Romance vs. Power, Dreams vs. Reality, From Details to Diplomacy…The Wave of Neptune Delivers Venus into Leo to Face Pluto and the Moon Enters Libra to Hold Council & the Six of Koshes-Victory!
Daily Horoscope Check-In for Thursday, July 11, 2024
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Good morning, friends!
Happy Birthday to my father! I hope you have a great day! I truly appreciate your love and support and am so grateful for your guidance and wisdom. Thank you, Dad.
Today is a dynamic day full of transitions! Venus the goddess of love, romance, values, and money will perfect her trine to Neptune in Pisces retrograde early on and then ingress into Leo right after noon ET. This is like a rush of feelings that wells up inside you like a wave and then delivers you to the hot sand on an island, the steam rising off of your wet skin.
After Venus ingresses into Leo, she will be in an immediate opposition to Pluto in Aquarius retrograde, so the questions of love, money, survival, and power come to the fore. How will we survive in this hot desert? How can we make peace with our fears?
The Moon is also going through a change today from the detail-oriented, practical, and analytical sign of Virgo into the charming, social, and diplomatic sign of Libra, so emotionally we will be weighing out all the data that we collected over the last few days and using it to build our case. What evidence do we have to support love, relationships, and connection and what do we have that supports survival, transformation, and deep truths?
Of course, there are a few more details to the day with the other transits, but these are the most dramatic. And it could definitely be dramatic for when Venus enters Leo, our more showy side comes out to play!
Something interesting is that ten days ago we pulled the Ten of Bolers tarot card, you can revisit that post here if you need a refresher. Did you receive rewards, recognition, or a profit for your hard work? I am curious if the Ten of Bolers manifested for you, let me know in the comments! 😊
Okay, let’s get into…the astrology
Today’s Transits
(All times are in Eastern Time unless mentioned otherwise)
Late last night at 12:26 am we may have had a reality check moment as the Moon in Virgo opposed Saturn in Pisces retrograde symbolizing the hard truth of a situation hitting the boundary of a fantasy or dream. Did you have grand plans that didn’t pan out or meet your expectations?
Just minutes after the Moon hit the boundary laid out by Saturn, she then formed a sextile to the Sun in Cancer at 12:34 am, indicating opportunities for emotional alignment with the plotline—this feels like we accepted the facts and took them with stride. Maybe what we wanted to happen didn’t but we were grown up about it.
This morning at 8:46 am ET the Virgo Moon made a quincunx to Chiron in Aries symbolizing having to make uncomfortable compromises. Whatever boundaries Saturn is laying out, we are not too happy about them, but now is the time to take it with ease, grace, and humility. Do your best to react to things as your highest self.
Five minutes later the Moon in Virgo perfected a trine to Mars in Taurus, who is just 2°40’ (two degrees, forty minutes of arc) away from his conjunction to Uranus which will perfect on Monday, July 15, 2024. So, this could’ve meant that you had a lot of energy to get things done this morning, or afternoon, depending on where you are in the world. Moon trine Mars means we may feel emotionally courageous, decisive, and like a leader who can get things done! This energy is great for today’s to-do list(s) and can definitely feel empowering. During this time of the morning, I literally decided to separate this large bag of cow cheese (for the dairy-eaters in my fam) into smaller bags so that I could freeze them to ensure their extended freshness. :D Virgo Moon trine Mars—having the energy to organize, ration, and divide things up into smaller parts—managing the details of food, no less!
At 10:32 am Venus in Cancer will perfect her trine to Neptune in Pisces retrograde and this transit means romantic, loving feelings, embracing ecstacy, feeling more compassionate, or like you have come home. Neptune in Pisces retrograde is reminding us how we fill up our cups with nourishment on a spiritual level and Venus in Cancer is allowing the beautiful, etheric, dreamy energy to wash over us and nourish our skin and hair, bones and soul—it’s like returning to the waters of the womb or setting foot in your home town, there’s a familiarity to it, a knowing of belonging, and a rush of good feelings. Perhaps you take a walk in nature and feel a oneness, or a peacefulness with the trees, the birds, or the flowers. Maybe you take a warm bath and feel calm and at ease. Or conceivably you kiss your lover and feel the warmth and ecstancy of love and affection.
It's a great transit for pleasure, love, appreciating the arts, and enjoying music!
