Astrological Winds for Week of 6-18-12

This week starts off relatively quiet on Monday, although a Moon square Mars and trine Saturn in the evening may find us working late or taking on active duties/responsibilities.

Tuesday is a New Moon in Gemini at 28/29* - it is time to seek out new ways of communicating, gathering information, educating ourselves, relating to others – to move on/graduate from older/outdated/worn out ways -  the mental/intellectual side of us will dominate. It is a time when we can learn from listening to others and to what our very life experiences are trying to tell/teach us. Look to where this degree falls in your chart and it will tell you what area of life you will experience it the most. Any planets at 28-29* in your chart will also be aspected by this New Moon and blend in with its energy.

Wednesday is an odd mix of energy as Mercury squares Saturn, Venus quincunx Pluto and sextiles Uranus later, and Mercury semi-squares Venus also. Mercury/Saturn can make it a heavy day mentally where you feel burdened down by responsibilities, are stuck in a narrow viewpoint, can see the shadow side of life easily, and can be highly critical. It’s best to use this energy for heavy mental work or working on details, and if you can do it alone, it would be preferable. Venus quincunx Pluto will make it hard to get along with others anyway during the day (as will Moon square Uranus and opposite Pluto) as power struggles/disappointments may ensue. By evening the other two aspects will liven you up: Venus sextile Uranus desires new experiences through others. You may be bored with the usual lot and seek stimulation via new people/places/things/creativity.  Mercury’s semi-square to Venus re-enforces that we’ll want other people involved also to bang our ideas out to and receive their’s too. This is also the day of the Summer Solstice when the Sun slips back into southern direction by reaching its furthest point north latitude. This is a time of the year when summer kicks in full on and extra time may be spent with family, friends, vacations, home projects, on nurturing, emotions, instincts, etc. All in all, a day of heavy weather/much to process/deal with.

Thursday’s Mercury sextile Mars (and Moon conjunct Mercury/sextile Mars) will have minds moving quickly and expertly this day. A good day to get work done – it will likely be busy, but you should be up for the challenge positively.  It is best to work on projects you have a personal interest in however to maintain enthusiasm. Confidence should be high today and you may have a convincing voice around others. Mercury is also sesiquadrate Chiron today, so our quest for learning/info may be thwarted here and there.

Friday is on the quieter/positive side with sweet aspects of Moon to Venus/Jupiter/Uranus.

Saturday’s Sun trine Neptune may diffuse energy but in positive ways for the most part. You will likely be in touch with your idealistic/spiritual/imaginative side. This is an excellent day to spend in some type of contemplative/meditative retreat, doing charitable/volunteer work, spending the day on a romantic jaunt with your lover, or tuning into psychic/hidden messages. Venus sesiquadrate Saturn will likely have you feeling a bit anti-social/conservative socially anyway. Ceres also ingresses into Gemini joining the party there currently, where we will get nurturing through learning, communicating, being listened to, competence.

In a way Sunday can be looked upon as a day of reckoning for our age: the first of seven exact squares  between Uranus and Pluto that I have been blogging about here for months. We have gotten a good taste of this aspect already as soon as it moved into orb when Uranus went into Aries. The keyword is revolution in its broadest sense across all segments of society: politics, art, religion, values, technology, - anything you can think of will be shook up in these next four years. Strap in, for our world will be changing rapidly and permanently, over these next few years. If you just look at all that has gone on surrounding the word revolution in the past few months alone you’ll get a taste of what’s coming: the Arab Spring, Tea Party, Occupy Movement, scandals in Church/government/sports, fall of Eurozone, revolutions across Asian way of life, etc. Now we will be in among the seven squares fully and change will pick up and become more intense – many things will have to give. Saturn also stations direct: it is time to be responsible for what we truly believe in – to take concrete steps in backing that up and build the alliances we need to make it happen.

We are fully immersed into an age of revolution now and for next several years – it will not be boring!

Next week, Jupiter squares Neptune and Venus finally goes direct!

