The week before the end of a Lunar Cycle leads us to a completion–within ourselves. As the cycle is in its waning phase, it’s about slowing down and integrating all that has transpired over this past month. All that has manifested from out of your own psyche into your experiential awareness.

In other words, whatever has been happening in your life since the last New Moon on August 16th is now being deeply processed and integrated into your subconscious as food for body, mind, and soul. This month began with a New Moon in Leo with Venus retrograde and the infamous “Game-Changer,” Uranus, involved.

For many, the theme has been about confronting deeply personal relationship issues that may have crept up as subtly as a lightning bolt! The now point of the waning last quarter half-moon arrives one week after the peak of the Pisces Full Moon and one week before the Virgo New Moon. It’s the mid-point now, where you may witness a “crossroads” arrive on your path or a pivotal point in the cycle that represents the need for reflection and, optimally, a redirection of your focus and awareness. This redirection often has something to do with the need to shift your perspective in some crucial way. How are you looking at the things unfolding in your life? How could you benefit from seeing things differently?

It’s essentially about opening up to a different way of understanding what’s going on in your life and expanding your point of view. We are always in a constant fluctuating state of expansion and contraction. We seek truth and value and incorporate and ground it into the self. Then we hit our own stagnancy and limitation, and in comes the need to expand and allow growth to continue. Stability and flow, eternal sisters.

This week will lead us into the Dark Moon phase, where we are guided to surrender to the unknown and let go before the new beginning yet again. One of the major events this week is Venus completing her retrograde cycle.The Venus cycle. Venus represents the desire to connect, relate, and partner. She is the Muse and all that provokes desire and inspiration. She is associated with the feminine, love, beauty, and the pleasures of the physical world.

Venus takes about eighteen months to travel a complete orbit around the Sun. For forty days during that time, it will go retrograde. During that time, it is considered the period where Venus goes into the Underworld of her own psyche (and perhaps that of others), as Persephone, Venus’s own shadow. From playful Muse to the Guide of Hells – of the psyche. The “hells” of course, are not literal but hypothetical in reference to the subconscious realms and that which has been buried, denied, oppressed, repressed, rejected, and abandoned.

The Venus retrograde time is about returning and reclaiming what has been lost from the heart, which threatens to steal your inspiration. This time represents that part of us that desires to go into the dark mystery. As Venus now ascends from out of the Underworld, we too, are rising into greater light and awareness from all that we have confronted and gained throughout these past forty days within our relationships.

We are in what’s called the shadow period. The time it takes for a planet to come out of the retrograded degrees and move into fresh new territory. For Venus, that will play out over the next month. We can imagine it like a slow walk from out of the Underworld through the bardos before the release.

This week sets the stage for the upcoming Virgo New Moon conjunct a Mercury Retrograde. That is a powerful emphasis on mental functions, implying in so many ways that the great healing right now is in the mind.

New Moon in Aquarius

As the Sun and New Moon at the first degrees of Aquarius both just passed over Pluto at the end of Capricorn, this new initiative incubating has a lot to do with deeper core issues that likely have surfaced into greater awareness.  We are being guided to access greater personal power and self-awareness.  

The yearly meeting of the Sun with Pluto unearths hidden truths (and potentially deep personal confrontations) and with the New Moon joining the two, we are being escorted into the under-realms.  There is treasure there.  Return with it, and all will be right on course as we proceed now forward into the creative waxing phase of the Aquarius New Moon cycle.  

Some keywords for this lunar cycle are; vision, gaining perspective and clarity, releasing the past, progressing forward, rapid acceleration and growth, creative expansion, objective awareness, unity in diversity. 

January 22, 2023

     Every year when Venus returns to Saturn we get a reset in the aspect of our psyche that is connected to how we are being in regard to love and relating. This reset is specifically focused on how honest, responsible, and mature we are in the dealings of such matters – love and relating. A return of a planet to another is an end of an entire cycle and the beginning of a new one. Now, it’s not as if a reset button is pushed and all is done. No, there is work to be done. Saturn holds us to this.

     Imagine Venus in council with the Great Elder after returning back from a long personal Hero’s Journey of the heart. Mistakes have been made. Victories have been won. The heart has hurt and the heart has grown.

