Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of June 4th - like alice down the rabbit hole, illusions and delusions, what we want and feel like we can't live without

Down the Rabbit Hole by artiste-reveur
Neptune, uber strong at home in Pisces (since 2011 - a BIG part of our "can't tell what is real/true" current reality), will be having his way with us this week as both our Gemini planets - the Sun and Mercury, move in to square him.

This is not the best week to make a big decision or more forward with any important plans.  

Things will not be quite what they appear to be now.

The fog is rolling in. The sands are shifting.

We will need to think twice about what we are saying/communicating. Misunderstandings are likely now. The truthfulness of whatever we are dealing with will be complicated.

We could be lied to or we could be the one spinning a tangled web.

Treat what you hear/read/experience now with a sense of curiosity - ask yourself - "well, isn't that interesting?" - nothing will be quite what it seems.

People, including us, will think they know more than they do. Things can look better, or worse, than they actually are. It would be best to read this post, and everything else you are consuming via language now (especially the news!), with more skepticism than you normally would.

Women (Venus) vs power (Pluto) could also be a theme - we saw three women shoot themselves in the foot last week with their language - Roseanne Barr, Germaine Greer and Samantha Bee. With Jupiter in Scorpio having so much to do (within the collective) with the #metoo movement - women (mostly) taking out the power structure and Jupiter now retrograde - this is more like women taking themselves out.

If we are kind of in-tune with the Neptune/Pisces energy and can chill out this week and just allow things to flow - step off the hamster wheel for just a little bit - this week's energy could feel almost peaceful.

Our time might be best spent finishing things up - the Moon is waning - and getting ready for next week's New Moon!

This week's major aspects are:

TUESDAY - Sun conjunct Mercury and Venus opposite Pluto
WEDNESDAY - Mercury square Neptune
THURSDAY - Sun square Neptune
FRIDAY - Venus square Eris, Mars conjunct the South Node

MONDAY is another day like last Wednesday - a Void Moon all day and no aspects. This would not be a good day to start something new. If you were thinking of taking a day off this week - this would be it, if you don't want to miss anything.

With Chiron squaring (tension/frustration) Vesta, we could be dealing with hurting/healing around the ways our constant tending to something/someone has allowed other parts of our life to grow weeds (this will be our Cappy vs Aries houses) or the painful realization we are no longer devoted to something/someone and are just "going through the motions".

We associate Vesta with the Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome. Charged from childhood with keeping the sacred hearth of the temple burning, they had the responsibility - via their devotion to the flame -  with keeping their civilization alive. If we have shouldered a responsibility or devoted ourselves to something that is not allowing us to be our own person or move in a direction we want to go, we could be feeling the squeeze of that now as our responsibilities/limits (Capricorn) rub up against the action we need to take for ourselves (Aries).

HERE is a short post on Chiron in Aries.

On TUESDAY the Moon moves into imaginative Pisces at 6:53AM EDT - this will make us more intuitive and compassionate, but also less grounded and realistic over the next couple days.

We have the Sun (in Gemini) meeting up with Mercury while inconjunct (rock and a hard place) a retrograde Jupiter in Scorpio. Within the same hour we have Venus (in Cancer) moving into her exact opposition to Pluto (ruler of Scorpio).

The Sun meeting up with Mercury could bring some important information to light (whether we can totally trust it or not is another matter) or maybe something from the previous Sun/Mercury conjunction - when Mercury was retrograde on April 1st - to a culmination (peak) or conclusion via Gemini  - communications, information, choices, etc. The rock and a hard place with Jupiter, retrograding through whatever is buried in our Scorpio houses is the challenge.

EXAMPLE FOR ARIES/ARIES RISING - The Sun and Mercury are meeting in Aries - your 3rd house of communication, information, writing, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood. You could get an answer, have a conversation, receive some information - that concludes something connected to the last Mercury/Sun meetup from the end of March/early April. With Jupiter moving backward through your 8th house of the stuff not really talked about - other people's resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money, spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, sex, reproduction - there could be something here that is not being said. Maybe this is the problem and you are going to need to keep this in mind (you don't know what you don't know) or maybe some things are better left alone behind door number three (unopened/unsaid). With both the Sun and Mercury moving into a square with illusive Neptune over the next couple days - you are going to have to sift the facts from the fiction. It won't be easy.

Also on Tuesday - and for some people THIS will be the BIG transit of the week - Venus (what we want - love, money, our values, beauty and our self-esteem) will move into an opposition with Pluto (power, compulsion, obsession). This has been building since last week.

Power struggles around what we want and/or with authority are possible now.

Do we really want something or are we just obsessed with the idea of having/keeping it?

