February’s Theme: Enhancing Receptivity

February’s Theme: Enhancing Receptivity

By Kathy Biehl

Posted on February 1, 2025

 

 

 

 

The year is going out with attention to practicalities, costs and meaningful connections – and a more retrospective than usual air.

Thoughts and conversations turn to the bottom line from the outset, with Mercury entering Capricorn on day one. No matter how many holidays dot the calendar, attention is on goals, working hard, and considering responsibilities, all of which Saturn, planet of adulting, quickly supports.

Late November’s sociability also gives way to seriousness, and to more private and selective activity as well. Relationships, financial dealings, and creative projects gain laser focus (and cut back) when social director Venus squares Pluto, agent of inevitable change, and then enters his Scorpio realm December 3 and 4. As with Mercury’s shift, Saturn is on board, bringing commitment or structure to something of importance.

The communication mode and the flow of relationships are simpatico until just before Christmas. Ideas proliferate and settle in to benefit both when Mercury and Venus link with Jupiter and then each other December 7-11, largely coinciding with Hanukkah. Dream big; ask for what you want, and you might get it, or something close.

Optimism with a dose of nostalgia (and holiday films) hits a peak December 12, with the bright-spirited Sagittarius New Moon squaring dreamy, otherworldly Neptune.

The event leaves a retrospective vibe in its wake. Mercury begins his final retrograde of the year December 13. It lasts until New Year’s Day and takes him from early Capricorn back into Sagittarius, which he re-enters December 23.

The first 10 days of the retrograde present tangible trip-ups and do-overs. These mushroom especially December 18, when Mercury revisits his collab with Jupiter in the month’s first week, and may stabilize when Saturn offers containment again December 21 (echoing his assistance at the month’s start).

The final stretch, from Christmas week on, reviews the scope (or lack of it) of our outlooks. Watch for opportunities to address situations you avoided or did not take adequately seriously.

A flurry of powerful activity precedes the Sun’s entry into Capricorn December 21, which marks the solstice. Relationships and desires are feeling the need for change – or challenged by the prospect of it – or frustrated by it not being within reach – with Venus opposite Uranus. Sudden developments are requiring adjustments in tactics and approach, with Mars inconjunct Uranus. Cleaning or firming up practicalities and goals is on offer from Mercury’s sextile to Saturn.

And underneath it all, there’s a sense in our very bones that a huge chapter is on the way out, and that our holiday celebrations are in their current configuration for the last time. The cause is Pluto hitting the very last degree of Capricorn for the next-to-last time in our lives. He’ll stay there, continuing to deconstruct and reconstruct institutions and foundations, until he moves into Aquarius late in January, and returns for a brief, final visit early next September.

We quickly know our position. Clarity comes from the Sun/Mercury conjunction December 22; Saturn drops a grounding cord within our reach, via a sextile from the Sun December 24.

Nostalgia, tenderness and an abundance of affection and sentimentality flow on Christmas Day, as Venus trines her higher counterpart in love and inspiration, Neptune.

The tender touch continues with the Cancer Full Moon December 26, highlighting issues of nurturing, home, family and traditions and, from a link to Jupiter, offering awareness and appreciation of aspects that have stood the test of time.

Nostalgia and escapism stay in the air as well, pumped up by squares from Mercury and Mars to Neptune December 27 and 28. Inspired action is high, with mind and motivation fusing from the inner planets’ conjunction.

These three aspects are delivering real-world examples of form following thought bordering on the magical. Watch where your mind goes; your drive is following right behind.

The end of 2023 has us homing in on our heart’s desires and deciding to go for them, as Venus sextiles Pluto and enters Sagittarius December 29. We turn to adventure and exploring the new. That feels eminently and imminently possible when Sagittarius’ ruler Jupiter stations direct December 30.

May 2024 bring a long-held wish come true.

