Today's Astrology Forecast | Saturday, July 11, 2020 - food fight!, me time, emotional frustration, feeling insecure, clearing the air, make up sex, Chiron stations retrograde

The waning Moon moved into "let's GO" and "ME first" Aries at 1:06AM EDT.

Today will feel quite different than the last two days.

In Aries, she (as us) is nurtured through initiative, action, passion, anger, men. We will be feeling how things affect us personally and although a focus on ourselves is the natural flow of things with the Moon in Aries, we might need to avoid being too selfish or too impulsive or just too easily annoyed off over the next couple days.

She squares a retrograde Mercury at 12:09PM EDT, meets up with Chiron at 5:03PM EDT and then ruler Mars at 5:16PM EDT and finally sextiles sweet Venus at 9:21PM EDT.

With Mercury in his final pass through home and family oriented Cancer - the Merc/Moon square has me thinking FOOD FIGHT! Which might sound like fun for about a red hot minute until we think of the mess we will have to clean up!

Mercury in Cancer wants to talk about what he needs and the Moon in Aries wants what she wants. Emotional tension and insecurities are likely. Maybe our safety/security feels threatened. Maybe we feel we need to stand up for our roots/home/family. We had Mercury square Mars on Monday, so maybe an argument from earlier in the week continues this weekend ... of course, that square never really unwinds until August, so I hope not!

By dinnertime the Moon meets up with Chiron, who stationed retrograde three hours earlier - we talked about that in the weekly HERE. Our wounded masculine needs time to go back over the last few months and re-coup! Courage. Anger. Initiative. Standing up for ourselves. Taking care of ourselves. More re-assessing/re-structuring.

If we have planets or points he is backing away from - things will lighten up. If we have something he will move over multiple times - well, let's just say this is gonna hurt. Whether the hurt is like a bandage that's been applied incorrectly and yanks off part of the scab or like surgery without anesthesia depends on what Chiron in Aries has been asking of us these past few months and what we have been doing with the energy.

Either way, with that fiery Moon meeting Chiron and then Mars in the early evening - our wounds/our wants will be challenging to ignore. Independent action/activity is favored.

The good news comes later in the evening when a smooth and easy sextile to Venus (in communicative Gemini). Maybe the energies earlier in the day have cleared the air or maybe Gemini's light breeze just cools things down a notch.

Either way Saturday night looks way better for social action/relationships/doing things together.

So, it might be most peaceful for everyone to have some Saturday alone time and come back together later in the evening. Of course, if something must be thrashed out during the day, life will find a way and we might not be able to avoid it ... maybe the make-up later will be all the sweeter ....



xo all

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The Astrology of 2020 | part VI - Pisces/Neptune and the spread of disease and mis-information and how we can't rise from the sweaty sheets of our deathbeds without KNOWING we matter

We've talked about what happened in January many times (that 'time runs out' palaver with Saturn and Pluto). We've known 'winter is coming' for years, although granted not exactly what that actually meant, and talked about it here many times (this was more than an HBO series with a lame ending).

When these two bigwigs got together (reality and death) they weren't dining alone. We also had Ceres (Mother Earth) and Mercury seated there, too (the movement of everything, our thinking and also through Virgo our HEALTH).

And, of course, the king himself, the SUN at the head of the table.

2020 was already set up for Venus to retrograde in Gemini (Mercury's sign) in the spring, and with Uranus in Taurus answering to Venus, to pull Uranus chaos into the mix. Mars was scheduled to hit the hot Capricorn degrees the January palaver initiated in the spring and then to go retrograde in his own sign and square these same degrees, multiple times, in the late summer/fall.

So, let's think this through.

Saturn is reality. Pluto is death/transformation. The Sun, our energy/life/royalty/ego. Ceres, the seasons of our life/major change/the planet/food and Mercury, our health, our thinking and the movement of everything.

