MoonPluto ASTROLOGY

The Moon is in late Sagittarius and you know what comes after Sagittarius, right?

Capricorn! And you know what sign Pluto is in now, right?

That’s right — Capricorn!

(Dear God I sound like one of Saturn’s cheerleaders.)

And this means we’ll get a Moon Pluto conjunction tomorrow afternoon, NYC time.

And whenever the Moon comes around to sit on Pluto I consider it a personal New Moon because I share this aspect even though my Moon Pluto is in Virgo.

The Moon on everyone’s mind though is next week’s New Moon in Pisces in the early degrees. The Sun will be there by then of course. Mercury has already joined the fishy sign. And of course slow moving Neptune and Chiron.

Wherever early Pisces is in your chart is where you can expect… well? What can you expect from a New Moon in the sign of the psychic, the mystic.

Illuminations? Ghosts? Planting spiritual seeds? Spiritual trees? Will you become more… at peace, yes, at peace in the early Pisces part of your chart. (I wrote those words and I thought: sounds good to me! I’ll take it!)

I am getting in the habit lately of drawing a Tarot card or two in some of my blog posts so let’s see what the message is from me to you about this New Moon…

Okay here we go: my forecast for the New Moon in Pisces–

This is a time of tremendous change in your life. It may feel like a death but it’s a “good death” as they say. And when the old life finally falls away, you’ll have so many choices, options, it could be dizzying. Will there be a final answer? Yes. There will. And the answer has to do with your foundations, your security — strengthening it. You are this strength and you must surround yourself with people who embody this strength. Get strong, get real strong, and… the world is yours. 

What’s the Pisces part? Have faith in your ability to 1. move on and 2. get better

Does this Tarot ring true for you? What are your New Moon in Pisces thoughts? 

xo

Yes, I am doing Mini Moon Readings for the New Moon in Pisces!

I am not a beautiful woman. I am the Invisible Woman. Or it’s that I’m beautiful but no one sees it. Or that I don’t see it. Venus in the 12th House.

Yes I know YMMV with such an aspect but this blog post reflects *my* experience. Venus is beauty. The 12th is hidden.

But wait — there’s more!

What I don’t have in beauty I have in ENERGY. Remember when I was talking about people staring at me on the subway. Or when I walk down the street. Or when I’m walking behind someone…

And a couple weeks ago I met a new pal and he called it “determination” that he could feel: Pluto in the 1st House. 

Well, with transiting Venus in my 8th, it all changes. It shifts it. People are still looking but differently. It’s sexual/attracted/interested but… not threatening. The 8th House is a lot of things and one of the things it is IS a relationship house — it pulls people in. People you want, people you don’t want. But this transit, despite yesterday’s dramarama, is making me a delectable morsel. Aries on the 8th means that Mars (sex) rules my sex house and Venus is visiting, softening some of the intensity and beautifying it. 

And I can tell you this for sure: if you pay attention, you can perceive the differences as Venus transits your houses. In this part of the chart, my Venus is OUT IN THE WORLD rather than hidden.

PS I am a huge Rihanna fan (fell in love with her music at the gym!) and she has Moon Venus in Aries. 

What’s your theory of YOUR Venus? 

xo

Yes, I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the New Moon in Pisces!

I am back in care taking mode. I am back to thinking I can fix things (people too?) which is not always the best approach but I prefer it to feeling helpless.

This Venus Pluto square has knocked me on my ass and… OH.

Just realized. Just realized JUST NOW. No wonder. My Chiron is involved. My 8th House is involved. I have been up to my neck in sewer and as I write this I am taking a metaphorical shower, washing some of it off.

Transiting Venus in my 8th House conjunct my natal Chiron squared by transiting Pluto. Love hurts. Intimacy hurts. And that’s putting it sweetly and inaccurately. The sewer metaphor is better. What hurts is when you realize that *you* have acted like an ass. I have so much Virgo and long for perfection that when I realize I’ve behaved badly, I feel ashamed. Why aren’t I perfect yet?

