Starcodes, August 7, 2020 Heather Roan Robbins

This week the planets continue this summer’s theme of pleasant, homey moments mixed with phenomenally competent days drifting over tough, deep-running currents that test us and call for transformation. Mars in Aries packs a lot of fuel, and it squares the ongoing Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto lineup in Capricorn now through October. This explosive line up pushes us towards personal transformation, nudges us to make healthy changes in the power dynamics of our relationships, urges us to transform our home environment, and pressures us to transform the political environment. Just a few light things.

The energy churns as the weekend begins and the Moon joins Mars in active, impatient Aries just as Venus heads into sensitive, home-based Cancer. It stirs the political realm and calls us to activate our heart in humanitarian efforts. On a more personal level we can use this energy to throw ourselves into a personal project, build the wall, fix the garden, do something intense, and personal that matters personally. We may just want to stay home and stay safe.

Venus in Cancer can make us cozier and less impatient with our domestic experience under quarantine, helps us appreciate good food, but also can brings out a potentially crabby, self-protective or territorial edge when stressed. Relationships now need gardening; help around the house, validate our feelings, feed us well, ask about our family, and we’ll feel loved and loving. This Cancerian tenderness can feel odd as Mars in Aries pushes us to be active, impatient, even militant. While it helps…