As the secular year comes to a close, we tend to review the achievements and failures in an annual ritual of noting the best and the worst. However, I will leave that to the individual and not take time for a general wrap-up of celestial events. Let us suffice to say that it was a year of extremes in many segments and life events for planet Earth. This year there was a continuation of the transit of Uranus through Aries that will finally egress Aries and ingress Taurus for a long stay beginning March 6th, 2019. One striking feature that I will mention is that Mars moves into Aries on January 1st. This direct-action Mars will leave the watery yin sign of Pisces, to its domicile in Aries. This should be an invigorating influence to kick off the new year.
Summary of Major Aspects of the Week
Wednesday December 26th – The Moon in Leo forms a quincunx aspect (150 deg, complex) to Chiron and Mars in Pisces today. This could be charming for social gatherings, although the Moon in a trine aspect (120 deg, easy) to Uranus in Aries could bring some more vibrant issues to the fore. As Mars is the dispositor of Uranus in Aries, there is a suspicious connection between the contacts and venues in this paradigm. Jupiter and Saturn are 30 deg apart, a semi-sextile aspect, and they will travel together for about two weeks. Although a weaker aspect involving these diverse planets, they test and modify one another along the way. Jupiter in Sag and Saturn in Cap are both of elevated influence as they rule the signs they are traversing. They are both final dispositors of the chart. The semi-sextile aspect represents a slight nudge while the nature of the two planets are conflicting. The outcome could be Jupiter (Congress) and Saturn (Executive) coming to a compromise agreement neither is quite comfortable with. The Moon moves into Virgo in the afternoon as we turn our attention to practical matters.
Moon in Virgo