Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of October 5, 2020 - unexpected truth, picking at scabs, power struggles, the courage to survive, changing the way we change

 

 

 

I don't want to say it. You don't want to hear it. But probably another intense week.

 

Maybe the most important thing to keep in mind now as we move through the astrology of this final quarter of 2020, and maybe especially October, is to keep things as simple as we can. Get rid of things we don't need. Take things off our plate. Slow down. Take care of our physical selves. Get more sleep. Drink more water. If something isn't a great big heartfelt YES or a great big MUST, then it needs to be a great big NO. And the 'must' can't be something we have manufactured through overthinking. If it doesn't get us fed, clothed, housed -  then it needs to be a great big heartfelt YES,

 

or, it's a clear NO.

I had two people talk to me this week about their fading memories/their past feeling very far away and feeling disconnected from their current life. And, we can see in these unstable times, how our minds might compartmentalize/wipe out what's not needed, in order to just keep us going.

 

We can try seeing memories as these kind of  tangles of energy that keep us connected to our old stories -and, yes, they also kind of hold our 3D self together in a way. Part of the reason we love the things we love is our memories of those things, so without our memories we can lose our emotional connections AND, on the flipside, be freed up to love new things. 

 

Most energies just move right through us, but sometimes situations/emotions get stuck. As the old world fades and the New World advances (or kind of pulls us forward faster), those memories (energetic tangles) can untangle. It's tricky territory because they keep us connected to the lives we have built and the people we have built them with. Without the memories we can start feeling disconnected from what used to matter. We can also grow incredibly sentimental as these knots tighten up or come apart.

 

This 'unraveling' isn't a bad thing, but it can be painful/scary. It also allows us to see/feel what really matters now as we prepare to move forward and create new stories. Maybe this will make sense and be helpful to someone else. I have had Pluto back and forth over my third house Mercury for the last couple years and have seen these 'tangles' unravel me into a totally different way of thinking/seeing the world. Trying not to think about the swiss-cheese imagery a brain scan might produce for me right now!

Ok, let's unpack the week! We'll add in the Moon with some dailies - she looks pretty good until we get to the end of the week (Moon in Cancer) and she opposes all the Cappy stuff and squares the Libra/Aries. She will go void at 2:41PM EDT tomorrow for the rest of the day - so we will want to get our Monday work done early!

WEDNESDAY - Mercury opposes Uranus
THURSDAY - Venus inconjuncts Chiron
FRIDAY - Quarter Moon (17 degrees Cancer), Mars squares Pluto

SATURDAY - Mars sextiles North Node, Venus trines Uranus

SUNDAY - Sun squares Jupiter, Sun inconjunct Uranus

WEDNESDAY - Mercury at 9 degrees Scorpio opposes Uranus in Taurus. 

 

Mercury in Scorpio is diving into the truth/secrets/a deeper level of information - Uranus is kind of a flash of 'genius' that illuminates what Mercury has dug up. Some unexpected truth could come out now. Disruptive results involving financial/intimacy/merged situations. Oppositions to Uranus can bring abrupt endings. With Mercury walking shadows degrees she/he will walk two more times we will have this aspect again on October 19th (with Mercury retrograde) and finally on November 17th, so this could be the start of a series of revelations. 

Watch your language/words now. Be clear-sighted about the information/stories you tell and what you are allowing yourself to absorb. With Uranus, language is intensified - pulls us into the future. Think twice.

For some people this aspect can also bring technology/transportation issues. Surprises through siblings or our local community.

 

THURSDAY - Venus at 6 degrees Virgo inconjuncts Chiron in Aries. 

 

Inconjuncts are awkward. What we want or a relationship/financial/values issue triggers a wound/hurt. Keep in mind, Venus in Virgo can be picky. So maybe it's just a tiny little thing that isn't quite right or maybe since Virgo is such a 'fixer 'energy we are focused on trying to fix something that just can't be fixed. Inconjuncts require adjustments, but we just have to kind of live with things being imperfect here.