 It was possible to see, but not surprising that we didn't because we are talking about Pisces here, if we looked ahead at what Mercury and Ceres were going to do (we already knew Saturn/Pluto was 'time runs out') - that this whole thing could play out through a VIRUS (and with Mercury, the trickster involved, and pulling Pisces illusions and delusions into the mix, somehow an inability to see/know what is totally real/important here).

Because in 2020, both Mercury and Ceres were going to have long retrogrades in Pisces (the sign that rules the ethereal realms, the space of no boundaries, the ruler of viruses) 

at the SAME DEGREES - Mercury (just as the Sun entered Pisces - remember he was at that January meeting, too) in the late winter/spring and Ceres in the following summer/fall/early winter. 

And the Nodes of Fate, were set to move into Gemini/Sagittarius - squaring Pisces and Virgo - our two health signs and activating a whole generation of people born in the 1960's with Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo. Karma with trauma. The Virgo Full Moon on March 9, 2020 was designed as a potential drop kick, if needed, to launch something health related into the stratosphere. And it did.

Saturn/Pluto. Pluto/Saturn. This is where our focus went. A war? Death of the king? Remember we had Trump's impeachment and the shooting of the general in Iran, that led us to a pre-World War III (think: Cuban missile crisis) kind of moment.

Both Trump and everyone else who was paying attention rose from their sweaty death bed sheets as these situations appeared to quickly, almost magically disappear 

(the real crisis though, hidden by trickster Mercury in the background, was only beginning to seep out - China reports the first death from the new virus to the WHO).

The year seemed to set-up a crisis followed by its swift ending/non-ending. In our personal lives something would have happened like this, too and probably never totally resolved itself either, but the thing we were most afraid of happening doesn't actually happen (not that people were afraid of Trump's impeachment, although I am sure some were, but because he - the king - was afraid).

We let out the deep breath we were holding, only to find ourselves needing to draw another one ....

Mercury/Ceres may have saved many lives by giving this whole thing another road to take. We can't know. It's not a great road, but it's better than World War III or an alien invasion. Or is this an alien invasion? Maybe it is now that I think about it!

Mercury has done his/her part.

She (as us) took what she received from that January palaver and sent this thing far and wide during her time in boundless Pisces, and also, being the trickster energy in an illusive sign made it hard/impossible to know just how dangerous this whole thing really was/is. Were deaths being over or under-reported? Was this whole thing priming the pump to have all of us salivating for a vaccine? Mercury/Pluto is thinking about death and, I guess she did her job. Because we were/are.

Last week, Ceres (activating things outside our control), in Pisces, hit the degree of Mercury's station from late February, and then she also stationed retrograde! So, now she brings what she has taken from the palaver into this simmering Pisces soup.

(at 13 degrees, which is also the degree of the final Eclipse last week, the Cappy Full Moon Eclipse, and remember it was the Cancer Full Moon eclipse that happened two days before Saturn/Pluto - Cancer/Cappy are opposite signs - that was the one with the mama-bear Cancer Moon standing all alone against the world, demanding we prioritize home and family. She certainly had a hand in what was coming!)

Remember planets at station are UBER strong. Think of your finger moving through a lit candle and then you stop moving your hand. Ouch.

So, now Ceres is moving back over Mercury's LIT degrees, but also bringing her own energy into this space - because she was at the January table, too. She is slower than Mercury - and could potentially carry us through multiple seasons of this.

Again the virus back in the news spreading/growing

(I am sorry this is so United States centric for anyone outside the U.S!), 

I am still thinking with Neptune (ruler of Pisces) retrograde the virus will not be as deadly now. This is more about 'thinking about death/fear', our karma with trauma, rising from our sweaty sheets (after) and the destruction of old support systems.

Ceres is going to be in Pisces until the end of February 2021. By that time the Sun will be in Pisces starting a fresh cycle ...

Another thing we have had happening during this time (because remember it is never just one thing in a chart) is the start of Saturn/Uranus when Saturn made a brief appearance in Aquarius. He will be back there in December and be in Aquarius until March 2023. Saturn is going to square Uranus multiple times next year - so this is two things that say the same thing. This isn't about the virus necessarily, but definitely factors in.

