Astrological Winds for the Week of 10-15-12

This is a relatively quiet week with most of the action early featuring a New Moon at 22* Libra on Monday. This is a call to look at the way we handle relationships and finding balance with the requirements of our duties in them and the need to serve/be ourselves. This is a time we may form new partnerships, get into some beautification project in our environment/surroundings, seek out others to make agreements with, be a peacemaker/diplomat, and come together with others over ideas you share.  This is a time we are being called upon to bring harmony to the world around us.  Look to the house this New Moon falls into in your chart to see where the action will be in your life. Any planets it makes aspects to will also color the energy for you personally.

 

Mars is trine Uranus on Monday also and this can give us a super boost of energy this day that works smoothly for us and allows us to get much done both physically and mentally. This can also get libidos going, confident brashness that can actually attract others, breaks from your normal routine, a willingness to try things you normally wouldn’t, and breaking through restrictions easily.

 

Jupiter retrograde is also sesiquadrate Saturn Monday: normally these two work well together even in hard aspects, but right now our efforts/projects/works that were looking promising not too long ago may be getting stuck/bogged down/delayed by reality right now, and there may not be much we can do to force circumstances to flow our way right now - we’ll likely have to just wait it out and go through some contraction. Efforts we do make now are likely to miss their mark/go askew.

 

Both Mercury and Venus are active together on Tuesday keeping social energy perking: they sextile each other while Venus squares and Mercury quincunxes Jupiter, and Venus also semi-squares Saturn. For the most part this is agreeable energy, as people wish to connect/share with one and other, but there’s a tendency to go over the limits with boisterous behavior, stretching of the truth, imbalanced judgments, overspending of money and resources, lazy passivity, and indulgent extravagance. Later on, Saturn will remind us of the price we’ll have pay to reality.

 

Wednesday through Friday there is a lull in planetary activity and most of the Moon aspects are mellow except for a Moon/Mars conjunction Thursday morning which can bring up egotistical/angry/aggressive behavior and is best used by doing something physical solo.

 

Saturday, Mars conjuncts Juno, which can bring up issues of anger or aggression within relationships, but can fire up sexuality between partners.  Mercury’s sesiquadrate to Uranus is jagged mental energy blockage that can overload nerves or frustrate solutions. Vesta also goes retrograde bringing in a period of change that causes reflection within groups you belong to and perhaps reassessment of your role.

 

Sunday, Mercury semi-squares Pluto, which gives the ability to see deeply into things, but be disturbed by the state of what you see, and an inability to transform it presently. The Moon in Capricorn’s first quarter square to Sun in Libra can restrict emotions when dealing with others despite the need to connect with them. Social contacts may be stressful today.