Astrology Forecast for Creatives | week of August 19, 2019 - VIRGO!, coming back to Earth, get to work, get healthy, get organized, it doesn't have to be perfect but it does have to be done well, no corner cutting, one step at a time

SUNDAY - Mars into Virgo
WEDNESDAY - Venus into Virgo, Mercury trine Jupiter, Mercury inconjunct Saturn
FRIDAY -Sun into Virgo
SATURDAY - Venus conjunct Mars, both inconjunct Chiron

On SUNDAY, Mars exits fiery Leo for grounded and practical Virgo. Our movement forward is best done in a Virgo manner. This means practical, precise steps focused on what is right in front of us.

Mars in Virgo can be excellent for productivity (by the time of the Pisces Full Moon on September 14th we are not going to believe how much we have accomplished and THEN  we can rest!) and it can also run entirely off course with perfectionism.

The good things about Mars in Virgo is our ability to organize, to be productive, to focus on the details and what needs doing right now; the next step. Since Virgo is a service sign, the actions we take that help us will most naturally help other people. Mars in Virgo can really clean up the mess and improve the situation. The wheat is separated from the chaff - yes maybe rather ruthlessly, this is Mars we are talking about. But in the end we are left with the wheat or whatever it is we need to grow the wheat. Either way the superfluous sh*t is gone.

On the other hand if we let fiery Mars get out of control in pious Virgo territory we could have a bigger mess on our hands even though everything looks all clean and sparkly. Mars can get very pissed off here if everything doesn't meet his exacting standards of perfection. So let's not go there. We could find ourselves taking action toward some quite impossible something or other. If everything has to fall precisely into place for something to work out - well, Mars in Virgo is the man for the job - on the other hand he doesn't see the big picture - just the details right in front of him - and can toil rather tirelessly with not much to show

(of course this 'not much to show' thing isn't taking into account the muscles we are building and experience for next time, let's not discount it, sometimes without the things that don't work out we would never get to the things that do).

If we find ourselves, or someone else, demanding an impossible to meet goal or impossibly high standards of perfection we will know we have veered off course here. Mars has run amok.

Mostly Mars in Virgo is an excellent transit for reality based progress and with Virgo trining that Cappy pile-up - things should really move forward.

The stuff we have been sitting on and didn't know which way to go with will become clearer day by day as we move through the rest of this month and into mid-September.

On TUESDAY, Venus follows her man Mars into Virgo (they meet on Saturday, so we are really starting to move toward a time when what we want and what we do to get what we want are working together BIG time).

Our Virgo house get a visit from the lovely Venus. Virgo Suns and Ascendants get more attractive - both easier on the eye and able to attract what they want. Our natal Virgo houses get more attractive, too.

Venus rules our love, money, self-esteem, values, relationships, women, beauty, our resources, attracting what we want - all areas are subjected to Virgo's keen focus and attention to detail now.

We will be analyzing what we want and what we have. We will be analyzing our relationships. Venus in Virgo works.

The problems will stand out. We won't be able to miss them. And since what we focus on grows, sometimes things get worse before they get better during this transit. But this is excellent energy to fix what needs fixing and accept (or eliminate) what just isn't fixable. Venus in Virgo is about loving the details of something, enjoying the work, appreciating the craftsmanship and complexity of something or someone or some situation - Virgo can't miss those, and choosing not to dwell on them.

Relationships are challenging right now anyway. Mega. The male/female dynamics playing out and re-balancing themselves in the collective are playing out in our own homes/lives, too. This isn't a man/woman thing, it's impacting ALL our relationships.

Also on Tuesday, Mercury trines lucky Jupiter. This is good news. Optimistic conversations and expansive ideas and thinking. At the same time she/he is inconjuncting Saturn, so we need to stay realistic (Virgo will help) the rules/limits/responsibilities/or thing that is ending is STILL part of the conversation - and that's OK.

There is something better out there and we KNOW it.

