TRANSCRIPT Ep. 267 (12/2/24)
Mars Retrograde: The Warrior Inside!
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Whats up Invisible Pal, April right here, and the date as we speak is December 2nd, 2024. Welcome to Episode 267 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast.
It’s an exceptionally busy sky this week, so I’m going to method issues just a bit bit otherwise on this episode to suit all the things in. As a substitute of overlaying the week chronologically, I’m grouping collectively related facets which can be associated to the identical planet or planets. So for instance, I’ll have a look at Venus’ many facets, to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, earlier than it enters the signal of Aquarius. Then I’ll have a look at the Solar and Mercury in side with one another, and likewise each of them in opposition to Jupiter and sq. Saturn. I’ll have a look at Mars stationing Retrograde and Neptune stationing Direct, and the Pisces First Quarter Moon. There’s a actually full agenda, so this week I’m afraid there’s not sufficient time to incorporate a listener query or a mini-lesson however do make sure you ship in your questions for future episodes!
Venus trine Uranus (Dec. 2, 2024, 6:43 am PST)
First up this week, we’re taking a look at Venus and a number of other facets it’s making earlier than it adjustments signal. Venus is the planet that symbolizes the issues that we like and luxuriate in. Additionally it is about relationships and the folks in whom we delight. A busy week for Venus means that that is, socially talking, an vital and busy week and that financially we would see a number of surprises and challenges alongside the best way.
Venus trines Uranus on December 2nd at 6:43 am Pacific Time, at 24º36’ Capricorn and Taurus. Venus is on the Sabian image 25 Capricorn, An oriental rug vendor and Uranus is on 25 Taurus, A big, well-kept public park. Each of those collectively give me the picture of wealth, abundance, and particularly these issues which can be related to custom and with group accountability or guidelines, particularly since each are in Earth indicators.
That is typically a transit that we affiliate with surprising monetary windfalls as a result of that’s the character of Uranus. Additionally, surprising bills, and since Venus is in Capricorn, these can generally be associated to big-ticket gadgets in your life, comparable to home equipment, for instance.
This generally is a very nice transit additionally, to make surprising gestures to the folks in your life. This is perhaps providing breakfast in mattress to your companion or bringing in donuts to work to share along with your co-workers. So, it’s a considerably convivial side and about that little little bit of pleasure that we get generally after we shock folks in our lives with one thing good.
Venus sextile Neptune (Dec. 4, 2024, 10:52 am PST)
On December 4th at 10:52 am Pacific Time, Venus sextiles Neptune. Any side between Venus and Neptune brings about a few issues. One is it’s a really imaginative connection, and for those who’re an individual who works within the arts, for instance, it is a actually useful side. To entry your creativeness and inspiration in a inventive and creative means.
As a result of Venus is said to cash and relationship, when it connects with Neptune, there’s a slight chance that issues usually are not what they appear, particularly in {our relationships}. And generally throughout a sextile, which means this involves mild in a roundabout way. And we have now a possibility then both to essentially acknowledge it and take it critically or not.
Venus sextile Neptune specifically typically brings about some sort of alternative or invitation perhaps to get to know any person slightly bit higher or to take part in some sort of creative, or musical, or simply pleasant pastime with different folks. So, hold a watch out for these sorts of openings and invites throughout this week.
Venus enters Aquarius (Dec. 6, 2024, 10:13 pm PST)
Venus enters Aquarius on December sixth at 10:13 pm Pacific Time. When Venus is in Aquarius, we start to see networking changing into extra vital, and planning for the longer term as a result of Aquarius is a future-oriented signal. So, pondering of issues like long-term monetary planning. How are you doing in that space of your monetary life?
This transit is an particularly pretty one for cultivating your friendships. I’ve been saying to folks these days that the factor I’ve actually observed for the reason that pandemic and lockdown is that we appear, largely, to have misplaced the knack for socializing, for having the sorts of events and celebrations that we used to usually have with our buddies.
Whereas Venus is in Aquarius, let’s see if we will start to reactivate these instincts. Invite some buddies for a potluck, or to exit to lunch, or perhaps simply ship them an e mail or a textual content to allow them to know that you simply keep in mind them and also you’re fascinated by them. It is a nice time for any sort of organizational or group involvement.
So even for those who’re not ordinarily an individual that likes to get collectively in teams, that is truly a superb season for it throughout these few weeks that Venus is in Aquarius. Possibly go to a neighborhood assembly of one thing that you simply’re all in favour of or a Meetup occasion related to an actual curiosity of yours. Venus is in Aquarius by means of January 2nd.
