Overview:
This
week emotional energy continues to wane. However, there are very
grand happenings occurring in our sky. Two entities are making
aspects right now that lead us into a preparatory stage for a new
kind of awareness on a personal level. It is the movements of both
Mercury and Venus that hold importance going into this week. We have
Mercury in the sign of advancement, engagement, war and pioneering.
He enters new territory this week having left his recent retrograde
shadow. So, we will see an introduction of new information on some
levels which is secondary in comparison to the deepening and
devouring of information that is also due to come. We are ready to
move forward. And...we will. But, some things we engage in in our
near future are going to demand a do over. Mars enters his retrograde
shadow. Chiron is also in the sign of initiation, war, advancement
and Mars.
The
deepening and focus/fixation comes as Mercury squares Pluto on
Monday. This draws what is lingering in our brains to a fine point of
focus. It's like we briefly inherit a tendency toward a one track
mind.
Now.
I think it is crucial to pay attention to what track it is that your
mind keeps running toward or over. This is going to point you to
matters inside that dynamic that can be transformed or upgraded to a
new level. For example, say your brain is focusing on something.
Fixated. Like, that's all you can think about. You push it away but
in quiet still moments it keeps coming forward. The simple route to
address that is to follow your obsession to quell whatever it is that
you can't seem to let go of. But the higher expression has us
riddling this obsession with why in a self-confrontational manner
seeking the crevices of our own psyche for the thorn that is spurring
this off. This gives us opportunity to then usurp the power this
entity (this obsession, fear, thought loop) has been sucking from us
by way of our obsession and then allows us to convert it into an
energy that we can use instead. The highest expression denotes
fearless self-inspection and curiosity with an undercurrent of a
desire toward self-integration and advancement.
Now.
Let's cap that off, shall we, with a square from Venus in Gemini to
Neptune in Pisces. On top of the potential paranoia and fear that can
come by way of Mercury/Pluto we have a waxing of emptiness,
hollowness...that feeling of being cast out and alone...forgotten. As
if our pleasures are just out of reach or we become disenchanted with
things we once believed as valuable in our lives.
Venus
and Mercury do not meet by sextile this week. However, in this week
they are in orb of this and the two are seeming to work together
here. Neptune is the higher octave of Venus. Uranus the higher octave
of Mercury. What Venus/Mercury will do is create a flickering Yod
with Jupiter in Scorpio through which the Sun/Jupiter opposition will
shoot straight through like a drawn arrow.
With
Venus in the sign of Gemini we are flittering about showing our
appreciation for various schools of thought and falling back in love
with the written/spoken word and knowledge in general. Meanwhile,
though, Jupiter rewinds in the sign of Scorpio and the deepest
stories that shaped us from the roots up are being revisited. As
those stories are rewritten, Venus in her honoring of “knowing and
sharing the knowing” becomes confused and disillusioned in square
to Neptune. “It” wasn't what we thought it was.
Knowing
is replaced by not knowing just as a super hyper-focused obsession
with knowing waxes in under Mercury square Pluto at the same time.
Whatever Mercury finds himself obsessing over is connected in some
way to what it is Venus is becoming disenchanted with. We love to
know and understand but at this moment we do not know and do not
understand which makes the whole of the set up scary to humans. We
like to know. For the most part. The uncertainty of the set up in the
beginning of the week, tho, is confusing. Once we surrender to the
not knowing and confront ourselves over the thought loop(s) we cannot
seem to escape...then we are released. If we aim our sights at
uncovering the truth (our own truth, that is) while surrendering to
the fact that may be different from the truth we have accepted in the
past (admitting we essentially know nothing in our current
perspective) then...we are shot to a higher level of understanding
and essentially set free. Liberated.
This
is one of the resting spots where we individually make the decision
to either move with the initiative of collective development (or
evolution if you will) in some way or not. Moving forward and
surrendering involves accepting new truths as well as unknown
variables. It involves fostering a new mindset that bears
consideration for the fact that the world is more integrated as a
whole and no longer an entity that is divided into parts that cannot
communicate directly with one other. We EACH have the power of choice
as to whether to move forward to stay behind. Our ability to accept,
be humbled by the unknown and change our perspective matched with a
willingness to keep moving forward with a fearless sense of
self-confrontation is what determines where each of us go from here.
