Horoscopes for the New Moon in Virgo ~ August 30, 2019

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August 30

3:37 PM PT – New Moon at 6° of Virgo

No one appreciates the intelligence of streamlining like Virgo. This sign knows that in order to heal, the system in question needs enough space to do so. Clutter is a natural part of life. Chaos is an intrinsic aspect of the creative process. But the first order of magic is clearing a space for our rituals to take place within. Spells are cast to harness and align with the forces of the natural world; the less that stands between us and them, the more impact our incantations have.

The new moon in Virgo asks us to do some emotional organizing, declutter our psychological systems, and as a result clear a path for solutions and unexpected opportunities to find their way to us.

The new moon in Virgo is flanked by a pile-up of planets in Virgo, emphasizing this sign’s attributes. With Mercury, Venus, and Mars here, the earthy emphasis of this moment speaks to what it means to manifest our energy in real-time in the material world. Sitting with its ruler, Mercury, The Magician and Messenger, this new moon is encouraging us to take time to digest, integrate, and absorb the meaning of life’s current events. In a trine to Uranus, the new moon and Mercury are teaming up with the planet of innovation. Unconventionality, change, and bold new beginnings want to make their mark on our lives.

Mars and Uranus are two of the testier planets out there, however, and with such an emphasis on the sometimes pickiest of signs, our patience may run thin for things that don’t work, don’t move quickly, or don’t fit precisely. This astrology can trick us into being overly and overtly critical, tearing apart what is better left alone.

Careful where you put that criticism.

Under these skies, what has grown tired and tedious becomes a thorn in our side. This new moon brings with it a soulful efficiency. In order to receive its blessings, we’ll need to risk letting go of what might have worked for this long, but won’t help us go the distance.

September 1

Mercury in Virgo trine Uranus Rx in Taurus, both at 6°

Communications become increasingly interesting as Mercury and the Mistress of Mayhem, Uranus, team up. Watch out for ideas, inspirations, and all kinds of breakthrough conversations that fill your airwaves and ask to be channeled through your windpipes.

Venus in Virgo trine Saturn Rx in Capricorn, both at 14°

Venus and Saturn also team up today in support of the new moon’s initiatives. This is a transit that has heft and an ability to help us manifest. Making the most of our connections, today’s astro wants us to fill the containers we’ve built for pleasure, joy, and creative explorations with fertile soil.

September 2

Sun conjunct Mars in Virgo at 9°

Between today and tomorrow, Mars makes itself known. These are days full of action, heat, movement, flare-ups, fire, and new beginnings. Here, Mars begins a new cycle. Much like a new moon phase, what we learn about our power, anger, and agency makes all the difference for our future growth. Channel your drive instead of being steered by frustration, or worse, bitterness for having not tried at what you most want to make happen in life.

Venus in Virgo square Jupiter in Sagittarius, both at 15°

The two planets most focused on feeling good team up today. This secondary astrological tone of the moment may magnify our desires for connecting to any and all sources of pleasure. It’s best to give in to these kinds of moments instead of resisting just know that they will be encouraging us to go all-out without much regard for whether or not we can afford such extravagances.

September 3

Mercury conjunct Mars and Sun in Virgo at 10°

Today is a hot topic. Temperatures rise and it may be easy to say things we’ll later regret. Instead of letting today’s astrology run wild, run with it. Write, sing, shout from the rooftops if you can but just make sure to vent your more heated thoughts and feelings in ways that can be constructive (or at least not damaging).

September 4

Venus in Virgo opposes Neptune Rx in Pisces, both at 17°

Today is dreamy and deluded, derailing and delightful. Not great for specifics, Venus opposing Neptune is here to make your most ideal relationship scenarios come to life. They may not be the real-deal, but under this influence, you might not care. These two might not land you in anything long-lasting, but the mirage will most likely be entertaining. Some will feel this as a deep need to escape and this desire should be indulged if possible. Binge on all the rom-coms you can, just don’t compare your life to their plot lines.

September 5

Mercury in Virgo trine Saturn Rx in Capricorn, both at 14°

Helpful information, conversations, and agreements are made now. Look for those that can and want to commit to what you do.

September 6

Mercury in Virgo square Jupiter in Sagittarius, both at 15°

Big moves, bold conversations, and bright ideas are the talk of the town today. Mercury feels especially bolstered here, but a little unevenly. While the flashiness of the moment might momentarily win favor, the nitty-gritty details will eventually have to be dealt with. Enjoy this influence, just remember that every big adventure we say yes to requires as big of an effort to make happen.

Sun in Virgo trine Saturn Rx in Capricorn, both at 14°

This signature anchors some of our best efforts into reality, helping the machines of our lives stay well-oiled and industrious. Keep working with what keeps working.

Venus in Virgo trine Pluto Rx in Capricorn, both at 20°

This aspect of today’s astrology helps us to get to a deeper layer of our relationship dynamics with some ease. The intimacy that occurs with this influence makes an impact and doesn’t require another person to take place. Date yourself today.

September 7

Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune Rx in Pisces, both at 17°

Much like a Mercury retrograde, today’s astrology will tend to frustrate the myopic, detail-focused, and fact-obsessed aspects of us. As the Messenger gets caught up in a world of make-believe, we might not get all the data we were promised but we do get access to some fascinating visions and fantasies. Go easy on yourself if day-dreaming derails you a little. Tomorrow gets you back on track.

