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APRIL 2022 MONTHLY HOROSCOPES

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April 2022 is one of my favourite months astrologically, due to some rare and inspiring alignments. April opens with a tricky Mars/Saturn conjunction at 22˚ Aquarius. Mars/Saturn conjunctions are notoriously difficult as two troublesome planets connect. This is the first time they have conjoined since February 2020 which was at earlier degrees of Aquarius. Expect some tension’s around there conjunction on April 8th. This will pass, but the impact of the conjunction may be profound either on a micro or macro level, depending on the placement of this area in your chart.

The following week offers up the rare and auspicious Jupiter / Neptune conjunction on April 12th. This is the first time these planets conjoin in Pisces since 1856. This combo has a heightened quality of creativity, spirituality and imagination. In 1856 the last time this conjunction occurred in Pisces the spiritualist movement was at it’s peak, having seances at dinner parties was in vogue and the colour purple was invented. The colour purple, which was an artificial colour made clothing and colour ranges more expansive and more accessible to people. The artificial nature of the textiles and the colour meant more people could access ‘finer’ clothing as they were cheaper to make.

The Jupiter / Neptune conjunction at 24˚ Pisces is a great time to be creative, dream and dive into the imagination. Hope, joy and deep faith are also significations of this conjunction. The only thing to keep an eye on is delusion, its a fine line and this conjunction does have the possibility to manifest in delusion or being duped by the deep fog of the rose tinted glasses. Its an easy transit to be swept away with. Keeping your feet on the ground as you navigate this will be very important. If you have planets aspecting these Pisces points will feel this energy more.

Closing out the month is a lovely Venus / Jupiter conjunction at 27˚ Pisces on April 30th. This juicy combo occurs every 12 years and is full of riches and good tidings thanks to Venus being exalted and Jupiter being in rulership in Pisces. They are both strongly placed and when they conjoin they influence each other in positive and harmonious ways. Which is the complete opposite to how we start April.

Enjoy ! There is some wonderful and rare combos occurring this month, dare to dream and imagine what your deepest joy and happiness might be, because this is the month to lay the foundations for it. Anything you wish to create can be done, but the trick it to keep your connection to something strong and grounded as you navigate you way through April, this helps in pulling into reality the dreams, hopes and visions that are sparked by April’s wonderful inspirational energies.

APRIL MONTHLY HOROSCOPES

ARIES / ARIES RISING

In April both Jupiter and Neptune meet in your subconscious sector for the first time since 1856; encouraging imagination and escapism, now is the time to dive deep. April’s new and full moon’s focus on your relationship axis. The new moon looks to re-establishing yourself in how you wish to be seen, the full moon highlighting those relationships which accept and support you.

TAURUS / TAURUS RISING

Your health and wellness sector are the focus of the new and full moon in April, focusing on physical health and paying attention to what your body needs is easier to access this month. Mid April’s Jupiter/Neptune conjunction occurs in Pisces, they last conjoined here in 1856. For you it’s introducing you to interesting social groups; blurring the lines between reality and imagination. Social groups centred around creativity and escapism capture your attention.

GEMINI / GEMIMI RISING

Imagination and big visions strengthen your career sector for April as Jupiter and Neptune conjoin in Pisces for the first time since 1856.  The new and full moon focus on your creativity and social axis meaning new seeds are sprouting in your social sector and your creativity or hobbies are blossoming this month. Inspiration is abundant this month, use it in a grounded and logical way.

CANCER / CANCER RISING

Any new inspirations might need some grounding in reality this month; thanks to Jupiter and Neptune’s rare and auspicious conjunction in Pisces. Inspiration will be strong but capturing it will be the challenge, grounding it through writing and learning is where this energy is best captured for you. The new and full moon’s focus, is on your home and career sector, helping you to find the right balance between both spheres.

LEO / LEO RISING

Jupiter and Neptune’s auspicious conjunction in Pisces might bring confusion or lack of clarity around your share resources. Idealisation might not reflect the true reality of where these resources are based. Anything too good to be true, might just be that. The new and full moon’s highlight your education sectors, opportunities to learn or short courses might be extra valuable at this time.

VIRGO / VIRGO RISING

Your relationship sector has some interesting hook up’s this month, thanks to Jupiter and Neptune meeting up in this sector for the first time since 1856. Relationships have a more nebulous quality making life interesting. The new and full moons occur in your financial sectors helping to rebalance any financial issues or in-balances.

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING

Your health and wellbeing sector might have some strange goings on this month thanks to Jupiter and Neptune stirring things up. It’s a rare and auspicious alignment and finding hard facts or answers might be difficult this month, so try and stay grounded through routine. The new and full moon’s in your relationship and individuation sector helps you to rebalance the imbalances within your relationships.

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING

Jupiter and Neptune meet in your love and creativity sector. It’s a great combo to inspire and get imaginative in anything that gives you pleasure or things you create. It’s the first time these energies meet in this sector of your chart since 1856. Use the inspiration to get creative. The new and full moon’s in your health sector gives new opportunities to start over on any health or routines that may have slipped recently.

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING

April has your home and family sector host the nebulous influence of the Jupiter and Neptune conjunction.  Good for inspiration and creativity not so great for hard facts or grounding. Go with however it presents but know it is a surreal time. The full and new moons are in your creative and social sector which would be good anchors for such dreamy and unusual influences in the home sphere.

