Jupiter's Astro Ramblings

Good morning and happy Sun day! What a whirlwind of a week it has been as we coast between these eclipses, and what a pivotal checkpoint we’ve reached: today is Last Quarter in Gemini. For me, this eclipse season has brought up a variety of career paths and job opportunities, and I’m now sitting through the deliberation period waiting to hear back about a final job offer that could override everything else I have going on. What better way to ring in this energy than a lunation in my 10H?

Last Quarter is typically the space between major lunations that is designed for the final release point. As the Full Moon illuminates what needs purging in our lives, and the New Moon is the start of the next chapter, Last Quarter is ideal for clearing out the weeds so the growth can begin. This energy between eclipses is especially potent, as the beginnings and endings that can unfold are much more impactful than a standard lunation. In my case, with the eclipse axis on my chart’s angles, I had a job opportunity arise during the Lunar Eclipse, showing me that there is more than my current situation, but I’m not expecting to receive confirmation on whether or not it will pan out until closer to the Solar Eclipse. So for me, this quarter phase is about simultaneously preparing for either outcome, but mostly, the fantasy of this opportunity has led me to assess what parts of my life, my habits, and my behaviors that I would want to carry with me into a fresh start, and what needs to be left behind. Regardless of whether I get the job, this lunation has pushed me into a critical headspace to create meaningful change whether or not my environment remains the same. With the Sun in my 1H and Moon in my 10H, I’m analyzing my work ethic, my relationship to my sense of self, and the bad habits that aren’t in alignment with what I need to feed a fruitful career and lifestyle. Being out of my comfort zone is a prime time for my anxieties and my addictions to flourish, so balancing and navigating those fear responses with an opportunity that would push me well outside of comfort is how this lunation is appearing for me personally.

For you, however, it’s an ideal time to reflect on similar questions. What major beginnings and/or endings have arisen in the week since the Lunar Eclipse? What evolution do you see on the horizon as we rev up to the Solar Eclipse next week? And how can you identify what needs embracing versus what needs shedding as this next era of life begins to take shape? Checking in on your mutable Houses will give you a more detailed insight as to what areas of your life are going to be most affected. Like I said, these eclipses for me are angular 1H/7H, meaning 4H/10H themes are also particularly emphasized in the quarter lunations. To my cardinal rising sign folks, keep an eye on your 3/6/9/12H activity, and for fixed rising signs, your 2/5/8/11H. The luminary aspects taking place to your natal planets can also provide insight as to what will be impacted. My sense of identity feels under a microscope in these eclipses, as not only is the Sun in my 1st, but the Lunar Eclipse had the Moon directly over my natal Sun as well. Lots of personal evolution this month! I was anticipating such but still surprised by the intensity of this lunar manifestation.

Only one more week til the Solar Eclipse! Do your best to stay grounded, practice self-care, and just take this week one moment at a time. Til next time!

Hello and happy Sun day to you all! The big day has finally arrived: the first of two eclipses this season! Today’s Pisces lunar eclipse is amplifying big emotions, and for me in particular, is taking place only a degree away from my natal Sun, so I am feeling the energy and high vibrations thoroughly. Let’s dive in, shall we?

