This Week’s General Astrology Forecast
The week starts off with Moon at 29° Virgo sextile Mercury Rx just about to re-enter the sign of Scorpio today at 3:12am PT.
These final degrees in a sign bring closure to any unfinished details.
There may also be a deepening of the retrograde review Mercury is doing in Scorpio. Mercury will seek to dredge up any dirty little details that may have lain buried or hidden from view.
BEST MONEY DAYS this week are the 4th and 7th.
Best Money Days are days when the collective celestial events bring greater than usual opportunities. This may not translate into direct and immediate cash in your pocket, but potential for increase in your future prospects. Of course when these days are talking harmoniously with your personal stars the increase multiplies exponentially.
Find out more in today’s Astro Energy Report (AER).
Be sure to check out the Best Essential Oils to use this week, Void of Course Moon Phases and Meaning of the 12 Houses and Degrees (below). Looking up what house planets are activated helps you have greater insight about where things are happening in your life and how they may affect you.
WORLD CLOCK TIME ZONE CONVERTER find out what time celestial events are happening in your part of the world.
BEST ESSENTIAL OILS
Best oils to use this week are those that help you relax and stay calm.
I recommend the essential oil:
Vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides)
The scent is sweet, earthy, balsamic, exotic and sensual with slightly smoky and woody under notes.
- Excellent for balancing the First Chakra.
- High Sesquiterpenoid content gives grounding, calming, relaxing effect.
Astro Energy Report Highlights
All dates are at exact peak of intensity when energies begin to culminate and wane. You may actually feel the energies several hours or even days or weeks (in the case of eclipses) before the Celestial Peak, Crest of the Wave, so to speak. If you have personal planets or points within 1-2º orb of an aspect that’s occurring between planets then you will feel that celestial event more strongly.
December 1st – Mercury Rx backs across into sign of Scorpio where he will station direct at 27º 18’ on December 6th, the day of the Sagittarius new moon. Opportunities to re-visit matters from the past may surface. Things you thought you were unable to address, at the time, may now have a chance to be aired and resolved. A fresh new perspective can result. You can gain the strength necessary to face what previously intimidated you.
December 2nd – Venus re-enters the sign of Scorpio after being retrograde for 40 days. She will be out of her retrograde shadow on the 17th. Interesting that Mercury Rx and Venus re-enter Scorpio near the same date. It’s definitely been clean up time for Scorpio. Over the past several years Scorpio has been visited by all the personal and social planets retrograde in her sign (Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter). That’s a lot of digging beneath the surface to get to the truth of things.
Also on this day the Sun at 11º Sagittarius Squares Mars in Pisces within orb of conjunction to Neptune. The adjustment and breakthrough called forth can feel both intense and harsh. Watch for disagreements, feeling oversensitive or taking things too personally today. Sometimes we can hold deep wounds in our psyche that need to get aired and healed. This may be one of those times.
The square energies between the Sun in Sagittarius and Mars and Neptune in Pisces will play out for the remainder of this week.
December 5th – the Sun perfects his square to Neptune in Pisces. Any residual square energies will now begin to subside. Ultimately there’s great healing available with these energies. This finishes up the Scorpio New Moon cycle that started November 7th. Cellular debris (if any) gets an opportunity to be purged at the time of the last waning cycle of any New Moon cycle.
December 6th – Mercury at 27º 18’ Scorpio stations direct exact at 1:22pm. So, delighted that Mercury is station Direct. However, when a planet Stations Direct (or Retrograde) is when the most cellular debris gets churned up for release. In other words, Mercury station Direct in the late degrees of Scorpio could add to any upheaval occurring this week.
We end 2018 with all the planets direct except for Uranus, the planet of eccentricity. Uranus will station Direct on January 6th at 28º 36’ Aries.
Our first Mercury retrograde is on March 5th to March 28th.
Today also we have the 15º 07’ Sagittarius New Moon exact at 11:20pm PT. The new moon is conjunct Jupiter and the Sun and square to Neptune and Mars in Pisces.
This is a complex New Moon. I’m glad the intensity of the Square patterns are between mutable signs. So, there’s adaptability and a certain lightness, not taking things too seriously. Though on a Scorpio Waning Moon and at the dark of a New Moon there’s much that is being purged from your emotional body.
Aromatherapy Bath Therapy
My recommendation for this entire week if you’re experiencing intense emotions or feeling especially sensitive is aromatherapy bath therapy. Long soaks in a warm to hot bath with scented salts helps cleanse your emotional body of any negative emotions.
December 7th – Mars at 13º 44′ Pisces perfects his conjunction with Neptune at 6:12am PT. Meditation is one of the best ways to channel the intensity of this energy. Contemplation time can be helpful. Watch out for poor me stories, victimization and playing the role of the martyr. With the aspects playing out you can fall prey to dark imaginings and negative thinking and emotions. Let it go, let it flow.
If things have felt intense the energies will begin to mellow and subside in intensity.
Mercury Retrograde 2019 Dates
- March 5th Mercury Stations Retrograde at 29° 36’ Pisces (water sign).
