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Astrology for Healing and Transformation with Katie Sweetman
Pluto turns retrograde in Aquarius, which is not only a powerful start to the month, but a major checkpoint with an energy that will be with us into the coming years. Pluto is a force of transformation and reformation, revealing something to us that will irrevocably shift.
A Leo Moon takes us into the weekend, a Moon that wants to play and have fun. With the Moon picking up on the energies of the Taurus Sun, we’re seeking out the comforts of home or bringing our creative energies towards what really nourishes us.
Mars in Cancer and Chiron in Aries create friction, an aspect that may pull at old emotional scar tissue. If we are feeling something come up, it may be very old, a repeat of a theme or thread that runs its way through different parts of our lives. Look for healing.
We come up to the first-quarter moon, the time after a solar eclipse when its energies become revealed. If the eclipse was a seed, the Moon germinates that seed. Look for turning points and events that play into the eclipses’s powerful new beginnings.
The Moon moves through Cancer today, a complement to Taurus Season, two signs that, together, help us to create stability and security, bring comfort and pleasure, and anchor in through home and family. Reach for something solid as the current shifts.
Welcome to Taurus Season. We’re in the portal between eclipses, a gateway that rushes people as well as events in and out of our lives. We’re also coming up to Pluto Retrograde, which means that it’s a powerful week for metamorphosis and change.
We start the week in the portal between the eclipses, a two-week period where time bends and life changes directions. With the Sun conjunct the North Node today, we feel that liminality even more. There is a deeper subtext to our experiences and thoughts.
Here is a clip from my recent webinar, The Eclipses of April & May 2023, a deep dive into the power of eclipses and how they herald the major events of our lives. These eclipses in particular close out a story that began in late 2021 and usher in something very new.
We’re coming off a powerful Aries New Moon solar eclipse, one that officially brought us into a new chapter of time. With Mars in Cancer and a square to Pluto, we may be feeling a surge of emotions, both primal and instinctual. Life may start to move fast.
Welcome to the Aries New Moon, which marks a dynamic solar eclipse that plays off the energies of renewal and new beginnings. A door closes and opens. The next six months will push us to take the lead, go after what we want, and make lasting changes.
Tomorrow’s solar eclipse not only sets the stage for the next six months, it also opens up a chapter that will play out into early 2025. We’re getting ready to learn how to stand on our own two feet, take the lead, and reach for what is going to nurture and support us.
With the Moon in Aries, we’re on the cusp of a new beginning. We may be feeling a build up of energy or tension. But we’re also in the dark of the moon. We have to honor that we are in a sacred space of endings. Time to reflect and make space for the new.