We will go over all the Planets, their aspects to each other, the Houses and Signs in your chart and clearly explain the meaning of each and how it may be showing up in your life. I will send the recording to you via email so you can go back through it at any time for further insights.

FULL MOON FORECAST WEEK OF DECEMBER 15 to DECEMBER 22

This week looks to be a bit rapid fire with many aspects shifting rapidly. Just a few placements last much more than a day before moving on because many of them will be somewhat glitchy aspects with narrower orbs, semisquares, sesquisquares, semi-sextiles and quincunx, etc.

Longer lasting will be MARS Rx trine MERCURY as it moves direct, the oncoming JUPITER Rx square SATURN, the oncoming MARS Rx opposite PLUTO, a developing PLUTO trine the SOUTH NODE/sextile the NORTH NODE and a T square of the SUN and both NODES. This may make the week feel a bit packed with shifting and challenging energies through the Solstice. The trick is to stay loose about everything and don’t get flooded by any particular feeling or event. Step back from expectations and rigid stances.
The FULL MOON in Gemini will be focused on our mind and communication because… well, Gemini. Also, MERCURY that rules Gemini will be stationing direct that same day and getting pumped up by a trine with MARS Rx for a few more days. Impatience and impulsive thoughts and communication will be tempting, but keeping an eye on high principles and the long-term aims of any situation will help temper that as MERCURY gets going forward again. There may be some awkward exchanges in our relationships happening because the FULL MOON will be at the point of a YOD that is a sesqiusquare (square and a half) to both VENUS and LILITH which are consequently square to each other. VENUS represents things we value and cherish such as relationships, money, harmony and beauty. It is wrestling with our out-of-bounds rebellious and hidden side which with the MOON may trigger some heat in those areas for good or bad. Set up a circumstance where your bad-self can be safely and positively expressed and you will probably have a fine time.

The SUN for its part will be in a semisquare (half-square) with both VENUS and LILITH and a quincunx to URANUS Rx while opposing the MOON, emphasizing the volatility of the moment. SATURN will be just separating from its trine to JUNO this week, leaving a residue of more seriousness and responsibility in our domestic scenes that has been active all month. Perhaps a bit of a heavy setup for family visits this Xmas. Beware and be prepared to put on your Zen hat.

JUPITER is slowly building towards its square with SATURN, exact on December 24th, but definitely influencing the now. This will occur again on June 25 next year, though in different signs and co-aspects. Expansion vs restriction. Optimism vs pessimism. Party hard vs stay home and do taxes. This square gives us an opportunity to either find balance or fall to one extreme or the other. We might feel held back and dissatisfied in our progress or position, or at best find the juice to grind through the dark of the year with some perseverance that will pay off after the transit passes. Be patient and tolerant with any little disappointments on Xmas morning, k? Since JUPITER is in retrograde now and SATURN is floating through vague and dreamy Pisces the whole effect may be somewhat muted this time. The MOON fortunately conjuncts JUPITER Rx on the 14th giving that positive planet a brief boost that day despite SATURNS humbug vibe.

VENUS also squares JUNO as the week goes on, peaking on the 20th. This may throw some feelings of doubt into your relationships. Try not to indulge too much in needless insecurity and jealousy or foment strife over petty slights. Still, if something serious or chronic is up for you at home this is also an opportunity to address it responsibly. Discernment of the difference is key. With JUPITER Rx aspecting close to trine VENUS encouraging us we may just get a break or even a breakthrough this week.

The SUN will square NEPTUNE on the 18th. All week we may feel a bit dreamy and ungrounded or easily swept into delusions. Let things flow as they will. Squares are choice points. Acknowledge the atmosphere of uncertainty, tension and fear we have all been breathing for the last few years. Breathe it in and breath out peace. Say a prayer for all beings. NEPTUNE is there to remind us there are larger forces at work besides mere human foolishness and ignorance.

SOLSTICE happens early in the morning of the 21st on the west coast (Happy birthday, Shivoso) setting us on the long journey back into the light. The SUN enters Capricorn and we can get serious about getting set for 2025. Capricorn is ruled by starchy and square SATURN, as is traditionally, Aquarius, so the winter months always have a heavier vibe than the happy go lucky Sagittarius holiday season. Still Cappy’s are known for their ability to party hard once the work is done.

The SUN is in a T-square with the NODES on the 22nd and the MOON conjuncts the SOUTH NODE within hours, emphasizing some attention on past events or experiences coming up to be cleared so we can all move forward with our dharma. JUNO is semisquare the SUN too trending domestic scenes into focus during this T square for a lot of us. CHIRON is opposing LILITH then as well, perhaps lending some healing acceptance of the wilder side of life and its consequences.

Ok, onward and upward. More next week as we close out the epicness of 2024. Hang on to your hats folks.

WAXING QUARTER MOON DECEMBER 8 to DECEMBER 15

WHEW! Well I hope you all made it through last week OK. With MERCURY retrograde, MARS retrograde we all may have felt a bit discombobulated and accident prone. Shit happens. This week MARS Rx is beginning its swing back towards a second potent opposition to PLUTO  which aligns in early January. VENUS separates from its recent conjunction with PLUTO. MARS Rx opposes VENUS. SATURN trines a JUNO-LILITH Rx conjunction while it builds towards a square with JUPITER Rx. The SUN trines CHIRON Rx. MERCURY will go direct at the end of the week on the FULL MOON.

The dual retrogrades of MARS Rx and MERCURY Rx are certainly putting a damper on progress and testing our non-attachment to the pace. Not easy with so much to do and accomplish as we close out the year and prep for 2025. Still, it gives us an opportunity to slow down, check ourselves and where we are heading before we fully hit the gas again as MARS goes direct in late February, when almost everything is direct. Just hang in there and contemplate well your course.

