Today's Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - get your work done so you can play later, illusions start to fade, the way things are for now not forever

The Moon moves into fiery, generous and attention-seeking Leo at 8:33AM EDT. She opposes a retrograde Saturn an hour later and sextiles a retrograde Venus at 6:05PM EDT.

The Moon in Leo wants to play and maybe Saturn says there is work to do or in Aquarius he says "think about the future. think about the group.". Moon/Saturn asks us to emotionally separate from what has been previously comforting/nurturing. Saturn is cold, but builds worlds and in Aquarius he is building the future.

Lucky for us, we will feel the sweet pull of Moon/Venus as the workday starts to draw to a close. Excellent evening for socializing, creativity, making friends, love and money.

The big news today, although it is of long-term consequence and mostly felt by people with planets/points near 20 degrees Pisces (or the other mutable signs - Gemini, Virgo, Sag) is - the station of Neptune retrograde.

We talked about THAT in the weekly:

"Neptune stations retrograde at 20 degrees Pisces (he will be retrograde until November 28th, when he will station direct at 18 degrees Pisces). Yes, Neptune moves so slowly we will spend five months going back and forth over two degrees!

(the last time Neptune stationed retrograde at 20 degrees Pisces was on June 23, 1856)

Collectively a retrograde Neptune means more realism, less imagination, our illusions are highlighted and then dimmed. 

It should help. It should help us to see straight. Our blurry visions will gradually come into focus as the tide goes out. We can revise/review our dreams.

Since Neptune rules viruses we should see a further lessening of the spread of the virus now (it might appear to ramp up a bit first when Neptune is strong and still).

On the other hand if we are depending on an illusion/those rose-colored glasses to get us through something/to make life bearable - Neptune retrograde can make things almost too real/too naked/less buoyant. Because again ... the tide goes out and we can see those colorful rocks at our feet are actually plain old rocks after all.

If we are directly impacted by this retrograde (if we have planets or points in this 'red zone' of the mutable signs - Pisces, Gemini, Virgo or Sagittarius) - certain situations can intensify.

If our boundaries have become too thin, if we are too pie-in-the-sky idealistic about something, if we are believing in things that have no basis in reality, if we are escaping/indulging in addictive behaviors - we won't be able to avoid the ramifications of this stuff any longer. This can also be about the theme of our Pisces natal house.

If we have drained ourselves through too much Neptune - delusion, escape, self-sacrificing, compassion fatigue, turning the other cheek - and are exhausted - we will need to figure that out. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. The elephant behind the sofa will be standing on the coffee table.

And with Chiron in Aries, we are the ones who will have to make things better for ourselves. 

Keep in mind as always with Neptune - there is also powerful magic here. Pray, meditate, listen to music. Neptune rules not only what we have put away, but what is behind us. Our ancestors, and every good decision we've ever made in every life we've ever lived - is lined up to assist us through these times. Just ask."

So for today, think - early day best for independent work, taking care of responsibilities (or else they will be weighing on us anyway), later day great for fun, beauty and time with other people.


xo all

photo by the talented eulalievarenne

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, June 22, 2020 - news, communications, taking action, the second time's the charm, get things done early, storm clouds tonight

The Moon is home in Cancer now, staying BUSY. She meets a retrograde Mercury at 4:01AM EDT (news from the past, getting back to work), trining Neptune (making the dream come true) - strong and still at station - at 4:21PM EDT and then finally opposing, first Pluto (retrograde) at 10:18PM EDT and then Jupiter (retrograde), at 11:28PM EDT.

So, a focus on Cancerian themes with news/communications/maybe commerce driving the morning, that trine to Neptune in the late afternoon could make us extra emotionally sensitive and prone to blurring the boundaries between us and other people/wearing rose colored glasses - excellent energetic though for Neptunian healings, dreams, art, compassion, meditation, music, talking to your ancestors. The late evening will be more prone to power plays/challenges. The Moon just wants to be comfortable/protected and old situations (maybe involving career/authority/our Cappy house theme) are creating intensity. Home vs work? Our cocoon vs the big bad world? Maybe something around what we need to keep/what needs to go? Decisions asking to be made (but maybe not tonight).

