Astrology forecast for Creatives | Week of March 9, 2020 - clean up in aisle six, big full moon, mercury direct, chaos plus opportunities, nothing to fear but fear itself, entering the inevitable

This week kicks off with a BIG Full Moon determined to clean/clear something up plus Mercury stationing direct and ends with both Mercury and Saturn at the important and final 29th degrees of their journeys through Aquarius and Capricorn - does it sound like something is wrapping up here?!

I think I might hope so, because things are starting to feel more than a little bit cray-cray and looking ahead to the Spring Equinox time-frame the energies are HUGE!

We have been preparing for these big changes our whole life. Remember where we are now - we are past the level in the game we have always died before - if we feel like we don't know what we are doing or what is going to happen it is because we don't! And that is both the gift and the curse of our roles here. This is actually the time for patience with ourselves (and other people). We are working through the last crusty bits on the bottom of the pot that we have been avoiding cleaning out forever.

Let's unpack another important week!

MONDAY - Full Moon in Virgo, Mercury stations direct, Venus sextiles the North Node and trines the South Node
WEDNESDAY - Sun sextiles Jupiter
SATURDAY - Sun sextiles Pluto, Chiron squares the Nodes
MONDAY - Mercury moves into Pisces, Third Quarter Moon

MONDAY  - FULL MOON VIRGO, MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT, VENUS SEXTILES NORTH NODE

Mercury stations direct (Yay) - she/he is still covering old ground until the end of March, but now our eyes are off the rear-view mirror and looking straight ahead.

Something that has been stuck can begin to move forward. In Aquarius we have enough distance from whatever we are dealing with to see the whole picture. this is still Pisces season, so not exactly a time for brain-storming - more a time of rusting grace and our intuition.

At the same time, Venus, past all those Cappy squares, past (though still active) her hook-up with Uranus, back on her home turf now, is sextiling (opportunity) our North Node and trining our South Node. Something new can slide into place now - with a little action on our part - and something old (that South Node) can ALSO be counted on to be there when we need it!

We are very attractive to our future. Move in that direction.

The Virgo Moon opposes the Pisces Sun giving us this month's Full Moon,; our annual Full Moon in Virgo.The Moon creates as Earth trine to Mars (in Cappy). The Sun inspires us to dream/heal and that earth trine gives us the opportunity to REBUILD.

Remember we said 2020 was our rebuilding year!

This is a big Full Moon opposing the Sun and Neptune with lots of Cappy support. We talked about it HERE.

TUESDAY - The Moon in Virgo goes void off a trine to Saturn at 4:42AM EDT (practical grounding, steady as she goes, good for working with authority, stepping into our responsibilities, we will feel good when we do good  and when we get stuff done). She will be void until 6:03AM EDT when she moves into lovely Libra turning our attention to our partnerships and other people. We will feel best if we have another person's arms around us and if things feel fair and balanced and look beautiful. She will square Chiron (tension/frustration around being ourselves vs other people/partners) early on and then slide through the rest of the day un-aspected.

WEDNESDAY - SUN SEXTILES JUPITER

The Sun, in Pisces, is now 60 degrees from Jupiter in Capricorn - forming an opportunistic sextile. More support for this year's Neptune/Jupiter transit in Pisces/Capricorn. Building the dream. We are feeling more optimistic/confident. Excellent energy to move something we want to expand forward since we will meet very little resistance! This is the theme of your Pisces house melding with the theme of your Capricorn house. At the same time our "can't we all just get along?" Libra Moon is squaring ambitious Mars in Capricorn. Tension/frustration. The need to pivot/adjust. But also passion and the friction that makes everything from rocket ships to babies. Later in the day the Moon will square Jupiter and Pluto - it might seem like other people are standing in the way of what we want to do or we might be giving too much or expecting too much from someone else or some situation. Emotionally there is a struggle to maintain our balance.

THURSDAY - The Libra Moon trines Mercury and goes void off a square to Saturn at 4:11AM EDT. When the Libra Moon is stressed our relationships could be, too. Probably before we move forward we need to deal with someone in authority or an old responsibility.