NEPTUNE stations direct on the 8th which may lift some of the swirling fog of internal negativity, self-pity, anxiety, exaggerated fears and harsh but necessary reality checks we have been experiencing since July. Now we may begin dreaming outward again and guiding ourselves with true intuitions. We always need to remember our minds are prone to chasing mirages and self-created delusions especially negative ones. NEPTUNE rules these things and is reminding us to give a portion of our trust to the enchanted and mystical flow of the Universe. The biggest big picture doesn’t always align with pure logical and materialistic thinking, no matter what the militant muggles think.

JUPITER Rx is separating from its opposition to the SUN which may have exacerbated our self-doubts or tempted us into overstepping boundaries with unfortunate consequences last week. Repair is key in all relationships (with the self and others). This will be facilitated this week by the SUN’s trine to CHIRON Rx on and around December 10th. Meanwhile, JUPITER Rx is approaching its square stodgy SATURN which will be expediting a sense of wise restraint, if not frustrating obstructions, well into January. Don’t try to cut corners this month, steady and responsible will get it done eventually.

JUNO and LILITH Rx bump into each other again around the 12th while trine to SATURN. It looks like SATURN will be the arbitrator in any conflicts or concords between our freedom seeking side and our desire for a cozy home. It is likely to lead to some needed renovations in our relationships. Endeavor to make it a win-win if at all possible.

VENUS will be opposite to MARS Rx too around that time, further stirring the pot in our relationships. Passions and sensuousness may flare that are not limited to just relationships. Creative inspirations and shopping sprees (and overspending!) may be on the agenda. This all will be especially compelling as the SUN makes a simultaneous semisquare to VENUS and sesquisquare to MARS Rx on the 12th.

By the FULL MOON in GEMINI on the 15th, MERCURY stations direct while trine to MARS Rx. Normally a time of quick thinking and inspired communication we may find we aren’t quite up to it now or have to do it over later, because of the retrograde. The SUN semi-squares both VENUS and LILITH Rx while LILITH Rx is square to SATURN. This may augur some brief stress in our relationships on the FULL MOON but it soon passes. Just be working diligently to strengthen your relationship in general and it’ll be a small blip. More on that next week

NEW MOON FORECAST NOV 30 TO DEC 8

Ok, this week launches us into December with MERCURY Rx opposite JUPITER Rx and then conjuncts with the SUN. MARS turns retrograde, VENUS enters Aquarius while conjunct with PLUTO and NEPTUNE is stationing direct, amongst many other things. Its been a swirly time this last month with plenty of Neptunian uncertainty and Plutonic fears in the field as we experienced a sea-change in the energies. The closing month of the year will be a opportunity reset and course correction into those energies and a set-up for the epic-ness of 2025.

As the MOON conjuncts the SUN for a NEW MOON in Sagittarius on the 30th they are just coming off a trine to MARS which will add some fire to this dark of the MOON. It may be hard to feel settled but with a concurrent semi-sextile to JUNO it may be a productive time to nurture your close relationships in some way. It is involving the NORTH node of our destiny through a GRAND TRINE in Fire with MARS, a sextile to the SOUTH NODE of our past. Let’s be deliberate in co-creating the quality of the bonds we want with people. MERCURY being retrograde is asking us to slow down and think before we act and be open-minded with any anticipated outcomes.  All relationships are a work in progress that need care and feeding to thrive and labor to undo properly if that is the right thing to do. There is no “Easy Street” when it comes to human affairs.

VENUS is approaching a trine with disruptive and innovative URANUS Rx that peaks on December 2nd. Also on that day, MERCURY Rx lands in a second trine with CHIRON Rx while sextile to LILITH. This puts LILITH into an opposition with CHIRON Rx forming a Wedge pattern. Any tension in our relationship with the Dark Feminine and the mysterious will be activated through our communications or travels. Perhaps it would have been a good day to practice some healing magic, but because of the retrogrades it may not turn out as hoped or go smoothly. Proceed with caution and keep your eye out for signs or inspirations for doing something along those lines later when MERCURY direct trines CHIRON Rx on the last day of December and sextiles LILITH again on Jan 6th.

Wednesday December 4th could be an interesting day. The SUN is getting close to exactly conjunct with MERCURY Rx and on that day forms an activating half-square (semi-square) with VENUS, PLUTO and the MOON plus a square with SATURN. This will likely throw all sorts of glitches concerning our relationships and finances that will require our response. MERCURY Rx being within 3 degrees of the SUN is ramping up our confidence that our ideas are sound. This is majorly abetted by an opposition to JUPITER Rx. Unfortunately, this is very likely to balloon into overconfidence in this case because of the retrogrades. Since MERCURY Rx is so close to the SUN it will also have a semisquare to VENUS, PLUTO and the MOON as well as an awkward semi-square to LILITH just as it enters spooky Scorpio. LILITH will consequently be square PLUTO and VENUS and the MOON. Semi-squares, like squares goad us to make an either/or choice of response to the pressure but act more underneath the surface and unconsciously. Confusing and vague NEPTUNE Rx gets in the act by being sextile to VENUS, PLUTO and the MOON that day. Agitation and anxiety and feeling that subtle unseen forces are against you can be the feelings of the day. It is best if you can use the intuitions and thoughts you receive now to inform future actions, rather than make any irrevocable choices. MERCURY catches up with the SUN again on February 9, 2025 while trine to LILITH. This is likely to be a more auspicious time for signing on the dotted line, so play the long game this week if you can.

This action continues on the 5th when MERCURY Rx exactly conjuncts the SUN. It is said that a planet has reduced influence when it is combust the SUN because it is completely absorbed into the SUNS energy. Significantly, MARS stations retrograde that day too. Perhaps we will all feel a bit brain dead or fatigued that day. MARS goes retrograde about every 2 years as it makes its closest approach to Earth. MARS Rx will slow our roll significantly and give us time to reflect on our direction and motivations, especially as it overlaps with the MERCURY Rx for a week or so. It will go direct on February 22nd, which ironically is just a few days before VENUS goes retrograde itself which will compel us to reflect on the flow of things we love and value in our lives (the usual suspects; relationship, money, art, beauty). Be aware, MARS Rx can also augur delays and frustrations if one tries to bull ahead regardless of the tide. Rest and contemplation is not something we value or allow in this culture, but nature knows we need to ease back on the throttle if we are to stay in balance with our soul and the soul of the world. We either listen and allow or suffer by burning ourselves out and plunging ahead regardless of what is right.

