It’s a busy week in the sky with these five prominent factors active. Contact me to know how all this is affecting you and your horoscope.
Mercury Retrograde
Last Wednesday, Mercury turned retrograde, which means you likely experiencing important shifts in your thinking, attitudes, and plans this past week. Unfortunately, many believe everything will go wrong when Mercury is retrograde, and too many people blame Mercury Retrograde for their problems and mishaps when, in fact, more significant factors are contributing to their difficulties, such as Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto making challenging aspects to planets and points in their horoscope.
However, with Mercury ruling thoughts and communication, there will likely be more “mess-ups” and complications than usual, including mental lapses and mistakes, misunderstandings, false assumptions, missed appointments, lost checks, written typos, cancellations, and postponements.
Most importantly, the decisions you make and the plans you start with Mercury retrograde are more likely to take a twist and be seen differently when unforeseen assumptions and mistakes “come to light” after Mercury goes direct on December 15.
Sun Square Saturn
The most significant aspect now is Sun square Saturn. This important solar aspect occurs twice a year and usually brings colder and even frigid weather in the wintertime.
People with a challenging Sun-Saturn aspect are likely to have a “harder” life than others. They find it challenging to express themselves, and there’s a tendency toward melancholy, grief, guilt, and low self-esteem. It can be a life filled with many obstacles and difficulties. But in the end, the positive qualities associated with Saturn (grit, durability, and hard work) can help make them succeed. Still, it does not come easy.
On the plus side, Sun-Saturn aspects favor focus, discipline, and hard work. They help you get to the essence of matters and eliminate what is unnecessary. This aspect is indicative of a person with steadiness, determination, conscientiousness, pragmatism, and realistic plans, especially involving business and professional matters.
Exact at 13 degrees, this Sun square Saturn aspect is particularly relevant for anyone with planets and points at 13 degrees Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces.
Mars Stationary Retrograde
Friday, Mars turns retrograde at 06 degrees Leo, which means Mars has been and will be challenging the planets and points you have at 06 degrees Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces because discordant Mars aspects bring aggravations, conflicts, urgency, impulsiveness, and stress.
Venus Shift
Saturday, Venus, the planet related to love, money, comfort, and the arts, leaves the earth sign Capricorn and enters the air sign Aquarius. This shift brings (good but not major) blessings and benefits to Aquarius and, to a lesser degree, the other air signs, Gemini and Libra, and the house in your horoscope ruled by Aquarius until January 02, 2025, when it enters the next sign, Pisces.
Neptune Stationary Direct
Saturday, Neptune turns direct at 27 degrees Pisces, which means Neptune has been and will be challenging the planets and points you have at 27 degrees Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces because discordant Neptune aspects bring weakness, confusion, vagueness, and deception.
Current Sun Sign Factors
These sun-sign assessments are only “the tip of the iceberg” for what you should know. Besides your Sun sign degree, there are many other factors to consider, which these newsletters cannot cover, such as the transits to your Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ascendant, and Midheaven degrees. However, awareness of the current transits to your Sun’s position can be invaluable because the positions of the slower-moving planets (Jupiter in Gemini, Saturn in Pisces, Uranus in Taurus, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto in Aquarius) can create significant trends and events in your life.
To use this information correctly, you need to know the degree of your Sun sign, but the degree of your Sun is not your date of birth. If you need to know the degree of your Sun, call me. I will calculate it for you.
Aries
Jupiter/Pluto: increased influence and opportunities for anyone born around 08.5 degrees Aries.
Saturn/Uranus: stress, tensions, and setbacks for anyone born at 18.5 degrees Aries.
Pluto: favorable changes, influences, and opportunities for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Aries.
Taurus
Jupiter/Neptune: idealism, inspiration, and creativity for anyone born at 08 degrees Taurus.
Saturn/Pluto: endurance, struggles, and painful revelations for anyone born at 21.5 degrees Taurus.
Uranus: once every eighty-four years, this aspect brings dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, shocks, breakthroughs, and new freedoms for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Taurus.
Neptune: opportunities for healing, inspiration, imagination, creativity, and spirituality for anyone born around 27 degrees Taurus.
Pluto: significant challenges and fundamental changes (more likely related to career and destiny) for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Taurus.
Gemini
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Gemini and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Gemini.
Jupiter/Uranus: fortuitous shifts and changes for anyone born at 05.5 degrees Gemini.
Saturn: a significant 07-year juncture with tests, obstacles, lessons, trials, delays, losses, and complex realities (more likely related to career and destiny) for anyone born around 13 degrees Gemini and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Gemini.
Saturn/Neptune: strange and peculiar feelings and events more likely for anyone born at 20 degrees Gemini.
Neptune: once every forty-two years, this aspect brings confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 degrees Gemini.
Pluto: favorable changes, influences, and opportunities for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Gemini.
