Unexpected Insights

BitchScopes for July 27- August 3

This week has the energy of change and unexpected insights and events. Tension is very possible and you’d be wise to be aware of your own energy as you interact with others. You may vascillate between bubbly optimism and desolate pessimism and its all OK. This Aquarius full moon is a major contributor to this energy, but has a lot of help from Mercury and Uranus. Be fearlessly yourself, or at least imagine what that would look and feel like. Your imagination does give life to things. Journaling this week about who you would be if you had nothing to lose could uncover some delicious and valuable truths for you.

July 27th: Jupiter Sextile Neptune - Optimistic, hopeful, spiritual connection, a portal for your dreams to become real - This transit happens about every 4-9 years. But in 2020, the year of WTF, this transit happens 3 times. This can be thought of the Universe providing us a bit of a buffer or reprieve from the Pluto and Saturn energies. The first time this happened was February 20th, then here in July, then October 12th.

July 27th: Venus Square Neptune - impressions and perceptions may not be reality

July 27th: Mercury Square Mars - impulsive or even aggressive speech

July 27th: Venus quincunx Jupiter - relationship tension or financial stress. An imbalance between the love you give and receive needs correcting.

July 30th: Mercury opposite Jupiter - brings big ideas and grand plans and you should feel optimistic and sociable.

July 30th: Mercury trine Neptune - stimulates your creativity, imagination, sensitivity, and spirituality.

August 1st: Mercury opposite Pluto - analytical energy, uncovering information, or a battle of wits

August 2nd: Sun square Uranus - can be unnerving as you sense change and feel impermanence. Unpredictable behavior is possible

August 3rd: Mercury opposite Saturn - general bajiggityness, maybe pessimistic thinking

August 3rd 8:59 AM: Full Moon in Aquarius - As if Aquarius didn’t pack enough unexpectedness, this full moon squares Uranus, so changes and “peculiar” events are very possible. Peculiar...what a great word. This whole year is peculiar! Mercury opposite Saturn also lends an uncomfortable energy to this moon. If the moon is full, it is opposite the sun, which is now in Leo. Your right and left brains, creative and logical sides, as well as your inner child and outer adult (um, if you have one?) will be trying to strike a balance. The best way to do that may be to just be loud, bold, uninhibited. Neither of these signs are particularly shy. Both of them are convinced of their rightness. If you were not afraid of anything, or of any backlash, or of losing anything as a result of it, what and who would you be? Imagine that individual during this lunation and give them a voice.


ARIES - You’ve been very focused lately, with eyes fixed on your professional & financial goals. This week, allow yourself to open up into deeper intimacy with both yourself and your partner. Really lean in to the feelings that both warm you and frighten you. You also may soon find that you’ve successfully manifested the beginnings of a new tribe of people that really get you. Congratulations!

TAURUS - This week you may have the “opportunity” to examine a new path for your life. Will you dare to take what feels like a riskier path that seems to lead to a bolder life? Making this choice will require you to set aside concrete information and logic and follow your gut. If you’re having trouble trusting yourself with this, lean into some creative pursuits and you’ll surprise yourself.

GEMINI - If you have been brave enough lately to dive into the dark corners of your life, and your self, and examine your shadow, you will find reward for that work very soon. It is a lot easier to be pollyanna and deny difficult truths about ourselves. Acknowledging your own darkness is pretty badass. And if you’re still in the midst of that process, remember that there is no light without darkness, so shadow without light. Nothing you find in there is “bad”. Loving all the parts of yourself is hard, but rewarding!

CANCER - If you’ve found yourself in planning mode, and thinking a lot about the future lately, you’re not alone. This week’s energy would like to remind you that in the “right now” there are magic moments waiting for you to find them. This is a very “fertile” time for you (maybe that’s literal?) so slow down a little bit and consciously create from each moment and day.

LEO - You are entering a new cycle (we all are, actually). With each new version of yourself, you become bolder. But in your “newness” you may feel really vulnerable. There’s a lot of power in that vulnerability if you can harness it. If you have recently started nurturing a new project or path, you will see it take root and grow within this year.

