The Astrology Podcast

Transcript of Episode 238, titled:

2020 Year Ahead Horoscopes – Part 2: Libra – Pisces

With Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim

Episode originally released on January 14, 2020

Original episode URL:

https://theastrologypodcast.com/2020/01/14/2020-year-ahead-horoscopes-part-2-libra-pisces/

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Transcribed by Andrea Johnson

Transcription released August 12th, 2026

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CHRIS BRENNAN: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you’re listening to The Astrology Podcast. This is Episode 238, and this is part two of my series on presenting the astrological forecast for each of the 12 rising zodiacal signs for the entire year of 2020. So these are basically horoscope forecasts for all 12 signs of the zodiac. Although you’re primarily supposed to look at them from the perspective of your rising sign or your ascendant sign, and then, only secondarily, from the perspective of your Sun or your Moon sign. So in the first part of this, in Episode 238, I presented the first six signs of the zodiac. In this episode, I’m gonna present Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. I did want to read the timestamps—so that’s the primary purpose of this intro—in just a moment. Some of these I did as solo episodes, but the rest I did with Leisa Schaim. Leisa actually stepped in because I started coming down with a cold towards the end, by the time I got to Capricorn. And so, she stepped in to sort of bail me out. So thanks and great respect and admiration to Leisa for doing that. I owe her one. So please let her know if you enjoyed these horoscopes. All right. Let’s get to the timestamps. So if you wanna jump forward to your specific zodiacal sign, Libra is the first one that begins at 0:02:00 into this recording. Scorpio begins at 1:23:00, approximately, Sagittarius at 2:53:00, Capricorn at 4:08:00, Aquarius at 5:17:00, and finally, Pisces begins at 6:23:00. Each forecast is about an hour-long. Sometimes it goes a little bit higher, give or take. And that’s about it. So let’s just get right into it. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the forecast.

LIBRA AND LIBRA RISING

CB: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Libra and Libra rising for the entire year of 2020. So I’m doing a livestream today. And I think this is number seven that I’ve done this week where I’m looking at the next 12 months from the perspective primarily of your rising sign. So these are year ahead horoscopes, but I would recommend looking at them first, primarily, from the perspective of your rising sign, if your rising sign is Libra, or your ascendant is in the zodiacal sign of Libra. And then, secondarily, if you were born during the day, and your Sun is in Libra, then this may also be applicable to you. Or if you were born at night, and your Moon is in Libra, then this horoscope would also be particularly or partially applicable to you. All right. So thanks everyone for joining me in the live chat, here in the livestream today. I appreciate it. Sorry for the delay. I meant to get Libra in yesterday, but ran into some problems and distractions. So I’m back at it today, and I’m hoping to get at least two, maybe, best-case scenario, three horoscopes done for today, before I call it a day again. And then, hopefully, I’ll be able to finish the rest tomorrow. All right. So let’s jump right into it.

I’m gonna be displaying a couple pieces of artwork during the course of this video. One of them is the Planetary Movements Poster, which is from a calendar or a poster that I released this year. It shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they will end up in the signs of the zodiac by the end of the year. That’s kind of helpful for visualizing how fast some of the inner planets like Mercury and Venus move versus how slow some of the outer planets like Saturn or Uranus or Neptune or Pluto move. But even despite the slowness of the outer planets, there are some shifts where some of the outer planets will change signs during the course of 2020. So those are kind of major transitions that’ll be taking place this year. And in this diagram, I have it depicted, basically, from the perspective of Libra rising, so that you can see what the 12 houses are, which are the 12 sectors of the chart which represent different areas of a person’s life, as well as different topics and individuals that are important in your life in different ways. I’m also gonna be showing the significations of the 12 houses to show you what those 12 sectors of the chart look like and what they actually mean or depict in different parts of your life. And finally, the Planetary Alignments Poster will show when—on specific days, during the course of each month—different planets change and move into different signs of the zodiac, when the lunations—like the New Moon or the Full Moon or eclipses—take place, as well as planetary stations and outer planet aspects.

All right. So let’s jump right into it, at the start of the year, in January. It’s already January 8 by the time I’m recording this. So we’re already a little bit into the year, but we’re just about to get to the active spot in January, where some of the major planetary activity starts taking place. So let’s see. So the three big things this month are Uranus stationing direct in Aries—sorry, Uranus stationing direct in Taurus, at 2° of Taurus, which is your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money, and also, issues surrounding mortality. So this is a long-term Uranus transit that I’ll actually circle back to. There’s also an eclipse that’s taking place. This is a lunar eclipse that’s taking place on the 10th of the month, weirdly, right around the time of the station, the direct station of Uranus. This is taking place in the sign of Cancer, which is your 10th house of career. And then, finally, there’s a Saturn-Pluto conjunction that’s coming up on the 12th of January, and this is part of sort of broader transits that are going through Capricorn, where there’s a lot of emphasis this year, as we can see in the Planetary Movements Chart. Down at the bottom of the chart, you can see Capricorn, and you can see Pluto’s been transiting through that sign ever since 2008. Saturn’s been transiting through that sign ever since 2017. And this year, Jupiter has just ingressed into Capricorn, and it’ll be moving there, through that sign, for the entirety of the year. And then at different points we’ll have some inner planets dip into that sign as well. So there’s a ton of activity in your 4th house of your home and your living situation and your parents this year, that could represent some major developments and major changes. So that’s kind of the overview, but let’s break down some of those transits individually.

Let’s start with the lunation, which is the Full Moon, which is taking place, which is also a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in Cancer, in your 10th house of career. So the 10th house is the very top of the chart. It represents our career, our overall life direction, but also, how we take actions and the effect that our actions have on our reputation and our public life in general, as opposed to our private life, which is more of the 4th house, in the very bottom of the chart. So a Full Moon usually represents—a Full Moon in general, but also, a lunar eclipse, which is like a super-charged Full Moon, usually represents a culmination of events, or something coming to light and coming into maturity that you initiated in your life, or that was initiated in your life about six months earlier, when there would have been a New Moon in Cancer last summer at some point. Like maybe around June or July. So with this lunar eclipse taking place in the 10th house, there’s something about your career and public life and overall life direction that will start to become more clear and more crystallized at this time. And we’re gonna have a return to this sector. This isn’t the only time your 10th house is gonna be activated this year. But we’re gonna return to it, I think, six months later, with one more eclipse taking place in that sign. So this isn’t the first time you’ve had an eclipse in this sign. They’ve actually been bouncing back and forth in six-month increments for the past year-and-a-half now. So this isn’t probably necessarily a new development, so much as it’s a culmination of a sequence of events and changes that have been building up and taking place in your career sector for the past year or year-and-a-half now. So that’s one of the things that’s happening this month that’s sort of characteristic of the month, right around the 10th. And that eclipse—it’s not necessarily gonna coincide with an event that all happens at once, right around the time of the eclipse. But instead, it opens up a six-month window where a sequence of events—of things reaching a culmination or a critical point in terms of your career—starts happening at that point, immediately after the eclipse.

The other major transit that’s happening is the Uranus direct station in your 8th house of shared resources. That’s not necessarily like a major transit, unless you have planets in the early degrees of fixed signs, especially around 2° of Taurus, 2° of Leo, 2° of Scorpio, or 2° of Aquarius, in which case that might be a sensitive spot for you. The 8th house has to do with shared resources, if you have a partner—either a business partner or a romantic partner. A Uranus transit through the 8th house, over the course of this decade, could indicate unexpected shakeups or disruptions when it comes to your partner’s finances. Sometimes it can have to do with issues surrounding debt or taxes or money owed to other people in different ways. Uranus usually brings destabilization in the area of life that it transits through. But eventually it can sometimes become like a positive or constructive thing, where it shakes things up and forces you to go in a direction that you wouldn’t have gone otherwise as a result of that destabilization. But the end result is usually creating something new and sort of innovative in that area of your life that ends up being progressive or a positive development in some way. So that’s a long-term transit. It’s gonna be taking place still for, I think, the greater part of the first half of this decade. And it already started about a year or a year-and-a-half ago, when Uranus first started dipping into Taurus. I just mention it here because a planetary station is often an intensification of whatever that transit signifies. So again, especially for some of you with planets in the early degrees of fixed signs, you could really be feeling that Uranus transit around this time, when it stations direct at 2° of Taurus. There’s gonna be another station later in the year, at 10° of Taurus, which could also be important, but we’ll save that and come back to that later.

All right. The other major thing that’s happening this month, that we have to provide some context for, is there is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, which is building up and goes exact on the 12th. And for the most part, this is more relevant for sort of like mundane world events, but it could be relevant for you if you have any placements in your birth chart around 22° of the cardinal signs, especially 22° of Capricorn, or, secondarily, 22° of Aries, 22° of Libra, or 22 Cancer—so those are the other cardinal signs—because this exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction is taking place at 22° of Capricorn. So let me just change the animated chart to Libra rising, so we can place this in the correct whole sign house for you, which is the 4th house. So this isn’t necessarily a new transit, per se. Because, like I said earlier, Pluto went into Capricorn and into your 4th house of the home, the family, the living situation, and the parents and your private life way back in 2008. So that’s a very long-term planet—or long-term transit—because Pluto moves so slowly, and it can represent major changes and transformations especially. Sometimes very extreme transformations during the course of that transit, when it starts hitting planets or points in your natal chart. So transformations with respect to the home and living situation of the parents. Saturn went into Capricorn in December of 2017. So it’s been transiting through that sign for two years now, and usually indicates a period of restructuring when it comes to the home and living situation or the family and the parents and the private life. So sometimes, especially for those of you with day charts, Saturn’s transit through the 4th house can indicate setbacks or obstacles or difficulties with the living situation or the family that are going on at this time. The good news is that you’re basically two-thirds of the way through this Saturn transit by the time we begin 2020. And that transit’s gonna be wrapping up over the course of the next year, since we’re two-thirds of the way through it. And you’ll be completely done with that transit by the end of the year, by December of 2020, when Saturn moves out of Capricorn, and out of your 4th house, and into Aquarius, which is your 5th house.

The other positive thing that’s happening this year—that’s actually balancing out some of the intensity of the Pluto transit and the sort of soberness of the Saturn transit through your 4th house—is that Jupiter, just like a month or two ago, moved into Capricorn and will be spending the entirety of 2020 in that sign, which brings a little bit more hope and a little bit more optimism and a little bit more of a sense of expansion and growth in the area of the home and living situation and the family, in order to balance out some of the themes of like contraction from Saturn that have been there over the past couple of years. So if things have been a little bit tough with respect to the home and living situation over the past couple of years, or other 4th house topics, the Jupiter transit through that sign—especially for people with day charts, if you were born with your Sun in the top-half of the chart, during the day—will probably promise the rectification of some issues that you’ve been experiencing over the past couple of years in that sector of your life, and perhaps just balancing the scales a little bit, so that they’re not leaning so much towards the Saturn sign, which can tend to be a little bit more depressing, or a little bit more restrictive in some ways. So there’ll be a few different important turning points with the Jupiter transit during the course of the year, especially when Jupiter stations retrograde later in the year, and then eventually stations direct. But we’ll save that discussion for later, so I can give some exact dates on when that should occur. I just wanted to talk a little bit about that, cuz that’s probably the most active sector of your chart this year, the 4th house of the home and the living situation, and potentially, the parents. All right. So those are the major transits, for the most part, for January. Let me take a look at the live chat. It looks like some people have joined us. Thanks everybody for joining me in the live chat. I appreciate it. If anybody has any comments or questions, please let me know. I’ll try to read the chat as much as I can.

All right. So let’s jump into the month of February. All right. So there’s two things that happen in February. Like, obviously, there’s a lot of little stuff here—like Mercury moves into Pisces and Venus moves into Aries—and different like inner planet transits that I’m not gonna dwell on here for the purpose of this, because they go by relatively quickly, and I’m trying to focus on a bird’s eye view of some of the most important stuff that tends to coincide with more slow-moving transits. But there’s two somewhat slow-moving transits that are notable and worth mentioning this month, and what’s weird is they both start on the same day, which is February 16. So the first thing that happens is that Mars—which has been traveling through Sagittarius since the beginning of January, going through your 3rd house of siblings and travel and communication—leaves that sign, and it moves into Capricorn and joins all of the rest of those Capricorn planets in your 4th house of the home and the family and living situation and the parents. So this suddenly may bring an extra spurt of activity and energy and focus towards 4th house matters in general for about a month or a month-and-a-half, while Mars is transiting through that sign. There are some potential problems with that because sometimes Mars can bring an excess of energy to whatever house it starts transiting through, and sometimes that excess energy can bubble over into tensions or strife, or sometimes conflicts and separations within the context of the 4th house of the home and family and living situation. So that’s gonna be less of an issue for people with night charts, whereas the people with day charts—I would expect that to be a somewhat more irritating transit going through their 4th house, starting on the 16th of February.

The other major thing that happens on the same date is that Mercury actually stations retrograde in Pisces on the 16th of February, roughly around the same time, which is kind of weird and could be connected in some way. So Pisces is your 6th house of work and health. So when a Mercury retrograde station happens, sometimes it causes us to revisit something that we’ve done previously and have to go back and re-look at something that we previously thought was finished, where it was just like a one-time thing. But all of a sudden, just like Mercury slows down and does kind of a loop in the sky—or does like like a U-turn and then starts moving backwards, revisiting degrees of the zodiac that it’s already gone through—you will similarly have to go back and revisit or re-look at something that has already taken place within the context of either your work, or within the context of health matters. So if it’s a health matter thing, it may be something where maybe you weren’t doing something the best way that you could have, and there could’ve been some miscommunication that occurred surrounding health matters or surrounding like even something as simple as your dietary or exercise regime that you have to go back and reconfigure in some way. Maybe by getting some advice or some help from somebody else. Or there could be some sort of miscommunication that occurs at work, within the context of your workplace. Or if you own your own business and have employees, the 6th house represents subordinates or people that work in a sort of support role for you. So there may be some sort of miscommunication that you wanna be careful about there. You wanna be extra careful to avoid miscommunications just because this period of the Mercury retrograde in Pisces could be especially prone to that. Because if you look at the actual chart, Mercury stations retrograde very closely conjunct Neptune. So Mercury retrograde periods already inherently have a greater predisposition towards running into miscommunications just in and of themselves. But Mercury-Neptune conjunctions kind of amplify or reiterate and exacerbate that tendency for the potential for miscommunications. So especially around the 15th and 16th of February, just be careful to be a little bit extra cautious in the way that you communicate, so that you’re being clear about what your intentions are and not creating any situations where somebody could misunderstand you, especially within the context of the 6th house of work- or health-related matters. So that’s the major thing happening in February. I should be clear that the Mercury retrograde—both of those transits start on the 16th of February, but then they last for a few weeks after that point. So the Mercury retrograde is about halfway done by the 25th of February, when it makes the retrograde conjunction with the Sun. So whatever the issue is or the miscommunication that’s set up around the time of the 16th, there’s a turning point and it starts to be resolved around February 25.

And then when we move into March, what happens is that Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius, which is your 5th house of children, creativity, self-expression, pleasures, and also, sex and sexuality. So Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius and then it stations direct there around the 9th of March. So for some reason this could indicate returning back to 5th house-type topics during that time as well, again, that you thought you were finished, but where there may have been some miscommunication or some misunderstanding that forces you to go back and re-look at those topics again for some reason. Maybe something coming up within the context of, if you have children, some misunderstanding within the context of your children that you have to get worked out. It may tie together, since it’s straddling two different houses—the 6th house of work and health and the 6th house of children and creativity. It could somehow tie together those two topics and make you have to deal with both of them simultaneously, in a way that’s connected. But what’s important is just to sort of maintain clear communication and try to avoid miscommunications, since they might be more prominent or more of a predisposition at that time.

All right. So what’s interesting is that that direct station of Mercury in Aquarius on the 9th of March actually sets up or queues up a set of other major shifts, also involving Aquarius and your 5th house of children and creativity and sexuality later in the month of March. So on the 21st of March, we have a major shift when Saturn moves into Aquarius for the first time in almost three decades. So Saturn goes into Aquarius and goes into your 5th house, and it’s gonna stay there, for actually, I think, like three months or something like that, between late March and the very end of June, or the very beginning of July, because it’s just dipping into that sign for a very quick preview of what that long-term, three-year Saturn transit is gonna be about. And then later, in the second half of the year, it retrogrades out and moves back into Capricorn and back into your 4th house. It eventually stations direct. And then, finally, at the very end of 2020, in December, Saturn will return to Aquarius where it will stay there permanently for the next couple of years. So what we have going on here in late March is the very initial phases of the Saturn transit through your 5th house and kind of like a preview of what the next two-to-three years of that transit are gonna be like. Almost simultaneously, though, one thing that’s interesting is that Mars also moves into Aquarius—leaving your 4th house of the home and family living situation and moving into Aquarius, the sign of children, self-expression, and sexuality—on the 30th of March. So this creates kind of a tricky situation where there’s an almost simultaneous double-ingress of two, somewhat challenging planets into the same sign and into the same sector of your chart. So let me just move the animated chart forward to that time. There, we see Saturn ingressing into Aquarius, and then we see Mars moving into Aquarius right around the same time, shortly after that, and both of them forming a conjunction at 0° of Aquarius, in the very first degree of that sign.

So this is kind of tricky. I’m not gonna lie. Because whether you have a day chart or whether you have a night chart, it means that the initial ingress of both of those planets—especially of the Saturn ingress—is setting up and perhaps bringing up some sort of potential obstacle or difficulty or setback that has to be dealt with and has to be confronted in some sense head on. So for the people with night charts, it’s the Saturn transit that would be more tricky, whereas for the people with day charts, it would be the Mars transit that would be more tricky. So Saturn transits tend to be more of constricting influence that slows things down and can sometimes just put like obstacles or barriers in your way, or sometimes act as sort of a stop sign that says that you can’t proceed further in the specific area of your life. And the specific significations or the area that we’re talking about is the 5th house of, again, just reiterating topics surrounding children, creativity, pleasures or what you do for fun and enjoyment, but also, sex and sexuality. So Saturn tends to put barriers or obstacles in front of things, whereas Mars tends to create—the best-case scenario, putting a lot of energy and attention and focus towards that area. But in other instances sometimes it can indicate separations or strife or conflict in that area for some reason. And there’s obviously like a major range of, you know, worst-case scenario to best-case scenario in terms of how that could go, ranging from a light period of irritation and like annoyance with something that’s going on. Like, let’s say, if you have kids, that your kids are being extra annoying for that period of time for some reason, for like a month or two, to other, more serious things, like maybe you get in a major conflict or falling out, if you have, let’s say, adult children and maybe you stop talking to them for a period of time. So those are like some possibilities just in terms of one specific scenario or two specific scenarios and what kind of obstacles you could be running into in that time, but obviously, there’s a range of potential manifestations. But, either way, it seems like very early on in that transit, once that conjunction takes place shortly after the two move into that sign in late March, whatever the obstacle or difficult is, that’s going to emerge, kind of emerges or arises relatively quickly after that ingress, due to the conjunction of those two planets very early in the sign. So you should know what that’s about pretty quickly.

All right. So that’s March. Cuz March basically—the end of March just queues up the Mars and Saturn transit. And it’s weird that the Mercury retrograde earlier, that stationed direct in Aquarius, was in the same sign. And it’s almost as if the Mercury retrograde and the miscommunication that was involved, and the need to revisit something that you thought you had done earlier, finished earlier, somehow not just proceeds, but sets up and may be related to, as a sequence of events, the ingress of Saturn and Mars into that sign later in the month. So that transit continues over into April. And, in April, the Mars-Saturn stuff is still the major dominant theme. The only other major stuff that’s going on is now that Saturn is out of Capricorn, the only two planets—and Mars is also out of Capricorn. The only two planets that are left there, that are outer planets, are Jupiter and Pluto. And Jupiter actually forms a conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn during early April, on the 4th of the month. And then Pluto, later in the month, stations retrograde in Capricorn on the 25th of April. So usually Jupiter represents like a sense of expansion and growth and optimism, and Pluto tends to exacerbate or tends to magnify whatever it touches. So this may cause you to rapidly expand and want to rapidly grow whatever your efforts are within the context of the 4th house of your home and your family and living situation. Especially if you’ve been feeling restrained or held back over the course of the past two years, as Saturn has been transiting through that sign. As soon as it leaves—you have some sense of freedom and some sense of optimism again, suddenly, within the context of the 4th house—you may wanna go kind of crazy in terms of building up and improving things there, as opposed to the past two years of kind of paring things down and becoming a little bit more conservative in that area of your life. So the only tip would just be not to go too far and be a little bit careful because Saturn—or Jupiter-Pluto transits can tend to make us go a little bit overboard, or it can tend to indicate a period where we go a little bit overboard or have that potential. And additionally, we’re not fully done with the Saturn transit yet. Even though there’s this temporary period of a few months where Saturn has dipped out of that sign and moved into Aquarius, it’s slowing down, and it’s gonna station retrograde and come back in the second half of the year. So there may be something that’s not finished, that you have to return back to, to sort of clean up before you’re fully done with that transit and the sort of phase of your life that it was indicating over the past couple of years. So don’t go overboard with Jupiter, even though that might be appealing or that might be tempting during this time.

All right. So that is April. That’s gonna take us into the month of May at this point where we’ve got a few things going on. All right. So one of the main things that happens in May is Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius. So whatever that 5th house transit of Saturn is about—and whatever the preview is that Saturn is giving us, as it’s going through your 5th house of children, creativity, and sex or sexuality—this is gonna be the point where we’re gonna get a really clear picture of what the next two or three years of that transit are gonna be like, and not just the sort of obstacle or the difficulty that came up when Mars moved into that sign. Because at this point, in May, Mars actually departs from Aquarius, gets out of that sector of your chart, and it moves into Pisces on the 13th of May. So what we have left then is just Saturn stationing and intensifying its significations in that house. So for some people with Saturn transiting through the 5th house, it can just be a period where matters pertaining to children become much more serious, and there’s a lot more responsibility in this area of your life than at other times. So I had a friend, for example, who had like an unexpected child when Saturn ingressed into his 5th house, and that sort of initiated a two-or-three-year period where financial matters were a lot more sparse. He had to cut back more. And they had to reorganize things and restructure things to make way for having a child that wasn’t necessarily planned for, and it put an additional burden on his and his partner’s life. You know, ultimately, it was something that was positive or constructive in the long run, but it was a difficult, initial phase opening up and moving into that, with Saturn moving through the 5th. So, obviously, that’s not gonna happen for everybody. But it’s a good analogy of the type of thing that a Saturn transit through the 5th house might raise in your life, during the course of it. And I think you’re gonna get a really good preview of that, especially when Saturn stations retrograde.

So that’s happening on the 11th of May. Mars, as I said, leaves your 5th house and moves into Pisces—which is your 6th house of work and health, and also, employees—on the 13th of May. So this could indicate a period in which either you could be putting more energy and having more of an energy expenditure for some reason in your work, where maybe your work becomes particularly active. Or there’s some project that’s taking a lot of time and attention, and you’re having to exert more energy in that area of your life than you usually do. This could also be happening within the context of health where you could be having to put more focus on health. Or you could have to start just expending more energy in that area of your life in terms of like maybe going to the gym or spending extra attention paying attention to dietary restrictions or other things like that. Mars can sometimes also be a little bit challenging and indicate conflict or strife or a separation. So those themes could come up in the context of your work or in the context of health matters. So it might be good to be a little bit careful and avoid doing things impulsively in either of those areas, in order to avoid the sort of worst potential consequences. That’s especially good advice for people with day charts, that tend to have more problems with Mars, and is probably less of an issue—you’ll probably experience more of the constructive side of that transit if you were born with a night chart.

So that’s the Mars transit that begins there, and it lasts for about a month. Weirdly, around the same time, Venus stations retrograde in Gemini, in your 9th house of travel and education and philosophy and your personal beliefs. And that retrograde is happening in Gemini. It lasts for a few weeks, starting on the 13th of May, and it may cause you to basically have to revisit or review some things with respect to either your beliefs or your views about the world in general. So sometimes people can go back and start taking classes and learning something as a sort of prerequisite to having a greater change in terms of their career and overall life direction, once Venus moves into your 10th house, after the retrograde is over. Sometimes it’s going back and revisiting a person who was important in your life previously and may have affected, maybe, your personal belief system or your philosophy of life, but who you haven’t been in contact with for quite some time. So the last time that Venus went retrograde in Gemini was exactly eight years ago, in 2012. So sometimes when people are very tied into Venus retrograde transits—which actually may be the case for you, since Libra is your ruling planet, or Venus is the ruling planet of Libra. Sometimes when people are tied into Venus retrograde transits like that you can go back in these eight-year increments and just see if those retrogrades were important to them in the past. And if they were, it can give you a preview of what upcoming retrogrades might be like that are in the same sequence or the same series. So go back and see what the Venus retrograde was like in the spring and summer of 2012. And then go back eight years prior to that, which would be the previous Venus retrograde, which would have been, what, like 2004. And then just keep going back as far as you can—depending on how old you are—in eight-year increments and that should give you some sort of preview of the potential topics that could come up during this Venus retrograde, that lasts for over a month. Other 9th house topics are things like travel and foreign countries or foreign people. So there could be something involving like a foreign situation that becomes important to you, even taking a major trip. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s not like a Venus—it’s not like a Mercury retrograde or like a Mars retrograde in your 9th house. A Venus retrograde tends to be a little bit more pleasant, but just involves having an extended period—especially for those of you with night charts—where there can be more positive feelings of reconciliation and review of something that you had established previously.

All right. So the other important station that’s happening this month is Jupiter, the very next day, on the 14th of May, is stationing retrograde in Capricorn, in your 4th house. So this is one of two stations that Jupiter will make this year, and it should represent an important turning point or pivotal turning point with respect to some of the themes of growth and expansion in your home and living situation, or, potentially, with your parents, if that relationship is somehow important to you, depending on where you are in your life. The 4th house also has to do with like ancestry and where you come from. And sometimes themes involving ancestry become really important within the context of 4th house transits, and this could be a good area to focus on and look into and sort of expand during this time. Whatever that transit is about for you, this would be one of two really pivotal times this year when I’d expect it to manifest in a specific event that’s somehow tied into your 4th house. So pay attention to this station, which is the retrograde station, later in Capricorn. And then there’ll be a second retrograde station when Jupiter stations direct just a few months later, which we’ll come to in just a little bit. And it looks like that’s about it for the major outer planet transits in May, which leads us to June, where we’re gonna wrap up the first half of the year and the second quarter of the year and then begin moving into the second half of the year. But first, we gotta get through some major stuff with eclipse season and a Mercury retrograde first.

All right. So there’s the chart again. So right as soon as we move into June, we immediately move into eclipse season, starting with a lunar eclipse, which is gonna take place in the sign of Sagittarius, which is your 3rd house of communication, siblings, and short-distance travel. So there’s the significations of the houses. Siblings, short trips, school or education and communication are major 3rd house topics. The nodes are changing signs, and they’re actually moving into the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius around this time. So what’s happening is from this point forward, in six-month increments, we’re gonna keep getting and start getting a series of eclipses bouncing back and forth between your 9th house Gemini of belief and philosophy and education and your 3rd house of siblings and communication. So this specific eclipse in your 3rd house seems to represent a culmination or a coming to maturity of something about your communication style and the way that you communicate that which you know, or that which you think about the world. And for those of you with siblings, it could represent some sort of culmination of events with respect to your siblings’ lives. Sometimes that involves your actual like relationship with siblings. Other times it’s just something happening in your sibling’s life that is important, that may or may not directly impact you. But because it’s an important person in your life, it could be notable in some way, that your chart is reflecting some major change that’s happening in their life as a result of an eclipse falling there. So sometimes it’s like a sibling, you know, has a child, or your sibling gets married, or something critical like that. For some reason, the sibling sector of your chart, starting this month, is starting to get more active and more lit up, and there’s more of a spotlight or more attention focused on that area than at other times in your life. So sometimes this can just increase your communication with siblings for some reason because there’s more stuff going on in each of your lives.

So this is opening up a window that’s gonna last for about a year or a year-and-a-half, of eclipses occurring in that sign. So it’s not necessarily gonna be a one-time event. But instead, it’s gonna open up a six-month window of a starting point with this eclipse, then six months later, the next phase of that will begin, and they’ll just keep bouncing back and forth in six-month increments. The keyword that I use for eclipses is major beginnings and major endings. So just think of that as the major theme that’s starting to take place in your 3rd house of communication, siblings, but also, travel and education. That is not the only eclipse that’s taking place this month, though. But, in fact, there is also another solar eclipse that’s taking place in Cancer. I think this is the last of a series of solar eclipses in Cancer that have been happening for like a year or a year-and-a-half now, and it’s taking place in your 10th house of career and work and overall life purpose or life direction. What’s a little bit weird about it is that it’s proceeded by and happens roughly at the same time as a Mercury retrograde station, which begins on the 18th of June. So it’s like 18th of June, Mercury actually stations retrograde in Cancer. Let me switch to the chart to show the specific degrees on that, cuz that might be notable. And if you have those degrees, if you have planets close to those degrees in your actual birth chart, then that Mercury retrograde is gonna be more notable for you than others. So it looks like Mercury stations retrograde at 14° of Cancer in the middle of June. And then we see the solar eclipse taking place just a few days later, also in Cancer.

So this is important because the Mercury retrograde, just in and of itself, in the 10th house, would normally indicate a period where you’re revisiting or revising something with respect to your work and your career and your overall life direction, as the best-case scenario. And that kind of also makes sense that whatever you start revising at this time or revisiting could have much greater impact or much greater implications in the long term because that eclipse falls there immediately afterwards. One of the things you wanna be careful about is that Mercury retrogrades also, of course, can typically have to do with miscommunications or misunderstandings. So you wanna make sure that there’s not any major misunderstandings or miscommunications to whatever extent you can, that come from your side. Obviously, there are some things that are sometimes outside of our control, and the way that other people receive our communications isn’t always something that we can alter or fix. Sometimes you just have to fix issues after the fact and can’t so much before. But especially if there’s any potential where the lack of clarity is coming from you, or there is something you can do, it would be good to be especially on your feet or on your toes during this time surrounding communications for the three-week period that Mercury stations retrograde. The 10th house also represents superiors or people that are in a position above us. Sometimes that can indicate like your boss, if you have a boss in your workplace or with respect to your career. So that might be a particular person to be careful about having miscommunications with, just because it could impact your career in a major way as a result of the eclipse, if you’re not able to avoid that. But other times, to give a more optimistic slant on it—cuz I don’t always want to just be negative about Mercury retrogrades—it could just force you to go through a three-week period of rethinking what your career is and where you want to be headed with your life and what the most optimal, sort of like long-term plan is for you, especially if you were to think far into the future. And that really connects with the eclipse because since this is a New Moon solar eclipse, it’s kind of like setting—laying the seeds or planting the seeds or laying the foundation for something that will grow and develop over the course of the next six months. So the best thing that you could do in this period, in late June, is not just to go back and review things and rethink how you could best be proceeding forward in terms of your career or your overall life direction, but think about if you were to start something during this time, what you would want to accomplish six months later. And if you do initiate something at this time in terms of your career, then you may find that the long-term impact that it has in that area of your life could end up being much more significant than it seems at first, even if it’s only a relatively small or relatively minor change that you’re making at this time. So a good time to initiate that.

All right. Other things that happen in June, there’s two other major things that I wanna mention. One of them is that the Venus retrograde period comes to an end in the sign of Gemini, in your 9th house of education and philosophy and travel. So that ends when Venus stations direct on the 25th of June. So it sort of wraps up that educational transit. It’s kind of interesting that that coincides with the eclipse in the 10th house, as well as the Mercury retrograde transit. It makes me wonder if either for some people there might be a journey, or there might be some sort of educational program that comes to completion at that time—which is another 9th house topic—which then sets them up for the career change or the shift into a new phase of one’s career, which is indicated by the eclipse on the 21st.

So the last major thing that happens—and I’m not sure if this is gonna be completely unrelated, or if it’s somehow tied into all of these other transits that are piling up in June, but the final thing I wanted to mention is Mars ingresses into Aries on the 27th of June. And this is kind of a major deal because this is the beginning of a long-term transit that’s gonna last for pretty much the entire second half of 2020, where Mars is moving into your 7th house of partnership and relationships and other people in general. And the reason why this is important—if we look at the Planetary Movements Chart—over there on the far right, in Aries, the sign that Mars is moving into, we see it move into that sign at this time, at the end of June. But then what happens is that as it’s getting near the end of Aries—where it would normally just take like a month and it would pass through that sign relatively quickly—what happens is that it slows down, and Mars turns around and stations retrograde, and then begins moving backwards for several weeks before eventually slowing down again, stationing direct, and then start to move forward again for several weeks before it eventually departs from that sign. So what this means is that it’s gonna take a transit that would normally be a relatively short-term, potentially somewhat irritating, but certainly, energetic transit, where Mars is bringing much more attention and focus and energy to your 7th house of relationships and other people and partnerships. It’s taking what should normally be a short-term, energetic or potentially irritating transit and it’s drawing it out, and it’s extending it for almost six months, for almost the entirety of the second half of the year. So that turns it into a major transit, and turns it into what will for some of you perhaps be one of the more notable transits and more memorable ones once you finish this year, and you’re sort of looking back and reflecting on it in retrospect.

So that begins at the end of June. Let’s do a sort of best-case scenario/worst-case scenario, again, like I usually try to do, cuz both sides are possible. It really depends on your birth chart and how things are situated in your birth chart, as well as how different parts of your chart are activated by different timing techniques, like annual profections or zodiacal releasing. Best-case scenario, so I could see this as being a period in which you just have to put in a lot more energy and sometimes even more energy than you’re comfortable doing, so that you might be exhausted with the amount of time that you have to focus on and spend on relationships during this six-month period. So it could be a period in which maybe you’re planning something with respect to a relationship that’s forcing you to put more energy towards it. Maybe there’s something going on in your partner’s life that’s requiring additional support and attention and energy on your part in order to help them get through that time. Maybe it’s kind of a tumultuous time for them, and so, therefore, it’s something that’s requiring more of an energy expenditure on your part.

What are some other possible scenarios? I mean, those are some of the best-case scenarios. Worst-case scenario, or, let’s say, moderate-to-medium worst-case scenario is just Mars transits can be periods that are more irritating, where there’s more of a sense of frustration, where some sort of obstacle or separation sometimes can occur within the context of relationships. Or even just a period in which you—if you have a partner—you and your partner aren’t getting along as well for some reason. Or maybe there’s a sequence of specific things that you have some sort of conflict or butting heads about. So that’s one of the main potentials for this transit—just that it can be kind of a tense period for relationships. Now for those of you with night charts, I would probably not expect it to be the worst-case scenario. It could be a little bit irritating, but it’s not gonna be necessarily anything to write home about, or it’s not gonna be the worst-case scenario. For people with day charts, I would expect it to be a little bit more challenging, potentially. Even more so if your 7th house or if Mars is somehow activated as a time-lord by annual profections. Like if you’re in a 7th house profection year. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you should just avoid anything having to do with relationships or go out of your way not to do anything important during that time, because sometimes important and tense transits like that can show up during some of the most pivotal periods in our life. Because just when something important happens, there’s gonna be a lot going on. And it may not always be necessarily easy, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be terrible either. Something that just takes a lot of energy and is exhausting can sometimes in and of itself—once you get to the other side of it—still have been worthwhile and been important and something that you’re happy that you ended up doing, even if it took a lot of effort during that time. So there’s gonna be at least two critical turning points. This is just the opening or the beginning of that transit that starts on the 27th of June. But there’s gonna be two Mars stations. The first one that stations retrograde and turns around and starts moving backwards, and then, secondarily, when it stations direct and starts moving forward later in the year, that will probably be the critical turning point in this transit. So we’ll get to those later. This is just the starting point, on the 27th of June, of kind of a long transit of Mars.

All right. So let’s get into the second half of the year. All right. Here’s the calendar for July, the planetary alignments. The main things happening this month are the Capricorn stuff kind of comes back with a vengeance for one final pass of like major, major Capricorn stuff, which then kind of dominates the next six months. So the entire second half of the year. Because what happens is that on the 1st of July, Saturn already has been retrograde for a few weeks at this point, and it makes a retrograde ingress or, let’s say, a regress, back into Capricorn and back into your fourth whole sign house. So it moves back into that sector that has to do with the home and living situation and the private life and the parents for one last pass through that sector of your chart before it completely finishes up those transits in mid-to-late-December. Almost simultaneous with that, just a few days later, on the 5th of July, we have a lunar eclipse taking place in Capricorn, which is putting a lot more attention and focus on that sign. So the main one, though, is the Saturn transit. Because Saturn returning back to that sign sometimes will indicate the final phase of whatever that transit has been about for you, and it will bring a sense of closure and a sense of completion to matters pertaining to your home and your living situation, or matters pertaining to your parents and your relationship with them and whatever is going on in their life.

So normally, this isn’t usually gonna indicate something that’s brand new or isn’t some sort of scenario that you haven’t been already dealing with for a while. Because we’ve had Saturn going through that sign for two/two-and-a-half years at this point, so most of the themes should already be clear at this point. And by the second half of this year, once Saturn comes back to Capricorn, it should just be a matter of revisiting and making sure you got the point of that transit. In some instances, there was some like broader lesson to be gained from it. Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn’t. In other instances, it can just be doing what’s necessary in order to wrap and make sure that part of your life—and whatever you were going through during that time—is finished, so that then you can move on with your life and allow that sector of your chart and that sector of your life—your home and your private life—to be less of the focus in the coming years, as Saturn, by December, moves into Aquarius and just gets out of your 4th house completely. By that time, Jupiter will also do the same in December and get out of your 4th house completely. And basically, by the end of 2020, there’s just a complete shift away from the 4th house and this entire sector of your life in general. But in the second half of 2020, it definitely continues to be a major part of the focus, and it comes back into focus with a lot of attention being paid to that area of your life.

So that’s the major thing that happens in July, and it happens right at the start of the month. And that just, again, becomes part of the dominant theme. Eventually, that takes into August. And August—we actually don’t have a lot going on. All that other stuff, like the Saturn transit through the 4th and everything, is still going on as a sort of background transit. But the only major outer planet transit that changes in August is that Uranus stations retrograde around 10° of Taurus on August 15. So again, Taurus, as I mentioned briefly earlier, is your 8th house. The 8th house has to do with things like mortality and just topics surrounding mortality. That could include things like inheritance. But also, the 8th house often primarily has to do with financial matters and the assets or money of other people and what role that plays in your life. So sometimes that can pertain to like the partner’s finances or assets. Other times it can pertain to things like taxes or debt that you owe or other things like that. A Uranus transit through the 8th house can indicate sudden or unexpected disruptions or innovations in that area of your life. Like finding new and innovative ways sometimes even to bring technology to bear on making positive or constructive changes in that area of your life. This is kind of a long-term transit. It’s lasting for—it started a year or two ago, and it’s lasting all the way through, I think, 2025 or something like that before Uranus leaves Taurus and moves into Gemini permanently. So this is not necessarily anything that’s gonna be hugely important at this point, unless you have planets around 10° of fixed signs. So if you do have a planet at 10° of Taurus especially, or, let’s say, even within a degree or two of that—so, let’s say, 9° of Taurus or 11° of Taurus—then this will be the first time that Uranus has gotten that far into the sign and has stationed at that exact degree of Taurus. So it could actually really be activating those topics for you, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to mention the station. Just cuz stations can represent sort of like an exclamation mark next to that planet for that period of time, right around the middle of August. So the potential for unexpected disruptions around that time, but only if you have personal planets around 10° of the fixed signs. And if it’s 10° of Taurus, then it would pertain directly to those 8th house topics, potentially.

All right. So that’s gonna take us into September. And September is really primarily characterized by the Mars retrograde station, which really gets going around the 9th of the month. So on the 9th of September, Mars stations retrograde in late Aries. A few days later, on the 12th of September, Jupiter stations direct in Capricorn, in your 4th house. And at the end of the month, Saturn stations direct in Capricorn, also, in your 4th house, for the final time. And then it’ll start making its way out of Capricorn and out of your 4th house. What’s interesting about this is I think those three transits actually might be connected in some people’s lives. And it might be connecting two different parts of your chart because when Mars stations retrograde, it does so pretty closely square to Saturn, and to a lesser extent, Jupiter. So I’m gonna switch here. The program I’m using for this—everyone always asks and I forget to mention it, but it’s called Solar Fire, that’s available at Alabe or Astrolabe. It’s called Alabe.com. But the name of the software business is Astrolabe. And they gave me a promo code, which is ‘AP15’, if anybody wants to get a discount on the software. So here’s September, and here is Mars. It’s slowing down in the first week of the month, and then it stations right here, retrograde, at 28° of Aries. So let me put Libra on the ascendant, to the rising. So there it is. Mars stationing at 28° of Aries. And so, this is in your 7th house of relationships. So it’s bringing an exclamation mark and an intensification of this very energetic Mars transit, but also, potentially, divisive or irritating transit of Mars in your 7th house. This is when it becomes probably the most irritating or the most frustrating, right around this time, in early-to-mid-September, when it makes the retrograde station.

That’s the most important turning point for that transit in setting up the initial sequence of events that becomes notable or memorable in retrospect, or will become memorable in retrospect. But notice how it’s at 28° of Aries. So it’s actually squaring Saturn, which is at 25° of Capricorn—in your 4th house of your home and living situation and parents—pretty closely at that time, which for some of you probably may imply that there’s gonna be a connection between those two areas for some reason. It’s setting up basic tension or setting up some sort of basic conflict. There’s some sort of like strife or tension that’s happening in the realm of partnership, and somehow that starts affecting or causing setbacks or tensions, or even like losses in the area of your home and living situation, with Saturn being squared at that time, in your 4th house, and also, stationing there. It could also be the reverse, though. It could be vice versa. It could be that Saturn’s indicating some tensions or some problems or obstacles that are arising within the context of the home or the family, or even your parents, and your living situation, in the 4th house, and somehow this is causing tension or conflicts with respect to relationships or your partners or your other, one-on-one partnerships in general in your life, with Mars stationing in your 7th house. So that’s kind of one of the more tense transits that’s happening this year. And it really gets the most intense around this time of early-to-mid-September, when Mars is stationing retrograde and is squaring those Capricorn planets. But the Mars retrograde then is gonna last for several weeks after that point and won’t station direct for quite a while.

