Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - trusting the hold up, the re-visions, the re-thinking, the looks backward, check yourself before you wreck yourself

 

The Moon moves through packed Aquarius now. We haven't seen this many planetary bodies in Aquarius since 1962. She meets Saturn at 7:41AM EST, squares Uranus at 8:41AM EST, meets Venus at 5:10PM EST and meets Jupiter at 6:28PM EST.  Wow!!

 

This is the day Mercury is going to trine the North Node then square Mars. Mercury is retrograde and the North Node is our best path forward, so we can see the re-vision, re-view, re-think (even delay/stoplight) we are having is a needed part of the process. She/he will be back here in March direct and by then we will know what we are doing because we will be doing it. 

The tricky part is Mercury's square (tension, frustration) with Mars. We talked about this yesterday and in the weekly HERE. 

 

"Here is an old argument/obstacle/tension. This is a repeating aspect from January 8th. We might have to fight for what we think/have/need. Mars is in Taurus, busy trying to hold onto what he (as we) has - working toward stability. Our actions are geared toward our sustenance/survival/slow and steady growth/what is comforting. Maybe Mercury is coming in with these far-out ideas ahead of her time and Mars is like, hold on a minute - do we have the existing resources/self-esteem for this? What would I have to change? This is a fixed square, so no one wants to budge. With Mercury in Aquarius this can also be a surprising realization/news that upsets our hard-earned stability."

 

Maybe we don't have enough information/or the right thinking about something to proceed. We know from the trine these delays/looks backward are necessary, so there is no point beating our head against the wall over that part of it. If we are feeling antsy/impulsive we can give Mars in Taurus something to do - he (as we) is very useful here/can do the sustaining thing. With all this airy Aquarius, we are lucky to have our hands in the dirt - or mud as it might be. Keep in mind the North Node is in Gemini (answering to that retrograde Mercury) - it's a time to talk, ask questions, look around, yes ... again. Mercury will be direct on February 20th and then we'll be moving forward and by mid-March covering new ground.

 

The fact that this major stellium in Aqua is happening while she is retrograde tells us this retrograde/backward thinking is VERY IMPORTANT. We can't move forward without it. We won't line up with what we need to line up with. Check facts. Ask questions. Know words can be challenging. We might feel pushed or pushy. 

 

The first of 2021's Saturn/Uranus squares is happening next week. Aquarius/Taurus, just like today's Mercury/Mars. When Saturn gets added to the mix (and he's already in here) we get results/reality checks - so the results of any rebelliousness/disorder, Aquarius detachment. Or maybe he brings us the results of our innovative thinking/elbow grease/group goals - this can be the "futury-thing" this week's challenges are building if we work things well. Do robots have muscles? Maybe they do.

For today, maybe some old information/person from the past/need to re-think, SOMETHING, seems to be holding us up. Trust the hold up. Keep a cool head because Mars in Taurus is frustrated enough.

The Moon is dark/balsamic. Get enough rest. All these energies squaring Mars (our action, passion, initiative) can make us less motivated. We'll rehash all this more thoroughly in the New Moon post tonight.

 

xo all 

 

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 - get it done early, a healing opportunity if we are willing to address the wound, starting to get antsy

 

 

The Moon continues her travels through Capricorn now - nurtured through taking things seriously, older people, having beans in the cupboard and dollars in the bank.

She sextiled Neptune at 1:54AM EST and then goes void off a meet up with Pluto at 12:21PM EST. What a relief for the Moon not to have that Cappy pile-up to deal with when she is in her detriment anymore! This day is good for business, taking care of responsibilities, dealing with authority/stepping into our own. The Moon is balsamic now, dark, winding things down. What do you need to finish? Get off your desk/plate/mind? The Moon will be void until 8:20PM EST when she moves into Aquarius in preparation for this week's New Moon.

This week is all about Mercury retrograde - what we are re-doing, re-vising, re-imagining, re-thinking. The past is alive. The impeachment trial begins today in the United States - during the Void Moon! But we have the sextile of Saturn (in Aquarius) and Chiron (in Aries) - active all week/exact today - a healing opportunity if we are willing to address the wound. And that is what we are doing, although legislators may think they are doing something else.

