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Astrology for Healing and Transformation with Katie Sweetman
It’s been clear over the last few years, ever since Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008, that we’re in a passage when the world that we’ve built needs to profoundly transform. If astrology is just another way to tell time, then Pluto is telling us that change is non-negotiable.
We’re in the final hours of Capricorn season, the time in the zodiac calendar when we experience life through the prism of material success, ambition, and worldly achievement. With Mars and Saturn squaring off, it’s crunch time today. What does the next level look like?
As the Moon and Jupiter join up in Libra today, setting off prickly aspects to Pluto and Uranus, it’s a reminder that we’re working through a story around other people. Libra is often described as relationships, but it’s really about how we connect to one another.
Today’s Moon in Libra connects us to Venus’s ongoing swim through the sign of Pisces. If Libra teaches us about beauty, harmony, and the needs of others, then Venus in Pisces — with a dash of Neptune — is a mystical, alluring placement for the planet of love.
The Moon may be in tidy Virgo, but it’s highlighting a messy connection between Mars and Chiron in Pisces. If Chiron in Pisces are the emotional, spiritual, and psychic knots we carry in the soul of humanity, then Mars is pressing on our collective scar tissue.
Even though the Cancer Full Moon was yesterday, we’ll be feeling its emotionally charged energy reverberate over the next day or so. Am I safe? Am I loved? Who are my family? Who is going to be a part of the most important, intimate moments of my life?
Happy Cancer Full Moon! This is the time of the year when we shine a light into the heart of life. As a sign, Cancer speaks to some of our most basic of human needs and experiences — care, connection, sensitivity, home, family, roots, the mother.
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.