OOB FULL MOON IN CANCER the mooniest Moon….are we too emotional? The OOB Full Moon will occur at 13°01’ Cancer, a Cardinal, Water sign (antiscion 16°59’ Gemini) and will be the first Full Moon of 2026. The most motherly of Moons opposes the sternest and most fatherly of Suns which has OOB Venus on one side and OOB Mars on the other, both combust. OOB Moon is in a wide conjunction with Jupiter R. Capricorn restricts and downsizes, and this could bring out the worst of Cancer characteristics making us retreat into our shells as we cling to the familiar. Let’s remember that [...]
OOB MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN ….a suddenly serious mood as the year begins Today, OOB Mercury barges out of Sagittarius with the usual bluntness and awkwardness that often characterises his sojourn there and bounces into Capricorn. After fun-loving Sagittarius this will certainly hit him with force, dampening his mood and deepening his thoughts and encouraging all of us to think, plan and talk in a much more serious fashion. Mercury’s first encounter is an opposition aspect with a retrograde Jupiter in Cancer (19°34’) on 14 January whilst the planet is about to return in [...]
DAYS ONE TO THREE 2026 The New Year will certainly start off with a bang of sorts since from 1-3 January 2026 there will be four personal planets all OOB and they will also be involved in the Full Moon in Cancer on 3 January with Mars and Venus both combust by the proximity to the Sun. More about this in a few days. Venus, Mars and Mercury will all be parallel in South declination as well as being OOB and the Moon OOB will be high in Northern Declination but not c// any of the other three. Sun, Venus and Mars will be conjoined by longitude in Capricorn with Venus and Mars both being [...]
VENUS OOB ENTERS CAPRICORN ON 24 DECEMBER 2025 From frivolous and gaudy to self-possessed and distinct. Social propriety and etiquette, at least on a public level, mean a lot to this rather ambitious placement for Venus, less so perhaps in the bedroom, but that is a side that Venus Capricorn would prefer to keep private! Venus’s contours are finely chiselled and with a distinct “no frills attached” attitude in this serious sign. Ambition is often part of the picture too. Venus will remain OOB until 3 January, the wild-card effect could be quite marked during this festive season [...]
OOB NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS ……new beginnings? I wish There will be an OOB New Moon at 28°24’ Sagittarius (antiscion 01°36’ Capricorn) and it will be the third of a series of six consecutive new moons on this degree of the relative signs. One might suppose that with Jupiter being the dispositor of this New Moon things might be on an upward curve after the past two rather intense lunations. A moment of respite and hope after despair. Think again. Jupiter, dispositor of this lunation, is exalted in Cancer where it is now transiting, likened to an honoured guest there, [...]
MARS IS OUT OF BOUNDS (OOB)* AS IT ENTERS CAPRICORN Are you ready for the ride? Mars, having exceeded the Sun’s outermost limit from the celestial equator, finds itself, as from 27 November, out of bounds in a southern direction as it enters Capricorn, the sign of its exaltation. The planet won’t be making or receiving any Ptolemaic aspects until after it has re-entered the bounds so until 07-08 January it will be free to act or misact as it likes since it will have no-one to “play” with! Although high Southern declination does tend to lead to a less open way of acting, more [...]
MERCURY ENTERS THE SIGN OF SAGITTARIUS Mercury rides into Sagittarius, goes OOB (29 Dec) and that’s when any hope of tact should be ignored Mercury, ruler of Gemini (collects information about whatever, whenever it can) and Virgo (only interested in information that can be used in a practical way) enters the sign of its detriment. Mercury in the sign of the archer has the tendency to overlook and discard generalised information (Gemini) and practical details (Virgo) placing attention on the bigger picture and thus becoming sloppy as information becomes scattered and unfocussed.[...]
NEPTUNE STATIONS DIRECT IN PISCES The fog will lift…but the lies may continue For the final run in Pisces after 14 years of permanence!!! Neptune turns direct on 10 December at 29°22’ Pisces (antiscion 00°38’ Libra). This means that uncertainties or lack of clarity that you have been internalizing and that may have surfaced from the past, finally start to lift as the fog clears (look to the house where you have Pisces on the cusp to see where the fogginess may have been manifesting for you as well as the sign/house/aspects of your natal Neptune). Neptune transiting through the[...]