Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, March 11, 2021 - knowing who we are getting into bed with, cruising for a bruising, going with the flow, getting enough rest

 

The Moon is void until 9:44AM EST when she moves into Pisces and we start building toward this Saturday's New Moon. 

 

Nurtured through art, compassion, our intuition, spirituality, connection, rest, water (the absence of this stuff more keenly felt now) a Pisces Moon is like a 12th house Moon in that she fosters deep unconscious hungers. 

 

The Moon isn't like the Sun. Our lunar needs have preceded our solar ones. Being able to express our Moon means being able to express our survival needs/appetites without having to justify them (the reasoning abilities/self awareness of the Sun). 

 

If you see the Moon as I do, kind of the earth mother inside us - the instinctual principal who knows how to nourish and sustain life (with lunar mis-firings showing up within us in different ways, such as 'eating disorders', looking for nurturing in all the wrong places, hanging on to things too long, etc), her time every month in the dark - the balsamic Moon that carries us through the birth canal toward the New Moon - it's as if mother has gone away. Some people are not so bothered by this and soothed during balsamic Moon days, and they are certainly more conducive to rest, etc, and some people - and this can be more about the way a particular month's journey is interacting with your natal and vary from month to month - can feel un-rooted as mother's siesta triggers very early and intimate experiences of feeling "unsafe".

 

Our natal Moon's sign and house are very clear indicators of what we need to feel safe. 

Our Pisces Moon's only aspect today is a square to Mars (at 4 degrees Gemini) at 6:16PM EST. Forewarned is forearmed - this frustration/tension could take the form of an argument/disagreement, maybe especially within partnerships/over contracts or commitments because the only other exact aspect today is the Sun (at 21 degrees Pisces) squaring Juno in Sagittarius. 

 

A challenge/frustration - this is all mutable energy, so maybe the terms of an agreement/partnership/marriage or maybe a situation with a woman need to change. Things are in flux. With the Sun in Pisces, boundaries/edges are fuzzy and Sag is all soothed by being 'gung ho' for something better/bigger, so this is not really the time to be signing on the dotted line or getting into bed with someone/something. Let's get past this thing first and see what we've still got. The Pisces Sun will shine a light on new hopes/expectations and through the tension of the square show us what needs to be released/what is already fading. 

 

Practice empathy. Release control. Take responsibility for your own needs (momma's napping). Accept the other person as they are. Go with the flow. Make art. Listen to music. How else can we work with these squares? Get enough rest/escape as needed. 

xo all

say a prayer for Fukushima and planet Earth and all of us on the 10 year anniversary of the environmental disaster that has changed the world ...

painting by the amazing Etienne Istvan

Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 - getting past a block, talking it out, turning toward the facts

 

The Moon is in Aquarius now - we are nurtured by the unexpected, change, the future, our groups and causes. She trines a multi-tasking Mars in Gemini at 8:22AM EST, sextiles Chiron at 4:42PM EST, squares Aqua co-ruler Uranus at 5:06PM EST and meets up with Aqua's other co-ruler, Saturn, at 7:44PM EST. 

 

Most of the day, spurred by that Mars/Gemini trine will likely be, at least mentally, busy/active. Words, communication, ideas are connecting/forward leaning. In the late afternoon as we move through that healing sextile with Chiron and head into a more frustrating square to Uranus - things could be a bit more bumpy. Independent work will likely go more smoothly than group situations. 

This is also the day Venus (at 15 degrees Pisces), following in the Sun's path from last week, squares the Nodes. The square speaks of tension/frustration. The square to the nodes - a decision point/pivot point/something we need to get past before we can continue. With the South Node in Sag/North in Gemini - this might be about a belief we need to release (and keep in mind, this is Venus standing at the crossroad here, so our relationships, money, values, self-esteem, beauty, women, our natal Libra and Taurus house themes) as we turn toward something more factual, more local, more logical.