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING

April would be a great opportunity for any short courses to do with writing or anything of a creative nature. The Jupiter/ Neptune conjunction this month is rare and is fantastic inspiration for escapism. The new and full moon’s in your home and career sector help in rebalancing your relationship to both spheres.

AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING

Having your financial sector host this month’s rare Jupiter / Neptune conjunction brings a strange and ungrounded influence on this sector. Be mindful that any opportunities too good to be true, might just be that. Stay grounded and do your research if anything pops up. The new and full moons occur in your education sector, use this as an opportunity to look at any short courses or up skilling that has been of interest to you.

PISCES / PISCES RISING

Having the auspicious and rare Jupiter / Neptune conjunction in your individuation sector helps show the world how magical and dazzling you really are. In April you shine and it’s a great omen for your inspiration and creativity to be seen. The new and full moon’s in your financial sector allows for rebalancing and is an opportunity to harmonise any issues around income and debts.

JUPITER’S TRANSIT THROUGH PISCES 2021 – 2022

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JUPITER’S TRANSIT OF PISCES : 29 DECEMBER 2021 – 10 MAY 2022 & 29 OCTOBER – 21 DECEMBER 2022

On December 29th Jupiter ingresses into Pisces, marking Jupiter’s return to his ruling sign after a very short toe dip into Pisces from 14 May – 28 July 2021. 2021 was a small taste of Jupiter’s influence and favour; his retrograde back into Aquarius for the rest of the year delayed this transit getting any real progress past the 2 degree’s point. Jupiter, last transited Pisces from 19 Jan 2010 -7 June 2010 & 10 Sep -23 Jan 2011. Looking back to what made that timeframe unique helps to inform how this transit might manifest.

Like all astrology, these transits are cycles of time that have certain tones and themes that help define or bookend life under there cycles of times. Jupiter when transiting Pisces is a strong and defining cycle thanks to Jupiter being in his rulership in Pisces. Jupiter gets to do all the things he likes doing, under his terms. A wonderful change from the past two years where Jupiter was under the rulership and in the domain of Saturn and all his rules and restrictions.  The last time Jupiter was in his rulership was 2019 during his transit of Sagittarius, Zeus’ other ruling sign. 2019 wasn’t too bad a year from most accounts.

Jupiter embodies hope, vision, expansion, optimism, belief’s, truth, morals, justice, travel, righteousness, lessons, teachers, philosophies to name a few. Jupiter looks out far and wide to navigate and seek truth and wisdom for the ‘betterment’ of people and humanity. Jupiter is enthusiastic and always seeks truth. Jupiter can have its downfalls for example there is a tendency to over-do it or only see the positives; however, as the greater benefic Jupiter gets a pretty good wrap in Astrology, when he is in his ruling sign, Jupiter excels.

Pisces is a mutable water sign noted for its depth and ability to adjust and evolve. Pisces is an extremely intuitive sign with an energetic quality which is both transcendent and encompassing. Pisces meets Jupiter in its ‘bigness’ but not all of Piscean energy can be seen or rationally explained. Pisces energy likes to encompass the all. Artistic expression and artistry are also dynamic Piscean qualities.

When Jupiter and Pisces meet, we get to submerge and bath in its waters as we attempt to find or create wholeness in a what feels like the most fractured of times and situations. Will the dams burst open ? Will all the pent-up water or emotion begin to flow during this transit? Perhaps. This transit is great for compassion and creativity as we work through the fall out of the past two years. Jupiter while in Pisces helps to smooth over some of the rough edges and carve out a space for compassion allowing to connect more deeply to the area of life that Pisces lords over in your chart.

Neptune is co-present with Jupiter in Pisces during this transit, in April it will be making some powerful aspects which heightens sensitives and creativity but also has the potential to dive too deep into escapism and delusion. A separate post to come on this topic however it’s good to be aware of April’s potential for the above themes and topics.

This aspect will be one of the highlights of 2022’s astrological calendar but it will not be working alone. Saturn will still be in Aquarius (also in its rulership) working to a different end in other aspects of astrological landscapes and Mars will also be strong during this Jupiter transit. Where some aspects of your life will feel feed and nourished. Other areas will require you to do the work or will require focus and work hard. These energies will work simultaneously.

Jupiter’s transit of Pisces will be a nice softening and breaking up of the more difficult transits we are coming out of, but it won’t be the only thing at play during 2022. Harnessing and indulging into where Jupiter offers you lesson’s, compassion, transcendence and an opportunity to expand both in optimism and intuition; will be a good thing after two years of rigid contraction and repression. Allowing us to tap into the reservoirs of our soul for regeneration and rejuvenation rather than just for survival.

JUPITER IN PISCES THEMES THROUGH THE SIGNS

ARIES / ARIES RISING : Unconscious & Soul Sector, Retreat and Spirituality

TAURUS / TAURUS RISING: Community, Social Networks or Groups, Hopes and Wishes

GEMINI / GEMINI RISING: Career, Reputation, Rewards & Recognition

CANCER / CANCER RISING: Travel, Beliefs, Mass Media, Communication

LEO / LEO RISING: Shared Resources & Assets, Loans, Psyche, Occult

VIRGO / VIRGO RISING: One on One Relationships both Personal and Business

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING: Health, Well-Being, Day to Day Work and Routines.

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING: Passion, True Love, Hobbies, Pleasure

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING: Home, House, Family, Ancestors

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING: Local Surroundings & Neighbourhood, The Goddess and Rituals, Daily Scheduling.

AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING: Earned Income, Self-worth, Possessions

PISCES / PISCES RISING: Individuation, Health and How you present to the world.

SEPTEMBER HOROSCOPES 2021

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SEPTEMBER MONTHLY ASTROLOGY

The first 10 days of September, provides a more supportive and harmonious energy, thanks to Venus transiting Libra, helping us enjoy and observe the majesty of springs arrival to the southern sphere, Venus in her ruling sign creates a more pure Venusian experience, especially where ever Libra is placed in your chart. On September 11th, Venus shifts into Scorpio the sign of her fall which changes up how we experience Venus’ experience. Venus is now in Mars’s territory.

Mercury helps by being co-present with Venus in Libra; however once Venus departs, Mercury itself begins to slowdown and gets ready to begin its retrograde cycle by months end. Mars entering Libra mid month, after Venus’ exit is when the winds begin to get stirred and whipped up. Mars’ agitation in Libra is more frustrating as its a placement Mars generally doesn’t like. This is when things begin to get tense or disruptive. This may present in forms of mental over stimulation or at times anxiety. This phase will pass.

Venus and Mercury do make positive aspects to Jupiter in Aquarius throughout the month. It is helpful, allowing for moments of optimism and glimpse of breakthroughs. By months end Venus is in a very different position to how she started the month, she ends the month activating the Saturn Uranus square; the most continuous and active aspect of 2021’s astrology. Mercury beginning its retrograde phase adds more confusion to any disruptions or challenges the surface by months end.

ARIES / ARIES RISING

September’s new moon on the 7th presents genius innovations and opportunities to evolve your health and wellbeing sector; small changes can have a lasting impact. The full moon on 21 September shines a spotlight onto your spiritual / subconscious sector, helping you to see what may be driving certain situations and that which previously may have been unseen.

TAURUS / TAURUS RISING

This month’s new moon delivers some innovation and independence for all your creative ventures and expression. This is thanks to Uranus, who is transiting Taurus, being in close aspect to this new moon; ideas are seeded. The full moon will set a dreamy and pleasurable tone for your social engagements, with Pluto offering an opportunity to evolve and be in control in your social settings.

GEMINI / GEMINI RISING

The new moon in your home, family, ancestor sector supports new growth and being able to connect to things that were previously unseen or unknown. Some of it might come as a surprise. A beautiful full moon on 21September is the 6-month high point of your career and reputation, allowing you to be seen and luminous; your home and career / reputation sector are the focus of this month’s moon cycle.


CANCER / CANCER RISING

The focus of the inner planets this month falls in Libra which is activating the base of your chart. Your home, family, ancestors, where you come from is all in focus. Venus and Mercury begin with pleasantry and harmonious communication. As the month progresses Mars shifts into Libra and begins to agitate. By the month’s end Mercury will station retrograde which begins a cycle of re-evaluation and re-assessment which gets resolved in October.

LEO / LEO RISING

September’s new moon on the 7th offers a new cycle and a new beginning in your financial sector. This is a time to begin small changes towards big goals. Uranus is in a supportive aspect which means some results might pleasantly surprise you. The full moon shines its light on your resource sector showing you opportunities and ways to work with others.  Helping to support your new moon goals.

           
VIRGO / VIRGO RISING

Your annual new moon grounds and re-centre you, allowing you to begin a new and prosperous period of growth and vitality. Reconnection with who you are and what you value.  The full moon on 21 September helps illuminate those you are in close relationship with and shines a light on the key role they have in your life. It’s a wonderful full moon to enjoy the magic of friendship and partnership.

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING

September brings a planetary focus to your sign, thanks to five of the inner planets transiting your sign during the month. This brings your health front and centre along with  how you like to represent yourself and be seen. Venus, your ruler, flatters and enhances; Mars motivates and strengthens; Mercury vocalises and communicates. Late in the month Mercury begins its retrograde in Libra commencing the process of re-actualisation, re-invention and re-assessment.

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING

The new moon in your social sector on 7 September offers a reset in your social networks and group dynamics, an opportunity to realign. New pathways are forming. The full moon helps shine a light on the things you truly love and connects you to what you find creative and joyful. Your soul sector has some planetary stimulation, creating a background of deep diving into what really drives your baseline needs.

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING

Your social networks and community absorb the planetary energy in September which starts off pleasurable and harmonious, thanks to Venus sharing the love. Mars, mid-month, enters the scene and begins to agitate. Towards the end of the month Mercury slows and stations retrograde, beginning a three week phase of re-assessment and re-evaluation of your social group and networks. Creating more balance.

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING

September sees strong activation of your career and reputation sector beginning with Venus bestowing pleasurable interactions and exchanges. This will evolve with Mars’ entry mid-month. Mars will motivate and create a tense atmosphere. By the time Mercury starts its retrograde on the 28th, planning and re-assessment around your career will be evolving; focus on shifting the balances.



AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING

The new moon on 7 September occurs in your shared resource sector creating an opportunity. The new moon is an initiation point. With Uranus in a positive aspect to the moon, an unexpected support maybe on offer.  The full moon highlights your personal finances and resources, showing room for improvement or supporting increases to your worth.

