Weekly transits for January 30th, 2023- February 5th, referencing PST time zone

Astro Anarchist

Jan 30, 202311 min read

Long form weeklies at the top, cheat sheet at the bottom:

Monday January 30th

Gemini Mars trine Aquarius Sun @ 10°

Gemini Moon square Pisces Venus @ 4°

Gemini Moon conjunct Mars @ 10° trine Aquarius Sun @ 11°

Monday has some Gemini vibes with Moon and Mars doing some serious conversational tango. Which of your houses is ruled by Gemini? You probably have some tender edges there, what with Mars having gone retrograde recently. What is your relationship to anger, impetus, and energy in this house?

So let’s recap what Gemini Mars feels like: an impulse to act, usually verbally. A moving speech, witty repartee, winning an argument, finding your words to explain, writing a magnum opus. Maybe you’ve needed to send out some clear communications. Maybe you’ve needed to dig deep on some topic and REALLY understand it because it underlies everything that’s coming into focus now. Maybe it’s being worn really thin between competing projects that need you to have your foot on the gas pedal. When Mars was retrograde, it probably felt like there was a foot on the gas pedal, and the brake, but now… Look at you go.

This fast moving Mars makes a lovely trine to Aquarius Sun. You are a master orator, conversational genius, and you are thinking high level at your job, in your family, and in your community. Did you make some headway using the power of your noggin? Did you find a way to be understood, heard, or get things moving in an area that needed attention?

When Moon squares Venus there may be some emotional responses, felt in the body, felt between you and others. Pisces Venus offers up BIG HEART and dreamscapes, Gemini Moon may not take the greatest care with that. There could be hurt feelings, attachment issues, or overwhelm (feeling trapped?) with this vibe. If you are an artist, writer/ songwriter, I feel like you could really pull some genius from your daemons. Show up at the page/ guitar/ synth/ easel and see what happens?

Moon conjuncts Mars for a beautiful Gemini explosion of energy. How will your body/ mind/ soul move today? There’s an abstract intelligence to Gemini, so if there’s a social engagement, or people to talk to today, you might really find a place with it. But what about moving your body to process the things in your mind? Gemini Mars could be well served simply by “taking it for a walk.” Go listen to a podcast, go out in nature and let your thoughts run wild, go for that run to nowhere in particular, as your anxiety, panic, or overwhelm expels itself into the ether. We all feel these tough emotions, and forget sometimes that it’s just energy that wants to move.

If you struggle with moving energy out of your body, through injury, illness, time constraints etc. Is there a way to put on some music and dance in the way your unique body can move, even if it’s in a chair?

Tuesday January 31st

Gemini Moon square Pisces Neptune @ 23°

An interesting day in Aquarius season. How is Aquarius season landing for you? I’m finding it alienating and stark. It’s forcing me to look inward.

The big moment of the day is a square between Neptune and Moon, and it’s a quick one. But we are in an air season with all planets moving forward. “Quick” is the vibe. However, this is a square between Moon and Pisces Neptune: vast ocean of all-there-is; not so time-oriented. Not so linear, tangible, or clear.

What’s coming up today is a way to do, or connect to your ancestral lineage, your trauma responses, and your processes? Neptune is all about compassion and altered states, confusion and dreams.

Do you have a moment to speak about past life regression/ medicine journeying/ journal writing/ cranial sacral healing/ screaming into the void? What is your medicine? Is it hours of TV shows, 1-8 glasses of wine after work, deflecting any attention on yourself and instead focusing on your partner or kids or someone else who needs your attention?

There is no judgment from here. We choose our medicine based on our birth charts, our traumas, and our triggers. But many of us forget that we are simply trying to soothe ourselves with our medicine. Many of us attach shame to our coping mechanisms.

Do you have a moment to admit that it’s time to focus on you– your healing– your pain, and that when you prioritize that, it benefits EVERYONE. Unhealed people are ruling the planet, destroying our ecosystem, and forgetting who they are and that they are of the land. If you have a moment to wade into this Moon/Neptune moment, remember your divinity, and your responsibility to heal yourself.

Wednesday February 1st

Gemini Moon trine Aquarius Saturn @ 25°

Some more Gemini action today. Have you been chatty, curious, and learning about all kinds of things? Has your body, and reactions been all over the place? This air trine– working with Aquarius Saturn, wants you to come to a high truth. What’s the story arc in terms of where you sit in the collective growth of consciousness? Are you moving through humanity’s story with the way you deal with your inner self?