This is the rebellion (Uranus) against rules/limits/authority (Saturn) story-line - among other things. We've seen this play out here in the United States in multiple ways.

One thing to keep in mind is the 'death cycle' with Pluto that we talked about in other posts. The point isn't that we die. Because we can never actually die (although obviously we can lose our human life). This 'rising from our death bed' thing implies that we have been made to care enough about LIVING to be able to rise. To want to rise.

Our lives need to be made to MATTER.

Black Lives Matter becoming such a collective energy is part of that. We needed this now. All of us. We have to say our life is valuable. This had to happen now to have the impact it is going to have. To have the power it needs to have. A whole bunch of people, supported by a whole other bunch of people, need to KNOW this.

We can't rise from our sweaty death bed sheets without KNOWING WE MATTER

(if you are a person who these words bother/who are triggered by them - think about why they bother you, maybe somewhere you need to more strongly believe that you matter, I can assure you YOU ARE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME COSMIC EVENT - no one matters more than you do).

This whole thing playing out through the death of a man who couldn't breath during a time of a respiratory pandemic isn't a coincidence. This is us co-creating life on planet Earth.

Tipping points will always arrive.

As will retrogrades just when we need them, in this case, so we can re-think/re-work the 'practical'!

Maybe once we came to the collective conclusion, through quantum physics and new-age thinking (what strange bedfellows) that we make our reality/that thoughts are things and influence events, reality's shifting was set into motion in the most peculiar ways ..,..

Back in a couple days with part VII - we'll look at Ceres, the QAnon stuff with Trump and how this factors in, the virus future timelines and more



xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, July 10, 2020 - water, connection, family memories, stepping into our responsibility, building the dream

The Moon continues her journey through intuitive and imaginative Pisces - we move in the direction we feel called.

She trines the Sun at 2:08AM EDT, meets up with Pisces ruler Neptune (retrograde) at 6:56AM EDT (write down your dreams when you wake up!), sextiles a retrograde Jupiter at 10:46AM EDT, sextiles a retrograde Pluto at 12:51PM EDT and finally goes void off ANOTHER opportunistic sextile to a retrograde Saturn at 11:48PM EDT.

The trine to the Cancer Sun is this month's Waning Trine - Cancer/Pisces. This is a smooth flow. Water. Tears. Home. Family memories/history. Nostalgia. Unusual leaks. Expect to be emotional.

Water dissolves what was. Boundaries. Foundations. Protective coatings.

In Cancer we define ourselves and our families. This is who we are. This is who we will be and, importantly, this is who gets to be included.

Pisces has no definitions/no barriers. Everyone is included because there is no inside/outside. Everything is inside (or is it outside?). Today they move together. Effortlessly. To unwind something? Maybe something that has been wound too tight?

Then the Cappy sextiles (Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn!) are Neptune/Saturn-style "building the dream" opportunities.   

Excellent aspects for dealing with authority or stepping into our own authority. Did I say"building the dream"? Yes, do some of that.

So, there's lots of cardinal energy that feels like a need to get going with something and there is, but at the same time so much retrograde and the Moon is waning. 

Cappy and Pisces both strong with their rulers comfy-cozy in their own beds. Both rulers retrograde. The Moon waning. We are looking backward. Letting go. Making revisions. Building the dream by knocking out the pilings of the old one? Releasing the stranglehold of the old world - the way we thought this was going to look/be.

So, here is where we get a grip (or a hammer).

On what needs to be done.

On what we need to do. 

There are surely old dreams that need to be put to bed. Old structures that need to be tossed in the harbor. I know we wanted to do this. But now we can't do this.

BUT MAYBE WE CAN DO THAT. Yes, we can do THAT.

