Goodbye Leo, it was fun, but now it’s Virgo’s time to shine.

There’s a BARCO alignment of the Earth with Venus and Jupiter.  These are really great planets to be aligned with, what with peace, love, joviality, strength, power, majesty and whatnot, but the alignment is of really poor quality.  So the vector direction is great, the magnitude is crap.  There will be a nudge towards everything working out, but don’t expect it to overcome any significant obstacles.

Even though Leo no longer has the Sun, there is still Mercury spinning around up there, indicating great change coming.  I wonder how the stars knew I’m supposed to close this week?

Venus spends her last week in Libra, enjoy the peace while you can.  I can only hope that this means the the closing and subsequent moving will go smoothly.

Mars in Capricorn.  See, this is exactly what you don’t want to see when you’re moving.  Stubbornness and violence?  The movers are going to be dicks?  My shit’s going to get broken?

Jupiter in Scorpio.  This influence has been pretty solid for weeks now, so independently it just means status quo.  When combined with the current alignment, it indicates successful endeavors in pest control.  Surely I don’t need to worry about exterminators yet?

Saturn (retrograde) in Capricorn.  Now this one is tricky.  It indicates a loss of money, which is pretty much going to be happening if the wire transfer for my closing costs actually goes through (how the fuck do you put a typo in your own goddamn routing number, bank who shall remain nameless?  The next transfer time is all of three hours before my closing time, so surely that’s nothing to worry about).  But Saturn also goes station direct on Wednesday (the day I’m moving) so inasmuch as Saturn can ever be a good sign, this is it.  It is a great day for making endings, so “see you later” rental unit!

And lastly, the moon is in Taurus.  So we’ve got change matched with strength and patience.  Be strong, be flexible, things will work out.  It often seems like astrologers speak in clichéd platitudes.  But you need to remember, the stars spoke first, and the platitude makers ripped them off.