Gathering together what Uranus has exploded and inspired as Venus leans in for a goodbye kiss: personal reflections on the last seven years or so, and some thoughts about collective effects of Uranus transiting through Taurus. It's been a wild ride for this little bull.
I wrote this piece in 2019, as I first became acquainted with the groundbreaking -- literally -- transit of Uranus through my Sun sign. I had just returned from an experience that felt emblematic of this transit, and synchronicity was drawing my attention to all sorts of thematic signals. Uranus leaves Taurus in a few short days. I am still trying to gather my thoughts well enough to write a follow-up piece to this one, given how much has changed in the last seven years.
As spring kicks into gear, this month's astro-energy follows suit and starts big, with a Full Moon on April Fool's Day. If you feel like you're still working out some March squishiness at first (like a mental-emotional mud season), the metaphorical ground should start drying out soon and offering better traction as April fires up in earnest.
With the Pisces New Moon being prodded by Uranus, Mercury stationing direct, the Sun leaving Pisces and entering Aries, plus a pair of favorable aspects to Jupiter in Cancer, this week is a curious mix of energies. Sailing through the seas of this Mercury storm phase will likely go better when using two guidelines from actual stormy sailing.
The Jan. 3 Full Moon carries a message about integrating ambition and receptivity for the best results in the next stage of whatever you're building. Staying sensitive to how those two qualities cycle and flow between each other could be important later, during the Jan. 18 New Moon.
Mercury just stationed retrograde yesterday in Sagittarius and will reenter Scorpio next week. As it moves through these signs, you're being asked to review, reconsider, or rework something in a way that could help you understand it -- and yourself -- better. May these horoscopes help you use whatever you learn in your healing and growth.
Sometimes when I'm trying to write about the current astrology, it suddenly hits me that I'm basically living the dynamics at play. Writing about this Full Moon was one of those times -- annoyingly -- marked by the irritation and continual adjustment described by the chart's overarching aspect pattern.
Tonight's lunar eclipse opens the portal to "The Eclipse Zone": the two weeks between a pair of eclipses, which can feel like a time warp: strangely compressed, with life somehow distinctly different on the other side. These horoscopes should help you get oriented.
I'm not a football fan. But the proximity of the recent Super Bowl to this morning's Leo Full Moon brought to mind a perfect image to describe how this Moon is operating in our current social-political moment -- and in your personal interactions.
Maybe, for you, today's "surprise" will be the Full Moon passing by with only some creative rearrangement of expectations and routines. But I also see the potential to feel like you've just been zapped -- and needing to adjust your approach.