weekly astrology forecast for creatives | Week of May 31st, 2021 - love is a verb, a light on our destiny, wanting what feels familiar, stepping into responsibility, love and luck, avoiding impulsiveness/power struggles

 

 

We are in between two powerful Eclipses now. In the washing machine spin cycle. Are we up? Are we down? We can't really tell. Something has been lost or something has ended. Something new is still out of our reach. Saturn and Mercury are both retrograde (in air signs, so we should be doing quite a bit of re-evaluating, re-vising, re-thinking). There is MUCH TO ENJOY this week and a couple pitfalls/dragons to avoid.

 

It's weeks like this that make us GLAD TO BE ALIVE.

 

MONDAY - Mars trines Neptune, Sun conjuncts North Node

 

The Sun, at 10 degrees Gemini, meets the North Node (our best way forward) - a light shines on our future, likely via words, information, a conversation. The right words are spoken. The right book falls off the shelf.  PAY ATTENTION. Small is big. Keep in mind the ruler of the North Node (Mercury) is retrograde, so something here could have its roots in the past. There could be some back and forth with this and we (or someone else) may change our/their mind later. This is a process. All Gemini/Mercury situations can be vehicles for our soul growth here/lining us up with our destiny - communications, words, ideas, siblings, local community, commerce, childhood education, writing, transportation, tech.

 

At the same time, Mars at 23 degrees Cancer trines (brakes off) creative/compassionate Neptune. Neptune dissolves boundaries/roadblocks, adds inspiration/intuition to whatever Mars (as us) is up to. Great for taking action on our dream. Knowing LOVE IS  A VERB. Acting on our intuition. Mars in Cancer is focused on home/family/security (our Cancer natal house theme). The trine says this action won't need to be forced, something here should fall smoothly into place or dissolve if finished. Squares to Neptune sometimes allow situations that may have seemed too important to lose some of their vitality/dissipate. Forgiveness/compassion, especially around home, family situations is especially healing all week.

 

WEDNESDAY - Sun sextiles Chiron, Venus enters Cancer, 4th Quarter Moon

The Sun, at 12 degrees Gemini, now sextiles Chiron in Aries - the knowledge of our vulnerabilities (doubts?) is smoothly put into words/conversations. A light shines on some very old wounds. Talking about what hurts can be helpful/opportunistic (this is Gemini, so keep it light). We don't have to have all the answers, and in fact, if we think we do now, we should think again! Remember the Sun in Gemini is answering to a retrograde Mercury, so this will have its roots in situations from the past. Talk about it. Listen. Stay open and flexible.

The Moon (last quarter now before next week's BIG New Moon Solar Eclipse) at 11 degrees Pisces squares the Gemini Sun. This is kind of reinforcing the Mercury square Neptune we have in play now, may foreshadow the Mercury/Neptune at the end of the week. Here is where last week's New Moon story meets its inevitable tension/frustration via a square to the Sun. Now, the Moon is in Pisces, emotional/lacking boundaries, but gaining intuition. This might be our dreams/illusions/compassionate leanings at odds with the facts. The Gemini Sun insists on applying logic to our imaginings and conversely the Pisces Moon can make what seemed like solid decisions/leanings less certain. Maybe we want to rest/escape/blend into a bigger perspective, but there are these relentless details that won't be ignored. If the Moon in Pisces has tossed us off course, the square to the Gemini Sun can pull us back into reality maybe via busyness or a push for a decision. On the other hand if the Sun has had us running all over the place we might just need a rest. Keep in mind this is part of the Mercury retrograde process/Eclipse process that will allow us to work through the lethargy, lies and confusion.

At 9:18AM EDT, Venus (love, money, values, resources, self-esteem, women, beauty) moves into Cancer until June 27th. Cancer Suns and Risings become more attractive - both able to attract what they want and easier on the eye. Our Cancer houses become more attractive, too.

Venus themes will be emotionally tended to. We will require more emotional connection to feel safe and secure. We will want (or feel the lack of) whatever feels like nurturing to us.
 

