Good morning, friends!
Today Venus ingresses into the sign of Capricorn, the sea goat. The Moon is in Cancer all day and before Venus’s ingress, the Moon made a trine to Saturn in Pisces and after Venus’s ingress, the Moon made a sextile to Jupiter in Taurus. All of this happened early this morning between 3 and 6 am ET.
Later this afternoon the Moon in Cancer will make oppositions to Mercury and Mars, both in Capricorn, followed by a square to Chiron in Aries.
We looked at the chart of Venus’s ingress into Capricorn in the Weekly forecast, so let’s take a look at the chart of the Moon’s oppositions to Mercury and Mars in Capricorn and square to Chiron in Aries to flesh out this day.
You can see the Moon on the left of the chart almost to the 10 o’clock position at 13°Cancer 08’, casting her ray between Mercury and Mars across the wheel in Capricorn at 12°and 14° respectively (they are between the 3 and 4 o’clock position on the chart). She is also applying to square Chiron, the little old-fashioned key symbol at the top of the chart which is at 15°Aries 48’.
This double opposition and square to Chiron could be tough and indicates the possibility of fights, arguments, and disagreements. Did you argue with anyone yesterday? A female perhaps? I did. Yesterday, the Moon in Gemini opposed Venus in Sagittarius and I had an argument with my step-sister about something because she became very judgmental and high and mighty (sounds a lot like Venus in Sagittarius to me!). Anyway, I was able to deflect the attack and smooth it over, but only after I counted to ten and realized that she was grabbed by the transit!
So, back to today…the Moon in opposition to both Mercury and Mars could be used to get things done, make important business decisions, or do something mentally productive like start your taxes or work on that book you’re writing, or perhaps this month's word poem?! *hint *hint. But, inevitably, people may come into contact with other people who are grabbed by the transit and are looking to create an altercation of some kind. So, just be aware that the energy for squabbles and ultimatums is in the air today.
You may find that you have to make some decisions today that involve where you are spending your resources like money, time, energy, etc…
The Square to Chiron means that this tension between the Moon, Mercury, and Mars is going to be expressed through some sort of wound or vulnerability—this elevates the possibility for people to be hasty, rushed, or feel like they are having to quickly make a sacrifice about something that is kinda putting them out.
One thing that I do like about today though, is that before all of this oppositional stuff goes down this afternoon, the trine and sextile that flank Venus’s ingress into Capricorn are beneficial and mean that we have really good intentions to get things done today and there are some blessings from Saturn and Jupiter to do so!
The sextile between the Moon and Jupiter is especially positive because the Moon is in Cancer, Juptier’s exaltation and Jupiter is in Taurus, the Moon’s exaltation—basically, they are each at each other’s vacation homes and on the phone talking about it! The conversation could be something like this:
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