Even though we’re rounding out the last few days of the lunar month, a quiet time normally about endings and release, there’s a crackle of electricity in the air as Mars and Uranus build up to Thursday’s opposition. As a result, we may be feeling an impulse to make a radical change this week or shake up the status quo — something that Uranus loves nothing more to do.

Speaking of which, the Sun and Uranus will make a trine today, another aspect in a line up of big aspects this week. Uranus is the energy of Prometheus, a spark, and flashes of insight. Uranus helps us to see things with new consciousness and break free of Saturnian constraints, to separate from the old.

We’re also feeling the energy of Chiron pretty deeply this week. What are our old wounds, knots, tender areas? What can we use the energy of Uranus to let go of? Have new perspective? Have a breakthrough?