Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, September 25, 2020 - big girl pants on, stay in your magic

 

 

Going to disappear for the weekend to look at/think about October's cray-cray energy and I am launching a new jewelry line and need to get pics taken and descriptions written. 

 

The Moon is in Cappy today, the sign of her detriment since she's a Cancer-girl (answering to a retrograde big-daddy Saturn with his bags packed for home - you know that "vaca" is ending feeling? Well, that's Saturn now. Do we need to be dragged from our hotel room on that last weekend kicking and screaming for the drive back or is our head already filled with the projects we are going to do when we get home/get back to work? Something like that - our choice - sort of, kind of, maybe. Saturn isn't so much about choices though.). 

 

The Moon (as us) is challenged by Pluto, Saturn, Mars and Mercury. It starts around lunchtime and continues until she goes void at 11:36PM EDT. Big girl pants on. Looks like a hard day. No soft corners, but there IS a nice sextile to Neptune in the a.m. - good for creative work, healing, magic - so use that. Another day to get things done early with others and then hunker down for some solitary work later - if this is possible. I know it might not be.
 

On Monday, Saturn stations direct. And, even though it will take him some time to get back up to speed (things will continue to feel stuck for a while), it will be game on. DADDY'S HOME.

For now, we still have the Yod - pointing us toward our Leo house - what we love/how we are here to shine/our children and creative projects. Vesta is in Leo, too - making something here sacred/able to keep us up all night. What's that about for you? And today, Vesta is making her inconjunct to Neptune. 

 

This is helpful in the sense all challenges are helpful because they help us see what really matters/what is most important. 

 

We must find a way to keep the flame (the thing we are determined to keep ALIVE) from being doused by these Neptunian waters (delusion, escape, exhaustion), at the same time giving Neptune his due by pretty much doing these exact things (!) - using our imaginative, getting some extra sleep, getting near or into water, staying in our magic, taking some needed escape from this thing we are so focused on. It's true of all energies that the negative side is always the positive side taken to the extreme. The Sun is in Libra now - keep things balanced.

Take a breath. 

 

I usually feel these energies the prior day and yesterday didn't feel so challenging to me as this day today looks on paper. If it's hard for you, know the Moon is fleeting. This too shall pass.

By tomorrow the Moon will be in humanitarian Aquarius for the weekend - good for groups, our causes, working with tech, detaching from the Cappy heaviness. On Monday morning she will be void in the a.m. EDT - so feel free to sleep in a bit - and then drift into Pisces to start the week.

Back in a couple days.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, September 24, 2020 - Mercury opposes Mars, Mercury opposes Black Moon Lilith - repressed anger comes out, angry words, releasing burdens, focusing on what we love

Mercury (in Libra) opposes Mars (in Aries) at 6:53AM EDT. If you have planets/points near 26 degrees of the cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn - you will feel this energy strongest. Oppositions can seem to bring situations/people/energies from the outside to oppose us. And like Full Moons, they bring things to a peak or a culmination, sometimes an ending. 

Then Mercury - because he/she is FLYING - moves on to oppose Black Moon Lilith (the angry and repressed part of us and the collective, BLM will surely be back in the news and with BML sitting with Mars - this anger has to go somewhere).

Disagreements are possible. Competition. Challenging information. Internalized anger - what are we really so pissed off about?! - comes up and out through fiery words. 

Since Mercury rules transportation - take care driving. 

 

More in the weekly for Thursday HERE

The good news - a way through this - the Moon in stable Capricorn will trine unpredictable Uranus at 1:20PM EDT - different people/situations move things forward. Here is a way through. A release valve. 

If we need to blow off a job/relationship/commitment  - here's the energy to do just that - just be certain that is what you really want/need to do. 

Break with tradition. Embrace something different. RELEASE A BURDEN. Try something else

Our values can shift - when life is cray-cray we can focus like a laser beam on what really matters - so what really matters? 

And we have the Yod (Finger of God) that has been perfecting - although never quite will. There is creativity, compassion, love. The STRESS focuses us. HERE'S what really matters! Venus in Leo - what our heart wants, our center stage, our children - for us to be acknowledged/seen, to be loved. 

Someone quotable once said something like - "we have a dozen balls in the air, but keep in mind some are plastic and some are glass. Your ability to know/feel the difference will make all the difference. You don't want to drop the glass balls. But you have to drop the plastic balls or you will drop the glass balls."