At
the end of the week...after the Sun is blurred by Neptune making
personal identity malleable and reshapeable, after Mercury is slain
with his own demons, after Venus is disillusioned, cast out and left
without answers...Mercury meets Uranus by conjunction at the 29th
degree of Aries before advancing into Taurus right ahead of his
“higher octave.” The ground will continue to rumble echoing the
telluric energies that are being released inside of us and rising up
through us. Mercury advances to Taurus. Uranus advances to Taurus.
Mars advances further into his shadow and enters Aquarius. Venus
leaves the land of loving the brain and the pre-written knowing and
enters the land of the intuitive...the unknowing the feminine
creative and intuitive knowing in the sign of Cancer. It is from HERE
not the sign of Gemini that she meets with Uranus by sextile at the
genesis of each of their new signs. Uranus switching from the
masculine energies of Aries into the feminine energies of Taurus
denotes a certain switch for the next seven years. Uranus now in the
sign of his fall is led into this new passage by his current ruler,
Venus along with his underling Mercury...in her exaltation just as
his former ruler Mars, begins to integrate and employ all the lessons
the sign of Aries brought forth during the transit of Uranus while
also showing us the the shadow operations that were part of that all
at the same time. But, with Mercury and Venus leading the way, what
we think is of “value” as Uranus enters Taurus is very important.
What Uranus will do is increase our expertise about what is
important, about what is safe and stable, about what is valuable and
worthy.
It's
a shift that we will not likely realize the importance of until we
are looking at it through the rear view. It will be felt but few will
have an explanation for it or understand why the shift has occurred.
Quite simply, it's a just a checks and balance system that leads us
now just as it has always led us. Into our future. In which we can
choose to advance or be left behind. The Universe does not care. It's
going to keep moving forward anyway. This is not the first movement
in the sky to denote this. Nor will it be the last. But, this leg of
the journey puts us on the preparatory route for that shift of Uranus
into Taurus which we get an brief introduction to beginning 5/15.
Uranus
barely sticks his toe into Taurus...just enough to rattle the Earth
loose and spew some of her innards forward threatening to alter the
topography of the map before he turns retrograde allowing us to
incorporate that. But after this year's introduction, it's full
steam ahead in the sign of Taurus for Uranus. Many will find
themselves forced to make a decision of cling or move ahead because
they are knocked right out of their previously known comfort zones.
Of course, I've not even touched on the fact of Chiron in Aries which
will make some of the more subservient Mars initiatives that have
always worked in the past fall flat for a bit.
So,
yeah..all that is what we are stepping into this week. But “in the
moment” of these transits its likely to feel like one big confusing
brain screw or, even, a major disappointment. Yet, when we look back
on this time years from now we will view at as one of those “turning
points” or pivotal moments in both our collective and individual
histories. We are just too close to the screen to be able to see that
right now.
Monday, May 7, 2018
We come into this day
following yesterday's Sun/Neptune sextile which occurred shortly
after the Moon was rendered Void. Monday holds the Moon in Aquarius
which is actually a great lunar energy to have on tap when you
consider what else is happening out there in the energetic world.
Before dawn, Mercury in
Aries meets with Pluto by square at 4:49 AM. This is more than a
serious case of the Monday dreads. The brain became super focused
yesterday and there are thought patterns that are currently wearing
deep crevices in our brains. But, Moon in Aquarius allows us to step
back in observation of this instead of being wholly slain by it. We
are allowed the luxury of emotional levity that allows us to kind of
step aside from that which may be swampy (ie: Pluto and Neptune) in
an effort to develop a more clear understanding instead of being
completely sucked in.
The edges of that swamp
expands as Venus finds Neptune by square at about 6 PM. This is where
disappointment or allowing ones self to become overly enchanted by
pretty facades and fake sentiments comes into play. Again. The
Aquarius Moon can stand strong, cool and sober through this too
watching what it is that rises to the surface of both our minds and
hearts instead of being completely shattered with it. I'm not saying
we won't be forced under water once the Moon hits Pisces. Matter of
fact, that's likely. But, the Moon isn't in Pisces today now is it?
Nope.
Instead, the Moon moves
forward with a trine to Venus in Gemini encouraging us to talk about
“this” with our associates. To exchange information and oddities
and heartbreaks. To air our grievances literally but also bent more
toward logic than the ethereal type of witnessing and knowing that
Venus in Gemini wants to sink in while in square to Neptune. The Moon
and Venus try to bring logical explanation to the things they are
feeling. And for a small amount of time, that may actually work.