We are moving toward tomorrow's exact (in play now, and Mars often feels more potent as he is applying than exact) - Mercury/Mars square as Mercury backs into 17 degrees Aquarius and squares Mars at 17 degrees Taurus. News/information.conversations/decisions challenge us. This likely has its roots in the past. We could be triggered/pissed off. Antsy/agitated. Or other people will be, so keep a cool head. Drive safely. Be aware of your words/actions in group situations. We might feel pushed or pushy. Maybe pushed to do something. We can probably expect we will have to put more energy into what we want or we might decide through the square, it's not really worth doing/thinking anymore. With Mercury retrograde we are working the process.  See the weekly HERE for more on the square.

 

March and April look easier collectively and keep in mind alot of what is happening in January and February will impact most of the year. The January explosions creating the need for February retractions.

 

For today, get important stuff done early before that Void Moon and save Void Moon time for the routine matters you do all the time, or things you would like "nothing to come of". 

 

The Moon in Cappy can feel depressing for some people (others get more goal-oriented/ambitious and who is who depends on other factors sometimes out of our control), it's dark now and needs rest - we do, too - and with so much in Aquarius, answering to Saturn and opposing the sunnier days of Leo - make some time for fun (and sun - those Vitamin D chewables aren't quite the same thing, are they?). I have been making these livingroom Escape Rooms (which are these kind of stressful puzzles, but since I am making them and not solving them, no stress for me - ack). Do what you have to do to step away from any heaviness when you can. We will get through this guys. Together and alone. It's written in the stars. Truly.

BIG New Moon post next and then a Big Picture (chaos redistributes power, first Uranus/Saturn square next week).

xo all

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Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | February 8th - 14th, 2021 - MEGA New Moon in Aqua, sudden insights, detaching and manning up to group responsibilities are healing, asking the right questions, reaching out again, something is coming unstuck

 

MONDAY - Sun conjunct retro Mercury

TUESDAY - Saturn sextile Chiron

WEDNESDAY - retro Mercury trine North Node, retro Mercury square Mars

THURSDAY - New Moon in Aquarius (23 degrees), Venus conjunct Jupiter

SATURDAY - retro Mercury conjunct Venus, Mars sextile Neptune

There is a MEGA heavy concentration of Aquarius planets this week.

 

We haven't seen anything like this since February 5, 1962, the date astrologer/psychic Jeane Dixon announced was the birth of the anti-Christ. She saw the anti-Christ as an actual person, but hindsight being 20/20 and all, maybe this was the start of a computer program/hardware/something that took us in a different direction with technology? I penpaled with her a couple times when I was a kid, since this was my birthday (not the year) to assure myself I wasn't this anti-Christ fellow she warned of. She was quite nice to me.

 

Aquarius in our chart is where we need to be different/stand apart, be ourselves, and recognize how we connect (or don't) to the group, but our nervous systems aren't used to this kind of high-powered BLAST - so you may need to unplug more often now and get outside/go inside. I had to step offline a couple days last week - the reason for the crickets around here.

 

Also keep in mind with all this smart and future-focused Aqua, brilliant ideas are the low-hanging fruit now, so PAY ATTENTION.

Let's take a quick look at the week sans the Moons!

MONDAY- a moment of CLARITY

 

The Sun (in Aquarius) meets a retrograde Mercury at 20 degrees. This is the Sun/Mercury inferior conjunction at the halfway point of Mercury's retrograde process (kind of like their New Moon). A moment of clarity. A time "to see what we are thinking". A new manifestation cycle - thoughts becoming things - begins. Mercury is retrograde, so can be a trickster here, and we've been here before, but in Aquarius, we will likely be advancing something/taking it further. 

 

Here is an answer/result/idea/conversation/information flavored with Aquarian detachment/brilliance/stubbornness/future or group-focus. Mercury is translating Aqua energy into words and perceptions. 

 

We can be shaken up/out of a rut now.

 

This is the time of AHA! moments that are not blurred by teary eyed sentiment/emotions. 

