Venus entered Pisces on April 5th, beginning a monthlong stay (until May 2nd). The sign of the fish is Venus’ exaltation, and her focus is on universal love and compassion. While personal connections aren’t out of the question, we’re looking at the bigger picture.

Mars enters Capricorn on January 24th, 2022, beginning a six week stay, until March 7th. The Cosmic Warrior is generally happy in Saturn’s home sign - he likes to have a task to keep him busy. It’s a good placement for folks that have things to accomplish as we begin the year.

As we reach the end of 2021, it’s a great time to re-assess our relationship with ourselves, and with the people in our life – family, friends, work colleagues, community, locality…particularly with Venus Retrograde! This includes taking into account any revelations about our relationships, that may have come to light during, or just before, or after, the final exact Saturn/Uranus square on Dec. 24th.

Holidays inevitably trigger past experiences of prior holidays – all the way back to childhood…Creating some alone time amidst the hustle and bustle, gives you time to process and separate the present from the past, and for your Moon to sit with whatever emotions are surfacing.

Venus enters Capricorn on November 5, 2021, beginning an extended stay - through March 6 of 2022. During her time in Saturn’s sign, she’ll retrograde for 40 days - more on that as we approach it. For now, we’ll note that Venus will begin to slow down in her movement as we get deeper into November, and that she crossed into the shadow of her retrograde on November 18th.

Venus enters Sagittarius on October 7th, beginning a stay that will continue until November 5th. That’s a little longer than usual, as the Goddess of Love is slowing down - not much at this point, but a little - to retrograde in December.

Mars has to mind his manners in Venus’ home sign.

The goddess of love has taken off her Libra ball gown and put on her leather jacket as she entered Scorpio early today. For the next four weeks (until October 7th), she'll bring an early Halloween vibe to relationships.

There is some tension in the skies today, as Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus square each other once again. This can potentially translate into some inner and outer pulls and pushes in some aspects of our lives, including relationships.

Venus enters Cancer on June 2, shifting from Gemini's lite and flirty social vibe towards more traditional and home-oriented feel. Cancer is the sign of June weddings, after all.

Yet Venus’ stay in the sign of the crab won’t be all backyard barbecues and family dinners. In fact, the goddess of love will be quite busy with her social connections. There’s an eclipse on the 10th and a Neptunian vibe takes over at mid-month, and both can get us to see things through a fish-eye mirror that lets us see things clearly, but out of proportion.

Later today the Sun joins the North Node, Venus and Mercury in airy Gemini! Grounding may not feel so easy with this lighter energy as we are pulled away from the earthier realms of our body into the cerebral world of thoughts and ideas.

As I mentioned in the week ahead blog on Monday, the spotlight now is more on friendships than intimate relationships.

Taurus season ushers itself in loud and clear today, with both the Sun and Mercury moving into Venus ruled Taurus highlighting relationship themes. However, before we get too carried away with this lovely earthy and usually stable grounding energy, let’s take a look at the role Uranus also plays in this sign in the week ahead!

Today the Nodes shift from Cancer/Capricorn into Gemini/Sagittarius, where they remain until mid January 2022.

For the past two and a half years we have been collectively steeped in the parental archetypes connected to Cancer and Capricorn. The symbolic ‘head of the dragon’ also known as Caput Draconis, nudged us towards greater self-nurturing, whilst letting go of some of the harsher features of the ‘tail of the dragon’ Cauda Draconis – including paying homage to an inner and outer authority that is no longer authentic to our core self. In relationships this translated into a greater ability to love others based on authentic self-love.

Astrologically, this is very interesting! Here are some brief initial thoughts…

The Saturn/Pluto conjunction is on Meghan's descendant, with the lunar eclipse on Friday on her ascendant!