Sun approaching Jupiter in Leo · Neptune ℞ square Lilith in Capricorn

Two applying trines and sextiles between the chart's traditional players is more than this autumn usually offers, so start there. Sun sextile Jupiter is the clean one: Jupiter is received by the Sun by domicile, so the king's largesse is actually extended, not merely gestured at. The Sun himself is in fall in Libra, which complicates things, you take Jupiter's offer with a somewhat weakened hand. But the mutual reception with Saturn by exaltation props the Sun up considerably. Libra's fallen Sun is doing better than the textbook claims.

Mars trine Saturn, with Saturn received by Mars, is the sturdier aspect of the day. Saturn in fall in Aries ordinarily worries me, but domicile reception from Mars gives the old man a chair to sit in. Disciplined action, structural work, the kind of effort that doesn't need to announce itself. Running fast in retrograde too, so he's covering ground.

The Venus-Mars square is separating and softened by reception, I'd note it mostly because Venus is retrograde and in detriment, which has its own long arc. Today's friction is the tail end of something, not the beginning. The Mars-Uranus sextile I'd barely mention.

Moon in Scorpio in her fall, dark of the Moon, in the Root mansion. New Moons in Scorpio are not for ribbon-cuttings, but the Root mansion is traditionally good for foundations and construction, so what you plant now plants deep rather than wide. Mercury sits on Zubenelgenubi, the Southern Scale, which is the star of hard bargains and old accounts coming due. If you're negotiating today, read the fine print twice. Mercury in Scorpio already wants to.

The outer-planet trine between Uranus and Pluto continues humming in the background. It will keep humming. The day itself belongs to the Sun with Jupiter, and to Mars holding Saturn upright.