Home becomes a more valuable space. Family is a resource. Our empathy increases along with our hurt feelings when we don't get what feels like "mom and apple-pie".
 

What we want (Venus) is to feel safe (Cancer). We want what is familiar. We want our home/surroundings to be more beautiful.
 

Cancer is both the mother and the child. So we get what we want/need by being cared for and by caring for others now. Ruled by the Moon, who changes signs every two and a half days, Cancer can be moody. Our emotions around what we want are subject to lunar whims now, but the actual thing we want can become more solid. The active feminine energy (Venus) connects with the responsive feminine energy (Moon). What we need (Cancer) meets what we want (Venus).

 

Venus is much more comfortable in Cancer (ruled by her friend the Moon) than she has been for the last month in Gemini where she's been attracted to and attracting "one thing after the other". She's been flirting and "keeping things light" but nothing really turns into anything here. For now, we might be more emotional. Maybe a little more needy and vulnerable. These do not have to be bad things.

 
The fly in the ointment with Venus in Cancer is the kind of smothering/mothering that suffocates or we overindulge ourselves in some unhealthy way or we have an unrealistic expectation of someone else filling some childhood need. Watch for emotions that are "over-the-top" compared with what is actually happening. What are we storing that is triggering these emotions?

THURSDAY - Sun trines Saturn, Venus trines Jupiter - 5 STAR DAY

 

The Sun, at 13 degrees Gemini, trines Saturn, retrograde in Aquarius as Venus at 1 degree Cancer trines Jupiter in Pisces. The Sun's trine to a retrograde Saturn might be reaffirming earlier information/conversations or maybe we are committing to something or moving on somehow from that challenging square we had last month. Discussions with authority/father/conversations around our goals should proceed smoothly. There could be rewards for old work. We are stepping into responsibilities/feeling able. At the same time Venus is trining Jupiter - our most benevolent planets having the best aspect is - love, compassion, forgiveness, happiness - benefits flowing to our Pisces house.

 

The Moon in Taurus is making her own lovely aspects (to Jupiter and Venus!) and answering to Venus - so good for money, love, our relationships, beauty. 

 

A 5 STAR DAY, in play all week and makes the whole week better!

 

SATURDAY - Mercury squares Neptune, Mars opposes Pluto

Mars, at 26 degrees Cancer opposes Pluto in Capricorn. This is uber-volatile energy, and like a Full Moon completes a lunar cycle, this opposition completes a Mars/Pluto cycle that started in late March 2020. This might close out a home/family or career/public voice situation. We could feel powerful/powerless. Anger/passion. This is a DANGER WILL ROBINSON aspect, but can also allow us to push past our fears. 

 

At the same time, a retrograde Mercury (our thinking, information, communication) squares confusing/creative and anesthetizing Neptune. This is the second square of three. Not the time to make an important decision. We don't know what we don't know. This can also be the time our delusions/fantasies are hit by the facts. A mini wake-up call or conversely our thoughts are just going in too many directions and our mind needs a rest. Maybe we need the details/facts to yield to our intuition now. This aspect - usually a quickie, but due to Mercury's retrograde in Gemini this year, taking us from late May (first hit May 22nd) until mid June - makes it hard to be sure. We want to be double checking what we are reading/hearing/saying. People can misunderstand us and we can be misunderstanding them. Maybe information isn't all on the up and up. A tricky day to navigate. Keep a cool head/double check the details. 

