weekly astrology forecast | September 19th to 26th, 2022 - all things Venus

 

A BIG week ahead.

 

On Sunday night we had Mercury retrograde opposing Jupiter retrograde and the Sun trining Pluto retrograde. BIG energy. Overwhelming. AND empowering. What came to light? What were WE feeling?  If we have taken on too much we will be feeling that now. BIG ideas are possible. Empowering situations. Old gold is being mined. It will be challenging to organize it with all the retrograde energy, but we could see it as being GATHERED.

 

This week is all about lovely VENUS (we can see her in Virgo with her hair tied back, diving into the nitty gritty) - our focus will be on our relationships, our money, our values, our self-esteem. The world comes into balance at the Equinox and in our own life we can see what is balanced and what is OUT OF BALANCE. 

 

We start the week with Venus in harmony with Black Moon Lilith and wind things up with Luna's big New Moon in Libra answering to her. We will talk more about the week as we move through it. Keep in mind, Mercury, along with alot of other energy, is STILL retrograde (and Mars is answering to Mercury), so expect to do things twice, do two things at once, for people and situations from the past to be repeating themselves AND for things to take longer than you thought they would. 

 

The delays are helping us. 

The Nodes of Fate are at 15 degrees Scorpio/Taurus - a world point (and my ascendant/descendant) initiating changes that will last for 19 years. The Old World is dissolving and the New World is pulling us forward folks.

MONDAY - Venus sextiles Black Moon Lilith

TUESDAY - Venus trines Uranus, Venus inconjunct Saturn

THURSDAY - Sun enters Libra

FRIDAY - Mercury retrograde conjuncts the Sun and then backs into Virgo

SATURDAY - Venus opposes Neptune

SUNDAY - New Moon in Libra (2 degrees)

 

On MONDAY, Venus at 17 degrees Virgo sextiles Black Moon Lilith in Cancer

 

Here is a creative opportunity - sextiles require some kind of action - between the practical fixes/healing we are attracting and the womb wound/woman who chooses herself.  Maybe this comes through changes to our daily routine/work that value our need for freedom or that break old family patterns. This is two very different types of female energy in harmony.

On TUESDAY, Venus, at 18 degrees Virgo trines Uranus, retrograde in Taurus, and then inconjuncts Saturn, retrograde at 19 degrees Aquarius

 

Now Venus is in a smooth trine to Uranus. Surprises with love/money are possible. Venus is in "one thing at a time/one foot in front of the other", healing/fixing Virgo, so small changes are moving us forward. Small changes allow things to fall into place. This might also speak of liberating ourselves from Virgo perfectionism/judgement. Uranus is answering to Venus making the trine more powerful. Lean into something new. Something more liberating. More future-focused.

 

Immediately, Venus makes an awkward connection with sober Saturn, so we are reminded of our responsibilities, limits, sometimes our age. That's OK, the smooth trine with Uranus doesn't just disappear - and we are leaning into that.

 

This is also the day the Cancer Moon makes a sextile to the Virgo Sun - this month's Waning Sextile. Family care-taking, responsibilities, home business, family business, real estate, mothering issues all are in a creative opportunity with our daily life, work, health. Again this comes through Virgo's keen eye for detail, practical action, small fixes.

On THURSDAY/FRIDAY - after his empowering trine to Pluto on Sunday, the Sun crosses into Libra, an Aries point, ushering in a new season and quickly meets up with a retrograde Mercury. Alot of the Sun's Libra ingress/autumn equinox will be covered in the New Moon post later in the week, but the Sun's meeting with a retrograde Mercury is the halfway point of the Mercury retrograde cycle - yes, we are halfway there folks! 

 

HERE/now is clarity about what this Mercury retrograde has been about. 

 

After meeting the Sun - gathering whatever has 'come to light' - Mercury backs into Virgo, where we are going to figure out what to do with this information/how to make things better. How to fix things in practical ways, especially regarding our relationships and balance issues. We are re-working our habits.  We bring Mercury in Libra's ideas down to Earth.

 

We will talk more about this in the New Moon post before Thursday.

