MONDAY - Mercury inconjunct Pluto, Venus opposes Neptune
TUESDAY - Mercury opposes Jupiter
WEDNESDAY - Mars squares the Nodes of Fate, Venus trines Pluto, Mercury enters Virgo
FRIDAY - Mars inconjuncts Saturn
SATURDAY - Venus inconjuncts Jupiter
SUNDAY - Sun inconjuncts Neptune, Mercury squares the Nodes of Fate, 1st Quarter Moon Scorpio
As our old lives fade away and our new roots take up the water we are going to need, let's keep things as simple as we can. Keep an eye on our finances/resources. Stay practical. Problems will arise and we are going to need to ACT ON THEM practically and realistically. They will be fleeting and forward-leaning if we do or drag us back into the past if we don't. There will be uncomfortable/incomplete situations we are just going to have to live with. Do we care enough to make things better? Have we veered pretty far off course? This week we are going to find out!
Let's take a look and then I will pop back in during the week with the Moons.
MONDAY - Mercury @ 25 degrees Leo inconjuncts Pluto (retrograde) in Capricorn, Venus @ 22 degrees Virgo opposes Neptune (retrograde) in Pisces
Mercury (our thinking, communication, conversation, ideas, local community, siblings, tech, transportation) hits a 150 degree 'rock and a hard place' with powerful Pluto. Mercury in Leo is loud/proud needs attention/appreciation and Pluto in Cappy is established power and not moved by any of Leo's theatrics/passions. This one will require an adjustment with our words/thinking. This would not be the day to be dealing in any kind of fixed way with authority (the authority is unlikely to adjust), etc - make another choice, use your grown-up voice.
And then there is Venus - ruler of Taurus and Libra - love, money, relationships,
our resources, our values, our self-esteem, women, beauty - standing
across from Neptune - modern ruler of Pisces and the ancient ruler of
Jupiter - our imagination, spirituality, connection, no-boundaries,
water, escape, victims, sacrifice, addiction, illusion, delusion, the
things we put away/put behind us/do last, hospitals, healing, our
undoing. Venus is in careful, cautious, dot your i's and cross your t's
Virgo and imaginative/drifting Neptune is strong at home in Pisces, but retrograde. Money/our resources could be a source of fantasy/confusion.
We might anticipate water, getting wet, something feeling washed up, grieving any losses fully.
Drowning in anything is Neptunian trickery.
I am a Neptune expert, but he still gets me.
One of the Virgo (where Venus is), Pisces (where Neptune is)
TRAPS is avoiding reality because of the whole perfection thing. We
will never be perfect enough or have enough money or enough love, yada,
yada, so why bother at all. It is a good excuse to 'escape'.
Oppositions are culminations and often bring results. Results with Neptune are often kind of dissolving/disintegrating, so there's that, too. Maybe something we have been trying to fix (Virgo) ends. A loss of a pet can happen with a transit like this one if it touches our chart or mirrors a natal aspect. A job might dissolve or a resource/source of income could end. Neptune also brings compassion/forgiveness, so there is that available, too, for ourselves and other people. Maybe what we've seen as a problem/flaw can be released/dissolve.
TUESDAY - Mercury @ 28 degrees Leo opposes Jupiter (retrograde) in Aquarius
Another opposition and we know oppositions (think Full Moon here) can bring conclusions - this might involve the culmination of a decision, announcement, plan. Words can be public/maybe over-the-top and oriented toward the future. Maybe our language/news makes us lucky/optimistic. Jupiter's retrograde energy speaks of old beliefs/hopes, even old commitments to groups and friendships. It's Leo season - we are collectively and personally living through the drama days of this year's Uranus/Saturn clash - personal freedom vs collective responsibility. Mercury/Jupiter can bring overwhelm, so clear your slate a bit and give yourself some air.
WEDNESDAY - Mars @ 7 degrees Virgo squares the North Node in Gemini, Venus @ 24 Virgo trines Pluto (retrograde) in Capricorn, Mercury enters Virgo
Mars square to the Nodes of Fate speaks of an action we must take to get around an obstacle. Are we moving backward or forward? Here is a crossroads, so what's it going to be? This could be our action in response to whatever Mercury/Jupiter has 'announced/decided'. Gemini is the way forward - small, local, the questions more important than thinking we have all the answers, staying flexible, keeping it light, taking care of the details, our Gemini natal house theme.
Don't be afraid to change your mind, ask a question, question yourself, make a new choice, tell a fresh story, look at fresh
perspectives and new ideas, try new things, take a class, teach a
class, do something within your local neighborhood, call your sister (or brother or cousin),
start that book, start that business, make it smaller, travel/shop/sell
more locally, get a new computer, get a new car, open your mouth! A good mantra with that Gemini North Node is something like, "when I am willing to listen and learn from the other person, I win."