VENUS moves into Aquarius on the 6th and immediately conjuncts PLUTO while they both square-and-a-half to expansive JUPITER Rx. This conjunction augurs passion of some kind, which as we know can be either good or bad depending on reading the room correctly. The PLUTO in Aquarius vibe will feel more relational and personal for a few days due to VENIS’s presence. Perhaps we’ll feel the urge to buy beautiful things or nurture someone in need.

The SUN is opposite JUPITER Rx and semi-square the VENUS-PLUTO conjunction as well on the 7th, making it extra important to be discrete and discerning in our actions for a few days. Jupiter can overexpand us and cause us to step over boundaries we should respect and spend outside our budget. Of course, it could also open us to overcome our own resistance to stepping up as there is always a positive expression of any aspect.  Better keep the receipts, just in case though.

LILITH and JUNO conjunct each other for a final time after touching twice in November due to LILITH’s retrogrades. [ FYI: BLACK MOON LILITH which I call LILITH here is a calculation of the MOON’s apogee point (farthest position from the Earth) in space which moves back and forth each month or so.] This conjunction is an awkward mix if one only looks at the mythology of the two beings: the “good” wife (JUNO) and the rebellious wife (LILITH). There is more going on here archetypally than that with these two though. The dark, mysterious and unseen realm of LILITH can have a place in the domestic commitment and stability of JUNO, keeping it alive, lively and magical. SATURN is trine this conjunction so that should restrain any excessive conflict. Light some black candles, cast the bones, clean the house and serve cookies that day. Give thanks for the full range of the human experience.

The 8th is rather SATURN heavy as the MOON is conjunct SATURN just hours before its WAXING SQUARE with the SUN. This puts the MOON and SATURN in a half square with VENUS and PLUTO which itself is half square the SUN. SATURN being trine to JUNO and LILITH with that complex combination adds up to a possible experience of some restraints or restrictions on our passion around that time. SATURN represents tradition, authority and time/timing. So, try not to break the speed limit that day for instance, Something like a traditional marriage proposal with liberal agreements regarding autonomy would not be out of order though. Adding to the mix that day is JUPITER Rx coming on to square to SATURN, an aspect we will be experiencing until well into January. This will find us perhaps struggling to find a balance between our responsibilities and our desire to break free for a month or so. Those damn family holidays, lol. Positively, we might also find that perhaps we will collectively find the confidence and motivation to try to restructure stagnant situations in our lives and the world at large.

Whew! Plenty going on as usual. Over all it seems like a time of flux and course corrections. Something we all might profit from giving proper attention to, as we point our arrows into the future.

WANING SQUARE FORECAST WEEK OF NOVEMBER 22 TO NOVEMBER 30

This week’s highlights include MARS hanging out in synergistic aspects to the MOONS NODES and the SUN with MARS and the NORTH NODE dancing through a Grand Trine. MERCURY goes retrograde and the SUN starts its journey through Sagittarius.

The MOONS NODES are significant in a birth chart because they represent one’s developmental direction, Karmic path, lessons to learn and aspects of our past. In the Hindu traditions it represents the Karmic trap of existence as a journey to get somewhere. In the West we love to game our quests, the arc of our story, the Hero’s Journey. Traditions each with very opposite values and goals. One wants to escape the Wheel and the other wants to win the game. Strategies to eliminate or at least mitigate the intrinsic suffering of existence.

CAVEAT: Mundane astrology is a really just a general delineation of the background weather we all collectively experience, it doesn’t include houses (The arena of life affected) and one’s personal aspects, points and planets (like the MOON’S NODES). For example, it is certainly helpful to know that this week the SUN transits trine to the NORTH NODE, indicating some flowing energy regarding our collective direction and Karma, but it is also vital to know where your birth SUN (and everything else’s) placement is and how they are aspecting the current astrological positions in your houses based on your birth-time to get a more personally relevant read on the energies. The SUN moves through that trine all week and simultaneously is trine to MARS, which is trine to The NORTH NODE as well; a Grand Trine in Fire signs. This denotes even more of a get-er-done moment to make some progress on where we collectively are destined; To integrate the wisdom we are here to learn or face the natural consequences of our ignorance and hubris.

On the 22nd the SUN moves into Happy-go-lucky Sagittarius for the month. This will perhaps lighten things up a bit after it’s trip through Scorpio which brought so much drama and turmoil to our lives. The SUN is separating from its recent sextile with PLUTO which has been bringing some additional intensity to our lives lately. Heavy shit has been coming up and needed to be experienced, processed and managed. Its been kinda like cleaning house in a hurricane lately (literally, in some places) while PLUTO was finishing its trip through Capricorn with lots of planetary aspects stirring it up and now getting stated on its Aquarius sojourn. Happily, we get a little break from all that potent PLUTO aspecting for a week or so until PLUTO gets back in to it with semisquares to the SUN and MERCURY and conjuncting VENUS around Dec 5-7.

Also, this weekend we have VENUS in a harmonious trine with SATURN for a few days. Good sense combined with our deeply held values. E.g.: Working within a budget, making plans for beautiful things, win-win practical decisions. Or if it lands poorly, we all will be old men shouting at clouds Friday and Saturday. This is going to be modified by a concurrent square between VENUS and Lilith which means some repressed conflicts may come up between what you really want and what society expects when it comes to love and harmony. This can be good if handled well, bring a little fresh air to stuck relationships, though it will likely not be a smooth or easy process. This peaks around Friday and tapers off by Sunday.

The 26th may feel particularly fateful as the SUN perfects its conducive Grand Trine in Fire connecting MARS and the NORTH NODE and with synergistic sextiles to the SOUTH NODE (i.e., a Kite). Complicating that will be MERCURY stationing retrograde that day. This will give us 3 weeks and more to finalize whatever decisions we make concerning our collective course at that time. MERCURY Rx = slow down; review, rethink, re-do time, and we have plenty from November to apply that to.
VENUS trips through a brief but awkward feeling quincunx to JUPITER and then the next day, on the 27th , forms a contentious square with CHIRON. Expect that whatever comes up in your relationships then will eventually be healing but also expect it to start out as glitchy and confronting process.

