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.

WANING QUARTER MOON WEEKLY FORECAST SEPTEMBER 24 TO OCT 2

On the 24th the MOON squares the SUN giving us some monthly tension and choice about how we feel about the direction of our lives. It also trines VENUS directing that tension towards our relationships close and in the world. Tension is not necessarily bad, it just means choices must be made as to how we feel about things and that dictates how we act and what outcomes we experience.
All that is just a flavoring on the transformative Grand Trine (SUN and then MERCURY, PLUTO Rx and URANUS in trine) + Minor Grand Trine (NEPTUNE Rx, PLUTO Rx  and URANUS in 2 sextiles and a trine)  which together form a Kite configuration happening this week. The SUN (self, direction) and MERCURY (Ideas, mind and communication) are opposite to the anchor NEPTUNE Rx, and so express the transcendental and imaginal attributes of that planet.  There is something dreamy about this week as well as chaotic and unexpected that is represented by URANUS (sudden change) and PLUTO Rx (the unconscious and unseen powers). We may have revelations and we may have some confusion and even lethargy. It’s easy to get overwhelmed as we can’t seem to logically figure out the plot. If we trust and pray for clarity it will eventually arrive. Not today though. Just go with it and cultivate your equanimity and inner peace. Love may be in the air, both agape and eros, and we should nurture that if it’s appropriate, but do try to keep one foot on the ground.
SATURN Rx is trine MARS for a few days which could give us some of that grounding, though if MARS dominates it can be impulsive and aggressive actions instead, which if we are unclear of our target (NEPTUNE) can lead to needless drama.
The SUN now, and as of the 26th MERCURY, are transiting fair minded, harmony seeking and relationship-oriented LIBRA which could put a nice spin on things if we don’t dither and avoid commitments or moving into action. By the end of September they will be closely conjunct each other and the NORTH NODE of fate making a confluence of our will, mind and destiny. A great time to be putting together a plan of action that aligns with the lessons we have learned from the experiences of the last few years around the direction of our lives. Journaling, important conversations, mission statements that incorporate any inspirations and revelations we may have received recently are possible. Its apocalyptic out there in the world now and things are in major flux,. We need to discover what our personal and collective soul goals are so we don’t drift into complete dystopia.

The wounded healer, CHIRON Rx is beneficially trine expansive and optimistic JUPITER for about 2 months, giving this whole period a push towards healing and wisdom even though the madness seems to be going in the other direction. Healing crisis? JUPITER is on the brink of stationing Rx and so is leaning into the 20 and 21st degree of mental and openminded GEMINI as well as trining CHIRON Rx. The sabian Symbol for that degree is:
“OUTBURST: It is healthier to release pent up emotions
rather than to continue repressing them
 “Allowing an outburst of pent-up feelings””
So this indicates the current dramas in our lives may be driven by our deepest wounds and shadows or the wisdom derived from those wounds and our shadow work. They are tumultuous but are ultimately necessary for our collective and personal growth.  Oh Boy!
The NEW MOON on the 2nd pretty much conjuncts MERCURY as it is just coming out from behind the SUN. There is a Solar Eclipse that day too. This augurs not only epic shifts in our reality (eclipses) but some much needed sharp thinking and inspired ideas that may blossom over the next month and onwards. VENUS is starting to form a GRAND WATER TRINE with SATURN and MARS in Water signs that will add some compassionate fire and action to our romantic and aesthetic pursuits for the first week of October. More on that on next weeks forecast. This week seems a moment to solidify relations and gather inspirations as we head into the frankly tumultuous months of the Autumn 2024

FULL MOON WEEKLY FORECAST SEPTEMBER 17 TO SEPTEMBER 24

Oh The celestial dance! Harvest moon, lunar eclipse, super moon (Perigee; closest approach to Earth), and blood moon (red tinged because it’s not total) all at once on this Tuesdays FULL MOON. We are certainly harvesting the outcomes of this last summers experiences. Much has changed in our lives since last winter, whether we wanted it or not and the pace of change is still pretty hot for the approaching future. SATURN in the short term and PLUTO in the long term are making sure we reap what we have sown from the past few weeks or months and the last few decades and centuries. Meanwhile the inner planets continue to keep it personal and dramatic. Of course, the planets do not cause all this to happen, they just give us an outline reflecting what is happening within and without us; As above, So below. Since the stars and planets movements are cyclic, we can use them to get a perspective and clue on what is and what is coming.

https://www.archetypalexplorer.com/world/transits

This FULL MOON and partial eclipse is tucked between SATURN Rx and NEPTUNE Rx all in PISCES. This brings an interesting combination of archetypal energies into play. The MOON our intuition nurturing and emotional side has to negotiate between the practical (SATURN) and the ideal (NEPTUNE) to find some path forward the intuitively feels right. MERCURY is opposite SATURN Rx which helps us think more seriously about our options for a few days though we may have to be nurturing and patient with any mental fogginess.