Venus conjunct Pluto (Dec. 7, 2024, 6:08 am PST)
And what about this conjunction from Venus to Pluto? It’s on December seventh at 6:08 am Pacific Time, at 00º22’ Aquarius. The best way I’ve generally described this conjunction is that it could point out that one thing pretty – Venus – awakens your least pretty impulses, represented by Pluto.
It’s not truly tremendous heat and fuzzy like lots of Venus facets are. To begin with, as a result of Venus is an Aquarius, which runs slightly bit cooler emotionally. And likewise as a result of Pluto is way from a heat and fuzzy planet. There is a gigantic depth to something making a conjunction with Pluto. So when it’s Venus, both a relationship turns into very intense, or perhaps issues are uncovered, as we stated earlier than, with Venus and Neptune coming collectively by side. And now Pluto is keen to acknowledge and tackle no matter it’s that we’ve found in our lives that may not have been so nice.
However for these of us who’re artists or creatives, this may be a tremendous side as a result of it’s a time we will actually go deep and have vital breakthroughs in what we do. So, I might set this date apart in your calendar in case you are an inventive or inventive particular person specifically. And I’ll say it is a day to offer simply to your self, to delve into one thing perhaps you’ve been desirous to do for some time, or desirous to go deeper with.
Solar and Mercury conjunction (Dec. 5, 2024, 6:18 pm PST)
Mercury and the Solar come collectively in a conjunction this week and, as they do, they’re additionally each making facets to the identical planets, Jupiter and Saturn. So I’m going to first take their conjunction with one another, which occurs on December fifth at 6:18 pm Pacific Time. They arrive collectively at 14º 27’ Sagittarius.
When a planet comes collectively in a conjunction with the Solar, we are saying that it’s cazimi. And it is a idea that was coated in a listener query from Episode 259, so that you would possibly wish to return and hearken to that. We’ll hyperlink to that in our present notes. However a planet that’s cazimi, on this case Mercury, positive aspects an incredible energy and affect when it’s inside 17 minutes of orb of the Solar. And on this case, that’s between 3:27 pm and 9:07 pm Pacific Time on December fifth.
Particularly with Mercury, it’s about pondering, speaking, learning. So if there’s something of that nature that you’ve got been engaged on that you may actually use some additional luck or inspiration, that could be a good timeframe.
And that is a side, particularly I believe when Mercury is retrograde, that may present readability and introspection and profound insights. And specifically, I all the time assume Mercury with the Solar provides us a better-than-usual alternative to precise one thing vital about who we’re and who we wish to be.
Mercury opposed Jupiter (Dec. 4, 2024, 2:16 am PST)
Solar opposed Jupiter (Dec. 7, 2024, 12:58 pm PST)
Whereas we’re with reference to Mercury and the Solar, on December 4th, Mercury opposes Jupiter at 2:16 am Pacific Time. And the Solar opposes Jupiter this week on December seventh at 12:58 pm Pacific time. When Mercury and the Solar are at this level of their cycle the place they’re making a conjunction with one another, meaning they’re sort of working as a crew as they’re aspecting different planets within the sky.
So, on this case, Mercury and the Solar are opposed Jupiter in Gemini. Mercury opposed Jupiter on November 18th when it was direct, earlier than it began its retrograde interval and that is the second of three of those oppositions. The final one will probably be on December twenty sixth. So, that is the second installment in a narrative.
After we consider Mercury, we expect, what’s the story we’re telling? What are the tales that we’re listening to and understanding? So, as Mercury is making these three facets to Jupiter, the query is kind of, what’s extra vital, the main points or the large image? And naturally, we’d like each. We’d like Mercury and Gemini’s means to remain curious and to ask questions on what’s occurring round us, and we additionally want Sagittarius and Jupiter to seize onto a few of these particulars, a few of these bits and items, and make one thing of them – a worldview, a philosophy that may information us.
As Mercury and the Solar make these facets to Jupiter, they’re each on the identical Sabian image, which is 17 Sagittarius, An Easter Dawn service. It’s a couple of renewal of the urge to reside and to have interaction within the technique of life. Jupiter is on 17 Gemini, The pinnacle of a strong youth adjustments into that of a mature thinker. So, the extra we be taught and soak up and contemplate lots of issues, the higher means we have now to attain some sort of emotional understanding.
Now, typically talking, when the Solar is in opposition to Jupiter, we have now a very low tolerance for being instructed what to do or what to imagine, and we additionally very a lot guard our picture. That’s the Mercury half. Mercury is the press agent, the storyteller of who we’re, what we’re making an attempt to do, and what we’re about. So between December 4th and December seventh, there’s a concentrated interval of renewal, of constant a specific story that we’re telling about ourselves and about maturing, particularly on an mental stage.
