today's astrology forecast | Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 - words are our super-power

 

 

The Moon finishes up in Libra, going void at 12:26PM EDT off a square to Pluto (some tension/frustration, power struggles within relationships or with authority). She is void until she moves into Scorpio at 7:15PM EDT. In Scorpio, we are nourished/nurtured by power/collective resources/merging/purging/diving deep. Our emotions become more intense, situations can feel more "life and death".

As the Moon is squaring Pluto, Mercury is moving backward into a smooth trine (his/her second of three) with Pluto. This is the Mercury/Pluto trine with both planets retrograde. We had this aspect on August 22nd and will have the final trine on October 6th. Words are powerful. Secrets can come out. Mercury is in "let's fix this thing" Virgo, so there is something here - maybe involving a conversation or contract or information that we need a better/deeper look at. Seek facts. What needs to be re-viewed/re-vised? What needs to be said again? Something is falling into place, but we are going to have to be smart. The news/talks/our decisions and choices are in DO-OVER mode with this one.

 

Heads up for tomorrow - although I might be popping back in here. The Scorpio Moon is quiet, but we have Mars in Gemini trining Saturn in Aquarius. You could be feeling this today, too. Our actions/words/ideas will be in a cooperative alignment with authority/with the public. More smooth flow- brakes off. Whatever this is we will have a repeating aspect at the end of November with Mars retrograde, so whatever is happening today we will be re-vising, re-viewing, re-doing, re-peating then. But this is the time to be moving AHEAD.

 

(the Mars/Saturn trine, both today's and November's is part of the Mars/Saturn cycle that started in April 2022 and winds down in April 2024. We had the tense square in early August, so whatever started in April was blocked then. Now we get the smooth flow of the trine and move forward, but we will have to do this again somehow at the end of November).

 

Today though (the 27th) has that Plutonian vibe - intense interactions, Scorpio people, going deep, research, intimate conversations, financial information, etc. 

 

Keep in mind the long void Moon and use it to chill out.

More in the weekly HERE.

xo all

photo by the talented Anna1Anna

 

Astrology forecast | week of september 26 to october 2, 2022 - second chances, the week that 'old gold' shows up, secrets come out, obsessions are stirred, an intense week

 

 

This is a BIG week. Yes, I would say it is.

 

We are coming off the New Moon in Libra opposing Jupiter and right out of the gate the energy starts playing out. Here is the week some rock solid progress can be made. Here is the week that OLD GOLD can show up. Keep going. Don't give up. Take care of yourself. Rest when you need to.

Let's unpack this potentially FORTUITOUS WEEK! Just keep in mind the expression about not looking a gift horse in the mouth (is that how it goes) - if things don't show up exactly as we were hoping. We will be back mining for old gold again in a couple weeks, so we want to be GRATEFUL for whatever comes our way now. Powerful truths are possible, too.

Let's dive right in!

 

MONDAY/TUESDAY - Venus trines Pluto (retro), Mercury retrograde backs into Venus, Sun opposes Jupiter (retro)

WEDNESDAY - Mercury (retro) trine Pluto (retro) - 2nd of 3rd

THURSDAY - Mars trine Saturn (retro), Venus enters Libra, Ceres enters Virgo

SATURDAY - Venus opposes Jupiter (retro)

SUNDAY - Mercury stations DIRECT! (opposing Neptune), First Quarter Moon (Cappy)

On MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY - So, now, the Sun, doing what the Moon did Sunday, opposes that retrograde Jupiter. We talked about this in the New Moon post HERE.  

 

A light on the old gold. Maybe an old opportunity comes back around. Expansion. An ending of something that has become too big to handle. This can also be where what we have been OVER-DOING/exaggerating is illuminated. Sun/Jupiter - even the pesky opposition - should FEEL GOOD. This is an elevating aspect, can bring rewards for past good deeds, brings confidence/happiness.

Plus - this is happening while Venus is meeting Mercury and both are trining Pluto. 

 

The chances are high the NEWS WILL BE GOOD. The illuminated 'whatever-this is' BENEFICIAL somehow. Trines are smooth flow - the brakes are off. Whatever is happening should move in a positive direction without alot of pushing from us. Mercury/Venus speaks of us hearing what we want to hear (as in good news) or saying things that other people will. Mercury is still retrograde for a couple more days, so this will be something that has come back around. Say it again. Reach out again. Make changes/corrections. Try again.

