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Saturn Stationing to Turn Retrograde is Like…

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Saturn stationing to turn retrograde is like...* Stopping something before you get in over your head* Biding your time* Strategizing for a later advance​* Thinking it over* A breakdown of rules, structures, and forms of conduct* A reconsideration or revisioning of forms, structures, and rules* Releasing an embittered or dogmatic perspective* Shutting down rather than opening up* Melancholia on the rise* Facing the inevitable* The destabilization of foundations or the ruin, decay, or …

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A Busy Astrological Week

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What a week of astrological transits we have in front of us...Here's what to watch for:* Over the next week + the Sun will oppose Jupiter, square Pluto, and conjoin Uranus.* Over the next week Saturn will station and turn retrograde* In a little over a week Venus will station and turn direct* In the next week Venus will exactly square Saturn and then station and slowly turn direct while Saturn is doing the same thing, making for a kind of ongoing standoff between the two planets all month.* It's …

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Solar Eclipse Today!

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Happy Solar Eclipse!What to watch for:* Solar eclipses open doors and bring powerful new beginnings. Sometimes these beginnings are felt right away and other times they take a while to appear. Look specifically at the first 10 degrees of Pisces in your birth chart, or to the house that Pisces rules for a more specific sense of where this new energy might be appearing.* This solar eclipse is aligned with Neptune, which brings along with it a powerful imaginative, romantic, and otherworldly thrust …

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The Inevitability of this Moment

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Mars is separating from Pluto but now applying quickly to a conjunction with Uranus and opposition with Jupiter, just as we're approaching a solar eclipse on Sunday and the Jupiter/Uranus opposition is exact again.Here's a deeper look at some of the powers symbolized by the current planetary configurations and some thoughts on how we might work with what's here:* With Jupiter retrograde in Libra as a powerful planetary player right now, it's possible that we are being called to task for previous …

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The Sun is in Pisces!

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The Sun has entered Pisces!! Hooray for the fishes!!Stereotypes about Pisces, where they come from, why they aren't the full story:Stereotypes--* Pisces is psychic* Pisces is a dreamer* Pisces is a whiner/complainer* Pisces is a victim* Pisces is a saint, or maybe Jesus, or maybe a schizophrenic* Pisces doesn't like being in reality, they prefer dreams, moods, and romance* Pisces is the most likely to off themselves* Pisces is the mystic of the zodiacWhere they come from...* Pisces is a …

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Mercury/Pluto this Weekend

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The Moon is in Aquarius today, flowing toward a trine with Jupiter. Meanwhile, Mars has entered Aries and Mercury is moving into a conjunction with Pluto.Here's what to expect:* A New Moon with a flowing trine to Jupiter suggests this Moon cycle may start off with an aura of excitement, anticipation, confidence, faith, hope, and trust in the possibility of growth and positive development.* The trine to Jupiter suggests that whatever is commencing now, under this new Moon, or whatever we are …

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New Moon in Aquarius

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Happy New Moon Everyone! We're now entering eclipse season with this new cycle.Tonight around 7:00 pm eastern the Moon will conjoin the Sun and start a new cycle.Here's what to watch for:* Venus and Saturn are still square, so watch for all kinds of challenges or limitations or serious/commitment developments related to love and relationships, design and style, aesthetics and sexuality, women and all things feminine. Saturn is acting as a potentially repressive/oppressive force right now and …

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10 Signs Mercury is in Your Midst Today

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Ten signs Mercury is in your midst today:1. You are dealing with technical issues, misunderstandings, blockages, or delays.2. You at some point this morning have said, "this is so totally Mercury retrograde."3. Your words have been misunderstood...maybe the fact that they've been misunderstood creates another kind of misunderstanding.4. Your environment feels messy, dirty, unorganized, or generally all over the place.5. You are tempted to undo, redo, or totally change course.6. You are trying …

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The Messenger, the Underworld, and the Revolution

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The Moon is in Virgo today, applying to Mercury (who is stationing) in Capricorn. Mercury is nearly conjunct to Pluto. From here, the Moon applies to a square with Saturn and then enters into the last quarter Moon just as we move into the solstice.Keep your eyes peeled for...* Delays, setbacks, and all manner of Mercury matters reaching a halt, standstill, or temporary shutdown.* However, the Moon making a trine to this stationing Mercury could also represent the return on something you've been …

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Revolution on Earth, Revolving Planets in the Sky

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The Moon is in Aquarius today, separating from a conjunction with Mars. Meanwhile, as the Jupiter/Uranus opposition draws closer, and as we saw many supportive aspects from the Moon over the weekend, we experienced at least one revolutionary/breakthrough moment in the collective that is what we might expect from a Jupiter/Uranus opposition. Yesterday there was a significant victory for the Standing Rock protest. The Army corp of engineers is denying the pipeline route near the Sioux reservation …

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New Moon Forecast!

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Happy New Moon Everyone!Today the Sun and Moon are conjoining in the sign of the bowman, the temple of Zeus/Jupiter. Sign of hope, faith, and good luck. The sign of good cheer, good spirit, and faith in the year ahead.Meanwhile, Mars and Jupiter are coming together by trine as Jupiter is also intensifying its opposition to Uranus.Here's what to watch for:* As the Moon presses beyond its opening conjunction to the Sun it will immediately apply to a sextile with Jupiter and conjunction with …

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Moon Square Mercury and Saturn Today

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The Moon is in Virgo this morning heading toward squares with Mercury and Saturn. Meanwhile, the Sun has finally left Scorpio and entered Sagittarius.Here's what to watch for:* Challenges in communication, negotiating, or coming to agreements on terms. Keep working at it, the support is there! (Moon square Mercury/Saturn today)* Offering or receiving less than what someone wants. Patience, frugality, modesty, and sincerity further your cause. (Moon in Virgo, square Mercury/Saturn with Mercury …

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