With a Taurus Sun exactly conjunct Uranus, we can be certain that this is going to be a wild and unpredictable month, with some considerable stresses. However, as we will see, Mercury and Venus have considerably more positive aspects to the rest of the chart, including to an exceptional line-up of goddess energies wrapping around Neptune.

Beneath the relative surface unpredictability, moves some much deeper ground swells, mixing the deep Earth with the oceanic water energies of Pisces.

Whatever the stresses, it is also going to be a very interesting month!

Sun conjunct Uranus in Taurus        

Uranus’s transit through Taurus in the last two years is one of a number of astrological events, including last year’s Saturn Pluto conjunction, that has contributed to the unpredictable movement of our security systems, our physical homes, the environmental challenges, health and social fracturing. The ground beneath our feet has been trembling for some time, with periodic outbreaks of more radical instability.

On another level, Uranus challenges us emotionally and psychologically, to become less attached and more flexible, to find more inner security when our external systems are challenged, and to examine how emotional patterning inhibits more authentic expressions of our individuality and its giftedness.

For those who have the eyes to see, and where it is physically practical, there are repeated opportunities in this transit to recreate our lives in ways that make us more in alignment with this authentic self within. There is as much creative power here as there is deconstructive!

So, with the Sun exactly conjunct this wizard, wild man, radical change revolutionary, all of the above themes will be heightened this month. Uranus is one of the great powers beyond the control of our egos, but that doesn’t mean that we are completely powerless but, it takes a great deal of refinement as well is a strong nervous system to be able to use the energy well. Our chakras and our neurones need to be strong to be able to bring lightning down to earth.

He does represent some very heightened expressions of individuality, but these can also flip over into extremism, adolescently-derived rebelliousness and narcissism. On one level he represents heightened expressions of individual freedom of thought, getting access to our brilliance and capacity for innovation, but for some people this too easily turns into rigidity and dogma, even with the best of intentions.

Andrew Harvey once told a group of us that the greatest threat to our civilisation was fundamentalism, in all its forms.

Sun/Uranus square Saturn conjunct Kali in Aquarius   

This is another version of the Uranus Square Saturn, which in many ways is the signature transit for 2021, staying active until August but then giving us a break until another exact peak in December. The two will continue to rub each other up the wrong way into the early part of next year as well.

As I’ve written before and in recent posts, this is an age old conflict between the new, innovative, exhilarating, unpredictable lord of dramatic change hitting up against the resistances of physical reality, conservative mindsets, security consciousness and often patriarchal conditioning influences.

It is a high tension, frustrating, nerve-straining, quarrelsome transit that tends to exaggerate and heighten the polarisation between these two forces. The nature of squares in astrology is like the sharpening of a chisel on a grindstone, which generates a lot of friction and heat, and yet it makes the tools, ideas, change agents far more effective. If you excuse the mixed metaphors, the alchemy of this prepares a third way, a middle way between polar opposites.

In many ways this alchemy describes this year, one of radical change that doesn’t come easily.

Now, add Kali to the mix. Her fierce warrior energies, intent on destroying the demons that threaten the natural balance of life and who is a radical change agent herself , intensifies all of the above. In approaching Saturn, she will go after the limitations of the patriarch, while calling on the Wise Old Man deeper within Saturn to rise to meet her.

In tipping the scales towards radical change, she demands the rightful place of the deep feminine in decision-making, to be incorporated in new creative structures, while saying to these two masculine agencies, get over your ego stances and get f…..g real, about the state of the planet, about everybody’s rights, about the rights of women, refugees, the underprivileged and the vulnerable.

She will add to the potential explosiveness of this time, and will go hard against dishonesty, spin, denial and unconsciousness. Just be careful in your interpersonal relationships, as she can blow the lid on long-standing frustrations, disrespect or inequality. There is a big difference between using a razor sharp sword of truth and, in bludgeoning someone who may or may not deserve it.

However, a spiritual level, Kali and Uranus are both great activators and movers of kundalini energy, so the two joining up in any way often coincides with major spiritual and/or tantric awakenings. This potential, along with great healing breakthroughs, is reinforced by the kundalini healing goddess Hygeia in Leo forming an extremely potent T-square with Kali, Saturn, Uranus and the Sun. You can expect some fireworks on this level is well.

This is deeply reinforced by Chiron in Aries, adding his own healing drive and who sextiles the Saturn Kali conjunction while trining one of his feminine healing counterparts in the form of Hygeia.

Mercury and Venus conjunct Black Moon in Taurus

Here the traditional planet of the mind, and the love goddess, join this dark mysterious face of the Great Mother, known in different cultures as the Black Madonna, Lilith, Black Tara, Durga and of course Kali.

From Mercury’s point of view, this is a period of exposing and purifying negativity, in thought, beliefs and mental structures, with the ultimate aims of cleansing our minds, while protecting us from destructive psychic emotional residues from deep ancestral and past life sources. So, like the Kali Saturn conjunction we can expect the upwelling of sabotaging thought patterns, along with opportunities to connect us with deeper sources of knowledge, emotional intelligence and sacred power.

Mercury in Taurus alone is a more grounded and earthy transit for this planet and yet can suffer from resistance and excessive passivity. The Black Moon opens the doors to the rich, fertile and transformative primal feminine found more deeply in the earth but a big part of the journey is confronting egocentric beliefs and attitudes that keep us separate and superficial.

This is another deep dive into the truth of things.

With Venus, the Black Moon does a similar job on our hearts, our relationship dynamics, our desires and our rich creative potentials, offering both great depth and purificatory power for clearing shadows off our ability to give and receive love, from a very personal all the way to the collective and transcendent.