FRIDAY - a retrograde Mars at 22 degrees Aries squares Pluto in Capricorn (this is the degree Saturn and Pluto met back in January - when "time ran out").

This is the second of three battles between these titans. They squared off back in mid August, with Pluto retrograde and Mars direct, now they have both reversed course and square off again. And, we will be back here for the final round on December 23rd (with both of these bad boys direct) - so immediately after this year's important Winter Solstice when Jupiter meets Saturn in Aquarius.

 

There might be intense competition and unbridled ambition. Manipulations. Obsessions. Jealousy. Physical power struggles. Excisions/surgical procedures. Situations that feel like "life and death" and sometimes they will be, but most often they won't. Our power could be challenged or we could be the one doing the calling out. If we are "waked", and with Mars retro we better be, this is the time to think about why this situation is "triggering" us. 

 

If we are repressing anger/passion/strong urges - here's where the gloves might come off.  

 

We could be mad (Mars) at the truth (Pluto). We could be battling (Mars) for power/control (Pluto). We don't want to be ruthless or under-handed, but we might have to stand up for ourselves. Avoid unnecessary run ins with the boss/authority because THEY WILL WIN. If we are the boss/authority then avoid making other people feel threatened/un-empowered because WE WILL LOSE in the long run. And we are playing a long game here. Keep this in mind. 

 

Mars/Pluto is like a bully aspect, but it is also about having the courage to SURVIVE.

 

If we are pushing to make something happen with a kind of 'THIS MUST HAPPEN' urgency - well, here is the square where Mars is retrograde and life is an inside job - so, why are we pushing for this?? The New World that is about to kick off, and we can already feel ourselves being pulled into it which is why we are so unsteady - doing a hokey-pokey style dance in two worlds at the same time - the New World is not a linear space. We don't need to make herculean efforts to make things happen. We don't actually need to make anything happen. The center isn't going to hold because the center cannot hold. With challenging Plutonian aspects we need to keep in mind how to ground ourselves for our immediate survival. Stay healthy. Keep your environment clean/alive. Slow down. Take care of you. 

This is also the date of the Third Quarter Moon, with the Moon at 17 degrees Cancer squaring the Sun in Libra. This is uncomfortable/frustrating. Maybe we want to stay home where we are comfy-cozy and situations are requiring we bring something into greater balance or maybe socialize. Cancer is old school, so maybe there is something here about rules, traditional roles within our family or a family situation vs a need for fairness. This is a part of the Full Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron story. The Moon is waning now, so what needs to go?

 

SATURDAY - Mars at 22 degrees Aries sextiles the North Node in Gemini. 

Here are our actions lining us up with the future. Keep in mind Mars is retrograde so this could be more about what we are re-working, re-vising, re-viewing, even an un-raveling of the old.

At the same time - Venus at 9 degrees Virgo trines Uranus in Taurus

 

Here is where small changes/fixes - within relationships, finances, our values - can have a BIG impact. What needs tweaking? This is a good day for action and initiative. Things can fall into place. We are changing the way we deal with change. New ways to make money. New relationships. New values. Think practical/grounded/being of service. Good for changes to our daily routine and health practices - for these situations think more new/cutting edge. Changes that make sense/cents.

SUNDAY - the Sun at 18 degrees Libra squares Jupiter in Capricorn and inconjuncts Uranus in Taurus

This might speak of some exaggerated expressions of power within our relationships or maybe someone's need for expansion/more/change creates tension/frustration within a relationship. Things can feel out of balance. 