How will you be in this new, technological, and changing world? What’s the revolution that you are supporting? Being in your body, putting your energy into what matters to you– that’s radical work. Radical work, at its best, is humble. It’s saying “no” when you feel it, it’s tending to the “field” of what’s happening. How are you guided to be right now? Time is finite, but you are in the middle of a big story, that is all of our stories. What can you do with your energy that’s in alignment with your values and ethics, with reality, and with the collective?

Take note of any ideas, epiphanies or plans that hatch today.

Thursday February 2nd

Cancer Moon square Aries Jupiter @ 6°

Cancer Moon trine Pisces Venus @ 7°

Cancer Moon square Aries Chiron @ 12°

We delve into the powerful, protective and creative moon waters of Cancer and begin with a Cardinal square with Jupiter. Deep feelings and creative impulses might come into powerful friction with your beliefs. The fires of inspiration and expansion might be dampened with feelings around safety, protection, and home. Cancer Moon might intuit things that bring fear in. Cancer Moon is linked to the maternal bloodline, she carries all the worries and protections of all the mothers from throughout your ancestry. She may have taught you fear-based lessons that are deep mechanisms of protecting you, during centuries of patriarchal rule. Cancer Moon will try to reign in anything that is unsafe to you or your loved ones, and Aries Jupiter is an identity expansion of beliefs. You may find yourself trying to carve out new beliefs about yourself to transcend embedded assumptions about yourself that keep you small. Cancer Moon wants to protect you in the crab shell and Aries Jupiter is a chicken breaking out of the egg with infinite potential.

Here to help--is the deep lover, Pisces Venus, patron saint of loving until it hurts. Pisces Venus love is big ocean love. Pisces Venus will sacrifice it all for love, connection, and being there. Perhaps you can work through the fear of that square above by moving into the power of deep love. If love is problematic today, perhaps the invitation is to love yourself. There is a part of you, inside, that needs your undying affection. A part of you that you find problematic. Find it. Love it.

Like a story arc, Cancer Moon then squares Aries Chiron. We’ve gone from this expansion of self, to finding unconditional love, and now we bump up against that wound of identity and our capacity to heal ourself and others with that wound. Cancer Moon is connected to our maternal line; Aries Chiron might bring up memories from childhood. I find often these wounds are hard to understand and even see as wounds. Sometimes it’s just “this weird thing that happened” as I open to it and realize that my young self had no way to understand or reference what was happening. Our brain protects us from the ultimate pain of these moments.

The trick here with all of this is to know that we can self-parent. We can honor the mother line of women who protected their babies with their wombs, bodies, and ultimately their lives, no matter how wonderful or problematic our mother-line was. The gift of your mother-line is your existence. Heal that line by loving it through all the mistakes, faulty advice, and wounds that it brings up. You can love it, and choose differently.

Friday February 3rd

Cancer Moon opposite Capricorn Mercury @ 19°

Cancer Moon trine Pisces Neptune @ 23°

Aquarius Sun square Taurus Uranus @ 15°

Cancer Moon opposite Capricorn Pluto @ 28°

Feelings versus practical thinking today. Feelings are not linear and don’t fit into any kind of structure. They are water, and Cancer Moon is cardinal water– they are initiatory. Capricorn Mercury is practical, hardworking, and rational. It knows what needs to happen and gets it done. So this opposition will have us potentially having to subvert either our rationale, or our feelings, or come to a communication nadir where both have equal time or viewing.

Cancer Moon trining Pisces Neptune is a beautiful place to explore spiritual endeavors, meditation, medicine, and the deep part of our feelings that needs compassionate review. How this shows up will not likely make sense, or have any clarity, but Cancer Moon can feel somewhat safe running its waters into the vast ocean. There is a deep, calm place to put this work.

The Sun is in detriment in Aquarius. That means that the only way for the spirit/ego can properly express itself is embedded in the plight of everyone equally around you. Your ego is devoted to the collective, which is sort of not how we think about Sun. That squares off of Uranus in Taurus – perhaps something new or different is brought to light, or something happens that puts us in a new situation with our ego and what it means to feel uniquely yourself. There could be a feeling of uncertainty or something happens that thrusts us into this place. Whatever Uranus needs to do to shake up our lives by shaking you and your ego up, will happen. This could be experienced as a great thing, that inspires you forward. It could be experienced as an unwanted change. Change is on the menu, no matter what. This is fixed energy being asked to change, so guaranteed you might have resistance with it, no matter how beneficial it might be.