At the NEW MOON on the 30th , the SUN, still, and MOON briefly, will be involved in that fateful Kite with the NODES. VENUS will be approaching a trine with disruptive and agitating URANUS Rx. As always try to act and not just react. It may be a little hard to settle down at this NEW MOON even though the dark of the moon is traditionally a time to go inward and gather for the next cycle. More of course on that next week.

 

 

FULL MOON NOVEMBER 15 TO NOVEMBER 22

WHOO Hoo! This week PLUTO finally moves into Aquarius, SATURN stations direct, and the SUN moves into Sagittarius. Amongst other things of course, as the sky dance continues its reflection of the epic changes down here on Earth.

The FULL MOON occurs on November 15th. Kinda fun fact: it is exactly at 24 degrees, 00 min of arc in Taurus. A nice even number that doesn’t happen that often. I looked up the Sabian Symbol for that degree just to be thorough. “WORKING COLLECTIVELY; Belonging to a tribe or community involves us in working together toward shared goals that we all enjoy “Participation in community responsibilities”.  That’s pretty positive sounding for a FULL MOON. A few hours later the MOON conjuncts URANUS Rx giving some extra juice to the SUN-URANUS opposition going on this week. Expect the unexpected and keep your plans flexible. URANUS opposite SUN can bring upsets or flashes of brilliance. Taurus is a rather stubborn and sensual sign so if you have romantic plans this week have a few “Plan B’s” handy and go with the flow especially around the FULL MOON.

PLUTO is in square to LILITH Rx and barely still trine to URANUS Rx. These retrogrades gives all this a remedial flavor; fixing up our relation to the dark side. There may be some further turbulence to our connection to the Yin and the hidden aspects of our reality. Try to manage any conflicts with compassion and a big picture perspective. PLUTO is the planet that represents raw and often cloaked power. Don’t get bogged down in power trips if you can help it, though be aware you may be in one and not even know it. PLUTO is in the last few days of its last transit of Capricorn for the next 250 years or so. The ingress into Aquarius which happens on the 19th begins a new era of Plutonic death and resurrection business with an Aquarian theme. It will be more about our ideas and ideals, our way of collective coordination as a species, nation and individual, along with technology and innovation than the closing earthy Capricorn transit was. The next 19 years will likely see us go through some upheavals as our deeply held beliefs about culture and our destiny are tested and reconfigured. PLUTO is a really slow grind, obviously, that affects a whole generation. Things wont necessarily happen suddenly, though since URANUS is trine to PLUTO for a good portion of the next 8 years (and also PLUTO transiting Aquarius, a URANUS/SATURN ruled sign), it may on occasion feel tumultuous, volcanic and pointed at our traditional way of doing things in the world and foundational beliefs.

Also, on the day of the FULL MOON, VENUS is square to the MOON’s NODES bringing a sense of life-portents to the day, regarding our relationships and things we value and love. Squares are choice points where we turn a corner through how we react to the pressure. It can go either way for each of us and collectively. Making this a bit closer to home VENUS is closely sextile to JUNO at that time which will connect the square to issues around domesticity, home and family. It’s another chance to choose to make systemic changes in our domestic life for more stability or undo commitments that are truly not working. JUNO is square to MARS and square and half to JUPITER too. That will undoubtedly light a fire under whatever needs action and movement.

Moving forward in the week, the SUN comes off its revelatory and unsettling opposition to URANUS Rx and exactly trines dreamy NEPTUNE Rx by the 17th. We may feel a little zapped and lazy or even ill around then. It’s been a lot lately and we may deserve or be forced into a day of loafing as long as we have been attending to our SATURN stuff. It could be a struggle if you are required to work anyway. SATURN turns direct on the FULL MOON and though it is still at 12 degrees of Pisces until early December, the forward motion can give boost to our organizational abilities and commitment. While drifting on the 17th, dream up a list of things you would like to accomplish in the next 6 months when SATURN goes retrograde again and then conjuncts NEPTUNE. More inspired dreaming or tragic delusions ahead for us all and it will help if you already have a direction, discernment and a head of steam.

MARS as it slows down for its upcoming retrograde on December 5, spends the week developing a trine to the NORTH NODE and a sextile to the SOUTH NODE. This will last until mid-January and augurs positive actions relating to our long-term fate and Karma.  Mars is dicey because of its potential self-centeredness and aggression, but it also can denote courage and drive in the face of adversity. Just make sure you are fighting for the Good, True and Beautiful.

MERCURY is trine to CHIRON Rx and opposite JUPITER Rx peaking by the 18th. Talk about your issues with a trusted mentor or council someone about theirs. It’s an auspicious time for talk therapy of all kinds and the good news is that it will happen 3 times due to the upcoming MERCURY Rx that starts on November 25th. We all need some support these days and this is a good time to commit to it.

The SUN makes it into Sagittarius on the 21st of the month getting us all into the annual holiday spirit with its intrinsic optimism and enthusiasm. Interestingly, the SUN will sextile PLUTO that day just after it enters Aquarius. Back in January 2024, when PLUTO first dipped in to Aquarius before retrograding back out, it made that ingress exactly conjunct the SUN. Now it is sextile with PLUTO at 0 degrees Aquarius, reinforcing this next 19 years to be a powerful time of personal transformation for us all as the SUN represents our will to exist, to be, to achieve and our personal identity.  As if we didn’t need any more portents that we are in evolutionary times! What is hopeful is this sextile augurs the potential for alignment of personal will with the will of the universe unless we try to resist the transformation. It’s a shamanic journey we are all in and those who know how this works know that to avoid a bad trip and outcome you must trust that no matter what is happening it is ultimately for the good and resistance just makes it worse. Death and transformation, baby…PLUTO is a MoFo.