Astrological Winds of Week of 6-11-12

This week starts off with Mercury in Cancer locking into the cardinal square between Uranus and Pluto and forming a cardinal T-square, so the Uranus/Pluto will rev up a notch higher in octave as it approaches its first exact touch on June 24^th. A cardinal t-square shows issues of survival are at the base of the tension. People’s emotions and reasoning may be at a frothy boil that is impossible to separate. Adding to that is a mutable T-square among Sun in Gemini, Moon Pisces, and Mars in Virgo. It’s an emotional drive for some depth/connection in our lives versus the superficiality of the society our selves/egos exist within. It will be easy to be critical of others today and to have our spinning emotions dictate what we are saying. Perhaps the best way to use this energy would be to use new revelations/technology/ideas to seek long term solutions by looking into depth at possibilities now. Collaborating/partnering with others could be important too, but everyone needs to be able to express their unique side.                                                                                                                                                                                                           These T-squares will likely be in the middle of many of the world events of the early part of the week. 

Topping off a very busy Monday is a big annual shift as Jupiter ingresses into Gemini, a sign it is quite weak in (detriment). Why? Because here Jupiter brings expansion to a sign that is already always seeking more input/stimulation/interests to the point of scattered-ness/frenzy at times – it’s overstimulating the nervous system, superficial communication/knowledge/information/big ideas with no grounding.  We’ve already been overstimulated in Gemini energy this month from Venus Retrograde located there, so this combines with a weakened Jupiter can bring out the shadow side of Gemini: lack of depth/spread too thin/trickery/over-reliability on mental processes and intellect/too detached of an outlook. I am concerned with this weak Jupiter adding fuel to the fire of the Uranus/Pluto square: I don’t think it will be good for business, investments, big business, law and order issues, higher education issues. The best use of this energy is maintaining an objective mind perhaps, advances in communication type technology, alternative education and medicine and value systems. Things will continue to change very rapidly in our modern world – strap in!

Chiron also turns retrograde on Monday – a subtle shift to favoring learning/healing from within – working on our own stuff so to speak for the next few months. Mercury trines stationary Chiron on Tuesday – the ability to find the right words to help others is accessible today, as are leaps in understanding about how you think: what’s influenced your thinking, and an objective view that allows you to think more for yourself. Hopefully, this will help with the emotional tension set off by Moon conjunct Uranus and square Pluto Tuesday also. We may realize we can’t follow through with some plans and it may have us quite put off by self and others.

The Sun trine Saturn is the perfect middle of the work week aspect as we are in  a great flow with whatever our daily duties (most of us work) are. This is an excellent day to deal with authorities/superiors as you will get favorable results in what you seek from them most likely. Other favorable activities include organizing/planning, cleaning stuff up, working on detailed jobs, finding cost/waste cutting measures, honestly assessing your life.

Thursday and Friday are quite quiet.

Saturday has Mercury semi-square Jupiter in Gemini, which stimulates the above Jupiter in Gemini energy by the ruler of that sign in frustrating ways – this mat be a day of overstimulation that could have you overdo it and say something that can damage a relationship, especially with Venus retrograde square Chiron retrograde also. Weak relationships may not survive this energy and troubled ones are stirred up.

Mercury sesiquadrate Neptune is a lazy Sunday type aspect. This can be a day of doubts and not one you want to have to face the world of harsh reality with much. Best spent just relaxing, as physical energy will be low anyway, meditating/contemplating, making music/poetry/fantasy, spiritual practices/study.  It is easy to get discouraged spiritually under this aspect or mentally confused, tongue-tied, spacey, secretive, deceptive.

Next week there’s a New Moon in Gemini, the Sun ingresses into Cancer (Summer Solstice!), and the first exact square of 7 over 3+ years of Uranus/Pluto – this summer may be aflame in many ways!

