Tuesday, DECEMBER 28

Mars forms minor challenging aspects today, first a semi-square to Pluto and, later, a quincunx to Uranus. There can be tensions if we feel powerless or overshadowed, and we could find it challenging to express ourselves in healthy, direct ways.

Our desires can be both intense and difficult to satisfy. Efforts to make changes could be thwarted, or power struggles emerge. It’s not an ideal time for straightforward interactions, and making adjustments to our goals may be necessary. These things can temporarily drain our energy or leave us feeling restless and impatient until we figure out what we’re missing or not yet processing.

Our efforts to satisfy our desires can miss the mark, but this gives us a chance to make refinements and recalibrate.

Jupiter enters Pisces today. It first moved into the sign from May 13-July 28, but while retrograde, Jupiter returned to Aquarius until today. Today begins the second step of this transit, lasting until May 10, 2022.

This transit encourages us to give of ourselves and embrace compassion and imagination. With Jupiter in Pisces, we attract luck and rich life experiences through our intuition, vision, and understanding. We’re charitable, and we look out for the underdog. We are more idealistic and perhaps less ambitious in a worldly sense, more motivated to give than receive.

Jupiter in Pisces encourages us to attend to our needs for gentleness, understanding, and compassion. Indeed, we should watch for escapism, bending personal philosophies or morals to suit the situation, deception and self-deception, restlessness and vague discontent, and unwillingness to face problems or negative concerns directly.

The void Moon occurs from 4:12 PM EST, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a trine to Jupiter), until the Moon enters Scorpio at 4:17 PM EST (very brief!).