There is no question that for many of us, this year, our baseline will to live, our will to fight for our right to exist has been established. So now we are going with the flow. Moving with the changes. Doing our Gemini. Small talk that brings people together. Small moves.

We have a couple other aspects today we talked about in the weekly HERE.

Tonight as that dreamy/drifting Moon meets serious Saturn - maybe there is a choice, something sobering then at 1:06AM EST, the Moon moves into Aries (passion, anger, initiative) and everything switches. More cardinal energy - the need to start something. ACTION.

This weekend we have some big squares, Mercury stations direct -

but all this Pisces now means we don't know what we don't know.

Meditate. Pray. Ask your ancestors and the collective karma of every positive move you have ever made/every positive thought you have ever thought for their assistance.

A Pisces Moon is a direct pipeline.

Back with the next 2020 series post later today.


xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, July 9, 2020 - magic, nostalgia, talking to ghosts, going with the flow, money/relationship pivots, change is good, don't shoot yourself in the foot

Today is all about an active Pisces Moon.

Imagination. Intuition. Creativity. Healing. Rest. Flow. Looking backward. AND moving forward. Or, better said, moving toward something different. Forward/backward, this is Pisces, so who can know?!

The Moon (in Pisces now) trines a retrograde Mercury at 1:34AM EDT, squares Venus at 7:14AM EDT and sextiles Uranus at 9:49AM EDT.

The Moon in Pisces is answering to a retrograde Neptune - everything will have its roots in the past now. And everything will be refracted, like looking through water, everyone we meet used as a mirror, a lens to magnify (or maybe start a fire - take care with that). Everything will have a different meaning for each of us. There is no one way through this ...

Moon/Mercury is about putting our feelings into words. Talking about comfortable topics or that home/family situation. Emotional conversations. This should be smooth/easy. We could feel nostalgic/be talking to ghosts. Maybe we can use what we know of our family history to awaken some compassion for those people we are closest to. We are sometimes hardest on them. Maybe more than sometimes. 

Moon/Venus is a square, so a bit of a tangle. Tension/frustration. Maybe something around money/our resources. Relationships are tricky. So are situations with women. That comfortable conversation could drift into something less comfortable. Gemini wants details/facts/choices and Pisces wants to move into the spaces between the facts. Venus in Pisces might offer choices, but maybe somehow nothing will feel quite right ... and that's OK because then she moves into

an opportunistic sextile with Uranus (in Taurus, so answering to Venus). Did I say we will move through all of this by 10AM EDT - or did we do this yesterday? This sounds like my yesterday or my last night all smooshed together like I lived a week in a day or a day in an hour. With Uranus we get comfortable with something else/something different. New feels good. Excellent for creative work. New ways to make money/new ways to make love or find peace. A happy surprise. Change is good.

Lots of endings with a waning Pisces Moon, as we squeeze from a large opening into a smaller world - so what needs to be finished up?

Sometimes when there is alot of Pisces, or an active Pisces Moon, we do not always act in our own best interests and we have that Mercury/Mars still in play - so watch for that.

Don't shoot yourself in the foot. Don't shoot the messenger. Don't be the messenger who gets shot. Drive carefully.

But not so carefully that you never remove your foot from the brake.


xo all

photo by the talented Marta Syrko

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, July 6th, 2020 - attend to responsibilities early, positive action and social opportunities flow in the afternoon, the possibility for a surprise/shocker late tonight

I didn't get to the weekly yesterday, but will get it up soon! In the meantime a heads up, the week will roll out like this:

TUESDAY - Ceres stations retrograde
WEDNESDAY - Mercury squares Mars
FRIDAY - Venus sextiles Chiron
SATURDAY - Chiron stations retrograde
SUNDAY - Sun trines Neptune, Mercury stations direct, Quarter Moon (Aries)

So, we have Ceres and Chiron station retrograde (we will be going back over nurturing issues, season of life issues, our losses that were outside our control, stuff that triggers us), the last of three opportunistic sextiles between Venus and Chiron, some tension/frustration/an argument in the middle of the week via the Mars/Mercury (keep a cool ahead) - this is a repeating aspect - and then at the end of the week Mercury stations direct and we are MOVING FORWARD.

