Today's Astrology Forecast | September 20, 2019 - talking, listening, connecting with other people, a focus on what matters, what we do impacting our bottom line, adjusting our goals

The Moon is in Gemini now -

we are nurtured through communication, information, humor, siblings, our local community, our local environment, learning, teaching, writing, errands, transportation situations.

Gemini is fast moving. The pace quickens. Make/take the call.

She will trine Venus (smooth love, money, self-esteem, beauty situations) at 6:50AM EDT - good for social actions/connecting with other people and then trine Mercury (Gemini's ruler) at 1:23PM EDT - good for giving a talk or presentation, putting out information. News we can use. Teaching, Learning. Good for commerce, too.

We also have the Sun (finishing up in Virgo) trining Vesta (in Taurus).

We talked about Vesta yesterday as she connected with the Moon in Taurus and added a FOCUS on what really matters to that Grand Air Trine. So, today she moves into an exact aspect with the Sun (27 degrees). More grounded earth connections. Again, smallish, productive actions. What we do impacting our bottom line. With a waning Moon the focus could be on finishing up/cleaning something out.

A light is tossed on what is most important to us. What we need to do/have to keep our home fires burning.

There is some tension/rain on our parade later today with an inconjunct to sober Saturn. Maybe we are dealing with an authority figure or our need to step into our authority. A limit. A "no". A goal needs to be adjusted. The rock and the hard place. Stay flexible.

Keeping this short, so I have time to get back to the September series "this is the way the patriarchy ends" and finish up the month.

Have a good day all - xo

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Astrology Forecast for Creatives | September 19, 2019 - the smooth and profitable ending, the finishing touches that add value, keeping your eye on the ball, practical power moves and win-wins

At 9:56AM EDT, the Taurus Moon trines the Virgo Sun (26 degrees) giving us this month's Waning Trine.

This is about the precise details and small movements that "flow" us toward greater comfort and stability. Finishing touches that add value. Smooth endings. Practical actions meet tangible results that feel good/safe.

Adding this brief lunar moment to today's Mars (in Virgo) trine Pluto (in Capricorn) - we have a Grand Earth Trine this morning.

Sensible and efficient power moves that create win-wins. Focus. Courage.

Taurus/Virgo/Capricorn is our path of least resistance.

Collectively we are talking about our money/resources/self esteem + our work, health, day-to-day activities + our goals, career, place in the outside world. If you know the themes of these houses in your natal chart - here is where to make a move.

To add the Taurus (to get the Grand Trine) - we include the waning (releasing) Moon - that smooth (profitable) ending. The safe landing.

Vesta is conjunct the Taurus Moon - that sacred focus/why we do what we do - she will add FOCUS. Determination to get what we need here. An urgency to keep certain fires burning since important matters are being attended to.

The Moon will go void off that trine, but in her exalted position stay performing.

Keep in mind we also have access to the Mars trine Pluto energy (for a couple days) without this morning's lunar (ending). We have more energy. Mars has been dragging a bit in tedious Virgo. We could be tired. Maybe exhausted. The trine to powerful and transformative Pluto will change this. Work we do now, pays off later.

Act with passion. Make deals a win-win as you 'hammer' out the details. Keep actions focused and direct.

A good day for dealings with authority and standing in our own powerful shoes.

xo all

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Note the Moon is void from 9:47AM EDT to 4:58PM EDT

Today's Astrology Forecast | September 18, 2019 - practical action to create comfort and stability, daddy's home, being served what we ordered, a flashing GREEN LIGHT

It's all good for our Taurus Moon today as she trines Saturn, sextiles Neptune, trines Mars and Pluto. All smooth aspects. Good for finances, business, our resources and self-esteem.

When the Moon trines the Sun - exact on Thursday morning at 9:56AM EDT - she will form a Grand Trine (with Mars and Pluto) and this starts to build TONIGHT with her trine to Pluto.

Mars will also trine Pluto tomorrow.

We are stepping into some powerful energy now. A Grand Trine indicates NO RESISTANCE - multiple brakes are off and gates open. This is an open loop between our Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn houses/themes. In Earth signs, this is about creating something REAL. Something physical. Something that can be touched.

It's a time to be productive and get stuff done!

Mars in Virgo is about practical, step-by-step action in a work or health matter. Pluto in Capricorn is about power/control/transformation of our goals, career, our worldly life and its structures. The Moon in Taurus creates comfort and luxury, speaks of our resources and money. These are the collective themes (your personal natal themes will be most accurate). If you have planets or points from 20-26 degrees of these signs - Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn - this is a flashing GREEN LIGHT.

The big news now is Saturn stationing direct after five months retrograde. Hopefully we were able to wrap up any "unfinished business" during that time because he is full steam ahead for the rest of his journey through his home sign. He (as we) will be covering old ground - now we begin to make our third pass - until the end of December when he gets back to 20 degrees Capricorn - the degree of his retrograde station last April.

