Jupiter into Sagittarius | galloping into our future, starting from an older wiser position, growing younger, shaping the energies for the quest ahead, the ducks start lining up, the dangers of too much too soon, that new door to the left where'd that door come from?

..... by Frozen-photo

At 7:38AM EST Jupiter glides up from the depths of Scorpio and soars into the clear blue skies of Sagittarius. The energy is rising within us. It can be disconcerting and toss us off balance. But it will feel good, too.

We are not the same people we were in October 2017 when Jupiter plunged off the high board into our subconscious - looking under the covers, into our past, behind closed doors, at our bank balances, in between the sofa cushions.

Every journey through Scorpio is a journey of death and rebirth.

After any Scorpio cycle there is a part of us that is NEW. We have transformed. We have explored the depths for the last year and now we are just wanting fresh air, new adventures ... and freedom. 

Sagittarius is a fun-loving sign (ruled by Jupiter and ruler of our collective 9th house) - Sag rules travel, freedom, adventure, foreigners and what is foreign to us, immigration, legal issues, the judicial system, higher education, politics, the media, good luck, faith, religion, the church, weddings, optimism, 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 bullshit.

Many of these themes will expand in the collective consciousness throughout the next year. There is likely to be some big news event with these themes over the next few days.

Sagittarius is a fire sign like Aries and Leo.

Fire signs like action - their reasons for taking action are different though. Aries energy wants to climb the mountain, first because it's there and second because there is a competition going to see who can get there first.

Leo energy wants to climb the mountain because they have heard there is a film crew waiting at the summit :)

Sagittarius energy wants to climb the mountain to see what the hell it feels like to climb a mountain and how it feels to reach the top. They want the adventure; they want the quest.

(they could be unprepared and throw their back out 100 yards from the summit, too, then they will turn their convalescence into a party for the sherpas and make THAT the adventure)

Some part of our life can surely use a little adventure. The real gift of Sagittarius is the freedom to be who we really are - how are we going to use this gift?

Just keep in mind this is a year long transit (although with a powerful kick-off that many people could be already feeling) and we are only in the first few hours.

Our view broadens now.

Why didn't I see that thing/idea/solution/twenty dollar bill in my coat pocket before?

Overall this will be a wonderful transit of expansion - Jupiter, the Santa Claus of the zodiac, fat and happy in his home sign - and he hasn't been home in 12 years!

(what was happening in your life twelve years ago? how far have you come? in multiple ways through multiple aspects we are all going home now, too)

We will talk about this alot as we move through it.

Of course, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't remind everyone that Jupiter - the kids should leave the room for this part - like Santa Claus, is entirely made up of hot air. 

It's why we overspend/overeat/over-everything during Sagittarius season.

It's why no matter how thoughtfully we have created that holiday wish list - and yes, I can see your totally adorable swirly thingamajigs, smiley faces and those hearts dotting your i's - we don't always get exactly what we want.

Santa doesn't always deliver.

(Saturn does though and he is home in Capricorn, so will help us ground this thing in something real and practical and tangible AND he will make us work for it)

With Jupiter things can look better than they actually are.

We could fly too high too fast.

Issues could seem bigger than they actually are now, too. Or maybe we are just expecting too much. Problems and delays may cut into our plans - remember Venus is still retrograde and about to pass that baton to Mercury for HIS retrograde IN SAGITTARIUS and SCORPIO (!), so maybe the plans were just too BIG to begin with? Things don't have to be all or nothing. It could feel like it though.

Keep in mind Vesta's seat at the table with Pluto in today's chart, so whatever we are doing - if it isn't something we can devote ourselves to - we are going to need to get up at night and keep the fires burning and if it isn't worth losing sleep over and adding a few gray hairs - if it isn't worth all of that, we are going to need to make an adjustment.  

Our time/resources are valuable. Treat them as such.

We are probably going to be back and forth for a few more weeks - we want this, no we want that or we just don't know what the hell we do want.