 

Maybe we are breaking something big and overwhelming down into multiple more doable things/a process. Maybe we need to release a "fading hope" and ACT (remember Mars is in Gemini, too, now) on the current facts. We are not taking that trip around the world right now, but what can we do? The mountains may be calling our name, but the neighborhood park is actually OPEN. 

 

It might be time to talk about something we have been avoiding - that thing that has turned into the elephant in the living-room. Just having the conversation, rather than letting the thing continue to balloon itself around the coffee table, could be enough. This is a square so will be challenging/not so easy. Check out the lunar times in your area. Maybe you want to avoid that Uranus square around dinner time EST, because whatever you say will seem to the other person to have come out of nowhere. On the other hand maybe that's exactly when the conversation will happen/situation arise. 

 

Venus has some very positive aspects coming up and to be lined up for them we have to get past this. Take some, maybe uncomfortable, action - the Moon in Aqua will help us be more detached/take things less personally and her trine to Mars in Gemini is very supportive.

 

More good news - Mercury in Aquarius is making her third (of three) sextile to Juno at 21 degrees Sagittarius. Something partnership or contract related or related to women is wrapping up. We had this aspect back in mid-January and mid-February. It was exact yesterday. This is another 'third time's the charm' opportunity. If the conversation didn't happen yesterday, if the agreement wasn't hammered out (and no hammering would have been involved) these planets are still in sextile today. Keep in mind Juno is in Sag looking at the greener pastures/needing some hope/optimism, a bigger PLAN and trining (brakes off) the Aqua energies (the future). 

So, we are at a crossroads (Venus as us) needing to have the conversation, look at the facts, use our smarts here. Venus is in Pisces, EXALTED, we are more intuitive now, compassionate, magnetic. Relationship agreements are possible now and they will have been hard-earned. If we are trying to talk to someone about 'facts' and they are in lalaland (and we could as easily be the escape artist in this scenario), it might seem we are not getting very far, but maybe we will be (and just not know it yet) and one way or the other this shouldn't be avoided. 

 

Juno speaks of tending the relationship with optimism/faith. Mercury with 'talk of the future'. Blend this stuff all together and come up with something workable. 

 

Know today's Venus square (which is a repeating pattern from last week's Sun when something 'came to light') says something about love, money, our values or self-esteem needs to be dealt with. Some old belief released. Some new facts/information/conversation leaned into.

xo all

 

photo by the talented Brian Kershisnik

Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, March 8th, 2021 - our ambitions, goals, opportunities, making space for the new dream and new responsibilities to find us, workin' it

 

The Moon is in productive and ambitious Capricorn today. 

 

She sextiles the Sun at 5:14AM EST, Neptune at 9:40AM EST and goes void off her meeting with Pluto at 7:42PM EST. Lots of opportunity today if we put on those big girl/boy pants and SHOW UP.

Her sextile with the Sun is this month's Waning Sextile - this time Cappy/Pisces. Making the dream real. Coming down to reality. From their separating position this 'making the dream real' thing is likely to entail the release/letting go of dead outcomes (realized or otherwise), ambitions, responsibilities. This 'coming down to reality' thing is likely to entail some kind of reality check.

Cappy/Pisces carries the potent MAGIC of new beginnings, but can sometimes be felt as a kind of nothingness, abandonment, lack of inspiration - because it is from the very starkness of the long Cappy winter's vulnerability that the dream of Pisces (that this year will come through the chaotic Uranus/Saturn squares) is first attracted. So, what is calling to you? If you can't hear it yet, get rid of something. Still can't hear it? Get rid of something else. Make the space for this new dream to find you and it will. You truly don't have to go looking for it.

What will this 'making space' thing look like? 