Our deep psychology is on display in all this because PLUTO Rx in Capricorn gets drawn in to the action being in a month-long half square with SATURN Rx (Ruler of Capricorn) and NEPTUNE Rx in a multi-year oscillating Minor Grand Trine to PLUTO Rx and URANUS as well. This configuration is telling us that this whole period of time will feels epic, apocalyptic and transformative. It’s a huge slow turning of the cultural wheel now.  MERCURY aligning opposite SATURN is also transiting an prodding square and half with PLUTO, so the potential for the repressed and hidden to come to light is strong. Opportunity and crisis in the structures, ambitions and commitments in our lives (Capricorn) before PLUTO heads back into Aquarius in October to do its transformative work there on our individuality, ideals and ideas of the future for the next 20 years.

At the time of the FULL MOON we have, just waning, a beneficial and lovely trine between VENUS and JUPITER, while VENUS was opposite CHIRON, the Healer. This augered some intensity, probably for the good, in our relationships, close and far over the weekend. Whatever blossomed then from those aspects, the other shoe probably drops around the FULL MOON and we get a chance to make practical adjustments to make things work or at worst feel some sticker shock at any over commitments we may have made mirrored by JUPITER’S exuberant trine aspect.

Preview: JUPITER and CHIRON Rx are just starting to sextile which goes on until December giving this whole Fall a flavor of lucky breaks and opprtunites to grow and heal in big ways. This will help justify in some ways, but probably not mellow, any upcoming turbulence. We’ll be having the potential and obligation to learn a lot of powerful lessons on how to navigate reality. Ooo,that sounds like fun. Lol.

As all that FULL MOON jazz fades off the SUN moves into the last degrees of VIRGO and consequently forms a powerful Kite by coming into a Grand Trine with URANUS and PLUTO Rx while they are in the aforementioned Minor Grand Trine with NEPTUNE Rx in the double sextile position at the top of the kite and the SUN as the tail.  The number of flowing synergistic aspects (5 trine and sextile) in a Kite make this a powerful node of transformation or change because the power of evolution flows so smoothly in the trines and sextiles around whatever opposition forms the spine of the Kite. Transformation is the keyword, especially now with those big generational and evolutionary planets all pointing at the very personal SUN, our core and collective self. With the nearby eclipse this presages an interesting ride through September, the Autumn months and the coming years. Evolution and re-volution in the world. BTW; This Kite with these same planets repeats every year about this time until at least 2027, so it won’t all happen at once, but it will have annual pulses that underscore all the other changes throughout the year. We are in for a long turn of the wheel with at least a chance of having time to participate and adapt somewhat as it goes along if we stay awake. It’s never a helpless victim thing as we are all also nominal agents in this world we live in. Mostly how we are imagining where we want to go, how we respond internally to events and what the set and setting we cocreate for ourselves to do this deep soul work in, which profoundly influences outcomes as all shamans and alchemists know. Love or Fear baby.

Right in the middle of its move through the tail of the Kite on the 22nd, the SUN switches signs from mental and particular VIRGO into more collective and compassionate LIBRA. Whew! It might feel like the Universe’s version of tough love right now, but ultimately it is Love and LIBRA has that going on in abundance. VENUS will be in a square with PLUTO as it switches signs and so also forming a square-and-a-half (Sesquisquare) to SATURN while it is half square to PLUTO. This is kind of a shove in the back for change in our relationship whether to self or other for a few days. Hard conversations and corrections should not be avoided, but courageously and compassionately engaged during this time because that is the path to Love.

Unusually, just as the SUN moves off the trines to PLUTO Rx and URANUS and the opposition to NEPTUNE Rx, MERCURY by the 24th comes waltzing in to replace it in its tail position in the Kite and so brings our mercurial attributes (mind, thinking, ideas, communication, to transport, connect etc.) into that powerful vortex of transformation opposite NEPTUNE Rx, the planet of imagination, spiritual realms, ideals, dreams, timelessness, the immaterial, confusion delusion and directionlessness. Probably not comfortable for the left brain but the right brain totally relates.