PISCES / PISCES RISING

September brings attention to your individuality and relationship sector with both the new and full moons.  The new moon offers new growth with a fresh six month cycle focusing on all personal, working, and contractual relationships. This is followed by the full moon in Pisces on 21 September. A glorious full moon beams all your individuality and uniqueness for everyone to see and embrace. Enjoy having the lunar love on you this full moon.

FULL MOON IN AQUARIUS 2021

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CONJUCT JUPITER 
SUNDAY 22 AUG 2205 AEST 

Today’s full moon is the 2nd Aquarian full moon in a row, making it a blue moon. Our previous full moon was in the early degrees of Aquarius and in aspect to restrictive Saturn, making it a harsher lunation. Today’s lunation is conjunct an optimistic and uplifting Jupiter, creating an all-together different experience. 

A full moon conjunct Jupiter is a thing of beauty and a wonderfully uplifting aspect. It allows us to see/appreciate the things we DO have in these extremely trying times. Along with creating an-air of optimism and opportunity to expand ourselves, to raise our spirits, helping to find moments of joyousness in uncertain times.

2021 is hard, things are changing, and we are adapting, today’s lunation is a lovely moment in time to embrace theses changes and look for the opportunity to grow within these new parameters or limitations imposed by saturnian figures or situations.

We also have today; the Sun is in its last degree of Leo, finishing up its yearly transit in the sign it rules. Venus is now in Libra, another planet back home in its ruling sign; finally, Mercury is also strongly placed in Virgo also its ruling sign. We have some lovely planetary support at this full moon, making a dynamic skyscape. 

Despite all the setbacks, the challenges, the restrictions; today is a wonderful opportunity to settle in and bask in the wonder, the opportunities and the lessons that have gotten us to THIS point in time. Having so many planets in rulership now is the time to bask in their glory and graces before we duck dive into the tail end of 2021 and it’s Astrological landscapes.

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JUPITER’S INGRESS INTO PISCES: BIG MAGIC

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JUPITER’S TRANSIT OF PISCES 

14 MAY – 29 JULY 2021 

Jupiter returned home to its domicile Pisces on Friday 14 May 2021; making it the first transit of Pisces in 12 years. This is a transit that many astrologers have kept an eye on due to its benevolent nature, after such difficult times. Who doesn’t love a benefic planet in its rulering sign? The last time Jupiter worked from such strength was 2019, when it was transiting Sagittarius its other ruling sign. 

Jupiter spends just over 2 months in Pisces before it retrogrades back into Aquarius before its moves back into Pisces in late December 2021. This is a little taster or beginning phase of this powerful transit. Looking to where you have Pisces in your chart allows you to see where this beneficence will manifest. 

Jupiter is a planet of optimism, knowledge, teachers, gurus, learnings, travel, gifts but also dogma and zealots. Pisces is a sign of creativity and encompassing of well, everything; while staying undefinable and elusive.  Notable that the hostilities in the Gaza strip, started 7 days out from the ingress of Jupiter into Pisces.

As exciting at this transit is and as wonderful as it is to have the greater benefic back at full strength. We must also look at the co-presence of Neptune during this transit of Jupiter in Pisces. As highlighted by the wonderful and talented Astrologer, Diana Rose Harper; Neptune’s co-presence in Pisces with Jupiter allows for a real danger of a rise in delusional belief’s, cult shit and a rise in charlatans. The presence of charlatan’s is age old and has been more noticeable as Neptune reached the mid-point of its transit in Pisces. Jupiter now adding to the equation, is prime picking for illusions of grandeur, cult like figure coming out of the woodwork and just plain old bad guru’s and teacher. Be mindful of who presents and don’t be sucked into things that are too good to be true, they probably are. The opportunity of them appearing now is real.

More to come, as these are first thoughts, observations and connections to other people’s observations. But in honour of Jupiter’s ingress we must celebrate that, it is good, it is exciting, but it also does have aspects that are multi-faceted. Pisces energy is easy to get lost in thanks to its encompassing nature. Like all transits, it’s never straight-forwards, but it is something to be excited about along with sticking to your core values so you can contain this massive, inspirational, creative energetic shift as we have now entered its portal. More to come … but the opportunity for ‘Big Magic’ is forming.

xx

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MAY MONTHLY HOROSCOPES 2021

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The astrological landscape of May 2021, offers up some friendly sky’s for the first three weeks of May. The much heralded transit of Jupiter into Pisces begins, showing us the direction of 2022’s astrological highlight might present to take us, with its 2 month preview this May – July. Venus back in her home sign of Taurus for the first 9 days of May warms this space, before she hands over to Jupiters ingress to Pisces, middle of the month. The eclipse season begins at month’s end. Eclipse season is pushing for both innovation in the Gemini sector of your chart, whilst encouraging release and a letting go of the Sagittarius sector of your chart. The themes of these houses and signs best indicates how this might work for you, in your chart.. If you have planets in these signs, then this process of accumulation and detoxification is greater. Over all May is a great month and shows us the simple pleasures, before things get a bit more complicated and confusing in June; thanks to Mercury’s retrograde and the continuation of the eclipse season. Below are some quick highlights of May 2021. Enjoy xx

ARIES / ARIES RISING

The new moon in your financial sector on 12 May brings new opportunities for rewards thanks to its aspect to Jupiter. Jupiter then moves into Pisces, offering inspiration and assistance with turning dreams into reality. The lunar eclipse on 26 May might shade or create blind spots around entrenched belief systems or long distance travel meaning the whole picture is not seen at this time.


