Notes on the New Moon in Pisces: March 6, 2019

This New Moon in Pisces is the marriage of practicality and magic, of form and the formless. There is no use for having your head in the clouds if that high-mindedness isn’t informing the more mundane aspects of your everyday life. That is always the caution with Pisces—daydreaming in a way that makes the mind fertile for imagination, yet does nothing to fertilize the actual ground, the one we must stand on, the one from which the structure of our lives is erected.  Done right, this New Moon can set the trajectory for a lived experience that is imbued with spirituality and creativity. In proper doses, Pisces acts as the lubricant for our drier, uninspired places. The agility and mutability to move through the walls and blockages in our lives by finding the nooks and cracks that will allow for progress. This lunation will ask what edifices in your life could use the steady erosion of Piscean water, carving out curves and softness where rigidity and rough edges impeded your movement. Equally so, this lunation may ask you to build a more practical spiritual life with the softness and structure of a sandcastle, with the insight to continue to sculpt and re-mold, to let what washes away wash away. Not too close to the ocean, where all form is destroyed, yet not rooted too firmly inland, where we deprive ourselves of hopeful hydration.

If floating in or even being around all this water intimidates you, as Pisces season naturally seems to correlate with heightened sensitivity, then buoy up buttercups. Jupiter rules and squares this lunation from Sagittarius, meaning there will be no lack of hope and optimism, should you activate it. The natural osmosis of Pisces also absorbs positive feelings, so do not resign yourself to sadness and tears, confirming pop Astrology’s bias. As uncomfortable as vulnerability can be, it is the gatekeeper to experiencing true happiness, even bliss. So let the floodgates open and you may find that tears create space for joy, the small erosions of your emotional life carving out exquisite form, whether you see it now or not. Jupiter also loves a teaching moment, an intermission wherein hardship is replaced by wisdom and guides your story towards a happier ending.  Look upon your experiences, good or bad, with compassion, building firmer understanding of yourself. Overtime, this mindfulness can become spiritual practice, a piece of Pisces always present as your life unfolds, watering the rough patches in anticipation of the bloom.

And what of all this scaffolding? A sextile from Mars in Taurus ensures none of this is wishful thinking, bringing in the element of doing. And not doing for the sake of doing, for Mars in Taurus is slow and deliberate, its war path paved with stability and security. This sextile gives the lofty Pisces ideals a soft landing place, ensuring that intentions made here aren’t superfluous and can actually take form. And unlike Saturn, forming the other end of a supportive sextile from Capricorn, asking us to make our goals regimented and sturdy with a dispassionate glare from across the solar system, Mars here is more concerned with making sure we feel good. That is the Taurus way, indulging the senses, not in ways that impede our growth, but in ways that can beautify our experiences. Candles, walks in nature, cozy blankets, massages, nutritious food, holding hands with a loved one—and all the myriad of ways that Taurus takes the spiritual initiatives of Pisces makes them physical, fusing magic into matter. You could also say that Taurus makes sense of the nebulous nature of Pisces, where ideas can fail to be downloaded into actual action plans. Mars in Taurus makes these dreams tangible, slowing down where slowing down is needed, and charging forth with tenacity where Pisces can become passive. Though sitting unbothered in Aquarius for this lunation with a fading square to Uranus, Venus and Venusian qualities still provide a backbone to this lunation. Venus exalts in Pisces and domiciles in Taurus, a correspondence worth noting, especially as Venus’ higher octave sibling, Neptune, sits right next to this New Moon and since she presides over Mars here. More so than ever, this can be a day where the sky dazzles with grace and beauty, fairness and love, compassion and diplomacy, coloring the intentions made here with rose gold. And with Jupiter already in the picture, I firmly believe this Pisces New Moon can be a cosmic influx goodies. Oh, goodness!

