Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 - get it done early, no dark alleys, stay flexible, no pushing, what you are fighting about won't really be what you are fighting about

The Moon, home in Cancer, goes void at 11:26AM EDT off an opposition to Pluto. She is void most of the day until she moves into fiery Leo at 5:36PM EDT. The void is best for routine work around your home or office, for purging/de-cluttering/elimination. 

Just before midnight EDT, Mercury (in Pisces) reaches her/his exact square with Mars (in Gemini). This has been in play since the Gemini Moon did the same thing last Friday and will be in play for a couple more days as they separate. 

The energy is ripe for arguments/accidents. 

 

Drive safely. No dark alleys. And I should say, some of this energy, and maybe most, may have already played out, this would be most potent while applying (I think I lived this entire week yesterday). 

 

Mars in Gemini will want to go/move/say it - spit it out. Mars will be antsy. We will say to ourselves, "I am not going to say anything/not going to fight/get mad" and then there we are blurting it all out. Mercury in Pisces will want to drift/take his time. We will say to ourselves, "I will rise above this" and then there we will be sulking/crying/feeling every single time (even those we can't remember) we have felt this way before. Conversations/getting to the facts might require patience/compassion. A square to Mars probably means there is something we NEED TO GET AROUND/GET THROUGH. A square to Mercury probably means there is something we NEED TO KNOW, SAY, HEAR that isn't going to be comfortable. 

 

The astrology tells us there is something we must move through here to get to that FORWARD MOVEMENT FEELING/pot of gold at the end of the week. The more we push this off, the more anxiety we will have to deal with. Once the conversation is had, the action taken, the decision made - we will start to feel better. Forgiveness/compassion/connection. This doesn't mean we push and shove though - this isn't going to work with Mercury in Pisces. We need to talk/move, but we have to allow this situation to unfold as it will to some extent. 

 

With a square to Pisces jumping in just twists an ankle. If life seems to pull us off course now - just go with the flow of that. 

 

The key to any mutable square is our ability to roll with things/stay flexible. And keep in mind both our North Node, our collective way forward (in Gemini) is in a mutable sign and the ruler of our North Node (in Pisces) is in a mutable sign. Flexibility/versatility is key. With Pisces, we can connect through compassion/forgiveness - letting go of the need for perfection/the need to fix something that isn't totally fixable. This doesn't mean stopping. What can be done? With Gemini, deal with the facts, but keep communications light. It won't take deep conversation/analysis to get things moving/back on track. 

 

And, keep in mind with Pisces, we are dealing with 12th house stuff - the stuff that is behind us. And the Nodes of Fate are triggered all week. The argument/the accident/the antsy move/words that DON'T WANT TO WAIT - whatever the tension/frustration is, this is somehow needing to happen now. Needing to be dealt with. The argument about the sticky coffee spoon won't really be about a sticky coffee spoon. The argument WILL MATTER. The way the argument ends WILL MATTER most.

 

Don't push, let the answers come in their own time. 

Think about - why would life be pushing you to GO (you have to get around that rock or you will be eaten by ZOMBIES or your boss or the IRS) AND giving you slippery roads/foggy skies/squishy brakes at the same time? And you have a hangover, have I said that? And the zombies are those fast bastards in the Korean and UK films, not the meandering American zombies. What would be the point? What would you be learning? Maybe your answer - which might not be my answer or anyone's else's answer - maybe your answer tells you something about what you need to know.

xo all

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Weekly Astrology Forecast | March 22nd - march 29th, 2021 - crossroads, tense conversations, fated transitions, healing very old woundings, the cracks are where the light comes in, but first something is probably gonna crack

 

 

Early Saturday morning EDT, the Sun crossed into Aries - a cardinal sign, initiating a NEW SEASON. In Aries, this is the START of the Astrological Year - we are that new growth breaking through the dry winter soil. Out of the ethereal waters of Pisces, we get back to the business of being human. This year's activation, already potent, forms an opportunistic sextile with, the still red hot, degree of 0 Aquarius where Jupiter met Saturn back in December and restarted the new world. So, HERE at the Aries Ingress, first day of Spring (in northern hemisphere), first day of the Astrological Year - is when we really start to feel the opportunity of this "new world".