On FRIDAY, the Sun moves into Virgo - now we have three of the four inner planets in Virgo. We are all burning Virgo fuel. Virgos and Virgo risings are on fire. Stuff is getting done. Virgo rules our daily activities, our work, our health, our pets - we are focused on our routine/on cleaning up the mess/on getting our lives organized. Any space in our life where we get to decide what stays and what goes is a good space to be working in now. Think closets and inboxes. And then use that trine to Jupiter  (remember Mercury RULES Virgo) and think EVEN BIGGER.

On SATURDAY, Venus meets Mars - what we want and what we have to do to get it are working together now. This is good news - a new Mars/Venus cycle in grounded "let's build this thing" Virgo - where stuff actually gets done! Here is where putting one foot in front of the other and doing the RIGHT thing will move us on a new path toward what we want!

Since they are both inconjunct (rock and hard place) to hurting/healing Chiron - maybe something isn't quite fixable/do-able exactly as we want it. Let's not get so focused on getting it perfect we never get it off the ground or finished.

This is an excellent week to get healthy. To get organized. To get alot done. Next week's stellium in Virgo during a New Moon is really going to help us take practical action and it's going to support and be supported by all the Capricorn stuff the next couple years is circling around.

Make a list. Take things one at a time. Don't get distracted by overwhelm or perfectionism. Just let one step follow another. Get up early. Get it done.

Mars, Venus and the Sun will all trine (brakes off) the Galactic Center (seat of creation/center of our Milky Way Galaxy) at the end of last week/beginning of this week as they exit Leo. These are "lightbulb" moments/breakthroughs (after all the wth are we going to do - we get it!) that put us on our path to our highest good/our natural spotlight/what our heart wants.

Before Saturn moves direct in the middle of September we want to have our ducks in a row! This week and especially after the New Moon next week are primo duck-lining-up times.

Back with the dailies where we look at the Moon and some big-picture stuff.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | August 16, 2019 - shocking words, disruptive information, a silver lining, dissolving tension, just shrugging the whole thing off, talk to new people, read new information, write down your ideas for later

The Moon moved into Pisces at 11:49PM EDT last night making us especially imaginative, intuitive and sensitive for the next couple days. She sextiles change-maker Uranus at 1:11PM EDT (sounds wonderfully kismet, right?) - sextiles create opportunities that are more 'situation-oriented'. They don't push us into a corner to get our attention the way squares do - the coax us. The degree to which we are willing to participate with the energies will determine the extent of its benefit.

Sudden (Uranus) intuition (Pisces Moon). Comfort (Moon) with chaos (Uranus).

There are as many ways this energy can play out as people on our planet - think of it as your Pisces house (what's the theme?) receiving change from your Taurus house (what's the theme). In my chart this is a partner/partnership situation (7th house) creating change/disruption in my 5th house (creative projects, children, recreation). Moon transits are FAST though and today's other aspect is a bit more nerve-jangling.

We also have Mercury (still in loud and proud Leo) squaring (tension/frustration) that same change-making Uranus (in Taurus - our money, resources, values, self-esteem). Mercury is coming off that supportive trine to Chiron (healing/triggering language).

Mercury squares Uranus at 1:06PM EDT and then we have the lunar sextile to Uranus just five minutes later - so if this is impacting our chart, maybe we get the shocking/frustrating news/information and then see/feel the opportunity! Or maybe that "go with the flow" Pisces Moon just shrugs the whole thing off!

This is a wild card mental energy. Good for thinking outside the box, but our thinking could be all over the place, too. It might be challenging (that square) to know (Mercury) what we value (Uranus in Taurus). Uranus is retrograde, so this won't be a totally new situation. Surprising information could come in now. Something could even be made public (that Mercury in Leo).

Fresh information could suddenly pop things into place.

For some people Mercury aspects often bring up sibling situations, issues involving their local community or transportation/tech issues.

We (and other people) will want to be heard - Mercury in Leo, in this chaotic/disruptive interaction - and this will somehow clash with whatever is changing. Let's try not to make a crazy scene we will regret later, but it can be hard to tell where the crazy ends and the genius begins now, so this might be easier said than done.

