Today's Astrology Forecast | July 30, 2019 - emotional stress, getting some extra rest, going with the flow, lying low, miscommunications more likely, a devotion to the dream

Today the dark Moon in emotional Cancer is kind of stressed out and challenged as she (as us) faces that Cappy line-up.

She will have to oppose Saturn (external limits, authority) this morning and oppose Pluto this evening (power struggles. compulsions, manipulations). Both retrograde, so old storylines. Not great energy for important meetings or negotiations. She does get a nice trine to a retrograde Neptune (imagination, dreams, creativity, healing, spirituality) around lunchtime EDT and goes void after meeting up with a retrograde Mercury (strong and still and preparing to turn direct tomorrow night) at 11:32PM EDT. She will then be void until 9:18AM EDT tomorrow when she moves into Leo and heads toward our fiery Sun and tomorrow's New Moon.

So we have the Moon preparing the leave her home sign and meet the Sun and Mercury preparing to go direct. If you are tired/emotional/frazzled - this is why!

July was exhausting and challenging and she goes out with a bang.

The Moon is in her closing cycle.

The tide is out. We are going to have to go with the flow today.

The Sun square Uranus is still in play and Uranus is very active this week. Expect disruptions and wake-up calls. Comfort zones are not so comfortable.

The North Node is in Cancer (plus the Moon today) - prioritize self-care. Give yourself (and other people) a break. Current circumstances are not an indicator of future circumstances. We are evolving.

Keep in mind the Moon's trine to Neptune - strong in Pisces - pray, meditate, listen to music, paint, dance, get into some water.

Mars will be inconjunct Neptune at the same time, so our actions are kind of dissolved now. Or our ambitions need to adjust to our dreams and vice-versa. Neptune is sextile (opportunity) Vesta in Taurus at 18 degrees, so there is an opportunity here to ground (Taurus) the dream (Neptune/Pisces) with our devotion/focus (Vesta). Remember this is the year of Neptune sextile Saturn - the dream being made real.

Sometimes we might find these planetary interactions represented by specific people in our lives. A person with a strong Taurus energy or a particularly active Taurus energy stabilizing a Pisces person or the Pisces person (or strong Neptunian energy) elevating the Taurus now.

With yesterday's (still in play) Sun/Uranus square, I had tension (Aquarius Sun, Aquarius ruled by Uranus) with a strong Leo Moon person (Leo ruled by the Sun and the transiting Moon at home in Cancer activating everyone's natal Moon energy). It felt, to me, like she wanted me to "mother" her, my natal Moon is in Cancer and I'm sure to her my Aquarius energy felt detached and dispassionate since I wasn't giving her what she wanted.

Anyhoo, for today I would give my "lie low" advice again and with Neptune so active shore up your boundaries and bullshit detector. Avoid confrontations if possible. Sometimes we need a big blow up to clear the air, but things are going to look and feel very different, very soon anyway. The Moon is dark - there is stuff we can't see. Slow down, so you don't stub your toes (or something worse). Mars is rowing against the tide. Mercury is liable to mouth off and feel misunderstood. Nobody wins.

Focus on the dream/the healing. Double check before you hit "send". Use the energy around lunchtime/mid-day EDT for best results.

Take care of yourself.


xo all

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Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of July 29, 2019 - shake, rattle and roll, disruption, changes, clarity and answers, changing our mind, no more looking backward we turn our attention to something new and innovative and near and dear to our heart

Some disruptions, shake-ups and surprises this week as change-maker/revolutionary Uranus squares the Sun, Moon and Venus!

We also have a BOLD New Moon in Leo - here's where we start moving toward what our heart wants (even as Uranus is shaking us these very things!) AND Mercury stations direct (YAY!) bringing CLARITY and ANSWERS. We know. We decide.

MONDAY - Sun squares Uranus and trines Chiron, Mercury squares Eris
WEDNESDAY - Super New Moon in Leo (8 degrees), Mercury stations direct
FRIDAY - Venus squares Uranus

On MONDAY - the Sun (in Leo) squares Uranus (in Taurus) and trines Chiron. Mars is inconjunct the South Node. Our ego/pride could take a sudden hit. This hit could touch on a very old, very sore spot and trigger other times our ego/pride has been walloped. The best way to use this energy is we adjust (the square) our ego AWAY from old choices toward something that offers greater freedom. The Mars/South Node inconjunct is a second indication the old ways are not working and we don't really want to go back there.

On WEDNESDAY - the Leo Moon meets the Leo Sun at 8 degrees giving us this month's fiery New Moon. There is alot of other action around this Moon. It is re-activating the July 16th eclipse, so issues now will connect to then. Maybe some unfinished business with that home/family situation. A Grand Fire Trine means mega-creativity. I will get the post up tomorrow. At the same time Mercury - strong and unstable right now - stations direct. Leo themes (and the theme of your natal Leo house) could dominate - children, creative projects, romance, recreation, heart issues, our heart's desire, our need for attention and with Mercury direct in Cancer that home/family/home business/family business/mothering situation will start moving forward. Sudden new beginnings. Fresh endeavors will start FAST.

