Formation

First of all, Mercury is no longer retrograde (🎉) but it is still conjunct Pluto, and some of you are going some dark places mentally. This is normal and will pass in two weeks at most, however, you guys know about self-care and reaching out to family and friends if the dark gets to be too much, yes? Also, if you know any people who you think may be in a mental hole, now's a great time for a wellness check.

Second: Venus is not retrograde but is CRAWLING in speed. It actually takes about two months for it to get back to normal post-retrograde, while it takes Mercury about a week to get back up and running, and if you think about the fact that Mercury is much closer to the sun and much farther from us, it makes sense. That said, Venus things are better but they are not normal yet, so if people aren't normal levels of chipper, cut them some slack. Even if people don't believe that the energy around them affects them, it still does.

Third: all of the planets in the sky are within about 120 degrees of each other (I said *about* so don't come at me with math! I know I am a few degrees off right now.) and when you see a configuration like this in a birth chart, it's called a Bundle pattern. Bundle pattern people are very fixated on the areas of life that planets appear in in their charts and not so much anywhere else. If you try to interest them in things outside the bundle (usually while dangling your keys in front of them to get their attention), they say "yeah, that's nice" and go back to what they know and love. They're all about their wheelhouse and nothing else.

So what this means for you: wherever in your chart *everything in the sky* is, you're going to have a similar experience to Bundle pattern people, because there's a huge concentration of energy in your chart in a specific area. This was the case in 2020 also, and will again be the case in 2024. So, look at your chart with your eyes. Where's Capricorn? Where's Taurus? Whatever's in and between those two is where your focus is. We are all temporarily Bundle pattern people.

What's doing this? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all within 120 degrees of each other and this rarely happens (it happened in 2020, producing a fresh batch of Bundle people). So, basically the stage is set, but it has to be winter or spring for the Sun and its two attendants (Mercury and Venus) to be in Capricorn through Taurus, AND Mars has to be in the area. Which it now is. Obviously the Moon makes a full lap around the zodiac every 28ish days. It may offer some respite when it's not in Capricorn through Taurus, but it's not enough to be distracting for long.

This has a lot of implications. From now-May, everything's in Capricorn through Taurus, so everyone's impacted. Your lunar returns (focus for the month) are also super-focused, and if your birthday is now-early May, your solar returns (focus for the year) are super-focused.

I don't think any of this is bad, particularly, unless you don't want to focus on the areas of your chart in which the planets fall, or you have a solar return that's focused in areas you're sick of. Basically: none of you are going on any side quests in the next couple months at minimum. And I love me some side quests, but the energy's against you for fun distractions. I'll let you know when it's side quest time, I promise.

XO,J