 

Here is a LIGHT shining on the new. We are fueled by fire/our initiative now - able to be braver when we need to be. On Sunday, Venus followed the Sun across the Aries point and into Aries (the sign of her detriment, since she rules Aries polarity sign of Libra). Now what we want/our values/our new ideas about women and beauty and relationships and money catches up with our fresh start Sun - not only is a light shining on the new, but now we WANT something NEW, too!

 

It is through this lens of NEW we start this pivotal and important week!

MONDAY - Mercury conjuncts Hekate and then opposes Vesta - Mercury at 8 degrees Pisces meets Hekate and then opposes Vesta (retrograde) at 9 degrees

TUESDAY - Mercury squares Mars - Mercury at 11 degrees Pisces squares Mars at 11 degrees Gemini

THURSDAY - Mercury squares the Nodes - Mercury at 13 degrees Pisces squares the North and South Nodes at 13 degrees Gemini

FRIDAY - Sun conjuncts Venus, Mars conjuncts North Node - Sun at 5 degrees Aries meets Venus, Mars at 15 degrees Gemini meets the North Node

SUNDAY - Full Moon in Libra, Venus conjuncts Chiron - Venus at 8 degrees Aries meets Chiron, the Libra Moon opposes the Aries Sun at 8 degrees = Full Moon in Libra

 

Now, with all this talk of NEW, we have to keep in mind, Mercury (our conscious mind/information) is still drifting through Pisces - the sign of endings. Pisces rules what is behind us/in the past (and with the nodal activations this week we are dealing with old, even past-life/ancestral turning points), what we can't see clearly, secrets, lies, our self-sabotaging escape tendencies, our intuition, so there is still something back here - we are going to have to deal with THIS WEEK.

 

With Mercury/Mars both interacting with the Nodes there are FATED conversations (likely tense, maybe passionate or even angry), FATED turning points/choices, FATED words, FATED actions, FATED transitions and new beginnings. 

Despite the fresh Aries energy of the new season, Mercury (our words, thinking, conversations, sometimes sibling, local community or transportation situations, situations that show up in pairs), mired in the past, is running the show.

 

He/she starts the week with a conjunction to Hekate 

 

- the Goddess of the Crossroads, a way-shower and translator of the energy between the conscious and unconscious worlds. She is about a time of transition/those forks in the road and although having her here can’t help us see how it will all turn out, she does help us put away the old/the things that don’t belong with us anymore. She often shows up when we don't know where we are going and helps us to not fixate so much on the not knowing/the changes. Having seen it all and knowing the stuff behind us that we have consciously forgotten, she helps us onto the right path - not the easiest/smoothest path necessarily, but somehow the one that is MOST RIGHT - and helps us attract the right people.

 

When I realized asteroid Hekate was conjunct Mercury, who is not only uber-active this week, but rules Mars (our actions) AND the North Node (our best path forward), I was #surprised, #notsurprised. 

 

Because astrology is amazing. Always.

 

We talked about her HERE - and now, with Mercury in Pisces, we again stand at a crossroad faced with very old choices (even past-life/ancestral) - the road ahead of us splits - which road are we on THIS TIME? Mercury in Pisces is requiring us, by making the facts fuzzy, to use our intuition/allow things to fall where they fall in a sense.

 

Hekate is with us/in us, joined with Mercury - we can ask her to help guide our choices. She can see our past and which road ahead is somehow most right.

 

After moving past Hekate, Mercury's immediate opposition to Vesta (retrograde in Virgo) speaks of the need to stop avoiding what isn't perfect/the problem/the mistake. With Vesta retrograde, this isn't a new situation, we have been haunted by this before. Virgo/Pisces - fix it or forget it. This is a pivotal week, how is this Virgo focus not helpful? 