EXAMPLE FOR CANCER/CANCER RISING - Venus in your 1st house of yourself opposes Pluto, retrograde in your 7th house of partners/partnerships. This aspect could stir up issues/lessons via insecurities around power imbalances. A partner's (business, romantic, personal) perceived power over you or the feeling that they are essential for your very survival may be activated. Do you really want something from them or are you just obsessed with the idea of having/keeping them/what they have? The way through this is by taking back the power you are projecting onto the other person - stepping into our own Capricorn now. Neptune and Jupiter are in harmony with your sign Cancer - YOU are the one who sets the terms around how you engage with other people. This aspect has the power to transform a relationship and Plutonian transformations are permanent. Or it could be a wake up call via a hurtful encounter with another person that shakes us up to how much we are giving away our own power.

On WEDNESDAY,  Mercury (home in Gemini) moves into her square with Neptune (home in Pisces), so it could be tricky to separate the fantasy from the reality now. Keep that in mind with whatever you have going on.

We could be dealing with Neptunian themes - hospitals, healing, things put away, things from the past, addictions, medications, meditation, spirituality, imagination, etc.

This isn't the time to run with some information that comes in unless you are very, very grounded.

It would be the time to speak with a conservative kind of caution (am I saying what I really intend to say, what I really feel, what I really KNOW to be true?). Listen the same way. Avoid gossip.

Our addictive tendencies could be biting us in the ass right about now.

Today is the last Quarter Moon in Pisces and the skies are quite muddled. Information could be misleading. Choices that look like real solid things could turn out to be just our eyes playing tricks on us in a shadowy room at night and then vanish in the cold light of day.

Sleep on ALL decisions.

THURSDAY is more of Wednesday with another long Void Moon (until 5:26PM EDT when she moves into Aries) and the Sun squaring Neptune, too, tossed in for good measure. Except we won't be measuring anything because nothing will quite be lining up.

The Moon is waning now - what can we finish?

Any connection to Neptune is excellent energy to create, imagine, connect, meditate, heal via water, love, compassion.

As the Moon moves through Aries in the evening and meets up with Chiron (wounded healer) we could be feeling some pain around our ability to be ourselves or take action. This would be a good time for me to write one of those sleep medication warnings around driving and operating heavy machinery - take care with your physical body now and your head in particular tonight. Stay hydrated.

Back in a couple days with Friday and the weekend - we have some powerful energy to finish out the week, too. Plus let's start looking further ahead to a very important summer.

xo all

Jupiter and Venus trine Neptune, Mercury trine Mars | smooth seas may not create skilled sailors but they might make for a nice afternoon in a boat

Splash of Color by thillyLiv

Today, we have Venus in Cancer trining (brakes off) Jupiter, retrograde in Scorpio, at 15 degrees. We also have Mercury in Gemini trining Mars in Aquarius at 5 degrees and tomorrow Venus will perfect a trine to Neptune (in play now) in Pisces, at 16 degrees.

With Venus (love, money, women, beauty. our resources, values and self-esteem) in Cancer (home, family, mom and apple-pie) joining the Jupiter (expansion, luck) and Neptune (imagination, idealism, compassion, forgiveness, spirituality) party and forming a Grand Water Trine we have a beautiful flow of energy for the next couple days.

This is expansion, luck, beauty, love and imagination. This can bring healing and increased intimacy. With Venus in Cancer this is a good time for resolving home, family and real estate issues and healing situations with your mama and your matriarchal inheritance.

Remember our water houses are ALWAYS in trine and working together, but RIGHT NOW, home to the powerful energies of Venus, Jupiter and Neptune all lined up the way they are - they are SUPER dynamic.

All this water means our intuition - and emotions - are greatly magnified now (also actual water issues - flooding, I think we are having the biblical 40 days here, etc).

EXAMPLE for SCORPIO/Scorpio Rising (using whole signs) - this Grand Water Trine involves your 1st house (Jupiter retrograde at 15 degrees) of yourself, your 5th house (Neptune in Pisces at 16 degrees) of creative projects, your self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and recreation and your 9th house (Venus in Cancer at 15/16 degrees) of travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, your beliefs and higher thinking. This is excellent energy for bigger thinking or exploration around a creative project you are personally involved with to create expansion and luck. You could have something fall into place with any of the themes mentioned above. You (1st house) could fall in love (5th house) while traveling (9th house), yadda yadda. You won't have to push (or manipulate dear Scorpio!). This doesn't mean some action won't be required on your part, but it will be a logical next step kind of thing. There is synergy here.

There is always the possibility, if we are un-grounded or ignore all boundaries, to take something too far because there isn't anything stopping these energies.

Our addictions, compulsions, lies, illusions, spending could go off the rails. Keep these things in mind.

At the same time we have Mercury, freshly minted in his home sign of Gemini, trining Mars (in Aquarius) - this could be a new idea we can take action on. Our minds should be razor sharp.

We might have to make a fast decision or make a quick move. With Mercury and Mars tag-teaming, we can speak with confidence now. The Venus/Jupiter/Neptune should help soften any pushiness.

All in all this should be good energy for harmony between people! Prayers we collectively make good use of it. Water signs can make us more emotional, so maybe have a box of tissues handy folks.

