the malefics are closing in on jupiter. does it feel like topics under jupiter’s domain in your chart are being pinched? 

for example, jupiter is the lord of my 2nd house & simultaneously i don’t have a lot of $ coming in suddenly (saturn) but also i have a lot of extra things i’m suddenly needing/wanting to pay for *right now* 

so I’m being pinched from 2 directions – saturn restricting resources, but mars pushing for $ to be spent *now*

i keep thinking about pallas’s (@pallaskaugustine) metaphor of jupiter in gemini being side quests. this month feels like the part of that journey where side quests keep leading to dead ends and it starts to feel exasperating rather than curiosity inducing. 

the house topics jupiter rules in your chart likely feel they are meeting dead ends. 

where do you go from here?

on top of that, mercury retrogrades this month while squaring uranus – which adds to the feeling of things being upended or thrown off course.

it sucks, but discomfort forces focus to what really needs working on. breathe. 

take a beat before making decisions, and know that the decisions you make might lead to a dead end and you’ll have to turn around, but you’ll know more than you did before you journeyed down that road. learning is a process. 

something i said a lot when jupiter first ingressed into gemini was too many choices can be just as stressful as not enough choices. (the fig tree passage of sylvia plath’s the bell jar being a prime example). if you worried that saturn would clip jupiter’s butterfly wings, i say true, but, saturn also pushes us to commit more or hone in on one or a few things rather than follow allll the rabbit holes jupiter in gemini is fascinated by. 

and so now the time has come where the pressure to do more with less might actually be generative in moving us forward…

venus square jupiter and mars wants multiplicity, though, so this will feel challenging.

while venus is in virgo as a part of this saturn, mars-jup t-square, that might look like venus fretting over damage prevention, anticipating the worst. here she is super conscious of staying in or being out of control especially opposing saturn. any planet opposing saturn feels the pressure of consequence. maybe venus feels she has to corral the gemini energy and sees the consequences of that looming over in pisces. it might be hard to find our footing this month as we feel the mutable overwhelm.

saturn in pisces says, woe is me, i can’t control anything. venus in virgo says if i can just *do* it all, i can control everything. neither is really true, and jupiter with mars will continuously throw wrenches into our expectations, eventually showing us that neither is true. how do we stay sane during the venus-saturn dilemma? keep throwing paint at the wall, if you fall get back up, be process-oriented not goal-oriented, don’t give up. 

i cannot stress enough that we need touchstones to come back to this month. the breath. activities that promote stillness, centering, or grounding in you. activities that relieve frustration. a solid friend to co-regulate with. things that promote a sense of hope or willingness to try again.

when we feel worn down, we’ll need help to counter that so we can carry on under these circumstances, knowing they won’t last forever. p.s. september looks like a better month 🙂