Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - change, feeling the past, results delivered, sober commitments, staying flexible, keeping our eyes open

OK, so where are we? The Moon is still in Pisces - we know she opposed the Sun last night (1:14AM EDT - Full Moon), then went on to sextile Uranus (change that enables growth) at 2:04AM EDT.

Today she moves into a sextile with a retrograde Jupiter at 3:47PM EDT (expanding on the dream, creativity, collaboration, emboldened to act), then meets up with ruler Neptune at 8:09PM EDT (connections, feeling the past, spirituality, imagination, addiction).

If we are running on empty already, Pisces Moons can be exhausting.

This is the day Venus (relationships, money, values, self-esteem, beauty) will get to her exact opposition with a retrograde Saturn (25 degrees).

We talked about this in greater depth in the Weekly and the Full Moon post.

Oppositions can bring things to a conclusion (results good or not so good can come in now) or, in this case with the opposition involving karmic and sober Saturn, to a firm commitment. They can also pull in outside energies (that are really inside energies) that will oppose us. Venus in Cancer wants to be comfortable/safe, wants to be cared for, so this can feel harsh/cold. Stuff upper lip, pulling ourselves up with our own boot straps, going cold turkey - all come to mind. This would NOT be a great day to have to deal with authority. We don't want to be projecting that! And if we are stepping into our own, we want to use that Pisces Moon to show compassion no matter what kind of news we are delivering.

This IS good energy to figure out where we are now/what we have and how this works with our goals/responsibilities, what we will need later to play the long game.

We could be required to work harder at a time when we are tired/sick (for some people this opposition is about mothering vs work responsibilities) and we are going to have to figure out some way to balance the needs of our physical body with these energies.

Keep in mind those Full Moon energies. Opportunities/ideas connected to our 'life purpose' - the direct connection to infinite intelligence now. AND the need for new/direct action, yes, even when we are tired! Although, with the Moon in Pisces we will feel a need for more sleep, so can't skip that. Also keep in mind our North Node (way forward) in Gemini now - small quick steps, communications, conversations, sticking to the facts, staying flexible. 

What changes need to be made in our day-to-day life to allow our dream to flourish? WAKE UP!

That square to Mars is building ... and the Moon will move into Aries tomorrow. What do we need to release right now?!


xo all 

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Full Moon in Pisces | September 2, 2020 - softening our resistance to change, liberation, strokes of genius, endings, disappointments, let go and let God

On September 2, 2020 at 1:14AM EDT the Pisces Moon opposes the Virgo Sun at 10 degrees giving us this month's Full Moon; our annual Full Moon in Pisces.

Full Moons bring things to light, to peak energy - to a culmination, to an ending. It is the space in our breath cycle when our lungs are full and we need to exhale. Or maybe if we have been holding our breath, now is the time we must noisily gasp for air ...

This Pisces Full Moon brings smooth endings and soft landings that can ease us toward something ELSE (and with the major players all retrograde, this could be something with its roots in the past). 

Maybe something we weren't ready for before (or desperate enough to try!).

With an opportunistic sextile to change-maker Uranus divinely timed, maybe watery/limitless Pisces will soften our resistance to change!

This Moon (in addition to being uber potent in its own right) is preparing us/clearing the road for the September 17th New Moon in Virgo when this previously unrealistic/impractical DREAM might finally be well-timed and DO-ABLE. Virgo ensures this will not be all about us - this is about the service/work we are here to give the world. Which we are about to find out is all the same thing!

Any loose ends that need to be tied up over the next couple weeks need to get tied up.

Endings/disappointments can be emotional now, but keep in mind there is something else behind door number two. Look around!

With the Moon in Pisces and the Sun in Virgo, the Virgo/Pisces polarity is activated.

Pisces ruler Neptune strong in his home sign of Pisces, though retrograde (so whatever we are dealing with now, won't be brand new). Virgo ruler, Mercury, strong in her/his home sign of Virgo. Pisces/Virgo is a dance between the infinite (infinity)/wholeness/non-judgement/the dream/Pisces and the finite (the here and now)/the pieces/discernment/the practical steps that make the dream work/Virgo.

