Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, July 1st, 2021 - the risk to be uncomfortable, what our heart wants now, reality checks, knowing how much ground to give

 

 

The Moon is in Aries now - we are nourished/nurtured by action, physical movement, taking the initiative, time spent alone, time spent with men, passion, anger. She trines Venus in fiery Leo at 7:22AM EDT (we might get a preview of the upcoming Mars/Venus new cycle) then goes on to square the Sun at 5:10PM EDT and finally sextile a retrograde Saturn at 9:15PM EDT.

 

The square to the Sun is this month's  Last Quarter Square - Aries/Cancer. Aries squares can make us antsy/add pressure to take action, get something moving. The Sun in Cancer is focused on security/home/family - making things safe. This is tension/frustration between the new/the initiative/the action and the comforting/familiar. 

 

(the key to working with Aries/Cancer and I am a Moon in Cancer married to an Aries Moon, so trust me on this one, is to thoroughly engage/initiate/challenge and THEN thoroughly absorb/empathize/connect with the other person's position - some ground must be given, but all ground cannot be given)

Keep in mind the Aries Moon is answering to Aries ruler Mars, who moves into his exact opposition to a retrograde Saturn today. Our movements/passions meet opposition/limits/rules - a reality check. With Saturn retrograde there are old rules/responsibilities/commitments that we are reminded of now. This isn't about giving up and this isn't about trying to power through regardless (which won't work) - Saturn and Mars are old friends/can work well together, but will require our efforts be practical, paced, focused on the future. 

Mars is in Leo commanding (demanding?) attention/appreciation. Needing to take actions we are passionate about. That are heartfelt/make us proud. The Moon in Aries will have us feeling all the ways this is and isn't happening. 

The thing that makes this different than other Mars/Saturn oppositions (reality checks) is we have a square to Uranus - exact this weekend - so any limits/restrictions will feel doubly oppressive. These are fixed signs so if not mastered something might break before it bends. We don't want to toss babies out with bathwater, but needed changes are probably not going to be stopped. What commitments/responsibilities/goals need to be adjusted? What does out heart want now? How can we have more freedom within our relationships, within our work, within our lives? And on the flipside, where do we need to be more responsible/committed for these new energies, that will ultimately be more liberating, to take root?

 

Seed more in the weekly HERE

xo all

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Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | June 28th, 2021 - July 4th, 2021 - the pressure cooker, fireworks, limits and obligations, explosive change, healing ancestral woundings by needing to shine/do what we love/feel appreciated

 

MONDAY - Mars sextiles the North Node, Venus inconjuncts Jupiter (retrograde)

TUESDAY - Mars trines Juno

THURSDAY - Mars opposes Saturn (retrograde)

FRIDAY - Mars trines Chiron

SATURDAY - Mars squares Uranus

SUNDAY - Sun squares Chiron

This is a HUGE week that includes a T-Square with Mars/Saturn to change-agent Uranus - we spoke about this early July period previously, something is going to BLOW!

 

We kick off July with Mars (always a trigger) activating this year's BIG repeating aspect - the Saturn/Uranus square by squaring first Saturn and then Uranus - bringing the tension/frustration of the collective old vs new - what needs to change?! - directly into our livingroom! There is pressure here to deal with what we don't really want to deal with.

 

Mars is also re-invigorating this year's other BIG aspect (Saturn/Chiron sextile) with a healing Grand Fire Trine with Chiron and the South Node - the opportunity to heal by releasing old (even past-life/familial) beliefs/patterns of behavior. This is subtle, encouraged by our need for love/appreciation/attention, and is also a very BIG deal. 

Bottom line - this week is all about Mars. He is in Leo these days - red hot/ON FIRE. Antsy. Impulsive. Passionate. Generous. Wanting APPRECIATION. Wanting ATTENTION.

 

MONDAY - Mars first move is an opportunistic sextile with the North Node - actions/conversations that move our story forward. Our efforts/words will flow smoothly in a NEW direction. Pay attention to what you hear/see - signals/synchronicities are likely. At the same time Mars is trining the South Node, so our efforts/movements AWAY from whatever we are just not loving anymore/our heart is just not into, will go smoothly, too. Our actions/efforts click something into or out -of place.