We have an inconjunct on SATURDAY between Mercury and Saturn - rock and a hard place - so something unresolvable here maybe between information/communication/ideas and authority/security/responsibility/time/limits. With both planets strong in their home signs some things just can't be resolved right now. A heads up that Mercury will be very active next week with news and information and with Neptune and Jupiter uncooperative - facts will be elusive and possibly illusive.

xo all - here's hoping for a lovely weekend for everyone - another rainy one expected here

Another heads up that we have an all-day Void Moon on Monday. Maybe take the day off and save the big moves for TUESDAY.

Another heads up - and all this "heads up" is again making me think of what is happening to our world with so many people walking around looking down at their phones all day and not up at the possibilities - that we are going to be doing alot of backtracking and "cooling our jets" this summer (and busy work that might not amount to much in the end if we are determined to push our way through) with all the retrogrades and eclipses as our old vision of our future morphs ... again.

Mercury into Gemini | fresh information comes in, who do you want to talk to, choices and changing viewpoints, giving life permission to not make any sense for awhile

Consume by bypolar-bear
Mercury (communication, ideas, local life and travel, transportation, sibling issues) moved into his home sign of Gemini last night.

We will feel a difference in the days ahead as information and communications switch from turtle pace to rabbit.

Increased choices, conversations and ideas will start to flow.

We won't put everything to use, Gemini can be rather chatty, so some stuff will just move in and out, but the change in momentum will be noticeable.

Keep in mind with Gemini there are more questions than answers and the information might be unreliable.

But easy, adaptable conversations, suitable for the moment, can pull everything forward now.

With the Sun and Mercury both in Gemini this is an excellent time to catch up on our communications. Who would we like to talk to?

Ask questions. It is best in Gemini season to maybe suspend judgements for awhile (Geminis make the best - and funniest - cynics) and approach situations with curiosity. 

Fresh information and conversations will come in and expand whatever we are dealing with. This can be stimulating if we've grown weary of Taurus's scrutiny and demand for truth.

Gemini energy talks. It listens. It questions. It perceives what isn't said at all. In short, it doesn't miss a trick. With so much to see and so much to do and so much to communicate - there is not a moment to waste on any of those roses we were smelling last month

Gemini (the twins) is the sign of duality - of black and white, of feminine and masculine, of truth and lies. Nothing will be totally one way or the other or quite what is seems now. We will be faced with dilemmas and changing viewpoints. In the end contradictory thoughts and things can come together with this energy.

We all have ideas about how things are supposed to look and work that we've carried since childhood (and before). We have these beliefs and then we, subconsciously, look around for the things that support these beliefs and that's what we notice. Then our beliefs gets reconfirmed and strengthened. Even though these beliefs are no truer than someone else's beliefs that reflect the opposite thing.

With the Sun in Gemini and Mercury home until June 12th, all of us are burning Gemini fuel - we can give ourselves permission to embrace a more wide open receptive state. We can move against the beliefs we've been strengthening since childhood if they no longer suit us. We can give life permission to not make any sense for a while.

If we are confused we are probably doing something right.

See what house holds Gemini in your natal chart - this space will be communicating with you now! What is it saying?

xo all

Today, Mercury - within hours of coming home to Gemini - is going to sextile (opportunity) Chiron in Aries. Talking about what hurts can be healing. 

We could make a connection now between some early traumatic experience and our current behavior/situation.

Chiron is freshly minted in Aries, too, and we haven't had this energetic connection in these signs since the late 1960's/early 1970's.

With Chiron in Aries encouraging us to take a hard look at ourselves, to do things for ourselves and stand on our own two feet - there could be a conversation now or information that comes in that allows us to see how our own survival instincts (or any lack of courage, passion or initiative) that we were smart enough to develop as children and that helped us when we were younger may no longer be something we need to carry. Is this energetic still working for us?

Talk about it. Write it down. Actually read the book that comes to your attention now.

Full Moon in Sagittarius | a higher ground with a clearer focus, what is worth reaching for, opening up, having faith

Swing by Kleemass

This post is mostly from the weekly HERE - see Tuesday - with the signs added at the end. xo

Today we have the Gemini Sun opposing the Sagittarius Moon at 8 degrees - giving us our annual Full Moon in Sagittarius. 

The Moon will trine the North Node (in Leo) and the Sun will be trining the South Node (in Aquarius). The Sun is also inconjunct (rock and hard place) Saturn in Capricorn.

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

The Gemini/Aquarius energy will be finishing something up or bringing something to a fullness via conversations, information, communications, choices, decisions. The Sagittarius/Leo energy will be launching us forward (think of the Sagittarian archer's arrow here) via our beliefs, truth, wisdom, bigger opportunities, travel, stepping outside comfort zones, exploration, education. This would all be a very smooth transition, except for the Sun's inconjunct to Saturn - that obstacle/limit that must be addressed.