VIRGO - You may have recently started a journey of self, and then been thrown off your path. Maybe you were shaken by what you encountered within yourself, or it just felt too vulnerable. But you have everything you need to continue this journey. You may have to own some behaviors from your past that aren’t real pretty, but in doing so you will liberate yourself in ways you can’t yet grasp. Keep on keepin’ on. You’re safer than you realize.

LIBRA - To borrow from a cliche, things that are worthwhile are worth fighting for. The right choice is rarely the easy one. If you feel raw, vulnerable, tired, grieved, don’t judge yourself for feeling tired. You’re not too sensitive. You’re not too anything. Give yourself a moment to feel whatever is present right now, and then get up and keep fighting. What you want is worth it.

SCORPIO - The imagination of a Scorpio is a fertile field. You can dream amazing things. You can also manifest amazing things into reality. You may get bogged down in your own sense of pragmatism from time to time, but this new cycle you’re entering is asking you to embrace what seems unbelievable like a child. Your ability to manifest is being kicked into high gear. Use it consciously.

SAGITTARIUS - Can you differentiate between the voice of your ego and the voice of your intuition? If you can set aside right and wrong and feel that quiet voice that tugs at you, you are likely to unlock the door to a long term project that you’ve struggled with for awhile. It may require a slight change of direction, but if you can follow that softer energy and sense of knowing, you’ll find what you didn’t know you were looking for.

CAPRICORN - Look at your personal sense of “faith” this week and examine what it is these days. It has changed a lot over time. Identify what and how it is, and lean into it more. The new phase of life you’re entering will ask you to have more faith, and less direct control. To a Cap, that sounds terrifying. But imagine yourself as a child - who or what did you trust would take care of you? That energy still exists.

AQUARIUS - Perfectionism is the collective wound we all suffer from these days. The fight for rightness is a raging war. Where in your own life is perfection in the way of progress? Are you thinking 3 steps ahead of where you currently exist? Pull back your energy into the now and relax a little. If you’re struggling with the sting of rejection, remind yourself that failure is a stepping stone on the path of discovery. Failure is progress. Don’t give up now!

PISCES - There are a lot of voices in the world. Media and Social Media and a zillion sources of “information”. This can be distracting and cause a lot of confusion. This week challenge yourself to be quiet and still. Maybe even take a brief hiatus from some of those voices and just be with yourself. Keep a journal of your thoughts and feelings and see if something new emerges from what was previously confusing. You have all the information you need inside you.

Go boldly toward your...YOU

BitchScopes for the week of July 20th


I know my dates are overlapping from week to week just a smidge. This Monday we have the New Moon I talked about in last week’s Scopes. And on Monday the 27th we have a few significant things to talk about that I don’t want you to miss.

I can not state enough that this double Cancer New Moon is an opportunity to get your intentions straight as we enter a new phase. I know, I know, we’ve all been talking about new beginnings every months since forever. But it is clear in the world that things are at a boiling point. This is the alchemy of life. When things are heated they become something new. It isn’t as thought we will wake up one Wednesday and go “woohoo everything is different!”. It’s more like watching your own child grow, in that you don’t notice all the little changes when you see them every day. But one day you recognize that they’ve grown. We are entering a new cycle, personally and collectively, and it happens slowly, but also dramatically. Its like (C’mon, say it with me, it’s my favorite metaphor for anything…) BIRTH.

Look at your life today. Write some things down. What would you like to change, eliminate, develop, enhance, attract? Get clear about it. We’ve been given this glorious open book test this month!

The Sun enters Leo this week, shortly after this New Moon. We are emboldened, braver, more creative, more optimistic. We will feel brighter, more alive, more hopeful. We will still have obstacles, but we will be able to tackle them with greater confidence.

As this week winds down, be slow to speak and slower to judge. Neptune will cloud your perceptions, and Mars will sharpen your tongue. Lean back into that Leo energy that says “Oh, you were working on this computer? Nice. I was just thinking about having a nap on it. Look at my gloriousness!". I’m not suggesting we be selfish and fuck up each other’s work by getting in the way. But do appreciate your own glory. For this week, rule your corner-of-the-world-kingdom with quiet authority.