The fly in the ointment today is Venus's inconjunct to South Node ruler Jupiter. Maybe Venus in Leo theatrics seems a little frivolous to Jupiter in Pisces. Her (as us) wanting this and that and the other thing (attention, all that glitters, fun, some risk, romance). Jupiter is kind of hanging up the works here, so we can get a bigger-picture view. Is this the highest way to go? Is this what we really want? Venus is going to meet Mars next week in heartful Leo, so we just might get it and better be sure! Venus in Leo can be a drama mama and Pisces is above all that and needs to chill. On the flipside of this we have Pisces sacrifice/martyrdom stuff interfering with Leo's fun and games. The inconjunct is an aspect requiring some give and take and, of course, today's smoother aspects with Mars speak of the way through the Venus/Jupiter kerfuffle - what is smoothly falling into or out-of place? What is our next right move?

TUESDAY -  The Mars/Juno trine today is good for action within partnerships/contracts. Juno is retrograde (in Sagittarius), so this is part of the re-vision process. With Mars in fiery Leo our actions/efforts are coming from a place of greater joy/generosity/passion. Juno in Sag is all for this! It is easy for Sag and Leo to get on the same page. Adventure/fun, brave efforts TOGETHER - this is just what Mars needs - a partner in crime! - as he (our actions/efforts) heads into the pressure-cooker - we've got this thing!

WEDNESDAY - PRESSURE. The harder we push, the more resistance we are facing now, but the pressure to act (doubled with the building Mars/Uranus) increases. We might be blocked/receive a "no". With Saturn there is always a responsibility/reality check - maybe here to the group or to the future - that must be acknowledged. Keep in mind an opposition is like a Full Moon - it can bring something to a completion or to a result. 

 

With the square to Uranus applying, anything even slightly a tight fit is going to feel like one of those spiky dog collars right about now!

FRIDAY - Now Mars (our actions/our passions) is trining wounded healer Chiron. Our efforts, driven by our need to stand out/shine/create/love what we are doing - are healing very old/ancestral woundings around our ability to stand up for ourselves/take care of ourselves/be ourselves.

SATURDAY - BOOM. Here's the break-up, breakdown, breakthrough. Uranus demands change and doesn't care if he drops us at the goal post, the 10 yard line or on our ass in the middle of the street. If you really, really want to do something new/different/liberating and it will disrupt very important things just make sure it is not something that just popped into your head because that square to Saturn is going to make this change sticky/long lasting. On the other hand, and yes, there are always two, that's why we have both of them - if this is a change we have been thinking about and been back and forth over during this long Mercury retrograde/Eclipse season then this week's frustrations/events will conspire - and this is already happening - to push us to take action.

SUNDAY - the week ends on a touchy note with a light shining on a vulnerability/sore spot. With the Sun in Cancer maybe that change we were so intent on making has de-stabilized our security. Home/family could trigger painful situations. Although squares are challenging/frustrating/don't feel good, they can be just the push we need. If you are in the U.S. and have a 4th of July event with family just keep in mind there might be some bruised egos served along with the potato salad. Luckily the Moon will be in comfy Taurus sextiling that same Cancer Sun which will help smooth the tensions.  

xo all - back with some dailies where we'll add in the Moon and make more sense of this!

 

Note - the reality check/obligation is coming through your Aquarius house, the change through your Taurus house, the action through your Leo house, the healing from your Aries house - don't hesitate to email me to see how this applies for you. For example if you are a Scorpio rising (this won't apply to every Scorp rising, it depends on your degree, but let's say you are near the middle like me) - the reality check/obligation/limit/pressure is coming through home and family, the change/explosion through a partner/other people, the action through your career/public life/need to shine and the healing through work/health/day-to-day/pets.

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the astrology of the Full Moon in Capricorn | June 24th, 2021 - making firm decisions, reality checks, hitting a dead end that provokes a change, moving on, imbalances with authority, re-prioritizing, healing very old wounds, beneficial changes

 

 

On June 24th, 2021 at 2:39PM EDT, the Capricorn Moon opposes the Cancer Sun at 3 degrees giving us this month's Full Moon - our annual Full Moon in Capricorn. 