Like an intense medicine journey, the next few years might be a rough ride for the strict materialists and pure atheists, the spiritually closeminded and those who haven’t the bandwidth to roll with the changes that are inevitable. It can be a time filled with a panicky uncertainty. But the potential is there to enhance our intuitions, psychic powers and creative communications to get insights and conceive of a more ideal story to live in. Be aware it may also manifest as fuzzy thinking and a sense of directionless disorientation too. Trust in the self and the divine perfection of the big movements, with wise discernment is key as is some non-attachment to outcomes. Be skeptical of charismatic leaders who have “THE ANSWER!” over the next few years. You know; the good ol’ standard spiritual journey skills. Remember, there is always an element of the unexpected and unforeseeable mystery in the way the universe unfolds these revelations and revolutions. We may be pleasantly surprised by some of the elements coming into being in the world. There will be some who collapse into apathy and nihilism, some who will be convinced they have THE answer and must save everyone or force them to comply. We will probably see all of that, all over the world. as this Kite and eclipse cycle and all the other upcoming epic aspects unfold over the next few years affecting the rest of our lives.

WAXING QUARTER MOON WEEK OF SEPT 10 to SEPT 17

This week we may have an interesting day on the 10th. As the MOON moves through its final square to the SUN for the month it will also be sweeping through a square to SATURN, an opposition to JUPITER and a sextile to VENUS. This of course coincides geometrically with SUN square JUPITER and SUN opposite SATURN. Plenty of action for one day and we will likely be walking a tightrope between sober responsibility and reckless enthusiasm all week.

Waxing squares are a wrapping up and harvesting of energies that peaked at the last FULL MOON, so it might be a good time to reflect on what got really going then. SATURN is all about firm limits, timing and responsibility. The other luminary, the SUN is just coming off an opposition to SATURN so in some ways this just continues the trend of some restraint and restrictions (for our own good), but now more in our lunar emotional/intuitive body. We could feel blocked or held back by SATURN or conversely have a sense of resoluteness in getting things done, probably bits of both all week.
The MOON being opposite to JUPITER that day might temp us to feel some perhaps welcome giddy optimism or to go a bit overboard with our emotional reactions, positive or negative. Early in the day the MOON sextiles VENUS and that won’t be bad; perhaps a little smooth connection with what or who we love. Alas, it’s just a few hours of that day and adversely entangled with all those importunate and insistent squares and oppositions.

The SUN square JUPITER which perfects on the 12th has an influence all week and is combined with a, co-incident, MERCURY sextile URANUS during a number of days. JUPITER is such an uplifter of all boats that the square lends us all some buoyancy even if SATURN has been putting some restraint on it. Might be the perfect balance of responsible optimism. With MERCURY sextile URANUS we might feel mentally activated to an unusual degree. Perhaps the pace of life will pick up to a notable degree, Socializing, communicating, unexpected side quests might all be manifesting for a few days. Just be cautious and have your “No” in hand so you don’t get over-booked and overwhelmed.
Speaking of optimism, VENUS will be trine JUPITER all week and peaking on the weekend, so romance is certainly in the air. The MOON will be transiting conjunct PLUTO early on the 14th too. So, it could be passionate romance if your chart and circumstances facilitate that. Let’s keep an eye on our spending though and not blow resources we will definitely need later, or try to Pluto-nically push through any selfish agendas.
By Monday MERCURY comes opposite SATURN just as the MOON connects with it, definitely putting some restraint on our enthusiastic ideas and maybe some responsible communication about what happened over the weekend. Buyer’s remorse or recognition of what just occurred? Do have fun though, if you can, you deserve it, and with a little discretion it will pay off. VENUS will be opposite CHIRON for a few days around then which will likely augur some tender and vital relationship doings too.
The FULL MOON happens on Sept 17th and will be nearly aligned with dreamy, transcendent NEPTUNE. This puts the SUN into a flowing Kite configuration with NEPTUNE as the anchor and URANUS and PLUTO trine to it on the wings. More on that as we get to it but it looks to be an illumination of the ongoing and epic Minor Grand Trine of NEPTUNE, PLUTO and URANUS we are all dealing with for the next few years.