At 10:09 PM, the Moon
perfects in last quarter as the Sun in Taurus squares off with the
Moon in Aquarius. This is the body of human against the emotions of a
machine. We need logical and dry but we are knee deep in mud. We need
the future. But, are strongly steeped in the grunge of right now.
This is not a taxing or
stressful thing. Last Quarters mark a time of full emotional release
and a severe drop in emotional energy. Here we become practical and
attempt to resume our grasp upon common sense. We are willing to do
to the work we have ahead of us in this moment but we really also
need to keep a birds eye view of the future we intend on sculpting
for ourselves while remaining humbly optimistic in regard to our
abilities to do so.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
This morning our brain
sparkles as Mercury begins to sheer away the weight of Pluto. The
Moon meets him by sextile just after daybreak. This offers a new type
of lightness and is less encumbered than what we experienced under
the heaviness of the Pluto. We are deciding to become free here.
Now, though, there is a
different kind of heaviness that comes from the ego's desire to stay
exactly where it is due an opposition from the Sun to Jupiter in
Scorpio at 8:39 PM. Many will dig in their heels in resistance to
acknowledging the excavation of brain and heart that has just
occurred. And that will be an act of ego of standing strong in place
refusing to budge. The higher expression? A willingness to grow. A
willingness to rescript the stories of history with new, wiser and
more aware of the truth eyes. A balancing against the power we feel
that the world has over us and a humbling realization of the fact
that each one of us still have a hand in building the world the we
currently live in. Humbling. But, also empowering. How we respond to
that is wholly dependent upon our willingness to grow which is an
automatic acceptance of change and recognition of what we must
surrender to because it is largely out of our control. Our control
lies in our choices in regard to what response to what happens to us
even though we cannot control, really, what circumstance may bring.
But, our ability to stand in
resistance to this will quickly become dissipated. The soil washed
from beneath our feet and our grip upon our stance starts slipping.
At 10:29 PM the Moon is
re-inspired toward innovation and new free and independent kind of
life by way of a sextile to Uranus at 10:29 PM. From here, the Moon
is Void until entering Pisces at 11:11 PM. We will sincerely feel the
“pull” of melt and surrender at that point. The solid ground we
were standing on and clinging too...reverts to mud.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
This best way we can go here
is the route of acceptance and surrender. But. If you are a willful
soul such as myself that is more difficult. There is internal
struggle that comes along with even considering the concept of
control. We can fight with that all we want under this Moon. But, as
willful as I am, even I know that you cannot fist fight Neptune. We
are due to melt and the truly strong amongst us will give in to that.
Our struggle becoming only as long as we allow it become. We
re-discover our ability to control by releasing our grasp on it in
this day.
It's a largely subtle day
overall that just introduces us to the premise of this melting. There
is only one major aspect from the Moon but we do become increasingly
aware that the old ways of doing things simply aren't working anymore
as the Moon passes by Chiron in Aries by minor aspect in our early
morning hours.
By early evening, we
recapture some footing and direction by way of a sextile from the
Moon to Saturn. Yet, underneath that sobering aspect Venus meets
Jupiter by inconjunct and our cravings grow. What we want grows
larger and more enticing. Use Saturn to hold you on to your goal
without allowing the temptations of Venus to throw us off track. No
short cuts. One step at a time to the goodies.
From here, the Moon creates
a gut check with our nodal axis and moves on to make minor aspect
from a sweet midpoint between Mercury and Uranus in Aries and Mars in
Capricorn. In her position, she pulls Mars forward begging him to
imbue his actions with compassion and a willingness toward softness,
creativity and openness. Meanwhile, Mercury and Uranus move the Moon
forward enchanting her with the wild visions of the future that both
seem possible and oddly memorable at the same time. Pisces Moon's
idea of “moving forward” is actually more like a coming home to
her...to that elusive home that of ethereal heavenly love that she
remembers so well but cannot seem to grasp in this physical world.
And all that shifts toward a
dream. A vision. That comes about in our morning hours as the Moon
sinks into a conjunction with Neptune.
The option to melt or let
lose our grip on our current stance is taken from us at that point.