It’s like a storm sometimes. That’s what emotional intensity is often compared to. Emotional Intensity as a THING, a syndrome. The storms come and you lash out instead of… anything else.

And with the 8th House involved there’s going to be a high degree of stink but you know what I’m doing today? I am trying love.  Well, I don’t have to try.  I do love. Trying to pick up the pieces with love. Will not cut self or anyone else.

Did you have a similar yesterday? Or a similar today so far?

I feel like you guys like this kind of writing, it’s the kind of writing (I think) that I started blogging with — honest about the ugly emotional stuff.

But listen — this blog post is not just about me. Take a look at your own chart. Where is transiting Venus? Where is transiting Pluto? Any natal planets involved in the square?

I’m in a Tarot mood today. Gonna draw another card. With the intention that this is an ADVICE card for me and for anyone feeling gross (Pluto) or ashamed (Pluto) under the Venus Pluto square.

Venus rules love. You know this. Venus rules pleasant smells and beauty pageants.

And Pluto? Pluto rules the anus, folks! Pluto rules tarpits and tapeworms and horror (to name just a few things).

Put these two in square and…

Smile?

Yes, smile. Once again I must mention, the Moon is in Sagittarius. Let that be your light today. No matter how wobbly and lost you feel, there is light.

And this lovey happy Sagittarius Moon is trining the very same natal Chiron of mine getting whipped by Pluto. See? That’s how it works. The hurt and the help.

And this is ironic: I put up a Blue Velvet film still for Venus square Pluto and the Tarot card I pulled for today’s advice was the Knight of Swords and this is what I’m thinking: whatever got turned around or upside down yesterday (or today) by Venus square Pluto… don’t build on that. Detatch from the horror you found or the horror you made. Choose Venus (in Aries) over Pluto. Move fast (Aries) in the direction of love and with Mercury in Pisces? Speak (Mercury) from the soul (Pisces).

xo

Let me tell ya, the energy I am feeling around me and “in the air” is so intense it’s a challenge even to this Moon Pluto person, partly because I feel it’s mostly not mine. If that’s possible. But I am receiving it.

Both Saturn and Mars retrograde feels like stuck in the mud but it’s not really mud. It’s a sewer. Sound like Pluto? Venus is square Pluto and I can unproudly say I was stuck in the Venus Pluto sewer yesterday, the worst side of this aspect.

The retrograde Mars and Saturn feel like “no ground to be found” — it’s all shifting, but shifting in the wrong direction, backwards: the past. Old issues, old traumas, old old old, which is Saturn’s province.

And the Pisces planets are fogging and confusing. Escape appears to not be an option.

On the good side (dramatic pause… searching for the good side…)

On the good side… life cannot remain in flux forever. We do land eventually. The feathers settle.

Where I’m sitting right now is quiet and I am going to tune in to that. Even the cats are quiet. Outside a few birds. I hardly even hear any sound from my own house or the neighbors even. The weather is quiet in that gloomy no sun way.

I am a Moon Pluto person I say to myself. In the 1st House! I resurrect and I rebirth. You can cut off my head but another one grows.

It’s the process of growth itself that is often painful… especially when you can’t find the lesson. Saturn is retrograde. Lessons are on hold, meaning… the ultimate MEANING of it all, of this time period… we can’t fathom it now. But we will. Later.

I pulled a Tarot card and I got the Knight of Wands. There is movement despite the retrogrades and maybe that’s the discomfort. Life IS moving ahead while planets, energy are going back.  Can make you feel dizzy but this tells me not to leave the past behind. It’s not an option actually. We bring our whole selves with us every time.  In other words, integration. 

Let the Moon in Sagittarius be your light today, should you need one i.e. PERSPECTIVE.

xo

And yes, I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the New Moon in Pisces

Neptune entering Pisces enters Chiron so to speak, enters the realm of Chiron, because Neptune entering Pisces enters conjunct Chiron.