With Saturn in play we want to be sure we are taking seriously what we are doing now and taking responsibility for where we are heading with whatever we have going on. Sagittarius likes shortcuts, but Saturn is not allowing any corner-cutting.

We OPEN OUR MINDS (Full Moon in Sagittarius) to a higher ground with a clearer FOCUS and at the same time welcome the choices and changing attentions of Gemini.

We OPEN OUR HEARTS (North Node in Leo) to the creation of what we are here to bring into the world and at the same time release the detachment and distractions of Aquarius.

With Chiron in Aries we have a Grand Fire Trine formed with the Sagittarius Moon and North Node in Leo. Fire burns away the bullshit - and we have the North and South node in air signs to fan the flames - so that truth/wisdom/whatever we are stretching here (Sag) can HEAL (Chiron). The Moon is conjunct the fixed star Antares connected by astrologers who study the fixed stars to Jupiter (ruler of this Full Moon and currently retrograde in Scorpio) and Mars (co-ruler of Scorpio) - speaking of bravery and passion but also possible carelessness creating damage. We might want to pull back a bit from anything that feels too risky now.

The Full Moon's aspects are also forming a Mystic Rectangle. A Mystic Rectangle is two oppositions (Moon/Sun and North Node/South Node) supported by multiple smooth sextiles and trines. Expansion, sudden challenges, too much/too soon, over-the-top emotions whatever this is if it touches our chart - there are multiple beneficial energies helping us make this all work out smoothly.

This is excellent energy for artists and creatives to reach for something else, to work with something/someone foreign, to learn something new, to stretch.We attract what we want and need by optimistically embracing potential now. We don't have to know how this is all going to turn out, we know there will be adventure here - if we embrace what we do with an adventurous heart.

Remember the energies we are working with - we are working with the Leo/Aquarius polarity - something we have talked about alot over the last year.

Leo (naturally ruled by the Sun) is asking us to step onto the center stage of our own life - to shine. Leo is that noble lion; generous and heart-centered. At the same time Aquarius is asking us to work for the best outcome for everyone, to stay humble.

We are asked to release the idea that for us to win - someone else has to lose. This isn't true. We are asked to release the idea that if someone else looks like they have won, that we have lost. That isn't true either.

And of course, we are working with the Sagittarius/Gemini polarity.

Sagittarius is a fun-loving sign that rules travel, freedom, adventure, legal stuff, higher education, good luck, faith, religion, prayer, optimism, problem solving, truth seekers, boldly going where no man has gone before, the quest -

it also rules carelessness, taking shortcuts, thinking we are right, making assumptions, throwing pink paint on problems and hoping they will go away, overconfidence, impatience and superficial fluff.

Sagittarius is a mutable sign. The mutable signs prepare us for the change into the next season. We put on the sweater. We put away the sweater. We adjust.

Mutable signs are service signs and Sagittarius is in service through the exploration of Truth - this could be legal truth or political truth but its most especially spiritual truth - its highest purpose is enlightenment and expanding what is known.

The lower level energies rule religious wars, legal battles and political bullshit.

A few hours after the Moon is full, Mercury moves home to Gemini (thru June 12th) - a sign she/he RULES. Information speeds up. Travel, especially local travel, speeds up. People are more talkative. We get more mentally busy. We could be dealing with more sibling and transportation/local environment issues over the next couple weeks. We put our thoughts into words.

With Mercury ruling the Sun and changing signs on the day of the Full Moon it is especially likely for some information to come in this week that brings to light or to some conclusion/culmination our Full Moon agenda and/or our Leo North Node agenda (that thing our heart wants).

Here is a forecast by sign with my usual caveats.

Check your Sun and Rising Sign - take what is helpful and disregard the rest.

Note that because I am writing this using whole signs and am not looking at your chart , where just because you have Aries rising does NOT actually mean you have Sagittarius ruling your 9th house, although it most likely is - for example - things may never totally connect with your life. I hope something helps though.

ARIES/Aries Rising (Sagittarius 9th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 9th house of travel, higher education, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, your beliefs and higher thinking. Something within these themes comes to light, a conclusion or a culmination point now. With Chiron in your sign (and Uranus outta there!) and trining both the Full Moon and the North Node in Leo - just being yourself should start to feel pretty good right about now Aries. Saturn is inconjuncting the Sun from your 10th house of  - your career, your calling, your achievements, your achievement goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility - and Mercury moves into your 3rd house (communication, choices, information) at the time of the Moon - communications regarding limits, time constraints, structural issues, requirements, security issues at work/with goals and responsibilities could be something you are forced to deal with. The released brakes can help you gain momentum (and attention!) for your creativity - whatever your North Node in Leo is looking to "birth" - take that stuff seriously now Aries.