On the bright side, and with Jupiter there is always a bright side, this aspect can bring confidence, enthusiasm, hope. We just want to avoid taking on too much/over-promising or expecting too much from other people. At the same time the Sun is inconjunct Uranus - some awkwardness/rocks and hard places between change and balance or liberation vs our partnerships/contracts. Adjustments required today. 

xo all - back with the dailies and we'll toss up a chart for that infamous 'garden party' and see what we see

By now we've likely seen the photos of the rose garden ceremony (Amy Coney Barrett's Announcement Party) where it is being reported covid began its journey to Trump - mostly mask-less people, shaking hands, bear-hugging, back-patting - something the rest of us, including the CHILDREN (masked and encased in plexi windshields, our amazing teachers have made for their desks ie jeeps, for hours everyday where I live) would pay dearly to be able to do again as effortlessly and worry-free as these cocky revelers with RBG just barely lain to rest. 

 

It made me go looking for asteroids Karma and Hybris (Greek Goddess of insolence, impudence and outrageous behavior - she gave her name to our word “hubris”). 

 

Hybris turned out to be, #surprise, #nosurprise, exactly conjunct Trump's natal 4th house Moon and exactly opposing his natal Sun as his diagnosis was announced. And transiting asteroid Hygiea (the virus) conjunct his natal asteroid Hybris (exact on 10/13). Trump was born with asteroid Karma exactly on his natal Saturn and transiting Karma is now conjunct his 12th house Pluto. 

 

Hubris and Karma playing their hand with him ....

the October Astrology of Trump, Covid and the United States | a major transformation to restore balance, part I

 

We talked about Trump's covid announcement astrology HERE.

This is a very BIG deal. We knew something BIG was coming in October - I know astrologers predicting war/alien invasions (and who knows, maybe this is still coming #kidding #notkidding) - but it should have been obvious, but somehow never is, that with Pluto stationing on the January "time runs out" degree, with both Mars (running the show) and the Sun moving through squares to those same Cappy planets that brought us covid - this was likely to be about covid which actually is both a war and an alien invasion.

 

On OCTOBER 4TH - Pluto is going to station direct (he is back to where he was in April and also takes us back to those mid-January situations - this stationing every is in effect for a few days) - here's the death that was postponed.

Things can escalate quickly.

I hope we have all been cleaning up our messes. The thing to remember about death and Pluto is most often the death is a metaphorical death. Something changes and we can't go back. At station, Pluto's energy is most powerful/unpredictable and he is powerful enough already being Lord of the Underworld and all that. He will be conjunct asteroid Wuhan (which we know represents the virus). 

 

Not a time to muck around with. 

At this point Trump's chart and the U.S. chart, because keep in mind they are impacting each other, will have a few things going on. 

 

For Trump, some challenging transits are longer term - his progressed Moon (in Virgo) is exactly square his 10^th house Uranus right now and for the next couple months. This is about his career and Uranus rules his 6th house of health (along with Saturn who we know is squaring Mars). His natal Uranus, sandwiched between his Sun and North Node has always helped him stay healthy, but now with transiting Uranus squaring the midpoint of his natal Mars/Saturn and his natal Pluto - which is known for nervous tension, stress, accidents, illness - good health can be challenging.

 

Crazy stress/pressure.

Now, as Pluto stations direct on OCTOBER 4TH, Trump will have Ceres (retrograde) exactly conjunct his natal descendant - so exactly opposing his ascendant (his physical self). Since Ceres was at that January palaver - we always talk about Saturn/Pluto, but it was actually Saturn/Pluto/Ceres/Mercury and the Sun - and she rules things outside our control, season of life issues/transitions, nature and Trump has a natal Pluto/Ceres opposition - this is important. 

He has transiting Chiron (wounding) exactly conjunct his natal Eris (that prominent outsider energy of his). Chiron will be opposing his natal Neptune (in Libra). Neptune is ruler of his Pisces 8th house (of death). So ultimately his death, (and I am certainly not forecasting that which isn't even possible) could involve a woman and obviously there are other possibilities, but since he was tested for covid after a woman near him tested positive this could be important.

He will have transiting Mars retrograde (inflammation/fast-moving situations) backing over his natal Hygeia (the disease) and transiting Hygeia backing over his natal Pluto (power/death/transformation) - this stuff will be in play for a while with Mars/Hygeia exact on 10/12 and Hygeia/Pluto exact on 10/22.

