The Astrology of 2020 | Part III - feeling underwater, a sudden unraveling, releasing the need to control everything, releasing the need to try and hold everything together, preparing for next week's sh*tshow

We talked about Saturn/Pluto's momentous meeting in January 2020, in lots of posts - HERE is one of them - see mid-January.

It was impossible to know exactly what could happen, but it didn't sound good. And honestly after barely surviving the years that accompanied Pluto's crossing of my natal Mercury - which felt like a portal opened and a darkness/death swept in, triggered my inner-gaslighting or maybe/likely actually tried to kill me - and seeing the devastation of Pluto's crossing hub's natal Venus, Saturn and Mars in some kind of 'dark night of the soul' trifecta, I kept postponing writing/thinking about it.

I do not underestimate the effect on the collective to have the planet that holds everything solid together (Saturn) passing over the planet of death (Pluto) in the sign of the stuff he (Saturn) is holding together (Capricorn). I would guess if this were reversed and Pluto were to move over Saturn (instead of Saturn over Pluto) it would be game over. Which I suppose couldn't physically happen, but maybe it could.

But he didn't and it isn't. 

OK, so where are we now. In a world filled with so much dis-ease, here comes an actual disease accompanied by a fear-mongering twenty-four hour news cycle designed to make our already over-taxed immune system even weaker. 

Viruses are ruled by Neptune and we talked about the China chart for the virus's kick-off period HERE - when Saturn and Pluto (time runs out, here's the death that was postponed) met in China's 12th house (Neptune's house) on top of their natal Jupiter - it was game-on. People have asked me if this could be some kind of bio-terrorism thing - sure, maybe. Or maybe a portal opened and this bug named corona flew in - and maybe he will fly out just as mysteriously - it's happened before. Who knows. Pisces/Neptune rules secrets and what happens behind closed doors ...

Collectively, we've got Neptune in Pisces - until 2026 - strong in his home sign, back to close-out the Age of Pisces and a little more than halfway through his fifteen year journey. He has been showing us the illusive nature of 'truth' and we will find once we are 'woke' there is no going back to sleep, even with that expensive inner spring and intuitive foam topper system. We've taken the blue pill (or was it the red pill?). This doesn't mean any of us know what is going on, but a whole lot of people know now that they don't know.

(not knowing makes anything possible because thoughts are things and this kind of just adds to the chaos at this point, but is something we just have to get through and come out the other side of)

This sudden unraveling - which ultimately lands in Aquarius, with ruler Uranus disrupting our Taurean money, resources and values - is likely more about fear of chaos/death than any actually devastating illness for most people. Mercury (our thinking/the movement of ideas and objects and yes, why not our little corona fellow) has been back and forth through Pisces - sign with no limits/boundaries - since the beginning of February - and I never underestimate Mercury's ability to create trouble. He is strong and still, and detached, in Aquarius right now and is headed back into Pisces for another round of "this is your brain on drugs". Keep in mind, Mercury is dreading this, since he/she is in her detriment in Pisces. So, our thinking isn't crystal clear folks. It's hard to know what's important and what isn't and we can make ourselves cray-cray thinking something is way worse than it actually is.

This is a better time for grace/prayer/silence than brain storming.

Saturn/Pluto opened a portal. We are deep in our self-created messes and being held, feet to the fire, to take responsibility for what we came here for. And Jupiter in Cappy is limiting our options and Mercury really isn't doing much 'figuring out' right now either.

We are just going to have to take things day by day. We are just going to have to, like our ancestors and their ancestors and their ancestors, live with uncertainty - which we already knew we did, but somehow in the process of living our fast-paced lives we forgot we knew this.

We have Mercury at the end of Aquarius and Saturn at the end of Capricorn. We can see change is coming because they can't sit on their asses there forever - but right now it's like they have pulled out all the stops to dig in and stress us the f*ck out. There doesn't seem to be any good options and today we have the Moon in Scorpio - so everything we have going on is really going to feel like life and death. And obviously, for some people, it actually may be, but probably not for you and probably not for me ...

We need to keep in mind a couple things - first, the 2020's are going to a time of tremendous change. We can either loosen up and ride those waves (good and bad) or be thrashed about on the rocks for years. 