That's OK. That's what retrogrades are for!

xo all

If you didn't get those New Moon intentions set yesterday - fear not! After the Moon moves into Sagittarius this afternoon (the Moon is void until 1:59PM EST so not before then) she will conjunct Jupiter - Sag's ruler and the Moon will be waxing (growing) making today/tomorrow an excellent time also!

This is a powerful manifestation portal so set specific affirmations only if you are certain. You don't want to get what you want and then take a good look at it in the bright light of day and say, "what the hell was I thinking?".

I like to set mine with a trust that life has my back. Because life does.

Maybe try some of these:

1. I use the power of my thinking to inspire and delight my soul
2. I am always at the right place at the right time doing the right things
3. I let go and let God
4. The universe protects and inspires my strong and healthy foundation.
5. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
6. I spread my roots far and wide. I welcome the fruits of my labor and the sweet gifts of life.
7. Wealth. Success. I am a money magnet.
8. I am healthy. I am happy. I am grateful.

New Moon in Scorpio | using our power for good, how devoted are we, transformation, deep waters, restoration, huge portal for change, manifestation, what have we learned in the past year? what have we lost?

On Wednesday, November 7th at 11:02AM EST the Scorpio Moon meets the Scorpio Sun at 15 degrees giving us our annual New Moon in Scorpio.

The Moon is trine dreamy and imaginative Neptune (in Pisces) and sextile - opportunity! - the Scorpio Moon's ruler Pluto.

At the same time we have Jupiter trining the North Node (newly minted in Cancer) while both are trining Chiron and Pluto sitting with Vesta (in Capricorn).

Scorpio New Moon's are powerful portals for change and this one comes as we close out - Jupiter leaves Scorpio tomorrow - Jupiter's year long slog through Scorpio's deep waters (#metoo). What have we learned? What have we lost?

The New Moon's trine (brakes off) to Neptune is powerful energy for healing and creativity.

Whatever is birthed now - like one of those underwater births where the baby just slides out (or at least this is how I picture it in my head!) should glide right into place.

Keep in mind this is Scorpio (power/control) we are talking about so you want to be sure you know what you are doing with this energy! Nothing in Scorpio is without some risk and that trine to Neptune could also allow a fast descent. Boundaries dissolve.

The trines to Chiron suggest the potential for deep healing.

Pluto - the ruler of Scorpio and so the ruler of the New Moon - is sitting with devotional Vesta suggesting the power of this New Moon lies in our ability to devote ourselves - time/attention/resources - to what we are creating. It - whatever it is - a project, commitment, whatever we are taking on now -  will need to be honored.

We will have to be vigilant to keep the fire from burning out! We need to be sure it has worth because much is being asked of us to make it work. And of course Pluto is in Capricorn and answering to sober Saturn.

If it is worth it and we work it - this is the energy to move mountains.


With the North Node's move into lunar-ruled Cancer - we are surely going to be feeling everything more intensely for the next year. Here is the starting line.

A couple examples :

EXAMPLE for Virgo/Virgo Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 3rd house of communication, information, ideas, writing, siblings, transportation or your local neighborhood, so something here is BEGINNING/new. The trine to Neptune speaks of a smooth flow with your 7th house - partners/partnerships. This is powerful energy for life-changing conversations, contracts, communications - just keep in mind what is being asked of you in terms of commitment/devotion.

EXAMPLE for Aquarius/Aquarius Rising - this New Moon is happening in your 10th house of your career, your calling, your achievements, your achievement goals, dad, business, authority, responsibility, so something here is BEGINNING/new. The trine to Neptune speaks of a smooth flow with your 2nd house of your money, your values, your resources and self-esteem. Keep in mind this is a trine so things will not have to be forced, but will fall together. This is a kind of do what you love and the money will follow aspect. Again just keep in mind what is being asked of you in terms of commitment/devotion.

For everyone - the Scorpio New Moon is an uber POWERFUL portal for manifesting. This one is especially potent for attracting "rewards" based on what we have devoted ourselves to in the past and for those "rewards" to become the bedrock of whatever we are building now. If the thing sitting in front of us is not something we are wanting to continue to dedicate ourselves to (more ashes than rewards!) - THIS is a powerful time for a shift toward something more authentic.