On SATURDAY - Venus, at 23 degrees Virgo opposes Neptune retrograde

 

Now, Venus, busy bee that she is, opposes Neptune, retrograde in Pisces. What we want can become less defined. Our boundaries more porous. We are communing with ghosts/with everything that has come before us. 

 

We might find ourselves DROWNING in sacrifices - haven taken on too much with the repeating Mercury/Jupiters - or maybe excessive worrying. Neptunian challenges can speak of exhaustion, so maybe our girl needs a NAP. 

 

Pencil that in, wait, not pencil, it's Saturday, use permanent ink. 

 

Oppositions can bring endings/culminations. With Neptune situations can fade away/drift away. On the other hand, Neptune brings imagination/magic to Venus in Virgo's practical routine, opens the door for muses, intuition and inspiration. Just keep in mind with Neptune, everything we are seeing isn't real. Things can look better or worse than they actually are. Venus in Virgo is grounded energy, but if she is TIRED, an escape route will present itself now, maybe in the form of a Piscean/Neptunian person who wants to play/a water or art activity, or we get waylaid by a cold/virus, etc.  

 

Also keep in mind the effects of drugs/alcohol, medication, any escape tendencies we have is compounded now.

On SUNDAY - the Libra Moon meets the Libra Sun at 2 degrees giving us an early New Moon in Libra. I love an early degree New Moon, where we get to start at the actual beginning - this one our annual Libra New Moon collectively focused on our relationships, need for balance, fairness, peace. The New Moon in Libra is answering to ... you guessed it ... Venus. 

 

We will talk about this in its own post.

xo all

Today's astrology forecast | Friday, September 16, 2022 - what's dissolving? what's starting to stick? what's falling into place?

 

 

The Moon is in versatile/communicative Gemini now. We are nourished/nurtured through conversation, information, having lots of irons in the fire/balls in the air. We might be focused on writing/reading/learning, children's school issues, sibling/local community/transportation situations. 

She sextiles Jupiter, trines Mercury (retrograde), meets Mars and squares Venus. That's ALOT. This is also the day Venus squares Mars, so the Moon is echoing that, AND Venus trines the North Node AND the Sun opposes Neptune. That's ALOT, too.

Most of this has been applying all week, so the ALOT is already happening. Let's unpack it. The Sun/Neptune can be confusing/dissolving. It can be depleting. Oppositions can bring endings and this one can just kind of drift off. Hold on loosely. The effects of drugs, wine, etc will be multiplied so keep this in mind. 

The Venus/Mars square can a feminine vs masculine thing. Tension/frustration. Maybe we don't attract what we are wanting or we are attracting what we don't want. Venus in Virgo might desire perfection and Mars in Gemini just wants variety.

This is also the day Venus trines the North Node. 

 

The last time Venus trined the North Node - back in February from Capricorn, Mars and Venus were TOGETHER/starting a new chapter. Now they have reached a natural challenge/tension point from that fresh start last winter, as Venus once again trines (brakes off) the North Node in fixed earth Taurus and Mars semi-sextiles the North Node.

 

The semi-sextile is kind of like an inconjunct - the signs in question are 30 degrees apart, so right next to each other and not naturally compatible. In this case we are talking about Taurus and Gemini. I like semi-sextiles and have found the aspect allows us to use the better qualities of one sign to counterbalance problems with the other. Some examples with Taurus/Gemini might be - Taurus holding on at all costs and Gemini allowing change/adding new ideas and on the other hand Gemini not sticking with things and Taurus bringing the glue.

Last February, when Venus and Mars met, something was beginning. This was in Capricorn so could have been goal/career/work in the world related. Cappy would have sobered things (and us!) up/required us to work realistically. This was Venus and Mars so could have involved our relationships, new wants, new actions. They were both in smooth flow with the North Node - our best future. Something was falling into place. 

 

Now, here in mid-September as they square each other we reach a natural problem point with this. Venus wants to fix things from Virgo, Mars in Gemini is still tossing things at the wall to see what sticks. Squares are times of ACTION. Adjustments. Something needs to change. These are both personal planets, in signs that are answering to Mercury who is retrograde. Oh my. I think we want to be leaning into Venus here, adjusting our Mars - she has the mutual reception with Mercury (they are in each other's signs) AND she has the smoothest road to the FUTURE. 