ALWAYS GOOD TO KEEP IN MIND
The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
1. Be impeccable with your word

2. Don’t take anything personally

3. Don’t make assumptions

4. Always do your best

WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST SEPT 2/NEW MOON TO SEPT 10

This NEW MOON on September 2 could feel lower key to us all relative to the ongoing epic-ness we have been riding for months, but it definitely has potential to be powerful in its own way. No one has been escaping the changes, personal and worldwide during these last few months and we are far from done with the generational imbroglio and fun-n-games we are all in. This week a lot of the fun is NEPTUNE aspecting within hours an exact square to MARS.  PLUTO also retrogrades back into CAPRICORN for a few months and MERCURY is trine CHIRON.

The NEPTUNE square MARS has been building all week as MARS gets close to changing signs from expressive GEMINI to more receptive CANCER. In the usual dual valence, this square either reveals our ability to act (MARS) with sensitivity to what is going on around us (NEPTUNE), engage in idealistic actions, effortlessly dive deep into conscious sexuality, glean wisdoms from journeys into non-ordinary consciousness, or conversely foment the urge to escape or numb out, sleep, avoid conflict or responsibilities, be irritable or get sick. A fun spread of possibilities that we may feel in waves over this couple of weeks. When MARS gets into Cancer on the 4th it will dampen MARS’s fire even more.
PLUTO which has been lurking around 0 degrees AQUARIUS since mid-July finally glaciers back in CAPRICORN to put a wrap on its work there on our institutions, structures, traditions and purposes. Since 2008 we’ve seen a lot that we trusted as solid get its inherent cracks and corruptions revealed. We are in a process of reimagining our world and how to Be in it. PLUTO, the harbinger of death and rebirth, transformation and evolution is always removing things that will not stand up to the pressures of universal truths and that includes much of what the 20th century humans considered “normal”. In the next 20 or so years we’ll be seeing that glacial grind move over the Aquarian themes: technology, collective dynamics, individuality etc.

Mental messenger MERCURY will be exactly trine to the wounded healer, CHIRON on the 2nd, giving all the above a beneficially remedial flavor, especially as VENUS is also near conjunct the SOUTH NODE of our past. People and issues of our backstory may come up for some exposure and transformation.
September 3, the Sun starts a transit of opposition to SATURN that peaks around the 7th. This will shine a light on our being conscientious and perseverant in our dealings with others, especially as we are also likely to encounter obstacles to our plans through those same people or our own perverse natures.
By September 6th MERCURY moves forward into its final square with URANUS. Over the next few days MERCURY also dances through its last pair of Quincunx aspects to PLUTO and NEPTUNE who are still in sextile with each other. This Yod geometry and the square will likely augur some difficulties, disruptions or sudden changes to travel plans, communications etc., though probably not as dramatically as it did back in July when the big internet crash happened on the first square. Early on September 9 MERCURY lands back into its home sign VIRGO helping us get out to-do lists done and clean up any poor decisions or messes leftover from the recent retrograde.
When we get to the WAXING QURTER MOON on the 10th we will be well poised for the waves to come in the last half of September. Hold on to your hats folks, eclipses are coming.

WANING MOON WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 26 TO SEPT 2

This week as the MOON moves towards its conjunction with the SUN the planets are indicating we will be getting a lot of activity in our VENUS realms. The archetypal energies of VENUS, according to the brilliant Richard Tarnas are: “Desire, love, beauty, value, art; the impulse and capacity to attract and be attracted, to love and be loved, to seek and create beauty and harmony, to engage in social and romantic relations, sensuous pleasure, artistic and aesthetic experience and creation; the principle of Eros and the Beautiful; Greek goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, the Roman Venus.” In our reality this is often boiled down to love relationships and how we us our resources to enhance our lives (e.g. money).
On the 26th VENUS is moving through a synergistic trine to disruptive and innovative URANUS, and a simultaneous trine to the archetype of primordial instincts, death, rebirth, and transformation, PLUTO. This, while PLUTO is in a long-term trine to URANUS as well, making a powerful Grand Trine in the headstrong Fixed signs of VIRGO, TAURUS and AQUARIUS. VENUS is also coming into an opposition with dreamy and confusing NEPTUNE. This all can show up in our personal lives as transformational passionate love, relational restlessness, kinky urges, obsessions, sudden romances, possibly unwise commitments, spending or over spending, and the like. All fodder for learning essential lessons about wisdom and an indication that things some relational will never be the same. By the 29th VENUS moves into its home power sign of LIBRA while still connected to PLUTO and NEPTUNE giving us continued emphasis on remodeling our Venusian themes.
MERCURY is still RX but is slowing down to go direct on the 29th. It is in a long slow positive trine with the healer CHIRON as it hovers around 21 and 22 degrees of LEO. All this could bode well for personal or world events as MERCURY gets going forward. Perhaps leading to some healing or smoothing of wounds with self, other or between larger organizations. Of course, there is a lot of factors that will influence that outcome. Transformation is not usually done without sacrifice and turbulence and the outer planets do not usually appear compassionate in the short run, only in the biggest big picture long run do we see the necessity of the disruptions and disintegrations.

