what/who you are trying to dominate. What is really going on?
The stuff underneath (
Pluto) of whatever situation we are dealing with is brought into the light (
the Sun). The truth (
Pluto) is revealed
(the Sun).
This is an excellent time for purging and deep cleaning! Excellent for beginning a therapy program.
This transit can also draw attention to the fact we are running on empty. Being ‘positive’ can be a recipe for disaster in the winter. We can't ask for the help we need and half our soul gets cut away in the name of what’s best for us. When the Sun meets Pluto the part that's been cut away comes into the light. Maybe through an almost compulsive interaction with someone/some situation tearing us down. Ugh. Stuff can also be "resurrected" now. This is excellent energy to see our shadow instead of casting it on other people. Plus with perfect universal timing Pluto starts a new solar cycle.
The Moon is void all day, so nothing to chew on but this Sun/Pluto.
We wake
SATURDAY morning with
the Moon in fiery Aries. She plays well today with both Venus and Mars - so the day should be active/passionate/productive.
On
SUNDAY we have Mercury meeting Saturn - here's the final, final we talked about earlier.
The answer. The deadline. The "no" - we either hear it or say it. The time to sign on the dotted line. The commitment. Here is where we give our word and it is taken seriously. We could be speaking with authority or speaking as an authority. And although this is exact on Sunday it is building all week and unwinding for a couple days after.
Be careful with your language now. When Mercury aspects Saturn our spoken/written words, and maybe most especially the things we tell ourselves about what is possible, create iron-clad contracts. Only make promises you know you can keep now because you will be held accountable. If you say you are going to do something, you are actually going to have to do it or it is going to come back and bite you in the ass. Talk like a grown-up. Text with punctuation. Yes, I am serious. Seriously, serious. Talk less, say more now.
This is where we have to say no to something, so we can focus - devote out time/energy/resources - somewhere
else.
Between this one and the Sun/Pluto yesterday we are all in or all out now, folks.
This is also the day Jupiter and Neptune make their first of three squares of 2019.
Both planets are strong in their home signs. Both are expansive - Neptune through connection, blending together and the dissolving of boundaries between us and other people and between us and what we are wanting and Jupiter through optimism, growth and the kind of "luck" that comes by thinking we are lucky!
Take note of what this aspect brings - this will be between our Sagittarius house and our Pisces house - because it is a three-peat. These major players will square again on June 16th and September 21st, so something now could connect later to those dates. This is going to be a big story.
If we have been too trusting/overly optimistic someone could let us down or we could let ourselves down. This is not the time to bet the house on that "sure-thing" crypto your brother-in-law told you about.
The energy is kind of drifting so it will be easy to lose things, drift into something we didn't intend to drift into, feel confused, catch a cold or catch
another cold. The Mercury/Saturn should help though. Great energy for spirituality, healing work, art, music, imagination. You can grow (
Jupiter) the dream (
Pisces).
Jupiter/Neptune and Mercury/Saturn is excellent manifestation energy - for making thoughts into things. We'll talk about this later in the week and we'll talk about 2019.
xo all
Remember the North Node is in Cancer - take care of yourself!
