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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse and More ...  May 15th Total Lunar eclipse 9:11 pm PDT Full Moon 9:14 pm Sun square Saturn Sun sextile Neptune On May 15th, we have a number of things happening, including a Full Moon in Scorpio that will be totally eclipsed at 9:11 PM PDT. Full Moons tend to open us up more emotionally and having it in the watery sign of Scorpio can add more flavors of intensity and depth to the recipe. Scorpio is passionate; this full moon offers a deep opportunity to explore sensuality, sexuality and passion with a romantic partner. The Scorpio full moon comes at the height of springtime every year, if your love life is aligned it's a wonderful time to let passion grow and go wild. I find that Scorpio's energy can also put you more in touch with passions that bring feelings of anger, and or frustration and irritability around situations that you may have been brushing off. If you find this to be opening up for you on this day, then I recommend noticing how anger is a healthy emotion that can guide you towards taking action on something that needs your attention. Anger can get you to rise up and do something about what’s not feeling right. Scorpio connects in with the "rise up and take action" energy motivated by anger as it is is traditionally ruled by action oriented Mars, whom is also known as the God of War in mythology. It's common be afraid of one's own anger as it can become destructive when it moves a person to lash out and be hurtful to others, which, of course, is not what I am suggesting here. Healthy anger, however, is a powerful signal to take action and correct what’s not feeling right. If ignored, the anger can get turned inward and show up as low energy and depression. Consciously expressed anger helps us show up and take care of ourselves, but when it’s suppressed, we can end up emotionally collapsing and unable to tend to our needs. Therefore, it’s good to feel anger and let it move you to self-responsibility and awareness of unmet needs or crossed boundaries. This Scorpio full moon is a powerful time to work with this terrain. As mentioned, this Full Moon in Scorpio comes with a Total Lunar Eclipse. Lunar Eclipses can also be associated with an emotional opening or new awareness around something that is in need of letting go. This may not happen on the day of the eclipse but can set the energy in motion that can show up in 2 weeks to 2 months down the road. Also on May 15th, we have the Sun making a hard Square aspect with Saturn, possibly adding a bit of downer energy to what can already be an emotional day with the Full Moon. However, the Sun is making a positive Sextile aspect with Neptune at the same time, opening up your intuition and psychic senses. This Sun/Neptune energy can also get you in touch with the bigger perspective of your Soul's journey here on Earth, allowing for some ease around hard emotional things that may show up on this day. On May 15th, I recommend making a plan to spend a part of the day with some nourishing, soul-connecting company and or creating an intentional emotional-releasing space to let go of the known karma that no longer serves you.  May 17th - 22nd ~ Mars conjunction Neptune It may be hard to fully access your personal drive and willpower at this time. You may desire to do something constructive, but as you get into your day, you may end up in a different flow than what you intended. Therefore, from May 17th - 22nd, I recommend giving yourself grace around how your being wants to flow through these days. You may not be as productive as you hoped to be, but you will also find that your soul is being nourished by what you do end up doing. Amongst all the necessary work, family, and home life needs, allow yourself to just be in the flow during this time, as much as possible. If there are mission-critical tasks that occur on these days, take care to allow yourself some extra time and bandwidth to accomplish those goals. May 22nd - 24th ~ Mars Sextile Pluto Your energy and productivity capacities will start to pick up the pace again and may have you “going the distance” at this time. Therefore, if you feel like you start the week of the 16th off with lower energy, then I recommend letting it be what it is knowing things will pick back up again on the 22nd through the 24th. Mars/Pluto energy can also powerfully activate your stirrings from your egoic drives. It’s helpful to be attentive during this time, to make sure you’re overly activated ego isn’t running the whole show.  May 24th - 26th ~ Venus sextile Saturn This time offers an opportunity to have more balance in your relationships. This energy can bring in feeling the steadiness of the partnership you’re in as well as coming up with practical solutions to things you’ve been trying to work out together. If you’re not in a relationship and would like to be in one, these couple of days are a good time to tune in and get more serious about how to manifest this in your life. What steps do you need to take to make this happen? The heart’s emotional field is being offered supportive structure from Saturn’s influence. May 26th - 29th ~ Venus square Neptune This can potentially open up more confusion around uncertain relationships you have in your life. The best way to work with this is to make sure you acknowledge the realities of the situation you’re in or the person you’re in a relationship with and make sure you’re not showing up with rose-colored glasses or only seeing the good things while avoiding the difficult aspects that need attention. May 29th - 31st ~ Mars conjunct Jupiter The month ends with positive and stimulating energy that wants to expand the world you live in. Jupiter and Mars both join together in Aries, opening up an abundance of “lighting a fire under your …” (you know what) and motivating you to take action. Please keep in mind that Mercury will still be in retrograde, so try not to let too much optimism blind you from making appropriate decisions for yourself at this time. It’s great to feel the positivity while still walking the middle line in order to maintain a sense of balance. It’s possible that Jupiter can overstimulate Mars to get your Will moving too much, if that happens find a good channel like exercise, dance, or other playful activity to move the energy. These last days of the month are great for allowing inspiration and movement towards summer!  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based on your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how the Spring and the year ahead are looking for you!
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Welcome to May!  As nature keeps transforming with the energy of Spring, it's a good time to tune in and notice the larger transformations and shifts happening for you. I love the astrological energies coming in these early days of May as they are super supportive in stimulating you to move into action, which can benefit your life in the long run.  May 1-2nd - Venus sextile Pluto These first couple of days of May can offer you access to deeper levels of wanting to give and receive love. You may feel growing joy associated with an emerging need to be more in touch and invested with your friendships and or the important people in your life. In intimate relationships, your desire for connection can also become quite strong during this time. If you have been feeling disconnected from your relationships, this would be a good time to tune in and see how you can show up with more commitment and care. May 3rd - 10th - Jupiter sextile Pluto May 3rd through the 10th offers supportive energy to stimulate you into taking the steps needed to create bigger and positive changes in your life. Ask yourself: What big life changes are you in right now that you know won’t happen overnight and will take longer to complete? What you do now can positively impact these larger transformations you see happening. Utilize this time to not just recognize what’s changing in your life, but put forth the effort you previously may not have been able to. Bring awareness to how the choices you make now can benefit you in weeks and months to come. May 4th - 7th ~ Mars Sextile Uranus Overlapping with the previous Jupiter/Pluto Sextile, we also have Mars and Uranus bringing more creative stimulation towards breaking free of restrictions so you can move forward and take the steps mentioned above. Mars is in Pisces, so this requires you to connect with your psychic senses about your life and tap into what your life is really calling you towards, and then move in that direction.  