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I have been reading so much about the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction that is coming later this week. Astrologers are going a little crazy over it, and I will be honest – I am going crazy too! After a lot of heavy energy, starting with the Saturn/Pluto/Jupiter/Mars conjunctions that kicked off the pandemic through the frightfully long Saturn/Uranus square that basically continued for a year and a half, we are all feeling ready for some “easier” times! In some ways, the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction will deliver on this, but it likely won’t be the one-stop-shop solution to all of life’s problems that we may be hoping it is.

Just so that we get the facts down first: This conjunction is exact on Saturday, 4/20, around 7pm PT. This occurs while Mercury is still retrograde and just after the Sun also moves into Taurus (just in time for the “lucky” fireworks caused by this conjunction)!

Every person will feel this conjunction pretty intensely, but it will feel especially life-altering for those with planets around 21 degrees of the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius).

Uranus

Uranus heightens our sense of rebellion against anything in our lives that doesn’t resonate with us. It is extremely difficult to conform to the status quo and “do what we’re told” when Uranus gets involved.

However, breaking out of the status quo can be incredibly scary and destabilizing! Our job, partner, living location, etc may not be working well for us, but at least it is a known! Uranus asks us to burn everything down and rebuild. Burning down the part that isn’t working feels intensely satisfying, but when that dust clears, we are left with nothing. Not something that works for us, and not something that doesn’t. It is up to us to rebuild!

Because of this, I view Uranus transits as positive in the long term – they keep us from staying stuck! And generally the changes they provoke are necessarily ones. However, in the short-term they can feel very destabilizing. Yes, we got rid of the stuck feeling, but now we have nothing at all!

Jupiter

This is where Jupiter really shines and makes this conjunction significantly more “short term positive” than Uranus transits are by themselves. Historically viewed as the greater benefic planet, Jupiter won’t let us stay paralyzed by fear after the Uranus explosion. Jupiter gives us the optimism and the “luck” to land on our feet and to start rebuilding immediately.

However, as is always true with planetary alignments, there is no perfect silver bullet. There are always challenges to overcome with even the most “positive feeling” aspect. In this case, if we don’t do deep enough work with Uranus to understand exactly what is causing a lack of resonance in our lives, we may wind up rebelling against the wrong thing.

For example, imagine a person who hates their boss. They use this Uranus energy to tell their boss off and quit their job. Only when they quit their job do they realize that the things they hated about their boss weren’t unique to that individual person; they were side effects of the industry itself. Now the individual, rather than feeling liberated from their boss, faces the choice to get a similar job in a similar field working for a similar boss, or they have to change careers entirely. They didn’t do their Uranus work first to understand exactly what they were rebelling against, and projected their problems onto a specific person rather than correctly identifying their industry as the problem.

The caution for Jupiter is: don’t be blindly optimistic! Jupiter may make us feel like we have the world by the tail. We may tell ourselves that if we quit our non-resonant job, we can quickly be making a huge salary starting our own business. We neglect to inject reality into the situation. Starting a business is incredibly time-consuming and typically takes a long time to become profitable. If we rashly quit a job without a full plan and instead rely on Jupiter’s “luck” and optimism to get our salary back quickly, we may be disappointed.

Retrograde Mercury

Both the shadow sides of Uranus and Jupiter are especially worth considering for this conjunction, because Mercury is retrograde during this time. Whenever Mercury is retrograde, it is more important to double check what we are doing. Unless we double check now, we are likely to have to revisit later!

Retrograde Mercury makes it more likely that we will quit our job in a blaze of glory on Friday afternoon, realize over the weekend that starting a new business is more difficult than we thought, and then sheepishly ask to “un-quit” our job the following Monday. Retrograde Mercury encourages us to measure twice and cut once. If we methodically think through (Mercury) our urge to make changes (Uranus), and carefully consider the alternatives we want to pursue (Jupiter), we are well on our way to using this conjunction well! In its best form, if our souls have wandered off of our best path, this conjunction is about making much-needed, likely scary pivots in our life back toward our authentic path. In its worth form, this conjunction is about blowing things up in our lives and then belatedly wondering if we put the dynamite on the correct target.

