Get back in your box

For some of you, Pluto into Aquarius sparked an extreme demand for liberation. Maybe you pursued that. Maybe you've been on an excursion of new-to-you emotional territory. Well... June 12th(ish) Pluto retrogrades back into Capricorn and will stay there for the rest of the year. I can say with confidence that we are collectively tired of Pluto in Capricorn, but Pluto's not tired of being in Capricorn, and we have two rounds left: June 2023 - January 2024 and September - November 2024. It's going to feel like "this again?" It's going to feel like slog. It's going to be annoying as some of the more regressive people in our society enjoy what's probably going to be the last of their heyday (Capricorn's conservative; Pluto's extremes). It's going to feel like you have fewer options than you do now. I recommend not lamenting that, but rather just understanding that that's the energy and rolling with it. You might even find yourself back in the thick of a problem you thought you solved already (I'm anticipating that). Maybe you need to solve it more?

So it's going to feel constricting, but it's also going to be short-term and short-lived. Capricorn gets empowered by sucking it up and dealing. Do that.

Another thing to begin paying attention to is Venus will retrograde this summer (in Leo). Venus and Mars are the least-retrograde planets we've got, and when Venus retrograded in the ancient of days, our ancestors saw it as foretelling war and discord, because Venus is the planet of getting along, and when it's retrograde, we don't. Venus has already begun losing speed, so make large purchases now, not in late July or August, unless what you're buying is used. Slow Venus = regretting what you bought and/or paying too much.

It's looking like a summer of non-independence, sky-wise. Unless you've got energy in mid-Taurus and/or have an active Uranus transit, then it's freedom whether or not you want it.