Mars conjunction Uranus in Gemini · Venus trine Lilith in Sagittarius

Mars is the loud voice today. Fast-moving, freshly into Gemini, and applying to Uranus within a degree and change — this is the kind of configuration where something jolts loose and the impulse is to act on it before the shape of it is clear. The saving grace, if we want to call it that, is that Mars is also reaching toward Neptune by sextile and Pluto by trine at almost the same time. So the jolt has somewhere to go: imaginative work, buried work, work that needed the interruption to begin. The recent square to the North Node still hangs in the air — a sense of having pulled against the current direction — but it is separating, and I would not build a whole day around it.

Venus in Leo trining Lilith is separating and quiet by comparison, though I like it. It has the flavor of something already said, already claimed, no longer needing defense.

The Sun in Cancer and Jupiter at the first degree of Leo are in mixed reception, which is the sort of quiet structural courtesy that keeps a chaotic Mars day from tipping over. Each is doing the other's work. It's worth more than the aspect list suggests.

Mercury retrograde sits on Procyon almost exactly — the little dog star, the one that runs ahead of the hunter and sometimes catches something it can't hold. With Mercury already retrograde in Cancer, I'd read this as a warning against acting on the first clever thing that surfaces today, particularly in writing or correspondence. Actually, let me complicate that: Procyon rewards resourcefulness too. It's the holding that's the problem, not the catching.

Moon in Aquarius in the Weaving Girl mansion, past its conjunction with Pluto by morning. Full phase, waning. Saturn in fall in Aries continues to be Saturn in fall in Aries. The outer planets are humming their long chord in the background.