TAURUS / TAURUS RISING

A Taurus new moon on 12 May re-centres and reconfigures you to the core values and image you seek to embody. Jupiter’s shift into Pisces offers buoyancy; deepening your bonds to community and friendships. A lunar eclipse in your financial sector 26 May indicates some unseen elements around income and resources; caution is advised.

GEMINI / GEMINI RISING

Jupiter moving into your career sector until July offers a nice preview of 2022’s astrology. Jupiter helps with expansion and may bestow gifts in your career and reputation sector from May 14th. A lunar eclipse in your partnership sector on 26 May might bring instability or create a blind spot, know that what presents itself isn’t the full picture, this absence of facts will last for at least 4 – 6 weeks.


CANCER / CANCER RISING

The new moon on 12 May marks a nice reset point for your community and social networks allowing you to put any past difficulties behind you. Jupiter’s shift into Pisces on 14 May offers an exciting opportunity to learn or do a course, offering great teachers to you. The Lunar eclipse on 26 May occurs in your health and wellbeing sector, take extra precautions or keep your schedule light as you may feel especially drained at this time.


LEO / LEO RISING

A new moon in your career sector on 12 May is lovely reset point around your career and reputation, helping to seed new connections and relationships to foster and enjoy. Jupiter moving into your resource sector previews next year’s main astrological event, which benefits you by offering access to more resources than usual. The lunar eclipse on 26 May leads to unseen developments around your creativity and community. 

VIRGO / VIRGO RISING

Jupiter shifts into your relationship sector on 14 May, bringing buoyancy to relationships, offering new insights and support in all areas of life. This combined with the new moon 2 days earlier raises confidence by re-aligning your beliefs. A lunar eclipse on 26 May signals all is not what it seems in the home and career sectors; a more balanced situation needs to evolve, the fullness of which is not entirely apparent for at least 6 weeks.

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING

May’s New Moon on 12 May occurs in your resource sector starting a new 6-month cycle around external resources and evolving your relationship with them. Jupiter moves into your health and wellness sector, fostering abundance and optimism, greatly assisting your health sector. Mars moves through your career and reputation sector making your career sector very active and busy in May, rest will be important. 

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING

A new moon in your relationship sector is always a lovely place for a new 6-month cycle. Focusing on new beginnings from 12 May for all your one-on-one relationships. On 26 May, a lunar eclipse in your income and money sector indicates information may be hidden or shaded for the next 4 -6 weeks. Things are not as they appear and any ‘great offers’ will have unseen aspects.

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING

Jupiter moving into your home, family and ancestors sector on 14 May offers strong support and benefits as the planet of abundance and expansion begins its 2-month visit of Pisces. A lunar eclipse 26 May creates a 6-week period of instability around you and your relationships with others. Eclipses are shade spots, so any thing that is thrown up in your relationships isn’t the full picture or the full story. It’s evolving.

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING

The May 12 new moon in your pleasure sector helps connect and re-establish your creativity for a more balanced approach. A lunar eclipse on 26 May sets up some tensions around health, wellbeing and routine. Be mindful that you are entering a 4 – 6-week period where health is being activated and unseen forces are at play. Pay attention to your body and schedule in rest time to avoid burn out or any unnecessary triggers. 

AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING

A May 12 new moon in your home, family and ancestor sector is a strong new 6-month cycle, new seeds are ready to sprout.  The lunar eclipse in your pleasure and social network sector is something to monitor – unseen elements are at play. Jupiter moving into your income sector is a teaser for 2022’s astrology and will be very beneficial to you financially.


PISCES / PISCES RISING

Having your ruler return to your sign for 2 months from 14 May is huge, it’s a prelude to 2022. Jupiter lifts spirts, offers luck and is a wonderful thing to have on side. Be ready. A lunar eclipse 26 May in your home and career sector is a rebalancing act behind the scenes. Not all the information is visible but do know that the wheels of progress are firmly in action. 

MARS TRANSIT OF GEMINI 2021

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MARS IN GEMINI 2021

4 March – 24 April 2021 AEDT

Today Mars enters Gemini, after an elongated transit of Taurus; the sign of Mars detriment.  Mars entered Taurus, at the moment “That Bull Guy” image; symbolic to the Capital Hill riots was blazoned across the world media. Having this transit line up with such a striking image after such an epic retrograde phase in 2020, was something that only emphasised the potential trickiness of this Mars in Taurus phase, we are now exiting.  Longer than usual, it’s been a tough slog from early January until now. Things have been slower than usual to get up and running along with a resistance to big energetic pushes, or things just required way more motivation than usual. Slow and steady took over from big pushes, which essentially impeded Mars ability to do anything really constructive, as Mars likes fast rigorous action. 

Today with Mars shifting into Gemini, Mars is in a much better space to be able to use his skills and dynamism.  Gemini is a much more dynamic and changeable sign in comparison to the fixed earth of Taurus. Gemini is naturally more aligned to Mars nature and curiosities.  This stimulation of Mars allows for more momentum, traction and progress after a tedious transit of Taurus and retrograde phase in 2020. In short, Mars in Gemini will give strength and vigour to the mind.

Also, at the time of this ingress of Mars into Gemini, Mercury will be conjoining Jupiter for its final conjunction to Mercury in Aquarius. The Ruler of this Mars transit is blessed with the final integration of this three-hit conjunction of Mercury / Jupiter. Having Mercury / Jupiter meet for the third time, allows for information, a way forward, a new plan, new optimism or a new path forwards after a difficult or confusing January / February 2021. 