May 10th - June 2nd ~ Mercury Retrograde As noted, the first 9 days of May are a good time to truly step into motion and take the much-needed steps for positive change in your life. Come May 10th, Mercury, the ruler of our thoughts and communications, will be going retrograde in Gemini, slowing your multi-tasking mental processes down. Mercury will be in retrograde until June 2nd and during this time, decision-making may feel more challenging and anything you “sign on the dotted line” about or make a firm decision on, may have to be re-worked again after June 2nd. A clearer thinking process around decision-making becomes more available when Mercury is out of retrograde and goes direct, starting June 3rd. When Mercury is in Retrograde, it is appearing to be moving backward in the sky from Earth’s vantage point for 3 weeks. During this time, people often find more challenges and issues with communications, electronics, travel, etc… and you may be finding it takes longer to get from point A to point B, or there’s more back and forth communication before things become clear. Often, I see Mercury retrograde as an offering to surrender, trusting things will work out in the end, and taking the unexpected “scenic route”. What seemed like a detour can bring you to something delightful you wouldn’t have been able to experience otherwise. Let go and allow an alternate way of “getting there” to manifest. More on Mercury retrograde… The dynamics of Mercury retrograde periods are gaining more and more awareness in our collective cultural conversations. The most common theme is an awareness of a tendency for communications and technology to go haywire and a “warning” against doing certain activities during this 3 week period. I find what is most alive regarding Mercury retrograde is holding an awareness that the planetary energy that governs thought and communication is in “rewind” mode for 3 weeks, Mercury is going back over the terrain of our recent weeks. It’s a great opportunity to review, reprocess, and integrate our recent thought processes. This is a time for recollection and reflecting and metabolizing our recent experiences. It’s when we avoid this opportunity and try to conduct our affairs by charging ahead as if Mercury were moving with a direct forward motion that communication and thinking go haywire and run wonky. When we allow the retrograde period as an opportunity to welcome a quality of retreat into integration we can take the opportunity to recalibrate ourselves and move in harmony with the nature of this time. It also makes this a good time to finish up old projects that are lingering out there, taking up psychic space, not allowing you to cleanly move forward in life. Spend time with these activities during these next 3 weeks and you will find ease in completing them. Clean out closets, garages, workspaces, donate items, etc… In other words, clear out the physical clutter, which will clear out mental clutter and allow you an opportunity to start anew when Mercury goes direct on June 3rd. May 15th Total Lunar eclipse 9:11 pm PDT Full Moon 9:14 pm Sun Square Saturn ~ Sun Sextile Neptune On May 15th, we have a number of things happening, including a Full Moon in Scorpio that will be totally eclipsed at 9:11 PM PDT. I will be sharing the full report of this day at the start of my next newsletter. Until then, I recommend planning ahead for Sunday, May 15th, by taking the day off and spending it with some nourishing, soul-connecting company.  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based on your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how the Spring and the year ahead are looking for you! How Do you Create Balance?  In Springtime, we can experience nature's balanced timing in the procession of how the flowers blossom. In the same essence, the astrological forecast for the rest of April sheds light on how you can blossom by bringing balance into your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and communications. Read on for the April 15th - 30th astrology outlook!  Full Moon in Libra April 16th, 11:55 AM PDT On April 16th, we will have a Full Moon in Libra. When the Moon is full it is 180º from the Sun and therefore in the opposite zodiac sign. This oppositional placement between the Sun and Moon creates our monthly fully illuminated Moon, bringing our emotions to light. The Moon’s energy influences our emotional body. With the Moon in Libra and the Sun in Aries (sign opposites), we become more aware of the dynamics of “magnetic tension” between the poles of our independent selves (Aries) and our relational considerations (Libra) of the needs of others. Your whole unique gig of how you go about sharing (Libra) yourself (Aries) with others can be illuminated and witnessed more clearly by the light of this moon. Under this Full Moon in Libra, tune into your relationship dynamics and see how you balance these Libra and Aries aspects. Ask yourself, how well are you cooperating with others and seeing what their needs are? Do you overly put others’ needs first to your own detriment or vice-versa? Where can you bring more balance? These are powerful relational dynamics to tune into under this Full Moon as you may have emotional situations that help you see how you come into relationships with others more clearly. Venus Sextile Uranus April 17 - 19 strongest April 18th Venus will come into a positive aspect with Uranus from April 17th to the 19th, giving you extra stimulation for creative endeavors. How do you explore new ways to bring beauty into your life and surroundings? Venus in Sextile with Uranus can help you open to new creations that feel exciting and uniquely you! Also, when Venus and Uranus aspect each other, it opens the energy for new creative excitement in relationships. Therefore, if you find yourself feeling stuck in habits and patterns within your relationships that you want to break out of, the days surrounding April 18th may urge you into finding new ways of being in relationships that are more exciting refreshing, real, playful, authentic.  Mercury Square Saturn April 22 - 26th strongest April 24 Mercury rules your thinking and communications, while Saturn has you working hard towards building important structures in your life. The Saturn energy can also feel restricting as it helps you narrow your attention and focus in order to make accomplishments. The voice behind the driving force of Saturn can have you asking, “Is this good enough”, which can keep you continuously working at something just to be sure you got it right. When Mercury and Saturn come into a difficult square aspect with each other in late April, you may find communications are more challenging. Saturn’s influence on Mercury can also have you thinking things are harder than they really are or restricting you in speaking what needs to be said. Therefore, If you have important things to discuss with someone, I would wait until after this transit is over to have those conversations and not have them during April 22nd - 26th. During this period of the square, it is a GREAT time to get organized and clear about how you think, and what you need to communicate - making sure you say what’s right and true for yourself. Just when this Mercury and Saturn transit is over (on or after the 26th), your communications with others may flow easier and more positively when Mercury makes a nice Sextile aspect to Jupiter (see below for more info). In the meantime, utilize this Mercury square Saturn time to notice where there might be issues in communications with others and or see where your thinking might be more limiting and or negative, bringing you down, and what internal patterns you need to make. Mercury Sextile Jupiter April 24th - 28th strongest April 26th Just as Mercury is moving out from being in a challenging aspect with Saturn (mentioned in the last section), it moves into a more expansive and positive flowing aspect with Jupiter. Therefore, the energy around communications opens up as Jupiter's radiant and opening energy offers the polar opposite of the energy of Saturn’s previous constricting square aspect to Mercury. This change in aspect to Mercury allows for greater access to perceiving and moving toward positive outcomes. Therefore, this time period would be better for having those difficult conversations with others as your thoughts and the whole communication process will tend to feel more uplifting and stimulating. Overall, communications can go more smoothly when Mercury makes a favorable Sextile with Jupiter. Jupiter’s expansive influence on your Mercury mind can allow you to weave more joy, laughter, and optimism into your thought processes - making this a good time to free yourself from whatever weighty ways of stale thinking that may have recently been getting you bogged down. Please note… This Mercury/Jupiter Sextile time period overlaps with the Mercury/Saturn time period mentioned above, so ideally I recommend waiting until the 26th - 28th to have necessary, important, or seemingly challenging conversations (if you can). As a reminder, the Saturn Square Mercury period (April 22-26) is a potent time to get grounded and clear in your thinking.  