Dear Friend and Reader:
Woodstock in the Sky is happening right now, as we are living under the most impressive Aquarian alignment in decades. The late Sagittarius Moon is waning, sailing toward an eclipse of the Sun on Monday. We will have more to say about this through the weekend and in tomorrow’s edition of Astrology News.
The Woodstock lineup features the Sun in a mighty conjunction with Jupiter (exact today and tomorrow), plus Chiron, Nessus, Neptune and the North Node. Venus has moved onto Pisces and Mercury has retrograded back to Capricorn, but it will soon return to Aquarius.
In the midst of this, Venus and Mars stand out of today’s charts because they are talking to one another, and making several aspects to slow-moving planets.В
In today’s alignment, Venus and Mars seem to be searching for their identity. Sex depends on gender identity, and gender identity is often the foundation of what we think of when we imagine “who we are.” We also tend to think of both sex and gender as fixed, that is, predictable and stable. Most of us feel we know exactly who we are sexually, and how we express our gender roles, but living things change constantly and even our natal planets are under constant changing influences (transits, progressions, new discoveries and others). I think of gender and sexual orientation as entirely mutable; that is, flexible.
No two people have the same Venus and Mars in their natal charts (even in nearly identical charts there will be slight variations). Since both planets are in constant motion, there is a constant dance of “who am I and who are you?”, “how do we relate?” and “what’s our chemistry?”