Today's Sky

Venus, retrograde in Libra, a sign the tradition gives it as its own, turns exactly sextile Jupiter in Leo today. It is the closest contact in the sky and the tightest leg of the mystic rectangle Venus shares with Jupiter, Chiron and the North Node. Retrograde Venus turns old ties into a private question, whether they are still wanted, and Jupiter adds the wish to be generous about them. A sextile only offers, so the warmth counts if someone acts on it. Leo's catch is pride. If each side waits to be acknowledged first, nothing moves, and Jupiter can inflate a simple apology into a show of generosity played for applause. The Sun meets retrograde Mercury in Scorpio today: if pride does the talking, the friction is self-made; if not, the point can get across. The Virgo Moon, in sextile to both, favours saying it plainly and precisely.