Today's Astrology Forecast | Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 - the reality police stop for a beer, the drunk at the end of the bar goes to work, intimate conversations, financial disclosures, talking about sex


 

 

The Moon in illusive and magical Pisces met Neptune at 1:00AM EDT, then sextiles a retrograde Pluto at 7:49AM EDT and finally goes void off another sextile to Saturn at 1:29PM EDT. Rise early

 

Get things done before the void. 

 

Pisces (the Moon) and Capricorn (Pluto and Saturn) sextiles are opportunities for making our dreams into something solid, to bring magic/compassion to the mundane, reality to our confusion. If we are drifting, here's a rock we can grab onto. Or maybe better said, because this is Capricorn after all, here's a responsibility/a reason to get out of bed/put our brush to the canvas/our words to paper/our ass on the mat.


Our Pisces natal house is where we are born with a direct link to God/the Universe/our higher selves/our past lives/our ancestors. So, this energy brings assistance to this Capricorn situation. It's here to help.

 

The Moon will be void until 10:47PM EDT (when she moves into Aries and readies us for tomorrow's Full Moon), so most of the day is good for production, doing things we do all the time. Expect some twists and turns (that nothing will come of) and for time to get STRETCHY.


We also have Mercury (in Scorpio, now) meeting up with Juno (3 degrees) who slipped out of Libra, where she's been for what felt like a lifetime, into Scorpio when we weren't looking. This is about deep/intense conversations within partnerships/commitments. With Mercury's upcoming retrograde we will have this aspect twice more over the next couple months, but here's the kicking off point. They are together here - of like mind about a financial/intimacy situation. Or maybe with Mercury in Scorpio, a secret (Juno was Jupiter's long-suffering and vengeful wife, committed to keeping the marriage together at all costs) comes out. 


With Mars in Aries (remember Mars holds all the cards now and for the rest of the year, or maybe that should read - all the "aces"), not to mention Chiron, this is all about self-actualization. And self-actualization can be messy. And painful. If we've been playing too small and most of us have, our taking up of 'more space' means other people's toes will be stepped on. And they will be stepping on ours. There is alot to work through here. A new dance to learn. Not all partnerships/contracts will survive.


For today, there is support this morning for progress/getting things done, then a period to chill out this afternoon/tonight. Once the Moon moves into Aries she starts heading toward tomorrow night's Full Moon in Aries. This is peak/culminating energy. How will you use it?


xo all


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Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, September 28, 2020 - second chances, the things we do for love, ka-ching, what won't be ignored, speaking to ghosts, hanging in there



We wake (EDT) to a Void Moon (a good Monday to sleep in if we can - because we won't miss much that amounts to anything) - the Moon in intellectual Aquarius having opposed Venus at 1:04AM EDT and gone void off a sextile to our retrograde Mars at 3:17AM EDT. She is void until 11:34 AM EDT when she moves into emotional Pisces trining (brakes off) Mercury (in Scorpio) at 2:42PM EDT then drifting through the rest of the day unaspected. We are mesmerized by secrets, renewed and transformed by spirit/our imagination/grief/ghosts. We are connecting to other people on deep levels. 


Venus (at 25 Leo) trines our retrograde Mars in Aries while she inconjuncts our retrograde Saturn in Capricorn. The Venus/Mars trine is our actions getting us what we want (love, money, making something more beautiful). Our masculine and feminine sides playing nicely together. We attract what we want through action/courage. By doing something for LOVE. Keep in mind Mars is retrograde, so we might be returning to something/someone from the past. 


The fly in the Venus/Mars party - besides the fact that Mars is retrograde - is an inconjunct to a powerful Saturn. There will be limits/rules/responsibilities/maybe an older person or tradition that must be attended to. Patience can be required/maturity. Saturn provides structure/limits - with Venus in Leo, we could want too much/get greedy. Saturn will put a cap on this. This doesn't lose us access to the helpful trine - which is between your Mars/Leo houses - but, your Cappy house (yes, the one that has been on fire all year) will be heard from, too. 


Everyone gets a seat at the table or the table gets flipped. 


I find almost always Saturn makes things better/longer lasting. 


In the meantime, as Mars and Saturn are interacting with beneficial Venus they are squaring each other. We have had this tense and frustrating square for weeks. It is exact tomorrow. Then they will begin to separate. Saturn will start to move forward, Mars will continue backward. 


That tight corner we have painted ourselves into will begin to widen. Shifts can also occur with anything that might have seemed totally rock/solid permanent as Saturn stations. 


Keep in mind always our North Node in mutable Gemini - change is good. Something better, remember Jupiter has yet to walk these late Cappy degrees, is coming. 


xo all


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Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | September 28th - October 4th, 2020 - love gets picky and practical, something hurts, course corrections, some delays end, karmic results


 

MONDAY - Venus trine Mars and inconjunct Saturn

TUESDAY - Sun inconjunct Chiron, Mars square Saturn, Saturn stations direct

THURSDAY - Full Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron

FRIDAY - Venus into Virgo, Sun inconjunct Uranus

SATURDAY - Pluto inconjunct North Node

SUNDAY - Pluto stations direct, Mercury inconjunct Chiron


Wow - I hadn't really laid this week all out until just now, it's a BIGGIE.