September 8

Sun in Virgo square Jupiter in Sagittarius, both at 15°

Today’s astrology is uplifting and affirming. If yesterday was a bit of a mess, today makes up for it. Amplifying what works, almost to an extreme, today’s industriousness might make us over-produce but at least we’ll get the job done.

Mercury in Virgo trine Pluto Rx in Capricorn, both at 20°

Conversations run deep today. There is a need to have the kind of talks that are satiating on mental, emotional, and spiritual planes. Knowledge is shared in ways that transform the profane into the sacred. Catharsis is central to the conversation but comes with greater ease than usual.

Mars in Virgo trine Saturn Rx in Capricorn, both at 13°

This combination of Mars and Saturn in earth signs can’t be beat for its ability to connect us to both our drive and discipline. This is super-hero astrology. As humans we can use it in small doses or large ones, depending on our current appetite to accomplish our to-do lists or total world domination.

September 10

Sun in Virgo opposes Neptune Rx in Pisces, both at 17°

There’s no need to rush any aspect of today. In fact, it’s a day to dream, sleep, meditate, take a bath, take to your bed, make memes and other messes. This may not be at all possible for you right now, but just know if all you want to do is daydream or dilly dally, you are more in tune with the cosmos than you may give yourself credit for. At the very least read a trashy romance novel or get to a museum and wander through the work of the impressionists and surrealists.

September 12

Mars in Virgo square Jupiter in Sagittarius, both at 16°

The desire to win today runs wild. This astrology wants us to go hard for the things that are worth it. The aggressively accurate style of Mars in Virgo gets amplified, however. Criticism might get a little out of control. Temper it by cultivating a desire to be generous with the prizes you are awarded.

Aries & Aries Rising

With this new moon, I tap into my determination. It is always there as a resource for me to draw upon, but now I put it front and center as a practice. What I do on repeat plays the tune I create my life to. My rituals create worlds of meaning or disappointment. Mayhem or joyful chaos. Much ado about nothing or a lot of that special something.

I routinely sharpen what is in my toolshed. By flipping, reversing, and reconstructing the outdated structures I have been handed to work within, I make a triumph out of what was too tired to be of use.

I make sure that my instruments are cutting edge.

I’m not here to create a career in honor of mediocrity. With this new moon, I honor my unique way of using what I have in my professional grasp, when and where I can. Doing so requires effort as much as rest. It requires planning as much as it does dreaming. It requires me to develop my talents as much as it requires me to play without needing to produce. I focus on staying on track as much as I allow myself pathways to get lost down.

If you want to make the most of Virgo Season and this new Moon, I’ve got a reading, ritual, and guided meditation for you in A Workshop for the New Moon in Virgo, the Full Moon in Pisces, and the Astrology of August 30-September 27.

Taurus & Taurus Rising

My creativity needs to roam. Needs time and space to experience its wildness. Needs no one to tell it what to do or where to be. I may at times think that I am in charge of this process, but the real boss is the process. I am here to serve it, see it through, get out of its way as best I can and be in support of its tangents.

They always lead to an important discovery.

I don’t need this part of my life to make sense. I need it to help me appreciate the mystery of the moment. When I doubt my creations because they are not finished fast enough, I know that is a form of sabotage. I know that this kind of battle is waged with little pellets of doubt. Shrapnel that consists of criticism that splinters into the system. Shards of poison that develop into despair.

I know that this world isn’t invested in freedom of expression. I know that so many would rather conform than let the power of their paradigm-shattering creativity run the show. I know that we cannot keep living as we do and stay here for long, so I pledge allegiance to the innovative ideas that keep me up at night.

With this new moon, I promise to wake up to the power I possess because it can make my corner of the world more just, joyful, and sustainably, sensually, sumptuously generative.

Gemini & Gemini Rising

I sort through the rubble of my past with purpose. I find ways to make it a ritual. I find it essential to building a life of meaning. I give both the sorrow and the sweetness of my history a place to exist. Their colors complement each other. One texture tells me what to avoid. Another sound reminds me to attune myself to more of the same.

One way to look at how far I have come is to feel gratitude for the journey. The other is to feel resentment for what it hasn’t been. I can’t have both at the same time, so I choose what will help me at this moment.

I know that honoring my blessings doesn’t mean I need to discount my suffering. I know that any amount of appreciation for my life grounds me in what is fertile here and now. I know that to build a home for myself in the world might seem impossible at times, so I start by creating a world where I am welcomed. Appreciated. Applauded for what I am good at. Encouraged to grow and keep going.

It’s my job to create for myself what I need in the world, knowing that if I am missing it, others are too and future generations will need it as much as we do.

Cancer & Cancer Rising

I pay attention to what my intuition is telling me. I thank it for the messages it sends. I track its ability to always guide me to where I need to go next. I’m all for making plans, but I’ll break them if and when my gut demands I do.

With this new moon, I make a note of the books that magically fall off my shelves, the teachers that I accidentally stumble into, and the emails that come at exactly the right moment. I know that each time I acknowledge the synchronicities of my life, I reclaim a little bit of my power. Being overly invested in only the physical realm dulls my senses and intuitive powers. When I forget my connection to the living world, the most intense self-criticism my mind can cook up has a chance to take hold of my spirit.