If we look at the October astrology we have a Grand Cardinal Cross that turns into a Cardinal T-Square. We are going to move through - and this is all of us (personally and collectively) - a major transformation that attempts to restore some kind of harmony/balance. 

The process looks gut-wrenching.

 

At the same time, the United States natal chart (the U.S. Sibley chart) is equally stressed as we build toward our Pluto return in 2022. The transiting North Node is approaching a conjunction to the U.S. Mars which is in Gemini and answering to the country's Mercury which natally opposes Pluto, but by transit is also opposing that Cappy pile-up which now includes Pallas (smart strategies - that's good) and asteroid Wuhan (not so good). Transiting Mars is set to back over the U.S. natal Chiron (a national wounding), so Trump's natal Hygeia is on the United States Chiron - a national wounding! The transiting Sun will soon be conjunct the U.S. Saturn (endings) - exact on the 7th. 

I know this is alot of astro-babble - sorry. 

 

Trump also has some good/protective aspects including the  transiting Sun conjuncting his natal Jupiter - this is strength, energy, expansion. It's very good. He has the transiting North Node conjunct his natal North Node - so fate is precisely lined up with itself from the day Trump was born - I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing for him, but assures us that whatever is going to happen here, the hand of destiny is playing a role. 

 

We have Jupiter sextiling Neptune - exact on the 12th - prayers help. 

 

Whatever happens his life is in bigger hands than those doctors.

I think we'll start including Trump's transits briefly in the dailies. If his health takes a turn one way or the other on OCTOBER 4TH, as Pluto stations - that could likely be the course that is set. 

 

Prayer is very powerful now and I will be praying for him, because although I do not agree with him on very much - I see the warrior in his chart and I respect that. I see the United States Pluto return and the incoming Age of Aquarius and know something/someone like Trump was going to happen to us. For us. For all of us - for the world.

 

Breakdown to breakthrough.

 

500 years ago during the last Saturn/Pluto meeting in Capricorn the Protestant reformation began and although Martin Luther gets credit for nailing his manifesto to the doors of Wittenberg's Castle Church kicking things off (and rightfully so), another important player was King Henry VIII. His search for a male heir (and love of a woman not his wife) plus inability to get a annulment from the Catholic Church in order to divorce Catherine and marry Anne led to the creation of the Church of England. Trump is very much a Henry character (maybe even was Henry in another life) participating, albeit mainly unconsciously, in this current transfer of power. This time, from a kind of structured hierarchy/patriarchy that has created the illusion of holding everything together to a center that will not hold and so we are forced to see through the illusion/create something else.

 

We'll come back with part II after we get past Pluto's change of direction .....

xo all

 

photo by the amazing Natalia Drepina

Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, October 2, 2020 - Trump's Full Moon, Venus into Virgo, needing to be needed, get it done early

 

We started the month with a BIG Full Moon in Aries on Chiron - a vulnerability exposed. 

 

Within hours the White House announces Trump and Melania both have Covid-19 (probably via Hope Hicks, the loyal Trump staffer whose disappearance/reappearance has made headlines and whose diagnosis resulted in both Trumps being tested). Remember the chart showed the 'exposure' had already happened - the Moon and Chiron's conjunction waning.

 

You might remember THIS post connecting Covid-19 to asteroids Wuhan and Pandora conjunct on sinister fixed star Algol in the U.S. Sibley - the same degree conjunct Trump's mid-heaven (career/public life). 

 

And what did Pandora have left in her box after pandemic and a myriad other ills made their escape - HOPE (which I am increasingly suspicious is actually one of the ills) .

With another Full Moon coming at the very end of this month conjunct Uranus (chaos, the unexpected) and with asteroid Hygie moving over Trump's natal 12th house (endings) Pluto (death) at that time - obviously he will get the best medical care - but he needs to be very, very careful. Pluto also rises from the ashes, which I hope he does, but I would be surprised if he just breezes through this thing. Of course, caught up in a political fight for his survival, we could just be seeing that and how his covid diagnosis and quarantine impacts that. 