 

Mercury is in Scorpio now and Ceres has retrograded back into Aquarius. This week we have a BIG Full Moon in Aries, two monster planets changing direction (daddy's home and he's brought the big boss for dinner), an important inner planet changing signs, Mars second square to Saturn (challenges, issues with goals, authority, responsibilities) and multiple challenging inconjuncts (the need to adjust).

 

Cue the flying monkeys - we are going to need them.

 

Saturn direct kicks off the final leg of our Saturn through Cappy journey. His square to Mars at station (Tuesday) speaks of BLOCKS/frustration that takes us back to August 24th. BUT with Saturn direct there will be PROGRESS, too. Big structural change. Time to commit or quit. Maybe we will discover, if we don’t already know, how well and how fully we are solving our Cappy problem. Our world and "the world" can shift rapidly. Decisions will be made; some outside our control. Some we have already made but don’t even realize it yet. I wouldn’t count anyone in or out. Stay open and flexible, willing to honor the highest good in everyone and everything and re-frame, reshape your vision as you move through this. We close the week with Pluto direct - on that hot and powerful 22 degree Capricorn - as Mercury (in Scorpio, so answering to both Pluto and a retrograde Mars) inconjuncts Chiron. Painful truth as that power, sex, finance, tax, inheritance, intimacy, reproduction, goal, authority, career situation shifts gears. 


Three aspects to Chiron this week, so we will be confronting our wounds/vulnerabilities as we shift into this final leg of our 2020 Capricorn story about how we deal with power, how we deal with CONTROL.


Don't pack too much into this week if you don't have to. 


MONDAY - Venus trines Mars - this is what we want smoothly flowing with what we have to do to get it. Keep in mind Mars is retrograde, so this could be an old situation/something from the past. Delays/revisions can and have required work, but this speaks of our ultimate success with something. This is Leo/Aries - courage might be required. We probably want to do something with his because Venus is in her last days in generous/happy Leo and taking any last vestiges of summer with her. 

 

Now, keep in mind at the same time Venus (our relationships, money, creative projects, self-esteem, children, romance, our values, our place on the center stage) is inconjunct (that rock and a hard place) a sober Saturn in his own sign. There are going to be rules/limits that need to be followed. This whole thing could take time/patience. I said last week and I'll say it again - it's important to keep tending to the things we are passionate about even if we are not seeing the progress in the way we expected.


TUESDAY - the Sun inconjuncts Chiron - shining a light on our old wounding. Mars' second square to Saturn reaches perfection - this is the one with Mars retrograde and Saturn direct - note, Saturn stations direct in the early A.M. hours and the square prefects at 5:49PM EDT. We had this first square back on August 24th, so this could connect back to that time. 

 

Saturn has the upper hand. We keep our cool and live to fight another day or we lose. This is unyielding - a denial of aggression/assertion. There is a "no" here. Responsibilities/burdens are strongly felt. We want to do this and we have to do that. Roadblocks/limits/traditions serve a purpose - sometimes we need to go around, crash over or plow through them and sometimes they keep us from falling off the cliff. On the other hand, Saturn (as us or as authority) can win the battle and lose the war if he overplays his hand. We might have to work harder or just accept that we cannot get exactly what we want right now

 

The big news - DADDY'S HOME.

 

After many months retrograde - Saturn is back where he was on May 17th and in some way so are we - Saturn's retrograde "review" wraps up. Commitments are firmed up. Endings become the real deal. Second chances are over. We need to be taking responsibility for our actions and holding other people responsible for theirs.


It could have felt, during his retrograde, that we were getting further away from our goal. Maybe obligations weighed heavily. Walls and limitations had to be faced. Corners we had previously cut were noted to be missing. The bills came due. Maybe we were re-evaluating, re-assessing, re-affirming our responsibilities and commitments. Maybe we learned to say, "no". Maybe we learned to say "yes" to something we had been avoiding.

 

What happens now is going to depend on what we did with this retrograde and sometimes, especially if we are looking at an ending, something ends no matter what we did, hopefully we have had some time to prepare for it.  


With Saturn direct - daddy's home! - greater external structure is brought into our lives. This can feel supportive/rewarding or like a wall/limit/roadblock.


Have we been goofing off? Staying out late? Running up the electric bill? Worn out pop's favorite chair or left his tools out in the rain to rust?


Karmic books get balanced. Rewards for hard work come in -and these rewards can look like endings if we have hitched our ladder to the wrong wall. This is simply cause and effect - we are just being served what we ordered. If we don't like what we are being served - we can choose to do things differently for next time. We can start today. Right now. 


