Lindsey โข they/them โข A Bad Pastor for Good Heretics โข โ๐ป๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ โข Astrologer and Minister โข M.Div.
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If you want to see all the visible planets AND the luminaries in the sky, head outside on December 7th at sunset and hang out for about an hour. Holy wow. Sun, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the moon!
On March 7, Saturn enters Pisces for the first time since 1994.
On March 23, Pluto enters Aquarius for the first time since 1777.
On March 25, Mars enters Cancer after seven months (including its retrograde) in Gemini.
March 2023 is going to be a WHOLE. OTHER. FLAVOR.
Leo placements have been so beat up the last few years. When Uranus first entered Taurus in May 2018, it kicked off an 8-year sequence of squares to Leo. And then, with Saturn entering Aquarius in March 2020, it added insult to injury with a three-year series of oppositions.
I want to tell you about the beautiful astrology we have this weekend.
Venus entered the sign of her exaltation on Thursday, Pisces, and tonight, Friday, the moon enters her sign of exaltation, Taurus. This alone is wonderful astrology for good food, friendship, and delight.
Mars in Aries: HOT BLOODED
Mars in Taurus: SLOW N STEADY
Mars in Gemini: QUICK WITTED
Mars in Cancer: FIERCE PROTECTOR
Mars in Leo: RISE N SHINE
Mars in Virgo: MULTI-TASKING
This Venus-Saturn conjunction, I want you to know you can have want you want and need in a relationship. I want you to know that youโre as important as the person you sacrifice for. I want you to know that having it all in love is really a sacred aspiration.
If an eclipse were a moment during a play, it might be when the lights go out, the stagehands emerge, the set changes, and we find ourselves in a new scene.
Iโm encouraging you, astrologically, to spend the next week operating (especially in higher risk situations like driving, demonstrating, using power tools) as if the people around you are definitely going to pull a very loose maneuver.
2 conditions of Venus you may have missed in your chart:
1) Is she a morning star or an evening star? If Venus is EARLIER than your sun in zodiacal order, e.g. if you have a Pisces Venus and an Aries sun, or a Scorpio Venus and a Sagittarius sun, your Venus is a morning star.
If an eclipse were a moment during a play, it might be when the lights go out, the stagehands emerge, the set changes, and we find ourselves in a new scene.
The true meaning of empty houses in astrology:
1H: any time you speak all people hear is yodeling
2H: any time you open a bank account a sink hole swallows an entire neighborhood
3H: you have werewolves for brothers
4H: you will live in a Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House
A new friend casually dropped that his son is named Mars. I was like wai- wai- wai- wai- wait a second. Is Mars prominent in his chart? And he was like I dunno I never thought to look! Pulled the chart. Scorpio rising with an Aries moon lollllllllll
Mars in Libra: PEACE DEFENDER
Mars in Scorpio: STRATEGIC PROVOCATEUR
Mars in Sagittarius: WINGING IT
Mars in Capricorn: THE GOAT
Mars in Aquarius: FREEDOM FIGHTER
Mars in Pisces: IMAGINATION REVOLUTIONARY
The 11th House is the house of Good Spirit. Having planets in this house can indicate a person who is generally โin good spiritsโ, or who has a positive attitude and upbeat outlook.
I am really bracing for ~July 21. The astrology is exceptional. Mars opposite Saturn with the sun applying to an opposition with Pluto and at the nodal bendings with nodes freshly in Aries and Libra. It is a chart rife with conflict.
I find myself in the company of a lot of intuitives, psychics, clergy, astrologers, mystics. If I could identify one thread of our current collective experience, it's that the future feels inaccessible, blank even, in a way it normally does not. Here's what this signals to me:
Enter the Nodes in Taurus-Scorpio in 2022 and a likely series of new, unexpected blows. I think all fixed placements have been sitting with the question, โwhen am I going to catch a fucking break?โ
Major opportunity for healing work! On March 11, Jupiter meets up with Chiron in the sky. This is a once- or twice-in-a-generation transit, and will take place in the sign of Aries: renewal, rebirth, regeneration.
What were you doing on February 19, 2019? How about February 18, 2015? There is a thread to connect those dates to todayโs New Moon in Pisces, which was exact at 1ยฐ of that sign early this morning.
The magi in the nativity story of Jesus were absolutely astrologers. No one in antiquity would have doubted or questioned that. The magi traveled to verify the nativity of someone born under a stellar phenomenon in a certain place. Thatโs astrology.
I can sense astrologers just holding their breath for this Mars-Pluto conjunction. Itโs the elephant in the room, along with the Chiron-North Node conjunction.
