Weekly Astrology Forecast: Venus Square the Nodes and Mars Direct

Hello Everyone,

What a beautiful Full Moon in Cancer we had over the weekend! I hope you all were able to dive into your emotional body and feel the culminating energies that were surfacing as a way to work with them and not against them! This week we have Mars stationing and direct along with Venus squaring the nodal axis of the Moon. The Moon is also going to have some pretty powerful conversations this week that are guiding us even further into the watery depths of our emotional nature, this is ultimately to perpetuate healing and growth!

As a reminder I am going to be doing a class at the Magic Tree in Oklahoma City on the 21st at 12:30 to 2:00. In this class I will be going over some of the basics of Evolutionary Astrology. We will be looking at Pluto, the soul; the Moon, the egoic/personality; the Moon’s Nodal axis, the interchange between the past and the present and integration point; and then the Pluto Polarity Point, what we came here to self-actualize on a soul level. During this class we will use other’s charts as a way to learn how this interface of the past, present, and future come together to show what the soul is intending to do in the current lifetime. If you are someone who is interested in this class, you can email me at jordyn@chironapothecary.com. I will also post the flyer below for you to view. This is a donation-based class, so no payment is necessary if that is a factor for you.

Enough about that, let’s jump into your weekly forecast for the week of January 10th to the 16th, 2023.

On Tuesday, the 10th, the South Node in Scorpio will be in a conversation with Mercury (Capricorn/retrograde). This conversation speaks to the ease of integration of the conversational dynamics that the South Node in Scorpio and Mercury in Capricorn/retrograde represent. To understand this better, we must look at the rulers of the South Node and Mercury to break this down. Transiting South Node in Scorpio is ruled by Pluto in Capricorn. We are all being asked to uncover and get to the bottom of our emotional and psychological content that revolves around authority, responsibility, and societal conditioning. Mercury in Capricorn is ruled by Saturn in Aquarius. This symbolizes a need to rebel and liberate from crystallized thinking and old structures that are no longer permitting the Plutonian/evolutionary growth necessary. With Mercury still retrograde until the 18th, this symbolizes the need to go INWARD and to enact natural authority over oneself pertaining to these dynamics. How do we do that? By answering what is right and what is wrong for yourself. To commit to what it takes to live in integrity with us and our choices. This takes some inner detective work to get to the bottom of these core dynamics. Asking oneself, what are my motivations behind my choices? Does this still feel accurate for me? How have I been conditioned to believe? Is this in alignment with my values? Am I able to meet my own needs, or am I projecting them onto others? How do I answer for myself? What choices do I need to make, and what does that look like authentically?

Mercury is also still trine to Uranus (Taurus/retrograde) and to the North Node in Taurus. This speaks to the liberation that can be impactful when you align your will with your core values and needs. With Mercury trine this and in the sign of Capricorn, this is more about meeting your own needs and values and walking an authentic path in accordance with those needs and values. Ultimately the gift of these planetary conversations when consciously working with them, creates natural authority and emotional security. This energy is also energy that is building (a new ripple) from the Cancer Full Moon we just had. These are steps taken that create new foundations that catapult our evolutionary growth in necessary ways, as long as you commit to the path and task at hand. With this Cardinal energy (Capricorn), for some it can feel like taking two steps forward and one step back. This is further demonstrated with the retrograde archetypes of Uranus and Mercury both retrograde. So, there is a revision that is necessary. How have you made judgment calls in the past? Where they a judgment call or were they judgmental? If judgmental is the answer, where does that stem from? How have you been conditioned to meet your own needs? How have you been conditioned to view what is of value to you? These are all deeper questions that can help to get to the bottom line of the situation. Remember that Venus is transiting the sign of Aquarius right now, she rules Uranus and the North Node at this time. We are all being asked to CONFRONT and REBEL against the areas in our lives that are not perpetuating growth. We have to be willing to investigate (Pluto) what our own inner status quo is and awaken to it. This is done through OBJECTIFYING these parts of us to create the inner awareness.