TAURUS/Taurus Rising (Sagittarius 8th house) this Full Moon 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. Something within these themes comes to light, a conclusion or a culmination point now. Money could flow in or out now. Saturn points out your 9th house limit/responsibility - travel, higher education, relocation, weddings, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, your beliefs and higher thinking via a conversation or more information. With Mercury's move into Gemini (and trine to Mars in your career house!) at the time of the Full Moon it could be a good time to think/talk about your finances, ask for a raise, raise your prices and create movement toward making more money. Uranus is just starting to get comfortable - in his own uncomfortable way - in your sign Taurus, the sky is going to be the limit for you, you just need to relax your grip!

GEMINI/ Gemini Rising (Sagittarius 7th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 7th house of partners and partnership (romantic/business). Something within these themes comes to light - likely through a conversation or additional information, a conclusion (ending) or a peak culmination point now. With the Sun in Gemini and Mercury coming home to Gemini on the day of the Full Moon plus the trine to brave and passionate Aries - the time is ripe for your voice to be heard, especially regarding partnership matters. Saturn points out your 8th house responsibility- a debt, shared resources, intimacy - via some kind of limit. Partnership imbalances and the stuff that needs to be said out loud - in particular anything started or given wings around the Sagittarius New Moon last December - could be given legs now via a former commitment.

CANCER/Cancer Rising (Sagittarius 6th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 6th house of day-to-day activities, your routine, work, co-workers, pets and your health. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. Saturn points out your 7th house responsibility - partners and partnerships. With Mercury moving into your 12th house of secrets, dreams and what is happening behind the scenes - conversations (especially within partnerships - romantic or business) could revolve around things you have put away (want to put behind you) or don't want to talk about. Watch you don't shoot yourself in the foot by telling/or withholding too much. Venus in your sign Cancer is trining Jupiter and Neptune this week and we are all heading home to the North Node in your sign lovely Cancer. If you are thinking you have to do everything on your own - this is going to change BIG TIME.

LEO/Leo Rising (Sagittarius 5th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 5th house of creative projects, your self-expression, what you give birth to, children, romance and recreation. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. The trine to the North Node in your sign offers a way forward that connects with your heart and will make you proud of what you have to show off. Mercury is trining Mars from your 11th house of the collective - your friendships, groups, causes, the internet, the public, the goals that bring you into relationship with other people, your advancement, technology - connecting you via conversations and additional information with what you need within these themes. Saturn points out your 6th house responsibility that can't be bypassed - your daily responsibilities, routine, commitments, health, etc. Uranus has moved into the top of your chart Leo - so much about how the world sees YOU is about to change - and probably more than once!

VIRGO/Virgo Rising (Sagittarius 4th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 4th house of home, family, your roots, mother, mothering, your ancestry, real estate or a home business. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. Are you moving or renovating Virgo? Maybe it is time for an important conversation with a female relative that will bring something to a conclusion and turn over a fresh leaf now. Saturn points out the importance of your 5th house responsibility - maybe to a child or creative project. Mercury moves into your 10th house of career and trines "get it done" Mars - you take action, make the call, write the email, do what you have to do to move things forward in a visible way. The trines to the North and South Node tell us you are ready to release any self-sabotaging tendencies and transform that day-to-day activities, your routine, work, co-workers, pets or health situation BIG TIME.

LIBRA/Libra Rising (Sagittarius 3rd house) this Full Moon is happening in your 3rd house of communication, information, writing, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. A decision is made. Saturn points out the importance of your 4th house responsibility - maybe with a home, family, your roots, mother, mothering, your ancestry, real estate or a home business situation. You know what is most important to you. Target what matters Libra. With your ruling sign Venus at the top of your chart and about to trine Jupiter and Neptune this week - maybe new life is breathed into something you thought was dead in the water. Your talents, skills and resources are going to be put to use, over the next few years, in a whole new way!

SCORPIO/Scorpio Rising (Sagittarius 2nd house) this Full Moon is happening in your 2nd house of your money, your values, your resources and self-esteem. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. Saturn points out the importance of your 3rd house responsibility - some information needs to come out, a conversation needs to be had likely involving an 8th house issue - other people's resources, other people's values, intimacy, other people's money, spouse's income, loans, debts, taxes, inheritance, sex, reproduction. This can't be avoided. Get on top of a budget or money making plan now. The trine to the North Node in your 10th house of career offers a positive connection between what you do in the world and your bank account, but you need to be willing to release the ways your financial maneuverings, likely based on familial limits and childhood/past life learnings, actually work against you. Your old vision of your career/public image is being blown to dust, but you might not know this yet. Much will be worked through this summer Scorpio as everything slows down to a simmer.

SAGITTARIUS/Sagittarius Rising (Sagittarius 1st house) - this is YOUR FULL MOON Sagittarius and you only get one every year, so enjoy it. Whatever you have been working on since last December's New Moon in Sagittarius, could come together now! With so much happening in Gemini, your partnership house - this Full Moon tells of a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point within a relationship. Trining the North Node in Leo, your 9th house of - travel, higher education, weddings, relocation, politics, legal issues, the media, publishing, foreigners, everything outside your comfort zone, exploration, your beliefs and higher thinking - something here is rip for forward movement. Saturn will be pointing out the importance of a 2nd house responsibility though, maybe financial. Maybe your partner is thinking bigger than you are - how is it possible for anyone to think bigger than a Sag? Saturn will get what Saturn wants here, but you might have to be a little more flexible.

