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Thursday April 20 at 00:12 EDT there is a New Moon in Aries with a Solar Eclipse, which forms a square with Pluto. Watch your rivals. Keep an eye out for any chaos unfolding around you. Obstacles may appear in your path now, likely they were already present in some form though. Extreme emotion will be very difficult to contain now. Be patient if triggered. Avoid acting on impulse. Damage and destruction can occur easily under these energies. At the same time great power to make significant change can be summoned and directed now.
The Moon will move into Taurus at 00:30 EDT Thursday. The Sun will join the Moon in Taurus at 4:13 AM EDT Thursday, kicking off Taurus Season 2023. Many will be drawn toward what makes them feel secure on Thursday and Friday. Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus on Thursday. As per usual, people with Taurus personal planets will be impacted most by this three week retrograde. Try to stay out of the past. Avoid misplaced nostalgia. Manage expectations. Be patient with slowed progress. Plan for delays, interference and obstacles. Taurus Season itself is a physical and material security oriented season. A strong practical energy sets the overall tone of the season and directs our building and maintaining actions. That being said, the Taurus Sun brings awareness of the important role pleasure plays in life, and its energy encourages us to indulge ourselves. Commitments have great appeal during Taurus Season, even to the more choice challenged folk among us. Many successful marriages occur during Taurus Season. The 10 of Pentacles in the Tarot is the Earth Element marriage card, and it suggests connection, alignment, shared values, fertility, longevity and abundance in a love partnership. Duncan de la Montagne Revelations of all sorts occur during Full Moons, and a fundamental truth about your relationship life may well be what is revealed during this Libra Full Moon, occurring Thursday April 6 at 00:34 AM EDT. With the Chiron and Jupiter influence on the Aries Sun, awareness of authentic needs in relationship life can form now. Key elements of the Libra Moon are fairness and consideration, which may elicit confessions from others now or stimulate some from you. However, if you are going for complete accountability, you must be prepared to accept and deal with whatever consequences arise. Also, keep awareness of the spiritual creed 'Do No Harm'. If, for example, you run into an old partner from years ago whom you cheated on, they likely don’t need to hear about it at this point in time, and in fact you would just be unburdening your own guilty conscience at their emotional expense, which is not cool. Full Moons are ideal times for meditative Tarot readings, and this Full Moon especially so. Pull out your own Tarot deck as part of your Full Moon ritual and see what the Universe has to say to you.
Saturn moves into Pisces today. This new transit will affect the cosmic energy mix for the next three years. This Saturn in Pisces transit will inspire a shift away from the extreme emotional reactivism of recent years and toward a more rational and balanced mode of expression and engagement. The result will be the creation of cohesive spaces where constructive communication and subsequent productive progress and fair results can occur. Saturn in Pisces will spark deconstruction of dogma by individuals, be it religious dogma, ideological dogma or political dogma, and an examination of what substance actually lies beneath the rhetoric. Many people will feel drawn to spirituality during this period and will discover spiritual principles and develop daily spiritual practices that help them live better inside of themselves and out in the world. This new spirituality will help to eliminate divisive and often hateful judgmental energies and stances, will foster inclusiveness, and will ultimately serve to facilitate real healing in our communities. Pisces Sun people should take a hard look at themself over the next few days and see what needs to be moved on from within themself and in their life. Saturn in one’s Sun sign brings lessons, tests and, where applicable, consequences. Duncan de la Montagne Monday February 20th at 2:06 AM EST we have a New Moon in Pisces. From a magickal perspective new moons are times to plant seeds of intent, seeds that you will then nurture and nourish with energy and action. The Pisces Mutable Water New Moon is a particularly magickal new moon, as Pisces is a spiritual sign that is seen as a portal to other realms and other states of being. This year the Pisces New Moon occurs during a lunar conjunction with the planet Saturn, boosting the strength of the energies and bringing a more serious tone to the cosmic mix overall. Certainly, this is a time to meditate, to connect with your core so that you can become aware of your true needs in situations and in life overall. As this is a Pisces New Moon, areas of life you should focus on in your ritual include strengthening your own spiritual practice, improving your love life and/or relationship, shoring up emotional health and well-being, and finding new ways to increase financial abundance in your life. Pay close attention to your dreams now, messaging can be strong when the Sun and Moon meet in Pisces.