The ladies in Libra at the top of the chart - and remember Venus is still retrograde so going to walk this eclipse degree AGAIN and opposing Uranus - make me think we need to be building something balanced, something attractive, something that creates win-wins, something nurturing that takes into consideration the seasonality of its timing (Ceres) - with Pallas there, something smart and strategic.

Scorpio is uber powerful, so be prepared to commit to what you start now.  Actually commit as if your life depends on it ... maybe it does.

We either do whatever it is we are doing 110% or we don't do it at all. There is no middle ground with a Scorpio New Moon.

And know that sometimes not doing it at all - especially with a trine to Neptune, the planet that rules endings - just letting it go (the idea, the plan, the thing that we used to be devoted to but just aren't anymore) is ok, too. 

It allows a creative void for the energy to fill. It may take some time for life to get us lined up with something else. And that is OK. Saturn is in Capricorn. Time is on our side. If it's not your jam anymore it's not your jam anymore.

You may have to release your place in line, so you can go get into the right line!

This is an important month to set New Moon intentions.

Scorpio is very powerful and this is the energy that rules our secrets. If we don't set this stuff consciously - our unconscious will attract what we already line up with - and this may be a good thing - especially if we have allowed Jupiter to do its job this past year, but could depend on what we have stuffed in there - we don't know what we don't know!

I vote for conscious intention setting now - we just have to be clear on what we want/need or really we have to be clear on what we want/need to FEEL. Because we are very likely to get it.

Set your intentions around that.

AFFIRMATION TIPS: get into a positive frame of mind - always make affirmations from a positive place (positive meaning both happy and certain) - write your affirmations down by hand in script, speak them out loud - then release your attention from them knowing that your intention is known.

Know these things are already yours.

xo

Uranus backs into Aries, Sun trines Neptune, Uranus squares the Nodes | tossed off the fence, kicked onto a NEW path, is this a blue wave or are we drowning

Drowning by madelaines

I sat bolt upright in bed last night

(watching the Julia Roberts mini-series, WTH, can't decide if the Hitchcockian music and that oddball Colin character are great movie-making or what is making my head hurt)

and realized when Uranus backs into Aries today he will be in mutual reception with Mars. Meaning that Uranus will be in Aries, while Mars, ruler of Aries is in Aquarius, ruled by Uranus - making both planets STRONGER.

So, that makes the real question - IS Trump Uranus anymore (his natal Uranus conjunct his Sun and North Node) - in which case he will be strengthened today, in some "disruptive, rebellious" way or is it impossible to BE Uranus when you are President of the United States and now part of the patriarchy

(ie Saturnian? and remember in Greek myth Saturn castrated his father Uranus just as our freedom to be/do anything - Uranus - has certain limits - Saturn).

My head hurts just thinking about this.

Although that could be my head cold ...

(or Julia Roberts).

I wrote about TUESDAY'S energy HERE, but let's see if we can add anything if we look again.

The voting today kicks off with a Void Moon - having gone into a short Void off a conjunction with Venus this morning

(women/the feminine playing a powerful role today and the results of the voting itself indicating that "nothing comes of it" - now we had a Void Moon in 2016 when "nothing came of it" for Hillary, despite having millions more votes, and we had a Void Moon in 2012 when "nothing came of it" for Obama, as Trump has been busy dismantling his entire second term).

In some sense nothing comes of this one either. (?)

The Balsamic Moon moves into dark Scorpio at 8:30AM EST, immediately moving into a opposition with Uranus (still in Taurus at this time). This is uncomfortable, confrontational - change and unexpected situations coming at us from the outside.

We are releasing as we move toward tomorrow's Scorpio New Moon. Let things go.

By 1PM EST, Uranus is squaring the Nodes of Fate in Leo/Aquarius (the king/the people). The Nodes move into Cancer/Capricorn (the mother/the patriarchy) 10 minutes later! Then Uranus moves back into Aries (1:59PM EST) and immediately begins squaring the Nodes of Fate AGAIN- now in Cancer/Capricorn. And at this point he is in mutual reception with, and strengthened by, Mars (exhausted I'm sure from his long journey through Aquarius, but still MARS nonetheless). And Uranus is now opposing Venus (women) and the other ladies (Ceres, Pallas) in Libra!

