After yesterday’s New Moon in Libra, there’s the potential for major excess as we all shoot out of the gate today. New Moons generally offer new starts to personal cycles. This New Moon-Eris opposition likely stirred some genuine discontent or tension in your negotiations between your Self (in its many facets) and your intimate relationships (with their expectations and perceptions). Be aware today that any urges to restart in earnest come with a warning label, courtesy of a T-square between Venus, Jupiter and Pholus.
Venus in mid-Virgo squares retrograde Jupiter in Gemini exactly at 7:34 pm EDT today. That aspect alone tends toward extravagance, overdoing and over-expanding in all things sensual and material, regardless of sign. Eric has noted before that Jupiter in Gemini alone equals “moving forward in all directions.” It’s a handful — or three. Venus in Virgo, despite often imparting a desire to serve, can also be overly critical in love.
Meanwhile, Pholus carries the key phrase, “small cause, big effect.” In Sagittarius, a sign ruled by Jupiter, its potential is magnified.
The message? Whatever BIG relationship changes you feel you just have to make, or declarations of love (or dissatisfactions therewith) you just have to say, or other emotional/relational/material stuff just dying to happen right now: juuuust chiiiiilllll for a couple days. Excess has the tendency to be especially excessive today. That’s not to say you should not do or say any of what is pressing to be done or said at all, or ever. You might, however, consider it very carefully from several angles, and bounce it off a few friends till the sense of pressure subsides some.
Consider one last player in the mix: Mercury in Scorpio, right there in the same degree as Venus and Jupiter (Pholus is technically one degree off from the others, but don’t tell him that; he doesn’t care much for precision once the cork gets popped).
Mercury is sextile Venus; water sign to earth sign, it’s a very flowing and supportive aspect. Mercury is also quincunx Jupiter. A quincunx is one sign off from an opposition, giving a kind of tension that urges continual adjustment. It can feel a little prickly. And although Mercury and Venus offer some ease, in the current configuration, the trick is to be sure it’s enabling the flow conscious relationship dialogue, not a stream of criticism (of self or other).