Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.

Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 7 hours.
Monday: Mercury trine Jupiter, Jupiter stations retrograde
Tuesday: Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto
Wednesday: Sun conjunct Mercury, Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto
Thursday: No major aspects are exact today
Friday: Sun trine Jupiter, Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus
Saturday: No major aspects are exact today
Sunday: Mercury sesquiquadrate Eris, Pluto square Ceres

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JUPITER AT A STANDSTILL: Whenever a planet comes to a standstill, its energies are strongly focused at a specific degree of the zodiac. Any themes associated with that degree — whether through symbolic systems such as the Sabian symbols or by coinciding with the location of a fixed star or a galactic point — are highlighted and energized.

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