 

Keep in mind until Mercury meets up with the Sun on June 11th it will hard to know/hard to narrow things down. Best to work with this, go with the flow of this (the flow is backward - re-visions, re-thinking, etc).

xo all

 

painting by the talented Daniel Gerhartz

Today's Astrology Forecast | Saturday, May 29th, 2021 - mercury stations retrograde, our Venus story-line needs some review, going backward to go forward, focusing on something else

 

 

The Moon is in serious/sober Capricorn now. She will oppose Mars at 10:35AM EDT (home vs work, mom vs dad, issues about our security/stability. personal/emotional actions vs goals - people might feel more sensitive/appear more pushy - this opposition could slow down a commitment and that might be a good thing), sextile Neptune at 12:13PM EDT (opportunities to feel better via art, music, our imagination, healing, spirituality, being near water). Finally she goes void off a conjunction with powerful Pluto (good for stepping into responsibilities/power, dealing with authority) at 6:14PM EDT. She will be void for the rest of the night.

This is also the day, and we tallked about this in the weekly HERE (check tomorrow also), Venus meets Mercury and then Mercury stations retrograde. 

This could be about a heart-to-heart talk (more mind than heart though). We probably won't come to any solid decisions/answers, even if we think we do, because Mercury immediately stations retrograde, so we are going back over things - need to re-think, re-view, etc. 

 

This could also be about financial information/situations. 

 

With Mercury and Venus in Gemini (24 degrees) there could be more than one way through here or multiple steps/phases needed. Think small. Think local.

 

With both planets squaring a confusing Neptune in Pisces (and we've never had Neptune at his current degree in our lifetime - our lack of familiarity with this will pull in older stories, ancestral/past-life) - it will be hard, impossible, to be certain, and we don't want to be lying to ourselves/being lied to/in lalaland with something.

 

Stay flexible and keep in mind this Neptunian energy cuts both ways. When nothing is certain, much, much more is possible. We DON'T KNOW (because, as I've said before we can't know yet), so we'll keep as many doors and windows open as we can. Next week Mars will oppose Pluto and the following week the Sun will meet Mercury (on the Solar Eclipse!), so some things are set to be demolished/others to come to light as a new story kicks off and an old story ends.

 

In the meantime, Mercury stations retrograde, in his home sign of Gemini, conjunct Venus and squaring Neptune - at 6:34PM EDT. Mercury will be retrograde until June 22nd (hours after the summer solstice).

Time to re-think, re-examine, re-visit, re-vise whatever value/attraction/information Venus has brought us. 

We ignore Mercury retrograde at our own peril. Trying to plow ahead re-gardless will not work. It also won't work to stand still and try to wait Mercury out. We must move our ideas, projects, etc through the process of the retrograde period. We are going backward to go forward now!

So talk/think, make plans, today is an important day and with the Moon in Cappy, we can put on those big girl/boy pants with this stuff. Be less emotional (after the morning Mars opposition) and more pragmatic, which is obviously what is needed because it is what life is offering us.

 

Just keep things flexible. We are in between Eclipses folks! Still in that washing machine's spin cycle.

A way through this thing - Uranus is trining (brakes off) Vesta today for the third and final time. Taurus/Virgo at 12 degrees. Being practical/focused AND open to change/the future. And conversely the new and innovative being the practical thing. Innovation/doing it differently, but with a specific focus. A new fix. We have been here twice before since the end of November 2020. Vesta has had multiple oppositions to Neptune as we were called via tension/frustration to fix it or forget it AND she has had multiple trines (smooth flow) with Uranus as we are called to focus on the future/change/something different! 

 

What is keeping you up at night? What are the themes of your Taurus and Virgo houses? What do you value NOW?

 

xo all

artwork by the talented M&I Gamash

the meaning of the Sagittarius Full Moon Lunar Eclipse | May 26th, 2021 - ancestral healing, letting go, living in the crack between the chapters, divine wisdom, fate, going backward to go forward, allowing ourselves the space to get lucky

 

 

 

On May 26th, 2021 at 7:13AM EDT, the Sagittarius Moon opposes the Gemini Sun giving us our first Eclipse of the season (the next is in two weeks) - a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius. 

Full Moons brings things to light, to a conclusion or point of fullness. 