Then Mercury (as us) squares first Mars, followed by the North/South Nodes - here is challenging information, the need for a conversation, actions we have been avoiding, a need to work our way through verbal tension/even the need for an argument (but maybe with Gemini, we can keep things light and avoid the fighting part!), maybe still the need to release some kind of delusion/fantasy. This is tension/frustration. A problem we need to get past. With Mercury in illusive Pisces we probably won't have the full story/all the facts. These nodal aspects tell us this stuff is fated - WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE (or our ancestors have). 

Whatever we are agreeing to now, signing up for, saying/thinking/doing/fighting about - make no mistake - IT MATTERS. We are setting our course WITH OUR WORDS. They are our weapons AND our wands. Choose wisely. Lean toward smart Gemini - your Gemini house theme, the facts of the situation, what is local/light, maybe smaller/closer/quicker. More on the Nodes this year HERE.

 

Keep in mind the nature of Mercury/Mars and with Mars in Gemini - everything can seem to be happening twice or we could have two situations we are dealing with. Information might need to be balanced with our urge for action. WE MIGHT HAVE TO STOP AND TAKE A BREATH. If something comes up and can be pushed off until the end of the week - that might be easier. It might not be possible though. It feels like things are moving fast. Mercury/Mars squares can mean arguments/accidents. Expect some snafus with tech/transportation/your community/sibling situations. Drive safely. Stay frosty. Slow your roll as needed.

 

If we jump into something too quickly here, we could make a mistake, but also if we sit on our ass and try to avoid the unavoidable, so it's tricky - we are in between Eclipses now and a wrong move on our part will probably need to be ironed out - and 'ironed out' might be a little more gentle than how this could play out - when we get into the next set of Eclipses in late May through mid-June. Otherwise Eclipse season will build on what is chosen now, with some likely twists and turns ahead.

 

By the end of the week, the energy is SHIFTING - Mars meets the North Node in Gemini at the same time the Sun is meeting Venus in Aries. Here is where our actions/words are moving us forward - what have we chosen/decided/said/heard/learned? 

 

News/information/a conversation sets us on our course. 

 

We close the week with a BIG Full Moon in Libra (our relationships!) with ruler Venus, challenged in Aries, but conjunct the Sun AND Chiron. 

 

Here is where the light comes in through those cracks and we get some much needed healing on these very old woundings.

We will talk about this in a BIG post.

This is a pivotal week as we ride the waves between Eclipse seasons. Stay flexible.

Back with some dailies!

xo all

 

artwork by the talented Amelia Leonards

Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, March 19, 2021 - taking responsibility for what we have made, avoiding arguments and accidents, a building desire for something new

 

 

The Moon is in Gemini now - we are nourished by conversation, walking and chewing gum at the same time, things that remind us of childhood/what feels local. She has squared Mercury while we slept (EDT) and meets up with Mars at 2:25PM EDT - good for putting out fires, but also starting them. By 4:49PM EDT she will be trining sober Saturn - good for ending the week on a smooth/positive note with authority/our responsibilities/the group. 

Tomorrow, the Sun will cross the Aries point (zero degree Aries) and launch a new solar year. We will look at the chart tonight! With the Moon in Cancer (the next day) and Venus triggering, too, I think we will feel it - the fire being lit/the desire for something NEW.

In the meantime, we get a little preview of late March/April's Aries/Aquarius trines as Saturn (at 10 degrees Aquarius now) moves into a smooth flow - brakes off - with mamabear Ceres in Aries.  

 

Saturn/Ceres is about us taking responsibility for what we have birthed/are nurturing/our nurturing. Maybe here is where the rules come in (by us/for us) - Ceres in Aries is about creating something new and newness needs structure/limits, so this won't be a bad thing/shouldn't feel so oppressive with that smooth trine. Things can fall into place with just a little 'stepping up' on our part. Aries/Aquarius is independent energy, can work well together. Think about a smart/detached Aqua dad and a fiery/independent Aries child or an independent/self-starting Aries mom and an individualistic/intelligent Aqua child - this (all other things being equal, and they aren't but you get the idea) will work. 