The Moon is void until 5:28AM EDT when she dives into Scorpio. Our attention likely turns to Scorpian themes (going deep with something, research, merged resources and money, taxes, inheritance, sex, reproduction, death, transformation) and if we have anything big going on it will feel more intense/life and death.

The Scorpio Moon will oppose Uranus at 12:13PM EDT (an unexpected challenge/change, buckle up) and then Venus (challenges via love, resources, money, our security, our wants and our needs are in opposition). Exciting or shocking news/changes.

FRIDAY the 13th - The Moon continues through Scorpio (a Scorpio Moon on Friday the 13th!), but with MUCH better aspects today! She will sextile Mars, trine Neptune, sextile Jupiter, trine the Sun and sextile Pluto.

Who said Friday the 13th is bad luck? Not me! All those Scorpio themes we talked about yesterday are working smoothly and opportunistically with our actions, our work, authority, our goals and plans for expansion, our dreams and creativity. A+ day. Of course, I can't see your natal chart - but there is support here.

MONDAY - MERCURY MOVES INTO PISCES, QUARTER MOON (SAG/PISCES)

Looking quickly ahead to the beginning of next week (the end of next week will be HUGE) we have a forward moving Mercury getting back into Pisces. We are walking these degrees for the THIRD time now. Is it three strikes we're out or third time lucky?!

Hopefully by now we are more comfortably guided by our intuition and our knowing that there isn't only one right answer/way forward, no crystal ball holding all the answers!

With Mercury's (communication, intellect) move from Aquarius into Pisces our thinking becomes less stubborn and more flexible. Our focus will not be as razor sharp but seeing the gray areas (as opposed to black and white, good or bad thinking) has its upside, too.

Decisions will become more intuitive and left brained.

But the truth can get a little bit stretchy. If we need to make a major decision now it will be hard to tell the facts from the fiction. But, and this is a big but, on the other hand we have been over this same ground multiple times - maybe there is nothing more to see/feel here! More information isn't going to help us anyway.  

Keep in mind our Pisces natal house is the space where we avoid looking at what is really going on and this is the second year in a row we have been FORCED to deal with what is happening here!

What do we know that we didn't know a few weeks ago? What have we re-vised? Re-viewed? Re-vamped? Re-visited?

At the same time the Sag Moon is squaring the Pisces Sun giving us our monthly Third Quarter Moon. This is a kind of crisis of faith/faith being tested. Maybe something we had put our faith in is dissolving now. What do we still believe? This is tension/frustration coming from our Sagittarius house and its natal theme - collectively this could be a legal issue, higher education, foreign issue, wedding, travel, our beliefs and big picture thinking.

Back with some big-picture stuff because really, what the hell is going on?!

xo all

photo by the talented BirdSophieBlack

Full Moon in Virgo | March 9th - coming down to earth, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, a need to make things better and healthier, a dragon the size of a mouse, the solutions are coming

On March 9, 2020 at 1:43PM EDT, the Moon in Virgo opposes the Sun in Pisces at 19 degrees giving us this month's Full Moon; the year's first Super Moon. A Full Moon brings something to light (to our attention or into the open), to a fullness or to a culmination
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It's the space in our breath when our lungs are full. We can't take in anymore. We have to exhale.

Let's unpack the chart.

The Moon is not only opposing the Sun (in Pisces) this year, she is also opposing Neptune (ruler of Pisces). So, we have the Sun inching past foggy, mystical and imaginative Neptune and we have the Moon in practical and grounded Virgo mumbling to herself "what the hell am I looking at here? is this for real? how am I going to clean up this mess?".

There is a kind of perfect storm of confusion in this chart. We have the Sun on Neptune with a Full Moon opposition, Mercury stationing direct (and we know how cray-cray things get at her/his station), Venus (our money, values, love, beauty) conjunct Uranus (chaos, anything-can-happen).