So, Venus in Virgo. And, remember Mercury is going to slip back into Virgo and MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE. With Venus in Virgo our relationships/money/values are viewed through the lens of carefulness, practicality and improvement. There's the notice of flaws and the energy to make them better. We value what is quality/what is healthy. With Venus in Virgo, something not-working/broken has the chance to improve, if we do the practical work. 

 

Again we want to be taking the simplest path/not making ourselves (and our relationships, etc) nuts with uber-complicated things. Mars says, "let's try this and that/change this and that". And Venus says, "what's the simplest fix here/what's the most practical focus? what's the most healing? what's best for our day-to-day life?"

We have the Sun/Neptune - something is dissolving. Something is confusing/uncertain. This is out of our hands anyway, so open them. We have the Venus/Mars story. Mars is wanting variety and having new ideas and Venus is pulling us back to center/to fix what needs attending to. They are BOTH personal signs and need to be paid attention to. AND we have the Venus/North Node - something that is falling into place. Something that will allow us a better/more fruitful FUTURE. Since I can't see your chart, and don't need to, because you know yourself better than anyone else ever will - this is the soup we are collectively swimming in. This all leads to Mercury (and ultimately his mutual reception with Venus), who is retrograde, so things are IN PROCESS. We might have to do some things twice. We might have to try multiple things. And, even as we are doing this, we need to figure out a way to do ONE THING AT A TIME.

 

The answers won't be here when we snap our fingers. We are doing the "re's" and working the process. That's the best we can do.

 

As always this year - lean into that North Node in Taurus - the new growth, time spent in nature, taking care of our physical body, resources and finances and the simple things that make life worth living.

I hope something here is helpful.

xo all

photo by the amazing anyaanti

Today's astrology forceast | Thursday, September 15, 2022 - long void moon, show me you love me by doing the dishes

 

The Moon finishes up in Taurus this morning with all smooth aspects then goes void until late this afternoon. 

 

She trines the Sun at 1:40AM EDT, sextiles Neptune at 4:47AM EDT and goes void off Taurus's monthly productive trine to Pluto at 8:58AM EDT. She is void until 4:16PM EDT when she moves into Gemini setting us up for a busy and communicative couple days.

 

This is also the day Venus opposes Juno (Virgo/Pisces 13 degrees). Oppositions bring culminations/endings. Juno in Pisces is all about idealized relationships/the sacrifices we make for love/the sacrifices we make to stay within a relationship or sometimes to stay close to power. Juno in Pisces can bring healing to relationships/contracts as long as there is a certain amount of balance and no one is in lalaland. Venus in Virgo is all about practical love/service. The opposition can bring something to a head between what's factual/constructive and something more dreamy/un-grounded.

With the Moon answering to Venus and the Sun in Virgo, the way through this will be today's Waning Trine. Tangible actions. Real solutions. One step at a time. Practicality with love, money and resources. Prayer works when we do/show me you love me by doing the dishes/being responsible with money - that sort of thing.

And, keep your eye on the Void Moon's hours in your time zone - not the best time to start something brand new. Another good day to do our Virgo. We can get alot done. And get some extra rest. The Gemini Moon over the next couple days will have us HOPPING.

xo all

 

photo by the amazing Julie-de-Waroquier

today's astrology forecast | Tuesday, September 13, 2022 - seeing the problems with being too nice, conversational confusion, choosing quality over quantity, nature is healing

 

Today, the Moon is void until 7:30 AM EDT when she moves into Taurus - the sign of her exaltation. 

 

We are nourished/nurtured by more traditionally nurturing things - a warm bed, a soft touch, good food, security, time spent in nature, time spent with what/who we value/love, all the good stuff money can buy and all the good stuff it can't. Our attention might turn to our money, resources, values, beauty or self-esteem issues. Taurus rules the throat, so take care of yours. Think about what you are swallowing. Think about if you are rushing toward the second thing before you have fully digested the first thing. Think about the words that get stuck in your throat.