 

Note the Moon/Mars in Gemini, especially after that square to Mercury, can make us antsy/prone to arguments and accidents. Drive safely. Keep a cool head. Slow down as needed. Channel the Aqua/Aries - what can you do with that? Get ready to welcome the New Year.

xo all 

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the amazing astrology of meghan markle and Ann boleyn | and the crossroads divide us - part I

 

Astrology is the ancient language of archetypes (the myths that connect us by re-tracing the shared pathways of our collective unconscious, there are parts of us/our DNA that remembers, and so reacts, to these stories) and meticulously studied patterns. It is good enough as a predictive tool, but certainly not an exact science because so many things can just mean so many things!

 

What can be gleaned from an astrological natal chart though (birth - first breath of a person/venture/event) is TOTALLY AMAZING.

 

We come into the world, not as a blank slate, but with the patterns within us that have been in human beings before us.

 

If you are lucky enough to live in a family with accurate birth records, astrological analysis can give a voice to the complexities of your family as an organic whole, your family's place within collective society and the role each individual within your family plays in carrying on the ancestral line. 

 

You might think your family boring, but I can guarantee you, the truth of them, each of them, is as riveting as the very best episode of Game of Thrones (yes, the one where Cersei settles all the family's outstanding business - ouch). 

 

When I got into astrology, it was obvious the best way to learn was to study alot of charts - imagine the archetypes/look for patterns. The records in my own family, pre-Ancestry.com, was pretty sketchy, so I once spent (back in the early 90's around the time of Princess Diana's death) a crazy/obsessive amount of time studying the charts of the royal family from present day back to the time of King Henry VIII.

 

After hearing about Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah last week (I haven't watched it yet), I thought we'd take a look at their current transits to see what is going on, but I actually never got past their uber interesting natals, so we are going to unpack those and see how they BOTH fit, like little missing puzzle pieces, into the ancient and modern royal family charts. And, yes, we'll move onto the transits at some point, too, and see if we can glean where all this is going!

 

From my days absorbed with Princess Diana, I became very familiar with the chart of the infamous - and in my opinion quite maligned - Ann Boleyn (a controversial wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I - she played an important part in English history and the creation of the Church of England - we'll cover more of this story in part II and how it connects to what is going on in the world right now). 

 

When I opened Meghan's chart I immediately recognized Ann's.

 

Do the current energies make Ann's story ripe to be re-imagined through Meghan? Is Meghan Markle the reincarnation of Ann Boleyn?

 

Let's unpack the charts!

There are a couple ways to compare/examine multiple people's charts. We can look at their "synastry" the way their personal points and planets interact with each other (their effect on each other) and we can create a composite chart from the midpoints of their individual charts (which would reflect the energy of the relationship).

 

We'll start with synastry. Ann Boleyn's 23 degree Taurus 10th house Sun is conjunct Meghan's 22 degree natal Chiron (old wounding, in Meghan's case 11th house of the other and the public/the audience). Ann's life = Meghan's wound. Ann's Sun opposes Meghan's 22 degree past-life/ancestral (powerful, but sometime self-sabotaging) Neptune in the 5th house which rules both royalty and children. 

 

This 5th house Neptune of Meghan's is exactly conjunct Ann Boleyn's 4th house Moon (mother, mothering). 

 

Conversely, we can spin this around - Ann's Chiron is ALSO conjunct Meghan's Sun!

 

Ann's wound = Meghan's life-force/purpose. Ann's 4th house Pluto is exactly conjunct Meghan's Uranus. Ann's life/death transformation, which ended with her decapitation by the way (is also conjunct Harry's 10th house South Node allowing Meghan's rebellious Uranus to free him from the burdens of that social status/patriarchal story-line - this is also conjunct Meghan's Black Moon Lilith as she is tossed from the garden one more time, Black Moon Lilith also connects to Black Lives Matter and the part their children's race/color plays as this timeline shifts). This Uranus of Meghan's - the one conjunct Ann's Pluto EXACTLY and Harry's South Node/Ceres conjunction is in Megan's 5th house of children (also royalty).