As Chris Brennan always says, eclipses are prime times for major beginnings and major endings. While most new and full Moon phases are ideal for the cycle of manifestation and release, eclipses are best for opening yourself to whatever the universe has to offer at these times. Whatever is going to unfold is meant to unfold, and the only way out is through. With the current eclipses taking place in the Virgo/Pisces axis, themes of logic vs. emotion, or the head vs. the heart, can be prominent. I know that for myself personally, I’ve felt my emotions and overindulgent tendencies creeping back up in the buildup to this eclipse. In recent months, I’ve paid special attention to trying to rationalize and deconstruct my mental anxieties in order to take better care of my body and emotions, however, I’ve found myself slipping too far into my feelings and partaking in unhealthy coping mechanisms that I’ve previously worked fervently to overcome. Fortunately, Mercury is co-present with the Sun in Virgo and Saturn’s retrograde has brought him back into Pisces for the next several months, so there are some saving graces here that can help prevent us from sliding entirely into the foggy, Neptunian abyss of emotion that Pisces can become. Instead, as long as we keep our head on our shoulders, we can access these intense feelings and try to assess them, find where they're coming from, and practically try to find a way to work through any obstacles or daunting sensations. It’s a hell of a lot easier said than done! Even if it takes enduring the eclipse and evaluating in hindsight, it's alright! As long as you try to remind yourself that these tumultuous times are merely another transit passing in the night, and that no matter how overwhelmed you may feel during the height of the eclipse, this too shall pass and this too will settle. All we can do is ride the Pisces wave and let the water carry us to shore.

I will likely reflect back on this eclipse more when we approach the Solar in Virgo in a couple weeks, as even my own path during this eclipse series has yet to be fully realized. All I know is that this is affecting my angular 1H/7H axis so there's much to be assessed about my sense of identity as well as my identity in my relationships. I’m keeping an open mind and wishing everyone luck and fortune on this month’s journey!

Event chart:

Hello and happy Mercury day! In honor of this eclipse-supercharged Mercurial time, I’m going to take a bit to ramble about the parts of the current transits that I think impacted my chart, as well as the charts of my family members, in the context of an event that occurred on Saturday evening. 

To start with context, my mother (Sagittarius/Scorpio/Aquarius), step-father (Pisces/Libra/Scorpio), and youngest brother (age 4, Aries/Virgo/Taurus) were all involved in a fairly severe car accident. They were close to home, and it was a very sudden, freak accident where they were not the vehicle at fault. The wreck absolutely destroyed their car, and it is nothing short of a miracle that my mom and step-dad didn’t lose their legs or their lives in this crash. The only significant injury sustained, aside from plenty of brutal bruising, was my mom’s broken hand. 

To begin, I want to deconstruct which astrological signifiers are worth investigating out the gate. Due to the sudden and violent nature of the crash, Mars and Uranus immediately strike me as contenders at play. The proximity to home and impact on my family life points to themes in the 3H and 4H, though I believe the 5H, and 7H are also relevant areas from the perspective of my mom, as this affected her children and partner as well. While this analysis will be partially through the lens of how these transits affected my natal chart, I will also be interweaving pieces of the charts of the three relatives actively involved.

The first part that I want to address is a distinct and loud one: Saturday was the peak of Mars in Libra conjoining my 2H Libra Moon. What I found so interesting about this alignment is that Mars (a force of destruction) met up with the planet of nurturing that is so heavily associated with the mother, which is my Moon. It makes sense that Mars’ impact here was not directly on me, as much as it was on the woman who represents my Moon. In addition to that, the transiting Moon was in early Sagittarius, which is my 4H and the home of my mother’s Sun sign. The Moon was coming off a conjunction with my natal Chiron as well, and car accident trauma is something that has plagued me since I was young. So there’s this fascinating lunar connection here where I can see where an incident of violence could impact my mother, and what intrigues me even more so is that her husband and I share our natal lunar placement, only a couple degrees apart. So for him, the impact of Mars was even more direct and took place in his 12H, which tracks given the oppositional tension created within the 6H of health and wellness. The other noteworthy aspects that I saw with the transiting Moon’s placement in Sagittarius is not only that it was mere hours away from peaking at First Quarter, the final lunation before eclipse season’s chaos begins, it was also only a few hours off from its peak opposition to Uranus in Gemini. This creates a hard square to my brother’s Moon, in which the Sun is approaching its conjunction, and the impact of Uranus and the “sudden change” energy becomes amplified here. Just to top it all off, the worst injury was my mother’s broken hand, as the hands are ruled by the sign Gemini. 

