December 20th – December 26th, 2021  

To start off the week, we begin with Mercury in Capricorn making a trine to Uranus retrograde in Taurus. When two Earth signs work together it helps us maintain a practical understanding of where we need to focus our efforts to handle our situations in the most effective way. Uranus is helping us experiment with changing our mindsets and seeing things from a different perspective. This may help in finding solutions or coming up with innovative ideas for the year ahead of us. 

On the 21st, we have the official ingress of the Sun moving into its next phase and immediately it will form an inconjunct with the North Node in Gemini. This will highlight what information we need to know inorder to work with our current burdens, not against them. Globally, we could see crucial information coming out about our history, our national responsibilities and our societal burdens we will be taking on moving forward. On this same day, Mercury will join up with Juno in Capricorn. This looks like receiving some clarity on what traditions, systems, authorities and establishments we are willing to uphold and which ones we are willing to denounce. Juno represents our public declarations of loyalty. Mercury represents messages, news and communication. As they join up in Capricorn, we will renew our relationship to our own history and what traditions we stand by and truly respect. We may have to see certain systems, authority figures and established traditions from a new light and maybe one that is quite disappointing. 

The major event of this week will take place on Christmas Eve, when there will be a third and final Saturn/Uranus square this year. Uranus is in Taurus which is ruled by Venus who, on the same day, will be joining up with Pluto during its retrograde. This does look pretty heavy to me. Saturn in Aquarius has been pushing us to restructure our sense of responsibility to the collective and to the well-being of our futures. Uranus in Taurus has been disrupting and reinventing how we secure our own personal resources and sustain our personal boundaries against systems that try to exploit our time, energy and overall value. As they meet up to square again, these issues will come to a head, this time being influenced by the fear of loss and separation (Pluto) from love, comfort and connection (Venus). We might see an increase of responsibility or a necessity to step up. We may suddenly have our sense of security and stability be disrupted. It may be a slow burn or happen in one big event. Either way, it marks a time of significant change. 

While all of this is happening, Mars In Sagittarius, the planet of willpower and motivation, will be making a trine to Chiron in Aries, the asteroid of human vulnerability. We could see a more seamless motivation to defend our blindspots or our weak points. We could also proceed to take action that is more understanding and reassuring when we cannot get the desired results we are going after, exactly when we want them. Mars in Sagittarius can help us feel more inspired by risk and that can help us be more sensitive to where we think we are falling short of victory. There does not have to be a crystal clear purpose to what we are doing. It’s okay to move forward without a strict plan.   

To finish out the week, we will experience Jupiter in Aquarius square Ceres in Taurus. There may be a push towards gaining unfamiliar experiences that show us how to love something, tend to it, feel a sense of ownership and then let it go. Ceres is the Parental Asteroid. It teaches us how to tend to something and care for it while ultimately being able to send it off as its own self. When Jupiter mixes in, we can expect to have to expand that type of wisdom in ways we may not be prepared for. Finally, Mercury will sextile Neptune on Sunday. This can help us utilize our imagination to play into healthy fantasy, spirituality and escapism. We can use this energy to absorb more in our environments and notice things we do not usually. This can help in trusting our intuition more than our rational mind so that we do what feels in alignment with our character, not just what is expected.

December 27th – January 2nd, 2021 

Monday brings to us Mars in Sagittarius forming an aspect with Uranus in Taurus. This may be a chance to lighten our load by taking a risk and hoping for the best. Uranus has been disturbing our sense of material security for a while now but Mars in this Mutable Fire sign has enough guts to risk it all and jump into the wild unknown taking whatever we can get to change up our current situation. Saturn in Aquarius will also be communicating with this Mars energy, however, Saturn will help us move deliberately and strategically through each step we need to take on as we challenge ourselves to push through unfamiliar territory. 

Quite a few events happen on Wednesday, the 29th. Firstly we have Jupiter, the planet of growth through exploration, will be moving into its home sign of Pisces. It will stay here until around May of 2022. In the Mutable Water Sign, Jupiter helps us grow by taking us down an internal journey. Learning to trust our intuition, learning to trust source and becoming more accepting of synchronistic mysteries. Being able to throw our hands in the air and let life happen to us rather than force a collision with fate, is what Jupiter in Pisces will assist with. We can use this energy to minimize stress by lifting personal/individual responsibility off of our shoulders when it is not necessary to do so. 

There is a lot of talk about personal accountability right now, however, taking on too much blame is just as useless as not holding yourself at fault for anything. Jupiter will be teaching us what is in our control and what is not and how to let go of stress, anxiety, dread and worry and replace it with inner peace, inner trust and personal calmness. We can also expect to see more mania and hysteria, as the downside of Pisces is an inability to find tranquility and instead the chaos takes over our better judgment. Pisces absorbs everything in an environment so if we are not careful, we can be susceptible to irrational worries and overblown delusions. It is important to find a healthy quiet within so that we have somewhere safe to retreat even if everything around us is going wild. 

As Jupiter will make a square to the Nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius, we may receive some information or have conversations that can easily send us spiraling into existential dread. We can also be exposed to information that guides us towards answers that we really needed to hear. So, be on your toes but try not to let the noise overwhelm you completely. Another main player this week will be Mercury. It first makes a conjunction with Venus Retrograde and Pluto in Capricorn. This looks like some level of clarifying information will reach us about our fears of loss, happiness, value and toxic patterns in our social behavior. Mercury will later retrograde over these themes again in January/February of 2022. We may get the first wave of a message and then during the retrograde we will reflect and analyze what we need to understand more deeply. 