Venus/Pluto is empowering/transformative. Sexy. Something is falling into place. Venus is finishing up in Virgo, so maybe we arrive at an important SOLUTION. This might have to do with our daily obligations, our work, our health, our pets, the theme of your natal Virgo house. Small is big with this one. This is an Earth trine, so brings real things we can hold in our hands/take to the bank. Pluto is retrograde, too, so this will also have its feet in the past. Venus/Pluto and Mercury/Pluto can also bring out secrets - financial, relationship. I hope there are no skeletons in your closet looking to be shaken loose. Manipulations are highly effective now, but never recommended due to their tendency to bite us in the ass later.

After meeting up with Venus, Mercury trines Pluto - for the second time. This time with both planets retrograde. We had this back on August 22nd, so maybe we are re-looking at something from that time frame. Information can be intense/precise. Words are powerful. With Mercury in Virgo, now we can see the problem AND there should be an answer/solution. Even with challenging news we aren't just left hanging out to dry.

 

The Moon in Libra is making her trines to Mars and Saturn - more smooth flow. The only tangle in the first part of the week is the Moon's square to Pluto at 12:21PM EDT on Tuesday before she goes void until 7:15 EDT. Here's that power struggle we talked about in the New Moon post.

On THURSDAY, Mars in Gemini trines Saturn in Aquarius. An air trine. Good for the flow of ideas and conversations. We are tapping into the collective. This busy/busy, two things at once or doing everything twice thing we have going on is somehow paying off. Authority will be supportive. Saturn is retrograde, so we might be returning to an old responsibility, goal, limit, structure, authority. Revising a business, our reputation, etc. Good for group activities, too.

This is also the day Ceres moves into Virgo - nurturing/change of life situations/things that are outside our control benefit from small steps in a healthier direction. We will talk about this as we move through it..

 

The big news - VENUS COMES HOME TO LIBRA. 

 

This transit (until October 23rd) makes Libra Suns and Risings, who are already naturally attractive, even more so - both physically attractive and more able to attract what they want/need. Everyone's Libra house gets more attractive, too (what house was Libra in when you were born? what is the theme of that house? Where is Venus in your natal chart? This area of life gets more attractive, too, as transiting Venus grows stronger in her home sign).

We will be attracted to what we find 'beautiful'. We will be attracted to what we find 'just'. We will be attracted to what we find 'peaceful'. And these are the qualities people will find attractive in us and our work in the world. These are the qualities we'll want to bring to the table (and yes, flowers, flowers would be a good thing to bring to the table, too) to attract whatever we are wanting to attract now.

 

If our relationships have felt too nit-picky/critical/austere - things will improve under this transit.

The potential for peace increases as we move from critic (Virgo) to diplomat (Libra). The potential for people pleasing increases, too, so balance is the key now. Making life too much about the other person is Libra's shadow side. It's easier, or I should say, ahem, lazier (although I am not blaming anyone because I think we are all tired and Venus has just moved out of her opposition to draining Neptune), to just give in to something to have "harmony" than to work out the win-wins or half-assed win-wins that are sometimes required. We need to honor ourselves as well as the other person.

In Libra, there is power in groups and alliances - but the emphasis (for now) is on the shared human experience of connection rather than on what might emerge later. It's not the time for thinking about how it will all play out, what we are getting or giving. There is Scorpio season for that. It's just the time for the experience. We come into real harmony when we can see each other clearly. We don't have to always agree with each other. Agreeing isn't step two or even step one hundred and two. 

 

These days, it's easy to forget that ...

On SATURDAY, Venus opposes Jupiter retrograde. More OLD GOLD. Also relationship DRAMA possible. Venus in Libra shifts the energy of relationships, money and self-esteem to a social level. If you look good/sound good, you must BE good. Libra gets a bad rap for pouring pink paint on problems and for being superficial, but without Libra's beauty, balance, diplomacy and tasty sugar coating, life would be pretty un-freaking bearable. Opposed to Jupiter this is all on steroids. Relationships are more HOPEFUL. Balance can RETURN. Maybe something overblown is ending and we can breathe. Fingers crossed on that one.

