Sun sextile Jupiter in Leo · Mars trine Saturn ℞ in Aries

The headline today is a pair of applying harmonious aspects that each come with a courtesy. Sun in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo, and Jupiter, in his own domicile, receives the fallen Sun with something like good manners. The Sun has little of its own to offer here, cadent to its own nature in Libra, but Jupiter is willing to meet it, and the mutual reception already running between Sun and Saturn by exaltation gives the Sun a second borrowed chair to sit in. So: a weakened luminary, propped up by two better-placed planets who happen to be inclined toward it. That is a more interesting condition than "nice sextile."

Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries, and again there's reception, Saturn in Mars's domicile. This is the aspect I'd actually act on if something required decisiveness paired with structure. Mars has the dignity, Saturn has the direction, and the two are speaking politely across fire signs. Saturn is in fall, which I noted above and want to qualify now, because received by Mars, Saturn is doing better than his sign alone would suggest. Fall is a condition, not a verdict.

Venus retrograde in Scorpio, in detriment and under the beams, applies to a square with Pluto. This is the sore spot of the week. Reconsiderations in love or money that feel heavier than the facts warrant, and the Pluto contact will not let the matter stay surface.

The Moon ingresses Sagittarius just before 1 UTC and spends the day in the Heart mansion, which traditionally favors matters of authority and the center of things. Fitting, given that the Sun is weak and leaning on its neighbors. Neptune square Lilith is separating background noise. The Uranus-Pluto trine I'll leave to the people who write about generations.