Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 - a day to make the effort, get it done, opportunities, your words are your superpower


 

 

The Moon is Virgo is having an easier time of it today. Our efforts with work, our health, getting organized, cleaning things up, stepping into responsibilities, dealing with authority, finding practical solutions or results will be more accessible/apparent via an opportunistic sextile with Venus (in Scorpio) followed by the Moon's smooth trines (brakes off) to the powerful Cappy planets - Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn. 

 

She goes void this evening off that final trine at 5:35PM EST and is void until she moves into balance/partnership favoring Libra at 7:01PM EST.

 

(by Thursday the Moon in Libra will be squaring these same Cappy planets EST, so take advantage of today's energies as best you can)


The Moon is waning today so most helpful with our efforts to wrap something up/finish it. Results can come in now.


I was thinking last night while working on the upcoming Jupiter/Saturn conjunction of how I once used declinations (the planets movements north and south of the equator) with charts, but since my ephemeris dropped them a few years back, it seems I did, too (plus adding in the new planets/asteroids has been enough to stay busy with)

 

When I checked for today - Mercury and Pluto were parallel, so I thought I'd toss a few words in here about that and we can see if it seems to fit - anytime I mention parallel or contra-parallel going forward you will know this is what I am speaking of (north/south equator positions because the skies are not flat like our printed charts are) and see if it is helpful.

 

Mercury parallel Pluto seems especially important this week with all the Gemini (North Node), Aries (Mars) and Venus (Scorpio) action answering to them plus last week's Eclipse in Gemini. This also seems to echo something I was recently writing about here, but I can't remember what! 

 

Mercury/Pluto makes our words more powerful. Transformative. We need to think about what we are thinking about. Think twice/speak once. That sort of thing. Dotted lines are signed. Important paperwork/financial dealings. Intimate conversations. Secrets can be languaged and spoken out loud. Excellent energy for getting to the bottom of things/solving old problems. Difficult conversations create deeper levels of intimacy now. On the downside - our thinking could get more pessimistic, so watch for that. Also battles for mental supremacy and mind games are possible. People prone to verbal manipulations can be highly effective. Careless language (disrespect for ourselves and others) and our careless treatment of other people's words (and their reaction to ours) can be karmic.

 

Keep  this stuff in mind as well as the Virgo/Cappy today. Use what is helpful and (as always, since I am never advising to replace your own eyes/mind with mine) disregard what isn't.


xo all


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Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, December 7th, 2020 - tending to what needs care and connection, health situations, work situations, tension between the big picture/optimism and the practical details


 

The Moon is in practical Virgo now. Today brings the challenges to this. Tomorrow the easier energies.


She trined a retrograde Uranus while we slept (3:45AM EST), squares Virgo ruler Mercury at 6:24AM EST, squares the Sun at 7:36PM EST and finally opposes Neptune at 10:45PM EST. All in a day's work for our girl in Virgo - plan for a hot bath and cup of hot cocoa tonight, folks! We will need it.


The Moon in Virgo tends to analyze what we are feeling. That square to the Sun is our monthly Last Quarter Square. A final adjustment to last week's Full Moon Lunar Eclipse before next week's New Moon Solar Eclipse. 

 

Sag/Virgo - mutable fire vs mutable earth. The big-picture good feels vs the actual details of the situation. We need to take care of what we have to take care of here - the daily stuff/our health/our work - the Virgo - and this is somehow challenging to the Sagittarius enthusiasm/or our beliefs. How do we feel about our service/health/our work/daily routine in relation to our Sagittarius (ie Sag house theme, hope, enthusiasm, foreign, travel, beliefs, religion, legal) objectives/intents? Or maybe there is something here we have glossed over/been TOO hopeful and now we have to take care of it in a more practical way.

 

At the same time we have the Venus/North Node inconjunct we talked about for Monday HERE with a kind of similar feel to it.  

 

By tomorrow our practical Moon will be all smooth trines and sextiles, but today's tension/frustration cannot be avoided. It's needed to GET us to the smooth trines and sextiles (opportunities). Looking for a way through today's struggles, we see Ceres is sextiling Black Moon Lilith. So there is an opportunity here to heal an old situation we maybe haven't wanted to deal with. Pray. Connect. Meditate. Tend to what needs care and connection.

 

xo all


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Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of December 6th -13th, 2020 - the Eclipse spin cycle continues! BIG karmic endings/lessons, BIG karmic beginnings, old issues getting sorted out, opportunities abound now, take action



 

MONDAY - Venus inconjunct North Node

WEDNESDAY - Sun square Neptune

THURSDAY - Venus sextile Pluto

FRIDAY - Sun trine Mars and oppose the North Node

SATURDAY - Mars sextile the North Node

SUNDAY - Mercury square Mars


The Eclipse spin cycle continues! Between the Lunar Eclipse in Gemini (November 30th) and the Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius (December 14th) - life is determined to spit us out in quite a different state than when we went in. 

 

What is happening in your life? I would guess it is something BIG. 

 

Old issues have a way of coming back around during Eclipse cycles to be sorted out/put to bed. New situations arrive with big ramifications. Some of these old issues are childhood/familial DNA/past lives, so we may or may not be totally aware of the importance of what is happening now. Old debts are coming due/being marked paid in full, so we can MOVE ON. An old life is fading to black.


People are often telling me about the things that are falling apart, but the truth is whether something is falling apart or coming together DEPENDS WHERE YOU ARE LOOKING. If you are looking at the old structures/what used to support you/maybe even who you used to be - you are going to see what is falling apart. 


But isn't there some place else you can be looking? We are in Sagittarius season. I think there is!

 

MONDAY - Venus, at 19 degrees Scorpio, inconjuncts the North Node at 19 degrees Gemini. 

