Astrological Forecast: December 5th - 11th, 2022

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Hello, you're listening to astrology hotline. I'm Kyle Pierce. And this is the forecast for Monday December 5 through Sunday December 11 2022. We are in the midst of Sagittarius season this week with the sun and about 13 degrees Sagittarius in the moon still in the first third of Taurus as we get the week going, while the Moon in Taurus is usually a pleasant time of the month, and typically a fruitful way to start the week off. Taurus has not been quite as flush with abundance as it is usually, we do still have Saturn in Aquarius, perhaps casting a bit of a shadow of scarcity over Taurus in general. Taurus is also the scene of a pretty substantial Eclipse last month, and as we will for several years to come. Do you have Uranus hanging out in Taurus. Nonetheless, moon and Taurus is a nice time to perhaps work ourselves into a comfortable groove and maybe establish a comfortable pace for how we want to proceed with our plans this week, especially as we build towards what I would consider to be the main event this week, which will be the Full Moon in Gemini, which will take place late Wednesday night, late Wednesday night, on December 7, or, for some of us, early Thursday morning, this Full Moon will occur with the moon almost exactly conjunct Mars and thus opposing the sun, which in terms of the cycle of Mars is rather akin to a full moon for Mars as well. Mars, as you may know, if you've been following the astrology over the past couple months is retrograde in Gemini, and will continue to be so well on to next year. So hopefully you've already maybe proved the Gemini area of your life to the degree that that's possible. But to perhaps get a sense of the particular flavor of this full moon, we would want to look at Mercury, which will rule the the lunar and in this case Marshall parts of the full moon as well as Jupiter ruling the the solar portion and mercury, which has been in Sagittarius will be ingressing into Capricorn Tuesday evening, just as the moon is simultaneously almost certainly within the hour ingressing into Gemini. So we get a slight change in tone, just in time for this full moon. Certainly in terms of dignity, mercury gets a bit of an upgrade. When it steps into Capricorn while not formally dignified in Capricorn, by any of the major dignity systems. Mercury tends to do pretty well in earth, say overall, certainly in Capricorn. It's not entirely uncomfortable. And we certainly get a more grounded, focused and we'll say concrete version of mercury when we get into Capricorn. And while it may not be as colorful, as it tends to be in Sagittarius, it certainly gets more practical and realistic, lends to a firmer, more pragmatic thought process. Mercury in Capricorn often lends a methodical mind as well as the ability to exercise restraint. Certainly a welcome remedy for those of us who may have recently struggled with some bouts with verbal diarrhea will sort of dry things up a little bit. I would say that mean especially welcome change, given the ongoing Mars in Gemini, which can get a little a little chaotic, certainly impulsive and not not very concentrated. You have planets in Gemini, you may be experiencing a tendency for for the attention to be pulled in multiple directions, or even vacillating between sort of frenzied activity followed by burnout and general malaise. Certainly, the effect of Mars and Gemini on individual chart is going to vary quite a bit, but we can say with certainty that what it's delivering is not consistent by any stretch, and Mercury getting into Capricorn, you know, at least gives us maybe a bit of an opportunity to plan around that. It's a bit more of a A cool objective head, which you know, it may not be in an ideal position to make its arguments for more coherent, methodical action to Mars, given that it's not in a classical Ptolemaic aspect with Mars is technically in a version, there is some connection with Capricorn and Gemini by means of Contra and Tisha, which tends to be more effectiveness when the initial points are very close by degree. In this case, they are not, but we might be able to say that mercury at least, maybe has Mars as email address, you can shoot some some messages over to Mars may or may not listen, you know, but there is also me to help strengthen their relationship there is a mutual mixed mutual reception because Mars is in mercury sign of rulership. And Mercury is in the sign of Mars is exultation and there is a an increase in affinity. It's called a leave in medieval astrology, a generosity between Mercury and Mars. Suffice it to say that it may be a little easier for us as individuals to exercise a little bit of self restraint, if we're finding ourselves particularly affected by Mars in Gemini and its inflammatory effects. But this could also look on a mundane level a little more like at least, being able to influence the martial figures of the world into abiding by more of a lawful code of behavior or conduct, or maybe were able to bring a bit of the law to bear and some of those maybe acting more flagrantly outside of its boundaries. Or, you know, it could look a little like gum, simply like adjusting activities that may or may not be nefarious in some way around the law to sort of use a technicality to get around the law, you know, lots of different ways that could show up. But meanwhile, we do also get Jupiter in charge of the sun, as well as Venus right now. Venus is on her way to a square with Jupiter go exact Friday evening, which might feel welcome after this full moon so he will talk about it, then we do get Jupiter, the very last degree of Pisces starting to build up some speed prayers to move into Aries. And while we often get themed around planets at the very end of signs being