Duncan de la Montagne Sunday the Full Moon in Leo, which occurs at 1:28 PM EST, is going to seem more like a solar flare up than a lunar event due to the T Square it forms with Uranus. The typical Full Moon climax of energies will be particularly intense, big feelings and big emotions will be on full display. Be careful you don’t go too far when putting whatever you feel you need to ‘put out there’ out there now. The next 48 hours would have to be seen as an unlucky time to launch a venture or project. Be careful who you invite into your life now. Bring humility and a sense of humor if you have a performance scheduled or a presentation to make. Make no big life decisions under the energies of this Leo Full Moon. You are likely to encounter drama now, hopefully you will not be the drama.
Duncan de la Montagne After a relatively calm week astrological energies intensify with the formation of a Sun/Uranus square on Friday. Energies are volatile and unpredictable going into the weekend. An unreasonable stubbornness can take hold in some or an unreasonable insistence on being right and ‘winning the conversation’. Conflict can spark easily under these energies. Exercise caution, accident or misadventure are far more likely now. What can go wrong is indeed likely to go wrong. This is no time for foolish risks. These chaotic Sun/Uranus energies extend right through the weekend.
Saturday energies amp up further as the Moon transits in Leo at 3:49 AM EST. If you are going to make an ass of yourself during Aquarius Season this year Saturday is the day you are most likely to do it. Certainly people will be much more in their ego on the weekend, which can make them more sensitive to criticism, real or perceived. Try to avoid going too deep into ‘all about you’ mode now. Be sure to blend awareness of the needs and rights of others in your interactions and communications. Duncan de la Montagne Mars has emerged from the shadow of its retrograde and is releasing forward-flowing energies of action again. This weekend on both Saturday and Sunday the Sun in Aquarius trines Mars, bringing clarity of vision, perception and thought. The Sun in Aquarius also squares the Nodes of Karma now
putting many at major crossroads in their life. Opportunities by nature are impermanent, each window that opens will also surely close. Always stay true to your own ethics and values but as long as such alignment is present do not be afraid to move toward that which you desire now, or toward whom. Regret due to non-action can cause great inner pain, indeed many times doing nothing is the worst choice of all. Now is also the time to begin getting your life and your internal emotion and energy space in order in preparation for the impending ingress of Saturn into Pisces and all that can bring to a being and a life. Duncan de la Montagne Venus enters soft, dreamy, mutable Water element sign Pisces on Thursday at 9:33 PM EST, opening many to love. Whether it is love already in one's life in one of its numerous forms or love that is yet to be Venus draws us to the warm comfort of connection and emotional intimacy. Venus is exalted in Pisces. This three and half week transit will stir the romantic in even the most independent of souls and it will certainly stimulate imagination and creativity. Boundaries however can be a problem when Venus is in Pisces, as can an idealization of a person who is the focus of desire. Be sure you are seeing the person who is actually there before making any major moves in your love or friendship life life at this time. Be sure you are being honest in your own actions as well. Pisces is a caring, affectionate and compassionate sign and those are wonderful energies to bring to the world. Just be sure they do not cause you to fall under some sort of codependent enchantment that has you trying to save someone in love. Most often what happens there is they just draw you down into their own suffering.
Duncan de la Montagne. The Sun in Aquarius aligns in a perfect sextile with Jupiter in Aries today, melding inspiring forward-thinking Air Element energy with confident, assertive Fire. This bright fusion of complimentary elemental energy brings a positive-mindedness to many folks midweek. Venus is pulling away from Saturn in Aquarius, clearing mental creative blockages and opening portals of attraction. Finally Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, has stationed direct after a long retrograde cycle. This is a great time to begin a new project, to form new friendships, or to forge new work partnerships. Even romance in a non-Libra Air Season is possible now. After all, Aquarians do love too. As we move into the heart of the week no matter the area of life, if it feels right take a chance.
Duncan de la Montagne The Sun moved into Aquarius on Friday January 20 at 3:29 AM EST, concluding Capricorn Season 2023. On Saturday at 3:53 PM EST the Moon conjoins the Sun and we have a New Moon in Aquarius. Aquarius Season itself is about innovation and personal self-expression. We seek to become a more authentic version of our self and we want to share this new, truer version of our self with the world. Aquarius is concerned with the state of the world and Aquarius Sun and Rising folk seek to create and inspire in ways that improve the world around them. This New Moon consider what you can do to help improve the world around you, and on a more personal level look to see where you have became stagnant in your life, what no longer works in your life, what you need to move on from and where you need to grow.
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