Astrology has thousands of asteroids, many of which connect to love and relationships, and one of those asteroids is Juno, which is the asteroid of commitment. You can follow transit (moving) Juno and the houses of your natal chart it's touring, and what those houses rule get more committed energy. Transit Juno can make aspects to your natal planets, and impact commitment in your life with whatever those planets rule. Note that transit Juno aspects last for about 2-4 weeks. Transit Juno in the Natal Houses
Transit Juno in the 1st House: When transiting your 1st house, commitment may be on the brain. You can focus on anyone new you meet being more commitment-minded, otherwise you may lose interest quickly. If in a relationship, you may be more outward and open with that relationship.
Transit Juno in the 2nd House: When transiting your 2nd house, you may focus on trying to make your commitment more secure in some way. It can be good for grounding your relationship and eliminating chaos. You may want to splurge on your partner, or want someone to splurge on you. Transit Juno in the 3rd House: When transiting your 3rd house, you may focus on communication as a starting point, if looking for someone new. Someone you can openly communicate with can seem more attractive. If attached, you may focus on improving communication between you. Transit Juno in the 4th House: When transiting your 4th house, you may focus on emotional connection as a starting point, if looking for someone new. You can crave emotional support, and someone who understands you. If attached, you may focus on improving emotional connection and support. Transit Juno in the 5th House: When transiting your 5th house, you may focus on romance. If single and looking for someone new, you may want someone to sweep you off of their feet, or vice versa. If in a relationship, you may want to do something really romantic with your partner. Transit Juno in the 6th House: When transiting your 6th house, you may focus on the little things. If single, you may want someone who notices all of the little details about you, or you may be the one paying close attention. If in a relationship, you may strive to improve your day-to-day connection. Transit Juno in the 7th House: When transiting your 7th house, you may focus on strengthening your commitment to your partner, if in a relationship. If single, you may want someone commitment-minded, charming, and you can get along well with. Transit Juno in the 8th House: When transiting your 8th house, you may want commitment to be more intense. If single, you may focus on someone passionate or brooding, or you may be the passionate one. If in a relationship, you can improve emotional bonds and intimacy. Transit Juno in the 9th House: When transiting your 9th house, you may want more space, if in a relationship. If single, you may want someone who seems adventurous, bold, and daring, and you can be more adventurous with someone by your side. Transit Juno in the 10th House: When transiting your 10th house, you may be extra committed to your goals and ambitions. You may strive to make progress and have success and recognition, and focus on your relationships may be lower on the priority list. When it comes to relationships, you may be more traditional, and you may take on new responsibilities. Transit Juno in the 11th House: When transiting your 11th house, you may focus on finding someone through your friends, or being friends first, if single. You’d like someone you can feel is like you. If in a relationship, you can work to strengthen the friendship you have. Transit Juno in the 12th House: When transiting your 12th house, you may be less interested in commitment. It just may not be something you’re focused on at the time, if single, or you may be interested in someone you can’t be with for some reason. If in a relationship, you may want to give it attention when it’s just the two of you. Transit Juno Aspects
Transit Juno to the Natal Sun: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Sun can be a time when you’re more focused on commitment. If single, you can seek it out, while if attached, you may want to show your commitment off. Sextiles and trines to your natal Sun can help you be more comfortable with commitment, while squares and oppositions can make you more uncomfortable.