 

 Let's hope so.  

 

In the meantime, yesterday's Full Moon chart, as drawn for Washington DC, COMES TO LIFE. 

 

The Full Moon conjunct Chiron - a vulnerability exposed. Venus at 28 Leo exactly conjunct the DC (a loved/royal/loyal young woman as an open enemy?), tightly conjunct Trump's natal AC and conjunct U.S. natal Hygie. Venus in the Full Moon chart conjunct asteroid Pandora - whose opened box unleashed all the ills upon the world, but trapped Hope - which is also the name of Trump's loyal staffer (the beloved young woman) whose diagnosis led to this "exposure" - at least as far as the mundane chart goes since this is what is made public at the time of the Moon. 

Pandora exactly sextiling Mercury in Scorpio (in the 8th) - exposing surprising life and death secrets. Also the Full Moon in Aries kind of lighting the fuse for the rest of October - the astro of which looks totally cray-cray and wraps with another Full Moon, this time in Taurus conjunct Uranus ... with Hygie on Trump's 12th house (endings) Pluto (life and death). This diagnosis is no joke. And Full Moons are very powerful for Trump, since he was born on one.

 

Will covid transform Trump? Stay tuned.

 

In the meantime, it is Friday, October 2nd - Venus enters Virgo - the sign of her debilitation, since she is exalted in Virgo's polarity sign of Pisces - so now both benevolent planets are in challenging positions - more reason to focus on the Neptune/Jupiter we talked about in the Full Moon post HERE. Prayers are uber powerful right now.

 

With Venus in Virgo love is a verb - expressed through what we do for other people and what they do for us. Being needed makes us feel loved. 

 

We will be analyzing what we want and what we have. We will be analyzing our relationships/our resources/our values. The problems will stand out. We won't be able to miss them. And since what we focus on grows, sometimes things get worse before they get better during this transit. But this is excellent energy to fix what needs fixing and accept (or eliminate) what just isn't fixable. 
 

Virgo Suns and Ascendants get more attractive - both easier on the eye and able to attract what they want. Our natal Virgo houses get more attractive, too!

Venus in Virgo is about loving the details of something, enjoying the work, appreciating the craftsmanship and complexity of something or someone or some situation - yes, also, noticing the imperfections, Virgo can't miss those, and choosing not to dwell on them.

 

This is the time to get your Venusian stuff in order - your money, your resources. If you have a business - recheck your bottom line, your pricing, does everything still make sense/cents?

The Moon in Aries is challenged tonight through squares to Jupiter and Pluto. She meets up with Mars just before midnight EDT. Coming off the Full Moon and moving toward these squares could make for a stressful Friday, so get things done and out early. Take tonight off.

photo by the amazing thefirebomb

FULL MOON in Aries | October 1, 2020 - a BIG month kicks off, a light on what hurts, accepting what is, being self-centered without being an asshole, leaning into the magic, a turning point, the fuse is lit

 

 

"I'd rather be whole than good." ... C.G. Jung ...

 

October is bookended by two BIG Full Moons - one in Aries on October 1st and one in Taurus on October 31st. The first, conjunct Chiron (our wounded masculine, ouch), the second conjunct Uranus and Black Moon Lilith (change, chaos, female power/rejection, can you say October surprise?). And in between a HUGE New Moon in Libra.

 

Have I said before October is going to be a BIG month?! Maybe the biggest month of 2020. 

 

Yes, I think I did!

 

The Full Moon is always a time of cosmic tension - the Moon opposes the Sun. The Moon is in Aries at 9 degrees (answering to a retrograde Mars in his home sign - initiative, passion, courage, anger, violence, independence). The Sun, opposing from 9 degrees Libra answering to Venus at the end of Leo (and look at her exactly conjunct the descendant of the Full Moon chart drawn for Washington D.C. - other people, open enemies, oh my). This is the culmination of the Aries New Moon that launched the lunar year back in April, so maybe something from that time is finishing up. 