With this new moon, I thoroughly investigate all the murmurs in my mind that suggest I am losing, lost, or failing at life. There are too many systems that win when I entertain self-doubt. There are too many other possibilities and potentials at play that I can and will tap into instead. There will be moments when I forget this, but they will pale in comparison to the moments when I recall my power. With the new moon, I commit this to memory.

Leo & Leo Rising

I am discerning with my resources. Not to be withholding, but to be enterprising. I respect the limits of what I have. Within the reality of what is sustainable, an abundance of ways to get professionally creative is possible.

Gluttony is basic corporate culture. I am here to build something that can see itself well into the future. And then some.

With this new moon, I rededicate my resources to what keeps me refueled. With this new moon, I stitch up the holes in my pockets so that my coins can collect. With this new moon, I aim to honor all the ways in which I am breaking the mold in my professional life. It takes courage to cut through the density of outdated cultural norms. What worked in the past but no longer has much use in the present needs to be revised.

With this new moon, I work on respecting the time, energy and talent it takes to pay my bills and keep my life on track. If the world has yet to pay me what I’m worth in dollars, I will pay myself what I’m worth in appreciation, affection, and self-respect. I know wins are out there, I just need to persevere in-between to get to them.

Virgo & Virgo Rising

I’d rather live my life in pursuit of joy, justice, and connection than spend my precious energy convincing others that I’m right. I know that what I’m right about will reveal itself. I don’t have to push truth on anyone.

When I’m present, the need to prove anything vanishes.

I trust that everything I do in earnest is revealed eventually. I focus on directing my energy towards what works right now. I focus on channeling my creativity into projects that help me regenerate. I focus on my rebirth this Virgo Season.

I trust that what I need will find its way to me, what is mine will never refuse me, and what is happening at this moment is needed and necessary. I trust that the relationship dynamics in my life are helping me hone in on a couple of key lessons I need to learn now. I trust in love’s medicine. Its healing process uncovers my fears, my fortunes, and my everything in-between. I am here for the whole unveiling.

Libra & Libra Rising

Closure is sacred. Endings require ritual. Saying goodbye is as important to the process as hello. Anything in my life that is wrapping up, getting reinvented, recycled, or renewed gets my blessing.

I know that what I am being relieved of is clearing the way for what I need to live into.

I know that moments of stillness don’t come often, so pausing is my pleasure when I get to. I also know that these moments can bring up sadness, loss, longing and all manner of rubble. But unless I check in, I can’t help to clear it out. With this new moon, I remember that both connecting with and sorting through whatever lays in wait when I stop, is some of the most important work I can do.

I know that so much activity happens underground before the bright light of day gets a hold of it. I know that what I see on everyone’s timeline is rarely reflective of the struggle it took to get there. I refuse to mistake a snapshot of a moment for the lifetime of effort it took to arrive at. I am more interested in the insides of things. In the ways in which I work. The ways in which a life of depth is created, protected, and lived out fully.

Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

I’m paying attention to the good news I get from others. I’m paying attention to who the core of my life is aligning with. I’m paying everyone I love the compliments they deserve.

Because I travel with gorgeous souls, it isn’t hard to reflect back to them the beauty they bestow. When I find myself in the company of those I couldn’t, or wouldn’t, honestly give love to, I know I need to rework my social calendar. It’s too late in life to hang around those that don’t make me want to sing their praises. I love myself too much to waste my energy on those that don’t. I am more interested in making way for solutions than swimming in the sewage of self-sabotage.

I know that right now there is important work to be started with those that can and will get it done alongside me. I initiate projects with the people in my life that possess the prowess needed. I am here to help make way for our collective genius to emerge. I focus on facilitating spaces that are intelligently constructed, so much so that people feel safe enough to soften into their wisdom and let it come forth. I know each one of us carries so much baggage, and that finding ways to acknowledge it, without encouraging more of it, is key to getting to the wisdom we each have to offer.

Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

With this new moon, I cast spells of sustainable wellness in my professional life. I know that when building what may take a lifetime or longer to complete, I need pick-me-ups along the way. I focus on the little wins; the step taken, the poison extracted from the system, and the personal growth with each quality effort made. I focus on the things that I can get in order, not those that are beyond my control.

With this new moon, I remember that when abundance blesses me, my clarity about what to do with it keeps me progressing. Instead of wondering if I’m deserving of it, I trust that because it’s here it’s my job to do with it what’s right. The quality of the service that I can provide is the most important place to put my attention and intentions.

With this new moon, I make sure to polish up any skills that have been left to languish. Connecting the dots between what I have to work with at my disposal and what I want to bring into being is what differentiates me as a leader in my field. No matter who else comes along, right now I follow what is professionally promising and perpetually alluring to me.

Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

I know that a meaningful life is created every day, a little at a time, in the smallest of ways. I don’t underestimate the power of my practices. What I do as a ritual becomes my way to experience the transcendent.

With this new moon, I remember that big isn’t better, humility is where hope lives, and being of service is the holiest of endeavors. Without finding some satisfaction at the moment, I’ll only ever chase a fantasy of a future not granted to me.

With this new moon, I realign my actions with my visions for the future, making sure that where I am going is truly where I want to be headed. I remember to routinely readjust my compass. As I grow, so too does my understanding of where I want to be.

With this new moon, I’m planting the seeds for my future by saying yes to the incoming opportunities that stretch my understanding of the world. I have to leave my comfort zone regularly in order to know myself more deeply. I know that any pond in which I am a big fish will need to be traded out for one where I can test my strength, skills, and let the scales of my tail shine.

Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

There is no succeeding if I’m unwilling to work with the entirety of my experience. Particles of my past regularly intertwine with the events of the moment, but being able to parse out one from the other is what makes deconstructing demons possible. Pretending I am above my burdens only forces me to remove myself from life. Beauty doesn’t always showcase the process it takes to get there, but I’m here for the whole of my experience.

It’s my job to dissect what derails me. It’s my job to know the difference between what is dangerous and what feels threatening but will ultimately leave me thriving. It’s my job to find the people and the practices that help me live a life with less self-condemnation, doubt, and devaluing of my gifts.

With this new moon, I sort through what is a phantom of my past and what is the promise of a noteworthy future.

It’s never fun to face a fear, but it’s the only way to ground and grow. It’s the only way to truly get to know who I am. It’s the only way to get to the gold that lays in wait underneath it.

Pisces & Pisces Rising

The best relationships don’t feel like work, but that doesn’t mean they don’t require that I do a lot of my own. In order to be with you, I have to be able to be with me too. I need to be able to bear witness to all the parts of myself that are hard to accept if I want someone else to.

If I desire intimacy, there is no end to the unpacking of my past experiences, beliefs, and misgivings of it. In order to feel more connection in my life, I thoughtfully remove the obstacles I have placed between my heart and the whole world.

My defence mechanisms are understandable, but not an excuse for staying stuck in a pattern that I resent.

In order to transform, I have to be of service to the situation at hand. The issues my relationships pinpoint give me a much deeper appreciation of how tricky and tenacious they are. I need others to help me do this work, but only I can decide to do it. With this new moon, I honor all of the ways in which I am learning to disrupt unhelpful dynamics in my partnerships and replace them with ones that make it possible to build beauty together.

New Moon May 4 2019 – Leap of Faith ~ April 29, 2019

By Astrology King

The New Moon on Saturday May 4, 2019 at 14° Taurus is in good aspect to Neptune. So this is an especially good new moon for spiritual, artistic and creative pursuits.

The May 2019 new moon also gives the courage and passion to act on your hopes and dreams for the future. It gives the inspiration to follow your intuition and take a leap of faith.

New Moon Meaning

A new moon represents the end of one cycle and the beginning of another new 28 day cycle. Sun conjunct Moon gives an invigorating burst of energy and initiative. So this is an excellent time for making a fresh start, turning over a new leaf, or starting a new project. You can also question old habits, behaviors and beliefs as you search for new and inventive ways to make progress.

New Moon May 2019 Astrology

The May 4 new moon at 14°10′ Taurus makes only one planetary aspect as shown in the chart below. The sextile to Neptune is a positive influence but only a mild one given the orb is nearly four degrees.

The challenging influence of Mars opposite Jupiter is very strong at under one degree orb. But a helpful fixed star on the new moon degree ensures an overall positive effect from new moon May 2019.

New Moon May 2019 Astrology

New Moon Aspects

Sun sextile Neptune heightens your sensitivity and ability to read people and situations. Greater empathy and receptivity improves relationships with a shared understanding that could be non-verbal. Sharing your more caring and sensitive side will also improve your self-esteem and bring personal satisfaction.

New moon May 2019 is also good for group activities and spiritual work. It improves any intuitive or psychic abilities. Vivid dreams, meditation or occult work will bring inspiring insights leading to greater self understanding and contentment.

Mars opposite Jupiter gives strength, courage and sex appeal. It increases your self-confidence and desire to win. Wanting more out of life you will be willing to take risks to have your passionate desires fulfilled.

But selfishness, greed or overconfidence would bring loss and embarrassment. So be considerate of others and remember self-control, humility and patience. In this way you can succeed in business, romance, politics and sports.

New Moon Extras

13  38 Asteroid 127 Johanna
14  10 New Moon May 2019
14  29 Fixed star Almach

Fixed star Almach gives eminence, artistic ability and honors, especially in military endeavors. A cheerful nature with a liking for change, diversion and amusement brings popularity and benefits from others.

Constellation Andromeda bestows purity of thought, virtue, honor and dignity, but can also cause a battle with chimerical fears and a tendency to become easily discouraged. It gives love between husband and wife and reconciles adulterers.

Asteroid 127 Johanna, discovered in 1872, was named after Joan of Arc (1412–1431), a mystic visionary, military leader, martyr, saint and heroine of France. Executed by fire as a heretic after sentencing by a tribunal of pro-English clergy, she was later cleared of the charges in 1456. Beatified in 1909 at Notre-Dame de Paris, and canonized in 1920.

Find asteroid Johanna in your chart:

Create your chart HERE.
Choose “Extended Chart Selection”.
Under “Additional objects” type 127 in “Manual entry”.

Summary

New moon May 2019 sextile Neptune gives the high ethical standards and idealism to counter the potential selfishness and greed of Mars opposite Jupiter. While Mars opposite Jupiter gives the passion and courage to act on the intuition and dreams of Neptune.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this. ~ Joan of Arc

The effects of the May 4 new moon last four weeks up to the June 3 New Moon. The best time for making a fresh start and for beginning new projects is during the first two weeks of this new moon cycle. This waxing phase of the Moon lasts from May 4 to the May 18 Full Moon.