THURSDAY - Full Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron (standing up, confronting what hurts)- expect a BIG post. Mars, Aries ruler, is holding all the cards now, so we know this will be an important Full Moon. Those with planets/points near 7- 9 degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) will probably feel this energy most.


FRIDAY - the Sun (in Libra) inconjuncts Uranus, this is relationships/balance vs our freak flags/independence - nobody wins, everybody loses a little. Adjustments to both sides are required. 

 

At the same time Venus moves into precise and practical Virgo. We will be analyzing what we want and what we have. We will be analyzing our relationships/our resources/our values. The problems will stand out. We won't be able to miss them. And since what we focus on grows, sometimes things get worse before they get better during this transit. But this is excellent energy to fix what needs fixing and accept (or eliminate) what just isn't fixable. 


Virgo Suns and Ascendants get more attractive - both easier on the eye and able to attract what they want. Our natal Virgo houses get more attractive, too!

Venus in Virgo is about loving the details of something, enjoying the work, appreciating the craftsmanship and complexity of something or someone or some situation - yes, also, noticing the imperfections, Virgo can't miss those, and choosing not to dwell on them.

 

SUNDAY - Pluto stations direct right on the degree of January's Saturn/Pluto palaver. Here is the death that was postponed - maybe we had time to clean up our mess; to get our ducks in a row - maybe to prevent a big-bang style ending, but more likely to prepare ourselves for it (we are back where we were on April 25th). Pluto forges ahead again - bent on deconstructing the old order.


Pluto direct speaks of a loss (this could have already happened with Saturn's station a few days ago in the same sign), a total transformation or change of course of some part of our life and/or real EMPOWERMENT. 

 

If you have planets or points near 22 degrees of the cardinal signs, you are no doubt feeling this (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn).


Pluto's direct station (as Mercury begins his long journey through Scorpio) is a time for truths to come out. A time for us to consider things we didn't want to have to deal with/think about - the stuff we shoved into closets and pushed under carpets -situations that require authentic Plutonian power (a kind of fearlessness; a sense of being past-death) - from intimate and honest financial or sexual conversations to indomitable power moves in business.


At the same time, Mercury (in Scorpio now so answering to Pluto and a retrograde Mars) is making his own inconjunct to Chiron. Words that hurt/wound. Information we don't want to hear/deal with. Maybe a need to stand up for ourselves. The week seems to go out with a bang. Or a good long cry.

 

Back with the dailies where we add in the Moons plus a Full Moon post and a big picture October because it's going to be a very important month.

 

xo all

 

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Friday, September 25, 2020 - big girl pants on, stay in your magic

 

 

Going to disappear for the weekend to look at/think about October's cray-cray energy and I am launching a new jewelry line and need to get pics taken and descriptions written. 

 

The Moon is in Cappy today, the sign of her detriment since she's a Cancer-girl (answering to a retrograde big-daddy Saturn with his bags packed for home - you know that "vaca" is ending feeling? Well, that's Saturn now. Do we need to be dragged from our hotel room on that last weekend kicking and screaming for the drive back or is our head already filled with the projects we are going to do when we get home/get back to work? Something like that - our choice - sort of, kind of, maybe. Saturn isn't so much about choices though.). 

 

The Moon (as us) is challenged by Pluto, Saturn, Mars and Mercury. It starts around lunchtime and continues until she goes void at 11:36PM EDT. Big girl pants on. Looks like a hard day. No soft corners, but there IS a nice sextile to Neptune in the a.m. - good for creative work, healing, magic - so use that. Another day to get things done early with others and then hunker down for some solitary work later - if this is possible. I know it might not be.
 

On Monday, Saturn stations direct. And, even though it will take him some time to get back up to speed (things will continue to feel stuck for a while), it will be game on. DADDY'S HOME.


For now, we still have the Yod - pointing us toward our Leo house - what we love/how we are here to shine/our children and creative projects. Vesta is in Leo, too - making something here sacred/able to keep us up all night. What's that about for you? And today, Vesta is making her inconjunct to Neptune. 

 

This is helpful in the sense all challenges are helpful because they help us see what really matters/what is most important. 

 

We must find a way to keep the flame (the thing we are determined to keep ALIVE) from being doused by these Neptunian waters (delusion, escape, exhaustion), at the same time giving Neptune his due by pretty much doing these exact things (!) - using our imaginative, getting some extra sleep, getting near or into water, staying in our magic, taking some needed escape from this thing we are so focused on. It's true of all energies that the negative side is always the positive side taken to the extreme. The Sun is in Libra now - keep things balanced.


Take a breath. 

 

I usually feel these energies the prior day and yesterday didn't feel so challenging to me as this day today looks on paper. If it's hard for you, know the Moon is fleeting. This too shall pass.


By tomorrow the Moon will be in humanitarian Aquarius for the weekend - good for groups, our causes, working with tech, detaching from the Cappy heaviness. On Monday morning she will be void in the a.m. EDT - so feel free to sleep in a bit - and then drift into Pisces to start the week.


Back in a couple days.


xo all




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