To touch on the 3H impact, I do think it’s worth noting that my mom’s 3H is Aries-ruled, making Mars the ruler of the House itself. My step-dad’s 3H is Saturn-ruled (Capricorn), and my brother’s is Moon-ruled (Cancer). There’s so much overlap and connection between Mars, Saturn, and the Moon throughout the themes of the entire ordeal, as Saturn was riding out his final days in Aries before his retrograde took him back into Pisces the following day. So we have Saturn in a Mars-ruled sign, Mars in a sign-based opposition, and Mars is a strong through-line in my family’s astrology. My mother is a quadruple Scorpio (including her Moon) with an exalted Capricorn Mars, my step-dad is a Scorpio rising with Mars as a chart ruler, my brother is a triple Aries, and I am a triple Aries as well with a domicile Mars in Scorpio. So, needless to say, Mars transits are typically the ones that have a ripple effect, and it’s rare that something Martian occurs to only one of us. The event chart itself is also an Aries rising chart, meaning the accident is ruled by that detriment Mars in Libra, directly opposing the chart’s Ascendant. 

The final thing that I found distinct, less about the event itself, and more about the Uranian impact, is that all three of my family members have prominent Uranus influence in their charts. My step-dad and brother both have Uranus in the 1st House in fixed signs, and my mom has an Aquarius rising, with the modern ruler being her Uranus in Scorpio, part of her Mars-ruled stellium in the 10H. I just found this fascinating because Uranus has only been in Gemini for a couple months, so we have yet to really see what kind of impact this transit can have. With my mother’s 5H being Gemini-ruled, and having her baby with a Gemini Mars in the backseat, with all the lunar implications I discussed earlier, it just makes sense that this would be the first major Uranian incident. I think the only thing that would have made this more textbook Mars-Uranus would be if it were closer to the peak of the Mars-Uranus trine that we saw unfold in early August. The sign-based trine is still present, however, so my intrigue here still stands.

All in all, I see the influence of the Moon and the upcoming eclipses, Mars and his detriment run through Libra, and Uranus in its early stages of this Gemini transit as the key players in this event. Sudden, chaotic destruction, with the family matriarch being not only behind the wheel at the center of the disaster, but also being the main one to sustain injury, distinctly reflects what the planets have to show in the event chart, and as a transit chart against all of ours individually. Fortunately though, everyone is mostly unscathed and we’re all relieved that the outcome was this way, and that I’m not here writing about some dire 8H tragedy. Everyone, please, stay safe and stay vigilant out there, no matter the transit! Eclipse season is revving up and it’s in all our best interests to take care of ourselves and be cautious. If you read all of this, I appreciate you indulging me as I cope with the stress and fear in the best way I know how: astrologizing! 

Happy Mars day y’all! This lunar eclipse may still be 5 days away but I have felt her chaos brimming since this past weekend. I would have loved to update more in between my last post and now, but sometimes these transits love to spin you around and round until everything makes you dizzy. It was just one of those weeks for me-- Mercury conjoined my North Node, the Sun conjoined my Ascendant, Mars conjoined my Moon, and Saturn retrograded his way back into Pisces, which is really amping up the perpetual dread that consumed me since the first ingress in March 2023. All of that topped off with First Quarter in my 4th House, with a very sudden, terrifying event impacting my family life coinciding almost perfectly with the peak of the lunation. On the bright side, I have managed to find myself another job and had lots of fun celebrating as I brace myself to become a work horse for the foreseeable future, juggling two jobs alongside my astrology practice and my music projects. I’m feeling ready to embrace whatever this month decides to throw at me, as I feel primed for it after the events of this week.