     It’s a time where constructive judgment and true assessment of what is and what has been is valued. It’s a time where facing reality and ourselves and accepting corrections is what will assure strength for the new journey ahead that is about to begin once she leaves this meeting of reckoning.
Saturn always grants us exactly what we have earned. There are no shortcuts on the path of integrity and honor. Only effort, discipline, devotion. Saturn is here now to remind us of this.

     Venus makes her yearly conjunction with Saturn on January 22nd ~ the Grandfather Karma archetype and the Lover of Life come for a brief reset of responsibility, and their meeting proposes big questions. “Are you being the change you want to see in this world?” “Are you being in your potential to the best of your ability?” “Are you putting all of your heart and soul into it?”
A few weeks later, right around St. Valentines Day, Venus will spend a few nights in the embrace of Neptune and the answers to these questions may be revealed in all kinds of unimaginable and even magical ways. As there are few symbols that expose what’s truly in the heart like a meeting of Venus and Neptune.

January 21st, 2023

This current New Moon cycle in Aquarius evokes inspiration! Aquarius is masterful at offering a new way of looking at things, so expect the unexpected. We have an opportunity to finally play the game a bit differently, with potentially more clarity, vision, and awareness gained. We’ve been on a long journey, and much has been learned. Aquarius is classically the “fruits of our labors” after the work has been put forth. It’s the reaping of what we’ve sown, potential fully realized and expressed.

༶Aquarius lifts us, awakens us, rocks the boat, shocks us out of complacency, and inspires change. So, come as you are and welcome a little luck on your side. It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card and time to skip ahead into more expansive horizons!

༶This week, on January 24th, Uranus (the ruling planet of Aquarius) moves out of its four-month retrograde and says farewell to its year-long stay it has been in with the North Node of the Moon. These two won’t come together again for a conjunction for fifteen years and in an entirely different sign. Uranus is the “Great Awakener,” and the North Node of the Moon represents our forward instinct towards actualizing our Destiny ~ in Taurus, this has been about the past year cultivating what an ideal future would feel like, what it is you value most, what is most important for survival?

༶Taurus is about individual comfort and pleasure, and we have each been looking at what that means to us. We’ve had the opportunity to not only receive the visions of what it could be, but within all the deeply personal work we’ve each done, it has allowed us to embody deeper potentials necessary to actualize the future we want. We have had many opportunities to make peace in the body and to heal our relationship with it as the vessel that carries us through this life.༶Of all the dimensions within this life that we exist in, the body reminds us that we are in a mortal dance with time. Like the sands in an hourglass, there is a finite moment where it stops until it is turned again. So now, as Uranus moves direct in Taurus, we are gifted more time to grasp the blessing that is life in a body and to take the time to value it and the worldly experience and all its material treasures, as they simply represent our hearts and spirits manifested.

༶2023 promises to be an extraordinary year of significant life-impacting culminations and finalizations. We are witnessing the end of outdated systems and the implementation of more progressive structures to support us through this epic time of expansion we are now entering. Both within and without, it is happening. But first, before the rebuild, the crumbling of what was is falling. After fifteen years, Pluto changes signs this year, transiting the last degrees of Capricorn into the first degrees of Aquarius. These are both highly socially focused archetypes representing the structures and the definitions that we, as humanity, have created and bound within – the social constructs.

༶However, there is a personal level as well to these signs. Capricorn takes us deep within to the archetype of our sense of personal power and authority, or sovereign self. Our capacity, our contribution. This is the healing work that we are each involved in now. We each deserve to feel fulfilled in our ability, to be valued by what we uniquely offer, to know that we are provided for through it and by it and that we are worthy of its provision. We all have something powerful to give. Capricorn represents the cycle of life that has reached its peak of performance and now provides as a whole – to the whole. Capricorn is the provider through its own realized inner resources. Imagine a world where we each are valued for what we can naturally give, and having it sustains us.

༶Aquarius, on a personal level, represents the unique and individual essence and genius within each one of us. The creative quality is driven by inspiration and exists to be expressed and experienced in its uniqueness. It is our individuality, and it is meant to contribute to the tapestry of humanity as a gift to bring more possibility. Unity in diversity; honoring individuality as humanity is the ultimate aim that these archetypes represent on a collective social level. They provide the potential that we could get there.