We can't make this stuff up.

Uranus squaring the Nodes (from two different positions within the same hour and during the United States mid-terms, wth!) adds firepower (and the hands of fate) to whatever is happening now - both in the collective and in our own lives.

It looks like a crossroads - and a chaotic, disruptive 'crisis' that kicks us onto a NEW path.

At the same time, the Sun (in watery Scorpio) is trining Neptune (in watery Pisces).

When trines are formed "the brakes are off" the energies of the planets connected - in this case the Sun and Neptune - there is nothing stopping the energies. This can be a good thing - we are trying to get somewhere and an obstacle is smoothly removed from our path and we can keep going or not such a good thing if that obstacle was the only thing standing between us and the side of a cliff.

Mostly a Scorpio/Pisces trine would be about intimacy and connection. The dissolving of any boundaries. We are IMMERSED.

Is this sounding like a blue wave or like we are drowning?

This is where the "free will" part comes in ....

xo all

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of November 5th - the most activity of any week this year, transitions, more fate-train station stops, MEGA-IMPORTANT week, decisions, pivots, getting more flies with honey than vinegar (if we want more flies), Part l

Tattoo by Pr3t3nd3r

November is going to be a very busy month with lots of important shifts and transitions as major planetary players change signs!

The fate train reaches another station this week in what lines up to be the most important week of the year.

SUNDAY - Pallas enters Libra
MONDAY - Venus conjuncts Ceres
TUESDAY - Uranus retrogrades back into Aries, Sun trines Neptune, the North Node retrogrades from Leo into CANCER and the South Node from Aquarius into CAPRICORN
WEDNESDAY - New Moon at 15 degrees Scorpio
THURSDAY - Jupiter comes home to Sagittarius (first time in 12 years!)
FRIDAY - Jupiter trines the North and South Nodes (Cancer/Capricorn), Venus trines Mars

We are off! I have to write this post in two parts - let's unpack the energies leading up to the New Moon first. 

We start the week with a focus on our relationships. 

On SUNDAY, Pallas (warrior Goddess, strategy, tactics, problem solving) moves into diplomatic and balanced (although indecisive!) Libra - the sign Venus rules and recently backed into, and also home to Ceres right now.

Our interactions with other people/our relationships will benefit by applying the strategy of civility - we cooperate, we develop win-wins. In negotiations - it's time to listen. We'll want to make the other person feel that we are connecting with them. Kindness and politeness become tactics now. Contracts need to be fair.

Think about the difference between saying to someone, when you agree with them - "that's right" vs. "you're right". The second invites connection. This is what we want now. Note - this doesn't mean agreeing when we disagree, that pink-paint Libra likes to pour over problems, but it does mean seeking common ground if there is any!

As our relationship interactions/alliances/dealings with enemies (Libra rules our collective 7th house) become more strategic, the stuff that isn't working for us - the patterns that need to shift - will become more obvious and we will have to deal with them (Pallas is going to move through Libra three times!). 

Pallas is going to get to the very end of Libra in mid-to-late February and then turn retrograde and reverse course, so these "relationship patterns/tactics" are something we are going to be back and forth over until August 26, 2019 when she moves on to Scorpio.

On MONDAY, the Moon (in Libra) squares Pluto (in Capricorn) and trines Mars. This is another week that kicks off with stressful Scorpio tension - life/death, taxes, banking, big money, other people's resources/money, loans, inheritances, insurance, sex, reproduction, intimacy, secrets, third party situations, power plays/struggles, obsessions, control, jealousy, manipulations, karmic situations. With the Moon in Libra this will be about relationships and other people. The trine to Mars tells us we are taking action to get what we want.

Venus retrograding through her home sign of Libra, bumps into Ceres, so issues around what and how we are "nurturing" are likely. Do we give too much? Do we give too little? In Libra, balance is the goal now.

