Today is Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. We have a waxing Moon in Capricorn — sign of institutions — all day for Halloween. Anyone planning to dress up as one of the 1% tonight? Or maybe an ATM machine? If you can figure out a way to wear your pup tent, you could go trick or treating as your own Occupied encampment. That said, the main astrological aspects this week have to do with the planet of disguise (as well as denial, delusion and drugs): Neptune. Our three personal planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) are all splashing into Neptune in one way or another. Just as it’s prudent to wade into unfamiliar waters rather than diving in headfirst, so too is it wise to slow down a little with these aspects.
Venus and Mercury are in the last degrees of Scorpio. Venus moves into Sagittarius early Wednesday morning, and Mercury follows suit later that same afternoon. During their last couple days in Scorpio, both planets square Neptune in late Aquarius. We tend to want our personal planets to feel very solid and real. But when inner planets encounter Neptune, it can create doubt and a dreamy kind of idealism. This kind of setup can mess with our emotions and intuition. (It is rare that Mercury, Venus and Mars all make aspects to Neptune at the same time.)
If you have any Halloween festivities to attend tonight (or if you had some lush encounters over the weekend), bear in mind that you might be a bit more prone than usual to get stoned and think you’re in love — or simply to think you’re in love even without any substances altering your consciousness.
After Mercury and Venus square Neptune, they ingress Sagittarius and then make squares to Chiron. This has the feeling of a sudden awakening — the sensation of, ‘how could I have missed this?’ It’s likely to be something emotional, such as a perception or emotion. Think of squares to Neptune followed by squares to Chiron as coming out of denial — a feeling that we Westerners rarely experience.
After the emotional complexity and uncertainty of Scorpio planets square Neptune, they ingress a sign known its love of freedom, travel and adventure, and where there can be a feeling of extreme clarity rather than the potential doubts of the current days. This could be spurred by some event, emotion or reaction. Get used to the sensation of these planets being in Sagittarius, square Chiron, before you make any irreversible decisions, particularly based on injured emotions, office politics or any form of deception.
Meanwhile, Mars in Leo is working up to an opposition to Neptune. This is another summons to clarity, honesty and choices based on intelligence and discernment.