༶As we all reach greater towards our individual potential and heart, so does the social structure that we make up. Yes, of course, there is always resistance that we will face. The old and the new are in a continuous confrontation, but growth and evolution persist. And our creative human potential is grand.

May you count your blessings as many as stars in the sky. ☾

It’s debatable how long the effects of the eclipse season last. What’s important to understand is that eclipses are not just a one-off event and then it’s over. The basic Lunar Cycle goes from a New Moon to a Full Moon, with two half moons in between, and then closes with the final Dark Moon days. Every six months we have a set of eclipses, which energetically are felt to intensify the already potent process that the lunar cycle represents of rebirth, initiation, and new beginnings, into a peak and climax, followed by a culmination, closure, and release period. New – full – final.

Those who follow the lunar cycle learn to work with this rhythmic process within their psyches. As they attune to this natural rhythm and begin to feel their own alignment with Nature and the cosmic dance of the planets, it becomes evident through observation so as above, so below, as within, so without. Ahh, the beauty, the mystery, and the miracle of astrology!

This past Lunar Cycle began with a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio and then crescendoed into a Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in Taurus. This is the axis of desires, needs, deep love, and attachments, to name a few.

So, if we consider it, at minimum we can tune into the eclipse effects for at least six weeks. There are the two weeks before the coming New Moon Eclipse (the waning phase), where we are letting go in preparation for a new grand cycle of birth and renewal that is coming. Looking back, many of us can recount that we were working on closing up some profound chapters in our lives and psyches during early to mid-October. Following, the end of October with the New Moon Eclipse, came major new beginnings and significant fresh starts and directions.

A New Moon eclipse often heralds a powerful new focus or direction in our lives and minds. This builds in creation and intensity in the following two weeks of the waxing phase and peaks with a revelation at the Full Moon Eclipse. Now, as we are on the other side of the Full Moon in the last two weeks of the waning, integration, and culmination phase, it is a time of digesting all that has happened over this past month.

In the garden of our psyche, this is a time to clean up after the harvest (all that we have learned and experienced) and prepare the compost with all the excesses and fallen fruit. Then, till the nutrient-rich soil, preparing it to incubate new seeds again on the soon-to-be Dark Moon.
We’ve reaped all the bounty and nourishment from what was provided, and we, too, are waning. But, in the sub-conscious realms, all those nutrients absorbed (the lessons, the losses, the gains) serve the next round as soon as the New Moon Lunar Cycle begins again in one week.

Whatever we take forward into a new cycle affects what will come of it. So in the last week of a Lunar Cycle, we have an opportunity to release and let go of what we choose to no longer carry with us.

As for the astrology for this week, there is always a multi-layered experience with the planets. At times, too much to try to capture in a short report. So, for now, I’ll leave us with this.

Mercury and Venus leave Scorpio’s emotionally piercing depths and progress into Sagittarius’s optimistic visionary goals! The transition between these two archetypes is like rising from the darkness of the Underworld into the heights of pure potential. As Scorpio’s intention is about diving deep into experiencing the truth, Sagittarius is about expanding into the understanding of truth. Scorpio is deeply penetrative into the psychological and emotional bodies, while Sagittarius is inspired to ride the waves of creative vision, intuition, and imagination. Allow expansion to take you away!

In many ways, Sagittarius aims for the lighter, more humorous, and fun side of life. So as we enter the Holiday Season, Sagittarius promises the flames of inspiration and joy to touch our lives.

May we all feel an abundance of love and light, and may you count your blessings as many as stars in the sky!

Sincerely,
Jessica

“This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Taurus is likely to feel like a grand birth of some kind in your life as the feelings of both contraction and expansion compete and waves of both fear and joy rush in.  It’s an epic fullness, a completion and a beginning, a birthing and a death.  

The best thing we can do in times like these is find peace within the chaos and know that with every peak there is a descent.  On the other side of this Full Moon, so much of what was actually below the surface will be revealed.” 

The astrology surrounding this upcoming total Lunar Eclipse is wild with potential for radical changes within our most personal relationships.  The Full Moon joins Uranus exactly on that day highlighting what Uranus stands for – individuation, through the process of breaking free from that which holds you back.  

