VENUS ENTERS SAGITTARIUS After an almost 4-week stay in Scorpio’s murky waters Venus now enters the more free-wheeling sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter and this rather over-optimistic planet might induce Venus to yearn ecstasy in some form. Rules often also mean a lot to Venus in this sign, inviting others to follow our rules as we preach what we often don’t practice may therefore be another way of expressing itself...this trait may also show itself up in relationships where the “do as I say” becomes more important than the “do as I do” and infidelity [...]
OOB FULL MOON IN CANCER the mooniest Moon…. The Full Moon occurs at 4°58’ in the sign Cancer, a Cardinal, Water sign. The antiscion point is 25°02’ Gemini. The most motherly of Moons opposes the sternest and most fatherly of Suns. The OOB Moon is separating from an easy trine aspect to Saturn in Pisces and applying a sextile to Jupiter R in Taurus, likewise the Sun is separating from a sextile to Saturn and applying a trine to Jupiter R. The time for a little bit of introspection (Moon separating from a sextile to Saturn) in order to channel our energies towards our goals (Sun[...]
MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE Just in time for the holiday season Mercury stations to retrograde on the 12-13th December at 08°29’ Capricorn (antiscion 21°31’Sagittarius) and will station to direct on the 1-2 January 2024 at 22°10’ Sagittarius (antiscion 07°50’ Capricorn). These are the same degrees as the Mercury station direct at the beginning of this year. At the moment of station to retrograde Mercury is also OOB until the 15th of December. Mars, Sun, Pluto and Mercury are all parallel at this moment. Hopefully only verbal violence dictated by power struggles between [...]
OOB NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS ……it’s just an illusion…or is it? There will be a New Moon at 20°40’ Sagittarius (antiscion 09°21’ Capricorn) on December 12th. This is the 2nd New Moon of a series of 5 on the 20th degree of their respective signs. This is a pretty buoyant New Moon, by all means be optimistic but don’t get too taken away because it could be an illusion! One of the peculiarities of this lunation is the fact that we have a very forceful combination of Mars, Pluto and Sun all parallel each other by declination at 23° South and [...]
NEPTUNE STATIONS DIRECT IN PISCES The fog will lift…but the lies may continue Neptune turns direct on the 6 December at 24°53 Pisces (antiscion 5°07’ 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 houses has the effect of “dissolving” the matters [...]
VENUS ENTERS SCORPIO Seductively passionate…. After a stay in flirtatious Libra, one of its home signs, Venus, the planet of values (what WE value and desire), love and finances, enters the “still waters run deep” sign of Scorpio. In Scorpio, Venus is in her mythical lover’s den (the nocturnal one, the diurnal one being in Aries). Venus in Scorpio can lend itself to uncanny ways of seduction with psychological abuse and mental cruelty not being unknown here. On the other hand it’s powerfully attractive and very passionate. Venus in Scorpio, as in Aries, is in her [...]
OOB MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN Seriously? OOB Mercury barges out of Sagittarius with the usual bluntness and awkwardness that often characterises his sojourn there and bounces into Capricorn. It’s OOB status started on November 15th and ends on December 15th. 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 more so during the OOB phase which lasts for the first part of Mercury’s stay in Capricorn and entails a retrograde period [...]
OOB FULL MOON IN GEMINI ….focus is what we need On the 27th there will be an OOB Full Moon at 04°51’Gemini (antiscion 25°09’ Cancer). The Full Moon is separating from a Mutable T-square with a Saturn apex showing perhaps a little too much flexibility. Saturn is at the very beginning of Pisces, it doesn’t know the ropes yet and is unsure and perhaps afraid of how to effectively put boundaries on anything so in the days preceding the Full Moon the Sun may have taken the lead predicating this that and the other without Saturn being able to effectively contrast this “stream of[...]
MARS ENTERS SAGITTARIUS …and it’s time to take that leap of faith Another bout of Martian energy for the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) after the tooooo long stay of Mars in Gemini which ended on 24th of March this year after almost 8 months in the sign. After just over six weeks in the sign of Scorpio, which it rules together with Pluto, and perhaps a little worse for wear, at least from a psychological point of view, Mars takes on the clothes of the philosopher (and sometimes as the self-righteous prig) as he enters the optimistic, truth-loving sign of [...]
NEW MOON IN SCORPIO Emotions run deep…. There will be a New Moon at 20°44’ Scorpio (antiscion 09°16’ Aquarius), the first New Moon of five occurring at 20° of their relative signs over the next months. Mars, the traditional ruler of Scorpio is also in this sign and is undergoing a close applying conjunction from the New Moon. Pluto, the modern ruler of Scorpio, is sextile by sign but not by degree to the Sun-Moon duo. The New Moon itself, in close applying proximity to Mars as already mentioned above is also applying an opposition to Uranus R and a trine to Neptune R. A[...]