PLUTO (archetypally: processes of breakdown, destruction and creation in the universe, impulses toward regeneration and transformation, purification and purging, profound evolutionary forces.) is poised to grind back into Capricorn for the next few months. This is its last touch in Capricorn for about 250 years. We had so many of our seeming solid institutions be revealed to be shaky and inadequate over the last couple of decades. Now, before we fully settle into Plutonically working over our Aquarian themes for the next 25 or 30 years, (technology, humanitarianism, individuality, intelligence, etc) we get one more shot at some cathartic destruction/regeneration of those Saturnian structures. Upcoming elections anyone?  Lol.
By September 2 NEPTUNE is exactly square to MARS just as the MOON forms a NEW MOON conjunction with the SUN in VIRGO. MARS-NEPTUNE square can augur urges to escape reality. A little responsible vacation won’t hurt, but a bender is not recommended. We don’t want to burden the tone of the next lunar cycle with a hangover or a shitstorm of avoided responsibilities. We have plenty of work ahead of us in September. More on that next week with the NEW MOON forecast.

WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 19 TO AUG 26

Right..This FULL MOON really does have epic written all over it, but possibly, hopefully in a good way. Of course, we’ll see what actually occurs as it unfolds. After all, its just one day, week, month, in an ongoing slow-pocalypse, and I believe it’s good to have a heads up as these peaks and waves come through.
This FULL MOON on the 19th has two significant T-squares and several conjunctions all happening on or near the SUN opposite MOON. This makes for a fairly complicated day full of potentials for change as each planet and point vie for preeminence or try to blend their archetypal expressions. T-squares are tense catalysts for evolution and creativity. Challenging but effective. The opposing points or planets in the T-square navigate their push-pull by using the energies at the apex as a release.
The usual energetic crescendo of the monthly FULLMOON opposition is this time square to unpredictable, disruptive and innovative URANUS exactly on the 19th. This alone would make for an interesting day, full of surprises or shocks, but there is plenty more to it. This T-square is landing in LEO, AQUARIUS and TAURUS, all Fixed signs, which express as stubborn and headstrong; My way or the highway. Coincidentally, the SUN will be very nearly conjunct MERCURY Rx and the asteroid VESTA. This brings a remedial and rethinking flavor as well as something to do with some sacred thing to which we are dedicated to the T square. If we add in another major asteroid, PALLAS the goddess of wise strategy which now is transiting Scorpio, we get a complete Grand Cross (4 square aspects and two oppositions). It is very possible this will reflect a major realignment towards right living in some aspect of our lives if we move gracefully with the pressure.
At the same time a second kinetic T-square is occurring with SATURN opposite VENUS. Limits and Love. This will bring some serious focus on our relationships and/or finances for sure. The release point for this opposition is the aggressive/assertive and exuberant MARS-JUPITER conjunction that has been in orb for a few weeks. Could be passion, but within a wise container or an unfortunately frustrating time for lovers. Or both. We all may have noticed a certain impulsivity in our and others behavior lately. Boundaries, personal and international, may be getting crossed with an unconscious confidence that of course engenders a response of either acceptance submission or pushback of some kind. Since it’s involving the benefic planet JUPITER, it will have a tendency to turn out for the best in the long run, either way it goes. Some restraint and wisdom in our expression of our desires will serve us well. This T-square may augur some hard, but practical and necessary, actions, choices or conversations in regards to important relationships or investments. This is all in the Mutable signs of GEMINI, PISCES and VIRGO, so there is room here for creativity and outside-the-box solutions.
Combining those two T-squares at the FULL MOON definitely indicates an interesting ride for humanity this week. This is a FULL MOON where we will likely experience some small and large, subtle and gross, clusters of unexpected change in our lives whether we like it or not.  Be aware  it might take a minute to notice the new trajectory in your life or in the world, but looking back it can be traced back to this time. Hopefully the MERCURY Rx has been inducing us to loosen up our attachment to a linear flow in its trickster-ish way and we are able re-think, re-vise and re-view our positions on things so when the FULL MOON hits we are open to some new brilliant possibilities. Helpfully, this prior week CHIRON is just finishing up a beneficial trine to the SUN, which has been invoking our inner wise healer. We really need a lot of that these days.
OK that is just the FULL MOON …LOL!
The T-square with SATURN VENUS MARS AND JUPITER hangs on spreading for a few more days. This configuration helps focus the MERCURY Rx onto the aforementioned Venusian love, relationship and finance issues as it backs into a second trine with CHIRON on the 22nd (destined to be repeated forward and finalized around September 1st ), tending us towards practical (SATURN square JUPITER) thoughts and ideas about how to repair old wounds or mal-conditionings we may have integrated around those vital subjects. The trick is to take action (MARS square VENUS) on those ideas by learning new practices so we don’t have to live with that unnecessary suffering.