The Moon has an inconjunct to a retrograde Mercury (8 degrees Libra) at 7:32PM EDT. Taurus/Libra both Venusian signs, are strange bedfellows to be connected by an inconjunct, but it seems fixed earth and cardinal air don't have much common ground. Taurus wants to nail things down/put a ring on it and Libra can't decide/wants an equal partner kept at arms length. But, both are ruled by Venus - want to make the world more beautiful/abundant/profitable. Both signs want to be pleasant and can tend toward pushing things under the rug.

 

A Moon/Mercury inconjunct might indicate challenging communications. The right words can be hard to find/stick in our throat. Conversations can go in circles around old topics. We could find ourselves agreeing to something we don't agree with or don't want to do. Conversations to clear the air might only add to the confusion. Choose a better time to have a hard conversation or know the conversation will need to be re-visited (Mercury re-trograde) in a couple weeks. It will be challenging to re-solve things with this energy in play.

Keep in mind the Moon's elevated status in Taurus. 

 

Think quality over quantity now. 

 

Also know she will meet chaotic Uranus tomorrow as she does every month during her time in Taurus (there is also a smooth trine to ruler Venus to help smooth things out). Uranus in Taurus has been upsetting apple carts since 2018. 

 

We are being guided to understand the impermanence of material things sometimes through shocking reversals of fortune. But, what this is really all about is us gaining the wisdom to wait until we are CLEAR - allowing ourselves to sit fallow and OWN the moment of decrease, not 'fill the empty' as Taurus is likely to do. Then we can CHOOSE experiences that allow an authentic and true version of ourselves to emerge. Let the new arrive naturally. In the Age of Aquarius you will do you and I will do me. That's how it will work best. The hunger that comes up seeking nourishment is NEEDED. We have to allow ourselves to be hungry. Uranus in Taurus is making sure we do. 

 

One of the things we do here is we come to Earth choosing experiences that allow us to heal old trauma. We do this for ourselves, our ancestry/family and the collective. We are still doing this, but the energies are not so supportive of this as a growth mechanism anymore. The stiff upper lip/stoic/old school sense of duty and responsibility has had its day in the Sun (we will talk more about this in the passing of Queen Elizabeth/passing of the queen archetype post). This doesn't mean every woman for herself although there will be something emerging - and it already is - that is both more individualistic and more universal.

As always I hope something here is helpful.

xo all

 

photo by the talented DarkGomo 

Today's astrology forecast | Monday, September 12th, 2022 - boss trouble, limits, being responsible and tending to our Virgo

 

 

The Moon is in fiery Aries now. Did we feel the shift on Sunday morning or were we still hungover from Saturday's Full Moon?!

 

In Aries we are nourished/nurtured by action, physical movement, taking the initiative, time spent alone, time spent with men, passion, anger. 

 

Luna makes a productive sextile to a retrograde Saturn in Aquarius and a waxing inconjunct to the Virgo Sun as the Sun inconjuncts Saturn - all at 19 degrees. The whole thing forms a Yod - Finger of God, with the apex pointing to the Sun in Virgo, so things are funneled through our mutable earth sign. 

 

Practical changes. Tending to one thing at a time. Tempered healthy fixes. Calming any perfectionist nuttiness.

 

We had the BIG Pisces Full Moon and now we are making adjustments. 

 

The Moon in Aries wants to go/start, is impulsive/brave. The Sun in Virgo is cautious. Notices the details/dragons and wants to attend to them. 

 

If we are pushed to hurry we will have to somehow take care of the details. Not screw up in our rush to MOVE. 

 

On the other hand if we are biding our time waiting for something to be just so or standing still for fear of screwing something up, we are probably still going to have to MOVE. 

We have the Aries Moon's sextile to Saturn going for us. Aries/Aquarius. This is exact at 1:25PM EDT. This is good for getting down to business, taking responsibility, stepping into our authority. This harmonious aspect ensures we have access to just enough restraint to keep things in check - some rules/limits/constraints will be there but they won’t shut us down completely. 