 

It might look like taking better care of yourself. Physically/mentally. Cleaning up a mess. It might look like de-cluttering your home, studio, closets, in-boxes. It might look like releasing your attention from something that is sucking your time/energy. It might look like spending time in larger places/spaces to create a feeling of spaciousness/room to move in your psyche. It might look like meditation/prayer/writing/singing/screaming. It might look like eliminating self-sacrificing crap, raising your prices, releasing responsibilities/commitments that have ended.

This 'making space' thing isn't about being passive and doing nothing. It isn't about walking away from responsibilities/commitments because they are challenging/hard. 

 

In 2021 we are here, alive in these moments, to participate in CHANGE. 

 

We do this by choosing/noticing what we are paying attention to (that Gemini North Node, being squared by multiple Piscean energies right now and we might have to seriously de-plug at times) and by arranging our life in order to take RESPONSIBILITY for what is seeking to move through us NOW. We don't have to move mountains because the mountains aren't our problem/responsibility. We only have to grow through the space we are in - fabricating our new visions (they are coming! stay open! not only new dreams, but new Cappy responsibilities are calling to us!) into reality; both individually and in collaboration (and sometimes through rebellion) with other people. 

 

This stuff isn't easy because radical change (redistribution of power) isn't easy.

For today - think about combining the power of Capricorn ie our ambitions, career, public life, responsibilities, goals, reality, authority figures with Pisces ie our dreams, imaginings, magic, music, peace, compassion, connection. Our dreams need structure. Our structures need inspiration. 

 

We imagine what we want to become and then go about the business of becoming it. 

 

Also contemplate the waning/unwinding nature of today's Cappy/Pisces connections.

 

And keep in mind the universal LOVE of Pisces. 

 

Keep your heart open, and yes, it'll get all leaky and sentimental and Cappy doesn't like to feel vulnerable - being the sign of WINTER, let's not forget (not because Cappy is mean, but because vulnerability is not Cappy's thing or she/he won't make it through the season!). The space between Cappy's stoicism and Pisces imaginings is Aquarius - the radical change that is coming/that is here. The space after is Aries - the birth of the NEW. 

 

Today we receive the great gift of a productive and creative/compassionate Monday - what will we do with this?

xo all

painting by the amazing Francis Criss

Weekly Astrology Forecast | March 8th - 15th, 2021 - going with the flow, more wake-up calls as the Sun burns away our confusion/delusions, time for a glamourous new dream, being gentle with ourselves and compassionate with each other

These Pisces days are slipping right through our fingers, aren't they? 

 

The Sun will be in Aries next week and it feels like we were just talking Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius. Well, not to worry because here's a week that's all Pisces all the time! And next week Mercury will finally be out of Aquarius and into Pisces - Pisces is kind of just getting started.

 

This is the week Venus (in Pisces) squares the Nodes, just like the Sun did last week. Then the Sun (in Pisces) meets Neptune. Then the Pisces Moon meets the Pisces Sun. Then Venus meets Neptune, just like the Sun did this week. 

 

We are all going to need some extra sleep/rest this week. Don't say I didn't warn ya'.

TUESDAY - Venus squares the Nodes

WEDNESDAY - Sun conjuncts Neptune

SATURDAY - New Moon in Pisces, Venus conjuncts Neptune, Mercury leaves retrograde shadow

TUESDAY - Venus at 15 degrees Pisces squares the North (Gemini) and South (Sagittarius) Nodes

Venus, following in the Sun's footsteps from last week, now squares the Nodes of Fate. Here is a crossroads/decision point/pivot point with our money, values, relationships, resources or self-esteem (Venusian themes or natal Pisces house theme).

 

With Venus in imaginative/illusive Pisces, boundaries dissolve. Love/money flows. What we want can't be forced/grabbed/manipulated - we, almost magically, draw it right to us or maybe it flows right on past us to someone else. There could be some kind of decision to be made here.

 

The North Node in factual Gemini says it is time to get real/deal with the facts 

 

(the Sun meeting Neptune tomorrow is kind of saying the same thing and we know when we are seeing multiple aspects repeating themselves we are onto something useful).  