FORECAST, WAXING SQUARE MOON, NOV 8 TO NOV 15 2024

Ok lets give each other a fist bump for the majority of us getting through that last week with no unusual explosive escalations of violence even as our collective shadow side rears up to challenge our hopes and exacerbate our fears. That first Pluto-Mars opposition, though technically in play until April, was scary for sure. Now we get to see how the plutonic things (hidden and repressed parts of ourselves, fears, greed, lust for power and control, death and rebirth processes, etc) that were set in motion last week get to play out over the next 6 months and beyond. Things are changing in the world and the wheel is always in spin. PLUTO is on the brink of moving into innovative, humanitarian and individualistic Aquarius this month to reveal and transform our shadow side of that archetype for the next 20 years.

This week of the WAXING SQUARE MOON starts off with few long lasting exact aspects giving this time a transitional feel, a sense of flux with other shoes poised to drop. Perhaps it can be a little space to breathe before plunging into the FULL MOON coming on the 15th, though there is certainly tension in the field and plenty of uncertainty about the future that can be fucking with our equanimity.

We still have the activating and conflictual square holding between “fuck it, lets go!” MARS and “keeper of the hearth fires” JUNO perhaps bringing some compulsive action or reactions in our committed relationships; romantic, business, national and family, this month. This continues all week and can be a good thing if it brings the necessary courage to change what needs changing and not just heated arguments about it. We’ll also be experiencing LILITH Rx moving retrograde late on the 8th. Having been conjunct JUNO once already on the 4th, It will swing back to conjunct it for a second time by the 13th. LILITH represents the irrational in the alchemical sense. It says “fuck you, I won’t do what ya told me! and tends to drop some creative chaos into any rigid or authoritarian cultural system, as relationships and internal politics can be, which are JUNO’s bailiwick. As difficult and potentially destructive to experience and work with as this may be, (think of the current politics we are all coping with) it can also initiate a time of growth and re-creation. The path of wisdom and alchemy is to fashion chaos into Art, to draw something new from the irrational and chaotic aspects of reality that is beautiful and inspiring.  It is happening with or without our agency. In the best case, we are being given an opportunity to redraw the lines that define our relationships and domestic structures, both intimate and in the broadest sense. If we are not part of the solution, we may very well be part of the problem.

Aiding this wisdom and alchemy to all involve our collective healing through whatever sagacity we can gather is the ongoing sextile between JUPITER Rx and CHIRON Rx. This has been flavoring the mundane readings since September and isn’t done until early next month. JUPITER enlarges and gives confidence to all it touches and CHIRON represents not only our core wounds but also the wisdom to heal or integrate them. Yeah, no kidding, our collective and personal shits been up to be dealt with lately. The retrogrades give this even more of a remedial nature. This sextile, positive though it may be in the long run, will be challenging. Particularly this week when the SUN moves into a brief but awkward quincunx with both JUPITER and CHIRON, also called a Yod aspect pattern, on the 11th. Expect possible glitches about then which will reveal the plot elements of the healing process we are perpetually in if we look for it.

VENUS is moving through a square to NEPTUNE Rx this week. Our Venusian energies of love relationship, beauty and harmony are likely experiencing a strong feeling of uncertainty and flux this week. Potentially, some inspired solutions for the tensions we are experiencing can be found in the Neptunian ambiguity and fog bailiwick. Try not to panic and chase after mirages of over simple conceptions of your own creation. Trust it will all come clearer in time as the real choice point is going to be manifest next week when VENUS in practical Capricorn comes square the karmic MOON’S NODES on the 16th after transiting out of mutable Sagittarius on the 10th.

On the 12th MERCURY is exactly square SATURN Rx which is almost stopped in the sky poised to turn direct on the 15th of this month. Opportunities for rational conversation and making practical plans or experiences of delays and obstacles to the same. Squares are a hassle to navigate because they can polarize either way, making us have to dig deep for it to be a positive transit and accommodate whatever compelling situation arises.

Finally, a few days and up to the FULL MOON, VENUS is moving through a sextile to the conjunction of LILITH and JUNO with an interfering quincunx to MARS, again firmly pointing this towards our relationships and values, matters of the heart, as the subject. The sextile flows but the square and quincunx make it challenging to make the right move. Just stay loose with any conclusions until at least next week if you can when its squares the MOON’S NODES. Looking ahead, VENUS has more in store for us come the end of the month and the first week of December.

One day at a time as we get ready for the epic astrology of 2025 and beyond. Just work with what is in front of you diligently and compassionately and keep dancing. The only way through is through. As the brilliant astrologer Rick Levine says “Think cosmically, but act locally”

WANING SQUARE MOON OCTOBER 24 TO NOVEMBER 1

Whew! The last week of November is the last week of this moon cycle and we are far from done with powerful aspects that seem to be one after another lately. This week we have MARS, the action hero intermixing energies with a bunch of archetypal dramatis personae.  It is moving towards its dramatic opposition to PLUTO Rx while also squaring JUNO and trine to NEPTUNE Rx  and exiting its sextile to URANUS Rx. JUPITER Rx continues to sextile CHIRON and VENUS whips through a square to SATURN Rx. MERCURY gets a big boost at the end of the month.

The MOON squares the SUN on the 24th on its way to the NEW MOON on November 1st. If this week doesn’t bring some of the dramas we have been experiencing in our relational entanglements to a close it will certainly set us up for the next phase of the play.  The SUN is now out of relational and justice seeking LIBRA and into more intense and determined SCORPIO. MARS and PLUTO’s vibe will be more prominent in our daily experiences because they share rulership of SCORPIO and are coming into a tense connection with each other. MARS the planet of the warrior is lining up opposite PLUTO Rx, the (“dwarf”) planet that represents the elemental forces and the cathartic, transformative aspects of reality exactly on November 3rd. Its already starting to cook. This. BTW, is only the first of three oppositions over the next 7 months due to MARS going retrograde in early December. This could augur some unwanted crisis or crises of some kind in our lives and world, yet perhaps also bring a powerful movement for transforming corrupt or flawed paradigms we have projected on the world. No, its not likely WW3, but things will get shook up over the next years and whatever happens and this opposition will be a part of the agitation. This week MARS will also be forming a long slow T-square with partnership asteroid JUNO and PLUTO Rx for 3 or 4 weeks making this all about crux points in our committed relationships, personal and planetary. Confusing the action is MARS also trine to visionary and deceptive NEPTUNE RX (Which is sextile PLUTO) exactly on the 27th and separating from a recent sextile to that harbinger-of-disruption URANUS Rx (Which is nominally trine PLUTO). Yeah, its complicated with all these moving components. Rather than getting in a twist about one aspect or another, recognize it’s a long-term time of dynamic transformation and all we can do is lean into the growth potential present as best we can and keep swimming.

