New Moon on Monday Astrology

Your birth chart is stationary.  If Mercury was in Aquarius at the moment you were born, you have Mercury in Aquarius.  If Jupiter was in Virgo, you have Jupiter in Virgo and so on.  

The planets are always moving through the zodiac sign by sign.  Some of them move much faster than others (think the Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Venus) - they go through all twelve signs each year.  Some of them (like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) stay in the same sign for years at a time.  

As the planets move through the signs, they contact your birth chart in various ways. Each of the planets will aspect (make squares, oppositions, conjunctions, sextiles, trines) to the various planets as they sit in your chart.  These contacts (transits) are what shape your personal astrological weather. 

Signs of the same element tend to enable each other.  So if you have Venus in Sagittarius and there are a lot of planets in Sagittarius, or the other fire signs (Leo or Aries), your Venus will be getting all sorts of support in doing what she wants to do.  

Planets of the same quality tend to challenge each other.  So if you have Venus in Sagittarius, and there are a lot of planets in the other mutable signs (Pisces, Virgo and Gemini) - chances are things won’t flow as easily.  And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Squares and oppositions force us to take action and grow in ways we may have been reluctant to try out.  A challenge to Venus could still bring big love.  Or at least the change that helps you find it. 

The planets, where they are right now, and how they’re mixing it up in the sky, are always coloring the general mood and days and current events for all of us.  The Moon, especially, colors our day to day weather.

And the planets as they affect your birth chart each day color your own personal weather, and the way what’s going on right now is manifesting for you. 

Follow the Stars, 

Adeline