 

Maybe there is something we want and we haven't wanted to even admit to ourselves we want it or maybe there is something that isn't as good as we thought it would be or isn't really real and we haven't wanted to look at it too closely. The wide angle lens may have been more flattering (and a flattering wide angle lens doesn't sound actually possible, but stay with me here), but now the macro lens needs to be applied. Is there some Venusian reality we have been avoiding? Forget the greener grass over there, which I guarantee has been nurtured with poisonous Round-Up and instead think local/small, what you can prove/do that is right in front of you. With the North Node in Gemini, the wise girl will keep asking questions instead of thinking she has all the answers. 

 

Gemini/Pisces - DEFINE then ALLOW. And expect to take two shots to get something right or to be doing two things at once or somehow this all involving doubles/pairs.

WEDNESDAY - the Sun, at 20 degrees Pisces, conjuncts Pisces ruler Neptune

 

Here is where Neptune is blown out by the Sun's bright rays. 

 

Our confusion/delusion is BURNED AWAY (some inspiration might be, too!), sometimes JUST LIKE THAT.  

 

Where am I? And what have I been drinking/believing?

Neptune/Sun says our intuition will be very high now. The Sun cuts through the Neptunian fog like a hot knife. We might be feeling more sensitive/nostalgic/aware of what we have lost ie the old story that is fading to black, (hopefully) the Moon in smart/detached Aquarius meeting both Jupiter and Mercury today - will focus us on the future, too, because -

 

Neptune starts a new solar year - a new story with the Sun. 

Neptune is very strong/most Neptunian in his home sign of Pisces. Here is the very beginnings of a NEW DREAM. With imaginative and poetic Neptune meeting the Sun  

 

an inspiration/creativity/spirituality can be IGNITED. 

 

Whether we are leaning into the burn-out or feeling that spark of the new flame, things are pretty much out of our control anyway with this aspect, so relaxing and going with the flow is best. Avoid intoxicants because life will be intoxicating enough this week. Get enough rest.

SATURDAY - the Pisces Moon meets the Pisces Sun at 23 degrees (our final 23 degrees New Moon!) while Venus meets Neptune at 20 degrees Pisces

A transcendent New Moon in Pisces - we will talk about this BIG NEW MOON in her own post. 

 

Keep in mind Pisces is really about endings. This is the last sign/the 12th house/the final curtain. So a Pisces New Moon will always be tinged with release/nostalgia. Even as something new is floating toward us, something else is floating away. Do we need to release/forgive? Show compassion? Do we have something to offer or someone to offer it to? Where are we? Can we tell?

 

This is also the day (EST), Venus meets Neptune in Pisces - although she's a little too close to the Sun for complete comfort, so a little burned out, (maybe didn't sleep well the night before, so not her most beautiful/charming self in such harsh light, but Venus in Pisces, even with these new-day crinkles and wrinkles and morning breath is still EXALTED) - this is a beautiful aspect to make a soulful connection. A timely release of something we once valued/loved. A fresh opportunity to value our creativity, our spirituality, our ancestral inheritance, the idealized feminine, our MAGIC. That dream is looking pretty freakin' attractive and so are we. Happening at the Pisces New Moon gives this one added OOMPH and extra staying power.

 

Keep in mind, Venus still has to meet the Sun, so some of the glamour here will get burned off when they meet in Aries later in the month - that's OK, we will be ready/and desirous of that cardinal fire when it gets here!

 

With Uranus (the future/the chaos) in Venus-ruled Taurus, at the end of the day it will be what we personally and collectively value (think about why the #metoo movement and Black Lives Matter movement and this burgeoning reworking of 'male purpose' that needs a catchy name, had to erupt when they did) that determines how the power gets redistributed (what the chaos is actually doing) over the next few years.

xo all

 

back with some big-picture stuff and New Moon post this week

painting by the talented Carol Bennett