Maybe a better day for contemplation (absorbing those genius/cray cray, future-leaning downloads) than a day for action which could quickly turn into re-action. 

The Moon should keep the square from becoming too much, but any square to Mercury amps up the potential for an argument.

Talk to different people. Expose yourself to new ideas. Write down your thoughts.

xo all

Note - times are unlikely to be exact as we feel things as energies are ramping up and unwinding sometimes more acutely - I would still use that 1:11PM EDT portal to clear our heads and see what comes in!

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Full Moon in Aquarius | August 15, 2019 - focus on what matters, expect the unexpected, help from the ancestors, words that change things, releasing our death-grip on the old world so a new one can be born, pregnant with possibilities

On THURSDAY, August 15th at 8:29AM EDT - the Aquarius Moon will oppose the Leo Sun, giving us this year's Full Moon in Aquarius.

Aquarius is our rational, detached and objective air sign. The sign of equality and community - fixed and "knows-it-all" Aquarius does not like compromise, but Aquarius does love collaboration. Aquarius wants everybody to win. Following Capricorn this is the space where we have already reached the top of the mountain, so what's left to do, but lower a hand and pull someone else up.

Aquarius is the sign of genius, the sign of the revolutionary, the scientist (sometimes of the madder variety) and the exile.

Let's unpack the chart!

The Sun is exactly conjunct Venus (we talked about this yesterday when they were both at 21 degrees Leo), so we have both the Sun AND Venus opposing our Full Moon and we can see they are forming a fixed T-Square to Vesta in Taurus. Uranus (ruler of the lunation) is squaring Mercury - exact on Friday (surprising news, disruptive communication or tech/transportation disruptions) and trining Chiron. Sun/Venus are inconjunct a retrograde Pluto and the Moon is semi-sextile. Neptune is trining the North Node. The Moon is trining Pallas.

Full Moons brings things to light, to a conclusion or to a peak point of fullness. They are emotional times - even in detached Aquarius - just look at all that Leo energy! Full Moons are oppositions and focus us on our relationships with other people (our projections).

The Sun, strong in his home sign of Leo, conjunct Venus (and note all the other energies in Leo right now - whatever we have going on is going to be BIG!) and inconjunct a retrograde Pluto we talked about yesterday HERE. Venus is love, beauty, abundance, the power of attraction and hooking up with the Sun illuminates what we want (whether or not we get it) and material results and offers us a potent, creative fresh start.

The inconjunct requires us to adjust to a retrograde Pluto in Capricorn - the dying rules and limits and the way the world sees us that is evolving/being reborn. This inconjunct is the energy of what we have already achieved/our mastery/our power vs the space of our heart and what we are creating next (the Venus Star Point in Leo). Maybe it is our fear of losing control attempting to hijack our Venus/Sun beginning. Whatever it is, don't attempt to smother it. Inconjuncts require giving both energies their due.

Venus opposing the Moon is uncomfortable. And it's "the other person/those other people" at fault -  making us uncomfortable! :) This energy is about how comfortable and comforted we feel with feminine roles. Maybe it shows up as a "need" to be in love, be peaceful, have more money, be more attractive.

The Sun/Venus and Moon's T-Square to Vesta in Taurus speaks of tension/frustrations around what (maybe our resources) we hold sacred, are focused on, value, are devoted to. Probably something here we don't want to lose and are intensely determined to hold onto. Aquarian need for liberation always squares Taurus's need to stay put and keep things solid and stable (not working out so well for Taurus these days with Aquarius's ruler Uranus crashing and burning his way through their sign).

This Moon is trining Pallas - near the end of her journey through Libra. Speaking again of this Full Moon's focus on our relationships. Aquarius wants to go her own way, but Pallas here also speaks of strategies that incorporate cooperation and diplomacy.