CAPRICORN/Capricorn Rising (Sagittarius 12th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 12th house of what is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, addiction, healing. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. With other energies converging in your 6th house it could be a health or work issue - something you didn't know about or didn't want others to know about - will come out of the shadows. That trine to the North Node in your 8th house tells us the exposure could actually increase your intimacy with other people or other people's resources. Let forgiveness and surrender be your buzzwords Cappy! Saturn points out the importance of your 1st house responsibility - to yourself! Mercury's move into your 6th house could make you busy as a bee Gemini, possibly increase your workload or creating an emphasis on getting yourself more and better health information or talking to the right people. With Mars preparing to backtrack over your money house at the same time Uranus is waking up your 5th house of creative projects there could be something you previously put away that should be pulled back out now Cappy, if you want life to "show you the money". Time to re-work and re-imagine it!

AQUARIUS/Aquarius Rising (Sagittarius 11th house) this Full Moon is happening in your 11th house of the collective - your friendships, groups, causes, the internet, the public, the goals that bring you into relationship with other people, your advancement, technology. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. An important collaboration or something done on the internet could come together now! Saturn points out the importance of your 12th house responsibility- some situation that is hidden or put away or done behind the scenes, secrets, the ethereal realms, imagination, hospitals, spirituality, addiction, healing, any self-sabotaging tendency to shove something under the bed - something here that can't be ignored now. So don't ignore it. The next two and a half months are going to bring two eclipses across your sign Aquarius, I know you don't like change so much, but your beliefs about what is possible for your life are going to be upended water bearer.

PISCES/Pisces Rising (Sagittarius 10th house) the Full Moon is happening in your 10th house of your career, your calling, your achievements, your achievement goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility. Something within these themes comes to light - likely via a conversation or additional information - a conclusion or a culmination point now. Hopefully a goal from the Sagittarius New Moon in December is reached. Saturn points out the importance of your 11th house responsibility - maybe the goals that bring you into connection with other people or maybe something about your reputation (?) via an authority figure or limited option. With Mercury moving into your 4th house of home and family there could be a family situation that gets energized now. Your career house and home/family are the spaces of greatest growth for you now Pisces. By the time Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion, moves to the top of your chart next November you will have enough water under these bridges to know precisely what you want and what you need to do!

xo all - make sure you get out and walk in the Full Moon!!

Please excuse any typos here - this day totally got away from me and I am not going to be able to double check the post - not that double - or triple checking - has stopped me from having typos before!

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of May 28th - the power of positivity and focus, opening our mind, following our heart, when that thing in our way is the way, brakes come off all over the place, stop pushing, where luck meets love meets imagination

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The big aspects this week are:

TUESDAY - Full Moon in Sagittarius, Mercury moves home to Gemini
FRIDAY - Mercury trines Mars, Venus trines Jupiter
SATURDAY - Venus trines Neptune, Mercury inconjunct Saturn
SUNDAY - Mercury sextiles the Nodes

Here are the Void Moons in the week ahead, since we have some long ones again now that Uranus is in Taurus - Monday 1:25PM EDT - 6:29PM EDT, Wednesday 2:26AM EDT - midnight, Thursday 12:00AM EDT - 5:27AM EDT, Friday 11:37PM EDT - midnight and Saturday 12:00AM EDT – 6:06PM EDT.

On MONDAY - we start the day (Memorial Day in the U.S.) with the Scorpio Moon opposing Mercury in Taurus. Communications could be focused and intent. There could be arguments and misunderstandings. Let's get things done early because the Moon will go void from 1:25PM EDT until 6:39PM EDT when she moves into "big-picture" Sagittarius making us more optimistic over the next couple days. Avoid getting too preachy and over-doing things tonight.

On TUESDAY - at 10:19AM EDT the Gemini Sun will oppose the Sagittarius Moon at 8 degrees - giving us our annual Full Moon in Sagittarius. The Moon will trine the North Node (in Leo) and the Sun will be trining the South Node (in Aquarius). The Sun is also inconjunct (rock and hard place) Saturn in Capricorn.

Full Moons brings things to light or to a conclusion.

The Gemini/Aquarius energy will be finishing something up or bringing something to a fullness via conversations, information, communications, choices, decisions. The Sagittarius/Leo energy will be launching us forward (think of the Sagittarian archer's arrow here) via our beliefs, truth, wisdom, bigger opportunities, travel, stepping outside comfort zones, exploration, education. This could all be rather a smooth transition, except for the Sun's inconjunct to Saturn - that obstacle/limit that must be addressed. With Saturn in play we want to be sure we are taking seriously what we are doing now and taking responsibility for where we are heading with whatever we have going on. Sagittarius likes shortcuts, but Saturn is not allowing any corner-cutting. If Saturn is limiting our choices now, know with the tie-in to the Nodes of Fate, we can trust whatever is happening is unfurling in its own time.

