Yesterday’s Mars-Saturn conjunction in Libra, though just past its peak, is feeding directly into this week’s next astrological highlight: Friday’s Leo New Moon. Both events have a direct connection to the centaur planet Nessus, which is in Aquarius.
As a centaur planet, Nessus is focused on the theme of healing. Yet it has a special job: it carries the themes of working through and understanding potentially inappropriate sexual contact (whether current, or in the past) as well as karmic cycles coming to an endpoint or release. Nessus in Aquarius in aspect to both the Sun and Moon conjunct in Leo, plus Mars and Saturn in Libra, is rather loaded. We get the additional question of crossing relationship boundaries (in a non-consensual sense) versus stretching them.
The New Moon in Leo is exact at 11:54 am EDT Friday. It can be thought of as our monthly ‘reset button’, a time when we can assimilate what we’ve learned over the past four weeks and set our sights (and intentions) on applying the insights to our next endeavors.
Given the presence of Nessus in the setup, the insights you come to in these days could tap into deep, old ‘stuff’ and/or may come via difficult interactions that trigger emotional reactions. Mars-Saturn felt like building relationship pressure for some – though it has had positive expressions, too. Nessus upped the sexual baggage ante and continues to play that card in its conversation with the Sun: when it comes to our sexual expression in the world (the collective ‘group’ of society), all sex becomes potentially questionable.