Having JUPITER Rx sextile to CHIRON Rx until December is certainly helping us to find some optimism and healing in all this complexity. It’s a through-line that can we can utilise to keep our head above water even as we seem to be overwhelmed by all the crazy, unexpected and challenging events that are just whack-a-moleing through this time.
By the weekend we have VENUS coming square to SATURN Rx for a few days . There is a choice point regarding practical application of what we have been navigating in our relations and things we desire. This could be breakups or feeling inhibited, or since VENUS is in Sagittarius, it may augur some deliberate, yet optimistic loyalty and faithfulness to what we treasure. Squares compel us to do something to relieve the tension and it can go either way depending on attitudes principals and circumstances. As we move into November VENUS exchanges this square aspect for a collaborative trine with the wise healer CHIRON Rx and starts an opposition to auspicious JUPITER Rx so the healing game is still afoot.

Interestingly in the last few days of October MERCURY moves into Grand Trine with MARS and NEPTUNE Rx while at the same time coming into an opposition with URANUS Rx. This will enliven and inspire our mind, speech and thoughts to a significant degree. Be aware it can show up as brilliant insights and genius moments, high scoring scrabble games or vehement arguments over imaginary depending on how your nervous system handles stimulants.

By the time we get to Halloween/Sawain the MOON will be within hours of being NEW and MERCURY, still in that GRAND TRINE/opposition to URANUS Rx begins to feel a growing sextile with the lord of the dead PLUTO Rx. Dark of the MOON and the kids will be amped on sugar and MERCURY vibes until the likely evening meltdown. For the adults it might be a good night for a good ol’ fashioned talk-to-the-dead séance.

FULL MOON OCTOBER 17 to OCTOBER 24

FULL MOONs have an energy of our experiences ripening and bearing fruit, of fertility. This FULL MOON on the Aries/Libra axis is the last week of the SUN and a few other bodies in VENUS ruled Libra and opposing CHIRON. It is wrapping up a number of the recent upticks in themes of relationship, partnership, justice, fairness, power and psychological shadow that we have been experiencing for quite some time. Of course, the show goes on and these themes are always going to be a core throughline of our reality and so perpetually reflected in the stars in one way or another. It has been a particularly turbulent time lately though for sure

Dear Love and Beauty oriented VENUS itself is passing through the last degrees of Scorpio and just finished an opposition to anarchic and impetuous URANUS Rx and a trine to dreamy NEPTUNE Rx that may have stirred the pot on the relationship front last week. Just before it heads to cross over into happy-go-lucky Sagittarius on the 17th it exactly sextiles PLUTO in the last degree of Capricorn that is also in a synergistic aspect with those two generational planets, weaving transformational passion and power into the VENUS vibe. Strong love that may be a little out of control? Secrets revealed? Maybe it is still subtly rumbling in the distance for some but there is a definite disturbance in the Force out there moving to bring things into the open and into balance in our relationships. Facing and dealing with it ASAP is best as these issues tend to come back more distressingly if avoided.

As dire as that sounds all this is probably long term positive for the general Good as the other big factor right now is the months long favorable sextile between buoyant JUPITER Rx and the healing influence of CHIRON Rx that is near exact and beaming its signal of a long-needed healing crisis. This may not feel great at first with the opening of the wound, but with wisdom, it can augur eventual healing to chronic conditions personal or global. This all gets a bump as the MOON crosses CHIRON Rx just hours before the FULL MOON. In the mix at the FULL MOON is a conjunction of the SUN and JUNO which indicates this is going to be related to committee partnerships in some way especially as active MARS is in a provoking square to JUNO for several days as it comes off a recent square to CHIRON Rx.

Speaking of MARS it is just initiating a week or two long sextile with explosive URANUS Rx and the first of 3 oppositions to PLUTO due to MARS’s upcoming retrograde motion that will be exact first on November 3. This is a rather foreboding combination foreshadowing the possibility of something like aggressive power plays and violent overreactions and/or the initiation of or exposure of hidden, secret actions that affect us all. Ominously, the last MARS retrograde that was in opposition to PLUTO was in 2007/08 as PLUTO just entered Capricorn and the 2008 financial crisis got rolling. Now it’s happening just as PLUTO is leaving Capricorn. Spooky!  Whatever events manifests out of this will not be clear until the final opposition in April 2025. Though this is scary looking as an isolated aspect and a lot of astrologers may feel compelled to cry “the sky is falling!”, it is really hard to say how it will manifest personally. PLUTO’s moves are more concerned with the biggest big picture and generational transformations.  It is part of a dance of infinite influences both malefic and favorable. Still, it is not a great thing to see so enmeshed with the already bizzarro US elections.

MERCURY is trine SATURN Rx from about the 17th to the 25th giving our thoughts and movements some helpful structure and discipline if we can avoid low vibe the trap of pessimism and mental rigidity. Plan ahead and use your “No” so you don’t feel over-burdened with tasks. Simultaneously the SUN will be moving through a square to PLUTO from the 15th to the 27th or so, as it moves from Libra into Scorpio on the 22nd. This PLUTO transit can lend us a sense of power to actions or throw us under the bus of unconscious patterns, ours or others. Squares are challenging and testing of our manner and poise under pressure.