Transit Juno to the Natal Moon: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Moon can be a time when you’re more emotionally at ease with commitment, and want more emotional support, whether single or attached. Sextiles and trines to your natal Moon help you find that, while squares and oppositions can make it a challenge. Transit Juno to Natal Mercury: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Mercury can be a time when you’re thinking more about commitment, and you want more of a mental connection with someone or your partner. Sextiles and trines to your natal Mercury can help you with communication, while squares and oppositions can breed misunderstanding. Transit Juno to Natal Venus: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Venus can be a time when you’re more romantic, more charming, and more affectionate, if in a relationship. If single, you may find you’re attracting more people to you. Sextiles and trines to your natal Venus can help you share the love, while squares and oppositions can bring laziness, stubbornness, or selfishness. Transit Juno to Natal Mars: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Mars can be a time when you’re more driven to be committed. If in a relationship, you may want to take things to the next level or re-commit in some way; if single, you can be more active in trying to find it. Sextiles and trines to your natal Mars can help you be more patient but still proactive, while squares and oppositions can lead to frustrations and fights. Transit Juno to Natal Ceres: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Ceres can be great for working to nurture your committed relationships, and you can commit to those you’re serious about. Sextiles and trines to your natal Ceres can help you nurture in a less intense way, while squares and oppositions may lead to feeling unsupported. Transit Juno to Natal Jupiter: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Jupiter can open up opportunities for you to commit (if single) or re-commit (if attached). You can be more gregarious and fun in love, but may also want extra space. Sextiles and trines to your natal Jupiter can make it easier to balance space with commitment, while squares and oppositions can lead to pushing more for space than anything else. Transit Juno to Natal Saturn: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Saturn can make you more serious about commitment, but you may not be as focused on pursuing it, if single. If attached, you may try to strengthen your commitment. Sextiles and trines to your natal Saturn can be excellent for being comfortable with commitment, while squares and oppositions can make it difficult (and try to break you apart). Transit Juno to Natal Uranus: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Uranus can help you be open to finding someone in a different way or forging a different kind of commitment, if single. If attached, you may want to make some change or bring something different into the mic. Sextiles and trines to your natal Uranus can help make things fresh but still stable, while squares and oppositions can bring instability and impulsive behavior. Transit Juno to Natal Neptune: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Neptune can make a spiritual connection more important to you, and you may search for a spiritual equal, if single, or try to be more spiritually connected, if attached. Do watch your boundaries. Sextiles and trines to your natal Neptune can help with the spiritual connection and still maintain boundaries, while squares and oppositions can make it hard to pinpoint what’s needed or cause some taking advantage. Transit Juno to Natal Pluto: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Pluto can make you more intense when it comes to commitment, almost obsessed at times. If single, you may throw yourself into finding someone, and can focus on someone brooding and dark and magnetic. If in a relationship, you may focus on the intimacy and sexual connection. Sextiles and trines to your natal Pluto can help with passion without the obsession, while squares and oppositions may turn up the obsession and need some daylight. Transit Juno to Natal Chiron: Transit Juno conjunct your natal Chiron can help you focus on healing so you can be more open to commitment, if single. If attached, you may find you do a little healing with your partner. Sextiles and trines to your natal Chiron can help with healing and understanding, while squares and oppositions make for more sensitivity and open wounds. Suggested Reading: Transit Asteroid Amor in the Natal Houses & Aspects Asteroid Juno is on the move, and will soon exit emotional water sign Cancer and enter fun-loving Leo. What does this have in store for us? About Juno in Astrology
Juno is an asteroid in astrology, and there are tens of thousands of asteroids, and each connects to something different. Many are simply names, but some like Amor connect to specific energies.
In the case of asteroid Juno, this is the asteroid of commitment. Juno shows how we express commitment and our attitudes around it, and in transit, we can see this via the Zodiac sign Juno is touring, and the natal house it's touring in your natal chart. Impact of Asteroid Juno in Leo 2023
Juno has been in Cancer, focusing on emotional connections and commitments, and making us more serious about our relationships. Juno in Leo lightens things up, and we can have more fun with others and want to enjoy our commitments.
Juno in Leo puts the asteroid of commitment in the sign of love, so we can definitely commit in love and be more comfortable with commitment in our love relationships, but we may not be super serious about it. We're serious about the commitment since Leo is a loyal fixed sign, and we can be pretty loyal now, but we don't want to be gloomy about it. Instead, we go into this commitment with joy and excitement in our hearts. With Leo, we can be more generous in our committed love relationships, and can feel proud of the relationships we've created. We can give our commitments more attention, and can be comfortable with others focusing on them as well. Leo is also ruler of our children, so if you have kids, you can become more committed to helping them in some way. Leo rules our creativity, so we can commit to more creative projects and ventures as well. And with Leo ruling celebs, there may be a big celeb marriage announcement. Juno tours Zodiac sign Leo for about 2 months, from August 15th to October 17th 2023. Important Juno in Leo Aspects:
One interesting thing about this tour of Juno in Leo is that when Juno enters Leo, Venus will be retrograde (appearing to move backward) in Leo as well. They won't conjunct (align) until after the retrograde ends, on September 27th at 27 degrees Leo, but Venus retrograde may still have some impact until it ends (September 3rd).
