Astrology With The Curious Girl

MON DEC 30 We begin the week with a New Moon in 9 degrees Capricorn at 2:27 pm pst. This face of Capricorn is presided over by Jupiter, and is associated with the 2 of pentacles in the tarot, a card of adapting to change and handling many activities at once, -with the instinctive grace of an autonomic nervous system. Jupiter itself is considered to be in it’s fall in Capricorn, because here, Jupiter is challenged by the task of mastering many things simultaneously, while fitting itself into time constraints, moving within the bounds of dense, physical reality. The New Moon is strongly conjunct Pallas, and angles awkwardly towards Venus and Uranus, which suggests a need for grounding and wise strategy in the midst of feeling in transition. A useful compass at this new Moon is that if something feels forced, rushed and doesn’t come automatically like breathing, blinking, or farting does, wait until it does. No amount of sitting on the pot with a fervid and passionate belief will summon f...