Of course there is no getting around a newly retrograde Mercury. More likely than not, you are already familiar with all the supposed negatives of this movement, and are probably scattering to finalize big plans or purchases. You probably also already know that Mercury is in fall in Pisces and are hunkering down, doubly so. All these tantalizing headlines will command your attention, so I will instead point you towards my byline, and note the positive potentials of Mercury RX in Pisces. Retrogrades can correspond with times where the energy of the planet is focused inward, and with Mercury it can be a magnifying glass on your cognitions. In Pisces, Mercury is intuitive, prone to truth-seeking with emotion. Since all emotion starts first with a thought, this is a prime time to uproot or otherwise review those beliefs, perseverations, and old stories that have bounced around between your ears and become aware of where they are not serving you, how they inform your moods either correctly or incorrectly. Mercury in Pisces is also a keen observer of body language, or otherwise the ways in which we can communicate without words. This is a highly specialized skill, and turned inward, can make this a heightened time of intimacy with yourself and others. You may come to find out things that have eluded articulation, or tap into wellsprings of tantric communication. Where garden-variety Astrology outlets warn of confusion and missteps, which are possible, I invite you to also lean into the possibility that Mercury RX in Pisces can also provide clarity, as you dive deep into information that is normally obfuscated. With a heavy Earth signature, and the natural spirituality of Pisces, this lunation paired with this retrograde can be alchemical, transforming density into something magical. And simply, this can also correspond with a time of profound creativity—poetry, painting, singing—all the ways Mercury in Pisces turns art into conversation. When Mercury last transited Pisces, though not retrograde, I found a meditation practice that continues to provide dividends. Take advantage of Mercury’s languorous walk through Pisces. May what you intuit here bolster you into fresh and new expressions in time for Aries season, where what Pisces waters eventually becomes blossom.

Lastly, and as if this point hasn’t already been hammered in enough, Neptune’s conjunction with this lunation makes it ripe, again, for spiritual growth and all things psychic and holy. This is also a signature of prolific creativity, with the potential to be deeply touched by art, or to create the art that deeply touches. Neptune is where we idealize, which is where the planet gets its dubious associations from. But like with Mercury’s retrograde, it is more productive to me to point out the positives here rather than lumping on to what we already fear about Neptune. This lunation may put you in contact with people, beliefs, ideas, communities, publications or creations that serve the awakening of your spirit. If Jupiter teaches your mind, then Neptune teaches your soul. This New Moon, more than any one in 2019, lifts up a veil between the immaterial and your physical incarnation, providing intentions set here with a hefty dose of divinity, held in trust by mighty cosmic companions. Neptune, like the archetype of Pisces, can be a great healer, surpassing three-dimensional understanding with broader, more transcendent truths. Adjust the scope of your life, where tunnel-vision and ruts keep you small, let Pisces help you expand and stay flexible. There is medicine in the sky here, and an inherent sensitivity that wants to help you soak it all in. Do not fear these feeling times, or cast doubt upon your emotions—instead, let them lead you. Only then can you learn to stop swimming against the tides of your life.

“Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me...that day, when my eyes were opened to the sea.” –Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Reframing Aquarius

Reframing Aquarius: How the cool and detached offer us our best chance at love

Like Capricorn and Christmas, Aquarius and Valentine’s Day seem to be fundamentally at odds. Where the serious Saturn-ruled earth sign seems incongruous to merrymaking, so does the Saturn-ruled air sign seem an out-of-place home for one of the more romantic days of the year. If pop Astrology had its way, Aquarius would remain inextricably associated with stereotypes of distance and detachment. While those descriptors are certainly relevant, they are not the end of the story.  You may find Taurus or Libra more fitting for Valentine’s Day, where the planet of love and romance is home. Or Pisces, where the planet of love and romance is exalted. Perhaps even Leo, where bouquets of red and pink balloons and Leo-ruled heart-shaped boxes of candy proudly boast and roar: love!  But in removing the superficial layers that surround the misunderstood Aquarius, we can come to understand why Cupid’s foray through this cerebral sign is no accident, and rather points us towards a more fitting, yet shocking, conclusion: that the Aquarius love is deep and endless, that the Aquarian heart throbs with undiluted passion. If this shocks you, good. Aquarius enjoys a revolution. And so may this revolution set Aquarius free from misinformation, and set ablaze a new way of thinking.

