And now, without adieu…the scoop!
Hello Glitteratti! Welcome to another week of fun times on Earth! Let’s see what color we need to paint our nails* to deal with humaning this week!
The week starts and ends with some excellent Venus vibes, so maybe Barbie pink is the manicure color of the week, eh? But in the middle we have some emotional...dryness. Yes that's what we'll call it. How can moisten our emotional life? (haha I know everyone hates the word "moist"). Let’s dig in…
Monday Venus is conjunct Lilith! This is SO GOOD. The best word I have for this is “Unbridled”. Our sexuality, our rage, our love for ourselves…unbridled. Yum!
Tuesday is the exact Lion’s Gate Portal I talked about at length last week. Take advantage of this energy! (read last week’s blog, you silly Bitch!) Also Yum!
After Tuesday, however, there’s a lot of energy around drive, ambition, leadership and service *makes blah blah blah hand gesture* But what we don’t have easy access to right now, collectively, seems to be emotion, intuition and maybe the ability to nurture.
In the sky right now, we have a lot of fire (passion and action): The Sun, Venus and Lilith in Leo, Chiron, the North Node, and Eris in Aries. We have a some air (logic and knowledge): Ceres in Libra, Vesta in Gemini, Chariklo in Aquarius. We have a lot of Earth (practicality, physical resources): Mercury, Mars & Pallas in Virgo, Jupiter & Uranus in Taurus, Pluto in Capricorn. What we don’t have is water. We are all wound up with no place to go…
This chart reminds me of my own, frankly…lest you think that we will be emotionless. Am I emotionless? Ha! And neither will the collective be without emotion. But we do lack a good vehicle for expressing those emotions. The planets we have in water right now are Neptune and Saturn…in Pisces. And while they are far apart in degrees, in my opinion their dual presence does change the energy. Saturn likes control. Have you ever tried to control water? A handyman once told me that he’d rather work with electricity any day over water. Electricity is predictable and follows a known path. Whereas water will find every tiny leak along the way and usually soak you. Water, like emotions, likes to be in motion. Attempts to stop that motion usually result in some kind of mess. So Saturn is going to be frustrated in Pisces, although on a global scale, it’s fascinating to see his influence. You can read about it here: I have an awful lot of friends who are giving up alcohol, and religion sure is in the mix a lot these days!
Anyway, Neptune rules Pisces so this is his home turf. Saturn is like the compliance expert or QC agent that is visiting from out of town. This is an odd couple if there ever was one! Saturn is not much fun at this party. Pisces is the sign we would naturally lean into for inspiration, imagination, fantasy, poetry, song…but noooo. Saturn is all “we need to work”, and “imagination should have purpose”, and “do you even have goals?” bleh.
For funsies, Imagine this scenario is a Drag Club. Neptune might be at the front door, but Saturn is the bartender. So your drinks are totally going to be watered down, and whistling at the performers is discouraged - Applause only please. Or reverse that: Neptune is at the bar but Saturn is at the door. The drinks might be a’flowin’, but is Saturn letting anyone in? The performers are hammered, the club is too full to care about a show…
You get the idea…odd couple, conflicting energy. Further to that point is a little aspect between Neptune and the centaur asteroid, Elatus. Elatus is a pal of Chiron, and you can read about him in this blog post from April this year:
Wednesday’s Neptune quincunx Elatus is frustrated or misdirected inspiration. An adjustment must be made. We might even be suffering from our own bullshit…so…check your socks. (I’m not really sure what that should mean, it just came to me. It sounds like something a Grandpa would say “Well son, you need to check your socks, because that is some bullshit!”)
Saturday is a bunch of energy around service, purpose and mission and plfffft. Saturday might be a good night to stay in and rest, because on Sunday we FINALLY get some Sun conjunct Venus action, and that is great for socializing and experiencing affection and pleasure. Fuck! It took all week to get here!
If lack of appropriate means to express our feelings (we need water!) is the problem, and our odd couple in Pisces ain’t helpin’ too much, let’s lean into that opposite house for solutions & outlet for our inspiration. I think Chiron & Elatus both are surprising keys this week too (and they are in opposite signs offering some balance in the healing. Here’s a fake conversation between them -
Chiron and Elatus walk into The Drag Club. At the bar, Chiron starts complaining about his knee pain. Elatus, with a gaping hole in his arm, is like “what’s the big deal?”
Chiron says “dude you need healing too”.
Elatus says “eh, healing is bullshit. What we need is inspiration. I’m going to write an inspirational speech to help you.”
“Talk about bullshit! How is an eloquent speech going to help my aching knee?”
“Holy Zeus you’re a pain in my arm! I need a drink. Do these taste watered down to you?”
and so forth and so on.
BitchScopes this week will look to see where we are underestimating our own strength in regards to problem solving, and where we might find inspiration in a desert. And finally, Leo is a juicy point for us all right now. It holds up a mirror so we can see that the gift is sometimes figuring out why we have shit in our socks (due to Elatus bullshitting us, in case you didn't get the joke).
*💩 🧦 Um, I guess our manicure color should be brown...