Saturn's direct motion can release pent up pressure in our Capricorn house allowing us to make solid moves toward our goals and ambitions (and our natal Capricorn house theme).

It could have felt, during his retrograde, that we were moving backward. Maybe obligations weighed heavily. Walls and limitations had to be faced. Corners we had previously cut were noted to be missing.

The bills came due.

Maybe we were re-evaluating, re-assessing, re-affirming our responsibilities and commitments.

Maybe we learned to say, "no". Maybe we learned to say "yes" to something we had been avoiding.

Saturn always gives rewards, but they are Saturnian rewards - coming after we've put in the time and hard work to build something that lasts.

And yes, the thing that lasts IS the reward!

Our long range goals/commitments that may have been stuck can start to move forward now. 

With Saturn (father time) direct - daddy's home! - greater external structure is brought into our lives.

This can feel supportive and rewarding (if we have been doing our Saturn retro work) or like a wall/limit/roadblock (if we have been partying like it's 1999 - does anyone remember 1999? it seems so last century).

Dad's home. Summer's over.

Have we been goofing off? Staying out late? Running up the electric bill? Worn out his favorite chair or left his tools out in the rain to rust?

Karmic books get balanced.

Saturn rules endings and something could end now. 

Remember, karma isn't about punishment. 

It is simply cause and effect - we are just being served what we ordered.

Most of us do alot of this "ordering" unconsciously.

If we don't like what we are being served - we can choose to do things differently.

Right now.

Today.

Think clean slate.

The time-line has shifted. We are either in a repeat loop or on a new road. Either way, Saturn plays his hand (and this could have already happened), and then, the next move is ours.

xo all

Keep in mind we are building toward one of this year's biggest aspects (since it is a three-peat) - Jupiter square Neptune - which is exact on Saturday, but in play now. Neptune has been dissolving all the Jupertarian goodies (Jupiter in his home sign of Sagittarius has never had a chance!) - maybe we have been disappointed.

After Saturday this aspect begins to unwind. Jupiter is free at last!

In the meantime keep in mind this square's tendency to create overwhelm. We over-promise. We over-do. We expect too much. Enthusiasm. Fantasy. Things look too good and then they just fizzle out.

We are almost past this so hang in there - keep your actions practical and focused (and bring other people into the mix remember the planets have started to move into Libra). One step at a time.

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Today's Astrology Forecast | September 17, 2019 - uncomfortable conversations around love or money, staying flexible, last minute breakthroughs and breaks for freedom

The Moon moves into Taurus at 6:31AM EDT, the sign of her exaltation.

Venus (ruler of Taurus and strong in her home sign of Libra) will oppose wounded healer Chiron. Again the "me" vs "we" thing. With Mercury having barely eked past his own opposition to Chiron - this is likely to create relationship hurting/healing

via uncomfortable (the Moon in Taurus can help if we let her) conversations around money/love/resources.

The times we had to stand up for ourselves/go it alone/couldn't feel the love or connection are re-activated. The times we didn't have enough. Most of us carry deep cell memories of starving to death that create all kinds of havoc in our life now.

We keep too much stuff. We spend too much money. We overeat. We don't prioritize nourishment. We hold onto situations that aren't working because at least they are something we can wrap our arms around.

Venus is the natural ruler of the 7th house - the sign of our projections. We could be dealing with people who have what we want or expecting other people to know what we need, without the uncomfortable conversation to tell them what that is and this won't work.

With Mercury (communication) inconjunct (rock and a hard place) Uranus - news could be unexpected or hard to deliver/hear.

Quirky jokes will fall flat. Blunt language will hurt, but no flowery adjectives will make the words feel any better either.

Maybe we want our words to be kind, but the information is so unexpected/chaos producing that they will hurt no matter what we say and how we say it. And, of course, it is equally possible to be the one hearing the words now.

Saturn is standing strong and still in his home sign preparing for his marching orders to move forward later in the week. In some way we are back where we were in January 2019 with that Capricorn situation - what have we learned? What have we done?

September is the last time we will have all this earthy energy (this has already started to change) before the big energetics of January 2020, alot of practical stuff should be, and has been, getting done.

Endings are fated this year, so STAY FLEXIBLE.

We are releasing the feelings of unworthiness that created these sore spots around love, money and self-esteem in the first place and this stuff is very old and very deep.

If we want a more equal, balanced world where everyone has enough (something this planet can easily support), these fears around not having enough have to go.

I know I said yesterday that today would be better and today I will say that tomorrow will be better. 

We've got this thing. Keep the faith all.

xo

Another thing I should say about today's Uranus connections - the Moon and Mercury - it won't be easy or comfortable BUT if something liberating needs to happen BEFORE Saturn starts to cement our future path with his direct station tomorrow night - HERE and NOW is the energy for that to happen.

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