Where Taurus makes love physical, Libra makes love artful and Pisces makes love dreamy—Aquarius makes love ideal. In any working definition of the word romance, “idealized love” makes a literal or alluded appearance. It can be said, then, that from Aquarius, the idea of love is born and celebrated. And from ideas, all things sprout. This isn’t altogether odd. Aquarius deals with intellect and logic. And ruled by Saturn, striving towards lasting standards of excellence and fairness, signposts of anything ideal, lines up with what we know about the archetype. So in enhancing love to its most ideal place, the Aquarius romance comes with a bigger heart and bigger mission. As a humanitarian sign, Aquarius is not particular about love— who deserves it, who is giving it, why it went away, when it’ll come, how it looks, etc. With the power of scope and objectivity, Aquarius love transcends physical limitations and instead becomes a universal concept under which all of humankind can shelter. And what could be more romantic, more loving, than the unrelenting acceptance Aquarius offers? And so where things aren’t sensual enough for Taurus, refined enough for Libra, or magical enough for Pisces—Aquarius asks no price of admission, for love to them remains priceless, a public good to be doled out and shared not on pretense, but on brotherhood. It is Aquarius’s love of humankind and fraternity that expands the concept of love: come one, come all, and come as you are.

Saint Valentine of Rome, whose written account has come to serve as a historical template for the beginnings of Valentine’s Day, acted out these Aquarian ideals. He performed weddings for those forbidden to marry and when sent to jail, healed his jailer’s daughter of blindness. Afterwards and right before he was due to be executed, he sent a letter to the jailer’s daughter, and signed it, your Valentine. Saint Valentine of Rome was also said to give out paper hearts while ministering to people about God’s love, and a direct line can be drawn from this action to the typical Valentine’s Day decorations we see today. In this brief tale, we meet two Aquarian archetypes, the former more recognizable than the latter: rebellion and compassion. A humanitarian thing to do despite the laws of the time, Saint Valentine, though perhaps not an Aquarius himself, extolled all of the best, yet often ignored testaments of the sign—the push towards equality, that all deserve to have their love legitimized and recognized, endless empathy for the human condition, and the Love with a capital L that drives one to such measures. Religion aside, Valentine lived and died on one principal: that love, in all its myriad forms, is for all. Anyone who dies for love is a romantic to me. That the Sun was travailing through Aquarius as the framework for our modern conception of Valentine’s Day was underway can be no coincidence. All of Astrology bears correspondence to human events, even if they remain obscured or misunderstood for a time. But let’s mount more evidence...

In Ancient Greece, Aquarius season coincided with Gamelion, the month of marriage. Two festivals occurred then, roughly translated to Sacred Wedding and Divine Wedding. These festivals celebrated the union of Zeus and Hera. In Roman texts, Hera was known as Juno, the goddess of marriage. If Juno sounds familiar, it is because an asteroid was named after her and has come to represent what is looked for in marriage and commitment. Modern natal chart calculators can show where Juno is in the sky for the native, and most often it points to the characteristics of a most suitable long-term partner. So what is it about Aquarius that corresponds to these cultivations of lasting love and marriage? Look to the element and modality: fixed air. Like any fixed sign, Aquarius holds on tight and when best expressed can exalt the virtues of fidelity. Of course, any ideal marriage or partnership needs this brand of loyalty and perseverance. Though much is said about the Aquarius need for space, even the Aquarius need for isolation, it cannot be overlooked that when in love, Aquarius is one of the more steadfast partners, seeking not for frivolous union, but for deep connection. But the elemental structure of Aquarius sets it apart from the rest of the fixed family. It can be said that inherent in the Aquarian archetype are two life-sustaining elements: air, and water, as Aquarius is the water-bearer, often mistaken by novices as a water sign. No living being can do without air or water. And so the Aquarian love is life-sustaining, from which all bounty and blessings grow, from which all beings benefit. It is the grandeur of this concept that gives Aquarius its aloof quality—their love is so universal and welcoming that to the casual observer, it appears impersonal. But it is precisely the scope of Aquarius love that makes it so palpable, an equally matched breadth and depth. Where fixed Taurus can become materialistic, fixed Leo can become self-aggrandizing, and fixed Scorpio can brood and become paranoid, no more fixed is Aquarius than the air it represents: ubiquitous, self-sustaining, stretched over distance yet deeply intimate, as oxygen and the connectivity of breath is shared by all. Co-dependency has long reigned as a romantic model of love, clinginess and self-dissolution perversely used as measures of affection. Psychology has now caught up and identified this proclivity as self-sabotaging and unhealthy. The Aquarius model of live and let live in love can appear threatening to the osmosis some wish to experience, or expect to experience. But it offers us our best chance of healthy love—as when air is squelched out of the equation, breathing becomes labored, and the life of the relationship is threatened. When inserted in mutually consented amounts, air allows for space, wherein two individuals (or more, *wink*) can fully stretch out into their identity, their lived experience, always feeling supported, but never entrapped. That is what Aquarius offers—a love given the air to float, fly, and transcend.