New Moon in Taurus April 30th, 1:28 PM PDT On the last day of April, we have a new moon in Taurus. New Moons occur when the Sun and the Moon join together in the same sign and degree. On this night the moon is fully dark and makes no appearance at any hour of the night. New Moons create the essence of a New Beginning, a monthly reset point. After the wildly blossoming and uprising energy of Spring has begun under the Fiery Aries Sun, we move into the steady and stabilizing energy of Taurus. Taurus is a grounded earth sign and is also known for having stubborn qualities. The peaceful Bull may start stamping its legs if pushed against its own notions. As the Sun and Moon join together in Taurus for the New Moon on April 30th, take some time to tune into this earthy stabilizing energy and explore if there are any areas in your life where you would benefit from bringing in more calm and peaceful groundedness. What steps can you take to create this? Sometimes savoring simple earthy pleasures can be soulful and supportive: take a soak, eat a particularly comforting meal, and allow yourself to be in the earthy comfort zone of Taurus. Are there places where you have become so stubbornly stuck in your way that you’re noticing more friction coming up? If you’re feeling this, then allow this Taurus energy to remind you to have more comfort, ease, and steady even flow. Also, explore not being so fixed and attached to one way of thinking or doing things. This new moon in Taurus offers an opportunity to relax, comfort yourself via your physical body and let go.  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based on your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how the Spring and the year ahead are looking for you! April's Powers bring Life to Flower  These next two weeks come with a mixture of feeling both the expansion and contraction in your life. This is a time to focus your energy on building important and supportive structures as well as stretching out to see more possibilities for soul growth. Mars Conjunct Saturn April 1-9 - strongest April 4 During the first week of April, Mars and Saturn are joining up (making a conjunction) in Aquarius urging you to have more focused energy during this time. Mars is the planet that represents your movement towards action and taking the steps towards doing the things you want to be doing. It’s the driving force in you for making things happen. Saturn is the force inside you that forms the matrix for how you structure your life so you'll have what we need to build and accomplish what’s important to you. Saturn wants to also narrow your focus and organize your life in such a way that you can keep working towards creating stability and success in life. Stability and success, by the way, come in many forms and I will leave that up to your own interpretation here. When Saturn and Mars come together, your energy may feel lower, as the heat and drive of Mars are slowed down and cooled by the arrival of Saturn’s sober, weighty organizing principle. However, I invite you to take a more nuanced approach to what your energy needs are calling forth in you as this happens… If you start off the month with too many irons in the fire, Saturn’s energy on Mars can seem restricting and you may start to feel exhausted by doing all the activities you’re used to doing. However, notice what things aren’t fatiguing you as you put your energy towards them. Is there a feeling or sense in you that says “this is all I want to be doing right now”? If so, this is your wisdom body narrowing your focus to help direct you and your energy towards accomplishing the most important things right now. I recommend following this pathway as Saturn takes away all the “noise” or “scatterings” of activity you may have going on so you can focus on being successful towards building a necessary structure in your life right now. The best way to navigate this planetary transit during April 1st and 9th is to notice if you’re feeling restricted in any way during this time and then redirect your focus towards what is calling you to work on by noticing what you have the energy for. Avoid getting caught up in spinning the things that feel hard to put your energy towards. This will guide you towards making meaningful accomplishments. The energy of this transit is the strongest on April 4th and then will start to fade. This is a great period for cultivating your will to feel and know what domains of your life are most important to take action around at this time. Because this conjunction is occurring in Aquarius, the most successful way to navigate this time is to find the focused work that feels like its direction is moving you into freedom and joy and true self-expression.  Mercury Square Pluto April 9-11 - strongest April 10th From April 9th through the 11th, Mercury is going to be in a challenging aspect (Square) with Pluto. Mercury rules your thoughts, mental processes, communications, and . . . the expression of your true voice with others (and with yourself). Pluto’s energy creates deep transformations within your psyche as well as in your life. There’s a powerful force that comes with Pluto’s energy that allows for such transformations to occur in order for you to keep evolving in your life. When Mercury and Pluto square each other, you may experience your thoughts and communications with others becoming more intense. Square aspects between planets can create conflict, but the true conflict is within yourself. Are you saying what you want to say? Are you speaking up for yourself? Does your voice dominate others or are others’ voices overpowering you? What’s your internal process around these types of dynamics? As Pluto comes into Square with Mercury this aspect can reveal deeper undercurrents to your thought processes in order for you to see what needs transforming. You may uncover a habitual way of thinking or communicating that you’re used to may not be working for you anymore and is in need of a shift. Mercury moves quickly, the energy of this transit is short-lived (3 days long). Allow the situations that arise during this time, related to the dynamics mentioned here, to offer you insights into your patterns of communicating and see where you are being called to grow into new ways of relating in this season of your journey. Jupiter conjunct Neptune April 3 - 26 - strongest 9-12 During most of the month, Jupiter and Neptune will be joining (conjunct) bringing their energies together in Pisces. This is a powerful tonic for faith. Faith is not some abstract quality we have, it’s a state of trust in the reality of being, in the universe. This conjunction can create a more dreamy, and positive - “everything is working out” quality to our feelings and outlook. Jupiter (often positively) expands the energy of whatever it is touching upon and Neptune has us connecting with ourselves on a more soul, spiritual level and seeing beyond our earthly matters. Whenever Jupiter is involved, the influence provides an extra level of faith in things moving towards a positive direction and outcome. Although this energy is active most of the month, it will be the strongest from the 9th - 12th. During the month and especially April 9-12th, you may start to feel more hopeful about your life situations that have been challenging. You may find yourself being able to naturally tune into a larger perspective that helps you see the meaning and find your alignment around particular difficult and or stuck situations. One thing I recommend looking out for during this time is to make sure you are not approaching situations with too much blind faith. Stay realistic with your life situations while sailing the winds of these overarching positive feelings from Jupiter and Neptune’s conjoined influences.  Mars enters Pisces April 14th until May 24th Along with Jupiter and Neptune riding together most of the month in Pisces, on April 14th, action-oriented Mars will join this Planetary Pisces Party for roughly 5 weeks. Mars is our will to take action. Pisces creates a more flowy dynamic where there’s a greater allowance to let go and not be so attached to checking off all the to-dos on your list. Mars in Pisces can slow our energies down and you may find yourself more inclined to follow how the day is flowing, which might be different than what you initially set off to do. Pisces gets us in tune with our psychic and empathic senses and doing what feeds our soul. If you start to feel mid-month like your energy is lower than usual, it could be that your soul is calling you to explore a different direction than the established patterns of your habitual hustle and bustle. We typically create patterns to bring structure to our lives and let them support us, which is necessary. Mars (the will) in Pisces (the watery oneness of being), allows an opportunity to deepen our relationship with what we will into being in our lives. Follow your inner knowing on what feels best and right in approaching your day ~ it may guide you towards a more flowy and less stressful way of being. In the process, you may learn something about how to refine your game plan. If you are finding your energy slows down during this Mars in Pisces time period, it will more than likely pick up again when Mars moves into Aries in late May.  