Weekly Astrology Forecast | Week of August 17 - August 23, 2020 - a Leo New Moon BRIGHT BEGINNING at the very end of Leo season but somehow just in time, the details matter, information, shifts happen, get going

This week is all about Mercury and the Sun - they meet, they change signs and in between we get a bold New Moon in Leo - answering to .. you guessed it, THE SUN, and conjunct ... you guessed it, MERCURY.

Our thinking and our creativity. Our ideas and our passions. Our children and their education. Our lungs/our breath and our heart. Let's take a peek ahead!

MONDAY - Sun conjuncts Mercury, Mars conjuncts Eris
TUESDAY - New Moon in Leo
WEDNESDAY - Mercury into Virgo
SATURDAY - Sun into Virgo

MONDAY - The Sun catches up with Mercury at 25 degrees Leo (Superior Conjunction). The Moon is balsamic (dark in the end of her cycle) and will square a retrograde Uranus (surprise!).

CLARITY. Information comes through. Insights are felt. 

The Sun/Mercury are at the third leg of their cycle here - a time when the MEANING of whatever was seeded at their Inferior Conjunction (June 30, 2020 when Mercury was retrograde) becomes KNOWN. It's the Full Moon of the Mercury/Sun cycle. Our mind is fused with our ego/our fire/the way we are intended to shine. Then Mercury (our mind) rushes ahead of us again (until his/her next retrograde cycle)!

People with planets or points at/near 25 degrees Leo will feel this energy strongest.

People with planets/points in harmony with 25 degrees Leo (our Aries, Sag, Gemini, Libra planets and points near 25 degrees) will experience knowledge/understanding and productivity as our unique powers (the way we are here to shine) are unleashed. People with planets/points in tension with 25 degrees Leo (our Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius planets and points near 25 degrees) might experience blockages, stress/tension again with the SAME goal (albeit doing things the hard way which is sometimes, and certainly this time, the only way) of releasing our unique powers of potential! This energy plays out over the next several weeks.

The Mars/Eris conjunction reaches exactness in passionate and fiery Aries - everyone gets a seat at the table or the table gets flipped - note the Democratic National Convention starts today.

The Moon on MONDAY and TUESDAY will be in Leo - so we are focused on and nourished through children, romance, our creative projects, fun and recreation.

TUESDAY - here's our annual New Moon in Leo - expect a BIG post! A bright beginning. Get those Leo affirmations ready. After two months of emotional Cancer New Moons, I think we are all probably #ready, #notready for this one!

WEDNESDAY - After swimming, what feels like forevah, in the emotional waters of Cancer and then getting burnt out fast in fiery Leo, Mercury finally comes home to Virgo! This is especially good news for Virgos and Geminis (Sun and Risings), but EVERYONE'S natal Virgo house will benefit.

With Mercury in Virgo, our thinking, writing and communication will be more practical and commonsense. We will be all about the details. Nothing gets by Mercury in Virgo.  But lots of things get dismissed. If it's not real/not factually stated/if it doesn't work - it's outta here.

This is an excellent transit - only until September 5th, so let's not waste this - for organization, cleaning, paperwork, taking care of our health, the ins and outs of our work and daily routine, our pets.

We will see all the little problems, but still need to avoid nitpicking. Leo to Virgo is 'creating to critiquing' and that is natural/cyclical, but with everything all of us are dealing with this year we need to be gentle with each other.

The biting criticism (that will look to us like practical advice) that is right on the tip of our tongue might need to be swallowed sometimes. Gulp.

It may be hard to see the forest for the trees - but with the South Node in Sag for another year - it is THE TREES that matter now anyway. The details. One thing at a time. Lists are good. Practical ideas, solutions and fixes can pop right into our head.

Pay attention to your language - we want to be precise now.

We want to honor Mercury (trust me on this, he can cause us oodles of damage and danger when we don't).

Think about what you are thinking about.

Watch what you are watching.

What you are reading, talking about, hearing - will matter now. Virgo rules our digestion - what we put in will be what we get out and impact how well we can function.