In a sense, and as alluded to above, Aquarius love can be cerebral. But as all things start with thought, this isn’t to be feared. The belief of a thing creates the experience of a thing. So for Aquarius to hold you in their minds with love and affection is to tap into a potent creative energy, one that serves as the basis for all emotion and action. Intellect has no bounds. Neither do the Aquarius flights of fancy. And because these ideas are fixed, good luck changing the Aquarian mind. Once loved, always loved. For Aquarius, the idea of love for a person, up close or from afar, is to render that love timeless and shapeless, graduated out the physical dimensions of gift-giving, face-time and attention, and into an ethereal experience. Aquarius is the sign of freedom and independence. To give love the freedom to expand, to individuate, untethered by expectation or precedent, is to experience ecstasy.

Aquarius is ruled by Saturn. There is, then, a resonance with Aquarius and Saturn’s sign of exaltation—Libra. Libra, in some ways, is the sign of marriage, one-on-one partnership, diplomacy, and fairness. Therefore, there is a through-line connecting the idea of peaceful partnership and love to the Aquarius archetype. With this link, Saturn, and by virtue, Aquarius, can delight when relationships become stable and enduring, planting fertile ground for love and romance to blossom perennially.

In sum, I invite you to reframe what you’ve heard about Aquarius. Leave room for the wondrous ways in which this sign offers us our best chance at experiencing a true love, and hold space for a history that can corroborate it. Remember that as the water bearer, Aquarius has within it all the emotional capacity apparent in any other sign. Only, unlike any other sign, Aquarius shoulders these emotional conditions with impenetrable strength and understanding, turning them into nutrient, tilling human soil, watering it with compassion. In this alchemical process, all human experience, the sordid and splendid, meet their highest resolution in the arms of Aquarius. It is this level of belonging, of feeling seen and heard, that allows unbridled love to flow. It could be that the Aquarius tendency for distance and austerity is merely erected as a means of protection. That the love they feel for others must somehow be contained behind a wall, less it completely overwhelm them, less their waters drown the world. But do not be mistaken—beyond the ideas of coldness and detachment lies a soft, loving center. A sweetness disguised, but always alive.

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

-William Shakespeare

Eclipse Prescriptions: What Each Rising Sign Can Expect From The Leo Lunar Eclipse

The Full Moon in Leo is the last chapter of the series of Leo-Aquarius eclipses we have been experiencing for the last year and a half. A total lunar eclipse, this event gives you one final avenue to emotionally absorb and understand the lessons Leo has taught you. Standing boldly across the sky from the Sun at 0 degrees of Leo, this lunation roars, bursting forth with undiluted passion. It is said sometimes that any planet at 0 degrees is entering new territory. Though this is the last of eclipses in Leo for some time, its finality begets urgency—how will you incorporate the lion’s lessons as you embark out into your new territories, the areas of your life that were set ablaze with realizations, dramas, or successes? Leo loves a show, always encouraging you to shine, take up space, and be unabashedly yourself. May what you have learned glitter through your awareness, and outward into your experience. And may you pass this final exam with flying colors, a spectacle befitting only the lion.

But of course there is no getting around Leo’s cooler and cerebral sister: Aquarius. All things exist on a continuum. There is no self-love without also considering the objective love of all humankind. There can be no ego without the collective that threatens to extinguish it, no heart without the veins supplying blood to it. And so as the Sun enters Aquarius on this day, focus shifts away from self and onto society. The Leo-Aquarius axis, to me, has always asked: where can your unique gifts and talents be of help and service to the world at large? Now is the time to consider this and set our compasses towards using our gifts to be a gift upon the world. And on a personal level—where can the places you shine help illuminate your world at large, the grand expanse of your own life?  This is an axis of creativity—whatever is built in one area serves to grow and enlighten its opposite area. The Sun in Aquarius offers us an objective look at what these eclipses have meant for the unfolding of our lives, and now with this final lunar event in Leo, grow into an emotional understanding about how to move forward with it.