We OPEN OUR MINDS (Full Moon in Sagittarius) to a higher ground with a clearer FOCUS and at the same time welcome the choices and changing attentions of Gemini. 

We OPEN OUR HEARTS (North Node in Leo) to the creation of what we are here to bring into the world and at the same time release the detachment and distractions of Aquarius.

With Chiron in Aries we have a Grand Fire Trine formed with the Sagittarius Moon and North Node in Leo. Fire burns away the bullshit - and we have the North and South node in air signs to fan the flames - so that truth/wisdom/whatever we are stretching here (Sag) can HEAL (Chiron). The Moon is conjunct the fixed star Antares connected by astrologers who study the fixed stars to Jupiter (ruler of this Full Moon and currently retrograde in Scorpio) and Mars (co-ruler of Scorpio) - speaking of bravery and passion but also possible carelessness creating damage. We can certainly pull back a bit from anything that feels too risky now.

The Full Moon's aspects are also forming a Mystic Rectangle. A Mystic Rectangle is two oppositions (Moon/Sun and North Node/South Node) supported by multiple smooth sextiles and trines. Expansion, sudden challenges, too much/too soon, over-the-top emotions whatever this is if it touches our chart - there are multiple beneficial energies helping us make this all work out smoothly.

What to do? Focus.

This is excellent energy for artists and creatives to reach for something else, to work with something/someone foreign, to learn something new, to stretch. 

We attract what we want and need by optimistically embracing potential now. We don't have to know how this is all going to turn out, we know there will be adventure here - if we embrace what we do with an adventurous heart.

Remember the energies we are working with  - we are working with the Leo/Aquarius polarity - something we have talked about alot over the last year.

Leo (naturally ruled by the Sun) is asking us to step onto the center stage of our own life - to shine. Leo is that noble lion; generous and heart-centered. At the same time Aquarius is asking us to work for the best outcome for everyone, to stay humble.

We are asked to release the idea that for us to win - someone else has to lose. This isn't true. We are asked to release the idea that if someone else looks like they have won, that we have lost. That isn't true either.

We are working with the Sagittarius/Gemini polarity.

Sagittarius is a fun-loving sign that rules travel, freedom, adventure, legal stuff, higher education, good luck, faith, religion, prayer, optimism, problem solving, truth seekers, boldly going where no man has gone before, the quest  -

it also rules carelessness, taking shortcuts, thinking we are right, making assumptions, throwing pink paint on problems and hoping they will go away, overconfidence, impatience and superficial fluff.

Sagittarius is a mutable sign. The mutable signs prepare us for the change into the next season. We put on the sweater. We put away the sweater. We adjust.

Mutable signs are service signs and Sagittarius is in service through the exploration of Truth - this could be legal truth or political truth but its most especially spiritual truth - its highest purpose is enlightenment and expanding what is known.

The lower level energies rule religious wars, legal battles and political bullshit.

I will get up a Full Moon post by sign over the next couple days, so we can see what houses this is hitting for all of us!

At 7:49PM EDT, Mercury moves into Gemini (thru June 12th) - a sign she/he RULES. Information speeds up. Travel, especially local travel, speeds up. People are more talkative. We get more mentally busy. We could be dealing with more sibling and transportation/local environment issues over the next couple weeks. We put our thoughts into words.

With Mercury ruling the Sun and changing signs on the day of the Full Moon it is especially likely for some information to come in this week that brings to light or to some conclusion/culmination our Full Moon agenda and/or our Leo North Node agenda (that thing our heart wants).

On WEDNESDAY - the Moon will square Neptune in the middle of the night and then go void for the ENTIRE DAY. A long void after that Neptune square would NOT be a good time to make an important decision. There could be a fine line between optimism and stupid, wishful thinking and we will be too likely to cross it. Don't start anything. Don't buy anything or buy into anything that requires any kind of commitment now. Observer mode is best today. Kick back. Take a long nap.

On THURSDAY - the Moon enters stable Capricorn concentrating us on Capricorn issues for the next couple days - our goals, responsibilities, work, career. The Moon will trine Uranus early in the day so there could be some ease with Taurus stuff - money matters, our resources and values. We should be able to roll with the changes. Then the Moon moves on to conjunct Saturn at 8:53PM EDT - the energy slows down. Maybe we are getting serious about those Capricorn security/authority issues.

On THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY we have a glorious Grand Water Trine involving Jupiter, Venus and Neptune as Venus joins the Jupiter/Neptune party started last week.

This is a smooth flow of expansion, luck, beauty, love and imagination. This can bring healing and increased intimacy.

There is always the possibility to take something too far here because there isn't much stopping these energies! Our addictions, compulsions could go off the rails and Neptune tends to idealize everything anyway. Keep those things in mind. We will talk about this more later in the week.