With Sun/Neptune maybe something hidden/something from the past/something we need to heal/something cray-cray is revealed. If we have been overly idealistic, bubbles pop. Fantasies are shown to be, well, fantastical. 

In earthy Virgo, we are brought down to earth

(like the world discovering here's what doomsday predictions will bring us, here is the reality - an economic meltdown, something that cannot be contained - and saying this makes me check where Pholus is in this chart - the genie out of the bottle asteroid/centaur - and he is exactly conjunct the South Node. We have been here before. This is not about a conspiracy theory - this isn't about some deep state trying to control us - this is about how life on planet Earth works - we change the world with our FOCUS. Are we going to let 24 hour news cycles with their own agenda control our focus?).

As the Sun pulls away from Neptune - and as Mercury stations direct and we get our legs underneath us and move through the next two weeks of this Full Moon cycle - we will have more CLARITY.

With the Moon in practical and industrious Virgo we can open ourselves up to answers. Wake-up calls - focused on our health, our work, our daily routines, our pets (or our natal Virgo house theme) are designed to wake us up, not kill us. This chart says there is something we can actually DO besides "wash our hands" of germs and the situation.

Think - better, healthier routine. Think - neutral position. By April we will know where we are going, but let's get our daily routine/any health neglects taken care of now to pave our way forward.

Keep in mind in Virgo we gain dignity and self respect from being good at something that is useful to other people. Think back to your Virgo New Moon intentions from September. It's a great time to take a step toward something - the Full Moon reflects plenty of inspirational Pisces Sun to light up our paths and those Earth trines will be supportive to physical action.

It is certain all we really have to fear here is fear itself.

Now, the ruler of Virgo and so ruler of this Full Moon, is Mercury - currently standing strong and still and retrograde in Aquarius, preparing to station direct in just a few hours. In Aquarius, she/he can deliver the news/facts we need without a lot of fluff and emotion. Maybe we step away from the fantasies/ghosts/mainstream media hoopla - and take a breath. REMAIN NEUTRAL.

As Mercury stations direct and moves through the end of Aquarius for the third time and goes back into Pisces to clear things up - over the next couple weeks - we will start to see more solutions, more facts (although some collective things could continue to be foggy until late spring/summer), more ways to fix what isn't working, more ways to heal, improved/healthier habits, more ways to make things BETTER and more ways to make better things.

Venus is sitting with Uranus so changes with our relationships, with our money and resources could be coming at us fast and furiously.

The good news. and there is alot here, the Moon is trining that Cappy pile-up providing some earthy and practical superpowers.

She is moving toward a conjunction/meeting with expansive, confident, and 'lucky' Jupiter.

All the energy we talked about for last week (other than the Moons) is in play at this Full Moon plus all the energy we will talk about for next week in the next post.

We'll talk more about this in the weekly tonight. There is alot going on and things can move in many different directions pretty quickly. This isn't about fortune-telling. It's about using the patterns and archetypes to make our life better.

Let's get Mercury moving direct, let's allow the Sun to move off Neptune. We have some nice solar sextiles later in the week and the only fly in the ointment is Chiron's square to the Nodes on Saturday.

Practical, grounded and health-focused advances are coming collectively as we step into this personally. This doesn't mean isolating ourselves. And it means washing our hands, but not of the situation - because this is really about us building a healthier body that can withstand a blow (by bending and not breaking). And keeping our focus on what we want and not on what we don't want - not because there is a deep-state plot to destroy us - but because this is the way life works!

There is alot of stuff coming at us and this isn't going to stop, life is always going to be like this - and yes, this is challenging for our nervous system and we are going to have to find ways (meditation, walks in nature, etc) to deal with this. The world has never been stable - we are just more awake now.

Remember where we are headed as the Nodes change signs in May. We started talking about it HERE.

Back with the weekly!

xo all

A Missing Child .... and the story's unnerving mythological connection

I wrote a couple weeks ago (?) about a chart I did for an online crime solving group to help locate a missing New Jersey woman.