Its important to notice that during this week we have MARS moving through a Minor Grand Trine “talent triangle” with URANUS Rx sextile to both MARS and NEPTUNE Rx and so trine itself to NEPTUNE Rx from the 16th to Nov 1. This might be a harbinger of some genius moments. epiphanies or spiritual awakenings for us all. This is combined with the ongoing Minor Grand Trine with NEPTUNE synergistically sextile to PLUTO AND URANUS which is opening an oscillating portal from July 2024 to May 2029 that is inexorably transforming our relationship to the transcendent nature of the universe. I’ve mentioned this before and will again as it is an influence on every life and forecast for the next number of years.

All n All a full-on FULL MOON and week after. Something the 2020’s decade seems abounding in. We’re in such a world churn its sometimes tempting to ask “When will it end?!” particularly when things seem so uncertain and unstable.  Well, the good news and the bad news is encompassed in the full ramifications of the term “never”. The overall balance will be kept while our individual lives ride the waves of chaos and order, strife and peace, abundance and scarcity. We need to be aware that all this is just the Wheel turning and we are all on it until we are not. Do your best.

WAXING QUARTER MOON OCT 10 TO OCT 17TH

The headlines this week are: PLUTO stations direct in Capricorn. MARS is square to MERCURY, CHIRON Rx, JUNO, LILITH Rx, AND THE SUN while JUPITER, now just Rx, trines them as well. CHIRON Rx is opposite all those LIBRA points while it is sextile to JUPITER Rx. VENUS is opposite URANUS Rx later in the week.

PLUTO is making its last run through the potent anaretic degrees of Capricorn before it enters Aquarius on Nov 20th for a 20-year transit where it will expose our internalized cultural misconceptions and clean up our acts around innovation, progressivism, collective movements and maybe our current trend of cultural fragmentation. PLUTO plays rough as we found out during its Capricorn transit since 2008. It certainly fucked with all our Capricornian finances and trust in institutions, revealing the cracks in those foundations. So, it’ll be “interesting” for sure to see what these next decades will bring. I’m guessing it may involve an ongoing degradation and reconfiguration of the current digital clusterfuck amongst other unforeseen cultural revolutions and upheavals. URANUS the planet of explosive change is trine PLUTO and sextile NEPTUNE which holds the ideal, transcendent, and ineffable. “You say you want a revolution. Well you know…” Buckle up.

This week aggressive and assertive MARS in emotional Cancer is passing through a T-square with CHIRON Rx in fiery Aries and JUNO (the asteroid of committed partnerships), the SUN (ourselves, our direction) and by the 14th LILITH Rx (The dark goddess and mystery principle) all in the relational and fair-hearted Libra. MERCURY, representing our mind, thoughts and communications will just be square to PLUTO as it moves into Scorpio on the  13th emphasizing trips about survival, sex and power. Kinda a time of demanding fairness in all our intimate relations and harmony in our lives. We may find ourselves in serious conflict in pursuit of justice if we don’t dolly back and read the room.
We may have all had some turmoil in our relationships lately but it has been over things that really do need addressing, accountability or at the very least, acknowledgment of their existence and the paradoxical intractability of whatever issues they are. Relationships, personal or worldly, are always full of paradox and catch-22’s that can’t be resolved at the level they were created, so we grow or suffer. AFOG: Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth here.

On top of that, there will likely be some interesting developments put into place in our relationships, finances and/or creative endeavors now as loving VENUS, ruler of Libra, is opposite innovative and disruptive URANUS Rx all week. Sudden loves and connections, revitalized relationships, bids for freedom and inspired creativity all could manifest to varying degrees as well as romantic restlessness, unrealistic affairs and rebellious eccentricity. Especially as VENUS is simultaneously transiting trine to imaginary, idealizing and indeterminate Neptune and then a couple of days later it sextiles power player PLUTO. Golden opportunity or sailing into disaster, like the classic Fool card. PLUTO adds a lot of power and compulsion to this mix from our deep conditioning and will to power. NEPTUNE Rx may obscure our discernment of what we are really up to or tempt us to futily run away into a fantasy.  Grounding and practical SATURN Rx is pretty much un-aspected this week and so is probably too weak alone to keep us properly oriented and disciplined. We may have trouble discerning the truth and long term consequences for now especially for the intuitive/creative types.

Now JUPITER will add some optimism and a dash of good fortune to all these proceedings by stationing retrograde in its sextile to the healing wisdom of CHIRON Rx while it also favorably trines all the points now traveling through Libra: MERCURY, LILITH, JUNO and the SUN. With the coincident group square to MARS and opposition to CHIRON Rx these planets and points will be pushing us to make some choices about how we attempt to infuse fairness, justice, beauty and balance into the inherent mystery and tumult of relationships.

That’s a lot of beats to try to dance with all at once for sure. We can dream big this week and perhaps, with JUPITER’s luck and CHIRON’s healing, come out the better for it, but do be aware there are also many sand-traps to step in too. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A combination of generosity of heart, and wise restraint will definitely help us through to a win-win but it won’t be necessarily easy.

NEW MOON WEEKLY FORECAST OCTOBER 2 TO OCTOBER 10

This is going to be a super interesting week! There is literally too much going on in the sky right now to describe here. I’ll try to get the main points across for you though. Definitely examine the mundane chart shown here so you can see the geometry of it all. If you can, suss out where your birth chart is connecting to it all too. (Call me, I love to reveal to people the insights in their charts) 😉 This month’s NEW MOON on October 2 is quite a conjunction mash-up in LIBRA. SUN, MOON of course, and also, MERCURY, LILITH and without much of a stretch the SOUTH NODE (That means an Eclipse). Whups! With a comet to boot.