We could also be dealing with situations that deal with the 'seasons of our life' - the proper timing of things. 

With Pallas, newly housed in Libra for a long stay, and trining the South Node (still in Aquarius for one more day -!- an Aquarian theme is likely - detachment, distraction, the ways we or someone else didn't show up fully, the ways someone didn't fit in) whatever we are dealing with has its roots in the past.

Trines are "brakes off" aspects. the energies work together smoothly - sometimes so smoothly we don't even notice. So, you won't have to push with this one. Employ a Libran strategy (Pallas in Libra) - we will probably do this naturally - try kindness, civility, diplomacy.

Develop something fair.

Tonight the Sun (in Scorpio) is trining Neptune (in Pisces).

This is 'brakes off' with the dream/healing as long as we are not in total lala-land with whatever we are dealing with. All this water will make whatever is happening now uber EMOTIONAL. Again we won't have to push with this - something just slides into place. Meditation/prayer for clarity is powerful now.

This is powerfully in play on Tuesday also.

TUESDAY is HUGE -

Uranus (sudden change, chaos, disruption) retrogrades out of Taurus (our Taurus house that starting shaking back in May will temporarily stabilize!) and back into Aries for his final few months after which Uranus will not be back in Aries for 84 years.

We can expect the unexpected when Uranus changes signs - and today is the mid-term elections in the United States!

Our Aries house - some situation in our life - lulled into an uneasy slumber since May, is awake again. Keep in mind we have been here before so these won't be totally new issues. New situations could be triggered though. We have four months to finish the stuff we have been dealing with since Uranus first went into Aries in 2010. One way or another it's done for 84 years when Uranus gets back into Taurus again in March.

With Uranus in Aries issues around - initiative, fresh starts, our brand, anger management, what we are willing to do to get what we want, independence - are likely to play out. Uranus comes in like a lightning bolt and shakes things up.

Now with three planetary bodies (I am including Pallas and Ceres) in Libra and erratic Uranus now shaking up the masculine (Aries/Mars) and his exit stabilizing the feminine (Taurus/Venus) AND the North Node (collective way forward) moving into lunar-ruled Cancer - our collective feminine energy is setting up for a resurgence when Venus turns direct in a few days.

Uranus is going to continue to square the Nodes of Fate - they change signs on the same day, so they squared from Taurus to Leo/Aquarius and now will square from Aries to Cancer/Capricorn!

The Nodes of the Moon (always retrograding backward) move from Leo/Aquarius to Cancer/Capricorn TODAY. The Capricorn stuff that isn't working is ripe for release. Cancer is our way forward.

We are trying to start something new - the Nodes are moving into cardinal signs, so what are we starting? - but there is still something that needs to break loose/breakthrough/breakup - that square to future-oriented Uranus - before we can get going!

The South Node in Capricorn speaks of breaking away from a boundary, a limit, something that appears to stabilize us, an actual physical structure, the way we have always done it, the things we do in the outer world to stay safe, the way we move through our career/public life, a commitment, a responsibility, a rule, GUILT, the patriarchy (?) - we will talk about this more as we move through it.

The good news for everyone tired of reading - "follow your heart, take your center stage, make yourself proud, take care of the children/your inner child" - I won't be saying that anymore - at least not until the planets start moving through Leo next year!

If you have been reading my blog long enough you might remember when I was writing about - finding our flock (North Node Libra), doing the thing that is right in front of us, taking care of the details (North Node Virgo), following our heart, taking the center stage (North Node Leo) -

now with the North Node moving into sensitive Cancer (ruler of mothers, mothering, babies, home, family, real estate, home businesses) for the next 18 months we will be talking about being more sensitive, more vulnerable, "moving home", mother/mothering issues - our mother's body was our first "home", the home we carry within us, patriotism, history, the security that comes from inside us, needing/creating a space to feel safe.

This is a year and a half journey and we are only at the very first step! But what energetics in play for the mid-terms, huh?! Anyone who doubts astrology need only look up and then out at what is happening in the world.

So Tuesday features surprises and also opportunities.

