Astrology of the Day – Venus conjunct Achernar – Thursday 22nd February 2018

Eridanus - The turbulent river

The Moon spends its second full day in the sign of Taurus, and it promotes a calm, unchanging, and rather materialistic feeling. There is a love of the earth and nature in this placement, and you will appreciate the notion of building anything from the ground up. Anything strong and stable needs good foundations, and the Moon in Taurus brings enough determination and endurance to dig them deep and resilient. We will have a good work ethic and an unflinching calmness that will pervade throughout most emotional crises. Those foundations will have to be strong to survive the battering that some of the planetary energy that will be thrown at us today.

To begin with the Moon makes a trine to Pluto. This is an aspect of emotional control, and maybe it can steady us if we place ourselves in a difficult situation which could happen. Whatever our goals early on today, we will be able to carry them out in a brutally efficient manner, being calm, controlled and know exactly what we want to achieve. Our emotional involvement in any situation will be total and complete. We will also be able to dig beneath any emotional issue and get to the root of the problem too, and this allows us to help out others if the help is needed.

The Moon goes on in the middle of the day to oppose Jupiter. This aspect promotes a cheerful optimism that may be infectious to all around us. We will be in a good, generous, charitable and adventurous mood and we may be called upon to help others out, indeed this is a day of giving out of our best for or on behalf of other people. This theme continues with the Moon making a pleasant trine to Chiron, the planet of wounding and healing. This lovely little sextile allows us to find the right words or emotional responses to heal a situation or to comfort someone we care about.

There are two star planet links today with Venus connecting with the stars Ankaa and Achernar. Ankaa is the star in the Phoenix constellation and we all know how the fiery bird rises from the ashes, so here we see the same effect happening, a cycle of life and death, beginnings and endings, seeing a situation renewed, replenished or regenerated at the expense of something older and worn out. Achernar is the main star in Eridanus the constellation of "the river", and it highlights chaotic events, quick moving problems which can turn into a crisis. Venus is the planet of love, relationships and values, and I can see new relationships being formed on the back of old ones burning out and being destroyed. Love matters may be chaotic, exciting and unpredictable and I can also see our values and maybe the money markets and business in general being more turbulent than is normally the case. A prominent company could crash and burn today.