 

Meghan has an exact Pallas/Diana/Psyche conjunction in her first house. 

 

Ann has a  Pallas/Diana/Psyche conjunction in her 10th house - with asteroid Diana (fertility/childbirth, Goddess of the hunt/hunted) exactly on Ann Boleyn's North Node - Ann's story to be replayed, with a new twist (nothing ever repeats itself in the same way) through the line of Diana? Meghan herself being born within days of Diana's marriage to Charles. 

 

We can imagine the Goddesses gathered at Diana's wedding rubbing their hands together, "OK girls, now we've got a PROJECT".

 

And, yes, for those who might be wondering, Harry (whose real name is Henry) has quite a few connections to his ancestor Henry (also called Harry by his chums) and also to his other ancestor Edward VIII who abdicated the throne for the love of an American woman. We will look at all of that in a later post.

 As for Harry and Meghan's synastry, again we see her Uranus on his South Node (she's breaking him away from this old story/his tradition). Her Chiron (remember this is also Ann Boleyn's Sun) conjunct Harry's exalted 4th house Moon (showing the great care and love from his mother and also the great care and love he has for his mother) - Meghan's Chiron - her wounding - helping him to heal from his mother-wound. But does this also take him back to a 500 year old ancestral 'mother wounding'?

 Meghan's Saturn is also exactly conjunct his Mercury, so she is kind of growing him up/sobering him up/giving his service-oriented Virgo Mercury a purpose, although it could become a bit much on him at times most likely. Saturn synastry aspects, especially maybe the powerful conjunction, point to karmic contracts. Like "we are going to get together and do this" this time around. Or their energetic cording requiring this be worked at during these particular transits. 

 

Harry has a natal Diana/Eris conjunction and Meghan has that first house Diana (exact with Psyche and Pallas) and Eris on her midheaven. Meghan's public discord/feeling unwelcome connecting for Harry to his mother's feeling of being unwelcome. Their story playing out through her pregnancy/birth of Archie with asteroid Child conjunct Harry's 22 degree Virgo Sun (again the need for a Sun/Son/Child to get this thing right, but this time moving in a totally different direction!) and on the Galactic Center in Meghan's chart (which is Harry's natal Neptune placement).

 

(Harry's Sun is also conjunct asteroid Zeus - the solar rays eclipsing his Zeus - the king of the Gods - this eclipsing speaks of the fated destiny of Harry's role as spare to William's heir in this lifetime)

 

Meghan and Harry have a definite Marsy vibe. Needing someone or something to fight lest they fight with each other! But, this also gives them a great deal of passion. 

 

Also her Mars in Cancer (12th house so almost certainly a past life connection here) exact on his DC (his partner) shows us not only their past life 'mother story' but intimates he sees her as fighting as a mother/for her children. Almost certainly with Harry's chart he grew up thinking/feeling that he needed to/or should have somehow saved his own mother.

 

Back in January 2020 as Saturn was approaching Pluto, as time was running out, we had a Cancer Full Moon, we talked about her HERE. 

 

This was that BIG Full Moon in Cancer with the Moon standing all alone across the sky from that powerful pile-up of planets in Capricorn - Mama Bear fighting City Hall. This was when Meghan and Harry were announcing their departure from royal life. This was with the Cappy pile-up on Queen Elizabeth's ascendant (so Moon on her descendant), Ann Boleyn's natal Neptune (5th house children), King Henry VIII's natal Uranus (5th house children), Catherine Duchess of Cambridge aka Kate Middleton's Sun/South Node (5th house children - an old story of hers wraps up suddenly here as Harry leaves with Meghan, interesting for those who know the Henry VIII history - we'll look at this in another post). The Full Moon sextiling (opportunity) Harry's natal Moon and Meghan's Ascendant. WOW.

 

We talked about Hekate recently - she is a triplicity Goddess - considered the wise crone (of the Persephone/maiden, Demeter/mother trio). Turned into a "witch" during patriarchal re-tellings, she is actually the Goddess of the Crossroads. 