Astrological Winds of Week of 6-4-2012

As we inch closer to the exactness of the first exact hit of the Uranus/Pluto square on June 24^th, the intensity of everything will continue to accelerate. On the day that Uranus went into Aries so that the square became applying and active by sign and within orb by degree the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster at Fukiyama occurred. Meanwhile revolutions swept the world: the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, food riots, riots in Greece/Spain/Italy in Europe. If there was ever any doubt of astrology marking the times, it should be permanently erased now. And as we get closer and within the seven exact aspects of this square, just remember revolution will be the keyword across all segments of society, not just people in the streets. The events occurring in the past two weeks just seem to quicken and deepen in intensity as if things are ready to burst out at the seams literally across the fabric of civilization as we know it. Venus retrograde transit in Gemini seems to be acting like a Mercury Retrograde on steroids with information overload and surprises in relationships leaving people tongue and mind twisted.

Monday will feed right into these times intensity with a Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse at 14* Sagittarius forming a mutable t-square with Venus retrograde in Gemini and finicky Mars in Virgo. Things may be flying so high in relationships that it may be impossible to keep up/balance with all that’s going on. The effects can be both positively exhilarating and negatively overwhelming/overstimulating. There’s a big possibility of saying/acting too quickly and upsetting the apple cart somehow, which can result in bruised feelings to arguments/battles. Creativity is boiling hard also and you may be able to achieve much in any endeavor you take on that plays into that. This Full Moon eclipse says to collaborate with others and get your wildest/edgiest ideas out there to be seen/exposed. Look to what houses in your chart it falls into and any planets that aspect it tightly to see where and how it will be felt in your own life. Neptune also goes retrograde on Monday, a much subtler shift where we retreat within to contemplate our own spirituality, ideals, inspirations for solace.

Tuesday is the big astronomical event you likely have been hearing about lately. Venus’ transit across the face of the Sun – essentially Venus eclipsing the Sun, an event that occurred 8 years ago almost to the day, and will not occur again in our lifetimes (105 years). Astrologically, Venus conjunction to the Sun brings up personal magnetism, interest in aesthetics/arts, finances, attention on relationships, the leisurely life, the empowerment of the female. Since Venus is retrograde, much of what comes up may be associated with the past in some way. With Moon square Uranus and conjunct Pluto this day, we will definitely be processing some deep/intense emotions from the past two day’s events and emotions.

Wednesday is pretty quiet.

Thursday Mercury speeds off into Cancer and there’s an ornery square of the Sun and Mars. Mercury in Cancer has our emotions influencing our thinking and communicating more than normal, and thus giving us a very subjective state of mind that is influenced by our past and our habits more than we may recognize. People will have a tendency to get emotionally upset easier especially if what they are familiar with is stirred up while Mercury traverses this sign. The Sum/Mars square can rev this energy up to an out and out argument/fight with another/others. These two bodies both represent ego, thus our egos are inflated on this day and we can be very defensive/offensive in our dealings with others. It will be hard to work in groups this day, as individuals seek their own glory (or infamy!). This is a day best spent doing hard physical work/activities alone to blow off your steam. Competition will be in overdrive; conflict is likely; accidents will happen; belligerence is the fad of this day, are some of the effects to expect.

Friday, Mercury is trine Neptune – this is an excellent day/night to go out and collaborate with others/in groups over imagination, ideals, inspiration, the occult, spirituality, art, fantasies, etc. People will be highly attuned to one and other on psychic/subtle levels and may communicate non-verbally effortlessly. We will also be empathic/compassionate of others’ plights and helpful with our words to them.

The weekend is actually pretty quiet with lunar aspects to Jupiter and Neptune on Saturday, and to Venus on Sunday,  making it a summer weekend to be enjoyed in leisurely and social activities with lots of good feelings to share.

Next week is a huge shift with Jupiter ingressing into Gemini (pun intended!)

Astrological Winds of 5-28-12

Mercury continues to be the main activator this week, starting right off on Monday as it sesiquadrates Saturn, quincunxs Pluto and squares Chiron. There can be many frustrating blockages, disconnections, challenges with communications this day. The Moon in Virgo’s First Quarter Square to Sun in Gemini will add to this also. This may be a day where we feel annoyed inside at the  superficiality or frivolousness/sloppiness of others, and may have us feeling intellectually isolated, engaged in heavy thoughts, argumentative with those in power, unable to express what we are thinking and feeling, challenged by what we are learning about ourselves and others, caught in stubborn stand-offs, etc. It would be best to use this energy to challenge yourself to learn from these situations – to take in new information that comes your way via a Sun/Uranus sextile and to examine your own state in relation to it. It’s an odd mix of energy this day that can be both inspiring, yet somewhat isolating inside, and at odds with others at times.