So we move into October, and what happens at this point is that we have our third and final Mercury retrograde of the year. And this Mercury retrograde actually takes place—it actually begins in Scorpio on the 13th of October. So Scorpio is your 2nd house of finances and possessions and assets and other things. That which has value, that you’ve acquired during the course of your life. Mercury retrogrades can sometimes indicate like, again, revisiting something with respect to those topics. So revising something that you thought was finished, that you have to go back and look at, and you realize there’s something wrong, so you have to retool something that you’ve been doing. So revisiting the area of finances and possessions. Or, potentially, a miscommunication involving financial matters is one of the other potential scenarios at this time. I tend to think that that’s probably the more likely one because there’s something that’s a little bit destabilizing, or something that’s a little bit unexpected or more unexpected than usual about this particular Mercury retrograde. Because if you look at the actual chart and the degrees and the specific planets that Mercury’s interacting with when it stations retrograde, you’ll actually notice that it’s stationing retrograde pretty closely opposite to Uranus. So here’s October. Mercury’s slowing down and then it stations retrograde at 11° of Scorpio, around the 13th of October or so. And notice that the planet Uranus is at 9° of Taurus at this point. So we’ve got a pretty tight opposition between Mercury in Scorpio in your 2nd house of financial matters and Uranus in Taurus in your 8th house of other people’s money, of inheritance, of mortality, and issues surrounding mortality and things like that. So there could be some sort of unexpected development that takes place involving your money and your partner’s money around this time. And it’s kind of interesting—or other people’s money. And it’s kind of interesting that it’s also taking place around the same time as the Mars retrograde in your 7th house of relationships and some of those final Saturn transits through your 4th house of your home and your family and your living situation. So some of these could be like parallel events that are running in parallel and not crossing over. And others could be sort of crossing each other and somehow connected or intertwined in some way, in this sort of broader sequence of events that’s taking place in some of your lives, depending on how your actual natal chart is set up.

All right. So the Mercury retrograde actually just starts at that point on the 13th of October. But then, as all Mercury retrograde periods do, it lasts for about three weeks. The middle-point—where the resolution of whatever the issue was at the start of the retrograde—starts to come into play, and you start to see some resolution, where there’s an end in sight. That happens at the Sun-Mercury conjunction, around the 25th of October. Then, interestingly, Mercury ingresses. It makes a retrograde ingress, or regress, into Libra, and into your first whole sign house, into the house of self and body and appearance, and basically, who you are. Weirdly, the same day, Venus also moves into that sign. So Venus returns to its home sign and moves into your rising sign, which is generally usually kind of a pleasant transit, where things look a little bit more optimistic. Venus transits to the 1st house—since the 1st house has to do with appearance and how you appear to other people in the world, or how you present yourself—can be kind of a good time to get a makeover, like buy some new clothes. Or, generally, Venus can indicate a period where aesthetics become more important to you, and you do a better job of sort of picking out aesthetic matters than at other times. So, somehow, that might be connected.

And that takes us into November, where very early in the month, Mercury will station direct in Libra. And that’s on the 3rd of November. Then that transit is pretty much wrapped up at that point, and the Mercury retrograde period should be roughly over. What’s interesting is that just about a week later, the very following week, we get the very tail-end or the other important or pivotal turning point of the Mars retrograde cycle, where Mars stations direct on the 13th of November. So this is taking place in your 7th house of relationships. And I’m not sure if it’s connected with the Mercury retrograde. Like it’s weird that in the charts, Mercury regresses back into your 1st house of self, and the Mars transit is finishing up at that point in your 7th house of others, or your 7th house of relationships. So it could be connected. Cuz it’s almost as if—like one scenario with Venus moving into your 1st house, Mercury going into your 1st house and stationing direct there, there’s some sort of theme, potentially, in early November of finding your voice, and of sort of learning how to use your voice and speak out and say what you have to say. And, somehow, as a result of doing this—once Mercury starts moving forward again—there’s this shift that then takes place within the context of relationships. Because then, just the following week, Mars stations direct. And there’s Mars stationing at 15° of Aries. So, somehow, perhaps by finding your own voice, it causes a shift and things start moving forward after a period of sort of moving backwards in the sphere of relationships for several weeks at that point. So, hopefully, whatever the issue that was set up—or whatever the difficulties or the potential for strife or conflict that was set up by the Mars retrograde—some of that should start to be resolved at this point when Mars stations direct, and you should start to see the resolution, or at least an end in sight to that transit. The entire transit’s not finished yet because Mars then, after stationing direct, needs to work its way back through the second half of Aries. And then, eventually, it will get out of that sign, but not until the early part of next year. So, technically, the Mars transit isn’t gonna be fully over until early next year. But at least the most intense phase should be over at this point, after Mars stations direct on the 13th of November.

Let’s see. The other major thing that happens this month, that’s notable and worth mentioning, is we have a return back to eclipse season. So we get a couple of eclipses. The first one is a lunar eclipse on the 30th of November, and that’s taking place in Gemini. And this is, again, just emphasizing. It’s moving into a period where the nodes have moved into Gemini, which is your 9th house. And the other eclipse after that is a Sagittarius eclipse on the 14th of December, which is taking place in your 3rd house. So, for me, when I think of the 3rd house—or the 3rd house/9th house axis—a large part of it has to do with what you know and what you’ve learned, which is the 9th house, what you believe, versus how you communicate that, which is your 3rd house. And what’s happening with these two eclipses is we’re seeing a culmination of events, a lunar eclipse in your 9th house. So there’s something that you perhaps initiated or started learning six months earlier, that has started to crystallize and started to become more clear in your mind at this point, from the 30th of November forward.

And then what happens in December is you start a new phase in learning how to communicate what you know and what you think, starting on the 14th of December, when we have this solar eclipse, which takes place in Sagittarius, in your 3rd house. So this would be a good time to try a new communication style or to try experimenting with different communication mediums. Like, perhaps, if there’s something that you’re really passionate about, or that you’ve been learning recently, it would be a good time to start writing a blog about it, or start a YouTube channel, or start a podcast. Basically, figuring out different ways that you can communicate something that you’re passionate about and something that you believe in strongly would be recommended during this eclipse that takes place in the third week of December. Second or third week of December, around the 14th. Since it’s happening in your 3rd house, 3rd house is also siblings. So it could be some major development in the lives of your siblings, as I was describing earlier, during some of those previous eclipses, and some sort of sequence of events with respect to them or your relationship with them. But, definitely, because it’s bouncing back and forth for a while between the 3rd house/9th house axis, it could be more about knowledge versus communication. 3rd house/9th house also has to do with travel. So the 9th house is long-distance travel, and the 3rd house is short-distance travel. So it could be something about taking a major trip. Or, alternatively with the 3rd house, it could be something about reconfiguring your ability to communicate. Not just communicate, but travel locally, around your city. So something like, you know, changing your vehicle. Or getting a new car or something like that, as a notable, 3rd house-type transit is pretty typical.

All right. So this brings us to the final and I don’t wanna say most important, but one of the most notable transits of 2020, which happens at the very, very end of the year. And it is when, first, on the 17th of month, Saturn departs from Capricorn and finishes up its three-year-long transit through your 4th house of your home and family and living situation, and Saturn moves into Aquarius, which is the place of children, all matters related to children, creative expression, and also, sexuality. Interestingly, two days later, Jupiter—the largest planet, the other largest planet in our solar system—also moves out of your 4th house, completes that transit, and, simultaneously, moves into your 5th house of children and creativity and sexuality. So just a few days later, on the 21st of December, those two planets form a conjunction at the first degree of that sign. So let me put that up, so you can see the exact degrees and how sort of dramatic it is. Especially just remembering that these are the two largest planets in our solar system. So there’s Saturn going into Aquarius and there’s Jupiter going in, then forming a conjunction from our standpoint here on Earth, at 0° of Aquarius. So this is the onset. This is the full onset of that Saturn transit that I was talking about earlier in the year, that we got a preview of between March and late June, when Saturn just like barely sort of dipped a toe into Aquarius. And then it retrograded back out and went back into Capricorn to finish and sweep up whatever needed to be done in that area, in the second half of the year. Now Saturn is done with Capricorn, and it’s fully moving into your 5th house. So some of those themes of responsibility, of sometimes obstacles or setbacks, but also, just putting in hard work, and, hopefully, eventually, in the long term, building new structures that will have major payoffs in the long term if you put in the hard work—that whole period really begins at this point. And it’s gonna last for at least a couple of years of Saturn going through that sign.

So the good news is I really like that this Saturn transit is starting with not just Saturn moving into that sign—which is bringing the responsibility and more of a pessimistic vibe, potentially to that part of the chart—but it’s getting really balanced out by the fact that Jupiter is going in at almost the exact same time, which is bringing more of an optimistic and more of an expansive vibe to the 5th house sector in your life. So, normally, if it was just like a 5th house transit of Jupiter, this could be a period where people have children, or where their relationship with children is something that’s positive in their life or something that’s constructive. It can also be a period in which there’s growth and new development when it comes to artistic or creative matters in a person’s life, with Jupiter moving through that sign. Now we’re still gonna get some of that with Saturn there at the same time, but it’s gonna need to be balanced. This sort of optimism will need to be balanced with not a pessimism, but more of a sense of realism, and healthy realism, about what can actually be accomplished in that area of your life. But the fact that those two are going in there together at the same time is bringing a sort of balance that I think is ultimately positive. Especially for people with day charts, I think that’s gonna be a very positive and constructive transit. For people with night charts, it might be a little bit more challenging, with Saturn going through the 5th house. And you might get more of the restrictions or some of the setbacks and some of the burdens associated with that transit. But with Jupiter being there at the same time, that’s still gonna help balance it out way more than your experience of, for example, spending the first two years of Saturn going through Capricorn being just on its own or just with Pluto, which is a pretty intense transit to experience right from the start, without any moderating influence from Jupiter. So that really kicks off 2020. Because then that’s the major outer planet transit that you’re gonna be experiencing for most of the rest of—well, most of the following year. Most of the year of 2021. And it begins right at the end of 2020. So that’s getting us into the forecast for next year, and that’s getting us a little far afield and further ahead than I’m supposed to go in this recording. So I’ll have to save the rest of that discussion for next time, when I return to do the horoscope forecast for 2021. Which sounds really weird to say, but I’m gonna get used to saying it over the course of the next year, as we get further and further into 2020.

All right. I think that’s it then for this forecast for Libra and Libra rising, for the coming 12 months. So thanks a lot for watching this. Thanks everybody who joined in the livestream chat. I appreciate it. Sorry I couldn’t follow as many comments as I would have liked. If anybody has any interesting anecdotes or stories that you wanna share, please type them sort of briefly in the chat box now. I’m gonna wrap up and do some of the plugs and some of the promo stuff that I have to mention before we end this video. But I’m curious if anybody has any experiences, especially with Saturn going through Capricorn over the past two years in your fourth whole sign house and how that’s been working out for your home and living situation, or parents and private life in general. I’d be curious to hear some of that.

Let’s see. So the artwork that I’ve been using in this episode comes from the posters, the 2020 Astrology Calendar Poster Bundle that I released just a few weeks ago, where you can use these posters like a calendar in order to see all of the major transits of the year at a glance. And it’s something that I always have up in front of me, by my computer at all times, because then I can just look up and see what day it is and exactly when certain planets change signs, exactly when the eclipses or other lunations take place, or when planets turn retrograde or direct. So there’s also the Planetary Movements Poster in there, and there’s also another bonus poster that shows the significations of the houses. So with this, you can sort of be set to analyze the astrology of the year at a glance, and also, learn about your own chart and astrology in general while you’re doing it. You can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Also, recently, Leisa Schaim and I released our 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report. So in this we went through each of the next 12 months, and we did a two-hour video and a written report where we picked out one lucky day or one auspicious electional chart for each of the next 12 months, which was the best chart that we could find for launching different types of ventures and undertakings over the course of the next year. So that’s super-useful for people that are trying to plan out long-term things like launching a new business or getting married or going on a major journey or something like that, because we’ve done most of the hard work for you by searching for the most auspicious days during each of the next 12 months. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections.

And, finally, I have to give a shoutout to all the patrons who supported my work and support The Astrology Podcast through my page on Patreon. Because they’re the reason I’m able to do this and spend so much time doing the horoscope forecast this year, as well as get some of the equipment and stuff that’s been necessary in recent years as a result of their support. So thanks in particular to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. And there’s also two major astrology conferences that are happening in 2020. One of them is being hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, and they’re doing a conference in Denver, Colorado from September 10-14. You can find out more information about that at ISAR2020.org. And also, the Northwest Astrological Conference is happening in Seattle, Washington from May 21-25, 2020. And you can find out more information about that at NORWAC.net.

So if you wanna become a patron and get bonus content—like early access to new episodes or private patron-only podcasts—then you can sign up and find out more information at Patreon.com/TheAstrologyPodcast. All right. And I did. How long is this? Oh, wow. This one was longer than usual. The last few had been an hour-long, but I put so much detail into this one that it ended up being like 1-hour-and-20-minutes. So you guys got a little bit more bonus content than some of the other rising signs. So, congratulations. I guess that’s partially because, in some ways, for the Libra rising people, there’s more going on than with some of the other rising signs. Because so much of the planetary transits this year are going through the cardinal signs, which are the angular houses for you. So that’s like the 1st house of self, the 4th house of the home and living situation, the 7th house of relationships, and the 10th house of career. So definitely 2020 is a big year for those with Libra rising.

Yeah, Chanda in the comments says: “2020 sounds as if it will be as challenging as it will be rewarding.” And I think that’s a really great synopsis. So it’ll be challenging, but rewarding. I think that’s a great way to frame and to phrase or summarize a lot of what I was saying about this year, especially with respect to some of the Saturn transits that are going on. All right. Any final comments? Thanks everybody for joining us. We appreciate it. You guys have been great in the comments section. I’m still getting used to like how to read the live chart, which, unfortunately, I can’t follow as well as I would like to. But I’m gonna read through some of it later and post some comments once this video recording goes up in just a few minutes. Please be sure—if this is your first time finding my channel—to subscribe to the channel, like this video, put a comment on this video. And, yeah, that’ll help me to boost the video and to keep doing more of these in the future, as more people find them. All right. I’m gonna take a break, cuz that was a bit of a marathon. But then I’m gonna come back later, and I’m at the very least gonna try to do the Scorpio rising horoscopes tonight. And with any luck—if things go well and I can get some more coffee—I’m gonna see what I can do about also doing the Sagittarius rising horoscopes tonight as well. And that’ll just leave me three to do tomorrow, if I can get that far through them. So we will see how it goes. Thanks everyone for joining me today. Thanks for listening to this episode of The Astrology Podcast, and I will see you next time.

SCORPIO AND SCORPIO RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you’re listening to The Astrology Podcast. In this episode, I’m gonna be going through these horoscopes for Scorpio and Scorpio rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LEISA SCHAIM: Hey, Chris.

CB: And she’s gonna be helping me today to go through the next 12 months. We’re gonna give you an overview of the major outer planets and some of the inner planet transits that are gonna be dominating the different themes during different parts of the year, and we’re gonna go through month by month. So these horoscopes are primarily directed towards your rising sign, especially if your rising sign is Scorpio. Although you can secondarily look at them from the perspective of your Sun sign, if your Sun is in Scorpio, especially if you were born during the day, or your Moon sign, if your natal Moon is in Scorpio, especially if you were born at night. Any other preliminaries before we jump in and get started?

LS: Uh, no. I think that’s it.

CB: All right. And thanks everybody for joining us in the live chat, since we’re doing this as a livestream tonight. This is horoscope two-out-of-hopefully-three tonight. I’ll see how far we can get.

LS: We.

CB: We? Thank you for joining me.

LS: Yes.

CB: All right. Let’s jump right into it. So we’re gonna be looking at a few different things. One of the things we’re gonna look at is the Planetary Movements Poster. So this is from an illustration from a poster that I released this year, which shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year in the signs of the zodiac and how far through the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year. So this is useful for sort of illustrating and visualizing how some of the inner planets move through the signs relatively quickly, unless they turn retrograde, and how some of the outer planets move through the signs very slowly and sometimes don’t change signs for a decade or so. The other thing we’re gonna be looking at is the Planetary Alignments Calendar, which is another poster I released, which shows dates when lunations—such as Full Moons and New Moons take place—when the planets will change signs, and also, when the planets will make major aspects to each other station retrograde or direct. All right. So we’re looking at Scorpio rising, and we’re gonna start in January. So there’s three main things that happen in January. There is Uranus stationing direct at 2° of Taurus, which is in the 7th house of relationships for those with Scorpio rising. There is an eclipse, a lunar eclipse, that takes place the very next day, on the 10th of January in Cancer, which is the 9th house of religion and travel and education. And then, finally, there’s a Saturn-Pluto conjunction coming up on the 12th of January taking place in the sign of Capricorn, where we’ve got a bunch of activity taking place this month in the 3rd house of communication, siblings, and short-distance travel for those with Scorpio rising. So out of all that, take your pick. Where do you wanna get started?

LS: Maybe I’ll start with the Saturn-Pluto. This is something that’s been going on for a while.

CB: Okay. Someone, I heard, just did like a webinar on this recently.

LS: Yeah, I just jumped in at the last minute into a webinar about Saturn-Pluto, so that’s fresh in my head.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah. So wherever Saturn and Pluto have been transiting—which for Scorpio rising people is gonna be the 3rd house of short-distance travel, siblings, communication, and to some extent, teaching and learning—that’s already been going on for a while now. So while there is an exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction during this month, almost mid-month, it’s kind of just hitting a little accentuation of something that’s already been happening, particularly, since 2017. Pluto’s been there since 2008, and Saturn joined it at the end of 2017. So it’s already been there for a good couple of years and there’s just one year left.

CB: Yeah. So Saturn went in in December of 2017. So they’re already two-thirds of the way through this transit of Saturn going through Capricorn and going through the 3rd house, which can sometimes bring some challenges or some restructuring or some obstacles surrounding either siblings or communication, short-distance travel, or even education to some extent.

LS: Mm-hmm. So for some people there could have been more distance for the past couple of years with siblings. If you have any, that’s one possible manifestation of Saturn there. For some other people, you might have been working on learning to communicate better or studying something that isn’t necessarily a four-year degree, but still some sort of course of study, either formal or informal. So this is a little peak in that. It’s not over yet, but you may notice it a bit more at that time.

CB: Yeah. There’s sort of an intensification of that transit. Especially, potentially, for people that have Saturn at 22 or have placements at 22° of the cardinal signs, especially 22° of Capricorn, or really any of the other three cardinal signs: 22 Libra, 22 Aries, or 22—blank.

LS: Cancer.

CB: Cancer. That’s the other cardinal sign. Everyone always forgets Cancer.

LS: Yeah, poor Cancers. And speaking of Cancer, that’s the other where there’s activity right in that three-day time period, because there is a Cancer eclipse within 48 hours of that as well. And so, for everyone there’s been a lot of activity with regard to the Cancer and Capricorn areas of your chart. And for Scorpio rising, that means a lot with teaching and learning. I mean, it’s not necessarily only with that for you, but that’s a main activity that crosses both the 3rd and 9th house themes. So anything that you may—you know, these bounce back and forth every six months, so anything that you’ve been focused on for the past year or so with regard to either teaching or learning. It could also be—since it’s happening in the 9th house for you in particular—something having to do with a culmination regarding any sort of travel plans. Anything having to do with big-picture worldviews, religion, philosophy. Astrology itself goes there. Even political views can. So there may have been changes with regard to that area of your life over the past year or so, and this is another new wrinkle in that story.

CB: Yeah. So since this is a lunar eclipse—it’s taking place in the 9th house—it seems to imply almost like a maturation of something that you know and a deepening of your wisdom in terms of your personal philosophy of life or something that you’ve been learning or educating yourself on lately, especially over the past six months. But we’ve also had recently, just before this month—so it still kind of counts because we’re in eclipse season—a solar eclipse in Capricorn, which is sort of like initiating a new phase of activity for six months and building something new with respect to your communication and the way that you communicate that which you know, which is from the 9th house. So we’ve got both 9th house and 3rd house things going on, as you said. But one of the things that’s nice this year is even though we’re, what, a year-and-a-half into the eclipses taking place in Capricorn, and we’re two years into Saturn transiting through that sign—and the sort of restructuring that’s happening as a result of that, that can sometimes be a little bit taxing or a little bit tiring or a little bit burdensome—Jupiter has just ingressed into Capricorn only like a month or two ago. And it’s gonna spend the entirety of 2020 in that sign kind of balancing out some of the more heavy transits that are going on in Capricorn, leading to a little bit more of a sense of optimism and lightness and expansion to balance out the sort of contraction that’s been happening with Saturn for the past two years.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So it does lighten up a bit, potentially. Or at least some opportunity can be added to the effort that you’re already putting in in that area of your life. And I wanna throw in my favorite 3rd house topic of cars, just because everyone I’ve been talking with for the past year or year-and-a-half with Scorpio rising has been replacing their cars, which is a really common but mundane expression of the 3rd house. Kind of how you get around and short-distance travel. How you get around town, basically.

CB: Right.

LS: So if you haven’t replaced your car yet, that might happen.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Let’s see. What else is going on this month? We also have the Uranus station in Taurus. So we’re about a year into Uranus’ full-on transit through Taurus. And it really started, though, almost a couple of years ago now, right?

LS: Mid-May 2018 was the first ingress.

CB: Okay. So this is moving into—or has moved into the 7th house, for those with Scorpio rising, the place of relationships, partnership, marriage, and just other people in general. So Uranus can sometimes bring major changes, sometimes destabilization, or upsets, but also, innovation and like new activities, and sometimes, even excitement when it comes to 7th house affairs.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. Yeah, so Uranus is kind of the planet of the unexpected. And so, sometimes if you have Scorpio rising, this is a seven-year transit. So we’re just a little bit into it. There’s still a bunch of years left. It’s only going to get to about 11°, almost 11° of Taurus this year.

CB: 10°.

LS: 10°41’.

CB: Okay. Almost.

LS: Almost 11.

CB: We’re both right.

LS: Yeah, we’re both right. So anyway, you know, it’s only getting to about a third of the way through Taurus, so we still got a bunch of years through in this transit. So what that often brings is sort of unexpected ups and downs. It can be unexpected change. It can be innovations, like you said. Excitement, those things. With regard to your personal partnership, it’s probably the most, you know, common thing that it hits. But for some people, it can also alternately be like a business partnership. Like you meet someone, you start doing work with, one-on-one, more regularly. I have seen that happen with Uranus transits of the 7th. I’ve also seen something change with regard to if you are in the type of work where you do a lot of one-on-one interactions. That can be anything from customer service to client work. Anyone who sees clients, like doctors or even astrologers—you know, just lots of one-on-one things—that can bring erratic-ness to that area of your life as well.

CB: Okay. So there’s gonna be two really important turning points for that this year. One of them is happening right here in January when Uranus stations direct at 2° of Taurus. So that’s gonna be especially important for those of you that have any planets at 2° of fixed signs, especially 2° of Taurus, but also, to a lesser extent, 2 Scorpio, 2 Leo, or 2 Aquarius. And then there’s gonna be one other Uranus station later in the year at 10° of Taurus, which is gonna be important. Cuz that’s gonna be the first time Uranus makes it that far into this sign. And this is a long-term transit. So it’s gonna be having an impact for some of you that’s gonna be building up for quite a while, if you have things in the later part of the fixed signs. Like the later part of Taurus, for example, or if your ascendant is very late in the sign. But still, for those of you that have things around mid-Taurus or early Taurus, a lot of the major action will start taking place with respect to that transit probably this year.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So we’ll come back to that later when we talk about and identify the month where the second Uranus station happens much later in the year. All right. So I think that’s it for January. Let’s move on to February.

LS: Okay.

CB: All right. So the main thing that happens in February—there’s really just two main things, and weirdly, they both happen the same day. One of them is that the planet Mars leaves Sagittarius and moves out of your 2nd house of finances, where it’s been transiting since the beginning of January, which can sometimes be where you’re expending more energy for financial matters, or other times, there can be conflicts or tensions surrounding financial matters. So it’s departing from that sector of your chart and Mars is moving into Capricorn, where it’s joining all of those other planets in your 3rd house of siblings and education and communication and short-distance travel. Weirdly, right around the same time, Mercury is stationing retrograde in Pisces on the same day, on the 16th of February. So that’s happening in your 5th house of children, creativity, sexuality, and other matters related to that. So there’s a possible like overlap there, just because both of those things are happening on the same day. Although since they’re happening in different parts of your chart, they could also just be happening in parallel.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah. So Mars moving into Capricorn and joining the party in the 3rd house. How do you feel about that?

LS: I feel great about that.

CB: Okay.

LS: Well, it’s just a lot of activity in one area of your life. And, for you, that’s gonna be that 3rd house we were mentioning earlier. You know, so teaching and learning and short-distance travel and siblings. So if you’ve had any issues with siblings or even neighbors—that’s another 3rd house topic—then Mars joining the Capricorn party there could put potential extra stress or attention on that issue for you temporarily. Now Mars is a much quicker transit most of the time than Saturn and Pluto and Jupiter certainly, so this is a short-term additional influence. But given that we’ll have both Mars and Saturn there—and Mars is the more challenging planet if you were born during the day, Saturn is the more challenging one if you were born at night. Either way, no matter when you were born, you’re gonna have one of the challenging planets transiting through that area. So it could indicate increased tensions with regard to either any of those people that land in the 3rd house: relatives, siblings, neighbors, or any of those other concrete topics.

CB: Yeah. For the people with night charts, I would expect this to just be a period where you’re just putting extra energy into some of these topics. And maybe you could like overextend yourself, or it could be kind of a trying time where you could like overexhaust yourself or something due to having greater interactions or having to communicate more or travel more or interact with your siblings more, or go through educational pursuits more, but maybe not necessarily a big deal. For people with day charts, it might be a little bit more tricky, though. Cuz Mars tends to bring out—Mars transits tend to bring out more scenarios pertaining to like separations or strife or just general irritation. So it could be a period in which you feel more irritable and more combative verbally or in which arguments take place. There could be tensions involving your siblings or other extended relatives, like you said. But also, just being careful even for things like short-distance travel and like not putting yourself in a bad situation by like speeding or something when you’re driving. Just because a Mars transit through the 3rd house could be easily something like getting in an accident if you had some sort of predisposition, or if you were being reckless during that time.

LS: Definitely. And don’t flip off other drivers. That’s my big thing about the 3rd house.

CB: Okay. Don’t flip off other drivers?

LS: Yeah. Well, you never know, you know, with road rage these days. So Mars going through the 3rd could be a time when you feel more irritable when you’re like driving around town. But like you could also get into conflict more easily.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. That sounds good. So that transit of Mars at least—it’s beginning on the 16th of February. But that’s gonna be going on for more than a month, until late March. So that’s kind of the timeframe there. The periods in which it might be more important or less important for you are gonna depend on what planets you have natally in either Capricorn or other cardinal signs that it could aspect while it’s transiting through that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: The other thing is the Mercury retrograde, which is starting the same day, on the 16th of February, in their 5th house. One of the things that’s a little tricky about this one—just like the Mercury retrograde in Pisces around this time of the year last year—is that it’s actually closely-conjunct Neptune. So that’s a little bit problematic, cuz it increases the already natural propensity for Mercury retrogrades be about miscommunication or just crossed wires that lead to communication from one party or another not being clear and leading to misunderstandings. So because it’s happening in the 5th house of children, creative expression, and also, sexuality, those are the three primary areas where it could have some relevance for you in your life. If you have children, there could be a misunderstanding with your children, or a misunderstanding surrounding that. What are some other possible scenarios?

LS: I mean, those are the main concrete ones I can think of. You know, there’s some ones that are gonna be one-off for some people, like having a miscommunication while going out and having fun, you know, because the 5th house is things you do for fun.

CB: Yeah. And also like hobbies and stuff. So having like a miscommunication involving a hobby. So this is a three-week period. And one of the things that’s interesting about it actually is that Mercury starts its retrograde in Pisces on the 16th of February, but it actually retrogrades back into Aquarius and moves into your 4th house by the 4th of March, which is the sector of the chart that has to do with the home and the family, the private life, but also, sometime, the parents. So it’s gonna start its retrograde in the 5th house of children, but move back into the 4th house of parents. And so, for some people that might connect those two topics in your life and force you to go back and review or renegotiate or just reassess the relationship between those two areas in some way, so that something that you thought was finished previously has to be looked at again and sort of figured out anew.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: One of the things that’s interesting about that retrograde in early March—when it goes back into Aquarius, into your 4th house—is that it stations direct there on the 9th of March and then begins moving forward again in Aquarius. But this kind of queues up or prepares the way or paves the way for some other major transits in the same house that begin later that month in March, where on the 21st of March, Saturn moves into Aquarius, into your 4th house. And just a week later, Mars actually, also, completes its transit through Capricorn and moves into Aquarius, also into your 4th house, where those two planets, Mars and Saturn, quickly form a conjunction in the first degree of that sign. So that’s a little tricky because it means we’ve got a Mercury retrograde there, first, in the 4th house. So there could be some miscommunication or some things that are up for review surrounding your home and living situation—or, potentially, parents or family or private life—and that has to get worked out during the course of that Mercury retrograde. But then at the end of the month, we have this major shift where both of the more challenging planets move into the same sector of the chart.

LS: Yeah. So it’s almost like the Mercury direct station earlier in March kind of tips off your attention to that area of your life for some reason, but probably not the same reason as later in the month. Because later in the month, when Mars and Saturn go in there, that’s when it’s more like, oh, there’s something that needs attention here for real. Like there’s a problem, or there’s, you know, an issue of some sort with regard to either your family or, you know, where you live, or something about your house needs repair, you know, things like this. But Mars and Saturn both being there I would expect would be more of, oh, a problem has cropped up in your home life.

CB: Yeah. So, for Saturn, this is gonna be a preview of a longer-term transit. Cuz Saturn just kind of dips its toe into that sign for like three months. It moves in here at the end of March. And then what happens is it stations retrograde later on in May, and then retrogrades out of that sign and leaves and goes back into Capricorn in early July. So this is just a preview then, for like a few months, of Saturn moving into your 4th house. Then it’s gonna come back to Capricorn for the entire second half of the year to finish up and sort of sweep up the rest of the dust and debris from that transit. And then at the very end of the year, in December, late December of 2020, Saturn will return back to Aquarius, and it’ll stay in that sign for a couple of years, which is the onset of a much more long-term transit, where it’ll just be moving back and forth in that sector of your chart for quite a while. So that means that starting 21st of March, we’re seeing a preview of a major, long-term transit. So for some people, it’s gonna be more constructive, and it may just have to do with restructuring things in terms of your home, your family life, and your private life in general. So maybe there are some things you’ve let go by, or there are some things that are in disrepair, like you said, that sort of have to be addressed, either very literally—sometimes people have that—or sometimes more metaphorically involving your private life. Sometimes it’s things going on with your parents or even your relationship with your parents and needing to reassess and restructure that. For other people, there might be a long-term series of setbacks or difficulties in this area that—especially this preview period—should trigger or should set off in some significant way, so that you see a series of events that are gonna take a while to clean up over the course of the next two or three years.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And I think that’s especially the case right at the beginning of this transit because of that conjunction of Mars and Saturn, as soon as both of them change signs. So whether you have like a day chart or a night chart, everybody with Scorpio rising is gonna be getting that conjunction right in their 1st house immediately upon both of those planets ingressing. So here’s the conjunction. It happens around March 30-March 31, around 0° of Aquarius. Of course, if you have early degrees of fixed signs that’s gonna be more important for you, like 0° of Aquarius, 0 Taurus, 0 Leo, or 0 Scorpio. But it means whether you have a day chart or a night chart, there’s just the potential for some challenging event or some major obstacle to arise at this point, especially in the first month or so of that transit, while both Saturn and Mars are moving through that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So Saturn moves in on the 21st of March, Mars on the 30th. And then Mars doesn’t depart from that sign until the 13th of May.

LS: Yeah, July 1, I think. Oh, sorry. You said Mars.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Sorry. I meant Saturn.

CB: Okay.

LS: So, yeah. Now if something crops up—which it probably will to some degree for most Scorpio rising people with regard to your home life or something with your parents—you need to attend to it, but I don’t want people to worry too much about this being a preview of this longer transit. Because when you get the longer transit later on, Jupiter’s actually gonna swap out with Mars, and it’s gonna be a bit better. So even if—you know, I don’t wanna scare people. If something kind of rough comes up at this time, it’s not necessarily gonna feel that way the entire time when you have Saturn come back later in the year.

CB: Yeah, that’s a good point. Cuz we didn’t have that with Saturn going into Capricorn at first, where we just had like two years of Saturn grinding through Capricorn and grinding through the 3rd house. And it wasn’t until the last third of that this year that Jupiter showed up and started balancing things out.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Whereas, while we have this three-month period of Saturn initially dipping into Aquarius and then retrograding out, by the time it fully goes into Aquarius in late December, it moves in almost simultaneously with Jupiter for the first of that transit.

LS: Yeah. So we’ll get there at the end of the year, but it won’t be the same exact experience later on.

CB: Good point. All right. So that’s the last major thing that’s happening in March, just the onset of that transit of both Saturn and Mars into Aquarius. Then we move into April. April sees the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto towards the beginning of the month. And one of the things that’s interesting is that now that both Mars and Saturn have departed from Capricorn, that pretty much just leaves Jupiter and Pluto to their own devices in your 3rd house for a few months, basically. So it’s just Jupiter sort of unleashed and able to manifest some of those powers of like growth and expansion and stabilization in your 3rd house. But since it’s also conjoining Pluto at the same time, there might be a tendency a little bit to go a little bit overboard and maybe go too far in trying to expand in the 3rd house, so that trying to caution and trying to have some discipline might still be called for or might still be necessary.

LS: Yeah. Pluto is a long-term transit, like we were talking about earlier. So it’s been sort of gradually transforming something about 3rd house matters for you: the way you communicate, or something about deepening your focus, or deepening your thinking about a certain topic, or things like that. So that’s just continuing, but Jupiter’s kind of like joining Pluto to amp that up, whether that’s still sort of in the destruction phase for you in terms of, you know, wiping out something—your previous thought process or way of communicating or things like that, or even a relationship with a relative or sibling—or whether you are now into the sort of empowerment and building to a higher level than you have been before in any of those areas of your life.

CB: Right.

LS: Cuz that’s what Jupiter and Pluto do together. It’s like an amped-up expansion power.

CB: Sure. Yeah. So that exact conjunction is taking place—I think it’s the first of like two or three, or probably three—

LS: Three.

CB: —conjunctions on the 4th of April. And the only other major thing is that Pluto stations retrograde later in the month, on the 25th, which is just a further intensification and emphasis on the same conjunction, more or less, at that point.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s the only major outer planet thing happening in April. Of course, you know, Saturn and Mars are still working their way through Aquarius and through the 4th house, so that’s still working in the background.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then we move into May. And what happens in May is that Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius on the 11th of May. And there’s an intensification of whatever it’s trying to do and whatever it’s trying to indicate as it transits through your 4th house—this is gonna be one of those pivotal moments. Whether the events are internal or external, you will probably really start to feel what that transit is about and get the clearest idea of what that three-year transit is going to result in in your life during this time. Interestingly, it’s only two days later that Mars exits that sign and moves into Pisces. So it completes that transit through your 4th house around the same time and moves into your 5th house of children, creativity, hobbies and pursuits, as well as sexuality. Simultaneously, we have Venus stationing retrograde in Gemini, which is your 8th house of shared resources, mortality, and other people’s money. And Jupiter, the very next day, on the 14th of May, is stationing retrograde in Capricorn, in your 3rd house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So there’s kind of a lot that all gets packed into that, what is it, the second week of May, basically.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, there’s a lot packed in, but it’s kind of a jumble of like assorted, different things. Different energies, different areas of your life being focused upon. The Venus retrograde happening in your 8th house—you know, any retrograde brings a revisiting of whatever topic it’s happening with. So this may be a revisiting or a restructuring of some sort of financial arrangement you have with a partner. Anything around shared resources that you may have at home. It could also be revisiting things that involve the other financial topics besides income, such as taxes, loans, debts, and so forth. Things with mortgages, all of that. Mortgages may be, you know, true for some people, given the activity in your 4th house of home. Certainly not everyone, but that could be one tie-in between the 4th and 8th, or inheritance. The Venus retrograde, though, this year is happening. It’s stationing retrograde exactly square Neptune. And so, that’s something to watch out for. Because while a retrograde through your 8th house could have you kind of pouring over numbers or, you know, revisiting things that you normally want to be pretty like cut-and-dry and factual, it’s gonna be exactly square Neptune. And that might ‘fuzzify’ things in a way that, you know, you might not understand until after the retrograde.

CB: Right. I think the YouTube captioning is gonna have problems with the word ‘fuzzify’.

LS: I think it’s a fine word.

CB: Okay. We’ll see. That’ll be a good test to see how advanced Google’s algorithm is. Nebulousness.

LS: Yes.

CB: That’s another word I’ve been using over and over again for this Neptune transit through the 5th house. But especially that Venus retrograde square, where Venus stations in your 8th house of shared resources, as we can see there, at about 21° of Gemini. And it’s squaring Neptune at 20° of Pisces in your 5th house of children and sexuality and other things like that. So there could be some crossover between those topics that is unique to this Venus retrograde. Although this Venus retrograde, one of the tricks for any Venus retrograde is to look back in eight-year increments because the last time Venus went retrograde in Gemini was in 2012.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So looking back and seeing if there were any 8th house-type themes that came up in your life involving either mortality or shared resources or other people’s money in general could give you some preview of what this Venus retrograde period in the same house is gonna look like.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Or go back eight years before that, to 2004, and so on and so forth, depending on how old you are.

LS: Right. And, you know, if you do have like children that are old enough to be dealing with financial topics, that could be a tie-in. I mean, any of those 5th house topics could be. But sort of a more, you know, easy logical one is, you know, dealing with like shared resources involving your adult children, or dealing with, you know, writing up wills and, you know, how that affects your kids and things like that. That’s not gonna be true for everyone, of course, but that is one sort of obvious connection for some people with Scorpio rising.

CB: Yeah. And also, like child support could be a manifestation of it—a connection between the 8th house of like your partner’s or former partner’s resources and the 5th house of children.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Venus going retrograde is slowing down and forcing you to pay more attention to that area and maybe even revise something that was established previously, especially like an agreement between two people is a very Venusian-type thing.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So those are some possible manifestations of that.

LS: Mm-hmm. And while you’re revising those things, I would say, you know, just because it’s stationing square Neptune, normally I would say this more about Mercury retrogrades. But since it’s involving like an area of your life you normally wanna be pretty factual about—like, you know, your finances—you probably wanna wait, if you can, if you have the leeway, until after Venus goes direct to kind of complete whatever you’re doing in that financial area. Just to make sure that you have everything straight and that Neptune hasn’t been sort of like, you know, putting wool over your eyes, or even that you just didn’t see something through no fault of anyone’s.

CB: Right. All right. And then we have the Jupiter station. But that’s just an intensification of some of that 3rd house transit that we’ve already talked about in previous months, with respect to communication and siblings, or even travel.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that takes us into June. The Venus retrograde hits its halfway point through the cycle when it conjoins the Sun on the 3rd of June. So it’s halfway over at that point. Although it doesn’t actually station direct and complete the retrograde until the 25th of June, so towards the end of the month. Before we get there, there’s three, actually, important things. One of them is there’s a lunar eclipse, which takes place in Sagittarius, which is your 2nd house of finances and personal possessions and resources. So there’s some sort of culmination of events, or some sort of spotlight that is shed on your 2nd house of financial matters. So this could indicate some sort of culmination of events with respect to finances, where they become more important and more of the focus than they have at other times in your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I think this is the first eclipse in Sagittarius, right?

LS: Yeah, it is. This is kind of nestled into what is otherwise the Cancer/Capricorn series that will finish after this summer. And then the Gemini/Sagittarius polarity of eclipses will start in full at the end of 2020 for about a year-and-a-half. So this is the very first one in that series, so it kind of introduces a theme, even though that definitely also ties into that Venus retrograde in the 8th house of shared resources we were just talking about. There’s a new emphasis on the financial parts of your chart: the 2nd house of your own income and possessions and the 8th house of shared resources.

CB: Right. So this is one of the first previews of a real shift. Cuz the nodes move into Sagittarius and Gemini by this time, or around this time, and it queues up a series of eclipses that will take place six months from now. So this first eclipse in that axis is probably gonna open up a series of events that will grow and develop and mature between now and December. And then it’ll really get going in December, once we have the first full set of eclipses on that 2nd house axis of your finances versus the 8th house placement of other people’s finances.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay. So that’s good. That happens really early in the month, on the 5th. Then a couple of weeks later, we have our second Mercury retrograde of the year. This time Mercury is stationing retrograde in Cancer, in your ninth whole sign house, which is the place of education, philosophy, and travel, as well as like foreign places and foreign people. Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer and retrogrades all the way back to the early part of that sign, before eventually stationing direct three weeks later, like it always does, cuz Mercury retrogrades are always three-weeks-long. And it eventually stations direct in Cancer on the 12th of July.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so, and this will happen also around the eclipse in Cancer, which I think will be the last Cancer eclipse.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: So this is kind of ending a whole series. It’s sort of temporarily putting more attention, very temporarily, on the 9th house of, you know, foreign travel and religion, philosophy, higher education, any of those topics. But this is kind of the last hit before the eclipses move on, certainly. So there may be another culmination here. Sorry—another kind of temporary new start, that’s like a six-month start. But at the same time there’s a revisiting, or there’s, you know, going back over something you already decided—perhaps, in one of those topics, in one of those 9th house topics—because of the retrograde kind of coinciding with the eclipse. But then after this, there’ll be less attention after a while on this area.

