Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, November 26, 2020 - power plays, excess, reality checks, limits, traditions challenged, faith, courage, finding the bright side, giving thanks

 

 

The Moon in fiery and independent Aries is put through her paces with pretty much nonstop squares to the Cappy planets. Our actions/personal ambitions/what we do to get what we want - challenged by rules/limits/authority/tradition. 

 

The power plays (square to Pluto) come in the a.m. followed by the excess (pie!), exuberance and clashing beliefs (her square to Jupiter) and finally by evening her square to Saturn - limits, reality checks (how much pie did we eat!). We make our annual 911 call on Uncle Freddie. Except Uncle Freddie is eating his turkey from a Swanson pan in front of the telly this year, so he's saved from spiking the eggnog again and spending another restless night in the slammer. Who says we can't find things to be grateful for this year? Not me!

The best news today is the Sun's trine to a retrograde Chiron. 

 

The Sun in Sag is hopeful/confident/doing his "sun" thing. 

 

The smooth trine (brakes off) to hurting/healing Chiron speaks of our vulnerability somehow allowing us to shine BRIGHTER. A weakness might be on display, BUT it is this very weakness/our Aries human-ness, that allows the LIGHT in, so we can feel BETTER. 

 

With Chiron in Aries (like our beleaguered Moon) here is our way through any lunar/emotional struggles. SAGITTARIUS (finally not Scorpio!). Faith. Hope. Courage. Embracing the stretch. Finding the bright side/the gold in the mud.

Today's aspects so perfectly represent the United States 2020 Thanksgiving - limits on what we want to do, new ways challenging old traditions - and a road through the morass. A high road. Faith. Hope. Courage. Optimism. Gratitude. Embracing the journey/stretch. Deciding what we are thankful for now.

 

Happy Thanksgiving America (and Happy Thursday to everyone outside the U.S.)!

 

xo all

photo by the talented Snezhana Morozova

Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - feeling better by taking action, mushy cherry garcia, are we carrying around something that is dead and calling it a Louis Vuitton?

 

The Moon is in Aries. This is a warrior/worrier position for our dear Luna and we will feel better taking action. Working independently. Being around men. Her only aspect today an important conjunction with Aries ruler Mars at 6:39PM EST. We are acting on our feelings/feeling out our actions. Comforted by fresh starts and things that are moving fast. Our emotional life can be passionate/our home busy. 

This is the day Mercury inconjuncts the North Node. We dug into this pretty thoroughly HERE, so we won't rehash it. Keep this in mind.

This is also the day Venus inconjuncts a retrograde Chiron. We can be wounded/weakened by what we love/obsess about. We know the Sun is going to trine Chiron tomorrow, so we don't want to run away from today's pain/uncomfortableness/awkwardness. We get to tomorrow's smooth trine through today's painful inconjunct. No skipped steps this year. Everyone/everything gets a seat at the table. 

It could be a Venusian theme that hurts/weakens us - relationships (or their lack of intimacy), finances (maybe a large necessary purchase or an ending that nets us less than we were anticipating), self-esteem, beauty, women. There are as many ways this could show up as their are people/charts. Or it could be the depths of Venus's intensity in Scorpio that causes the pain - we are going farther, merging/purging - so we see more now. We know more. This knowledge/truth isn't always pretty. We might feel rejected/unloved.

Bottom line this is about us getting real with ourselves about what we want now/what we love now. Remember we have passed the point where we always died before. Everything can't go with us.

Seeing that Louis Vuitton bag as a dead baby cow's skin is part of waking up. Sorry if I've ruined your handbag forever for you, but it's true. And it's a choice (North Node in Gemini) what we are holding onto even when we think (Mercury, ruler of the North Node in Scorpio) we can't survive without it.

xo all

 

Our refrigerator stopped working last week. Luckily I had bought some ice cream (I never buy ice cream) and noticed the mushy carton. It is 16 years old, and we spent an inordinate amount of time this week trying to fix it/bring it back from the dead. Or hubs did. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to save our food and on the internet trying to find a new one that didn't cost four times the price of my first car. 

 

And, yes, I am one of those people (old before my time with my Mercury in Cap, 3rd house, I think) who compare all large purchases to the cost of a 1970something Mercury Capri (chocolate brown with a black top) that was already almost a classic by the time I bought it. I rode past it on my bicycle and had to have it, but was $100 short of the asking price and the guy wouldn't budge. I sent hubs (who was boyfriend then and barely a boyfriend really) back to negotiate with the guy. He came to my house that night with the keys - to car and heart (it was only a few years ago he admitted to giving the guy the extra $100). 

 

And, no, this doesn't really relate to today's energies, but then again maybe it does. 

 

Today, I have to buy a new refrigerator. No way around this.