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Welcome, Growing Light!  This year on March 20 we celebrate the Spring Equinox! The sun enters Aries on Spring Equinox, light and dark are equal, and we begin to move into longer sunnier days! As the warmth and light are growing, it feels like a special time for kicking up heels and feeling life moving forward after this winter and after these last two years. Full Moon in Virgo 3/18/22 12:17 AM PST March 18th brings the Full Moon in Virgo. When the Moon is full, it is in the opposite sign (180˚) from where the Sun is currently (Pisces). With seeing the full reflective light from the Sun, the Moon is in its most illuminated state. The Moon is connected to our emotional body, which is why things tend to be more emotional around Full Moons - when the moon beams are fully shining, illuminating our feelings. Virgo is an Earth sign - organized, structured, goal-oriented, creating the “perfect plan”. There can also be worry energy associated with Virgo, needing everything to go accordingly. Under this Virgo Full Moon, it may feel nourishing to create some planning intentions. In addition, Virgo’s ruler, Mercury, is in Pisces this month. With both Mercury and the Sun in Pisces, a watery and more dreamy quality is present and you may need to include how your intuition and instincts are feeling about the plans and modify them accordingly. This Virgo energy can also offer you an anchor for groundedness with the Piscean energy we’ve been swimming around in all month. As you move through this month’s Full Moon on March 18th, tune in and see how you can seek more balance between the need to flow and the need to follow the plan perfectly. See what intentions you need to make and maintain, and what you want to release. How do you want to reign in your energies and get organized? How are you in alignment with the greater plan beyond your will? Venus squares Uranus 3/18/22 - 3/22/22 Strongest 19th With Venus making a hard square aspect, you may be noticing a need for more freedom or excitement in your relationship(s) and or in your personal creative pursuits. If there are ways in which you feel held back, then it can come as a sudden urge towards greater freedom and self-expression. In relationships, this could the urge to break away from old patterns of relating or even break up from the relationship. Before doing anything impulsive, I recommend seeing if there are ways to create new pathways in your relationship for greater self-expression and freedom that feel in alignment with what your emerging needs are. Squares between planets are most characterized by an internal process we are having with the outside world. Therefore, find ways to shift your internal patterns with how you are relating to your relationship(s) before externalizing your process and making it about your partner. What are your needs? How might you explore expressing yourself more freely and fully? Is there something you have been holding back that requires freedom of expression so you can feel more whole? What would it look like to be yourself more powerfully in your relationship(s)? Sometimes we think we have to end something to make the shifts, but do you really have to? See how you can bring new qualities of excitement into your relationship if you seem to be stuck in routines with your partner(s) that feel stagnant or boring. Ask yourself where you are not feeling free to be you or free to move about the way you’d like to. See where you can get out of your own ruts and make a shift in how you get these needs met for yourself. Most importantly, have some fun exploring this liberating energy as it moves through your creativity and relationships!  Spring Equinox Sun enters Aries 3/20/22 8:33 AM, PST Spring (Vernal) Equinox relates to the halfway point between both winter and summer solstices and is when day and night are equal and daylight will begin to grow larger than the darkness as we head towards summer. This is also the time when the Sun enters Aries, and the zodiac round begins a new cycle of the Sun transiting through all the signs for another year’s time. After the last month of swimming your soul around in the Piscean sea, we begin anew with the Ram (Aries), the “child of the zodiac”. Like a child exploring the world around, the Aries's energy is passionate and fiery, in awe of everything around. Headstrong and fearless, Aries is a warrior, trailblazing paths others may not dare on their own.  As March 20th comes, tune into this Aries Springtime energy. Ask: Do you need to be more daring? What are you in awe of? Where inside you do your passions live? Do they need to be re-ignited? What do you want to create as you head into Spring? See if you can tap into this energy and how you can explore the world around you with fresh eyes. As Aries arrives, light a fire! Light up your movement around whatever has become stagnant through the Winter months so you can make room for new and exciting things coming into your life. Welcome Spring! Mars squares Uranus 3/20/22 - 3/26/22 Strongest 22nd As the Spring Equinox arrives and the Sun is moving into Aries energy, Mars begins to make a hard square aspect with Uranus. Mars, naturally ruled by Aries, is the action-oriented, go out and “make it happen”, planet. Uranus is about change and evolution: breaking out of habits, creating the new, and having the freedom to move about and be who you are. When Uranus is involved in the planetary configuration, things can also change suddenly in your life to create pathways for freedom and or more self-expression. Mars square Uranus is about feeling the urge and making the move to free yourself from restrictions and blocks you feel in your life. This comes in perfect timing with the Spring Equinox as it helps break you out of places you’ve been feeling stuck so you can align more with what’s relevant to you in the now as well as any new things coming in. The quality of this transit between Mars/Will and Uranus/Evolution is driven by the hard aspect of the square between them. The dynamics of the square can give rise to a sudden or rash burst of energy to create change or break away from restrictions. Feelings that have been held at bay, such as impatience or frustration by things not changing or moving fast enough can surface and need expression. Sometimes the Mars square Uranus energy can create the impulse to move quickly to free yourself from something, which can result in accidents. If you start to feel increasingly frustrated or impatient during the week of March 20th - 26th, then I recommend being conscious of this energy. You may need to find the right outlet to express this rapid intensity so that you don’t back out the driveway and run into your neighbor’s car under the spell of the unconscious raw energy of Mars and Uranus at a Square. Look to craft a balance between finding the right way to let this energy move through and slowing yourself down. Trust the process, knowing things will work their way out through all the transformations that this time is bringing. As you take in all the changes that March brings keep the majestic power of Spring's promise of rebirth as your focus.. Look to the trees and wildflowers. Let your movement and the blooming momentum move as one.  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how this Spring and the year ahead is looking for you! Welcome to March!  In the first weeks of March, we have a New Moon in Pisces bringing an opportunity for deep soulful renewal. A few days later Mercury enters Pisces providing a period of enhanced receptivity for cultivating more subtle states of the higher mind and refined consciousness. Mars and Venus will be conjoining Pluto, as Pluto moves through the peak of the United States’ Pluto Return cycle Dynamic and powerful changes are in play; allow your mental processing of this period to benefit from your intuition and capacity to trust in the larger forces. Pluto Return Continues 1st of 4 waves 2/3/22 - 3/10/2  Image of Pluto's surface Pluto’s return in the United States birth chart (Sibley chart) will be active through 2023 and comes in 4 waves. We are currently in the first of these 4 waves until March 10th. Pay special attention to the themes presently occurring in our national conversion during this first wave. These national issues and agendas are the dynamics that will continue to be worked on over these next couple of years, creating the changes needed in this cycle of Pluto return for the transformation in the United States. Globally, we see Russia’s aggression again looming largely and calling into focus the long-standing issues about the United States’ larger role in the world. Nationally, here at home, we see an ending of mask mandates as we explore our responses to this pandemic and the divisive controversies about governance and public health. While ongoing headlines are appearing about climate change, public shootings and legal cases about race and police violence, the January 6th riots, abortion access law, and the court attempts to adjudicate numerous legal controversies abound the last presidency are all appearing daily. The second wave will peak this summer. The events unfolding now are foreshadowing the patterns that will emerge during the summer Pluto Return Peak. Stay tuned, I will be circling back in late June’s Newsletter to offer further reflections on this unfolding story. Just before the first Pluto Return peak on 2.22.22, I shared larger writing exploring what the Pluto Return energy is about and you can click below to learn more.  