CB: Yeah. It seems like a revisiting and sort of rethinking of something in terms of your 9th house and your personal philosophy, but also, during the middle and during the process of that review of what you think and what you believe about the world, laying a new foundation and planting some seeds that will grow and develop over the course of the next six months in that area due to the final eclipse in Cancer, that will then grow and turn into something over the course of the next six months that should be more solid and more permanent as part of your life. But it’s interesting that the initial trigger is a Mercury retrograde. So there’s some sort of theme of having to go back and reassess things in that area of your life first.

LS: Mm-hmm. And that’s not a bad thing to do anyways because this is an area that’s been experiencing eclipses for the past year or so. So, you know, it’s not to think back on like, how has this area been? How has it changed for me over the past year/year-and-a-half in any of those areas? You know, have I experienced other cultures more, even if I haven’t traveled myself? Have I traveled more than usual, and that was like an expanding experience for me? Have I gone back to school, or even just taken a shorter course of study? Things like that. So it’s good to think back to that. And then, yeah, you’ll have one last little activation of that with the eclipse before we move on.

CB: Yeah. And one of the things about Mercury retrograde is sometimes they can be kind of frustrating, or it can force you to redo something or revisit something, which can be annoying frankly. But sometimes the process of doing that—even if you have to redo something that you thought that you had finished—can be constructive. And the second time you do it—because you’ve already done it once—you do it better the second time than you did in the initial first pass.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So just keep that in mind if you go through a frustrating period during this time, because it may end up helping you in the long term in a way that’s not immediately evident. Cuz that’s a very common theme with solar eclipses—starting something that begins very subtly, but then grows and develops and turns into something much larger and much more significant in the long term than you ever imagined that it would in the initial moments.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So we’ve got that. We’ve got the Neptune station. It’s not really a big deal. The last major transit that’s happening at the end of June is we have Mars ingressing into Aries. And normally, this would just be a quick little jaunt of Mars through its home sign. But this one—this ingress is much more important than normal because Mars is getting ready to station retrograde. And it’ll move into Aries, and it’ll be moving through that sign normally. But then what’ll happen is it will slow down over the course of the next few months, until it eventually stations retrograde at the very end of Aries, and then begins moving backwards for several weeks, before eventually stationing direct. And the end result of all of this is that Mars, from this point forward—as soon as it moves into Aries on the 27th of June—will then spend the entire rest of 2020 in the same sign of the zodiac, which is Aries, and going through or transiting through the same house in your chart, which is the 6th house. So the 6th house, traditionally, has to do with things like work and health as the two primary things. It can sometimes be a challenging house that pertains to things like illness or accidents or injuries. But it doesn’t necessarily always have to be worst-cast scenario-type things. But other times it can just be putting greater emphasis and greater energy towards either your work or towards your health in order to maintain some like overall daily balance.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so Mars is gonna be there for a good six months, instead of six weeks, so there’s gonna be just a lot more attention paid to 6th house matters. So whether you’re working on like finding a job or doing something at your workplace that requires more energy than usual. Maybe you’re having to work longer hours than you normally do. Whether you either work for yourself or an external job, that’s pretty common when Mars is going through the 6th house. You do wanna watch out for, you know, being more careful in terms of not injuring yourself or things like, or there may be some sort of health matter you need to attend to. This is a more important transit for both Aries rising and Scorpio rising people because Mars rules your ascendant. So, you know, it’s a more important transiting planet for you already. And then when it retrogrades, it’s gonna be, for both of those rising signs, retrograding back through a, potentially, health-related house. Although health won’t be the major topic for everyone with Scorpio rising, but it could be. And I would say with Mars, you know, it’s not retrograde yet, so you wanna, you know, just kind of get ready for it, but it’s not actually retrograde until September. But you wanna pace yourself because Mars going through your 6th house is gonna make you feel like you need to do all the things. The 6th house is like what you need to do during a day, whether that’s, you know, work at home or work at a job or whatever. And so, it’s gonna just have more on your plate, but eventually less energy to deal with it. So you wanna pace yourself and not act like you need to do it all in one day, cuz it’s gonna be a six-month transit.

CB: Yeah. This is gonna be not a sprint, but more of a marathon getting through a six-month transit of Mars. And being able to have some level of like endurance is gonna be necessary to cultivate, even though that may be like the last thing that you initially wanted to do. You wanna just get it done and sprint to the end of the finish line. But the problem with the Mars retrograde is there’s gonna be some potentially unexpected detours along the way that’s gonna force you in a much more circuitous route than you might want to initially or think is appropriate.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So, yeah, once that enters, sort of be mindful of the work on your plate. But also, try to take action, not just to get the stuff done, but to do it smartly so that you’re not wearing yourself out too quickly.

CB: Sure. So one of the potential health issues is just overextending yourself and getting fatigued and expending all of one’s energy during the course of this long transit.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay. All right. Other potential issues are just like irritability in the workplace, getting into conflicts in the workplace, or, potentially, if you’re the owner of a business, with people that you’re in charge of, people that are your subordinates or your employees, cuz the 6th house also represents employees or subordinates. Pets. 6th house is also pets.

LS: It is.

CB: Somebody in a previous one—

LS: Yeah, I forget sometimes to mention that one. Yeah.

CB: Somebody was having like a Saturn transit. I forget what rising sign it was. But they were talking about a Saturn transit through their 6th and having issues with pets over the past couple of years.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, I mean, it sounds almost silly, but, I mean, it works. So like your pet could be more irritable, or they could have health issues. Like you could need to take your pet to the vet during this transit.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: A pet having like a bad hair day for six months.

LS: Well, no. I’m thinking if you have a day chart, like it could actually be more like impactful.

CB: Yeah. One of the things that’s—I don’t wanna get too ahead of us. But one of the things that’s gonna be important about this transit is it’s gonna be squaring the 3rd house Capricorn planets. And there’s gonna be few really important turning points, especially around the time when Mars stations retrograde, where it’s gonna be squaring Saturn and maybe creating some connection between the 3rd house and the 6th house.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So we’ll put that off for a month before getting there.

LS: Okay.

CB: All right. We are now at the halfway point. We made it halfway through the year.

LS: Perfect.

CB: We’re gonna keep going here. We’ve got a lot of good comments coming through in the live chat. So thanks everybody. I appreciate y’all for joining us today. I guess there’s, what, 80 people in the live chat.

LS: Nice.

CB: So thanks for joining us. Everybody, if you’re enjoying this, please give us a thumbs up on this video to help other people see it. And let’s jump into the second half of 2020.

LS: Okay.

CB: All right. So, July.

LS: Yeah. So we start July right off on July 1, Saturn retrograding back into Capricorn, into your 3rd house of siblings and short-distance travel and communications. So there may be a feeling “We’re kind of done with that area,” especially after Mars and then Saturn both left that to go into your 4th house of home and family. But now there’s a sense of, “Oh, I actually wasn’t done with that. I need to finish that up.” And Saturn will be back into Capricorn, into your 3rd house, for the rest of the year, until partway through December.

CB: Yeah. So good news is that there’s a temporary alleviation of the 4th house transit with respect to your home and living situation and parents. That kind of goes away suddenly, somewhat suddenly, for a little while when Saturn leaves that sign and moves back into Capricorn. Somewhat not-so-good news is that Saturn is back to the final, final phases of whatever that transit has been about for you, for the past two-and-a-half years now, of Saturn going through Capricorn and going through your 3rd house of siblings and communication and short-distance travel and other matters like that. So the final phases of thinking you were kind of done with something—it’s been like a breath of fresh air in that house for the past three months up to this point because Saturn and Mars got out of there and just left Jupiter there all on its own.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So there’s been a greater sense of like optimism and expansion. But then, suddenly, Saturn comes back into this house for one final pass. And for a lot of you, if you have planets in the earlier degrees of Capricorn or other cardinal signs, the most intense phase of this transit is probably over. So most of you don’t have to worry about it too much. But if you have things in late cardinal signs—like late Capricorn—then some of that intensity could come back for one final pass.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. But this isn’t a new area, this is basically just finishing it up. So, you know, also, even if you do feel like a renewed heaviness, or a renewed like, “Oh, I have to pay attention to this again,” don’t worry at this point. That is what I like to point out about the timing of transits. Don’t worry because this is the end. This is just basically till mid-December, and then you’re done.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Yeah, so it’s the last five or six months of this. And sometimes that’s really just taking a broom and like cleaning up the pieces of whatever you’ve already been addressing in this house for the past two-and-a-half years now.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it can be just that finishing up. You know, for some people, you know, maybe you’ve been doing more prep work this whole time, and then it’s finally pulling the trigger on like whatever projects you’re doing in that area, or something like that.

CB: Right.

LS: But either way, this is not anything new you’re grappling with, and you’re almost done.

CB: Okay. So it’s not just Saturn returning to that sign, but we also have a lunation there.

LS: Yeah, I think that’s the last Capricorn eclipse, right?

CB: Yeah. Let me just pull that up really quickly to make sure. We were having debates about some of these eclipses because they’re like kind of far from the nodes.

LS: Right.

CB: But I think they’re close enough to count.

LS: Yeah. The summer of 2020, because of the nodes changing signs, all of the eclipses get kind of wide away from the nodes. And so, yeah, we were kind of debating all of this, each one. But I think that one counts. It’s just wide.

CB: Yeah, so here it is. So it’s a lunar eclipse that takes place in the sign of Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So that’s just reemphasizing some of the Capricorn stuff, weirdly. And since it’s a lunar eclipse—or a Full Moon—it’s representing a culmination or a maturation of the sequence of events and things that have been initiated in that sign over the course of the past year-and-a-half that the eclipses have been taking place there, but even more broadly, the past two-and-a-half years that Saturn’s been transiting through that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s really just reemphasizing some of the notions we were already talking about, of Saturn returning to that sign, making the final pass, and maybe the final push or culmination after a long series of building up things in that area of your life over the past couple of years.

LS: Yeah. So, basically, just echoing all the same things we were saying about the last bit of Saturn’s transit. This is the last Capricorn eclipse of that whole series and then we’re gonna switch entirely to Sagittarius and Gemini at the end of the year. So, basically, even if there is more activation in this area, it’s kind of one last bit. It’s not gonna keep being activated over and over after this point.

CB: Yeah. And one of the things is probably just reaching a new level of being able to communicate that which you know because of the bouncing back and forth between eclipses in the 9th house of wisdom and knowledge versus the 3rd house of how you communicate it. And since this is the final in the entire series, there’s probably some new level that you’ve reached at this point in terms of communicating things, that you’ll start to see the results of. And you’ll start to realize how far you’ve come in terms of that over the past couple of years, over the course of the six months after this eclipse, since that’s the effect or the time window that eclipses usually have.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that happens right at the beginning of the month, but is basically in effect for the rest of the month. And those are the two major things that are happening in July.

LS: Yeah.

CB: The two main signatures for July. Once we get to August, there’s not a lot, even though it looks like there’s a lot. This is mainly inner planet transits that we don’t really have to address here. The only major long-term, outer planet transit is that Uranus stations retrograde at 10° of Taurus on the 15th of August. So this is the furthest that Uranus has actually gotten into Taurus since it moved into that sign over the course of the past couple of years. So it’s pretty notable, especially if you have any planets around 10° of the fixed signs, especially 10° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this reactivates all the same things we were talking about back in January. This is the second-out-of-the-two stations that Uranus will make this year. So it gets the farthest, as you just said, in terms of degree through the sign. It also stations retrograde to go back over the degrees it’s already covered since January. So if you have any planets in-between 2.5° and like 10.5°, then it’ll start going back towards those again after mid-August. But, basically, we’re focusing on the station here for mid-August because that imprints, you know, a good, I would say, few, maybe couple of weeks with that kind of energy.

CB: Yeah. There’s probably an orb of a couple of weeks at least.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Basically, once it slows down and is stationary, it’s basically in that degree for that long. At least a couple of weeks.

LS: Yeah. Yeah.

CB: And it’s certainly within a degree of that for a couple of weeks.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so this intensifies, again, potential manifestations regarding unexpectedness, change, innovation, and so forth, with regard to your partnership or major one-on-one interactions.

CB: Right. Sometimes just uniqueness or like weirdness.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Like the importing of weirdness into your life, either in the sphere of partnership or through whoever you’re partnered up with at that time.

LS: Mm-hmm. That’s true. People often talk about transits through their 7th house and meeting people with those kinds of signatures.

CB: Yeah, that either have a Uranian signature in their own birth chart, or who maybe have that going on in their own chart in some way, so that there’s something Uranian going on in this other person’s life, who comes into your life or in your partner’s life at that time. And somehow they are the one that brings in this element of, in some instances, like instability or chaos, or in other instances, like excitement and unpredictability in a positive way.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it can be unexpectedness and instability sometimes. You know, like your partner’s acting more erratic than usual, or there’s major ups and downs compared to before the transit started. I have talked with some Scorpio rising clients who said the transit already started out for them with their partner kind of like coming out of left field, going, “I’m not happy with this,” or, you know, “I wanna do this.” Or maybe your partner wants to change their life in some respect and that affects yours. But, you know, some people have already been kind of working that out and saying, “I was kind of surprised at first, but now things are even better.” So it can go that way, too. It’s not always –you know, people get nervous sometimes when you talk about Uranus transits in the partnership house. But it’s not always like your partner’s gonna suddenly up and leave you or something like that. It can be good surprises as well.

CB: Right. Definitely. Yeah, it’ll depend on how your birth chart’s set up and like what degrees—especially around 10° of the fixed signs, if any.

LS: Yeah.

CB: This is a long-term, almost decade-long transit that’s gonna be going on through 2025, I think. That’s when Uranus finally moves into Gemini.

LS: Something like that, yeah.

CB: Somewhere around the middle part of the decade. So there’s still a long way to go. And for some of you, especially if your ascendant is until the later degrees of Scorpio, this may not be something that reaches the most critical or pivotal culminating point until later on, during the course of that transit. It’s more people that have their ascendant in like the first decan of Scorpio—the 1st through the 10th degree—that are gonna get hit by it more this year, or where it’s gonna be more prominent.

LS: Yeah, ‘hit’ by it isn’t really like a great way to talk about this.

CB: Smacked by Uranus. The light brush.

LS: It’s going to be gently awakened.

CB: Gently caressed by Uranus.

LS: Something like that.

CB: I don’t think that’s what Uranus does.

LS: No, it doesn’t.

CB: Okay.

LS: No, it’s more like shocking, unexpected things. And that really can be value-neutral, depending on the specifics and like how that plays out for you, depending on your own birth chart.

CB: Right. All right. So that’s really the main thing in August. And that’s really right in the middle of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I mean, we, of course, have the backdrop of some of the other long-term transits. It’s not that those other transits aren’t in effect, it’s just that we may not necessarily be in the most critical turning point of some of them until we move to the following month.

LS: Right. Foreshadowing here.

CB: And then we are.

LS: Right.

CB: So on the 9th of September, one of the more notable transits of the year happens. And this is Mars slows down and it stations retrograde at 28° of Aries, in the 6th house for those with Scorpio rising.

LS: Yeah. So this is where some of those factors come into play that we were starting to talk about with the beginning of the transit at the end of June, once it entered Aries, and entered your 6th house. So it’s been slowing down, really, since then. It’s just been kind of like proceeding, but going slower and slower and slower until it finally stations September 9 to go retrograde. And so, this is one of the major turning points if you’re gonna have major things with regard to either your work, your workflow, what’s on your work/plate, or your health, or even just health routines—that you need to kind of re-figure. This is one of the two turning points around that process. You know, when Mars is actually retrograde—when it stations to go retrograde—is typically the more frustrating part. Cuz this is where if there’s something that’s gonna crop up to frustrate whatever efforts you’re trying to move forward with in this area of your life, it will cause you to have to either go back over what you were just doing for the past couple of months or retool something, that this is when it will happen.

CB: Yeah. And that’s kind of emphasizing those notions of Mars slowing down and stationing retrograde and getting diverted and like wanting to move forward. Of any of the planets, like Mars is the one that wants to press forward the most.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And instead, it’s sort of frustrated by having to do a U-turn and go back and deal with something it had been through previously. Which, astronomically, it’s literally retracing its steps and going backwards in the zodiac, instead of forwards, but, symbolically, sometimes means slowing down and sticking with something, or returning back to something that it had attempted to finish previously, or thought it had finished.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s kind of exacerbated in this instance because Mars is stationing at 28° of Aries. And that’s actually pretty closely—within about 3°—square of Saturn, at 25° of Capricorn in your 3rd house. So that really just reemphasizes some of the frustrating, constraining-type significations in terms of what’s going on with Mars at this time, especially for people with placements in the later degrees of cardinal signs, like 25°, 26°, 27°, 28°, 29° of, let’s say, Aries or Capricorn, especially.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: There’s a lot of tension there and sort of like frustration between the 6th house of work and health and the 3rd house of communication, siblings, and like movement or travel.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so one way or another those two will kind of be at odds. Those two areas of your life will be temporarily at odds. And it’s not to say that that has to be a forever thing. Yeah, temporarily, you’ll probably find that something about retracing your steps in the 6th house of work and health is somehow running into your long-term efforts in that 3rd house. And this will probably be a more frustrating feeling because they’re both almost all the way through their signs when they retrograde. So Mars just had 2° left before it was finished entirely with your 6th house. And, similarly, Saturn, you know, most of the way through Capricorn, and even having already gotten through all the degrees of Capricorn and the retrograded back. So, you know, I would say, yeah, I mean, I think we’re in agreement that frustration is a really good keyword for this time period.

CB: Yeah. So I’m thinking—I’m trying to think of some possible combinations of manifestations, if it was a direct connection between the 6th and the 3rd house, instead of just something that’s happening in parallel.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But if it was a direct connection, it could be something like feeling frustrated about communication issues in the workplace.

LS: For sure.

CB: Communication being a 3rd house thing, and the workplace being a 6th house thing.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Also, there could be like problems in terms of movement, or in terms of transportation. Like having a Mars square Saturn between the 3rd house of short-distance travel, which indicates things like cars, and the 6th house, which can be the house of accidents. So being careful around this time, especially, and not to do anything impulsively, like, you know, pull out in front of traffic or something potentially dangerous like that.

LS: Definitely. I was thinking also of things like, you know, some sort of frustration with your ability to have transportation to work and that causing problems in the workplace. You know, that’s a pretty common thing.

CB: Right. Like your car breaks down and you have to start taking the bus, but then it makes you late to work and creates tensions in the workplace or something like that.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Or, vice versa.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah, so those are different possible manifestations. Because like with all of these placements, we’re dealing with broad archetypes that could manifest in a number of different—in many different ways in terms of the specifics, and in terms of the specific birth charts and the context the individual lives involved. But here, we’re trying to dissect and get as close as we can to the individual manifestations by figuring out what the core, underlying archetype is.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so it won’t be those specific ones we just mentioned for everyone. It may be for some people. But there’ll be other aspects of the 3rd and the 6th house that come out for the rest of the Scorpio risings.

CB: Sure. So one of the things I like that’s happening around this time—that I think is helpful—is that Jupiter stations direct in Capricorn, in early Capricorn, just a few days later. And I think that’s gonna help balance some things out in terms of the 3rd house and in terms of the potential scenarios of like, worst-case scenario versus less-worst-case scenario. Jupiter—at least if there’s problems—seems to have an antidote or a way to rectify some of the problems to some extent.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And I think that’s part of what it’s doing by stationing direct there, just a couple of days—or a few days after Mars stations retrograde.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So while there might be an introduction of a problem, there may also, shortly after that, be the introduction of possible solutions at the same time.

LS: Definitely. Yeah, I could see that being something like, so your car breaks down. So you have all those tensions with getting to work late, cuz you’re taking the bus now. But then you talk to someone, maybe your sibling perhaps, since it’s in the 3rd house.

CB: A neighbor or extended relative.

LS: Uh-huh. And they’re like, “Oh, I have a car that I’m gonna sell, but it’ll be ready in like a month,” or two months or something like that. So it’s like you have the hope introduced, but the problem isn’t fully fixed yet.

CB: Right. So that happens, the Jupiter station direct in Capricorn. And then later in the month, Saturn stations direct in Capricorn for the final time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And this is the final, pivotal turning point for Saturn’s entire, three-year-long—I guess it’s up to two-and-a-half-year-long transit through Capricorn at this point. From this point forward, it’s gonna turn around and slowly start moving forward, beginning the final march towards the end of Capricorn and its entry into Aquarius in December.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is truly the last leg of the journey. I’m trying to think of a famous journey. This is like how Frodo in The Lord of the Rings has reached like Mount Doom and is ready to throw the ring into the volcano to destroy it. You’re a big Lord of the Rings fan?

LS: That’s not my reference point.

CB: Okay.

LS: But I always want to say, similarly, perhaps that every time we talk about this final Saturn station in Capricorn, I always want us to play “The Final Countdown” song, which is like a cheesy ‘80s song.

CB: Okay.

LS: Like an ‘80s rock song.

CB: I mean, you could sing it.

LS: I’m not good.

CB: Okay, just to refresh us.

LS: But that’s what it always makes me think of every time we talk about this. Cuz this truly is like the final pivot point. The final, major emphasis on this area in a Saturnian kind of way before it’s done.

CB: Right. So wrapping up and cleaning up some things with respect to 3rd house topics of like siblings, of travel, communication. Maybe even education to some extent. Or things surrounding like neighbors, your neighborhood, and other things in terms of a restructuring of that area of your life, and hopefully, by the end of it, putting more firm foundations in that area that are a little bit more solid compared to when you first went into it.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. And if it’s been a rough road, you know, you can have hope that this is really the last kind of stationing emphasis, since stations always do emphasize whatever the planetary energy is. This is more of the like, “This is a heavy area of my chart lately.” This is the last emphasis like that, you know, before it leaves in December.

CB: Yeah. So this is the final exclamation mark behind that transit and then it’s on its way out after this point.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So this is taking us into the last phase of what, quarter three?

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. Or, no.

LS: Wait, no.

CB: Quarter four.

LS: This is quarter four. We’re actually in quarter four.

CB: It’s late.

LS: Yeah. We’re a little tired.

CB: Division capabilities are running a little low.

LS: Yeah.

CB: We’re in the last phase of the year, and we’re finally into quarter four, starting with October.

LS: Yes. The final countdown, as it were.

CB: Okay. Which we’re not gonna sing. So, October. One of the big things for me is that right in the middle of the month, we get the beginning of our third-and-final Mercury retrograde of the year, which begins in Scorpio on the 13th of October. One of the things that is notable about this—aside from the fact that it stations retrograde in Scorpio, which is the rising sign or the 1st house for those with Scorpio rising, the first whole sign house—is that it actually stations pretty closely opposite to Uranus. So I believe Mercury stations around 11° of Scorpio, and it’s opposite to Uranus, around 9° of Taurus. Let me put that up really quickly. So there we see Mercury moving into Scorpio, then it slows down and stations retrograde at 11 Scorpio, while Uranus is at 9° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that is pretty close. And while I normally don’t focus a lot on Mercury retrogrades when we’re looking at like a year-long period of time, that is, like you said, kind of more notable because it is in the 1st house for Scorpio rising. And so, you know, given that it’s stationing retrograde closely opposite the Uranus transit in your 7th house of partnership, it’s almost something like a feeling of you’re sort of revisioning who you are as an individual, and how that lines up or doesn’t line up well with changing things with regard to your partnership, if you are in a partnership.

CB: Yeah. And also, potentially, something about Mercury stationing in the 1st, or even transiting the 1st, but especially stationing there—I think about finding one’s voice and the process of finding one’s voice and sometimes that being a process where you have to go back and rethink like who you are and how you communicate with the world in general, but this either prompting or being prompted by some of the disruptions that are happening in the 7th house sphere of relationships coming from Uranus. Or even, perhaps, in the process of sort of like finding your voice and rethinking who you are, that is in and of itself something that creates some tensions or some of the instability indicated by Uranus going through the 7th house.

LS: Definitely. And oppositions are in natural tension. It doesn’t have to be like the end of the world, but it is a natural tension. Because you’re trying to work out like, you know, “Who am I? What do I stand for?” even in kind of like a smaller, revisiting way that’s just like a three-week period, and this longer, you know, transit of change and partnership.

CB: Yeah. So Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio, but by the end of the month, it actually retrogrades back into Libra, into your 12th house. And then, eventually, it will station direct in the very beginning of November, on the 3rd of November, in the later degrees of Libra.

LS: Yeah. It stations direct around 27, I think, of that square, transiting Saturn at that time, in your 3rd house. So there’s something about that. You know, again, it’s hard for me to speculate on Mercury retrogrades for everyone, you know, even if it’s the same rising sign. But whatever it is, something about your revisiting—something about the way you communicate, or something like that—is running into something similar. You know, Mercury isn’t the same as the 3rd house, but they do have one overlapping theme, which is communication. So, you know, that could be an extra emphasis, you know, when it’s stationing direct, on that issue in your life of how you communicate with other people, because they’re both kind of indicating things about that.

CB: Yeah. And it’s interesting that it catches the very tail-end of the Saturn transit, as you said, because Mercury stations direct at 25 Libra, squaring Saturn at 26 Capricorn. But it’s taking place in the 12th house, which is kind of a tricky house. Cuz the 12th can have to do with things like enemies or people who you don’t get along with very well in your life. It can also pertain to self-undoing or ways in which we undermine ourselves. So there could be some challenging themes here where there’s kind of a balance. Because it’s connecting the 1st house transit and the 12th house transit with finding one’s voice at the beginning of it, and revising the way that one communications, but also, being careful that one doesn’t somehow undermine themselves or somehow create enemies as a result of communication, with Mercury stationing direct in the 12th house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Although sometimes there’s not a lot you can do about that. Sometimes just by speaking your mind and communicating the way that you naturally communicate—sometimes it will just naturally rub some people the wrong way. And that could be part of the issue with a little transit like that, stationing in the 12th house square Saturn. There may not necessarily be something you can do to fix that.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. And for some people, it may be, you know, some sort of blind spot, you know, that they’re speaking out of at that time, or involving enemies. But for other people, you know, given that most of the Mercury retrograde is in the 1st house of self, I almost wonder if that just dipping back a little into the 12th house, and then stationing direct there, might be, for some Scorpio rising people—you know, the 12th house can also be like things you weren’t aware of, your own subconscious motivations, things like that. Things that are skewing your perspective unnecessarily. And so, certainly, there’s many other 12th house topics, too, but that’s one of them. And so, you know, it might be something like you suddenly become aware of, you know, something that was skewing the way you were presenting yourself or what you were thinking about, you know, and kind of presenting yourself as an individual, or how you were communicating with other people.

CB: Yeah. I mean, Mercury retrogrades and 12th house transits are also very internal and very reflective. And with it squaring Saturn, it’s almost like reflecting on some of the challenges that have happened over the past two or three years, at the very tail-end of that Saturn transit through the 3rd house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So maybe it has to do with like communicating some of the difficulties one has gone through or processing and reflecting on them as Mercury is going retrograde and stationing direct in the 12th house, and kind of channeling and reflecting on that Saturn square, while we’re basically in the very tail-end, last month of it.

LS: Mm-hmm. That could be.

CB: Okay. All right. So that is one of the signatures that’s happening, starting on the 13th of November, and then ending in early December, with the Mercury retrograde. It reaches its halfway point when Mercury conjoins the Sun on the 25th of October, since that’s the Sun-Mercury cazimi. So whatever the issue is, that’s initially set up at the beginning of the retrograde starts to find some resolution, and you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel by that point. Not a lot of other major stuff happening in October, so we skip forward to November. Here, the major, major thing that happens is that Mars, finally, after several weeks of being retrograde in Aries—it finally stations direct on the 13th of November in Aries, at about 15° of Aries, I believe.

LS: Yeah, it is.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah. So this is the turning point, the major turning point, I would say. You know, we had Mars station retrograde September 9, and that kind of started that whole revisiting process of whatever was going on with regard to health or health routines or work, or things with coworkers. And, you know, that was probably a frustrating couple of months, but now it’s finally turning around. And so, this is the other major turning point within that cycle. There was one in between, in mid-October, the Sun-Mars opposition. But here, Mars is finally going direct, and you can finally start straightening out, not quite moving forward quickly yet, because it’s gonna take a little bit of time to pick up speed. It won’t go fast, you know, quickly. But, you know, you’re finally on the right path. You’re turning around, you’re going direct again, and you’re going to figure out and iron out anything that you, you know, had to go back over, over the last couple of months in that area.

CB: Yeah. And from this point forward, while some of the irritation or the frustration may still be present, it’s starting to look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. And there will start to be, from this point forward, sort of a receding or a recession of some of that irritation as Mars just starts sort of casually coasting out of that sign, instead of this long grind that it’s been going through for several weeks up to that point, starting especially when it first stationed retrograde in September.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so it may take some time, whatever the specifics are that you need to iron out, you know, either because the logistics of it actually take time, or other people you’re dealing with, with regard to that, you know, on their end are gonna take time. Because this is square Saturn until they leave the signs. But, you know, you’re moving forward. You’re finally moving forward. So this is a good turning point in mid-November.

CB: Okay. I’m just glancing at the live chat, and we’ve got a celebrity astrologer who’s joined us in the live chat. So Curtis Manwaring of Zodiasoft Technology, he shares an anecdote. He says: “Back in the mid-‘90s, I had a client who had an auto accident on the way to seeing me. Mars, transiting the 6th house, was exactly square a natal Saturn in the 3rd.” Some transits, he’s saying, are experienced vicariously. So that’s an interesting manifestation.

LS: That is very interesting.

CB: Right. Having the transit manifest in the life of somebody around you sometimes happens with the houses. Especially when you involve like profections and stuff, which can shift the house significations and what they’re manifesting relative to.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: Yeah. Cool. Thanks for sharing that. If anybody else has any anecdotes about transits that they’ve had, or especially some of the ones we were talking about with like Saturn transiting through the 3rd over the past couple of years, or any of those eclipses, or anything like that, please let us know in the chat. I appreciate it.

LS: And with this Mars transit going direct, too, if any of you had that other manifestation of just kind of like losing energy for the last couple of months—since Mars is so central to Scorpio rising, it being your ascendant and 6th house ruler—it’ll probably start to come back at this point. Slowly, but it will still come back.

CB: Right.

LS: And I know that, you know, I’ve seen that happen with some people before. Like they just become more exhausted during this transit. But then once it goes direct, things start getting better.

CB: Right. Sort of like a return of vitality at that point.

LS: Mm-hmm. Exactly.

CB: All right. So that’s the main thing that’s happening in November. The only other major thing I wanted to mention is there is an eclipse. So at the very end of November, on November 30, we enter, abruptly, back into eclipse season, starting with a lunar eclipse, which happens in Gemini, in your 8th house of shared resources and mortality.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is shining a spotlight on that area of your life and indicating a sort of culmination of events, or an emphasis on that area. It’s probably not something new. But instead, something that was initiated six months earlier sort of comes to a culmination or comes to fruition at this point in that area of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And this is also going to indicate an area of change for you over the next year or so, because this is starting the eclipse season in full in terms of both of your financial houses. So the eclipses are gonna be in your 8th house of shared finances here, and then they also happen in the opposing sign, Sagittarius, your 2nd house of your own income and possessions.

CB: Yeah. And that eclipse—that solar eclipse is just two weeks later, on the 14th of December.

LS: Exactly.

CB: So that’s a good point that we’re opening up a window, or some would say, a portal.

LS: Some would.

CB: Some would say a portal in the 8th house/2nd house financial axis.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. Some astrologers are not onboard with this terminology of eclipses being portals.

LS: Some might say that. Some might not.

CB: Okay.

LS: Anyway. But, yes, this is gonna be an area of greater change over the next year or so for you, in your financial areas. You know, potentially, they go back and forth. So while the Gemini one at the end of November will technically be more focused on the shared resources or other people’s money—you know, it can be like wills, assets, you know, inheritance, different things like that, or things like mortgages or, you know, taxes—obviously, all of the financial topics kind of influence each other. And so, while this first one is happening in that shared resources area, that may then bounce back and affect something about your own finances, and vice versa.

CB: Right. So my keyword for eclipses is that they’re a time of great beginnings and great endings. So you’re gonna be seeing some great beginnings and some great endings in this area over the course of the next year or so, as the eclipses bounce back and forth in these six-month increments.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is one of those time periods where you’re gonna see some endings taking place in the 8th house of like shared resources, other people’s money. Or even issues surrounding mortality are sometimes things that come up when the 8th house gets activated, especially by eclipses, which can involve different things. Sometimes it can be constructive, like deciding it’s time to like write a will, or realizing you’ve never done that or something like that. Other times it can be, you know, important instances or actual exposure to issues surrounding mortality, more seriously.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure.

CB: But yeah, ideas of great beginnings and great endings is the main keyword that really, I think, comes up at this point with eclipse season.

LS: For sure. And especially if you’re partnered, you can kind of easily see how these two houses affect each other, particularly, with the Uranus transit going through the 7th. So an example might be, for instance, someone’s partner suddenly gets like a way better job, and therefore, your partner’s income rises. Well, that was a change for your partner. Then it changes your shared resources, and maybe that affects then how many hours you need to work at your job, which is your 2nd house of income, and vice versa. Maybe you get a new job, and it’s fabulous, and then that changes something about what you and your partner are able to do financially together in terms of your shared resources. So, easily, if you are partnered, personally, it can affect, you know, those things.

CB: Yeah. And I think it also might be connected with the very last major set of transits that come up this year in mid-to-late-December, which is the great shift of the two major—the two largest planets in our solar system, which are Saturn and Jupiter.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is the last major thing we have to talk about in this forecast—and it’s actually, potentially, the biggest transit and the one that all the astrologers are talking about for 2020—which is that on the 17th of December, Saturn completes its almost exactly three-year transit through Capricorn at this point, and it moves into Aquarius, where it’s gonna stay for the next couple of years. And then just two days later, Jupiter does the same thing, and it ingresses into Aquarius, completing its one-year transit through Capricorn and your 3rd house. And it moves into Aquarius for the next 12 months or so, which is your 4th house of the home and family and living situation and parents and private life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this bringing a tremendous amount of activity and focus on the 4th house for, at the very least, the next year, as Jupiter and Saturn are transiting through that sign. And in the long term, Jupiter will leave after a year and go into Pisces, and Saturn will stay, moving through Aquarius for the next couple of years.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And those two form, actually, a conjunction very soon after—which only happens once every 20 years—very shortly after they move into Aquarius.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so there’s gonna be a lot of focus on your 4th house of home, family, parents, that sort of thing. Now for some people that’s gonna be your actual, you know, dwelling that you live in. Your house, your apartment, whatever. You know, that could potentially tie in those, you know, shared resource topics. Say, you’re buying a house for the first time or something like that. You know, an eclipse in your shared resource area—you know, which is the same house that governs like mortgages, you know, loans and that sort of thing—you know, a lot more serious, responsible focus on the 4th house of home would make a lot of sense. Of course, that’s only gonna be true for some people, but that’s one specific possibility. Other things, you know, having to pay more attention to something with regard to your parents can be true if you’re older, in particular, and your parents are older, so that could be something as well. Now as we said earlier, in the spring, the spring of 2020, there was a Mars and Saturn ingress into the 4th. So that earlier ingress might have indicated something more of like a problem in your home and living situation, or something with your family. But this—while it’s still gonna be Saturn coming back and forcing you to sort of take more responsible effort and attention to this area of your life, Jupiter’s ingressing with it, which is a much different picture than Mars and Saturn. So this is more potential for opportunities or good things to come with this transit, even if you also need to kind of focus in a more serious fashion there.

CB: Yeah. There’s definitely more of a sense of optimism and growth. Especially because earlier in the year—especially for the people with day charts—earlier in the year, that ingress of Mars simultaneously with Saturn was just kind of tense and kind of tumultuous for everybody. But, certainly, especially for the people with day charts—and to a lesser extent, the people with night charts—having Saturn and Jupiter move in at the same time does bring a bit of balance in terms of there being equal themes of both moving forward and like positive expansion, as well as some of the themes of contraction and sort of like trying to double-down and achieve stability.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: So some themes of like gain, as well as themes of loss, but there being more parity between them. There’s both, potentially, some positive things and perhaps some challenging things happening, but it’s a little bit more manageable than it could be otherwise.

LS: Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. And it will be more noticeable as a positive opportunity for those born during the day, that have Scorpio rising. But, you know, it’ll still be a better situation than Mars and Saturn in there for everyone.

CB: Yeah, definitely. Than just like Saturn moving through on its own, if it was a night chart, without Jupiter.

LS: Right. Exactly. And even though Jupiter doesn’t usually bring as big of opportunities for people born at night versus people born during the day, it usually still brings something, you know, even if it’s more modest. And so, you know, that’s much better than just Saturn there.

CB: Sure. So, yeah, that’s the last major change that happens. And I guess we’ve already talked about topics. I mean, it could be major stuff involving the parents and things that are happening in your parents’ life, or in terms of your relationship with your parents. It could have to do with your home and your living situation and like what your living situation is and major changes and restructuring when it comes to that. It could also have to do with your private life and whatever constitutes your private life, as opposed to the 10th house, which is more like your public life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But just some major developments of both expansion and contraction taking place, starting in December of 2020, and then really lasting for most of pretty much the entirety of the following year.

LS: For sure.

CB: Which is starting to get us precariously close to getting into the forecast for 2021. But I don’t know if you wanna stick around for that.

LS: I don’t think we’re gonna do all of that tonight.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. Well, I guess we’ll have to return again next year to talk about the forecast for Scorpio rising for 2021.

LS: Sounds good. I’ll pencil it in.

CB: Okay. Put it on your Google Calendar.

LS: Okay.

CB: All right. All right. Well, thanks a lot for joining me for this. I appreciate it.

LS: You’re welcome.

CB: You’ve in two now?

LS: Three.

CB: Three?

LS: This’ll be three.

CB: This’ll be three, okay. Awesome. Well, thank you. I’m still making my way through my forecast for each rising sign. This was number eight.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So I’ve just got a few more to go.

LS: Yes. Two-thirds of the way done, if I’m calculating right at this time of night.

CB: Okay. Well, I appreciate everybody who’s been cheering me on in the chat, both on Twitter and in the livestream. That’s been amazing, so thank you very much. Thanks to Leisa. I’m just looking at some comments. We’ve gotta do a few plugs before we wrap things up. So one of those things is that most of the artwork that we used for this episode comes from a set of posters that we just released over the past couple of weeks. And it’s this package, where it comes with three posters, and one of them is the Planetary Alignments Poster that shows all of the ingresses of all of the planets—and all the lunations and retrograde stations and major aspects and everything else—in a single wall poster, at a glance, so that you can sort of have or just look at your wall and see when all of the major transits that we just talked about in this episode will take place. We’ve also got the Planetary Movements Poster that shows where the planets start at the beginning of the year and where they end up at the end, as well as a poster that shows the significations of the 12 houses, so you can know exactly what topics are getting activated when each of these planets move into different signs. So you can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Additionally, Leisa and I just released, a couple of weeks ago, our annual 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report, where we actually sat down and we went through each of the next 12 months, and we picked out one lucky day for launching different types of ventures or undertakings using the principles of electional astrology. And we were actually able to find some really good electional charts during the course of researching that report, and we put it out in a two-year—or two-hour recorded video just like this one.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And we also have a whole written report that goes with it, so you can glance back at it during the year. Going through 2020 was kind of arduous, so we really want all of you to benefit from our efforts in, you know, seeking through all of the challenging astrology to find the best possible dates and times to start new things, to have them go better than expected.

CB: Right. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. And I’ll put a link to this in the comments section below this video, once we finish the livestream and the video recording is up. Other than that, we gotta give a shoutout to all the patrons. There are a bunch of patrons who support the podcast and pretty much are the only reason we’re able to do marathon recording sessions like this. Cuz there are people that are donating just like a dollar each time we put out a new episode, or a variety of things. But, basically, without them we wouldn’t be able to do this. So, in particular, I want to give a special shoutout to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, and the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. There’s two major astrology conferences that are happening this year. The first is hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, which is hosting a conference in Denver, Colorado from September 10-14 of 2020. You can find out more information about that at ISAR2020.org. Additionally, the Northwest Astrological Conference is happening in Seattle from May 21-25. And that’s something you can find out more information about at NORWAC.net. So if you’d like to become a patron of the podcast and get early access to new episodes, private episodes that are only available to patrons and other bonus content, you can find out more information at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right. That is it for this forecast. Thanks, again, Leisa, for joining me, I appreciate it—

LS: You’re welcome.

CB: —for helping me to guide and navigate the Scorpio rising for 2020.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I think we did a pretty comprehensive job.

LS: Yeah. I’m looking forward to seeing how this all turns out for everyone.

CB: Definitely. It should be an interesting year. May you live in interesting times.

LS: Right.

CB: All right. And thanks everybody for joining us in the live chat, for this livestream. I appreciate it. I appreciate all your comments, thank you. I’m gonna take a little break and then decide if I’m gonna try to do one more horoscope of Sagittarius, which I was gonna try to do tonight, or I’m gonna put that off till tomorrow. But we’ll see what happens. And I’ll probably post an update on Twitter, whenever I decide to start the next livestream.

LS: Good.

CB: All right. Thanks everyone for joining us. Good luck this year. Let us know how it goes. Please be sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel, and post a comment below if you enjoyed this video or wanna share something about transits that you’ve been experiencing so far this year. So good luck in 2020, and we will see you again next year for the forecast for 2021.

