Starcodes Dec 10, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Visions of sugar plums dance, lights twinkle in the evergreen tips as the Sun and Mercury in upbeat Sagittarius square dreamy Neptune and add magic to our coming solstice season. That Neptunian magic can also leave us slightly dazed, unrealistic, easily overwhelmed, or feeling permeable to any passing germ. It can also leave us pondering what’s true, what’s bamboozlement, and how we can discern between the two.

Under this fuzzy-thinking glitter, this next week is book-ended with more serious nuts and bolts Saturn aspects that encourage us to get our work done anyway, no matter how the lights twinkle. Mercury semi-squares forms a minor challenging semi-square to Saturn on Friday, and the Sun forms that semi-square to Saturn on next Thursday. Both these aspects can keep us work-focused, but can bring in bouts of resigned depression around long-standing problems.

Along with the glitz and hard work runs a deeper more heartfelt river as Venus and Pluto conjunct in Capricorn. From now through March this Venus-Pluto conjunction ask us to consider how all things Venusian relate to all things Plutonian. How do women, love, creativity, and compassion relate to power, control, oppression, loss, and empowerment. This question underlies both Supreme Court debates on women’s bodily rights and children’s right to a safe school. On a more personal level it asks us to make thoughtful…