On WEDNESDAY the Scorpio Moon meets the Scorpio Sun at 15 degrees (right on my ascendant) giving us our annual New Moon in Scorpio.

This one is mega-powerful - maybe the most powerful New Moon of the year. 

I will write a post tomorrow.

Scorpian energy is extremely effective at lining us up with what we are wanting to line up with - so you MUST set your monthly New Moon intentions this week. This needs to be a conscious thing.

With Pluto ruling this New Moon some things will be outside our control, but it won't be a good idea to let our course be determined by our random thoughts and desires. We need to get real with this because life really can make it real for us. And with Saturn in Capricorn whatever we take on now - we have signed on the dotted line - we own it.

Then, after the New Moon and exactly with his own perfect timing - Jupiter makes his move - the one we have all been waiting for - on Thursday coming home to Sagittarius and then trines the Nodes of Fate on Friday!

This week is HUGE. Underline that a few times.

Whatever you are dealing with now is important. Treat it as such.

Back tomorrow!

xo all

Halloween havoc - putting October to bed, good-night October, don't let the door hit ya' ....

halloween by kathrinska

The skies are madcap today with TWO planets moving through tense aspects with Uranus and then changing signs - Mercury moves into big-picture, adventure-seeking Sagittarius (if you think the political climate is full of lies and tall tales already, this could escalate now),

Venus opposes Uranus while squaring the North and South Nodes (exact yesterday) and then backing into her home sign of Libra.

Mercury makes his/her own tense aspect with Uranus before he escapes Scorpio for Sagittarius and keep in mind he is walking degrees he is going to walk again and will be back in Scorpio on December 1st.

The Moon (in Leo) has her monthly third quarter stress-session with a square to the Scorpio Sun at 8 degrees. It's a spider web of transits and aspects.

And it's Halloween. That must mean something.

Hang in there. November has some challenges, but still looks better than October!

With Venus retrograde and squaring the Nodes of fate, many people are making important decisions now, especially regarding financial and relationship/love matters. Sometimes our soul has plans for us in this lifetime that our ego finds challenging. This is a crossroads period. What road are we going to travel now (and who is going with us)? The opposition from Uranus says outside influences will have their say. And keep in mind Uranus is charged with getting us back on track - by whatever means it takes. 

We are jolted awake now. 

2018 has not been a time for sissies.

With Mercury flying into Sag and aspecting Uranus, we might want to fly away - shake off the chains, disconnect from whatever feels too tight, too intense, too deep. With Venus stepping back into Libra we will be taking another look at our key connections/relationships - keep in mind she will be back in Scorpio again, so anything Libra wants to push under the rug in an effort to feed civility and find common ground is going to come up again anyway. This doesn't mean we don't nurture the civility and common ground now though. Our relationships are back in the hot seat - our old/usual ways of relating are not going to work anymore.

The Moon's monthly 3rd Quarter Square (Scorpio/Leo) speaks of tension, the necessity of an adjustment - a need to look within and a need to connect our heart with whatever we find there. This will likely be especially challenging for people with important fixed placements (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius). There is a story here of loss, feeling powerless, life altering change AND still that Leo North Node beckons again, with his last powerful blast - what does your heart want? what will make you most proud?

Major new beginnings are coming.

We are going to have to remove our ass from the fence (or Uranus will kick us off) to meet them halfway.

xo all

Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of October 29th - NOVEMBER is here and we are setting our course for 2019 and into 2020 - boldness, optimism, enthusiasm, choices, surprises and shake-ups with love or money, big news and information, another emotional week, the FATE train is pulling up to the station folks - ANYTHING is possible

tree's dreams by Anna1Anna

Here are the major aspects I see for the week ahead:

MONDAY - the Sun sextiles Saturn, Mercury conjuncts Jupiter (27 degrees Scorpio) and starts walking degrees he/she will walk two more times during November's Mercury retrograde
TUESDAY - Venus (in Scorpio) squares the North (Leo) and South (Aquarius) Nodes of Fate
WEDNESDAY - Happy Halloween! Venus opposes Uranus then retrogrades back into Libra, Mercury moves into Sagittarius and trines the North Node
THURSDAY - Jupiter trines Chiron

We start the week with alot of Scorpio energy at play, so, again expect to be focused on Scorpian themes - life/death, taxes, banking, big money, other people's resources/money, loans, inheritances, insurance, sex, reproduction, intimacy, secrets, third party situations, power plays/struggles, obsessions, control, jealousy, manipulations, karmic situations, Halloween(!).