LS: Mm-hmm. Thanks for listening. Have a great year.

SAGITTARIUS AND SAGITTARIUS RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Sagittarius and Sagittarius rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LS: Hey, Chris.

CB: And we’re gonna be looking at the astrology of the next 12 months. We’re gonna focus primarily on like big picture, taking a wide angle view of mainly the long-term outer planet transits and some of the longer inner planet transits, especially when they go retrograde. And there’s actually a lot of retrogrades this year.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But we’re not gonna focus too much on like the individual, short-term transits, but instead, try to get a big picture for the Sagittarius people, which I think of all the signs, Sagittarius would appreciate the most.

LS: Yeah, definitely. It’s known to be like wide, expansive, etc. So, yeah, big picture for this one.

CB: All right. So we’re doing this as a livestream today. Thanks everyone for joining us in the chat. Let us know if you’ve joined us. Please give us a thumbs up or a like on this video to let more people see it. And why don’t we jump into the astrology of January?

LS: All right.

CB: All right. So we’re gonna go month by month. We’re gonna look at a few different pieces of like diagrams and artwork. One of them is this Planetary Movements Poster, which I just released a few weeks ago as like a poster package, but it shows where the planets will start at the very beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they will get by the end of the year. We’re plotting it against Sagittarius as the rising sign, as the 1st house, because for these horoscopes, we would definitely recommend primarily looking at them from the perspective of your rising sign. So if your ascendant is in Sagittarius, for example, then this is gonna speak to you the most. Because then we’re gonna be able to look at the 12 houses, which are the 12 sectors of your chart that tell you what areas of your life are activated at any given point in time. You can also look at these horoscopes from the perspective of your Sun sign, especially if you were born during the day and your Sun was in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius. Or if you were born at night and your Moon sign was in the sign of Sagittarius, then it may be relevant for you as well. But, primarily, we’re focusing here on the rising sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that is one thing we’re looking at. The other thing we’re looking at is the Planetary Alignments Poster, which is another poster that I have, which shows when planets will move into different signs of the zodiac during the course of each month, when planets will station retrograde or direct, as well as major aspects and lunations, like New Moons, Full Moons, and eclipses. So let’s start here with the astrology of January of 2020. Somehow, because I’m running incredibly late in doing these horoscopes, we’re already on the 9th of the month. So we’re already at the 9th of January. And as we can see from this diagram, we’ve already reached one of the crucial, sort of pivotal timeframes, few-day timeframes of this month. Maybe the most pivotal timeframe of this month, where a bunch of major outer planet and other types of activities start taking place, right?

LS: Yeah, there’s an unusual cluster of three days in a row that have things that would be notable each on their own. So we have a Cancer lunar eclipse, and then we have Uranus stationing direct in Taurus, and then we have a Saturn-Pluto conjunction going exact finally in Capricorn. So it’s three things in a row that we could definitely talk about separately, and we will here for a moment. But yeah, just know that this is an unusual cluster to happen in such a short period of time.

CB: Right. Let’s see. Where should we start? Why don’t we start with the eclipse, which takes place on the 10th of the month? AKA, tomorrow.

LS: Tomorrow. Yeah.

CB: This is taking place. It’s a lunar eclipse in the sign of Cancer, which is happening in the 8th house for those with Sagittarius rising. So the 8th house—traditionally in astrology, in ancient astrology especially—is the house that has to do with mortality and issues surrounding mortality. But it also deals with shared resources and the general topic of other people’s money in general and the role that that places in your life in particular.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this is an eclipse series that isn’t new. It’s been going on for about a year in Cancer and Capricorn, in both of your financial houses, because they happen in two opposing signs, generally, six months apart. So this isn’t a new topic for you. Probably about six months ago, there was something else that happened around this topic, but it’s another wrinkle in the story, potentially, if it does activate things for you. And so, that could be think like your partner’s income. There’s a change in that. There could be something to do with your shared resources. If you either have personal or a business partnership and you share any money, that’s the area that that touches, the 8th house. Other financial topics that are in the 8th house are like loans, taxes, debts, mortgages, any of those financial topics that aren’t directly income or your own possessions.

CB: Yeah. And since this is a lunar eclipse, it’s probably representing a culmination of events, or a coming to fruition or a maturation of something that you initiated earlier, at the very least, probably six months prior, when there was a solar eclipse in the sign of Cancer. But really, since we’re getting towards the end of this entire eclipse series that’s been going on for more than a year—maybe like a year-and-a-half now—we’re gonna start to wrap this phase of development. The keyword I always use for eclipses is great beginnings and great endings. So more of a sense of ending somehow in this area of your life, as you start to wrap up and get ready to move into a new phase, where the eclipses are gonna shift towards your 1st house/7th house axis, especially later this year, over the summer.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this will be the second-to-last-one in your 8th house. There’ll be one last one in the summer. So you have the Cancer eclipse. The Saturn-Pluto conjunction kind of ties into that because it’s happening in the opposite sign and house in Capricorn, in your 2nd house of your own income and finances. So this is an area that you’ve been working on for a good couple of years already. Pluto went into Capricorn in 2008, and then Saturn went in at the end of 2017, so the combination has been there for a couple of years, plus the eclipses. And so, for many Sagittarius rising people, there’s been something that you’ve been working on with regard to your own financial picture. Whether that’s getting a higher-paying job, whether that’s working to start your own business—any sort of financial topics in your life has been an area of focus and effort for the past couple of years, and there’s one year left. And this is just kind of a little peak in the activity because it is the exact conjunction of those two planets.

CB: Yeah. And intensification of the activity. And for some people, especially the people with night charts who were born during the nighttime with Sagittarius rising, this transit of Saturn going through Capricorn has probably been a little bit more difficult for financial matters. There may have been some major obstacles or blockages or even like setbacks that have come up in the sphere of finances over the past couple of years, since December of 2017. There’s a little bit of continuation. I mean, the good news is—the bad news is there’s a little bit of continuation of that, as we sweep and finish the last third of that transit between now and December of this year. So that’s actually the bad news. The good news, though, is that you’ve entered into the final phase of it. We’re in the final stretch of that transit. And also, there should be some alleviation this year. And if things have been a little bit more difficult financially the past couple of years, there should be some balance that starts coming into play because the other planet that’s transiting through Capricorn this year is Jupiter, which just ingressed into that sign maybe a month or so ago, right?

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: And Jupiter tends to be more about growth and expansion and stability, which is really almost the opposite of Saturn and is bringing some balance to the more conservative or constricting side of Saturn, that’s been activating that financial sector of your chart for about two years now.

LS: Yeah, for sure. I mean, I would say the keyword for Saturn-Pluto together—in its most neutral sense that would apply to many people—is just an overhaul of whatever area it’s touching. And so, you know, to greater or lesser extents, different people with Sagittarius rising may have been doing a financial overhaul in your life and that can play out in different ways. But, yes, as you mentioned, Jupiter joining Saturn and Pluto definitely helps boost the picture more towards at least some openings and opportunities rather than only hard work.

CB: Yeah. And even though it’s not shown on this calendar—because it happened at the end of December—there was actually just a solar eclipse in Capricorn as well, which was like laying the seeds or laying the foundations of something in your financial sector that will grow and develop over the course of the next six months. So it’s weird how they do really have that as one of the main axes.

LS: I think axes.

CB: Axes that are activated this year. The 2nd house of their personal finances versus the 8th house of other people’s money. But, as you said, also themes like debt, taxes, inheritance, and other ways that can play into that seem to be one of the major activity areas this year.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: Okay. So that’s what’s going on in January. The other last, major thing we didn’t touch on yet is the other one that’s happening tomorrow, which is Uranus is stationing direct at 2° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Uranus is stationing in your 6th house, and that’s work and health, basically. So it can be your own health condition or health routines—like exercise routines, you know, dietary routines, things like that—and also, just your daily work, whether that’s things you have to do at home or your actual workplace. So for many people with Sagittarius rising, Uranus going through the 6th can play out in one of two ways. So it can be changes within your health picture, either you start doing more unusual things to take care of your health. I’ve seen a lot of people—when Uranus transits their 6th house—start going to more alternative practitioners, like chiropractors or acupuncturists or Chinese medicine people, things like that. And also, you know, Uranus is also about independence. And so, Uranus transiting your 6th can easily provoke a greater desire for independence or the necessity of independence with regard to work. So, for some people, this is like trying to slowly branch out into working for yourself, which could easily play in—for some people with Sagittarius rising—with those Capricorn transits in your 2nd house of income.

CB: Sure. That makes sense for there to be a connection there. So, yeah, Uranus can bring unexpected disruptions and a little bit of instability when it comes to either work or health when it’s transiting through the 6th house. This is a long-term transit. It’s been going on for a couple of years now, as it’s been sort of going back and forth between Aries and Taurus. And then it only fully went into Taurus, I think, about a year ago now, so we’re still in the very early phases of it. But we get through about the first third of it this year where Uranus is gonna make it to about 10° of Taurus. And here, it’s stationing at 2° of Taurus, here in January.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So unless you have placements around 2° of the fixed signs in January, this may not be super-momentous for you yet. Although if you do have planets especially around 2° of Taurus—or 2 Scorpio, 2 Leo, or 2 Aquarius—then that could be a pivotal turning point in terms of Uranus shaking some things up a little bit at this time, either, especially, in terms of work or in terms of health matters.

LS: Yeah, for sure. This is a seven-year-long transit through each sign. So, you know, if some of those themes come up for you, they don’t have to be resolved immediately. But just know that usually when Uranus transits through a house, it’s sort of a series of repeated unexpected things that sort of eventually move you in a different direction.

CB: Yeah. Sometimes which is not expected or not necessarily welcome. Cuz nobody usually likes to have things shaken up dramatically initially. But sometimes that can be constructive and worthwhile in the long term in pushing you in a direction that you might not have gone otherwise.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: All right. So those are the major transits for January, and some of these are like ongoing things that are gonna be coming back in varying levels of intensity for the rest of the year.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But let’s move on to February.

LS: Okay. So February, mid-month, the biggest thing is that Mars moves into Capricorn on the 16th. And so, that’s gonna be joining Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in your 2nd house of finances. So it does put more focus—even more focus than before on that area of your life. Now for some people with like day charts that may be more problems that crop up with regard to your finances at this time. Even if you have a night chart, there’ll probably be less problems, but just more attention and effort you need to put into that area. So it’s already been a background area of focus for a while. It’s gonna become more so temporarily here.

CB: Sure. So Mars, when it ingresses into a house, can definitely bring an additional period of like energy and exertion on that specific area. So maybe you’re having to put more effort into making money for a period of about a month or a month-and-a-half while Mars is moving through that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: For the night chart people, this is not gonna—this’ll tend to be a little bit more constructive, like you were saying, in terms of just an expenditure of energy or focus.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: For the day chart people, Mars transits like that can tend to be a little bit more frustrating, a little bit more tense. They can sometimes have to do with conflict or separation involving financial matters or possessions or assets.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s something to kind of be a little bit careful for and watch out for as you’re going through this transit. And maybe being a little bit more impetuous in terms of spending can be an issue with Mars transits. Like spending first and then thinking about it later.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So maybe try to maybe exercise a little bit of caution might be a good piece of advice here.

LS: Yeah, for sure. And if you can think ahead before that time. Sometimes, for some other people, particularly with day chart people, it’s not just impetuous spending potentially, but also like some of your possessions breaking or being stolen and needing to replace them, that sort of thing. That won’t happen for everyone, but I’ve seen that with that transit.

CB: Yeah, definitely. So what’s weird about that is that Mercury is actually stationing retrograde the same day that Mars goes into Capricorn. And Mercury is stationing retrograde in Pisces, which is the fourth whole sign house for those with Sagittarius rising. So the 4th house is the place that has to do with the home, the family, the living situation, the private life, but also, oftentimes, the parents. So if your parents are still around, then it could involve them, anytime you have a transit going through the 4th house. A Mercury retrograde is usually a period of having to go back and revise and revisit things. Sometimes there can be issues surrounding miscommunication involving your living situation or your parents. This is especially heightened with this transit because Mercury is gonna be conjoining Neptune pretty closely, within a few degrees, when that happens. So try to be extra careful not to have any miscommunication. Or you may encounter situations, potentially, in the worst-case scenario, that could have to do with like deceit or dishonesty when Mercury is stationing around that time. And that makes me a little nervous just because of the coinciding or the parallel of Mars going into the 2nd at the same time. So just be careful if you’re like signing a lease or something that all of the terms are clear, or that you’re not getting screwed financially or something like that, or if there’s some sort of like exchange with your parents—if like a parent is like trying to borrow money or something like that—that the terms are clear, or at least that you’re not that worried about getting all of the money back necessarily, in the worst-cast scenario.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Those are some things that maybe you could prepare for with a double-transit like that.

LS: Yeah, definitely. For some other people with Sagittarius rising, with the long, ongoing Neptune transit in your 4th house of home and family, there may have been sort of an ongoing nebulousness with regard to where you’re living, whether that’s like a specific apartment or home, or just like what city or state or country even, because Neptune kind of makes things unclear and makes you float. And so, I have actually seen some people with Sagittarius rising who were just kind of floating around and not sure where they’re supposed to be landing, living situation-wise. So the Mercury retrograde, with Neptune there, could have you revisiting that piece of your life again.

CB: Right. All right. So that’s the Mercury retrograde. And like all Mercury retrogrades, that’s gonna last for about three weeks, starting on the 16th of February. It will reach the halfway point on the 25th of February, when Mercury conjoins the Sun. And then whatever the issue was that was set up at the beginning of the retrograde, on the 16th, will start to be resolved slowly at that point. And then, finally, once we get into March, Mercury actually retrogrades back into and falls back into Aquarius, which is your 3rd house of communication, siblings, short-distance travel, and also, education. And then, eventually, Mercury stations direct on the 9th of March.

LS: Mm-hmm. And so, not for everyone, but for some people, when there are two houses like that where Mercury is retrograding back from one and then stationing direct in the previous one, if there are people connected to those houses, that can sometimes connect the two together in that experience. And that is the case here, where the 4th house is home and family and the 3rd house includes siblings, neighbors, other assorted relatives. So there could be something, for some people with Sagittarius rising, where the Mercury retrograde involves more than one family member, or something about your living situation gets revisited, that involves, you know, both where you live and maybe siblings, or your neighbors that live around you, or something like that that you need to clear up during this time.

CB: Yeah. So it could be sort of revising a connection between like parents and siblings, or between your living situation and your neighbors, having to resolve an issue or miscommunication or a sort of misunderstanding or dispute that came up as a result of that.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It would be interesting if it was like the house that it stationed in presented the problem or the party that you had the problem with, which was like, let’s say, the parents or your living situation. But when Mercury retrogrades back and stations direct, that house represents the solution, which could be like the siblings, or seeking arbitration or help from the siblings, or seeking help with your living situation from your neighbors. Then once Mercury stations direct and begins moving forward, there’s sort of a forward movement and rectification of those issues.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I could see that being true for some people. And for some other people, you know, you might just be going back over a separate thing, with the Mercury retrograde in the 4th house of home and family. And then once it goes into the 3rd, your attention may switch to something else.

CB: Yeah. Or even more broadly or metaphorically, the 4th is like the private life and the 3rd is like communication. And so, figuring out how to communicate and reviewing things with respect to your private life and how to share that with those around you.

LS: Yeah, that could be.

CB: All right. So what’s interesting about that transit at the beginning of the month—and Mercury stationing direct on the 9th of March in Aquarius—is that that kind of queues up a major transit that begins in the same sign and in the same sector of the chart later in the month, when we have this pretty momentous transition of Saturn moving out of Capricorn for the first time in like more than two years and moving into Aquarius on the 21st of March, which is your 3rd house of, again, siblings, communication, short-distance travel, and education. And then just a week later, Mars also ingresses into the same sign on the 30th of March, when it moves into Aquarius. And then shortly after that, I think a day later, it forms a conjunction with Saturn in the sky.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so there’s a lot moving into your 3rd house, kind of long term here, and these are the first little bits of it. So, like you said, it sets the stage when Mercury stations direct in Aquarius at the beginning of the month. Then later on, when Saturn moves into Aquarius, this is gonna be a long-term transit that you’re getting a little bit of a preview of because from late March to July 1, Saturn will be just in the first couple of degrees of Aquarius. And so, moving the sort of effort and attention that Saturn brings to the area of siblings, neighbors, communication, short-distance travel—that can be concrete things like cars, how you get around town. It could be like your computer because that helps you communicate with others, things like that. So you’re just gonna get a quick preview here for a couple of months. With Mars and Saturn going in, they’re both kind of problem planets. That’s not the only thing they can do, of course. But when they’re both going in at once, and other things aren’t offsetting it, the initial piece can be an issue crops up in one or more of these areas for you.

CB: Yeah. Certainly, like Mars and Saturn—I think the analogy I used on the year ahead forecast that I did with Austin and Kelly in December was like Mars is like pushing the gas on your car and Saturn is like pushing the brakes at the same time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And sometimes that can create, internally, like a sense of frustration just within you of like wanting to move forward with something, but also feeling like you’re being held back by something.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So certainly a sense of some sort of obstacle or difficulty arises. And what’s interesting is that it happens both for people with day charts, as well as people with night charts at this time, starting at the end of March and going into April, while we have both of these planets going through this sign. So this gonna, for everybody, indicate something that’s much more long term. Because even though Saturn will retrograde out, I think, in July and leave Aquarius and go back into Capricorn for the second half of the year, this Saturn transit through the 3rd house is gonna be a much more long-term, much more significant overall transit that’s gonna come and go over the course of the next three years.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So certainly some themes like restructuring, things related to a relationship with siblings or neighbors or extended relatives, in terms of people in your life that this could affect over the course of the next three years. Potentially, restructuring the way that you are mobile, in the sense of mobility that you have in your life in general, both in a broad sense, but also, sometimes in a specific sense in terms of maybe running into obstacles with being more restricted in your ability to get around town than you could previously.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah. But whatever the issue is that is gonna crop up during the course of this transit, it seems like this is the preview phase, especially in this first month of it, starting in late March.

LS: Yeah, so you can pay attention to what happens at this time. But when it goes back in December, near the end of the year, it’ll actually be—it’ll feel probably less problematic at that time. It’ll have some help, in other words. It goes in with Jupiter instead of Mars. And we’ll get to that later. But, you know, whatever crops up at this time, it does give you a sense of the area of life you’re gonna need to address for the next few years, but it’s not always going to be this problematic.

CB: Sure. There might be more resolution, more balance later in the year, in December. Whereas, this is more of the initial crisis phase of raising whatever issue needs to be addressed in that area of your life.

LS: Exactly.

CB: Which may be something as simple as something as communication, since the 3rd is also communication. And it could be restructuring your communication style initially, after running into some sort of issue with that. Or getting into even like a dispute or an argument with somebody related to the 3rd house, and then realizing that maybe you need to approach things differently in the future.

LS: Yeah, that could be.

CB: Okay. All right. So that’s beginning in late March and is gonna last through—it’s like basically the starting point when some of these transits begin. But those two planets are gonna be moving through that sign for the entirety of April.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: In April, one of the interesting side effects of Saturn having left Capricorn—and also, Mars leaving Capricorn simultaneously—is it basically just leaves Jupiter all on its own in the sign of Capricorn, in your 2nd house, where it forms a conjunction with Pluto on the 4th of April. And this is actually kind of a positive thing. Cuz now for the first time in more than two years, we’ve got the benefic planet of expansion and growth and stabilization as pretty much the sole visible planet that’s transiting through your 2nd house of finances. Which sounds like sort of like a breath of fresh air and sort of like a period of growth, after a period of consolidation in the financial sector, since December of 2017.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I would largely agree with that. I mean, Pluto is still there. And that is the conjunction that’s happening—Jupiter with Pluto. So Pluto’s been the longest-term transit there since 2008, and it’s this sort of slow, deepening overall of your financial sector, but nothing that happens quickly. So at this point, since it’s in the late degrees of Capricorn, a lot of that should have already happened by now, unless you have like important placements in very late Capricorn degrees. But, by and large, this is probably, for most people with Sagittarius rising—with Jupiter coming to conjoin Pluto—more of a push to do the building-back-up phase of that financial overall. And so, yeah, certainly with Saturn out of the picture temporarily, it might feel more like you have more room to do that and to push and to grow. You know, like a bigger push to grow financially right then. And that’s what Jupiter and Pluto do. They kind of intensify the growth.

CB: Yeah. So just be careful, cuz you’re not completely out of the woods financially yet because Saturn will come back to Capricorn in just a few months, starting in July. So that might be one of the potential downfalls with the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction. Jupiter already indicates growth and Pluto can just magnify whatever it touches. So it could mean you start trying to sort of grow and expand very rapidly in terms of the financial sector of your life at this point in early April, thinking that the difficult part, financially, or the more conservative part is completely over. But just remember that there might be a reminder of that, or there might be a return to some of those circumstances just a few months later. So don’t get too far ahead of yourself or expand too rapidly beyond your means.

LS: Yeah, absolutely.

CB: All right. So that’s kind of intensified later in the month, when Pluto actually stations retrograde on the 25th of April. But that’s the only other major transit that month. So let’s go on to May, where, in May, the first major outer planet transit is that Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius on the 11th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So that little dip into the 3rd house of your chart—putting your effort and attention more now on things like siblings and neighbors and short-distance travel and communication, all those topics we keep mentioning so far—there’s a bit of an intensification here because Saturn only gets through 2° of Aquarius, and then it stations to go retrograde, eventually, by into Capricorn on July 1. So whatever little taste or preview you’ve gotten about whatever topic in the 3rd house is gonna be something you need to put more effort and attention on. You’ll feel it more at that point in time, or you’ll see it more.

CB: Yeah. And that’s especially true for people with placements around 1° of Aquarius, which is where Saturn is gonna station. Or even to a lesser extent, 1° of the other fixed signs, which would be square or opposing that. So 1° of Taurus, Leo, or Scorpio.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah, so this is going to be an important intensification of that transit, where whatever this preview is about should become clear at that point. But also, it might be a little tough for people with night charts. But for people with day charts, one of the things that’s interesting is that Mars departs from that sign almost immediately after that. So there’s some alleviation of some of the issues with that transit, especially for the day chart people, and we see the end of the most, sort of intense part of it for the day chart people staring around the 13th of May, when Mars goes into Pisces.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But that being said, Mars going into Pisces is gonna cause a shift, so that Mars is moving into your 4th house of your home and your living situation and your parents. For some people, this will just put a greater period of emphasis and activity on that area of your life. So for some reason you’re focusing more on your living situation or on your relationship with your parents, and you’re having to put more energy into that, even excessive energy into that area of your life, in the best-case scenario. In the more challenging scenario, there may be some obstacles of difficulties or setbacks that come up in this area of your life over the course of the next month. Mars can tend to indicate conflict or strife or sometimes even separations. So some of those themes could manifest in your life in the context of your home or your parents, especially if it hits a pivotal part of your chart, or hits some planets as it’s going through your 4th house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that lasts about a month. Interestingly, around the same time, Venus actually stations retrograde in Gemini, which is in your 7th house of relationships. And Jupiter stations retrograde the following day, on the 14th of May, in your 2nd house of finances.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Venus retrogrades in general cause a review or coincide, rather, with a review of relationships, oftentimes. And that’s true in general for most people, but that’s gonna be especially true for you, with Sagittarius rising, because Venus is going to be retrograding in your 7th house of partnership. So if you’re married, that’s that sector of the chart. Even if you’re in a long-term partnership, that’s also where it goes. It can govern business partnership as well, but primarily we’re gonna say anything where you work closely, one-on-one with someone, or you’re partnered personally closely, one-on-one with someone. This is gonna be an area that’s up for review for you right now. So you might need to renegotiate the terms. You might revisit your expectations with each other. Oftentimes, there can be like an, “Oh, I didn’t know that you meant that,” or “Oh, I didn’t know that you wanted that for me,” that kind of thing when it’s retrograding in your 7th house.

CB: Yeah. So reviewing unions and reviewing contracts, especially with close, one-on-one partnerships, whether those are romantic or business. Sometimes people from the past coming back into your life and reflecting on those past relationships and what made them work versus what made them not work. There’s a little bit of a danger with this transit. Because if you look at the specific degrees involved, you’ll see that Venus actually slows down and stations retrograde pretty closely-square to Neptune. So Venus stations at 21 Gemini square Neptune at 20 Pisces. So there’s a little bit of a danger that at least in the very beginning of this transit, you may over-idealize anything from the past. Or if there’s like a past relationship that comes back, there could be an initial, sort of fuzzy phase where everything looks perfect and beyond ideal. But during the course of it, eventually—especially once Venus stations direct, later, in the following month—there could be a sort of coming out of that cloudy phase and then a reminder about why things maybe ended and what the reality of the situation was.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: That doesn’t necessarily have to be terrible, per se. But it just could be a little bit less than ideal compared to where the transit starts here, in the middle of May.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. Yeah, I’d agree with all of that. And also, conversely, if you’re already partnered, and the Venus retrograde is sort of causing you to rethink your current partnership—which can often happen—you know, when Venus is direct, that means relationships going forward and progressing and playing out. And so, sometimes when Venus is going retrograde, you start only seeing the things that you don’t like, or that kind of thing. Your focus is more on the like ‘revisiting and reviewing part. and not so much on the ‘this is working out well right now’ part. So particularly, with the combination of it going backwards and also stationing retrograde square Neptune—which is that nebulousness—it can be sort of your eyes can deceive you either way. You can either be overly-rosy, like you were just saying, about a past relationship or someone in the present. But you can also be, conversely, like too disappointed or too disillusioned, because that’s also a Neptune keyword. It’s just that your perception isn’t necessarily crystal clear right now, and you kind of wanna wait until Venus goes direct to really clarify a little bit more. Even, I would say, a week after it goes direct. Because it stations direct near Neptune’s stationing. But basically, you can see things either over-positively or overly-negatively at this time.

CB: Yeah. And that Venus retrograde station, it’s gonna last for several weeks until it eventually stations retrograde earlier in Gemini on the 25th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Interestingly, in between that time, we have some other stuff happening that we might as well transition into now.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So right at the very top of June, it’s like we have the halfway point through the Venus retrograde, when Venus conjoins the Sun on the 3rd of June. And then two days later, there is a lunar eclipse, which takes place in the sign of Sagittarius, in your rising sign, or in your first whole sign house. So this eclipse is especially important for those of you with Sagittarius rising or other Sagittarius placements in your birth chart.

LS: Yeah. So this is gonna kick off a series—for about a-year-and-a-half—of the eclipses in your 1st and 7th houses. So we’re moving from your financial sector of beginnings and endings there to beginnings and endings with regard to, with the 1st house, your identity, your appearance, how you present yourself to the world, even how you think of who you are, and then the 7th house being partnership. So we’re not getting a Gemini one quite yet. We’ll get it at the end of the year, but at this time, we have the very first one in the 1st house for you. So there may be changes with regard to your appearance at this time. Now since this is so close to that Venus retrograde, I would say, you know, wait, because that’s a topic that could be tied in for some people with both of those going on. It is often recommended to wait until after Venus is direct to make changes to your appearance because of that whole, not necessarily seeing things clearly with regard to Venus things, which can be aesthetics. So this eclipse happening in your 1st house, it’s going to coincide with you revisioning who you are and how you put yourself out there in the world in various ways. And that can be external or internal, or both.

CB: Okay. I was thinking, with the Venus retrograde, and it happening so close to that—and since this eclipse in the 1st house is the first in a whole series of eclipses that we’re gonna start seeing between the 1st and 7th house axis—that is opening up a new chapter and a period of time where there’s gonna be a shift in focus towards issues of the self and how to balance yourself and who you are and how you appear to people and how you present yourself versus how you incorporate relationships and other one-on-one partnerships into your life. And it’s kind of interesting that it starts, it really gets going under a Venus retrograde and a review phase through the 7th house of relationships.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But then there’s something right in the middle of that 7th house of relationships Venus retrograde transit. Suddenly we get an eclipse here. And there’s some sort of new beginning, but also, culmination with respect to the understanding of the self and like who you are for the Sagittarius rising people.

LS: Definitely. And that’s always an axis. You know, all of these polarities often like cause you to question the other side of things. And so, anytime you affect or change your relationship, or there’s any sort of shift within your relationship, that can shift how you feel about who you are in the world, and vice versa. And so, there’ll be more focus on the 1st house part here of like, “Wait, what do I want for myself? And who am I?”

CB: Yeah. And maybe coming to some new realization of that. Because there’s suddenly a spotlight on that area of your life of who you are and what’s important for you, as opposed to what’s important for your partner or for your relationships with other people in general.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that’s happening at the beginning of the month. And later in the month, we start getting like two different things indicating activity in the sign of Cancer and within the context of the 8th house, which is the house that pertains to mortality and shared resources or other people’s money. So the first part of that is we get the first—or sorry, the second Mercury retrograde of the year begins on the 18th of June, when it stations retrograde in the sign of Cancer, which is your 8th house. And then just two or three days later, we get a solar eclipse, which takes place in the same sign of Cancer, also in your 8th house. And this is the very last of the eclipses, I believe, in Cancer.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is the very last one, and then we’ll get a Capricorn one two weeks later. So this is kind of the last hurrah for your financial houses, but the last eclipse in your 8th house of shared resources does come with that Mercury retrograde as well. So there’s something about both, you know, a new episode in that ongoing story for the past about year-and-a-half with regard to changes in either your partner’s income or finances you share together or debts that you have, but also, revisiting something you need to look back over, to maybe fix, that was incorrect, or you had an incorrect assumption about, or there was a miscommunication about, something like that, because two things are coinciding so closely together in the same area of your chart.

CB: Yeah. Well, and it’s interesting to me that there’s like a Venus retrograde in the 7th house and then all of a sudden we get a Mercury retrograde in the 8th house. And that could really be connected, where something about the review process that’s going on during the Venus retrograde, in the 7th house—and the revisiting of things in the sphere of relationships—suddenly gets tied in with some sort of review in the sphere of shared resources with one’s partner. All the while Mars is also transiting through the 4th house of like the home and living situation, and there’s some potential of like tension or strife in the living situation at the same time.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So it’s like kind of pushing in a certain direction, in terms of like partnership and shared resources, and also, your home and living situation. I could see how that could manifest in some specific scenarios for some people, depending on the specifics of their birth chart.

LS: Right. Yeah. Yeah, me, too. You know, for some transits, they make more sense than others, in terms of how they might be tied together versus totally separate transits.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So that Mercury retrograde—as all Mercury retrogrades do—will last for three weeks, starting on the 18th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And it doesn’t end until the 12th of July.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: In the meantime, in between that, we have the solar eclipse, which takes place there on the 21st of June. Venus finally completes its retrograde cycle and stations direct on the 25th. And then the last major, major transit that we have happens towards the end of the month, on the 27th of June, when Mars departs from Pisces and moves into Aries, which is your 5th house of children and creative expression, but also, sex and sexuality.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this is a major transit this year compared to most years because this is where the Mars retrograde will happen this year. And what that means is it’s a setup for Mars to be transiting one area of your chart—with the topics you just mentioned—for six month instead of six weeks. So it’s much longer than usual. Meaning you’re going to be putting a lot of your attention in this area on at least one of these topics, if not more, of the 5th house for the entirety of the second half of 2020. So we’ll talk about this more as this goes long because the retrograde itself doesn’t start until September. What you’re looking at here is you’ll notice probably at the end of June or the beginning of July—once Mars ingresses into Aries—that your attention starts to shift in terms of, you know, where Mars was transiting your 4th house of home and family, now you’re putting your attention on something that needs effort, something that is a conflict area, or something with regard to these 5th house topics, whether that’s children, if you have children, conflicts around if you’re going to have children. I could see probably for some people, you know, sexuality and creative expression and those sorts of things.

CB: Yeah. So best-case scenario, putting a lot more emphasis on this area of your life over the next six months. Worst-case scenario, you’re running into some tensions or some conflict or even some separations in this area. So somebody asked in one of the previous ones if 5th house stuff just pertained to younger children or if it also included like adult children. And the answer is, yes, it includes your relationship with your adult children, and those would be the primary people that a transit through the 5th house could pertain to.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: Yeah. So perhaps needing to tend to that relationship or having a more tense period in terms of that relationship is possible during that time.

LS: Definitely. And also, what’s good to know is since it is going to last for six months instead of six weeks, know that this is an area that you’re gonna be putting your effort towards for, you know, a while, but your energy for doing so will start to go down a bit as Mars slows down, eventually, to retrograde for a couple of months, between September and November. So treat it as a marathon and not a sprint. Mars wants to sprint. You’re gonna wanna just like tackle things head on, especially Mars in Aries. It’s a very forthright expression of Mars. But, you know, just hold some in reserve because you’re not gonna be done with this soon.

CB: One of the things that’s also interesting about the 5th house is it can also pertain to like hobbies and games and things that you do for fun or pleasure and enjoyment. So it could mean just like putting a lot more focus on your hobby and whatever that is, potentially running into some issues or some obstacles or tensions in that area. But it could also just be a period in which maybe you put more work into like training. Like if golf is your thing, working on your golf game and getting better at it. Cuz I know there’s some golfers—like Tiger Woods has like major placements in the 5th house, I the ruler of the ascendant. It’s like it’s a game and it’s a hobby, but it’s also what he’s made his career and his job out of.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, for sure.

CB: So having an extended period of focusing on those things and putting more energy into them than at other times in your life.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: All right. So I think this taking us into June. So that Mars ingress into Aries, into that sign, is the main thing that starts off at the very end of the month. But that is a long-term transit that’s gonna last the rest of the year. And then we’re gonna come to a few pivotal points in that over the course of the next few months, especially starting in September.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. We are halfway through the year. We’ve done the first half of 2020. I just wanted to check in with the livestream chat and see how everyone is doing. I’ve seen some good comments coming in. So thanks everyone for joining us today. I appreciate it. Looks like there’s like 80-some-odd people here. If everyone’s enjoying this video, please hit the like button, just to help other people find it as we’re doing this livestream. And why don’t we move on to the second half of the year?

LS: Okay. So, July.

CB: July. All right. Where do we start? What do we start with, with July?

LS: I would say two Capricorn events. So, on July 1, right away, the beginning of the month, Saturn goes back into Capricorn from Aquarius. So that area of your personal finances that you sort have had a temporary alleviation of—with Saturn leaving from late March to the beginning of July—is now back. And so, you might kind of feel like, “Oh, I thought I was done with tending to that area of my life. I thought my finances were finally under control.” And now you need to take good care of it again for the rest of the year. But you are in the home stretch. This will just last for the next five months and then that’ll be done. And it’s normally a three-year approximate transit. So, you know, relatively speaking, you are in the home stretch. So Saturn does return to your 2nd house of personal finances and income. And then there’s an eclipse, the last eclipse, in Capricorn as well at the beginning of the month, on the 5th. So that’s the last in that whole series of Cancer/Capricorn eclipses. So again, you’re kind of finishing up some of your major attention that you’ve been paying to your financial life at this time, but there may be a new wrinkle in the story as you go.

CB: Yeah. And it’s interesting that this is still during the last phase of finishing up that Mercury retrograde in the 8th house. So there could be something involving like shared resources or the partner’s finances, or even issues surrounding like debt, taxes, and like money owed to other people that could be tied in with this. But whatever it is, just know that because it’s a solar eclipse, that solar eclipse has a six-month duration.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And a solar eclipse is also a time of setting a new foundation and creating a great beginning for a new phase of your life. So this is gonna be the final push to make sure you get your affairs in order, in terms of the financial sector and in terms of your possessions, so that once you’re finished with this six-month period, you’ve put in all of the hard work necessary to make sure that you have stable foundation moving forward.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So that’s the beginning of July. And then Mercury does station direct the middle of the month.

CB: On the 12th.

LS: Mm-hmm. And then, let’s see. Do we have—those are really the major things for July, yeah.

CB: It’s just the Capricorn shift. The shift back to Capricorn really dominates July.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: All right. Then we move to August. While it looks like there’s a lot going on, it’s mainly inner planet stuff. The only major outer planet, big-picture thing is that Uranus stations retrograde on August 15 at 10° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this is one of two stations of Uranus this year. The first one was in January. And so, this is the second one. And basically, since that’s transiting your 6th house of work and health—when planets station, they temporarily intensify whatever energy they carry. And so, for Uranus, that is that ongoing transit of unexpected things or innovation with regard to work or health, or both. So this is the second point in time where you might really notice that more in that area of your life. And that’s of course particularly so if you have any placements around 10-ish-degrees-or-so of the fixed signs because it is stationing between 10° and 11° of Taurus.

CB: Yeah. This is the first time that Uranus has gotten that far into Taurus during the course of its initial foray into that sign over the past year or two. So this is really gonna start to hit some people’s charts if they have something around 10° of that sign. Because Uranus really slows down and then spends this extended period of pretty much the entire month of August just on that one degree. So if you have anything at 10° of Taurus, 10 Leo, 10 Scorpio, or 10 Aquarius, then this transit is for you. And the feeling of like destabilization, but also, like excitement and innovation are really gonna be at a peak at this point for you, especially in the area of your work or health matters, and any sort of efforts or developments in that area that you’re focused on, but also, depending on if there’s other planets around 10° of other fixed signs, potentially affecting those areas as well.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that is the major thing that’s going on in August for you.

CB: Okay. That will take us into September where there’s not much going on in September, right?

LS: Yeah. I mean, just a couple of things, I would say.

CB: Just a couple of things?

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay.

LS: So we are understating this. September is the month of the Mars retrograde. It does station retrograde on September 9. And then just a few days later, on September 12, Jupiter stations direct. So those are two of the three big things. The two, until the end of the month, when Saturn stations direct for the last time in Capricorn. So starting with Mars, everything we said already about that Mars transit in the 5th house, this is now where you’ve probably hit a snag, if you’re going to, or at the very least, some sort of revisioning. You know, we often talk about reviewing with Mercury retrograde. With Mars retrograde, it’s more of a going back over your recent efforts rather than communications. So whatever you’ve been doing or applying your energy towards in this area of children or sexuality or creative expression, you thought you were going forward, and you thought you were, in fact, almost done with it because it stations retrograde at 28° out of 30. And so, it is almost done with Aries, but then it stations retrograde. And so, when it does that, it’s suddenly like an, “Oh, I hit a snag. I thought we were going forward, but now I have to retrace all of my steps.” And so, that can be for different reasons, but that’s the energy of what that station is about. And it will be retrograde until the middle of November.

CB: Yeah. So this is the most intense period and potentially the most problematic period during this overall transit of Mars through Aries, especially if you have planets around 28° of the cardinal signs, which is 28 Aries, 28 Cancer, 28 Libra, or 28 Capricorn. And speaking of Capricorn, this Mars station is interesting because Mars slowing down and stopping and then doing a U-turn at 28° of Aries is actually pretty closely-square Saturn at 25 Capricorn at this time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this could be bringing up some tensions between those two parts of your chart, the 5th house, where Mars is transiting—having to do with children, sexuality, hobbies, and also, self-expression or creative self-expression—squaring and creating some tensions with Saturn going through the 2nd house of finances and possession. So it’s possible that there’s some sort of crossover that’s happening here, where these tensions are cropping up in your life because there’s a connection between those two topics or those two areas.

LS: Mm-hmm. And that can play out in a variety of ways for different people, depending on the specifics of what’s going on in your life and in your birth chart. I’m really thinking things regarding, you know, the financial care of your children—if you have children that are not adults yet—is going to be a topic for at least some people with Sagittarius rising. So I’m really thinking, either for some people, you know, the topics of things like child support, or, also, just like how you share resources with a partner to pay for things that kids need.

CB: Yeah. Or maybe your kid like does something dumb and then that causes like a financial burden on you, where you lose or have an expenditure of money for some reason.

LS: Right. And, you know, unfortunately, that can pertain to either, you know, minor or adult children.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: As well as like minor frustrations versus like major issues that crop up. Especially if, let’s say, you have a day chart and you’re in a 5th house profection year, or Mars is the lord of the year, it could be something like more serious.

LS: Yeah. So it will vary for different people. But yeah, I could easily see children and finances really intersecting with these.

CB: Definitely. So the positive thing about, however, though, is, as you mentioned earlier, Jupiter stations direct in that sign, in Capricorn, just a few days later, on the 12th of September, which should indicate an intensification of some of the positive energies. Cuz this is Jupiter’s direct station, where it starts moving forward. And therefore, it’s able to start producing things positively, in a more direct fashion or a more straightforward fashion at this point, as it starts gaining steam and moving forward again. Then later in the month, on the 29th of September, we have the final, the very last direct station of Saturn in Capricorn. So again, with that planet there’s direct movement and sort of forward movement, where Saturn is able to finish up and sweep up the last of its, what, nearly three-year transit through your 2nd house of finances and some of the restructuring and reorganization that has taken place during that time surrounding it.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so the Jupiter stationing direct, almost in the middle of the month here, is kind of the saving grace going on. So while the Mars retrograde may, you know, bring up some more frustrations, Jupiter stationing direct at least, you know, helps those opportunities and so forth come about in a more direct fashion in your life from here, through the end of the year. And it’s interesting to see both of those, as you mentioned, Jupiter and Saturn stationing direct in the same sign, in your house of finances. And they’re both gonna just be direct, finishing up that transit for the end of the year. So this through December, mid-December, is gonna be the tying up of loose ends for whatever has been going on with you in your financial house. Unless you have important placements near the very end of Capricorn, then sometimes this can still be a more active period. But for a lot of people, this is more gonna be a smoothing out of affairs and re-stabilizing.

