Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, December 11, 2020 - burn baby burn, taking action, our new super-powers/new dragons begin lining up to meet us, leveling up

 

So, here we are on the precipice of our New Moon Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius (Monday). This will be the FIRST OF FOUR(!!) New Moons  - one in each of the four ELEMENTS at 23 DEGREES - what sorcery is this?! We start with fire (light!), then earth, then air and finally water. And we kick off  Monday with the 23rd Eclipse in the Saros 142 cycle! What?!

 

This is what we have been talking about for years. Here we are, this is us, past the point in the game where we always died before. 

 

Entering a NEW level - WITHOUT all that heavy self-sabotaging karma (old authority contracts held in place by past-life traumas) with NEW super-powers (yet to be discovered), NEW dragons to fight (what would life be without dragons?!), new kinds of GOLD to be mined (what do we value now?!). 

And Jupiter is going to get past Saturn once they both get into Aquarius, so the super-powers/tools will come before the dragons. Our empty hands will not remain empty for long. Our empty hands will come in handy.

 

Excited? Exhausted? (the Sun is squaring Neptune, we might need extra rest) How are we feeling?! And keep in mind every feeling is valid. There is nothing to be smooshed down/covered up. Everyone gets a seat at the table this year or the table gets flipped. We can take this down to a micro level. "Everyone" means every person, every emotion, every part of us/situation we had been ignoring. Can you feel that?! 

Now, after we get through all these New Moons - get this thing going/get our sea-legs, our wings, our fire-breathing dragon abilities, whatever this is for us - then we get our first New Moon of the astrological year in April - at 22 degrees Aries. Because 22 degrees can't be left open/hanging in the wind. It's too powerful. Still mega-powerful, but not so self-sabotaging!

In the meantime we have alot happening today/now/pre-Eclipse.

The Moon is in Scorpio today, making her monthly opposition to Uranus (in Taurus). This happens at 8:43AM EST. Breakthroughs/breakdowns. "Aha" moments. Transformation/chaos vs stability/stagnation. What's our jam these days? The Moon in Scorpio is intense and nurtured through intensity - what we merge (which is never truly just ours ever again), what we purge (which is never truly ours ever again), research, solving problems, getting to the bottom of things. The Moon's next stop will be Sagittarius and she will start building toward Monday's New Moon Solar Eclipse (BIG post this weekend). 

 

For now though, the Moon is dark. 

 

(we might have been able to see the Northern Lights here in New Jersey last night, but hubs and I drove to a field where we thought we might find the best view for this/most northern view and only saw distant holiday decorations and our usual cast of celestial characters - we could feel the electricity though. Maybe. Or we might just have been shivering from the cold and, also, we were starving - I made hot cocoa then forgot our cups on the kitchen counter. Note to self - stop saying, "I will make one" and just buy a freaking scarf and slow your roll, life is better with cocoa.)

The BIG news today, the Sun (at 19 degrees Sagittarius) is trining Mars (in Aries) and opposing the North Node (exactly conjunct AND parallel the South Node). 

 

This is a fiery Sun TRINING (the best aspect in astrology) a fiery Mars - in his home sign for only a few more weeks! HERE is our motivation to move forward. This is courage/confidence. This is a trine, so our next best step is smooth/uncomplicated. 

The Sun is conjunct the South Node - where we are and more importantly what we are leaving behind. Here is the point of no return with something. We either take it to the next step - what comes after Sag, but our ambitious Cappy mountain goat - or we let it go/burn it up. Finish it up. There is no in-between here. Passivity breeds depression/regret at times like this.

The skies are dark, and the Moon is waning. In some ways this is more about what needs to go, BUT it is through our forward action that whatever needs to go gets left behind. 

 

Everyone gets a seat at the table, but not everyone/everything gets a seat at our table.

 

Take the bull by the horns now. And you already know what bull and what horns. This is Sagittarius, the place where the ripest fruit is found out on the limb. We might have to stretch a little bit. Do SOMETHING/anything with this. Action. Action. Action.

 

Life/your muses/your ancestors can use whatever action you take to move you FORWARD! 

 

Don't overthink this.

 

This won't be some big complicated thing and if it feels like it needs to be - because we have been procrastinating or whatever this is - then take the first step. If there is really no action you need to take - write down some things you need to leave behind - old beliefs - and burn the strips of paper. 

 

Walk away from the ashes. Don't look back.

xo all - back with a BIG Eclipse post this weekend!

photo by the amazing thefirebomb

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

photo by the talented quadratiges

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

photo by the talented MATZU

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

photo by the talented MilliganVick