If the new moon directly affects your Sign you can read about it in your free Monthly Horoscope. Finally, for more details about how it affects your natal chart see Sun Transits.

Previous Moon Phase: Full Moon 19 April 2019
Next Moon Phase: Full Moon 18 May 2019
2019 Moon Phases Calendar

New Moon May 2019 Times and Dates

Los Angeles, May 4 at 3:45 pm
New York, May 4 at 6:45 pm
London, May 4 at 11:45 pm
Delhi, May 5 at 4:15 am
Sydney, May 5 at 8:45 am

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August 26 Pisces Full Moon ♓ Soul Contracts Fulfilled – Prepare for Lift Off ~ August 22, 2018

The Pisces Full Moon at 3 degrees is a time of completion and release as your Higher Self urges you to let go of the energies you no longer need going forward… And a stabilizing Earth Grand Trine supplies the resources, plans and long-term goals that you are ready to begin next. 🙌

Relationship tension may come up, but you have an opportunity to see how your soul contracts have been fulfilled. A lot to share to with you in this lunation as the time to complete a chapter is clear and the next steps will arrive in due time – they are already forming in the higher realms.

Thank you for watching! It is an honor to support you in understanding yourself more through astrology. I appreciate all of your high vibes and what you have contributed to my new YT channel! Many blessings~~ Molly https://www.instagram.com/moxiemolly11/

End of May 2017 Astrology ~ Sea of Change by Carl Boudreau ~ May 28, 2017

Posted by Starship Earth: The Big Picture

After Carl made mention of significant alignments in May and their potential impact on society and our planet I made a mental note to check back with him when his full analysis was complete and I’m glad I did. Carl has an exception ability to translate cosmic movements into an easily understandable template for social implications.

While I don’t have the basics of astrology to understand everything Carl lays out here, I get the gist and it resonates strongly as I can see the effects in play already.

I think Carl nails it and we can expect assistance in the coming days to shine a light on the occult aspects of life on our planet and bring a broader understanding of the controllers’ agenda to more of Humanity. I feel there are opportunities for great social advancement and significant inroads into the expulsion of the dark.

Beyond these celestial configurations it’s up to us, isn’t it? This IS the Age of Aquarius. What are we going to do with it?

Carl welcomes donations as he says below, and I want to take this opportunity as well to acknowledge the support from Starship readers. We’ve never done it for the money, but Google has cut our ad revenue significantly (roughly in half) so ad clicks and donations are greatly appreciated if you find value here.

I think readers will find the following very insightful. It’s long, but I feel well worth the time. Facebook text—even stripped—is abnormally difficult and time-consuming to work with in WordPress for some reason so please forgive the lack of proper formatting. ~ BP

End of May 2017; Sea of Change

by Carl Boudreau

Recently, I made several posts in rapid succession because I felt there were some things people needed to know right away. In the time since, I got a strong urge to rewrite, condense and maybe clarify some of that material.
Before we begin, I think it is important to know that, according to esoteric lore, Leo is the sign in which Spirit turns the corner in the battle to subordinate matter to the uses of spirit. The shift from material to spiritual priorities has profound and revolutionary implications for us. And that shift will doubtless have dramatic and disruptive effects on the individual and collective levels.
We don’t normally think of Leo as a revolutionary sign. However, the shift from material priorities to spiritual priorities is a shift with profoundly revolutionary implications and effects.
So I do think the North Node’s transit of Leo holds the promise of deep change. Given the range of energies at work, some of that change might actually turn out to be quick, deep and gentle.

My interpretation of the North Node’s Leo ingress chart focused on a set of squares that show up conspicuously in the Venus persona chart for the North Node’s Leo some change ingress chart. This post basically takes a closer look at those squares.
The Moon’s North Node has been transiting Leo since May 9th, UT. It’s a big deal when the North Node changes signs because the North Node powerfully affects human motivation, and when the North Node changes signs, human motivation shifts powerfully and fundamentally.
To garner the support of the universe, people now need to be guided by the Leo North Node.
Now we all need to be asking ourselves, What would Leo do? With so many people looking at Leo for guidance, now, we can expect events to go in an increasingly Leo direction from this point forward. Accordingly, from this point on events will have an increasingly Leo twist. Let’s take a closer look at what it might mean to do what Leo would do.
When I look more closely at this chart, I see a year and a half of almost constant change. The world as we now know it is slipping into a state of flux.

