Astrological Winds for Week of 4/9/12

Monday’s Venus in Gemini sextile to Uranus in Aries gives us the opportunities to forge new alliances with others who come from different viewpoints each carrying a piece of information that could enrapture you for a short while. Alliances/connections made now have a tendency to be short-lived yet exciting/stimulating in unique ways. We also may be attracted to odd (for you) art, creative endeavors, investment schemes. Ceres ingresses into the earth sign, Taurus, where the earth mother must feel quite comfortable. Issues of our own food and resource security are begging to be addressed now in stable ways. The Sun is conjunct Vesta today also, allowing one to merge with the group that one feels is most like their true brothers or sisters, blood or not. This is a good day for some group earth ritual for sure!

Pluto goes retrograde on Tuesday, a subtle shift, and it will remain so until September 17^th. This will be a time period when we must look within to see where control issues in our lives are and what our part is in contributing to them – a time of reflecting on our own shadow, death, transformation, resource control, use/control of emotions – and try to get a better handle on them before we confront the world/others with its/theirs.  The Sun semi-square Venus will likely mean some indulgence/enjoyment tonight, but could also have people more sensitive than usual and easily offended.

Late Wednesday is the beginning of the weekly Moon and Uranus/Pluto square hard aspect day –  this one may strike deeply as the Moon in Capricorn conjuncts stationary Pluto after squaring Uranus. This could be a very powerful day emotionally of the transformation of certain emotions and a desire to break free of old reactions to them.

Thursday has three aspects that are likely residual to Moon/Pluto/Uranus. First Mercury quincunxes Saturn again, which can really slow down/block/impede effective communication and thinking. The Sun’s semi-square to Chiron indicates frustration from old wounds that still hold sway over us and hold us back from fulfillment. The search for equilibrium seems pointless at times and you may question some of your own identity. Venus square Chiron shows this spills over into our relationships too and we may get fresh wounds or have to re-visit old ones.

Friday Mars goes direct – once again Syria has been a good example in the mundane world of the effect of a stationing/slow moving Mars. Mars stationary is square Syria’s Mars/Uranus conjunction in Gemini and the military regime is currently trying to smash the revolution before forced into a ceasefire by even its own allies in the UN at this point. When planets are stationary/slow, their effect is amplified. Mars stationary/retrograde indicates the military turning the guns on its own people – this is how Syria has spent this Mars retro period. In our own lives Mars going direct can many times mean a dam finally bursts that has been keeping our activity lower than normal – if you have been experiencing that acutely these past few months, things should start to move forward. Mars in Virgo favors working with details, the hands, tools, rules and procedures.

Saturday’s Venus quincunx Pluto can keep relationship issues on the front burner on high heat. Relationships on weak ground can end now. This is an indicator of learning through relationships also by, in the sense of having to deal with others you would prefer not to if given the choice, and what parts of yourself you see in them that can be unbalancing/distressing. This is also an indicator of being overly possessive, or someone acting that way toward you, causing the other to want to flee.

Sunday, tax day in the USA, is the Sun’s annual opposition to Saturn – how fitting of this aspect that forces us to deal with/make decisions in relation to authorities/superiors/laws/rules/restrictions. The problem with this aspect is it leaves you feeling angry about not being able to do what you really want to because of duties/obligations – so it can be a heavy day that has you isolated/down in some way.  Fortunately, the effects shouldn’t be felt much beyond tomorrow.

Next week, Mercury heads back to Aries and starts to speed up, while the Sun ingresses into Taurus where there will be a New Moon.