As the MOON swings around towards the WANING SQUARE it will trigger first CHIRON trine MERCURY Rx on Friday the 23rd  , then on the 25th it lights up URANUS which is doing its influential long term Minor Grand Trine geometry with PLUTO Rx and sextile NEPTUNE Rx. URANUS will also by that time be in a synergistic trine with VENUS. That may augur a sparkly urge to open our hearts and wallets generously but not necessarily wisely, though it will no doubt feel beautiful. Being generous of spirit is its own reward and SATURN will help us figure out how to pay the bills.
Yeah, that’s a lot to track. Fortunately we are not passive passengers in this ride. We get to chose how to respond to the sudden movements of reality. With Love or Fear and that makes all the difference.

WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 12 TO AUG 19

Ok, I am back at home from Europe. Totally in synch with MERCURY Rx and ready for another full-on week for all of us astrologically. So much is transpiring all at once its hard to guess what exactly will happen, though its obvious that epic shit is the order of the day lately. So, as the WAXING QUARTER MOON makes it to the halfway point swinging towards the FULL MOON on the 12th, the big news is MARS (action, courage, aggression) conjunct JUPITER (expansion, optimism, luck) while they both square SATURN (limits, timing, authority, duty) through the FULL MOON upcoming . This can be an indication of a brakes-plus-accelerator feeling in our lives leading to some frustration or outbursts. Or, more ideally, a responsible restraint on our over excitement and enthusiasm for impulsive, big projects and plans. Hopefully it slows us down enough to make sure we get the timing and details right and don’t overdo it. This is being modified by a brief 2 day square and half (sesquisquare) on the 12th-13th with JUPITER + MARS to PLUTO Rx (which is sliding back through the 1st degree of forwards thinking Aquarius). This is all definitely requesting us to show prudence in our actions, to make sure, as best we can, we are not unconsciously acting out a shadow pattern with its predictable difficult or dramatic outcomes. Its basically another opportunity to fuck around and find out what is behind the curtain of our collective and personal unconscious. Revealing ourselves to ourselves if we aren’t already cognizant of the underground games that are getting played out there. Though it is palpably in play all week the exact conjunction between MARS and JUPITER is on the 14th and the exact square between MARS and SATURN is on the 15th. The exact square between JUPITER and SATURN is on the 19th, the same day as the FULL MOON.

MERCURY Rx which has been keeping things interesting on the communication and travel fronts is giving us a chance to review and revise any choices we made around the 26th or 27th of July as it moves back through the double quincunx with PLUTO Rx sextile to NEPTUNE Rx for the second time on the 14th. MERCURY gets one more shot at that Yod (finger of god) configuration around September 8th, so we’ll all get another shot at resolving any irritating confusion that arises about what is actually going on behind the scenes. (P.S. the SUN does the same confusticating Yod on Aug 21st -22nd as it passes into Virgo, just to rub it in and make it all personal.)

Speaking of the SUN, it has a nice trine with CHIRON all week, emphasizing the healing potential in all the above aspects.
VENUS gets into the act by starting to square JUPITER and MARS and oppose SATURN around the 15th, peaking in a highly motivating and energetic T-square on the FULL MOON. This will augur a pushing through of any necessary changes in our love life, finances or creative projects that we may have been letting slide. It might feel quite authoritarian unless we are clear and compassionate from the heart on why we are doing what we are doing.

Just to add a little more bang to the whole mix we have the SUN conjunct MERCURY Rx on the 18th and that will be square to disruptive and innovative URANUS. This might look like sudden and unexpected changes of plans or ideas. We are going to have to just go with it and trust the flow.