Cancer
Jupiter/Pluto: increased influence and opportunities for anyone born at 08.5 degrees Cancer.
Saturn/Uranus: stress, tensions, and setbacks for anyone born at 18.5 degrees Cancer.
Uranus: favorable shifts, opportunities, and breakthroughs for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Cancer.
Neptune: favorable opportunities for healing, inspiration, imagination, creativity, and spirituality for anyone born around 27 degrees Cancer.
Pluto: significant challenges and fundamental changes for anyone born around 0.5 Gemini.
Leo
Jupiter/Neptune: idealism, inspiration, and creativity for anyone born at 08 degrees Leo.
Saturn: tests, obstacles, lessons, trials, delays, losses, and complex realities (more likely related to intimacy and finances) for anyone born around 13 degrees Leo and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Leo.
Saturn/Pluto: endurance, struggles, and painful revelations for anyone born at 21.5 degrees Leo.
Uranus: once every twenty-one years, this aspect brings dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, breakthroughs, and possibly shocks (more likely related to career and destiny) for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Leo.
Neptune: possible confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 degrees Leo.
Pluto: once every two hundred and fifty years, this aspect brings significant challenges and fundamental changes (more likely related to identity and relationships) for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Leo.
Virgo
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Virgo and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Virgo.
Jupiter/Uranus: fortuitous shifts and changes for anyone born at 05.5 degrees Virgo.
Saturn: a significant 29-year juncture with tests, obstacles, lessons, trials, delays, losses, and complex realities (more likely related to health and relationships) for anyone born around 13 degrees Virgo and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Virgo.
Saturn/Neptune: strange and peculiar feelings and events more likely for anyone born at 20 degrees Virgo.
Uranus: favorable shifts, opportunities, and breakthroughs for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Virgo.
Neptune: once every eighty years, this aspect brings confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 degrees Virgo.
Pluto: significant challenges and fundamental changes for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Virgo.
Libra
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Libra and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Libra.
Jupiter/Pluto: increased influence and opportunities for anyone born at 08.5 degrees Libra.
Saturn: tests, obstacles, lessons, trials, delays, losses, and complex realities (more likely related to health and work) for anyone born around 13 degrees Libra and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Libra.
Saturn/Uranus: stress, tensions, and setbacks for anyone born at 18.5 degrees Libra.
Uranus: dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, breakthroughs, and possibly shocks for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Libra.
Neptune: possible confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 degrees Libra.
Pluto: favorable changes, influences, and opportunities for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Libra.
Scorpio
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Scorpio and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Scorpio.
Jupiter/Neptune: idealism, inspiration, and creativity for anyone born at 08 degrees Scorpio.
Saturn/Pluto: endurance, struggles, and painful revelations for anyone born at 21.5 degrees Scorpio.
Uranus: once-in-a-lifetime dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, breakthroughs, and possibly shocks (more likely related to relationships) for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Scorpio.
Neptune: favorable opportunities for healing, inspiration, imagination, creativity, and spirituality for anyone born around 27 degrees Scorpio.
Pluto: significant challenges and fundamental changes (more likely related to home and family) for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Scorpio.
Sagittarius
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Sagittarius and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Sagittarius.
Jupiter/Uranus: fortuitous shifts and changes for anyone born at 05.5 degrees Sagittarius.
Saturn: a significant 07-year juncture with tests, obstacles, lessons, trials, delays, losses, and complex realities (more likely related to home and family) for anyone born around 13 degrees Sagittarius and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Sagittarius.
Saturn/Neptune: strange and peculiar feelings and events more likely for anyone born at 20 degrees Sagittarius.
Uranus: dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, breakthroughs, and possibly shocks for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Sagittarius.
Neptune: once every forty-two years, this aspect brings confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 degrees Sagittarius.
Pluto: favorable changes, influences, and opportunities for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Sagittarius.
Capricorn
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Capricorn and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Capricorn.
Jupiter/Pluto: increased influence and opportunities for anyone born at 08.5 degrees Capricorn.
Saturn/Uranus: stress, tensions, and setbacks for anyone born at 18.5 degrees Capricorn.
Uranus: favorable shifts, opportunities, and breakthroughs for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Capricorn.
Neptune: opportunities for healing, inspiration, imagination, creativity, and spirituality for anyone born around 27 degrees Capricorn.
Aquarius
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Aquarius and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Aquarius.
Jupiter/Neptune: idealism, inspiration, and creativity for anyone born at 08 degrees Aquarius.
Saturn/Pluto: endurance, struggles, and painful revelations for anyone born at 21.5 degrees Aquarius.
Uranus: once every twenty-one years, this aspect brings dramatic shifts, surprises, adjustments, breakthroughs, and possibly shocks for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Aquarius.