Notice how you verbally get in your own way - use unnecessary negative words (like saying something "isn't bad" when you mean it is good), double speak, babble, gas-lighting, lies. Avoid that "sorry" thing some people say moving through life. We aren't really sorry anyway right - so why are we saying it.

Words are powerful. They are some of the most powerful tools we have to move through life on planet Earth - let's not hold ourselves back by tossing around stuff we don't mean/don't want to have/don't want to be.

On WEDNESDAY the Moon will move into Virgo and make a gazillion nice aspects over the next couple days - we are nurtured through all the Virgo themes we just talked about.

SATURDAY - the Sun exits his home sign of Leo (sniffle!) and joins Mercury in practical and earthy "let's get on a routine" Virgo. The time of the harvest (and I have the garden and kitchen counters filled with the tomatoes to prove it), in Virgo season we move into mutable energy.

Shifts happen.

The weather changes. Kids go back to school (prayers this is handled in the best possible ways for their physical AND mental health this year).

We adjust our schedules and daily routines. Health issues catch our attention.

The transition from Leo (ruled by the Sun) to Virgo can be hard or welcomed depending on how ready we are to come in out of the Sun! With the Sun in Virgo we focus on the details. We clean things up. We get organized. Small steps lead to big changes. Small is BIG now.

The astrology wheel is the hero's journey of self discovery. When the sun moves into Virgo, it is the hero's (our) first encounter with service.

We are learning when to help and when helping isn't really helping.

Virgo is the modest healer with the critical eye that takes care of the details. Meaningful work and competence are key now.

Virgo knows we are not here to do the work we love - we are here to love the work we do. There is a difference. This is the difference that changes the world. This is the difference that changes us.

Every sign has something to learn from the sign that follows it.

Leo learns from Virgo (and we all have Leo and Virgo in our charts somewhere - its placement will affect how this activates in your own journey) - to do the work. Virgo teaches Leo to let go of the need for the spotlight and recognition and to just focus on the work.

The king gets humbled ... and we might now, too!

The Sun in Virgo needs to do good work. In order to do this, we need to figure out what isn't working. We need to be able to see the flaws and problems. Let's just not get all caught up in them!

On SATURDAY, the Moon is in Libra focusing us on our relationships and moving things into balance/making things more beautiful - here she will move through squares to the Cappy planets and an opposition to Mars, so expect some challenges!

We don't want to waste this powerful week getting all riled up in things we cannot control.

Let's keep our focus, which should improve now, on the present/what we can control and especially on how to use small improvements, habits and fixes to empower ourselves!


xo all - back with the New Moon post!

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Saturday Night Mystery | the Astrology of the disappearance of Leila C.

This is the case I was going to put up last weekend for our Saturday Night Mystery, but got sidetracked with the Pandora/Wuhan research. It's a very recent/ongoing story, so we are going to use first names only for the privacy of her family.

Leila C. is a beautiful and vivacious 21 year old single mother of an adorable two year old boy named Kamdyn living in Georgia with her grandmother and uncle. She has apparently been pretty rootless for some time living for brief periods with different family members between Georgia and Alabama.

At some point toward the end of July she told her uncle she was "thinking of going to Florida", but because he knew she had no job and no money (plus, of course, the little thing called a - pandemic), he did not take her seriously.

It appears she meant it though - because she quickly proceeds to sell a few things on Facebook Marketplace (it looks like she also attempted to sell her truck and also was looking for a place to have a yard sale), gather $60 from Kamdyn's father for Kamdyn's dental visit (which isn't clear ever happened), $40 from her uncle and drives her son, in her big white truck, to Florida (12 hours!) without telling her family or friends anything about her trip.

No one knew she was going, why she was going, if she was going alone, meeting anyone there, etc.

Within just a couple days of Leila's arrival in Florida, Kamdyn is found by a local woman. He is wandering alone in a parking lot. He's wearing a black t-shirt and diaper; no shoes or pants. As she approaches him, she realizes he is crying. She proceeds to walk him around the apartment complex asking people if they know him or have seen him before. Finally, when she isn't able to locate his family, she calls the police.