- March 28th, Mercury Stations Direct at 16° 6’ Pisces (water sign).
- July 7th Mercury Stations Retrograde at 4° 25’ Leo (fire sign).
- July 31st, Mercury Stations Direct at 23° 57’ Cancer (water sign).
- October 31st Mercury Stations Retrograde at 27° 37’ Scorpio (water sign).
- November 20th Mercury Stations Direct at 11º 38’ Scorpio (water sign).
In 2019 Mercury Retrograde occurs primarily in water signs.
The air over water combination of elements can make for high seas and turbulent emotions. Certain essential oils can be especially helpful for unstable or extreme emotional states during the 2019 Mercury Retrograde cycles.
Find out my recommendations for the best essential oils to use this year, along with a Mercury Retrograde Formula for you to try in my article, Mercury Retrograde Dates for 2019 – Essential Oils to Use.
2019 Eclipse Season Dates
I’ll be posting 2019 dates
VOID OF COURSE MOON PERIODS
The moon represents your emotional needs. Your emotions fluctuate with the moon as it moves through its 28-day cycle around the zodiac from new moon to full and back to new. Notice how the moon’s placement in the zodiac affects your mood and emotions. Essential oils can help stabilize your mind and emotions. Generally earthy scents have the most harmonizing and stabilizing effects on the emotions.
Void of Course Moon periods are great for taking it easy and going with the flow of events and completing projects. During Void of Course Moons your emotional body is going through a period of processing and integrating your recent experiences. You naturally clear out your emotions during these periods. Doing things that helps with this natural process are especially helpful now, i.e. relaxation, yoga, movement, hot baths with sea salts and essential oils, focused breathing.
Void of Course Moon Phases are not good for starting new projects, or launching new ventures, or having meetings (if you want to achieve anything), or signing contracts and making agreements as it’s less likely anything will come of any agreement, or it will be sluggish and slow to start.
For your New and Full Moon Rituals make sure the Moon is not Void of Course and in aspect to another celestial body when doing your ritual for best results.
- December 1st we have a 15 minute Void of Course Moon from 6:34am PT until 6:49am PT when the Virgo Moon enters the sign of Libra.
- December 3rd we have a 1 hour and 30 minute Void of Course Moon from 10:16am PT to 11:55am PT when the Libra Moon enters the sign of Scorpio.
- December 5th we have a 4+ hour Void of Course Moon from 1:53pm PT to 6:49pm PT when the Scorpio Moon enters the sign of Sagittarius.
MEANING OF THE 12 HOUSES
Look to where a planet is located in your own astrology chart to find out what area of your life things are happening.
If you don’t know what area a planet is located look to find what house it rules for insights about how it might affect you.
GENERALLY the degrees in each house represent the following:
1-9º Formative Development
10-19º Integration life lessons
20-29º Lessons in Mastery
1st house (ruled by Aries/Mars) – physical persona, personality, how others see you
1-9º Physical Body
10-19º Self
20-29 º Early Environment
2nd house (ruled by Taurus/Venus) – personal possessions, self worth, net worth
1-9º Money
10-19º Possessions
20-29º Earning ability
3rd house (ruled by Gemini/Mercury) – communication, neighborhood, siblings
1-9º Brothers
10-19º Sisters
20-29º Short journeys & Communication
4th house (ruled by Cancer/Moon) – home, family, early childhood, roots, emotional conditioning
1-9º Home
10-19º Support
20-29º End of life
5th house (ruled by Leo/Sun) – children, creativity, fun, romance, investments
1-9º Social life
10-19º Pleasure
20-29º Children
6th house (ruled by Virgo/Mercury) – health, service, work, habits, routines, lifestyle
1-9º Work
10-19º Service
20-29º Health
7th house (ruled by Libra/Venus) – relationships, contacts, agreements
1-9º Open opposition
10-19º Public relations
20-29º Partnerships
8th house (ruled by Scorpio/Mars (old ruler)/Pluto (new ruler) – death, rebirth, inheritance, how others value you, depth psychology, dreams
1-9º Taxes & Debt
10-19º Regeneration
20-29º Death
9th house (ruled by Sagittarius/Jupiter) – higher education, foreign travel, self discovery, philosophy & religion, publishing
1-9º Higher Education
10-19º Law
20-29º Long trips
10th house (ruled by Capricorn/Saturn) – career, vocation, titles, marriage, awards, recognition
1-9º Authority
10-19º Profession
20-29º Status
11th house (ruled by Aquarius/Saturn (old ruler)/Uranus (new ruler) – group associations, friendship, community, rainbow bridge, humanitarianism
1-9º Friends
10-19º Hopes
20-29º Dreams & Wishes
12th house (ruled by Pisces/Jupiter (old ruler)/Neptune (new ruler) – collective unconscious, hospitals, mental institutions, unconscious mind, karmic patterns, family lineage, emotional memories, solitude, retreats
1-9º Limitations
10-19º Secret Opposition
20-29º Self Undoing
Well, there you have the key Astro Energy Highlights I see happening for you this week.
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XOLove -KG