 

I am going to have to spend more than I want to. When I got over the 'sticker shock' of refrigerator prices, the lack of in-stock refrigerators in New Jersey right now and lack of variety on Facebook Marketplace - I began to imagine my kitchen with a new refrigerator. One of those with the french doors. One of those with the ice makers/water dispensers. One of those with the freezers on the bottom. Instead of thinking 'this is the last thing we need right now!' I started thinking maybe this is a good thing. I even felt a little worried when it looked like hubs would actually get our old Maytag running.

 

Luckily there are sales now for the holidays. Luckily there is Facebook Marketplace. Luckily we have the money/good credit to buy one. Luckily I bought that carton of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia and pulled it out at exactly the right time to find it mushy, but still save the rest of our food. Luckily I know someone with an extra fridge in their garage who was willing to move all his beer. It pays to think about things like this when dealing with "sticker shock". And maybe other Venusian heartaches, too. Count our blessings. Keep this in mind.

Eclipse post next! I can't wait to look at the chart!

photo by the talented kittysyellowjacket

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of November 23 - 30th, 2020 - alot going on this week, jolts, rocks and hard places, opportunities, Full Moon in Gemini/Eclipse season!

 

MONDAY - Mercury trine Neptune, Sun square Ceres

TUESDAY - Venus opposes Black Moon Lilith

WEDNESDAY - Mercury inconjunct the North Node, Venus inconjunct Chiron

THURSDAY - Sun trine Chiron

FRIDAY - Mercury sextile Pluto, Venus opposes Uranus

SATURDAY - Mercury sextiles Jupiter

SUNDAY - Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini, Sun inconjunct Uranus

We talked about MONDAY in the daily HERE.

On TUESDAY, Venus (in Scorpio) will oppose Black Moon Lilith (in Taurus). Lots of Venus this week!

Let's back up - Venus moved into Scorpio on Saturday. 

 

Scorpio Suns and Ascendants get more attractive (more beautiful and more able to attract what they want). Your Scorpio house (where is Scorpio hanging out in your natal chart?) gets more magnetic, too. Venus in Scorpio doesn't look like the more traditional beauty of Venus in Libra. Her beauty is dark and forbidding now. She doesn't flirt. She seduces. She doesn't want peace at any cost so much as she wants to feel what's really underneath all the phony smiles and superficial niceties. Here Venus pushes herself to the edge of life with compulsions, intimacy, jealousy, obsession and a struggle for real power. She goes into the dark corners that hold all our secrets and she coaxes them out into the open. There can be brutal and deep honesty here. If you are working through the unraveling of a relationship or financial quagmire - this energy will be your best friend. Venus will be in Scorpio until December 15th.
 

Her opposition now with uncontrollable Black Moon Lilith in Venus-ruled Taurus almost feels like a mutual reception. Lilith back in the Garden vs a dangerous Venus in Scorpio. Like they should just change spaces/houses and call it a day. Oppositions brings results/culminations/turning points. Our Venusian depths via mergings and purgings stirring up our instinctive rough edges around things we’re ignoring/denying/trying to not get too pissed off about. Finances. Resources. Relationships. What have we been ignoring? Or maybe this is about how far someone will go to get what they want? Or to survive/be liberated/maintain some taboo habit? We might notice how we use other people's energy and how they use ours now. Vampires do not really only come out in the night.  

 

(this is also the day we get our monthly lunar Waxing Trine - this month between a Sagittarius Sun and an Aries Moon - brave action, confidence/optimism - will move us forward!)

On WEDNESDAY  - Mercury (at 19 degrees Scorpio now) inconjuncts the North Node in Gemini (a sign Mercury rules). Our ideas/the information we receive/what we learn doesn't fit with where we want to go/what we want to happen. Our maybe this is our own refusal to look at the truth/dig for the facts/commit to something (or kill it) that is keeping us stuck. There might be a choice that needs to be made or maybe a specific detail that needs to be attended to or conversation had. Keep in mind the nature of inconjuncts is NOT one of resolution. What adjustments need to happen here?

THURSDAY - The Sun (at 5 degrees Sagittarius) trines a retrograde Chiron in Aries. Sag optimism and confidence will do much to heal old woundings around our self-esteem/ability to take care of ourselves/be respected for who we are. What are those lines - "the crack is where the light gets in". Here is the light through the crack and it's OK. We are OK. Exhale, allow yourself a healthy stretch into something a little bit outside your comfort zone. 

(the Moon in Aries will be facing off with the Cappy pile-up today, so there could be some tension/frustration - we'll talk about this when we add in the Moons in the dailies)

FRIDAY - Venus (at 5 degrees Scorpio) opposes a retrograde Uranus in Taurus and Mercury (YAY, good news!) starts to move through his opportunistic Cappy sextiles, beginning with Pluto. 