Basically, there is going to be a lot happening in the on lead up to and the FULL MOON. Though we can’t predict exactly what will occur, It is not a time we can just hunker down and not go outside in order to minimize the intensity. We do have some agency though in how we handle these big energies through our attitude and high principles. It’s all hands-on-deck time as a lot of Karma is coming home to roost in our world these days. The planets are just giving us a heads up about what is obvious if we are paying attention.

WANING QUARTER MOON JULY 27 TO AUG 4 2024

As the MOON squares the SUN on the 27th we are harvesting what was sewn on the last NEW MOON. Integrating what had come to fruition at the FULL on July 21st. We also are beginning to formulate what seeds will be planted at the NEW MOON Aug 4th. What that all actually looks like for you will be quite individual and indicated by the aspects to your birth chart. But in the general mundane aspects we sure have had a ton of disturbing and disruptive stuff go down since the last NEW MOON on July 5th. PLUTO’s aspects and the MARS-URANUS conjunction have been denoting rude awakenings in our lives and we’ve been literally feeling our way through it all with the SUN in sensitive Cancer. Now we are in LEO season, a more outgoing and expressive time but we are still processing so much that came before, so it certainly feels like progress but not all “party on!” fun times. A lot of serious work still needs to be done.

WE have the SUN and VENUS transiting in exuberant LEO now, lending us some radiance and MARS is sharing  open minded Gemini with optimistic JUPITER though they won’t actually be conjunct until near mid-month. This gives us a lift of a certain “can do” energy we definitely need. MARS is sextile the SUN until around Aug 1st adding to that energy as we try to figure how to move forward with our lives. IT can manifest as a bit self-centered though, so be sure to work on win-win goals.

By the 30th of July we get a beneficial cradle configuration of sextiles and trines for a couple of days anchored by the SUN-MARS sextile and connecting to the MOONS NODES. This could kinda smooth things out for getting some progress on our soul goals. Of course, there is always “something” and this time its VENUS making a fussy square and a half and a half square to the nodes as well as a strong trine to CHIRON Rx. Venus is also approaching a square to URANUS. All that VENUS energy will likely point us towards something that is needing and getting abruptly changed in our close relationships over the week related to healing our old wounds. Might not be comfortable but definitely a corrective surgery. The more you lean into it the faster it gets done.

PLUTO Rx and NEPTUNE Rx are easing back on the transformative demolitions, unfocused bewilderment and the mythopoetic inspirations they have been signifying the last few weeks as they cease aspecting so many of the inner planets for the moment. They are still in sextile with each other and harmonically aspecting URANUS more or less for the next few years though, so epic shifts in consciousness are still in the works long term. This is why the recent aspects made with the inner personal planet archetypes have been reflecting such self-shattering, or at least distressing, evolutions. We are in the “great revealing” time of the cycles now: apocalypse and the end of Empires and it is both personal and collective. As above so below, as within so without.

On Aug 3rd the MOON comes by on its monthly rounds and trines NEPTUNE Rx then opposes PLUTO Rx just as it moves into Leo, briefly stirring that pot once more before it moves on to conjunct the SUN in a NEW MOON Aug 4th. MERCURY stations to go retrograde that day so the NEW MOON may have some of the trickster show up, though my guess is that has already been happening for at least a week.  Little glitches that seem big in the moment but turn out to be storms in a teacup only amplified if we over react.

VENUS is poised to change signs at 29 degrees of Leo at the NEW MOON which coincidentally puts it into Yod (finger of God) configuration with a vexatious pair of quincunx to both NEPTUNE Rx and PLUTO Rx which, as mentioned above, are in sextile to each other. This might indicate (with all the other VENUS stuff) that the last week of July and first week of August may be a more-than-interesting time in regards to relationships or finances in our personal lives and on the world stage. This has been likely brewing for a long time. Don’t let it get you down. There is always a way to bring our attention to the beauty and perfection of the rhythms even as we trip over our own shoe laces.  Karma is what it is and chickens will come home to roost. If we act with integrity, compassion and a nuanced sense of irony of how we take everything transient so fricken seriously we will pull through ok. The music never stops…

More on the NEW MOON next week, of course.

