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On the other side of a personally empowering New Moon, you are ready to move into the final days of your birthday month and the journey this new solar year will take you on with a lot more confidence and awareness. The fact that Venus, the planet of love has already moved through means that rather than getting lost in the crowd of the six planets now here, with your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the future banked.

Just as Venus, the planet of love is heading into her last weekend in Taurus, she is joined by the Moon. With the Sun just two days away from returning to begin your birthday month and new solar year but Venus not leaving for another six days, this is a chance to put heart and gut on the same page as you get serious about your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the coming year.

The Moon’s return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart couldn’t come with better timing and not just because heading into the weekend, this will make it easier to take your foot off the gas. These nostalgic lunar vibes are going to add to a sense of romantic nostalgia as Venus, the planet of love moves into her last weekend here and into the final days of your heart’s nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane.

It was this time last week that the Moon was wrapping up its monthly visit to your relationship sector by clashing with Jupiter in Cancer. This is a monthly event and something that every four weeks can make you more aware of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. A week on and as the Moon joins Venus, the planet of love in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, it kicks off with a friendly aspect to the South Node in your communication sector that can get the communication lines open.

Today marks the beginning of a rare and unique alignment between the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and Pluto, the planet of change and transformation in your relationship sector. This won’t peak for another two days and will run well into next week, giving you a chance to get to the heart of what you are committing to on the relationship front and what changes you need to make in order for that to happen.

For the first time this year, you are heading into the weekend with no planetary activity in your relationship sector and after Mercury left earlier in the week and Mars last week, that will remain the case for the rest of the year. However, two days after the Moon left, with a chance to go into the weekend emotionally engaged and aware and with a chance to reflect on the journey that this year has taken you and your relationships on.

The Moon’s departure from your relationship sector might bring yesterday’s New Moon to a close, but not the awareness and momentum this has created. This allows you to move into the Sun’s final days emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware and with the backing of six planets that will stay on to continue the journey. Heading into his first weekend here Mercury, the planet of communication has returned just in time.

It is just as Venus, the planet of love is heading into her last weekend in your relationship sector that she and the other two planets here are joined by the Moon. With Uranus, the planet that has helped guide your relationships for the last seven years leaving at the end of next week, but the Sun just two days away, the Moon returns in time to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware when it counts.

The Moon might leave your romantic sector today, bringing yesterday’s New Moon to a close, but it leaves behind the Sun and six planets that will keep the momentum going and the spirit of romance alive. While the Sun is just two days away from leaving and from taking the solar spotlight off matters of the heart, planets like Mars are just getting started.

Just as Venus, the planet of love is heading into her last weekend in your romantic sector, she and the two other planets here are joined by the Moon. While the Moon will leave just before the Sun returns in two days, this not only sets the scene for a romantically charged weekend, but in a way that could define your romantic expectations for the coming year.

The Moon might leave your communication sector today, but with the momentum from yesterday’s New Moon locked in. With Mercury, the planet of communication heading into his first weekend in your communication sector and Mars’ war on communication roadblocks and barriers starting to get some serious support, this has unleashed something that can’t be put back in the box.

Just as Venus, the planet of love is heading into her last weekend in your communication sector and of her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice, the Moon not only returns but will spend its early hours at a friendly aspect to the South Node in your relationship sector. This kicks off what could be a pivotal few days on the communication and relationship fronts.