If the Virgo dark moon of the 27th saw you cutting away, letting go, surrendering, then this breaking down prepared the way for what the current cycle wants to build up and create. At the first quarter Moon in Sagittarius this past Saturday, Mars in opposition offers a scaffolding for strength and support for the fragile new life blinking its eyes awake in the growing light of this cycle. This beam is hard, inflexible, unmoving. This is a strong support rather than a cuddling comfort, so approaching it and accepting it for what it is rather than what we wish it was, is essential for utilizing this energy to its fullest potential.

So now we are in this building up phase, as the moon gains light, so do we gain clarity, strength and resources for what we are building, knowing this will culminate in some way on the 10th at the full moon.

This week has a lot of big energy, thankfully with some reprieve at the beginning of the week, on Monday and Tuesday. The Universe invites us to find peace and rest on these days in any way we can, even if it feels so small, it will help.

This week’s astrology is hard

but there are rubies laid in this dark earth

there’s gold in these hills

there are crystals in the deep where earth’s tectonic plates have shifted so violently as to transform carbon, into diamond.

Are you ready? Of course you are. Here we go…

The mutable signs mark the times in the calendar that are between seasons and these include Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces and Gemini. In these places, one season blends with another, the days shift wildly between what has been and what will become, creating storms as warm fronts meet cold fronts, increase in sicknesses as our bodies adjust to the change, and both confusion and excitement in the rollicking swirl of great change.

The Sun moves into Virgo in the Northern Hemisphere this week and we begin to notice the darkness arriving a little earlier in the evening, and depending on our location, the deliciously cool mornings and evenings. But the Sun in Virgo isn’t the only fresh wind blowing our way, this week begins a conversation we are not usually privy to; a clandestine meeting foretold in the sands of time, that we ~ yes we ~ have the distinct privilege of attending.

This is the place where yes and no meet and match wits. It’s a fuck yes of the highest accord, serious on the level of life and death/love of a lifetime, life altering decisions, cosmic and karmic and dharmic all wrapped up in the curious connecting of separate but magnetized human beings in a myriad web of relating.

Race car driver, tight rope walker, or martial artist ~ pick your poison. Each of these people have spent decades developing the kind of Saturn and Mars skill that this time right now demands of us. Think of the tiny, minuscule, instant to instant, back and forth of relaxing into the flow and muscular engagement that each of these requires. Feel into it and you are feeling into this astrology; the astrology you have been preparing for your whole life.

You are the expert of your life, and all of your skill is required for this ride.

Weekly Astro weather for the 1st through the 7th of August, 2022. We begin the week with a bang, truly. Mars conjuncts Uranus at 18 degrees of Taurus at 7 49 pm, EST almost exactly conjunct the North Node, opposite the South Node.

Break down, break up, break through. Turn on, tune in, drop out. Surprise, congratulations, and you’re in big trouble mister; all are part of the possibilities with this alignment, and with the Nodes in the mix, these events will be of great evolutionary import, both individually and collectively.

Your Birth is an Advent

I am the daughter of a Sailor and a Mermaid