And keep in mind Mercury has just met Pallas on SUNDAY, so he is smarter now. His/her strategies/plans more innovative/cutting edge. Also keep in mind Mercury is retrograde - so this is a time of re-thinking, re-viewing, re-doing - the dots, that Pallas so famously connects are not through re-arranging themselves. We need to stay somewhat flexible even as Aquarius (fixed air) is wanting to nail this all down.

TUESDAY - detaching/focusing on the future to HEAL

Saturn (at 6 degrees Aquarius) sextiles wounded healer Chiron (at 6 degrees Aries). The Aquarius/Aries sextile (opportunity) is all about individuality/independence. This is healing by detaching from what is raw/easily triggered. Saturn in Aquarius is also about our karma with group/collective responsibilities, so there is something healing now, by doing the work there. Big girl/big boy pants on. Yes, they can be sweat pants.

WEDNESDAY - the right words and also an argument/tension/stumbling block, working the process

Now, our retrograde Mercury (18 degrees Aquarius) trines the North Node in Gemini and then, moving backward, squares Mars at 17 degrees Taurus. 

So, we got the IDEA/result/clarity/information - whatever enlightenment the Sun gave Mercury earlier in the week - and now here is where it pulls us smoothly into the future. Mercury rules the North Node, and the trine is astro's best aspect, so this is POWERFUL. This is all air - so the right conversation happens at just the right time, the book we need to read falls off the shelf. Just keep in mind what the North Node in Gemini is all about - asking questions and not being so sure we have all the answers, staying flexible, keeping it local/small enough to pivot as needed - we are going to get this aspect again in early March with Mercury direct, so this is a process. 

 

A few hours later, Mercury is going to square Mars. 

 

Here is an old argument/obstacle/tension. This is a repeating aspect from January 8th. We might have to fight for what we think/have/need. Mars is in Taurus, busy trying to hold onto what he (as we) has - working toward stability. Our actions are geared toward our sustenance/survival/slow and steady growth/what is comforting. Maybe Mercury is coming in with these far-out ideas ahead of her time and Mars is like, hold on a minute - do we have the existing resources/self-esteem for this? What would I have to change? This is a fixed square, so no one wants to budge. With Mercury in Aquarius this can also be a surprising realization/news that upsets our hard-earned stability. 

 

Mercury is going to meet Taurus ruler Venus at the end of this week, so there is some ironing-out going to happen as we move forward. Venus is in Aquarius so leaning into the future, too, and she will be coming off her own meeting with expansive/big-picture Jupiter before Mercury backs into her. And keep in mind this is all happening in the outer world and in our world and in our own heads/bodies. Working through the tangles/frustration is part of the process. And, of course, this will be colored by our natal house placements, so FOR EXAMPLE if you are a Scorpio rising, all this Aquarius focus is impacting your 4th house of home, family, family business, home business, mother, etc - and being squared by your partnership house which is less predictable/stable than it used to be!

 

We have to remember these Taurus squares from the Aqua planets are not what they would have been a couple years ago because now we have Uranus (Aqua's co-ruler of chaos) in steady-Eddie Taurus (which is now just Eddie and not so steady) shaking this stuff up. 

 

The squares to Aquarius can be the final push needed to break something that has been stuck (maybe for lifetimes) FREE.

 

THURSDAY - the Aquarius Moon meets the Aquarius Sun giving us this month's New Moon!

 

Here is the BIG New Moon in Aquarius (our 4th!! New Moon at 23 degrees, this time conjunct a couple tricky fixed stars, again with Eris at 23 degrees Aries and this time with Vesta at 23 degrees Libra conjunct fixed star Spica) with a MEGA stellium in Aquarius to power it up including Venus and Jupiter who are EXACT. There is a wide square to Mars here, which I think, gives us just enough stress/tension for the impossible to be made more possible. And keep in mind Mercury is retrograde so there will be revisions, reviews of whatever gets started now, later on. The Aquarius space in our chart is where we are getting the chance to re-write EVERYTHING. Everything? Yes, I think so!

Expect a BIG POST!

SATURDAY - talking about what we want, making the dream real

 

Now a retrograde Mercury backs into Venus at 14 degrees Aquarius and at the same time Mars (at 19 degrees Taurus now) is sextiling Neptune in Pisces. All the inner planets are active, so we should all be feeling this. This connects us back to tenser energies earlier in the week, but now instead of Mars running interference for Mercury and Venus, they are together and he is off playing nice with Neptune.