 

Lunar Eclipse Full Moons are different than regular Full Moons because they are happening on the Moon's South Node - the Moon is full but the Sun's light is blocked by the Earth. So although things are still concluding and 'coming to light' other stuff is hidden, too. Nothing is exactly as it seems. Sometimes we think we have failed and then something flips on us. Or we are patting ourselves on the back for a big win and the client calls with revisions that require many hours work. Sometimes bigger, more important things are obscured in the shadows.

Eclipses are cosmic course corrections. Things get eclipsed out or out of our way. Like a computer being rebooted after a change to its operating system - we get a re-set.

Eclipse events do not usually happen exactly on the date of the eclipse - although we will usually feel the 'emotions' of the Eclipse on the Eclipse date. The eclipse sets up an event chart - a kind of marker in the heavens and as planets hit that point - or the exact opposite polarity point (5 degrees Gemini) - via transit THAT is when events happen. And somehow with an eclipse prior events factor in, too. I have often seen events happen almost exactly a month to the day before the Eclipse. Then the changes brought about by the 'eclipsing' unfold over the next six months or so. 

 

Eclipses come in sets. Having the Lunar Eclipse before the Solar Eclipse - the Full Moon before the New Moon in a way, tells us the ending now/the clearing out/the making space is needed, so the NEW can take root in more fertile ground. In two weeks, at 20 degrees Gemini, we will have a New Moon Solar Eclipse. The time in between the two eclipses is kind of like being in our washing machine spin cycle. It's not the time to take out the wash unless we want a soggy mess. Stuff isn't finished. We have to let the machine (the set of eclipses) do its work.

So, if you can, save the big-bodacious moves until after that second eclipse in two weeks. Let things unwind a bit. Gemini's ruler Mercury will be retrograde and conjunct the next Eclipse, so that should be interesting - going backward to go forward?! Let's let the Eclipses work their magic first. See where the washing machine spits us out and what we have to work with. Plus we'll be clean and smell like fabric softener sheets. 

Now, let's unpack the chart!

The Moon, at 5 degrees Sagittarius, opposes the Sun at 5 degrees Gemini. The Moon trines Chiron. The Moon and Sun square Jupiter at 1 degree Pisces. Jupiter is the ruler of Sagittarius and ruler of this lunation, so this is even more significant. Jupiter is in Pisces answering to Neptune who is EXACTLY conjunct Pallas and Neptune/Pallas are squaring the Venus/Mercury conjunction in Gemini and trining Mars in Cancer (answering to the Moon). 

 

(we had an Eclipse very near this one on 5/25/13 and before that on 5/26/02 and 5/25/94, similar, although not exactly the same themes might apply)

This Lunar Eclipse is all mutable energy. This is about CHANGE. A need to adjust. 

 

The squares to Sag ruler Jupiter in Pisces, tells us these changes are good changes/for the better, even if we can't see that just yet. Pisces makes things uncertain/unclear. With Gemini/Sag, we want to make a plan, get our ducks in a row and Jupiter in Pisces - and keep in mind he is heading back into Aqua to finish up - tells us, this is a PROCESS. We aren't going to KNOW right now because our knowing would just muck it all up.

(imagine being the quarterback in a big game, it's the final play and the crowd is on their feet, it's all up to you - now imagine, that you already know the game's outcome - how that would affect what you do/how you play)

 

The Moon is applying to a conjunction to the South Node. The Moon crosses over the South Node (where we are and what we are releasing) every month, but only once a year during a Full Moon. This allows for a bigger activation of these 'closing out' energies. There IS something here we are ready to release. We have taken something as far as it can go. We have been there/done that. Talked/thought that out and it is OVER. In general this can be about Sag themes - our beliefs, religion, politics, foreign situation/travel, legal situations, publishing, media, weddings. This might mean something to you personally or you might need to look to the theme of the house holding 5 degrees Sagittarius in your natal chart and also to the house ruled by Jupiter (if these are two different houses). With a lunar eclipse sometimes a woman leaves or she relays news of an ending, often we are working through a situation that has its roots in our home/family/maternal line. The Moon's trine to Chiron speaks of healing very old wounds now. 