 

And having said that, we have to keep in mind the Sun's inconjunct to Saturn especially with the Sun being the funnel of the Yod. Ego clashes with authority figures are possible, so this wouldn't be the day to ask for a raise or try to argue your way out of a speeding ticket. There is some kind of 'rock and a hard place' between expressing ourselves/shining/being our "Sun" and our responsibilities/limits. 

The Moon will go void at 12:52AM EDT off the Aries Moon's monthly power struggle with Pluto. Things should stabilize once she gets into Taurus, the sign of her exaltation, tomorrow morning. Although Tuesday's Moon looks  a little tricky and we will talk about that Monday night.

xo all

photo by the incredible Natalia Ciobanu

the astrology of the Pisces Full Moon | September 10th, 2022 - trusting in something bigger than ourselves, spiritual marriage, spiritual truth, the queen has died, long live the king

On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 5:59 AM EDT, the Pisces Moon opposes the Virgo Sun at 17 degrees giving us this month's Full Moon - our annual Full Moon in Pisces.

 

Full Moons bring things 'to light', to peak energy - to a culmination, to an ending. It is the space in our breath cycle when our lungs are full and we need to exhale. Or maybe if we have been holding our breath, now is the time we must noisily gasp for air. It can be a time of OVERWHELM.

 

Pisces rules the 12th house of what we do last, what is hidden and put away, the ways we self-sabotage because from our vantage point in our 1st house we can't see what's behind us/don't know what we don't know. Pisces rules llusions and delusions, escape, sacrifice, our addictions, our imagination, lack of boundaries, connection, compassion, charity, hospitals, prisons, the things we have forgotten, our distant pasts, our ancestors, water, sleep, illness, healing, dying, spirituality, GRIEF, angels, God .... it is a mystical space of MAGIC where anything can happen.  

 

Happening just hours after Mercury stations retrograde might make this one even more confusing or overwhelming than usual, but let's dive in and unpack the chart and see what we see.

 

The Moon opposes the Sun from 17 degrees Pisces. She is conjunct Juno and more widely conjunct Neptune. She trines the South Node (14 Scorpio) and sextiles the North Node. She sextiles Uranus and widely squares Mars in Gemini. The South Node/asteroid Asclepius, the Moon/Juno and Black Moon Lilith (in Cancer) form a Grand Water Trine. Uranus/North Node at the top of the Grand Water Trine create a Kite. The Moon sextiles asteroid Minerva (17 Cappy) - EXACT. The Full Moon trines asteroid Asclepius (17 Scorpio) - EXACT. The Full Moon squares asteroid Achilles (17 Gemini) - EXACT. 

The Moon's conjunction to Juno speaks of emotional ties with partners. Security concerns involving partners. Mothering our partners or being mothered. Maybe we are feeling what they are feeling. We might feel married to our home now or to a home project, family situation, home business or family business. Pisces, our mutable water sign (collective and changing emotions), makes things more emotional and the fullness of the Moon makes things feel more emotional still. We might feel overwhelmed (or done with) a situation or something could be reaching peak energy. Relationships are SATURATED. Spiritual connections are felt. The past is brought into our marriages/partnerships. 

The wider conjunction to Neptune pulls Pisces ruler into the mix. The Full Moon in Pisces, the final sign, is the 'end of the end'. 

The biggest thing with this chart is the event's Grand Water Trine. So, we already have the emotional fullness of the Moon amplified by the mutable water of Pisces (our collective emotions) with Pisces ruler in Pisces. 

 

Now we toss in trines (the brakes are off) from the Full Moon/Juno to our other water signs - Cancer and Scorpio - through Black Moon Lilith (our wound womb, the female who chooses herself) and the South Node of Fate (our past that we have pulled into our present). 

This is the heart and soul of this chart - the emotional connection of all these moving pieces.

Sextiles to the North Node and Uranus make the Grand Water Trine into a Kite. The Kite pulls in fixed Earth and gives the Grand Water Trine an easy outlet. CHANGE/THE FUTURE. Through Taurus - new values, new ways we feel secure (especially within partnerships), new ways to use our existing resources and new ways to value them, new ways to make money, new ways to root ourselves/make things more simple.

