Another HUGE week.
The major aspects in the week ahead are:
TUESDAY - Mercury conjuncts the Sun
THURSDAY - Saturn sextiles Neptune (
1st of 3 in 2019)
FRIDAY - Mars and Eris square Pluto,
Venus conjuncts the Galactic Center
SATURDAY - Venus trines Uranus
SUNDAY - Venus squares Chiron, Venus enters Capricorn
The
week gets more and more intense as we move along although that
volatile/possibly violent Mars/Pluto is in play from around Wednesday
on. Venus is very active this week so whatever we have going on with our
Venusian themes - love, money, resources, women, self-esteem, values -
is going to be a focus.
Look at that list and what Venus (
as us) is doing this week - she moves across the Galactic Center (
seat of creation, center of our Milky Way Galaxy) where she gets a new download (
new information/new way of moving through the world) then she trines (
brakes off/smooth energetic) unpredictable, liberating and forward-leaning Uranus (
valuing freedom), squares (
tension/obstacle) healing/hurting Chiron and finally moves into all-business Capricorn - where, yes, sh*t gets
real.
This is within 72 hours!
To say Venus is a brand new girl would be putting it mildly.
Expect changes (
long-lasting if we play our cards right)
with what we love and value, what we think of as beautiful, the ways we
attract money, the things we spend money on, our relationships, yada
yada.
Keep in mind that trine to Uranus - sudden and
unusual attractions or financial situations, surprises and bolts for
freedom. Our Venusian super-power as we move through these transitional
times is that NO ONE IS US (
look at all the different women who have announced plans to run for President in 2020!).
Also keep in mind our brand new Venus is on a collision course (
over the next couple weeks) with Saturn and Pluto. Relationships/money/what we want - it all takes
work in Capricorn.
Goals within relationships and with our money/resources are powerful. Now we commit or we get committed - ha! And this week's painful Venusian square to Chiron
triggers something very old and very deep.
At
the end of the week and over the next month this is more "growing up"
stuff - figuring out the difference between what we want and need,
setting healthy limits, putting on our big girl pants. If we are clingie
and weak and passive and helpless and fearful with Venus in Capricorn (
through March 1st)
we are going to starve. It's winter - everyone is hoarding their last
cans of beans and wanting to share the warm covers with someone who
isn't whining about the cold and expecting other people to gather the
kindling!
On
MONDAY the Moon is in Scorpio (
taxes, loans, investments, inheritances, intimacy, sex, life/death, reproductive issues, secrets) - we are in a closing cycle, so maybe are
pushing to finish something. The
Moon has productive aspects with Saturn, Neptune and Pluto today - good
for purging/merging, digging deeply into the numbers or under the hood
with something, getting intimate, dealing with authority/power issues.
Get it done by 5:39PM EST when the Moon goes void, but continues to
perform off that opportunistic sextile to Pluto.
On
TUESDAY
the Moon is void until 9:33AM EST when she moves into Sagittarius
favoring a focus on our Sagittarius house themes or the general Sag
themes of - travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues,
the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside our comfort
zone, exploration, our beliefs and higher thinking - for TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY & some of THURSDAY.
Mercury meets the Sun at 8 degrees Aquarius.
Our thinking and our will combine. Maybe the conversation (
Mercury) takes on a new life (
Sun).
Information comes to light or brings things to a culmination (
possibly something from late November).
(
also
note Mercury is walking the Sun's path from last week and still
aspecting the Nodes of Fate, so pay attention to what you hear now, the
people you meet, what comes to light - things could be important later)
In Aquarius and answering to Uranus and Saturn - there could be surprising/liberating information that stabilizes a situation (
over time) or ends it.
This
is good energy for clear communications - which is why it feels like
"truth". We get it. They get it. This is a good time to make verbal
affirmations - positive affirmations work really well for people who are
born with Mercury/Sun conjunctions - and it is not that uncommon since
the Sun and Mercury travel together. Our thoughts are more
"self-centered" ie centered on ourselves.