Uranus plays an important role in this eclipse, forming the apex of a T-Square involving the Sun and the Moon. Out of retrograde, Uranus may bring forth suddenness and surprises. A massive surge of energy in stable Capricorn, paired with your own skilled understanding of what the Leo-Aquarius eclipses have meant for you ensures that this doesn’t have to be destabilizing, but invigorating, perhaps electrifying your way forward with renewed gusto. And should anything disrupt your momentum, have trust in its ability to reroute you into diviner directions. These are fated times, my friends. Eclipse seasons always are. And with Uranus in the picture, life may orchestrate plot twists you never saw coming. But if you have faith in the overall arc of your life, the story it can tell, and your own agency over those stories, you are able to turn your pages without fear of what the future holds. For you know that there are no happily ever after’s without tending to what must come before.

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 Aries & Libra: The Leo-Aquarius eclipses lit up your 5th and 11th houses. Eclipses here may have invigorated your pleasures and creativity, expanding where you already have them, or opening the door where they have been denied. The common thread of creation and joy is self-love, seeing your talents as worthy of expressing, and seeing yourself as worthy to be admired by others. There may have been invitations to not to take life so seriously, or perhaps life became so serious that your only out was unadulterated fun and flow. There is courageousness on this axis, as inevitably, what is created in the 5th receives attention in the 11th. The interplay between your friends and groups, and your own sense of authentic autonomy may have been at play, teasing out those people and places that may not fully support your creative or carnal honesty or perhaps finding the ones that do. Issues of romance and dating could have also weighed heavily, as love, and finding it, is inherently a creative act. You may have sought the solace of children, created one of your own, or else unleashed the one within. This last eclipse asks you to make concrete where you create your belonging.

Leo on the cusp of the 5th house is the gift of play, Aquarius on the 11th means making sure that what you create can serve the greater whole.

Leo on the cusp of the 11th house is the gift of congeniality, Aquarius on the 5th means making sure your social connections feed your heart.

Taurus & Scorpio: The Leo-Aquarius eclipses illuminated the 4th and 10th houses of your chart. This axis is one of private versus public. The way you perform in your career seriously hinges upon the roots you plant for yourself. You cannot stand tall on rocky foundations. Eclipses here may have forced changes around your home or family, and seeing those changes directly benefit or subvert you in your public and vocational life. There may have also been a focus on yin and yang, passive and assertive, as teetering too far in either temperament jeopardizes your need to feel productive but to also feel at peace. Remember, you can have both. There may have even been power struggles with bosses, authority figures, family, or with your own pride surrounding house, home, and status. Keeping up with the Joneses squelches the creative energy that can be spent on building an authentic career that can serve your family and the world at large. This last eclipse asks you to make concrete your commitment to work-life balance, seeing worldly ambitions and domestic duties as equally important.

Leo on the 4th house cusp is the gift of tribe and tradition, Aquarius on the 10th means letting that support your destiny.

Leo on the 10th house cusp is the gift of fame, Aquarius on the 4th means always staying true to your roots.

Gemini & Sagittarius: The Leo-Aquarius eclipses have rocked your 3rd and 9th houses. This is an axis of learning and teaching, community and foreign lands, communication and beliefs. This section of your chart has to do with broadening your mind and illuminating your life’s path through the synthesizing of education, whether through traditional or non-traditional means. Whether in the classroom or out in your community or world at large. This new information may have tweaked or made solid your beliefs, or otherwise created wholly different ones. This last eclipse asks you to make concrete what you have learned and use it to bolster your star power as a teacher, communicating joyfully from a place of authority and wisdom.

Leo on the 3rd house cusp is the gift of gab, Aquarius on the 9th means using that gab to inspire and awaken us all.  

Leo on the 9th house cusp is the gift of confidence, Aquarius on the 3rd means sharing this light with your community.

 Cancer: & Capricorn This last series of eclipses has happened in your 2nd and 8th houses. The need for security and stability may have been a preeminent cause for concern. Known as a money axis, eclipses here may have granted you new ways to secure income or else focus on building a financial and material life befitting of you, perhaps through borrowing or from aggrandizing the personality. You may have also come into contact with the immaterial facets of security, like valuing your talents and yourself. How comfortable you feel here is in direct proportion to how much you can give of yourself. There may have also been events urging you not to base your safety or esteem on material gains, but instead on the inner riches of your humanness. This last eclipse asks you to make concrete the ways you choose to find value in your world, and to strike a balance between material breadth and emotional depth. Get serious about the debts in your life, be them financial or relational.