Planet Mars in an unusual color with sunlight elements of this image, furnished by NASA Venus, Mars, Pluto Conjunction in Capricorn March 1-5 Strongest 3/3/22 As we take a look at the Pluto Return energy and bring to light what needs transforming both collectively and in our personal lives, Mars will be coming into conjunction, joining its energy with Pluto during the first week of March. Having Mars in the mix creates potent, hot energy to catalyze and cook up the events that are unfolding over the long process of Pluto’s return cycle. When Mars moves into an aspect of alignment with slower-moving planets, the forces set in motion by the slower planets get activated. Mars can become a timer to trigger something to happen. In other words, when things are brewing, Mars can work to activate that energy to further its movement to open up and get it moving. A significant event may occur to initiate action on whatever process is being activated. This trigger, by Mars, of precipitating the long process of Pluto’s karmic influences to move forward can happen on many levels at once: globally, nationally, and personally. The strongest day of this Mars/Pluto conjunction energy is March 3rd. Therefore, if you personally have things brewing under the surface, this might be a day when an event causes things to open up for you. This could also prime the energy to push forward the narrative and unleash powerful forces in geopolitical events. It’s important to note that Venus is also coming up to join with both Mars and Pluto on March 3rd, which softens this energy. Therefore, it’s possible that more ease or peace can be added to whatever the situations are. Venus (along with Jupiter) is known as a “greater benefic” amongst the planets and is connected more to the beauty and loving aspects of life. Therefore, whatever might get activated, things may be able to move in a more harmonious and peaceful direction with Venus in the mix. As above, so below. As powerful dramatic forces are moving across the world, so powerful dynamics are in motion amidst the planetary signatures.  New Moon Pisces 3/2/22 9:35 AM PST On March 2nd, we will have a New Moon in Pisces. New Moons are created when the Sun joins together with the Moon in the sky under the same sign. This creates a dark night as the Moon sets in conjunction with the Sun. New Moons are considered the beginning of a 29.5 day Moon phase cycle. Therefore, one way to think of New Moons is to see it as a monthly new beginning and reset point for yourself, emphasizing the energy of the sign the Sun and Moon are in. Pisces is a water sign, enhancing the level of emotional sensitivities and psychic connection to those under its influence. Pisces is also considered the last sign in the zodiac round before starting over again in Aries. As it is the last sign, we can understand Pisces as holding the most evolved characteristics, getting into what it means for a soul to be living here in a physical body on this earth. What comes with the Pisces energy is an ability to feel the energy around (like a fish in the sea) and be psychically in tune with it as well as flow with it. Since there is an ability to merge with the energy around like swimming in a giant sea, Pisces can often experience a lack of boundaries between self and others. Therefore, it's important to allow this flowing feeling of life and to appropriately remain rooted in yourself as you allow for the gifts of the Piscean New Moon for dissolving the limits of our smaller sense of self. We are so much vaster and deeper than we usually are able to be present for; our focus on daily doings tends to veil the grandeur of our interior majesty. This New Moon in Pisces energy is a good time to take a look at your life and see where you can bring in more flow with the energies around, and on the other side, see where you may need to create more boundaries if you’re too swept up with all the deep energies that surround you. Mercury enters Pisces 3/9/22 Speaking of Pisces - Mercury, the planet that influences our thoughts, mental processes, and communications, will be moving into Pisces on March 9th for the following 19 days. With Mercury in Pisces, your mind might seem less structured around how you are organizing your day during this time. There’s a need to be more in a flow than following a laid-out plan. Although making plans is essential, the ideal mental processing style with Mercury in Pisces may find you less attached to how plans are executed. Pisces reminds us to let go and allow for the way things want to flow to emerge. You may discover this way of allowing creates greater alignment for yourself with how things end up working out than the way you originally thought possible. In Addition, Mercury in Pisces can help your mind to receive more psychic information when it comes to making decisions. You might find yourself being able to sense what the right choice is for yourself without having all the information to know rationally why it’s the right choice. May you feel the long awaited soulful renewal just in time for Spring!  With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how 2022 is looking for you!  Full Moon In Leo February 16th 8:56 AM, PST Full Moons occur when the Sun and Moon are in the opposite signs of each other. On the day of the Full Moon, as the Sun is setting in the West, the Moon (in all its full glory) is rising on the opposite side in the East at the exact same time. If you’re positioned to capture an open eastern and western horizon view on February 16th, it is such a beautiful moment - get outside at sunset and look in both directions! The Sun is currently in Aquarius and the zodiac sign opposite of Aquarius is Leo. Therefore on February 16th, our Full Moon will be in Leo. Leo is fiery, playful, expressive, loves attention, and taking center stage. Leo’s Full Moon can be a wonderful time to create some playful fun! It’s a great time to dance and share and let yourself and your loved ones cut loose and really let their hair down! Even if it comes midweek and has to be celebrated in the context of other weekly needs. Full Moons open us up emotionally and although Leo is not so much focused on emotions, it is expressive. Therefore, if you’ve been not expressing or releasing the difficult emotions you know are hovering in your being, you may find this moon gets you to “come out with it, already”. In addition, as playful and fiery as Leo is - it might be just the right Moon medicine needed to release the emotions, clear a layer or two or three, and open you to allowing you to feel the light of your being, as well. It’s like how we can feel really lifted after a good cry. Through this process and after a good emotional clearing, you can then get back to “playing” in the present time, like a Leo naturally does. If a Leo isn’t able to express and show themselves, and or shine in the center of the circle - then there can also be a sense of feeling depressed. If you’re feeling layers of depression in your life, I recommend creating some intentional processing time under this Leo Full Moon and asking yourself: Where I am not allowing myself to shine where I could be? Where am I holding myself back from being seen? Am I playing enough in my life? Am I enjoying the present moments of my life? - these could be deeply-pressing matters interfering with your ability to experience joy. Find ways to shift these patterns! Venus Conjunct Mars Strongest in February: 13 -27th Yes! Venus and Mars continue to join their forces in Capricorn and strongly tighten their conjunction the second half of February. Therefore, relationships will continue to be center of focus for the rest of the month. I wrote a big piece about this in the last blog. Click below to read more about what this energy means for you.  