This may mean we're more focused on committing to old loves, bringing back old flames and being more loyal this time around, or we may recommit to existing love relationships. There can also be issues in our committed love relationships that need to be addressed, or issues preventing us from being comfortable with commitment we need to work on. Around the same time that conjunction is exact, Juno will square (challenging aspect, 3 signs away) Uranus in Taurus on September 30th at 22 degrees. This can bring some challenges as Uranus tries to break things apart that aren't working so well, and we can work to improve but may have some unexpected issues first. Good committed relationships may be fine, but unhealthy ones can go through a period where you have to make hard decisions. Juno will also square Jupiter in Taurus on September 15th, not long after Jupiter retrograde begins (September 4th). We may lack the motivation to do much of anything regarding any commitment issues, and may feel like things will work out on their own. This may lead to problems growing worse, and we put ourselves in a bad position. We have to find a way to get moving with issues and work through them. Since Jupiter is the happy planet, it helps, so when we do put in effort, we can make things better more easily. This aspect occurs with both bodies at 15 degrees. Asteroid Juno in Leo for the Zodiac Signs
Aries: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you more romantic in love and with commitment. You can be more loyal to those you love, and if in a relationship, turn up the charm and sparks. If single, you can attract more people to you, and keep commitment in mind.
Taurus: Asteroid Juno in Leo can help you strengthen your emotional bonds with others. You can commit more to those you have an emotional tie to, and you can give more support to your commitments across the board. Gemini: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you commit to your ideas and plans, and you can stay loyal to what you come up with. Communication can be more important in relationships, and you can open up more with those you're close to. Cancer: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you much more dedicated and loyal in love and relationships. You can take commitment seriously, though you may take your time with committing yourself to any person, place, or project. Leo: Asteroid Juno in your sign can make you super open to commitment, and this can be a time where you embark on new committed relationships and partnerships, projects and goals, events and ideas. You may feel more comfortable when with a close partner. Virgo: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you more helpful with those you're closest to, and you don't expect anything in return. You can quietly commit to someone or something, and can be comfortable in the background for now. Libra: Asteroid Juno in Leo can help you make changes in the relationships with the people you're closest to, and you can shake up commitments. You can give extra attention to friends and acquaintances, and want to commit yourself more to a group or cause. Scorpio: Asteroid Juno in Leo can help you commit to your goals and the life path you're on. This helps you make more progress, and you can commit to a project or partnership with someone of influence. You may get attention or praise for something you're committed to. Sagittarius: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you more gregarious in your close relationships. You may take commitment in stride, not be too serious about it, and can see it as an adventure. You may be willing to take a chance on committing to something or someone. Capricorn: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you more passionate about whatever you're committed to, and you can take commitment very seriously. You can strengthen bonds with others, and want to make sure your commitments are solid. Aquarius: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you more helpful with those in your life, and you can give more attention to those you're already committed to. You can bring more balance to your relationships, and may commit to a compromise or partnership. Pisces: Asteroid Juno in Leo can make you commit to work projects you're doing, to being organized, or to being productive. You can also commit to taking better care of yourself and tending to the little things. You can be more attentive in your relationships, and practical with commitment. Suggested Reading: Transit Asteroid Juno in the Houses & Aspects There are thousands of asteroids, and some connect to love and relationships in astrology. One of those asteroids is Amor, which is the asteroid of romantic love. You can follow transit (moving) Amor and the houses of your natal chart it's touring, and what those houses rule get a shot of romantic energy. Transit Amor can make aspects to your natal planets, and impact romance in your life with whatever those planets rule. Transit Asteroid Amor in the Natal Houses
Transit Asteroid Amor in the 1st House: When transiting your 1st house, romance may be on the brain. You can be more affectionate and express the love you feel more openly. If single, you may focus on meeting someone who is open with their affection and is romantic. This can also be a good time to work on self love.