However, in “breaking free”, I don’t mean just cutting ties and breaking away from. That may only add more trauma to the trauma (Uranus also represents trauma).  “Breaking free” implies a liberation that can only truly happen through a complete integration and responsibility towards that which we have been attached to.  Thus, leading to the real integrity that is promised within the process of individuation and being truly true to thyself.  Integrity does not exist without self-awareness. So simply said, don’t just detach and walk away, do it with responsibility and integrity so as to be really free.  

In our own lives, Full Moon times can reveal a peak of an energy dynamic that has come to its fruition and is ripe and overflowing with the need for expression and recognition. Things come up and out to play!  Conversations, confrontations, opportunities, breakthroughs, and crisis points.  

We all know that Full Moon’s are infamous for provoking the wild and unpredictable emotional side and for many, especially during an eclipse, being surrounded in all that mystery of light and dark can arouse a full-on howl in the night! 

It’s Scorpio Season and here we confront our own soul’s need to evolve and to become more of itself through the death and rebirth processes of life.  We must change, we must grow, we must let go and allow the experience to transform us.  

The current astrology is powerful as there are many components to digest. The Sun, Mercury, and Venus conjunct the South Node of the Moon, while opposite the Moon and Uranus join the North Node of the Moon.  Meanwhile, Saturn is in a tight square to all of them!  A peak of this much energy within and without can feel overwhelming.  And times like these put history on the map.  For many, this season will be one to remember. 

This is going to be a week where so much metamorphic transformation occurs through our values and identities, our attachments, and our relationships with ourselves and to others.  Likely, you will notice this process has already been well underway for weeks.

The Mercury-Uranus opposition represents a powerful mentally stimulating energy that could lend both to confusion and chaos as well as profound insights and breakthrough awarenesses.  “Aha” moments and entering the field of pure intuition can lead to inspiring quantum leaps in perception and understanding within ourselves and our relationships.  Shock and awe are out to play…’tis the season of the Scorpion!

We are the creators of our destiny.  We have been given the colors to work with and the canvas will surely capture both the light and dark in our expression.  Scorpio Season is all about revealing the truths behind our experiences.  

Blessings on your path, Jessica 

Today as we move through the last week of this lunar cycle, within the waning (release) phase into the dark moon (integration) stage, we are being led to an epic culmination point as the Eclipse Season has arrived!  

The week of the last quarter moon is a call to make an adjustment in some way in regards to how you are perceiving something important in your life.  Change the way that you are thinking.  Try to see it from another’s perspective and expand your mind.  This will set the stage for greater success throughout the next new cycle.  

Eclipses are celebrated for ushering in monumental shifts and changes in our personal lives and consciousness.  It’s time for an upgrade!  And to all that old baggage and accumulated weight, metaphorically and literally, it’s time to let go!  A whole new life cycle is ready to be born to you! 

It is said, “Seize the day!”  Eclipses offer us the opportunity to harness the light and the power availed to us and to seize the moment now and make it a time that is marked by when you courageously stepped away from that which holds you back and triumphantly claimed your highest potential!  

We are talking about the Scorpio/Taurus archetypes, and they are all about self-mastery and the ability to hold a great deal of personal power. Next week at the gates of a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, the lessons over the next month will concentrate around power and limitation, where you have it and where you do not.  

The more we have the greater the loss. The less we have the deeper the hunger.  Greater success comes with greater responsibility.  We earn our place in life, whether we realize it or not, with each deed and desire we create our story.  We pay the tolls, the fees, the price, and in Scorpio, we are taught that the currency is always one way or another in blood, sweat, and tears!  Sounds intense, and it is, but there is also so much love in there!  This life, from the Taurus perspective, is meant to be thoroughly enjoyed.  It’s all about loving it, feeling it, tasting it, and indulging in a way that is fully satisfying to you and where contentment and peace can be realized.  

As far as the astrological influences for this week, we have some very sweet and positive combinations with Mars in Gemini trining both the Sun and Venus in Libra, lending to potentially smooth connections and conversations in relationships, alongside some wilder more unpredictable energy with the on-going Mars square Neptune in Pisces. 

At the end of this week, as the Moon comes full circle into the dark moon completing its lunar cycle, we can trust, that on the eve of a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, whatever is incubating deep within each one of us, will birth profound change that will be a catalyst for immense growth and the truth therein will be revealed.  And in the revelations, there will be love.  

Let’s make the best of it! See you on the other side! 

02 – Mercury Direct, Out of Retrograde!