a little bit tired, sometimes little spent energetically at least maybe a little more so then it would be it is Jupiter in Pisces, which is one of its domiciles and generally going to be helpful planet will certainly still be attempting to add stability and perhaps like meaningful guidance to our endeavors. And I believe that Jupiter's guidance will be welcome as we encounter the full moon in late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. So with the sun in Sagittarius the the emphasis is on the gathering together of disparate elements into a single, cohesive vessel or vehicle or body or ideal. Much the way that a centaur is a union between man and horse. in Sagittarius, we're trying to bring things together under a single umbrella to create something that is essentially greater than the sum of its parts to establish something that is better, faster, stronger, or otherwise, is intended to achieve some kind of desired outcome and Sagittarius were unifying the spirit, shaping it and molding it into an ideal form that is sort of optimized to achieve the goal. Much as an arrow is designed to be launched specifically from a bow to achieve maximum distance and speed and penetrating power. We're essentially gearing our intentions or resources to be sort of streamlined and directed in a single direction. Sagittarius being a fire sign has that quality of verifying or purifying sort of eliminating impurities and sort of elevating the substance of things towards the greater good. And while Sagittarius being Jupiter ruled you know has a level of inclusion. It wants to bring as much shoved under the umbrella as possible. However, because of that kind of fiery puritanical

quality, there can be a bit of a black and white layer to the thinking, you know, if it doesn't fit into the ideal, then it is potentially a threat or something that needs to be eliminated, done away with or railed against in some way. By the time we get to the second decade of Sagittarius, just where the sun is, right now, you generally have a thing established, the sort of scope and premise of what we're trying to achieve is more or less fully formed, the arrow has been launched, the maybe belief system that we want to perpetuate or the company that we've founded, is formed in it, it exists, and now must be preserved. protected, is what represents what it means to be inside or under the umbrella is defined or established, so is what it means to be outside. In essence, we have an enemy and nemesis, in the interesting thing about threats coming from the outside, they have a way of galvanizing the spirit in a sense or unit, forcing a sort of unity, to become either more fully solidified or to fracture and shatter. It makes me think of the Crusades, which was the product of well, a lot of things. But essentially, you had a Europe that was, at least in theory, unified under the Catholic Church. While there were certainly pockets of heretical beliefs, still, the idea of Christian Europe was pretty firmly established. Most of the internal conflict was really between Catholic monarch Catholic Monarchs over more secular issues, such as, you know, land, succession, you know, political issues, but it was something of a problem having a country full of nights and essentially warlords that didn't necessarily have the money to fight anymore, except for their fellow Catholics. So essentially, to kind of alleviate that internal pressure, the focus was turned outward towards the Islamic world. So you were essentially able to gather up all the troublemakers and Christian Europe, put them in into an army and repurpose them towards re conquering the Holy Land, which resulted in you know, several 100 years of war, and a lot of death and violence for sure. But likewise, you know, within the Muslim world, the threat presented by non believing invaders, essentially forced Muslim care caliphs who would otherwise be rivals to band together and protect the greater sense of what was thought to be the the Muslim world or domain. In fact, during this period, was the better example might be the Spanish Reconquista. I'm butchering the pronunciation of that, but um, essentially, what today comprises Spain and Portugal. Yeah, Korean peninsula was early in the Middle Ages, a bunch of different Christian kingdoms that had been conquered by Muslim invaders, say for a couple kingdoms in the north, in basically from roughly 800 or so CE to, you know, the 1400s the Spanish monarchs, often with assistance from other Catholic rulers slowly re conquered the peninsula. And the Reconquista ended up being really essential to the idea of Spanish identity, Spanish nationality. So suffice to say that we encounter these themes around the ways that that conflict can both destroy, as well as further solidify or unify and even purify what we're trying to establish or within our ideals and personal as well as group identity. We have this encounter with the archetypal other, where sometimes we have to really dig deep to discover our our will to protect ourselves to protect our beliefs we profess to be or why it is we do what we do. And part of what makes this Full Moon especially interesting is that the second decade of Sagittarius is in the Kantian system of rulership. ruled by the moon. And within the Vedic or Egyptian triplicity system of rulership, it's ruled by Mars, the Moon being responsible for bringing things together into a cohesive form, into bodily, physical tangible form, and Mars in charge of conflict, these two planets are going to be set against the sun during this full moon. So to me, this very much looks like the possible culmination of exactly the sorts of conflicts that make or break that make or break things that are, are held together by common belief or even on an individual level, through, you know, maybe our deeply held