Starcodes Sept 10, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Poignancy with a punch; as Autumn’s schedule speed up and garden slows down, the planets loan us extra competence but also add some broody undertones. The weekend begins in a focused if melancholic mood, introspective with occasional clouds of resentment as the Moon and Venus both enter suspicious, deep-feeling Scorpio while Mars lingers in a trine to Pluto. Venus in Scorpio for the next few weeks keeps our emotions running in a deep river — strong and self-protective- but we may play our cards close to the chest and not want to talk about what swirls in our depths.

Over the weekend it is good for us to dive deep in there ourselves, take a moment to explore within. Honor tough memories and mourn recent losses, forest fires, covid struggles, or changing laws which can make the world feel smaller and less safe, all while America remembers our painful turning point of 9/11/01. Find or remember our source, a reason for being fully alive.

Saturn and Pluto opposed on 9/11/01, right on the American ascendant and descendant of the birth chart for mythic America. Saturn and Pluto conjunct the beginning of 2020- once again we were faced with a mounting death toll and form of invasion- this time by microbes. Saturn and Pluto together unsettled security and point to death; in response- some people want more control (Saturn) under the illusion that it creates safety. Through 2021…