Having Mercury leave the final stages of its retrograde, along with its connection with Jupiter is extremely helpful and positive for Mars as he enters Gemini. Finally after 12 months we have a Mars making for more positive aspects to Saturn in-particular, allowing for more supportive Mars. Something that has been missing over the last 12 months, as the wrecking ball of Covid 19 began to hit our lives.

Today marks, what potentially we were seeking when we started 2021, by offering us a clearer path forwards, providing the energy and motivation after a difficult and frustrating first two months of the Year. Today we begin to see a more positive Mars influence, which has been missing from our lives over the past 12 months, as Mars begins to set a new pace and a new tone, which is now informed and guided by Jupiter’s influence on Mercury.  Today Mars, gets some of his spunk and swagger back. xx

MERCURY RETROGRADE OF AQUARIUS 2021

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MERCURY RETROGRADE IN AQUARIUS 

(31 JAN – 21 FEB 2021 AEDT)

27˚– 11˚ of Aquarius 

Mercury begins its Retrograde phase as January closes and is our first Mercury Rx phase of the year. 2021 delivers us a year of Mercury’s retrogradation in the Air signs, making these retrograde period’s stronger, thanks to Mercury’s elemental strength in Air.

Aquarius is an Air sign, fixed in its mode. Making it a sign whose strength lies in its stability and focused nature. Air signs have a great ability to detach and separate themselves from situations, providing an objective ability, helping to problem solve situations at hand, without out an overly emotional, passionate or overly stuck bias. As one of the humanist signs, Aquarius, is more focused on people and collaboration.

Saturn, Mercury’s ruler, for this retrograde is also co-present. This assists with focusing on creating systems or structures which help people or collaboration; through consolidating efforts through systems. Its through collaboration and systems we can help get to the heart of these Aquarian ideals. This retrograde, helps to re-evaluate these collaborations.

February 2021 is an unusual month, due to the amount of planets in the sign of Aquarius. February sees 6 planets in the one sign of Aquarius. The last time a stellium of planets conjoined in Aquarius like this was February 1962. With so much energy concentrated in Aquarius at this retrograde, it doubles down on the significations of Aquarius, and really knuckles down into the Aquarian elements of your chart and areas of life that Aquarius represents. So do pay attention, to what comes up. 

So, what happens when Mercury, the planet of communication, commerce, trade, ideas, problem-solving goes retrograde in a sign which is so heavily focused on others? There is an overly concentrated focus on, re-vision, re-evaluation, re-assessment and re-looking at relating to people, collaboration and community.  We now look to how to evolve these interactions with others, so it’s more mutually beneficial. The Aquarian ability to a detach to help innovate, also helps this Mercury Rx process of Re-looking and re-evaluation of things, as passions and emotions are more easily put to the side, as we look to a more objectively as what needs to change or be re-moulded.

Mercury; during its retrogradation conjoins Saturn its ruler once, which is when Mercury potentially finds the problem, it needs to solve. Mercury then meets with Jupiter, three times during this cycle, which is where we find opportunity or are able to look for solutions that have a positive and more lasting effect. Watch this space over the next 3 – 4 weeks and know the outcome to any tricky situations that present, will come, and maybe more positive than initially anticipated.

This particular Retrograde, is very strong, thanks to the 6 planet pile up in Aquarius at the time of the Rx. If you have planets in Aquarius, you haven’t had this much concentrated energy on your natal planets, unless you are born before 1962.  The Rx gives a strong current or undertow allowing for some really ingenious problem-solving at this time, if something challenging does pop up, do be optimistic, that Jupiter’s role will help deliver a positive outcome or resolution by the end of this cycle. It just might not be what you expect.

Mercury Retrograde: Through the signs

Aquarius / Aquarius Rising:

The physical body, as well as how you present to the world, what you represent and how you are received by others is strongly in focus. You’re very much the star of the show, and what you hold dear, might become the focus for others as well. 

Pisces / Pisces Rising:

The sub-conscious, soul sector or relationship to the unknown or hidden realms is heavily emphasised for you at this time. New connection to or new information is presented, which helps create a dialogue to or with retreat, isolation or soul work. 

Aries /Aries Rising:

New innovations are given new life with relation to friendship groups, community and social networks. New intel, allows you to be more effective in collaboration, cementing your position in the community.

Taurus / Taurus Rising:

The Career and Reputation sector of your chart is the star of the show, Mercury is helping you create a new plan to help with collaboration or assists with making yourself more of a team player. Opportunity is around, once Mercury has done its work.

Gemini / Gemini Rising:

Having the ruler of your chart, working its retrograde magic in your ideas and belief sector might at times be frustrating, but the information and data it gleans, gets you ready for some real opportunity for long lasting success and gains. Its all in the mind set.

Cancer / Cancer Rising: 

Overhauling the shared resources area of your life, allows for some great gains. Detaching from the emotions around it, is easier this time around. Cool and clinical assessment helps in getting you to a more prosperous setting.

Leo / Leo Rising: 

Relationships are key right now, in getting you to where you want to go. Collaboration, and how you engage in relationships might be under the microscope. Taking the emotional baggage out of the situation and looking objectively at your key relationships delivers much clarity and opportunity for growth and recognition. 