beliefs, you know, our passions are the things that drive us forward, that would be perhaps harder to explain. Sagittarius is associated with the hips. And I always think of that a Shakira song, my hips don't lie. tripoli is essentially about the sort of passion that ignites when you see just a person dancing on the dance floor. And it's funny actually in the lyrics. So line, oh, boy, I can see your body moving half animal half man, I don't I don't really know what I'm doing. But you seem to have a plan. It might be the most Sagittarius line I've ever read or heard. And I think that is the essence of Sagittarius is just being inspired in a way that goes beyond logic or understanding. It's like you seem to know what you're doing. So I'm naturally drawn to that to you to, to that sort of confidence even that doesn't necessarily stem from the mere mean that stem from having a actual mapped out plan, but simply from just having the belief that you will know what to do when the time comes. And in some some cases, that's what we need more than then maybe a blueprint for how and why something will succeed. You just need to feel it. Now Gemini, on the other hand, is a sign it is all about contradiction, is home to many contradictory ideas, possibilities, sort of geared towards most allowing ideas to continuously split, and branch off into an ever growing litany of potential and possibility. Don't have the same need that you do haven't Sagittarius to establish unity and cohesion between all the disparate elements at play is in Gemini, you can sort of pick them up and drop them if they don't need to fit into an overarching principle. In a sense, you can be a horse one day, and demand the next day. The coexistence of many contraries is not a source of friction, at least not for Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, it's not attached to all the ideas and concepts there. It's not trying to fit them into a grand, cohesive narrative. Mars being the planet of conflict of war, is going to tend to weaponize the qualities of whatever sign it's in. And in Gemini, Mars is uniquely suited to identifying and maybe exploiting those points of contradiction. And it's interesting to me that with Sagittarius you get association with the hips and in Gemini, you get the association with the shoulders between the two, they they rule over the joints, the main joints, the main hinge points that connect one's limbs to the greater body. So I mean, on an individual level, you may want to take precautions against overly straining the hinge points of your body. I could see there being an increased potential for maybe ligament tears for some of us dislocation of joints. However, with Mars positioned to essentially be the archetypal Nemesis to sun and Sagittarius right now,

I imagine this could look like like situations where any contradictory elements of our personal beliefs about what we're doing or our goals or agenda, the points that had been overlooked in the past that may be represented mutually exclusive potentials, they may become sources of division, which may be forced us to make a choice to pick a side perhaps or to simply choose between the alternatives, you know, which which of two alternatives is going to be part of the long term vision and, you know, you may want to look to that The houses in your birth chart that Gemini and Sagittarius fallen to maybe give you a sense of types of structures or activities which might be subject to this sort of testing of the greater vision. You know, if Sagittarius is say on your, your ninth house, this could look like perhaps religious beliefs or spiritual practices that you've maybe held to in the past, there could be perhaps an encounter with a, an internal point of contradiction for that belief system, or even perhaps within a religious community, a sort of sectarian split, could occur, where because of the belief that maybe two components of the community hold, they can no longer you know, coexist in the same body, and they have to split, you know, into two different groups. It could also look, you know, a bit like a test, a test of faith, perhaps, most belief systems tend to be riddled with contradiction when you look deeply into them. And that's almost where you need Jupiter's guiding hand a little to help you maybe soften or smooth over over those contradictions and give them a place that can almost be a downfall of of Sagittarius sometimes where it needs the vision and idea to be so pure and clean that it might take something like mythology behind a particular religious system, very, very literally. However, that's where Pisces can be a little bit more helpful. And I would think Jupiter being in Pisces, still, I could see is almost offering the sort of softening message that something doesn't have to be literally true to be meaningful, or to be pointing a finger at what is essentially true. Mythology is probably a great example. In general, like Greek mythology, I was actually listening to an audio book about mythology with my my kiddo. And it was telling the story of the wedding of Venus and Festus. And how Venus and Mars were originally intended to be married, or their Aphrodite and Aries, whoever festa said, kind of manipulated the situation in order to be awarded with marriage of Aphrodite, despite Venus and Mars being really into each other. And I asked my kid, what they thought of the fact that Venus, the goddess of beauty, and Mars, the god of war, what they thought of the fact that they love each other. And they were just kind of silent for a moment and just said that, that that's crazy, you know, but um, through our conversation, we stablished understanding that, you know, obviously, the myths aren't aren't literally true, but they do convey something that's true about life. What beauty and water being in love with each other