Solar sq. Saturn (Dec. 4, 2024, 8:18 am PST)
Mercury sq. Saturn (Dec. 6, 2024, 5:53 pm PST)
The Solar and Mercury additionally sq. Saturn. The Solar’s sq. is on December 4th at 8:18 am Pacific Time. And Mercury’s is on December sixth at 5:53 pm Pacific Time.
The Solar is sort of a massive highlight because it transits by means of the chart, and right here it’s shining on Saturn. That represents a few of our deepest insecurities and fears.
It’s vital through the Solar’s sq. to Saturn, Mercury’s sq. to Saturn, to not lash out, however somewhat to take time on as of late to look inside and to let experiences deepen your compassion for your self.
The Solar’s Sabian image on the sq. is 13 Sagittarius, A widow’s previous is dropped at mild, and it’s very a lot about coping with unresolved points.
We’d obtain data or a message or communication that awakens our biggest fears. Possibly makes us really feel slightly bit depressed. However there’s the chance right here to take accountability, Saturn, for our actions, our emotions and our phrases, and achieve a greater perspective on our ambitions, on our stage of maturity and our status.
Mars stations Retrograde (Dec. 6, 2024, 3:33 pm PST)
There are two vital planetary stations this week. Mars stations retrograde on December 6th at 3:33 pm Pacific Time at 06º10’ Leo on the magnificent Sabian image 7 Leo, The constellations within the sky. As you’ll be able to think about, astrologers are fairly excited a couple of Sabian image like that one.
Mars is retrograde about each two years or so. It’s not like Mercury that’s going retrograde 3 times yearly and so, it has slightly extra gravity to it. We pay slightly extra consideration to it when it’s retrograde.
Among the many key phrases we affiliate with Mars are motion, initiative, power, aggression or anger, competitors, work, sexuality. When Mars is retrograde, it requires us to look inside, for a few of the Mars traits like management and the power to guard ourselves, somewhat than in search of safety from others.
We now have to be actually cautious when Mars is retrograde to not maintain in an excessive amount of anger as a result of the tendency of a planet when it’s retrograde is to show inside. That may be useful if it comes to essentially fascinated by our personal complicity in our present state of affairs, tips on how to give you inventive options for issues we face. However when it’s issues like anger, we do should be cautious to not maintain it in an excessive amount of or to direct it an excessive amount of at ourselves.
Mars will probably be retrograde till February twenty third, 2025, and it’ll share its time between Leo and Most cancers. The indicators that Mars is shifting by means of, particularly when it’s retrograde, can discuss concerning the issues that we’re carrying anger about, battle about, some measure of competitiveness. With Mars in Leo, it may be issues about our creativity and our self-expression.
Possibly we’re feeling caught. Possibly we’re evaluating ourselves with others who do the identical issues that we do and questioning why are they doing so properly and we’re not. Possibly we wish our youngsters to be succeeding and actually standing out amongst their friends and perhaps we don’t see that they’re. It might probably must do with leisure and video games. So, for those who’re an individual who participates in some sort of sports activities or gaming actions, it’s going to be a time while you actually internalize the messages of competitors and should actually decide your self harshly for those who don’t succeed.
It’s additionally an indication that’s closely related to romance and glamour. A selected particular person that you simply want to turn out to be concerned with, that may intensify throughout this time, or simply the need to get out and become involved, provoke in some sort of romantic relationship is perhaps tougher when Mars is retrograde in Leo than when Mars is in Most cancers for that a part of this journey.
That may be a signal related to our household, with tribalism, meals, dwelling, consolation, our mom. You would possibly again away from having head-on arguments with folks in your loved ones, but it surely’s there, and if something, is perhaps extra intensified in your life.
Neptune Stations Direct (Dec. 7, 2024, 3:43 pm PST)
And likewise this week, Neptune stations direct on December seventh at 3:43 pm Pacific Time, at 27º07’ Pisces. Neptune has been retrograde since July 2nd, 2024. Like all of the outer planets, it’s retrograde virtually half the yr, and we discover it most when it’s altering path. We’re starting to wrap up the Neptune in Pisces chapter in our lives. It strikes into a brand new signal, Aries, on the finish of March subsequent yr, and that can start a brand new 14-year chapter.
Whereas Neptune’s been in Pisces, the theme has been, the perfect has been, that we’re all related. That we should always try for peace on this planet. That we should always search for cures to the world’s ills. Neptune in Aries is not going to work that means. Neptune is about what we idealize. It’s the dream of society. Because it goes into Aries, there may be the sense, I believe, that may makes proper and that if we’re decided sufficient to get what we wish, then we will get it. That there’s magnificence in that rugged individualism of the particular person, by themselves, out on the prairie, making their means. So, it’s going to be a really completely different chapter in our lives and within the lives of the society that we reside in.
