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Venus enters Gemini ♊

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May 2021 Planetary Transits  🪐

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Mercury enters Gemini ♊

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April’s Pink Supermoon in Scorpio: Emotional Purging ♏

“Suffering, if allowed and accepted, has the potential to facilitate transformation and, subsequently, to release from pain.”

Scorpio is the most passionate sign of the zodiac — in this sign, the transiting Moon is taken to a deeper, darker place. 

Passion has many meanings: it can be a powerful emotion (strong anger or joy), a state of sexual desire or love, or agony and suffering (think of the Passion of Jesus). And this supermoon in Scorpio will certainly ignite some type of passion in all of us.

Mars enters Cancer ♋

While Mars in Domicile (Aries) prefers using its energy to fight and move forward, transiting Mars in Cancer prefers using its energy to nurture and protect. 

Mars’ aggression and assertiveness become passive and internalized in Cardinal Water. Collectively, we are more likely to act on instinct at this time to ensure emotional security and protection.

The reactive Mars in Cancer tends to fight for what it’s most emotionally connected to. In other words, if we don’t feel emotionally connected to something, we’re unlikely to take action during this transit.

Battling feelings of helplessness may be exacerbated by the square to Neptune, and we may feel overwhelmed (trine to Jupiter) in the face of what’s happening.

With Mars in Cancer, the reality of pandemic and Zoom fatigue will also set in. Tired and drained from all the uncertainty over things that are out of our control, most of us will retreat into our shells, and seek comfort and security among those closest to us.

Don’t be too hard on yourself or your loved ones while Mars transits through Cancer. Remember — it’s okay to feel your feelings. It’s okay to not be okay. Don’t beat yourself up. This, too, shall pass.

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Taurus Season Forecast: Disruption ♉

This year’s Taurus Season is quite unusual: we have several planets (Venus, Mercury and the Sun) conjunct Uranus, the planet of revolution. 

What does this mean for us on a collective level? 

We’re all going to experience radical changes and surprises in our personal relationships (Venus) and communication (Mercury). Uranus is associated with disruption of established social orders. The planet will challenge us to re-evaluate everything we know on the physical plane, making us re-evaluate our place in this world (Sun) as well as our attachments, values, and self-worth.

Uranus’ futuristic qualities will have us looking to the future while re-evaluating our existing connections. Where Saturn in Aquarius seeks to structure and stabilize or restrict what it touches, Uranus tends to disrupt (some would say liberate) it.

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Aries New Moon on April 11 – 12, 2021 ♈

Mercury enters Aries ♈

Mercury has now joined the Sun, Venus & Chiron in Aries. 

This Cardinal Fire Stellium 🔥 screams of impulsive energy—a tendency to act on a whim, often without thinking. 

Behavior that exhibits less forethought, reflection, or consideration of the consequences will be at the forefront until April 19. 

Expect the unexpected with this transit as it brings rushed decisions, sudden or quick news, heated communication, more action, arguments, disagreements, or conflict. It’ll be easy to lose your cool at this time, so stay mindful. 

While this transit is great for taking action and moving things forward, it is important not to rush anything or jump to conclusions before thinking things through.

Mercury is literally going to get scorched by the Sun in the coming weeks. Do not act on an impulse when Mercury is combust by the Sun in Aries!

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Planetary Gemstones in Astrology 💎

In the Hellenistic world, magical gemstones were used as markers for the planets.

During astrological consultations, ancient astrologers used stones engraved with names or figures of the planetary gods to represent the planets. The stones allowed the astrologer to call upon the divine associations of the planets. 

And, if each stone was made of the substance proper to its planet, this allowed the astrologer to invoke the magical properties of the stones themselves. 

The biggest misconception people (and even astrologers) have about ☊ Rahu (North Node) and ☋ Ketu (South Node) is that you need to "move away" from Ketu and "fully embrace" your Rahu because Ketu signifies the past and Rahu signifies the future.

However, this is a misguided understanding of the Rahu-Ketu polarity. You cannot ever truly "move away" from something in your chart. It's always going to be there—it's part of who YOU are. You aren't supposed to discard your South Node just because it represents the past. The past (Ketu) shapes the present and the present shapes the future (Rahu).

To unlock the potential of BOTH Rahu-Ketu in your chart, you need to first realize that you don't need to balance the two because they're NOT contradictory. In fact, they can (and should) be mutually supportive. That's the whole key to solving the Rahu-Ketu riddle.

You need to find a way to synthesize that polarity.

For example, I have Rahu in Pisces and Ketu in Virgo. That doesn't mean that I need to stop being practical, realistic and analytical. What it actually means for me is that I need to learn how to harmonize the practical (Virgo) and the ideological (Pisces).

In other words, my challenge is mainly to discover how to make my abstract interests (Pisces) generate tangible results (Virgo) and contribute to solving my daily, real-world problems and needs.

Dreams are not antithetical to daily realities. Imagination and creative thought are not antithetical to maths and logic. Imagination lacks detail and specificity if we do not work to give it practical shape in the tangible world. The tangible world, conversely, will be dull and unimportant without being empowered by imagination.

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