 

Feels like years ago, doesn't it? Time has kind of swallowed us up, so it probably was!

 
At the time of the Full Moon - situations peak, culminate, come to light, conclude. 

 

Results are delivered.

And this month we have Saturn stationing direct just hours before! Whoosh - the tables turn.

Let's unpack the chart.

The Moon opposes the Sun - Aries/Libra at 9 degrees. Me vs we. How we partner. How we balance and share. Is justice just? An Aries Moon is raw/impulsive/self-centered. The energy can make us antsy and accident-prone. 

 

The Moon is conjunct Chiron - the aspect is waning. The Moon is semi-sextile Uranus (exact) - the Sun inconjunct. Mars, ruler of Aries and so ruler of this lunation is retrograde in Aries, exactly conjunct Eris and squaring Saturn and the Capricorn pile-up, trining Venus and sextiling the North Node. I've been adding in asteroids lately if exact and the Sun is exactly conjunct asteroid Apophis (the Moon exactly opposed), so we'll take a look at that. 

The Moon is conjunct wounded healer Chiron - a weakness, a fear, a vulnerability is illuminated now. 

 

An old familial wound, the scab freshly picked and throbbing. We might need to stand up for ourselves/assert our right to be here/to fit in. Hidden vulnerabilities/wounds are made public under the Full Moon's beams (this is waning so the actual exposure has already happened, but it will play out over the course of the Full Moon - the next two weeks and also the next six months). Think about Trump's tax returns coming out and showing he makes less money/is less valuable than he claimed to (he has a natal 2nd house Chiron which rules money/resources/values, so an old familial wounding around his VALUE/his resources - fear of poverty, familial new money devalued by New York's old money society).

 

So, our private/personal (Mars) vulnerabilities/wounds (Chiron) are made public/come into the light (the Full Moon). This can also be about our actions/re-actions and their backlash or our own regrets. For some, this could play out as an injury/illness since Mars/Aries rules our collective first house of our physical body. With Mars retrograde this would probably be an old injury that acts back up or gets re-injured and this could have already happened and is now playing out. 

Whatever this is for us, the Full Moon allows us to see this clearly and in real-time. Our insecurities, our lack of motivation/passion/courage, our physical shortcomings - the light goes HERE.

Saturn stations direct just hours before the Full Moon. Daddy's home.

 

A retrograde Mars (ruler of Aries and this Full Moon) is squaring Saturn - this is also waning, but only barely - this is old responsibilities, commitments. A tennis match so many of us are watching/playing between anger and depression. On the one hand Saturn is savings our asses (and reputation) from a misguided Mars impulsivity and on the other hand this is also the authoritarian strategy of divide and conquer that WANTS Mars (as us) to be out there fighting/chasing his tail. Nothing is ever just one thing. There are limits here. Controlled burning - maybe. But also fires getting stoked. This is within the collective, but also within our own home and our own HEAD.

 

What does all this mean? 

 

This Moon is actually kind of simple - we have the Chiron wounding - which we can see in ourselves/in other people. We need to take ownership of our own crap/fear here, but not take on anyone else's crap. The Moon is really as simple and as complicated as that. It takes COURAGE (Aries) to take responsibility for our own issues. It also takes courage to not take on other people's issues. We want to be self-centered now, and self-centered meaning exactly that - centered in ourselves.

 

With Saturn/Pluto squaring it will be our old paternal/maternal power struggles that we are re-enacting with partners/with life. Maybe we notice this, maybe we don't. Either way we can choose to not engage with the energies at the level of 'blame' (and this includes blaming ourselves because these are very deeply buried patterns - that once kept us alive - that we are recreating) or we can go 'all in' with this stuff and dig ourselves an even bigger hole. Blame other people, blame our parents, the government, yada-yada. Or we can go 'all in' and take on the ownership of this wound as if we are the wound! So, let's not do that either. Let's not double-down on this stuff.