The square to Jupiter, which can feel over-the-top, is actually helping us - maybe by making something feel so big, we can't act just yet. It can also show us any lalaland thinking we are deceiving ourselves with. In Pisces it can connect us to ancestral story-lines we are working out. Squares work through tension/frustration. Choices that come up now are choices we have called to ourselves - this stuff has been in play for awhile. With Mercury being debilitated by Neptune mental efforting is probably not going to work here. The square from Gemini's ruler Mercury (our mind/thinking cloudy) to Neptune/Pallas as Sag ruler Jupiter answers to Neptune in Pisces tells us the answers are Neptunian/Piscean. 

Invisible. Intuitive. Not of this world. Sometimes just not available yet. Pallas in Pisces offers us DIVINE WISDOM. Inspiration. The caveat with Pallas here is seeing patterns where none exist, but she is also helping us connect very old dots through flashes of insight. Neptune can also help things dissolve in a less painful way - provide some needed anesthesia! 

We are still living the crack between the chapters folks. Hang in there.

 

We don't have to KNOW what all of this means, we just have to TRUST that this is happening. That simply by having the experiences we are having right now, we are untangling some very old knots. 

 

Jupiter/Neptune/Pallas speak of positive forces behind the scenes working through us to BRING GOOD FORTUNE/EXPANSION.

I hope something here is helpful. 

 

Also note, 5 degrees Gemini (where the Sun is now with the Moon opposing) is the degree Venus reached her retrograde shadow (April 19th, 2020) and then stationed direct (June 25th, 2020) last summer during her Gemini retrograde. This was all about changing relationships, values, the way we make money and hold onto resources. And THAT journey - via the Venus Star Point- pulled us back to 2012. So, now we are kind of back where we were last summer, older and wiser/coming at this from another angle, and the NEXT Eclipse in two weeks at 20 degrees Gemini will be conjunct (21 degrees Gemini) the degree of her actual stations (May13th/July 29th, 2020) - here is a post about THAT. Note Venus is conjunct Mercury NOW and so part of this story, too - our relationships, money, our values, beauty, women and self-esteem. 

We'll give Jupiter his due with our faith/enthusiasm. Give Neptune his due through music, art, meditation, prayer. The empty leg of the Mutable T-Square is Virgo, so some practical action to ground ourselves will help, too. Hold on loosely.

xo all - make sure to get out and walk in this one!

Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 - going deep before going wide

 

The Moon is in deep Scorpio now. We are nourished/nurtured through intensity, getting to the bottom of things, research, intimacy, psychology, power. Our focus might be on Scorpio themes - finances, merged monies, reproduction, sex, birth/death, secrets, mysteries/crime, third party situations. 

 

She trines Mars at 6:00AM EDT (brakes off), Neptune at 11:00AM EDT and goes void at 5:19PM EDT off a sextile (opportunity) to Pluto. She is void until 10:39PM EDT when she comes out of the Scorpian depths into the bluer skies of Sagittarius.

 

Today's Scorp intensity is a prelude to tomorrow's BIG Lunar Eclipse and with the Moon touching both Scorpio's ancient and modern rulers in smooth/easy aspects, should be productive/opportunistic.

 

Scoprio rules secrets and the stuff we've stuffed and don't want to look at/feel. There are opportunities for real intimacy here if we can let go of our need to control/manipulate whatever we have going on. If we, or other people, are dealing with emotions that are out of proportion to the situation - don't judge this. Know we are actually interacting with the energies of older/deeper storylines we are accessing through this Eclipse portal. These triggers are karma - which are simply the energetic consequences of our prior thoughts/actions/experiences. We don't have to completely understand what is happening (although truths could be revealed now), to allow the energies to move through us/release these stories/cords from our bodies. 

Allow this day to flow and notice the Moon's move into Sagittarius tonight - see if you can feel the optimism/hopefulness/confidence/wisdom of THAT regardless of your external circumstances right now.

xo all

artwork by the amazing Lin Jinfu