CB: Yeah. The last, the final stretch of the major, heavy financial transits that have been going on for a couple of years now, but especially of 2020.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that will take us into October and the final parts of the year. So the main thing that happens in October is we get our third-and-final Mercury retrograde of the year, where Mercury actually slows down and stations retrograde around 11° of Scorpio, I believe. Which is a little bit interesting, cuz it actually stations retrograde in opposition to Uranus, which is at 9° of Taurus at that point in time. Then Mercury in Scorpio, it’s gonna retrograde and fall, actually, back into Libra by the end of the month. By the 27th of the month, it retrogrades back into Libra, which is your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, before eventually stationing direct on November 3, in Libra, in your 11th house.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so with the Mercury retrograde stationing first in Scorpio, in your 12th house of hidden matters, it’s interesting with that stationing retrograde pretty closely-opposed Uranus transiting your 6th house because both of those can be health houses. So that won’t be true for everyone. But probably for some people, there will be some sort of review of a health matter, or a review of how you’re taking care of your health even more proactively. It’s also the 6th-and-12th polarity. It’s like work versus downtime. And so, with the Mercury retrograde through your 12th, Mercury’s about communication normally as a general signification. But going through your 12th, it’s more of a silent place or a hidden place. And so, you could be kind of like hiding out for a little bit temporarily, just for, you know, two or three weeks, while you kind of try to figure out anew how to balance those two parts of your life. You know, the putting out effort and work and, you know, necessary rest.

CB: Yeah. Another possible connection—since we have Mercury stationing retrograde in the 12th house and then going back to the 11th house—is it may have to do with, since it stations retrograde opposite to Uranus, some sort of unexpected revisiting of a relationship with an enemy or somebody that you don’t get along with very well in your life. But then a question of—during the course of that three-week retrograde period, from mid-October to early November—if through revisiting that situation and reexamining communications, see if there has been any sort of miscommunication. You can take somebody who is in that 12th house sector of your life as somebody you don’t get along with for some reason and then sort of transport them and put them—through effort and communication and just trying to talk it through—into the 11th house sector of your life, which is the place of friends and alliances. So are there any major areas where somebody that you didn’t get along with can be somebody who you can get along with for some reason, or who can become a friend, and sort of convert them from an enemy to a friend?

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I could see that. There’s all sorts of things, you know, that could manifest this way. I mean, that’s a really good one. I would say, also, maybe, you know, with Mercury transiting through your 12th, the 12th is a hidden place. And so, you may find out about, you know, some communication that someone was saying, that you weren’t aware of. You become aware of hidden communication, basically, or, you know, things that you didn’t see. That’s a popular 12th house manifestation. And so, then maybe you need to talk that out with whoever did in your, you know, friends or groups area and smooth it out.

CB: Yeah, I could see that. Another one is, like you were saying, the 12th tends to be more private and like isolated, whereas the 11th house tends to be more public. So there could be something where, at the beginning of the retrograde, there’s some sort of unexpected development or news that you learn about in private. And maybe you’re going through kind of like an introspective period, as Mercury is retrograde in your 12th house, and you’re not feeling that social. But then you hit the halfway point in that transit by, when is it? By the 25th of the month, and then Mercury retrogrades back into Libra. And so, then you go back into a period of feeling more social or a little bit more extroverted for a little bit, after a period of introspection.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I could definitely see that as well. Though, if that does happen for you, just be aware that it’ll go back into Scorpio pretty soon after that because it stations direct pretty late in Libra.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. And the last thing—oh, yeah, you pointed this out in the last horoscope. But Mercury actually, when it stations direct, it stations direct square Saturn in Capricorn, right?

LS: Yeah, around November 3, it does pretty closely.

CB: Okay. So there could be some connection or some overlap there then—at the very tail-end of the retrograde, when it stations direct, around November 3-November 4—between friends and groups and alliances versus financial matters somehow being connected or somehow overlapping with those topics, just due to that square between Mercury and Saturn. And maybe even like a little bit of tension or some sort of dynamic situation involving those two areas of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So this is taking us further and further into the year. We now move on to November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, November. Mercury stations direct on the 3rd. Mars finally stations direct—after a very long, several-week retrograde period—on the 13th of the month, at around 15° of Aries, I believe.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So there’s still the potential for some tension, especially if you have things around 15° of the cardinal signs. Especially 15° of Aries, and especially within the context of your 5th house of like children, hobbies, and sexuality. But at least at this point, when it stations direct, it’s gonna start moving forward. And there’s some sense of things no longer moving backwards and there instead starting to be some forward momentum again in that area of your life, instead of just trudging through the same stuff for an extended period of time and sort of agonizing over some specific issues.

LS: Definitely. Yeah, so Mars does take some time to get speed back up. So you won’t be able to resolve everything immediately once it does station direct mid-November, but you’ll be able to at least see the way forward. And as it gradually picks up speed, and you start moving more and more, you’ll get some energy back to deal with whatever you’ve been needing to revisit in that area and finally move forward again, as you said. So what’s interesting is I think that stations direct just next to within about a day or two of the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, right? Is that correct?

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah, I think so. And so, you know, both of those kind of indicate more of a push of energy forward, even if it’s not fully there yet. So you can see the Jupiter-Pluto station—Jupiter-Pluto conjunction is there on the 12th, and then the Mars direct is on the 13th there.

CB: What’s funny is that could be like a separation when it comes to children. Having to like cut somebody off when it comes to children, which then brings in a period of like forward movement in your finances again.

LS: It could, yeah. I mean, and it’ll play out different ways for different people, for sure. But yeah, Mars can be severing sometimes. Or like, “You know, I’ve paid for you for a few months, you need to get back out on your own now,” or things like that.

CB: Yeah. I mean, sometimes severing and separation, while it can be experienced as negative because nobody ever likes to end a relationship with somebody, sometimes ending a relationship with somebody in your life can be necessary or it can be constructive. Mars is like a knife. In ancient Egyptian texts, 2,000 years ago, the symbol for Mars was a knife. And a knife can be both a weapon, as well as a tool, it just depends on the context.

LS: Mm-hmm. And there may be some sort of, you know, friction or conflict in this area for you in general. But it also can mean—you know another manifestation could be like your child was having hard times, and you were, you know, taking them in and paying for them, but now they’re like getting back on their feet, that kind of thing.

CB: Right. Yeah, maybe the issue in their life if suddenly being alleviated or has receded in some sense.

LS: Exactly.

CB: Okay. All right, so November. One other thing?

LS: Let’s see. So we’ve got the Jupiter-Pluto station. Sorry, the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction Mars station direct. And then at the very end of the month, we do have an eclipse in Gemini, which is your 7th house of partnership. Interestingly—I’m gonna bring this in—it is two days from that Neptune station direct as well, which is in your 4th house of home and family. And for some people those may be tied in, and that’s why I’m bringing it in. But the eclipse in the 7th house, this is the part of the year where we fully transition into the eclipse series being in your 1st and 7th houses of self and other or self and partner.

CB: Right. So we’re in eclipse season with the first being a lunar eclipse on the 30th of November, and then the second, two weeks later, being a solar eclipse in Sagittarius on the 14th of December.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so all those things we were talking about earlier about balancing, rebalancing, revisiting of, you know, “Who am I? What do I need as an individual? And what am I doing with my partnerships? Or who is my partner? Or can I find a partner?” all of those things, eclipses bring beginnings and endings in those two areas for you, for about the next year/year-and-a-half. So right at the end of the year here, there’s more focus, again, on that 1st/7th axis.

CB: Yeah. So this could be representing—since it’s a lunar eclipse, the one that takes place here—it could be representing a culmination of events with respect to relationships and with respect to either romantic partnerships or business partnerships at this time. Especially something that you initiated six months earlier coming to a sort of culmination at this time, in late November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But whatever that thing is, whatever the development is that happens, it’s not all gonna happen necessarily at once. But instead, it’s something that may grow and develop over the course of the next six months before it completes the cycle and is sort of brought to completion entirely.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s opening up a window of time where relationships become more active. But then also the eclipse in Sagittarius, let’s touch on a little bit more. That’s kind of important because it’s happening in the rising sign of those with Sagittarius rising. So there’s something here related to the 1st house of self and both the mind, as well as the body for those with Sagittarius rising, where they’re laying some seeds, or setting some sort of new foundation, or starting a new beginning that may not look major or momentous at the time, but is gonna grow and develop and turn into something over the next six months, in terms of their personality or their body, that’s going to be much more significant in the long term than it might seem at first.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I’ve seen for some people changes in appearance, changes in even self-perception, and therefore, how you sort of outwardly put yourself out. I’ve seen that with people getting greater attention on themselves for some sort of recognition, because it is literally a spotlight on you.

CB: One of my favorites was Obama’s first term in office. He got elected when he was having, I believe, eclipses in his rising sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: That was back in 2008.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think I had the announcement for my first conference lecture around when there was an eclipse in my 1st house.

CB: Okay. That’s pretty good.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So, yeah, it’s sort of like shining a spotlight on you, whoever you are and whatever it is that you’re doing at this time in your life, making who you truly are and some core parts of your personality and your personal characteristics come more to the forefront and become more clear and more well-developed in your life at this point. But also, more well-defined in comparison to the people that you hold close in your life, especially your partner or any close, one-on-one relationships that you have with other people.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So this may be a spark at this time, or, you know, something that will continue to develop. It definitely won’t be like a once-and-done thing because this is starting a series.

CB: Yeah. And then this brings us to the final, major transit of the year, and perhaps the biggest transit, just from a mundane perspective of all of 2020, which is that Jupiter and Saturn complete their transits through Capricorn and through the 2nd house of finances for those with Sagittarius rising. And on the 17th of December, Saturn moves into Aquarius, where it will spend the next two years or so moving through that sign, completing its three-year transit through Capricorn and through the 2nd house of finances. And then two days later, Jupiter completes its one-year transit through Capricorn and also moves into Aquarius—where it forms a conjunction with Saturn just a couple of days later in the sky, from our perspective—on the 21st of December.

LS: Mm-hmm. So all of that hard work and attention you’ve been paying to your financial life—particularly your own finances—is going to be coming to an end here. Not that you never have to pay attention to it again, but all of the hard work is going to alleviate after this point with regard to your financial life. And then it moves into your 3rd house. And so, what we got a little taste of in the spring, from late March to July 1—when Saturn and Mars were going through Aquarius, you know, your 3rd house of siblings, short-distance travel, communications, potentially, teaching or learning—is now going to come back in a similar fashion. It’s gonna bring up some of the same themes or similar themes as in the spring, but it won’t feel as hard probably this time. And I would say that for everyone, even though for night chart people, the Saturn transit will still be more challenging than for day chart people, you know, because it’s Saturn, and Saturn does that for night chart versus day chart. Jupiter also will be coming in at the same time. And that’s pretty unique as a beginning of like a major Saturn transit because usually it’s just Saturn going on in. But Jupiter is going to help expand and bring opportunities to that area of your life, even if you have to simultaneously work hard there, too.

CB: Yeah. So especially in the following year, what we have is the inauguration of at least a year-long period of both sort of trying to find balance between growth versus contraction when it comes to this area of your life, in terms of topics such as siblings and your relationship with your siblings, or things that are going on in the lives of your siblings. That can be extended to other family members, like aunts or uncles or nieces or nephews.

LS: And cousins, yeah.

CB: Cousins. That’s a much more concise term than listing all of the possible permutations of extended family. Also, communication and sort of a period of growth, but also, a period of putting in more work to restructure how you communicate and how you put your voice out into the world.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And maybe there’s like little personality or characteristic things that you do that are like ticks, that maybe you’ve not dealt with in the past, but this would be a great time to start trying to exercise discipline in order to communicate more effectively.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Also, what else, 3rd house matters?

LS: Courses of study I’ve seen with both 3rd, as well as 9th house transits. So, you know, particularly with Saturn there—because it is like a two-and-a-half-to-three-year transit—you could engage a serious course of study. Whether that’s actually going back to a university or simply doing something more either informal or shorter, on your own, studying something, learning something is pretty typical for Saturn there.

CB: Yeah. Two other areas that are connected, that I wanted to mention as well—even though they seem minor, they could be very notable for people anytime they have major, outer planet, 3rd house transits—are just mobility, and also, your neighborhood or your neighbors, because sometimes the idea or the concept of your neighbors and your neighborhood can become more important sometimes than it should be at other times in your life. And if that was gonna happen, then this would be the period in which it would happen for those with Sagittarius rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure.

CB: So sometimes that can be like obstacles coming up in terms of your neighbors or your neighborhood, or obstacles in terms of mobility and having greater restrictions, but also, finding and seeking out opportunities for growth in that area, even if you’ve run into obstacles. Like if you were having problems with like one set of neighbors, maybe by reaching out to other neighbors, you also develop a friendship with somebody else at the same time.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. And I’ve seen, you know, with the Scorpio rising people, with Saturn going through their 3rd in the past while, so many people replacing their cars, which sounds so mundane. But it literally is your mobility, how you get from one place to another in terms of short distances, and so, it can be as simple as that as well. And with Jupiter, as well as Saturn there, there will be opportunities, even if you need to sort of revise that, like, “Oh, my car is really old. I should get a new one.” But you might have the opportunity to do so more than if it was just Saturn transiting there.

CB: Yeah. So there may be some obstacles and difficulties in terms of mobility or short-distance travel, but also, some opportunities for growth.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But a lot of this—this is just starting at the end of December, and we’re talking about transits that, for the most part, are going to be lasting for the next year or two after this point. So that’s taking us into the forecast for like 2021 and the forecast for 2022. So we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves, and we might have to save the rest of this for next time.

LS: Yeah, I think probably so.

CB: Okay. Well, thank you for joining me for this forecast for Sagittarius and Sagittarius rising for 2020. I appreciate it.

LS: You’re welcome.

CB: And thanks everybody who joined us in the livestream for all of your comments. I really appreciate it. It’s kind of hard to do both, and like predict the future and like read comments and follow everything closely. But I followed a little bit of the discussion, and I appreciate it. I wish you all good luck. If you’re here on the livestream, please be sure to give this video a thumbs up or a like on YouTube to help other people find it. Please be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, so you can get notifications about other episodes of the podcast in the future. And when I post the recording of this, if you wanna leave a comment, to share something that’s been happening in your life that matches some of these transits or that you’re anticipating coming up, we’d love to hear from you.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we need to mention a few things before we wrap up this episode and this livestream for the day. First, all of the artwork and the calendars that I’ve been sharing in this episode come from our Astrology Calendar 2020 Poster Bundle. We have three posters that are a like wall calendars, that you can use in order to track the transits for the entirety of the next year at a glance. And it basically tells you when the planets change signs, when the New Moon or Full Moon or eclipses take place, as well as when planets station retrograde or direct, so it’s super-useful for seeing all that stuff at a glance. And there’s also a bonus poster this year that lists the significations of the 12 houses, so you know exactly what areas of your life are getting activated when the planets move into different signs. So you can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. In addition, Leisa and I just released our 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report just a week or two ago. And in that we went through each of the next 12 months, and we picked out one lucky date, or one auspicious day and time to begin different types of ventures and undertakings using the principles of electional astrology. And we actually found—despite some of the difficult transits next year—we found some really good dates for launching things, like businesses or weddings or taking a major journey or a trip or other things like that. You can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. And finally, we also have to thank the patrons who support the podcast through our page on Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. In particular, thanks to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, and the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, available at Honeycomb.co. There’s two major astrology conferences happening this year. The first one, the biggest one is by the International Society for Astrological Research, which is hosting a conference in or near Denver, Colorado, from September 10-14. You can find out more information about that ISAR2020.org. And the Northwest Astrological Conference is happening in Seattle, Washington, May 21-25, 2020. And you can find out more information about that at NORWAC.net. So if you’d like to become a patron and get early access to new episodes or other bonus content, like our private Electional Astrology Podcast each month, then you can sign up at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right. I think that’s it for this episode. So thanks again for doing this with me. I’m gonna take a break. And then if I can, with any luck, I’ll get it together and do Capricorn rising later tonight. And then all that’s gonna be left after that is Aquarius and Pisces.

LS: Yeah. Getting in the home stretch, or the final countdown, as it were.

CB: Yeah. We are getting in the final stretch of doing 12 rising sign horoscopes, which turned out to be a much bigger job than I thought it would be.

LS: Yeah, talking about each one for the whole year is a decent bit.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Well, there’s a lot going on, but it’s been fun. And I appreciate everyone who’s been following this. So thanks a lot, guys, for joining us today, and thanks for watching. And we will see you next time.

LS: Yeah.

CAPRICORN AND CAPRICORN RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Capricorn and Capricorn rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim.

LS: Hey, Chris.

CB: Hello. And we’re gonna be looking at your astrological transits for the next 12 months. So this is the 10th one that I’ve done. I’ve been doing a whole marathon of these all week. And somehow, with the eclipse just happening in my 6th house, I made myself sick, so I’m actually losing my voice. So Leisa’s gonna help me and take over a little bit more than in previous horoscopes. Thanks for doing that.

LS: Yeah, you’re welcome. And we’ll see how this goes.

CB: And we’ll see how this goes. Thanks everybody whose joined us in the livestream. We are livestreaming this recording today, straight to YouTube. So why don’t we go ahead and jump right into it?

LS: Okay. Sounds good.

CB: All right. Let’s jump right into the astrology of January. So today is already January 10 when we’re recording this. So fortunately, cuz it’s taking forever, we’re already kind of in the thick of some of the major astrological transits of this month.

LS: Definitely. So there’s a lineup of three kinds of major things all in a row right now this weekend. So, first, we have the Cancer eclipse that’s happening today, January 10. Then later today, Uranus stations direct at 2° of Taurus. And then, finally, on the 12th, on January 12, there’s a Saturn-Pluto exact conjunction, which has been building, but it comes to the exact conjunction point on January 12. So those are three things that could be major in themselves, but we have them all clustered together sort of in early-to-mid-January here. And so, these are really the big pieces that dominate the month of January for 2020 for you. And for you, Cancer—since you’re Capricorn rising—that’s going to be happening in your 7th house of partnership. That can be personal partnership or business partnership, or anything else you do with a heavy, one-on-one concentration. So if you work one-on-one with people a lot, it could affect that area as well. So eclipses tend to bring major beginnings and endings. They’re kind of chapters in a story. It’s not usually that every single eclipse will bring a major beginning or ending, since they do happen in about six-month intervals, but there is about a year-and-a-half period where they’re happening in two opposing houses in your chart. And during that period—particularly clustered around the eclipses—it’s more likely a time for those changes to come about, or, you know, for you to either start something new with regard to that area, or have some sort of culmination or even mini-culmination. So, for you, this is partnership with the Cancer eclipse in your 7th house.

CB: Right. So there’s some sort of culmination of events that have been building up, especially over the course of the past six months, since there was last a solar eclipse in Cancer. And then that would have been laying the seeds or the foundation for something in the area of relationships and partnership, which has finally grown and matured and developed and come to a point of just becoming more visible as a significant part of your life at this time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And of course we had a solar eclipse, which occurred just a couple of weeks ago in Capricorn. That was the last solar eclipse in Capricorn, right?

LS: The most recent one. We’ll have another.

CB: We’ll have another?

LS: Yeah, we’ll have another this summer. That’ll be the last one.

CB: The lunar eclipse.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. But there won’t be another solar eclipse. Which means that two weeks ago, there was also some new six-month phase that just recently opened, of laying the seeds or the foundations for something that will grow in your life, especially with respect to your body or your mind or your character, that will grow and develop over the course of the next six months until it eventually reaches a culmination over the summer, during that lunar eclipse, whenever it is. In like June or July.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And eclipses in your 1st and 7th house are kind of a series of changes or shifts with regard to both you, which can be, like you said, Chris, the body or the mind. It can be things about your sense of yourself as an individual person, what matters to you the most when you’re not focusing as much on other people in your life. And so, it can also be changes in appearance or things of that nature. But it’s basically how you present yourself or more attention on yourself as an individual. And so, the eclipses have been bouncing back and forth between your 1st and 7th houses of self and partner, because shifts in either of those areas can easily, of course, affect the other. And so, this one’s gonna be in your 7th. So that could be anything from changes in your actual relating with a partner, or, you know, meeting a partner or something like that. But it could also be things just having to do with your partner’s life, if your partner is going through some major changes of their own and something of that nature. So that’s that piece, shortly followed up by the Uranus station in Taurus. So Uranus is stationing at 2.5° of Taurus, and a Uranus transit is an approximately seven-year-long period. And so, for you, that’s happening in your 5th house, which has to do with children, sexuality, creative expression, if you do artistic things, or things just having to do with fun, going out and enjoying yourself. And so, the Uranus transit through the 5th house—Uranus’ signature is sort of unexpected changes or things kind of coming out of left field. It basically keeps you on your toes. And sometimes people can find Uranus shifts kind of jarring, but it can also bring unexpected good things into your life as well, and cause you to sort of shake up your routines in whatever area that it’s going through. So, for you, that is your 5th house, like I said. If you have children, that can be some sort of unexpected change with regard to what they’re going through or something like that. I always actually like to tell clients, if Uranus is transiting their 5th house and they’re not looking to have children, to be more careful during those years, just because, you know, it’s the nature of the unexpected in the children area.

CB: Right. Unexpected children.

LS: Yeah, exactly. Which can happen. Yeah, so other things. You could innovate. You know, this could be really good for you if you do creative work, that sort of thing.

CB: Incorporating like new technology, or seeking out new and innovative ways to like express yourself in different ways.

LS: Definitely.

CB: Also, different hobbies. Like finding off-beat hobbies or ways to bring pleasure—what’s the other term—into your life. Like pastimes or hobbies.

LS: Just enjoyment.

CB: Things you do for enjoyment.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah. So this is the area where that’s happening. So that’s a long transit. But we’re just pointing it out here because when Uranus stations that’s particularly noticeable. Because when a planet stations, it temporarily emphasizes whatever energy it expresses. And so, there’ll be two stations this year, and this is the first out of the two.

CB: Yeah. So it’s gonna be especially relevant if you have anything at 2° of the fixed signs, which is 2° Taurus, but also, 2° Leo, 2 Aquarius, or 2 Scorpio.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: In which case, if you did, it could be activating some placement in one of those houses, which could relate to financial matters or friends or other people’s money.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So that’s the second out of the three clustered here in mid-January. The third one is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction. And that one is actually very focal to you because it’s a conjunction in Capricorn, and Capricorn is your 1st house if you’re Capricorn rising. And so, that’s the house of your self. When major transits go through there—which either Saturn or Pluto would be, much less both of them together—it’s a major restructuring of who you are as a person, sometimes identity pieces. You know, the 1st house can be all-encompassing and a little bit general, but it’s just because it’s so important to who you are. And so, sometimes when Saturn transits through the 1st, or Pluto transits through the 1st, it’s sort of a major restructuring of who you think you are in the world and other life structures as well, you know. So it can even be career or partnership because this kind of just all about you.

CB: Yeah. And part of that transit, the Pluto transit started back in 2008, when Pluto first moved into Capricorn and into the rising sign for those with Capricorn rising. But then more recently, two years ago, in December of 2017, is when Saturn moved into that sign and returned back to its home sign of Capricorn and began transiting their 1st house of body and mind and character.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So some major restructurings in those areas. Sometimes it can bring up some challenges for health matters or some setbacks or some obstacles that you have to deal with.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I know sometimes people like lose weight under like a Saturn transit through the 1st house. It’s one of the ways that I rectify birth charts because that can sometimes come up for positive reasons or negative reasons. The positive reasons can be getting more disciplined about your health and physical vitality. In other ways, it can be getting more disciplined about your character and like how you express yourself, or how you appear to the world in general.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that transit’s been going on for two years now, and we’re entering the final phases of it. And part of the backdrop for this year, though, that’s really important to mention is that those aren’t the only two planets, outer planets, transiting through that sign. But actually Jupiter entered Capricorn just a month or so ago and will be spending the entirety of the year there as well, which is nice—especially for the people with day charts—in kind of balancing out the heavy Saturn and Pluto transits that have been going on in that sign for quite a while now.

LS: Definitely. So this can be, for a lot of people, you’ve been thinking about restructuring something major in your life. Or you’ve been working on a health challenge or a planned surgery or things like that. I’ve talked to some people with Capricorn rising who have stuff like that going on. But this is going to be a beneficial influence that kind of, as you said, helps balance out the seriousness of the Saturn and Pluto. It also brings more opening and opportunity to that area of your life. And so, you might find it easier at this time, if you’ve been trying to implement major changes or major restructuring in your life, or you were just planning on doing so in the coming year. This’ll help make that more beneficial for you, and also, help it not feel quite as heavy.

CB: Yeah, definitely. So it brings much more of a sense of like optimism and growth and expansion to this year, compared to other years in your life.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: Especially compared to the past two years that Saturn’s been transiting through that sign kind of on its own.

LS: Yeah. And so, the big picture is that Saturn will finish this transit of your 1st house in December of this year. So you’ve got just a little bit left. You know, this is the third year out of three. And Saturn and Pluto aren’t new influences here. It shouldn’t be really shocking or anything completely out of left field, but there may be a peak in activity because they’re conjoining in January.

CB: Okay. All right. So I think those are the major transits happening in January.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And some of those are like long-term transits that are gonna be in affect most of the year, like Saturn transiting through the 1st house, or Jupiter transiting through the 1st.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. Let’s move on to February.

LS: Okay. Sounds good. So, February, one of the big shifts is going to be—or probably the most major shift is Mars going into Capricorn in the middle of the month, around February 16. And so, Mars is then joining those three other planets transiting in your 1st house of self. So there’s just a bigger pileup with regard to, you know, whatever your focusing on at that time, for major work on yourself. That can be, you know, health matters. That can be how you present yourself. It can just be long-term things like we’ve been talking about of major life restructuring, but Mars can bring a sense of greater energy to whatever efforts you’ve been trying to do. But depending on, you know, the specifics of your chart, and whether you were born at day or at night. It could bring irritability as well—impatience to do whatever you’re trying to do—because Saturn is kind of the long-term effort and Mars wants things done right now. And so, there can be a little bit of a frustration with this transit, even though it will also probably energize you to do whatever you’ve been trying to work on.

CB: Yeah. So maybe careful about a propensity—during this month-long transit of Mars through the 1st—of a greater tendency towards irritability, towards impulsiveness, impulsive action, or just being sort of agitated.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It can be good for getting things done and like making a concerted effort. But yeah, be careful about the potential—like Mars can be just a little bit too impetuous and can sometimes cause people to get into trouble or get into arguments more than they might otherwise.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And also, you know, be careful about your health maybe a little bit more than usual during that six-week transit because the 1st house can have to do with that.

CB: Yeah, with the body, as well as the mind.

LS: Mm-hmm. Exactly.

CB: All right. So that transit starts on the 16th, but it’s gonna last all the way until the end of March. Until March 30.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So, weirdly, right about the same time that it starts, on the 16th of February, there’s a simultaneous other transit that’s happening in parallel, which is that Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces conjunct Neptune.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is the first-of-three Mercury retrograde periods this year, and it’s happening in the 3rd house—for those with Capricorn rising—of communication, siblings, and short-distance travel.

LS: Yeah. So a Mercury retrograde can cause you to reevaluate anything in that area, whatever it’s touching. So that could be reevaluation of your relationship with one of your siblings, if you have siblings. Or any other assorted relatives also go in the 3rd house. So cousins and things like that. Also, your neighbors. If you need to work anything out with neighbors, this could also be a revisiting of that issue. It will be just for a few weeks, so it’s not a major transit, but it does dip a tiny bit back into Aquarius at the end. So while it’s in the Pisces house, in your 3rd house of siblings, short-distance travel, etc., it is with Neptune. And while we’re not really gonna be focusing on Neptune too much in this forecast, Neptune is a long-term influence that’s been transiting in Pisces, in your 3rd house. And so, that can bring a bit of nebulousness to things regarding any of those topics. Either it can be some confusion with regard to one of your siblings or your relationship with them, or there could be some sort of uncertainty with regard to interactions with neighbors and that sort of thing. So just keep an eye out for that because this Mercury retrograde will be with Neptune. And that’s true for everyone, but this is the area it’ll be focused on for you. Then when it stations direct, it’s gonna be stationing direct just at the end of Aquarius, which is for you the 2nd house of your income and possessions. And so, they’re not always tied together when a Mercury retrograde touches two houses during its time backwards, but it can, for some people, connect possibly one of those 3rd house topics and something about your own finances. Either, you know, lending a sibling money, for instance, or some sort of interaction with a neighbor that requires you to spend money on something, that sort of thing.

CB: Right. So it looks like Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius on the 4th of March and then it stations direct in Aquarius in the 2nd house of finances on the 9th of March.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s activating those two topics. Be careful, especially in the first half of the Mercury retrograde, about miscommunications with 3rd house people, like siblings or neighbors. But then once it goes into the 2nd house, it’s revisiting and forcing you to go back and finish something or revise something with respect to financial matters.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So, yeah, that’s wrapped up by the second week of March and then Mercury starts moving forward.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But what’s interesting is that it seems to queue up some other financial transits that actually begin later in March in the same sign.

LS: Yeah, definitely. So it’s kind of an interesting March where Mercury stations direct near the beginning of the month. And then later in the month, about the third week, Saturn enters Aquarius for just a few-month preview of its transit through your 2nd house of income and finances. And then Mars, just a bit later in March, also enters your 2nd house. So there’s gonna be a lot of attention moving towards that area. So even though the Mercury retrograde will maybe wrap up something smaller when it goes direct with regard to finances in your life, there’s gonna be more attention paid coming up. And when Saturn enters your 2nd house of income that’s going to give you—give all of us a little preview of what the Aquarius transit will be about, because Saturn transits are normally two-and-a-half -to-three-years-long. And that will come in full force starting in December, but from late March until July 1, we do get a preview of the first couple of degrees of Aquarius. And so, for you, this is gonna be a time when you start to need to think more carefully about your finances. Maybe you’re restructuring something about your finances. You are trying to get a higher-paying job. You’re trying to figure out how you can manage your finances better, any of those type of topics.

CB: Yeah. So a major restructuring of finances. Sometimes it can be a more conservative period for finances. It’s like there’s some years where things are just rapid growth and everything’s great, but there’s other years where you have to be a little bit more careful, or things are a little bit more lean. And this seems to be inaugurating a period like that.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Except it’s just kind of a preview of it for this three-month period, from late March through late June.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But it’s interesting that it begins with a Mars-Saturn conjunction right at the end of March. Which almost seems to imply—whether you have a day chart or a night chart—that there’s some challenge or obstacle that might arise at this time that forces you to address it and deal with it, especially in the financial sector.

LS: Yeah. And this can easily be something like, you know, you lose some, you know, piece of how you make your income. You know, like losing a job would be, I guess, worst-case scenario. That’s certainly not gonna be true for everyone, but it’s that kind of thing, or, conversely, like a greater expenditure that comes out of nowhere. Like your car breaks down and you need to replace it, but you weren’t expecting to put that money out right now, that kind of thing. So while this Aquarius transit does begin with something that’s probably more stressful—either an external thing, or at the very least, just an internal stress of something about your financial picture—when it does come back later in the year, I don’t want this to scare you as a preview. It’ll actually be probably better for most people when it comes back later because it will be joined at that point by Jupiter, instead of Mars. And so, while this preview will give you a sense of what will require more attention down the road, starting at the end of the year, it won’t feel exactly the same later.

CB: Right. There’s a bit more optimism and balance when the transit gets fully going in December because Saturn goes into the 2nd house at the same time that Jupiter does.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But in this early preview phase, there’s a little bit more tumultuousness in this area because of this Mars-Saturn conjunction. That’s gonna be especially true for people that have placements at 0° of the fixed signs, like 0° of Aquarius, especially, where the Mars-Saturn conjunction takes place. But also, to a lesser extent, like 0 Taurus, 0 Leo, or 0 Scorpio.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that’s a lot of what is important in March here.

CB: All right. So, March. And then that pretty much takes us—cuz the Saturn-Mars ingress, while it begins at the end of March, it carries through all of April.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Which takes us into that month.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So there’s April.

LS: Yeah. So April starts early in the month with a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction on April 4, and Saturn has temporarily, for a few months, moved out of your 1st house of self. So in a lot of ways, even though it’s moving its attention on, you know, being sort of sober/seriousness and that sort of thing towards your finances, it’s in some ways alleviating that feeling, to some extent, for you because you’re Capricorn rising. And so, getting Saturn temporarily out of your 1st house will probably feel like a little bit of a let-up of pressure for you. It’s not fully done. So while it’s out of your 1st house, this Jupiter-Pluto conjunction happens. And so, that sense of whatever this long-term Pluto transit has been for you since about 2008—that’s been kind of a very slow-moving but powerful push to transform something about who you are or sense of identity or something major about your life—Jupiter comes along to kind of expand that feeling or that impulse. And so, if you’ve been working on that already, this could be a time where you feel an even bigger push. Or not just feel, but you’re able to do a bigger push at this time, to keep sort of growing and expanding in the ways that you’ve been wanting to do.

CB: Yeah. So it’s kind of nice then at this point, with both Jupiter—with Saturn and Mars out of Capricorn, just leaving Jupiter to its own devices. Some of the push for growth and expansion really accelerates at this point. And Jupiter itself probably accelerates some of the push for transformation, hopefully, in positive ways, that’s coming from Pluto, when it forms this conjunction in early April. So, yeah, this is a good time to expand on things with respect to your body or with respect to your mind.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I’m trying to think of like good body things that you could be doing. Like beginning a new course of like a diet or exercise regime or something like that.

LS: Yeah, definitely. Like those Capricorn risings who haven’t been, you know, taking care of their health earlier on, this could be a long-term transit where you’re like, “No, I need to get it together for the long term, so I stay healthy as long as possible.” And so, trying new things with regard to any of those types of routines could be helpful.

CB: Yeah. It might just be worth noting that you’re not like completely out of the woods with Saturn yet, because Saturn will retrograde back into Capricorn. So if there’s a question about initiating something at this time and whether you’ll run into any setbacks in the future, there might be a little bit of like sweep up that’s gonna be due in the second half of the year, when Saturn does retrograde back into Capricorn.

LS: Yeah, definitely. That’s good advice. And one other piece of advice I would say is even though this should feel a little lighter for you, and you feel like you have more room to push forward or expand with less constriction on you, one thing to be careful of with Jupiter and Pluto conjoining in Capricorn, Capricorn itself is a somewhat ambitious sign. And Jupiter and Pluto together can really make you feel like you wanna grow and you wanna build. It can be very self-focused, which in some ways is very appropriate for you right now because it is in your 1st house of self. I think the caution for all of those transits in the 1st, and particularly when Jupiter and Pluto conjoin, is to try not to come off as too overbearing, cuz that could easily happen with that kind of like really ambitious-push feeling going on.

CB: Right. All right. So later in the month, the only other major outer planet transit is that Pluto stations retrograde in Capricorn, which is an intensification of some of the same energies.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we can skip over that and move to May.

LS: Mm-hmm. So, May, Saturn stations retrograde just about 2° of Aquarius on May 11. So basically, since late March, it’s come into your 2nd house of income and finances. It’s caused you to focus a little bit more seriously on that area. And now, anytime a planet stations—as we were talking about before—it does just intensify whatever that energy is about. And so, for a Saturn station, it can temporarily feel like a more serious point in time, where whatever issues have been brought up for you in your financial life, it’s kind of front and center in front of you. So that’s going to be retrograding. It’s only stationing now to retrograde, to go back into Capricorn, since it’s only made it through the first two degrees of Aquarius. But that’s kind of one major piece of what’s going on here.

CB: Okay. Yeah, so this is gonna be the final time of really figuring out what that long-term Saturn transit’s gonna be about, like you said. And for some people that’s gonna be like a light restructuring of financial matters. For other people, it might be a more intense, long-term period of having to deal with some setbacks or some problems in that area and figuring out how to adjust accordingly.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It’s interesting though that the Mars transit ends just a couple of days later. So it seems like this is a turning point. Cuz Mars then leaves the 2nd house, Saturn stations, where it’s gonna be the slow move to move out of the 2nd house. So it seems like, definitely, for the people with day charts, that there’s some alleviation of whatever the issue was, at least temporarily at this point, around the 14th of May. Or, 13th of May, when Mars leaves that sign and goes into Pisces.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So then Mars will go into Pisces, which goes back into your 3rd house of siblings, neighbors, short-distance travel. Not really a major transit, but it does get out of your financial house. Then Jupiter stations retrograde and Venus stations retrograde right around the same time, in the middle of May. So the Jupiter station retrograde isn’t a huge deal. The Venus retrograde will be happening in your 6th house. Interestingly, that could also have crossover with health things, just like the 1st. I would say 1st, 6th, and 12th can touch on health matters. So it can be a revisiting of something around your health routines. The 6th house also governs things like coworkers, employees, if you have any, and generally things about your work routines, whether that’s things you’re getting done at home or things you’re getting done in the workplace. And so, a Venus retrograde, like any retrograde, can cause you to just revisit any of those topics, kind of go back over and see what’s not working. The Venus retrograde—which sometimes has to do more with people coming back—you know, in a general signification sense, Venus retrogrades are sometimes known for like ex- relationships coming back or that sort of thing. That could be true for anyone, but it’s also happening in your 6th. And so, that could be something like people you used to work with or old employees coming back to you. It’s not necessarily the case that in any of these situations that you need to stick with them for the long haul, because sometimes Venus retrogrades are more like, you know, you, at first, are like, “Oh, I remember that. That was so nice.” But particularly with one, Venus is actually stationing retrograde exactly square Neptune. So it kind of intensifies further or exacerbates further the potential for not seeing things clearly with regard to whoever comes back or whatever you’re revising at that time. And that can go both ways. You can either see people sort of more idealistically than you should, or conversely, you could only see the problems with people you work with or who work for you.

CB: One scenario I’m thinking of is like revisiting an old job and like thinking about whether you should take an old job again, and having maybe an unrealistic image in your head of like how great it was before. But then you like go back to it and remember that it wasn’t as great as you thought it was.

LS: Definitely.

CB: Or alternatively—cuz the 6th house is also employees. So there could be a similar scenario with like somebody who works for you or comes back to work for you.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: One of the things you might wanna be careful about during this time is that with Mars also ingressing into the 3rd house of communication during this time, it could be a period in which you could be a little bit more combative verbally. Or you could be a little bit more—forthright isn’t the right term, but it’s a similar term.

LS: Like brusque?

CB: Brusque?

LS: Yeah.

CB: Yeah. And like maybe getting into trouble in the workplace as a result of maybe being a little bit too brusque in your communication style.

LS: Yeah, that could be. So Venus retrogrades from that point forward and into June. So it is oftentimes best—whatever your sort of reviewing or, you know, thinking back on at that time—it is best if you can, if it’s possible to hold off on any decisions you might need to make regarding any of those things until after it does go direct. Because it’ll station direct right near Neptune stationing direct, this particular Venus retrograde is way more Neptunian than usual. So there could be, you know, lack of clarity kind of floating around for everyone involved really.

CB: Sure. And then, also, did you mention like health stuff?

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah, so the 6th, you know, similarly has some overlap to the 1st house because they can both be involved in health. So that’s kind of interesting for you, with Capricorn rising, since there’s kind of a focus in two ways at that time.

CB: Yeah. Just some potential nebulousness surrounding health issues around that time, especially around the time of the station as a potential.

LS: Yeah. Or having to go back for a second opinion or something like that, reviewing something.

CB: Yeah. So you can think back to eight years ago, the last time that Venus went retrograde in Gemini, in the same sector in your chart, and that could give you some preview of what this Venus retrograde could be somewhat about.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So I believe that takes on to June.

LS: All right. So, June. One of the first things that happens in June is the first eclipse in Sagittarius. And so, we’ve been in a Cancer/Capricorn series of eclipses for about a year now, and there’s still a couple more left here this summer. But there’s also this stray Sagittarius one that kind of moves in and starts off that series that will begin more in full force at the end of the year, in November and December. So this is the very first one in Sagittarius. And so, eclipses can sometimes bring beginnings and endings with regard to the areas they’re happening in for you. And the Sagittarius one, for Capricorn rising, is going to be in your 12th house, which is kind of a hidden house. It has to do with things that happen behind the scenes. Sometimes, you know, time that’s needed to be alone, sometimes reasons that you’re taken out of the everyday, you know, day-to-day life, such as if you get sick, so you have to be home for a while. The 12th house does govern other things that are sort of even more secluded, like hospitals and prisons and things like that. But it’s just sort of something that’s a hidden area for you. So with the eclipse happening here, you know, it’s interesting. I will double-up and say, you know, everyone with Capricorn rising should, you know, not be fearful, but do keep a handle on any health things that are coming up for you, because the 1st, 6th, and 12th are those three houses that can touch on that. So for some people that could mean like a period of time where you get sick and you need to like stop working, you know, temporarily.

CB: Sure. Yeah, having a lunar eclipse—which is like a Full Moon, a super-charged Full Moon shining a spotlight on the 12th house—can bring just greater attention to both physical, as well as mental health.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And maybe if there’s anything that you need to be addressing or haven’t been addressing, this might be time when you start to put greater attention on that area of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Other topics associated with the 12th house are things like people that you don’t get along with in your life. It could bring greater attention to that area of your life and needing to resolve or address some of the issues that you have with those people.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: The 12th is also the place that has to do with instances where we sometimes undermine ourselves. And if there are areas in your life where you’ve been undermining yourself, it might force you to focus on those area more, in order to see if you can stop doing that or manage it a little bit more constructively than you have in the past.

LS: Yeah, for sure. Any movements in the 12th house—particularly more major ones like an eclipse—can kind of shine a spotlight on things. You could have a skewed perspective in some way in the 12th house. You know, something about your subconscious, where we all have like, you know, maybe at least one thing where we don’t necessarily see completely clearly in that topic. And so, it can just sort of be like, “Oh, right. That’s something that’s activated for me right now.” That won’t be for everyone, but for some people that might come up. And I would also say, you know, you’re only getting the 12th house eclipse now, not the 6th. But since there was a retrograde as well through the 6th, and then at the end of the year, the eclipses will be happening in the 12th and the 6th. This is starting to bring your attention to the balance in your life of work and rest. I see that a lot when there’s eclipses in the 6th and the 12th. People are kind of struggling—not always struggling, but trying to figure out how to re-balance those topics in their life, and oftentimes, for many people, it is because they’re overworking. And so, they need to, you know, start to—what are you laughing at?