The Moon in Cancer (Monday/Tuesday) will likely tie those Scorpian themes in with our Cancerian agendas - home, family, structure, stability, mom, real estate, home business, renovations, patriotism.

If there was a decision we needed to make and didn't make last week - this week is probably going to force our hand.

On MONDAY Mercury (news, information, communication, paperwork) will hook up with expansive and optimistic Jupiter at 27 degrees Scorpio. If you have important paperwork to submit somewhere - get it in.

We can see the forest AND the trees now.

We could be working with private information/conversations, financial paperwork, deep research - the stuff under the hood - including buried psychological issues. BIG ideas are possible now - keep your mind open. With Jupiter trining Chiron (exact on Thursday) there is something healing with whatever we are saying/hearing/learning/writing/signing.

With Chiron back in Pisces we are healing the wounds of our past, our past lives and our ancestors.

There is an opportunity here for a healing explanation/clarification and/or good news AND the fact that Mercury is meeting Jupiter on the day he/she starts covering the degrees she will re-walk next month when retrograde is good news for whatever we will be re-viewing, re-vising, re-working over the next few weeks. Mercury and Jupiter will be meeting three times over the next few weeks - today is the kick-off.

Mercury's upcoming retrograde also means there won't be a straight line from A to B with whatever we have going on, so keep this in mind, too.

We are going to be back here in the beginning of December (the first couple weeks of December are going to be important if we have anything important going on now!) and in the meantime, we are going to have to zigzag our way through all of this!

The fly in the ointment with Jupiter (isn't it too cold for these damn things?!) is we have to keep a lid on anything that is TOO much - over-confidence, over-the-top thinking, sermonizing people (thinking we know it all), fanatical thinking, yada yada.

At the same time the Sun (at 4 degrees Scorpio) is sextiling (opportunity) Saturn (at 4 degrees Capricorn). This is hard work paying off with recognition. This is us setting practical goals and seeing them through. Good energy for dealing with authority figures.

There aren't any short cuts here though.

Saturn is in Capricorn, folks, the green beans MUST be in the cupboard or we don't eat. If our ancestors hadn't filled their cupboards by November, Scorpio season - the season of death - they had to go outside and kill something or pull some root vegetable out of the ground. We probably won't need to shoot a squirrel for dinner (I hope so, for our sake, and, for the sake of poor little Rocky), but it's not the season of picking a tomato from the garden and just eating it. We have to dig.

On TUESDAY, Venus's retrograde journey (as us) through Scorpio brings her (as us) to a crossroads with the Nodes of Fate. Here we are with whatever Venus issue - the relationship, love, money, resources, values, self-esteem - we have been working with since Venus stationed retrograde in early October. There is kind of a "day of reckoning" feel about this energy - like a splash of cold water in our face.

And then tomorrow she is going to oppose "anything can happen" liberating Uranus - the ruler of the South Node! This will connect back to events from last week's Full Moon in Taurus (October 24th).  

Events could take a dramatic turn now. There is a fated "turn of the wheel" with whatever is happening, so know everything is going to be alright, even if it feels like/seems like it isn't. Even if it seems like we cannot handle what is opposing us.

Relationship/financial tangles are going to feel very different by the end of the week when Venus has settled into Libra - the situation may not work out exactly how we had hoped, but 1. we will feel better about it, maybe even relieved, quickly  2. the story hasn't all played out YET and 3. contacts with the Nodes of Fate are ALWAYS moving us in our best possible direction - trust whatever unexpected stuff comes up now.

Remember that North Node is in Leo for ONLY a couple more weeks - this is it.

We are going with our heart, with what we want to create, stepping into the center stage of our own life, taking care of the children/our inner child, making ourselves proud.