I also did this chart for them around the same time for another open case and thought now that the murderer has been arrested I would put this up here, too, without any names for privacy reasons, for any astrology or mystery peeps that might be interested.

Working on this one made me depressed and nauseous. Not sure I will do any more of these unless the case is very, very old. It's heartbreaking and makes me think about all the ways we do not value and cherish children in our society. Such a challenging world to be a vulnerable child ... :(

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G  was an 11 year old boy living in Colorado with his father, stepmother and their children. His birth mother lived in another state. He was reported missing in the early evening of January 22, 2020 by his stepmother (I don't think the 911 call has been released, so I couldn't get a time for that to make an event chart). She told police he had stayed home sick that day and then asked to visit a friend after school and never returned. I believe she intimated he may have run away.

At some point days later, during the search for G, a neighbor, checking his front door's ring-camera footage discovered photos of G leaving the house that day with his stepmother (this is the time used in this chart) and further footage of her returning home a few hours later without him.

Let's take a look at the chart for the time G and his stepmother are getting into the truck.

The chart shows Aries rising, the first house is G  - so Aries represents G - fitting for a young man and answering to Aries ruler Mars sadly found in the 8th house (death) and in Sagittarius (a journey/toward what is foreign and distant/the boy traveling away from this chart). Sag is ruled by Jupiter - here at the top of the chart, so we can guess this story will become known and likely get media (Jupiter) and legal (Jupiter) attention. We have Eris and Uranus both in the 1st house (G's house) so he might have been an energetic and disruptive kind of energy - exactly the job of an 11 year old boy!

Mars (ruling G here) is at 16 degrees Sagittarius - the position of the fixed star Ras Algethi - called the head of Hercules (who we'll talk about below) - and according to a 1923 book on fixed stars by Vivian Robson, is said to be indicative of a native whose "life will be afflicted by devious plots" and if poorly aspected, as here with that square to an exalted Venus, "said to cause much irritation, especially in connection to females". This star is in the 6th Chinese Lunar Mansion "that which separates wood from water" - not sure if that has anything to do with where they went that day or where this poor boy ended up.

The descendant, representing the perpetrator is in Libra, conjunct Juno (the jealous wife who will do anything to keep her husband/position), and answering to Venus, exalted in Pisces and exactly conjunct foggy Neptune. Maybe the perpetrator is a young woman, probably a wife and she is either on drugs/mentally ill/a pathological liar/there are almost certainly past life connection. Venus is exalted in Pisces and stronger than Aries in Sag, so she is in the more powerful position than he is.

We can see there is alot going on in that self-sabotaging 12th house along with Venus (representing the stepmother).

On intuition I added the asteroid Nessus (which is often found in charts to represent abuse, but a more full telling of his story. which we will do later in the post, adds more info) and we see Nessus is nestled between the Moon and Venus (the Moon will represent G here, too, in an event chart, but she is also denoting Venus's status as the stepmother here and maybe also showing his birth mother). "Dangerous woman" Lilith is here as well as hurting/healing holder of our very old/very deep wounding, centaur Chiron.

The Venus/Neptune conjunction (the stepmother) is exactly squaring Mars (G), so there is tension/frustration here. Mars rules violence and the head, so he could have been hit in the head or pushed and hit his head. That square to Neptune could indicate he is drugged/sleeping/sick.

G is also represented by the Sun, in its fall in Aquarius and ruler of the 11th house (also G 's age), so escalating Aquarius's tendency toward chaos/disorder and answering to Uranus, in Taurus so answering to Venus, which represents the stepmother, again showing she is in control (and also, out-of-control) here.

We have the Saturn/Pluto conjunction - the end of the road/death that was postponed/time runs out - at the top of the chart in the house of the father. We got a big hint about what the Saturn/Pluto was going to be about last April as Saturn stationed retrograde and then again in September/October when Saturn stationed direct and with Jupiter in Capricorn and answering to him, I wonder what was going on in this family at those times and if some action could have been taken then that would have changed the course of this tragedy.