Speaking of events, let’s get into today’s big theme: Mercury in Virgo! Finally, after this somewhat gruelling retrograde cycle through Leo this summer, Mercury is finally moving back into its home sign of Virgo, and things are hopefully going to begin making sense again. Practicality and thorough communication is a prevalent theme in this transit, especially with the Sun now pushing through this same sign and the cazimi on the horizon a couple weeks out. If you thought the New Moon in Virgo was a prime time to embrace Mercurial endeavors, just you wait! Mercury’s entrance into Virgo is only going to amplify these qualities. It’s my ideal wish that Mercury’s presence here throughout this eclipse season will bring a sense of understanding and logic to a potentially tumultuous time, granting us clarity despite everything seeming a bit fuzzy. The Pisces lunar eclipse is coming up fast, and we are going to need Mercury to stay in touch with reality, to make clear-headed decisions in a time of lots of heightened energy and big emotions. What practical, material aspects of our lives need tending to right now? How can we utilize Mercury’s Virgo transit to ensure efficiency and productivity without verging into perfectionistic obsession? These are the questions I’m reflecting on during this transit, and I encourage you to do the same! For me, I’m trying to focus on locking back into my daily routines that have been slipping in recent months, making sure I stay on top of my responsibilities and self-care despite a busy schedule, and writing, writing, writing! August was a rough month for my once-constant journaling habits, and taking on the task of starting this blog means I have to maintain my writing flow in order to keep up with the ever-changing skies. I also really need to get better about reply times, as I’ve fallen back into the bad habit of letting notifications build up for days until the thought of sifting through all of my neglected conversations is too daunting or overwhelming to bear. These are the sorts of day-to-day things that this Mercury transit can assist you with too! Now’s the time to analyze how your routines, communications, and thought processes need to evolve to ensure sanity and success through these upcoming eclipses. If I can do it, I promise you can too!

Anyway, I’ll leave this subject be for now, though if I’m feeling inclined, I may write up an analysis piece soon on the transits and their correlations to some of the insanity I’ve been going through this week. I’ve always been a big believer that anecdotal astrology is the key to truly understanding how transits function in our real lives, and I have some really fascinating ideas cooking on why certain things unfolded for me the way they did. So, keep an eye out for that if you’re interested! But for now, embrace all that Mercury has to offer over the course of these next three weeks and I assure you, you will not be disappointed.

Good morning and happy Moon day! We're greeted this week by a slightly irritated Moon heading into Libra, and I only say that because she can't really find her peace until she passes through the hard oppositions to Saturn and Neptune at 0-1° Aries, and the conjunction with Mars at 11° Libra. Emotions might feel overwhelming, and we may be a bit prone to tension as we make our way through this first decan or so of Libra. Be wary of the unexpected with those early degree trines to Uranus and Pluto as well! All in all, I can't ever hate on a beautiful, sociable Moon in Libra, though, I am a very biased party: it's my Lunar Return time!

Speaking of returns, we see Venus enter Leo today for the first time since last July, which is a much better benchmark for the significations of this transit than the year prior, when we endured a summer-long Venus retrograde cycle in this same sign. As someone with a Leo-ruled 12th House, my personal anecdotes about Venus in Leo may be a bit of a downer energy, as it most often manifests in a hefty bout of isolation and/or mania to the point of self-destruction when such an elevated energy is brought to my 12th. This in part is exacerbated by my natal detriment Venus in Aries, as those energies feed into one another and create quite the obstacle to surmount in this 3-4 week transit. Beyond my dark house fuckery, Venus in Leo is SUCH a vibrant energy to add to the skies! Leo loves to express, to create, and to be seen, so having this loving, artsy benefic roll through this fire sign sets us up for a period of inspiration, indulgence, and the freedom to show off what you've got! If you've been sitting on a creative project, now is the time to really lock in and start producing the ideas that have been conjuring in your head. As she unites in a trine to Saturn and Neptune, it's that same practical imagination that led us into beginning Mercurial projects at the start of Virgo season, but now with a modified energy. Venus in Cancer watered the seeds planted in July, and everything is about to be in bloom! This time is for loving and connecting, especially those of you with Leo, Aquarius, Aries, or Libra risings! These initial days of Venus in Leo are distinctly loud, again, due to these early degree outer planets that she'll wave to in passing, but what we implement now could blossom into something magnificent by the end of this transit. Whether you're searching for romance and partnership, new artistic expressions, or just trying to come up with a little extra wealth to ride out the final party days of the summertime, this is your transit to really think about what Venusian parts of yourself you want to really explore and grow until late September. Leo is a big ideas guy, so the plans we feel inspired to pursue now can more easily be materially manifested once this planet makes her way to Virgo (though, this sign will bring its own set of challenges to Venus).

