Thursday, July 23, 2015

Led By the Deep-Down Depths of Our Hearts During This Sizzling Hot (And Historical) Leo Season

Wild Roses and Tiger Lilies with Yellow Flower Photograph Grouping
Photos: Willow, on Willow's wall 

The Sun and Mercury have just entered Leo, the sign of the rock star, the artist, and the local celeb, and these bodies form their exterior conjunction today on the zero degree of Leo (1:23 p.m. CST), squared by the Moon in Scorpio tonight (10:04 p.m.). 

This Sun-Moon square marks a First Quarter Moon that is absolutely bursting with creative potential, and things have only just begun...

The fiery and passionate Leo influence doesn't fully let up until early October when Venus moves back into Virgo (October 8).

The Sun and Mercury in early Leo join Greater Benefic Jupiter (expansion, wisdom, benefits, luck) in late Leo, while Lesser Benefic Venus (love, relationship, values, money) prepares to retrograde into the sign once again on July 31. 

This concentration of bodies in Leo indicates that things are about to get a whole lot more rock-and-roll. 

Leo is flashy, bold, confident, stylin'. 

Leo has star power, even if it's just local celebrity.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Stationing Venus and Saturn in Extended Square Aspect: Money, Relationships, and Changing Values As We Get Older

Wild Tiger Lilies by the garden spot
Photos: Willow

Love, relationship, money, and values planet Venus is currently slowed in the zodiac, preparing for its retrograde station July 25 on the zero degree of Virgo. Venus is in an extended square (tense, frictional, dynamic) aspect with Saturn, which is also slowed in the zodiac, preparing to move direct August 2.

This indicates a concentration of themes related to both Venus and Saturn, and these themes are inter-related.

Money and relationships, relationships and money. These are the areas of primary interest these days. (When aren't they the primary areas interest, really?)

The challenges here may seem intense, even impossible, but rest assured that there are some major and beneficial developments unfolding this summer and fall. These are the types of developments that cannot be rushed, however. They are foundational, structural, setting us up for either long-term success or eventual failure. In other words, they're nothing to take lightly.



This is an excerpt from the article, "Stationing Venus and Saturn in Extended Square Aspect: Money, Relationships, and Changing Values As We Get Older." It is available in its entirety to Willow's Web Astrology patrons.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

A Volatile Few Weeks As Venus Squares Saturn and Multiple Bodies in Cancer Trigger the Uranus-Pluto Square

Just before entering fiery Leo and preparing for retrograde motion, love, money, and relationship planet Venus triggered the Uranus-Pluto square from Cancer in late May 2015. This foretold the movement of certain relationships into new and stronger position while turbulence was created in others that were weakening and preparing to come to completion (or to change forms).

From "Venus in Cancer Triggers the Uranus-Pluto Square" May 20, 2015:

"As Venus in Cancer moves through the Uranus-Pluto square gauntlet, we will see status and position being cemented in strong relationships, both personal and professional. Other relationships will break down under the stress of this configuration - maybe temporarily, maybe permanently.

In times such as these, our relationships have to be downright heroic in order to go the distance...

[A] new direction becomes necessary in the way we relate to others, and this is potentially a radical new direction. Again, certain habitual comfort zones are no longer available to us. Certain habitual ways of relating will no longer work. There's an Aquarian era breeze blowing through all the nooks and crannies of our relationships, and the old constructs will not do. Venus-Uranus contacts require the advancement of human relations beyond old forms. They require relational progress and possibly even quantum leaps socially and in the way we relate to others. Take the new path, the path that feels fresher and freer, to move out of reach of old emotional behaviours and relating patterns that go nowhere."

Now, love planet Venus has moved on from that trigger-happy position in Cancer into yet another trigger-happy position in Leo as it prepares for an intense retrograde period conjunct Jupiter and square Saturn Rx in Scorpio. There is some unfinished business to resolve in matters of the heart and matters of money as we close out one eight-year cycle and simultaneously enter a new one this summer.


This is an excerpt from the article "A Volatile Few Weeks As Venus Squares Saturn and Multiple Bodies in Cancer Trigger the Uranus-Pluto Square." It is available in its entirety to Willow's Web Astrology patrons.