 

Kathy Biehl

 

https://empowermentunlimited.net/

 

 

December 2023 Energy Forecast

December 2023 Energy Forecast

By Kathy Biehl

Posted on December 5, 2023

 

 

 

 

The year is going out with attention to practicalities, costs and meaningful connections – and a more retrospective than usual air.

Thoughts and conversations turn to the bottom line from the outset, with Mercury entering Capricorn on day one. No matter how many holidays dot the calendar, attention is on goals, working hard, and considering responsibilities, all of which Saturn, planet of adulting, quickly supports.

Late November’s sociability also gives way to seriousness, and to more private and selective activity as well. Relationships, financial dealings, and creative projects gain laser focus (and cut back) when social director Venus squares Pluto, agent of inevitable change, and then enters his Scorpio realm December 3 and 4. As with Mercury’s shift, Saturn is on board, bringing commitment or structure to something of importance.

The communication mode and the flow of relationships are simpatico until just before Christmas. Ideas proliferate and settle in to benefit both when Mercury and Venus link with Jupiter and then each other December 7-11, largely coinciding with Hanukkah. Dream big; ask for what you want, and you might get it, or something close.

Optimism with a dose of nostalgia (and holiday films) hits a peak December 12, with the bright-spirited Sagittarius New Moon squaring dreamy, otherworldly Neptune.

The event leaves a retrospective vibe in its wake. Mercury begins his final retrograde of the year December 13. It lasts until New Year’s Day and takes him from early Capricorn back into Sagittarius, which he re-enters December 23.

The first 10 days of the retrograde present tangible trip-ups and do-overs. These mushroom especially December 18, when Mercury revisits his collab with Jupiter in the month’s first week, and may stabilize when Saturn offers containment again December 21 (echoing his assistance at the month’s start).

The final stretch, from Christmas week on, reviews the scope (or lack of it) of our outlooks. Watch for opportunities to address situations you avoided or did not take adequately seriously.

A flurry of powerful activity precedes the Sun’s entry into Capricorn December 21, which marks the solstice. Relationships and desires are feeling the need for change – or challenged by the prospect of it – or frustrated by it not being within reach – with Venus opposite Uranus. Sudden developments are requiring adjustments in tactics and approach, with Mars inconjunct Uranus. Cleaning or firming up practicalities and goals is on offer from Mercury’s sextile to Saturn.

And underneath it all, there’s a sense in our very bones that a huge chapter is on the way out, and that our holiday celebrations are in their current configuration for the last time. The cause is Pluto hitting the very last degree of Capricorn for the next-to-last time in our lives. He’ll stay there, continuing to deconstruct and reconstruct institutions and foundations, until he moves into Aquarius late in January, and returns for a brief, final visit early next September.

We quickly know our position. Clarity comes from the Sun/Mercury conjunction December 22; Saturn drops a grounding cord within our reach, via a sextile from the Sun December 24.

Nostalgia, tenderness and an abundance of affection and sentimentality flow on Christmas Day, as Venus trines her higher counterpart in love and inspiration, Neptune.

The tender touch continues with the Cancer Full Moon December 26, highlighting issues of nurturing, home, family and traditions and, from a link to Jupiter, offering awareness and appreciation of aspects that have stood the test of time.

Nostalgia and escapism stay in the air as well, pumped up by squares from Mercury and Mars to Neptune December 27 and 28. Inspired action is high, with mind and motivation fusing from the inner planets’ conjunction.

These three aspects are delivering real-world examples of form following thought bordering on the magical. Watch where your mind goes; your drive is following right behind.

The end of 2023 has us homing in on our heart’s desires and deciding to go for them, as Venus sextiles Pluto and enters Sagittarius December 29. We turn to adventure and exploring the new. That feels eminently and imminently possible when Sagittarius’ ruler Jupiter stations direct December 30.

May 2024 bring a long-held wish come true.

 

Kathy Biehl

 

https://empowermentunlimited.net/

 

 

2023 Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

2023 Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

By Kathy Biehl

Posted on April 30, 2023

Been tense lately? Have your worst fears been stirring? Have you been seeing monsters crawling out from under the bed, the closet, the backrooms of power? Are you ready to flush certain dramas and situations out of your life?