Second, Saturn moves into Aquarius at the end of this month. One of the things we will be dealing with is karma (Saturn) with trauma (Aquarius). This can bring us to death-bed kind of experiences just so we can rise from our sweaty sheets. Say for example in a past life you had your head cut off by a mad king (or maybe an ancestor did, or maybe you are your ancestor, who can be sure, I certainly don't have all the answers) - your soul/the physical story you carry in your body/your Uranus/Aquarius energy carry this memory. So, now maybe in this life instead of your head cut off by a mad king, which created great trauma (think soul PTSD here), you get your head cut off by your mad boss. You are fired. This will feel like life and death to you. Life doesn't do this to us because life is cruel and cunning, but because the way to heal from the trauma of the king's henchmen is to face a similar (but not as deadly) situation and SURVIVE it and keep going. And this is what is happening to us now and which could potentially happen to us again in different ways as we move forward into the Age of Aquarius because we have alot of stuff to SHIFT. We have to keep going.

Unless we don't of course, and we just give up, and there are times to give up, but this isn't one of them.

We can't just snap our fingers and make this go away.

We have Mars meeting Jupiter on the Saturn/Pluto degree next week, so that will almost certainly energize/expand this situation and we have to get through Mars meeting with Pluto. But we also have an ambitious New Moon which will have us feeling something like "to hell with this crumbling ground beneath my feet, I am moving FORWARD anyway". And Venus in Taurus, thank God and Goddess for Venus in Taurus to soften the hard edges.

For now, it's still Pisces season. Release the need to try and control everything. Release the feeling you have to hold everything together - you don't. You can't. Meditate. Pray. Get into the water as often as possible - I think hand washing counts (is anyone else totally amazed at how often they touch their face with their hands!).

Expect what will feel like things are out of control, followed by attempts to regain control (personally and collectively). Focus on keeping in order what you can and releasing the rest. Let's be gentle with ourselves and other people. This too shall pass.

xo all

back with part IV

photo by the talented Semansis

Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - relationship imbalances, making decisions, weighing our options, the need for love and beauty

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 "can't we all just get along" beauty and fairness seeking Libra turning our attention to our partnerships and other people. 

She is going to square the Nodes and oppose Chiron. Our Libra Moon (as us) is seeking balance. She is seeking peace and beauty and love. This is what she (as us right now) needs to feel nurtured and comfortable. The squares could bring some tension/frustration between that balance, peace and partnership we seek and our home/family situation (where we are headed) and our career/life in the world (where we are/where we've been).

Maybe this is the partnership/what we need to feel in balance/what we see as fair meeting challenges to our security. Who has our back? Who has something sharp (and this could be a verbal thing with Mercury standing still in detached Aquarius) ready to jab us in the shoulder blades? And are we the ones holding the blade? 

The Libra Moon's squares can also indicate the need to make a decision because she can be indecisive. Not because she is wishy-washy, but because she can feel both sides of the situation which makes decision making more complicated.

Moon/Chiron can trigger mother wounds (sometimes an almost bottomless need for nurturing), and in Libra/Aries is just as likely to trigger fears stemming from relationship imbalances.

There is even more relationship focus in today's only exact aspect - a square between a retrograde Juno in Libra and Pallas in Capricorn. So, we have Juno (relationships, marriage, doing what it takes to make this work) going back over a relationship issue/imbalance, coming to this crossroads with limits/old rules/maybe someone else's or our own ambition. This could be a situation involving career vs the relationship or imbalances in the relationship over boundaries/something that has grown too stagnant and fixed. Cardinal planet squares are really pushing us to bring some NEW energy into the whatever we are dealing with - to work on the fresh start/the new season.

Squares do this by requiring us to deal with a problem. 

So what feels unfair? What feels unbalanced? What is decaying the beauty within the partnership/partnership agreement.

If Pallas in Cappy has been full steam ahead with world-domination plans here is where she needs to take into consideration the important people in her life, too. If Juno in Libra has been bending over backwards to maintain peace at all costs or waffling on a relationship decision that isn't going to work anymore either.

Mercury is direct, but will need a couple days to get up to speed (she/he is at 28 degrees Aquarius ALL WEEK). We have to give ourselves some time to adjust to these new energies.

Back with a big-picture post.

xo all

photo by the talented LichtReize

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