 

There is always a challenge between the polarity signs in play at the time of any Full Moon because we have the Moon opposite the Sun. This is Cancer vs Capricorn.

Family vs work. The security that comes from nurturing ourselves, nurturing others or being nurtured vs the security that comes from having work in the world and money coming in. Our nest at home vs our place in the world. Summer vs. winter. Preparing for birth vs preparing for death "winter is coming". Childhood vs old age. Vulnerability vs self-sufficiency. Mom vs dad. Imbalances here might become more visible to allow us to realign what isn't working. 

 

Also imbalances with authority and authority figures and the way we use and mis-use our own authority. 

 

The Capricorn Full Moon throws a light on what power can do and also on the finality of choices we've already made. 

Full Moons bring situations to light, to a peak, a result, a conclusion. Happening in serious Capricorn - think high-noon if your entire lifetime was reduced to 24 hours - with Cappy ruler Saturn, retrograde and squaring Uranus and sextiling Chiron - BOTH this year's BIG repeating aspects gives this one added oomph.

Maybe something that began at the Cappy New Moon in mid-January 2021 has reached a result/conclusion. With strict Capricorn maybe these are the results of hard work, hardly working or working hard at the wrong things. If we have been slacking off or putting our energies into the wrong things or into things that are just not meant to happen right now this will become clear to us

(the square to Uranus will make it easier to bounce off in an entirely new direction and get some traction fairly quickly - this is likely something already on our radar).
 

If we have been working hard - the results will be clear now, too. 

 

Coming immediately after the Summer Solstice - the Sun standing still for 3 days - and following Mercury's retrograde station speaks of BIG/SERIOUS DECISIONS between the old and the new. Saturn, ruler of Cappy and ruler of this lunation, likes practical/firm decisions and if we have been back and forth on something (and this waffling has made perfect sense because this is not so clear cut even though now is the time to make the clear cut) NOW here is the energy to make a stand/choice. Maybe an old commitment needs to end or responsibilities reassessed. Saturn is the energy of "no" (the firm decision ending the "maybe" and the firm decision being both the decision and the decision to not look back), so this Full Moon might be more about what we are ending than about a strong attraction/draw toward something NEW - although life has pulled strings for ALL OF US to make the new seem even more attractive than it actually is to get us MOVING!

Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon is at 3 degrees Capricorn. The Sun at 3 degrees Cancer. They are opposing. The Moon is sextiling beneficial Jupiter (retrograde) at 2 degrees Pisces and bi-quintile Mars (in Leo). Cappy ruler Saturn is retrograde and squaring Uranus (waning), sextiling Chiron - EXACT - and trining the North Node.

The Cancer/Cappy polarity is about home/inner life vs work/life in the world. The Moon's sextile (opportunity) to beneficial Jupiter speaks of good news/luck/faith. Whatever is happening is somehow to our BENEFIT. Her biquintile - a gift meeting another gift - to fiery Mars in Leo, a kind of synergy that is greater than just the sum of its parts. I also see biquintiles prominent at times we are off-loading old reactions from past losses/not doing what we did before or maybe something happening that allows the cord connected to the loss to be cut, so that with future events we will not be dealing with these unconscious reactions/responses that no longer benefit us.

With retrograde Saturn's sextile to Chiron EXACT at the Full Moon this decision/ending/result triggers a very old and painful story about our identity/ability to take care of ourselves/stand up for ourselves. Sextiles are opportunities - this one is Aquarius/Aries, so independent/individualistic. This is our most beneficial repeating aspect of 2021. Healing of childhood/past-life/ancestral TRAUMA. Saturn is trining the North Node. This is Aquarius/Gemini. BIG decisions/ideas/conversations/plans. There is something here with its roots in the past AND something geared to a BETTER FUTURE. 