This is also the day Mars (finishing up in Pisces) sextiles a retrograde Pallas (in Capricorn).

Intuitive actions (we won't need to push) in support of old goals/or through traditional methods solve problems and create opportunities.

This could be something we tried/thought about before, since Pallas is retrograde and remember Pallas is our wise, warrior energy and Mars' sister. So, Mars (as us), likely frustrated by now, after spinning his wheels in Pisces for the last few weeks and about to come HOME to Aries, can maybe move something forward or leave something behind with an ease and diplomacy he is usually lacking. Pallas recognizes patterns/utilizes strategies - retrograde in Capricorn, this won't be anything new (the problem or the solution), but now with her brother a little more "live and let live" in dreamy Pisces - their combined efforts can work. Smoothly. Easily.  

Take some action. Maybe something you have tried before or something in support of an old goal. Things can fall together. 

(think of the energy like this - hot-headed young upstart cooling his heels on vacation meets brilliant diplomat cooling her heels in retirement at the bar by the pool. Both themselves, but not themselves, too. Out of their element. Right? They chat. The upstart leaves the bar, inspired to be smarter. The diplomat leaves the bar, inspired to be a little faster/more passionate. And if they haven't had too many margaritas something comes of this merger that is bigger than their little chat or the tequila. Even if they never meet again. Opportunity has knocked.)

Just do things before those challenges to the Moon start to hit late tonight.

And know, if they do hit you and leave you feeling lonely/depressed - that these feelings are transitory. The Moon changes faster than a wirey six year old getting into a bathing suit on his way to the pool.

Lots of changes this week. Hang in there.


xo all

photo by the amazing Natalia Ciobanu

Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of June 22nd - June 28th, 2020 - Neptune retrograde, Venus direct (!), Mars into Aries - is our place in the world where we left it or has it moved, I think we are going to find out!

Yes, another HUGE week.

I will just copy and paste that in here every week, until, oh, I don't know 2023 maybe!

We start the week in the energy of this weekend's uber strong/uber impactful Cancer New Moon Solar Eclipse and Solstice focusing us on a beginning/ending/beginning regarding our Cancer natal house theme or the collective themes of -

home, family, our roots, mother, mothering, our ancestry, real estate, country, patriotism, home business, family business, our need for safety and security, our moods and emotions, the root of the matter, what is home, where do we belong, who are our family

and keep in mind Mercury is retrograde in this same area of our chart/life asking us to go back over something here - to re-view, re-do, re-work something.

Then, another planet goes retrograde - more looking backward. Are we surrounded by ghosts, or are we surrounded by ghosts?! The circumstances and people we feel we are done with, but who, one way or another are not so done with us! 

More dues to be paid before we move on. 

I think I am going to sew some deeper pockets into my pants ... 

Then one personal planet stations direct - TADA! - and one personal planet charges home to his own sign - another TADA!

But, is our place in the world where we left it or has it changed/moved? I think we are going to find out.

The week ahead rolls out like this:

SUNDAY - Summer Solstice, Cancer New Moon/Solar Eclipse (0 degrees)
TUESDAY - Neptune stations retrograde, Mars squares Galactic Center
THURSDAY - Venus stations direct
FRIDAY - Mars squares the North and South Nodes (as he exits Pisces)
SATURDAY - Mars enters Aries - for the rest of the year! - crossing the Aries Point
(squaring the 0 degree Cancer Eclipse point and sextiling Saturn)

Here we go!

SUNDAY - See the Solar Eclipse New Moon post HERE

TUESDAY, Neptune stations retrograde at 20 degrees Pisces (he will be retrograde until November 28th, when he will station direct at 18 degrees Pisces). Yes, Neptune moves so slowly we will spend five months going back and forth over two degrees!

(the last time Neptune stationed retrograde at 20 degrees Pisces was on June 23, 1856)

Collectively a retrograde Neptune means more realism, less imagination, our illusions are highlighted and then dimmed. It should help. It should help us to see straight. Our blurry visions will gradually come into focus as the tide goes out. We can revise/review our dreams.