Keep in mind Mars is the main guy for the rest of 2020, bringing us this retrograde in Aries (ourselves) so we can work through our internalized anger and motivation issues. Alot of this is going to happen through our relationships. If we can't own our anger (what we are repressing/what we are afraid to confront) other people are going to get angry with us!

Be gentle with yourself today. Solo work is best. Use that Moon/Uranus to BLOW OFF STEAM. Embrace something else. Try something NEW. 

If something repressive really needs to end, well something could be said now that ends it. 

xo all

 

 photo by the amazing vampire-zombie

Today's Astrology Forecast | September 23, 2020 - hard to say the right thing, "no" is a complete sentence, hard news, reality checks

 

The Moon in high-flying Sagittarius squared a retrograde Neptune at 12:20AM EDT and moves on to sextile Mercury (expansive/hopeful conversations/ideas) at 11:30AM EDT and then goes Void off a productive trine to a retrograde Mars (what needs to be re-done?) at 1:31PM EDT. 

 

If something must get done today, get it done early and then give yourself a well-earned break during the Void.

 

The Moon will be Void until 7:16PM EDT when she moves into "all-business" Capricorn and at 9:54PM EDT squares the Libra Sun giving us this month's First Quarter Square - a time of action in the lunar cycle.

 

The Libra Sun/Cappy Moon square is happening on the same day we have Mercury (in Libra) precisely squaring Saturn (in Capricorn) - exact at 6:38AM EDT - so we get kind of a double whammy with this energy today!

 

(this is also the day Mercury starts walking the degrees he/she will walk two more times during October's retrograde, so pay attention to what is happening because we won't have seen the last of it) 

Squares are not comfortable and two squares are even more uncomfortable. 

 

Libra/Cappy speaks of tension/frustration between being agreeable/pacifying/not wanting to appear impolite AND saying "no", setting limits/boundaries/ending something/being the boss. 

 

Mercury/Saturn -makes me think of things like how good fences make good neighbors. And how sometimes limits create opportunities because the boundaries/limited options give us something real to work with. 

 

Squares to Saturn can bring reality checks.

 

There might be things we can't say/can't agree to now. Maybe we hear a "no" or some challenging news. And if we do, because this is a square and not an opposition and because Mercury will go retrograde and we get to do this all again - this might be an actual stop sign but in some ways is most likely a jumping off point. 

 

People might not want to hear what we have to say and it might be a time to just zip it. On the other hand if the temptation to zip it comes (with the Sun in Libra now) so we might most easily smooth things out/fill the uncomfortable silences with flowery pleasantries and not say the real stuff that needs to be given a voice/say yes when we want to say no, then this zipping it thing is not such a good tactic. Bending over backward, pushing elephants under carpets and denying we have any accountability for what is happening (or ignoring someone else's accountability in order to keep the peace) will backfire later.

Libra/Cappy can also be relationships vs work/career/goals. 

If we don't want to do something, now would be a good time to say so. Firmly. 

 

And we don't need to make a bunch of bullshit excuses while we do it. "No", is a complete sentence. We learned that from Oprah back in the 90's. We may have tossed our Doc Martens and Sony Discman, but the "no" thing is a keeper. 

 

Tomorrow and Friday we have a Yod aspect that will help us get clear on what we really need/need to do - so if something (ideas, projects, etc) isn't jelling right now, it might be a good idea to give ourselves a little time to get clear. The Venus/Neptune will reach precision today, so we could feel the confusion of that - also the compassion/creativity/imagination.

 

Still we can't just sit around - that square tells us some action needs to be taken - we ignore lunar aspects at our later peril. Just try to get it done early.

xo all

Keep in mind Mars is retrograde until mid-November and Mercury will be joining him. We're going to have two of our three inner planets retrograde and things will really be slowing down. We will be stopped in our tracks and re-evaluating everything. We need to tend to our projects, etc, even if we are not seeing progress in the way we expected. 

We are in between ages, living in the time between chapters, the crack in the book. Reality has to get pretty screwed up for us to realize reality isn't real. The Age of Pisces was really an age of delusion. So we feel half-dead because we are split between worlds and we are holding this energy. And, it's not easy to do this, because while everyone is waking up and we are reaching a collective tipping point, the bills still need to be paid and the dogs fed.

 

Hang in there. This is all going to make sense at some point. 

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - ... and venus was her name (and no, she doesn't belong to russia), excellent time to start something

 

The Moon is in Sagittarius now - we are nurtured and nourished through adventure, by what is foreign to us, by making something bigger/taking something further. Her only aspect a (brakes off/opportunistic) trine to beneficial Venus (in Leo) at 1:33PM EDT. Optimism. Hope. Good feels.