Pisces rules the 12th house of what we do last, what is hidden and put away, the ways we self-sabotage because from our vantage point in our 1st house we can't see what's behind us/don't know what we don't know, illusions and delusions, escape, sacrifice, our addictions, our imagination, lack of boundaries, connection, compassion, charity, hospitals, prisons, the things we have forgotten, our distant pasts, our ancestors, water, sleep, illness, healing, spirituality, GRIEF, God.... it is a mystical space of MAGIC where anything can happen.

Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon, at 10 degrees Pisces, opposes the Sun at 10 degrees Virgo.  

The Moon is exactly sextile Uranus. The Sun exactly trine. The Moon sextiles a retrograde Pallas. The Sun trines Pallas. The Full Moon is making nice (giving each other some space this time!) with the Cappy pile-up - more good news and no small thing! Mars squares Venus and Saturn (both waning) and Venus exactly opposes Saturn. The Sun is inconjunct Vesta. The Moon is inconjunct Chiron. Challenges with what we value/hold sacred. Challenges with old triggers/wounds.

I don't want to muddy things up and cloud the water with all these asepects, but I don't want all of this to sound too simple either, although I doubt anyone thinks by now anything about 2020 will be simple.

The Moon's sextile to Uranus IS THE BIG ASPECT. This speaks of LIBERATION, letting go, getting out of our own way. Change. The future. Genius.

Keep in mind - these are both BIG energies.

Far out there. We are talking Neptune/Uranus. We can get really lost in portals like this (luckily we have the Sun opposing from Virgo to keep our feet on the ground - and that's where you want yours ... on the ground).

I am talking about escaping into lalaland, rose colored glasses wearing rose-colored glasses, rebelling through drugs/alcohol.

If the best use of these energies are realized we are talking compassion AND progress. Magic and science. God and technology.

There could be signs now, whispers, synchronicities.

We might be faced with a sudden choice or maybe the choice is out of our hands. We could feel a fast push (no dawdling near train tracks this week, ok?) out of our comfort/discomfort zone. We let go. Then we let go a little more. Then our hands open and WE LET GO. We can't control this ending and anyway - look over HERE (I am pointing at your Taurus house now!) - here is something new, forward-leaning. LIBERATING. It's always easier to move toward something new than it is to move away from something old, isn't it? Or maybe there is nowhere else left to look. Life will use whatever it takes to get us to that lifeboat that only looks like a harebrained scheme that might not work.

And it might not work because that's how life works.

There are no guarantees here. But the thing that doesn't work will be the thing that gets us to the thing that does. There might not be a train from you to New York, for example, so you might have to take the train to Philadelphia and then another train to Newark and then finally a train to New York. Which is where the Pisces trusting in God/life/the Universe/your ancestors part comes in. Bring snacks. And a good book.

Your Taurus house (Uranus) has the goods - the way through this baby. Collectively this opportunity will be about our resources, money, our values, our self-esteem.

Neptune - ruler of this Full Moon - is trining Venus (brakes off). And Venus is past this trine (exact last Sunday), but it's still in play and now Venus has moved into her exact opposition to Saturn. So, what we want is not just going to be given to us here.  We are going to need to work for it. Put in the time/make an investment. This could feel heavy. We might hear a "no" and then have to figure out how to deal with that. Maybe it's a bump in the road and we can get over it or maybe it's the mountain that sends us in the brand-new direction.

Venus in Cancer (as us) is a little needy/wants what she wants.

And if necessity really is the mother of invention and I think she is, then this obstacle isn't really an obstacle.

And I don't mean to make light of it because yes it will feel like an obstacle. Venus/Saturn can make it hard to feel the love. Hard to see the value. With Saturn retrograde, maybe we have this new thing we want, but these old responsibilities/limits seem to be standing in the way. No time. Not enough money. I's we didn't dot and T's we didn't cross that are biting us in the ass now. Whatever this is, keep in mind that Saturn delays things we aren't ready for. His squares and oppositions are necessary - they are the blocks/stop signs/obstacles that we realize later on we needed for motivation, grounding, stability, integrity. But they might feel like sh*t when they are happening.

