Venus approaching Uranus in Gemini · Uranus square North Node ℞ in Pisces

Venus has just crossed into Leo and is already reaching toward Uranus in Gemini by sextile — applying, close enough to matter, and the sort of contact that loosens the social calendar. Venus in Leo wants display; Uranus offers an unexpected angle on it. I'd take the meeting, accept the odd invitation. But Venus is also walking into an opposition with Pluto in Aquarius across the next few days, and that complicates what I just said. The sextile gives you the open door; the opposition asks who's standing on the other side of it and what they want from you. Power, exposure, the cost of being seen by the wrong audience. Venus debilitated in neither place, but ungoverned by reception either — she's on her own here, which in Leo she rather enjoys until she doesn't.

The Moon is in Gemini under the beams, almost dark, with the new Moon close at hand. She's in mutual reception with Mercury in Cancer, so although weakened by the Sun's proximity, she has somewhere to act from — Mercury lends her his house, she lends him hers, and the day's small communications carry more weight than the lighting suggests. A separating sextile to Saturn in Aries early on; Saturn is fast and in fall, so don't expect much structure from him, but the contact steadies the morning. The Net mansion suits the Mercury-Moon exchange — catching what passes, the patient end of cleverness.

Jupiter exalted in Cancer sits on Procyon, which I notice mostly because Jupiter moving fast and dignified already inclines toward overreach; the Little Dog sharpens that into the question of whether the win arrived too early to hold.

Uranus square the North Node is separating and I'll let it separate. Saturn in fall, Mars in detriment in Taurus moving fast — the malefics are both off their game, which is its own kind of weather.