Yesterday we closed the current eclipse season with the Gemini Full Moon lunar eclipse. You may in fact feel like you are in a completely different space within yourself, and your external sense of place may have also shifted surprisingly. What new sensations or thoughts are you noticing now? You can expect these shifts to develop over the next six months (or longer) so don’t worry if you can’t quite put your finger on what has changed today.
With the drama and tension of Mercury’s station direct and the eclipses behind us, the immediate astrology looks like a love-fest — but it’s possible that could go to our heads a little this weekend, with some potential for overreaching and its consequences.
Venus and Mars, fresh from their respective conjunctions to larger, slower planets (Saturn and Pluto, respectively) are each feeling their power in different ways. But their relationship to each other right now isn’t a question of power or competition, but rather a question of contact.
Today Venus in Scorpio sextiles Mars in Capricorn, close on the heels of her sextile to Pluto in Capricorn yesterday. Venus-Mars brings our feelings and actions into harmony, and Pluto adds a feeling of relevance and reaching some deeper meaning with it all. Venus sextile Pluto tends to allow us to see the good in others, no matter how deeply it’s buried. Bear in mind that the energy of sextiles may be ‘close enough to reach’, but you do have to reach out. It won’t just fall in your lap.
Or think of it this way: it’s like the containers that were busted open by the eclipse yod pattern left us lots of space to take the shape of our higher natures, the shape of love and harmony, and even the shape of devotion in our sexual/spiritual relationships. (That last part gets a boost from the Moon conjunct Vesta in Gemini, opposite Juno in Sagittarius today). And it’s clear that desire fulfilled and commitment expressed have a relationship to one another.