Since Neptune rules viruses we should see a further lessening of the spread of the virus now.

On the other hand if we are depending on an illusion/those rose-colored glasses to get us through something/to make life bearable - Neptune retrograde can make things almost too real/too naked/less buoyant. Because again ... the tide goes out and we can see those colorful rocks at our feet are actually plain old rocks after all.

If we are directly impacted by this retrograde (if we have planets or points in this 'red zone' of the mutable signs - Pisces, Gemini, Virgo or Sagittarius) - certain situations can intensify.

If our boundaries have become too thin, if we are too pie-in-the-sky idealistic about something, if we are believing in things that have no basis in reality, if we are escaping/indulging in addictive behaviors - we won't be able to avoid the ramifications of this stuff any longer. This can also be about the theme of our Pisces natal house.

If we have drained ourselves through too much Neptune - delusion, escape, self-sacrificing, compassion fatigue, turning the other cheek - and are exhausted - we will need to figure that out. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. The elephant behind the sofa will be standing on the coffee table.

And with Chiron in Aries, we are the ones who will have to make things better for ourselves. 

Keep in mind as always with Neptune - there is also powerful magic here. Pray, meditate, listen to music. Neptune rules not only what we have put away, but what is behind us. Our ancestors, and every good decision we've ever made in every life we've ever lived - is lined up to assist us through these times. Just ask.

Also on TUESDAY, Mars (finishing up in Pisces) is going to square the Galactic Center (our homing signal, center of our Milky Way Galaxy).

Squares bring tension/frustration. The need to adjust, but these are mutable signs, so maybe that shouldn't be too hard. Maybe!

Mars is a personal planet so a contact with the Galactic Center can take the collective energies and make them PERSONAL. Mars in Pisces is like "I want to do this" (maybe escape/sleep/dream/dance the day away!) and the Galactic Center is all like "no, you came here to do that." Or maybe Mars has his blinders on as he barrels toward Aries and the Galactic Center (homing signal) is like "don't forget about this!" - some Piscean ideal/act of forgiveness/compassion/bit of magic up her/his sleeve, etc that we need to adjust to/deal with first.

Heads up Wednesday/Thursday has a very LONG Void Moon (10:30AM EDT Wednesday to 1:05PM EDT on Thursday).

On THURSDAY, TA-DA! Venus stations direct at 5 degrees Gemini!

As Neptune stations retrograde and Venus stations direct - relationship and financial issues gain greater clarity and can MOVE FORWARD.

Money that was held up will start to come in. Job searches can end.  

Maybe people will start getting their hair cut again!

Note - Venus won't be covering totally new ground until the end of July, but it is good news she is direct before Mars squares the Nodes of Fate and before Mars gets into Aries!

We have been back and forth over what we want/our relationships/creative projects/financial issues - we have one final pass over the next month and we get that final pass without a delusional Neptune and with a strong Mars in his home sign.

Venus's retrograde has made clear to us what we want; what we value.

The story isn't over - she is still covering old ground, but the re-examination is over.

Do you still want to do this/be in this situation/with this person or people/make money in this way? Is this still beautiful/loving/FAIR? Do you still value THIS?

On FRIDAY, Mars, at the final degree of Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini and the South Node in Sagittarius.

This is a CROSSROADS. Maybe a quick decision is needed. The North Node is in Gemini - small moves/conversations/ideas create big changes.

Are we going to stay with our old beliefs/thinking we KNOW/thinking bigger is better/farther is fancier than what's in our own backyard (South Node Sag) or are we going to move in a new direction (untested) based on new information/ideas/choices/new questions/new conversations/going smaller/getting closer (North Node Gemini).

What's it gonna be?

Keep in mind, Mercury, the ruler of the North Node is retrograde, so this NEW might not be totally new. Mars in Pisces is intuitive action. A spiritual warrior. Or else he's asleep or he's drunk. If we are awake and sober we are 2/3 of the way good already.

Do what you can. As well as you can. Without making yourself and everyone else batsh*t crazy and  without any particularly lalaland kind of hope. Hopeful is good, of course, but don’t rely totally on hope (Jupiter is retrograde and in his fall in Capricorn), there are not a million open doors, but there is at least one. There is always at least one. So ask for what you really want, take the steps, make the effort. Look for facts. Read between the lines. Do your homework.

