Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, August 28, 2020 - relationship power struggles can lead to real and lasting change

The Moon continues her journey through serious and sobering Capricorn today.

She trines a retrograde Uranus at 8:51AM EDT (surprises, liberation, committing to a new plan maybe one that we had before, but never got off the ground), trines Mercury at 8:04PM (practical conversations, solid news) and finally meets up with a retrograde Jupiter at 9:55PM EDT (expansion, needing more, taking care of old business).

The Sun, at 5 degrees Virgo, is opposing Ceres (in Pisces) - and this will be more impactful for people with planets/points in your natal/progressed charts nearest these degrees.

The Sun is our purpose - the way we are meant to shine, our ego - as he opposes Ceres (mothering, situations outside our control, season of life issues) in boundless Pisces our attention might turn to situations where we are over-giving/smother-mothering, even nit-picking. Or maybe we want to do something for ourselves (take care of the details of something), and we have to do something for someone else.

Virgo/Pisces can be the healer/patient dynamic or, if things have gone off the rails, the patient has become a victim, the healer a martyr. Any self-sacrificing bullsh*t or spaces we have abdicated our power by playing the victim will be noticed.

At the same time, and this might be all the same thing, Juno (from Libra) is squaring Pluto at 22 degrees Capricorn - and this will be more impactful for people with planets/points in your natal/progressed charts nearest these degrees.

This is a powerful degree (often connected to self-sabotage) ignited back in January!

Juno (marriage, contracts, commitments, old school family traditions) has been making her way through partnership-focused Libra. Some marriages/relationships becoming kind of like pressure cookers determined to reach some sort of balance/fairness/comfortable temperature or get so hot, one, or both frogs either hop the pot or are boiled alive. #kidding #notkidding

This square to a retrograde Pluto is a turning point.

And since Pluto is retrograde, this won't be a totally new situation/conversation/argument. The intensity is familiar.

Who has the power? What commitments are no longer working? Manipulations, compulsions, obsessions related to our fear of endings/fear of loss/fear of change within our relationships/contracts are activated. We can see the truth here.

These are cardinal signs, so this square is a powerful portal for REAL TRANSFORMATION (which through Pluto might feel like death at first), LASTING CHANGE.


xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, August 27, 2020 - time gets stretchy, getting alot done, compassionate connections, wet weather, taking care of business and the details

The Sagittarius Moon goes void off a productive trine to action-oriented Mars at 8:00AM EDT (defending our beliefs, taking optimistic action, fighting for knowledge, moving forward).

Roll with any twists and turns (until 1:37PM EDT), which will most likely not amount to much and keep in mind the same can be said of what we begin now. So stick to routine concerns. Stuff you do all the time. Time gets stretchy. We can get alot done.

At 1:37PM EDT things start to get serious as the Moon rolls into Capricorn, the sign of winter, where our focus turns to our goals, stability, responsibility, authority, the number of cans in our cupboard and dollars in our bank account.

Her only aspect today, a trine to the Virgo Sun at 11:08PM EDT. This month's waxing trine - Cappy/Virgo. Good energy for dealing with authority/our goals/career. Moving forward with our New Moon agenda. Taking care of business/the details. Stepping into our authority. Getting it done.

At the same time Venus, in Cancer and struggling through all these Cappy oppositions, gets a little daylight with a nice trine to a retrograde Neptune (in Pisces at 19 degrees). This is relaxing, taking care of ourselves. Compassion. Forgiveness. Letting down our guard/our boundaries. Water trines can bring wet weather. The downside here, with a water trine and Hurricane Laura looming in parts of the U.S., since this is a "brakes off" aspect - this could have some negative impacts.

Hopefully the benefic presence of Venus here, in home and family oriented Cancer, can help mitigate a bit. Stay safe out there!

With the Moon trining the Sun and Venus trining Neptune - this is a good day for all kinds of interactions with other people. Time to use your magic people!

Keep in mind, and we talked about this in the weekly HERE, we have some big oppositions building, exact on Sunday, (Venus/Pluto and Mercury/Neptune). So some situations outside our control are likely to escalate. Oppositions bring projections and culminations. Part of what is happening right now, for example with the quarantine/limits - this stuff outside of us impinging upon us - is about us experiencing the power of living in the "now". We can't live in the future with things so uncertain and our ambitions literally dissolving. We can't live in the past without feeling crappy about the now.

Jupiter is in Cappy - we are adjusting our expectations.

We have to know/trust that we are transitioning to a better way of living. The 'largeness' of the old world was not sustainable. It's over. This doesn't mean we are going to spend the rest of our lives - masked and boxed.

This has always been more about 'rising from our sweaty death bed sheets' and what we do with that ... hang in there.


xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - doing what is right in front of us, revising our plans, when nothing is certain then anything is possible

The Moon in Sagittarius squared Mercury at 5:46AM EDT (something like truth spoken in jest or finding out things we don't want to know, saying too much, overthinking something) and then squares a retrograde Neptune at 7:42PM EDT (expansion, too much, lack of boundaries). Both aspects speak of tension today between the facts/details and our rose-colored glasses.

In the meantime Mercury is trining a retrograde Pallas in Capricorn (12 degrees). This is excellent energy to be "re"vising and "re"working our plans/strategies. Small changes to our "go-to" solutions can make a big difference. This won't be something that has to be pushed. Smooth integration.