Pluto: once every two hundred and fifty years, this aspect brings fundamental changes, meaningful accomplishments, and/or significant tests and challenges for anyone born around 0.5 degrees Aquarius.
Pisces
Jupiter: optimism and opportunities for anyone born around 16.5 degrees Pisces and any planets and points you have around 16.5 degrees Pisces.
Jupiter/Uranus: fortuitous shifts and changes for anyone born at 05.5 degrees Pisces.
Saturn: a significant 29-year juncture with tests, lessons, and steady accomplishments possible for anyone born around 13 degrees Pisces and any planets and points you have around 13 degrees Pisces.
Saturn/Neptune: strange and peculiar feelings and events for anyone born at 20 degrees Pisces.
Uranus: favorable shifts, opportunities, and breakthroughs for anyone born around 24.5 degrees Pisces.
Neptune: opportunities for healing, inspiration, imagination, creativity, and spirituality for anyone born around 27 degrees Pisces. Also, possible confusion, deception, victimization, weakness, and even illness and debilitating conditions for anyone born around 27 Pisces.
Lunar Aspects
With Moon in Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces, the most important lunar aspects are listed below. The descriptions do not intend to tell you what will happen in your life at the listed times. Instead, they provide some of the possibilities you can expect around the times given so you can plan your life more wisely. It is often apparent which time frames are better for timing a party, trip, decision, project, business, or other events.
Lunar aspects are in effect for a few hours (versus days) before and until the times given for the Eastern Time Zone. Therefore, you need to adjust the times for where you live. For example, if you live on the West Coast, there is a three-hour difference, so you must subtract three hours.
The plus (+) lunar aspects are favorable. The minus (-) lunar aspects are more likely to bring challenges or difficulties. Sometimes, there is a + and – lunar aspect, which can exhibit positive and negative influences.
Monday, December 02
04:08 PM EST Moon entered Capricorn, where it will remain until late Wednesday evening, when it enters the next sign, Aquarius.
Moon in the earth sign Capricorn boosts Capricorn and, to a lesser degree, the other earth signs, Taurus and Virgo. Moon in Capricorn also helps any planets and points you have in Capricorn and should bring together more things for Capricorn in the short term.
Moon in Capricorn supports anyone’s involvement with Capricorn-related attitudes and activities such as defining and working toward longer-range goals; being more organized, disciplined, resourceful, economical, practical, and task-oriented; connecting with people in positions of power and authority; and improving one’s professional profile and impressions.
11:43 PM + (Moon in Capricorn 90 Node in Aries) opportunities for connecting with people via networking, social interactions, and alliances with large and small groups.
Tuesday, December 03
03:29 AM – (Moon in Capricorn 150 Mars in Leo) opportunities for bolder and more direct actions. However, this aspect magnifies feelings and passions, bringing impatience, rashness, impulsiveness, anger, and even forceful actions.
11:12 PM + (Moon in Capricorn 150 Jupiter in Gemini) opportunities for any interpersonal situation, including meetings and working with the public. This lunar aspect also increases the possibilities for kindness, benevolence, positive attitudes, shared feelings, and uplifting emotional support.
Wednesday, December 04
03:52 AM + (Moon in Capricorn 90 Chiron in Aries) opportunities for family matters and loving and healing relationships.
01:24 PM + (Moon in Capricorn 120 Uranus in Taurus) opportunities for instincts, intuition, and forward-looking aspirations regarding anything new, different, exciting, and adventuresome, especially anything involving business and professional matters because this aspect involves the earth signs, Taurus and Capricorn.
06:34 PM + (Moon in Capricorn 00 Venus in Capricorn) this once-a-month lunar aspect brings opportunities for cooperation, cheerfulness, affection, pleasantries, gracefulness, emotional sharing, and artistic expression, especially involving females.
06:34 PM Moon in Capricorn Void until 11:21 PM when it enters the next sign, Aquarius.
This Void is almost five hours, so note that there tends to be a lull in the energy levels during Void periods. What you start or implement will likely turn out differently than planned or expected. It’s usually better to do things with less significance or no purpose than to start something new and vital. For example, if you have a new idea, meet someone new, or start a business, those activities will likely amount to little.
11:21 PM EST Moon enters Aquarius, where it will remain until Saturday morning, when it enters the next sign, Pisces.
Moon in Aquarius boosts Aquarius and, to a lesser degree, the other air signs, Gemini and Libra. Moon in Aquarius also helps any planets and points you have in Aquarius and should bring together more things for Aquarius in the short term.
Moon in Aquarius supports anyone’s involvement with Aquarius-related attitudes and activities such as analyzing, observing, questioning, experimenting, and investigating; exploring what is new, novel, unusual, progressive, and nonconforming; science, technology, engineering, computers, electronics, inventions, and aviation; and working with clubs, organizations, special interest groups, and philanthropic and charitable organizations.
