Midlife Transits

First up, Sagittarius, I’ve got to warn you about something. July is the first month in which a series of eclipses in your financial houses will take place. In my experience, solar and lunar eclipses in the financial houses are more strongly correlated with loss through theft than anything else I’ve encountered. Keep a watchful eye on your handbag, don’t take risks, and take appropriate security cautions with your home if you’ll be away on vacation this month.

Of course, for most of you nothing untoward will happen. Still, you may be faced with major changes in your financial life over the next year or two. They may be wonderful changes that will have you singing happy songs, but with eclipses there is usually something of an adjustment period.

There may also be some brief issues or upsets on the home front during the first part of the month as Mercury clashes with Uranus. The good news is that there’s also great energy for getting out and about with your partner or spouse this month.

You may be busy at work, but your partner is still likely to be lovingly attentive, calling to check in with you. And that’s a nice thing.

June is one of those ‘however,’ and ‘on the other hand’ kind of months. All month long, there’s energy in your 7th house of striking a balance and looking at both sides of things. As any Libra can tell you, a keen eye for the howevers and on-the-other-hands can lead to indecisiveness. So you may experience a bit of that. If you persist however, you’ll be able to come up with win-win solutions to life’s little daily dilemmas. And, as any Libra can tell you, that sort of thing increases harmony in your life all around.

Take note, too, that the long happy transit of Venus to your solar 5th house comes to an end at the end of the first week of June. Enjoy, while the enjoying is good. If you’re looking for news about lovers or children it may finally arrive.

Last but not least, there’s a whole bunch of energy in your job and health sectors. Expect many comings and goings in these areas of your life. Mercury will be in your solar job and health sector for the first half of the month. Venus will be in your job and health sector after the first week. Mars will be there throughout the month. Basically, this mixed bag of inner planets indicates that the general however and on-the-other-hand vibes will play out (perhaps most prominently) in these very areas of your life. Or, as the French say, c’est la vie.

Saturn’s going direct in Virgo today. Take a look at this post if you want to see what that means in general. Below is information for your particular sun sign.

Here’s an example of how to do a short little horoscope for yourself using keywords. (I have a list of keywords on the Practical Astrology home page. Scroll down to see them.) Also, if this mini horoscope seems off, you can look at the one for your rising sign if you know it.

Okay, so our keyword for Saturn in Virgo is going to be gloomy or gloominess, since that’s what Saturn in Virgo has seemed to bring. If there are people out there not having a gloomy time with the Saturn in Virgo portion of their lives, they’re not telling me about it.

Virgo represents your solar 10th house.  The keyword for the 10th house is career.

So Saturn going direct in the solar 10th house on May 16 could mean: a break in the case regarding gloomy situations or feelings about your career. If you haven’t been sure what to do about your career these days, a way forward could semi-magically appear in your mind.

Things like that can happen.  Maybe not that exact thing, but things like that. Again, take a look at Practical Astrology if these keywords don’t suit.

Good times! Venus is still in your happy solar fifth house of good times. Still! Boy did you strike it lucky, especially if you’re in the hunt for love.

If you haven’t found it yet, by the way, just keep trying. This month you’ve got Mars on your side, too. If ever there was a symbol for just keep trying, this would be it. Yes, you can give online dating a whirl, although the usual cautions continue to apply.

If you’re all set in the love department, well then enjoy good times with the ones you love. Your ruler Jupiter is trundling along in your sector of daily life in a super-good mood. What’s not to like? I mean, really, I have nothing else to say except have a good time.

Whole lotta Aries going on in April, Sag. The sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars all drop by for a visit to this, one of your favorite signs. Aries in your solar chart represents things like children, fun, self-expression, spontaneity, and doing the stuff that makes you feel whole again after a long bout of winter (or, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, a long bout of summer). That sounds pretty good to me, and the energy is there at your disposal all month long.

Also take note that there’s a nice harmony of Venus and Mars in this sign occurring from the 24th on. Given the way the fast-moving planets are transiting this year, you have an unusually long period of time in which to take advantage of solar 5th house energy–all the way into early June. Some people feel that the 5th house is the most important house in the horoscope because it’s the natural house of the sun. Planets in the solar 5th are naturally in harmony with your own sun, and a long bout of 5th house activity can make you feel as though everything is revolving around you for awhile.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the month, Venus will spend a couple of weeks hanging out at 29 degrees Pisces. If you are born very late in the sign of Sagittarius, this is likely to affect you the most, although it is not supposed to affect you in a negative way. Mars will also be in Pisces at this time, and it will conjoin Uranus in Pisces too. If you were born in the middle of December, you may feel somewhat wired in mid-April, or even overly hyped up.

This rather intense Pisces energy is most likely to affect you on the home front. You may need to briefly drop all that fun Aries stuff to concentrate on being of service to your family. Mid-April is not really the time to try to get away from family obligations. Even if you decide to take a trip, the issues will still try to follow you. But that’s a minor complaint in an otherwise great time of year for you.

There are a couple of themes for Sagittarius in March. One is love relationships, courtesy of lovely Venus spending all month in your lovely solar 5th house of love relationships. In fact, Venus is spending the better part of four months in your solar 5th house this year, thanks to retrograde motion. It spent most of February there, and now it will spend not only all of March there, but a couple of weeks of April, all of May and a week in June. Wowie zowie! If you didn’t feel Venus’s beneficial influence last month (and you probably did), you should at least be feeling it by March. Enjoy!

A second theme is expressing your ideas more clearly than you might be used to. Lovely, but totally unclear, Neptune has been hanging out in your solar 3rd house of expressing your ideas for more than a decade now. So everybody’s probably gotten used to you expressing yourself in a woo-woo intensive manner, being a bit unclear, being compassionate and lovely but vague, and so on. Neptune tends to make a person communicate nicely, but with a bit less of the crisp Sagittarian bluntness that people of your sign are said to possess by birthright.

From time to time that dynamic changes. Indeed, during the early years of the Neptune influence Uranus was transiting the sign as well, so there was a bit more spark to your expression and your ideas. Uranus left Neptune’s side for good in 2004, though. In February and for half of March, though, Neptune’s got Mars by his side, and Mars likes to express ideas clearly and forthrightly, just like your sign usually does.

Mars in Aquarius is good for the expression of ideas for everyone, as Aquarius is an ideas and communication-oriented air sign. But doubly so for you, because it falls in such a favorable place. Put your thoughts into words! Even better, combine Venus with Mars and put your feelings into words and share them with your lover. Speak your mind, share your opinions, start a blog, take a public speaking class, recite some poetry, hang out with friends and enjoy stimulating conversation, and otherwise have a blast with these favorable influences.