Two hours later at 12:18 pm, Venus enters Leo and this could signify tenderness, creativity, and compassion coming from the heart. Your heart opens up to friendship, romance, and a sense of royalty and loyalty in our relationships.
Venus in Leo is flashy, unapologetically dramatic, and theatrical, strutting her stuff for all the world to see, for she is on stage and everyone else is in the audience, appreciating her beauty.
She will immediately begin to engage with Pluto in Aquarius retrograde in an opposition—the aspect that the ancients said was the nature of Saturn, so there is an edge, a boundary, or a limitation that Venus feels immediately and a pull, a tug-of-war, and a duality is felt at her core, as she faces off with Pluto, the god of the underworld.
Interestingly, Venus is also reemerging as the evening star during this time. She won’t be fully visible until later this month, but she is beginning to leave the Sun’s rays and shine her light again.
This sequence of Venus trine Neptune, then entering Leo and opposing Pluto right alongside her emergence as the evening star is powerful and represents a powerful rebirth moment for relationships of all kinds, but especially romantic. Our values and finances will go through a rebirth as well, since Venus also governs what we value, like money and jewels.
In the afternoon at 2:20 pm ET the Moon in Virgo forms a trine to Uranus in Taurus bringing in more swift, easy surprises that we weren’t expecting. The trine is of the nature of Jupiter and so usually when the Moon trines Uranus it represents something happy, joyful, or hopeful coming in, out of the blue!
Later tonight starting at 9:50 pm and ending at 10:06 pm the Virgo Moon will form a semisquare to Mercury in Leo, followed by an opposition to Neptune in Pisces retrograde, and then ending with her ingress into Libra.
What this means is that at first, we could experience dropped calls, interrupted text messages, or some sort of delay in communication. Or we could experience a moment of not knowing what to say or how to say it.
Then we may feel emotionally caught between what is real and right in front of our faces and what we are yearning for that seems like a dream.
Once the Moon enters Libra the focus will move from organizing and managing our lives to weighing out and balancing everything. It’s like if the Virgo moon time was when we were harvesting all the fruits off the tree and at the same time clearing away debris and whatnot in the garden to get the space ready for the next crop, then the Libra Moon time is when we are weighing the fruit we collected and seeing how we did this year. How much did we profit and how much can we share with others? Who are we inviting over for pie?
This is the time of the lunar cycle when we are using our skills of diplomacy to look at both sides of a situation or a relationship and find the balance in order to keep the peace.
The last two transits of the day will be Mercury making a sesquiquadrate to Neptune in Pisces retrograde at 10:25 pm ET and then the Moon in Libra perfecting a sextile to Venus in Leo at 11:14 pm.
Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune retrograde indicates that we already had our minds set on a dream, a fantasy, or an idea and we began to play that one out in our heads, maybe even discussing with others our dream, but now there is a delay or a disappointment—whatever it was is put on hold for a moment or we are just not receiving the messages we were hoping to get. Do we need to rethink what we are wishing for? Do we need to prepare for the possibility of a different outcome? This may be a good time to tap into your intuition while there is this natural pause and make any adjustments that are needed to avoid confusion or misperception.
The Moon in Libra sextile venus in Leo means that there is still an opportunity for love and connection, one just has to act on it. Something may fall into your lap and your only job would be to seize the opportunity. This transit is also great for romance, love, and affection as well as things just working out in your favor. It also means having popularity and charm with others.
Some Thoughts on Venus Opposite Pluto
One thing that is interesting to think about as Venus begins her opposition to Pluto, which will perfect on Friday, July 16, 2024, is that Venus represents love, romance, our values, money, and beauty and Pluto symbolizes death, decay, rebirth, transformation, irrevocable change, and power. So, the opposition between the two is a duality between what brings us pleasure, love, and beauty and what is going through a transformation, a death, or a composting process in our lives. The opposition is also about a crossroads in life where you have to make a choice between love and fear, pleasure and power, beauty and darkness. One of the textbook delineations of Venus opposite Pluto is “fatal attraction.” And, the opposition is not always so cut and dry but may rather feel as if we are oscillating between our Venusian things like affection, fertility, beauty, and creativity, and Plutonian things like death, survival, power, and fear. With the Moon in Libra during this opposition, we will be weighing everything out in order to make decisions and those decisions could be rather heavy. The Moon in Libra will form a trine to Pluto retrograde late tonight/early tomorrow morning, so this could mean swift decisions or verdicts are made.
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