 

If we are going to be truly ourselves - better whole than good (as Jung would say), other people may not be so happy about it. This isn't about being a selfish asshole, but we are going to have to get angry sometimes. Maybe even very angry. And we are going to have to find ways to work with these feelings that aren't destructive. And, that don't allow this personal and collective tension and stress to dump directly into our nervous system and impact our health or force impulsive choices.

Jupiter has been holed up all year in Cappy, Saturn's house. It's like having Santa Claus living with Scrooge and instead of making toys at the North Pole he's busy doing his taxes ... for a year. But right now - and this becomes exact next week - he has a beneficial sextile to ancient ruler Neptune and since this aspect is applying, it is stronger than the waning aspects we have already talked about. 

 

Neptune brings compassion/a higher purpose/connection to our past/our ancestors/our unconscious memories that we carry in our DNA of all the good things we have ever done or wanted to do. Jupiter brings the luck that comes from confidence. Now sextiles require some action - and this will be our Cappy house and our Pisces house - we talked about this/and felt this yesterday through our Pisces Moon aspecting Saturn and Pluto. Making the dream real. Stabilizing the confusion. Responsibilities forcing us out of our lethargy. Magic. Lining up with divinity. The reality police WAKE US UP. This brings opportunities, so don't hit the snooze button. We are either replaying old karma or moving into our destiny.

The New World requires we be living an authentic life. It's the only requirement really. If we think someone else has to change or they have to do something for us to be happy - we have set our ladder against the wrong wall. We have to move that damn ladder! This month will go much easier if we are trusting God/life/the Universe. We have to trust the process. Keep in mind Chiron's healing comes through acceptance of the wound. Meeting life where it is. Here's my damn ladder. Let's stay centered in our breath.

Full Moons are culminations and with Saturn stationing direct we are at a TURNING POINT. Pray. Meditate. And don't be afraid to confront what hurts - an Aries Moon is brave/independent. We want to be standing in our own shoes now. 

(and just as I write this I remember this morning's dream where I was in college and trying to navigate steep stairs, which were more like the bars on a kid's jungle gym and wearing de-stabilizing spikey heels - me in high heels!? - and it was getting late and I had to be somewhere else/maybe home (?), but at the same time had very important information to deliver and kept running into the people who needed it - woke up later than I have in years and feeling refreshed, but lost in the pressure of the dream)

This is a wonderful and bittersweet Full Moon to get out and walk in, so let's do that! We can see Mars easily, too, now, retrograde he is at his closest position to the Earth.

 

xo all - (back with an October post and we'll look at the mid-month and covid)

I just realized I never got to asteroid Apophis and now that I've looked into him, I can see why! He is exactly conjunct the Sun and opposing the Full Moon, so let's look at his mythology and see if he can add anything to our celestial weather forecasting. 

 

Apophis - and we are reaching back to ancient Eqyptian mythology here - also known as Apep was a Great Serpent and enemy of the Sun God Ra. He attacked Ra's great ship every night in an attempt to kill Ra and prevent the sunrise. He is associated with chaos, storms, darkness, death. And in modern days, he is also associated with terrorism. 

Because Apophis was thought to have always existed - he swam in the dark waters of undifferentiated chaos (to quote ancient.eu here) before creation started. Creation - duality/order - angered Apophis, I guess being used to a disorderly, but unified whole. After creation there were opposites - day and night, light and dark, good and bad, female and male. He thought if he could swallow the Sun (light being the first sign of divine "order") he could return the world to the 'unity' of darkness/chaos.

Interesting (North Node in Gemini stay curious!) that he would be exactly conjunct the Sun and oppose the Moon at the Aries Full Moon as we proceed through this last chapter of 2020, which ends with Jupiter meeting Saturn on the winter solstice at 0 degrees Aquarius (the New World, in the sign of equality and also chaos). We'll talk more about this in the October posts!