Nice Bones

Venus symbolizes the issues that give us pleasure, and one factor my Venus in Capricorn sister has cherished since she was an adolescent is blueprints and ground plans for homes. Again when my very own Venus in Most cancers was designing my imaginary dream house by the ocean with cabbage rose print throw pillows, she dreamed of turning into an architect. Her path finally led her into into banking (additionally match for Venus in Capricorn), and later bookkeeping and elevating a few superior children. However to this present day, you’ll discover a ebook of blueprints tucked amongst her extra typical espresso desk studying materials.

Venus in Capricorn loves the naked bones of issues, the class of purposeful varieties. In order Venus enters Capricorn (Jan. 23, 2024, 00:50 am PST, by way of Feb. 16), take into consideration what you wish to construct within the coming 12 months. Ensure it’s one thing that’s helpful, that you just really think about it stunning, and that it’s received nice bones.

The Thriller Play

People are social creatures, and it takes nerve to face aside from the gang and be your individual individual. The Full Moon in Leo (Jan. 25, 2024, 9:54 am PST), the signal tasked with celebrating the distinctive self, sheds gentle on any methods wherein we’ve adopted the gang to our personal detriment and in contradiction to our personal nature. It’s a time to ponder the important high quality of our personal characters and to realign with our hearts.

Full Moon occasions are intrinsically dramatic, with feelings a bit near the floor. And in theatrical Leo, opposed the Solar with highly effective Pluto, and all three exaggerated by a sq. to Jupiter (the height comes with the Solar’s precise sq. to Jupiter on Jan. 26, 11:18 pm PST), this Full Moon evokes extra and greater shows of drama, energy, and emotion. (Even the Solar’s Sabian diploma, 6 Aquarius, A efficiency of a thriller play, has a touch of the theatrical.) Ultimately, what’s necessary to recollect at this Full Moon is to rejoice what’s distinctive about you, the gorgeous inventive qualities you supply the world, your heat, your spirit – however to rein in pointless drama, when you ought to end up going overboard.

Whoosh

Retrograde since August 28, 2023, Uranus stations direct this week (Jan. 26, 2024, 11:35 pm PST) at 19º05′ Taurus. I’ve come to anticipate a whoosh of power when the slower-moving planets change course, and Uranus stations on the Sabian image, 20 Taurus: Wind, clouds and haste – whoosh!

Feeling unsettled and rebellious are hallmarks of a Uranus station, together with an irrational impulse to do one thing that may’t be undone. There are moments in life when that’s simply what’s wanted. However for a couple of days both facet of this station, extremity and overreaction are within the air, so proceed with warning. Uranus in Taurus will wish to shake us unfastened from methods we maintain ourselves again from pleasure and prosperity, however there’s nothing unsuitable with shifting just a little extra slowly towards liberation.

Ardour in Stone

All nice issues start with ardour, an impulse that connects us with the very important pulse of the world. Sit with that keenness lengthy sufficient, and also you’ll discover a story that longs for expression.

Now dwell there for a short while, and dream up numerous methods of sharing that story. You choose up a guitar or sit at a drafting desk, write a narrative or make a YouTube video. And eventually, you discover your path and set forth, unafraid to share your passionate story.

This has been the trajectory of Mercury’s three current conjunctions with Mars. The primary, on Oct. 29, was in Scorpio, and activated ardour; on. Dec. 27, in Sagittarius, got here the character of the story and the will to share it with the world. And now, with Mercury conjunct Mars in Capricorn (Jan. 27, 6:59 am PST), we ebook the venue for the live performance, draft a blueprint, and storyboard a video. We make the passionate story a actuality.

Loving Saturn

Once I’m requested what I do for enjoyable, I often reply, “…I work?” I’m not that good at stress-free and having fun with myself, and evidently no sooner do I undertake a artistic interest than I discover a strategy to flip it right into a enterprise.

Venus is the image of what we get pleasure from. Proper now, it’s shifting by way of Capricorn, and Venus on this signal does love constructing a enterprise.  I’m fortunate to have discovered a strategy to make my dwelling doing one thing I really love, however I gained’t lie – it’s taken lots of Saturn to make it work.

As Venus sextiles Saturn in imaginative Pisces this week (Jan. 27, 2024, 10:03 pm PST), an invite or concept could come throughout the transom and lead you to surprise: How are you going to deliver extra like to your occupation? Perhaps you’ve received a ebook inside you that wants solely Saturn’s self-discipline to search out its means out. Or maybe you meet somebody who works remotely, on the highway in an RV, free to get pleasure from among the world’s biggest pure areas as their workplace, and also you assume to your self, “Nicely, as a matter of truth…”

Are you able to make a dwelling doing what you’re keen on, the place you like to do it? Loving Venus is simple. A lot relies on whether or not or not you may love and embrace Saturn as nicely.

Buying

Mars in Capricorn squares the North Node this week (Jan. 28, 2024, 6:19 am PST) at 18º02’ Capricorn and Aries. The Sabian image for Mars is nineteen Capricorn, A baby of about 5 with an enormous buying bag. Is that this an empty buying bag, or is it full and weighing this little child down? And the image for the North Node is nineteen Aries, The magic carpet. Do we now have to work so exhausting and tackle fairly a lot Mars in Capricorn burden and heaviness, like that younger little one with an enormous bag, in an effort to pursue our North Node path?  Or, ought to we chill out and put ourselves on that magic carpet?

That method of simply letting ourselves benefit from the journey ahead is a problem after we’re speaking concerning the North Node, which represents what we’re not that snug with but. And in Aries, the North Node path it’s about taking daring, daring, pioneering leaps. We’re not at all times snug with that, particularly if we really feel that we have to give attention to the wants of others, which is symbolized by the South Node in Libra.

However the sq. from Mars in Capricorn asks: Do you wish to preserve working so exhausting, or does straining so exhausting turn out to be counterproductive sooner or later? And will you may really get additional alongside your path by giving your self over to just a little religion and magic?

Preparation Meets Inspiration

As soon as upon a time, younger individuals had been inspired – coerced, generally – to be taught to play a musical instrument. Many houses had a piano, and generations of younger individuals dutifully practiced their scales and discovered easy items. They could by no means have loved enjoying, any greater than different younger individuals loved the talents they reluctantly acquired – cooking, say, or overhauling a automotive’s transmission.

However let’s think about a woman who, having acquired some proficiency with the piano, someday places away the sheet music and begins figuring out the chords of a preferred track. Inside an hour, she’s enjoying it fairly fluidly and with actual pleasure. And in that afternoon, she’s all of the sudden comfortable about these hours of follow that had been so boring on the time. As a result of now, they supply the instruments for her to play one thing that excites her.

That is what it may be like when Mercury, planet of expertise, unites with Uranus, planet of inspiration and pleasure, in a harmonious trine (Jan. 28, 2024, 1:06 pm PST): it’s a kind of moments when preparation meets inspiration.

The Grand Lunch

A few years in the past, after over-indulging in an enormous Mexican lunch with a few margaritas, my husband and I nearly purchased a home. Each grand journey looks like a fair higher concept if you’re beneath the affect of tortilla chips and tequila. We did find yourself placing in a suggestion, however finally pulled out after we got here to our senses.

Venus trine Jupiter (Jan. 28, 2024, 5:02 pm PST) feels very very like an enormous, festive, indulgent lunch, full with a cocktail and dessert. Venus symbolizes the issues we need, and Jupiter is the planet of “gimme extra of that.” With these two casting inhibitions to the wind, watch your spending, particularly in terms of family luxuries – and even households.

Writing and pictures © 2017-24 by April Elliott Kent

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