Jupiter Sextile Uranus February 5th - February 29th Strongest 13 - 21st Jupiter brings opportunities for growth and expansion with an optimistic feeling that things are going to work out. Add this quality with Uranus’s energy of freedom from restriction and creating new pathways and you may find yourself approaching life from a renewed and freeing perspective. Perhaps the “impossibles” in your life are now seeming possible in the month of February. The Sextile between Jupiter and Uranus creates a positive and easy energy flow between the planets that can stimulate you to want to break through imposed restrictions (from self or others) and create new opportunities for expansion and growth in your life. There’s an optimistic, “I can do it!” feeling coming through this February, especially from the 13th through the 21st. Ask yourself: Where have you been feeling restricted in your life? Have there been barriers preventing you from moving forward with something? Where have you been stuck in old patterns or ruts and are in need of a fresh perspective? The answers to these questions can provide insights into the things that may finally have a chance to open up and move forward for you. It’s fun to acknowledge that this freedom from restriction arrives the strongest just before Valentine’s Day. If there’s a step forward in the evolution of a special relationship you have been exploring how to manifest, this time can bring an opportunity for a breakthrough.  First Pluto Return for the United States February 22nd, 2022 February 22nd, 2022 is the date widely agreed-upon by astrologers for peak of the Pluto return cycle for the United States. However, since Pluto moves slowly, this energy has already been coming on strong since 2020 and will last until the end of 2023. It’s no quick process! This Pluto return is a time when the energies of which this country was birthed upon are coming back around to start a new cycle of rebirth. I wrote a special report on the Pluto Return energies, click the button below to read the full article  Northwest Astrologer is here for you! With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how 2022 is looking for you! Valentine's Day Special! Receive 20% off readings all month click below to learn more  Each year February brings movement from Winter towards Spring; this year’s February comes with a dynamic blend of planets supporting forward momentum. If January felt a bit wonky and unclear with both Mercury and Venus in retrograde, February may bring the change in tides you're looking for. The month begins with a New Moon in the visionary sign of Aquarius, as well as Venus just out of retrograde and Mercury following shortly after. Venus joins up with Mars in Capricorn most of the month, bringing relationships more into focus, which certainly aligns with Valentine’s Day energy. Jupiter and Uranus create a positive aspect with each other, stimulating you towards freeing yourself from overarching restrictions you’ve been feeling in your life.  New Moon in Aquarius February 1st 12:47 AM, EST (January 31st, PST) New Moons occur when the Sun and Moon are both in the exact same sign and degree and create an all-night dark sky as the moon sets with the Sun. This darkness gives birth to the beginning of a new cycle of the moon, which occurs every 29.5 days. On February 1st, we will have a New Moon in Aquarius - sparking the birth of creative ideas and visions to manifest. Aquarius is known as the water-bearer and paradoxically is an Air sign. Those who were born under an Air sign (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) connect with the world around them mostly through their mental body (mind). Aquarians can be seen as both humanitarians and geniuses of the zodiac. They seem to effortlessly download knowledge from the universe, as well as receive visions of how to make this world a better place. This puts them at the forefront of creating ideas that can, at first, seem too far-fetched. However wacky they may seem, these novel ideas often hold a vision that can bring progress in our evolution as humanity. Therefore, create some sacred New Moon time on Feb. 1st. Tune into what new “Aquarian” ideas are calling to you. What visions do you have for yourself that you’ve been holding back on? What new manifestations do you notice are wanting to open for you? - Meditate on and visualize how you see yourself bringing these manifestations to fruition in your life. Mars in Capricorn Sextile Jupiter in Pisces February 1st - 6th Mars is the planet that has you taking action, implementing the things you want to be doing. Jupiter adds levels of positivity, expansiveness, growth and a feeling of abundance. When Jupiter comes into the planetary picture, you can get a feeling that everything is just going to work out. There’s faith and hope in a positive outcome. When Mars and Jupiter come together in a Sextile aspect, they stimulate the energy to bring their best qualities (mentioned here) out in you. Therefore, this first week of February is great time to start getting into your 2022 goals and plans if it seemed hard to manifest these intentions in January. Mercury Goes Direct Moves out of Retrograde February 3rd Yay! Mercury rules our mental processing, communications, travel, electronics, computers, etc... There tends to be a number of schedule changes, communication challenges, tech SNAFU’s cancelations, breakdowns, and repairs during the Mercury retrograde period. On February 3rd, Mercury will be done retrograding for now and if you’ve had communication disruptions, schedule changes, and/or other surprises in the last 3 weeks, things should start to flow more clearly and smoothly. FYI - Mercury goes retrograde 3 times a year for a 3 week period each time it goes retrograde. The next one will begin on May 10th - if you want to do some early planning! To learn more about Mercury retrograde and tips and what to do during this time, refer to my January astrology blog for more information. Mercury Shadow Period… When Mercury goes direct on February 3rd, it will be in what is called “being in its shadow” as it will be covering, again, the same heavenly real estate as it was prior to retrograde. This shadow time gives you a 3rd opportunity to visit and glean more understanding in regards to the same evolving life processes that were going on before and during retrograde. During this current shadow period, you may be having to re-visit things that were happening in your life from Dec 30th - Feb 3rd. Think back to this time - What were you working on? Who were you in communication with? What plans were you making that you are still processing? As Mercury goes direct on the 3rd, it will head forward again across this terrain giving you an opportunity to come to resolution and establish forward momentum on life’s mental and communications material you have been metabolizing. It is known in astrology to wait until this shadow period is over (after February 24th) to truly be clear on moving forward on anything that’s been occurring over the past 2 months before. I recommend waiting until after February 24th to make big life decisions, if you can wait. Otherwise, spend more time in the decision process and get others involved, if possible, to make sure you are seeing it all clearly. Venus in Post Retrograde Shadow Time January 29th - March 2nd Continuing on the topic of post-retrograde planets being in their shadow… Last month, on Jan 29th, Venus finally moved out of its 5-week retrograde period. We now have our Venus back in its full outward expressive fashion. Venus rules aspects of your life that include relationships, finances, business, social life, and creating beauty in your life. Please refer back to January’s astrology post to read all about how Venus Retrograde can affect these aspects of life. As mentioned in the Mercury section above and In general, anytime a planet gets out of retrograde and begins moving in a forward direction (called going Direct), it is also covering the same heavenly sky territory that it went retrograding (backward) over. It is slowly gaining momentum up to its normal speed and will eventually get back to the place it was before it went retrograde. Venus went retrograde on Dec 19th. This period right now, and until March 2nd, Venus will be in its shadow. While in shadow, allow more time for situations in your life that you’ve noticed were influenced by Venus retrograde to work themselves out. Are there situations around relationships that haven’t been clear? Are you wondering if you should make more of a commitment with a person you have been dating? What are your finances and budgeting looking like? Any big purchases you’ve been holding off on? Does this still seem like the thing you want to buy? Has the social life not been clear on how to gather? What have you been wanting to create to bring more beauty into your life? Ponder and see what you want to create as Venus moves through the Shadow period and perhaps full manifestation will be happening more towards the end of Feb and into March.  