 

Scorpio/Gemini. Gemini is our mutable air sign - it stays detached from the information it gathers, so it can move from this thing to that thing quickly. This way of going through life is unavailable to intense Scorpio (our fixed water sign), so seems unimportant/frivolous to Scorp. It's really the nuts and bolts of things (we have a real appreciation of the little things that make up our lives now, don't we?), and, of course, Scorpio makes things a little more real than Gemini actually wants to deal with. These energies form a rock and a hard place. We need to adjust. On the one hand here is this really important thing I want/want to do/be there for and on the other hand here is the stuff I have to do/where I need to be/these errands/this small stuff. We have to balance this stuff out today. Do our best with it.


WEDNESDAY - the Sun at 18 degrees Sagittarius squares Neptune at 18 degrees Pisces. 

 

This aspect can bring about confusion/deception/rose-colored glasses. Maybe our addictions/escape mechanisms/self-sabotaging avoidances are on display. This might be our Sag house being undermined by our Pisces house. Squares to Neptune can make us tired/sad, keep this in mind. BUT happening pretty much right on top of the South Node (what is releasing) and during an Eclipse cycle, the stuff that Neptune is impacting - dissolving/fading - can be exactly what needs to GO. We have to trust this because it may or may not be so easy to see this. 

 

Keep in mind the Sun is going to trine Mars this week and Mars is going to sextile the North Node, so we need to keep our focus on reality/what we have to do or can do right now. MARS in ARIES is what is driving this train. 

 

BIG karmic endings and BIG karmic beginnings are happening ALL MONTH.


THURSDAY - Venus, at 23 degrees Scorpio now, sextiles Pluto at 23 degrees Capricorn.

 

Remember Venus is deep in Scorpio, a sign of her detriment since she rules Scorpio's polarity sign of Taurus. But, now OPPORTUNITY as she sextiles Scorpio's ruler Pluto, deep in practical/realistic Capricorn. This is intense. Here's our power. I was wondering where I put my power?! Stepping into our authority. Our goals. Committing.


FRIDAY - the Sun at 19 degrees Sagittarius trines Mars at 19 degrees Aries and opposes the North Node at 19 degrees Gemini


The Sun is sitting on the South Node now and trining a brave/new Mars in Aries - a great big spotlight on what has ended/is ending and how that ending has brought us to where we are right now. We are releasing the old story/beliefs - whatever has completed - and moving smoothly/easily into our next right actions.


SATURDAY - now Mars, at 19 degrees Aries sextiles the North Node at 19 degrees Gemini


Our actions are lining us up with the future. If an opportunity comes along now grab it. Be brave. Take action. WE ARE MOTIVATED TO MOVE ON!


SUNDAY - Mercury reaches 18 degrees Sagittarius and squares Neptune


So, we end the week with Mercury doing what the Sun did at the start of the week. Maybe here is the information/the facts that doesn't line up with the illusion/delusion. Plans might not materialize exactly as we had hoped. There is some possibility of disappointment here. AND because Mercury rules the North Node, there is a deeper/subplot that is really the actual plot, but everyone won't be able to see it. Again karmic releases. Whatever is leaving has to leave. Whatever doesn't work out isn't meant to be right now. For many people the stuff that is leaving is already gone, maybe even long gone. The vacuum that has been created by the emptying is activated. Squares are tension/frustration. This won't be comfortable, but with Mercury ruling the North Node, getting real about this stuff is necessary.


I'll be back to add in the Moons and we'll talk about the MEGA Solar Eclipse on December 14th in Part II of December 2020!! 

 

It's an incredibly important week as we build toward the Solar Eclipse - even the little things we are doing/thinking/saying can make major ripples/cut very old cords that are holding us back. Past life PTSDs getting cleared up. Almost everything we are running into/dealing with - is karmic now. Be brave. Hold on loosely. Intend for what you need to go to be finished with you.


xo all


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Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, December 4th, 2020 - courage and risk, knowing your value, healing words, looking into what you've been avoiding, making time for some fun


 

 

The Moon in Cancer makes the rest of her oppositions in the early A.M. EST opposing first Jupiter (1:52AM) and then Saturn (5:29AM). We won't have a Moon at home in Cancer opposing a Saturn at home in Capricorn for 28 years after this morning! Here's to that! She goes void off that Saturn opposition and will be void until 7:53AM EST when she moves into Leo. 

 

Our focus shifts to creative projects, romance, children, recreation, fun, our need for courage, what our heart desires, our natural white-hot SPOTLIGHT. 

 

From Leo she will trine (brakes off) Mercury in Sagittarius at 4:51PM EST - this is good news/maybe even something to celebrate. There is a square to a retrograde Uranus at 9:37PM EST, so there could be something unexpected and potentially frustrating to close out the day.

 

This is also the day Mercury trines Chiron. Words/information that is healing. Chiron is retrograde so this conversation/news could have its roots in an old situation. Maybe words we once needed to hear, but didn't, we are hearing now (maybe not from the same person/situation). With Mercury squaring Ceres at the same time, words that are preachy/pushy/overly enthusiastic will not be helpful. 

 

Use the trine to Chiron for a brave conversation or to look into information you have been avoiding.

 

This aspect can also produce a sudden epiphany - now, we get it. Here is why XYZ had to happen. To get us here.  

 

Old hurts can be healed if we allow it. 

 

Maybe through a process of discovery. Or maybe even sometimes - Just. Like. That (snaps fingers).

 

This probably won't be totally comfortable and Sag/Aries (not to mention that Leo Moon) requires some courage/some risk! Be confident.

 

Also have some fun this weekend - a Sag Sun and Leo Moon (the last before our monthly Leo Moons start opposing Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius - those Cappy planets have to go somewhere!) - demand some fun!

 

xo all 

 

photo by the amazing Natalia Ciobanu