Words will matter now for all of us. We are who we think we are.
And happening in fixed air Aquarius, everybody thinks they are right.
EXAMPLE FOR CANCER/Cancer Rising
(note house placements can be different depending on your exact chart
Cancer) - this is happening in your 8th house of - other people's
resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money,
spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, sex, reproduction, so
maybe something here, via written information/a difficult
conversation/maybe through a sibling issue or local community issue or
even a transportation issue "comes to light" now.
On
THURSDAY we have the first of three powerful Saturn/Neptune sextiles in 2019 - this one at 14 degrees (
Capricorn/Pisces).
The next one is on June 18th at 18 degrees with Saturn retrograde and
the final sextile will be on November 18th at 16 degrees with Neptune
retrograde. THIS is the one with both planets direct. If you have
planets or points in your natal chart between 13-19 degrees of Capricorn
or Pisces (or
Cancer/Virgo) - you will feel this opportunistic energy strongest this year.
This is where our dreams and reality meet. Hard work makes our dreams come true.
This
is also a time of rewards for past work. This is excellent energy for
creating a solid foundation around a creative/spiritual business or
finding/building a dream home or home life. It is exact now, but really
in play all year. Pisces rules the ethereal realms - your muses/angels
are standing by to help you!
Remember Saturn is on a
collision course with Pluto - MEANING THAT power structures that are not
built on firm foundations will crumble - we already see this. We do not
want to be manipulating/coercing/controlling/obsessing/back-stabbing
when Pluto meets Saturn.
And we don't need to be anyway!
(
And think about what things like "manipulating" mean because all the time we are unconsciously manipulating other people!)
Neptune (
our imaginations/dreams/art/spirit/healing) is working WITH Saturn now - not like in 2016 and into 2017 when they were squaring each other! Instead of our dreams (
Neptune) being trashed by reality (
Saturn) or our foundations/goals (
Saturn) drifting away (
Neptune) something we've kind of gotten used to in the last couple years - now our dreams can be supported/grounded (
sextile)
in reality. Keep in mind Saturn stuff builds over time - so patience
may be required here. And keep in mind Saturn/Neptune aspects often
involve a
sacrifice - we have to willingly give up
this, to get
that.
And after a few adjustments at the end of this week Venus will be in Capricorn and working with Saturn, too.
Rules are being re-written. Limits surpassed. Emperors shown to be without clothes (
and this includes the spaces within ourselves that lay naked now, too).
If we are working in any kind of snarky, corner-cutting, victim-playing
or controlling way everything is going to bite us in the ass in the
end.
We know what we want now. We know what really
matters. Yes, Saturn demands we take responsibility for what we put out
there and yes, this is all going to be work. Saturn is/will be a new
man, but he's STILL SATURN.
EXAMPLE for Scorpio/Scorpio Rising
(note house placements can be different depending on your exact chart
Scorpio) - Saturn and Neptune are sextiling from your 3rd house of
communication, information, writing, siblings, transportation or your
local neighborhood and your 5th house of creative projects, your
self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and
recreation. What are you writing? What are you creating? What are you
learning/teaching? What are you doing with children? Do you need to have
more fun Scorpio? There is opportunity here in 2019.
The
Moon goes void Thursday night at 5:33PM EST off a trine to Uranus and
then moves into Capricorn at 7:47PM EST focusing us on our Capricorn
house theme and the collective Capricorn theme of our career/work in the
world/structures/authority/father - for the next couple days.
FRIDAY brings
heightened volatility this week as an impulsive Mars (
with angry sis Eris nearby) squares powerful Pluto at 21 degrees Capricorn (
and
aren't I excited since this is my hub's birthday to have this aspect
exact in his solar return chart in his 4th and 7th houses and sitting
right on my Mercury - fun times - ack!).