A few hours later the police department put out what they called an "urgent blast" asking people if they recognized the beautiful little boy and eventually his picture, having gone somewhat viral through Facebook shares, miraculously reached his aunt in Georgia.

Kamdyn was identified, but where the heck was Leila?

Family members grew more worried with each passing day. They think (because she was single) she might have met a man online and driven to meet him. They admitted she has had some prior drug issues, but are confident those issues are in the past and they don't believe drugs have any bearing on whatever has happened to her.

They all agreed she would never, ever leave her precious son.

Let's see if the astrology of a chart set up for the last time Leila was seen - a store surveillance video taken of Leila and Kamdyn in a convenience store at a gas station the night before Kamdyn is found and the chart for the time Kamdyn is found in the parking lot offer any clues.

Let's unpack the charts.

CHART 1 - the convenience store surveillance camera of Leila and Kamdyn, wearing masks, but clearly identifiable, shopping in Hollywood, Florida.

OK, we will start with the Ascendant, sign rising/first house ruler, which represents Leila in this chart. The chart is Pisces rising with Pisces modern ruler Neptune in the first house conjunct the Ascendant. This shows Leila as Piscean which can mean not only creative/imaginative, maybe spiritual, but it could also show illusion or deception - either on her part or she is being deceived by someone else. It might indicate self-sabotaging actions. Pisces can also show escape (like a literal escape from her daily life to Florida) or addiction; alcohol or drug use. With Neptune retrograde the addiction could be in her past, but whatever this is, she isn't acting/thinking logically/clearly at the time of the video. Pisces physicality can be thin, dark hair with light or deep-set, piercing eyes, so this fits her appearance.

The ancient ruler of Neptune is Jupiter. Here in the 11th house, conjunct dangerous Pluto in Cappy and answering to serious as-a-heart-attack Saturn. The 11th house rules friendships; maybe unusual friendships. Sometimes goals that bring us into connection with other people. Answering to Saturn this could be showing us she is in the company of an older male friend or someone who has, or once had, because all three of these planets are retrograde, some kind of authority over her or maybe showing an old friendship, someone from the past.

Leila's other significator (stand in for Leila in the chart) is the Moon.

Here in the 7th house (of the perpetrator) in Libra.

Libra represents a young, pretty woman - which she is. The Moon is closing in on an opposition (very quickly) and the Ascendant inconjuncts fiery Aries, the 8th house ruler, who is located in Leila's house; the first house. This shows the possibility of danger ahead, things going badly. The Moon in Libra is answering to Venus, in the 3rd house in Gemini (so she is active, moving about doing things, driving around), Venus is answering to Mercury in the 5th house in Cancer (mother on a road-trip vacation with a child would fit here) and answering back to the Moon.

So, a loop between the 3rd, 5th and 7th houses. This is showing us what is happening on the video - a young, pretty woman (Venus) is shopping at a gas station convenience store (Gemini, 3rd house) with her child/on vacation (5th house) with maybe a partner/the perpetrator (7th house) waiting outside in the car and/or maybe they are heading to his home because Mercury is about to move into that 4th house in Cancer.

Let's take a look at the perpetrator.

We have Virgo on the descendant. A typical Virgo appearance could mean a tall stature, black hair, long face, high forehead, someone who is full of talk, maybe a teacher/service person/healer type. Sometimes too neat, obsessive compulsive. Organized. With Virgo's ruler Mercury conjunct asteroid Hygeia it makes me wonder if he could be a germophobe or maybe just extremely health conscious.

Ruled by Mercury in the 5th (almost in the 4th) answering to that Moon in the 7th and then Venus in the 3rd, so basically the same loop. Somehow the story is right in there!

Having him represented by Virgo makes me think she knew him and he was part of her life on a daily basis (I know the family/police are working on the theory she visited someone she met online, and I guess it's possible she was talking to this guy everyday online and making him a part of her day-to-day life that way). Maybe she used to work with him or for him or maybe with Mercury in Cancer, someone in her family did. Some connection between him and home/family?

