Good morning.
It is August 20th, Wednesday. And I'm going to start off today by encouraging you to always check in with yourself and what's going on. I don't think you need encouragement to do that. However, astrology and what I say, what anyone says, never supersedes what you're feeling.
I'm emphasizing this because I really have been off for myself. The sky in the last few days has been a mix of really nice and really challenging, but I have been experiencing a lot of internal challenge, internal sensitivity, and it hasn't been matching up with the transits. But what I failed to consider is my own specific transits.
I have Mars going over my natal Chiron right now, and my natal Chiron is very important in my chart. It's essentially conjunct to my north node in my chart, and so my evolutionary direction in this lifetime around sensitivity, around relationship, around this axis of self and other with Aries and Libra... I won't get too much into it, but yeah, my Chiron is being touched by Mars right now, and that is a sensitive time.
I would say even three degrees away from Chiron, when Mars goes to touch Chiron, there's sensitivity activation. And it's been interesting to correlate that, to feel that alongside all of the transits that are applying to everyone, the transits I was so looking forward to — this Moon in Cancer transit this week. And we still have it for all of today, most of today rather.
Let's see what time the Moon will move away or out of Cancer. My guess is it's going to be later this afternoon. Yeah, so around five o'clock p.m., maybe even 4:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, the Moon will move into Leo, and the Moon will oppose Pluto, foreshadowing Venus opposing Pluto, which will happen next week, about a week from today.
So we still have the rest of this day, Wednesday, till about 5 p.m. Pacific time to really be in this Cancer energy. And I want to just elaborate on this Cancer energy before we step into the Leo Moon time later today.
Cancer Moon energy, to my despair, is not always about happy emotions. What it is about is emotions. Because Jupiter is transiting through Cancer and because the Moon has been close to Jupiter, this is about authenticity in your emotional experience and expanding your emotional experience and gaining wisdom from your emotional experience. And because the Moon is transiting through its home sign of Cancer, we are extra emotional, dare I say extra sensitive, and there's a lot to be learned and understood, and there's a path to be followed in these emotions.
So, like I said yesterday, I think, check where Cancer is in your chart. Check what house it is in. Check where 15 degrees of Cancer is in your chart — that's where Jupiter is. That little chunk of space is where the Moon is moving for the rest of the day till 5 p.m. And there's something happening here that's very important. Something's growing now.
The irony is, today we're still in a very, very dark Moon time, which means there's not a lot of energy outside of us. There's not a lot of energy moving about in the world that's pulling us out in the world for specific reasons. Well, there's some for sure, but just in the larger context of the lunar cycle, we're in a dark phase. So it does almost feel draining, or that we are completing, we're finishing, we're letting go. And if we are building something up right now, if we are working towards something, it's very meticulous, it's very detailed. And it has to do with our art.
I think this is because the new moon is happening in Leo. So—sorry, the new moon is not happening in Leo, it's happening in Virgo on Friday. But right now the Sun is still in Leo. And so really all the way up until the new moon on Friday — that means today, Wednesday, and tomorrow, Thursday, and most of Friday, because the new moon is at like midnight Pacific time on Friday — most of these next few days, especially after 5 p.m. today, is going to be about your creative work. And then there's going to be this weird thing where we realize we've completed some aspect of our creative work. And so we need to start organizing it. That's the new moon in Virgo — we're going to have to start devoting ourselves to it so wholly, so committedly, and really championing it, I think.
Anyway, so back to the rest of today. This is about being in touch with what's actually happening authentically for us emotionally. This is about being at home, this is about connecting with family, this is about nurturing yourself, nurturing the people that you love. Venus is with the Moon right now this morning, pretty closely for the rest of this day till five, and so there's something beautiful in all of this emotion. We are tuned in to where we can receive something today and where we might be opening ourselves up emotionally to receive something today.
So there is mounting pressure though. I mean, I can't—this is mounting pressure of the Moon reaching an opposition to Pluto probably very late tonight. And then this is also, we are, like I said, a week away from the Venus-Pluto opposition. So even though right now, this Wednesday, Moon is very dark, we are still working with many oppositions to Pluto. The Sun is still in a full phase opposition to Pluto from a while ago. Mercury is still in a very full phase opposition to Pluto. So we've got something to say. And then the Moon is going to be in a full phase opposition to Pluto by tonight, which means emotionally we've got something to do.
And then Venus next week will oppose Pluto, which means we are specifically open to a specific relationship in which Pluto... we are exchanging power. We are exchanging the power of a mind, an audience, for a specific, you know, something specifically creative or heart centered that we hold within us. We are a gateway. Venus is kind of where we are open. We are a doorway. We are a gateway to something true inside of us — and in Leo, this is creative.
So today, you know, I'm talking a lot about the next week and blah, blah, blah. But today, because the Moon is going to pass over this opposition point to Pluto, we are emotionally kind of tuning in to what's happening over the next week, especially with Venus opposing Pluto. So it's an interesting day. I like it. I like it a lot.
But like I said at the beginning, check your own transits because this is Cancer. We're going to be feeling things specific to us. And that's for everyone. So check your chart. What are you actually feeling? Or like, don't check your chart. Just talk to yourself. Sit with yourself. Reflect with yourself. What's actually happening? Be honest with yourself emotionally. Meet yourself emotionally. You don't need to stay there forever, but just tune in. Do the work that wants to be done, see where Cancer is in your chart, because that's probably where you need some emotional attention.
My chart — this is the fifth house, okay? This is more art. My art and my creativity need much more attention. That's where I'm putting a lot of my effort these days and kind of returning to and restructuring. So I wonder where Cancer is in your chart, where you're feeling like you have to meet yourself, give yourself some good love, and also approach this next few weeks as like you're making a new devotion to this.
So that's what I have, my friends. I have reading availability at the end of this month, I think on the 28th and the 29th, and then also on September 2nd. So if those work for you, go book, go to my website. I'd love to talk to you about what's happening for you creatively, other areas of your life.
So yeah, until tomorrow. Bye. ❤️🔥