Let’s follow some astrological bread crumbs.
Leo governs friendship and romance, i.e., matters of the heart, matters closely associated with the planet Venus.
One of the best ways to understand the influence of Venus in a chart is to cast a so-called Venus persona chart. To create a Venus persona chart for the North Node’s Leo ingress, one basically progresses the Sun in the North Node’s Leo ingress chart to the position of Venus.
In the Venus persona chart, playful, seductive Venus and rebellious, assertive, unpredictable Uranus are conjunct prickly and highly combative Eris in martial Aries.
Uranus and Eris will trigger potentially violent, forced change. Venus will soften the potentially harsh, aggressive effects of Uranus and Eris, though. This highly subversive threesome makes a bundle of squares to a group of planets sprawled across the ascendant in the 1st and 12th houses.
This combination of influences is more changeful than it appears and in a better way than you might at first suppose.
Uranus contributes its disruptive and irresistibly transformative power. Eris contributes its characteristic rancor and resentment.
Venus will soften the often harsh impact of Uranus, sweeten the bitterness of Eris and in general dull the edge of anger when disturbing information is revealed and pent up negative energies are released. Venus is also a solvent, which will dissolve blocks and knots preventing access to these issues.
It will also help carry the energies of Uranus and Eris into wherever these issues are hidden in minds and hearts.
Let’s look at an example. I’m going to use the example of gender inequity in the home and in society.
The world is fraught with examples of power imbalances. I’m using this example only because it is familiar. This is just an example intended to illustrate my point.
I also know that the situation is complex and multifaceted. I have kept it simple, again, for the sake of illustration. Just think of it as a simple line drawing, or a stick figure, simple but recognizable and intended strictly as illustration.
Typically, for whatever reason, certain people enjoy a power advantage in their relations at home and elsewhere. This advantage is often abused in big and small ways. The flawed pattern behind the power imbalance within a family or other small group are is of a piece with a similar power imbalance in society.
Almost inevitably, both intentionally and unintentionally, in small ways and large, empowered people take advantage of this imbalance. It is just the way power imbalances work. Anyone who enjoys a power imbalance will eventually take advantage of it. IMO.
The continued cooperation of the overly empowered person is key to the survival of the group, though, so any abuses are tolerated. The problems with the underlying pattern are never addressed for fear of undermining this vital relationship. Participants are also concerned about what might happen if built up tensions are triggered if the pattern is disrupted.
Feelings between those involved in this relationship are complex and often difficult. There is often a lot of negative energy bound up in the relationship. involved.
The fact that we keep these tensions secret makes vital relationships possible, relationships that make life as we know it possible. But these secrets also lock our lives and the world into their present imperfect form.
The power imbalance continues in place. The defective pattern is never healed. Tensions caused by any abuses of power continue to build up in the relationships.
There are almost continuous and reform efforts, some only partly successful, some futile. The will to correct they pattern and eliminate this power imbalance seems not really to be there.
Completely healing the pattern responsible might relieve the imbalance and alleviate the tensions. But they will also to free built up negative energies.
They would also need to create and impose a replacement pattern that created balanced relationships. But the change might also badly disrupt the groups affected. So people often tolerate the tensions and, in various ways, work to preserve the pattern.
The tensions caused by the defective pattern will be relieved, when the pattern is corrected. But once the status quo is upset, who knows what, if anything will replace it. The situation might devolve into something worse. The tensions being released could easily act to prevent an acceptable reset.
There will still be a lot of unruly negative energy around to interfere with the establishment of a new status quo. Bitterness, covert power struggles, persistent bias, etc. could easily result.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris conjunction, however, seems perfectly designed to discover, reveal and release these secrets. I think we can easily see how the Uranus and Eris energy will provide some of what is needed to change these patterns.
What we really need in the energetic, alchemical mix is not just an energy break down and then fix the pattern. We need a way to soften and neutralize the accumulated tensions caused by the defective pattern so that we can safely reweave the threads of the pattern, to heal it. So that the tensions that accumulated around the pattern don’t hamper the healing work or prevent us from carefully completing the healing and generating a new, better pattern. And that’s what Venus provides here.
We want to heal the pattern. We don’t want it to blow up in our faces or, once disturbed, to settle into an even worse pattern.
We also tend to keep these tensions and our ideas about them secret. We keep these secrets bound up in mental and emotional knots that seem all but impossible to untie. Even the knots in which they are tied are hidden in invisible mental and emotional spaces that can be very hard to find and once found, all but impossible to enter.
We need an energy that can locate these secrets, enter these hidden and locked spaces and loosen the knots. And, in the North Node’s Leo ingress chart, Venus/Uranus/Eris provides that energy, abundantly.
One of the things watery Venus is, is a solvent, comparable in its power to Neptune. Venus, like the solvent it is, will find its way into the places where secret tensions are hidden. The disruptive Eris/Uranus energies will flood in behind the Venus energies.
Venus will find openings that allow the disruptive Eris/Uranus energies to slip through into the most tightly locked hiding spaces in our hearts and minds. It will widen these openings, flood into the secret spaces, and loosen the tightest of knots. Long secret thoughts and emotions will begin to flow into awareness. They will become vulnerable to the transformative powers of the Uranus/Eris energies.
The Uranus/Eris energies will break the hiding places down, blow open the spaces in which secrets are hidden and expose them to the world at large. They will come pouring out into public view.
We should think of Venus, then, as the solvent that can penetrate the narrowest of spaces, the lubricant that can loosen the tightest seeming knots.
We should think of the disruptive Uranus/Eris energies as energies that, once within, can blow these hiding places wide open and expose the most closely guarded secrets, putting important relationships at risk, if not destroy them outright.
These will cause eruptions between friends or partners and disruptions of key relationships on the micro level. These eruptions and disruptions will have widespread implications for the stability at the macro level.
But we should also think of Venus as the missing secret ingredient that will reduce the danger of a blow up and allow us to safely rework the powerful tensions bound up in the defective pattern into new, better patterns.

