The Sun enters Sagittarius at 4:50 pm EST tomorrow, with a reminder to keep your eyes on the road. A road is a shared pathway between many points of departure and many destinations. Every road comes with its rules of passage. Foremost among those rules is to leave the point of departure behind and allow the destination to appear in its own time while being mindful of where you are and what you are doing now.
The astrology has us all together at once on a pathway between eclipses. Scorpio’s retrograde Mercury is your rear view mirror. An impending Capricorn solstice is your odometer about to roll over. Both merit your attention. Neither is more important than the road.
After tomorrow, the road to keep your eyes on is Sagittarius. It is where the Sun will come out on the other side of the November 13 Scorpio solar eclipse, in opposition to the Gemini Full Moon for the lunar eclipse of November 28. It is where Mercury will return, in direct motion on December 10. Most of all, it is not the smooth, wide, straight road it used to be.
Like nearly every other object entering Sagittarius this year, the Sun will tomorrow find itself in an immediate square aspect to Neptune, which is on the doorstep of Pisces for the first time since the 19th century. Squares denote an inner tension that can easily be misconstrued to have its origin on the outside. When Neptune is involved, errant perception is almost a given. Hence, the first day of solar Sagittarius this year will require a measure of self control that this particular stretch of the zodiac has not demanded within living memory, and that’s just so you can negotiate the foggy on-ramp.