Phenomenal release is on the way. You have been experiencing the build-up to May’s Scorpio Full Moon lunar eclipse. It’s got the triple-strength action of the usual high emotionality of a full moon amplified by the intensity and power of Scorpio and the intensity and volatility of an eclipse.

This moon is escalating, reshaping, and in some cases shutting down issues that have been demanding attention for the past two years of eclipses on the Taurus/Scorpio axis. This polarity deals with resources, and particularly the dichotomy of possession vs. control.

Lunar eclipses bring departures, revelations (eventually), chapter endings. This one is rife with secrets, scandals, fears, toxicity, obsessions, corruption, and high stakes power games. Many feel like they can’t go on much longer, filling the atmosphere with an end-of-an-era feel.

And something is definitely coming to a close – for starters, this eclipse cycle. We are at the next to last eclipse in this cycle, which ends with October’s Taurus Full Moon lunar eclipse. As the cycle winds down, this month’s is stirring – and providing a radically different perspective on – many a drama that crested at last November’s lunar eclipse in Taurus. The two events are bookends, occurring near the same degrees but with the Sun and Moon reversing positions. T

he instability of quick-change artist Uranus factors into the link between current developments and ones from late last year. Uranus was retrograde and conjunct the Moon at November’s lunar eclipse.

Watch for a number of situations from then to change direction, because the agent of unpredictable change is now direct and opposite the Moon. Flip-flopping has already been happening; Uranus recently returned to and has now moved beyond the degree he occupied at the November eclipse. (This has been playing out in the news, with a few state level politicians who were elected in November changing parties recently and giving their new parties super-majority power; expect the switcheroo trend to accelerate, in other areas as well.)

This could show up as flipping, or breaking, your emotional investment in a situation. There’s a conscious, intellectual streak, too, as well as a sense of clearing space for the future. This comes from the Moon’s opposition to retrograde Mercury, itself conjunct the North Node. The Sun – representing our rational side – is sandwiched between the Mercury/North Node conjunction and Uranus, jolting our sense of selves and our thinking and opening us to new relationships with money, resources, and power.

This Full Moon’s line-up is a superb formula for breaking attachments, habits, or addictions (emotional as well as chemical). Much of the action will simply occur, but you can certainly engage in some deliberate releasing as well. Beyond the usual tactic of cleaning out closets and drawers and putting bags at the curb, one potent ritual would be visualizing situations and energies flowing from you into a toilet with the lid up, and then closing the lid (to prevent any symbolic backsplash) and flushing.

Consciously or not, we are all dumping gunk and making room for the next phase of life – more dramatically and more exhaustively than appearances may suggest. This end-of-an-era experience is fraught with hints of what’s to come. Scorpio’s ruler Pluto is at the doorway to the next 21 years, at 0 degrees Aquarius. He turns retrograde days before the eclipse and is in an out-of-sign square to expansive Jupiter, finishing his year in Aries and not quite two weeks away from entering Taurus and completing the square.

Their impact encourages over-the-top dramas and big, bold responses. Watch for widespread recognition of previous ways no longer cutting it, and widespread adoption of radically different approaches. That is an imperative, wired into this Full Moon by a t-square to Pluto from the nodes (pitting the old against the future and requiring metamorphosis).

The imperative has a long fuse. It doesn’t have to be honored at once, and in fact can not be. It gets another power-up when Jupiter moves into Taurus and completes his square to Pluto May 17, and then again each time Pluto returns to 0 Aquarius over the next year and a half.

The upshot? You don’t have to pour everything out at once. You don’t have to clean everything out at once. And don’t expect that from collective developments, either. Release in pulses (although, right now, you’re probably motivated to engage in a huge outpouring); and loosen your grip on anything that is leaving or falling away. We are on a trajectory to a major wrapping up, which takes greater and greater shape by October.

Kathy Biehl

https://empowermentunlimited.net/