CB: I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

LS: This is actually not a pointed comment.

CB: Okay. Well, I just recorded 10 horoscopes in a row. And these eclipses are falling in my 6th and 12th houses.

LS: Right.

CB: And I feel like that a little pointed.

LS: Well, it just happens to be true without me actually saying it with the motivation of being pointed. No. No, I have actually—I know, it’s funny. But it may be true for you at this time, but also, I’ve seen that with tons of people really, you know, struggling. I’m sorry. You’re making me laugh. I’ve seen that a lot when people—you know, with clients when they have eclipses in their 6th and 12th. And it’s not always from becoming sick, although sometimes it is. But even if it’s not from that, it’s often a sense of being burnt out or feeling stretched to your limit and realizing you can’t work 24/7. And sometimes with the eclipses, I am not someone who says, you know, “This has only happened,” to bring it to your attention, if you got, you know, sick at this time. But nonetheless, these do bring up that balance for you. And so, you may have to like figure out, like, “Actually, I’m working too much. How do I take alone time for myself?” which is a 12th house topic. “How do I rest enough, so that I go back into the world refreshed after that?” that kind of thing.

CB: Sure. So that’s a good keyword. So the balance between work versus rest.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And so, this is something that they’re just inching into. Like you said, we have the Venus retrograde, and then we’ve got this eclipse here. But it’s really later this year, around November and December, that this eclipse series will fully get going. And that’ll be that shift towards that topic, and that axis of houses will be much more, not dramatic, but much more firmly in place at that point.

LS: Mm-hmm. Much more active later. So this is starting it off. So giving you a sense of what that’s about.

CB: Okay. All right. So that’s just like one eclipse—that we’ve just spent a while talking about—at the very beginning of June.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Not the only eclipse.

LS: No, there’s like three. So usually there’s two every six months. But sometimes when the nodes are shifting between signs, then you can get like a stray one that’s, you know, kind of wide out, in one direction or another. And so, you have three. Anyway, we have that one in Sagittarius, in your 12th house of hidden places. Then we have later in the month a Cancer eclipse on June 21, and that is going to be in your 7th house of partnership. We talked about that earlier. This is gonna be the last Cancer eclipse in that area of your life.

CB: Yeah. So this is a solar eclipse. So it’s a New Moon, a super-charged New Moon, in your 7th house of relationships. But what’s weird about it is it actually happens around the same time as the second Mercury retrograde of the year, which is also in Cancer. And that begins on the 18th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So Mercury goes retrograde in your 7th house of relationships and partnerships. So there could be some need to go back and revisit something involving your partnerships—whether it’s a romantic partnership or a business partnership—potentially to reassess it or renegotiate something in that area of your life. And for whatever reason, during the process of doing that, that ends up laying a new foundation, or sets the seeds of something that will grow and develop in terms of relationships for you over the course of the next six months.

LS: Yeah, definitely. So I normally don’t put a ton of emphasis on Mercury retrogrades because they happen three to four times a year. They’re just a few weeks at a time. Unless Mercury is activated for you through some sort of timing technique—like annual profections or something like that—they’re not usually super-major. But in this case, like you just mentioned, it is tied into the same exact area in your area as the eclipse. And so, it may be a more important revisiting this time because it’s tied into, you know, potentially something that’s a bigger change. And this retrograde will actually start in Cancer and end in Cancer. So all the attention is in Cancer, in your 7th house here.

CB: Yeah. And so, during the course of that Venus eventually stations direct on the 25th of June, and ends its retrograde cycle in the 6th house of work and health.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then shortly after that, the last major shift that happens is that Mars moves into Capricorn on the 27th of June.

LS: In Aries.

CB: Oh, Aries, okay. Mars moves into Aries, which is the fourth whole sign house and the sector of the home and the family and the living situation for those with Capricorn rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. You know, normally, a Mars transit is only going to stay in a certain house of your chart for six weeks, but this year is a little unusual because Mars is slowing down to go retrograde later in the year. It will station retrograde in September, direct in November. The upshot of that is that Mars is going to stay in Aries for six months, instead of six weeks, which is a pretty big difference. And so, for the entirety of the second half of 2020, the planet Mars—which has to do with assertion, self-will, sometimes conflict or tensions—is going through your house of home and family. So that could bring a lot more energy towards the private area of your life. That could pertain to your actual living situation, like your house or your apartment. It could pertain to things involving family members, particularly parents or your relationship with your parents, or just, you know, things involving anyone else you live with at home. And so, Mars transits there—it’s a very active influence, particularly in Aries. It’s not a very gentle influence. Usually, you can want peace and quiet, or most people do in their home. And so, this is gonna be more something needs your energy. You need to fix something, maybe, with the Mars transit there. You might, you know, have an argument with someone you live with, that kind of thing.

CB: Yeah. So Mars can generally indicate a period of like strife or conflict or at least tension in the area that it’s transiting. So for here, in this context, it’s the home and the living situation and the parents. It could create a kind of tumultuous situation in terms of your living situation for a few months. That’s going to be particularly important during the two stations, especially when Mars actually stations retrograde in September. Especially if people have placements around 28° of Aries, which is the actual degree it stations, or, to a lesser extent, 28° of the other three cardinal signs: Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, for sure. And this will differ a bit, depending on the specifics of your birth chart. It won’t be the same for everyone. There will be more tensions for people who were born during the day. Whereas if you were born at night, it might just be more like you have to expend more energy in that area of your life or attention, but it won’t necessarily be like a super conflict.

CB: Yeah. It could just be like doing a lot more work at home, or like initiating some sort of major construction project or something like that.

LS: Yeah, exactly. So it’s still energy, but, you know, it depends on, you know, the specifics. Anyway, so we’re kind of dwelling on it now for a moment—it will become more important later—but this is when that transit begins. And so, the themes related to that in your area of home and family may start to arise at this time.

CB: Yeah. All right. And that takes us into July.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And the major stuff in July happens largely right at the top of the month.

LS: Yeah. So right away, the first day of July, July 1, Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn, into your 1st house of self. So that transit we were talking about earlier in the year—starting off the year in January—it did leave in late March. You got a little bit of letup in terms of that serious focus on transforming, you know, who you are in the world or major changes in your life, or, you know, to your health routines or things like that. It’s coming back now for the last time, that is the final stretch, from July until about mid-December. And in terms of, you know, the bigger picture, it’s been for about three years. It’ll be a three-year transit by the time it’s done. And so, this isn’t that big of a deal. This is like five months left.

CB: Yeah.

LS: But it is back into your 1st house. And so, it does become central for you again.

CB: Yeah. And there’s a lunar eclipse in Capricorn immediately after that.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So both of these are repeating or reemphasizing a similar theme, which is like finishing something up and bringing something to completion and starting to see the results of a long-term series of activities that have been taking place over the course of the past two- or two-and-a-half years and really starting to see some of those efforts come to fruition. Especially in the 1st house and the sense of self and the long-term impact of those transits, in terms of either some bodily changes and changes in terms of your physicality or physical health over the past couple of years. Or, alternatively, with respect to your character or your mind and some of the characteristics that you’ve been developing and cultivating, that might be new in your life in some way.

LS: Yeah, definitely. So a lot of this will be already underway and in process well before now. Unless you have placements in very late degrees of Capricorn, then this could be more of a, you know, focal point in time. But for many people, this is something you’ve already been working on for a while. Now if you don’t see the results yet, or if you still feel—particularly once Saturn goes back into your 1st house of self—like a sense of like, you know, “I’ve been working on this forever, when is this gonna let up?” it can be a heavy-feeling transit, for sure, and for some people, more than others. Just know that Saturn transits often also pay their dividends after they’re done. And so, even if you still feel like you’re laboring at whatever this is—a major change in your life or responsibilities in your life—that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re off track because it may still pay off after the transit is finished.

CB: Sure. And it might be partially tied in, cuz it looks like the Mercury retrograde doesn’t finish until the 12th of July. So it’s kind of notable that we’re having this sudden shift in 1st house activity, but it’s kind of happening in opposition to this Mercury retrograde in the 7th house, which is causing some sort of reassessment in the area of relationships. And it may be that something that happened or is happening during this time, in June and July, in the relationship world, is forcing you to define better who you are and your sense of self and what you want out of your life, as opposed to like your partner, or as opposed to some of the close, personal relationships that you have.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And that can easily happen, you know, if you are partnered. Anytime that you redefine your sense of who you are, that can affect how you relate with a partner, or how they relate with you, cuz maybe some things change that they have to adjust to, and vice versa. If your partner has been having changes in their life and that forces you to readjust. So it is kind of like a dialectic going back and forth between these two houses for you, particularly right now.

CB: Right. All right. I like that word ‘dialectic’.

LS: Thank you.

CB: We’re using big words at this point in the horoscope.

LS: This the big-word horoscope forecast.

CB: Right. All right. That’s pretty much it for July in terms of the major transits. It’s just those two major Capricorn shifts at the beginning, Mercury going direct. And then we move into August.

LS: Okay. So, August. Let’s see. The major thing, honestly, even though it looks like on the calendar here, visually, that there’s lots going on, many of these are quick, inner planet transits. So the biggest-picture thing that’s happening in August is going to be Uranus stationing for the second time out of two for 2020. Uranus is stationing on August 15, and it will be stationing retrograde about 10°-almost-11° of Taurus. And so, for you, the topics we brought up at the top of the year, in January, with regard to unexpectedness or ups and down or, you know, innovation with regard to 5th house matters—which is children, sexuality, creative expression, things like that, or things you do for fun—this is another point when Uranus stations in the middle of August that there may be an intensification of whatever is coming up for you around that. And that’s gonna be particularly so if you do have fixed sign placements around 10°-11°. So any planets at 10° of Taurus, or, to some extent, 10° of Scorpio, Aquarius, or Leo.

CB: Yeah, cuz this is the furthest that Uranus has gotten into this sign. So for people that have placements around 10° of fixed signs, it’s really gonna be the first time it fully hits some of those personal points in their chart.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And so, a real sense of either disruption or excitement or, in some instances, just like rebelliousness will really become much more prominent. Even though they’ve been there in the background ever since Uranus went into Taurus a year or two ago, it’s definitely gonna hit a peak point at this point for some people. Especially in the area of either children and sexuality, 5th house, 8th house, shared resources, 11th house, friends and groups, or 2nd house, finances.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. And if you’re in the dating world—you know, not everyone will be. But if you are, that can make things regarding dating—cuz that often goes in the 5th house, you know, things that aren’t established partnerships—particularly exciting, but also, potentially, up and down or just, what’s the word I’m looking for?

CB: Like unstable or short term?

LS: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

CB: Okay. Definitely. I think that’s a good delineation. So that’s really the main thing that’s happening in August. It’s just that Uranus station. There’s inner planet transits, but nothing we need to dwell on.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: That takes us to September. And September’s one of the more notable months of the year, cuz this is when Mars actually finally stations retrograde.

LS: Yeah. So the three major things that happen in September, first, on September 9, Mars does station retrograde in Aries, in your 4th house of home and family. The other couple of things we’ll touch on are Jupiter stationing direct a few days later and Saturn stationing direct near the end of the month. And so, Mars stationing retrograde in your 4th house of home and family—we mentioned that when it first went in, at the end of June. So anything, any energy you’ve been expending in the area of home and family or things involving your parents or your living situation—I don’t wanna say revisit, cuz that’s not even a strong enough term. It is that because it’s turning retrograde. And so, it’s literally going back over the area that you’ve already covered up to this point. There may be a sense—especially since Mars is retrograding at 28°—it’s almost all the way through the end of the sign. And so, you may have a feeling at this time of, like, “Oh, I’ve already done this. Everything’s handled.” And then something comes up where you have to go back over what you’ve recently been working on in that area for some reason. And so, I mean, a keyword for both the Mars-Saturn, when it went into Aquarius, and also, this Mars retrograde, is a feeling of frustration. This one is more of a, “I thought I already had that handled,” or sometimes like in anger, you know, conflict can come up at this time, when it does station direct, cuz it’s an intensification of Mars energy, which is like what you want coming up against, potentially, what someone else wants in your home or living situation. So this is going to be retrograde until the middle of November. So a little over two months. So this is the time period where you can expect to go back over whatever you’ve been doing in this area of your life and try to figure out what you need to do to reroute it to get it moving forward again, but it may take a little bit.

CB: Yeah. And just looking at the chart for when Mars actually stations retrograde, one of the things that’s interesting is that it does so pretty closely square to Saturn. So Mars stations at 28 Aries, and it’s squaring Saturn at 25° of Capricorn. So it may be bringing up some real instances or real issues surrounding like your home and living situation and family and that creating tensions with you and your sense of self and your need to differentiate your own personality from, let’s say, your family or your family background, or something about your living situation.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And squares are natural tensions. So literally, you know, something in this area is coming a little bit at odds with something in this other area, and you somehow have to handle both. And so, it’s not that you can just focus on one or the other. And that’s what creates that feeling of tension, in addition to Mars being one of the planets in this particular square. It’s interesting for Capricorn rising, that you have, you know, simultaneous to these long-term transits in your 1st—sort of redefining your sense of self or who you feel you are in the world—things going on in your 4th house of home and family or parents and your 7th house of partnership. There’s a lot of stuff going on this year with regard to who you are and other people in your life and interpersonal relations.

CB: Yeah. That really seems to be one of the big themes this year, of just that axis of like 1st house/self, 7th house/other, and 4th house/origins or foundations.

LS: Mm-hmm. And with the Saturn-Mars square in particular, with it stationing retrograde in Aries, in your 4th house, I could easily see this. It will play out differently, of course, for everyone with the specifics. But, you know, Saturn is like, “I’m working on this stuff for myself, for what I need,” but simultaneously then something crops up in your home or living situation or with your parents that you need to handle at the same time, while really wanting to continue focusing on what you’re trying to do for yourself, and somehow you have to juggle both of those.

CB: Right. That makes sense. So, yeah, that’s one of the things happening in September, Mars stationing retrograde. Additionally, we have Jupiter stationing direct in Capricorn, which is positive, especially for those with Capricorn rising. And even at the end of the month, Saturn stations direct in Capricorn and makes its final direct station, which also seems kind of notable, especially for those with Capricorn rising.

LS: Yeah. And the Jupiter stationing direct is a little bit of a saving grace this month, I think, especially just a few days after that Mars retrograde. It doesn’t negate that. They’re in different areas of life. But the Jupiter stationing direct, you know, just emphasizes further that sense of opportunity or expansion in the area of self for you, or openings, or, you know, things saying ‘yes’ instead of ‘no’. And so, that does help out quite a bit here. And that makes it direct for the rest of its time this year, I believe, right?

CB: Yeah. I mean, this is the final direct station of Saturn. And then it’s gonna be heading on its way out of Capricorn for the rest of the year, until it finally departs in mid-to-late-December.

LS: Yeah. So that’s really nice. And that’s a bright spot in this month for you in particular, with Capricorn rising, because it’s so focal to you and your chart. And Saturn stations direct near the end of the month. Even though it is a final intensification on that feeling of like responsibility, of hard work, restructuring—which is also very focal to you because that’s transiting your 1st house of self—this is the last push. This is really the last push. We did mention the last push when it went back into Capricorn, it was still retrograde. So as it stations direct here, this is really like the last bit. And it’s interesting that Jupiter and Saturn are both stationing direct in the same month here, in September, because they’re both in your 1st house of self. It’s kind of like, you know, okay—I’m not thinking of that phrase, but something going ahead, basically.

CB: Right.

LS: I’m missing a catchphrase here. Mars isn’t going ahead yet, but Saturn and Jupiter are in your 1st and that’s very helpful.

CB: Yeah. I mean, it just seems that whatever the tensions are, that are happening in the home and living situation or the parents somehow are connected to or might prompt a period of growth and development and becoming more mature with respect to the sense of self, with these two planets stationing direct in the 1st at the same time. That seems positive for the most part. I mean, I guess it depends on what specifically they’re hitting in the birth chart in terms of those degrees.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But it could be constructive in the long term.

LS: Yeah, for sure. And again, this won’t be true for everyone. Lots of different manifestations are possible. But I could see, you know, a sort of allegorical situation here where maybe you’ve been working hard to, you know, get a new job or something like that, or, you know, improve your professional situation. Even though this isn’t the professional area, per se, in your chart, sometimes that happens just with Saturn going through the 1st, greater responsibilities being put on you, and you kind of rising to the occasion, even though it takes a lot of work. And so, you could be doing that and finally attaining something new, but it causes you to have to move. And then, you know, you spend several months figuring out where you’re gonna live for the new position. That’s not gonna be true for everyone, but that’s the kind of thing it could be.

CB: Sure. All right. So I think that’s gonna take us then out of September and into the astrology of October.

LS: Okay. So, October, early on, Pluto stations direct on October 4. That’s just kind of an intensification of the same themes that we have been talking about. There is the last Mercury retrograde of the year. That starts mid-month on October 13. It stations retrograde in Scorpio, which is going to be your 11th house of friends and groups and associations, networks of people. And then, yeah, that’s the major thing actually that’s happening in October, I think. Nothing bigger that I’m missing, right?

CB: No. Mercury stations retrograde in the 11th house.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So it retrogrades back into the 12th house.

LS: Into the 10th.

CB: Most of the month is dominated by that.

LS: Uh-huh.

CB: You’re right, 10th house.

LS: Yeah.

CB: To Libra.

LS: Yeah. Yeah, so Mercury is retrograding in the house of friends and groups for you. So there may be people that you used to be friends with or old professional networks or, you know, something about your social sphere that either comes back at this time from a previous time in your life. Or there could be miscommunications with regards to people you’re friends with or something like that or groups you belong to. And so, you know, the retrograde period is just for a few weeks. It does retrograde through that 11th house and then ends at the very end of Libra, which is your 10th house of career and public reputation, supervisors, if you have one. But it’s the work house basically, the more professional work house. And so, for some people with Capricorn rising, these topics could be tied back together. Thinking of something like—you know, I don’t mean to focus so much on the job thing, but Capricorns often are focused on things like that, so maybe it’s not terrible. So maybe you get back in touch with an old friend, or they get back in touch with you, and they’re like, “Oh, there’s actually this position. Would you like to take it?” or something like that, just because the retrograde is happening through the friends’ group and through your professional sphere.

CB: And one of the things about that, that’s potentially notable and relevant and worth mentioning here, is that Mercury, when it stations, it stations at 11° of Scorpio opposite to Uranus at 18—sorry, 9° of Taurus. It almost seems like there’s something unexpected or something disruptive that comes in the sphere of friends or groups or alliances that sort of like precipitates whatever the Mercury retrograde odyssey is over the course of the next three weeks.

LS: Yeah, that could be. So, yeah, then it stations direct in Libra at the beginning of November. We’re not at November yet, but that’s basically one of the main things going on in October.

CB: Yeah. So it retrogrades back into Libra on the 27th, and then it stations direct on the 3rd of November, in very late Libra, like you said, in the 10th house of career. Around that time, actually it’s stationed square Saturn in late Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So possibly connected. This is actually like the final other cardinal house that it’s actually filling out this year. Just to like get all four of them, it seems to come very late in the year, where we have another transit that’s happening in the 10th house, so the other major sector of the chart. That means in the end we do get somewhat notable transits in all four of the angular houses for the Capricorn rising people this year.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. Yeah, so for some people—like I was talking about earlier with potential job things—you know, that could actually come up at this time more so. Even though a Mercury retrograde isn’t a huge transit, it is stationing direct then in your 10th house of the professional sphere square Saturn, transiting in your 1st house of self.

CB: Right. All right. So this is taking us into November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And aside from Mercury stationing direct on the 3rd, the other major thing that happens is that Mars stations direct at about 15° of Aries on the 13th of November, in the 4th house of the home and living situation and parents.

LS: Yeah. So we’ve talked about that a decent bit at this point. So whatever has come up for you over the past few months—since Mars was in your 4th house of home and family, and then went retrograde in particular since then, since early-to-mid-September—this now is a possibility of starting to get it straightened out. Mars moves pretty slowly when it stations direct, so it won’t be up to speed immediately. But this is the next major turning point where, you know, you can start to put plans in place for smoothing things out in this area, whatever has cropped up for you going forward, even if you can’t make it all happen immediately.

CB: Right. So at least we’re starting to see the end of that and the resolution, hopefully, of some of the challenges or tensions that have occurred in this area of the chart over the past few months.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then Mars will start making its way out of that sign between now and the early part of next year.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So you’ve still got a bit to go in terms of Mars transiting your 4th house of home and family. But this is the turning point where it can start to move more smoothly, or at least more directly and figure things out.

CB: Sure. So by this point we also enter into eclipse season again by the end of the month, starting on the 30th of November, with a lunar eclipse in the sign of Gemini, which is the 6th house of work and health.

LS: Yeah. So we talked a little bit about that earlier with the Venus retrograde in the summer in your 6th house, in Gemini. So this brings up a lot of those same themes, you know, coworkers, employees, your own work and health, health routines, that kind of thing. So eclipses are activating also what I was talking about earlier with that Sagittarius eclipse in your 12th in the summer. This now moves into that whole axis of 12th and 6th, which is, you know, work and rest. And so, this is the work part.

CB: Right. Cuz two weeks later, there’s a Sagittarius solar eclipse, which takes place on the 14th of December. So now the eclipses have fully shifted to that 6th house/12th house axis where they’ll stay for the next year or so.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so, basically, if health things come up for you, best to get them checked out. It won’t always be a reactive thing, it can also be proactive. So this can be a good time for you to start new health routines or things like that, to revisit what you’re doing to maintain your health, cuz 6th house is a lot about, you know, your daily routines, whatever they are.

CB: Yeah. And since this is a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in the 6th house, there’s probably something that you initiated in this area—either in your workplace or with respect to your health and physical vitality—that was initiated six months earlier, that starts to come to culmination at this point when you start to see some of the results of it.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s like if you started going to the gym over the summer or something, you may now start to really see the difference six months later and how it’s changed your life in some notable or significant way.

LS: Yeah, for sure. And it can go back and forth, too, cuz then six months after this, we’re gonna get the opposite. So it’s just kind of an ongoing story here with regard to those topics.

CB: Yeah. Some of the changes that happen in our lives happen more like waves rather than a singular push. Instead, it’s like multiple attempts to push something into place in your life. And then sometimes it takes a few tries until you can really get the ball rolling.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: All right. So those are the two eclipses between the 6th-and-the-12th-house-axis in late November and early December. And this finally brings us to the final month of the year, and perhaps one of the most notable or momentous, general, just mundane astrological transits of 2020, which is the much anticipated Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, which takes place in December, shortly after both of those planets move into Aquarius. With Saturn moving into Aquarius on the 17th of December and Jupiter moving, just two days later, into that sign on the 19th.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Saturn moving back into Aquarius does put that focus on work and attention and effort for the next few years, with regard to your financial picture, whether that’s how you make a living, your source of income, like your particular job, or how you manage your own finances. But whichever is coming up for you at this time, it’ll be a revisiting of that little dip we had into that area from late March to July 1. But it’ll probably be a less stressful reentry because Jupiter is also attending here. And so, when you have Jupiter and Saturn both going into your 2nd house of finances, it’s so much more helpful than Saturn alone. You know, whereas Saturn is about kind of contraction and, you know, “How am I taking care of my resources? Maybe I need to spend less.” Things like that. But Jupiter is simultaneously an expansive or opportunity-oriented transit, where that can bring openings with regard to those same topics for you. And so, it’s a little bit of a push-pull in the sense of expansion versus contraction. And this may be an ongoing thing for the next year for you as far as, you know, “How do I try to expand and be hopeful in the area of my financial life, but not expand too far, and be responsible and cautious?” It’s those kind of tensions. But they’re not the tensions of like the Mars-Saturn we saw earlier in the year, where that’s a much more frustrating feeling of like stop-and-go. This is a more gentle tension, I would say.

CB: Yeah. The attempt to seek and establish equilibrium in one’s financial life and in terms of one’s assets seems to be the major signature of this transit. And most of that won’t really be experienced fully until 2021, cuz that’s gonna be the major backdrop of the entirety of next year, of 2021. But for some reason, we get that preview of it a little bit early this year, in 2020, between March and June. And then it fully starts here in mid-December.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so this the kickoff to the next following year of those transits in your 2nd house of finances. Saturn will continue on after that, but Jupiter will just be the next year.

CB: Right. Nice. Well, that seems pretty good. And it also, as you said, completes the long-term transit of Saturn through the 1st house for those with Capricorn rising.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Which I have to feel like even if it pushes the attention towards the 2nd house, there’s some feeling of breathing a sigh of relief of having a sort of weight lifted off your shoulders by the end of the year, and sort of getting through kind of a more heavier part of one’s life and moving into something that’s a little bit lighter.

LS: Yeah, definitely. Saturn transits through the 1st can often feel similar to like Saturn returns in the sense that you have more responsibility, things feel more weighty temporarily. Maybe you’re working hard for a while without seeing the results quite yet until later. You know, things like deferred gratification, basically. And so, that’s what that Saturn transit has been like for you since December of 2017. And so, finally, at the end of this year, December 2020, you will be finishing that three-year-long transit. I wanna give everyone like graduation caps, even if you haven’t been in school, just because it’s that kind of feeling. Like, okay, we did it, you know?

CB: Yeah, I like that. Successful and a reward for like a job well done for putting in the hard work.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But really, I mean, most of this year has a little bit of that as well, with Jupiter transiting through that sign and already the initial phases of like letting up a little bit after a couple of years of more challenging Saturn transits.

LS: Yeah, that’s true. People don’t always get Jupiter transits while they’re having Saturn transits through their 1st. So that is a nice bonus this year.

CB: Definitely. All right. Well, those are pretty much the last major transits for 2020. And we’re already like getting ahead of ourselves and talking about transits for 2021, so I think that means we have to call it a day. And that’s the end of this yearly horoscope for 2020 for Capricorn and Capricorn rising.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cool. Thanks for joining me for this today, and for carrying me through this on your shoulders. I appreciate it.

LS: You’re quite welcome. I hope you can hold up for two more signs.

CB: I am not sure how I’m gonna do, but we’ll see what happens. Yeah, thanks everybody who joined us in the live chat. We had like a hundred viewers, I think, consistently. So thank you, appreciate it. Please be sure to like this video. That helps us out. Also, subscribe. And once the video is posted, post some comments. And let us know how these transits have been working out for you, especially through some of the houses that we mentioned, like Saturn through your 1st house, or other things like that, and just how it’s been going, or what you anticipate coming up in 2020.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So we have a few things we needed to mention. We’ve been using the artwork from our Astrology Calendar Posters this year. So all of the artwork that we used in this episode, we released as posters, so that you can see all of the major transits in the year at a glance, including the lunations and the retrogrades and the major outer planet conjunctions and ingresses and everything like that. So you can find out more information about those posters at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Leisa and I also released an Electional Astrology Report for 2020, where we went through and we picked out one lucky date or electional chart for each of the next 12 months, right?

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so we went through all of 2020 to pick out the best date and time period for each month to start new projects or to hold events or anything that you want to go better to kind of hedge that. So, yeah, we’ve done all that work for you, and so, we’re looking forward to people starting events with these.

CB: Cool. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. And then, finally, we have to give a shoutout to all the patrons who support the production of episodes of The Astrology Podcast through our page on Patreon. In particular, a shoutout to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. And then, finally, there are two major astrology conferences happening this year. One of them is hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, which is hosting a conference in Denver, Colorado, September 10-14, 2020. More information about that at ISAR2020.org. And then, finally, the Northwest Astrological Conference is happening in Seattle, Washington, May 21-25. More information about that at NORWAC.net. So if you’d like to become a patron and get early access to new episodes or other bonus content, you can find out more information at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right. That is it for this yearly horoscope. So thanks again. Thanks everybody for watching, and we will see you next time.

LS: Yeah. Have a great year.

AQUARIUS AND AQUARIUS RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Aquarius and Aquarius rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LS: Hey, Chris.

CB: And we’re gonna be looking at the next 12 months of your life and looking at the major astrological and planetary transits that are gonna be taking place during that time. So this is my 11th horoscope in a row, and I’m losing my voice. So Leisa has graciously hopped in to help me out, to get through the last two horoscopes of this year. So why don’t we jump right into it?

LS: Okay.

CB: All right. Thanks everybody who’s joining us in the livestream. I appreciate it. All right. So let’s start with the month of January.

LS: All right. So January has three big things happening in a row, and they’re actually happening right now—since we’re recording just a little bit into January here—but they’ll still be applicable for more than those few days. So right now, on January 10, which is when we’re recording today, there is an eclipse in Cancer. And that is in your sixth whole sign house of health and work. Then today we also had Uranus station in Taurus, at 2° of Taurus. And that is happening in your 4th house of home and family. And then, finally, on Sunday, the 12th, there is a Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, in your twelfth whole sign house of hidden places. So that’s kind of the major lineup, just starting out the year with a bang, kind of. So the first of those three things—eclipses bring beginnings and endings with regard to the areas of life that they’re touching for you. And so, for you, well, for everyone, all of the eclipses for the past year or so have been happening across the Cancer/Capricorn axis. And so, for you, that’s the 6th house and 12th house. Now we did have a Capricorn eclipse right before the month started, so that’s kind of in effect too. So basically, the Cancer eclipse is work and health. It has to do with either health things that can come up around this time or proactive changes to your health routines. The 6th does have a lot to do with daily routines of how you get things done during the day. So that can pertain to exercise routines, nutrition, and things like that. Particularly in Cancer, since that is a sign more notated for like how you take care of yourself or others. So that’s a major thing happening here. The axis that’s being activated has the overlap of health matters, I would say, with the 12th house as well, would you?

CB: Yeah. And I think one of the things we were talking about earlier was the balance between like work and rest as being a major emphasis of the 6th house/12th house axis, and that would be a major theme for the Aquarius rising people at this time.

LS: Yeah, definitely. Oftentimes, when there are eclipses or major transits going across that 6th/12th axis, there are questions that come up—even if you’ve thought about it before in your life—about how to re-balance the amount of work you do and getting adequate rest. And usually, I would say, you know, most people land more on the side of overwork or not really taking enough time for themselves to rest and have downtime to refresh themselves. And so, that’s kind of one of the major questions that’s coming up for you at this time.

CB: Right. So the other major stuff—so we’re talking about the eclipse. So we just talked about the lunar eclipse. There was also a solar eclipse in Capricorn that happened two weeks earlier, which would have been in the 12th house. So that’s activating the same axis. And then, of course, all of this is taking place within the larger backdrop of all the Capricorn transits this year, where we can see in the chart for right now, or at least for today, this huge pileup of planets in Capricorn, in the 12th house.

LS: Yeah. So the 12th house does have to do with taking time apart from your everyday life and sometimes because you need to and sometimes because you want to. And so, there could be a variety of specific circumstances surrounding that for different people, depending on your birth chart specifics. So won’t be the same exact thing for everyone. But it’s about retreating. Really, that’s a good word for the 12th. You know, cuz sometimes it’s like things that take you in seclusion. Seclusion’s another good word for the 12th house. Seclusion away from everyday life. And for some people that’s just periodic, while for others there may be a needed reason for that, like you need to recuperate from something. The 12th can also be things like your subconscious. I have noticed sometimes when people have Saturn transits through the 12th house, if it’s not like a concrete matter that’s taking you away from everyday life, sometimes it’s more like things in your subconscious become more activated, or you become more aware of, you know, little things that skew your perspective at times, and it can be a time to work on that. There is still a year left of this transit, more or less, beginning in January because the Saturn transit through Capricorn started in December 2017, and Pluto entered in 2008. So these are long-term transits. But the Saturn—you are two-thirds of the way through this house. But, you know, if you haven’t gone into that, I find Saturn transits through the 8th or the 12th being good times for things like counseling or sort of reflective things around that.

CB: Yeah. And the 12th house is one of the more challenging houses. It can also deal with people that you don’t get along with very well. And Saturn going through that sign could have brought some obstacles or difficulties with that area of your life over the past couple of years, since Saturn went in, in December of 2017. It can also be a house that has to do with just challenging things that come up in terms of health matters. I know a few Aquarius rising people that had some health stuff come up with some of the things taking place in Capricorn not too long ago. But the good news is that Jupiter is also moving through the sign of Capricorn this year, which should bring some relief and some rectification to issues that you may have experienced as Saturn has been transiting through that sign over the past two years.

LS: Yeah, definitely. So that is a nice change compared to the last couple of years of only having Saturn and Pluto there. So Jupiter joined it as of December 2019 and will be there for a year, until December 2020. So that should help things out a bit. I find that’s a more subtle transit. It should more intangibly help things out behind the scenes, but it might not be outwardly obvious in your life.

CB: Sure. And the last topic to mention with the 12th house is, traditionally, like self-undoing or ways in which a person may sometimes undermine themselves, even unintentionally, but sometimes intentionally, by doing things that are not productive or that can be self-destructive. And that’s one of the challenges that’s been going on with Saturn going through the 12th house for two years now. But that’s another thing, hopefully, that’ll be a little bit more balanced this year, with Jupiter moving through that sign. Especially later in the year, once Jupiter stations direct—or retrograde, and stations direct at two different times later in the year.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that’s definitely true. And that’s a little bit of where I was going with that in terms of counseling. It doesn’t have to be as formal as that. But basically, just examining your own potential, self-defeating activities or habits of mind.

CB: Sure.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. So we’ve talked about the eclipse. We’ve talked about all the Capricorn transits.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Did we spend enough time on the Uranus station? No? In Taurus?

LS: No. So that’s the last of the three to mention. So it stationed today, on the 10th. So Uranus is transiting for approximately seven years through your 4th house of home and family. And so, Uranus transits tend to bring instability, unexpectedness, erratic behavior, and things like that. And so, it initially entered in May of 2018, but it’s only been there in full—because it went back to Aries for a bit—for just about a year now, so it’s still quite early in the transit. And as it stations here in mid-January at 2.5° of Taurus, stations just put an extra emphasis on whatever energy is happening with that planet. And so, it intensifies it temporarily, basically. And so, sometimes if something is going to arise, rather than be a background influence, this is when it happens. And so, Uranus stations twice this year, in January and August, so this is the first out of two. So it may be an accentuation of some unexpected change with regard to your living situation or with regard to something involving your parents or other family members. And that’s particularly true if you have any placements particularly around 2-ish degrees in Taurus, but also, to some extent, around that degree range in Aquarius and Scorpio or Leo.

CB: Right. So the Uranus transit itself is about a long-term period of major changes and somewhat rapid changes with respect to the home and living situation, or with respect to the parents or your relationship with them. For people that have placements in early fixed signs, this is gonna be more pressing for you earlier on in the transit.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Whereas if you don’t have fixed placements, or like your ascendant or IC degree is later in Taurus, it may not be as intense for you now, but it may be building up to that point later on.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But if you do any fixed placements around 2° of Taurus, then you’re probably really feeling this placement now.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so, that can bring change and sometimes unexpectedly so. That is the nature of Uranus transits. But sometimes it, you know, can look not really like what you want initially, but it can sometimes be for the best towards the end of the transit, as it sort of breaks you out of ruts. You know, Taurus is known for wanting stability, in particular, of all the fixed signs, I would say, even though all of them do to some extent. Taurus is a fixed earth sign, and so, it really wants things to stay the same. And so, it’s a little bit of an unusual transit, having Uranus go through there, because it’s breaking up things that had been, potentially, pretty stable up until this point. But it still can bring new and innovative things to that area of your life that you didn’t know you wanted, or perhaps you didn’t want initially, but becomes something useful for you later.

CB: Sure. So there’ll be two periods of intensification of this transit this year when it stations twice. One of them is in January, that we’re going through right now as we’re recording this. And there’ll be another later in the year when it stations retrograde at 10° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we’ll return back to this transit later. All right. I think that does it for January. Let’s move on to the month of February.

LS: Okay. So two things that are notable in February, the first is that Mars moves into Capricorn mid-month, around February 16. And that means that that joins that Capricorn party stellium in your 12th house. So then it’s gonna be Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all transiting your 12th house of hidden things. So that’s a lot. I mean, that’s gonna be true for all of us. It just depends on which area of our life it’s touching. So you are in good company. But Mars moving into your 12th can temporarily make you—I would say the Sun or Mars moving into the 12th can temporarily make you sort of hibernate, or at least to whatever extent it’s practically possible for you to sort of take action more behind the scenes rather than be more overtly out in the public. You may still need to, of course, continue your regular daily activities, but to some extent at least it puts more attention and your efforts on behind-the-scenes activities. And that can still be concrete things that just happen to be more behind the scenes, or it can be more in those other realms we were talking about. Like going to places that are more secluded, which can be, you know, places like hospitals or retreat centers. It can be that you feel more mentally agitated sometimes when Mars goes through the 12th, but in a way that you’re not necessarily fully conscious of, I think.

CB: Sure. Yeah, there’s often a greater potential for like conflicts with people you don’t get along with when Mars transits through the 12th. It can be a period also of lower vitality or lower energy when it’s going through that sign. Cuz it tends to be one of the more low-energy signs, whereas Mars tends to represent like energy and vitality. What are some other things?

LS: Yeah, I think those are a lot of the main things. Basically, you know, it’s not a great time to make, you know, major acts of self-assertion that you might need to do. You might wait for that because when Mars is transiting your 12th, it’s more like your efforts aren’t out in the world. They’re just kind of hidden right now.

CB: Sure.

LS: And so, it kind of makes it harder for you to do that if you need to do that at the time.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. So that transit’s actually beginning, weirdly, the same day that Mercury stations retrograde for the first-of-three retrograde periods that Mercury will have in 2020. And this one is stationing retrograde in Pisces conjunct Neptune in the 2nd house of finances for those with Aquarius rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. So the Neptune transit—we’re not gonna talk a lot about that because it’s not doing a lot on its own this year, in terms of interacting with the other planets. But it’s a longer-term transit, about a 14-year transit through Pisces, and it’s in the mid-degrees now. And so, that brings some nebulousness potentially to the area for you, with Aquarius rising, to your Pisces 2nd house, which has to do with your income, your financial matters, how you manage your money, that kind of thing, and your possessions. So any sort of background nebulousness that is happening for you in that area, the Mercury retrograde could particularly touch off, since it’s one of the few things that will interact more strongly with Neptune this year. So Mercury retrogrades have to do with reviewing something, going back over. They can also have to do with temporary miscommunications, things of that nature, or things—mechanical things breaking down. So as it retrogrades through your 2nd house there could be some sort of miscommunication or some other snafu-type thing coming up particularly with regard to your finances. It’s not necessarily like a major transit, but it’s something to be aware of at that time.

CB: Yeah, especially towards the beginning of the retrograde, in the middle of February. Just be careful about the potential for miscommunication or even, in the worst-case scenario, like deceit involving financial matters and involving your money, or possessions, to a lesser extent, just because a Mercury retrograde already has that potential for miscommunication and having to go back and re-look at something again that wasn’t communicated clearly. But when you combine that with Neptune, it just amplifies that potential quite a bit.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So that’s something to be aware of. Then towards the end of its retrograde, it does actually go back to about 28° of Aquarius. So that does station direct in your 1st house of self. So that won’t necessarily be connected areas for all of you. Yeah, I’m trying to think of like what that would even be if it was connected, rather than two disparate things.

CB: Yeah. It looks like it goes back into Aquarius, into the 1st house of self and mind and body on the 4th of March, and then it stations direct in Aquarius on the 9th of March.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So if it was connected, it could be something about reorganizing or re-looking at your financial situation, that also leads you to reassess your sense of self and like who you are and what you’re doing in the world, or how you put yourself forward in the world. And there may be some connection between those two that’s kind of either obscure or somewhat straightforward personally that could tie them together and make them more relevant at that time.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And however this comes about, it is actually almost like a tiny preview of more important influences that will happen later in the month. Well, starting later in the month.

CB: Yes, definitely. Cuz for some reason, the Mercury retrograde—which stations direct in Aquarius, in the 1st house of self—brings maybe those themes of having to find your own voice, or having to reanalyze like who you are and how you perceive yourself, as well as how others perceive you in the world. For some reason that queues up some major long-term transits that start in the same sector of the chart later in March, especially starting on the 21st, when Saturn itself moves into Aquarius and moves into your 1st house for the first time in almost 30 years. And then, just a week later, Mars, similarly, ingresses into Aquarius, also moving into your 1st house, where it very quickly forms a conjunction with Saturn in the first degree of Aquarius.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that Saturn transit will be a long-term thing that’s good to be aware of. And Saturn transits are normally two-and-a-half-to-three years through each sign, so it’s a longer-term transit that will mostly take place starting in December of this year. But this spring, from late March to July 1, there’s a little bit of a preview of this transit for you, for all of us. So it’ll just go into the first two degrees of Aquarius. But in doing so, it will give you a sense of what this larger transit will be about when it returns again at the end of the year. And for you, I guess one thing we didn’t mention about the Capricorn transits through your 12th house is that one other thing that can be is about endings. It’s not all of the time that, but sometimes the 12th house can be, particularly because it comes right before the 1st house of self. And so, sometimes there’s like a whole cycle of things happening where you get to the last house, the 12th house, before you enter your 1st house again of self, and you kind of sweep out some things before you start anew with something.

CB: Yeah. So this is really the beginning of the beginning of a new 30-year cycle of Saturn through the 12 houses of your chart, as soon as it dips into your 1st house here. But this is just kind of a preview because Saturn is just going to sort of dip its toe into the 1st house between late March and then it’ll retrograde out by the beginning of July. And it won’t come back finally, or it won’t come back permanently for its full transit through that sign until later in December.