 

NOTE - the gold-mining isn't over until after October 12th when Mercury direct opposes Jupiter for the final time!

On SUNDAY,  good news - MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT. He is opposite Neptune - although the opposition never quite perfects, so the bubble isn't bursting just yet and things can be confusing! It will take Mercury a couple days to get up to speed, and we will be covering old ground for awhile, but we are moving on, plus now Mars gets a direct Mercury in his home sign to answer to - that will have to make a difference for all of us. Mercury is in the grounded energy of Virgo, soon to be back in the relationship/balance focused energy of Libra. 

 

I hope we fixed whatever we had the opportunity to fix!

Until Venus comes home to Libra, alot of the sky is answering to Mercury and he is STILL retrograde this week, so keep that in mind. Nothing is full steam ahead and anything we have over-done/over-committed to can be 'in the limelight/in our face'. Any week with multiple personal planets chatting with Pluto will be INTENSE. The aspect itself though is smooth/not jagged, so there should be ANSWERS/solutions to whatever he is digging up. There isn't alot of escape this week, so we are just going to have to roll with things. Keep your ear/eye/basically anything you can stick out there - open for that OLD GOLD. What did you miss the first time through? Maybe this is something that can now be fixed and then BOOM it's Easy Street for you. :)

xo all

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Autumnal Equinox and New Moon in Libra | whatever it takes to bring ourselves and our relationships back into balance over the next few months, ships will be jumped, contracts will be broken

Just days after the Autumnal Equinox, a collective point of balance, September 25, 2022 at 5:54PM EDT, the Libra Moon meets the Libra Sun giving us this month's New Moon - our annual New Moon in Libra.  

 

Libra New Moons are about new ways to partner/new people/new connections/new situations. New LOVE - not the deep kind necessarily (although it could be), but the social kind that gets us invited to coffee and walks in the park. New peace and harmony. New negotiations. What is fair now? What is balanced now? What does justice look like now? This is a cardinal energy - something is going to START.

They meet at 2 degrees. I like when a New Moon starts close to the beginning, although it almost certainly makes outcomes harder to judge (because it's TOO EARLY).

Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon meets the Sun at 2 degrees Libra. They are applying to an opposition to Jupiter. Exactly conjunct asteroid Rhiphonos. The ruler of this lunation (ruler of Libra) is Venus in Virgo who is conjunct (and answering to) a retrograde Mercury and widely squaring both Mars and Chiron. The Uranus/Saturn square of 2021/2022 is within a 1 degree orb/breathing down our neck. 

Since this is also pretty much the Equinox chart, this chart is about more than the next month. We will be working with this chart (yes, with Venus is nit-picking Virgo!) until the Aries New Moon chart next spring. 

The biggest aspect is the lunation's opposition to a retrograde Jupiter in Aries. Jupiter works his magic by MAKING THINGS BIGGER, so almost certainly what is started now is in some way destined/designed to be BIG or exaggerated. Certainly apt to GROW, so we really want to think about the seeds we are putting into the ground now. The Moon/Jupiter brings opportunities for luck, success and happiness, but also a warning around over-doing. Over-committing. Over-promising. Over-expecting. Wanting too much. Being a greedy assh*le. Jupiter is retrograde, so we are looking for the gold we missed the first time through - the gold is BEHIND US. The Libra New Moon fresh start will have a connection to something we did before or something from the past. Relationships can come back from the brink with this one. 

 

The Jupiter opposition could force us to look at what we are projecting onto other people, by MAKING CERTAIN PROBLEMS BIGGER. We are likely going to have to rely on ourselves more. Or find different people. Sometimes we are putting the wrong things on the wrong people and then acting like they are letting us down. If your partner is an Aries Moon, the chance of them mothering you, yes, even when you are down and out with covid, is pretty unlikely. So you need someone else in your life for THAT. Sometimes people think they need a whole new relationship when what they really need is a FRIEND.

 

We are in a whole new world and still trying to do relationships in the same old ways!