I am so excited for this conjunction, and I can tell that other astrologers are too. Let’s just all make sure we make the most of this and don’t view it as a free pass that banishes our difficulties and showers us with abundance. As with every astrological event, we will get out of this conjunction what we put into it. Put in thoughtful, meditative, soul-level consideration, and you are likely to create changes in your life that will reverberate in the best way for years or decades. This may be a time you refer back to as an incredibly important turning point in your life.

Discounted reading

Unlike some other astrological events, this is an event where it actually is very important to understand what house it is in in your chart and how it impacts you specifically. There is a big difference between big changes in your career vs your love life vs your family! I am giving a 10% discount on all astrology and tarot readings purchased before the end of April to help people navigate this energy more effectively. If you want to take advantage of this, please use the code Jupiter2024 at checkout!

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There is a New Moon every month, and of course February is no exception. By itself, a New Moon is not a rare or exceptional event. However, our New Moon this month on February 9th is a little different.

The New Moon in Aquarius

First, it is a New Moon in Aquarius. Because of this, we have already been Aquarian energy emerging with Pluto newly in Aquarius. Some of the earthy feel of Pluto being in Capricorn for the past 18 years has been replaced by the airy energy of Pluto in Aquarius. So there is already the sense of being moving from solid Earth to slightly unmoored and adrift in Air. Pluto in Aquarius definitely doesn’t have its proverbial feet on the ground the way Pluto in Capricorn does!

The Uranus square

In addition to this New Moon piling on to the existing rise in Aquarius energy, this New Moon squares Uranus in Taurus within a degree. This means that both the Sun and Moon (which are conjoined during a New Moon) will be 90 degrees away from Uranus during this New Moon.

The square, or 90 degree angle, is an interesting one in astrology. It represents the friction between two different energies and the need to integrate them rather than embracing one and rejecting the other. During this New Moon, the Sun and Moon in Aquarius will be pushing us to develop new habits and relationships around our connection to society, technology, and community. With the Sun and Moon being the most personal “planets” in our charts, this will be a highly motivated drive from deep within our Souls. If you know what house this New Moon in Aquarius will fall in your birth chart, you will have a sense of where this energy may be manifesting for you in particular. How do we show up in a community and work toward whatever social justice we most believe in? How do we support our community? What authentic part of ourselves do we bring to group settings vs one-on-one interactions?

Balancing energies

As this New Moon in Aquarius causes us to examine the ways we show up in our communities, Uranus in Taurus squaring this energy brings a sense of rebellion in a material way. Maybe people expect us to show up in a particular way and embody a certain role. Maybe we are viewed as “the funny one”, “the helpful one”, or other archetypes that are starting to feel one-dimensional and like too-small clothes that no longer fit given the ways we have grown. Uranus will ask us to throw off the expectations of these communities that no longer resonate with us and go galloping off into the sunset unhindered.

As humans, we tend to gravitate toward extremes – in this case doubling down on one energy and ignoring the other energy. It would be easy for us to ignore the “too small clothes” feeling from Uranus in Taurus and just show up the way others (or even ourselves) expect us to show up. It might be equally easy to abandon particular communities entirely because they don’t feel like they “fit” us anymore.

But what does it look like if, instead of choosing one extreme or the other, we work to redefine the perception of ourselves in existing groups in a way that matches the authentic way we view ourselves? What if, rather than starting over in new groups and communities, we do the work of maintaining our existing relationships but working to redefine them? What does that look like?

A call to action

This is what the Aquarius New Moon squaring Uranus in Taurus asks us to do. Determine what is important to us societally and the way we want to show up. And then do the work to show up that way even if it’s different than the way we have shown up in the past. In a way, it really is about discarding clothes that no longer fit and replacing them with newer, better fitting clothes. There is work required to discover the new metaphorical clothing sizes that fit the new authentic you, but that work is part of your Soul growth and allows you to show up intentionally in your groups and communities and contribute in the way that best resonates with your Soul. If you have been feeling the itch of ill-fitting roles in society, this New Moon provides an immense opportunity to redefine the way you show up to the world.

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Jupiter & Uranus in Taurus – Out with the Old!