The Sun’s sesiquadrate to Saturn and quincunx to Pluto on Tuesday will continue Monday’s energy and you may find yourself overwhelmed with burdens and duties when you return from the holiday weekend. Those with authority over you may be breathing down your neck immediately today and expect more production. Ideas you have may be blocked or forced to conform into something more conservative/systematic. You may find yourself struggling inside over whether what you are doing is really worth it in light of deeper things. Mistakes you made last week will need to be dealt with and taken responsibility for.

Wednesday’s Mercury square to Mars can be downright ornery – tempers that are bottled up inside from past two days may explode in fits/words of rage at others we’ve perceived as doing us wrong. Be aware the ego is very highly involved right now and we may regret what we say today quickly, as we have a chance to really hurt ourselves in some way, especially with the Sun square Chiron too. It may be difficult to regain your image for quite some time if you go overboard in reactions today. Any communications/interactions we have today may be touchy at best, and nasty at worst.

Thursday is pretty quiet, although a Moon/Saturn conjunction can have emotions still bottled up inside/feeling restricted.

Friday, Mercury crashes into Venus Retrograde, which can bring a big interest in the arts in some form this weekend, either through self-involvement, or going out to see others’ works. This is also a good time for lovers to hash out/talk out any situations that need figuring out jointly, or even for business deals.

Saturday is quiet also, although with Moon sextile Mars it’s a great day to get some home projects/work done.

Sunday, Mercury trines Saturn – this is a great day to make some detailed plans for future whether planning a vacation, organizing your life in some way, taking care of some important paperwork/negotiation, look at situations objectively, work out details, learn from those with more experience, and work on practical answers to problems.

Next week, we have a Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon at 14* Sagittarius, Neptune going retrograde, and the Sun’s conjunction with Venus, which you’ll be hearing about in press from astronomers all week as Venus actually “eclipses” the Sun.

Astrological Winds for Week of 5-21-12

More on Venus retrograde as many seem interested: relationships from the past will also be a major theme in your life during this time – having to deal with the consequences of being related to others in your past, or people who you’ve known longer will take a more prominent role again, and it may not be easy to deal with most likely.

And more on Uranus/Pluto square tightening up for first exact hit: if you’ll recall it was on the day of Uranus ingress into Aries and the square became active by mode that the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster in Japan occurred. This apparently was the birth of a catastrophic event that is continuing to occur and the information on how serious the situation really is being withheld from the public. See: (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870; http://www.naturalnews.com/035065_Fukushima_radiation_Pacific_Ocean.html) In other words the ugly head of Pluto in the square is slowly transforming the world beneath the surface via radiation and deception of the public during a worldwide crisis situation brought on by a quick natural disaster (Uranus). Also, as mentioned last week, revolutions in the streets seem to be sweeping the planet. What a stressful time in general, and when we get the personal planets getting involved too, like Venus going retrograde, we all get to feel the stress in some personal way. Like I said last week, this eclipse/New Moon/Venus Retro/Sun ingress to Gemini says info must be spread from the bottom up and far and wide. Info like the above could get a groundswell going to stop the madness of nuclear energy eventually, hopefully before any more catastrophes, as this one obviously has already permanently altered our world and it may be just the beginning of dealing with it.