This was an especially hectic and challenging Mercury Retrograde cycle for many! By October 17th we will be clear out of the shadow degrees and into fresh new territory.  As Mercury moves direct through Libra, then Scorpio, we can anticipate potentially clearer communication and understanding as we navigate deep relationship realms.  

08 – Pluto Direct in Capricorn 

This closes a five-month cycle of Pluto Retrograde.  With Pluto direct, we can begin to see outward manifestations of deep transformation.  Hard-earned personal inner work can now give way to powerful physical changes in your life!

09 – Full Moon in Aries

Powerful peak moments in relationships.  This is a fiery energy that initiates change where necessary and can come through conflict before the resolution. [Continue In Blog For Full Lunar Forecast]

12 – Mars in Gemini Squares Neptune in Pisces

This is a powerful aspect that progresses over the next five months. The Mars retrograde cycle heralds an impactful square between the two planets promising chaos and magic alike! This transit will test our temptations, our desires, our vitality, our boundaries, and our ability to act from noble, sacred, and integral intentions.  It’s wild energy that can tap both the magical and the divine as well as the profane and self-destructive. Have discretion with the risks you are willing to take. 

19 – Sun in Libra Square Pluto in Capricorn

A desire to keep the peace with diplomacy and heart conflicts with an equal desire to progress by any means possible. 

20 – Venus Square Pluto

Tough confrontations of the heart demand a change of perspective. This is an energy that asks “How can you expand in the way that you are seeing and perceiving a certain truth in your life?” Where is there room to grow and expand in your beliefs? In your heart? 

23 – Sun Enters Scorpio

Hail to the archetype of transformation, death, rebirth, and the raw truth!  Scorpio gets real and naked and exposed.  It is here that we bare our vulnerability and dare to show our true colors. 

Saturn Direct  

This is the close of its four-month retrograde cycle. We can now begin to feel some of the barriers and obstacles have been removed and it’s time to progress forward with the fruits of our labors more readily accessible.  

Venus Enters Scorpio

It’s all about intimacy, power, and resources.  This will highlight our relationships over the next month. 

25 – New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio 

Eclipses are a major portal into powerful changes of direction in our lives.  Releasing the past and welcoming the new is the theme.  In two weeks, we will have the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse.  We have arrived to the Eclipse Season!  

30 – Mars Retrograde in Gemini

Bam!  This is a potent bi-annual aspect.  Mars only goes retrograde every two years and during this time has a powerful effect for seven months (through March 2023).  Mars is about externalized action manifesting deep desires – our instincts, our impulses, our ambition. When retrograde, outward action can slow down so that a deeper internal dialogue can come into focus.  Inner reflection and assessment of desires, needs, and motivations is what’s now being called for. 

May 15th, 2022

Full Moon Lunar Eclipses are astounding to witness. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to view one

Eclipses tend to amplify the energies of the moment. It’s a period where bigger events, opportunities, and life changes can and will occur. Full Moons have a way of illuminating deeper aspects of our lives, shadows, patterns, and what’s hidden or ready to be exposed. External confrontations can come to an intense peak as the light shines upon the unconscious and reveals what is now in perfect timing to face.

As this Full Moon is in Scorpio opposite the Sun in Taurus

It’s a time to get very centered on the strength and personal values of oneself and one’s allies. And to create distance once and for all with the vampiric relationships that hold you back. Because the power that we have and its use is everything, the “right” use of power or the “wrong” use of power makes all the difference.

The shadow archetype of Scorpio has a lot to do with loss, betrayal, and abandonment. The highest expression of Scorpio is about joining forces and creating immense value and wealth out of the union. Deep soul contracts and transformations alter the very nature of who we are. It is death and rebirth and the need for change and growth to eventually return to stillness in the calm and peace of stability… gained.

With Venus teaming with Chiron in Aries and Mars and Neptune currently joining up in Pisces this week. On the other side of the spectrum of Taurus/Scorpio potentials, there are the possibilities of outstanding everlasting bonds of love, commitments, personal successes, and partnership victories!

Ultimately Scorpio and Taurus are about harnessing the power within and manifesting it into the physical. To make something of yourself from the sanctuary within and join forces and enhance another or be assisted in your own victory. For we are nothing without the love and support of one another. Look around, the power that we hold is great and even more remarkable when combined.

Blessings on your path.