Leo on the 2nd house cusp is the gift of creative abundance, Aquarius on the 8th means sharing that abundance, and yourself, with others.

Leo on the 8th house cusp is the gift of deep bonding, Aquarius on the 2nd means using those bonds to transform your esteem and attachment to material.

Leo & Aquarius: The Leo-Aquarius eclipses may have changed the way you present in the world, and interface with people. In your 1st and 7th houses, the axis of self and the other, you have experienced events that called you to step more authentically into your identity, and to live from a place of honesty. The eclipses may have challenged your self image, or called upon you to strengthen and make more functional your physical vessel. This relationship to self provides the means through which you relate to others, so your own personal dynamics became relationship dynamics. Through your bonds with others, you learned about yourself, and through your bond with yourself, you learned about others. This last eclipse asks you make concrete what you have learned through your interpersonal dramas, your evolving identity, and your relationship to your place in the world.

Leo on the 1st house cusp is the gift of popularity, Aquarius on the 7th means making sure others get to feel like a star too.

Leo on the 7th house cusp is the gift of proud partnership, Aquarius on the 1st means making sure you’re also proud of yourself.

Virgo & Pisces: The Leo-Aquarius eclipses have brought activity to your 6th-12th house axis. Eclipses here may have triggered awakenings in the areas of spirituality and service. Mental health and physical health are also of concern. You have come to learn that the work and service you do out in the world has ramifications on your inner worlds and your spiritual health, and vice versa. Your inner and outer routines may have been forced into your awareness, where too much focus on the physical suffocates the metaphysical, and too much retreat into nebulous realms may limit your effectiveness in the real world. Events may have made you aware of habits that need to change, organization that needs to happen, body parts that need more attention, or work that needs to be done—all of which serve a greater sense of peace. A life in order becomes a sanctuary.  As these recalibrations take place either with your daily routines, or the cosmic routines of karma and psychic wounding, tend to yourself with compassion. For then it then becomes the compassion that is available to others. This eclipse asks you to make harmonic your invisible and visible worlds, building habits in both directions that can serve your life.

Leo on the 12th house cusp is the gift of sensitivity, Aquarius on the 6th asks you to serve from that softness.

Leo on the 6th house cusp is the gift of dedication, Aquarius on the 12th means making sure you give your all to yourself too.

Eclipse Prescriptions: What Each Rising Sign Can Expect from the Capricorn Solar Eclipse Today

If you don’t know your rising sign, read from the POV of your Sun Sign if born during the day, or from the POV of your Moon Sign if born during the night. The themes of this partial Solar Eclipse may carry on for the next year and a half, as the Capricorn-Cancer axis in your chart is activated by the transiting nodes.

Aries: Big one for you Aries. Happening in your angular 10th house of career and status, this eclipse can bring about monumental change in the work you do in the world and how you are seen, received and praised for it. It may have the power to catapult you into success, so long as you have the Capricorn work ethic and integrity to back it up and don’t stop short to start something else. Otherwise, an eclipse here may teach you to be a bit more methodical about your work in the world, going about it with backbreaking diligence, and learning to find success through the accomplishments of smaller goals that accumulate over time. It will call for an organization of your efforts and an attention to the details of your dreams. In some cases, you may experience a breakthrough or breakdown with a boss/mentor/father-like figure. Or even a sudden change wherein you are the boss or have the final say. But do not despair, anything that seems to fall apart here is creating space for something better to take its place. With transit Saturn and Pluto already here, this eclipse will give you the energy to eliminate or make you aware of useless endeavors. And to move forward onto the world stage with the part you’re meant to play, and the power of conviction to know you’re making the right choices.

Taurus: The eclipse in your 9th house, dear Taurus, represents a new vantage point through which to view your beliefs and your ingrained ideologies. Perhaps a gateway will open up, allowing those things foreign to you and your experience to settle in and teach you new ways. Movement in the 9th house always confronts what you believe to be true. Where you are rigid in your spiritual or religious pursuits, the eclipse may ask for flexibility. Where you lack follow-through in these areas, then discipline. Where can the altars of your mind be dusted off, where can new magic seep in? It may be that your worldview needs more scope, so that it can expand and change as you grow. This may be done, perhaps, through travel or committing to higher education. But whether your trips are internal or external, this eclipse dusts off your proverbial suitcase, asking what deserves to travel with and inform you on this journey of life. Bon voyage!