Some thoughts to reflect on as we begin to feel this transit take shape include: Where am I at in my relationships and the way I crate and share love, and how can I use this transit to feed into the joy of it? What creative concepts have been wiggling their way into my brain, begging to be cultivated? What steps should I take to ensure that my pride and ego don't stand in the way of what this transit could hold?

For me, I'm going to work hard to ensure that the 12th House trenches don't push me back into the isolation period I'm prone to during this transit, and I'm going to try to utilize the co-presence of Venus and Mercury here to really dig deep and try to begin making and writing music again, because that is how this Venus bug has bit me this go around. I want to maintain my high energy and motivation, which means I have to make sure that I don't crumble at the first brush of self-doubt. Leo loves to thrive and celebrate, but is incredibly sensitive to criticism, so it can become quite a balancing act trying to power through the vulnerability of baring your soul through your craft and not letting the fear or pressure of judgement restrict you.

This month, we are loving freely, living creatively, and letting self-confidence flow! If you were looking for a sign to wear your heart on your sleeve, this is the time to do so, unabashedly and passionately. Cheers!

Happy Saturn day and, for me, oh what a Saturnian day it is! Over the last 24 hours, we have been given our clean slate, entering Virgo season and immediately being thrust into this powerful lunation. This New Moon is our final lunation before we dive into eclipse season in September, and its presence at 0°23" Virgo is truly a force to be reckoned with when it comes to new beginnings. I mentioned this being a Saturnian event for my personal chart, and that is because my natal Saturn lies at 0°23" Taurus, forming a perfect trine to the luminaries that is even more accentuated by transiting Saturn's presence in his separating conjunction with my natal Aries Mercury, ruling over my 1st House and this New Moon. In a nutshell, there's a lot of energy buzzing about for manifestation and kickstarting Mercurial projects, but I can feel the disciplined fist of Saturn finally granting me the workhorse mentality needed to dig deep into what I want to see come to fruition through these transits: practical, consistent writing.

But enough about me! Let's look at the astrology at large.

The Sun carries the Moon into Virgo arm in arm this season, sharing this critical degree spotlight with Saturn currently in retrograde at 0° Aries. Lots has been shifting and shuffling around in regard to these extremely early degree planets, and the particular focus on outer planet ingresses in recent months has created a really pivotal starting point for a variety of different energies, and all sorts of new activity is happening in these respective Houses that hadn't been present for years prior. Think about it, this time six months ago, we had Saturn and Neptune still riding out their time in Pisces, Uranus was still in Taurus, and Pluto was still in in its earliest moments of Aquarius after spending nearly two decades in Capricorn. The shifts that these magnetic outer planets brought forth were seismic and weighted, and this New Moon creating tight aspects with all of these freshly ingressed planets is putting their themes and personal impact under a microscope. The Mercurial influence of Virgo is pushing us all to look critically at what steps we have taken to adapt to the changes placed before us, and what ways we can logically maximize the benefits and rationally assess how to overcome the challenges at hand. This feels particularly relevant with Uranus, residing in fellow Mercurial sign Gemini, with its retrograde on the horizon in mere weeks. Through this pre-eclipse season and post-outer planet ingress lens, now is the time to reflect and very consciously ask ourselves: What patterns and themes regarding our thought processes have changed recently? Are there more things you wish to manifest change towards through this lunation? Have there been any abrupt or sudden movements in your Mercurial processes through the impact of Uranus, or are you feeling more of the steady, longform evolution that planets like Saturn or Pluto are bringing to the table? All in all, now is the time for thought, reflection, and decision-making for how we are going to approach this next chapter and brace ourselves for any of the wide array of outcomes we could see unfolding in our lives as the eclipses revv up to force the changes we aren't always ready to face. My best advice to anyone experiencing a Mercury-heavy transit is to journal, journal, journal! Vomit out the words onto a page and just see what you can find in the freeform thought. Analyze and assess where you are, where you've come from, and where you want to go, and write out your goals as concretely as possible. There is so much power in word and in thought, and times like this grant us a keen ability to really zero in on where the faults in our thinking patterns lie, and how we can strengthen our own capacities for adversity to prepare for the tumult that arise from the upcoming eclipses.