Venus Conjunct Mars February 8th - February 29th Strongest on these February dates: 13, 15, 19, 22-23, 26-27 Venus and Mars are both in Capricorn this month. Since Venus is just getting out of retrograde and has a slow-moving forward momentum most of February, it is going to join up quite of few times with Mars this month, just in time for Valentine's Day! This is powerful for relationships as both Venus and Mars are the two planets we look to in the astrology chart to glean more information regarding relationships in your life. This creates an emphasis on relationships in February, especially on the dates listed above. Venus and Mars create a symbiotic relationship and delicate balance between concepts of giving and receiving, doing and being, initiating and cultivating the relationship you want and also allowing your relationship to come to you. Mars is the planet that puts energy towards something and Venus is the planet that allows the receiving of this energy. During the month of February, recognize where these Mars/Venus relationship concepts are landing in your being. Whether you’re in a relationship or not, these giving and receiving energies may come into focus and be emphasized February 8th - 29th. Do a self-exploration! Ask yourself - do you allow relationships to unfold in their own timing or do you force things? Do you feel courageous in making the first move or are you waiting and hoping for a person to come to you without any of your own actions? When they do come, do you play hard to get? Do you allow the flow of love to come into your life or do you feel a fear of losing yourself and your own independence if you do allow it? These are just some example questions… And, this month, utilize this Mars/Venus conjunction energy to explore what love in your life means to you and how you approach relationships. See what insights come up for you. Play with the ways you create your dance of giving and receiving in relationships . . . how do you initiate, allow, create space, move closer, bring warmth, receive warmth. Bring this awareness into your relationship life and create different patterns that will help you come more into balance when it comes to the art of being in relationships. Jupiter Sextile Uranus February 5th - February 29th Strongest 13 - 21st Jupiter brings opportunities for growth and expansion with an optimistic feeling that things are going to work out. Add this quality with Uranus’s energy of freedom from restriction and creating new pathways and you may find yourself approaching life from a renewed and freeing perspective. Perhaps the “impossibles” in your life are now seeming possible in the month of February. Allow this freedom and growth energy of Jupiter and Uranus in. As this energy will be strengthening later in the month, I will write more on this in the next blog, publishing in 2 weeks!  Northwest Astrologer is here for you! With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these wild and transformative times. Book an astrology reading and find out how 2022 is looking for you! Valentine's Day Special! Receive 20% off readings click below to learn more  The Prague Astronomical Clock In these last weeks of January 2022, we have a Full Moon in Cancer, Mercury in Retrograde, Mars entering Capricorn and Venus continuing its 5 week trek in Retrograde, but finally going Direct at the end of the month. Read on and see how these planetary influences may help you navigate these coming weeks. Mercury Retrograde January 14 - February 3 The dynamics of Mercury retrograde periods are gaining more and more awareness in our collective cultural conversations. The most common theme is a “warning” against doing certain activities during this 3 week period. I find what is most alive regarding Mercury retrograde is holding an awareness that anything you make a firm decision on during this period, may have to be re-worked again when Mercury goes direct (starting February 4th). Therefore, a clearer thinking process around decision-making becomes more available when Mercury is out of retrograde. When a planet goes retrograde, it is appearing to be moving backward in the sky from the Earth’s vantage point. To understand this easily, imagine you’re walking on a path and you stop and start going backward, covering the same ground you just walked over. This is essentially what a retrograde planet is doing in the sky. The Mercury retrograde period offers an opportunity to review and reprocess the life experiences of the recent period of time when Mercury was traveling this same section of the sky with forwarding motion prior to retrograde (Dec 30th - Jan 13th). Think back on these recent dates - what was going on in your life, what were you working on, who were you in communication with, what plans were you and are still making? During Mercury retrograde, people often find more challenges and issues with communications, electronics, travel, car repairs, etc… and you may be finding it takes longer to get from point A to point B, or there’s more back and forth communication before things become clear. Often, I see Mercury retrograde as an offering to surrender, trusting things will work out in the end, and taking the unexpected “scenic route”. What seemed like a detour can bring you to something delightful you wouldn’t have been able to experience otherwise. Let go and allow an alternate way of “getting there” to manifest.  Mercury (Hermes) - Greco-Hellenic Messenger of the Gods I find Mercury retrograde periods are a good time to finish up old projects that are lingering out there, taking up psychic space, not allowing you to cleanly move forward in life. Spend time with these activities and you will find ease towards completing them. Clean out closets, garages, workspaces, donate items, etc… In other words, clear out the physical clutter, which will help clear out mental clutter and allow you an opportunity to start anew when Mercury goes direct on February 4th. Full Moon in Cancer January 17 3:48 PM, PST The Moon will reach the height of its biggest and brightest phase (Waxing Phase) in the lunar cycle on January 17th in the sign of Cancer. The Moon governs your domestic life, your emotions, subconscious habits, and patterns, and focuses on how you nurture and need to be nurtured. When the Moon is Full, these expressions become magnified. Cancer is the natural ruler of the Moon and therefore carries similar energies of the Moon. When the Full Moon is in the zodiac sign of Cancer (once a year), there is a stronger emphasis on your emotional body and how you are feeling about certain situations in your life. Your home life is also emphasized. Therefore, under the Full Moon on the 17th, pay attention to what emotions are emerging inside of you. What needs to be acknowledged? What needs to be nurtured? What needs to be let go of? Your emotions can serve as a guide for you, letting you know what is and isn't working out and what needs to shift in your life and in your home. This Full Moon in Cancer can help bring greater awareness to your emotional body and to what adjustments you need to make in your life to be in better alignment with yourself. Create intentional space for yourself on the 17th to connect with your inner emotional world and see what areas of your life need your attention. There is a special power each year at this time, following the heart of Midwinter, to tend to your emotional body under the light and influence of the Cancer Full Moon. Mars in Capricorn January 25 - March 6 Mars is the planet of "how you take action in your life". When you have an idea or a feeling of what you want to be doing, how do you proceed with making it happen? The sign Mars is in will give you more information on how you move forward. When Mars enters Capricorn on January 25th, there will be an offering for more groundedness and practicality in your day-to-day actions. Capricorn is more about business, in all senses of the word. This has me thinking of the common phrase, "Let’s get down to business", which is used when you finally motivate yourself to get into the work that needs to be done. Therefore, if it seems this level of "getting down to business" has been hard to access lately, this Mars in the Capricorn time period (Jan 25 - Mar 6) just might offer you the right energy to get yourself accomplishing what needs to be done ~ especially in the realms of Career. Whatever you have been wanting to take action on, this period offers a wind in your sails to move forward. Venus goes Direct January 29 These last 2 weeks, Venus will be in its final days of retrograde, which began on December 19th. Venus directs your energy toward the aspects of your life that relate to creating goodness & beauty in your life: finances, business, relationships, social gatherings, and coming together in loving-kindness around the table or in the bedroom. During the retrograde time, these aspects may have been less available, more unclear, or turned inwards in some fashion. As Venus begins to move in Direct motion again on the 29th, these areas of life should start to become more accessible, active, clear, and manageable.  