this week kicks off with a square between venus and neptune on sunday, may 3rd. this aspect can have us feeling ambiguous, murky, or disconnected from our relationships and resources. several aspects i covered in the last horoscope inspired a similar seeking and uncertainty, but in the context of venus and neptune, this obstacle to connection is really only an obstacle to connection in the material world. neptune reminds us that without the intangible, the felt, the indescribably and viscerally experienced, material connections have no inherent meaning or value. try to notice the ways in which your connections in the material suffer from the under-emphasis of the emotional, spiritual, or otherwise intangible.
on monday the 4th, mercury joins the sun in taurus, bringing with it all the frenetic energy from it’s conjunction with uranus on april 30th. anytime mercury forms a conjunction with the sun, it’s helpful to notice when you have difficulty separating your sense of self from your train of thought. we’re very likely to feel mental unrest, like our thoughts are fueled by nervous energy. this is so immersive and activating that it can become a struggle to distinguish between the stream of thoughts, and your identity as the observer of those thoughts. working with mindfulness meditation and DBT techniques can be very useful for managing overwhelming internal experiences like these.
the full moon in scorpio occurs on thursday the 7th, featuring a sextile between mercury and neptune in addition to the aspects named above. between racing minds and a listless disconnect from the material, there’s potential to find a scrap of mental clarity while cast adrift in neptune’s nebulous blob energy. try using verbal information through reading, writing, and/or communication to contextualize what’s happening on an emotional, intuitive, spiritual, energetic, non-corporeal level.
mercury moves on to form a trine to pluto on saturday the 9th. the mental shift we went through last month is paying off, and that looks like a new way of thinking and communicating that is compatible with an environment of upheaval and change. this compatibility is restated by the trine between mercury and jupiter the next day (the 10th,) when the compatibility of circumstance and perspective translates to effective movement and growth.
also on sunday the 10th, saturn stations retrograde. this happens every year for about four months, and like i discussed in the last horoscope, planets in retrograde motion instigate essential retrospection. in the context of saturn, that looks like revisiting both our embodiment of and relationship to: inhibitions, self-discipline, structure, authority, social status, and control. this retrograde period is the final review of what we’ve learned about those themes since december 2017 when saturn first moved into capricorn, holding space for us to integrate those experiences and lessons into a stabilizing foundation. this will be invaluable in the radical self-discovery to come next year when saturn moves through aquarius.
the following monday the 11th, mercury moves into gemini. our cerebral preoccupations with materialism shift to center the local circulation of information: communication within communities. on the 12th, mercury forms a trine with saturn. the flow established between our new mentality and the shifting world allows us to effectively think within the framework of present circumstances. also on the 12th, mars moves into pisces, shifting our motives from objective intellectualism to impressionable, emotional, and intuitive subjectivity.
all this leads up to wednesday the 13th when venus stations retrograde, with jupiter following suit on the 14th. venus’ retrograde periods occur every year and a half, as an invitation to revisit and renegotiate our values, resources, and relationships. with venus in gemini, this investigation happens around communication and participation with local community. how do your exchanges with siblings, neighbors, and extended family shape your perspective of what has value? how is their perception of what you value shaped by the way you communicate? how might you re-associate with more intention and authenticity?
jupiter, like saturn, stations retrograde roughly four months out of every year, facilitating a peroid of re-evaluation and re-association with strategies for personal and collective growth and adaptation. in capricorn, that looks like examining how themes of inhibition, self-discipline, structure, authority, social status, and control are manifesting in the context of personal and collective development. how are we restricted by the ways we embody these themes? how can we navigate them with more circulation and elasticity?
lastly, we’ve got a sun/pluto trine on friday the 15th. new flow between identity and collective chaos reforges a sense of self in the wake of pluto's demolition. you realize that you are an irrevocably different person than you were in february, a truth that bridges the gap between who you knew yourself to be, and who you have become in surviving these tumultuous times.
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