LS: Right.

CB: So Saturn in the 1st house—that’s gonna be a two- or three-year transit. The 1st house represents, as we’ve said before, like the sense of self, but also, the body and physical vitality, as well as the mind and character, including things about your appearance. So it could be a period of reorganization or restructuring when it comes to that area of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm. I always think Saturn transits through the 1st house are only secondary only to Saturn returns, in terms of the major emphasis of Saturn in your life during that time. It can have a crossover, kind of similar feel, which is just majorly restructuring your life as a whole and re-envisioning what you are wanting to do or needing to do in some respects. Oftentimes, Saturn going through the 1st is, “I’m taking on new responsibilities,” or, conversely, leaving something that’s old, because you’re restructuring for a whole new cycle. Sometimes it is a renewed focus on body or health matters, either attending to health matters that do crop up at this time or being proactive about taking better care of your health, cuz one of the things that Saturn governs is the passage of time and the limitations of the material world. And so, for that reason, it can be just like, “Oh, bodies are finite, we should take good care of them, so that they serve us well for years to come.”

CB: Yeah. And that brings up, also, themes of like aging and reaching an important turning point in one’s life, in terms of reaching a new age and some of the attendant things that come along with that, both physically, as well as like mentally.

LS: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that’s kind of where I was going with that. And sometimes that can be specific things that are visible, since this can be your appearance as well. I think losing your hair or things like that can sometimes be Saturn transits affecting the 1st house of the appearance. Other times it can be like, you know, taking up exercise routines that slowly change your appearance. Because Saturn also is things that take time, not things usually that are quick.

CB: Yeah. One of the things that we should say though is that this long-term Saturn transit—which is gonna last for two to three years—starts with Mars moving into Aquarius at the same time. That does have the potential for those with day charts or those with night charts for it kind of to start raising some sort of initial obstacle or even a difficulty or even, potentially, like a crisis with respect to 1st house matters, that then has to be dealt with or has to be addressed over the course of the next month or so, as both Mars and Saturn are moving through that sign. And I think that’s especially the case for those that have early degrees of Aquarius or fixed-sign placements around where the conjunction will take place, around 0° of Aquarius. But perhaps, you know, even later, since Mars will be transiting through that sign for the next month.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. Yeah, so while it is true—like we were talking about—that this will be a preview of the later transit, when Saturn returns to Aquarius in December for a longer while, this will be a harder initial foray into that new area for you. And again, that’s true for everyone. It’s just sort of more focal to you because Mars and Saturn are ingressing into your 1st house of self. So, you know, wherever we have Aquarius—with that first ingress of Mars and Saturn, within a few days of each other—it is kind of an area you need to pay attention to right now, with the Mars. Because Saturn is a slow-moving influence and Mars is more quick, headstrong, sort of urgent. You know, not always ‘urgent’ urgent, but, yeah, it could be for some people. So anyway, it won’t be like that later, so I do wanna preface that. You know, it’ll show you the area or some of the themes that arise, that you will focus on for a longer time later on, but the initial part in the spring here will be more of like a potential problem or issue arising, whereas later on, it might be more long-term work that you can do less urgently.

CB: Right. Cuz one of the things you really focus on is that Jupiter is gonna go into Aquarius with Saturn in December, which will bring a little bit more balance and a little bit more optimism compared to the initial Mars-Saturn ingress in March, which is a little bit more tumultuous or potentially tense.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: Okay. All right. So that transit really just begins at the end of March, but it carries through into April and lasts for the entirety of April. There’s only one major thing in terms of outer planets that happens in April, and that’s the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction on the 4th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Jupiter and Pluto have been transiting your 12th house. And again, this is a little bit more of an obscure area to watch this happen. I mean, I think for everyone—since all of those transits have been happening in Capricorn—Capricorn does have a very sober feel, planning for the long term, and, you know, kind of getting your act together, you know, taking care of business and things like that. So I do think that’s a general theme for everyone, no matter where those transits are happening. So you could still be feeling that, even though they are in this more obscure area of your chart. But that said, I mean, the Pluto transit has been going through Capricorn since 2008, in your 12th house of hidden matters. So whatever that’s been doing, you know, it’s kind of a long, subtle, but like slowly, inexorably changing something about something behind the scenes for you about, you know, work that you do behind the scenes, potentially things in terms of mental health. Jupiter’s gonna come along and expand that. And so, Saturn’s kind of temporarily out of the picture just for a few months. It will come back. But when Jupiter and Pluto get together, whatever you’ve been trying to transform in that area of your life and change over the long haul, Jupiter’s gonna give it a bigger push. A push to expand, a push to make it better, opportunities around that and so forth.

CB: Yeah. I think one of the greatest potentials is smoothing things out. With like just Jupiter moving through the 12th house during this few-month period—and Saturn and Mars no longer being there—is the potential for rectifying or smoothing over some relationships with people that you don’t get along with in your life, to the extent of potentially even having some benefits from that area of your life, if you’re able to bring peace to that area, as opposed to maybe some discord or some challenges that you’ve been experiencing up to this point.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It’s also a good period maybe to work on mental health issues, as you were talking about, and maybe rectify some issues where one had been undermining themselves. But in putting some more effort into that area, you might be able to be successful in coming to terms with some specific issues.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: All right. I think that takes us then into May.

LS: Okay. Yeah, late April, the only other thing is that Pluto stations, which really just echoes the same thing we were just talking about, accentuating that.

CB: Yeah. Just an intensification of the Jupiter transits. All right. So once we get into May, the first major thing that happens is that Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius. So this is the first station of Saturn in Aquarius and the first intensification of that transit, where whatever that transit is gonna be about, this is the point where you fully will start feeling it. And what’s interesting is just a couple of days later, Mars actually departs from Aquarius and it moves into Pisces, which is the 2nd house of finances. So it departs from the 1st house of self and mind and body and moves into the 2nd house. So, yeah, this is gonna have important ramifications for both people with day charts and night charts, just in terms of really getting a sense for what that long-term Saturn transit is gonna be about for the next three years, but also, thankfully, especially for the people with day charts, removing the more irritating side of it, and potentially, the more tense side, with Mars finally departing from that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So, yeah, like you said, with Saturn stationing there, it’s kind of the only time it stations before it goes back into Capricorn and, you know, finishes out that transit for the rest of the year until December. And so, it just puts a little bit of a temporary exclamation point on whatever issues have arisen by this point, in those few months that it’s been in your 1st house of self. It gives you a sense of, “Okay, I’m bookmarking that. I need to work on that later.” You know, if it is something that can wait or is a long-term thing. Which it may well be, given that Saturn transits are often about things that are long-term. So that’s the first thing that happens there. And then, as you said, Mars departs the 1st house of self for the 2nd house of income. The major thing that happens right there in the second week is the Venus retrograde starts. So that’s gonna start in Gemini, and it’s going to station retrograde in your 5th house, which has to do with children, things you do for fun, creative expression. Sexuality goes there. So any casual dating goes there. So Venus stationing retrograde—Venus retrogrades in a general sense are often known for bringing people back from the past, particularly like past friends or romantic partners. And the reason is not always to bring them back so that you can—you can reconnect, but it’s not always because you’re supposed to get back together. That’s always a good caveat to be aware of. And particularly so because Venus is stationing retrograde this time exactly square Neptune, which does have that nebulous, sort of illusory effect. And so, it can either look more positive than is really the case in reality. Like someone can come back from your past and you can be kind of blown over and be like, “Oh, we’re supposed to get back together. This is meant to me.” You know, conversely, someone can go back and you can think more ill of them than is realistically the case because Neptune just kind of skews your perception oftentimes. Although I would say more at the time, it tends to go for most people in the rose-colored glasses kind of way. But Venus retrogrades, you know, it can be fine to reconnect—because the idea is to sort of revisit something—but then it’s gonna station direct later. And so, the reviewing part comes during the retrograde. But when it stations direct and then goes forward again—which is gonna be in June—then you can sort of more realistically assess, you know, “Is this something that I’m supposed to reincorporate into my life, or someone I’m supposed to reconnect with for longer?” Or is it really just a, “Hi, it’s nice to see you again, okay, we’re good?” You know?

CB: Right. So, yeah, that whole Venus retrograde starts in the middle of May and lasts through June. Through the end of June. It should just be a period of reviewing and revisiting some things that have been established in terms of either your children, or in terms of creative self-expression, or in terms of sex and sexuality. In order to get a preview of what this might be about, you can think back to eight years earlier—the last time we had a Venus retrograde in Gemini, around the same time of the year—and that could give you some idea of some topics that might be activated in your life, or some themes that might arise, that are connected with your specific birth chart.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: The Mars transit, that starts at the same time, we should go back really quickly and just mention. Because that does begin a one-month period in terms of Mars perhaps putting greater focus and forcing you to put greater energy towards the area of finances and towards whatever it is that you do to make money.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It can also be sometimes a period in which there’s more tension surrounding financial matters, or even sometimes where conflicts or like strife can come up in that area of your life.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And in particular, if you were born during the day, there are more tensions around that, when Mars transits your 2nd house of income for about six weeks. It can be a time where you have greater expenditures come up because you have to replace one of your possessions. For some reason more money is going out than is coming in—it’s that kind of transit—or you could lose money in some way. Whereas if you were born at night, the Mars transit through the 2nd is often more of just a focus or putting efforts towards making money at that time or something like that. But either way, you’ll be putting more effort in that area from that point forward for about six weeks.

CB: Okay. I think that takes us then into the astrology of June, where we enter into eclipse season right off the top of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so there’s a few eclipses coming up this summer. And while we’ve been in, for about a year now, the eclipse axis of Cancer/Capricorn—and those have been going across your 6th and 12th houses—this is the first one that kind of edges in and gives you, not a preview, per se, this is a real eclipse. But it just starts off the eclipse series of Sagittarius and Gemini, that’s going to be in full force starting at the end of the year. So this is the very first one. We’re only gonna get a Sagittarius one this time, of that series. And so, the eclipses can often bring important endings and beginnings with regard to the areas of life that they’re happening in. And for you, with Aquarius rising, that’s gonna be in your 11th house of friends and groups and the larger social sphere.

CB: Yeah. So it could indicate some sort of—certainly, there’s a shift that’s gonna happen over the course of the next year, where for some reason the topics in your life are gonna shift more towards friends and groups and that becoming a more important or pivotal area of your life than normal, but also, the 5th house, eventually, which has to do with children, self-expression, creativity, or sexuality. So it starts with this eclipse here, the Sagittarius eclipse, which could indicate some sort of culmination of events with respect to the role that friends play in your life at this time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And it’s interesting. This is like right in the middle of the Venus retrograde, which reaches its middle-point about two days earlier, on the 3rd of June, in the opposing house, in the 5th house. So there may be some sort of connection there.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, for sure. So that’s the first of a few eclipses this summer here. Later in the month, there’s going to be a Cancer eclipse on June 21, in your 6th house, again, of health and work. And right before that we have a Mercury retrograde start in Cancer as well. So Mercury retrogrades, of course, again, are about reviewing, particularly, reviewing communications, but also, just going back over things in general wherever it’s falling. And so, for you, that is the 6th house of work and health, people who either work with you, coworkers or employees, if you have employees. You could be revisiting some topics around that. Reviewing arrangements, basically. Is this arrangement working out? It’s a good time to review that, if you have any sort of work connections with respect to other people like that. And then the eclipse is another kind of new start within that eclipse series that we’ve been having. And this is the last eclipse in Cancer. So we’ve been having them for about a year or so now, and this is the last one in that series to kind of really activate your 6th house of health and work.

CB: Yeah. One thing that’s interesting about this eclipse is just a few days earlier, the second Mercury retrograde period of the year begins, and it also happens in the sign of Cancer as well. So that starts on the 18th of June, when Mercury goes retrograde in Cancer, in your 6th house of health and work. So there may be some sort of focus on going back and rethinking or revisiting things that were established in that area of your life previously—either with respect to health matters or with respect to your job—that ends up having a much longer-term impact than it might seem at first as a result of the eclipse that begins then, just a few days later.

LS: Yeah. So there’s a little bit of synergy going on between this particular Mercury retrograde—since it both begins and ends in your 6th house of work and health—and the eclipse happening right around there, too.

CB: Right. So then later in the month, on the 25th, the Venus retrograde is over. That goes direct on the 25th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then the last major, major thing that happens this month is that Mars ingresses into Aries on the 27th of June, which is important and notable because this is the sign that it’s gonna go retrograde starting in September.

LS: Yeah. So we don’t normally mark every single Mars transit with a year overview. But this one is actually more notable than usual because it’s going to be spending six months there, instead of its usual six weeks. So that’s quite a bit longer for the planet of effort and tensions and things like that, action, to be going into one area of your life. And usually, Mars transits are like, “Okay, I gotta do this, in this area. Okay, I’m done.” and then you move on to the next area. But here, it’s gonna take much longer. And it’s also with the retrograde later, starting in September. You’re gonna have to go back over some things that you initially did or decide in this area. It’s not gonna be a straight shot. And so, that’s good to know ahead of time. This is not the point in which you need to worry about that exactly, when it first enters, but one thing it is good to know ahead of time is that there will be a retrograde. And one of the things about Mars retrogrades in particular is since Mars can be part of how we feel energy in our lives, when it slows down to retrograde—which it will be for a while, even before the actual retrograde itself—you can kind of start feeling less energetic. You can feel more lethargic. You might still need to put efforts towards something in this area, but you can’t find the drive to do it. And so, it’s good to kind of pace yourself because Mars doesn’t usually want to do that.

CB: Yeah. There’s definitely gonna be more of a focus during this, what, six-month period on communication and communications ramping up and intensifying. You’ll have to be a little bit careful because this could indicate a period in which you’re more prone to aggressive communication or even getting into verbal fights or altercations with people.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It can also be a period in which travel is somehow more important or more of a focus, especially short-distance travel, like driving. But also, it’s a period in which you wanna be extra careful not to do anything impetuous in terms of that, or anything risky or dangerous because sometimes a Mars transit the 3rd can indicate like getting into an accident or something like that.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: 3rd house is also siblings.

LS: Yeah, siblings. So, you know, with Mars going through your 3rd, you might, on the one hand, need to put more energy towards something involving a sibling. Either they’re going through something, or you need to deal with something involving your relationship. Like you’re getting into conflict with a sibling at that time or tensions are at least rising or something like that. But, you know, just be careful in how you deal with it because Mars is not a particularly careful planet. It’s more about like, “Let’s do this,” and so, you might need to put effort there. But you also just kind of wanna, you know, not be too aggressive when you do so, however that arises.

CB: Sure. So that transit begins at the end of June. And that takes us into July.

LS: Mm-hmm. And I just also wanted to mention neighbors. We didn’t throw that in there. 3rd house is also neighbors or your immediate neighborhood. So the same thing that we were saying about siblings could also apply to interactions with neighbors.

CB: Yeah, or even extended family or other relatives outside of your immediate family unit.

LS: Yeah, exactly.

CB: Okay.

LS: Okay, so, July. So July starts with Saturn moving back into Capricorn for its last foray through your 12th house until December. So Saturn is no longer focusing its kind of serious-minded efforts towards the house of your self and body and mind, but instead it’s moving back into that obscure area of your 12th house. So Saturn’s moving back into putting efforts in examining your subconscious, potentially, mental health things, working on things involving people at cross-purposes to you, who you don’t normally get along with, that sort of thing. Jupiter’s still gonna be there all year until December, too, so that’s still helping out. But just know that that initial foray of Saturn into your 1st house of self, that just gave you the preview. Saturn’s now moving back and then it’ll be back in December.

CB: Yeah. So this is the final—and there’s also a solar eclipse that happens just a few days later in Capricorn, and that’s also the final eclipse to take place in that sign. So that whole balance of like work versus rest, as well as dealing with health issue—whether those are like physical health issues or mental health issues—and coming back and revisiting this part of your life in order to see what changes have been made over the course of the past two-and-a-half years, or up to three years at this point, almost, and finishing up the last of those changes and those restructurings and laying the foundations, so that you can then move forward by the end of the year, by December.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so there’s a renewed Capricorn emphasis in the beginning of July. And then, let’s see. What do we have later in the month? Put the calendar back up.

CB: I mean, that’s pretty much it for July. It’s just that. Then Mercury stations direct in the 6th house.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So again, it’s like emphasizing that 6th house/12th house axis, which is like work and health.

LS: Yeah. Yeah, so those are the main themes there, 6th and 12th house for July.

CB: Okay. That’s gonna take us forward into Sept—August.

LS: August.

CB: You know, whatever.

LS: Yeah. So, August. Even though it looks on the calendar like there’s a lot going on, the main actual theme is gonna be that Uranus station on August 15 in Taurus, in your 4th house of home and family. And this is the farthest it’s getting through Taurus this year, between 10°-11° of Taurus. And so, this is one of the two times that it temporarily emphasizes that feeling or those things coming up around unexpected events or change with regard to home and family life. That can be changing where you live unexpectedly. That can be something arising with family members, particularly parents, if they are still around. So that is the second time this happens this year, January and August. And this will also be more the case for you at this point if you have important placements around 10° or 11° of Taurus, and to some extent any of the other fixed signs. So around 10°-11° if Aquarius, Scorpio, or Leo.

CB: Yeah. So this is the first time that Uranus has gotten this far into Taurus, where it gets to 10°. How far did it get last time? To like 6 or 8 or something?

LS: About 6.

CB: I wanna say 6. So, yeah, that’s getting like really far into Taurus at this point. So if you have any personal planets around 10° of the fixed signs, you’re really gonna start feeling this Uranus transit. And while there may have been some events that preceded this in terms of your 4th house, Uranus’ tendency to import excitement, but also, rapid changes and sometimes a sense of like instability is really gonna start hitting a peak around this time in mid-August, if you have anything at 10 Taurus, especially, but also, 10 Leo, 10 Scorpio, or 10 Aquarius.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so the other things that you saw on the calendar are just kind of more quick, temporary transits. So that’s kind of the main theme to look over for August here.

CB: Okay. All right. That will then take us into September.

LS: September has a lot of the main action going on here because September is actually the month that Mars does go retrograde. So September 9 is the day that Mars stations to go retrograde. And so, it’s been in there for a bit, since the end of June. You’ve already seen by this point the year whatever is arising. Like whatever will be arising for you in terms of what you need to put effort towards—what is coming up in terms of potential tensions and things like that—with regard to 3rd house matters. So, you know, things involving your siblings or your relationship with other relatives or neighbors. Or things involving how you get around town, like your transportation, issues arising with that. So Mars stationing retrograde is the pivot point in time where you thought you were kind of going along and doing what you needed to do in that area, and now something comes up where you have to go back over your previous efforts and review and potentially change course, reroute, and that sort of thing, in order to move forward then later in the year.

CB: Yeah. So I’m just moving this forward to see the exact degrees involved, cuz Mars actually stations retrograde at 28° of Aries. And one of the things that’s notable is that it’s pretty closely-squaring Saturn around that time, which is at 25° of Capricorn by mid-September.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this may be creating some sort of conflict between your 3rd house of communication and your 12th house of enemies. So you might wanna be careful about, you know, getting into like a verbal altercation with somebody that like makes them an enemy or creates a worse situation in terms of that than what you had previously.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And similarly, you know, just kind of echoing the same theme that you said earlier about being more careful at this time regarding, you know, perhaps driving around town and things like that, and not taking unnecessary risks, since this is the 3rd house of how you get around town. And then it’s squaring Saturn in one of the health houses. You just wanna be more careful that that doesn’t turn into a problem.

CB: Yeah. Also, just be careful about other tensions involving siblings or tensions involving neighbors or other extended relatives. This is definitely the most intense part of the Mars retrograde transit when it first stations retrograde in the middle of September. So that’s the period—especially for those with day charts—when we would expect to see the most tensions potentially, especially if you have placements in the later degrees of the cardinal signs.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So this will go through mid-November, but this is the point in time where it does station retrograde. Then, more happily, a few days later, on September 12, Jupiter stations direct in Capricorn. So Jupiter direct just kind of makes—it’s not a huge difference. But it does make Jupiter’s opportunities and, you know, benefits and things like that—it bringing you sort of help—go even more smoothly or more directly or be expressed more obviously.

CB: Right. And then later in the month, we have Saturn also stationing direct in the same sign, in Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so it’s interesting, cuz this is so much activity in your 12th house of hidden things. So I’m sure this is going differently for different people, but in any case, Saturn stationing direct at the end of September, this will be the final, final push. We kind of said it’s the final push once it went back into Capricorn at the beginning of July, but this is the last time it’s both in Capricorn and then stationing direct to go forward, and move forward into new territory and eventually out of your 12th house. So this is the last stretch here, from September through December.

CB: Yeah. Like July, when it moved back into Capricorn was like the revisiting phase and coming back to something to deal with those issues again and revisit them. But this is the point where you actually start making forward momentum and probably have really started to wrap those things up in your life and perhaps resolve some of the issues that came up in terms of, like, let’s say, people you don’t get along with or mental health issues or undermining yourself. And from this point forward, you’re in the home stretch of that transit between late September and mid-December.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And even though Mars will be retrograde for a while in the fall there, having both Jupiter and Saturn direct and going forward through your 12th house is really nice in terms of smoothing out, like you said, whatever you’ve been working on in that area of your life up to this point.

CB: Right. All right, September. I guess those are the major transits for September. So that’s gonna take us into October.

LS: Yeah. So October starts, there’s a Pluto station early on, on October 4. So that just intensifies further some of the same Capricorn/12th house themes we’ve been talking about for a while now. There is the last Mercury retrograde of the year that happens in mid-October. It stations retrograde in Scorpio, which is going to be your 10th house of career and public reputation, superiors, you know, supervisors, if you have them. Your boss, basically. Mercury goes retrograde mostly in Scorpio and then ends up dipping in a little bit to Libra before it stations direct in your 9th house of higher education, travel, religion, philosophy, things like that.

CB: Yeah. And one of the things that’s interesting about this Mercury retrograde in your 10th house is that when it initially stations retrograde, it stations in opposition to Uranus, around 11° of Scorpio opposing Uranus at, I think, 9° of Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So there may be some like unexpected situation that arises in the sphere that has to do with your career and it forces you to go through a period of like rethinking and revisioning what you’re doing in that area of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then, eventually, Mercury retrogrades back into Libra and stations direct in that sign.

LS: Yeah. And the Mercury retrograde through your 10th house of career opposing Uranus in your 4th can be some interaction involving something unexpected coming up with regard to your home sphere. So you suddenly need to move, or your parents suddenly need help, or something like that.

CB: Oh, yeah. So maybe it’s like a change in the job sphere that prompts an unexpected change in the home sphere.

LS: Either way. I mean, I think I could see it going either way.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah. So, in any case, you know, Mercury retrogrades aren’t huge. They do happen just for a few weeks every time, unless that’s particularly activated for you by timing for some reason this year, in which case, it might be a more important transit. But otherwise, it’s pretty temporary, just for a few weeks here, and it stations direct in Libra. When it does station direct around November 3, it stations square Saturn, pretty close to exact. And so, that’s just something to be aware of. I’m trying to think of—I mean, with Mercury stationing direct in the 9th house square Saturn in the 12th, one possible thing that overlaps those two can be places abroad. Because while the 9th house is usually the main house of long-distance travel and things that are foreign to you, the 12th house can sometimes have some of those meanings, like being away from home.

CB: Travel.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Travel. Interaction with foreign places and foreign people or foreign cultures.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah. And that having some sort of impact on your education, like what you know about the world.

LS: Mm-hmm. And for some people, I guess a final thing with the Mercury retrograde overlapping your 10th house of career and 9th house could be something regarding your career leading you to think you need some more education or something like that. Because the 9th house is an educational house as well, and that is one easy connection between those two.

CB: Yeah, I could definitely see that prompting needing to go back and take some sort of course or do some educational program that’s somehow tied into one’s career. Like, what is the term for that? Like further education?

LS: Continuing education.

CB: Continuing education.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay.

LS: Okay. So did we hit—I think we hit everything in October, right?

CB: Yes. That’s taking us through to Mercury retrogrades on the 27th of October back into Libra, and then it already stations direct in Libra by the 3rd of November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Just a week later, we have Mars stationing direct at 15° of Aries and ending the Mars retrograde cycle.

LS: Yeah. So that’s, I was gonna say, a welcome sigh of relief. Mars isn’t really about sighing, it’s more about action. But anyway—

CB: A welcomed cry of relief.

LS: A welcomed war cry of relief, something like that. So Mars stationing direct is welcomed, however we put it. While things won’t get moving quickly at first—because Mars takes a while to pick up speed again—you won’t get everything ironed out right away once it goes direct, but you will get a sense of forward motion to eventually clear up whatever you’ve been having to go back over for the past couple of months, in the area, in particular, of siblings, neighbors, your neighborhood, your short-distance traveling, and so forth. Communication. And again, since Mars is stationing, I would say while this is welcomed compared to the retrograde station, it still is the time where it’s intensifying Mars things. So you still wanna be careful about overly-aggressive speech or things like that in interacting with others. I would say anyone else, but particularly so like with siblings or other relatives, if that is applicable for you. I’m trying to think of what else about this.

CB: Yeah, or really aggressive driving or movement in general.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Especially if you have placements around 15° of the cardinal signs, which would be 15 Aries, 15 Cancer, 15 Libra, or 15 Capricorn, just because it’s like you’ve got that travel-and-movement axis, which is the 3rd and 9th, as well as a communication-versus-wisdom axis in those two houses. But then we’ve also got the health-or-illness and accidents-and-enemies axis there with the 6th and the 12th. So you still wanna be careful, even though Mars now is gonna have forward movement and there should be this sense of like getting out of being bogged down by being stuck in this one area or having this intense energy in this certain sector of your chart for several months, for almost six months. There’s still—if you have personal placements in the middle of the cardinal signs—potential for the intensification of that energy, which can sometimes be stressful or can sometimes indicate like conflict or strife.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. And if you have been feeling more lethargic, like a lot of people do when Mars is retrograde for a while, your energy should start picking back up—just more generally speaking—to take action on whatever you need to in that area of your life.

CB: Right. So that’s happening when Mars stations around the 13th of November. And then later in the month, we start moving into eclipse season again, and we get a lunar eclipse that happens in Gemini on the 30th of November, which is followed two weeks later by a solar eclipse in Sagittarius on the 14th of December.

LS: Yeah. So by the end of the year here, we’ve really fully moved into that Gemini/Sagittarius axis, which, for you, is that 5th house of children, sexuality, entertainment, and artistic expression. Things you do for fun. That’s one eclipse area for you, and then the 11th house being friends, groups, and associations for Sagittarius. So here, with the Gemini one at the end of November, this is sort of a mini-culmination potentially with regard to any of those 5th house topics I mentioned first. So this is an ongoing story. This isn’t the last we’ll hear of it because there will be more eclipses there in Gemini and Sagittarius in the following year, but this is the first time that the full pair is happening near the end of the year here.

CB: Yeah. So something that was initiated six months earlier maybe starts to come to fruition in this area of your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cuz we’re talking about a lunar eclipse here, right?

LS: Right. Right.

CB: So a lunar eclipse in the 5th house. So for some people, one of the funny 5th house things that sometimes comes up is like hobbies or that which you do for fun.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And sometimes a hobby can become more important in your life. Something that like started as a side thing becomes a more serious thing in your life at this point.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So maybe six months earlier, you started trying out something new over the summer, but then it turns into something that you’re more serious about, or it starts having a more major impact on your life at this point in time.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: It can also be something pertaining to children, whether you have children, or just the general topic of children in your life becoming more important, or having a spotlight shining on it at this point in your life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Or the topic surrounding sex and sexuality becoming more important to you at this point and just taking more focus in your life at this time.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. If you haven’t been dating for a while, that could be an area that just becomes more important again for a bit. That’s something that also goes into the 5th house. Or creative expression, like you said. Sometimes people will have things like that in their lives, but they don’t stay uniformly focused on it, if it’s not like their main career, but it’s something they still like. And so, sometimes when there’s things like eclipses happening in your 5th house, you can have projects come up where you’re like, “Oh, I’d like to do that again actually for a while.”

CB: Sure. So the other side of that is the solar eclipse in Sagittarius, in the 11th house of friends and groups on the 14th of December, and laying some sort of new foundation, or planting the seeds for something that will grow and develop in that area of your life over the course of the next six months, until they eventually reach a sort of period of fruition and becoming more clear. It may be something that starts off subtly or almost imperceptibly in terms of a new phase in your life with respect to friends and groups at this time. But whatever you initiate at this time, in that area, will probably end up having a greater impact and become more important in the long term than it might seem at first.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I definitely agree with that. And honestly, this one—you know, we’ve had the first one over the summer, so this is the second one, but the first one in the full series where they’re both happening—is probably going to be a breath of fresh air for you in some respects because there’s been so many Capricorn transits going through your 2nd—your 12th house of seclusion. And so, even though many people’s lives do not allow them to fully seclude themselves, I can imagine that a lot of you with Aquarius rising have had some element of that, where you’ve been either feeling more withdrawn internally or actually externally like withdrawing yourself from more social situations compared to average.

CB: Yeah, this definitely seems more fun and more lightening by shifting the emphasis to like the fun axis of the chart, which is the 5th and 11th houses.

LS: Yeah, definitely. You know, cuz both of those can be fun or social or both. And not just that, but it’s also an air sign and a fire sign compared to so much Capricorn earth energy we’ve had this year.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: So I think this will be a lightening up. You can kind of get out and socialize a little bit more. And that will be an ongoing story that takes you into 2021.

CB: Brilliant. All right. That takes to the major and perhaps the most notable astronomical event of the entirety of 2020, which is Saturn completes its three-year transit through Capricorn and moves into Aquarius on the 17th of December, where it will stay for the next couple of years. And then Jupiter, just two days later, on the 19th of December, also moves into Aquarius, where very quickly it will form a conjunction with Saturn on the 21st of December. And that conjunction only takes place once every 20 years. So it’s kind of a notable or momentous astronomical alignment from both an astronomical and an astrological perspective.

LS: Definitely. So Saturn going back into Aquarius means going back into your 1st house of self, body and mind. And that is the area that we did have a little bit of preview of in the spring, from late March to July 1. And so, you hopefully got an idea in the spring of what this might feel like or be about for you in terms of restructuring your identity, your sense of yourself, anything about your appearance, even health matters, or just restructuring something more major about your life as a whole, since the 1st house is so primary to your life. So Saturn will be going there—transiting there from December 2020 for about two-and-a-half years from that point forward. Really nice for you, though, Jupiter joins it at the same time, which doesn’t happen most of the time with Saturn transits. And so, Jupiter going into your 1st is kind of the opposite. You know, it’s an energy of expansion, opportunity, buoyancy. You usually feel more optimistic when Jupiter’s going through your 1st. You do wanna be careful, although it won’t be probably a huge thing with both Jupiter and Saturn there. You know, often it’s said when Jupiter goes through there alone, you wanna be careful of not overdoing things, particularly like expanding your body. Basically, overeating and, you know, over-partying, or things like that. Because Jupiter is a very jovial influence oftentimes, so that’s one thing to keep in mind. But it probably won’t be as much of an issue for you because you’ll have Saturn counterbalancing it at the same time.

CB: Yeah, that’s really nice and really unique having both of those planets going in at the same time because they’re such polar-opposite planets. But in doing so, that probably is gonna help to achieve balance and equilibrium between the desire to expand versus the desire to contract over the course of the next year, in 2021. So there will be some areas where you’ll be wanting to focus on getting more structured and doing a better job of like pulling things together, both in terms of your physical vitality, but also, in terms of your mental vitality. And perhaps, yeah, just integrating better structures in that area of your life and cutting some things out or removing and rejecting some things. But then also with the Jupiter transit, at the same time, incorporating and expanding in other areas, instead of contracting, and, yeah, just giving you a better overall sense of like growth and optimism, instead of just a super-heavy Saturn transit, which on its own can sometimes be kind of overbearing or depressing.

LS: Definitely. Yeah, so it’s really quite nice that both of them are entering there at once in mid-December. It’s kind of like measured growth or considered growth, which I think is a good balance of, you know, being careful and responsible, but also, optimistic and taking opportunities as they arise.

CB: Yeah. Let me just throw the chart up for that conjunction. Cuz it’s so cool seeing it happen at the very beginning of Aquarius, in the rising sign, for those with Aquarius rising, and therefore, could be much more personally important for those with Aquarius rising compared to other rising signs.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I don’t even know when the last one was. The last Jupiter-Saturn conjunction was in Taurus.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But I guess it’s been something like 8-or-900 years since the last set of conjunctions in air signs. So nobody’s seen a conjunction like this in their lifetime. Unless there’s some immortal that’s like walking around, that’s seen all of them or something like that.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Have you?

LS: I mean, no.

CB: Okay, I’m just checking.

LS: Yeah. So this will—I keep saying breath of fresh air. This will actually be like that because it’s in an air sign, in your 1st house. So it really is a nice movement really for all of us, with Jupiter and Saturn moving into an air sign versus, you know, the heavy earth sign of Capricorn, but in particular because that’s the air sign that’s the rising sign for you. So I’m sure that many of you with Aquarius rising are gonna feel quite a bit better at the end of the year compared to whatever you’re still kind of trying to work on before that point.

CB: Sure. I mean, there will be still some challenges. I mean, I don’t wanna undersell a Saturn transit through the 1st house—

LS: For sure.

CB: —which certainly can raise some obstacles with respect to health matters or bodily matters or one’s appearance, or, you know, one’s character traits and how you present yourself to the world.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Cuz whenever Saturn goes into the 1st house, or any of the angular houses, it also activates all of the other angular houses. So sometimes when there’s greater emphasis on the 1st house of self, it can cause or be the result of tensions that are happening in the 7th house of relationships. It can also be connected with tensions that start surfacing with the home and family living situation, as well as the 10th house of career. So it’s kind of—there’s gonna be stuff coming up in all of those areas, but it’s definitely more moderate for those with Aquarius rising compared to how it could be, just because Jupiter is there at the same time, bringing a little bit more optimism than there would be otherwise.

LS: Yeah, for sure, all of that. It’s a good caveat, cuz we’re being so optimistic about that combination just in comparison to having Saturn there alone. But it’s not to say you only have Jupiter there alone either, it’s both. So you will still need to do some, you know, work, potentially restructuring your sense of self or what you’re doing in the world. And, you know, that can be pretty major, but Jupiter’s gonna help out. And so, you have that to kind of be thankful for, compared to perhaps another rising sign.

CB: Yeah. I mean, one piece of advice is just to take care of yourself. And that’ll be one of the goals of that transit, figuring out how to take care of yourself.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. I think that brings us to the end of 2020, cuz we’re already like getting into like major transits that are really gonna be dominating 2021. So we’re kind of getting ahead of ourselves here a little bit, and we might have to save the rest of that discussion for next time.

LS: Yeah. You don’t wanna do the rest tonight?

CB: I mean, we could. I don’t know if my voice will cooperate.

LS: Yeah, that’s true.

CB: And we still gotta do Pisces rising, if we can get to it at some point here.

LS: Sounds good.

CB: I feel bad about the Pisces risings.

LS: I know. I do, too. You’ve waited a long time.

CB: All right. We’ll see what we can do. We’ll see if we can get to that tonight. Thanks a lot for joining me today to do these horoscopes for Aquarius and Aquarius rising. I appreciate it.

LS: Yeah, you’re welcome.

CB: And thanks everybody in the livestream. I’ve been watching some of your comments, and I really appreciate it. So thanks for joining us for the livestream. Please be sure to like this video, if you enjoyed it. Give it a thumbs up. Also be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, if you wanna see future videos. And if you’re watching the recording afterwards, just post a comment just letting us know how some of these transits have been going for you over the past couple of years, or what things you’re anticipating for 2020 coming up in the future. All right. We’ve got a couple of things we gotta mention before we wrap up for the day. One of them is that all of the artwork that I used in this episode actually comes from a set of calendar posters that I’ve released for 2020. One of them is the Planetary Alignments Poster, which shows all of the major ingresses and lunations and retrograde periods and everything else, so that you can see when exactly some of these transits that we talked about today will start during the course of the year at a glance. We also have the Planetary Movements Poster that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll end up by the end, as well as a third bonus poster that shows the significations of the houses, if you’re still learning that element of astrology, which is so major. Additionally, Leisa and I just released the 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report a couple of weeks ago, where we went through and picked out some lucky dates during each of the next 12 months to use for beginning different types of ventures and undertakings.

LS: Mm-hmm. So basically, if you want to plan further ahead in the year, in 2020, for any important events you wanna hold or projects you wanna start and so forth, these are basically better dates and time ranges to do that versus other times in order for things to go better.

CB: Yeah. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. And finally, we wouldn’t be able to do any of this except for or without the support of all of the patrons who support us through our page on Patreon.com. So, in particular, a shoutout to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. And then, finally, there’s two major astrology conferences happening in 2020. One of them is being hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, which is hosting a conference in Denver, Colorado, September 10-14, 2020. More information about that at ISAR2020.org. And then, also, the Northwest Astrological Conference is happening in Seattle, May 21-25, 2020. More information about that at NORWAC.net. If you’d like to sign up to become a patron of The Astrology Podcast and get bonus content and other things like that—like early access to new episodes or private patron-only podcast episodes—you can find out more information at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right. I think that’s it for this forecast. So thanks everyone for joining us. And good luck in 2020, and we’ll see you again next year.

LS: Have a great year.

PISCES AND PISCES RISING

CB: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Pisces and Pisces rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LS: Hey, Chris.

CB: And we’re gonna be looking at the next 12 months, giving you an overview of the major transits and other planetary movements during the course of 2020.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So this is the last one. We saved the best for last of course, as always. And we also—even though sometimes people complain that it takes forever to get to Pisces—and that comes last if you don’t do it out of order—the positive side that I wanted to mention is that now we’ve done enough of these that we’ve really got it down to like the most important things, and it’s much more refined at this point than when we started, way back at Aries.

LS: Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. So you’re getting kind of the best cut of all of them, I would say.

CB: Yeah. All right. Thanks everybody who joined us on the livestream tonight, or who joined us in the chat. Let’s jump into it.

LS: Okay. So, January.

CB: January.

LS: So, January. We’re already into some of the thick of the important transits happening. We are recording this on January 10, and that’s actually the day of both the Cancer eclipse, the Uranus station in Taurus. And the Saturn-Pluto conjunction then will be happening two days from now on January 12. So that’s quite a clustering of a bunch of important things within just a few days. Let’s start with the Cancer eclipse. And so, for you, with Pisces rising, that’s going to be an eclipse in your 5th house, which has to do with children, sexuality, things you do for fun or entertainment, or hobbies, creative expression, as well as, yeah, just going out and enjoying yourself. So this Cancer/Capricorn axis is where the eclipses have been happening for about a year now. So this one isn’t new. It’s actually the second-to-the-last one. The last one we’ll get this summer. But this is kind of a mini-culmination, since it is a lunar eclipse to your 5th house.

CB: Right. So there’s something that you probably started six months earlier, when there was a solar eclipse in your 5th house, which is now coming to culmination or coming to fruition in some way. The seeds of that may have initially been somewhat subtle in terms of starting a new thing in this area of your life, but now it’s turned out to be something that’s much more important than you thought at first, or at least is devoting more of your attention and has sort of like a spotlight shown on it this month.

LS: Mm-hmm. And oftentimes things relating to the eclipse will crop up around the time of the eclipse, but they don’t have to exactly. In other words, this is one of those three, actually, major things this month that are longer influences. It’s not just like this cluster of three days, even though that’s potentially when some of it is the most intensified. The other one—the second out of the three, I should say, is the Uranus station in Taurus. And so, Uranus has been transiting your 3rd house, which has to do with siblings, neighbors, or your immediate neighborhood, short-distance travel. So basically, the way you get around town, which can be your car. And communication in general can go in the 3rd house. And so, Uranus transiting there—which is a seven-year-long transit approximately—brings innovation, unexpectedness. Yeah, I was gonna say unexpectedness, up and downs, I would say, and unevenness to this area of your life. Sometimes, for some people with Uranus transiting your 3rd house—since it can sometimes involve technology—it could be you’re incorporating more technology into how you communicate with people. I’ve seen things like, you know, starting a podcast or a blog with Uranus going through your 3rd because it’s changing suddenly the way you communicate with other people, even people you don’t know, potentially. I’m trying to think of other things going on with Uranus through the 3rd house. Things going on with your siblings could become more unexpected. Something could be going on with regard to major change in their lives, if you do have siblings or other assorted relatives there, and yeah, that sort of thing.

CB: Yeah. So Uranus can sometimes be kind of a disruptive planet. It can sometimes shake things up in your life. And that would especially be the case if you have anything around 2° of Taurus, which is where Uranus is stationing, or even to a lesser extent 2° of the other fixed signs—which are 2° of Leo, 2 Scorpio, or 2 Aquarius—because then Uranus would be making a hard aspect at this time to those placements, where it could be importing some sort of sense of instability or shaking things up.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So while this is a longer transit, when you’ll notice it the most is when it either goes over or makes hard aspects to natal placements in your chart, or when it stations, as it is here in January. It’s the first-of-two stations this year in January and August. So that’s when you’ll notice it the most, unless it’s hitting your planets directly.

CB: Sure. So we’ll return back to that later in the year, when it makes its second station.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: All right.

LS: And then the third thing.

CB: Right.

