Sagittarius 2005

We've made it through Scorpio, the peak of emotional intensity. Now we're in Sagittarius, the last month of autumn, settling down warm and homey toward the bottom of our seasonal cycle. Big, creative Jupiter will move through Scorpio this year, making intensity of feeling our underlying theme. Because it's aligning with deep mind Uranus in tender, sensitive Pisces, the key to surviving expansive emotionalism (Jupiter in Scorpio) will be yielding to wisdom in vulnerability (Uranus in Pisces).

The mental tide (Mercury) is finishing a few weeks of backtracking, and will start to flow forward again Saturday night, December 3. For months, the action impulse (Mars) has also been internalizing, in earthy Taurus. It's been charging us with motivation in fertility. The night of Friday, December 9 it shifts into outward expression. We are grounded in passion (Saturn in Leo), our dreams are centered in awareness (Neptune in Aquarius), and we're ready to act on what's been generating inside us.

After a few days of emotional settling, the moon (heart) joins the sun (soul) for the last new moon of the year, down at the bottom of things, on Thursday, December 1. Spirit energy rebounds in earthy constructiveness starting Friday, the 9th. Heart spirit builds the next week, peaking in visionary mentality with the full moon on Thursday, the 15th.

With soul anchored by heavy power (sun with Pluto), the full moon energy spills over the top into the release of flowing feeling on the night of the 15th, making for an emotionally expressive weekend, progressing into powerful passion Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. By Wednesday, December 21, we'll have reached the winter solstice, the vitality of the sun hitting bottom for the year, moving into the primal earth power of Capricorn. An intensely emotional time on this planet will have a fresh start for constructive new beginnings.