The Sun in Capricorn will come to square Chiron in Aries during the week. This will highlight our insecurities around identity, self-respect and our ability to take action without permission. The Sun will shine a spotlight on these vulnerabilities so that we can address what wounds clearly need to be healed. The Sun will also trine Uranus in Taurus. This will allow space to experiment and try out a new way of handling ourselves and the circumstances we have found ourselves in. We could be asked to liberate ourselves from these self-limiting insecurities. 

Over the weekend, Mercury will move into Aquarius and form an aspect to the North Node in Gemini. This may definitely be a time where we can have a stronger mind to make effective decisions with more access to more useful information and forms of communication. The New Moon in Capricorn will also take place on Sunday, the 2nd. This will be the marker of a Six Month period where we can focus on achievable goals and develop patience with our success rate.      

January 3rd – January 9th, 2021

This seems to be a more quiet week. Not too many heavy hitters, when it comes to transits so maybe take this time to rest as we prepare for the high impact of next week. Most of this week will be Venus returning to the same connections it made a couple weeks ago as it retrogrades through Capricorn. The first of which will be a sextile to Neptune in Pisces. This is what makes this week feel very sleepy to me. Neptune tends to slow down time and encourage us to pause and rest rather than charge ahead and push through the day. 

With Venus included, life can feel more aligned and maybe there will be moments where everything falls into place. Venus Retrograde may ask us to reflect on our relationship patterns and find a sense of acceptance and compassion for our past or current behaviors and those of others. We may be able to relinquish some bitterness with this aspect as we develop more empathy for the actions of other people and ourselves. An appreciation of the little pleasures in life may be felt as well as seeing the value in our love language even if it is often misunderstood.   

Venus Retrograde will also rejoin Juno in Capricorn towards the middle of the week. This can renew our sense of loyalty to our priorities. We may rearrange what is the most effective use of our time based on a fresh take on what or who we are committing ourselves. Within our relationships, we could be re-evaluating if we are headed in the same direction as our partners, or if we have conflicting ambitions that are slowing us down. I see Juno as our public declaration of personal principles. It is our public deal breaker and the line that we will not cross out of a sense of morality. Take some time this week to review how intentional you are with your resources and who you are willing to give your time, energy and money to. Are they worth it?

On Saturday,  The Sun will meet up with this Venus Retrograde energy and highlight all that we have been going through this week. This can serve as some kind of clarity around what traditions are worthy of appreciation and what are not. We can have a realization within our social arrangements and how we want to interact with others moving forward. It is definitely a significant aspect being made during the entirety of this retrograde. For the rest of the month, we may be applying what we came to see so clearly during this week. 

Finally, this weekend also includes Mercury in Aquarius sextile Chiron in Aries. This is another opening to show ourselves more grace and understanding of our flaws, imperfections, perceived weaknesses, and insecurities. We can use this energy as a way to come up with better ways to handle our sore feelings and our relationship to vulnerability. This whole week is really about going easy on ourselves and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

January 10th – January 16th (19th) , 2021 

Neptune continues to hold a lot of sway in the beginning of this week, as well. On Monday, Mars in Sagittarius will make a square to Neptune and the Sun in Capricorn will sextile Neptune in Pisces. When Mars has to interact with Neptune, its efforts can feel ineffective. There can be a deflated feeling to the usual motivated and active energy. Mars wants to be direct and take a linear approach. Neptune is fuzzy, foddy and likes things to flow naturally. So, our personal efforts may come up short if we try to shoot our arrow too directly towards a target. The target may disappear and we will need to be open to adapting. This aspect can also bring on delusional acts of grandeur, however, where we overestimate our ability to accomplish a goal. The best way to get through this transit is by moving with a general sense of direction and intention, but not getting too attached to the results.  

The Sun in Capricorn will be sextiling Neptune in Pisces. The Sun also works to bring attention to the issues that we are facing in regards to that planet or sign or area of our charts. This aspect can help us be more accepting of our lives and the lack of control we may feel. This is an aspect that helps us trust the universe and time and develop a patience with any confusion we may be feeling. Juno and the Sun will meet up in Capricorn on Monday, as well. Again, this will bring a louder attention towards renewing our relationship to self-discipline, dedication, hard work, longevity and authority. 

A few weeks back we experienced Mercury in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus. This week, Mercury in Aquarius will make a square to Uranus. Whatever innovative idea we were mulling over, this is when we can implement it and put our new mentality to use and start experimenting. This is right before Mercury goes Retrograde which will start on Friday, the 14th. For the next several weeks, we will be reviewing and reflecting on the changes we are facing in our lives and how that is affecting our mentalities and point of view. We will be perceiving our life in a very different way by the end of this transit. Trying out an inventive idea that we have can help us weed out what will work for us and what will not as the retrograde goes on until early February. 

On Sunday, we have the Sun combining with Pluto in Capricorn. This will bring attention to our relationship with toxicity, power struggles, and our ability to turn a powerless situation towards our favor. Pluto helps us turn things on their head and make the strong, weak and the weak, strong. With the Sun here, it brings a sense of confidence and creativity.  

At the end of Capricorn season, the Nodes will make their move into Taurus and Scorpio. I will talk about this more in the Aquarius Season article but they technically move during Cap Season. The Taurus/Scorpio polarity will emphasize personal resources, material security, personal boundaries, emotional security, intimacy, trauma, violations, enriching experiences, redefining value and building a self-sustainable approach to life. This will happen on January 18th and will last into the early part of 2023.