The Moon is sextiling (opportunity) Pallas who is stationing direct in just a couple days, this makes for good instinctive problem solving. We are blending our instincts/intuition with our intellectual abilities. Change is coming. Change is here. If we want the world to change - we need to change.

God, the universe, our ancestors, our past lives and every good thought/action we've ever had in this one are lining up to support us. Make sure you get out and walk in this one. Pray. Meditate. Listen to music. Get into water. Mercury is making oodles of good aspects this week. Talk. Write. Reach out.

September looks challenging, so let's use this kick-off energy for the best start we can get. The best use of this Full Moon's energy is to 1. let go and let God and 2. make welcome whatever arrives. Yes, you could have skipped right to this paragraph and saved yourself 10 minutes - sorry :)

Alot has changed in our lives since the Pisces New Moon last February. Our daily lives, our relationships, our money/resources. Not much has been left untouched. So what do we value now?

We've had years and years of Neptune/Saturn and now, almost like passing a baton in a relay race, Saturn, readying Uranus for their work ahead (through us) as co-rulers of Aquarius, passes a baton to Uranus.

The future won't be stopped.


xo all

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, August 31, 2020 - relationship and security triggers

The Moon in Aquarius floats through the day unaspected. She will go void at 12:56AM EDT tonight until 5:34AM tomorrow morning when she moves into Pisces drifting toward her opposition to the Sun and tomorrow's Full Moon.

The Sun (in Virgo) inconjuncts Chiron in Aries today. We might feel this as something like - "how do I do this service or this work or whatever this Virgo thing is and take care of myself/stand up for myself/be myself, too." We have Mars in Aries now, so tempers can be hair trigger.

The high-minded Aquarius Moon lets us detach, step-back far enough to get some needed perspective, not go off all Rambo on anything.

And speaking of Rambo - we also have lovely Venus (in emotional Cancer) squaring, first, Juno - the maiden vs the wife - and then Lilith - the maiden vs the other woman

(Lilith is Black Moon Lilith or BML and note Black Lives Matter, BLM, as an acronym is an anagram for Black Moon Lilith and on the night the words, that have gone on to trigger so many people toward action or anger, were first put together by two women in California in the summer of 2013 - Lilith (BML) was exactly conjunct the U.S. natal Venus in Cancer).

This stressful triangle of feminine energy could represent multiple people or could be something happening within us.

Venus in Cancer wants nurturing/love that is "mothering". Take care of me, keep me safe, pay my bills. Juno, in Libra, for what has felt like a lifetime, is like, "this is our contract dude - we need to bring things back into balance". Lilith, in Aries, might say, "I'm not your freaking mother, get up, do it yourself".

Lilith, as per her usual, triggering not only our need to escape, but also our primal fears of losing our comfort zone, our security, the garden.

What are we going to do with this?

This is a Cardinal Grand Cross that will pull Saturn into the mix and last for a couple days (and has been building for a couple, too). Saturn is retrograde, so although events/situations can appear to come from out of the blue, they are based on stuff that's been in play for quite a while. Shadow stuff will make itself known. We, our personal selves/sovereignty might feel challenged within our relationships or maybe through financial situations. And the reality police are on patrol. There are limits. Rules. Maybe these are to our benefit somehow. So, if something is limited now/prevented - maybe its cost is simply too high right now - maybe things will work out better later than if we had gotten what we wanted or pulled a "burn this whole city down" Rambo thing now.

Again that un-aspected Aqua Moon can help. We can process this through our instinctual nature - without our 'history-based' (historical/hysterical) emotions, without over-thinking.

Yes, she might numb our feelings a bit, but the city/our hearts/our bank balance will thank us in the morning.

And, on the other hand, because we always have at least two, we are building toward a freedom-leaning culminating Pisces Full Moon tomorrow, so if something really has come to the final/final, the stuff that comes out of the shadows now can help us put something dead to bed.

The monsters are out of the closet.

Which doesn't have to a bad thing. It's Virgo season. Time to clean them anyway.


xo all

(note Mars will activate these energies later in the week maybe requiring action/forcing our hand, temper or passion)

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Weekly Astrology Forecast | the Week of August 31st - September 6th - serious news and information, commitments, decisions, magical Full Moon, change, motivating tension, a busy week

A busy week with alot of aspects. Some very good and the Moon will finish each sign on a positive note, so that's good news - all's well that ends well, even when there is some muck to deal with before we get to the end. Keep this in mind.