 

Over the course of the next few months many partnership contracts (not just romantic) will be broken/many ships jumped. We will be re-looking at what we have committed ourselves to. If our heart's not in it, we won't be either. With the Uranus/Saturn square in play - things we used to rely on are not as stable and at the same time the new structures will have limits/restrictions. Being free isn't free. There is so much retrograde energy - including both Saturn AND Uranus - nothing will be full steam ahead. 

 

We are going back to go forward.

 

With Venus conjunct a retrograde Mercury, we are talking/thinking about our relationships. Talking to people we are in relationship with. Old relationships can come back around. Old Mercurian things - commerce, siblings, local community, words, writing, childhood education - can be fallen in love with AGAIN. We could get some good news. Maybe from an old source.

 

Venus is still in finicky Virgo. Fixing, Refining. In mutual reception to that retrograde Mercury, so we need to go through the fixes/the service/the re-visions to get to Libra - the balance/the relationship/the love. And this opposition to Jupiter is making everything bigger than it should be/needs to be. It will be hard not to be OVER-COMMITTED to something right now! Too much work. Too much service. Too much spending. Venus is opposing Neptune which is draining relationship batteries and finances. 

The New Moon is exactly conjunct asteroid Rhiphonos. 

 

Rhiphonos, whose name means 'throwing or casting' was one of the dozen sprites guarding Zeus's son Dionysus from Hera, when she turned them into centaurs. He later pulled Dionysus's chariot. Rhiphonos, the asteroid, was discovered on the day of Ted Kennedy's funeral, which was kind of the end of American royalty. And, of course, this time period has a very strong connection to the passing of Queen Elizabeth and ending of the 'queen' archetype, which I wish I had time to write about, and will, when things slow down. Ironically, he is one of the few centaurs not famous for the way he died, but most of his story has been lost to time. His name definition might also be another admonition to think about what we are projecting onto other people. Think about how we are doing what we are accusing the other person of doing, etc. 

The Sabian Symbol for this New Moon is "the dawn of a new day reveals everything changed'. The NEW can begin and take hold quickly. Probably many of the changes, this is a lunar event after all, will be INTERNAL.

 

Just before this New Moon, the Moon passes over Venus, opposes Neptune, passes over Mercury and then meets the Sun and then will oppose Jupiter. She then trines Mars and Uranus and goes void off a square to Pluto. So, things are complicated and this "relationship-focused" New Moon ends with that testy square to power. 

There is alot to like here, too. Just keep in mind the seeds now are going to grow, so is what you are growing really something you want to eat. There is also an out of sign trine to Sedna - pulling something we don't want to look at too closely into the mix, but also more mega-transformational energy and, again, something about RELYING ON OURSELVES.

I hope something here is helpful, although I am feeling that somehow it isn't. Libra is my 12th house, not so much a space designed for me to be able to see clearly. You might have to muddle through much of this one without me 

:)

xo all

weekly astrology forecast | September 19th to 26th, 2022 - all things Venus

 

A BIG week ahead.

 

On Sunday night we had Mercury retrograde opposing Jupiter retrograde and the Sun trining Pluto retrograde. BIG energy. Overwhelming. AND empowering. What came to light? What were WE feeling?  If we have taken on too much we will be feeling that now. BIG ideas are possible. Empowering situations. Old gold is being mined. It will be challenging to organize it with all the retrograde energy, but we could see it as being GATHERED.

 

This week is all about lovely VENUS (we can see her in Virgo with her hair tied back, diving into the nitty gritty) - our focus will be on our relationships, our money, our values, our self-esteem. The world comes into balance at the Equinox and in our own life we can see what is balanced and what is OUT OF BALANCE. 

 

We start the week with Venus in harmony with Black Moon Lilith and wind things up with Luna's big New Moon in Libra answering to her. We will talk more about the week as we move through it. Keep in mind, Mercury, along with alot of other energy, is STILL retrograde (and Mars is answering to Mercury), so expect to do things twice, do two things at once, for people and situations from the past to be repeating themselves AND for things to take longer than you thought they would. 

 

The delays are helping us. 

The Nodes of Fate are at 15 degrees Scorpio/Taurus - a world point (and my ascendant/descendant) initiating changes that will last for 19 years. The Old World is dissolving and the New World is pulling us forward folks.

