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Astrology for Healing and Transformation with Katie Sweetman
Mercury arrives in Leo. We’re learning to find our artistic voice, to put our spirit into everything we create. Over the next three weeks, seek out performance, cultivate romance, choose what’s in your heart. It’s an early preview of Leo Season, which starts next week.
Mars arrives in Virgo, a change in gears for Cancer Season. We’ve got work to do, especially with Mars opposing Saturn into next week. Mercury also arrives in bright and creative Leo. Plus, we’re wrapping up the lunar month and going into the dark of the moon
Mars, the planet of drive and action, arrives in Virgo and gets to work with precision and detail. It’s time to organize our lives, put things in order, and start new projects. We’re seeking purity and perfection. This is a Mars that also wants to be of service to others.
If Mars is action and motivation, its journey through Virgo will channel that energy towards precision and excellence There’s a drive for perfection when Mars is in Virgo. Everything has to be just so, perhaps even obsessively.
A Pisces Moon takes us into the weekend, a double dose of element water to our Cancer Sun. Pisces is a big-hearted sign that asks us to be the same. With Jupiter in Taurus, we’re getting philosophical and spiritual, we’re looking for deeper connection.
Mercury in Cancer squares off with Chiron in Aries. Do we have the courage and the bravery to make the right choice? To go after what we want? To speak up? In order to move forward, we have to untie ourselves from the links to the past.
The Moon’s in Aquarius, a sign that makes us aware of larger issues and themes that connect us as a collective. It also reaches into a deep emotional space, touching on additional themes of intimacy and vulnerability, trust and power.
We’re coming off a Capricorn Full Moon, one that pulled at our hearts and had us asking ourselves deep questions. It was also a reminder that Saturn will be in Pisces for a while. Our physical lives, our material ambitions have to align with our spirits.
A Capricorn Full Moon lights up our week. It’s a showcase for Saturn in Pisces. What we’re building and committing to has to have purpose. Neptune still pulls at the edges of our reality. We’re also getting ready for Venus Retrograde later this month.
Welcome to the Capricorn Full Moon, the time in the lunar calendar when the spotlight is on duty and responsibility, maturity and authority, ambition and reach. As the sign that governs over our material and manifested lives, Capricorn puts thing into sharp focus.
Neptune turns retrograde at 27 Pisces, and influence that is both subtle and atmospheric, magnetic and spiritual, imbuing our week with an otherworldly energy. That said, Neptune is an evolutionary planet, it reminds us that our work is to transcend ourselves.
The Cancer Sun picks up support from Saturn in Pisces, a stabilizing influence after a rocky start to the astrology this week. Saturn gives us perspective, an ability to see the bigger picture, and helps us to strategize and build towards our goals.