We are re-assessing our priorities/commitments/work in the world. Figuring out, all over again, what is worth our resources, time, efforts. Drawing our line in the sand. We are working through this kind of 'mental-pressure' for a powerful new direction. By next spring, when master number 22 gets a powerful reactivation - we will have a much better idea where all this is going because we will kind of BE THERE (and, yes, THERE will keep changing, this is the Age of Aquarius, folks, get used to it). There is no amount of money/effort that can get us back what has been irretrievably lost. Focusing on the past or getting lost in daydreams of the future is just another way to escape (notice Neptune, God of escape, is no where to be found in this lunation). 

 

Saturn/Capricorn is reality. Here is what it is. Here is where we are. What are we going to do?

Full Moons are very potent energy and this one is ALL BUSINESS. 

 

Make sure you get out and walk in it!

 

xo all

Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - the luckiest day of the year thing this time with its roots in the past, healing old losses, renewed optimism, faith, examining what we want and why we want it, cutting cords

 

The Moon is in high-flying Sagittarius now. We are nourished/nurtured through our beliefs, education, religion, the big picture, what is foreign to us, mentors, wisdom, ADVENTURE. 

 

She sextiles a retrograde Saturn at 5:25AM EDT, opposes Mercury at 10:50AM EDT and finally goes void at 10:08PM EDT off a square with Neptune. She is void until Thursday morning when she sobers up in serious Capricorn. So, a bit of a mixed-bag emotionally with the possibility of some crossed wires mid-morning.

The good news - this is the day the Sun trines a retrograde Jupiter. This is a thrice a year aspect, sometimes called by astrologers "the luckiest day of the year". I'm not sure about that, but certainly with Jupiter so magical (even retrograde) in Pisces, there is real connection/spiritual support here. With the Sun in home, family and security focused Cancer we could be feeling a real contentment in these areas (also our natal Cancer house theme) as well as greater confidence, optimism and faith.

 

This is also the day, always the fly in the ointment, Venus, nearing the end of her travels through Cancer opposes Pluto in Capricorn. This is exact in the evening, but has been building all week. How this plays out for us will have alot to do with our natal placements and energies, but this could be something about our resources vs their resources, mom vs dad, child vs parent, home (inner life) vs work (outer life). Power struggles are possible. Oppositions are like Full Moons so they can bring results/endings/sometimes loss. Feelings of jealousy could get stirred up. Maybe we are wanting what we can't have. Maybe we are wanting more power. Merging and/or purging are sometimes needed advice for Plutonian struggles. 

 

With beneficial Venus's next aspect a biquintile (one gift interacting with another gift/double quintile) to beneficial Jupiter who is trining the Sun - no doubt the Sun/Jupiter will help us through the Venus/Pluto. Maybe the biquintile's "double gift" is a chance to "un-do" (that retrograde Jupiter) an old and almost-magnetic reaction based on a past loss (can be past life/ancestral, too, with Pisces). See an example below. We all have something like this going on.

 

Certainly Venus is asking us to examine what we want and why we want it. 

xo all

 

Here's an example. Many people have something like this going on/playing out : a young man we'll call Bob has an ancestor, who may or may not have been Bob in a prior life, it really doesn't matter because either way he carries this story in his DNA/karma - whose head was unjustly cut-off by a mad king (in this case King Henry VIII). In this lifetime, right on time within this man's chart's connection to that life's chopping block, Bob had his own head cut off by another mad king - his larger-than-life boss. Losing this job 'felt' like Bob's actual head was cut off and this is even how he described it. This happened in the fall of 2019.

 

Now we are, all of us,  living at a level past where we always died before, and after much reconstructing of his life and much letting go, Bob, having come full circle, sort-of, finds himself back in the same position again, this time under the employ of another mad king (named Elon Musk, I am not kidding) 

 

with his head on a sort-of 'forever' chopping block BUT with an opportunity right now to leave the circus for something maybe less circus-y. Maybe this week's energies will conspire to bring situations/events that require/ask him to examine what he wants and why he wants it and maybe he'll decide another dance with the mad king is what he wants, magnetized by familiarity chaos/Uranus has a strong power over us or maybe this time he'll be the one to use the ax. 

 

King Henry VIII, by the way, had a 22 degree Cappy Uranus - a degree wiped out by January 2020's Saturn/Pluto conjunction, also home to Bob's 21 degree Cappy Moon.

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