Mars (Gemini/retrograde) will be in a conversation of tension with the Moon who is now in Virgo. Both of these signs, Gemini and Virgo, are ruled by Mercury retrograde. This speaks to what was mentioned above but now pulling in the dynamic of Mars and the Moon in Virgo. Both Mars and the Moon will be in conversation with its ruler, Mercury. This is all about feeling tension or friction through perfectionism and the feelings of inadequacy. There is a need to ACT and to EXPLORE what doesn’t feel “quite right”. Instead of getting tripped up in inferiority, use these feelings as a tool of awareness. Get curious. Ask yourself what it’s about, especially if you are seeing a pattern in your own emotional dynamics at play. With Mars in Gemini, retrograde, we are all being asked to use external feedback as a way to make the necessary adjustments. Through this adjustment process we can gain wisdom from the direct experiences we choose to have. Virgo wants to exhaust the habitual cycles as a way to purge them from our system. A lot of us will be feeling a draw towards our own inner critic. Use this as a tool instead of a self-defeating pattern. It would also be wise to investigate where our self-defeating patterns stem from. Through this awareness we can then make the necessary choices and adjustments. The key is to put one foot in front of the other and not become paralyzed. In order to get better at something, you have to practice it, you have to take action. Because of the retrograde energy pertaining to these conversations, we can see that this is a revision in order to resolve process. For some there can be a replay of old dynamics, discussions, and situations that create an opportunity to make a NEW choice.

This happens just the day before Venus in the sign of Aquarius will square the Moon’s Nodal Axis. Anytime we see a planet square the nodal axis, we see that there is an opportunity to recover something. Not only, is Venus square the Nodal Axis on Wednesday, the 11th, but Mars will station before going direct the following day. Mars stationing will intensify the energies going on that correlate to this retrograde cycle. It will also simultaneously relieve pressure. It’s a moment that I liken to “ripping off a band aid”. It’s anticipatory friction but the knowing of benefits that come from taking that action. It can be scary, but you know that there are benefits to going through with it. Let’s break this down.

Mars will station while being a conversation with the South Node and Mercury, Mars’ ruler, Mercury, will be in a conversation with the South Node. This forms what is astrologically called a “yod” or “finger of God”. This astrological conversation pertains to a realignment at way. For some this can trigger external events that force the realignment through crisis. Crisis meaning that one is being confronted about a dynamic within that was unknown prior. It also speaks to the opportunity to create a new choice that ultimately helps realign. This conversation also serves to induce natural humility, “I don’t have everything figured out”, or “I was wrong about something that I thought that I was correct about”. At the very best, this helps one to overcome prior ways of making choices and thinking about situations. It opens the door for not only realignment, but growth. The key is to reframe the way we think about what is occurring. This is an opportunity for growth, but self-defeating patterns will not permit the necessary growth. Instead, ask oneself “what is the right choice for me to make?”. Then, take the necessary action that is in alignment with having integrity. This is an opportunity to be able to be responsible with your choices, making correct judgment pertaining to your circumstances, and doing something different. With Mars stationing while this is occurring, there is divine wisdom that can come through and a deeper understanding of how to go about making the new choice necessary. Mars has been retrograde since October 30th, 2022. So, if there is something you have been working over, there is an opportunity for and external situation to present itself now for you to make the necessary change and choice. Only you can answer with is within integrity for yourself.

