​Today the Moon in Pisces makes a trine to Mercury in Scorpio. Mercury is nearing the end of its retrograde shadow, delivering messages from the depths of dark places beneath the surfaces of our emotional lives. Today we’re asked to allow all that has been uncovered to land in our bodies, to feel the tidal shifts that are set into motion when we use our voices to speak what we have never said before. adrienne maree brown writes in Pleasure Activism, “Part of liberating our desires from the rape culture and patriarchy we’re swimming in is reclaiming our right to communicate. We must learn to say, sign, or type the truth in real time about what our bodies actually want and need and what we don’t want.” What if communicating from the depths of your own desires is not only a matter of personal healing but of collective liberation as well? The Moon then ingresses into Aries and directly into a square from Jupiter in Capricorn. This is a condition of bonification called overcoming, in which Jupiter offers its beneficence to this fiery Moon. Jupiter is in detriment in Capricorn, but it is offering abundance from what it has available to fuel the ignition and drive of the Moon in Aries. We may feel a combustion of motivation, particularly in the area of life occupied by Aries in our charts. If there are projects or pursuits in which you’re feeling the impulsive flames of Aries today, know that Jupiter is offering grounded, patient support from Capricorn. With the Moon in aversion to its ruler Mars, the outcomes of our actions may not be clear, so focus instead on what it means to start and act well, taking responsibility for how you begin.

Today the Moon in Aquarius makes a square to Mercury in Scorpio. We may find ourselves in the midst of ideological conflict, debates, or disagreements. How to best articulate our desires for the future may not be clear, or it may be that the words we are speaking do not actually align with our aspirations. With the Moon in aversion to its ruler Saturn, long-term outcomes or goals may feel elusive; for today, give your energy to clarifying your message, finding the words that move us closer to the futures for which you long. Then Jupiter ingresses into Capricorn, leaving Sagittarius behind after spending over a year moving through its own sign. Jupiter is said to be in its fall or depression in Capricorn. The planet of growth and abundance is now in the domain of Saturn—the planet of limitation, discipline, and delay. Jupiter continues to make new growth possible, but now perhaps with much more planning, effort, and patience for long-term developments. Jupiter will remain in Capricorn until December 19, 2020. Look to whatever part of your chart is occupied by Capricorn and ask yourself: how do I want to expand and cultivate more abundance in this area of my life? What foundations do I need to lay? What work do I need to begin to do now in order to support slow, durational development that has the capacity to last and endure?
 
If you would like support in understanding your own chart and what Jupiter in Capricorn may mean for you, I am currently booking in-person and Zoom consultations for December, January, February, and March. Visit my bookings page here.

​Around midday, the Moon in Capricorn makes a sextile to Neptune in Pisces then a sextile to Mercury in Scorpio. This is an opportunity to begin to embody the fantasies and dreams that we are coming to articulate for ourselves and others. As we vision for the kinds of lives and worlds that we long to bring into being, the Moon in Capricorn invites us to lay the foundations of such living worlds through developing tangible practices that align with our visions. In order to sustain and nurture the possibilities of worlds to come, we must begin to practice living in such worlds as tangible realities. The Moon then moves through conjunctions to Saturn and Pluto, and we may feel the pressure, pull, or force of the existing systems through which we are living. Material realities that are resistant to change and the ways they act on and through us will undoubtedly assert themselves. Remember what adrienne maree brown teaches us in Emergent Strategy: “We are realizing that we must become the systems we need—no government, political party, or corporation is going to care for us, so we have to remember how to care for each other. And that will take time, and commitment, a willingness to step outside of the comfort of the current and lean into the unknown, together. To listen to each other across all real and perceived divides.” It is our responsibility to not only dream of worlds capable of caring for us, but to begin to put such worlds into practice, dreaming for the future through how we practice for such worlds in the tangible processes of our daily lives.

​Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we memorialize and honor the hundreds of transgender people who have been murdered world-wide this year.
The Moon in Virgo makes a trine to Uranus in Taurus, inviting us into radical right-relationship with change. Virgo is the mutable earth sign, signifying material adaptability and the transformation of material processes; the Moon signifies the body, and Uranus demands revolution. As I hold the grief of the relentless violence against trans and gender-nonconforming people—particularly trans women of color in the U.S. and abroad—I know that the roots of this violence are in rigid attachments to immutable gender categories, resistance to change and changeability, and in the toxic repression of all of the ways in which we fear difference in one another and ourselves. The Moon in Virgo’s trine to Uranus is asking us to open to new revolutionary relationships to our own bodies and the bodies of others, to difference, and to change. The Moon then makes a sextile to Mercury which is stationing direct in Scorpio after several weeks of retrograde motion. It is time to name our fears, speak our shame, and share the harm we’ve kept hidden—because hidden harm, shame, and fear become the soil in which violence takes root. In the final minutes of the day (EST), the Moon in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces. This confrontation asks us to look inward and to do the work of putting our dreams, fantasies, and ideals into practice. If you can imagine a better world, a world without the conditions for harm and violence, how do you put that into practice today? If we are living in an imagination battle, as adrienne maree brown has written, how do we imagine a different world, not only in our hearts and minds, but in our real lives and in our ongoing material practices? How will you live into your imagination of a better world through the actions that you take today and every day?