Transit Asteroid Amor in the 2nd House: When transiting your 2nd house, you may try to bring more stability and security into love, and expressing love may only feel comfortable when you're secure. This may also be a period when you focus more on something you own, something material of value, and your finances. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 3rd House: When transiting your 3rd house, you may seek to improve communication in love, if in a relationship, and if single, you may focus on meeting someone you feel a mental connection with. This may also be a period where you enjoy keeping yourself busier than usual. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 4th House: When transiting your 4th house, you may seek to improve emotional understanding in love, if in a relationship, and if single, you may focus on meeting someone you have an emotional connection with. This may also be a period where you want to spend more time at home or with the people you think of as family. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 5th House: When transiting your 5th house, you may try to have more fun in your relationship, if attached. If single, you may seek out someone who is an artist or really creative. This may also be a period where you enjoy spending more time on your hobbies and being creative. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 6th House: When transiting your 6th house, you may pay more attention to your partner, if attached. If single, you may want someone who you view as a good worker and practical. This may also be a period where you enjoy your work or tending to the smaller tasks and chores more than usual. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 7th House: When transiting your 7th house, you may seek out more time with others and a partner. If in a relationship, you may want more time with your partner, and strive to improve respect. If single, you may seek out someone open to commitment. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 8th House: When transiting your 8th house, you may seek out more passion. If in a relationship, you can work on improving the emotional bonds between you. If single, you may want someone intense and deep, but need to avoid going for the toxic type. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 9th House: When transiting your 9th house, you may crave more space from others. If in a relationship, you may try to have an adventure with your partner to keep it interesting. If single, you may want someone who you view as exciting. This may be a period when you enjoy spending time learning from experience. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 10th House: When transiting your 10th house, this might make you focus more on your goals in life, and you can feel more ambitious. This can help with achieving a goal, and you may hit your stride in some way, but may put love on the back burner. On the other hand, love may become a goal that you strive to have in a healthy way. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 11th House: When transiting your 11th house, you may want to spend more time with friends, meeting new people, and expanding your social circle. You can greatly enjoy pursuing your causes and making progress with your dreams. Love may take a different kind of focus for you. Transit Asteroid Amor in the 12th House: When transiting your 12th house, you can keep quiet about your romantic feelings for someone, and only show it when it's the two of you alone. This may be a period where you enjoy focusing on spiritual pursuits, and you can work on eliminating love and romance blocks. Transit Asteroid Amor Aspects to the Natal Planets
The Sun: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Sun can make you feel more romantic, more open to love, and you may want to share the love you feel with everyone. You can be a ball of love. Sextiles and trines to your natal Sun make it easier to express love without going over the top, while squares and oppositions can make you withhold love or feel you don't have any in your life.
The Moon: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Moon can bring romantic feelings, stronger love emotions, and you can be more nurturing with those you love. You may have more love at home or with family. Sextiles and trines to your natal Moon help you feel more comfortable with expressing love, while squares and oppositions can make it difficult for you to share what you feel, or become too subjective in love relationships. Mercury: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Mercury can make it easier for you to express loving feelings through communication. You may talk about love, write about it, read about it, hear about it. This might be a good time for a first 'I love you', as well as under sextiles and trines. Squares and oppositions can make it challenging for you to communicate love. Venus: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Venus increases the desire for romance. If in a relationship, this can be an excellent time to do some big romantic gestures. If single, you may seem more attractive to others. Sextiles and trines to your natal Venus can do this to a lesser degree, while squares and oppositions can make you more selfish, stubborn, or lazy in love, or have less patience with others. Mars: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Mars brings major energy for love and expressing love, so this can be a good time for sex. You may feel a strong urge to do something romantic or focus on romance in some way. Sextiles and trines to your natal Mars make this easier to manage, while squares and oppositions might bring out frustrations and annoyances in love, and fights with others. Ceres: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Ceres can amplify romance quite a bit, and you can be sweet, considerate, and helpful with those you love. You may want to nurture someone you care about, and can be romantic overall. Sextiles and trines help you show romance without going too far, while squares and oppositions might bring out feelings of lack and being supported in love. Jupiter: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Jupiter expands on love, and you can feel so good in your love relationships. You may want to share the love you feel with anyone and everyone, and aren't very picky about it. Sextiles and trines to your natal Jupiter can help you be more discerning, while squares and oppositions can either make you too giving or not enough. Saturn: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Saturn can make you more serious and committed with love. Nothing casual or light, only focused. You may have more responsibilities with loved ones, and you may want to work on love issues. Generally, you may feel you have less love in your life and are more restricted with expressing love, and this can be worse under the squares and oppositions. The sextiles and trines to your natal Saturn can make you more serious but without all of the limitations. Uranus: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Uranus can make you open up to expressing love in new ways. You can enjoy making changes in your life, and being true to