10:30/11 AM PDT the Pisces Moon makes a sextile to Pluto and semi-sextile to Venus. In this case, the Pisces Moon acts very much as it does in horary astrology, translating and collecting light from one body to another. In this case, it acts as a conduit for smooth changes (Pluto sextile) to the financial, asset, or relationship picture (Venus in Aries), where assertive moves have been brewing but did not have the clout (with Venus weakened in the Warrior’s sign) to come forward–but now they do, aided by the emotional intelligence and intuitive ‘knowing.’ By the way, Venus will at this point be the midpoint of the Moon and Sun, suggesting a lot of energy will attend that Venus initiative to assert itself; it will seem very ‘right’–and unless you’re suffering a debility to judgment by transit to the natal chart, it probably is. See my Facebook note at Julie Demboski’s Astrology for more on the Venus-Pluto square.

By midnight, all in the 13th degree of respective signs, the Moon will conjunct Ceres, semi-sextile Mercury, and quincunx h.Zeus, making for a test of one’s influence, authority, and possibly one’s communication and negotiation skills, and whatever comes forward will need to be adjusted according to the ambitions or desire nature–so the likely outcome will be expression of one’s native authority tempered strongly by what one hopes to gain or achieve. There will be an awareness of what others can do for us, where the lines of authority and territory are drawn, and how we might need to relate, intuit, or empathize in order to get what we want. It sounds mercenary, but it’s actually very practical, and insures that we will be too aware of the power structure to cause offense–and that’s good.