On SATURDAY - Mars, the God of War and Passion and Anger and BEGINNINGS comes home to Aries for the first time in over two years

and due to his upcoming retrograde will be here FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. If this can't wake up our Aries natal house, we had better stick a fork in it, because it is DONE.

Mars loves to be in Aries, because he can be the most himself here, but since he is the God of War - this 'most himself' thing has some issues with it to start with and also there is the whole 'we have six months of this' thing. On the other hand, even with multiple planets still retrograde including Mercury - we are going to want to get moving.

He crosses the Aries point (0 degrees of a cardinal sign, squaring the Eclipse degree from last weekend and activating that) - this brings our collective attention to SOMETHING, so the world, our hive-mind, will be focused on some NEWS.

A collective crisis point maybe.

Mars immediately sextiles Saturn, retrograde at 0 degrees Aquarius, so there is support/stabilization for our actions. Stepping into a responsibility. Keep in mind he is squaring the Eclipse degree from last Sunday - post HERE - so activating THAT.

And we are building toward next week's second meeting of Jupiter/Pluto and will be feeling the bigness of THAT.

So, the end of the week is super-charged.

Back with some dailies.


xo all

photo by the talented catgottongue

Saturday Night Mystery | the astrology of the Disappearances of Madeleine McCann and Inga Gehricke and a new suspect comes to light - part II

We talked about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann last week in THIS post.

Eight years later (minus exactly one day) five year old, Inga Gehricke, disappeared while gathering firewood during a family day trip in a forest in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Her family (Inga, her parents, two brothers and one sister) had driven about 50 miles from their home to meet friends for a barbecue.

This part is taken from a news source called, The Mirror, "Keen to help her parents, little Inga, in an adorable butterfly T-shirt and blue jeans, was carrying bottles of water to the table where they would sit down to enjoy the barbecue.The table was in a sun dappled clearing at the edge of the forest and as the sun started to fade in the sky, two of the other children saw her heading to the home of the family friends through the trees. Her heartbroken father said: "It was only 100 meters to the house. But she never got there." Police and local volunteers scoured the woods for days, but beautiful little Inga was never found.

The exact time of Inga's disappearance varied in different online sources and the details were very thin, but this chart, although a very late and critical degree, seems workable.

Inga is represented here by the Moon and the first house/sign on the cusp/Ascendant.

The Moon is in Libra, in the 12th house of endings/what's hidden/karmic story-lines (along with the North Node - fate). The Moon is answering to Libra's ruler Venus, here in the 8th house - the other house of endings, also secrets, death. The chart shows Libra rising, so again answering to Venus, in Gemini, so answering to Mercury also in Gemini and the ruler of Gemini. So, we stop here - 1st house, Inga's physical self and that dark 8th house.

Gemini could mean multiple victims, with Venus in Gemini, multiple young female victims and we know this is happening almost exactly on the anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. The degree of this chart is very late - very strong/dangerous.

Like Madeleine's chart, the Moon is void.

With the Moon in Libra and Libra rising, it is not surprising Inga's appearance is rather textbook Libra - delicate, fair, pleasant facial features, light hair, kind or friendly demeanor, girl-next-store. The first house can also show us where the victim is and in this case, she is at a social event/the barbecue with other people (Libra).

On the opposite side of the chart - the descendant - we will find our perpetrator at the critical degree of 29 Aries.

Ruled by Mars in the perpetrator's 7th house (conjunct fixed star Algol - the demon star, Medusa's head - murder/mayhem - possibly the worst star in the sky).

Like in Madeleine's chart, the significator (Mars in this chart) for the perpetrator is near the Sun,

but where in Madeleine's chart they were exactly conjunct combusting the significator and making it (and the perpetrator it represents) invisible - here we see him not close enough to be blown out, but ahead of the Sun, out of bounds. Not restrained by the Sun's rules.

