WAXING QUARTER MOON FORECAST JAN 17TH TO JAN 25TH 2024

Well, I hope it’s been a busy week for you all since the NEW MOON and in a good way. We are still in the chute as this week of the WAXING QUARTER MOON from Jan 17^th to the FULL MOON on January 25^th starts out with the Minor Grand Trine I mentioned in last week’s report. Since it consists of a neato Trine between benevolent supercharger, JUPITER and communicative MERCURY both traveling through the Earth signs of Taurus and Capricorn respectively, there is a positive activation of the mind, communication and travel grounded in the aesthetic, practical and material plain. Business, tasks, building, thinking, planning and creative endeavors all get a boost. This is reinforced and facilitated by the dual, flowing and complementary, sextiles that the pragmatic and authoritarian planet SATURN is forming between each of those planets. Saturn is not so sure of itself in Pisces, so these potentially positive energies can alternatively slip into crankiness, impatience and/or bullheadedness if we’re already bent that way. It is always good to try and keep an internal witness on our reactive tendencies. All this is especially true on the 18^th, when the MOON passes in front of JUPITER lighting up the perfecting trine between JUPITER and MERCURY.

VENUS will be exactly square NEPTUNE on the 19^th so there is the possibility of inspired co-creation or, unfortunately, temptation to overspend or unreasonable overcommitment to some idealized, exaggerated fear or romantic situation. Just wait a few days until VENUS enters more sensible Capricorn on the 23^rd before impulsively buying that bauble or joining that cult and you’ll likely be clearer on what’s correct and true for you by then. Lol.
Meanwhile, Big News! The SUN conjuncts PLUTO on the 20^th then magically, mystically they cross hand-in-hand conjunct together from Capricorn into Aquarius on the 20^th, initiating PLUTO’s second transit in Aquarius until September. This will give us another preview of what is coming in the 20 year PLUTO transit of Aquarius. I suspect, more powerful transformative technological and societal changes than we can shake a stick at for that whole time as demonstrated by Pluto’s first brief dip in Aquarius, March through June last year: More AI, dramatic politics and secrets revealed anyone? Sounds fun. Having the SUN there this week initiates this transit with a revealing light on our plutonic collective and personal unconscious proclivities. With PLUTO’s usual death, rebirth, power, transformation and exhuming of “buried bodies” gig and it’s easy to see that this all will require some deeply aware consciousness to moderate the ride. “Tray tables in the upright and locked position and the seatbelt light is on.”  Of course, it will be a mixed experience as usual. Aquarius has its upsides for sure. Its Uranian innovation, uniqueness and electricity make it an exciting and progressive time too; Collective wellbeing, agape, big ideas, inventiveness and big societal aspirations all are in its purview. Pluto will just be doing its thing to bring about powerful cleansings, initiations and transformations there like it did with our institutional structures and traditions in Capricorn since 2008.
A few days later on the 23^rd VENUS enters pragmatic Capricorn grounding some of our more romantic and dreamy ideas. The ongoing Sextile between SATURN and JUPITER keeps business rolling until VENUS perfects with them, in another facilitating Minor Grand Trine just after the FULL MOON. Finally, there will be a developing Square between Healer CHIRON and Doer MARS conjunct Mental MERCURY as the FULL MOON in Leo shows up on January 25^{th, g}iving it a therapeutic flavor, one way or another.

All-n-all a busy, productive week if you want it to be. Also, potentially dramatic for good or bad. But better than being stuck waiting too long for new things to get going as in the recent past.