yourself and your quirks. Sextiles and trines to your natal Uranus can help you control this properly, while squares and oppositions can make you impatient, impulsive, and easily irked with loved ones. Neptune: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Neptune focuses on spiritual connection in love, and you want to feel a soul connection with someone. You can enjoy focusing on spiritual matters as well, and being creative. Sextiles and trines to your natal Neptune can help with the spiritual connection, while squares and oppositions make boundaries more important. Pluto: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Pluto focuses on transforming through love, or transforming the love in your life. This helps make it healthy and more positive for you. There may be more fights and power struggles with others though, and this can be worse under the square and opposition. Sextiles and trines to your natal Pluto can help you improve passion without the trouble. Chiron: Transit Amor conjunct your natal Chiron can focus on healing love issues or healing through love. You may be more sensitive with loved ones, but need to work on the issues. This can be easier under the sextiles and trines, and you can work it out with less problems, but it may be harder under the squares and oppositions, and you're a lot more sensitive and easily wounded if you don't protect yourself. Suggested Reading: Asteroid Amor in the Zodiac Signs The asteroid of abundance, asteroid Abundantia, moves from earth sign Virgo to air sign Libra very soon. Abunandtia spent an unusually long amount of time in Virgo (over 9 months) thanks to retrograding (appearing to move backward) entirely in Virgo. This movement into Libra will be a relief! Abundantia can impact abundance. How will Abundantia in Libra impact us? Asteroid Abundantia in Libra 2023 Dates:
Asteroid Abundantia in Libra 2023 General Impact:
Asteroid Abundantia has been in Virgo for way too long! Virgo is the sign of work, the details and stress and super focused and hard-working. In moderation, this is great, but for too long? Ouch! And this has likely limited our abundant energy, especially when Abundantia was retrograde in Virgo.
Now that Abundantia moves to Libra, this brings some relief. We can focus on abundant energy in our relationships and connections with others, and we may find that we're open to meeting lots of new people, entering into new partnerships, agreements, and alliances, and we can make new compromises. This can lead to new openings and opportunities. We can also be more open to commitment, in our relationships, projects, ideas, and to ourselves, and we may enter into many commitments during this period. This can feel more comfortable, and instead of feeling stifled or overwhelmed, we can feel a surprising sense of space. We can also find abundance when we're balanced and surrounded by peace and harmony. If we're surrounded by chaos, this may throw off abundant energy until we get it sorted out and calmed down. There can be more opportunities to create balance in our lives as well. The natural ruler of Libra, Venus, is retrograde (appearing to move backward) at the start of Abundantia in Libra, until September 3 2023. This may mean we take a different approach to abundance than usual, and can find unconventional pursuits pave the way. Abundance may look different, or we may use abundant energy in a different way than usual. Mars, the planet of energy and drive, will be in Libra August 27 to October 12, so much of the same time that Abundantia is in Libra, though the two won't connect until they move to Scorpio. Still, we may feel the energy and drive associated with Mars, and Mars can help push us to pursue new connections with others, make use of abundant energy in our partnerships and alliances, and find new ways to come together that are beneficial for all involved. It's a very diplomatic and mediating time! Asteroid Abundantia in Libra 2023 Aspects:
Abundantia only makes 2 major aspects to the other transit (moving) planets while in Libra, and they're both near the end. Abundantia will sextile (beneficial aspect) Venus in Leo on October 7 2023 with both at 28 degrees, and this helps us finalize the changes with abundance that may have passed with the Venus retrograde, and we can make the most of our connections in a super positive way before Abundantia exits Libra.
Abundantia will square (challenging aspect) Pluto in Capricorn on October 5 2023 with both at 27 degrees. Pluto is going to end its retrograde on the same day Abundantia exits Libra, October 10 2023, so Pluto is slowed down to a crawl and this can be a strong aspect. This is a bit challenging with the square, and Pluto may bring out power struggles and control issues that we need to address in order to access the abundant energy we're looking for and need. There may be a compromise that has to be made, and we may need to work better at communication and listening. Since Pluto is ending its retrograde and stalled, we may feel stuck in some way, and we may be stubborn about it, but with Libra, we need to keep an open mind and be open to compromise. Somewhere in the middle lies the answer, and we can get out of the chaotic energy if we embrace that. The sextile the Venus around this time brings some help. Abundantia is also going to oppose transit Chiron in Aries on September 15 2023 at 18 degrees. Chiron is the wounded healer in astrology, and can link to our greatest wounds and how we can heal. Abundantia opposing Chiron can show we struggle with our wounds in a way that feels out of our control, and old wounds may get picked open. Again, we need some flexibility to deal with this, and to keep an open mind. Balance is important here as well, and to avoid chaotic energy. If we can keep control of ourselves, then we can find ways through, and actually find an opportunity to heal and grow that is exponential, much bigger and much more than we've previously thought, and we can make great strides quickly. Suggested Reading: Transit Asteroid Abundantia Aspects Black Moon Lilith is the apogee of the Moon, and shows an inner power and your ability to be yourself in the natal chart. Transits by Black Moon Lilith can bring this out, tamp it down, make it easy, or make it difficult. You can channel your inner Lilith more, or feel opposition when you try to, or focus it in a certain way depending on the transits. Black Moon Lilith has a very wobbly movement, so I recommend following the Mean position in transit rather than the True/Oscillating; you can give the True/Oscillating a try if you want, but it’s so all over the place that it can be a bit maddening. So maybe just start with the Mean and save your sanity (I personally only follow Mean Lilith). Transit Black Moon Lilith in the Natal Houses
When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 1st house, this can make it easier for you to get in tune with your Black Moon Lilith energy. You can embrace it, and can be more open with it. You may encounter more opposition from others though, so you have to stand your ground. But it’s an excellent period for empowerment and really making use of your natal Lilith, and you can be a lot more assertive and take initiative.