July 20th: New Moon In Cancer - connect to the mother energy in yourself, in the world, from your childhood. Heal. Reclaim safety and security. Explore what “home” means to you. What do you want your home to be and encompass? What is the reality? What are you birthing as we enter a new phase and cycle?

July 20th: Sun Opposite Saturn - inner conflict, self esteem issues, struggle

July 22nd: Sun Enters Leo - we feel bolder, more playful, more entitled, more creative

July 22nd: Mercury Sextile Uranus - flashes of brilliant insight and genius

July 27th: Jupiter Sextile Neptune - Optimistic, hopeful, spiritual connection, a portal for your dreams to become real - This transit happens about every 4-9 years. But in 2020, the year of WTF, this transit happens 3 times. This can be thought of the Universe providing us a bit of a buffer or reprieve from the Pluto and Saturn energies. The first time this happened was February 20th, then here in July, then October 12th.

July 27th: Venus Square Neptune - impressions and perceptions may not be reality

July 27th: Mercury Square Mars - impulsive or even aggressive speech

ARIES - Things are falling in to place in your life, but this is no time to rest on your laurels, or your good looks, or your fit ass. In your quest for greatness (which you achieve naturally), you may have a tendency to get complacent about paying attention to where your life is headed. No doubt, you’re headed in to a good place after a lot of down time and hard work. But you’d do well to enter some coordinates into the starship computer…

TAURUS - It’s time for you to claim what’s yours. That probably sounds arrogant, and that’s probably why it gave you goosebumps. It is within your Divine rights to tell the Universe that you want your Divine inheritance now. This isn’t a shouting match with Goddess. This is you, aligning yourself with your true purpose so that you can receive what was meant for you. Quit hiding and denying and sabotaging. Claim your joy.

GEMINI - You can continue to look at that thing on the shelf and think about the perfect time to take it down and deal with it. Or, you can take it down and start to deal with it. You want resolution, liberation, healing. So it is time for you to step into that energy. Even if right now you can only make small bits of this happen, it is time to work on it. Face the music and dance, even if right now all you can do it “step, together, step, together…” This new moon cycle and the following full moon cycle will help illuminate your first steps.

CANCER - Lately, you feel as though you were not made, but forged. Life has been challenging for quite a while now. If that is true, that you were forged...what is your shape and your purpose? What kind of vessel or tool or weapon are you? Close your eyes and dream about what you want to accomplish in this life. Allow yourself to truly believe that you are already that which you envision. You are entitled to this as your Divine right. If this new moon feels sad and heavy to you, tune in to that and use it to propel yourself forward.

LEO - You are the ultimate symbol and essence of strength. You are tough, unyielding, and unforgiving. But is it possible that you’ve neglected some part of your life because you fear vulnerability? Your friendships? Your passions? This new moon will challenge you. But rather than bristle up and fight, why don’t you sit down and feel? What is that pang telling you? Chase that ache.

VIRGO - The last few months may have seen you retreating into old emotional habits. This has probably been a survival mechanism. But it is time for you to come out of hiding, and ascend into a more better version of yourself. Everyone is entitled to be sullen and bitter now and then. But you’ve worn this ensemble for far too long. Change clothes and evolve.

LIBRA - For someone who loves harmony and beauty and balance, you can definitely wallow in negativity and pessimism with the best of ‘em. Things are looking up and falling into place, but you still are hesitant to believe it. Things truly can be good. And things are good. But you’re glancing in the rear view mirror far too often. What if what you want is right in front of you, but you’re not seeing it because it has changed from what you said you wanted way back when?

SCORPIO - Perhaps this is stating the obvious when talking to a Scorpio, but you may be taking yourself a little too seriously. Your desire for perfection is possibly getting in the way of progress. The thing(s) you want are well within your reach, but you’ll need to put down your red pen and look up to see them.