Solar eclipses have traditionally augured big changes, falls of regimes, deaths or crises of some kind. Though nowadays astrologers don’t see them as necessarily dire they still mark nexuses in the plot of the year. A vibe or set that reflects the last eclipse in the Spring and foreshadows the next 6 months. We won’t see this annular eclipse in the Northern hemisphere, but its still there, indicating some kind of sea change that will initiate, then develop over the next 6 months until the next series in March 2025. Interestingly, many of those planets and points also moved through a GRAND TRINE with PLUTO Rx and URANUS over the last few weeks and days. This also lined up with the extended MINOR GRAND TRINE with NEPTUNE Rx sextile to PLUTO Rx and URANUS to form a Kite geometry. Something like a portal where the archetypes of the involved planets and signs synergize in a powerful flow. NEPTUNE Rx was at the apex opposite each planet or point as they passed from VIRGO to LIBRA giving the whole thing a transcendental and uncertain air.

When the MOONS nodes are closely conjunct the SUN we get an eclipse and since the SOUTH NODE represents our past and past lives it will tend to bring up material from our past to be faced, integrated and dealt with. So be prepared to work with old wounds, reaction patterns, family and relationship dynamics in order to encompass and transcend them. Do try to not just double-down on maladaptive patterns and entrench your conditioning. It is up so you can see it, ot just repeat it. Significantly, about the time that the next series of eclipses happens in mid-March 2025, the SOUTH NODE of our past Karma will hit the same point in the Kite opposite NEPTUNE and trine PLUTO and URANUS in their transformative Minor Grand Trine. So though the work is now the window really closes in about 6 months.

This firmly throws us under the bus of fate for the next 6 months. Hold on to your hats. VENUS ruled LIBRA is potentially a pretty nice sign to have this in if you look at its positive attributes; Working with the “Other”(relationships), Justice/Fairness, Beauty, Harmony, Agreements etc. Of course, it also has a dark side. It is associated archetypally with Persephone’s/Kore’s journey back into the underworld to join her husband Hades (PLUTO) for the Fall and Winter. LIBRA can be harsh and final like the Queen of the Dead once it decides it’s not going to get cooperation and harmony. It can also sometimes vacillate, wait interminably for more info, be passive-aggressive and obdurate. Things can go either way and likely will.

MARS is just starting to square the SUN which peaks on the 14th. Meanwhile Lilith squares it on the 4th and MERCURY exactly squares MARS on the 6th. Aggressive, impulsive, assertive, defensive and bold actions and communications anyone? Especially around all thing LILITH. LILITH is an indicator of the presence of the Dark Goddess, of rebellion against patriarchal dominance, control and materialism, the arising of things the desert religions pushed into the margins and shadows: feminine independence and power, conscious and unconscious sexuality, menstrual (and so astrological) cycles, the mysterious, occult and unknowable, etc, etc. That’s a lot of suppressed reality that must be reckoned with to be whole. LILITH being conjunct the NEW MOON with MERCURY opens a portal for this to come into discourse and manifestation. In fact, LILITH will go retrograde on the 9th just as it squares PLUTO Rx and will scoot back through LIBRA for another run through the whole VENUS ruled sign. Get your relationship right with the feminine principles, or else! Watch out for shadowy powerplays and unconscious moves, perpetrated by you or others.

VENUS is forming a GRAND TRINE in Water with SATURN Rx and MARS for the next week or so, pointing towards establishing boundaries or relational friction to hash out boundaries and plans. VENUS can’t ‘See” the eclipse/NEW MOON, being 30 degrees (Semi-sextile) to it. Accordingly, there may be both a personal circumstance and more worldly events that involve relations, finances, and changes to things we hold dear and sacred happening simultaneously. Seemingly unconnected but certainly affecting each other.

JUPITER is slowing down towards its retrograde on the 8th and so is sextile to CHIRON Rx for a couple of months, signaling all this turbulence is moving towards a healing crises, hard gained wisdom and healing of some kind. So, heavy as all this seems it is aiming towards something good in the biggest big picture. As the month moves on each one of the planets now in LIBRA will march through a trine with expansive optimistic and lucky JUPITER and an opposition with the healer CHIRON, perhaps giving us some welcome mitigation for the stress of the transformations we are going through.

In addition to all that, the comet visible around sunrise in the East for a few days, an asteroid and some fixed stars are definitely influencing this reading of this eclipse. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS happens to be visiting us on its 80,000 year orbit right now. Comets always have a reputation for portentousness, the advent of powerful movements, leaders and shocking events, as if we needed more omens of world evolution. The asteroid Makemake, named after the fertility god of the Rape’nui peoples of Easter Island will be conjunct the eclipse and fascinatingly, Easter Island is one of the few land spaces the eclipse will be visible from…Hmmm. Makemake has only been known of astronomically for about 20 years so its astrological attribute are TBD, but my research dug up that it is possibly associated with megalomania, hallucinations, spiritual ecstasy, genocide, extreme ideology, mass hysteria, UFO’s, social disassociation and the ilk. Not too positive, sadly, but this has to be somewhat speculative. We also have in LIBRA near the eclipse the fixed stars, troublesome Vindemiatrix (the widow maker!!), and Porrima (the goddess of prophecy) just to add some spice to the moment.

Overall, stuck or imbalanced circumstances can get very tense, volatile and ripe for explosion or resolution, especially relationships, intimate or international, now and for the months to come. Its looks like an epically destabilizing opportunity to begin to bring things into sustainable balance through Plutonic upheaval and transformation. This is just part of a long slow cycle we are in, years long. It’ll probably get worse before it gets better in many ways, though not all at once and not everywhere at once. For the moment we are all asked to be on our best, most courageous and compassionate game so we can navigate our internal and external connections towards a win-win.  MERCURY conjunct the NEW MOON/SUN complex augurs providential thinking and intelligent communication if we don’t give in to negativity and anxiety. Take your time to think before acting or speaking. Recognize your shadow and suppressed parts when they try to take over the plot.
Don’t panic or give in to despair and nihilism. That is always a temptation with this sort of turning of the Wheel, Comets and eclipses Oh My! Remember, each one of us is really responsible for just our local realm of influence. Don’t get so distracted by far away things you can’t reach that you neglect your own arena. Peace starts at home and in the self. Also remember, it is never all dark and doom. Nurture the Good you do have, no matter how unremarkable and insignificant it may seem. The dark and light are ultimately co-emergent and dynamically balanced no matter what our fears say.