We have the New Moon's fresh start coupled with Mercury's clarity. I will link to the post HERE when it is up. The Leo New Moon wraps up eclipse season - don't let the door hit ya' eclipse season!

On FRIDAY - Venus, following the Sun, will square Uranus and trine Chiron. This might all factor in with the energy earlier in the week and not be some other thing, but with Uranus you never know! The ego/pride/way we shine "hit" impacts our relationships, our wallet, our values, our self-esteem. Maybe our "security" is somehow disrupted. There is tension/frustration. Again there is a trine to Chiron (life will never let us down folks)  - something old and deep is being healed.

Back with the dailies - where we factor in the Moon (the Moon looks pretty good) and get into the juicy stuff! And check out the shooting stars this week - Mercury is the magician and very powerful at station - make that wish!

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | July 29, 2019 - our pride takes an unexpected hit, the hit lands on an already sore spot which is somehow healing if we own up to it, freak flags fly, how far will we go to get attention, is it time for a radical solution to a chronic problem

There is LOTS of Uranus action this week which means - change, disruptions, surprises.

Today we have the Moon (in lunar-ruled home and family and roots oriented Cancer) sextiling Uranus at 6:35PM EDT - here is an opportunity for something new - maybe a change to that home/family/home business/family business/mothering/real estate situation - to feel comfortable. Maybe breaking free from family conditioning makes us feel more at home. Unexpected familial (or familiar feeling) connections - smooth flow.

The big news today and we'll talk about this in the weekly after I finish it up - we have the Sun (in Leo) squaring Uranus (in Taurus) while trining Chiron.

The Sun square Uranus could be some tension/frustration around being ourselves/liberation. Our Leo pride could get trampled somehow. Our ego might take an unexpected hit. A spotlight is tossed on how we are different/how our place on center stage isn't what we thought it was.

Squares to Uranus push us toward sudden change/burning bridges.

Trining healing/hurting Chiron there is a method to life's madness now. We are healing something very old and very deep. This is a good time to find new/radical solutions to chronic problems.

Maybe the Uranian "surprise" is actually the door being blown open to healing. To being able to live a more authentic life. Nothing is shining for long these days that isn't "real", because THAT is what we are all craving.

Some people will go pretty far this week to get attention.

And keep in mind Venus is following the Sun, so we are going to do this again with our money, relationships, values, self-esteem, women issues.

Step back. Think about where we are now. Both powerhouse planets in Capricorn are retrograde as well as Jupiter and Neptune. Some areas of our life are moving slowly. Pluto and Saturn are holding our feet to the fire with old obligations/responsibilities. Jupiter retrograde in Sag is testing our faith. Neptune is keeping certain stuff under wraps until fall. We HAVE to believe in ourselves, stand on our own two feet, KNOW we will have justice.

This week's disruptive Uranian energy is right on time.

We also have a bold New Moon (Supermoon) in Leo with Mercury stationing direct at almost the exact same time - we are about to be alot more clear about something!

Back with the weekly after I take care of the pup and get some orders out.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | July 26, 2019 - feeling nurtured by our resources, good for business, socializing, nice date night, an instinctual knowing, meeting some kind of reality check

The Moon continues through Taurus - we are nurtured through, and likely focused on - what we own, our money, how we love, what we value.

Exalted in Taurus, she trined Saturn while we slept and then moved on to sextile (opportunity) Neptune at 4:58AM EDT, trines (brakes off) a retrograde Pluto at 10:57AM EDT, sextiles Mercury at 5:43PM EDT and finally goes void at 12:28AM EDT tonight off a sextile with Venus (Venus rules Taurus, so this is very nice - good date night, good for socializing).

Void for two hours she moves into busy Gemini and our focus turns to communications, conversations, errands, our local community, our siblings, our transportation and electronics (for the next couple days).

All good aspects for our Taurean themes today - our resources, what we value (ie put our time, energy and money into), our money, the stuff that makes us stable.

The Moon in Taurus is answering to Venus and she is sextiling Sedna now. We talked about Sedna a couple months ago. In Sedna's story there was stuff that looked too good to be true and she wanted it to be true (and easy) and didn't look too closely and it was the end of her. With the sextile now looking more fortuitous it could be something along the lines of "what we know, but don't know" that aids us somehow. An instinct.

We also have Mars (in Leo's) inconjunct to a retrograde Saturn (this one is in play for a day or so on either side of today also, after today it starts unwinding itself).

We talked about this "reality check" yesterday and in the weekly. This is activity influenced by a burdensome responsibility, in this case likely an old responsibility. With Mars in Leo, maybe we want acknowledgement for our efforts. We need to be taken seriously, so we act with more discipline and restraint than Mars in Leo is usually capable of. That's the upside of Mars/Saturn. We have to watch that we don't bog ourselves down with other people's responsibilities now - that's a downside. Also the boss/authority taking credit for our work - another downside. Responsibility can also straight-jacket us into acting against our own desires.

Most likely this aspect creates a delay/limit - some kind of bad timing.

Inconjuncts are tricky. With this one we might have to balance between jumping into something prematurely and sitting on our ass watching it grow wider.

Keep this in mind.

Tonight looks lovely with that Venus/Moon. Friday night looks like a Friday night!

xo all

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