Astrology for Friday, 21 February 2020:

Today Mars in Capricorn makes a trine to Uranus in Taurus. Mars is exalted in Capricorn, giving it particular strength and distinction to its ability to accomplish taking action that propels sustainable change. Uranus is the spark of revolution, the refusal of establishment and the impulse toward liberation. Angela Davis teaches us, “…the process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.” This insight is in concert with Audre Lorde’s insistence, “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” We will never achieve revolutionary change by attempting to assimilate into existing categories that we inherit from centuries of systemic violence and oppression—categories of gender, race, sexuality, and class that are themselves the tools with which our current world was built. Rather, how might you harness the revolutionary force of this aspect between Uranus and Mars to struggle at the limits of existing categories and structures to create cracks of possibility through which new worlds might emerge? What if you don’t have to stay in the same boxes that you have been given? The Moon in Aquarius then makes a sextile to Venus in Aries. Ruled by Mars just beginning to separate from its trine to Uranus, Venus may enflame our insistence on desire and pleasure. Sextile the Moon, tonight may be a night to connect with your own body, feel into your own longings, and give yourself permission to follow where your own impulses might take you.