Venus/Uranus can bring sudden changes with relationships/finances. A disruptive/surprising (not totally surprising) result/culmination/liberation around an intense/intimate situation is possible. If we need a wake-up call - here it is. 

Keep an eye on your credit card because we can be attracted to unusual things when Venus aspects Uranus and then maybe they end up gathering dust in a closet. On the other hand, sometimes we need to make unusual investments to get us out of a rut/pull us into the future. Your call.

 

Happening at the same time we have Mercury - also in Scorpio - in an opportunistic aspect with Pluto (Scorpio's ruler) in serious Cappy - we could be reaching a deep understanding here. Words/conversations will be intense/transformational. Again, the way through this is through this. TRUTH. Knowledge is power.

 

We had this aspect back in early December 2019 - which feels like a lifetime ago (because it is). Back then, they sextiled Scorpio/Capricorn, too, but at 21 degrees. Now, the same drill, but they are at 23 degrees. Before 22 vs after 22 (the degree of the Saturn/Pluto palaver in January 2020 when "time ran out"). Past the place in the game we have always died before. 

 

See what kind of things you are dealing with/thinking about/talking about/learning as Mercury moves through these Cappy sextiles with Pluto, Jupiter, Pallas and Saturn (OPPORTUNITIES!) over the next few days. 

SATURDAY - Now, Mercury (in Scorpio) sextiles Jupiter (in Capricorn) at 25 degrees. Big ideas. Seeing the BIG picture. Confident communication. Opportunities. Bringing something out of the shadows and expanding on it. Good for commerce/finance. Ka-ching.

xo all - back with Sunday's Eclipse Post which will include some BIG picture plus some dailies.

photo by the talented shproton

 

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, November 23, 2020 - are we awake or are we still dreaming? bring an umbrella and maybe a box of tissues, and your paintbrush bring that, too - a very Pisces kind of day

 

 

 

If you got through Sunday without a rip-roaring row you get a gold star! Or through this weekend without something breaking down? Or breaking off? Maybe right in your hand? Pat yourself on the shoulder. Use both hands - give yourself a real pounding. 

 

Now it's time for a few deep breaths. Like, quite a few deep breaths. Like we'll turn ourselves into a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon - is that a thing this year?!- (if it is, I'll be Lucy) with all the oxygen we will be sucking in. 

 

Then let's pull on our boots. The ground is muddy. And we walk from here.

 

I will get the weekly up tonight, but let's take a look at MONDAY, so we (and I guess I mean me here) don't fall behind.

 

The Moon is in Pisces. She trines Mercury at 8:37AM EST, meets Neptune at 10:31AM EST, sextiles Pluto at 8:17PM EST and sextiles Jupiter at 11:46PM EST. All smooth aspects - good for creativity, compassion, meditation. The past can feel more real then the present.

At the same time Mercury (at 18 degrees Scorpio) trines Neptune in Pisces. 

 

Neptune is going to station direct at the end of this week. Since the end of February we have had almost nonstop (there were a few weeks in between Mercury and Ceres) retrogrades through Pisces. So confusion about our confusion. Lack of boundaries. The spreading of contagions (thought viruses and actual viruses). 

 

So now, just before Neptune stations direct, Mercury in the middle of his/her journey through intense Scorpio moves into a smooth trine with Neptune. Are we further down the rabbit-hole or can we see/hear/say what we are seeing/hearing/saying? Has Mercury dug up enough TRUTH for us to question our illusions? Not that the call to fantasy is anywhere near over (Neptune in Pisces for another five years), but once Neptune stations direct at the end of the week, life will be quite a bit less confusing.

At the same time, the Sun in 'the bigger, the better' Sag squares Ceres in Pisces. My God, more Pisces! Rain, water issues, lack of boundaries, tears? What can we expect of all this today?

 

The Sun in Sag will expand possibilities but a square to anything in Pisces is reason enough to slow down for a second look, to keep our feet on the ground/our boat tied to the dock. Sag/Pisces can create a kind of hyper idealism, so be cautious with big promises. With Sag's ruler Jupiter in sober Capricorn - things can also look worse than they actually are. Keep all this in mind today.

 

Ceres in Pisces accentuates/inflates the themes of both nurturing and loss/seasons of life. In Pisces, the final sign, the empty nest really is empty. The loss (whatever is out of our control) still hurts, but if Ceres isn't smother/mothering here, this can at least be gentle/gradual. But now, the Sun's square can bring something more immediate. A bright spotlight on something. Our attention via frustration/tension on what is outside our control/what is maybe ending. 

 

At the same time Venus is trining Ceres, so the solution lies in Scorpio (does the solution ever lie anywhere else?). Going deep. Balancing the books. Merging. Purging. Committing to something we've been half-assing. Not being afraid to look under the bed.

xo all

photo by the talented Crocodililachrymae