Each Individual Venus/Uranus/Eris square is potentially socially transformative. Combined, they almost guarantee fundamental social transformation. Together, these squares will produce quite a brew of upsetting stimuli, dramatically increasing the likelihood that there will be ‘scenes,’ that people will speak up and act out. Or that they will organize mass protests.
The range of bodies and points involved in these squares gives us an idea of the great range of things Venus will affect. Their placement on and around the ascendant, one of the angles, tried us that these effects will be both prominent and intense.
This Venus/Uranus/Eris conjunction makes squares to Pluto, Chariklo, Lilith, the Ascendant, Saturn, Mars, quaoar, Pholus, Vesta, Ixion, and the Galactic Center. These astrological points are spread through the 1st and12th houses. So we’re talking about a real thorough shake up here.

Let’s take a closer look to gain a clear sense of the nature and range of things that will be directly and powerfully affected by this bundle of Venus/Uranus/Eris squares:
Saturn and Pluto, combined, govern most sources of power and authority in society.
Venus/Uranus/Eris square Saturn and Pluto will cause alienation from authority. We are talking about smoldering tensions within government and between government and the governed.

These Venus/Uranus/Eris squares, combined the the Venus/Uranus/Eris/Ixion square make it likely that mistrust of and disaffection with authority of all kinds will grow. This could, in fact, have a generally destabilizing effect on society.

Venus/Uranus/Eris square Mars will stir passions generally. Something that is likely to intensify any tendency to dissatisfaction and unrest.

The Venus/Uranus/Eris square to Chariklo is the first indication that these squares will have profound psychological and spiritual effects. Chariklo governs our most intimate personal boundaries.

Perceived violation of these boundaries will proliferate and violations that never troubled us before will begin to bother us.
This square might raise tensions between would be romantic partners about boundaries. It might affect our relationships with healthcare professionals, who, in their work, frequently cross these intimate boundaries. It could be as simple as someone standing too close to you in line at a checkout counter.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris/Chariklo square will send ripples of disquiet through intimate relationships. These relationship tensions could overflow into visible social social tensions.
This square to Chariklo could also raise people’s sensitivity to issues surrounding passage of North Carolina’s bathroom bill. This highly controversial bill, now repealed, compelled transgender people to use restrooms appropriate to their biological gender.

The Venus/Uranus/Eris square to Pholus will raise awareness of and sensitivity to the unfair distribution of shared social resources. It will most likely rouse class resentments.

Quaoar governs the creation and maintenance of worldviews. The Venus/Uranus/Eris square to Quaoar will incline us to shift our worldviews in accordance with Venusian impulses.
We will actively strive to establish a worldview that more fully and completely accommodates love, or the preferences of the heart.

Vesta governs our devotion to our highest ideals. Vesta has a lot to do with symbolism. The Venus/Uranus/Eris to Vesta will detach us from high and firmly held ideals and loosen our ideological attachments. We get some idea of how this particular energy might work in recent developments over the effort to remove Confederate monuments from public places.

Ixion governs the morality and ethics of powerful political figures. Venus/Uranus/Eris square Ixion, will sensitize us to corruption and decadence in high places.

If, as many of us do, one believes that the Universe is an expression of Divine love then we must regard the Galactic center as a font of cosmic love.
The Galactic Center governs the flow and function of Divine Love into and through our world. The Venus/Uranus/Eris square to the Galactic Center will prompt efforts to raise our human ideas about love and how best to give it expression to higher, genuinely cosmic, Divine levels.

Finally, Lilith communicates between the mind/body and spirit/matter boundaries, for example, converting mental and/or spiritual disquiet into physical unrest, converting unconscious issues to conscious.
Lilith is also part of this grouping. It is within a few degrees of the Ascendant. Venus/Uranus/Eris will square Lilith also. This bundle of Venus/Uranus/Eris squares will cause any number of psychologically uncomfortable, spiritually disquieting and politically and economically, socially and culturally disruptive. Lilith’s placement all but guarantees that the often subtle kinds of disturbance caused by these Venus squares will reach consciousness and find expression in our lives.
Social tensions caused by the Venus/Uranus/Eris squares will literally ‘get under our skin’. They will make us visibly irritated. These irritations will manifest visibly. We will not be able to tolerate, control, conceal or suppress how much these imbalances and trespasses bother us.
It will be difficult, for example, to hide or simply ignore the Venus/Uranus/Eris/Pluto tensions (tensions related to authority figures) or the Venus/Uranus/Eris/Chariklo tensions, (tensions related to violations of our personal boundaries). We will definitely feel these tensions as uncomfortable and we will tend to express our irritation outwardly. We will become intolerant of stimuli or trespasses we would otherwise ignore.

