Venus opposition Pluto ℞ in Aquarius · Venus trine Neptune in Aries

Venus has just pulled away from her opposition to Pluto and is still inside the trine to Neptune, with Uranus a sextile behind her — three aspects in a row, the hard one already discharging. What this looks like in practice: the conversation or attraction that felt unbearably high-stakes yesterday is loosening its grip today, and what remains is softer, stranger, more aesthetic than fated. Venus has just entered Leo, freshly dignified by domicile-rulership in her own right and burning a little hot for it, which makes the Neptune trine read less as dissolution and more as glamour. The Uranus sextile is doing the lighter work of keeping options open. I'd treat the Pluto opposition as the story being told about yesterday, not today's news.

The Moon is finishing Cancer in the Ghost mansion — a mansion for funerary work, ancestral business, things that need to be laid down — and she's at home, conjunct exalted Jupiter, with the two of them in mixed reception. That's an unusually strong configuration for a quiet morning; whatever you tend to in those last Cancer degrees has the weight of both luminary dignity and benefic exaltation behind it. By midday she crosses into Leo and meets Venus there, and the texture shifts entirely. Worth noting that this is also a new Moon phase by illumination, even if not exact — the Cancer chapter is closing under a dark sky.

Mercury is exactly on Castor, which I'd ordinarily underline, except that Mercury in Cancer doesn't take to Castor's quicksilver eloquence as cleanly as a Gemini Mercury would. Expect fluency on emotional subjects rather than clever ones.

Saturn in fall in Aries continues to be the structural weakness under everything else this season, and Mars in detriment isn't helping. The sky is doing several things at once and not all of them rhyme.