Venus in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces at 22 deg (3:32 am)
This more subtle aspect may stimulate our creativity and love of beauty, art, music or poetry. With Neptune also governing film, it may be a fun time to kick back and watch an old classic. Or perhaps post our own video on Instagram. Also, very supportive here is the fact that we still have the Waxing Crescent Moon deposited in dreamy Pisces as well and it will be conjuncting Neptune (5:05 pm) and sextiling Venus (6:25 pm) today.
Romantically, it can be a time when we are more idealistic, including maybe longing for a meetup on the soul level. Additionally, this aspect is linked with the bestowal of unconditional love or heightened compassion.
Workwise, we may find that we experience more inner contentment with respect to what we have achieved or mastered. Also, we maybe are feeling more inspired about the possibilities ahead.
“The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise of something more to come.” – Jennifer E. Smith
Some of the things that Neptune rules include maritime interests; hospitals or places of confinement; the oil and gas industry; the cosmetics industry; spirituality; prayer or meditation; the nocturnal dream world; visualization.
*All times EST
On This Day in History: On December 28, 1065, a new church devoted to St Peter the Apostle, built by Edward the Confessor (later called ‘Westminster Abbey’), was consecrated in London (rebuilt in the mid 13th century).
Astrologically, that day, initiating Mars, in perfecting Virgo, was in a tight trine to spiritually minded Neptune in builder Taurus.
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Beware! The “illuminating” Sun in archer Sagittarius is squaring “deceptive” Neptune in fishy Pisces today (3:59 am)! 🙂
As it is, most days are already crazy complicated enough to wade through. Don’t you agree? Why in the world we need to add psychedelic, hallucinatory Neptune to the cosmic setup now is beyond me. No doubt, it’s probably got something to do with inebriated gods up to no good at closing time!
Yet, on the other hand, we can probably all take pride and comfort in knowing that, today, it is likely a perfect time for attempting to walk across drought-stricken seas without fear of drowning. Or better yet, without fear of being swallowed up by an oversized minnow!
And on an even cheerier note, we do also have sweet, romantic Venus in “marrying for money” Capricorn sextile wishful-thinking Neptune (4:48 pm). So, at least there’s a shadow of hope that by the close of the day, some of us will probably end up being rescued by a wealthy prince or princess on a galactic-sized yacht so we can, hopefully, hang up our fishing poles for good! 🙂
Seriously, Venus sextile Neptune can, on occasion, match us up with our karmic soulmates. So that’s pretty cool. Or, at least pair us with acceptable substitutes. A comforting thought – especially since George Clooney is no longer an option, thanks to Amal!
“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” Elinor Glyn.
Numerologically, today is also an “8” day often associated with money and power, and the ability to rein it in.
Born On This Day: American humorist James Thurber, in 1894, who once said: “One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”
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“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter Drucker
The day begins with the empowering Sun in Aquarius sextile progressive Uranus in Aries (2:54 am). This aspect tends to foster opportunities for innovation, taking new approaches, breaking with convention, and overall expressions of individuality. Since this is also a waning sextile from the Sun to Uranus, it could be that we are seeing some past actions of a Uranian nature coming to a culmination or fruition now. Additionally, this alignment favors technological or scientific breakthroughs, group involvement, and or getting behind or supporting ideological causes that we feel very passionate about.
Venus Conjunct Saturn (5:52 am): Venus in Capricorn today activates, again, the more long-term Saturn-Neptune sextile that I wrote about yesterday when Venus sextiled Neptune. Venus conjunct Saturn is an excellent follow-up to that aspect, as it allows us to become very grounded in our outlook about the physical world, including our financial picture, our possessions, our love relationships. This is a perfect day to reflect upon what it is that we really value and want around us. Also, what we need to release from our lives. In some cases, Venus-Saturn conjunctions can also coincide with actual breakups or separations from others. When this happens, it’s normally because those alliances have run their natural course and it’s time to move on. In general, with Venus-Saturn aspects we are working to stabilize or firm up or better our circumstances. This kind of planetary energy allows us to manage our resources, including teaching us how to do more with less. Overall, we want to really feel a sense of richness or prosperity around us now, a sense of security, be it emotional security or material security. We also want commitment and focus from others. Yesterday, the Venus-Neptune hopefully made us more aware of the non-material resources that we are in possession of, such as our creativity, our vision, our spiritual linkage to the Divine.