When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 2nd house, this can ground the BML energy, and you may approach being true to yourself and finding personal power slowly, steadily, and quietly. Embracing your inner Lilith can help you to feel more stable, secure, and confident. You may encounter issues with people when it comes to your values and trying to be true to them, but you have the opportunity to feel more empowered when you are. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 3rd house, you can focus on feeling more empowered with your ideas and standing up for your opinions. You can be more vocal with your stances, your plans, your thoughts, and can engage in more debate. You may encounter opposition from people who don’t agree with you, but you can come up with good arguments and stay true to your positions. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 4th house, you can focus on helping others that need comfort and support, and can feel empowered when you are being nurturing and feeling nurtured. You can tap into an innate power at your core, and strengthen yourself internally. If you lack support, you may be more emotional during this transit. You may encounter opposition from those who feel threatened by how emotionally strong you may seem; you can also experience issues with family or at home, and working through them can help you feel more powerful. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 5th house, you can feel empowered through creative expression. You may take more of a public stance on something, being more open. In love, you may want someone who allows you to be independent and an individual, or you may want someone who is a little Lilith-like. You want to be free to be yourself in love relationships. You may encounter opposition from loved ones who aren’t comfortable with your personal power. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 6th house, you can find empowerment through work, organization, and structure. You can become much more productive, and you can make progress with work or projects or tasks. Others can take notice, and some may feel threatened by that, but you can keep going forward. This may also be a transit to work on taking more control over your health/physical body. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 7th house, you can encounter more people who seem Lilith-like to you. You may want more independence in your relationships and partnerships, and to be treated like an equal. You may encounter more opposition when you try to demand this, and have to fight back. You may be tempted to balk, but should resist the urge to do so. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 8th house, this can focus on power and control, and you may demand much more of it in your life. That can make this transit incredibly empowering, but you may also encounter much more opposition, more than with other positions. You may need to work on a transformation of something in your life in order to attain the power and control that you want/need. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 9th house, you may want a lot more freedom in your life, and can feel more empowered when you expand your life, get out into the world, and have new experiences. You can stand up for your beliefs whole-heartedly, and can experience opposition when you do, but you can stay true to your beliefs. You may be able to convince others of your positions in a war of words. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 10th house, you can feel more empowered as you pursue your goals and ambitions, and achieve success. You can make progress to get more power in your life, and you can be recognized for independence and individuality. You may feel like you’re hitting your stride when it comes to accessing your inner power. You may encounter opposition in a public way, but can stand up for yourself. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 11th house, you may demand much more independence and want to stay true to your unique attributes. You can be more willing to take a stand, and stepping outside of your comfort zone can help you feel more empowered. You may pursue some activism of some sort. You can bring more people into your group who are Lilith-like, or may take on a leadership role in a group. You may encounter opposition from a group, but need to stand firm. When transit Black Moon Lilith is in the 12th house, you may find more personal power quietly and on your own. You may not want anyone to see you becoming more empowered until you’re ready for the world to see. You can get deeply in tune with your inner mystic, and spiritual pursuits can be empowering. You may encounter opposition from old enemies, or even from yourself subconsciously. With the old enemies, there may be something you need to let go of; with your subconscious, you may need to work on the ways in which you get in your own way. Transit Black Moon Lilith Aspects to the Natal Planets
Conjunctions by transit Black Moon Lilith to any of your planets or angles can amplify your desire for power, independence, and individuality. When it’s to the Sun, Moon, 1st house ruler, or angles, this can feel very personal, and you can feel like you’ll burst if you don’t get what you want. You can fight hard for yourself, but can also experience more opposition from others.