Mercury is very active this week starting it off with a conjunction to Jupiter this Monday. There will be (too) much to do today/this week – it may not be physically possible to keep up with it all. This is an excellent transit to take more in intellectually/mentally, to make big plans/long term goals, to take on new mind expanding courses of study, to tackle new business projects, to be introduced to new concepts/values/philosophies, organize events, etc. The biggest danger is overlooking details or taking on more than you can handle or perhaps adopting a smug attitude towards some. Mercury’s quincunx to Saturn and sesiquadrate to Pluto shows you may bump heads with superiors/authorities over you ideas that can slow down the process, force adaptations to plans, leave you powerless to move ahead, struggle to convince them of your point, uncover mistakes, question your own thinking/views obsessively, cause arguments, and/or bring up hidden fears. The Moon’s square to Mars will fuel the above and could bring up much anger/irritability today.

Tuesday is pretty quiet with positive Moon in Gemini aspects to Venus retrograde and Saturn.

Wednesday, the Sun squares Neptune, which can bring some form of considerable confusion, deception, discouragement and/or a general draining of energy on all levels. This is not a day to make important decisions or negotiations. We can easily fall under the spell of others, addictions, escapism, idealism, and may be overly sensitive to others/our environment. If you could take this day off and just contemplate/meditate/relax, that would be best, but for most of us we will have to be out in world and dealing with nebulous energy today. Tonight is the night this week the Moon (in Cancer) locks into the Uranus/Pluto square too with a square to Uranus and opposition to Cancer. You may feel like just running away to hide to avoid others or big decisions.

Thursday, Mercury ingresses into a sign it rules, Gemini, joining the Sun and Venus. The balance between Taurus/Earth and Gemini/Air will now be tipped more in air’s direction which will get communications, info sharing, networking up to a more fevered pitch. Minds will be curious, restless, prankish, superficial, easily bored, nervous. Info may come at us so quickly that we may never seem to finish what we started before going on to something else. People will be very chatty, but subject matter will remain on light side. This is also a time where focus may be on travel, getting around, transportation, neighbors, siblings, education and local environment/region.

Friday, it’s Mercury’s turn to square Neptune, which is similar and continues the energy of the Sun/Neptune square and the New Moon/Eclipse square to Neptune earlier in the week. This can bring confused thinking, irrational idealism/ideas, mental deceptions/secrets by self or others, a lazy attitude, misunderstood communications, drifting thoughts, etc. Once again, not a good day for making deals or negotiating. The best use of this energy would be spiritual/metaphysical/religious study or fantasy/creative writing.

Saturday is quiet. Sunday has more Mercury action with the Winged Messenger conjuncting the Sun and sextiling Uranus. This would be an excellent day to seek out some form of mental stimulation that excites/entices you. A short adventure trip of discovery would be perfect, or a lively debate with witty company! Ideas will be exchanged rapidly and everyone will want to get in their say, yet will maintain supportiveness of others. Also a good day to just do something different or approach old problems in new ways or initiate new projects.

Next week, Mercury catches up with Mars and Venus and Saturn to complete aspecting every planet in solar system these two weeks!

Astrological Winds for Week of 5-14-12

Monday the mind wants to probe and find something different to satisfy a deep need for transformation of the way we think/approach things under Mercury trine Pluto and sextile Chiron. There is an acute dissatisfaction today with the order and power structure that governs our lives brought on by Sun quincunx Saturn and sesiquadrate Pluto, as the probing of Mercury/Pluto can see to the bottom of things and it’s likely not a pretty picture – therefore an interest in finding solutions will be fed under Mercury/Chiron. These are also good aspects to deepen connections with others under, to learn about our own ways of thinking and psychology, to do any deep, analytical, research-like work under. Sun/Saturn/Pluto can definitely have us bumping heads with those in power or authority – the restlessness from austerity forced upon populations will be at very frustrated heights now, as the two sides are bound to become more entrenched/estranged. Obstacles and conflicts will require much deeper inner change in order to be overcome, may be the ultimate lesson of this day.