Mars is trining (and this is going to be repeated two more times due to Mars upcoming retrograde) the South Node in Sag. More Sag! The South Node is where we are right now (and the past), so this is brave action we can take right now to either smoothly release something that is past its expiration date (maybe a belief about what we can have or what we have to do to get what we want) or push something that is already happening/has been happening further along. What do we need to do that takes action/courage?

There is a strong energetic right now - as we head into a whole new world - that will make things we don't want anymore feel like they are eating us alive. Life/God/the Universe is saying something like, "I don't want you to do anymore of this thing you don't want to do." And we are like, "but this is what I have to do, this is what I do". And then we keep doing it. And then the pressure gets kicked up another level to make us not do the thing we don't want to do.

There is also a strong energetic right now - as we head into a whole new world - a need to uproot any lack of appreciation of where we are now/this kind of greed for more, that used to push us forward/fuel our ambitions, but isn't going to work in the new world. Jupiter in Capricorn is putting the stakes through the heart of this - which is why this kind of stuff feels so meaningless/bottomless anymore. We can't have it all. And as a trade-off we are released from receiving any satisfaction from our attempts to.

There is a divine reason for the necessary fuzziness/inability to see what lies ahead.

There is a reason the South Node must be in Sag (knowledge, beliefs) for this transition. The last thing any of us need right now is certainty. Imagine yourself a quarterback in the most important game of the season. The crowds are on their feet. Your teammates eyes are on you. Your hands are on the ball. Imagine the tension/the power of that moment. Now imagine one more thing. Imagine you already know the outcome of the game. Wouldn't that change everything? So, you don't get to know that.

For today, because one day at a time is what we get here - think about re-vising old plans/strategies through facts/details and smallish tweaks (maybe to your schedule, routine, etc), taking action/initiative with something on your plate right now. Just instead of focusing on having more/or something overly ambitious, keep the focus on what you know you need to be doing right now/what feels right.

The Moon is in Sag connecting us to benevolent Jupiter, offering us hope and faith (and, yes, making us a wee bit or maybe alot restless) - let's allow ourselves some of that, too, now. Hope, faith and restlessness - everyone gets a seat at the table. Keep this in mind.


xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - a wide angle lens, the forest and the trees, innovative solutions, good news, exaggerated needs

The Moon in deep Scorpio went void at 2:27AM EDT off a sextile to a retrograde Saturn. She will be void until 8:49AM EDT when she moves into fiery Sagittarius. Her only aspect today a square to the Virgo Sun at 1:57PM EDT.

In Sagittarius she turns our attention to our beliefs, the big-picture, optimism, weddings/celebrations, travel, education, foreign people/ideas/places, the stuff outside our local environment.

Today's First Quarter Square (opening square) is a crisis point in our monthly lunar cycle and asks us to look beyond/work with last week's fiery Leo New Moon fresh beginning.

This is Sag/Virgo. We look up from the details we are mired in (the critiques, the edits, the corrections) and bring our attention to the BIG PICTURE.  This is a square so tense and uncomfortable - we probably won't really want to do this/look at this/go there (and with Sag ruler Jupiter in a tangle with Venus, this could pull our money, values, relationships as well as that home, family situation into the mix). But we skip this step at our own peril - or better said, at the cost of being unprepared for the next step. So now we go further. We learn more. Maybe we apply faith, optimism, enthusiasm. Stay flexible. Think wide angle lens.

At 11:17AM EDT Mercury trines Uranus. Uranus in Taurus has been busy updating (via chaos and sudden change) our resources, our values, our habits. Now, here is a smooth connecting aspect with mental Mercury in practical Virgo. A new idea we can use. Innovation that solves problems. Time to talk about something else. Unexpected news/information. With Uranus retrograde something here could have its roots in the past even as it impacts the future.

This is also the day Venus reaches 17 degrees Cancer and moves into her opposition to a retrograde Jupiter in Cappy. Now, even though this is an opposition these are still our two most benevolent planets. They want to help us feel good.

This could bring us an exaggerated feeling of what we want (and keep in mind she will oppose Pluto at the end of the week to kick this obsession up a notch then finally Saturn next week with the reality check). This could, because oppositions can bring peaks/culminations in the way Full Moons can - bring us to a RESULT. Here is what we have attracted. And, remember, this is a process because she has the whole Cappy pile-up to deal with over the next few days. Also, remember the Cappy planets are all RETROGRADE, so we are asked to re-view what comes up here AND remember, that the Moon (in Sag) is answering to Jupiter and squaring the practical Virgo Sun, so pulling in a need (that we skip at the cost of being unprepared for our next step) to keep at least one foot on the ground with anything that is too exuberant/too tempting.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch or count on your lucky rabbit's foot to pull you through (the foot was only intended to help the rabbit and I suppose that didn't end well for her). Work the square - apply a wide angle lens. Bring in more knowledge/more faith. Work the trine. Open your mind to new ideas. Think practical innovations. We will feel the opposition (the wanting more or result process in action), but let's not allow it to go too far unless we will benefit more from the INSPIRATION of the exaggerated feeling (and this could certainly be true because we certainly need HOPE now) than we might be hurt from any let-down later.

If your memory is less swiss-chessy than mine these days - something here might connect back to late November 2019 (sometime around last Thanksgiving).



xo all

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