WAXING QUARTER MOON FORECAST 12/19 TO 12/26
The good news? Jupiter is all over things this week with synergistic trines to MERCURY Rx and the SUN. A “Benefic planet” that brings optimism, luck, expansion and big picture consciousness to anything it touches. But also possibly, the shadow of over expansion, overconfidence and over doing things. Right now, JUPITER is pretty much stopped at 5 degrees and change in Taurus, getting set to go direct on the 30th. So, its powerfully magnifying that spot and most of the other planets are just dancing around it. The 5 to 6 degrees Taurus Sabian Symbol key phrase is:
“A Bridge Being Built Across a Gorge, OVERCOMING, Finding a way to end separation and form group consciousness. Building bridges to end separation”.
That can’t be a bad thing these days. It is been in Rx though. Consequently, its mostly working on our inner selves. A lot of life renovation and inner bridge building since September if you think about it.
NEPTUNE also plays a big role this week, as it has for a while. It is still at 24 degrees PISCES, it has been all month, though direct now. It’s a big slow planet so it never moves much in a month even at its speediest. The energy of NEPTUNE at home in PISCES is literally deceptive. It can bring us great inspirations, spiritual insights and psychic abilities, but it can also be so ungrounded as to leave us vulnerable to internal or external falsehoods, disinformation and betrayal and only our deepest wisdom can dicern between the two. The Sabian symbol for this degree is:
“ROOTING OUT CORRUPTION, How ever sincere an initial impulse was, there will always be corrupting influences; sometimes it is best to restart and refresh, “Rid yourself of negative thought””.
So that’s been going on since mid-November. Think about it
NEPTUNE is just finishing an awkward square to the SUN which may have left us all a bit collectively or personally foggy early this month about who we are or our best direction, though we also may have had some amazing visions of what would be an ideal future for us. Now it trines VENUS in SAG exactly on the 25th bringing some dreamy romantic or nostalgic vibes to the week which will be nice, I’m sure, for Xmas day. Things may get a bit awkward as then NEPTUNE squares MERCURY, exactly a month after its first square in the Rx dance, possibly bringing back any assumptions and erroneous or bungled communications made in late November for review or for mistakenly doubling down on them. Some Xmas presents to return? LOL. Then it trickily squares MARS just after the Full MOON. More on that next week but be cautious of betting the farm or your heart to person or a cause this month. Wait until January to commit vital emotional or material resources or at least have an easy out or refundable ticket.
The MOON activates the healer/mentor CHIRON on Wednesday. Then the SOLSTICE happens and EARTH begins to wobble the other way, the days get longer here in the North and all the peoples celebrate. The MOON swings past JUPITER on the 22nd giving a little emotional flair to a faint but present MINOR GRAND SQUARE with SATURN sextile to all: SUN, MERCURY and JUPITER, MOON on the other side. A fine day for a bit of manifestation magic or last minute inspired shopping.
MERCURY Rx is combust (within 5 degrees) the SUN (again) weakening its influence by blending it with our ego desires from the 20th to the 25th , so maybe it won’t be quite so mischievous as this retrograde has shown to be for some of us. It goes cazimi (exactly conjunct between the EARTH and SUN) on Friday the 22nd which can actually amplify its influence for a day. So be extra patient with its shenanigans and you will see in the long run it was really being mostly helpful or at least basically harmless, except to your ego.
That lucky and jovial trine between the SUN and JUPITER should give the week a good lift and the DEC 26th FULL MOON in CANCER will be sextile to it as it anchors a magical MINOR GRAND TRINE on the 26th made of SATURN, JUPITER and the MOON. All will be well if we keep our egos reined in, don’t overindulge in anything and don’t jump to any rash conclusions. Just enjoy the week if you can. It’s the Holy-days after all.