We could stay mired in the complicated (comfortable because it is familiar) past, the trine to the South Node will make it easy to keep doing what we are doing/what we have done a thousand times. But, the Grand Water Trine's access to Uranus and the North Node tells us we can really TAKE OFF - think of a kite here - when we lean into something else, probably something a bit uncomfortable because it is NEW. 

So, we get to the Full Moon in Pisces, the end of the end, and we are again given this opportunity, and this will likely show up through events and people we are going to want to say YES to, to EVOLVE/CHANGE.

Some flies in the ointment, and I wouldn't be any good to you if I don't mention them (and I am dealing with a fruit fly infestation at the moment, so could hardly forget them) - Mercury is retrograde. His/her multiple upcoming dealing with bigger-is-better Jupiter is worth paying attention to. We could over-promise. We could already be taking on too much and this boundary-less Full Moon could see us slip right into this. 

 

In September, things are going to take longer than we think they will - know this going in. Breathe.

 

With Mercury moving backward in partnership-focused Libra PLUS a Full Moon in Pisces conjunct Juno - relationship re-evaluations are happening all over the place. Some relationships are challenged by power struggles. Some are becoming more soul-full.

 

The South Node will be in Libra in just a few months. We are going to be immersed in our partnerships and the shadows we are casting on other people. Relationships based on past-life connections or connections from decades ago may fade. The way we do relationships/rely on other people will start to change - this is already happening. We will need to trust ourselves, nurture ourselves, be ourselves. The North Node will be in independent Aries - we are all going to need some alone time. 

 

Maybe now, in preparation for then, we are kind of getting clear on where we are emotionally within our closest relationships and contracts, by circumstances getting so BIG. Juno relied on Jupiter's power. It was nice to be the wife of the king ... except for the times it wasn't. People born with the South Node in Libra - we will all get a taste of this starting in a few months and running for about a year and a half - are born with a weakness in their aura's 'identity sector'. This chink in their armor is more than a chink in their armor. It's a big old gaping hole. They don't have a shield to protect them from the strong energy of others. It is hard for them to act intensely with other people without damaging themselves, so harmony becomes too important. In this lifetime, Libra South Node people face the challenge of strengthening their identity. We are all going to start dealing with this collectively starting next year, but as we come to the Pisces Full Moon, 'the end of the end', with all this Venusian dispositor energy afoot - it is probably something to think about. The good that will come from a Libra South Node - the love, the cooperation - will be there, too. 

The Moon's point of fullness comes through her opposition to the Sun in Virgo, so we are charged with seeing/feeling what our service, work, attempts at healing, organizing, fixing - has culminated in at this point. Whatever tangible thing the Virgo Sun has focused on through us. If this is about an ending, the sextile to Uranus indicates a future opportunity or liberation through the ending or might represent the suddenness of whatever happens - although we could certainly have seen whatever this is coming (Uranus retrograde). 

The Moon in Pisces' final aspect is a productive sextile with Pluto in Capricorn. The Sun will get the smooth trine on September 18th where this whole things lands. Two minutes to midnight, EDT, so September 19th Universal Time. Something empowering, deep, intense. The death (Pluto) of the king/queen (Sun), but a smooth trine, so not unexpectedly disruptive. I am going to do a post on Queen Elizabeth soon. The astrology of her death and Prince Charles ascension to the throne (even asteroid King exact on his midheaven when his mother died) is amazing. 

Pisces Moons are ethereal, mystical, magic, can't be pinned down. Even writing about it, I am trying to pigeon-hole something that can't be contained. 

This is a Full Moon in Pisces sextiling Uranus - this is about letting go of the past and moving into the future.

I hope everyone can get out and walk in the Full Moon! 

xo all

Expect dailies this week as there aren't any major aspects (other than the Moon, of course) until next Friday's action packed Venus square Mars trines the North Node and the Sun opposes Neptune. It will be more helpful for everyone for me to do daily lunar posts than a weekly.