No dark alleys. Expect short fuses.
Power
plays/grandstanding/testosterone overload. If you are dealing with a
situation involving domination/who has the bigger whatchamacallit, keep
in mind authority (
Pluto) will win this fight. Even in his own sign and with his sister Eris backing him up, Mars isn't going to beat Pluto.
He will die trying though.
Expect
intense competition and unbridled ambition. Manipulations. Obsessions.
Jealousy. Your power could be challenged or you could be the one doing
the calling out.
Mars (
and Eris) in Aries wants us to
push against power
- challenge "the man", and there are times "the man" needs to be
challenged and Mars is certainly strong here, too, and who am I to tell
you this is not one of those times, maybe it is for you, BUT
particularly in a public situation or with anything involving your
career, try to think twice. Now would be the time to use our Mercury in
detached and forward thinking Aquarius to choose a way through this that
doesn't end with us nursing a bloody nose, a tarnished reputation or a
pink slip.
At the same time our girl Venus is moving
through the Galactic Center at the end of Sagittarius. She's like, "let
my boy Mars bloody up Pluto a bit, so they'll be less of Pluto I have to
deal with in a couple weeks!" - ack. Venus is the last of our inner
planets that needs to get past (
and this will be throughout February) those challenging energies - the South Node, Saturn and Pluto.
EXAMPLE FOR VIRGO/Virgo Rising
(note house placements can be different depending on your exact chart
Virgo) - Mars is squaring Pluto from your 8th house of other people's
resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money,
spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, death, rebirth, sex,
reproduction - issues/situations around money or intimacy could feel out
of your control - keep in mind our Aquarian Mercury now - you have the
power to detach, to take a step back or away from the situation, to say
"no" yourself. If you are the one doing the dominating/controlling (
doing your Pluto)
from that 5th house so maybe over a child, romantic interest or a
creative project situation again keep in mind the powder keg you could
be lighting. You might win the battle, but lose the war. Use that
intelligent and forward-leaning Mercury in Aquarius for a work around.
Old issues could be triggered and deep issues worked through here - what
is playing out isn't really what is playing out. Look deeper.
FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY - Venus (
what we love/want, our resources, our relationships, our money)
can shift somewhat radically now. Maybe instead of thinking do I want
this or that we are thinking how do I hold onto this as I
transition
into that? But it will be different things for different people. What
does your natal Venus look like? What does she want? This is getting a
boost.
As she crosses the Galactic Center we get
re-booted/upgraded. She then trines Uranus - maybe something very
different catches our eye or a new way to get what we want is activated.
There is something liberating here, but then that almost immediate
square to Chiron - tells us the "something liberating" and sometimes we
are liberated by losing something - leads to something painful - with
Chiron, we are "triggered", so something that hurts, hurts more than it
should because of something else. We think this thing here hurts us, but
it is really something very old and very deep that is doing the
throbbing. Something we have to learn to live with and to help us with
this Venus immediately moves into serious Capricorn, so we get past the
hurt with a focus on the GOAL, on the work, on putting on those big-girl
pants and doing what needs to be done, on our responsibility.
The
Moon will be in Capricorn, too, in her dark phase, so there won't be
alot of soft places to fall at the end of this week and into this
weekend. Please be careful.
(
keep in mind our
North Node in Cancer - take care of yourself, take care of your home
and family, allow yourself to be vulnerable with the people who have
earned your trust)
The Moon goes void on Sunday morning off a square to Uranus (
ouch)
at 5:53AM EST and then moves into airy Aquarius at 8:03AM EST focusing
us on our Aquarius house theme or the collective themes of
friends/groups/the goals that bring us into connection with other
people/the internet/our causes, etc - for the next couple days.
There is alot to unpack this week and we'll talk more about it as we move through it.
I
am making blog changes this week, so it might look wonky from time to
time if you stop by, but the most recent posts should be easily
find-able.
xo all