SAGITTARIUS - You are probably in a much better headspace now than you were a week or 2 ago. Keep doing what you’re doing. As the eternal optimist and idealist, it is hard to get you down, but equally hard to get you back up on the horse when you’ve been deeply disappointed. You’ve overcome some heartaches and are ready now to move ahead and level up. That wasn’t a question. You ARE ready.

CAPRICORN - As hard headed as you are, you are actually very adept at being unbiased and seeing all sides of a situation. You don’t really engage in many debates because you don’t see the point. You need no one else’s opinion, ever. But there may come a time when your voice could bring a great deal to the table. Drowning in your own pragmatic humility, you may not see the need for your 2 cents. But trust us...you’re needed at the table.

AQUARIUS - It’s no secret that you view life through a different lens than the rest of the world. It can be frustrating when you feel like a foreigner who doesn’t speak the native language. Usually to avoid this discomfort you just quietly march to the off-beat drummer in your head. But we are all entering a new cycle, a new era, and ultimately, the Age of Aquarius. Not only will you be heard, but you need to be heard. It won’t always be easy to share your ideas, but it’s also not easy carrying everyone’s water all the time. You can do this.

PISCES - When personal relationships challenge you, nature may be the easiest companion. The healing that you get from exiting the technological matrix is profound. But you are also now being asked to bring that healing back to the collective and spread it around. That looks different for each of us. It is more than a meditation or a bundle of sage. Can you have boundaries, remain protected, and teach others how to nurture themselves they way you have yourself? Yes...

BitchScopes for July 13-20

My most glittery apologies for the absence of BitchScopes last week.  I was stuck in bed with a pinched nerve in my back.  If you read my last BitchScope intro, I was talking about the eclipse closing out old chapters, shelving old stories, and big, significant healings from the past.  This back injury definitely has an emotional component to it. (I talked about it on BitchSplaining with Crisann last week)  I just did not have the ability to sit at my desk or even to focus on writing for the several hours that it requires. 

But I’m back, no pun intended.  I saw a Doctor I really liked (which is unusual) and got some relief.  

So this week we are focusing on the transits from 7/13-7/19.  However, on 7/20 we have a very significant lunation to discuss and I don’t want to talk about it after the fact, so I’m including it in this week’s scopes.  

We have a double new moon. Some are calling this a “Black Moon”, but, similar to a Blue Moon  the definitions are always debated.  Debate and terminology aside, we had a Cancer New Moon on June 21, and now we have another Cancer New Moon on July 20th. 

It is interesting to me that last year’s Mercury retrogrades were in the water signs, and this years Mercury retrogrades repeat that.  We have a lot of water, emotions, and Cancer energy to navigate this year.  We are repeating a class, or a grade level of sorts.  

The United States is also a Cancer.  I don’t think I need to elaborate…

This double New Moon presents us with a potent opportunity  to review the goals and intentions we set in the previous cycle and tweak the recipe as needed. We are starting a brand new chapter.  It’s like the energy of picking a college/buying a house or car/getting married etc.    We are committing to a new beginning, so we are being offered a chance to make sure things are where we want them. 

So wherever you have Cancer in your chart, you will feel a more intense focus. Cancer is about home and family, as well as what makes us feel secure. 

In June we may have gotten a little too excited, being released from our home jails into the world to actually eat at restaurants and go to beaches etc.  But boom, then we had a Full moon in Capricorn and we went, “Oh Shit...oopsie” and back to our rooms!  We are still trying to figure out what life at home looks like, and it is a lot to figure out! Home is everything right now - it’s our office, our school classroom, our spa, our movie theater, our dinner date venue, our wine tasting room, etc.  So it makes sense that that part of our lives has our full attention.  

A new moon is the best time to set intentions and manifest.  So if you did some manifesting on the June 21 new moon, tweak those or give them some extra power for Cancer New Moon 2.0.  Here’s some questions to tickle your brain: 

Who is my true family?

How do I protect and nurture the people and things that are important to me?

How do I nurture myself?

How can I trust my intuition more?

How are my childhood experiences reflected in my life now and what would I like to change?

Are my relationships healthy?