Gemini: The Capricorn partial Solar Eclipse will be happening in your 8th house of joint resources, shared belongings, intimacy and occult matters. This eclipse will enlighten within you new ways to ask for what you need, share what you have and start confronting any financial issues (debt, inheritances, scholarships, savings, deeds, loans, etc.) that are stopping you from living comfortably. The eclipse will ask you to set new goals and intentions in these areas, and commit to correcting them with dutiful action. Issues of worth don’t only pertain to our physical or monetary possessions, but also the worth of our stories, our pain, our trauma, and how when shared, they become transformed. Our most intimate bonds are those in which we reveal layers of ourselves with others, transmuting vulnerability into a super power. The eclipse here may bring to the forefront intimacy issues you have with others (or yourself), where you may have one foot out of the door instead of fully committing to being seen. In Capricorn, this is practical. We share our stories with those who deserve to hear them, and over time, strengthen our trust in these areas. 8th house is also said to be rich with mystery, sometimes a conduit to otherworldly matters. Set up a shrine, hold a crystal, meditate on a thought or intention, and open yourself up to communication from your cosmic companions.

Cancer: This partial Solar Eclipse will place emphasis on your 7th house of relationships with others. Relationships can be business, romantic, or platonic in nature. With Saturn and Pluto already firmly planted here, you may have found your relationships challenging or requiring that you grow beyond ingrained patterns. You may have even found that you’ve been attracted to powerful and consequential people who irritate your more soft sensibilities. This eclipse is a New Moon, and in your relationship house, opens up a portal through which you can experience your relationships differently, out from power struggles and into feeling empowered. New Moons can also bring in new things, so you may even expect to attract alliances that are more in line with the power you are coming into now and the person you want to be. It is very influential to have an eclipse happening in an angular house, so you more than most signs can expect to feel this eclipse more strongly. Commit to building powerful and productive relationships, and sweeping away the old and tired dynamics tying you to any drama in this area.

Leo: In your 6th house, the Solar Eclipse wants you to think about your routines, your service, and your health. What perfunctory actions are you taking out of blind duty? Do they actually add to your life? Does your service actually serve you? Where are the lapses in your health? To be of service to the world, you must be in service to yourself, and tweak the ways you relate to your body. Build a routine where all aspects of your life and body are served and respected for the jobs they do and the jobs they help you get done. Eliminate the wasteful, non intentional action. Stop going through the motions, and live instead with intention and focus on health in all areas. Where you may tip toe into doing more for others or be in anxiety about how much needs to be done (which transit Pluto and Saturn can trigger) this eclipse brings back into perspective the need for self-care. Associated with perfection, the eclipse in your 6th wants you to define what perfect is to you. A job well done, and a body well tended for, no matter how it looks, is perfection enough. Build these muscles over time and you can style your life into a more fitting lifestyle.

Virgo: Your 5th house of pleasure, children, sex, creativity and joy will be getting the cosmic vibrations of this Solar Eclipse. You may have been hard on yourself here, restricting the flow of joy, finding it hard to be uniquely who you are, or facing stumbling blocks on the way to expressing yourself or your creativity. The eclipse can open up wellsprings within you, wherein words, ideas, or indulgent activities come pouring forth. Nothing in Capricorn is superfluous, so you can expect that your brilliant ideas here will have ramifications in other areas of your life, truly taking hold and helping you redefine who you thought you were. The call here is to build fun and flow into your daily life and into your identity. In time, these changes and creations could even make you popular in groups, communities and the world at large. But start first with the audience that really matters: yourself.

Libra: You are another sign that will be feeling this Solar Eclipse a bit more strongly than others. In your 4th house, this eclipse is all about revamping your domestic structures, be them your actual home, or the people and places that you call home. You may feel changes opening up for you in terms of where you live, or may experience changes through the happenings of others in your family unit. The eclipse may want you to build better roots and foundations, and the places and people therein, that truly support you. Are there members in your family that bring you down? Or ones you need to let in more? Or is there a living situation with a roommate or friend that could be better or changed? You may literally move, or set your sights on a move later, or else energetically move to find the roots in your life—the people, things, places, activities that hold you down and anchor you. Time to find and be selective about your tribe. Your resting place is your nesting place—and this eclipse wants a solid place to hatch.

