Sun square Lilith in Capricorn · Sun approaching Neptune ℞ in Aries

The Sun in Libra is doing a peculiar thing today. In fall, yes, but held up by exaltation-reception with Saturn in Aries, who is likewise in fall and likewise borrowed dignity from the Sun. Two weakened planets propping each other up by mutual exaltation is a stranger arrangement than the textbooks let on. It works, but it works the way scaffolding works: nothing here stands on its own merit, and the arrangement wants examining before you trust it with weight.

That Sun is also pulling into opposition with Neptune while trining Pluto, and just clearing a square to Lilith. So the day's solar business, whatever agreements or judgments are on the table, comes fogged and slightly aggrieved, though the Pluto trine grants a real capacity to see structure underneath if you look for it. I would not sign what you cannot re-read tomorrow.

Venus in Scorpio, in detriment, is the other figure I keep coming back to. She is not miserable there, only working against her preferences: desire without the graces, attachment without ease. Pair her with the fallen Sun and today's relational weather is honest but abrasive.

The Moon ingressed Pisces before dawn UTC and sits in the Rooftop mansion, which the tradition reads as heights and precarious footing. She is with Fomalhaut, one of the Watchers, which sharpens the mansion's warning: ideals today are unusually vivid and unusually capable of misleading. The earlier square to Uranus has already separated, so the jangling should be behind you by afternoon.

Background, Neptune and Pluto hold their long sextile and Uranus trines Pluto from a distance. Real, but not today's story.

Today's story is two fallen planets holding each other upright under a Piscean Moon on a rooftop. Move carefully.