I don’t know about you but I’m quickly approaching maximum craziness, as is Arthur, my cat. He has been waking me at all hours of the night, knocking all kinds of things over. Before dawn he jumped on the bed and bit my lip, thank you very much. He is yowling and chasing ghost faeries and spurning his ridiculously expensive food (I could eat it myself). He demanded to go out so I leashed him up and we did a few walks around the garden and then it started to rain and he wasn’t very happy about that (but I am!) so back inside and now there’s a giant hummingbird moth trying to escape a closed window so I had to move my kitchen table then climb on top of it to open the highest window so the moth could escape as Arthur was throwing himself against the wall to try to get at it. And it’s not even 7am.

Which is all to say – the energy is building more and more. Animals are super sensitive to energy so if don’t have a beast in your life and you haven’t noticed the escalation of madness in your personal arena, I certainly am noticing it in mine.

To say this is the strangest time any of us has lived through is the understatement of the century. To mine this time for all it can teach us about ourselves is the gift, the pony in the bottom of this pile of poop. What are you learning about yourself? If you’re living solo there’s a certain kind of learning and if you’re living with others it’s another thing all together. This volcanic time, this time of the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, is a time of purging like no time we have ever seen in the collective, though personally you might have gone through this kind of purging at times in your life when Pluto was super-activated in your chart. Whether you’ve been through this personal purging before or this is your first time – it is uncomfortable to say the least and downright maddening all in all.

And now with Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn all turning retrograde next week, joining Pluto who is already slugging backwards, things could feel they are coming to a full HALT. This could be external, which is to be expected, but the place you will feel it most is internally, inside your own wiring, so to speak. When planets move retrograde there is a focused attention on the areas they are activating. More introspection. More opportunities for heightened self-awareness.

Venus will be moving retrograde June 24 but the LOVE planet will be moving through Mercury-ruled Gemini until August 7. Your mind will be super activated so keep notes or make voice memos of your thoughts. They will be flying through like clouds, like birds. Some will be pterodactyl thoughts – let those go. Others will fly in on wings of angels and you will birth new ideas to help you live in more abundance and flow as that’s what Venus is all about.

Jupiter will retrograde back to 17 degrees Capricorn on September 12. Jupiter will be in exact conjunction with Pluto again at the Solstice, June 21, which is sure to be something else entirely considering the Solstice is also a New Moon Solar Eclipse at zero degrees Cancer. More on that as we get more into June. Use this time to expand awareness of your own transformational process.

What helps you to be most fully your true self? In this time of coccooning, which is slowly morphing into some new way of being in the world, what are you learning about the truth of yourself? Expanding more into the truth of who you uniquely are will facilitate flight after the time to break through the cocoon arrives. And it will. The miraculous inevitability of the butterfly.

Saturn turns retrograde on May 11 at 1 degrees Aquarius. Saturn will re-enter Capricorn on July 3rd and will move back to 25 degrees Capricorn on September 29, re-entering Aquarius for its 2-year journey through Aquarius on December 26. 2021 and 2022 will be all about Saturn in Aquarius. Expect brilliant innovative inventions and breakthroughs in all areas of life with the focus on the global community, our smaller communities, our tribes, our family units, our circle of support. All that will be receiving a massive upgrade as the genius inherent in the human will burst forth with a vigor and strength as new ways to be in the world are being birthed. The old must be discarded, released, let go. Think letting go of your land line…

Pluto is already retrograde moving form 24 degrees Capricorn to 20 degrees Capricorn on October 3. Oh yeah, the times they are a ‘changing and big time. Purging on a massive, global scale is happening in a super focused way this summer and of course, you are already feeling that. What part are you going to play in the reconstruction of your personal and our collective reality?

Things you used to like to do in groups – now all in ZOOM. New lipstick? forget about it – that mask covers everything. When I go out with hat, sunglasses, and mask (and I’m only going to the grocery store and reluctantly I might add) I look like I’m going to trek across the Sahara desert in a windstorm. I might even have better luck at that. And of course my minor inconveniences, well I am grateful for those, because I am well and functioning and have what I need and really I have nothing to complain about, which I am not, I am just noticing. What are you noticing? That’s exactly what this time is about – noticing, becoming more and more aware of where you get trapped inside your own mind. Liberation comes through awareness and whatever is happening on the outside (and wowza! who can even keep track of that?) is only to show you where you are in yourself. And that can be fairly frightening or fabulous or both.

I am so in Virgo-mode I even organized my clothes closet by color, which is an armoire and not really a closet as this Victorian house has no closets and realized all my clothes are either peachy-orange, blue, black, or grey. Interesting. Maybe my time would be better spent writing my various projects swirling around in my head or reading someone else’s well-said words but I can’t seem to sit still long enough to do that. What seems more important at the moment is my favorite contestant on American Idol made it to the top 10 and I am thrilled. That clearly shows you where I am at and so be it. I did drop some flowers by houses of women who I know are flying solo these days and made some calls to chat it up with others cocooning and planted pots of velvety pansies and still I feel like I’m in some faerie-esque version of the apocalypse. At least I have a good sound track.

Jupiter in your birth chart will show you exactly what you can do to expand your experience and give you instant positive feedback, helping you to be in the flow in the best possible way right now.

With my Jupiter in the Virgo in the 8th house, conjunct Mercury, I love to clean, organize, talk and write as I move concepts and items of beauty about, enjoying the perfect placement of a flower or a word – my personal altars to Venus, grounding BEAUTY and LOVE through the things I love, because I am the very essence of who I am, my core assignment from Source. So when I feel the stress coming on me like waves or if I get hit sideways by a rogue wave, when I engage my Jupiter behavior I immediately feel better. And the MOST IMPORTANT thing to do right now is to FEEL BETTER from the inside out. Let’s look for your Jupiter and your perfect coping mechanism. It’s good to know, critical really, so you can take the very best care of yourself. Staying engaged and adaptable is the name of the game these days. Knowing your game keeps you engaged and adaptable.