PLUTO/MOON POWERFUL FOR SHORT PERIOD.

Pluto goes direct again today in Capricorn (and is conjunct with the Moon (11th), both trining Uranus in Taurus. Some very powerful shifts of states and conditions which previously seemed immovable. Likewise, some previous sources of backing or support are terminated. Mars/Cancer balances these issues by the end of the month and progresses greater position or prominence by entering Leo for a brief period until December. In this short period stable ventures and situations are mooted, started and given ultimate opportunity. Best used for reaching out and grasping.

ASTROLOGY SOUND-BITE

Jupiter retrogrades in Gemini tomorrow (8th) until early February: a pause now between acts whilst matters comprising the last four months are amended, reviewed or modified for better connectivity or understanding. Moon/Sagittarius opposes the slowing Jupiter tomorrow, urging a kickstart to stubborn or unclear situations. Though anchors or markers are needed for the more risky proposals and moves. 

ASTROLOGY IN BRIEF

 

Sun and Mercury conjunct in Libra today/tomorrow (1st & 2nd) make tentative challenges to Mars/Cancer as it trawls to highlight poor compromise or faulty agreements doomed to fail by the end of October. Venus/Scorpio dives deep beneath while the disputes and unrest struggle to attain balance, and Jupiter/Gemini begins to slow to retrograde next week, ceasing to bridge the gulfs and divides at the root of problems. By the middle of the month the key phrases may be, ‘better out than in’ or ‘cut the dead wood’ as Mercury enters Scorpio and Venus opposes Uranus.

Autumn Equinox - Sun & Venus

Autumn Equinox, Sun in Libra and Venus in Scorpio. Traditionally a combination of deep harmony or incidents of betrayal. Mars in Cancer now gives ameliorating essences, but sensitivities are running high until November. Jupiter in Gemini continues to widen horizons until the second week of October as Pluto scours and purges late degrees Capricorn for the last time. Documentation needs to be in order time.

Mars through Cancer and Pluto Aquarius .. the Longer Influences.

Mars has entered Cancer now for a long transit through to the middle of next April. It is a broken transit in that it will retrograde back into Cancer from Leo next January, having made a slight foray into Leo through November to the second week of December.

It means there are two layers to circumstances, or to developments in general. In Cancer, Mars will highlight and expand all sensitive and personal issues: emotions, family situations and feminine energy on all levels. The Moon ruled Cancer is concerned with needs and provisions and responses to them. At the higher level the effects are on domestic political policy, food and produce supply, hospitality industries and health care. 

In Leo - the heart of matters and the inescapable core of issues - it takes things to a higher point of expansion and a keener point of interest.  Cancer is the mother and Leo is the father (symbolically speaking). Both are concerned with the production or the parenting of whatever is to be brought forth. 

The last vestiges of Pluto in Capricorn - which will happen September to mid November - tend to tie up the finalities of an era, or an epoch. Saturn goes into Aries next year, as does Neptune. No-one can speculate about what these two heavies will portend when working closely, though many will try. 

The world is on the edge of cataclysmic change. Anyone who has not seen that is a head-in-the-sander. Or blithely indifferent to the world in general. The speculation on universal change has to be underpinned by some kind of faith or there is complete despair. How these seismic shifts are viewed and contemplated is very much down to individual belief or philosophy. But whether religious or pragmatic, it has to be accepted that change must ensue, on possibly unprecedented levels within our known history. 

Mars/Cancer opposing Pluto/Capricorn in November cannot be ignored on the outer levels of worldly life. It will bring perhaps a balance, especially when Sun/Libra squares Pluto (and Mars more loosely) in the third week of October. This less than tight T-square can organise a balance, or orchestrate allegiances, which calm present unrest. Or perhaps not - it could signify change and transformation going ahead whatever the cost for the sake of unholy alliance or pact whatever the cost. 

Pluto/Aquarius signals extremes in many ways, dangerous ones and untried ones. When Pluto opposes Mars/Cancer in November and Mars/Leo in January there need to be shifts in the status quo.

Things usually begin in-house or at close quarters - Cancer and the Moon rule matters at closer quarters; small spaces, womb-like retreats, burrows and hide-awyas. November is very much concerned with personal safety and nest building or home-making, whether these are literal or more collective. Mars/Leo tends to distinguish the true from the false, for the more discerning. The fake from the fictitious. The sincerity from the spin. Although perspective will vary in what is believed. Do we all live in the same paradigm? It is doubtful, but an interesting question! 

These two signs hosting Mars (Cancer and Leo) for the next few months are about the personal situations, the nature of the development before it can stand the test of time (Pluto) or of being valuable in the long-term. Though Moon ruled cancer will predominate by courtesy of earth time transit. In small and large ways, the heat is on the sustainability and the safety of what is being sewn or put together. 

Pluto/Aquarius is the exact opposite effect to Mars/Cancer. The former is technocratic almost. The latter is organic. The didactic and powerful characteristics of Pluto deal with swathes of time, cycles of movement and periods of motion which defy quantity or definition - except with hindsight. The Moon also deals with cycles but in a different way, in an ecological way perhaps. In short, the effects are without precedence. We mortals can only fathom or understand segregated sections of what shifts and transpires. It is too large to be digested whole.

In January 25 Pluto enters Aqurius and briefly opposes Mars/Cancer while moving direct again. It remains in Aquarius for twenty or so years. This connection between Aquarius and Cancer, between Mars and Pluto, however loose and brief, is asking for human sentience to harvest and collate from natural sources within sustainable power rather than any other consideration.

The Aquarian age is very much concerned with technicality and automated movement that can be orchestrated and controlled through digital or similar means. Should this be resisted? Can we resist? And what do we do to make those decisions from our own perspective or requirements?  We see the worst often, before we can discover what is the best. The signs of Cancer and Leo to a great extent show us what is personally most important to us - and this differs from individual to individual. But the planning stage is frequently happening unbeknown to us, or in a way we do not comprehend until later.

The wisdom we glean is with hindsight. Have we enough info or intel to garner foresight now. Or at least to have some inkling of what must be resisted and what must be accepted!

OVERVIEW FOR ALL SIGNS - SEPTEMBER - JANUARY

Our overviews for all signs from September to the year end are live now on our front page.

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MERCURY RETROGRADE - LEO & VIRGO

As the Sun leaves Leo for Virgo, Mercury plows back through Leo to force more soulful or heartfelt truths. Mercury retrograde began in Virgo and returns to the sign direct on the 9th September. It’s caused more turbulence than usual in retrograde motion, a bit like the mills of God - it grinds exceedingly small. It tears at the root of problems so they can be removed at source. A bit like clearing the cache on a device.