There is still ALOT of backward energy via all the retrograde planets - covering old ground, re-working issues and roadblock potential ahead, but we will have our three personal planets - Mercury, Venus and Mars - moving forward until September.

TODAY is all about the Moon (and we are still in the energy of this weekend's Full Moon Lunar Eclipse).

In Capricorn she goes void off a meeting with a retrograde Saturn at 5:35AM EDT - stepping into our authority, a responsibility, laying the foundation for something, a reality check, an ending/culmination.

It's a fast void and she moves into smarty-pants Aquarius at 6:08AM EDT. We are nurtured through our groups, causes, our intellect, new ideas, accepting other people's differences, the goals that bring us into connection with other people, our freak flags/being ourselves, online interests for the next couple days. The Moon in Aquarius can allow us to step back from/detach from situations we may have been a little too serious about in Cappy or bring other people or new ideas into the mix.

The Moon will sextile Mars at 3:36PM EDT (opportunity to take forward leaning action) and trine Venus at 8:22PM EDT (great for social interactions, future leaning news/ideas/conversations).

So Martian opportunities - masculine, outward movement - with Aquarius/Aries (taking action, initiative, passion) and Venusian opportunities - feminine, receptive - (things sliding into place) with Aquarius/Gemini so words/ideas/information around what we want, love, relationships, our money, resources and values.

The Moon's final move is a late night (12:37PM EDT) square to Aquarius so-ruler Uranus - so there could be something unexpected that comes up, even a sudden kind of shocking change that shifts our direction with something. With Uranus in Taurus this could have to do with our money/resources/values/self-esteem.

So, this day can move in alot of different directions. These Aquarius lunar transits can be smooth and easy or complicated.  

It's either working or it isn't.

Tomorrow, the Moon will be freewheeling it through Aquarius and Ceres will station retrograde.

Back with the weekly!


xo all

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The building Mars/Mercury can make the media especially negative/dramatic/fearful now, so keep this in mind. Here in New Jersey, on the 4th of July as the clouds gave way to bright and beautiful sunshine and a temperature around 80 degrees, I checked the local weather to see if the sun would stick around and read (this was a local news app pulling from the weather channel):

NJ WEATHER ALERT: expect more heat deaths, tidal flooding and jelly fish infestation as the weather warms.

Sounds like a nightmare instead of a beautiful Saturday.

We want to check ourselves for stuff like this too now, we don't need to go looking for trouble. Think about what you are talking/thinking about -  Mercury is strong at station and our words are our superpower now - what do we want to be empowering?

Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | Week of July 6th - July 12, 2020 - rest, relax, have a big old blow-up (or avoid one), more things to re-consider, and we are moving forward ... maybe sideways and maybe without sugar, but moving forward

The Eclipses are over and I would say we could rest, and this week certainly has some rest penciled into it, but notice I say penciled (ink should be used at your own discretion)

because there is that middle of the week Mars/Mercury argument thingie

and, so if I say rest, you all might be ringing me up about your family slug-fest or broken down car and reminding me I said you could "rest" and then there's also the danger of a stationary Mercury

(or is that just for me these days?!)

at the end of the week, but also maybe finally a change of direction/momentum and maybe even something to re-direct the energy of that mid-week tussle.

Let's just say we have reached the sub-chapter in our story where our protagonist, feet up at the pool, finds herself slipped sideways into a new dimension (cue the Twilight Zone music) that has long been percolating. And now, fresh from the pool and dripping chlorinated water onto her kitchen tiles, she reaches for the brew that is finally ready to drink, only to find it so strong and bitter, that no amount of sugar can mediate the taste ...

What she does next matters, of course, (starting over with a new pot is no longer an option, did I mention the electricity has gone out and besides that she's out of Folger's) but staring at the water pooling at her feet actually counts as the something she does next and so there's that. It's that kind of rest. Am I making sense? Those days at the pool are so 2019, even if we are lying by a pool.