Neptune at Zero and Chiron at 4 degrees Pisces. And Mercury moves fast but is currently almost at ONE degree Pisces.

This could be a favorable day to... talk about (Mercury) what’s wrong (Chiron) in a Neptunian way. Use a song. Send a postcard with invisible ink. You don’t need to be crystal clear. You can’t be crystal clear on a day like this. You can allude. You can leak. You can hide. And you may be wondering: is THIS communication? Yes but it’s communication without answers or expectations. It’s the High Priestess in a bathing cap drifting down the river of the day: knowing and not knowing the unknowable knowns of know-ness.

And with Venus square Pluto today too, the stream, the swim, is what I recommend. Be gentle (stellium in Pisces) rather than willful (Pluto) in your love and relationships. Hide if you must. Seek if you must. Avoid power-grabs. Float. Be. Hold your breath. Dunk your head. But don’t drown. You will live another day.

How are you spending the day?

xo

The Venus Pluto square gets tight tight tighter for Valentine’s Day and Mercury and Neptune are conjunct in Pisces. The Sun is in late Aquarius and the Moon moves from Scorpio to Sagittarius.

If all seems lost at first, take heart, but take it gently. Don’t eat it or drive a stake through it despite the Venus Pluto square.

Sun trine Saturn isn’t exactly a romantic aspect BUT Saturn is in Libra, and retrograde SO… what relationship-work do you still need to do? Makes sense to me that many of us feel unsettled at this time. Does she love me or love me not? What will make it right again? Is there hope? 

With Mercury conjunct Neptune there is hope. With Venus square Pluto there is passion and, well, leather

But seriously, folks – it’s an intense sky. Make use of it. How? Let’s break it apart a little more: Venus is in Aries: don’t be afraid to express your love. The square to Pluto says: you don’t have to express it at full volume. Turn it down a bit.

The Mercury Neptune aspect says: if you don’t have a love, dream of the love you want. Sun trine Saturn says: you may not get what you want right now but don’t do nothing. Don’t just dream it. Mind is the builder, said Edgar Cayce.

Overall I’m getting: don’t give up, and with the Moon moving from dark (Scorpio) to light (Sagittarius), chances are that you too can do the same.

xo

I love the treadmill. I love love love love the treadmill. And the other day I realized why. And I realized why when I hurt my toe and couldn’t use the treadmill and had to use this other machine where the feet just STAY THERE. Ugh.

What I realized, remembered, was that there are pressure points on the bottom of the foot! Apparently I LOVE (need?) having these points worked on and probably explains why I also love walking and how there was deeply something missing when I couldn’t use my machine of choice. There are also, of course, the endorphins to consider, which get released under a certain amount of exertion.

This realization made me think of Pisces because Pisces rules the feet. Shoes, boots, and stockings too. Even pumice!

Mercury enters the sign of Pisces this evening, slipping into a conjunction with Neptune right away so break out the peace pipe and your angel cards! Connection to the Divine is easier than ever with Pisces Season afoot! (For more on Pisces this week look here!)

And I’m trying to remember if I have any pals with Mercury in Pisces and I don’t think I do. Would we even need to speak to be heard? I have Mercury in Cancer trine Neptune with Neptune in the 3rd House (which is a Mercury House, naturally ruled by Gemini) so I get a dose of Pisces through this aspect.

Watery communicators, they say, are anything but straightforward (well, except Mercury in Scorpio which I find to be exceedingly straightforward). I can’t really tell though.  I know that I make leaps upon leaps upon leaps. And that some people get me and some people don’t. And one thing in particular that I realized from a pretty young age is that REALLY SMART PEOPLE get me and like me, even if their thinking process is different than mine.

Where’s your Mercury? What are its strengths? Weaknesses? 

xo

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