What is my emotional IQ? Am I able to express my feelings? If not, why? 

What is my relationship with guilt?

July 14 - Sun opposite Jupiter - lots of good luck, opportunities for success

July 15 - Sun opposite Pluto - ego problems, power plays

July 20, 01:32 pm – New Moon 28 degrees Cancer - new cycle, focusing on security

July 20 – Sun opposite Saturn - your desire vs reality, restrictions and authority. But hard work wins!

Aries

Your home life has likely undergone some major shifts in the last couple years.  This week and next you have the opportunity to really set your home life up the way you’d like.  Your family may grow in the near future.Your career and cash flow  may be boosted in this new cycle as well, possibly as a result of a truly happy home. Keep yourself in check at work and don’t be too impulsive. 

Taurus

Its time for you to step into your own power and share your gifts.  You may think that you just have common sense to offer, but trust me...it is needed out there.  You might surprise yourself this week by doing something out of the ordinary for you.  Following that energy could yield awesome results for you professionally. 

Gemini

Money flows where your energy goes. Whatever financial plans  you may have had, its possible you’ve now been shown the chinks in the armor.  You get a rare chance for a do-over now. Any information that was missing should be available to you now, and you’ll be able to see some movement.  Your social side may be feeling sad with all this isolation.  But this week things could come together for reconnection. Lean into your vulnerabilities and feelings now and going forward, and you will probably find it benefits you in more than one way.

Cancer

This new cycle we are all entering urges you to be more of yourself, or more of who you want to be.  The planets are in your corner, literally.  You should find all the resources you need to succeed, and feel more welcomed by the world than in times past.  Emotional expression is what’s up for you this week and next.  Be mindful of expressing your anger in a calm, strategic way, especially in professional circles.

Leo

Quarantine may be driving you batty, and it may be time you reached out for some counseling or guidance. If your living situation isn’t working for you, now is the time to make the necessary changes. Your work-life balance may be slightly out of tune as well, and your attention to restoring health to that axis is important.  When you’re not working on your personal life, allow yourself to dream and fantasize about what you want your life to look like.  That energy translates into reality more than you realize.

Virgo

Your friendships or tribe situation may be wonky lately.  The rest of this month offers you time to tune up what may be out of tune in those areas. You may be itching to get out of town, and you may throw planning out the window to do so, surprising yourself in the process.  Following these energies will boost your own energy in a big way.  Lead with your heart, not your head. 

Libra

Your time is here.  You are due to be recognized, promoted, and otherwise see the professional progress you’ve been waiting for!  You may have had something in the works for your career for awhile now, but it has probably been slow going because of retrogrades abd eclipses and general labor of information because of the state of the world.  But you could get great news in the coming weeks.  I’ll go ahead and congratulate you now. 

Scorpio

The cosmos is encouraging you to dream big.  Travel, adventure and other 9th house stuff is ready for you to dive in.   You may have been discouraged because things didn’t seem to be moving much, but this double new moon is poking you and asking you to really let yourself believe.  Your romantic life could get deeper in the coming weeks as well. 

Sagittarius

You should be able now to plow through some money matters that have been in your way for awhile. Also, possibly connected to that issue, living arrangements that have been less than ideal can get rearranged in the coming weeks.  Money should flow more smoothly which will help lots of relationships feel easier.  

Capricorn

Your sign is clear from eclipses for a few years, and over the next couple, the intense pressure to transform every.freakin.thing in life will lighten up.   You’ve had to deep dive into your self and going forward, it will be easier to connect with a partner.   Your creativity will be in high gear and it will be a good way for you to deal with the emotional overflow you may be feeling.  

Aquarius

So you had a plan to get healthier, and then life gave you squirrels. But you can get back on track for real now. It’s time for the person who carries everyone else’s water to sit down and have a glass.  You might even find that you want to share some of this self care with your partner. 

Pisces

You’ve likely been focused on your career and professional life for awhile now.  But you get to shift gears now and focus on love, relationships, family, and nesting.   Your closest relationships can get a needed boost and you can start to feel cozy and safe in your home again.