The other point I am so poorly making is we are drinking very strong coffee so rest may be problematic at times and should be taken as we can get it.

Does that make sense?

And if you are thinking, well I've already done/been doing the resting, well, maybe you have, but that's just how tired you were/might be .... we are moving from the Age of Pisces (which rules sleep) to the Age of Aquarius (which rules lightning bolts hitting you in the head) and this 'waking up' seems to be the hardest part ...

There is alot of cardinal energy so we will feel the push to DO SOMETHING, but reacting from the discomfort (I need to be doing something) as opposed to responding to a passionate need to do a certain thing is what can muck things up. 

In order for us to take right action that is sustainable (lasting change) it has to be aligned with our most passionately desired future or we are just building another house of cards. If we aren't sure what to do about the bitter coffee, we can let that pool water gather for a bit. 

Keep in mind the ticking clock's alarm has ALREADY gone off. The coffee is already bitter. The kitchen is already flooded.

OK- let's unpack the week. Notice I have included the Moons for Tuesday and Wednesday, so I can work on a big-picture post about the virus.

TUESDAY - Ceres stations retrograde
WEDNESDAY - Mercury squares Mars
FRIDAY - Venus sextiles Chiron
SATURDAY - Chiron stations retrograde
SUNDAY - Sun trines Neptune, Mercury stations direct

On TUESDAY - The Moon in Aquarius is free-wheeling it all day - having gone void off last night's disruptive square to Uranus. When the Moon isn't impacted by other celestial bodies it is best for the routine stuff we do all the time (so we don't have to do something all over again later), wrapping things up, resting or dreaming about what is next. It's not the time for starting things when we have specific expectations and outcomes we are hoping for. For something we want to stay hidden - the void Moon might be our bestie because she can keep a secret - at least for awhile.

Roll with the twists and turns today - not much will come of them.

Keep in mind we are coming off that powerful Full Moon Lunar Eclipse last weekend - the Moon is waning now. An all-day Void Moon could be the perfect balm for that if you can rest up/rejuvenate and not expect too much of yourself or other people

In the meantime, Ceres stations retrograde at 12 degrees Pisces. She will get all the way back to 28 degrees Aquarius when she will station direct on October 18th, return to Pisces on November 9th and start covering totally new ground on January 3, 2021.

Ceres in our natal chart alerts us to any challenges with nurturing and directs us to the kinds of experience we need to feel unconditionally loved and accepted. Our mother issues, the way we deal with painful and uncontrollable loss and separation - that's Ceres.

You might remember Ceres (Mother Nature) was at that "time-runs-out" palaver with Saturn/Pluto back in January.  Now, in Pisces - the final of the twelve signs for her 2020 retrograde - we are working through a long and generalized WINTER.

With Ceres retrograde we will go back over losses, what is outside our control, styles of nurturing, what we are nurturing. In Pisces, nurturing needs to be unconditional. Nurturing might require a sacrifice (Pisces) or a compromise (like Ceres/Pluto in the mythology). Pisces rules endings (the kind that happen over time the water wears away rocks), and things that are hidden including viruses.

Ceres stationing retrograde gives us even more we have to re-consider.

This is EXACTLY the degree range Mercury re-walked during her/his last retrograde from February 16th - March 9th, 2020 (you might remember Mercury stationed direct right on that Virgo Full Moon that really kicked up the corona-virus situation).

So, it probably should not be a surprise that the virus might reassert itself now. Hopefully Neptune (ruler of Pisces) being retrograde this time around can mitigate its effects (make it less dangerous). Remember it was Mercury and Ceres (as well as the Sun) who joined Saturn and Pluto back in January.

On WEDNESDAY - The Void Moon continues all morning and moves into Pisces at 2:13PM turning our attention to and nurturing us through our imagination, art, music, spirituality, healing, going with the flow, sleep, creativity, connection, charity, our addictions, escape, compassion, meditation, prayer.