Her family said she doesn't know anyone in Florida, but maybe he once lived/worked near her or a family member. There is alot of Gemini/Mercury and we know this is a road-trip, so that fits, but we also know she was looking to sell her truck, so maybe that will tie in somehow. The third house can also indicate an argument. With the 11th house ruler in the 2nd, there could also be a connection to money.

CHART 2 - Let's flip ahead to Kamdyn's chart and see if we can tie anything together.

The chart for when he is found in the parking lot has Leo Rising. Leo is Kamdyn, ruled by the Sun in the 12th - he is what is lost, somehow put away/left behind. Just looking at Kamdyn's picture and his beautiful and memorable hair (very Leo rising) and we know this chart is likely accurate and usable.

Kamdyn is also the Moon in Libra in the 3rd house - found by a woman (Libra) in a parking lot (third house rules cars, the community). The Moon is exactly squaring Jupiter in the 6th house - again that day-to-day, people we know house, but Jupiter also a blustery/know-it-all/preacher type, probably not a local and conjunct Pluto (danger) and answering to Saturn (maybe an older man and ruler of the significator for the perpetrator). Jupiter rules the 5th house of this chart (children) - Kamdyn in his control.

The perpetrator is Aquarius rising - remember Leila's ruler Jupiter in the first chart was in the 11th house (Aqua's house) so again making me think of a strange friendship, which could mean online, maybe, but it also feels very day-to-day, so should be traceable by authorities, but they probably need to look in the past.

Aqua's modern ruler is Uranus at the top of this chart, so an erratic act (leaving the child in the parking lot) that gets public attention - this also shows, because remember this is Kamdyn's chart - his trauma at the loss of his mother. :(

In Taurus, so answering to Venus in Gemini in the 11th, answering to Mercury in the 11th, answering to the Moon in the 3rd. The 3rd is Gemini's house so again, the story is reminiscent of the day's before. It's alot of the same stuff over and over.

Aquarius's other ruling planet is Saturn, here in Cappy in the 6th. Again the older man involved in her daily life/work/health/pets? With all planets retrograde this could have been in the past - someone she used to know.

With Leila's significator in the last chart, Neptune, in the 8th house (death) of this chart, there is the possibility she is no longer living by the time Kamdyn is abandoned. This is alluded to in the chart, but I don't think absolutely shown.

Venus in the first chart, who is connected to Leila, Kamdyn and the perpetrator and exactly conjunct the IC (Leila's physical body and home) is also exactly conjunct asteroid MEDUSA. I see the asteroids as fragments of culture, held within our DNA/blueprint/chart. I am not sure how the myth would connect (I know she has three sisters, but wouldn't call them Gorgons!) and am sadly out of time tonight if I want to call this a "Saturday Night Mystery"!

Maybe I should start writing Sunday Morning Mysteries ....

We will revisit this story when it gets solved - and it will - see the Part of Fortune (outcome) at the top of the first chart showing the final result becoming known.

We'll see how any of this fits together then.




xo all

Today's Astrology Forecast | Daily Horoscope - August 14, 2020 - communicating our passions, relationship imbalances, noticing what our heart wants

The Moon (in Gemini) sextiled the Sun at 4:32AM EDT and then goes void off a sextile to Mars (moving forward - something is full-steam ahead) at 7:19AM EDT - she will be void until 7:35PM EDT when she comes home to Cancer for the weekend.

This month's Waning Sextile - Gemini Moon, Leo Sun - is the opportunity to talk about/communicate about a creative project (maybe something you are putting the finishing touches on), or maybe something about children, recreation, a passion. Ideas, choices, information is on display. At the same time Mercury (Gemini ruler) will be inconjunct a retrograde Jupiter - so when communicating, stick to facts - this isn't about what you believe. Don't exaggerate/boast or over-promise now. Old ways of expansion/moving into new territory may require adjustment.

At the same time Mercury is in a rock and a hard place with a retrograde Jupiter, we have Jupiter squaring Juno (second of three squares - we had the first square back in early March) and Mercury sextiling Juno.

