I’m casting the next three horoscopes simultaneously, since on the 21st I’ll be on the road and no idea where I’ll be on the 28th, but there will be puppies involved.  So there’s going to be some really impressive, risky predictions being made for me to demonstrate my astrological prowess.  But not this week.  This weeks’ are pretty normal.

To wit:  this week starts off with Mercury passing between the Earth and Jupiter, while at the same time, the Moon is aligned with the Sun and Venus.  This changes (as we discussed with the mon’s constructions being ephemeral) with the Moon passing between the Earth and Marson on either Wednesday or Thursday, depending on your time zone.  The first bit in isolation means that there will be big news on the domestic front, with those planets being in Aquarius indicting that’s it’s positive news, not negative.  However, in the second construction indicates the rising to power of a woman and I just can’t see how Kamala taking over from Joey is good news.  So for an alternate interpretation we can see since the Moon is in Aries, and Liz is a tough old goat, that maybe we’ll see an amusing smackdown of the Sussexeses?  The influence of Pisces here also gives the potential for some (literal) pratfalls to be involved.  I certainly hope so.

Typically we talk about where the planets are but this week provides an excellent opportunity to discuss how to interpret the ways that the planets move.  The moon moves between two different constructions, and within those constructions we see the ideas of complementation.  We see movement from the Sun to the Earth, and from Venus to Mars.  When you’ve got a matched or complete set, that’s considered particularly auspicious, since “complete” is a synonym for “perfect.”   This is also why “The World” is such an auspicious draw in the Tarot, since it represents total completion (and is also why it’s numbered 21 — the last of the Major Arcana).  Because these sets are also those of romantic/sexual couples when you consider the Gaia/Uranus analogy, this would be a great time to try and conceive (though it would be even better if Scorpio was involved).  Unfortunately, this transition is also a negative one, from refined to gross, heaven to earth, love to war.  Again though, I’m having trouble seeing how you could ever represent Biden with Venus or the Sun.  So, I don’t think that Wednesday night is when POTUS becomes non compos mentis, but I also can’t get that nagging thought out of my head.

The cards say the back half of the week is going to be rough.

Pisces:  8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business

Aries:  The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption

Taurus:  King of Wands reversed – Good but severe; austere yet tolerant

Gemini:  2 of Swords – Conformity, balance, vengeance, no peaceful options

Cancer:  10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension.

Leo:  8 of Cups – The decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence, honor, modesty

Virgo:  Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.

Libra: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

Scorpio:  2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.

Sagittarius:  9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.

Capricorn:  The World reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.

Aquarius:  3 of Wands reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.