Something to keep in mind when looking at this kind of chart is that we all lived through January 22, 2020 at 10:13AM MST - and thousands of people lived through this exact moment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, too, and were not on their way to being murdered or murdering someone else. I don't have the birth charts of these four people (G, the stepmother and his birth parents), but I am sure they would be interacting intimately with this moment, which remember becomes important because the ring-cam video of this moment becomes known - that Jupiter on top of the chart.

There is a potential in every moment of time - for the better and for the worse. And, of course, hindsight is always 20/20 (maybe more like 20/40 sometimes), and certainly there are parts of this chart that could be interpreted many different ways.

There is no way to know from this chart exactly what happened and I am certainly not saying that I do.

I would guess their relationship was very tense (that exact square). I would guess he was a handful - from her perspective - and she sees him as the biggest disorder in her life. She was either jealous of G's relationship with his father/her husband and/or wanting to keep her marriage without this beautiful little boy. With so much connecting this story to past life and/or generational karma I doubt she herself could understand the negative feelings he could have invoked in her as they were triggered.

Maybe on the day this happened she loses her temper/her mind (she is almost certainly mentally ill/some kind of personality disorder or on drugs here) and she does something to hurt him (blow to the head) and thinks the only way to save her marriage/her position is to hide what she has done. Maybe the reason his movements toward the truck appear labored in the neighbor's video is because of this or maybe she has drugged him and the head trauma comes later. She may have gotten him into the truck telling herself she was taking him to the hospital, although subconsciously planning something much more horrific. Or with Mercury in detached Aquarius maybe she planned this whole thing out.

With G's Mars in Sagittarius this snapshot of time would have taken him on a long  journey, outside his comfort zone, toward a place that was foreign to him.

There are multiple indicators of old past life connections/familial story-lines/karma with what is happening here including all that 12th house energy, Nessus between the Moon and Venus (the past-life connections including not only G and the stepmother, but the birth parents), Moon in the 12th, Sun in the 11th in Aquarius - too much to even list. We can't see the South Node in this chart, but it is sitting right on the top of the chart!

It is very, very heartbreaking to look at this chart and know what it is leading to and see G's Mars all alone in that dangerous 8th house and the North Node in Cancer (mother/mothering, home, family, the way we care for our most vulnerable people and spaces) sitting at the bottom of this chart - the energy that would have changed everything - abandoned, too ....

They have arrested the stepmother for G's murder although they haven't found G's body.

Who this woman really is, it is hard to say. She lived a well-hidden life in that 12th house tossed about by her own delusions, lies and karma (the Libra shows this would not be so visible to casual acquaintances, no doubt the people closest to her knew something was wrong with her - you can only hide crazy/or an addiction whatever this is for so long in intimate relationships and I doubt her feelings for G would have been easy to hide). Maybe she was abused and is abusive, and she was undoubtedly a very dangerous caregiver for that sweet little boy and I wish with all my heart, someone somewhere somehow had figured this out before January 22, 2020.

xo all

Here is the Hercules/Nessus mythology - see what you think about how it relates to what we know about this story. In astrology, Hercules is a constellation, the fixed star representing his "head" was exactly conjunct G's ruling planet, Mars, in the event chart and Nessus, an asteroid in astrology representing abuse, trusting someone not trustworthy and murder is conjunct the stepmother's ruling planet,Venus.

So - Nessus was a centaur in Greek mythology. We've talked about the wild centaurs (half man, half horse) many times - their stories all seem to center around Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks, but I'll use the more familiar Roman name Hercules here) and death. 

Hercules was maybe the most famous hero of Greek mythology and represents our own hero's journey. He was given his twelve labors (after he murdered his first wife and children in a fit of madness induced by a jealous Juno - note in the event chart Juno is conjunct the descendant ruling the stepmother) and a great deal of his story is told in their retelling. With Hercules head on G's ruling planet and Juno conjunct the stepmother's house we could stop right there and the mythology would give us some clues about what happened, but let's keep going ...