Also on FRIDAY, Mercury, freshly minted in her home sign of Gemini, is going to trine Mars (in Aquarius) - this could be a new idea we can take action on. We could have to make a fast decision or make a quick move.

Back later with the Full Moon post and then later in the week with more on that Grand Water Trine and the weekend.

This looks like mostly a mellow week. Keep in mind those LONG Void Moons if you have important events happening or things you are kicking out into the world and need support with (during Void Moons there won't be any!).

xo all

With all the trines this week whatever we have going on shouldn't be some super complicated thing where twenty things have to fall into place for us to get what we want. Our next right step should feel natural. There should be an ease here. If we are pushing we are doing it wrong. The Saturn obstacle/responsibility is going to need to be addressed though.

Jupiter trine Neptune, Pluto trine Mercury | slippery slopes, healing energy, news, what have we been neglecting, meditation, release

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Let's start with the Jupiter/Neptune because this is a repeating aspect this year. Astrology is the study of patterns and archetypes, repeating aspects should have our attention.

These two planets are trining each other on December 2, 2017 at 11 degrees, today at 16 degrees (with Neptune exactly on my natal Jupiter and exactly squaring my natal Neptune) and finally on August 19th at 15 degrees.

The brakes are off between our Scorpio (Jupiter) and Pisces (Neptune) natal houses. What are their themes in your natal chart?

In my chart this is happening between my 1st and 4th houses - so this would be my physical body (and I am sick) and my home/family/roots (where I have alot going on and my plumbing is leaking in multiple places - so appropriate, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ancestors of that thousand ant colony that walked into my kitchen last year make an appearance).

Jupiter stretches our boundaries and then Neptune dissolves them. 

This can be a very good thing where we fall right into something WONDERFUL

or something like quicksand and we are very quickly submerged, all depending on what we have going on in our life and how closely this is hitting our planets/points.

This is excellent healing energy. This is excellent "dream come true" energy. We are manifesting through our emotions now.

With Jupiter in Scorpio though we just need to be sure this is a positive dream and not an obsession/addiction because it could be hard to see the difference now. 

We can more easily connect with collective consciousness. This is excellent energy for meditation - to take care of ourselves. With Uranus in Taurus now - our health (especially our self-esteem) really will be our wealth.

Connect with nature. Get into water.

If you have someone in your life prone to addiction, this is tricky energy for that - reach out to them now - connection heals addiction. Our own addictions/escapisms could become more visible.

If we have to push we are moving against the currents today. Let it be. The "no limits" comes through faith now. Trust.

Jupiter and Neptune are going to trine benefic Venus late next week - something with that home/family/security situation is going to slide into place. Is this a good thing?

We might find ourselves getting (once again) what we don't want. 

Trines are closed circuits - the brakes are released, yes, but only between two (or three next week with the Grand Trine) specific points. 

This one is in water (Scorpio/Pisces) so we are dealing with our emotional/intuitive energy. 

If the loop is healthy, with Jupiter/Neptune, it will expand in healthy ways, and we will feel that. 

If it's unhealthy we will feel that, too. The trine allows us the uncomfortable gift of unraveling something and letting it GO.

(I am feeling sick and "full" and so is my home/family right now and this is happening on multiple levels - it is not a coincidence I have been obsessing on ancestry.com and did the 'help a family member when my help wasn't requested' thing I used to do, but thought I had stopped doing and caught this bug doing it - the "savior" complex I use to keep myself separated from other people and create situations where I get to "lose" and get to "avoid" my own stuff at the same time - yippee me - plus I have been needing to move for YEARS - I think this house is sick of me)

Trines remove roadblocks. If the roadblock IS the problem, then great, things improve. Things slide into place. If the roadblock has been holding the problem at bay - things might appear to grow worse, but really it is a closed loop and we can only deal with what is already in here.

While we have the trine energy, working to remove the block - forgiveness, compassion, etc -  is VERY helpful, especially knowing we have that Grand Water Trine with beneficial Venus approaching!

We also have Mercury (in stable Taurus) trining Pluto (in stable Capricorn).

If the Mercury energy is hitting your chart there will be news/communications/decisions made involving goals/career/authority issues. 

There could also be a dealing with a woman or about love, money or beauty themes likely tied to the home, real estate, renovation, family, parent, security issue - look for a turning point.

If something about our material life has been neglected - we don't balance the books and bounce a check now, etc - we will know about it. We are required to deal with this. This is another trine - brakes off - another closed loop. Although it might look like something is coming from outside of us really we are only dealing with what we have already put in here.

And with Venus building toward her opposition to Saturn - exact tomorrow - we can tell alot about our lives, and about ourselves, by what we have, and don't have, going on right now.

xo all

today's energy is powerful manifestation energy - our words and our emotions/intuition connecting us to collective consciousness, to fate - even if you do not meditate regularly today would be a good day for something like this - anything that feels like CLEARING THE SLATE is helpful, too.