The subsequent time Neptune turns retrograde will probably be on July 4th of subsequent yr at 02º10’ Aries. Then it’s going to retrograde again into Pisces yet another time and go direct for the final time in Pisces on December tenth, 2025. So, we’ve bought a couple of yr to complete up this dream.
Pisces First Quarter Moon (Dec. 8, 2024, 7:27 am PST)
And now for the Moon Report. It begins with the Pisces First Quarter Moon on December eighth at 7:27 am Pacific Time at 17º02’ Pisces and Sagittarius. The First Quarter Moon is the time within the lunar cycle to behave on the intentions that you simply set forth on the prior New Moon. On this case, that will be the Sagittarius Moon from November thirtieth. That New Moon was sq. Saturn, and it spoke of these lofty targets that Sagittarius embraces. But additionally warned us that it might take lots of laborious work, lots of elbow grease to attain these desires. Now with the First Quarter is the second we have now to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
The Pisces Moon is on Sabian image 18 Pisces, A huge tent, and the Solar is on 18 Sagittarius, Tiny youngsters in Sunbonnets. That image for the Moon, the big tent, is kind of about efficiency in public, being an inspirational determine, an entertainer, a trainer, a priest and I all the time affiliate this image with inclusivity. The Sabian image for the Solar is eighteen Sagittarius, and the Sabian image for the Solar, the “Tiny youngsters in Sunbonnets,” is simply the acme of cheerful innocence.
I don’t consider the big tent as being significantly harmless, nevertheless, and as a way to construct a coalition with different folks on this planet beneath that massive tent, it’s essential to confront the conflicts between us. That we have a look at the world in very other ways and having to reconcile that and are available up along with some sort of resolution, that’s the laborious work of that New Moon in Sagittarius – it’s not all tiny youngsters in sunbonnets – to have the attractive imaginative and prescient.
Lunar Section Household Cycle
That is the First Quarter in a lunar section household cycle that started on the New Moon on March tenth, 2024 at 20º16’ Pisces. The Full Moon on this cycle comes on September seventh, 2025 at 15º22’ Pisces and exhibits us much more about what was initiated at that Pisces New Moon in March 2024. And the Final Quarter within the cycle is on June eighth, 2026 at 17º38’ Pisces, the place we glance again, we see the issues in our intentions, and resolve what we have to do to deliver all the things full circle. And taking a look at these mid levels of Pisces in your delivery chart can provide you a extremely good concept of what space of your life you’ve been engaged on to attempt to obtain one thing that has to do with the Pisces dream of affection, and empathy, and sweetness, and magic.
Void-of-Course Moon intervals
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week. On December 2nd, the Moon in Sagittarius squares Neptune at 7:47 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for five hours and 22 minutes after which enters Capricorn at 1:09 pm.
Void-of-Course Moon intervals are about disconnecting from unhealthy habits or hurtful habits and making an attempt to provoke more healthy ones. When the Moon begins a Void-of-Course interval in a sq. with one other planet, we all know there’s a battle or blockage that we’re making an attempt to beat. The Moon in Sagittarius appreciates honesty and humor. But it surely’s in battle right here with Neptune and Pisces, which likes to diffuse the more durable edges of reality.
We are able to use this Void-of-Course Moon interval to get within the behavior of delivering the reality in a humorous means, a charismatic means, however a means that respects folks’s tender emotions.
On December 4th, the Moon makes a conjunction with Venus in Capricorn at 3:34 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 4 hours 47 minutes after which enters Aquarius at 8:21 pm. When the Moon is along with one other planet at first of a void interval, it means that is the time to assimilate energies coming collectively. It is a time after we’ll are likely to search for safety in materials methods. If we’re not cautious, we will store very compulsively right now. In order you’re planning your vacation funds or your funds for 2025, search for a means so as to add extra construction to your spending.
Relating to relationships, it may be organising explicit occasions of the week, perhaps have a date evening or of the month the place you go to your households or no matter it is perhaps. The Moon and Venus collectively in Capricorn favors construction and favors taking good care of ourselves materially, however that we additionally wish to guarantee that we’re doing that mindfully the place our feelings are involved.
And on December sixth, the Moon makes a sq. to Uranus at 4:01 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 9 hours 47 minutes and enters Pisces on December seventh at 1:49 am. The Moon in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus are each in mounted indicators, and glued indicators sometimes don’t love change. Nonetheless, we would use a Void-of-Course interval like this one to interrupt up no matter our ordinary weekend routine is as we’re ending our work week.
Possibly go to a social occasion or get within the behavior of getting along with buddies on this evening. It gained’t really feel snug as a result of it is a sq. and we don’t essentially wish to change the best way we’ve been doing issues, however it is a lengthy Void-of-Course interval, 9 hours, virtually ten hours, and can provide us a possibility to make actual change in the best way we’re kicking off our social routines.
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