I wrote a bigger section on Venus Retrograde in my last blog post. To read and learn more about how to work with Venus in Retrograde in these final weeks of January, click below. As you move forward into 2022, what will you continue and cultivate more beautifully? What will you do differently and better? What will you take leave of? The planetary signatures harken you to take some special look inside and discover your deeper feelings, knowings, and truths. Trust what you find!  Book an astrology reading and find out what the year ahead looks like for you! With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these uncertain times. You have the option of a 30 minute mini-reading or a full 1-hour, in depth reading Happy New Year!  Welcome, 2022! Welcome to the new year! As we begin a new cycle of the yearly calendar round, it’s helpful to maintain an overarching sense that we’re on a flowing continuum of life. The river keeps on. I love that we can have times in the year (such as January 1) that allow for a collective mental reset point. And, just like with humans and nature, in astrology, the planets keep on moving along the same paths they were on the year before. Therefore, create new goals and make the changes you need… and as you do this, it is most important to also be in the flow with where your energy and life take you as the new year begins. This month we have Venus continuing to retrograde, as well as Mercury going retrograde mid-month. Mars and Neptune will be in a hard aspect with each other, and possibly downshifting your energy levels into a slower gear during the first 2 weeks of January. We also get to start off the month with both the Sun and Moon in Capricorn, giving to a New Moon in Capricorn on January 2nd! New Moons are also great monthly reset points - how lovely to have it on January 2nd and in close alignment with the energy of the early days of the beginning of the year.  Mountain Goat - Capricorn Venus retrograde in Capricorn December 19, 2021 - January 28th, 2022 This month, Venus continues its retrograde pattern, which began on December 19th, extending a caution towards overspending and feeling resolved around any relationship situations through January 28th. When planets are retrograde, the aspects of life they relate to can become less available to you. As the energy of the planet is directed more inward and less flowing outwards in its normal expressive fashion, it guides you towards having more of an internal reflective process time. Venus relates to our love relationships, social gatherings, finances, business, and creating beauty in our lives. In retrograde, these aspects can become unclear, leading to; spending more than you intended, parties and social gatherings not going as planned, challenges in dating, and or difficulties with addressing relationship situations. The major holidays are behind us now and looking back, this is a good example of what can happen during Venus Retrograde as many had disrupted planned holiday get-togethers with loved ones. Flights were canceled as well as people choosing to cancel their holiday plans altogether. The best way to handle planetary retrogrades is to go with the flow of whatever the time turns out to be. There can be a blessing in seeing what else can come out of an unplanned situation. Energies do have a way of working themselves out and I recommend not pushing too hard to make something happen when there are apparent barriers in regards to the aspects the planet in retrograde is related to. Keep in mind, Venus will be in retrograde for most of January.  Image of planet Venus Tips for working with Venus in retrograde:
Planetary retrogrades give us an opportunity to slow down and re-work the situations so they can eventually move us forward in the right direction. Pushing up against the resistance is what creates difficulty during a planetary retrograde time. This also applies to the up-and-coming Mercury retrograde occurring this month as well (beginning January 14th), and I will mention more on this in the next newsletter. Mars in Sagittarius Squares Neptune in Pisces January 5th - 16th Strongest 10th - 13th Mars is your “take action” planet. It also rules your physical energy and ability to go after the things you want. It’s the planet that helps you make “it” happen. Wherever Mars is located in your birth chart, it will give you information on where your energy drives are and what part of your life tends to have more action going on than other parts. Neptune is more nebulous and intangible as It concerns you with matters of your Soul and your connection to the universe at large. It dissolves the earthly boundaries you create so you can merge with the “One” and create soul-connecting life experiences here on Earth. When Neptune is involved with planetary transits, you may start to feel less connected to the physical realities created in your life. We all learn that our Souls encompass layers of meaning that transcend the outer trappings of the lives we live. This can create confusion if you're too attached to the bounds of earthly living (money, housing, job, career, stuff you buy, and essentially the daily grind). Neptune can also give you more psychic awareness and sensing beyond the physical senses, nudging you to follow your “gut instincts” more than the mental, “I shoulds”. Both these planets are creating a square aspect with each other this month, which means that their impulses are challenging each other. More specifically in this scenario, the energy of Neptune is having a stronger impulse and stifling the energy impulses of Mars. There is a principle in astrology that when two planets are in aspect, the slower moving planet that is further from the sun (here Neptune) will be stronger and dominate the faster-moving planet that is closer to the Sun (here Mars). Translated - you may find that during this square time, your energy needs may shift to having lesser physical stamina to carry on with your regular life duties. Neptune has a way of helping you remember your soul wants to experience life and pure consciousness, beyond the humdrum of daily living and connect with your soul’s place in the universe. Therefore, you may not have the energy to do all the “to do’s”. As the old saying goes, you may find, during this time, “Your get up and go, just got up and went”. This can also come across as a confusing time period on how to focus your energy. I recommend, "Go with the flow"! This planetary transit is short-lived and is the strongest from January 10th - 13th. However, during this time, it may be hard to start that new workout routine or take full action on the plans you're making. You might wake up and just want to lay back down. If your energy is feeling lower or you're affected by the viral spread during this Mars/Neptune square time period, then I recommend tuning into what your soul wants you to be doing. Have you gotten caught up in the daily grind so much that you’ve lost some connection with what makes your heart and soul sing? Your physical body may not have the energy to keep going in the same way if you’ve left the bigger picture of what makes your life meaningful behind. I recommend not planning a whole lot (beyond going to your job…or attending whatever your care taking, parenting, or other essential obligations might be) between January 10th-13th, if you can swing it, and allow for your life to be more in a soulful rhythm and flow. See what happens - if anything, you may get some much-needed rest. This time period is followed by Mercury going retrograde (January 14th), so it just may be right in alignment with slowing down anyways. As time is reckoned, our calendar has brought you into 2022. What will you continue and cultivate more beautifully? What will you do differently and better? What will you take leave of? The planetary signatures harken you to take some special look inside and discover your deeper feelings, knowings, and truths. Trust what you find!  Book an astrology reading and find out what the year ahead looks like for you! With astrology, the most helpful advice is always individual and personalized based upon your personal astrology birth chart and life situations. Contact me to learn more about scheduling an astrology reading to help you navigate your life in these uncertain times. You have the option of a 30 minute mini-reading or a full 1-hour, in depth reading |
AuthorLaura Allmacher RN, LAc, has been practicing in the field of medicine for 20 years, dedicating most of this time to the healing arts and natural medicine. Along with a current acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice, Laura also provides professional astrology readings as a form of a guide to help bring timing, meaning and perspective to deeper life patterns and situations so one can make the most out of their incarnation. Archives
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