Mercury Sextile Neptune | when a picture is worth a thousand words

Semidarkness by Natalia Drepina

With Mercury, our words and language, (in all-business, just get 'er done Capricorn) sextiling Neptune (strong in dreamy Pisces) for the third time since December 10th (look for patterns!), this could be a good time to bring some imagination and a little "pie-in-the-sky" language into our conversations and communications.

Sextiles are opportunities, but they are often subtle and we miss them.

This is great energy to talk about our dreams. Just saying the words out loud can bring us the clarity we need or maybe the person we are talking to says exactly what we need to hear. Or maybe someone else needs us to listen to them. Words are magical now - use them carefully or we can choose to let our images do the talking for us. 

We can use this energy in the reverse, too. We can ground (Capricorn) our dreamy, airy-fairy conversations in the real world. We need both grounded and stable Saturn (ruler of Capricorn - Mercury is answering to him now) and Neptune (our dreams and imagination) to get anything done. And here they are shaking hands again!

This is the year everyone gets 'unstuck' and sometimes unstuck means a physical change and sometimes it means the clouds part and the fog lifts. And what we believe changes.

Remember we live in a vibrational Universe, but also in a world of contrast.

Often creative people get “strategically placed” in areas that need huge energetic help.

People who carry the vibration of truth or beauty or patience or empathy or joy or courage, etc - you see where this is going -  can arrive like human “seed bombs” into the spaces and situations they are needed.

When we can begin to embrace the greater purpose to our situation we start to decrease the resistance to us moving along to something better.

Keep this in mind. Speak (Mercury) with compassion (Pisces).

xo all

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of January 23rd - wrap it up, get extra rest, new cycles at the end of the week

Synchronization by Alexan dru Crisan

On Monday, Mercury (in Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (in Pisces) so Mercury ruled conversations, communications, ideas or information focused on our goals, career, business or with authority will flow smoothly (or we could put the other person to sleep - ack!).

Mystical Neptune could also center those communications or ideas on art, healing, boundaries or what is happening "behind the scenes."

On Tuesday, the Moon is void from 12:30pm to 5:45pm EST. This is not a good time to start anything new. The Moon (in Sagittarius) in squaring Mars (still in Pisces for a couple more days) which could bring tension and struggle with legal, political, foreign, educational, religious, travel or wedding situations. Productive energy today through Thursday, but remember it is the dark of the Moon and we are wrapping things up or releasing stuff.

On Wednesday, Venus and Chiron meet up in Pisces. This could involve a situation about something we can't have or didn't get. There could be disappointment and hurt feelings now. This might take us back to whatever happened with last week's Mars/Chiron conjunction and will push us toward Venus's Friday square with "the wall" Saturn and the bold Aquarius New Moon.

On Thursday, the ongoing T-Square that impacted the inauguration chart connects with the Moon in Capricorn. Emotional career, business, goal or authority situations connect with power players Jupiter (expansion), Uranus (revolution, change) and Pluto (transformation). This can bring unexpected changes and power plays. Our natal Cancer house will be where to focus to ease the tension. The Moon is dark, wants to rest and in its detriment in Capricorn - not wanting to deal with whatever might be hitting the fan - take some deep breaths here.

On Friday, Venus squares Saturn and we have the New Moon in Aquarius. I'll do a separate post - this is a BIG day. Then on Saturday - another BIG day, Mars comes home to Aries where he'll hang out until March 9th and kick off a new two year cycle in our Aries house. This will have us more motivated, more courageous and give us more energy and initiative! Our Aries house will be WIDE AWAKE and ready to kick butt. The Chinese New Year begins and Mercury makes his annual conjunction with Pluto which kicks off another new cycle - this one in our Capricorn natal house and/or with our ongoing Capricorn themes - business, career, goals, responsibilities and limits. We'll talk about this in another post, too!

After we get a little sliver of New Moon in the sky - it will be all systems GO until at least February 6th. There aren't many GO periods in the early part of this year, if we need/want it - it's here.

After that, eclipse season is coming and will take us back to February 1998 - where were you then? That was a very challenging time for me and the eclipse is exactly conjunct my mid-heaven at 22 degrees Leo -a nail biter.

xo all