Astrology for Tuesday, 18 February 2020:

Today the Moon in Sagittarius makes a sextile to the Sun in the final degree of Aquarius. This aspect offers hope for futures that will be built from what we choose to make possible in the present. I’m reminded of Judith Butler’s words, “If hope is an impossible demand, then we demand the impossible.” What impossible demands might you make today in order to make more lives and ways of living possible in worlds to come? The Moon then ingresses into Capricorn, the sign of its antithesis or detriment. In Capricorn, the nurturing care of the Moon may feel weighed down by practical, material demands and the work that must be done. As the Moon conjoins Mars in Capricorn, we may be stirred to action, the bold courage and drive to put hope into practice and to fight on behalf of our impossible demands. This charge receives even more momentum as the Moon makes a trine to Uranus in Taurus. Uranus is the planet of revolution, upheaval, disruption, and the unsettling of the establishment. After a morning of astrology that feels like the radical movements of personal and collective activisms, the Sun ingresses into Pisces in the final minutes of Tuesday. The Sun joins Mercury—now moving retrograde in the sky—and Neptune in the mutable water sign ruled by Jupiter. With increasing emphasis on Pisces, we may ask: how are our movements and our activisms carried and nourished by deep practices of empathy and compassion? In what ways must we allow ourselves to feel with those whose lives have not yet been made possible within the conditions of—to paraphrase bell hooks—imperialist, colonialist, white supremacist, capitalist, hetero-patriarchy?