A retrograde Mercury (6 degrees Cancer) squares Mars (in Aries). This is the ONLY exact aspect between two planets until Sunday that doesn't involve the Moon - such a strange week!

This speaks of arguments around home/family/real estate situations - your Cancer house theme. Memories that stir the pot. Angry conversations. Words that incite violence. Tension. Frustration. Ambition. Pushy communication. Rude language. We can't walk and talk at the same time. For some - car, tech, local community or sibling problems. Something could be breaking down/malfunctioning. With Mercury covering old ground, this probably won't be a brand new situation.

Keep in mind our Aries houses are LIT for the rest of the year and this will be a repeating aspect. For example - if you are a Scorpio Rising and have Mars in your 6th house of work and health for the rest of the year know that angry words/thoughts/actions can create problems in these areas. We want to be taking action, but we might need to keep a cool head.

Also know these tension points are part of the process. Our rough edges need to be rubbed against other rough edges to get smoothed out.

We need to be careful (and purposeful) with our language this week (and really for the next three weeks until we get past July 27th) or have filled the curse-jar with dollar bills whichever comes first. 

Note - Mercury/Mars is a repeating aspect we last had on May 11th and will have again on July 27th with Mercury direct. If you have planets/points in your natal or progressed chart on or very near 6 degrees of the cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn you will probably feel this one the strongest!

FRIDAY - Venus (at 9 degrees Gemini) sextiles Chiron (in Aries).

Venus, chatty in Gemini, and Chiron, antsy in Aries - tells us the balm for whatever is hurting/needs healing will come through giving the situation a little more air, a lighter (Gemini) touch (Venus), kind words, new perspectives around love/money are possible now and mostly through our ability to keep things light.

Gemini/Aries works because Aries wants his independence and Gemini has other things to do anyway.

This is the third of three sextiles for Venus/Chiron - the first mid-April, the second mid-June. So issues from that time could come back around or be finishing up.

SATURDAY - Now, it's Chiron's turn and he stations retrograde at 10 degrees Aries.

So, now we have Mercury (but only for one more day), Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto ALL retrograde.

If his retrograde motion means he is moving nearer to a planet or point in our chart whatever is hurting will intensify now - maybe we will be required to be brave, do something we don't want to do, stand up for ourselves, etc. For most people though, and especially those with planets or points that Chiron is backing off - this will be about us doing the re's here - reflecting, re-evaluating, revising - with whatever eases up a bit. We haven't had a Chiron in Aries retrograde with Mars in Aries, so this one is going to feel supercharged. We'll talk about this as we move though it, too.

SUNDAY - Mercury stations direct at 4:27AM EDT! Our Cancer house theme or collective Cancerian situation can start moving forward now - Mercury can take a couple days to get back to speed (home, family, mother, real estate, renovation, home business, family business, safety, security, history).

The Sun (in Cancer) trines Neptune (in Pisces). More energy for that home/family situation to FLOW. Our physical life-force (Sun) can work smoothly with Neptunian themes - creativity, romance, spirituality, escape, delusion, charity work, addiction, the things and people 'put away', healing, research, institutions. Maybe a creative project needs our energy and attention. Maybe we shine a great big old spotlight (Sun) on our dreams and wishes (Neptune) - yes, please.

This is usually the day every year I recommend making a vision board.

The potential downside with this energy is getting in over our head or becoming too unbounded. Trines (brakes off) can take us from zero to sixty very quickly - they are that slippery slope our grandma warned us about.

Cancer/Pisces is not such a hard task master though - whatever we are doing we can probably do it while we sleep .. or bake a cake.

A light will almost certainly be shined on the virus now, too .... and speaking of virus I have some new theories about it, and what we might expect, that I will talk about in the next 2020 overview post which will be up this week and focused exclusively on the virus and the end of the Age of Pisces.

xo all

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