To Mercury, you can fight for your ideas, and experience opposition over your opinions; to Venus, you can demand more independence in your relationships, and experience more opposition with others; to Mars, you can feel motivated to take a stand and fight for independence, and can fight against those who oppose you; to Ceres, you can focus on standing up for your security and resources, or to show support. To Jupiter, you can fight for your beliefs, and can feel that it’s easier to deal with opposition, yet also feel that when you do experience opposition, it grows quickly; to Saturn, you can feel restricted in your ability to have power and independence, especially from your responsibilities, and may have to find power within your limitations. To Uranus, this can greatly increase independence and rebellion, and you can fight against anyone who opposes you strongly, and fight for what you believe in strongly; to Neptune, you can feel spiritually empowered, and work on subconscious blocks to independence; and to Pluto, you can find more power when you transform and transform as you gain more power. Sextiles and trines by transit Black Moon Lilith can make it easier for you to gain independence and feel empowered without having to fight so much. When it’s to the Sun, Moon, 1st house ruler, or angles, you can find personal power and take control in an easier way. To Mercury, you can feel empowered by your mental abilities and ideas; to Venus, you can feel empowered through connecting with others; to Mars, you can feel empowered being assertive and chasing new pursuits; to Ceres, you can feel empowered nurturing yourself and others. To Jupiter, you can feel empowered when expanding your life and holding true to your beliefs; to Saturn, you can feel empowered when you’re being disciplined and responsible, and making progress on your path. To Uranus, you can feel empowered when you’re pushing yourself and being independent; to Neptune, you can feel empowered when you’re connected to your spiritual self; and to Pluto, you can feel empowered when you’re transforming and feel you’re in control. Squares and oppositions by transit Black Moon Lilith can make it harder to gain independence and feel empowered as you encounter more opposition. To the Sun, Moon, 1st house ruler, or angles, you can experience opposition whenever you try to assert yourself, and it can feel deeply personal. You may want to lash out, but should try not to. Continue to stand up for yourself, and fight for your own power, regardless of what other people think. To Mercury, you can fight over ideas and opinions, and have to stand up for your positions; to Venus, you can encounter uncompromising people, and may need to be more diplomatic yet firm; to Mars, you can find yourself in more fights, and need to defend yourself; to Ceres, you can fight over resources and support. To Jupiter, existing opposition can grow and you can struggle over your beliefs, and you need to try to be upbeat; to Saturn, you can feel extra restricted, limited, or overwhelmed, and you may need to stay the course even if it feels like you’re not getting the power you want. To Uranus, you can feel rebellious, wanting to push for independence at any cost at times, and need to calm your energy; to Neptune, you can have a hard time figuring out how to approach getting the independence and power you want, and others can take power from you more easily if you’re not guarding yourself well; and to Pluto, you can experience a surge in rage and hostility (especially if you have pent up anger anyway), fight over power and control with others, struggle with dominating people, and need to transform or strengthen your will. Suggested Reading: The Black Moon Lilith Series Here comes another Mercury retrograde! The next Mercury retrograde occurs entirely in Virgo, bringing too much on our plates. What will this retrograde do for us? And if you want to keep track of planetary happenings every month (like Mercury retrograde), make sure you're signed up for the free monthly worksheet! The Basics - What is Mercury retrograde?
A retrograde occurs when a planet appears to be moving backwards from our vantage point here on Earth. It isn't actually moving backwards, it just appears that way. Mercury turns retrograde most often, about 3-4 times per year, and lasts for several weeks. When a planet retrogrades, what that planet rules tends to be thrown off, along with what the sign it's retrograding in rules.
With Mercury retrograde, we experience a shadow and a storm. The shadow period starts when Mercury first hits the point in the Zodiac it will turn direct at, and ends when it last hits the point in the Zodiac it will turn retrograde at. Most people don't feel the effects of Mercury retrograde until it enters the storm period though. The storm period of Mercury retrograde is when Mercury is moving at its slowest, less than 40 minutes per day. Mercury is a fast-moving planet and hates it when it's moving slowly. There's usually two storm periods, one around the time Mercury turns retrograde, and one around when it turns direct. Mercury Retrograde in Virgo 2023 Key Dates:
Mercury Retrograde in Virgo Effects:
The Virgo Mercury retrograde is usually one that is extra stressful thanks to Virgo ruling stress. We're stressed out about everything, and if you're normally a stressed out person, it can be even worse than usual! You may be on the edge constantly, and need some relief.