Virgo / Virgo Rising: 

The day to day routines and putting your attention to smarter ways of living is beneficial. Knowing that solving the problem before it takes root, is 99 percent of the work done. Mercury helps you see where the problems may lie. 

Libra / Libra Rising:

Creativity and Children is the Aquarius focus of your chart; any crisis or challenges can be worked through. An objective approach will help and delivers new approaches making a more abundant and healthier collaborative experience with either the creativity or children who are in your life.  If you need help, your people are there to support.

Scorpio / Scorpio Rising:

The home, house, family, ancestors represent the most private and hidden sector of your chart. Allowing some detached objectivity around such topics, as Mercury’s retrograde, helps develop or re-write the story allows for empowerment and better collaborative benefits for any and all of the above topics. 

Sagittarius / Sagittarius Rising:

Revisiting and revising your connection to your local surroundings and local environment can breathe fresh life into any aspects of the above that might feel stagnant. New innovations around your routines and schedules helps in freeing up time for more collaborative connections. 

Capricorn / Capricorn Rising:

The heavy emphasis of your financial sector shows there to be strong re-vision and re-evaluation of your income, assets or possessions. Allowing for an objective assessment, along with inviting the help of others can really get things moving for you. Revitalizing your income and how and what you seek to possess.

FULL MOON IN LEO 2021

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FULL MOON IN LEO : 29 January AEDT @6:15am

The Full Moon in Leo,  brings to the spotlight the Aquarius / Leo axis. The polarity of the group and the individual, the performer/performance and the audience and leadership and community. 

The Sun (and the ruler of this full moon), offers adulation and support; reflecting the receptiveness of your creations, ambition and leadership qualities at such time.  The Moon’s fullness, in Leo, helps to receive this adoration and embodying it, at the very least, allowing you to to be able to see it, in some shape or form. This lunation allows you to see the power of the reception to the work you do. It also shows the importance of creativity and brave leadership.

The only curveball to manage, is that this full moon is hooking into the Uranus Mars energy, via T-square. This brings in an unknown quantum to this full moon, meaning the previously mentioned, may come from unexpected places or areas that you don’t initially expect. Or at a time, that you don’t feel ready to shine your light.

Also occurring at the time of this Full Moon, is the Sun-Jupiter cazimi. Jupiter is considered the great beneifc in astrology, and a planet considered lucky, optimistic, wise, well educated, which attracts opportunity. The Sun and Jupiter exactly conjoining at this Full Moon, is a strong force, in addition to the lunation. Jupiter is sending the message of hope or optimism, in whatever mountains your currently climbing.

When the Sun and Jupiter exactly join, their energy is fused and the Sun’s strength, creates a rebirthing of Jupiter, through the great fires of the Sun. This cazimi, begins a new synodic or transit cycle for Jupiter. Old experiences and lessons are burnt away, and new opportunities and lessons are able to be forged or created. A new Jupiter is being born within this lunation.

The third major aspect at this full moon, occurs in the sign next to, or in aversion to this busy Leo / Aquarius axis. Venus and Pluto conjoining today, in Capricorn. Venus Pluto create a difficult combo, realisations around controlling relationships and power dynamics might be difficult to un-see, at this time. This occurs in addition to the above, which essentially allows for greater ease to see where you may have been bound or obsesses with something, that affects your ability to progress up the ladder or enjoy life.

All of the above combining to make a busy and active Full Moon in Leo, expect the unexpected and don’t be surprised if the Pluto Venus aspect, throws some deep undertow, to what on the surface is quite lovely and expansive. All this occurs the day before Mercury stations retrograde, also in Aquarius. Meaning the above might be something we mull over for at least the next 2 – 3 weeks.

Its both confronting and surprising, this Full Moon in Leo, however, leaning into the fundamentals of the Leo / Aquarius axis outlined in the first two paragraphs, can assist greatly, in your navigation of this Full Moon.

Xx

 

THE GREAT CONJUNCTION OF 2020: THE CHANGING OF THE GUARDS

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The first Air era since 1226, which also began with Jupiter and Saturn conjoining in Aquarius.

00’30  Jupiter in Aquarius & 00’30 Saturn in Aquarius

Tuesday 22 December 2020

Exact conjunction 0645am AEDT

Look west into the evening sky after sunset, use Star Chart a free app if your unsure and want to double check you have the right planets. Can be viewed in the weeks either side of it, maximum closeness is the above dates.

The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurring under 12 hours after the solstice is perhaps the astrological event of the year.  The Solstice which occurs at Monday 21 December 8:53pm AEDT, followed by the exact conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at 0645am Tuesday 22 December makes this a solstice for the ages. Who would expect anything less to helps to wrap up a remarkable and dynamic 2020? But in 2020 style, the 2020 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn also offers that little bit extra!

Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest of the visible planets to the naked eye conjoin every 19.5 years, and as astrologer Austin Coppock remarked, they are the king makers of human history and its era’s; and the tent poles of history, under which we live. As human’s mark the movements of the Sun and the Moon to represent and follow time, this also extends to the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction, due to our ability to visually track it, along-side events and developments here on earth.  Humans have been observing the Jupiter and Saturn conjunctions for thousands of years. The most famous record of a reputed Jupiter Saturn conjunction are the reference to it as the Star of Bethlehem in the bible. Yes folks, the three wise men, were following the Jupiter Saturn conjunction, and it definitely created a crowning moment, no matter what your belief system is. So, these are important times, in which we currently live.