In the Nessus myth, Hercules, and, his then wife Deianira, are fleeing a war where Hercules has just single handedly killed hundreds of centaurs

(this part is kind of important because although Hercules had been tutored by the gentle centaur Chiron, it would be impossible to believe that after a war where he had killed hundreds of dangerous centaurs he was not by now aware of their animal nature and reputation as rapists and murderers).

They come to the river Evenus needing to cross and they meet Nessus; the centaur "ferryman" who carries people across this river.

Here's where the myth has some different variations, but all tend to agree that, Hercules gets himself, and his weapons, across the river and negotiates with Nessus (the centaur) to carry his wife across. Nessus, rapes or attempts to rape Deianira, and from across the river Hercules fires off a poisoned arrow to kill him. He wanders off in pain to die unburied, but not before he lies to Deianira that his blood will ensure Hercules future fidelity and she collects some and takes it with her.

Years later as Hercules heads to a tournament without her, a suspicious and jealous Deianira pours some of the "fidelity potion" on a cloak for Hercules to take on his journey. Later, she accidentally spills some of the potion on the floor and, as it eats through her linoleum I suppose, she realizes it is a poison (um, duh) and she tries to get word to Hercules, but the message doesn't reach our hero in time and he dies - done in precisely as the Delphic Oracle had predicted years before "by a dead enemy" and, of course, aided by his wife's jealousy.

Nessus was a savage, but Hercules certainly knew better than to hand his wife over to him - and with his super-human strength surely could have carried her himself. He passed her off to Nessus (you might wonder if subconsciously he wanted to be rid of her, and their marriage is a whole other interesting story) leading to the demise by poison of both Nessus and Hercules.

Some themes here include abuse, rape, revenge, jealousy, some kind of set up for a rape or murder, implied consent, trusting untrustworthy people with precious cargo, betrayal, poison, third party situations, things coming back around, very old karma.

Nessus was in Cancer (the sign of mothering/motherhood) from the 1970's and well into the 1980's - I am not sure when the stepmother was born, but I would guess an afflicted and activated natal Nessus in Cancer. I would guess G's natal chart might have a connection to the Hercules constellation if not the 16 degrees Sagittarius fixed star itself.

It is likely a very old karmic story playing out here and makes me think again of the ways these strange celestial bodies, recently discovered, named for the centaurs and known for their oddball orbits connect to our generational karmic stories and inheritances .... life on this third rock from the Sun continues to be a mystery wrapped in a mystery ....

Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, March 6, 2020 - unexpected changes, working through some tension/frustration/wonk so we can get to the fun stuff

We wake with a fresh and fiery Moon in Leo.

For the next couple days we are nurtured through our Leo natal house theme and the collective Leo themes of happiness, generosity, play, recreation, risk, creative projects, children, self-expression, romance, following our heart, taking the spotlight, taking the center stage, needing attention.

In Leo, the Moon gets busy squaring the Taurus planets - first, Venus at 7:00AM EST and then Uranus at 11:05AM EST - setting us up for some maybe uncomfortable and unexpected situations. We want/need to feel happy/valued. We want/need to know what the future holds. There is some tension/frustration here, maybe some shake-ups and changes. Things should ease as we move through the day and the Leo Moon moves off those squares and gets her groove back.

The Moon won't be making any aspects on SATURDAY, so we'll move through that fun-loving/heart-centered/creative Leo vibe unobstructed.

On SUNDAY (see the weekly HERE for lots of info) we have the conjunctions of the Sun/Neptune and Venus/Uranus - this has been in play all week and for another few days. More pivot points.

Sun/Neptune will let us know if we need some rest, some art, some music, a Netflix marathon!

Venus/Uranus could bring some unexpected goodies and our "wants" become focused on the future/something innovative/something else. 

The Moon (in Virgo here) makes nice with the Venus/Uranus conjunction pulling Virgo themes - our day-to-day stuff, our health, our pets, our work - into this.

Keep in mind we are building toward Monday's Virgo Full Moon happening as Mercury stations direct - answers come in, our trajectory/momentum is about to shift.

xo all

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