We are releasing the Aquarius crap that we no longer need - the distraction, the alienation, the fear of being ostracized, the hiding out in the audience, the detachment, the over-thinking, the intellectual bullshit.

What does our heart really want??!! Venus has been working through Scorpio to show us what we really value - so what do we really value?

It is decision time. This doesn't mean we have to know exactly what we are doing or exactly where everything is heading - we are never going to know this. This is the Age of Aquarius - uncertainty is a certainty now. With all the Sag/Jupiter energy this week, we are going to need some faith.

The Moon goes void at 10:31PM EDT and then moves into Leo at 10:42PM EDT pulling our emotional focus toward Leo themes (or your natal Leo house theme) - creativity, children, our projects, recreation, romance, sports, that thing we are proud of - for the next couple days.

On WEDNESDAY, the energy SHIFTS big time as two planets move into new signs.

Venus backs into Libra - focusing that Venus retrograde situation on our relationships/justice/balance/the other people in our lives (including competitors). She comes up from the Scorpio darkness and into the harmony and civility of a sign she RULES. Even moving backward she is strong here.

Where is Libra in your natal chart - what is that house's theme? The Venusian re-view moves there. At the same time she is going to oppose Uranus (in Taurus and answering to her).

That opposition to Uranus tells us to expect the unexpected. Liberating surprises (Uranus) with love, relationships and money (Venus) are possible now. Women will surprise us. Old loves and financial situations could show up again. Break-ups and breakthroughs are possible. If a purchase has been in the works for a while now - this could be when money changes hands. For impulsive purchases - watch your wallet!

There will probably be a woman in the news that has the collective's attention this week.

Venus/Uranus takes us back to mid-September - what was going on then?- and forward to mid-December when things will be reaching some kind of culmination.

Also on Wednesday, Mercury - the ruler of our minds, thinking, communication, the process and physical means of getting things from point A to point B, our local environment, our siblings, our pets, paperwork - comes up from the depths of Scorpio and flies into the "sky's-the-limit" space of Sagittarius. This can be disconcerting.

The scope of information available to us broadens. All the little details we have been immersed in during Mercury's transit through Scorpio fade from view a bit.

It's like we have applied a wide angle lens to our camera. There is more to see (know) but less to specifically look at.

Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter) is optimistic energy. So those big bodacious ideas will carry us further now.

People will be thinking and talking BIG. Making BIG plans. Using BIG persuasive, language. It's a good time to sell your "whatever it is", but also a good time to be sold a bill of goods. Keep in mind that words and information could mislead us as our focus moves away from those pesky details and onto the larger landscape.

Sagittarius isn't Mercury's favorite place because Mercury likes precision and focus and Sagittarius is rather boundless and stretchy and with Mercury there our thinking/ideas/beliefs can kind of be all over the place.

Sagittarius is the great teacher/sage. The archer rules wisdom and philosophy. This is a good time to take something we are interested in to a higher level. Sagittarius rules our collective ninth house (plus the house in your chart with Sagittarius on the cusp!) so communications and information could focus on 9th house themes - legal issues, foreign issues, higher education, travel, religion, weddings, politics, the media, marketing.

Keep in mind Mercury is set to go retrograde in a couple weeks and is walking degrees she will walk two more times - so whatever we have going on will be subject to re-views and re-visions.

Immediately Mercury is going to trine that Leo North Node - this is our thinking and OUR WORDS influencing our outcome. PAY ATTENTION. We could hear just the thing we need to hear, the right book falls into our lap, we could say just the right thing at just the right time.  This is where life is conspiring to get the paperwork/the manuscript/the idea into the right person's sights. 

We can see how this week's energies are working together to get us where we need to go.

On THURSDAY, the trine we have been building toward between Jupiter (still in Scorpio but with bags packed for his home sign of Sagittarius) and healing/hurting Chiron in Pisces, is exact.

The truth is healing. The big-picture is healing. Adventure is healing. Optimism and open-mindedness is healing. Humor is healing.

We will talk more about this week as we move through it.

Big energetic shifts are coming mid-week. xo all