There is no other choice but to surrender now as the sands shift
continually under our feet. A simple way this can play out? We wake
up still sleepy after a night of vivid dreams or wash out
emotions...as if hungover and walking straight into a dreamscape.
That mirage grows and becomes larger as tomorrow moves forward and
the Moon waxes into linkage of Jupiter trine Neptune...before noon.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
It's a water-colored world
out there today and the tide is due to keep rising from here. We
begin this morning with the Moon trapped in a waxing trine between
Neptune and Jupiter. Nothing seems certain. All seems
confusing...most likely.
At about noon, we are a
little seasick and gasping for air as the Moon makes an uncomfortable
square with Venus in Gemini. Venus wants to flit about, talk about
lightness and enjoy conversation. Moon in Pisces is overwhelmed by
the influx of information/knowledge that is NOT spoken and would
rather shut the external noise out...dismiss herself from chatter and
light niceties and sink further into the depths of the void that are
seemingly opening up to her now.
At about 2 PM, we are all
quite limbered up and ready to relax in the confusion or at least
shelter ourselves in familiar territory in an effort to escape it as
the Sun and Moon meet by sextile. The fight just isn't in us today
and it doesn't take long for that to effect our activities and how we
engage with the world. I suggest going for the retreat. Nothing is or
is meant to make logical sense in these days. The only control in
this is consciously deciding to surrender to the flow. Otherwise, we
are flailing and wearing ourselves out until we are driven to that
same end anyway.
At 4:13 PM the Moon meets
Pluto by sextile. Early day surrender and rest leads to restoration
and refocus of the emotional body. Or, an unwillingness to surrender
to that leads to deep issues of fatigue and possible acts of
desperation as we seek to escape into our shadow. What happens there
leads us directly into how we decide to tackle our tomorrow as the
Moon then moves on to sextile Mars in his retrograde shadow in
Capricorn at 5:03 AM. Following that sextile, the Moon is Void until
entering Aries at 8:41 AM. As a result of all this, we will either
decide to engage in our affairs in a different way or doom ourselves
to going to incessant battle with brick walls clinging to our older
methods that will continue to fail.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Speaking of running ones
head continually into a block wall along with an over fascination of
clinging to the status quo and the things that have always
worked...the Sun in Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn today. We are
determined. Determination is not the problem. It's the method that
needs to change.
The Moon enters Aries at
about 9 AM and meets with a conjunction to Chiron at midday. We
charge forth...and fail. We exert...and fall flat. We begin...and are
stopped. And absolutely NONE of that is going to sit well with
Sun/Pluto whose path of least resistance is DO OR DIE while we are
under a warrior moon. Well. Thing is we are missing the fact that
there are more options than what we are seeing. We can still do but
we are being charged with pioneering new pathways instead of falling
back into well worn ruts. We are better off forgetting the ruts.
Uranus in Taurus is going to knock us out of them anyway.
We want to put our heads
down and push through. We prone to do that. And, it's not that we
shouldn't hold tight to that determination. All we have to realize is
something about our approach needs to change. Something about what is
motivating us needs to be recognized and made conscious. Something
about the old ways just doesn't fit in the type of world we have
collectively created anymore.
At midnight, the Moon
squares off with Saturn and we could become crushed under the weight
of our perceived defeat. It's sobering and harsh. Heads hit the
pillow hard with heaves of depression and feelings of being
ineffective. Inert. Unable.
However, overnight, that
thing we want rises up again taunting us...”remember me?” as
Venus in Gemini meets Pluto by inconjunct. Our initiatives may have
failed. But, dammit. We still want this thing maybe more so now than
we did before...so, now what? Well, most of us are going to get up in
the morning, furrow our brows and give it another whack. Just like we
did today. In the same old way with the same old methods. And, we
shall “fail” again.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Ah, this morning. Mercury in
Aries finds Mars in Capricorn by square at 9:30 AM. We are motivated
and minds are over ready to get moving. So, as I said...we rise being
reminded of “what we want” overnight and are geared to get up and
run after it as we wake this morning. Highly likely we will resort to
our familiar and established ways of going about that and will
fail...yet again.