All good closing aspects?! Am I awake or am I dreaming?! Well, there is a magical Pisces Full Moon this week, so I might be dreaming!

Oh course, when I look again I see that Mars is slowed down and not making such great aspects, so there's that, but challenging Mars aspects are MOTIVATING, so there's that, and we are going to be feeling the pressure to ACT one way or the other, so there's that.

Especially on news/information from last week.

But, Mercury is making some smooth moves. Who taught this guy how to dance?

So, our thinking, news, information, writing, communicating, local situations - all serious, all practical, all a GO.

Two of our three personal planets are changing signs at the end of the week, so expect fresh air and a renewed passion. And next week we have one of those infamous "luckiest days of the year" as Jupiter contacts the Sun - so what are we waiting for?!

MONDAY - Saturn inconjuncts the North Node
TUESDAY - Mercury trines Pluto
WEDNESDAY - Venus opposes Saturn, Sun trines Uranus, Full Moon in Pisces
THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn
FRIDAY - Venus squares Mars, Mercury inconjuncts Mars, squares the Galactic Center and sextiles Venus
SATURDAY - Mercury into Libra, Pallas stations direct
SUNDAY - Venus into Leo

MONDAY - Saturn, retrograde (until the end of September) in his home sign of Capricorn is focused on re-structuring, altering old ways/definitions of "work", old rules, traditions, limits, how we handle responsibilities and authority - bread-winning, our careers, our status in the world.

Here he reaches a tight spot through a rock and a hard place aspect to our North Node best way forward - which involves our communication, how we talk to people so they can actually hear us, how we listen, keeping things local and small.

Inconjuncts require adjustments. The win-wins, that often feel more like lose-lose, but not a total loss if you see what I mean.

This can be about adjustments with the structures we have put into place to keep things local - which can mean everything from connections within our local community and the ways we keep in touch with siblings/neighbors, to limiting our time/attention to news outside our sphere that alters our mood/thinking in a negative way. What needs to change?

TUESDAY - Mercury has been flying through his home sign of Virgo and will be in Libra in a couple days bringing more diplomacy (YAY for that), but for now we get these last few days to dot our i's and cross our t's.

He, as we, may have been distracted, finishing errands, attending to the details, now he makes a smooth trine (brakes off) to powerful Pluto at 22 Cappy (this degree is uber amplified and clear now, since it was basically wiped out back in January). This is a closing trine and brings us back to their conjunction in January 2020. Powerful information/truth is accessible to us now, use it or lose it. 

Communications with authority, paperwork, power moves via emails and conversations are all a GO.

Virgo rules our day-to-day situations, our work, our co-workers, employees, pets, our health - what moves can we make to take charge of this stuff? Who has the authority to help us? Reach out. Pluto is retrograde so this could be an old situation, something we started before and we pull back out now, maybe old work that needs to be finished off/polished up, etc.

This energy can also be about something that resonates with us as "true". Is everything going to turn out to be true? All possible theories finding a way to exist simultaneously? I think my head right explode.

WEDNESDAY - Today we have a powerful Full Moon in Pisces - BIG Post to follow!

This is also the day, and we will talk about this in detail in the Full Moon post, the Moon sextiles Uranus (inevitable change, mystical awakenings) and Venus opposes Saturn (ouch, reality check, commit or quit, but Venus also has a way of moderating Saturn, so we'll have to see how this falls when we look at the entire chart).

More in the Full Moon post.

THURSDAY - Mercury trines Saturn. This is the closing trine of the Mercury/Saturn cycle that started back in January. Maybe we get some good news about the virus now. An improved plan of action. Commitments. Serious news. Personally, we are talking about our Virgo/Cappy natal house themes and collectively our work/career/practical goals. We are buckling down now. Maybe getting good news/rewards/recognition. Communications with authority go well. Another GO.

Keep in mind Saturn is retrograde, so this won't be a totally new situation. If you are looking for work, this would be a good week to contact prior contacts/old employers, etc. Saturn will return to this exact position around the middle of October, so maybe some contact/communication that is initiated now will finalize then.

