Ever find yourself wondering if your weekend squabbles and moments of unexpected harmony might just be cosmic choreography? Well, buckle up—this weekend’s planetary antics are stirring up a wild mix of love, tension, and a pinch of “wait, what just happened?” Aries Venus is trining Leo Mars like a passionate duet while the steady Taurus Sun flirts with dreamy Pisces Saturn, painting this cosmic canvas with bold strokes of motivation and heartfelt charm. But hold onto your hats, because closer to the ground, Taurus Mercury’s square to Mars is giving our conversations—and maybe even that grocery list—a spicy twist of miscommunication and inward friction. It’s like attempting to dance the tango with your own shadow: charming, frustrating, and oddly revealing.
So here’s the itch to scratch—when’s the last time a disagreement actually nudged you toward discovering shared values rather than just digging trenches? Bertrand Russell nailed it: “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Could this weekend’s astro-tension be the very thing prodding us beyond comfort zones, through the awkward pauses and raised eyebrows, into a zone of true connection? Let’s lean in, risk a little discomfort, and see how the stars invite us to turn friction into fuel for growth, both in our relationships and within ourselves. Curious how all this unfolds? LEARN MORE
Bertrand Russell said: “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Often times where we stray from that is the point where we’re distracted by a difference in opinion, owing it to a difference in values. Where we’re moved to act, we ought to investigate further. Comfort is often our meter, but should it be? I don’t know, but we should pause to think about it.
All weekend, Aries Venus trines Leo Mars, and the Venus-ruled Taurus Sun sextiles Pisces Saturn. When we zoom way OUT, all is right with the world. The opportunities we have eclipse all that have come before, and we are motivated and moved to better ourselves. The Sun conjoins Uranus all weekend, exact Saturday night; we’re on track for future-oriented improvements.
In addition, rather than in contrast, Taurus Mercury squares Mars through the weekend, also exact Saturday night. When we zoom IN, we have a difference in attitude, sensory input, communications, and understanding. Self-directed action is at odds with its own direction. At the very end of the weekend, Sunday night, the Aquarius Moon sets this all off, sextiling Venus while forming a tense t-square with Mercury and Mars.
Lately I have noticed when I come into agreement with people who otherwise make me very angry (due to their prior or ongoing actions or opinions). It’s easy to laugh it off as an anomaly (“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!”), but the opportunity here is to realize our shared values. THAT is where we can connect, to innovate, strengthen, and improve all our futures. We can see this on the world stage, the national stage, and in our daily lives. One to all, and one to another. We have more in common, most of us, than we have to separate us. Consider letting this weekend’s dissonance/agreement event soften our experience of the divide.
It’s easy to see how that works in politics. Now consider it works the same way with our nearest and dearest. We may not even all be aware when there are such divides rising and receding in our personal lives. Awareness can be jarring, and it should be jarring. Otherwise we miss the opportunity to genuinely improve our relationships AND ourselves.
Stay in it, even when you’re uncomfortable. Ask and answer questions, but listen and answer with love. It’s easy to gloss over tensions, but it’s only in doing the hard thing that tension turns to gains. Turns into love. Be willing to risk discomfort to improve, to revolutionize your experience.
Friday night, the Capricorn Moon quincunxes Mars after an afternoon square to Venus and a trine to Mercury. The issues are raised under a laugh and a smile, but the undercurrent is testy. There’s a bit of inertia to overcome; will you rise to the occasion? It’s worth it.
Saturday night, the Moon finishes up in Capricorn, first with a trine to the Sun in exact conjunction with Uranus, then with a sextile to Saturn and a sextile to Aries Neptune (exact overnight when the Moon hits Aquarius). The collective mood is sober(ish) but receptive; we find strength in our commonality, and we can leverage that togetherness to move forward with a vision. There’s an urge to give grace. That shows more strength than making people comfortable in order to get by with the status quo. But here’s what makes it even better: In this instance it’s pleasurable. Calm AND exhilarated, because it IS the right thing.
Sunday morning’s Aquarius Moon conjoins Pluto: Intense, but I think this is also the good kind of intensity. Taking care of ourselves first so we can so our part in working in and with the world just makes sense; but it can feel revolutionary (and sometimes a bit disturbing).
As mentioned earlier, the Moon spends the rest of the day moving into sextile with Venus, opposition to Mars, and square to Mercury. What is right about what you’re doing? Where are your values not matching up with your expressions of your values? Give yourself some prickly pushes over that, but also offer yourself a fiery invitation IN. We all belong.
How are you treating others; how are you being treated? Sit with those questions and answers and how they reflect your values. Heck, what we say about other people mainly harms or helps US, so what are we saying?
Do you have any weekend plans?
Philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1959:
“I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.
“The moral thing I should wish to say… I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other; we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way; and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”