Venus is coming moves off last night's rock and a hard place with Jupiter (in Capricorn) - which will be followed over the next few days by Neptune and Pluto and Saturn - relationship, financial, self-esteem complications. 

 

The Sun leaves Virgo for Venus-ruled Libra - giving us our Autumn Equinox (Spring down-under). A time of RE-BALANCING.

 

With the Sun leaving Virgo and moving toward these Cappy and Aries squares and literally/figuratively "falling" now, this can be a good time to pare down our to-do list - tense energies ahead/sinking Sun can leave us less motivated and require we either adjust our goals or get further out of whack by martyring ourselves. Feeling burned out and anxious over small things are signs something needs to give.

 

The chart for the Equinox will influence the next six months; in Libra focused on our relationships, women, beauty, fairness and balance.

With the Sun in Libra a light gets tossed on OTHER PEOPLE. Relationship imbalances will be felt. 

 

And keep in mind we move through life casting our shadow (what we reject from ourselves) onto other people, so often (maybe always) it is our own shadows we are seeing now. The parts of ourselves we have rejected, "I can see I'm not like this, by attracting someone who is like this." Or maybe something like "I'm not going to deal with this, so you deal with this and then I can blame you if you screw it up." 

 

Which sounds mean and lazy and few would actually say this out loud (this is mostly all an unconscious thing, of course), but is really more about overwhelm/perfection, and we all do this all the time. 

 

Changing things isn't about judging anything. The death of our most prominent female jurist here in the United States is powerful on multiple levels. And especially not about judging ourselves. Mercury in Libra (although yes, kind of "judgey") can make us just the right kind of "detached". And with the North Node in Gemini our main job here is to stay flexible/curious "isn't this interesting that I am responding like this or this other person is showing me this part of me that is totally triggered by this" - ack!

 

Remember this year everyone/every piece of us, gets a seat at the table. It is our job to SEE what we are denying (the situations that need to be re-balanced, maybe the places we have give our power away) and those energies will make themselves known one way or the other. 

 

We don't have to/want to make ourselves nuts here. 

 

This is the 3D world's separation consciousness/polarity. How life works. But this is an important week. We want to be responding and not reacting - which also means paying attention to the small things so they can become big things, but also BEFORE they can become big things (when I say small is big this year, we are talking about challenging things, too).

The first aspect the Sun will make in Libra (the chart and its first aspects set the ball rolling, so this one matters) is an inconjunct to Ceres in boundless Pisces. That smother mothering thing. We could create an imbalance through forcing unsolicited help onto someone or maybe someone does require our self-sacrificing care and this creates the imbalance. We need to re-balance this somehow - if we don't want to feel resentful or engender resentment in others. The Sun brings things to light, so we can see the situation CLEARLY. Libra doesn't always bring the answers (we have Mercury about to make a long retrograde through Scorpio for that part), but the imbalances are clearly shown. Any over-giving/over-receiving within our relationships will show up to be looked at. 

 

Then she trines the North Node - a smooth energetic toward our best future.

 

There is lots of good stuff in today's chart, too (which influences us until spring). The Sun and Venus are in mutual reception - empowering each other. This is not only influencing our natal Leo and Libra houses, but also energizing our natal Sun and Venus positions. Love, happiness. 

 

Venus is in between her inconjuncts to Jupiter and Neptune. Now inconjuncts are pressurized situations, so we need to be smart within our relationships/with our money/our self-esteem. If things are good now, that is very good news for you. If things are challenging now, we are going to need to figure this out - make some changes. 

 

The best case scenario here - we own our own crap.

 

The Sun enters Libra on the 22nd (because of Leap Year this year we get this MEGA added bonus of this happening a day early) - a master number, but also the number of self-sabotage if we are afraid to reach for that mastery. We need to do some stretching. 

 

This is a great time to start something related to business/design/beauty/other people.

 

The optimistic Sag Moon is waxing. The Sun enters Libra (9:31AM EDT) and crosses the Aries point (our collective focus) on the 22nd - the actions we take are made WIDER, more able to reach the public and be well-received. 

 

Then the Moon in Sag (our beliefs, legal situations, education, travel, the media, publishing, weddings, politics, marketing) trines Venus in Leo (love, money, our values, self-esteem, children, what our heart wants, our center stage, romance, creative projects) this afternoon pulling it all together.

 

xo all

 

photo by the talented shamanski