Sun enters Pisces (6:04 pm) – This annual journey of the Sun into more spiritual, compassionate Pisces, serves to remind us, in part, that there is more to our world than what meets the eye. Pisces, as the last sign of the zodiac, symbolizes an amalgamation of all that has come before it. It represents the last stage of our developmental journey. The illuminating Sun in Pisces usually marks a period when we are naturally drawn to turning within in a bid to process or integrate all that we’ve been through. There’s also usually greater feeling and consideration for the plights of others now.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Chiron leaves Pisces for Aries today: Chiron, the Wounded Warrior, moving into Aries, the sign of our self-identity, suggests, among other things, that we have an opportunity to not only go deeper with discovering our own self-truth but also now have a chance to stand in it, which sometimes can take a lot of courage to do. Chiron typically makes us aware of our greatest emotional vulnerabilities, or where we may still be feeling the sting of old wounds, and, in the process, it offers us a way to heal ourselves and move on. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” Toni Morrison. Chiron will remain in Aries until 2027. I’ll be writing much more about Chiron in Aries in the future here.
Lastly, the Moon is also still in theatrical Leo, all day, allowing us to do things up with lots of flair or fanfare. The Moon’s trine to optimistic Jupiter in Sagittarius this evening (7:00 pm) is also excellent for entertaining, mixing with people from diverse backgrounds, conducting business meetings, and philanthropical gestures.
*All times EST.
Enjoy your Monday! Hope it’s a great week ahead for you! Tomorrow we also have the healing Full Moon in Virgo!
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“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Rumi
Have you ever gone to that proverbial drawing board with the best of intentions to be creative or imaginative, and absolutely zilch happened? It’s like you suddenly morph into a zombie or something and you end up just sitting there, twiddling your thumbs. If you can even muster that much! What’s even worse is when you look all around you, and you see all these cool things created by other people! and you’re thinking to yourself, “Why in the world did I have to get stuck with such a lousy, god-awful imagination? Is it possible payback or retribution, perhaps, for an ancient karmic misdeed, or something? 🙂
Isn’t it also humbling and mind-boggling, too, when you step outside into nature and you see all this brilliantly choreographed magnificence and beauty everywhere? Or, you look into the heavens through a telescope, and it’s as if the complicated universe never stops unfolding! There is just so much amazing mystery and wonderment surrounding us, all the time, and yet many of us never really even think much about it because we are often so preoccupied with all the daily, mundane, personal stuff. Yet, we also have it so much better, in many ways, with respect to countless others who lived before us, in other time periods, who often had to struggle to just make it to age 30 or 40.
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
And yet, regardless of everything, hope springs eternal for another glorious chance to possibly shine or dazzle, or to come into our own, in our optimal roles as co-creators with the universe! Or, so it seems, at least for today anyway, with sweet, artistic Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty, forming a lovely sextile aspect with compassionate Neptune, the official Kingpin of Imagination (3:45 am). The Venus-Neptune hookup today also activating the ongoing, more long-term Saturn-Neptune sextile that has been in operation since the end of January and will continue in effect, on and off, for most of this year. This aspect between these two planetary heavyweights, Saturn and Neptune, is, theoretically, ideal for helping us turn our dreams, creativity, and visions (Neptune) into reality or tangible form (Saturn).
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“You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” ~Werner Erhard
COSMIC WEATHER:
The Moon continues in “relationship” Libra all of today and most of tomorrow (until 10:50 pm). Also, shortly after midnight on Saturday (12:52 am), the Mercury and Pluto “truth-seeking” conjunction, that has been around all week, finally becomes exact.
Late Saturday morning (11:45 am), Venus, the planetary ruler of Libra, is also forming a dreamy sextile aspect to “transcendent” Neptune, the higher octave of Venus. Venus symbolizes, among other things, the notion of “romantic love,” while Neptune goes one step further to archetypally epitomize “unconditional love,” or what some regard as “divine love,” or an “infinite love.”
Accordingly, when Venus and Neptune are paired together, there can be a tendency or desire to want to idealize our mates or partners, or to place them on the proverbial pedestal. Author Robert Brault once said that, “Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.”
This Venus-Neptune period can also be a time when our creativity crests.
*All times EST.
This Date in History: Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Interestingly, “rebellious” Uranus was also in Aries, as it is today, at 19 degrees, and also square to “transforming” Pluto, which was at 21 degrees of Cancer then. Also, the Sun (leadership) was conjunct (judgmental, restrictive) Saturn, and Uranus was quinqunx to a Mars-Jupiter conjunction in “purifying” Virgo. Jupiter was also at 22 degrees of Virgo, exactly the same degree where it is today. On the shadow side, when Mars and Jupiter align, we often seen a rise in fanaticism.
