Well we’ve had a lot of astrology to wade through lately, most notably, Mars’s station retrograde in Leo, and Venus’s ingress into Aquarius, where it conjoined Pluto. Mercury is still retrograding through Sagittarius. There’s opposition energy mounting and building, which means our relationships are being tested, or tensified, if that could be a word.
I filmed a vid about Mars retrograde last week that I felt pretty good about except for one glaring visual issue, and when I finally had time to re-record it, I was no longer as aligned with what I was going to say. Mars retrograde has typically been a time of inner turmoil for me and has the reputation of spikey confrontations with the self, but this Mars stationing retrograde seemed to give me encouragement, a feeling of personal power, and introspective space that I have not been able to access in over a year. Mars really is about what we want, and the energy we spend in getting those things. Mars is about action and initiation– and retrograde- we are being asked to understand what is behind our actions and desires. We may be asked to rethink, or we may become aware of new drivers and movements we want to take. This investigation could happen because of circumstances or relationship issues– or in my case– noticing that deep and irreversible change has taken place within.
This doesn’t mean I haven’t been confronted or confounded by Mars’s lessons, feelings of immediacy and action, or feelings of anger and frustration. I have been on a few rides, especially during holiday (trauma) season. But it’s good to also notice when these transits give us something pleasant or empowering as a jumping off point, and why you should never assume a transit is positive or negative.
Mercury retrograde is the transit that has me scrambling this weekend with delays, transportation issues, and missed connections. Often these issues are small in nature but reflect a bigger question and lesson.
This week has only a few transits to report:
December 10th
Aries Chiron trine Sagittarius Sun @ 19 degrees
12:49 pm PST/ 3:49 pm EST
December 12th
Aquarius Venus opposite Leo Mars @ 5 degrees
2:43 am PST/ 5:43 am EST
December 15th
Full Moon in Gemini @ 23 degrees
1:00 am PST/ 4:00 am EST
Mercury stations direct @ 6 degrees Sagittarius
12:56 pm PST/ 3:56 pm EST
Tuesday December 10th brought us a fire trine between Aries Chiron and the Sun in Sagittarius at 19 degrees, bestowing some inspiring and igniting spiritual energy to our consciousness by route of our wound, healing, and sense of serving the collective as a healer. This is effortless energy that brings us a sense of uplifting vitality, ambitiousness, and hope. I had a lucky encounter with a local on the 9th, which ended up with me getting help from another neighbour on the 10th, and today. Mercury in retrograde has been testing me, but really, the planets are showing me a lot to trust in right now. Which is great after the year I’ve had.
Thursday December 12th brings us some opposing relationship energy between Venus and Mars RX. This Venus wants freedom, and this Mars wants to be seen, admired, and to lead, although a lot of these impulses are shooting off internally. Mars going backwards like this can lead to lost tempers or fuming madness. Some fraught relationships will have it out. If one person tries to be aggressive or use manipulative tactics, it will have an adverse effect on the other person. Aggressive behaviour coming from egoic expectation won’t land well. Some people will dream of freedom, become suddenly unavailable or hard to nail down. They might entertain strange delights, ideas, or people. Fixed air versus fixed fire can cause an explosion, so be careful how much you want to force any issue today, especially in romantic relationships.
From there, pressure will mount until December 15th when we have a full Moon in Gemini @ 15 degrees, and then Mercury– which rules this full Moon– will also station direct at 6 degrees Sagittarius. It’s notable when Mercury stations direct, the forward motion has it at a standstill, visually, and energetically. The Sabian symbol for Sagittarius at 6 degrees is Cupid Knocking at the Door of a Human Heart. There is a call to dilation, with relationships and a plea to stand down on some of our boundaries. There is a call to let down defenses, and allow love in.
Are you kidding me?
We are getting a lot of work on the Sagittarius/ Gemini polarity between duality versus the infinite; Truth versus facts and figures; talking versus believing; the personal vs. the social; that kind of thing. This full Moon is the culmination that began on June 6th when a seed was planted. Do you remember what was going on then? I do.
Mercury–in this newly forward motion – also makes a grand fire trine with Leo Mars and the North Node in Aries, so there is something here that inspires, with ease, an impulse to your future karma. I won’t lie, this is tricky energy. There's a lot of fire and air, which work really well together, until there’s too much. Jupiter in Gemini makes a loose conjunction to this full Moon so it adds expansion and growth, uncomfortably, to this overall vibe. This Jupiter can overwhelm itself, overbook itself, say way too much, spread too much gossip, or start fires that grow large, but it is tempered in a square to Saturn in Pisces. Saturn in Pisces is a tough crowd when it comes to all this conversation and opinion; beliefs and ideas. Saturn in Pisces will keep us on our spiritual work by imbuing us with endings. It will rain on our parade.
This is a lot of mutable energy, I just mentioned. Mutable energy carries the message out into the ether, as a harbinger of change. Mutable energy can be confusing, dissolving, or…anywhere but here. So we might feel overwhelm, burn out, and massive frustration around this time.
Full Moons are a synthesis of body and soul, and there is something changing, shifting and moving, like its lord– Mercury. We come out knowing something more, or believing something different. And from there it’s only one more week of Sagittarius season before the Sun changes signs.
Full Moon Blessings,
- Astro-Anarchist
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