Moon's ruler Uranus squares Mercury (exact on Friday) who also starts covering new ground in Leo TODAY. Another turning point. The conversation changes. New information comes in. Maybe whatever we have been going back and forth over is decided in a bold and sudden way. Mercury trines hurting/healing Chiron - we can say/hear just the right thing. Words can be disruptive, but healing, too.

I love that magical/mystical Neptune is trining the North Node (in Cancer). This is intuitive insight into our future/path forward. Again help from behind the scenes/from our ancestors, spirit guides and past lives. Meditate. Pray.

So, how would we wrap this all up?! Can anything ever be tightly rolled into one little thing anymore? I don't think so! We left black and white behind with the invention of the color TV.

Full Moons bring something to a conclusion or culmination (peak energy). The Moon opposes a stellium of planets in Leo including an exact conjunction of the Sun and Venus - which is a Venus Star Point kicking off a new Venus cycle. Both the Moon and Sun square Vesta which makes what we are focused on/what we think we want/need THE FOCAL POINT. Keep in mind this is a FIXED Full Moon answering to Uranus in a FIXED sign. Let's not spread ourselves too thin now. We will focus here (deal with what is right in front of us and what is most important) AND we'll stay open to surprising situations/solutions as life makes its unexpected gyrations in its determination to bring us something BETTER. With Mercury squaring Uranus and trining Chiron - we are thinking outside the box. Unexpected information/news could come in as well as triggering/healing words and conversations. We are releasing ourselves from lifetimes of obligations and rules and limits that have been keeping us safe (sort of) but have also been keeping us stuck. Life is tricky. Relationships, probably trickiest of all, as we struggle to maintain our balance through outdated paradigms that are out of balance.

Stay focused on what matters most - don't dilute your energy with a scattered focus. Stay open to other possibilities. Release what isn't really yours ...

Keep in mind when Saturn (co-ruler of Aquarius) stations direct in the middle of September - and he will start to slow down even earlier and gather his strength - DADDY'S HOME. Between now and then we want to be sure we are going in the right direction because things will get more FIXED after that. Releasing fears, commitments that have outgrown their usefulness, limiting rules that don't even make any sense anymore, our list of "shoulds" and "have to's" - now is the time. What we are moving forward with come mid-September we are going to be stuck with for awhile.

With Uranus and Saturn co-ruling this Full Moon from their retrograde positions we might find someone/something/some situation from our past resurfacing -

this could also be a familiar ego or archetype energy in the form of a new or unexpected person or situation, with a resonance to something from the past. 

This would be something we need to release or reclaim that has to do with the Aquarius Full Moon's collective themes of self-expression, freedom and individuality. 

This could relate to change we are resisting or some responsibility we are resisting.

Focus on what matters most. A light is shining on what we love/want. Give everything and everyone a little extra air. Expect this Full Moon to deliver something a little or a lot unexpected. Change is here. Lighten your load. Loosen your grip.

Nothing is set in stone just yet. We are pregnant with possibilities!

xo all

This is a good time for a symbolic release. I always give things away to Goodwill during the Full Moon, signaling to myself (and my painfully fixed nature) that I will always have as much as I need and creating space for something new to come into my life. Don't forget to get outside and walk in it, too!

Venus Star Point | Venus meets the Sun - fresh starts with love and money, knowing what we really value, seeing how our self-esteem is connected to our hearts and wallets, letting go of that dead thing and following our inner spark, vision boards and starting a manifesting practice

On Thursday, August 14th, Venus

(love, money, our resources, our values, women, beauty and self esteem, also the themes of the houses ruled by Libra and Taurus in your natal chart)

meets the Sun at 21 degrees Leo. 

Venus meets the Sun every nine and a half months in a beautiful pattern/rhythm that, over the course of eight years, forms a nearly perfect five pointed star in the heavens.

She always meets the Sun in the same five signs - Aries, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio and Capricorn (notice none of these are the signs she rules or is exalted or is even very comfortable!). She last met the Sun in Scorpio back in October during Venus's stormy retrograde. She will next meet the Sun when she retrogrades in Gemini in May 2020. Because she won't meet the Sun in Leo again (while direct) for eight years - this week's energy both concludes AND kicks off a new eight year cycle.

