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Astrology for Healing and Transformation with Katie Sweetman
Cancer is a sign that speaks to some of life’s most rudimentary experiences. Home. Family. Roots. The Mother. As the first water sign, it’s all about emotional security, connection, and trust. So what happens when a full moon presses on all these themes like a live wire?
I talk about consciousness in my posts because it’s not enough to know what’s going on in the sky, we have to know how to bring the fullness of ourselves to any planet or sign. We’re in an era that demands healing and transformation. The astrology is telling us as much.
Today’s Gemini Moon is a happy reminder that Mercury is direct! Not that I’m one to set the alarm about Mercury Retrograde, but it’s nice to know that things may flow a bit more smoothly now that the planet of communication and travel has moved forward.
As I mentioned yesterday, the Sun is coming up on its annual line up with Pluto, a time when the light of creation meets the Lord of the Underworld. When these two planets merge, it’s an intense examination of ourselves as well as our unconscious projections.
When Pluto arrived in Capricorn in January 2008, it commenced a deep purge and transmutation of the material world. True, we’ve seen the world shift dramatically. But on a personal level, there’s an area of your life that has demanded total transformation.
Keep an eye on tempers today. With the Moon in Aries stirring up some intense energy courtesy of Pluto and Uranus, diplomacy and tact aren’t exactly where we’re at right now. Then again, Mars and Venus are over in Pisces. Time to let it go.
Mercury, coming to the end of its retrograde, dipped back into Sagittarius today. As a result, we’re revisiting decisions, ideas, and events from late November. Mercury in Sag can be a bit opinionated, too. What needs a fresh perspective? Less judgement?
Venus, the planet of beauty, value, and love, arrived in Pisces today. In classical astrology parlance, Venus is exalted in Pisces, which is to say she’s quite comfortable in the sign of art, music, and spirituality. In fact, you could say she does her best work in Pisces.
We started off the new year with a conjunction of Mars and Neptune in Pisces, a sort of listless slash spiritually existential line up. Maybe you were a little hungover, but in its highest expression it means our actions are fused with the energy of compassion.
Happy new year! Phew, what a year 2016 was. Up was down and down was up. If we learned anything from the astrology it’s that even though Uranus and Pluto finished their epic squares between each other, we’re still feeling the aftershocks.
Yesterday’s Capricorn New Moon inspired us to look ahead and think seriously about the milestones and achievements we want to strive for in the new year. If you haven’t yet taken advantage of this fertile lunar energy, make sure you make a list.
Happy Capricorn New Moon! This is the time in the calendar when we turn our attention to maturity, ambition, and responsibility. Capricorn is a vertical sign. It wants you to think seriously about what you want and make strides to achieve it