Burn out.
Mars has entered Virgo and is applying to oppose Saturn in Pisces.
The Virgo-Pisces axis is concerned with the body and the soul; spirit and matter; loaves and fishes. Together, incarnation.
Trust in the placement of this full moon at the center of Leo. This spot correlates to the very middle of summer, when things are alive, active and bright. Buzzing, green, and plentiful. That means something.
Blessed full moon to you!
Many people in my life have Scorpio Rising with 8H Gemini. Iโm witnessing them on this New Moon experience grief over learning lessonsโthe hard way, the long way, the too late way, the way that demands transformation.
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As Saturn lingers in the last few degrees of Aquarius, and as the nodes wander through the remaining 8 degrees of Taurus and Scorpio, Iโm seeing signs of Leo placements popping out of a long underground time like little crocuses. Inactivity to activity. Itโs so sweet.
Most of us could write a memoir about the house Pluto has been moving through since 2008. This year, Pluto will wrap up the memoir, and initiate a new one. I've been advising clients to take this year to honor just how much growth, excavation, wounding, and healing has happened
I just did an astrology consultation for a cardiac surgeon with a six-planet Leo stellium. I also have a Leo stellium.
Leo concerns matters of the heart, in all ways. ๐ซ๐ญโค๏ธ
If Venus is LATER than your sun in zodiacal order, e.g. you have sun in Cancer and Venus in Leo, your Venus is an evening star.
Morning star Venuses tend to operate in fierce warrior modes, while evening star Venuses tend to operate in gentler, uniting modes.
My weirdest thought about eclipses lately: since the new moon is typically a private time of union, renewal, worship, and collection of solar effluences for dispersal, watching a solar eclipse is kind of like walking in on your parents banging. This rumination Ruined Itโข๏ธ for me.
The trials arenโt necessarily over, but there is relief on the horizon, and this weekendโs full moon in Leo emphasizes it. Reaching her peak at 16ยฐ41โ Leo, Luna will cast an even light across the entire sign, as if to say, โThis whole place is ready to be seen again.โ
On Nov 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected president while Pluto was at 29ยฐ Sagittarius. This year, the presidential election will be held Nov 5, 2024, while Pluto is at 29ยฐ Capricorn.
I donโt know that this will be a โfeel goodโ full moon. More like an โIโm still hereโ full moon. And that fucking matters. Because Leo (and all fixed placements, really) have been in a mode where resources are burning while a psychic winter boasts little replenishment.
Both Pluto and Saturn are officially at 29ยฐ of Capricorn and Aquarius, respectively. We might attune ourselves to conclusions, premonitions, and doorway moments for the next few weeks as they (and we) undergo some major transitions.
The 12th House is the house of dreams because it is the place the sun moves through just after waking. At this time of the day, we rise with our dream material intact.
Yโall, I donโt wanna be a wet blanket, but I have some ethical and pastoral concerns about unconditional astrological statements. I saw a few posts yesterday about the Jupiter Cazimi marking the โluckiest day of the yearโ and it doesnโt sit right with me.
If you want to learn something about the lunar cycle, just breathe.
The top of our breath, when our lungs are filled, thatโs the full moon.
The bottom of our breath, when our lungs are empty, thatโs the new moon.
Folks with 6H placements are often invested in solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised. I typically see an inherent sympathy for those who toil and who are exploited in people with 6H placements. Different planet/sign combos give 6H placements different flavors:
Thinking about the appearance of water jugs as a recurring image in the student uprisings and Pluto in Aquarius, the Water Bearer who carries a water jug.
3 elements of strong planetary influence in your chart that you mightโve missed:
1) day of the week you were born and its planetary ruler:
Sunday = sun โ๏ธ
Monday = moon ๐
Tuesday = Mars ๐ฅ
Wednesday = Mercury ๐
Thursday = Jupiter ๐
Friday = Venus ๐
Saturday = Saturn ๐ช
Fellow Sagittarius Saturnsโhowโs the water with Saturn in Jupiterโs other sign? Part of me feels like itโs on vacation after six years of grind ๐
Do your 12H placements inform what you most prefer to do upon waking? For instance, I have Virgo 12H and I really like making a to-do list for the day and writing first thing. My 12H Libra pals love to do something enjoyable like lie in the hammock or eat cookies ๐ istg
This New Moon in Cancer reminds us that comfort is not a luxury.
Comfort is a human need.
Comfort does not mean complacency or laziness.
Comfort means freedom from struggle.