​Today the Moon in Cancer makes a trine to Mercury moving retrograde through Scorpio. Mercury is reviewing what might be hidden from view, remembering feelings we maybe cannot yet recall. The Moon in Cancer is calling us back to our own origin stories, the ways in which we have and have not known love. We may find ourselves doing the important work of feeling backwards to the places we believe we were loved, only to find that we understand them differently now. As bell hooks writes, “Initially, I did not want to accept a definition of love that would also compel me to face the possibility that I had not known love in the relationships that were most primary to me … if one’s goal is self-recovery, to be well in one’s soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness is part of the healing process … I had to first learn anew the meaning of love and from there learn how to be loving.” How are you being invited to reflect on the deep feelings beneath your memories of love and care? Are you willing to feel differently, to see and understand love and care differently, if doing so is a necessary part of your healing? The Moon then makes a trine to Neptune, and we may feel swept up in our ideals and fantasies of what care and nurturing could be. As the Moon then opposes Saturn, these processes of review and idealization may bring us into confrontation with authority. Fear and resistance are not unexpected as we clarify what it is that actually offers us safety and security, especially if it means acknowledging the ways in which we have not been given what we need by authority figures who were responsible for our care. But the Moon is in its domicile, strong and connected to its resources. As we do the work of healing from what we were never given, we will find that all that we need in order to sooth and support our systems is already available to us in our own bodies. Ask yourself what it is that you need, then take the steps to provide for yourself—whether or not anyone ever showed you how.

​The Moon spends the first half of the day completing its time in Gemini before ingressing into its domicile Cancer. In the last degrees of Gemini, the Moon opposes Jupiter in Sagittarius then makes a trine to Mars in Libra. We may feel pulled between the capaciousness of our hopes and faith in what is possible and the practical thinking that is needed to give those expansive possibilities a tangible reality. As adrienne maree brown writes in Emergent Strategy, “How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale. The patterns of the universe repeat at scale … what we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.” As you confront your hopes and beliefs for what is possible, remember that you make such things possible by practicing them in small, embodied ways. And we don’t have to do it alone. Mars is completing its time in Libra, where it has been learning and teaching the lessons of collaboration and coalition, taking actions together that we cannot take on our own. As you consider the small-scale practices for bringing the world in which you want to live into being, remember to seek out allies and co-conspirators with whom you might do this work. As the Moon enters its home sign of Cancer, we are brought back to what nurtures and nourishes us. However, the Moon moves almost immediately into a sextile to Uranus which could shake up our experiences or expectations of care. The ways in which we have been accustomed to giving and receiving care may require adjustment. As Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha writes in Care Work, “What does it mean to shift our ideas of access and care (whether it’s disability, childcare, economic access, or many more) from an individual chore, an unfortunate cost of having an unfortunate body, to a collective responsibility that’s maybe even deeply joyful?” These are question we may be asking about what it means to give and receive what we need, to ask for and offer help, and to revolutionize our understanding of care.

​Today we move through a tight T-square as the Moon in Gemini opposes Venus in Sagittarius then makes a square to Neptune in Pisces, followed by Venus squaring Neptune. Our ideals for love are being called into question by what we can know. The Moon opposing Venus asks: how are you bringing your liberated visions of love into daily practice? Can you balance critical thinking and affection? That which we love cannot be beyond examination or critique; in fact, the ability to critically consider that which we love may be evidence of how much we value it. If our love cannot be subjected to careful and thoughtful examination, we may be more invested in our own ideals than that or those we love. The Moon square Neptune challenges us to discriminate between illusion and knowledge that can be intersubjectively shared and affirmed. This aspect reminds me of Donna Haraway’s description of “situated knowledges” and “feminist objectivity.” She writes, “Feminists don’t need a doctrine of objectivity that promises transcendence, a story that loses track of its mediations just where someone might be held responsible for something … Feminist objectivity is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object.” In other words, objective knowledge is not defined by transcendence or universality; feminist objectivity is committed to the partial and the particular, the locatable, the embodied, and the situated. As Neptune squares the Moon, we may feel the allure of the transcendent or the universal, but truly objective knowledge happens in the details, at the scale of what can be known from our limited, embodied positions. Finally, Venus in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces. Both Sagittarius and Pisces are mutable signs ruled by Jupiter. It can be difficult to maintain our boundaries or our footing in the here-and-now in these signs. This T-square is reminding us that however expansive our ideals for love might feel, they must remain accountable to the details of how such love is practiced and acted out. As Judith Butler writes, “Love always returns us to what we do and do not know. We have no other choice than to become shaken by doubt, and to persist with what we can know when we can know it.”