Astrology in February-March 2019 – Entering a Short Compression

by Robert Wilkinson

Now that the Moon is in late Sagittarius, we are in a period of ALL the planets being in a fairly narrow compressed zone. Wherever we have Sag through early Taurus in our charts is heavily occupied and the focus of what the “real world” is teaching us!

As you know from the Lunation articles, this compression will get wider or narrower depending on the position of the inner planets. Between now and March 11, the Moon will transit the houses where we have Sag, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, and Taurus, making conjunctions with every other transiting planet. Each of those conjunctions will set a month’s worth of that planetary “department of labor” into motion in that house area of our chart.

As the Moon triggers these planetary energies, we’ll find ourselves experiencing something related to using those energies mindfully. Pay attention to what’s occurring Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, since the Moon in Capricorn will be making occultations to Saturn and Pluto, nurturing seeds of future structures and disciplines to be managed. These will grow each month with each conjunction, with the results to be made manifest beginning March 2020 when Mars makes its next conjunctions with Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto. It's safe to say that Mars is activating the future by the March Equinox 2020!

Though this compression is currently getting “nurtured” by the transiting Moon, it will get wider for the rest of 2019 now that Mars is outside the outer planet occupied span. It will continue to expand during the time Mars transits Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, and Libra, but will again contract once it gets back to Scorpio in November. At that point, Jupiter will be entering Capricorn and all the planets will be between Scorpio and Taurus, with the span getting narrower by the month as the inner planets transit Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries.

By February 2020, all the planets will be between early Capricorn and early Taurus. That’s 10 planets in 120 degrees! So take a new look at where you have Capricorn, Pisces, and late Aries and early Taurus, since those sectors of your life are where you’re finding power, rewards, fulfillment of your group function, and singing your song in your own unique way.

Mars will help you ground your emerging higher purpose over the next few weeks, and then bring new information helping you articulate that emerging purpose. As we get into late April and beyond, Mars will increasingly be the nozzle to express all the other energies, and activate those sectors in your chart it transits. Be alert to the wise use of power during those months, and you could find yourself expertly expressing your unique Self in the world in ways you never imagined before then!

Just a few navigational tools to help you during the next weeks and months!

Copyright © 2019 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Jo Garceau]

When we are all trying to sort out what happens next, this is great! Thanks a bunch.

[Kathryn Rose]

Thank you Robert for this overview. I have Pisces sun, Taurean Moon, Venus, & Jupiter, Capricorn Chiron and Arian late Mars. I got it going on, this is my time here-now. Yeah baby! I am doing my inner work and my outer world will reflect this more and more as time goes by!

[Valerie BE]

Great advice, Robert. Your analysis confirms the sense I've had that we are setting up for major action to come, and that what we do wisely now as a precedent for that, will serve us well. Thank you!

[Nidhi Shrimali]

thank you so much for sharing this post.

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