says that's true about life is perhaps a topic for another day. But nonetheless, there may be a way that that perspective could be helpful as we navigate this week, you know, this could be a time where some of us are having our beliefs or plans or agendas tested, and perhaps broken down a bit, maybe pieces of that may have to come apart, perhaps impurities may be needed to be removed. While that conflict may be unpleasant for a lot of us, and may leave us with something that is less substantial than what we had before. It may be that what is left will form the core of a much more solid and sustainable plan or belief or structure. I think perhaps for some of us, the danger might lie in wedding, the problems or conflicts that come up, you know, defeat us entirely. Like I could see how this for some people might be perhaps getting so overwhelmed or swamped with smaller, more mundane or seemingly frivolous problems, distractions, to the point where we maybe want to give up on on the dream or on the ideal. Again, I think the key here is, is really just trying to accept the possibility that things may need to take a new form or shape. It may not look exactly like what was envisioned, but we can still have the essence. You know, so my plans seem to fall apart. You know, we can go back and assess and pick through the bits that work the bits that didn't work and maybe glue together a new a new plan or agenda. It still has, you know, maybe those those key ingredients and as we move into Friday, the moon will move into cancer Friday morning, with Venus moving into Capricorn, late Friday night and the early Saturday morning for some of us, which perhaps, in my mind, the moon in cancer, you know, that's a nice place for the moon to do some, some healing or some reintegration maybe, you know, if our cookie crumbled a little bit during the full moon, the moisture of cancer may lend itself to the mending of some of those cracks, where possible, perhaps just the letting go of those pieces that maybe didn't, won't be able to fit back into the new cookie. To get Venus moving into Capricorn to we get a little more of a grounding kind of energy again, but an ability maybe to find beauty in just what is and maybe take down an approach to building up again, what can be may be able to start reconciling ourselves to whatever sacrifices might need to be made, or find ways of appreciating maybe the cracks. It's making me think of a type of art in Japan, I the name is escaping me, unfortunately. But I believe it is basically taking like tea cups or pottery or their porcelain, ceramic ware and purposefully breaking it. And using a specific material to refuse it back together. And the visible cracks being part of what makes the ceramic ware, you know, beautiful. I wish I remembered the name of this this practice, but I believe it is rooted in the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, I don't believe translates perfectly into English, I think one is subdued, austere beauty, but essentially, it centers around the acceptance of transience, and imperfection. They did. Not nothing is ever truly complete. Nothing less, but nothing ever truly ends. The either of things are in a perpetual state of being unfinished. There is no like perfection or completion. But beauty is to be found in that ongoing process. Now, to draw our week to a close Sunday, the moon will move into Leo, finishing out its time in cancer with a nice trine with Jupiter at the very end of Pisces, which I think is a lovely way to wrap up what may be a stressful week for, for some of us, not all of us, you know, but I think it's where we can maybe without our glue and start, start putting the pieces back together little by the end of the weekend, we may realize that that we have more still available to us than we thought or that some of what we thought was broken, may prove to be more resilient than than we thought. The lovely quality of moisture is that, you know just sticks to everything and gets into all those crevices. And if you draw a sword, slice it through some water, the water is just going to go back can actually break or fracture that because it always seeks the connections that are available. I think it's a good way to

counterbalance to periods of time characterized by maybe really loud, Marshall themes, such as a Mars Retrograde that you know, if we give ourselves room to maybe bend and change and adapt to different ways of being or doing things, you know, don't necessarily have to suffer the sever Severinsen cutting and removal of so many things in our life, you know. And when two people have an argument, the momentary rupture in the relationship can often lead to a much stronger, more durable relationship, as long as both are willing to maybe soften their perspectives a little bit in fill in filling the cracks with a little bit of moisture, you know, so maybe take Sunday to extract some of that reconciling gooey emotional juice still on tap with Jupiter in Pisces to smooth things over between yourself and the things that people the ideas that you care about most. And with that, we'll call it a wrap for this week. If you want to learn more about how a current and ongoing Astro weather might be affecting you more personally, you can book a reading with me, my website Kyle Pierce astrologer.com And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review share with friends or any other astrology nerds. You Mike No, I know it's been a little while since you've done a regular episode of astrology hotline. But I promise they will be coming soon. And I just want to thank you all so much for listening. Have a great week and see you next time you have a question you would like answered on astrology online, send us an email at astrology hotline pod@gmail.com

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