Virgo/Cappy is strong and solid builder energy. Where we put our foot down we make an imprint on Earth soft enough to feel it. Heads up - longish void Moon today.

FRIDAY - Venus squares Mars. A motivating tension between what we want and how we go about getting what we want. This is Cancer/Aries - maybe some frustration between that home/family situation and us personally. Our pushing will just cause the other person to withdraw. These are both personal planets, so we might delegate one of these energies to someone else and battle it out. Cue the boxing robots.

At the same time an active Mercury, at the end of his home sign of Virgo is sextiling Venus (opportunity to get organized with resources/money, that home/family situation) inconjunct Mars (a rock and hard place with our actions/thinking, putting an idea into practice, being able to walk our talk) AND squaring the Galactic Center - our homing signal. This is too much to untangle. Expect opposing views/polarization. Frustration. Don't think for a moment that you don't need a crisis because sometimes you do. Still I'd focus on that Mercury/Venus sextile - something is falling into place here. We won't need to push.

SATURDAY - The Moon in Aries squares the Cappy planets and brings some tension/intensity.

Mercury (communication, ideas, thinking, siblings, local neighborhood) moves into Libra (balance, fairness, diplomacy, passive-aggression, indecision, peace, art, beauty, women) today where he/she will hang his hat until September 27th.

Successful words are more tactful now - more focused on what the other person needs/wants. That splitting hairs and checking for typos Mercury did back in Virgo cedes way to saying it nicely.

Our thinking could be more indecisive now. Not because Libra is wishy-washy so much as just able to see both sides of any situation. Libra's polarity sign Aries can make fast decisions because the energy can focus most easily on one point of view - their own. Ha! And because this is the way life seems to works we will often be faced with a decision at exactly the time all this energy makes decision-making hard - go figure.

Libra is the natural ruler of our 7th house of other people. Life gets more complicated after the 7th house. Do you have any planets in your 7th house or in Libra - these are the archetypes we usually set up our lives to have played out by other people - how's that working for ya'?

Libra wants everybody to be friends. Diplomacy, both in our personal lives and the larger collective, if actually attempted, can improve tense situations now. The gentle art of persuasion via a lighter touch can work, too. Mercury in Libra is a good listener because Libra actually cares about other people! Words that make people feel loved and appreciated and beautiful will be the right words.

Our natal Libra house gets a visit from multi-tasking, inquisitive Mercury. So things in the area of our life naturally ruled by Libra get busy.

Cooperation/compromise are the name of the game now.

With a personal planet in air it is also an excellent time to get a head cold. Do whatever you normally do to prevent that.

Pallas stations direct in Capricorn. The first of our current Cappy pile-up to station direct - here is where our strategies/plans can begin moving forward. Pallas notices patterns/makes sense of things. Having her, "the head", begin to move forward FIRST is more good news.

SUNDAY - Venus moves into Leo until October 2nd. YAY - some fiery Leo again! And Venus rules Uranus in Taurus, so double good news, I think. Our Leo house, hosting the lovely Venus, becomes more attractive. Leo Suns and rising signs are more attractive, too (both easy on the eye and able to attract what they want).

We attract what we want and need (Venus) through Leo - so by standing out, standing up, being passionate, taking the world by storm - you get the idea.

We could, of course, go overboard with all of this. Leo (ruled by the Sun) doesn't really like others blocking their light. Competition can get ugly. We could become downright diva-like. Being in love with being in love fits here, too. Our passion and confidence will be what attracts others to us and what we are attracted to in others now.

Wanting to be adored will make being ignored harder to handle.

We are more likely to gamble with our resources (even risk our reputation or relationships) for the next few weeks. Keep this in mind.

In Leo, Venus wants FUN and romance and creativity and passion. Girls really do want to have fun - cue Cyndi Lauper.

Back with that big picture I keep promising and the Full Moon post plus a couple dailies to add in the Moon!

Have a wonderful week. Mars stations retrograde on September 9th - if you have something to get going you best get going with it!

Keep in mind I am writing about these aspects for the day they perfect, and you might feel them more as they are building, or sometimes, even as they are unwinding. All days are based on EDT.

xo all

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