Venus is square the Nodal Axis (SN Scorpio, NN Taurus), as stated above this is an opportunity to recover something. When looking at the Node that Venus last conjunct, we see that this is the SN in Scorpio. This brings in the “finger of God” dynamic. Ultimately, for someone there is a recovering of the psychological dynamics that led to the choices made prior. There is a need to objectify that, see where it came from, and then to rebel against the status quo of how we’ve made choices before pertaining to our situation. Once the awareness manifests itself, the reasoning for prior choices. We can then put into place new choices in alignment with our values and needs that are intrinsic to whom we are. This conversation speaks to relational understanding, or the way you have understood relationship with other. The necessity of this is to be aware of if you are projecting the past onto the current situation. Did you do that in the past, and realize that the choice made was a trigger or trauma response? This conversation needs detachment in order to objectify it. Through this process one can come to deeper understanding of how the past has influenced the present moment, and ultimately, to liberate from that dynamic. This is a day to create that understanding stemming from detachment.

On Thursday, the 12th, Mars will be in forward motion (direct). To me this symbolizes that the detachment that is necessary can start really creating the footprint of what the next choice made should be. For some they will want to hold off until Mercury stations on the 18th to make a clear choice pertaining to this situation. No matter what, there is a need to hold oneself accountable and to choose what is right for you. This ultimately helps with liberating from the prior dynamics that have been in place for a long time. A deeper understanding of how our past and our psychological nature from those experiences have created the choices made. This understanding helps us gain deeper levels of self-awareness and inner security through the objectification of them. As Mars passes over the degrees he was at during the retrograde cycle deeper levels are made clear, a process of new ways to define our circumstances can come to the forefront as a way to help us commit to better choices.

On the 13th the Moon in Libra will square Mercury, while Mercury trines the North Node and Uranus/retro in Taurus. Venus and Uranus are still in mutual reception (rule each other). These planetary conversations speak to the need to be able to listen and objectify what our circumstances are and to commit to understanding the dynamics. Have you been creating situations where an imbalance has occurred? Is this through “going along to get along”? What expectations have you projected onto others at this time? Are you able to meet those needs and expectations within yourself? Whatever comes up for you during this time period has the potential to create new needs and values that are in alignment with who you are NOW at this time and present moment. Now there is a need to commit to these and to integrate them as a way to becoming self-sufficient. At the very best, you can become a natural leader for others by mirroring what that looks like for them.

On the 14th, the Sun in Capricorn will sextile Neptune in the sign of Pisces. This helps us to continue to see the truth of our circumstances and where we might have been deluded into thinking differently. This also speaks to integration through holding oneself accountable and not looking at our situations through the lens of victimhood. For others this can be a day that one can have understanding about their own depression that surfaces. What is wanting to be healed through the truth? How can you meet yourself there instead of relying on others?

On Sunday, the 15th the Moon in Scorpio will conjunct the South Node. Both are ruled by Pluto in Capricorn and bring in Saturn in Aquarius. There can be a personal confrontation of self and our own tendencies that are now known. This serves to help us learn the lessons of accountability and liberation through taking the path of accountability. More than anything, this week is about confronting our own inner limitations that we weren’t aware of or had resisted dealing with previously. On the next day, the Moon will be in a grand water trine with Pallas Athene (Cancer) and Vesta (Pisces). To me this symbolizes that as what we are confronted with about ourselves, we can have deeper insights as to why, and through those insights we can use it as a form of ritual or a tool to continue to awaken to the truth of our emotional nature. This creates the individual security that is necessary to perpetuate further growth. This can only be done through the emotional body. We cannot repress or suppress our emotions. They are here to tell us something, to reveal a truth that is deep within. This unlocks the pathway to inner security and to the inner universe that we are all seeking in our own way.

This is a week that I want all of us to nurture ourselves. To honor the emotions and feelings as they arise. This is a week that helps cultivate a deeper relationship with self through the inner exploration of the different layers we all carry. Remember to observe and discern, then make a judgment call. We are all being called to challenge ourselves and the areas where we have stagnation. This is a week that speaks to the blessings of inner awareness through conscious effort and choices to do so! Below is the flyer for the class on the 21st, if you are in the OKC metro area and are interested in learning about your own natal chart, I would love to see you!

Much Love,

Jordyn