Jupiter Saturn conjunctions represent kings and empires, beginning and ends.  There cycle is predictable, due to the constancy of there synodic cycles and also represent a certain quality of time depending on what elemental era they are in.  Jupiter Saturn conjunctions have been the book markers and book end of history, for good reason, they are tried, and test and they works, as an astrological timing technique. Each era, whether it be Fire, Air, Water or Earth, all have a strong presence of the ruling element within the quality of time, to which people live. Fire ages have seen great renaissance in arts and traditions including the Italian Renaissance and Tudor England, and the Romantic era. Water eras have seen great spiritual movements etc.

The Solstice conjunction of these two kingly planets, begins and ends a 20- and 200-year cycle at the same time, beginning a cycle last seen 794 years ago. The solstice itself is a very significant day. It’s a marker of the imbalance of light and darkness and a day of which humans have literally built monuments like Stonehenge to. These two events coinciding ? Rare, like really rare.

Tomorrow’s conjunction marks the beginning of a 200-year cycle in Air, ending an earth cycle which began in 1842. Looking back across the earth age, we can see conquests, colonization of lands by organized and government mandated / centralized force. The plundering / mining of the earth for wealth and riches, which then got kept and managed in a hierarchical system and created empires because of the hoarded wealth from the earth and all its resources (i.e.: corporations/governments/institutions), we also need to mention the unscrupulous ways in which this wealth was taken.  Industrialisation also began on mass and changed the way we connect to earth and how we work with it.  Money and power was created by the complete raping and pillaging of the earth and its resources. As we leave the earth era, the earth is literally struggling for survival, due to the amount we have stripped from it and mis-managed pollution. These Grand Conjunctions will be in air signs until 2159. The last Air series of conjunctions began in 1226 (Aquarius). So let the journey begin.

When you look at the timelines of the history of these developments and the Jupiter Saturn conjunctions, the information is incredibly striking and is helpful to see where we may evolve to next. 

So, what is an air age and what does it look like? This is the first Air age in 800 years, and interestingly, tomorrows conjunction is the closest these planets get, in forming the conjunction also in 800 years, I don’t feel this is coincidence. 

Air ages are marked by disbursing of empires and wealth as well as creating more movement and freedom, through change and instability, this creates new pathways and new opportunity. Air ages have a more unpredictable flavour, through instability and a disbursing of power and control. Things we used to rely on may disappear, but through it, new alternatives are presented and ideas and intelligence/problem solving gets a real opportunity to explore and create new innovations and solutions, to the real problems we now face coming out of the earth age. 

Air ages can be marked with the term, created by Austin Coppock, as the age of “Disruptive Conquerors”. It is through these disruptive conquerors that the Air age changes and adapts the ways we live.  In previous Air ages, we had Genghis Khan create still to dates the biggest land empire created. He also establishes safety and strong connection, through the Silk Road, which fed and nourished trade, and is a trade route still in place today.  Genghis Khan did this by connecting many nomadic tribes. Nomadic tribes being tres Air, due to the constant movement in nature and quality. His conquests were the pinnacle of disruptive conquests, and he is still seen as one of the greatest conquerors in history.  We also in previous Air era’s saw the beginning of the fall of the Roman Empire after its peak. Alexander the Great, go through and connect and create the Hellenistic world, which didn’t last long after he died, but it still created information and connected to countries, who through the merging of ideas and information shared, through this Hellenistic world, we still look to today, as a source of information, and knowledge sharing, I’m looking at astrologers, with this one.

Through this disruption, we see more information and trade created, as the channels open up in different ways, and the control mechanism change. Looking forwards to what this might mean for us now, the internet and technology is definitely opening up the ways we live. The pandemic showed us how adaptable we are to remote learning or working from home. We no longer need to work or learn in centralized places. Notable news to come out recently, is the huge surges in Bit Coin values, a revolutionary digital currency, which is hard to ignore as we enter the Air age. We have seen the beginnings of lab grown meat becoming available to on mass and rise in popularity and availability, which reflects how technology is modifying the food chain.  Socially, technology has bridged the gap, in allowing us to connect to people, when we physically couldn’t.  When it comes to power and control, we can’t ignore the increased use of surveillance and drones, to track people and their movements. This will certainly increase. How is most of this conducted? Through the air waves, internet or literally in the air.

The previous Jupiter conjunction was in Taurus and 2000 (the last of the Earth cycle) and previous to this it was in Libra 1980/1981 (the first dip into the Air Cycle). Both these conjunctions were ruled by Venus. Consumerism and materialism really took off and Venus put pleasure and aesthetics front and centre for the past 40 years. Now we move into an Aquarius conjunction, we enter both an Air and a Saturn ruled conjunction. We will be looking at a more conservative and less pleasure oriented 20-year Jupiter Saturn cycle; perhaps to help solve the very pressing problems we face as we exit the Earth era and we look to solutions to the problems it has caused. 

The Great Conjunction, which is exact tomorrow following the Solstice, is marking the beginning of a new age, we are in a stage of transition and it will take a while for us to settling into it or work out, what real direction this is taking us. However, we do have the wonderful opportunity to watch them as they conjoin in the sky. We are fortunate enough to have the best view in 794 years or since 1226, coincidently, the last time we were in an Air age. Look west at nightfall and admire, being able to see such a momentous and historical moment, as we look to the planets and the future, they might herald. 

Enjoy!