Morning Star: Daily Astrology for August 18, 2014

What happens when our hearts open up and our criticisms soften? That potential is here today as Venus in Leo met Jupiter in Leo overnight (1:22 AM). This is such a nice aspect, I think. Do you know the part in the story of the Grinch where his heart grows 3 times its size? That's what Jupiter and Venus remind me of. The heart grows.

Venus/Jupiter can = Christmas in August

Venus/Jupiter is generous. Giving. It is BIG love.
 

Mercury to Neptune Rx is a bit different than Venus/Jupiter. The opposition from Mercury to Neptune Rx perfects at 11:31 PM at 6 degrees on the Virgo Pisces Axis. If you have planets between 3 and 9 degrees mutable, guess what you get today? Pulled in, that's what. By the way, Venus and Jupiter are inconjunct Neptune as the Mercury opposition perfects.

I look at this big heart. And, I look at this potentially confused brain (Mercury/Neptune), and I see the potential of that big heart getting broken because it discovers its generosity was misused or that it has been scammed. Somebody lied. Or someone has the details confused. But either way, it is disappointing and hurtful.

 

Of course my original description has potential too. The possible criticisms that can come with Mercury in Virgo can be softened by Neptune. However, Mercury/Neptune can also add up to a tearful conversation.

This morning, we wake up to Moon in Gemini. Early in the day, the Moon links up the opposition between Mercury and Neptune before the actual opposition perfects. Moon squared Mercury at 4:07 AM and will square Neptune at 7:01 AM.

By 8:34 AM, the Moon sextiles Jupiter and Venus (9:13 AM). Then comes a Yod with the Moon between Pluto and Mars that remains in force from about 4 PM to 8:30 PM. From here the Moon waxes into sextile with Uranus in Aries.

Venus and Jupiter bring focus to “self” and identity. Conjunct in Leo, we may feel pretty good about ourselves. I think most of us want to feel better right now and this aspect can actually help.

But. Overlying the day is this fog and sentimentality between the t-square created with Moon, Mercury and Neptune.

I think the Yod with the Moon is very telling in all this. It puts an exclamation point at the end of what it is we are to be focusing on. And, that's important when focus is blurred by Neptune.

The focus is on Mercury and the emotional body could involve not only the lies told to us by other people, but also the lies we tell ourselves. All of this, becomes imperative to our ability to survive and continue forward in the face of change. However, our exalted self (Venus/Jupiter) does not see the potential or understand the reasoning for the emotionality (inconjunct Neptune).

In looking at the aspects for the day, the visual I get is of the emotional body becoming unstuck. Dislodged. Cracking wide open. Then, I see the purge like slurry coursing out of a persons veins. Toxins are emitted. But, yes, the potential for a watershed most definitely exists.

I think emotions will be undeniable today.

Aren't Gemini Moons supposed to be light airy and fun? LOL? What the heck happened? I don't even think BEING a Gemini Moon has been fun lately particularly if your Moon falls from mid to early degrees. Inconjuncts from Pluto, Mars and Saturn? Squares from Chiron and Neptune? Uranus poking in from one side and Jupiter poking in from the other. Yeah. Does not sound fun.

 

Either way, Mercury and your outward and inner conversations come to a prickly fine point today. Be nice to yourself. Listen more than you speak. Don't judge others or yourself so harshly. Think and assess your words before you speak them. They are important and sometimes certainly do more damage than sticks and stones.

Soften your tone but don't lie to cover up the truth and spare someone. Speak your truth gently, with compassion and without defensiveness. Easy now. Speak inclusively not exclusively. And don't let the inner workings of your mind to drive you into melancholy and/or madness. Control and soften your inner speech.

Weird day. That's what THIS is.