Also, that very same day in America, the “Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
Famous January 29 Birthdays: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Phil Collins, Dick Cheney, Gene Hackman
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date in history: http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan30.htm
Brault: http://www.quotegarden.com/love.html
Erhard: http://www.quotegarden.com/love.html
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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.” – Soren Kierkegaard
There’s a Full Moon at 26 degrees of Scorpio today (7:10 am EDT). A Full Moon represents a culmination or peaking of awareness. We are often more privy to revelations, at this time, as we have more light by which to see. The volume on our emotional responses (Moon) may also be turned up.
Scorpio, as a quality of experience, is associated with intensity of expression, and also extremes of behavior; it is a more complex sign to figure out. The natural ruler of Scorpio is Pluto, which is known for its’ laser-like focus. When the Moon is in Scorpio, there is a greater depth of feeling and passion, and consequently we tend to react more powerfully to matters. Unfortunately, emotional outbursts can also manifest, if we are not careful to rein ourselves in.
The Scorpio Moon additionally likes power and being in charge, which means on the shadow side, we often need to simultaneously subdue our feelings of control or manipulation. Jealousy and possessiveness are also two other issues that many of us characteristically wrestle with when the Moon is deposited here.
Scorpio as a zodiacal sign stands guard over those areas of life that are normally hidden from view, such as our mind’s subconscious. It also governs intimacy and sex. Scorpio, as the opposite sign to money and possession Taurus, additionally depicts our attitudes concerning the sharing of our material resources with others, and is related to such mundane things as joint bank accounts and jointly held possessions.
Since Scorpio presides over death (or the dissolution of form) and rebirth, it is connected to insurance and estate matters. It also rules taxes, surgery, and regenerative healing techniques. Scorpio is furthermore linked to psychic development, channeling, and the spirit world, and to metaphysical matters in general. Its intrinsic approach is always to “go deep” and ponder mysteries wherever they may be found.
With the Full Moon falling in Scorpio, it could be that some or many of the areas above may be more highlighted now. We are also more likely to be in touch with our deepest, most passionate desires or innermost feelings at this time. We may also have to address issues from our buried past. Or possibly face the truth about things that we may have been avoiding. Again, too, the Scorpio Full Moon can easily solicit overreactions from us, especially if we are not mindful of our behavior.
Too, the Full Moon now could mark transitions or endings, or pivotal turning points. This Scorpio Full Moon is also making a challenging square to vague, dissolving Neptune in surrendering Pisces. It is additionally forming a tight quincunx (adjustment aspect) to excessive, boastful Jupiter in impulsive Aries, cautioning us not to go overboard or gamble unwisely with our resources.
Also, with Neptune’s veiled ray on the scene, we may need to guard against being hoodwinked or misled by others. We also would be wise, ourselves, to avoid doing anything that is nefarious or deceitful. Sometimes, too, with Neptune, we unwittingly lead others on by not being in full possession of all the facts. We simply spew out misinformation or just perceive things in a distorted way.
On a more positive note, this lunation still finds Mercury and Venus side by side in gentle, laid-back Taurus, and both in a harmonious, compassionate sextile to imaginative Neptune. Taking the time to put into words, our deep love and affection for each other, and engaging in random acts of love and kindness can have uplifting consequences for us all now. Also, this aspect is excellent for creating or purchasing art or other objects of beauty, including adding a few “to die for” items to our wardrobe.
Too, with the rejuvenating properties of the Scorpio Moon also involved, now would likely be an ideal time for age-defying beauty treatments or makeovers. Neptune also rules cosmetics, and all manner of masquerade and disguises. It is interesting, too, how when we do alter our outward appearance, we often are related to differently. In other words, it sets the stage for transforming responses from others.
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“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” Lao Tsu
COSMIC WEATHER:
A much ballyhooed “New Moon in Aquarius” is taking place later today (9:31 pm EST). New Moons herald in new beginnings (see my earlier blog post on this lunation for all the dazzling details).
The Sun and Moon are conjoined “male energizer bunny” Mars in “reinvent yourself” Aquarius and also trine to “stabilizer” Saturn in “olive branch” Libra. What this cryptically means for all of us is that it is an excellent time to “take initiative” and to also be “innovative.” We will be rewarded accordingly, if we also are wise enough to incorporate some strategic planning into the equation and also seek out experienced counsel for close collaboration (Saturn in Libra).
This is a very cool time to showcase and cultivate our uniqueness and demonstrate to the world what sets us apart from the pack. Especially for the areas of life (the house) that this New Moon falls in, in our personal horoscope. At the same time, we may also find immersion in group activities (Aquarius) another liberating source of self-expression. Mentally we are capable of brilliance with Mercury sextile original thinker Uranus. Our intuition is on overdrive now and on target, so we need to pay close attention to it.