LS: The third thing’s gonna be Saturn-Pluto conjunction in your 11th house, which has to do with friends, groups, the larger social sphere, networks of people that you know. And so, this is a major area of concentration. That’s been the case for a while now for you because with Pisces rising, Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008. So that’s when it entered your house of friends and groups, sort of very slowly pushing for major transformation with regard to something about that area of your life. And then Saturn joined it at the end of 2017, in December, for an approximately three-year transit there. So both of those have been transiting there for a while and this is just kind of coming to a peak now. So it’s not a new thing, whatever’s coming up with regard to friends or groups for you, but with the exact conjunction in the middle of January here something about that can come to a head. Oftentimes when those planets are transiting your 11th house, there can be a sense of either outgrowing friendships or some sort of greater distance than usual between you and some of your friends. For some other people with Pisces rising, it could have been a time where you had fewer friends, but you were concentrating more on them. Maybe one of your friends needed help in their life for some reason, or perhaps you joined a professional organization. That would be a Saturn transit through the 11th kind of thing, so there’s different ways it can play out. But this is where if there is a major change that’s been happening, particularly with regard to serious reconsideration of the role of particular friends in your life, or groups that you belong to, this is one of the times it’ll come to a head in mid-January.

CB: Yeah. And so, that Saturn transit could’ve indicated some difficulties, or in the best-case scenario, some restructuring of your friendships in your life since December of 2017. One of the positive things—even though you’re in the last third of that transit over the course of the next year, and it’s gonna be wrapping up between now and December. One of the things that’s different this year is that Jupiter, just a month ago, ingressed into Capricorn as well, and will spend the entirety of this year moving through that sign and moving through your 11th house. So that’s gonna bring in a different energy that’s quite opposite to Saturn. Where Saturn can be more constrictive and a little bit more depressing and a little bit more isolating, Jupiter can be more expansive and more about growth and new opportunities. So this could be a year in which things are balanced out, and you reach a little bit more of an equilibrium in your life when it comes to friends, and perhaps even make some new friends, or at least have some relationships be more stabilized after going through a period of testing or questioning.

LS: Definitely. Yeah, I would agree with all of that. So there’s definitely a benefit this year to Jupiter joining that Capricorn transit party, as opposed to just having Saturn and Pluto there. So I was highlighting the Saturn-Pluto conjunction because that does go exact mid-month. But Jupiter certainly transiting there almost all year, until mid-December of 2020, will definitely help bring new opportunities and have some optimism and not just seriousness in that area of your life.

CB: Right. All right. So those are the main transits. And some of these are like background transits that are gonna be operating in different ways for most of the year, but I think those are the main things we needed to mention for January.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So let’s move on to February.

LS: All right. So, February. One of the main things is that Mars moves into Capricorn mid-month, around February 16. And so, Mars is joining all of those other planets in Capricorn—Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto—in your 3rd—sorry, in your 11th house of friends and groups. And so, this will definitely bring more attention. A Mars transit is usually quick, just about six weeks. But even though that’s true here, it’s just a lot of energy going to your 11th house at this point. And Mars in particular, when it goes into the 11th, can bring on the one hand greater energy and greater effort towards something in that area of your life, towards something about a friendship or putting a lot of your energy temporarily, more than usual, into a group endeavor or something like that. Even into activism or something because that is the larger social sphere. It’s a quicker transit, but it’s kind of just adding to these longer transits. So the other thing that Mars can bring when it transits the 11th is tensions with regard to friendships or even conflict with a friend.

CB: Yeah. So especially for the people with day charts, this could be kind of a tense period for friendships that last for about a month. And there could be, in the worst-case scenario, like a severing or separation when it comes to friendships, depending on how your birth chart’s set up and if it’s hitting it in a certain way.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So the good news though is this transit only lasts for about a month, starting on the 16th of February, and going through into the very end of March. Weirdly, right around the same time that Mars ingress takes place on February 16, Mercury stations retrograde that very same day in Pisces, in your 1st house.

LS: Yeah. So this will be the first-of-three Mercury retrogrades this year. We normally have three-to-four Mercury retrograde periods per year. And this one is a little bit more focal to you because it is happening in your 1st house of self. So this is probably one to pay a little more attention to than average, I would say. So Mercury going backwards through your 1st house can cause you to revisit, or rather can coincide with you revisiting something about your sense of self or your sense of individual identity, who you are in the world. It can also have you revisiting things like your choices in appearance, like hairstyle or clothes. That can sound a little superficial—and, I mean, this is a quick transit anyway—but those things are the external manifestation, to a large extent anyway, of how you feel about yourself and who you think you are. So it’s not entirely superficial if you’re revisiting things like that. Let’s see. What other things would be a Mercury retrograde through the 1st?

CB: I think just more broadly themes of finding your voice and figuring out how to communicate and maybe revising if there’s ways that you could communicate more effectively what you’re trying to convey to people, from your internal world to your external world. That could be a large part of this transit. It might be a little tricky because there might be some instances of like miscommunication. Maybe from your end, you misunderstand something, or you mishear something from somebody else, or don’t convey some message that you’re attempting to convey as effectively as you could, since Mercury is stationing retrograde conjunct Neptune in Pisces, in the 1st house. So that’s one of the potential drawbacks of this Mercury retrograde transit. It could amplify issues with miscommunication and the miscommunication or the misunderstanding could come from you, rather than from elsewhere or from somebody else. So maybe be on your guard to try to be extra explicit and extra clear in communications around this time to whatever extent that you can.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And just to add to that, we won’t be focusing too much on the Neptune transit this year because it’s not largely interacting with many other planets this year in a strong way. But, for you, it is pretty focal because Neptune, as a long-term transit, is transiting your 1st house of self. So when other planets do interact with that, that’s going to emphasize that further for you. And with the Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune in your 1st, as you said, not just taking care around potential miscommunications in one direction or another, but part of that could come from you even potentially not knowingly giving off an air of misunderstanding simply because of not just the Mercury retrograde going through the 1st. But the Neptune transit—as a long-term transit going through your 1st house of self—can have you having fluctuating feelings and uncertain feelings regarding your own identity, really. And so, you know, other people could misperceive you or vice versa because your identity isn’t really in a solid frame of reference right now.

CB: Right. And one of the funny things about this transit is that since the retrograde begins the same day that Mars goes into the 11th house of friends, one thing that you might wanna be careful for—in case those two are connected—is like a miscommunication or a misunderstanding that leads to a difficulty or a period of tension or even a falling out with a friend.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely.

CB: So that retrograde period, like all retrograde periods, lasts for three weeks. And the halfway point—when there should start to be some resolution to the issue that’s set up when it begins—occurs on the 25th of February, when the Sun conjoins Mercury. And then early in March, Mercury actually retrogrades out of Pisces and it moves back into Aquarius, into your 12th house, where it eventually stations direct on the 9th of March.

LS: Mm-hmm. So while it’s not a serious transit here, with the Mercury retrograde dipping back into your 12th house of hidden places and then stationing direct there, that could be something like some miscommunications that happen in your life you suddenly realize came from someone else communicating, that you weren’t aware of with regard to the issue. Because the 12th house can be things that you don’t see at the moment.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: It can also be—Mercury retrograding back into the 12th can be something about you suddenly seeing something about your own motivations that you weren’t clear about before. Because the 12th house can also have to do with things like your subconscious or sometimes things that are kind of self-undoing.

CB: Right. Yeah, I think especially the idea of the Mercury retrograding out of the 1st house and moving into the 12th house—so that you have to go back and revise something or revisit something about the 12th house—may focus on ways in which you might be undermining yourself accidentally or inadvertently, forcing you to reexamine that. Or even instances where you might accidentally make an enemy or create a situation where you’re at odds with somebody inadvertently, so that you have to go back and revise that and see if you can smooth things over with that person.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I could see that.

CB: All right. So that’s the Mercury retrograde, which is wrapped up by the 9th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then for some reason that acts as a precursor to a major set of transits that begin later in March, first, with Saturn moving into Aquarius on the 21st, and then just a week later, Mars also moves into Aquarius on the 30th of the month.

LS: Yeah. So this area of your life—the 12th house of hidden places—is going to have a lot more activity coming up. And so, the Mercury stations direct early in the month there, but then Saturn coming in, in late March, on the 21st, will last until July 1. And that’s gonna be a preview of a longer transit, since most Saturn transits are two-and-a-half-to-three years through a sign. That’s gonna start in full at the end of the year in December. So this is going to be a bit of a preview of what that will be about for you. It’ll just dip into the first 2° of Aquarius before retrograding back to Capricorn in July. So you can pay attention at this time to see what comes up, and you’ll get a better sense of the area of your life that’s being activated with the next Saturn transit, once it moves out of Capricorn. However, Mars also moves in there around the same time in late March. And with Mars and Saturn both going into Aquarius around the same time, that probably will bring a sense more of stress or strife or some issue that you need to deal with, rather than just attention to that 12th house area. And that can be a little bit tricky, cuz the 12th house is by its nature very indirect. You know? It’s kind of like your blind spot.

CB: Right.

LS: And so, it can be things like you were saying a moment ago about people working at cross-purposes to yours. Or, you know, basically people who, you know, for whatever reason don’t like you or something and having to deal with something around that. It can also be that you’re entering a longer period of time where you’re going to be inwardly introspective and kind of working on yourself psychologically. It can be a time where you feel like you need to withdraw more. Whether that’s for some particular reason, like you are sick all of a sudden, and you need to rest more than usual or something like that, or it can just be that you feel more inward, and therefore, you’re going to be more reflective rather than social over the next few years. So this is just gonna be a few months here, but it will give you a sense of the later transit, starting in December.

CB: Yeah, definitely. And because Mars and Saturn form a conjunction really early on at the end of March in that sign, it may inaugurate this shift into activating the 12th house through some sort of obstacle or difficulty, or even, potentially, like a crisis or an issue that comes up at this time in your life. So this could mean—I mean, the 11th house, traditionally, deals with friends, whereas the 12th house deals with enemies or people you don’t get along with. So this may be showing some long-term period of needing to restructure some of the people—the relationship you have with some of the people that you don’t get along with in your life. And maybe some of those people or one of those people is being particularly like annoying or combative in a way that you have to address or deal with more head-on than you’re used to wanting to deal with.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure.

CB: That’s gonna be especially the case for people with day charts, as soon as Mars ingresses in. And luckily that’s only gonna last for about a month. Because it looks like Mars goes in on the 30th of March, but then it’s already finished with that transit by the 13th of May.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah. So one of the main things I would mention just about that is that it initiates—it sort of starts off more difficultly, but I think you’ve focused a lot on how once Saturn goes back later in the year, it will go in with Jupiter at the same time.

LS: Yeah. And that’s a much nicer combination than Mars and Saturn being in there at once. And so, while this will highlight, come late March, what that area of life will be focused on for you at that time, when it goes back later—I don’t want that to scare you—when it goes back later, it’ll probably be better. It will still be probably effort and attention and work you need to put into that area, but Jupiter will be there helping out alongside Saturn. So this March through July—or March through April period will really be more of the focus of the stress around it, I would say.

CB: Sure. All right. So that’s starting at the end of March, but then really those transits are going into April. So that’ll take us into that month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So, April. Let’s see. We have a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at the beginning of the month on April 4. Yeah, April 4.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: And so, that is happening in Capricorn, which is your 11th house of friends and groups. And since Saturn has kind of gotten out of the way at this point, this does mean that whatever this sort of more long-term transformation that you’ve been working on since 2008 with regard to Pluto transiting your 11th house of friends and groups has been about for you, Jupiter now comes around and touches Pluto and kind of expands opportunity to change that further, or it gives you more opportunity to grow in that area.

CB: Yeah. So it’s kind of nice that after two years of Saturn transits through the 11th house, and the sense of constriction and the sense of this being a period of testing for friends, or sometimes the rejection of certain friendships—now with Saturn just moving through Aquarius, all that’s left is Jupiter moving through that sign for a few months. So we get this period of like growth and expansion that gets kind of accelerated or exacerbated by the conjunction with Pluto. So you may find your social life or your work with groups expanding very rapidly all of a sudden, and that almost becoming, in some instances, like a point of obsession or intensity for you at this time in your life.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And with Jupiter and Pluto there as well, it’s not gonna be true for all of you, but some people may be working on things either in the social sphere or working with friends on something because Pluto is kind of like big energy. And so, when you put Jupiter and Pluto together, for some people that will be like a bigger-than-usual push towards doing something with friends. And that can be, again, activism, if that’s something that’s in your life, because it’s the social sphere. If you’re doing actual work with a group of friends or even one or two friends, then it can be something where you’re trying to expand that further at this time. And that’ll be a little bit easier because it’ll be just Jupiter and Pluto, like I said a moment ago, without Saturn in the mix temporarily.

CB: Right. All right. So that actually gets intensified later in the month when Pluto stations retrograde on the 25th of April.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that’s the last major outer planet transit during that month, which then takes us into the month of May.

LS: Mm-hmm. So, May, the major thing that’s happening is Saturn is retrograding in Aquarius on May 11. And so, that just little dip into your 12th house of hidden places, there’s a temporary accentuation of whatever that transit is about so far for you. Because anytime a planet stations, then it temporarily intensifies that energy, whatever that planet’s energy is about. And so, Saturn is always about hard work, responsibility, paying sort of serious attention to a certain area of your life, wherever it touches. And so, this is just gonna be a temporary little further feeling of whatever that Saturn transit through your 12th is about. But that won’t last very long because then it will, pretty short order, move back into Capricorn.

CB: Yeah. And what’s interesting is around the time of this station Mars also completes its transit through Aquarius just two days later, on the 13th of May. So it’s like there’s one last little push here of whatever that Saturn and Mars transit through Aquarius is about right in the middle of May, and then there’s almost like an alleviation of that over the course of the next few weeks.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So Mars moves into Pisces on the 13th of May. And that is the first whole sign house, the place of the body, as well as the mind for those with Pisces rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Mars will usually give you more energy when it moves out of a 12th house transit and into the 1st, because the 12th is more about withdrawal and then the 1st is really being out front and center. It’s the house of self. So Mars moving through there can have you more energized than you were for the previous month or so. You just wanna be careful to kind of use that energy responsibly because the flip side of that can be feeling more combative or acting more aggressively than you mean to because it’s a very forthright energy. So that’s just something to watch out for as it goes into your 1st. I mean, I would say particularly because it does—well, let’s see, is Saturn still in Aquarius at this point?

CB: Yeah.

LS: Okay. Never mind then. I was gonna draw a connection there that’s not quite there yet. Yeah, so I would say the main thing is just, you know, use your energy wisely, and, you know, enjoy the newfound vigor, but just kind of don’t come across too aggressively to people.

CB: Sure. Yeah, it could be a period in which you have more energy and can speak and act more directly than normal, especially compared to the previous month-and-a-half.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But also, sometimes that energy can bubble over and lead to aggressiveness or irritability or impulsiveness that can sometimes get you in trouble, either mentally and verbally, or alternatively, even physically. Because sometimes a Mars transit through the 1st can indicate like an accident or an injury if it’s hitting your chart in a particularly difficult way.

LS: Yeah, exactly. So that’ll be there until near the end of June.

CB: Okay. So that is that transit. And weirdly, there’s a whole cluster of stuff happening around this time. Cuz Jupiter’s stationing retrograde in Capricorn, in the 11th house, the next day, on the 14th of May. And the same day Mars ingresses on the 13th, Venus actually stations retrograde in Gemini, in the 4th house of the home and the family and the living situation for those with Pisces rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. So a Venus retrograde normally is about people coming back into your life that used to be around. And that can be, as a general signification, true for everyone. It’s often associated with like people coming back into your life that you used to date or something like that or old friends, and that’s still gonna be true here. But the more particular area of your life that it’s transiting through and revisiting is your 4th house of home and family. So there may be a sense at this time of you reviewing your living situation, whether you’re happy with it or not. Thinking about moving, but maybe not moving yet. It could also be a time when someone you used to live with comes back around or comes back into contact with you. That’s not necessarily to say someone actually moves back in with you—although that could happen—but it’s more to say that there’s just some sort of review process for you at this time with regard to things involving your living situation, maybe home, as well as anything with your parents in particular or family more generally.

CB: Yeah. One of things I could see somebody doing with the Venus retrograde through the 4th house is like redesigning their home and just like their decor or general arrangement of their house in order to create a more harmonious living situation.

LS: Mm-hmm. That’s true. Although that does bring—I agree with that. And it also does bring up the thing that we talked about with Venus retrogrades through the 1st, which is, do you actually act on that redesign at this point, or do you wait until Venus goes direct? Cuz sometimes when you’re in the review process, your aesthetic choices are different than they would be normally.

CB: Yeah. I mean, I think it’s fine to initiate that process, but it may not come to completion, and you may go through several different stages before you reach a final thing that you’re happy with more towards the very end of the retrograde.

LS: Yeah, that could be. Yeah. So just know that it’s a review process, and you’re not quite done with that until it goes direct.

CB: Right. All right. So Jupiter stations retrograde here, which is an intensification of some of the 11th house growth-and-expansion significations with respect to friends and groups on the 14th. And then that’s pretty much it for May.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So—

LS: Yeah, go ahead.

CB: So that takes us into June.

LS: Yeah. So June starts off with the first Sagittarius eclipse, which is going to be in your 10th house of career and public reputation. So that’s on June 5. And up to this point, we’ve had the eclipses in the Cancer/Capricorn axis, which is your 5th house and 11th house. But at the end of the year, they’re gonna be fully in Gemini and Sagittarius, which is your home and living situation and family, and your career or your supervisors, if you have any. And so, this first one in Sagittarius kicks that off, even though there’s not a full set. And so, this is something about bringing to a mini-culmination—because it is a lunar eclipse into your 10th house—of something that you’ve either been working on or an opportunity that arises with regard to career. But basically, eclipses bring beginnings and endings and those can be mini-chapters, not necessarily like a wholesale ending of your entire career. Although that could mean for some people, switching careers. It could also mean something changing with regard to your boss, if you have one. I’ve seen that with eclipses in the 10th house, sort of your supervisor changing. Getting a new supervisor, things like that. But anyway, this is going to be an area of potential change for you over the next year or so because the eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius will continue into 2021, and this is just the first one of the set.

CB: Yeah. So this is starting to shine a spotlight on your 10th house of career and questions about who you are and where you’re going with your life and what is your reputation and what you want it to be. And you may see some things start to reach a culmination point or start to reach a point where they start wrapping up over the next six months, so that you’re ready to begin a new phase in terms of your career and life direction later this year, around November and December. But this will be the initial starting point or the initial phase of that, that’ll sort of open that chapter of your life with this eclipse.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I know I’ve talked with some clients who are Pisces rising, who are thinking about a career change or looking for a new job or something. And this will start to become times when change will be more likely as an opportunity.

CB: Right. All right. So that’s gonna take us into the later part of June, where there’s a couple of potentially related things that are happening in the same sector of the chart. One of them is Mercury stations retrograde for the second time this year, this time, in the sign of Cancer, in the 5th house for those with Pisces rising. And then just two days later, we get a solar eclipse. And it’s the last or the final solar eclipse in Cancer, also in the 5th house for those with Pisces rising.

LS: Yeah. So while Mercury retrogrades usually aren’t big deals in terms of transits, this one is tied into something that’s a bit bigger, that eclipse there. So with the Mercury retrograde happening in your 5th house of children, sexuality, creative pursuits, and things you do for enjoyment, there may be some sort of review that’s happening for you with regard to at least one, if not more of those topics. And then with the eclipse happening there, that just intensifies that further. So basically, there’s something happening during this part of the year, during the summer, with regard to children, if you have any children. Perhaps for some people, with the Mercury retrograde there in particular, it’s reviewing your ideas about whether you want to have children or not in your life in the future. I could see that being true for some people.

CB: Like miscommunication surrounding children.

LS: Oh, yeah. That’s true.

CB: That’s funny. With the solar eclipse there, in the 6th house—or 5th house—it’s also going to lay a new foundation and start something new, the seeds of which could grow subtly over the course of the next six months. So maybe one good piece of advice is to make sure you have clear communication and no misunderstandings with your partners about like birth control, for example.

LS: Mm-hmm. No, for sure.

CB: Having like a miscommunication involving that, that starts some new major phase in your life in that area.

LS: Yeah, in theory, I could definitely see that combination.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah. So be careful about that and be as clear as possible. I think it’s happening near the Neptune station, is it not, on the calendar there?

CB: Let me pull up the calendar.

LS: Yeah. Cuz I think—and, you know, I’m only mentioning this with a few signs, when it’s more focal. But since it’s happening in your 1st house, I think that’s more important because it’s the 1st house of self. So, yeah, I mean, it’s interesting actually. Some of these transits, they tie in more easily than others. And with all of this activity, with the Mercury retrograde and the solar eclipse in your 5th house—but then it’s happening so close to the Venus stationing direct and Neptune stationing retrograde in your 1st house, the Neptune station, in addition to the Mercury retrograde—I would say be especially clear as much as you can be about where you’re coming from, particularly with regard to those 5th house topics, like children. Because you could be inadvertently, again, as I said earlier, with any Neptune activity in the 1st, you could be inadvertently less clear than you think you are being. And then with the Venus stationing direct, yeah, I could just see that tying in a lot for some people. Even though the Venus station is more in your 4th house of home and family, just the general signification of it, plus the 5th house activity, I could see that being something important with regard to dating for some people. Dating, sexuality, potentially, children.

CB: Sure. So Venus stations direct on the 25th of June. And then just two days later, we get our last major transit of the month, which is that Mars ingresses into Aries and into the 2nd house of finances for those with Pisces rising.

LS: Yeah. And so, Mars ingressing into Aries is more important than usual this year. Because while Mars transits are usually just a six-week transit, Mars is going to retrograde in Aries this year in the fall. Which means that through all of its direct-and-then-retrograde-and-then-direct-again movement, it’s going to spend six months in Aries, instead of six weeks, which is quite a bit of difference. The entirety of the second half of 2020, Mars will be transiting your 2nd house of income and finances and possessions. And so, this is an important one to watch for you as it enters at the end of June, even though the main piece that we’re really looking at isn’t gonna happen until September, the retrograde station itself. So with Mars transiting your 2nd house, this can bring more effort and attention and energy towards your making a living, towards what you’re doing with your money. And depending on the specifics of your chart that can either be simply that you’re just putting more energy towards that area of your life for a while, or it can be more conflict or strife or loss with regard to money or possessions. Sometimes if you were born during the day that’s gonna be more likely in terms of Mars being the more stressful transit through there, where you might have financial problems during some piece of the second half of 2020. It’s more likely to crop up during the retrograde itself, but this sets up some of the themes for what’s going on. If it’s gonna be more constructive for you, if you have a night chart, it’s usually just more that you’re putting more energy towards making money for some reason during this time.

CB: Right. So best-case scenario, greater focus and attention for the next six months on the area of finances and like what it takes to make money, and putting energy or even pushing yourself harder than at other times in your life to do that for some reason. Maybe something comes up that causes that as a necessity that you have to do during this time, especially once it gets intensified later in September when Mars stations retrograde. So that’s like the best-case scenario. Worst-case scenario is some sort of strife or conflict in the area of finances that sort of gets going or has its initial phase when Mars goes into Aries at the end of June, but really peaks once it stations retrograde in September.

LS: Definitely. And while most people don’t wanna hear, you know, news like that, one of the things that’s really useful to know about that ahead of time is, you know, maybe try to set aside more money than usual in terms of savings, if you know that that kind of transit is going to be coming up for because you don’t know how it will go yet. And so, you can try to be like, perhaps, more conservative than you usually are with your spending in preparation for that transit.

CB: Right. All right. So that begins at the end of June, but then it lasts for most of the rest of the year, with an intensification in September. So we’ll actually come back to that transit later.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But this will take us into the second half of the year. I just wanted to pause for a second and say thanks everybody for joining us for the livestream. There’s a bunch of viewers, and I’m enjoying a lot of your comments that are coming in. Please be sure to like this video, if you’re enjoying it, just to help other people to find it. And let’s transition into talking about the astrology for the second half of the year.

LS: Okay. So July starts off with Saturn going back into Capricorn, into your 11th house of friends and groups. And pretty soon after that there is also the last eclipse in Capricorn, in that same area of your life. So this is going to be a time when, on the one hand, you kind of had an alleviation of work on that area of your life for a few months, when Saturn went into Aquarius, into your 12th house, and now it’s kind of back in. So for some people, it might be like, “Oh, I thought I dealt with this area already. And, you know, now I have to focus on it again.” But this is only going to be for five more months and then you’re done with the three-year transit. So this is the last stretch during the second half of 2020. Saturn goes back into Capricorn from July until mid-December. And so, you’re gonna be putting more work and effort into your friends and groups area again. Any work you do with groups of any sort or work on a friendship that you have or work restructuring who you are friends with or who you hang out with—all of that could come up at this time, with both the Saturn ingress again and the last eclipse there.

CB: Yeah. So there’s something that may be not finished about the area of friends and groups that you’ve been working on for about two-and-a-half years at this point. But Saturn is coming back in order to either make the final push to make sure that you’ve finished up and sort of swept the pieces in that area of your life that you’ve been working on restructuring for the past couple of years. Or there may be some specific thing that you have to go back to, to make sure that you got the lesson of whatever the point of that transit was about. So at the same time, there’s a solar eclipse that occurs a few days later, also in Capricorn—or, sorry, a lunar eclipse—which sort of indicates, additionally, or sort of reiterates this idea of a period of a culmination of events in the area of friends and groups and just putting a greater spotlight on that area, so that something that you started six months earlier, in the beginning, or end of December, will sort of come to completion and start to bear fruit or show the results of your efforts, even if they started off in a way that was very slow, or in a way that didn’t seem important at first. Now, suddenly, your efforts in the area of friends and groups start to really matter and start to become more clear.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. And for some of you, a lot of the work will have been done already, since the Saturn piece is only going to go back to about 25° of Capricorn, I believe, before it stations direct again. So unless you have important placements towards the end of the cardinal signs—so the last about 5° of Capricorn or Aries, Libra, Cancer—then you might have more of the focal point of actual events coming up with regard to friends and groups at this time. And you could still, with the eclipse there. But to some extent, for a lot of people with Pisces rising, this won’t be a new story, and you will have already done a lot of things with this area already.

CB: Right. All right. So the only other major thing that happens in July is that Mercury stations direct in Cancer. So it sort of finishes up that three-week retrograde cycle that we were talking about earlier. And then we move into the astrology of August.

LS: Mm-hmm. So August has a lot lit up on this calendar. But really the main thing, a lot of those are quick, inner planet transits. The main thing that’s happening to note right now for the year ahead is Uranus stationing retrograde on August 15 in Taurus, in your 3rd house of siblings, short-distance travel, and communications. And so, what we were talking about earlier in January with that first station comes back again. And so, there’s another intensification for the second time this year on unpredictability, unexpected things coming up in any of these areas of your life. And that’s gonna be true more so if you do have placements close to 10° or 11° of Taurus, because that is where Uranus is stationing here at this time, and also, to some extent, 10° or 11° of any of the other fixed signs. So, Aquarius, Scorpio, or Leo.

CB: Yeah. So this is the first time that Uranus has gotten this far into Taurus. So especially for those with placements at 10° of Taurus or the other fixed signs, some of those feelings of instability or disruptions or unexpected developments are really gonna start to become more prominent in your life, even if they were slowly building up to this point. This is the point where they might peak in terms of intensity during the course of this transit.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So major changes and overhauls in communication. Major changes in terms of your siblings’ lives or in terms of your relationship with your siblings. Changes, potentially, to your neighbors or your neighborhood in general in some way.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It’s funny. We have like a local business that we know the birth chart for, and they were having some major outer planet transits over the course of the past few years in their 3rd house. And literally, we saw the entire neighborhood around the business like change during the course of that time, which is pretty wild to watch how that happens in the chart of like a business.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. It was pretty striking really. So it can be something like that. Like your neighborhood goes through changes, innovations of some sort come in that weren’t there already and things like that.

CB: Right. So that’s the main transit happening in August, that Uranus station right in the middle of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then that takes us through into September.

LS: Yeah. So September is actually the main event in terms of the Mars retrograde. Mars does station retrograde on September 9, and it’s going to be retrograde until mid-November. So a good couple of months or a little more. And so, this is the point in time when all the things we were mentioning earlier with regard to energy output put towards income or possessions or potentially conflict or tensions around that area of your life will come to head. And if something is cropping up that causes you to review what you were doing up to this point, then this is around when that will happen. And that is because, you know, Mars gets all the way to 28° of Aries before it retrogrades. And so, you will have the feeling—we’ll all have the feeling—at that point, I think, that we were mostly done with that area, and that we did what we were supposed to do with regard to, you know, for you, money, you know, your source of income or your spending or your possessions. But then all of a sudden there’s something that makes us do a detour or a U-turn and go back over what we were just working on before with regard to the financial area of our life and try to figure out what you need to do to go forward again.

CB: Right. One of the things that’s interesting about when Mars stations in September—when it stations retrograde, it’s at 28° of Aries, and it’s pretty closely squaring Saturn at 25 Capricorn during that time. So there could be some sort of connection here about tensions between the person’s personal finances and their friends or financial matters and their relationship with like groups or organizations.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that might be an area to watch out for as a potential source of problems during that time, just because the retrograde itself is kind of a tense period that really gets going at this stage.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And if there’s any conflict around money, you know, and friends, that could definitely crop up at this time. I was thinking, when I was mentioning earlier about the Jupiter-Pluto transit through your 11th, if, you know, you are one of those Pisces rising people that is working on a project with friends, or even, you know, doing something professionally with friends, you wanna be especially careful around this time with regard to conflict around the financial pieces of it.

CB: Sure. The good news though is that just a few days after Mars stations retrograde, Jupiter stations direct in the 11th house of friends, in Capricorn, which should indicate some sort of positive forward movement or expansion in terms of friends and groups. And then later in the month, Saturn makes its final direct station towards the end of Capricorn, and then it’s gonna start moving forward on its way to departing that house and finishing up its three-year transit through that sign.

LS: Yeah. So this is the last hurrah for all of your 11th house efforts, you know, with friends and groups. And so, with both Jupiter and Saturn direct after this point, you can kind of do—I was gonna say smooth sailing. I mean, it depends on if you have any placements in the rest of the degrees of Capricorn, in the last 5°. But to some extent, relatively speaking, it’s smoother sailing forward and finishing up whatever you’re working on in that area.

CB: Right. So those are the last major things for September.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And some of those transits—even though intensified at this point when they station—are still in effect going into the following month. This takes us into October, where really the main thing that happens is that Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio on the 13th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this is the last Mercury retrograde of 2020. It will station retrograde in Scorpio, which for you, with Pisces rising, is going to be the 9th house, which has to do with higher education, long-distance travel, things that involve cultures that are different from yours, even if you are staying at home. Religion, philosophy, worldview types of things. And so, with Mercury stationing retrograde there, there’s some sort of a review for you going on for a few weeks, with regard to at least one of those topics. So you’re rethinking perhaps your desire to do some sort of education pursuit. Or you are rethinking a travel plan, or you maybe need to change a travel plan that you’ve already set up, other things like that. Reviewing your belief systems.

CB: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, it could indicate—a Mercury retrograde in the 9th house could indicate taking a sudden trip. Especially cuz Mercury stations retrograde at 11° of Scorpio opposite to Uranus at 9° of Taurus. So there could be some sort of unexpected traveling that has to take place at this time, and there may be some snafus or miscommunications or difficulties that come up during the course of that. But sometimes that’s necessary to do, nonetheless, and you can’t necessarily always avoid it.

LS: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that’s true. And especially so since the 3rd house—where Uranus is transiting, the opposition will happen—travel is also one of those topics there.

CB: Right. So Mercury, though, doesn’t stay in that sign. But instead, towards the end of the month, on the 27th, it actually retrogrades back into Libra, moving back into the 8th house of shared resources for those with Pisces rising.

LS: Mm-hmm. So there may be something that you also need to review at this time—as it dips back into your 8th house of shared resources—in terms of your financial life. And that’s not just true because of the Mars transit in the 2nd, but then the 8th house is the other financial house that has to do with joint finances. So anything you own or any financial life you have with a personal partner or a business partner. It can also be the other financial topics that aren’t income, such as taxes, loans, debts, inheritance, those sorts of things. And so, Mercury retrograding just a little bit back into that house for you, and then stationing direct there, could have you reviewing any of those topics as well at this time.

CB: Yeah. So there could be a connection between the 9th house of travel and like the 8th house of maybe having to borrow some money from somebody due to a trip, or due to an unexpected expense that comes up within the context of a trip. Or education, which is a 9th house thing, and something that came up in the context of education, requiring you to borrow money, which would be an 8th house thing.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: There may be some connection with the fact that—or an overlapping of 9th house and 8th house topics because the Mercury retrograde goes across the boundaries of those two signs.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So that’s taking us into the month of November, where very early in the month, on the 3rd of November, Mercury stations direct and starts moving forward and completes its three-week retrograde period. And then the other major thing that happens this month is Mars finally completes its retrograde period and stations direct around 15° of Aries.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this is the turning point, the other major turning point besides the station retrograde in September that everyone, I think, will really be looking forward to. Because whatever you needed to review or go back over or redo in your financial life, you’re finally gonna be able to turn it around and start moving forward again with that. And Mars does take a bit in terms of speeding back up to its regular speed and motion. And so, when it does station direct here in the middle of November, it won’t be that you can implement everything immediately to smooth everything out—whatever, you know, cropped up in your financial life here—but you will at least feel like you have a plan. Or you will start to have a plan to move things forward again and, you know, what’s the word? Just iron out the wrinkles of whatever came up during this Mars retrograde in your financial house.

CB: Yeah. There’s definitely a sense of forward movement again at this time. And you have been sort of like treading water for several weeks when it comes to financial matters, or having to put and expend a lot of energy on that area of your life for some reason. But now, all of a sudden, there is an end in sight to this period and a realization that you’re gonna turn a corner and start to come out of it before too long. Which should be probably a happy sight to see by that time.

LS: Yeah, definitely. Mostly it’s really good, I think. The only cautionary note would be, again, with any Mars intensification, just, you know, be aware of not provoking too much conflict with regard to finances at this time. I mean, Mars is in Aries. It’s a very assertive sign. So to some extent, some of you may need to be assertive about financial matters at this time, but you just wanna be a little bit cautionary as far as not going overboard. It’s not so much that it’s in your 1st house of self at this point. It’s just around financial matters, primarily.

CB: Right. Definitely. All right. So then later in November, we get back into eclipse season, and it starts with a lunar eclipse, which happens in Gemini—in the 4th house of the home and the family and the living situation—on the 30th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So now we’re fully into the Gemini/Sagittarius axis for the eclipses. And so, we just had the one in Sagittarius in the summer. But now we have Gemini at the end of November, and then two weeks later, in mid-December, we’ll have the Sagittarius one. So they come in pairs like that. And so, at the end of November, we will have that lunar eclipse to your 4th house of home and family. And this is an area that you would’ve been focusing on a little bit earlier in the year, in the summer—in May and June in particular—because of the Venus retrograde happening there. So whatever is coming up this time—even though that’s different than an eclipse, the eclipse brings beginnings and endings—there could be something around the same topics for you coming up near the end of the year. So basically, new decisions around where you’re living. Maybe new things happening in your parent’s life or in your relationship with your parents, or new things happening with regard to your private life. And it’s not completely new because this is a lunar eclipse—so it’s kind of a mini-culmination—but the series, in general, brings new beginnings and endings in that area.

CB: Yeah. There’s something that you probably initiated six months earlier, over the summer, in the area of your living situation—or your parents or your private life—that starts to become more clear and starts to manifest as a more significant part of your life at this point, even if it didn’t seem like it was gonna be a major change at the time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that starts happening there. But then, also, with these two eclipses and this shift towards the 4th house/10th house axis, in the middle of December, on the 14th, with that solar eclipse in the sign of Sagittarius, in your 10th house, there is a major new beginning when it comes to your career and your overall life direction. And there’s something that gets initiated at this point where you’re laying the seeds or the foundations of a new direction in your life with respect to career, that will grow and develop until it eventually matures about six months later, about halfway into 2021.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So this is a time, as I was mentioning earlier,with the Sagittarius eclipses in your 10th house of career, there can be more openings, if you were looking for a new job, or looking to switch fields that you’re working in. Eclipses are a time when greater change is possible in whatever area they’re touching in your life. So any of you who are, you know, looking for new work or thinking about switching companies, you can look at that around this time and there’ll be more openings for that, I think. And that also can be true, like I said earlier, for things involving your boss. So some people, for instance, maybe your supervisor leaves the company. And so, then you are starting to report to a new boss and that’s a whole new experience. So the 10th house can govern both of those things. It can also be recognition, professional recognition. Sometimes not necessarily things like switching jobs, but you reach some sort of mini-pinnacle with regard to work that you’ve been working on in whatever professional field you’re in.

CB: Yeah. There’s somebody in the chat named ‘Stargirl’ who says that she’s saving money, hopefully, to buy a house by the end of the year.

LS: Nice.

CB: Which would be a really great, sort of textbook manifestation of that eclipse taking place in the 4th house.

LS: Yeah, most definitely.

CB: Yeah. All right. So this is taking us into December and into the final major transits of the year, and perhaps the most momentous or major transits of 2020, which is Saturn finally completes its three-year transit through Capricorn and through your 11th house of friendship, and it ingresses into Aquarius for the final time on the 17th of December. Then two days later, Jupiter also moves into Aquarius, and the two form a conjunction in the sky on the 21st of December.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Saturn is coming back to where it did its little few-month preview in the spring, which was late March through July 1. And so, for the next about two-and-a-half years, Saturn will be applying its scrutiny, you know, impulse for hard work and responsibility and so forth to your 12th house of hidden matters, your own subconscious, and things of that nature, things that you do in private. And Jupiter also will be transiting there. So, as we were mentioning earlier, that’s a way better combination at the end of the year starting to form, instead of just Mars and Saturn, which are more strife. Jupiter is more opportunity. So Jupiter transiting through your 12th, let’s see, experiences of that. I mean, oftentimes, it’s more of a hidden influence that you actually see, or other people don’t see it outwardly in your life. It’s more about beneficial things coming from a retreat, I would say.

CB: Mm-hmm. Or growth through seclusion could be one.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Like going off to like an ashram and like meditating, or like going off to a library or something.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So the 12th house has to do with seclusion of various sorts. And so, with Jupiter transiting through there for the next year, that would say you will get benefits in your life through retreat, of whatever sort, through taking more time, more alone time for yourself, which, you know, for a lot of people feels hard to do. But at this point in the year—and then going for about a year forward—this will be something that if you do take more time for yourself, you will probably have more inner growth and better, you know, benefits for your overall life. And that also will help out the beginning of your Saturn transit, or, relatively speaking, the beginning of your Saturn transit, because this is when it’s gonna be in Aquarius for a while now. And so, for the first year of that, you’re getting Jupiter and Saturn there, and not just Saturn alone. Saturn alone is more just hard work or responsibility or, you know, taking care of this area in a way that you kind of have to. But Jupiter there, joining it for the first year of that transit, is bringing more expansion, even though you also have those other things going.

CB: Yeah, definitely. It can also be a good time to restructure and deal with or address the sort of internal or mental health area of one’s life during a heavy 12th house transit, going through a period of introspection and like internal housecleaning, so to speak.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And Jupiter will help you do that, rather than it just feeling more like something you have to do.

CB: Sure. Definitely. All right. Well, this is taking us to the very end of the transits at the very end of 2020. And we’re actually getting ahead of ourselves, cuz we’re starting to talk about transits that are going into 2021.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we may have to call it a night for this forecast and maybe come back again next year for the forecast for 2021 and save the rest of then.

LS: Sounds good.

CB: Okay. Cool. Well, thanks everybody for joining us tonight, especially in the chat, those who joined us live for the livestream. I appreciated it and enjoyed some of your comments. Please be sure to like this video, to subscribe to the YouTube channel. And if you’re watching the recording, please post a comment below, just explaining how some of these transits are working for you so far in your life, like the 8th house Saturn transits over the past couple of years, or how you anticipate some of the transits working, coming up in 2020, that we’ve just been describing.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Just a few things to mention before we wrap up for the night. Most of the artwork in this episode comes from a set of posters that we released as a set this year, which display the planetary transits for the entirety of 2020. And it tells you, at a glance, exactly when certain planets change signs, when they station retrograde or direct, when the lunations—like the New Moon and Full Moon and eclipses—take place, and so on and so forth. So it’s really helpful tools for tracking some of the astrology of 2020. And you can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Leisa and I also released a couple of weeks ago our annual 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report, where we went through each of the next 12 months, and we picked out specific dates. So one day for each of the next 12 months that had the best astrological or planetary alignments for starting new ventures and undertakings, like starting a new business or getting married or going on a major journey or other things like that. And it was pretty fun to record that, cuz that was like a two-year—or two-hour presentation like this.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so if you’re wanting to plan further ahead in the year for something that you plan to do months ahead of time, this is a great tool for that. We’ve already looked through the entire year and found the best options for you for it to go well.

CB: Right. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. And then, finally, we also have to do a shoutout to all of our patrons who support the production of each episode of The Astrology Podcast through our page on Patreon. In particular, a shoutout to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, and the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, available at Honeycomb.co. There’s two major astrology conferences happening this year. One of them is the International Society for Astrological Research is hosting a conference in Denver, Colorado, September 10-14 of 2020. More information about that at ISAR2020.org. And then, finally, there’s also the Northwest Astrological Conference, which is happening in Seattle from May 21-25. And you can find out more information about that at NORWAC.net. To become a patron and get early access to new episodes and other bonus content, go to Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right. That’s it for this forecast. We did it. Congratulations to us.

LS: Yes.

CB: Thank you for carrying me through, as I’m like losing my voice towards the end of this. The last three episodes—installments today.

LS: Yeah, quite welcome.

CB: Thank you. And thanks everybody for your patience this week. This took longer than I expected. Cuz initially I was thinking I was gonna do maybe like five horoscopes a day, and then they turned out to be a little bit longer and more detailed than I anticipated. But I wanted to make sure each one got a proper treatment, so we did a full hour at least for each one.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: Yeah. All right. So if you liked this, then let us know in the comments. Thanks everybody who joined us in the livestream. We appreciate you. And good luck in 2020, and we’ll see you again next year.

LS: Have a great year.