Friday, FEBRUARY 1

Today’s energies can be on the tense side with a minor challenging aspect between Mercury and Chiron and a major one between Mars and Pluto. However, we’re also given a fascinating window into the Saturn-Neptune sextile energy that perfected yesterday as Mercury gets precisely in between the two planets. Having a little more faith in our endeavors can do wonders for our mental outlook now, and the key is that they’re both inspiring and realizable. We have a stronger ability to explain, teach, and guide, bringing more life/magic to dry material and bringing abstract concepts down to earth. We understand subjects and topics on many different levels now. There can be vague worries or concerns now, however.

The Mercury-Chiron semi-square suggests there can be impatience with rules, anxiety or guilty feelings, and conflicting viewpoints to contend with now. We may not have enough faith or confidence in our choices to make effective decisions at the moment, but this gives us a chance to learn more about areas where we feel uninformed.

Mars forms a square to Pluto, and we crave a sense of control over events, relationships, and/or circumstances, and become frustrated at any sign that we don’t have it. There may be arguments, standstills, and power games now. Our desires are intense and difficult to satisfy. A tendency to bully, confront, or provoke might dominate. It would be wise to observe and learn from whatever powerful feelings arise from confrontations or conflicts now, as this transit has a way of pulling out emotional “slush” or matter we’ve suppressed in perhaps disruptive ways. The Moon spends the day in the sign of Capricorn.