It's important to have a healthy outlet or two for stress going into this retrograde. That's the best idea to manage it well. If you don't have that, be ready for feeling super anxious and nervous and always fraying. Virgo is the sign of work, governing our jobs, as well as tasks, chores, and small projects. We may take on extra work, in our jobs and at home, and this may push us over the edge, so it's important not to take on too much. We need to balance work with play, otherwise we're stressed to the max. On the other hand, some of us may want to completely ignore any and all work, tasks, chores, and projects, and try to be as carefree as possible. This probably is a bad idea though, and we end up running from responsibilities that we shouldn't avoid. If you have a job and hate what you do, you're likely going to hate it even more with this retrograde. There may be some bad news overall about jobs, or something coming back in style. If you like what you do, you can be okay as long as you don't take on too much and stress yourself out. Virgo also rules our everyday lives, so there can be lots of little things that require more of our attention. With Virgo ruling the details, we can struggle with them, either too lost in them to get a clear view of the picture, or too far from them and unable to get any information. We may need to take a different approach to the details and to everyday things, shake things up a little bit, in order to see more clearly. Virgo is the perfectionist, and we tend to demand too much of ourselves or others, demanding perfection that can't be attained. We may have to get to the root cause of this, and work to let loose a little bit so we're not stressing ourselves out so much. Virgo rules our health and habits, so this retrograde might bring out health issues and stall our good habits while amplifying bad ones. It's a good opportunity to prioritize your overall well being though, and you can make more time to take care of yourself, which can help with stress (can you tell stress is the main theme?). This is also a good time for routine maintenance of all kinds. Mercury is the natural ruler of Virgo, so much of this is extra amplified, more than the usual Mercury retrograde. We're kind of a wreck at times, and we need to be extra mindful of that main theme, stress! The retrograde begins with Mercury trine (beneficial aspect) Uranus in Taurus, who is going to turn retrograde 5 days later. This can help us think outside of the box and experiment with new ways of addressing stress, frustrations, work, and taking care of ourselves. A different approach may help in ways we hadn't thought of. Mercury Retrograde in Virgo 2023 Aspects:
During the retrograde, Mercury will make just 2 major aspects to the other transit (moving) planets. They are:
- Conjunct the Sun on September 6th 2023 @ 13 degrees Virgo: This is the Inferior Conjunction, a positive point in the retrograde for starting something that can be a focus for the next 6-8 weeks; find where it falls in your chart, and that may be where you can start something. - Trine Jupiter on September 4th 2023 @ 15 degrees Virgo/Taurus: This is a pleasant aspect, and comes as Jupiter is about to turn retrograde itself, so it begins with some pleasant energy. We can come up with big ideas, pick back up old big projects, and regain a solid view of the big picture. The Moons of Mercury Retrograde:
The Moon travels through both signs Mercury naturally rules during this retrograde. The Moon is in Gemini (ruled by Mercury) September 5th 2023 (4:07PM ET/1:07PM PT) to 8th (1AM ET/September 7th @ 10PM PT), which can increase scattered, unfocused energy and a need for a mental outlet.
The Moon is in Virgo (ruled by Mercury and the sign the retrograde it comes in) right at the end of the retrograde, September 13th 2023 (1:18AM ET/September 12th @ 10:18PM PT) to September 15th (1:45PM ET/10:45AM PT), and this increases anxiety and stress. Final Notes:
The retrograde starts at 21 degrees Virgo, so those of you Virgos born September 11th - 17th may feel the start of the retrograde most. The retrograde ends at 8 degrees Virgo, so those of you Virgos born August 28th - September 3rd may feel the end of the retrograde most.
For the rest of you, check the house(s) Mercury will be retrograding in your own natal chart, and any aspects Mercury will make during its retrograde to your natal planets, to fully understand how it will impact you personally. If you have Mercury retrograde in your natal or progressed chart, you may not feel the worst of this. Those individuals generally don't experience the difficulties of the retrograde because it feels more natural to them. Of course, chances are everyone else around them doesn't have the same aspect, so they can still experience difficulties brought on by others. If it's in your natal chart, check out this article about Mercury retrograde in the natal chart. Suggested Reading: The Mercury, Venus, & Mars Retrogrades page for interpretations |
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