With Venus trining Pluto - here's where our practicality is paying off. We've been through the loss/disappointment, but here is something solid/real. What we think we are worth is what we are worth. This is an empowering aspect. Good for dealing with authority. Step into your responsibility. Be reasonable, but don't accept peanuts.
Mercury then enters her/his home sign of Virgo and quietly/realistically empowers Mars and Venus.
After swimming in the emotional waters of Cancer and then getting burnt out fast in fiery Leo, Mercury finally comes home to Virgo! This is especially good news for Virgos and Geminis (Sun and Risings), but EVERYONE'S natal Virgo house will benefit. With Mercury in Virgo, our thinking, writing and communication will be more practical and commonsense. We will be all about the details. Nothing gets by Mercury in Virgo. But lots of things get dismissed. If it's not real/not factually stated/if it doesn't work - it's outta here.
This is an excellent transit for organization, cleaning, paperwork, taking care of our
health, the ins and outs of our work and daily routine, our pets. We will see all the little problems, but still need to avoid
nitpicking. Leo to Virgo is 'creating to critiquing' and that is
natural/cyclical, but with everything all of us are dealing with this
year we need to be gentle with each other.
The biting criticism (that will look to us like practical advice) that is right on the tip of our tongue might need to be swallowed sometimes. Gulp.
It may be hard to see the forest for the trees - but with the South
Node in Sag - it is THE TREES that matter now anyway.
The details. One thing at a time. Lists are good. Practical ideas,
solutions and fixes can pop right into our head.
Pay attention to your language - we want to be precise now. We want to honor Mercury (trust me on this, he can cause us oodles of damage and danger when we don't).
Think about what you are thinking about. Watch what you are watching. What you are reading, talking about, hearing - will matter now. Virgo rules our digestion - what we put in will be what we get out and impact how well we can function.
Notice how you verbally get in your own way - use unnecessary negative words (like saying something "isn't bad" when you mean it is good),
double speak, babble, gas-lighting, lies. Avoid that "sorry" thing
some people say moving through life. We aren't really sorry anyway
right - so why are we saying it.
Words are powerful. They are some of the most powerful tools we have to
move through life on planet Earth - let's not hold ourselves back by
tossing around stuff we don't mean/don't want to have/don't want to be. Virgo is about practicality, pie in the sky language won't be helpful.
FRIDAY - Mars @ 9 degrees Virgo inconjuncts Saturn (retrograde)
So, Mars (as us, our actions/passions/initiative/anger) has made some kind of move/decision to get things going and then runs right into a retrograde Saturn through a 'rock and hard place' inconjunct. Our practical actions require an adjustment to the old rules, our collective responsibilities, our groups, friends, the future, our own uniqueness.
SATURDAY - Venus @ 27 degrees Virgo inconjuncts Jupiter (retrograde) in Aquarius
More adjusting and now it's our wants/desires, resources, relationships, finances, self esteem adjusting to our old hopes/beliefs, collective dreams and old rules/groups. More Virgo/Aquarius 'rock and a hard place', bottom line - learning to live with uncertainty.
SUNDAY - the Sun @ 22 degrees Leo inconjuncts Neptune (retrograde) in Pisces, Mercury @ 7 degrees Virgo squares the North Node in Gemini, First Quarter Moon Scorpio/Leo @ 23 degrees
Another inconjunct! More adjusting. Leo/Pisces, ego vs self-sacrifice. And now Mercury squares the Nodes of Fate - the roadblock/crossroads - are we moving forward or going backward? News, information, conversations that pull us forward by putting our back against the wall/requiring decisions/plans. This is also the day of the First Quarter Moon - Moon's first square since the Leo New Moon the week prior. This is Scorpio, so requires us to merge/purge, go deep. Avoid power struggles/ego clashes.
This week's inconjuncts will require adjustments and the acceptance of things not going just how we want them to go. The oppositions will brings results/maybe endings and the we will probably be responding to that. Multiple personal planets squaring the Nodes speak of decisions/information/action made at a crossroads. Collectively we are at a TURNING POINT. Mercury's move into Virgo will quiet down some of the drama and bring more practicality. The only easy aspect - the Moon will have some smooth moves, don't worry! - is that Venus/Pluto trine, no small plus if we can deal with things practically and know our worth! This is all fleshing out the New Moon in Leo story we talked about HERE.
xo all - back with some dailies
artwork by the talented Charlotte Hintzmann