In the next year and a half, waves of displeasure and irritation will ripple constantly through society. This will stir strong desire for change and translate into irrepressible tensions that force us to seek change.
The annoyance caused by power imbalances and hidden, adverse sexual and gender tensions of many kinds will bubble up out of our personal lives into our social environment as people cannot help but give voice to their rising irritation and annoyance.
There is abundant indication in this chart that these complex, many-layered tensions will manifest clearly and conspicuously in our outer lives. The unease is unlikely to remain hidden or private, spilling over into shared social spaces like the workplace.
As we have seen, several other things about this persona chart work strongly against such personal unease going unnoticed.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris/Vesta square will expose bias and hypocrisy in the expression of even our highest ideals. This will affect too many people too deeply for it to go unnoticed.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris/Ixion square will expose and make us sensitive to sexual immorality in our leaders.
Finally, Venus/Uranus/Eris will square the Galactic Center. If, as many of us do, one believes that the Universe is an expression of Divine love on a cosmic scale, then we must regard the Galactic center as a font of cosmic love.
Venus/Uranus/Eris square the Galactic Center will invite frequent comparisons and contrasts between our understanding of Divine Love and the way love is expressed, or not, in our global culture. This aspect, when combined with all the other other influences discussed in this report, bespeaks a global philosophical and religious crisis.
The tensions caused by the Venus/Uranus/Eris squares will literally ‘get under our skin’. They will make us visibly irritable. These irritations will manifest visibly. We will not be able to tolerate, control or conceal how much these perceived imbalances and trespasses bother us.
Shifting preferences, the desire for changes at this level of our relationships will translate into irrepressible tensions that will manifest as tensions between ourselves and our partners.
It will be difficult, for example, to hide or simply ignore the Venus/Uranus/Eris/Pluto tensions or the Venus/Uranus/Eris/Chariklo tensions. We will express our irritation outwardly. We will become intolerant of stimuli or trespasses we would otherwise ignore.
The annoyance caused by power imbalances and hidden, adverse sexual and gender tensions will bubble up and out into our social environment as people cannot help but give voice to their irritations and annoyance.
There is abundant indication in this chart that these tensions will manifest in our external lives. They are unlikely to remain hidden or remain private, spilling over into shared social spaces like the workplace. They will not remain as fleeting, barely and rarely perceived dramas in our private lives.

Several other things about this persona chart work strongly against their going unnoticed.
Outward shows of annoyance and irritation seem all the more likely because Venus, along with Eris and Uranus, also square the Ascendant.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris/Saturn and Venus/Uranus/Eris/Mars squares will, too, intensify and aggravate our irritation and annoyance. It will be all the more obvious and contribute significantly to the negativity in the air over underlying issues.
The Venus/Uranus/Eris/Quaoar square means that people will no longer be so bound by age old traditions governing the relationships between romantic partners and close partners generally.
Quaoar governs the creation and maintenance of worldviews. We will actively strive to establish a worldview that more fully and completely accommodates love, or the preferences of the heart and, thus the soul, which is love.

As I said at the beginning, when I look at this chart, I see a year and a half of almost constant change. The world as we know it is slipping into a state of flux.

Source

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Stationary/Retrograde Pluto: Scary bringer of good news ~ April 20, 2017

Whew! I NEED some good news, don’t you? Well..Carl Boudreaux is bringing me that gift with his latest astrological reading that I found on Starship Earth: The Big Picture. No doubt these are tempestuous times on Earth and I welcome reading Carl’s latest forecast, listed below.

We spiritual folk KNOW that WWIII is not going to happen, it just looks that way just as Jordan Sather (https://roserambles.org/2017/04/20/4-20-trumpputin-trolling-world-2-0-still-distracting-w-fake-war-while-deep-state-implodes-april-20-2017/) has said, while the drama plays out, much is happening under the radar screen for the betterment of our plant.

So…please read Carl’s astrological findings below, breath a sigh of relief, and…

InJoy!

I felt the urge to post a little something about recent vibes.

We are dealing with lots of retrograde stuff and rather than risk confusion and error in my account, I’ll just say ‘check your astrology calendar for the gory details’, lots of retrograde stuff going on: Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, very recently Venus and now Pluto.

The retrograde I’d like to comment on though is Pluto, stationary/retrograde on Thursday, April 20, 8:46AM New York Time.

I think the overall combination of retrograde motions will add to the complexity, intensity and urgency of the vibes many of us are sensing. The reason I will focus on stationary Pluto is that I think it brings the best and most clear cut of the various astrological events.

Let me cut to the chase. In my experience with stationary Pluto, Pluto always seems to retrograde at precisely the right time to prevent a catastrophe.

It could be, for example, that enemy forces are massing on a contested international border. War is in the air. Also, there are numerous other astrological aspects around that don’t help the situation. They seem to suggest or support war. It seems like open conflict is inevitable.

Or similar, analogous, things could be going on in one’s personal or professional life.

Then, ‘all of a sudden’ Pluto goes stationary/retrograde and the situation suddenly and quickly cools off. By the time Pluto returns to where it was when it stationed, the whole situation has unwound and, instead of being on the brink of open war, the involved parties are in the midst of successful negotiations and it’s hard to remember why everybody got so excited in the first place.

So, in the present context, stationary Pluto was contributing to an intense, high-pressure situation/atmosphere this week – involving urgent and fateful decisions and growing concern. Then it today it went stationary/retrograde.

The vibes prior to and leading up to the Pluto station were serious, no doubt, and might help account for the difficulties I have been seeing and hearing about for more than a week. Blessings and best wishes to all those involved.

But my take would be that as Pluto’s station retreats into the past and the Pluto pressure itself eases up, people will find that things are not as bad as they feared they might get and that there are options – or options will soon develop – that make the situation less dire than it was certainly beginning to look.

Stationary Pluto is no joke and it is associated with some really high pressure, high risk situations. But in difficult times, the Universe rarely seems to want to hit us full on with a stationary Pluto at the worst possible moment. In my experience, stationary Plutos always seem to have serious mitigating effects.

In my younger days, when Pluto stationed in the middle of a hot situation, I always felt like somebody had just canceled a fireworks display. Nowadays, I am very grateful for the compassion of the Universe. A stationary/retrograde Pluto, in my view, is like the opposite of Murphy’s law.

Carl Boudreau

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