FULL MOON JULY 21 TO FIRST QUARTER SQUARE JULY 27

Yeah, you’re right, it’s been a wild ride this July. The FULL MOON onwards isn’t promising much of a relief either. We need to accept that we are in times of major shifts and it will not feel easy or comfortable. It is never all bad news though, and even challenging aspects are fingers pointing at the moon of right living.  We are wired to focus more on danger and uncertainty than the things that are going right, as well as generally not being able to see the bigger long-term consequences and arc of the narrative. Its commonly pretty personal to us humans and when things get churned up like this, our anxiety and reactivity can easily take over. Let me assure you that though this FULL MOON has some challenges to it, overall its showing us that the universe is just revealing to us it is time to change our ways of thinking and being in the world whether we like it or not. Ultimately, this change has to start from the inside out. The good news is there are more humans responding the call than ever before on the planet. It Is mycelial in nature, so you likely won’t see it much with your everyday perception or in the MSM. Keep your chin up and your hearts open as best you can.

PLUTO Rx in innovative and future oriented Aquarius is opposite the SUN this week and the MOON conjuncts it just hours after the FULL MOON. This is bound to bring up more collective unconscious material to be dealt with. We’ve had a parade of personal planets oppose PLUTO this month: MERCURY, the MOON and VENUS, so we’ve likely had a lot of heavy stuff come up to be processed, hidden things revealed and power plays enacted. Having the SUN there now will probably give us more of the same, challenging us one more to dance with the dark, what we are afraid of and take accountability for how we each contribute to the circumstances around us.

MARS having just done a shocking number, passing over URANUS last week, now moves into a synergistic trine with PLUTO soon after passing from stubborn TAURUS into more flexible GEMINI on the 20th. That may add some lubricant to the PLUTO/FULL MOON perhaps facilitating some action to address what has been churned up. Hopefully not just impulsive reactions and doubling down on the mindset that created the issue, whatever it may be.

NEPTUNE Rx is all up in this too because it is sitting in sextile to both PLUTO, MARS and just slightly to URANUS. This indicates we will likely be experiencing heightened dreams, intuitions and imaginations and abilities to take inspired actions in sensitive regard to the flow of our lives and environment. Conversely, this configuration can also mean a time of confusion about how and when to proceed, deception, loss of stamina, avoidance and passive aggression. Its kinda always messy with NEPTUNE as it removes all boundaries so things can melt and flow into new configurations or receive divine inspiration. It represents the higher realms though, so it really is just a messing with the fearful controlling ego and our materialist certainties. The SUN is trine NEPTUNE for the next week or so too, exacerbating all this. Let your courageous authenticity lead even while being confused or unsure. Rest when you can and eschew overindulgence in intoxicants.

We may feel there are too just many layers and paths to express easily because our minds are likely to feel a bit overactive this week with MARS (now in mental Gemini, ruled by MERCURY) spending a few days square to MERCURY in expressive Leo around the FULL MOON. Some possible strategies to manage all this would be daily meditation and yoga type practices, long walks and saying no to scrolling or news. Poetry, music, dancing are all appropriate responses. Try not to make any LT life decisions for now or if you must, just stay loose about the expected outcome. Everything is in flux. Having the SUN move into Leo on the 22nd and MARS move into GEMINI will likely loosen and lighten us up if we let it.Once they get done with their heavy PLUTO aspects in a few days, that is.

By the 25th or 26th the SUN moves into exact sextile with MARS which has been hopefully giving us a needed and welcome boost of energy and courage. MERCURY flips into Virgo on the 26th, its other home sign, where it feels empowered to do its exacting, direct and perhaps over-analyzing Virgo thing. Of course, as with all the other planets changing signs this week it will aspect PLUTO Rx. This time the aspect is an awkward quincunx (150 degrees). It is forming a Yod (finger of god triangle) by a simultaneous quincunx to NEPTUNE Rx and its ongoing sextile with PLUTO Rx. This augers for some important communication, inspiration or information probably not getting through very clearly or come out sideways. That’s ok because by August 4th MERCURY will go retrograde and form this same Yod two more times over the next 2 months. So by mid September whatever that message may be will finally become unambiguous.  Also, on the 26th CHIRON goes into its slow Rx after hanging out at around 23 degrees of Aries for a little over a month. It will be about 9 months going over 23 to 19 degrees Aries and back to 23 so we can complete our healing work in those degrees whatever that my be for you.
On the 27th we’ve made it halfway to the NEW MOON…WHEW!

I’ll talk some about that on our FULL MOON YouTube video coming out soon and of course in more detail here next week as we get closer to the waning Quarter Square MOON.

I pray you all are navigating all this OK. Its epic times, as I and every other astrologer, have been saying for years now. We all wanted change, now it’s happening (and pretty much for the rest of our lives). It is both fascinating and harrowing to go through this no matter who you are or what you know. Sending blessings to you all.