Sun-Jupiter Square

Sun-Jupiter Square — Optimism

"Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. "

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There is optimism and idealism stirring this week — but also plenty of crisis-driven, Cardinal Sign turmoil. The Moon wanes in light and the deep, base note pulse-of-change of the Saturn-Pluto sextile slowly begins to soften as the aspect separates. The imperatives may seem to dissipate or fracture. The need for deep connection and cooperation, based on authenticity and honesty, may be lost through a dissolute impatience. Nonetheless, the Sun-Jupiter square, that was forming under last Wednesday's Libra Full Moon (7:11 PM PDT 12° Libra/Aries), completes at the beginning of the week, keeping us aware of the optimistic potential that is offered. The Moon moves into Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter) on Sunday evening, providing a surge of individual empowerment and bringing forward a 'truth-and-justice-seeking' determination. While the Moon is still in Sagittarius, Venus moves into a growth-inspiring conjunction with Ceres. That conjunction is both nurturing and deeply powerful, encouraging deep and abiding connections that are focused on caring for others. However, the need for responsibility may be easily obscured by the increasingly apparent, free-wheeling enthusiasm that can quickly turn into defensiveness if things don't fall into place immediately. The Moon arrives in Capricorn on Wednesday, making activating squares to the waning Saturn-Neptune conjunction. By Thursday, Mars arrives 'home' in Aries, marking a sharp and intense shift in tone. Restlessness and irritability roll out with a demanding sense of freedom and a determined desire to 'do as we please'. The Moon moves further into Capricorn, later in the day on Thursday, to square the Sun and Chiron in Aries. The Cardinal sign emphasis, with Mars now in Aries, creates an intense sense of crisis-driven momentum but will tend to produce some unrealistic expectations. Intuition offers some relief to help us find a clear strategy to tame the energy that is pulsing through this environment. Mercury, still in Pisces, emerges from the shadow of the last retrograde phase on Thursday as it approaches a conjunction with Pallas that will complete on Saturday. There are very productive opportunities that are offered by the Mercury-Pallas conjunction but we will need to use all of the wisdom that we have gathered under the past retrograde Mercury if we are to make the most of those opportunities. We are encouraged to embrace a broadly intuitive viewpoint in order to take advantage of what is offered. There are extremely shortsighted impulses trying to achieve a dominant position while avoiding the necessary intuitive perspective. Balancing individual desires and intentions with a broader duty 'to humanity' will provide the most successful approach as we end the week. Mercury's intuitive guidance offered in the sign of Pisces continues to offer quiet intuitive wisdom if we are able to calm ourselves enough to hear the 'whispers'. Mercury will leave Pisces by April 14th and arrive in Aries ahead of the extraordinarily activating Aries New Moon (4:51 AM PDT 27° Aries) on April 17. At that time, the Aries stellium (Neptune, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Chiron, the Sun, and the Moon) will 'super-charge' the transformative process that is underway, suggesting the injection of both bold courage and reckless impulsiveness.

There is a great deal of optimistic potential on Sunday, along with a strong desire to take action based on that perceived potential. Nonetheless, there are also extremely powerful undercurrents in the environment that may simply 'have other plans'. It is nearly impossible to miss how strong Monday's energy actually is — encouraging deep and abiding connections that have us focused on caring for others. Nonetheless, it is important to avoid overbearing attitudes of superiority. We are likely to need the support of others on Tuesday in order to avoid sacrificing our perspective and integrity due to uncertainty and a lack of individual confidence. Overconfidence and acting on misleading information is the danger. Wednesday's environment is powerful, crisis-driven, and likely to lead to further questions and the need for further clarification. We may be trying to find or hold on to some kind of established precedent that can guide us — without much success. There is an intense sense of crisis-driven momentum on Thursday as well as some unrealistic expectations. There are important intellectual/intuitive clues in the atmosphere that do help us to find a sense of clarity but the intensity of idealistic impatience has the potential to reach extreme levels. Intuition helps provide some relief to help us find a clear strategy to tame the energy that is pulsing through the environment on Friday. There are, in fact, very productive opportunities that are offered. There are extremely shortsighted impulses trying to achieve a dominant position without the necessary perspective on Saturday. Balancing individual desires and intentions with a broader duty 'to humanity' will provide the most successful approach.