Scorpio: In your 3rd house, this Solar Eclipse can bring about news, information and communication from others/siblings that will be vital to your progress. Whether you experience a sudden insight, or you hear truths coming from others, this eclipse wants you to adjust how you communicate and how you express your ideas. You may even find yourself changing long-held ideas, or endeavoring upon new ways to learn about subjects that interest you. New perceptions and new ways of seeing things are paramount, so keep your mind open—they may inform your way forward. The eclipse wants to further build upon these new mental machinations, making sure what you think and say (and therefore feel) are in alignment with your beliefs about life and yourself. You may even need strength to communicate things to others that you’ve otherwise held in (Saturn). The eclipse gives you this opening, asking that you be more rigorous with your truth-telling and with the information you allow to settle in your mind. This eclipse may also throw a wrench in your every day environments, asking you to strengthen your adaptability, and behold new ways of maneuvering your communities.

Sagittarius: Mind on your money and money on your mind. This eclipse is highlighting 2nd house issues of material possessions and concepts of security and worth. Your relationship to you bank account or the way you define material success is up for scrutiny here. Where you feel insufficient or insecure are the places that most need your attention. This eclipse asks you to make strong where you feel weak, so that you have a solid ground on which to accumulate, collect, enjoy and behold. You may change how you are making money, either through different income streams or through budgeting. You may even come into financial gain, one that asks you to nourish and take care of it so that it may multiply. Any lack you feel here becomes the empty space on which to intentionally call in more. Our immaterial worlds also need enriching. Where are your under-valuing yourself? Where can your self-esteem use a boost? This isn’t a quick pick me up, but an invitation to construct a formidable dignity and love of self. In Capricorn, this confidence comes with work, but stands to serve you for the rest of your life.

Capricorn: Of course you know this Solar Eclipse is a big one in terms of your identity and how you wish to come off to the world. In your 1st house, this eclipse is inviting you to overhaul old identities which no longer serve you and step into ones more in alignment with your path. No one gets to stay the same forever, and you more than most signs are acutely aware of the passing of time. Have you outgrown the skin you’re in? Are you ready for a new vessel through which to experience life? The first house is also known as a house of health, so match your evolving identity, to yourself and to the world, with a physical forms that can support it. With Pluto and Saturn already here, you have been in a period of excavation, reforming and rebuilding your personality, how you interface with the world. Over the next year and a half, and starting with this eclipse, mold this mask with grace and intention, no matter how rough the going gets or how painful it is to say goodbye to who and what you were. Steadfast, goat. Rome wasn’t built in a day. But it ruled the world.

Aquarius: Happening in your 12th house, this eclipse may begin one of many spiritual insights or awakenings for you. In this house, lunar and solar properties are hidden from our awareness, making this eclipse more fundamental to your psyche and unconscious processes. Any psychic muck or deeply entrenched emotions will be activated, so that they may be acknowledged, so that they may be healed. You may also find yourself deeply sensitive to the needs, emotions and motivations of others, as the wellsprings here are lined with the unconscious undulations that connect all of humanity. 12 housers can be some of our most profound teachers and artists, so you may expect to feel wiser after this series of eclipses, more in tune with the world around you. There could be urges towards isolation, research, or other rabbit holes of your making, even travels to faraway lands. The goal is not to lose yourself here, but to become more yourself through the consolidation of your ethereal worlds with your material ones.

Pisces: In your 11th house, opportunities are abound for building your social networks in ways that work for your future. It is also a ripe time to evaluate those friends and communities that serve your goals and hopes. If there has been a hard fought road to be recognized in your career or social circles, now may begin the admiration or awards for your work and talents. For some, there may be a revaluation of your long-term dreams, and the people you are choosing to be a part of that. This eclipse may open up for you new groups of people to commune with. There is momentum in numbers, so you may join new clubs, associations, or otherwise surround yourself with the likeminded people who will feed your passions and respect your skills. New friends, new allies. This is a public and social time, perhaps catapulting you into positions of relative fame or prominence. You may have to learn how to work a room, and present yourself and your accomplishments in ways the world can take seriously. But either way, so begins the reaping of rewards from the company you keep.