In traditional tantra, the Black Moon-like goddesses are the very core of the sacred feminine, including her Tantric power and essence. For instance, in India, Durga is the Great Mother who gives birth to Kali and the other Shakti goddesses including Lalita and Parvati, all of which are goddesses of sacred sexuality. In joining Venus, the invitation is to, as best we can, drop more deeply into all experiences of love and, into the naturally organic sacredness of our sexuality.

What is very synchronistic, tantrically, is that the Shiva asteroid is directly opposite in Scorpio and is the highest point in this month’s chart in Australia. This polarisation is nevertheless a pure expression of the Shiva Shakti relationship, another component of the intense Alchemy of this month!

Venus/Black Moon/Mercury trining Pluto in Capricorn and, sextiling Pallas Athena/Lilith/Neptune/Parvati/Hecate conjunction in Pisces! 

This is another awesome line up with Venus and Mercury at the pivotal position. The trines to Pluto echoes many of the themes of the Black Moon (in some ways the BM is another feminine counterpart to Pluto) and so represents our ability to make lasting changes in our lives, particularly in the ways that we think and the ways that we love, with an emphasis on going for depth, transformation and empowerment. Trines to Pluto make the usually difficult task of real transformation, with its accompanying psychic deaths, more fluid and with less resistance.

It also adds a real grunt to the enormous fertility and creativity generated by these three together in Taurus.

And, if that’s not all, check out the above stellium, or multiple conjunction, of potent goddesses wrapped around Neptune in Pisces. Such a gathering of fierce warriors, great lovers and medicine women, joining the supposedly masculine Neptune (anyone who has seriously explored and studied Neptune energy know that it is essentially deeply feminine. Her masculinisation is another expression of Greco-Roman culture!)

Whatever the case, Neptune energy can soften some of the sharp edges of the warrior goddesses, make them more accessible through meditation and other spiritual practices and, help to flush out ancient wounds and trauma, particularly those of Lilith and Hecate.
We need to be watchful though, as even though these goddesses are the antithesis of spiritual bypassing, for many of us Neptune has been more an agent of such escapism and anaesthetisation. Certainly, we can expect some deep shifts around our lower chakras, so this is an obvious place of focus. There are many meditations from the Shiva Shakti traditions, including from the work of Sally Kempton, that do work directly with these deep layers of Shakti.

Having Parvati, the goddess of the sacred marriage, in the mix simultaneously deepens and elevates relationships and serves to draw out the same longing within Lilith. And even though this is obviously a goddess party, they all trine Shiva in Scorpio, ensuring that one of the themes of this stellium is the inclusion of the sacred marriage with the divine masculine.

With Mercury and Venus, supported by the Black Moon, sextiling the stellium, we can all get greater emotional and intellectual connections with these different faces of the feminine. We can come to understand them more deeply, reclaim them more deeply and love them more deeply.

Mars in Cancer Trine Jupiter in Aquarius, Sextile Uranus in Taurus, Square Chiron in Aries

Here the Mars warrior enters the watery realms of Cancer, not a particularly easy place for him around all that vulnerability coupled with some often difficult layers of defensiveness inhibiting his freedom of movement. Simultaneously though, as one representative of our ego drives, there is an invitation here to connects this form of masculinity more deeply with the emotional realms. This can allow greater emotional intelligence to provide nuance to the way we express our desires and drives, while juicing up our ability to act decisively on what is emotionally important to us.

Initially, Mars has this incredibly dynamic and positive trine to Jupiter, a truly great transit for getting things done and for acting from a position of grace, flow and positivity. However, he will simultaneously sextile the eccentric Uranus while squaring the Wounded Healer, exactly with each on Wednesday the 12th, a situation which simultaneously amps his energy up while crashing into some old wounds to do with the masculine, both wounded and wounding.

The urge to express one’s individuality is significantly heightened here thanks to the Uranus factor, but hard aspects from Mars to Chiron can activate the toxic masculine in some people. For more conscious individuals though, this provides an opportunity to dig out some significant wounds to their inner masculine.

After this turbulent period, Mars then goes on to form a series of trines to that conga line of goddesses with Neptune in Pisces, a two-week period (last weeks of the month) for greater connection between the masculine warrior with the warrior goddesses Pallas Athena and Lilith. Expect a significant sharpening of the urge to act.

Jupiter Goes into Pisces for Three Months

The benevolent giant steps out of Aquarius and into Pisces from May 14 to July 28th, at which time he retrogrades back into Aquarius and stays until the end of December. So we going to get a taste of Jupiter in Pisces which will in turn colour the first half of next year.

While in Aquarius, the two have been combining to produce a kind of hyper- drive, making one layer of the collective quite chaotic and prone to dramatic change but also providing multiple opportunities, so much so that the biggest issue for many of us is which ones to pursue!? Alongside his trademark positivity and optimism, Jupiter in Aquarius can have us spread thinly across too much terrain, making it hard to do anything really well and, exhausting us along the way.

Whatever our personal experience of this time we will discover that behind the scenes a great deal of brilliant advances being made in technology, the sciences and in medicine, not just the survival driven needs of the Covid pandemic but advances that anticipate future developments more accurately. We can thank those innovators and scientists with integrity who been working quietly behind the scenes, without fanfare, who are developing the kind of technology that will be kinder to ourselves and the planet.

Stepping into Pisces though slows the actions of Jupiter down significantly, in ways that aren’t so heady and cerebrum and, which give us greater access to the creative, intuitive and mystical dimensions of the Fish. We can expect significant developments around these capacities in each of us, as well as being able to get more comfortable with the emotional and psychic realms within ourselves, developing more trusting of the unknown, and making significant headway in our spiritual and healing practices.

You Aquarius amongst us don’t have to grieve the loss of Jupiter as you will get another five months of him in the second half of the year!

Go well,

With love and blessings,

Daniel