True Sun Sign

Every so often, someone trained in Astronomy who knows zippety doo dah about Astrology, but figures that's only a detail, comes up with this same tired approach to refute how Astrology is used.  We astrologers are  not so dim and ignorant that we don't know that the heavens have shifted, but the Astrology of the West [as contrasted with Vedic] doesn't rely on the actual position of the zodiac.  It is figured based on the seasons.  0 degrees of Aries is the Vernal equinox.  Astronomically, that's somewhere closer to 7 degrees of Pisces, but that doesn't make someone who is born on March 25th a Pisces.  They are still an Aries.  I will leave Astrophysics alone, and continue to have a respect for all the study and work that goes into learning that discipline.  I wish they'd do the same for us.

time vs choice

I have not posted, not because nothing was going on, but quite the reverse.
Venus retrograde, then Mercury, then eclipses, Big outer planets changing signs all at once, then backing up as though they had changed their minds, and then once again going into the next phase.  I noticed people all around me, and felt it in myself too, of course, a distinct lack of willingness to cooperate during the retrograde Venus.  Retrograde Mercury is so frequent that most non astrologers who are paying attention even a little bit notice the resonance of that.  It has been a good push forward, all in all.
We have now passed a couple of eclipses and are deluged with an energy asking of us that we pick up the pieces and put them into coherent order.  The pot stirrers are busy, fear is abroad and it is more important than ever to see past the idea of a personal threat to a cooperative solution, to notice that we are all connected and need each other.

Mars has gone direct after what seems like a very long time. All those holding patterns are breaking up and after the coming New Moon, growth will begin again. The energy will anticipate spring, but first there's cleaning up to do. Congratulate yourselves for dumping old habits, now, keep them dumped.

The Moon is about to enter Capricorn, and as it does, it creates and adjustment, stress, head cold type of aspect to Mars, the planet of action. This creates reflects anxiety about new directions, and a need to slow down. The energy is consolidating, and not at an even pace. To keep centered, be willing to handle the minutiae of this week

As we come up on the last full Moon of the Mars retrograde period, some resolution is in sight, but not before 3 more weeks of reviewing, revamping and reshaping the ways in which we get our needs met. It's time. All those ways of getting your way, they haven't really worked out have they? This is generally the result of not enough information. The only way new information can rise up from the inner depths is by slowing down long enough to receive it.
Spasms of impatience and that fierce need to get to the next moment, clogs the pipeline. The sweet music of life is run over by noise. At the times when you are most ferocious, stop. Give the silence more than a count to 10. This will bring in the redirection of Mars energy in March to a harmonious space in which energy can move freely, the way it was designed to.

Moon void, all day

Many of you will notice tomorrow that the things you bought today are not what you wanted, won't suit the purpose, or are in one of the many thousand possible ways, flawed. If you make a decision today, plan to have it fall apart by tonight, and have to be made again tomorrow.
Today is a day in which you are best served by just being with whatever is there now and not trying to make changes. There is still more information coming.

A life pointed toward creativity, lived in order and peace seems like a silly idea in February. If it were warm enough, I'd lie on the ground and stare up at the pure February sky, instead I'm wondering is it warm enough to do a dump run?
As the Moon makes a conjunction to Pluto today,, in the next couple of hours, in fact, I'm using it to clean the decks, go tot he dump, make way for the next, if not the new.
Several in my extended group are awaiting death, which is a very long way from me wondering if I have cancer. That's one hell of a journey we all have waiting for us, whatever the vehicle, whatever the route, we're all headed for the same destination, and at that doorway, there will, I'm thinking be some kind of midwife. Taxi driver? Cop? Properly trained professional or just a true friend to hold the space?
Well.
I'm not in a hurry to find out, but as the Moon conjuncts Pluto, these are the kinds of thoughts that arise.