A big shift of the planets from earth to air signs and from water to fire is about to unfold. This will break up a lot of the inertia that has surrounded the start of 2020. it will also stimulate our desire for forward progress. However, during this Sun cycle, Venus will enter the shadow of her coming retrograde, an aspect with big implications for the economy. Equally significant, traditional Saturn will take its first steps into futuristic Aquarius. When the Sun enters Aries, it marks the start of spring. Serendipitously, the Venus and Saturn transits coming online during this Aries Sun cycle will be hallmarks of the entire season.
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Forecast Mar 9-15, 2020: Constructive Confusion
With a series of cooperative connections between planets in economically interested Capricorn and borderless, infiltrating Pisces, this week’s intentions to restore order are likely to yield mixed results. For most people, the best thing about a Mercury retrograde is its conclusion. Because the current one has largely taken place in the unstable water sign of Pisces, it has been particularly wonky. But on March 4th mental Mercury backed up into Aquarius, the fixed air sign. The retrograde ends on Monday,
Forecast Mar 2-8, 2020: Self-Quarantine
If you’ve ever considered crawling under a rock, this week might be the ideal time to do so. As we muddle through the confusion of a rapidly changing landscape, several significant aspects are building to their unavoidable zeniths. These include a befuddling Sun Neptune conjunction on Sunday, the 8th, followed later that day by a Venus conjunction with chaotic Uranus. Those take place one day ahead of Monday, March 9th’s full moon and Mercury station (ending of its retrograde). Because those Sun and Venus connections are with global influencing outer planets, Neptune and Uranus, the impact of the two conjunctions will be effecting us throughout the week. Perhaps, once we get past that full moon and Mercury resumes its forward movement, clarity will emerge and tensions will begin to subside. But we have a hellacious week to get through first, one that includes primary elections in 14 US states.
Forecast Feb 24-Mar 1, 2020: Work Zen
From Taurus, the moon will sextile the Sun, Mercury and Neptune and trine Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, underscoring the message that the more we can step back, away from the fray this week, the more we’ll accomplish.
Sun Into Pisces 2020: Riding The Waves
Mars and its Capricorn compatriots will be fighting to keep the economy on track, markets stable and business moving forward. Interestingly enough, early in this unfolding Sun cycle, a substantial and favorable alignment takes place when Jupiter sextiles Neptune on February 20th. This may be our best opportunity to combine Capricorn pragmatism with Pisces insight, to bring practical and creative solutions to pressing issues. Back on January 12th, it was of course in Capricorn where Saturn and Pluto formed their exact conjunction. Many astrologers would attribute that meeting to the current turmoil. Dozens of cases of coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, were certainly known to authorities then. At any rate, we’re in the aftermath of the outbreak now, and successfully navigating the confusion is the task at hand.
Forecast Feb 10-16, 2020: Got Clarity?
When Mars enters Capricorn on Sunday, it will find itself in the capable company of Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto and the South Node. Their combined force should give us enough firepower to accomplish our objectives, even when retrograde Mercury in Pisces starts tossing out its infamous obstacles. Mars will remain in the serious and enterprising sign until March 30th, essentially escorting us through Mercury’s clearance of its retrograde shadow endpoint of March 29th. Got clarity?
Forecast Feb 3-9, 2020: A Higher Calling
This week includes Mercury entering the zodiac’s twilight zone, Pisces, Venus emerging from the fog of Pisces and stepping into confident, assertive Aries and a full Leo moon.
Forecast Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2020: Keep Calm, Stay Rational
When the week begins with a Venus Neptune conjunction in Pisces, under an intoxicating Pisces moon, and ends with Mercury venturing into the shadow zone of its next retrograde, one that will largely take place in Pisces, the cosmos is signaling that the world is about to go, well, cattywampus. And so it is as the first month of 2020 draws to a close.
Forecast Jan 20-26, 2020: New Altitude
In addition to the Sun sign change and new moon, the week’s other beneficial offering is a sextile between money-makers Venus and Jupiter on Thursday, under an enterprising Capricorn moon.
Sun Into Aquarius 2020: Let There Be Lightwork
Inventive, independent Aquarius is often credited with a visionary knack for tapping into the future and setting standards and trends. As an air sign, it emphasizes the intellect and the ability to detach, both from the irrationality of emotions and from group think. Those skills will come in handy for all of us as the Sun and Mercury journey through astrology’s eleventh sign early in 2020, because late in the year, Saturn and Jupiter will enter Aquarius for much longer transits.