while the week begins and ends with the familiar Pisces Capricorn mixture, noteworthy shifts by the Sun and Saturn prompt a push into new territory and towards scientific and technological solutions.
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Sun Into Aries 2020: So It Begins
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.
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.