Tuesday Venus goes retrograde at 23* Gemini – the Goddess of Love will backtrack to 7* Gemini before turning direct on June 28^th. This will be a time of re-assessing our relationships with people we associate with on local levels, siblings, neighbors, teachers, students, communication representatives, local businesses. Also, a time to re-assess how we relate to all the information we are bombarded with constantly in our modern world and how it affects our relationships and all the choices we have for entertainment. This may also be at time when we see more clearly how we keep people emotionally/intimately distant with our minds/intellect and perhaps even miss out on romance because of this, and how being too whimsical with others can lead to issues/trouble down the road. Mars, like Mercury above gets involved with Saturn and Pluto this week too first by semi-squaring Saturn today. This is basically having the actions we’d like to take blocked/slowed/frustrated and just having to accept that’s the way it is for now. We may be overburdened by duties that we have to meet which may have us feeling much resentment inside. This is best just to use by chipping away at things so at least you’re using some of the energy and realizing they are going to go slowly at best for now.

Mars trine to Pluto on Wednesday will speed actions up into a precise flow that’s not overwhelming but is quite productive in getting results that will last. You may feel like you have some super powers or are a hero in your own world/sphere today. This is a great day to move forward and let go/make some big decisions on cutting things out that are hurting you, as Mars is also opposite Chiron and Jupiter is quincunx Saturn, pushing us to find the right balance between expansion and contraction and giving us the power to assert ourselves strongly in doing so.  Jupiter/Saturn can fuel a smoldering restlessness in the background of our lives – it’s as if we know we must make some bold moves to heal our world, but we are fighting the restrictions we’ve put on ourselves through our structures. This can be a day when the masses or individuals strike back against society in trying to make a break from the way things are. The best way to use this energy is to collaborate with others with some discipline so that something solid can be prepared to be moved measurably. Juno’s ingress into Sagittarius indicates that partnerships will be a source of creative inspiration and risk-taking in the weeks to come.

Jupiter sesiquadrate Pluto on Thursday continues much of the energy above from earlier in the week. People can get quite coercive and feel god-like under Jupiter/Pluto – this aspect says copping this kind of attitude about our values/beliefs will only bog down transformation. Ambition can be quite high, but there are many roadblocks that must be overcome and what you need to do so may not be all available right now. This is a time to contemplate rebuilding our systems once again, realizing there may be flaws in any plan especially if we get too narrow about our views, legal problems, and questionable values. Hopefully, Mercury’s conjunction to Ceres in Taurus will start grounded dialogue on resource management, information management, and security plans.

Friday and Saturday are quieter days, although Saturday’s Sun opposite Juno may bring some big decision or issue between partners.

Sunday the Sun ingresses into Gemini and we have a New Moon/Solar Eclipse at 1* Gemini – this sounds like a potent time of new beginnings with our thoughts, communications, learning, relationship to local environment. With the eclipse, what we are launching now can bring long term success if we put the work into what we need to do now. This is a time where new ideas that are radical can begin to be accepted and major breakthroughs can eventually occur. This is a time period of sharing information and gaining new knowledge, power, changes, security, partnerships, and connections. Mercury’s semi-square to Uranus feeds this energy, along with all its others aspects this week. Look to the house this eclipse/New Moon falls in your chart to see where its energy will affect you most. Any aspects to other planets/points in your chart (2* orb) will also flavor the energy of this eclipse. It seems like the eclipse/New Moon and other aspects this week show the way is to share information – that change in our lives and society comes from the ground up not from the top down. The best way to do that is to be an agent of change by sharing information and possibilities and by focusing on what is most important and promising. There is much focus on Gemini energy now: Venus stationary retrograde, ingress of Sun, and New Moon/Eclipse, but still enough Taurus (Mercury, Jupiter, Ceres, Sedna) to ground the energy and really think things through and make stable choices. All of this energy is building up leading to the first exact hit of Uranus/Pluto square come late June. If there was ever any doubt about astrology, look how much Uranus/Pluto, the archetype of revolution, has already affected the world in the past year: and the exact first hit hasn’t even come yet! As we get closer to it, Europe is a sea of unemployed people, put out of work by the policies of austerity and old world economic policies, revolting in the streets (check the BBC news); revolution continues to sweep across the Arab World; China and India become more westernized by the day; and the US is divided between two extreme revolutionary groups demonstrating in the streets also. This is an opportunity for great change and this whole energy seems to say it must come from the bottom and go up no matter where we seek it. Be an agent of change centered in the heart and you will know the right thing to do – and it’s in the little things that happen to us each day most often where this occurs with others and nature, not some large event – share those little things with others now and you will be that agent of change – you will learn and teach simultaneously: what a grandiose plan/way to change the world!

