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With all the hardship caused by this year Saturn square Uranus, it is a real relief to have a week like this with Neptune at the center. Think of Saturn Square Uranus as ongoing pain and Neptune as a potential pain reliever: not necessarily a cure, but something to help you get through.
On Wednesday, Sun conjunct Neptune is accurate. This will give many people a chance to smooth out many of the rough edges that can be caused by their large ego. Of course, dear reader, I am not addressing this to you personally. But you know … sometimes it’s healthy not to take yourself too seriously.
Exactly on Saturday evening, but affecting the whole week is Venus conjunct Neptune. Some sources will tell you that Neptune is the “higher octave” of Venus. It is perhaps not far from describing this conjunction as “little love meets great love”. However, on a practical level, this is an excellent time to reach out to a potential new loved one, or to make things a little more dreamy with an existing relationship, or even to make your own world a warmer and hazier place when you are not with connected to anyone. As one of the world’s greatest modern philosophers, RuPaul, put it, “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love someone else?”
… Can I get an amen here?
But this is possibly much more than a good week of love and kindness. If you have been reading my work for some time, you know that I often advise people to sit down and consider what they would like to change in their lives in the next month when a new moon hits. On Saturday we’ll be with a New moon in Pisces, which connects both Venus and Neptune . This may sound like a fairly easy consideration, but depending on which house in your natal chart 23 ° Pisces falls, this new moon could open a gate of healing, empathy, and kindness into every house in your natal chart. Also, look out for planets or important placements in your natal chart that are aspected near 20 degrees Neptune. You might be faced with the reward of having Neptune in this degree for a long time in the next month.
So: sink into that warm bath of transit and find out what you really need from life and what you can do to get it. Enjoy it while it lasts, because next week there will be all the news from Mars and Pluto, and we will all start to grind again …