This current issue with Russia and Ukraine actually started last week while Mercury in Aquarius was square Uranus. This is the same exact aspect - the square from Aquarius to Uranus, the change-bringer, in Taurus, that was the main energy of all of 2021, with the three squares from Saturn in Aquarius to Uranus in Taurus (2/17, 6/14, and 2/25), and we are not done with that - we have a fourth square between Saturn and Uranus on for an entire month in September/October. And the 2nd half of 2022 is going to be bumpy for more reasons than that.

Right now, we have Pluto nearing the end of Capricorn. It entered in 2008 - that was marked by a recession. Pluto brings transformation through death and rebirth - it shakes foundations, exposes, and strips before it brings the new. This year, America is coming up on its Pluto return. Then over 2024/2025, Pluto will be making its transition to Aquarius, where it will be doing its thing for the coming 16 year transit.

Uranus is the change-bringer, and it does so through disruption, sudden upheaval, and out-of-the-blue insight - it causes breakdowns before it brings the breakthroughs. In Taurus it is bringing change to all things related to earth, environment, food sources, and how we feel secure and comfortable. Taurus is a sign of security and pleasure - Venus-ruled earth - so Uranus here is asking us (forcing us) to innovate our relationship to the material world and how we derive our sense of security in day to day life. Uranus will leave Taurus for Gemini to spend the next 7 years there in 2025.

Neptune is transiting its own sign of Pisces from 2011 to 2026. Neptune in transit wants to restore balance, but as with the other two, before that can happen, it brings collapse - Neptune dissolves. In Pisces it has to do with the natural world and wildlife/life, and especially waterways and oceans. It rules the immune system. Neptune in Pisces also has to do with oil. But its overarching message is about the connectedness of everything in this world, that we are all one.

Now consider that on top of ongoing squares from Aquarius (the air sign of the collective, humanitarianism, the future, innovation, technology, and circulation) to Uranus in Taurus, at the moment we have Mars approaching Pluto near the final degrees of Capricorn, the sign of governmental and financial systems.

Mars and Pluto are volatile. This is the warrior and the lord of the underworld coming together. Power plays are not a surprise. The saving grace here might just be Venus in the mix, who already has a relationship going with Pluto from her first two conjunctions in December. The one coming on Friday 3/4 (with Mars traveling with Venus) is the third and final one, bringing resolution. The thing here is that Venus is the one in the middle. Venus made the first two conjunctions with Pluto in December before Mars got in the mix. Now Mars is traveling with Venus through Capricorn and then on past Pluto into Aquarius (mid-February through mid-March) - we can think of Mars being Venus' guest here that doesn't get along with Pluto.

At the same time, Jupiter is approaching Neptune for a 4/12 conjunction that begins a new 16 year cycle in Pisces. The upcoming 3/2 Pisces new moon with Jupiter is a prelude. Jupiter is a gift-bringer, a planet of protection and luck, but it is also a planet of growth and expansion, and it "blows up" whatever it gets close to. Jupiter wants more. This transit can very well be escalating the situation, and oil/natural resources could be a main motivator (Neptune in Pisces), as well as power (Pluto).

Mars Pluto always has the potential to get ugly. Jupiter always has the potential to make everything bigger.

However, next week's 3/2 Pisces new moon sitting with Jupiter (also a benefic and protector) and then Venus (the other benefic) in the middle of the Mars-Pluto issue on Friday 3/4 may be bringing blessings.
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As always, the most important thing we can do for ourselves and the collective at any time is to stay aligned with a bright future that serves the highest good of all.

We cannot do that if we are letting what shows up in front of us on the news dictate our vibe - choose your vibe according to what you wish to create - don't let it be dictated by whatever might happen around you.

​Be the leader energetically.

Saturn enters the pre shadow of its retrograde for this year on February 22nd. 

This means it begins making its first of three passes over the degrees of the retrograde, between 18 and 25 degrees Aquarius.

This first pass is our introduction to what the coming review from early June through mid-October will be about in our lives.  The actual review will happen during the retrograde, and then the third pass is resolution, after Saturn has stationed direct, from October 22nd until January 25th, 2023.

As of Friday, February 18th, Neptune began making its first pass over the retrograde territory it will cover from June until December.

This is the first of the three phases of the retrograde, with the first pass being the "introduction," the second pass in reverse being the actual retrograde and "review," and the third pass once direct again being the "resolution."

What the Cards Are Saying About the Coming Month:
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​Overview:   Are you finding yourself having sleepless nights of fear and worry as you wonder where is all this good stuff you felt so sure was on its way?  This month's cards say the doubt and fear you are experiencing is all in your head.  Refocus on your daily routines for health and sleep, meditate, and start taking control of your thoughts by switching focus from worry and doubt to visualizing what's coming with confidence and reveling in the feeling of the satisfaction of having it.  Use affirmations if necessary, practice gratitude and appreciation, ground and clear every morning and live through your heart.  You've got to believe it's coming.  The factors you aren't seeing yet is that a new beginning is on it's way that will require you to trade your doubt and cynicism for faith and optimism and take the leap.  It's time to restore balance, tune out the noise of the world, and get quiet and clear so that you will hear the whisper of the inner voice telling you what direction to move in when it comes.  For success until the March 18th full moon, reconnect first with yourself, then start reconnecting with the bigger world around you.  It's time.  ​

It started around February 3rd/4th as Mercury stationed direct in Capricorn.

Venus just stationed direct there on January 29th, just a week after the two big shifts of Uranus direct in Taurus and the north node entering Taurus.

These retrogrades and major shifts were really the defining energy of January, a month that served as almost an extension of 2021 and transition into 2022.

Now that we are through this series of transitions with Venus and Mercury all forward, the difference in the overall energy these days is palpable - in a good way.

The astrology of the coming months is bringing energetic dynamics we can finally get excited about, giving us a much needed break from the almost constant difficult energy (challenging planetary aspects) that we've been navigating over the past couple of years.

Looking at the astrology of the month of February, there is only one challenging aspect and it occurs for just two days over the 24th and 25th as Mercury squares up to Uranus. 

Then in March, the only challenging aspects are as Venus and Mars do the same from the 18th to the 23rd. 

​In April, we only have about 4 days with challenging aspects as Mercury squares Pluto on the 10th, the sun squares Pluto on the 18th and 19th, and then Mercury squares Saturn on the 24th.

As we move toward the dreamy Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Pisces that materializes in mid-April, everything kicks off right around Valentine's Day (2/14) as Mercury reenters Aquarius, Venus and Mars begin their month of traveling side by side, and bringer of expansion and abundance, Jupiter, (strong in Pisces) moves into happy aspect with Uranus, god of change, in Venus-ruled Taurus until the end of the month.

Things are moving fast now and in order to ride this wave of change and harness the power of the good energy available now, we have to leave the past where it belongs - in the past.

The last couple of years have been rough - really we can trace this challenging "forced growth" and change energy all the way back to 2012 when Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn first began their series of 7 squares that spanned over 3 years.  

We aren't totally out of it yet - really we won't be until 2025 when Uranus is in Gemini and Pluto is in Aquarius (yep they will be in supportive aspect by air-to-air trine).  

Right now, however, we are getting a really beautiful stretch of supportive astrology, generally speaking, and in order to be open to the gifts, opportunities, and abundance that might be knocking at our door, we have to shake off the past and fully let it go, and turn our gaze towards the future and what we are moving toward.

I'm all in - are you?

​~Kasey