 

Venus in Aquarius lets us step back from what we think we want and sometimes this detaching thing creates a kind of vacuum that allows what we need - which might look quite a bit different from what we were thinking or maybe it doesn't, Aquarius is quite unpredictable - to come through. After her meeting with Jupiter she is feeling more expansive/open. Mercury, on the other hand, has just squared off with Mars, so is kind of just past this tension/frustration involving our resources, money, self-esteem. He/she has been through quite a bit this week and is no doubt soothed by Venus. Time to say it again? Reach out again? Maybe. Plus, of course Mars is off making opportunistic connections to dreamy Neptune - his actions/routines to stabilize out security/comfort working very well with 'the dream'. Earth and water are fertile/can create very solid things and Mercury/Venus in Aqua is alot of air, but this isn't a flighty kind of energy. Aquarius, fixed air, and co-ruled by Saturn (strong in Aquarius now) is long lasting.  

 

Coming right after, and as part of, this week's BIG New Moon speaks well for real THINGS (with wings) to be PLANTED in fertile ground.

 

One caveat with all the Aquarius this week (the Sun leaves Aquarius next week and this starts to break up) besides the 'deep-fry our brains' part, and take this from an Aquarian Sun person with an Aquarius stellium, Aquarius wants/needs to ADVANCE and to be different. And this focus on advancement/being different can sometimes make us lose sight of 'do we want/need to do this advancing or this different thing' in the first place. Because we can do it, does this mean we should do it? When we are truly stuck, any change can be good. But will it be? I'm not sure. But, I am choosing to believe, yes. 

 

Yes, it is. Sometimes new is enough.

 

Maybe since our current circumstances have required we become VERY STUCK, it now takes a VERY BIG DOSE of Aquarius liberation to UNSTICK US. We are wired into some very high frequency energy right now - particularly our Aquarius house theme (natal and progressed) - some kind of 'shake-up' is needed. 

Keep in mind the big-picture, which yes, I need to get a post up about! The Age of Aquarius 2021 battle (first exact square next week!) between Saturn and Uranus as power gets re-distributed which is really what chaos is always all about anyway .... it's becoming clearer and clearer to us all the crap that isn't working. We are going to have to change everything, and, on the other hand, and yes, we always get two -  the world is the best it's ever been and we should be extremely cautious about what we toss out. Also, Mercury is going to meet Jupiter on Valentine's Day, so the potential for more good news! Maybe old opportunities coming back around. 

 

Let's look up, that's where everything is happening anyway.

xo all

 

if anyone needs to know where all this Aqua is hitting their chart hit me up with an email with birth info (I will probably have it, if I have looked at something for you before) and I will take a quick look and let you know the house and house themes - cativins@gmail.com

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - smart contracts and contacts, hope, expansion, balance, cooperation, getting fired up together

 

 

The Moon continues her journey through Libra. We are nurtured through beauty and balance and fairness and love and our relationships. She trined the Aquarius Sun at 5:49AM EST while both the Sun and the Moon sextile (opportunity) Juno, at 13 degrees Sagittarius. 

The Moon/Sun is this month's Waning Trine. Libra/Aquarius. Your Libra and Aquarius houses, always in flow, both now occupied by the Moon and the Sun, are more powerful. Social activities are favored. Our primary relationships/beauty/women/fairness/balance/cooperation and our groups/causes/the future/the goals that bring us into connection with other people are working together.

That sextile to an optimistic Juno (echoing the relationship focus today) speaks of an opportunity within a partnership, contract or agreement. The Beatles song, "we can work it out" is popping into my head here.

 

The key to today, because we are dealing with air signs (with an equal helping of Sag enthusiasm/fire tossed into the mix) is probably to come together from a higher less emotional space and then allow the Sag fire to expand the energy/heat it up. Today's aspects are fleeting, but potent. The Sun's sextile to Juno being the longest lasting - expansion within our relationships, hope, adding something foreign into the mix/the relationship/the contract/the agreement.

 

The airy/light Sun and Moon line up with fiery Juno and the breeze can catch fire!

 

xo all 

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