TUESDAY - Mars into Aquarius, Mars conjunct Saturn
WEDNESDAY - First Quarter Moon Cancer
FRIDAY - Venus into Gemini, Mercury conjunct Neptune
SATURDAY - Jupiter conjunct Pluto
Another uber important week of the year, folks!
The week starts out tense/frustrating with roadblocks/limits, but lightens as we move toward the end of the week with more options and information coming to light.
We finally get some air this week after weeks of solid earth and water (
mud!), but we also lose stability/grounding as two inner planets move out of their exalted earth signs.
Then on Saturday, it's the biggie - Jupiter meets Pluto - the first of their three-peat conjunctions this year - for a major new chapter that carries us all through to the end of the year!
On
MONDAY, we have Mars leaving Capricorn (
the sign where he is exalted) and moving into airy Aquarius. He hasn't been in Aquarius in two years - are you ready for some increased
motivation and energy Aquarius/Aquarius rising?! Our Aquarius house themes WAKE UP and begin a new two year chapter.
This is GOOD NEWS because now we have our warrior energy in the sign of
the future instead of the past. Fresh interactions with
other people/new ideas/new projects.
Our actions become more innovative/more outside the box. We lean into what is modern/future focused. We just need to be cautious of us or someone else using the future/the group/our smarts/the internet/astrology/detachment as a
weapon/ammunition in a fight.
Keep in mind though - it was Mars activating the Cappy planets that kicked into full attack mode much of the world's battle with this virus, so now Mars (
as us) can use Aquarian super-powers (
which yes, includes social distancing/detachment) to fight this thing over the next couple weeks (
although there could be some bureaucratic red tape) because Mars doesn't muck around. New treatments/testing/technology assistance are all coming.
Mars is our initiative, our action, our passion, our anger. Aquarius is the space in our natal chart where it's never going to work to follow the crowd just for the sake of fitting in. Our rough, uncomfortable edges are there for a
reason.
Mars comes into this space saying, "I am going to do my own thing and I am going to do it RIGHT NOW".
On
TUESDAY - Um, not so fast buddy
.
Me thinks our hasty fellow neglected to read the fine print in his Aquarian travel brochure because Mars immediately runs into a stop light/a limit/a rule in the form of "serious as a heart attack" Saturn
(for many people, since Aquarius also rules our collective experience, group karma/trauma, this will be about the quarantine/limits we are living under).
This will be most strongly felt as tension/frustration/pressure by people with planets or points around 0-2 degrees of the fixed signs - Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, but
everyone else will feel it, too.
Impulsive people who are already antsy will be fire ants in their pants antsy.
Mars' move into freedom-loving Aquarius could exacerbate/intensify the stresses of 'social distancing' that came along with Saturn in Aquarius and motivate us to find new ways to connect, maybe through technology, etc. - because our power, with both Mars and Saturn together here, is going to be with our groups and the ways and goals that bring us into connection with other people.
(At the end of this week Venus will lighten things up as she gets into Gemini and starts trining (
brakes off) Saturn, so maybe something in our life that gets held up in the beginning of the week, could start to move forward at the end of the week.)
Remarkably at the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2020, Jupiter is going to meet Saturn at exactly this same degree - 0 Aquarius. So whatever we have going on now will connect us to the end of December mega-powerful energies and the biggest new chapter of the Age of Aquarius!
As Mars moves through Aquarius he is moving toward a square with Uranus (
at 5 degrees Taurus) which will be exact
next week.
A square with Uranus often indicates some kind of
sudden break (
although it's actually been building for a while)
. This could be a break-through, break-down, break-up. Maybe we are the one initiating this or some situation/person/event outside of us is. Either way something SNAPS.
Mars will be in Aquarius until May 13th. Mars/Saturn is also about strength and patience and discipline - if you want something done right and done well, give it to someone with a Mars/Saturn in their natal chart - we will have access to this energy now, too!
On
WEDNESDAY, the Moon in Cancer will move into a square with the Sun in Aries, giving us this month's First Quarter Square. For many people, again with so many of us having a group experience under quarantine it is very easy to interpret these aspects - here is home/family vs our independence/what we want to do.
Fueled by the Sun in "let's get something started" Aries, staying at home/feeling tied down can get challenging now. With the Moon in Cancer this will be
emotional. We want to be safe/secure AND we want to be able to do our own thing/take risks.
The words 'stir crazy' come to mind. Squares require adjustment.
Keep in mind the Aries Sun is very self-sufficient and self-absorbed and Mars/Saturn can get kind of cruel
and we are building toward an important Full Moon in Libra (
relationships/other people) next week. Mars will be off Saturn by then and squaring erratic Uranus. I would expect relationship imbalances to be amplified. These are unprecedented times (
and now bringing up our larger stories about safety vs going after what we want) and for many relationships, something's going to blow.
On
FRIDAY, we have Venus leaving Taurus (
the sign of her exaltation) and moving into airy Gemini. So we have two, of our three, personal planets leaving the sign of their exaltation this week and moving from earth into air!
Because of her upcoming retrograde, Venus will be in Gemini until August 7th! We are going to be back and forth over
something major here, especially if this interacts with planets and points in your natal chart. What is the theme of your Gemini house? That will be the field of play.
Gemini Suns and rising signs get more attractive - both easier on the eye and able to attract what they want and need. Whatever house in our natal chart holds Gemini hosts a visit from lovely Venus now - bringing blessings/protection/kindness/fairness and making it easier for all of us to attract what we need in that area of our lives - especially beginning now until she stations retrograde on May 13th.