Next week, Mercury is very active joining the Sun/Venus in the sign it rules, Gemini, and aspecting most of the other planets. The Sun will also square Neptune. Stay tuned.

Astrological Winds for Week of May 7, 2012

Monday could be a very odd day energy wise as we have two awkward aspects of Uranus: first Jupiter semi-square Uranus could raise frustration levels on how much you have to do as you realize what you’ve committed to with zeal is losing its flavor a bit or is even becoming a bit of a nuisance somehow. The problem is that what you set out to do may have been a bit too lofty or has gotten sidetracked somehow. In any case restlessness is setting in on some level and you are beginning to desire change or freedom from what it is. Mars quincunx Uranus has you wanting to resolve it now and partaking in awkward or un-thought-out adjustments. Actions are impulsive/rash now and can do more damage than good – careful. Also, these two aspects can lead to temperamental/startling outbursts that turn others away/off. There’s no doubt you need to do something physical today to blow off some of this energy especially with Moon in Sagittarius also aspecting Mars and Uranus.

Tuesday, Mercury ingresses into Taurus grounding and stabilizing communications/business/education for a few weeks.  This is a time when we can slow down our thoughts and really think things through thoroughly (say that 5x fast!).  We have good common sense and are in touch with emotions and cycles enough to consider more than just intellect in our decisions.

Wednesday is the day this week when the Moon (in Capricorn) locks into the Uranus/Pluto square with a square to Uranus and conjunction to Pluto. Expect some intense news on the politics of the world this week with the European elections, etc. Emotions are highly charged now over austerity/banks/big business, etc. and this could mark an emotional turning point. This could be a carry over of Full Moon in Scorpio too with secrets being revealed both personally and in  Collective worlds of international finance, multinationals, war, birth control, etc.

Mercury’s sextile to Neptune on Thursday and the Moon in a Grand Trine in Earth with Sun and Jupiter should calm things down a bit and get intuition/sensitivity heightened to the point of imparting wisdom and inspiring imagination. A day when we will be able to perceive beauty in the world somehow that gives some hope. This is also the energy of spiritual/religious learning.

Friday’s sesiquadrate between Saturn and Chiron can weave into the background themes of these times. This can show how we are stuck in patterns/behaviors that are so ingrained and rigid that we are our own worst enemy in frustrating and blocking solutions to the problems we face together, and that even when we do attempt to do so that it can actually divert us from our original purpose. This could be currently irresolvable energy.  Mercury’s conjunction to Vesta should open stable lines of communications with those we feel sibling-like in certain shared behaviors and deepen/solidify these relationships.

Saturday’s Sun semi-square Uranus combines with 3^rd Quarter Square of Moon in Aquarius to the Sun in Taurus to perhaps bring us some challenge this day that will have us wanting to rebel or express ourselves uniquely/freely. Small acts of rebellion may win out over stability this day, but likely won’t get out of hand. Plans may not work out/small surprises may be in store. Pluto’s sextile to Chiron is another long term background, collective influence that has us thirsty to discover more about ourselves and our world on deeper levels. Opportunities for deep transformative healing over a period of time are available now if worked with.

Sunday’s Sun conjunct Jupiter in Taurus can bring constructive optimism. This is a day to take in more/expand your vision/experience that can bring deeper understanding. People will be generous and gregarious in general. The biggest issue will be overly inflated egos for some, and also just trying to do/take in too much. Mercury’s trine to Mars and semi-square to Venus will feed this energy above and want to work with it in some form(s). Minds will be quick/witty and wanting to share what’s on them. A real nice mix of self/intellect/action/emotion on this day could work some miracles.

Next week has the biggest 2 astrological events in weeks: Venus goes retrograde and a Solar Eclipse/New Moon at 1* Gemini.