11:56 PM + (Moon in Aquarius 00 Pluto in Aquarius) this once-a-month lunar aspect brings opportunities for experiencing and exploring deeper feelings and psychic impressions.
Thursday, December 05
10:27 AM – (Moon in Aquarius 180 Mars in Leo) opportunities for bolder and more direct actions. However, this aspect magnifies feelings and passions, bringing impatience, rashness, impulsiveness, anger, and even forceful actions.
Friday, December 06
04:52 AM + (Moon in Aquarius 120 Jupiter in Gemini) opportunities for any interpersonal situation, including meetings and working with the public. This lunar aspect also increases the possibilities for kindness, benevolence, positive attitudes, shared feelings, and uplifting emotional support.
07:01 PM – (Moon in Aquarius 90 Uranus in Taurus) opportunities for increased instincts, willfulness, and aspirations regarding anything new, different, exciting, and adventuresome. However, this aspect also brings nervousness, anxiety, upsets, restlessness, excitability, volatility, and emotionally charged situations.
07:01 PM Moon in Aquarius Void until 04:48 AM Saturday when it enters the next sign, Pisces.
This Void is more than nine hours, so note that there tends to be a lull in the energy levels during Void periods. What you start or implement will likely turn out differently than planned or expected. It’s usually better to do things with less significance or no purpose than to start something new and vital. For example, if you have a new idea, meet someone new, or start a business, those activities will likely amount to little.
Saturday, December 07
04:48 AM EST Moon enters Pisces, where it will remain until Monday morning when it enters the next sign, Aries.
03:35 PM – (Moon in Pisces 150 Mars in Leo) opportunities for bolder and more direct actions. However, this aspect magnifies feelings and passions, bringing impatience, rashness, impulsiveness, anger, and even forceful actions.
Sunday, December 08
03:43 AM + – (Moon in Pisces 00 Saturn in Pisces) this once-a-month lunar aspect brings opportunities for orderly, steady, conscientious, pragmatic, and realistic plans and activities. However, this aspect can also be challenging because it is emotionally restrictive and can create issues, worries, and differences, especially involving females.
08:55 AM + (Moon in Pisces 90 Jupiter in Gemini) opportunities for any interpersonal situation, including meetings and working with the public. This lunar aspect also increases the possibilities for kindness, benevolence, positive attitudes, shared feelings, and uplifting emotional support.
09:37 AM + (Moon in Pisces 45 Venus in Aquarius) opportunities for cooperation, cheerfulness, affection, pleasantries, gracefulness, emotional sharing, and artistic expression, especially involving females.
Monday, December 09
03:44 AM + – (Moon in Pisces 00 Neptune in Pisces) this once-a-month lunar aspect brings opportunities for daydreaming, imagination, creativity, prayer, meditation, and highly refined artistic and spiritual feelings and aspirations. However, this aspect increases the possibilities for haziness and emotional confusion and is not ideal for logical discussions and clear-cut decisions.
08:37 AM EST Moon enters the next sign, Aries.
Guidelines for Using This Information
These newsletters are not your typical sun sign column. They provide much more information and guidance, but it may be challenging to sort everything out with so many factors presented, even for astrology students. Therefore, I keep everything as clear and straightforward as possible.
The most critical factor with right timing is what is occurring in your horoscope. When negative aspects dominate your horoscope, the chances of success with right timing diminish no matter how favorable the aspects are in the sky. These newsletters cannot cover what is occurring in your horoscope. However, applying the information in these newsletters with common sense allows you to time your decisions and activities better.
The basic premise with right timing is that it helps to have the “stars” on your side. Starting a marriage, trip, surgery, business, real estate deal, or a major purchase, for example, at an inopportune time reduces the chances of success no matter how good your intentions and how hard you try: the better the timing, the higher your chances of success. Even an hour can make a significant difference in important decisions and events.
Moon enters each zodiac sign about every 28 days and remains in each sign for about two and a half days. When the Moon is in your sun sign, matters will likely come more together for you on a short-term basis unless significant aspects are currently challenging your horoscope.
The traits and qualities I assign to the signs in these newsletters describe the signs’ functions and meanings versus describing your personality. However, the descriptions may be entirely accurate for you. Furthermore, to understand a person’s personality and character from an astrological perspective, dozens of factors besides one’s sun sign must be considered.
Contact me to know what’s going on in your horoscope and to make better decisions at better times. We will schedule a private consultation at my office or on the phone so you can know more about your future and better understand the issues and opportunities in your life as well as your relationships, job, career, education, finances, children, parents, travel, health, location, retirement, karma, and purpose in life.
Ed Kluska
B.S. Physics
M.S. Psychology
C.A. Certified Astrologer
Meditation Teacher
53 Years in Practice
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Cincinnati, OH 45220
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