This is a detailed two week report lovelies, which takes us up to the first eclipse of the season on October 25. 🌞🌙🫀
The Full Moon at 16 Aries on Monday October 10 reveals to us the fruits of actions and events that were seeded on the Aries New Moon in April 🌶 one of the big activation windows in the astrological year. Whatever raw energy was driving us forward then has achieved a degree of concreteness now that we can see in clear light. The Full Moon illuminates areas that now require further consideration, adjustment and/or integration, and brings energies to a peak. In Aries we may feel a greater struggle to resolve our conflicting drives, however, with the Full Moon conjunct Chiron, the centaur healer and teacher of heroes, this lunation highlights the ability to gain deeper wisdom and understanding of the wounds that propel us and their power since what we struggle with eventually becomes our strength.
The Aries-Libra axis deals with the poles of self-assertion and identity and the reflective receptivity required of relationship. Venus, planet of love, relationships, diplomacy, friendship, creativity and abundance, is in home territory in Libra and lends benefic influence to these topics. Venus is also travelling with the Sun in a superior conjunction, moving as far from Earth as she can possibly get, now and into early November. Invisible beneath the Sun’s bright rays, her focus is on inner work that serves conscious growth. Combustion can be like a kind of burning that saps the power of planets moving too close to the Sun but Venus is protected in her Libran chariot until Sunday October 23 and lending her positive influence to the Sun. Although the Sun is exalted in Aries, where it’s empowered to enact its intentions, it finds its fall in Libra, where it must compromise with others and learn how to collaborate harmoniously/connect intimately with other desires seeking expression. Organise important relationship/business/project or other conversations while Venus exerts this benefic influence. 🌸
The planet of passion, conflict, courage, action and ‘what we want’, Mars, rules this Full Moon however, and as it slows down to station retrograde in Gemini on Monday October 31, it’s close to the Earth and gaining intensity. In the sign of the mind, communication, writing, technology, data and local travel for a full seven months, Mars will spend two months retrograde until Wednesday January 11. It could be a more inward-focused, reflective time of reviewing and refining ideas in the behind the scenes work involved in getting a project in motion, of reintegrating elements from older experiments into the materialising idea. Those born with Mars retrograde on the other hand, may feel empowered to take action on launching projects during this period. In Gemini, Mars can both sharpen the mind and cause mental agitation and during the retrograde period, grounding activities, breathing exercises and journalling are excellent remediations for reducing stress and optimising mental acuity. The various data breaches/cyber attacks we’ve seen on Australian telecommunication companies and the Australian Defence Force recently are a textbook malefic expression of Mars in Gemini, and at a personal level, we should make a habit of thinking twice before expressing words in anger throughout this period.
With Jupiter still retrograde in Aries, the sign associated with the primal urge to be accepted for who we are, small, courageous acts of faith in the face of our self-doubts will still be required. There can be an unconscious impulse in Aries to react aggressively from feelings of unworthiness but Venus brings a greater ability to harmonise differences and perceive other perspectives. Mercury also lends its communication and cognitive prowess to relationship dynamics on Tuesday October 11 when it moves into Libra, potentially providing greater clarity on a relationship scenario playing out in late August and September. When Mercury opposes Jupiter on Wednesday October 12, it’s an exchange that could expand our view of ourselves and the scope of our relationships and reveal the details that still require balancing.
On the same day, the Sun in Libra trines Saturn in Aquarius. It’s a window for crystallising future-oriented visions and the closing trine in a cycle that began on 5 Feb with a Sun-Saturn conjunction at 15 Aquarius, one of the four World Points. It initiated the process of materialising a new vision. The last Sun-Saturn trine on June 16 was an opening aspect with the Sun in Gemini, a point in the cycle when we were only beginning to give form to our nascent ideas. Now we’re busy making them manifest. Growth areas are in diplomacy, creativity and collaboration. Mars also squares Neptune, planet of fog and confusion, deception, transcendence, imagination, compassion, grief and forgiveness on October 12, which cautions us against taking action before carefully assessing the necessary information or considering all relevant perspectives, or projecting on others as a source of conflict. At the same time, activities of a more imaginative, reflective, creative or healing nature are well-starred for transmuting the tensions that may surface.
On Friday October 14 Venus trines Saturn, which affords us a greater sense of realism in relation to our visions whilst enhancing the ease and artfulness of their current materialisation. A great day to work on the things that we value and want to be long-lasting. On Tuesday October 18 the Sun trines Mars, which empowers us to take action on business, project, relationship and other intentions with Venus offering harmonious support. On Wednesday October 19 Venus trines Mars, which enhances the power of our charm offensives, making us delightfully magnetic, appealing company. Get out and socialise or stay in and make great art. The next day, the Sun and Venus square Pluto as Mercury opposes Chiron on Thursday October 20. This turn of events suggests more intense confrontations with the wounds that have shaped us, and insights that reveal the power forged through them.
On Sunday 23 October Venus is briefly cazimi the Sun (8:17am - 6:52pm AEDT). The ancients conceived of exact conjunctions with the Sun as a planet’s exalted empowerment at ‘the heart’ or ‘throne’ of the Sun. It doesn’t last long unfortunately. Milk the artistic and conversational potential before Venus enters Scorpio in the evening. Things get more intense and far less comfortable when she’s exposed to the Sun’s burning rays in the sign of her detriment. She’s unable to act on her own authority and we may see Venusian topics suffer accordingly. Adding to this tense state of affairs, Saturn also turns direct this day (@ 3:07pm), which could tilt authoritarian leaders towards heavier crackdowns. Both Benefics will be at 0 degrees of the Mars-ruled signs in a quincunx aspect on this day also, which suggests an attempt at resolution that has no guarantee of success.
The upside of Venus in Scorpio on the far side of the Sun however, is that we can focus our energies on inner transformations that empower us to attract what want we most passionately in our lives. With Venus so far from Earth, we also have greater objectivity in our ability to see situations from a distance, and in Scorpio we’re more strategic in our plans, keeping things under wraps until we’re ready to launch at our targets. The ancient Babylonians knew Venus as Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Goddess of both Love and War and her synodic cycle with the Sun is described in her myth. She was considered most war-like in her Morning Star phase, which she entered this year a week before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, as she travels with the Sun, she remains invisible in the sky until December 22. When she finally emerges again it will be as an Evening Star, when her more peaceful, diplomatic and amorous qualities are said to be enhanced. We can only hope that on the global stage, cooler Evening-Star Venusian heads will prevail also…
And that takes us to Eclipse season! Until then lovelies, follow your sweet hearts and enjoy the Venusian magic. 💗♥️🌞🌙🌟🔥☄️🌶🌺
#venus #mars #inanna #babylonianastrology #morningstar #eveningstar #saturn #mercury #jupiter #pluto #neptune #chiron #scorpio #aries #libra #aquarius #pisces #gemini #ariesfullmoon #fullmoon #marsretrograde #astrology #forecast