Also connection queen Venus is square freedom-loving Uranus, making our love life perhaps unpredictable, but potentially more exciting. We’re more attracted to wacky, oddball types now, so we need to keep this in mind before we run off and elope with the sexy lion tamer at the circus.
Too, romantic fantasies also reign supreme as Venus is forming a sextile to “all of our personal woes would dramatically recede, if we could only date George Clooney” Neptune, our savior. Venus-Neptune can signify hot, passionate romance with Hollywood stars (Neptune rules actors), and, of course, we are obligingly taking that translation very literally here. 🙂
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“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin
Couldn’t let this day pass without mentioning that December 23rd is the 37th anniversary of television’s, The Young and The Restless, which debuted back in 1973, and is still going strong.
Today, we’re also checking out some of the cosmic energy of that day, to see why maybe that show has endured for so long. And why it was perhaps able to “hook us” in the first place.
Mackenzie: “What does this mean – “wedding vows”‘?
J.T.: “Oh, Brittany wants me to help write hers.”
Mackenzie: “She wants you to help her?”
J.T.: “What, you didn’t think Bobby knew how to read or write?”
Mackenzie: “That’s mean.”
J.T.: “Yeah, it’s not far from the truth. But don’t worry. I’m sure he’ll hire whoever writes those flyers for the strip club. It’ll be like the raunchiest vows ever, and I’m sure the minister will probably pass out.”
(From The Young And The Restless)
On December 23, 1973, when The Young and The Restless debuted, Venus, the mythological “Goddess of Love,” was exactly sextile “Fantasy” Neptune, the planet which also rules the television camera. Venus was in friendly, freedom-loving Aquarius. Aquarius is also a sign known for broadcasting and technology. Neptune was in wanderlust Sagittarius, a sign that is additionally very good at spinning imaginative tales and story lines. (The emotional Moon was also in “alibi” Sag that day.) The sextile is normally regarded as a more harmonious aspect of “opportunity.”
Venus-Neptune aspects tend to coincide with a mindset in which we are much more willing, and really wanting, to believe in “fairy tales” (escapist soap opera plots). We are also more inclined to want to search out an “ideal love.” No matter that the object of our desires may be “imaginary,” or otherwise “off limits” to us. Perhaps a hunky character on a soap opera?
Most of us have had imaginary lovers, at some point, in our lives. Wild fantasies about persons “unavailable” to us? George Clooney, of course, immediately comes to mind here. However, we existentially do know, in this particular case, that this “Clooney pipe dream,” may actually some day still come to pass. It could be that it just takes many more earthly incarnations to materialize. But, it’s okay. We have the time. Rome wasn’t built overnight. Great things take time and careful planning. And, sometimes, a lot of fervent prayer. Along with daily visualization, meditation, and fasting. Occasionally we have to strike back-alley deals, too, with questionable saints, in order to get our needs met. (Would you believe, Neptune also rules saints and gurus, priestly-type figures? This is true.)
That is how Venus-Neptune tends to operate. It seldom ever “surrenders the dream.” Rarely quits on the “romantic illusion.” It will go to unbelievable measures to secure or retain its fantasy. Interesting to note here that Neptune also rules our “addictions.” Neptune, coincidentally, additionally depicts “real-life people” who are employed as actors, or other persons professionally engaged in careers that stoke our imagination, such as poets, dancers, and artists. So, we had more of a proclivity to “fall for” the “make-believe” characters in the show, with the program debuting when it did.
Neptune is also our magical “link to the divine” and whispers to us of having a “divine compassion” for all. Venus-Neptune can be highly compassionate. But, on the flip side, there is also the proclivity to “play martyr or victim.” Elements, too, that work very well in television-based soap operas.
Too, love maven Venus was in a tight harmonious trine to transforming, controlling Pluto in Libra when this show premiered. With Venus-Pluto, we usually fully experience all the highs and lows of romantic drama. The compulsiveness, the obsessions, the deepest of passions. Venus was also applying to a conjunction with expander Jupiter in Aquarius, considered to be one of the most romantic and fortuitous aspects of all, as Jupiter grows whatever it is paired with and aligned with romantic Venus, our love and affection knows no bounds. The Young and The Restless characters will also never run out of people to have “real or imagined” affairs with.
Lastly, Virile Mars, ruling sex and our physical desires, was also deposited in impetuous Aries ( the sign that it rules) at 29 degrees, the very last degree of the sign. Making the young, “very restless.” And, ever more reason to watch them on TV.
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