Cancer Moon opposes Capricorn Pluto. This is feelings versus transformative destruction. What needs to end or change in order to feel safe? What are you needing to let go of? What houses are on your Cancer/ Capricorn axis? This polarity explores your mother figure and father figure or the matriarchy and patriarchy. There is a brief but powerful tension today and it wants you to explore your innate attachments, deep relationships, and your most taboo coping mechanisms. There will be a moment of overwhelming feeling that could have you contending with power or vulnerability. Do you have control or don’t you? Feelings spill over, but it’s more than that. Trauma powered feelings can hold us like a hand in a puppet. Can you put space between you and the reaction, assumption, obsession? Can you ride the moment over to the other side?

Saturday February 4th

Leo moon trine Aries Jupiter @ 6°

Leo Moon square Taurus North Node @ 8°

Pisces Venus square Gemini Mars @ 11°

Courageous and heart-led feels make a beautiful bedfellow for expansive personal inspiration. This Leo Moon trine is asking us to be bold, beautiful, and to go forth, no matter how scary it is. We can be brave, and Leo often does this work on its own, without any help. Leo Moon is the leader of the pride, and your personal belief systems and expansive reality is helped with this heart-led influence.

This same Moon, with big emotional expression will come into a square with both Nodes. Where are we headed karmically? There maybe a crossing point between where we’ve been emotionally, what we have been really good at, and what we are being asked to do. This is a fixed square. We may have a feeling of being stuck because this energy wants us to really see, learn, or be with something. There is work to do with this emotional crossroads. If you can, get over the feeling of being stuck, and see where the work is taking you.

Pisces Venus squares Gemini Mars which guarantees to have us contending with overwhelming feelings coming into contact with a sense of action. Energy expressed from Mars will likely be communicated. This can be an alluring invitation with a square where sexual tension comes into play. This can be a burst of communicated frustration, or annoyance. This can be a square in which we make choices without thinking, based on big emotions and spontaneous action. This square is mutable and it’s helping us to usher into change. We pine for change but of course we resist it also. This is about connection and action. Something that we value will come into opposition with some sort of action we perform, but it will move us forward, and that’s the point. Because we’re talking Pisces here we may be dealing with endings, altered states, spirituality and because we’re talking Gemini we may be dealing with information, ideas, curiosity, and something that gets said. Gemini Mars won’t be successful in being flippant about the depth of feeling that Pisces Venus is engaged with.

Sunday February 5th

Leo Moon trine Aries Chiron @ 12°

Leo Moon square Taurus Uranus @ 15°

Full Leo Moon: 10:28 am PST/ 1:28 EST @ 16.40°

Yod: Leo Moon 21°- 23° as apex, inconjunct Capricorn Mercury @ 23°, Pisces Neptune @ 23°

Leo Moon is the centre of attention today, as if there was any other way for it to be! We start with a beneficial and healing trine– something ignites our spirit to know we have evolved past our identity wound. Whomever we’ve become, our wounding was right there with us. And that wounding became part of us, and now it’s a way that we heal ourselves and offer healing to others. This impulse will propel us into the day.

We have the Moon in the fixed square also with Uranus. This is a brief moment that will likely equate in an epiphany or new understanding, a flash of insight coming from the planet of surprise. Leo Moon wears its heart on its sleeve AND it really wants to be adored, this is bold and vulnerable. This fixed square may shed some light on where you are going with this powerful heart.

We hit the full Leo Moon which is a culmination and peak of this idea of how you show up and want to be seen, versus the parts of you you carry beneath all the glamour. Those parts want to also be seen too– the inner parts, the shadow parts, the stuff you’ve been carrying for your family and bloodline. Leo Moon does it all for love, and to call you all in. It just wants to be seen, and somehow with this moon, it will be seen. Aquarius Sun puts the spotlight on who you are individually and what it means in the greater collective.

And that is the mechanism that is the energy point for the yod that is created soon after the full moon. Pisces Neptune works with Capricorn Mercury to create a deep compassionate and realistically thought-out way to express this fiery need to express. There are big feelings here, but they could be all about love, devotion, excitement, or leadership. This could be the moment you stand on the hill! But the feels could also be the things we are have trapped in our brains, our insecurities and feelings of not being good enough, and the consciousness that we don’t know our place in the collective, family, organization, forum. Is wanting to be good-- good enough? There is something to go through here, and express through this fiery Moon.

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