MONDAY - Venus sextiles Black Moon Lilith

TUESDAY - Venus trines Uranus, Venus inconjunct Saturn

THURSDAY - Sun enters Libra

FRIDAY - Mercury retrograde conjuncts the Sun and then backs into Virgo

SATURDAY - Venus opposes Neptune

SUNDAY - New Moon in Libra (2 degrees)

 

On MONDAY, Venus at 17 degrees Virgo sextiles Black Moon Lilith in Cancer

 

Here is a creative opportunity - sextiles require some kind of action - between the practical fixes/healing we are attracting and the womb wound/woman who chooses herself.  Maybe this comes through changes to our daily routine/work that value our need for freedom or that break old family patterns. This is two very different types of female energy in harmony.

On TUESDAY, Venus, at 18 degrees Virgo trines Uranus, retrograde in Taurus, and then inconjuncts Saturn, retrograde at 19 degrees Aquarius

 

Now Venus is in a smooth trine to Uranus. Surprises with love/money are possible. Venus is in "one thing at a time/one foot in front of the other", healing/fixing Virgo, so small changes are moving us forward. Small changes allow things to fall into place. This might also speak of liberating ourselves from Virgo perfectionism/judgement. Uranus is answering to Venus making the trine more powerful. Lean into something new. Something more liberating. More future-focused.

 

Immediately, Venus makes an awkward connection with sober Saturn, so we are reminded of our responsibilities, limits, sometimes our age. That's OK, the smooth trine with Uranus doesn't just disappear - and we are leaning into that.

 

This is also the day the Cancer Moon makes a sextile to the Virgo Sun - this month's Waning Sextile. Family care-taking, responsibilities, home business, family business, real estate, mothering issues all are in a creative opportunity with our daily life, work, health. Again this comes through Virgo's keen eye for detail, practical action, small fixes.

On THURSDAY/FRIDAY - after his empowering trine to Pluto on Sunday, the Sun crosses into Libra, an Aries point, ushering in a new season and quickly meets up with a retrograde Mercury. Alot of the Sun's Libra ingress/autumn equinox will be covered in the New Moon post later in the week, but the Sun's meeting with a retrograde Mercury is the halfway point of the Mercury retrograde cycle - yes, we are halfway there folks! 

 

HERE/now is clarity about what this Mercury retrograde has been about. 

 

After meeting the Sun - gathering whatever has 'come to light' - Mercury backs into Virgo, where we are going to figure out what to do with this information/how to make things better. How to fix things in practical ways, especially regarding our relationships and balance issues. We are re-working our habits.  We bring Mercury in Libra's ideas down to Earth.

 

We will talk more about this in the New Moon post before Thursday.

On SATURDAY - Venus, at 23 degrees Virgo opposes Neptune retrograde

 

Now, Venus, busy bee that she is, opposes Neptune, retrograde in Pisces. What we want can become less defined. Our boundaries more porous. We are communing with ghosts/with everything that has come before us. 

 

We might find ourselves DROWNING in sacrifices - haven taken on too much with the repeating Mercury/Jupiters - or maybe excessive worrying. Neptunian challenges can speak of exhaustion, so maybe our girl needs a NAP. 

 

Pencil that in, wait, not pencil, it's Saturday, use permanent ink. 

 

Oppositions can bring endings/culminations. With Neptune situations can fade away/drift away. On the other hand, Neptune brings imagination/magic to Venus in Virgo's practical routine, opens the door for muses, intuition and inspiration. Just keep in mind with Neptune, everything we are seeing isn't real. Things can look better or worse than they actually are. Venus in Virgo is grounded energy, but if she is TIRED, an escape route will present itself now, maybe in the form of a Piscean/Neptunian person who wants to play/a water or art activity, or we get waylaid by a cold/virus, etc.  

 

Also keep in mind the effects of drugs/alcohol, medication, any escape tendencies we have is compounded now.

On SUNDAY - the Libra Moon meets the Libra Sun at 2 degrees giving us an early New Moon in Libra. I love an early degree New Moon, where we get to start at the actual beginning - this one our annual Libra New Moon collectively focused on our relationships, need for balance, fairness, peace. The New Moon in Libra is answering to ... you guessed it ... Venus. 

 

We will talk about this in its own post.

xo all