HERE and HERE are a couple posts from the time of her previous star point - back in October. In Scorpio something was transformed - maybe something we used to greatly value. Maybe we could see the ways we had given our power away or didn't honor our own hearts. Maybe we were too focused on what wasn't really ours. Scorpian transformation comes through loss and is permanent.

Now, that story from October (but also from 8 years ago) is reaching a culmination/conclusion point. With Venus, something truly beautiful and loving can be revealed now. At the same time we are able to start a new, fresh chapter - we should see some physical manifestations of what we start now when Venus gets into Aquarius at the end of the year (during the eclipses!) and beginning of 2020.

Coming just one day before our Aquarius Full Moon - Aquarius ruled by Uranus and Uranus in Taurus answering to Venus - adds to the oomph and the mega-creative potential!

Today's energy is excellent for stating what we want. Make a vision board. Tell someone you love them - hopefully a whole lot of someones. Socialize. Connect with other people. Put your focus on what you want to grow over the coming eight years. Start something new. Get this energy into its DNA. Try something new and heart-felt. Spend time with children or on a creative project.

There is also an inconjunct (rock and a hard place) with a retrograde Pluto

(that death that has been postponed/public space or mastery we hold in the world that is evolving/mess that needs to be cleaned up),

so there could be some kind of compulsion or jealousy or manipulation energy activated. Maybe time to go high when they go low?

Moving through Capricorn, Pluto here represents the dying rules and limits and the way the world sees us that is evolving. This is the space where we have already achieved mastery/power vs the space of our heart and what we are creating next (the Venus Star Point in Leo).  

An inconjunct requires we somehow work both sides.
  
By the end of August ALL the personal planets will be in Virgo (in positive alignment with change-maker Uranus) - the path forward will be much clearer and we will be making practical plans and taking decisive action.

For today - make a vision board. Focus on what you want.

Give your muses something to work with.

Fresh avenues are opening for our innate talents to announce themselves and to growth and thrive.

xo all

NOTE (from a previous post about money since Venus rules our personal finances, values and resources) - I have seen many, many makers' charts and often artists and healers come into this lifetime with a disconnect from money - from lives where they didn't need to deal with that energy and so have never learned to - lives where they were taken care of or unhealthy or lived in communal situations or have taken vows of poverty in previous lives - note - if this sounds like something you might resonate with it can never hurt to ask your higher self to seek release from this vow - a friend told me it felt like a rock rolled off her back after meditating on release.

When we raise our vibration; everything raises with us (the only one of us here thing). The tide isn't carrying us, we are the tide.

an old one of mine - got the camper, not the pony

We develop a manifesting practice - and yes, it is called a practice because it is something we need to practice!

1. We practice compassion

(non-judgment with others and ourselves, holding a safe space, creating home)

2. We don't have to know what we want (thinking we have to know this is what gets so many of us stuck) - we just have to know how we want to feel. We focus on the things we already have that make us feel this way. We set our intention - verbally, through the written word and visually.

Vision Board TIP - I used to be very big on vision boards and have had a lot of success with them - I always start my vision board with pictures of what I already have in my life - things I am grateful for and am already in vibration with, so for example if I wanted more recognition I would start the board with images of ways I have been recognized - cards from my daughter, thank you notes, awards, articles, blah-blah - I would get myself into the vibration of that and then add images of this in bigger ways to my board.

3. We sit with the idea that we don't have to make things happen (that what we seek IS seeking us) , we just have to release the stuff we carry that is standing in the way of what we want/need - see how that feels.

(this isn't about laziness or inaction - this is about getting to a place of compassion and alignment with the vibration we want and using the law of attraction to bring to us what we need; what we are here to manifest, what is truly ours).

4. We release our attachment to the outcome.
5. We meditate to still our monkey mind and connect with our inner wisdom
6. We take action on the things that come into our life.


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