This Jupiter/Juno square (remember this is the king and queen of the Gods) with Jupiter retrograde in Cappy could signify we are re-visiting/re-vising relationship rules. Juno's in Libra, so again this will be about what is fair/balanced. Where we are finding love and beauty with other people now. 

If we find ourselves at odds with our partner over the same, old thing - Mercury in Leo will be the key to moving through this. 

With Mercury (in fiery and showy Leo) pulled into the mix via a square to Jupiter and a sextile to Juno - the opportunity is with the Mercury/Juno; the Leo/Libra. This is about passionate conversations/ideas shared with our partners. Talking from our strengths. Happy/fun conversations. Generous words. Showing/sharing what we have made/created with other people.

Mercury in Leo - can even be very literal - something like a fun car ride can shift the Jupiter/Juno square energy!

So, this is all kind of repeating the Waning Sextile's portal and amplifying its opportunities to bring our attention to our own LEO, ie how we are meant to shine in this lifetime, what our heart wants, where our personal passions lie (before next week's BIG New Moon). And pulling ideas/conversations and other people (and other parts of ourselves) into this energy with us.

I hope something here is helpful.

Have some fun today and keep in mind that nearly all-day Void Moon - not the time to launch anything we want something to 'come of', don't do anything important because you will just have to do it again when the Moon isn't void so stick to routine concerns and roll with any twists and turns because they will probably amount to nothing much in the end anyway.



xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Daily Horoscope - Thursday, August 13, 2020 - Mars squares Pluto - the effects of power - against us, through us and from us

The Moon in busy and communicative Gemini won't make any aspects until she sextiles Mercury (Gemini's ruler), at 8:32PM EDT, a good time to talk, listen, write. Stay curious. Open. She will move toward a square which a retrograde Neptune, 1:15AM EDT, so something might end on a confusing note. Or we might just be especially tired.

The rest I will pull directly from the weekly HERE. Exact as we slept (and, coloring the week) -

"Mars squares Pluto - this is the first of three due to Mars upcoming retrograde - August 13th (Mars direct, Pluto retrograde), October 9th (Mars retrograde, Pluto direct) and December 23rd (both direct) - Mars is powerful in his home sign, but Pluto is, well Pluto is Pluto.

(Pluto is the God of the underworld/power/control energy and Mars square to beneficial Jupiter blew Beirut sky high last week, so there's that to think about - stay safe)

If you have planets or points in your natal (or progressed) chart near 23 degrees of the cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn - you will feel this energy strongest.

This square could kick off a crisis/stress/situation that will require alot of energy - that could take a few months to work out.

Expect intense competition and unbridled ambition. Intense frustration. Manipulations. Obsessions. Jealousy. Physical power struggles. Excisions/surgical procedures. Fear of loss/death. Our power could be challenged or we could be the one doing the calling out.

If we are "waked" this is the time to think about why this situation is "triggering" us. If we are repressing anger/passion/strong urges - here's where the lid might come off.

We could be mad (Mars) at the truth (Pluto). We could be battling (Mars) for power/control (Pluto).

We don't want to be ruthless or under-handed, but we might have to stand up for ourselves. There is a determination to move that mountain here and the desire to get what we think we deserve and not a nickel less.

Avoid unnecessary run ins with the boss/authority because THEY WILL WIN. 

If you are the boss/authority - or standing in your own authority and I hope like hell you are - then avoid making other people feel threatened because YOU WILL LOSE in the long run.

Expect to feel the effects of power - against you, through you, from you. 

This is excellent energy for OVERCOMING OUR FEARS.

And never doubt with Mars in Aries until NEXT YEAR that we are playing a long game here.

First of three squares. Keep this in mind. Mars/Pluto is like a bully aspect, but it is also about having the courage and passion to SURVIVE.

Destruction/transformation/power.

We want to be proactive and responsive and not react or over-react out of fear this week.

We talked about this Mars cycle HERE." Mars is a BIG player in our story-line for the rest of this year. What house does Aries rule in your natal chart? What is the theme of that house?

xo all


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