Just in time for the Moon to
get all paranoid in square to Pluto in Capricorn at 10:54 PM. Is it a
failure? Or is it a redirection? How we perceive that is going to
make a big difference in the long term. It is a redirection. And that
fact will be more strongly illustrated as Mars moves deeper into
shadow and even throughout his retrograde. None of that makes sense
in the “now” of this, though.
Success is achieving the
goal. If your method to get there doesn't work that doesn't mean you
give up the goal. It merely means you change your method. But, in
this moment of perceived failure...it's not going to seem so simple.
Even though it is. We will be prone to place blame for this on
everything outside of ourselves and be rather vehemently disgusted
with the whole of it. But, when it comes home to roost, we will
eventually realize that all we have to do is change both are methods
and our perspective while creating a more fully developed picture of
what is truly driving us...our motivations.
Our world has changed. It
only makes sense that as a residual effect the ways in which we
engage with it should also change. Right? Maybe write that down
somewhere you will see it today.
Be careful out there today.
We will be prone to matters of brain spin and attempting to move too
far too quickly. We want to engage but it's not time to engage in new
affairs. This is wrap up and wind down time. Deliberately vow to move
methodically and aim your efforts toward a slow and manageable pace.
Mercury square Mars can also cause things like headaches. With the
Moon in Aries that potential rises even more. Plus, we feel rushed
all that the same time. This isn't a race. There is no real deadline.
We are not in a competition but we will likely feel the pressure as
if it were all that today. Focus on the follow through. Inspiration
is incoming that kick starts us into the “new” soon enough. At
that time there won't be room to come back and finish up what we have
in front of us today. Matter of fact, that “aha” moment is coming
hard and fast into our tomorrow morning. The very catalyst that is
going to help us birth a new line of thinking for ourselves, change
the ways in which we think of moving forward and alter how we think
of engaging.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Our butterfly thoughts of
what we think we want flittered through our dreams to entice once
again last night. But, this morning, we wake up with a new idea. A
new inspiration. A Eureka! Mercury meets Uranus in a jump up out of
bed and seize the day kind of conjunction. This occurs at 30 degrees
of Aries answering to the following Sabian Symbol: Young ducklings
disport themselves merrily upon a pond. Essential social
cooperativeness and appreciation of self-hood. Also a sense of inner
restriction. Contendtedness.
Mercury conjunct Uranus
occurs at nearly 7 AM. But, by 10 AM Mercury has moved into Taurus
and the Moon moves forward to that 29th degree to take his
place. Today is quite unsettled. Manic. A little unpredictable likely
containing events that literally rattle the ground heralding Uranus'
soon entrance into the sign of Taurus. And, the Moon isn't alone. She
is square Mars in Capricorn when she finds Uranus linking Mars'
square to Uranus up early. We can find freedom. We can find
liberation. We can find illumination. But, it's going to feel like
the bolts finally are really flying out of the machinery. Be very
mindful and consciously engaged in what you are doing in this day.
Say bye bye to over-stimulating things such as caffeine, sugar and
electronic mental stimulation. You won't need it anyway. Ground. And
Ground some more. Learn to breathe through the adrenaline so you can
consciously decide how to act. But, know the ground under feet may
actually shake today. Triage it as it comes. Don't expect anything to
go as you prettily and well intentioned planned it to go in this day.
The Moon squares Mars and
finds Uranus by conjunction between midday and 2 pm. Following
that...explosion...the Moon is rendered Void until settling her
darkening self down in Taurus at 2:16 pm. She finds Mercury by
conjunction soon after. We are able to bring some common sense and
practicality to the equation at that time. We kind of need to survive
the morning in order to get to that place, though.
Overnight, the Moon will
ground more and re-stabilize. We will be on better footing by Monday.
But, still not ready to jaunt off into new areas just yet. There is
more clean up to do as we work our way toward the New Moon in Taurus
and even more yet to introduce in the way of “shake ups” as
Uranus enters Taurus and knocks the game table over shortly after the
commencement of that Moon cycle. Gear Monday toward wrapping as much
up as you can. Uranus is getting ready to throw a monkey wrench into
the development of our plans as early as Tuesday. Prepare to be
unprepared. I'm laughing as I type that...but, few will find it
funny. Uranus will push us each out of our comfort zones when he
enters Taurus. Ever tried to get comfortable enough to sleep in a
lumpy lopsided bed with no pillow while wearing a wool suit and you
are hungry to boot? Because, yeah...it's like that.
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