Comfort means ease of action.
Comfort means trusting one's environment to be safe.
If you are a Scorpio rising and having a terrible time I want you to know when this Libra full moon is over you will probably feel better. The full moon is happening in your 12H of mental health, while your ruling planet is in its sign of fall and in your 9H house of faith.
Early on in my relationship with my wasband we went to see a therapist to work through some conflicts we were having. The one thing she said Iโll never forget: โare you two on the same team?โ
We were both kind of stunned by the question. In that moment I realized that
I read for a master jeweler today with Mars in Virgo. She told me how she loves polishing her pieces until they are hot and then handing them warm to her customer. And I just love this image of Mars in Virgo polishing things until they are hot. (Shared with permission.)
Nine things I learned about the solar system at the University of Arizonaโs planetarium yesterday that have astrological applications:
(Support your local planetarium!)
This is the last full moon in Leo with Saturn in Aquarius and with the nodes in Taurus and Scorpio. She is tightly square Uranus, which seems to emphasize the unruly eccentric is here to stay a while more, but alas, Saturnโs hard won lessons are winding down.
5H: you will fall in love with a mannequin
6H: you can only have dinosaurs for pets but theyโre extinct so
7H: you will become betrothed to a raccoon
8H: I hate to break it to you but youโve been dead this whole time
This should come as no surprise but astrology for April is ๐ณ. Two Martial lunations, oneโs an eclipse with Chiron and the other is fallen; Mars-Saturn conjunction disposited by Jupiter applying to Uranus; that Jup-Uranus conjunction sextile Mars almost exactly;
It seems really special to me that this full moon is also conjunct Dubhe, the brightest star in the Big Bear (Ursa Major). To me itโs a doubling of the image of life waking from hibernation. A bright, powerful beast, no less!
9H: any time you visit a tourist attraction it will be closed for maintenance
10H: you will become famous for your most embarrassing story
11H: you have to carry your soul around in a grocery bag
12H: your dreams are just exact playbacks of the day you had
I want to reiterate my position that Beyoncรฉ could absolutely not be a Libra Rising. Why, you ask. This morning I went for a workout with two friendsโa fellow Libra Rising and a Scorpio Rising. The Scorpio Rising was motivating us, pushing us to do more. Excited to be SWEATING.
We need astrology that doesnโt leave folks feeling like failures if theyโre having a difficult or unfortunate time during a โpositiveโ transit. And we need astrology that teaches people how to ask the right questions rather than walk away with โcertaintyโ about uncertain things.
There are a thousand New Yearโs Eves in the heart of an astrologer; hope around every corner; exits and entrances that promise something worth holding on for. Not just one new beginning every year but one new beginning every moment. We live for the unfoldings, for time coming.
My worst experiences as a consulting astrologer have been when cishet women coerced their partners into readings with me.
My dear. Pushing him into therapy, astrology, spirituality, is not ok. He has to arrive on his own. And I am not a Chad-whisperer.
Saturday, Luna hits her first quarter stage. This lunar phase represents turning corners, light overtaking shadow, and solutions emerging. Itโs the part of her cycle that represents gaining momentum.
Mars, planet of severance, high speeds, sharp objects, and weapons is linking up with Uranus, planet of surprise, upheaval, revolution. And they are joined to Rahu, who is a very hungry chaotic beast.
astrology into a prosperity gospel or superstitious practice that ignores the extreme conditions so many of us are living through, or the individual circumstances of our charts and lives.
People who have faith and hope in the unknown: we need to create a future together, right now. We need to plan, plot, scheme, envision, sketch what love must look like in the world. There are people who are actively doing the opposite. We can't let them beat us to the canvas.
First of all, any transit ruled by a fallen Mars seems at best complex. And people right now are REALLY struggling. Letโs face it, there are always people struggling. I think itโs totally fair to acknowledge potentially auspicious days, and itโs also important we donโt turn
These dates mark the planet Marsโ biannual retrograde, or apparent backward motion in the sky. In astrology, Marsโ significations include courage, victory, and triumph as well as severance, inflammation, impulsivity, and separation.
Saturn in Pisces: they will try to control the ineffable.
Saturn in Pisces: you cannot control the ineffable.
Saturn in Pisces: we must ground ourselves in the eternal.
Saturn in Pisces: water erodes stone.
Ok the chart synastry between Whitney and Kevin is WILDโopposite rising signs, opposite Mars signs, reversed nodes, partile square Saturns, partile trine Venuses. Iโm reading that he really loved her IRL and that he spoke at her funeral ๐ญ