So, he catches a break similar to what he had eight years before that makes him somehow hard for authority (the Sun) to see/catch up with. Coupled with that Void Moon (waxing toward the Full Moon, whereas Madeleine's was waning) - he is hard to see/catch, yes again, but almost certainly in this case not impossible to see.

I would be surprised if he hadn't come to the investigator's attention in some capacity back in 2015. It's another Full Moon and like a dead-hearted werewolf or knife come to slice open the night he's right there!

Mars (the perpetrator) is in Taurus answering to Venus, again with Venus answering to Mercury in the 8th house, so we have an energetic loop between the 7th and 8th houses for the perpetrator and the Sun/Mars, although wide, powers it up.

The 8th house connection can not only describe his connection with whatever happens to Inga (the death pattern in this chart which we won't get into), but also describes him as a criminal-type person. Aries could mean he is quick to anger, hot-headed. A textbook Aries appearance is possible - quick walk, maybe with his head leaning forward, headaches/eye problems, slim hips, light hair, Arian features, fast, fidgety. He could use a weapon. I would wonder if he played with fire as a child. The final dispositor here is Mercury who is opposing Saturn in the 2nd house - showing the control the perpetrator has over the victim. He is in possession of the victim. Older. Maybe he even approached her saying he was a policeman (authority) or saying her parents had sent him.

With both victim and perpetrator tied into that 24 degrees Venus (and note the Moon - Inga - at 25 degrees Libra is exactly opposing Madeleine's natal Moon at 25 degrees Aries) which connects us to the 24-25 degrees Venus in Madeleine's charts.

(24 degrees Gemini is the home of fixed star Al Hecka- the tip of the horn of the bull - known for male violence, violent death, pedophilia and deviation - I would be very surprised if our suspect's birth chart doesn't have a strong connection to very near or exactly this degree)

Mars in the 7th can also describe the motivation of the perpetrator and here we see Mars is the ruler of the 6th house and Uranus. He wants to do violence/destruction/make chaos. This would not have been as planned out as Madeleine's disappearance. Uranus is spontaneous. He is reliving his crime of eight years before. Again he can't be contained/controlled - for him there is a need to be challenged by dark/hazardous situations. With the ruler of the 6th in the 7th (and Uranus in the 6th) maybe he is moving from one work situation to another or having unusual health issues. His day to day life is chaotic/disorderly. But mostly I think this just shows the impulsive nature of his actions and the chaos they unleash. The ruler of the 10th (Leo/the Sun) is also in the 7th again showing his control over the situation.

Like with Madeleine's charts I have added asteroid Christian (for the recently announced suspect, in jail on another offense) and asteroid Inga (in this case the closest asteroid to her namesake is Inge) and they are exactly opposing each other.

He is at the top of the chart, in control, again, and conjuncting expansive Jupiter. She, alone at the bottom, in Aquarius so in a strange place and Aquarius is answering to ancient ruler Saturn in Sagittarius (his authority over her, again that second house having possession of her and also maybe showing the vastness of the forest and it's foreign-ness or size to Inga, him taking her farther away) and modern ruler Uranus in Aries (in the sign and house the perpetrator rules).

As to Inga's final resting place we could look to Saturn - in Sagittarius, so maybe the forest/hills/high lands, maybe a farther distance from where she started out than they were looking or we could look to the 4th house (end of the matter) cusp in Aquarius - somewhere in the open air or high/hilly.

It is hard to imagine a more heartbreaking crime. Maybe some of the reasons so much has remained hidden is there are things here no one would really ever want to know ...

Inge's mother has said she knows/feels her daughter is still alive. That is because Inga is still alive. We don't really die when we die. I am sure she feels her daughter near her because she is near her. And of course, this post is just one person's interpretation of this chart, there are many interpretations that could point in very different directions.

There is another case, a teenage boy whose asteroid namesake at the time of his murder (which was fast and vicious and maybe our perpetrator's first victim) was exactly semi-sextile asteroid Christian - which you might remember, at 30 degrees, was his asteroid's exact connection to Madeleine's asteroid. Venus is also in Gemini when this boy is murdered and our suspect was living nearby.

Maybe we will look at that chart next .... then I think we will flip back to adult victims and stay there for a very LONG time.

xo all