Starcodes December 6, 2019 Heather Roan Robbins

This weekend we can enjoy the energy of the season, marvel at the twinkling nights, and still feel the world shifting underneath. The planets push us towards a tough growth spurt this coming year; as Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn grow closer to their mid-January conjunction, we get more and more uncomfortable with systems that chafe, whether it’s a job that no longer fits, a family matriarch that controls, or a government which isn’t working. Many long-standing conflicts will come to a head over the next few months. But Jupiter has just entered Capricorn and prepares us to improve the situation in the year ahead.

But meanwhile, on top of those deep, tectonic-plate-shifting, aspects, comes layers of impatience, curiosity, and seasonal frivolity. As the holidays approach we’ll need both time in in the thick of the party and moments of deep solitude as both our introverted sides and our extroverted sides are pumped up; extraversion is encouraged by the Sun in outgoing Sagittarius, while Mercury and Mars in subterranean Scorpio, and Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all in serious, tradition-loving Capricorn, call us inward.

On Friday and Saturday, the mood can be direct, impatient, and honest under an impulsive Aries Moon. Mercury and Mars, both still in Scorpio, add a sting, extra curiosity, suspicion, investigation and a need for moments of solitude. Mars stays in…