 

When major shifts happen in relationships, work, status or health, when we are in transition, no longer who we used to be in some significant way (like the world right now and it's not surprising the royal family, a powerful expression of patriarchy/tradition is a zeitgeist for this) - these are the times when we can be at a major crossroads with Hekate/Hecate. 

 

She sees where we have come from, and which direction (timeline) each of the two choices will take us. I also see Hekate in our natal chart as a place where we just might go astray, and the area of our life where we are bound to develop great wisdom as a way-shower for others. The asteroid Hekate orbits in the same region as the Hygiea asteroid family, but is considered to be an unrelated interloper. My take on this is that she helps us, particularly when we are spending time with the wrong people, to find our true soul family.

 

Meghan was born with Hekate EXACT on her IC at 11 degrees Libra. Her roots/who she is. She is an old soul/will be a wise old woman. Harry was born with Hekate EXACT on his descendant at 11 degrees Cancer (so precisely squaring Meghan's) - his partner destined to be a Hekate. At the time of the Mama Bear Full Moon - the North Node (our collective way forward) was at 9 degrees Cancer - exactly on Harry's mother Diana's natal Sun, conjunct Harry's Hekate, squaring Meghan's Hekate AND inconjunct Duchess Catherine's (AKA Kate Middleton) 11 degree Hekate in Sagittarius. Yes, Meghan's Hekate is 11 degrees Libra, Harry's 11 degrees Cancer and Kate's 11 degrees Sagittarius. The number 11 is a powerful number - the Magician card of the tarot, a number of intuition and spiritual insight - it is a master number related to KARMA.

 

Hekate. A crossroads. A timeline (stream of consciousness) shifts. Maybe something from the Meghan, Harry, Kate story can be used to glean more about the forgotten (by our conscious memory/history, our subconscious remembers) story of Hekate, too.

 

2020's Saturn/Pluto conjunction (the same in Cappy as the days of King Henry VIII) - limits/rules/authority is transformed - death (Pluto) of tradition (Saturn - the patriarchy) AND authority (Saturn) is cemented - because this is happening in Saturn's sign - authority is made more powerful (Pluto).

 

And now, 2021's Saturn/Uranus squares - the old/tradition vs the new/freedom. Chaos redistributing power. We'll continue this adventure in part II and since Hekate (pronounced Heck-a-tay) insists we not ignore Catherine/Kate's role here - we will pull her chart into this, and another Catherine /Katherine, too

 

(history buffs and Brits might see where this is going! yes, it goes there!). 

 

And, of course, we'll examine Harry/Henry, Queen Elizabeth & Diana and how this story - which seems not so terribly significant in the midst of everything that is going on in the world right now - is actually CENTRAL TO IT. A zeitgeist of Saturn/Pluto and Saturn/Uranus. Also, we will look at Meghan's connections to the Queen - which are quite good actually.

xo all

Also, before we leave Goddess Hekate/Hecate, I will add that asteroid Hekate is EXACTLY conjunct Princess Diana's natal Eris and EXACTLY conjunct Queen Elizabeth's natal Neptune (in Leo/7th house and ruling her 2nd) and EXACTLY opposing her natal Jupiter (in Aqua/1st house and ruling her 10th).

The last time I wrote one small paragraph about Meghan Markle I received multiple emails telling me she's a "narcissist". So, let's think about that for a moment. Her natal asteroid Narcissus is at 21 degrees (a powerful, but self-sabotaging degree) in her 9th house (foreign situations/media) in Pisces (past-life/what is behind us). Keep in mind we are seeing Ann Boleyn's powerfully ambitious chart through Meghan and I think anyone with a packed first house in Leo including her Sun and North Node, like Meghan has - naturally attention-getting/charming/designed for the spotlight - is maybe also going to tend toward being self-absorbed. But, that's the plan with this chart! She had to want to be royalty for any of this to work/get resolved. No judgments please.