I know for myself personally, I spent a lot of time early in the year in a very dark, anxiety-riddled place, and since Gemini season, I have been working hard to deconstruct my own harmful thought patterns and try to self-analyze as a means to understanding why I have upheld these longstanding fears, no matter how foundationless or illogical they may be. While I'm always an advocate for allowing space to experience and process feelings before rationalizing them, I do think it's important to practice using logic to pull yourself out of ruminations and endless thought spirals. I have had my fair share of incredibly difficult eclipse seasons (particularly the series that occurred in my 8H Aries in 2024 and 12H Leo in 2017), and I know that September's eclipses will hold a most of their weight against my most character-defining placements: my Pisces Sun and my Virgo Ascendant. I am taking this New Moon in Virgo to sit back, continue cultivating all that I have tried to grow, and continue learning and expelling what unhealthy behaviors and patterns are going to continue to hold me back. In doing this, I will work hard to maintain my sense of direction and inner peace as I'm anticipating a fair amount of interpersonal chaos to erupt of these eclipses in my 1st and 7th Houses. The battle of the self vs. the relationship, how I am perceived in my relationships, and what ways I can best adapt my communication styles to ensure that my needs stay met but my relationships don't end up neglected. The Hermit is the tarot card that represents Virgo, so while deep introspection and withdrawal is an essential part of how we process the themes brought up at this time, we must be cautious not to backslide into full blown isolation.

I'll reign in my ramblings for now, but I encourage you to focus on the power of willpower, self-understanding, and thought during this lunation. With Virgo being a mutable sign, now is the time for you to learn the limits of your own adaptability and ensure that you take time to reflect on yourself and your own personal journey, without over-extending yourself at the service of others. Easier said than done if you're like me! But practicing boundaries and introspection now will help guide you through balancing the highly emotional times ahead and provide you with the armor you need to maintain strength and vigilance through any obstacles thrown your way. Remember that there is no limit to the potential of the mind.

Happy New Moon!

What better way to ring in Virgo season than with a new writing endeavor? I started writing daily transit horoscopes 3 years ago, but didn't keep up with them, so I want to really focus on making this a habitual part of my practice and use this account to start. I also do a whole lot of yapping about my analyses and ideas to people who DO support me but have no clue what I'm talking about. I think it would serve me well to get back into expanding my astrological reach socially and try to get back into doing readings simultaneously. I just really missed my astro corner of the world. I'm almost halfway through a Mars-ruled 3H year with his return on the way, and I think I'd be a fool to walk away from the Mercurial spark right now, especially with Mercury being my chart ruler that Saturn and Neptune are currently sitting on. I'm looking forward to harnessing that creative discipline and getting some writing done (because otherwise I might explode lmao)

Anyway, I'm not posting my first proper piece until the New Moon tomorrow, but I had to greet the Sun entering my 1H with a little introductory post. So hello! I do astrology stuff! I want to do this with my life forever and this is my next attempt to start, and I am really excited about it :) I've missed it a bunch