We are most attractive (
use our Venus) through Gemini (
our mind, words, flexibility, humor). It's a good time to be talking and communicating with lots of different people about lots of different things.
Venus in Gemini is about
variety. In the mutable air sign (
Gemini) the themes Venus rules - love, money, value, self-esteem, women, beauty - get more light-hearted. There are quickly more
options available. There is also more duality - this is the space where our heart is saying one thing and our brain is saying something else.
We could suddenly recognize a mismatch between what we have and what we want. Or maybe what we thought we had (
during Venus in resource-rich Taurus) could be up for grabs a bit.
With Venus in Gemini life becomes more of a flirtation. Communications are more casual, more lively and humorous. It's a good time to set aside any existing constructs about what we like and what we don't like and stay open to new experiences, new people and new situations. This isn't the best energy to make an important decision (
regarding our Gemini natal house theme or Venus ruled love, money, self-esteem, values, women or beauty) or commit to something permanently. She is kind of paving the way for the North Node - which moves into Gemini on May 5th.
Venus, like Mars earlier in the week, quickly moves into aspect with Saturn. But unlike Mars with his tense/need to adjust square - here's where we get the smooth air trine. Something (
love, relationship, money, our values, beauty, self-esteem) falls smoothly into place and we'll have this trine in play (
waning) at the time of the Libra Full Moon (
Venus rules Libra), so that will be good as we move something toward a culmination/fulfillment next week.
The biggest downside to Venus in Gemini - is that she is now answering to foggy Mercury in Pisces, so this could add to the emotional impact of the stuff we have going on now.
At the same time Gemini's ruler, Mercury, is meeting Neptune for the third and final time. She/he is finally out of shadow and covering new ground. Yay! Information comes to light. Clarity returns - this will be especially true after we get past the Full Moon on April 8th. And when Mercury finally gets out of slippery Pisces (the sign of everything we can't see including this tiny little corona fellow) and moves into 'fresh start' and fiery Aries on April 11th, we have another pivot point.
On
SUNDAY, Jupiter meets Pluto at 24 degrees Capricorn (
bringing us back to December 2007), and obviously these guys have been within spitting distance for awhile now (
although I hope no one is actually spitting right now).
Now, they are going to meet THREE times this year and strangely enough, because this is all magical and amazing - because of the timing of everyone's upcoming retrogrades, all three conjunctions will also be conjunct Pallas (
wise warrior woman who uses strategies and patterns to win) and square Eris (
disruptive outsider, showing us the need to bring all parties to the table or face the consequences).
There are many ways this could go and the easiest to see from my perch on Sunday morning within the collective at this time is - smart strategies based on patterns that create disruption regarding 'massive wealth', as in re-distribution and 'massive control' probably as in controlling the masses.
There is also the possibility that the
growth of something ends. The death of expansion. Equally I have seen this as a kind of 'luck runs out' aspect if there is some kind of mess that hasn't been cleaned up (
we are dragging around something dead that is stinking up the place, etc).
Pluto is always the death of something, but he's not the death of everything.
Having our cosmic Santa Claus meeting up with the Lord of the Underworld in Scrooge's house
(
but also at a time when Scrooge isn't home, this is important because if Scrooge, ie Saturn, was home this would be a whole other story, but he's not and it isn't - thank goodness)
is making for some interesting times for us humans!
This is also about the power (
Pluto) of faith (
Jupiter). What do we have faith in?
This is a major pivot point toward our collective destiny folks. In our personal lives this can be about colossal success/confidence - especially in regard to our careers/work in the world. Increased power. Rewards. And we get this aspect three times this year! Really the whole year we have access to this!
We'll talk more about this in the dailies.
I am sorry I haven't gotten back to the big picture post. I have been under the weather, but will get it finished this week. Some dates that will likely be important to what we have going on now are:
- March 31: Mars conjunct Saturn (0 Aquarius)
- April 4: Jupiter/Pluto conjunction #1 (24 Capricorn, both planets direct)
- April 7: Full Moon at 18 degrees Libra (squaring the 22-24 degrees hot spot, opposing Eris), Mars squares Uranus
- April 23: Mercury hits 22 Aries (squaring that hot Cappy degree)
- June 29: Jupiter/Pluto conjunction #2 at (24 Capricorn, both planets retrograde)
- November 12: Jupiter/Pluto conjunction #3 at 22 Capricorn (Pluto retrograde)
- December 21: Jupiter/Saturn conjunction (0 Aquarius)
- August, October & December: Mars will be at 22 Aries three times during his retrograde cycle (squaring that hot Cappy degree)
And besides this we have multiple major summer Eclipses, the Nodes changing signs and an important Venus retrograde!
There is just no way to 'predict' what is going to happen here. We can see there are many, many pivot points when things can change, but until we get to the Winter Solstice - this cycle we are in now doesn't really "end" - this doesn't mean the virus will last until then though. The U.S. has a crazy election cycle ahead and every country has its own situations of "crazy" that could certainly work with any of these upcoming transits as well as any pandemic can.
We are in a time of unknowing. We just can't know.
By the middle of April, when Mercury is in Aries, we will certainly have much more information and after she/he squares that 22 Cappy degree around April 23rd - we will have quite a few weeks when the energies settle down ...
Back with a big picture connecting some of the dots here.
xo all
photo by the talented
Asilwen
