Astrologer Tisch Aitken
Tisch Aitken is a New York and Los Angeles based astrologer who translates the language of the cosmos into every day wisdom that is both practical and accessible.
As an intuitive astrologer, Tisch studies the cycles of the planets and how they impact us on the individual and collective level.
Named one of the Top 75 Astrology Instagram Influencers most followed in 2022 on Feedspot.com, Tisch maintains an active and engaging presence on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
With a diverse personal and corporate clientele ranging from musicians, artists and writers to financial advisors and CEO’s, Tisch connects with her client base in a manner that is honest and heartfelt.
Full Moon in Gemini: Realign your thoughts
Hi, Everyone,
What a wild, confusing, and what a rearward way to end the year and begin a new one! Mars, the planet of action, passion, agression, and war, retrograded on December 6, 2024 at 6 degrees and 11 minutes of the Fixed fire sign of Leo.
Mars retrogrades approximately once every two years and is a cosmic opportunity to reevaluate how you take action, how you harness your energy, how you manage your anger, and how you tap into your passions to create.
On the following day, Neptune, planet of dreams, imagination, intuition, spirituality, empathy, deception, escapism, and the netherworld of drugs and alcohol, stationed retrograde on 12/7/24 at 27 degrees and 7 minutes of the Mutable water sign of Pisces. We feel the station of an outer planet five days before and five days after it occurs.
When an outer planet stations direct or retrograde, it enhances and exaggerates the qualities of that planet on the higher and lower vibration. With the case of Neptune, it is sheer creativity, selfless love, psychic intuition, spiritual expression, fraud, lies, avoidance, indulgence, overdoses, and confusion.
Even those that do not know much about Astrology are familiar with Mercury retrograde, as it occurs approximately three times a year, and we cannot avoid it. Mercury rules communication and transportation, and both areas can be challenged.
You can experience travel delays, hear from someone from the past, have miscommunication, and gadgets like phones and computers often can have technological difficulties or break down, as they transmit information.
Mars retrogrades far less often, but it is still a personal planet. Out of all of the planets in the Zodiac, it retrogrades the least. Mars is what gets you out of bed in the morning. It is how you move ahead, how you connect to your passion, and you release your anger. Mars is what drives you, and how you assert yourself. It represents vitality, energy, ego, desire, competition, and sexuality — among other things.
Mars is the Roman god of war and bloodshed. On the challenging level, it represents violence, competition, guns, weapons, and rage. If you review the stories of the past week, you can see some strong Mars stories.
Keep in mind that you can feel Mars’ energy before it becomes exact — whether it is a transit of Mars or the retrograde. Just a few days before Mars retrograded and during the Neptune station, Luigi Mangione shot and killed the CEO of United Healthcare — Brian Thomson — on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk early in the morning. In his mind and perspective, Mangione felt his action was fighting on behalf of victims (Neptune) against a corrupt health care system. President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea tried to implement Martial Law, which did not go through but is very Mars-Like. In France, the French Parliament ousted Prime Minister Michael Barnier, and the country is in chaos.
It is currently Sagittarius season, which is a Mutable Fire. It is a very optimistic sign, but it is mutable fire that can easily spread. Unfortunately, there are currently rampant fires in Malibu that destroyed over 4,000 acres of land. Over 1,000 people had to evacuate. Combine that with the recent Mars retrograde, in which Mars is a red planet that can be associated with fire.
There is currently a Grand Trine in Fire that is lucky, but it also exaggerates the fire: The North Node in Aries, which is where you are meant to go towards, and which is ruled by Mars; Mars, which is energy, assertion, and action and is retrograde in the fixed fire sign of Leo, which wants you to have courage and open your heart; Mercury, planet of information, retrograde in the mutable fire sign of Sagittarius, which can spread very easily.
This Grand trine can be lucky, and perhaps this fire in Malibu area could have been far worse; but, it emphasizes both the fire and Mars energy that is so strong in the sky right now.
Jupiter, the Greater Benefic, rules the sign of Sagittarius; but, it is has been transiting in the sign of Gemini since May 26, 2024, where it is in its detriment and is scattered. I feel that since Jupiter ingressed into Gemini, it has highlighted how small businesses really need our support right now. Gemini represents your neighborhood, local environment, and the mom & pop shops that add the scent and flavor to your local zip code.
Mercury, which rules the sign of Sagittarius, is currently in its detriment, as it rules the opposite sign of Gemini; it has also been retrograde and in review since 11/25/24, and it stations direct on very day of the Full Moon in Gemini on 12/15/24.
This is an imagined conversation since I am feeling loopy with all of this energy and trying to emulate the duality and zaniness of this upcoming Full moon in Gemini. “Wow — doesn’t Mercury rule Gemini?” “Why, yes, it does!” “Doesn’t Mercury station direct hours after the Full Moon occurs early in the morning on Sunday, the 15th?” “In fact, it does!
This is quite a Full Moon! Full Moons bring completion, fruition, and they bring things to light. The Full moon can uncover things. The Full Moon occurs on 12/15/24 at 4:01 am EST at 23 degrees and 53 minutes of the Mutable air sign of Gemini. This is a very communcative and social Full Moon. As aforementioned, Full moons bring things to light.
This is doubly so because on the day of the Full Moon, Mercury stations direct at 3:56 pm EST at 6 degrees and 24 minutes of the Mutable fire sign of Sagittarius, where is in its detriment. Mercury in Sagittarius is blunt and to the point. This Full Moon forms a T-Square to Neptune, the planet of the imagination, dreams, psychic intuition, and hidden information.
This Full Moon could uncover deception with the ruler of the Full Moon stationing in a sign that tells it like it is! This is even more likely because The Sun and Moon oppose one another and form a square to Neptune, which can amp up the confusion and haziness a few notches. It can also uncover what has not been seen. Your dreams could be off of the charts.
You can feel very sensitive, but this is a phenomenal time to journal your thoughts of what you want to manifest, as Gemini rules journaling and writing. Neptune rules the imagination, with which you need to connect to truly manifest your magic. It is a time to suspend disbelief but also to pay attention to all of the messages, dreams, songs, and other signals that come your way.
This Full Moon defaults back to the Lunar Eclipse that occurred on 9/17/24 at 10:34 pm EST at 25 degrees and 41 minutes of the Mutable water sign of Pisces. Something big may have happened around that Eclipse, and you find out more information now. You get more of a perspective or insight.
Venus, planet of love, value, income, possessions, and creativity, formed an exact opposition to Mars, which is lust, desire, and sexuality, on 12/12/24 at 5:46 am EST. This a very sexy combination, but it could also represent clashes in relationships, as Venus in Aquarius did have a meetup with Pluto, planet of death and endings, on 12/7/24. Use this to ignite your creativity, as Mars in Leo wants you to be creative.
This current energy is topsy turvy, and there is a lot of mutability over the weekend, which means that things can go in many different directions. The Full Moon is in a mutable sign, whose ruler is Mercury and stations direct later in the day in a sign, where it is in a weakened position. The Full Moon forms a challenging aspect to Neptune, which could heighten people’s sensitive or desire to tune out from their feelings. Be extra mindful of people that struggle with depression or addiction.
We co-create with this energy, and it could be very social with Venus and Mars still forming an opposing dance. The Full Moon squaring Neptune could cast a creative light as well, in that Neptune is the higher octave of Venus.
Venus forms a beautiful angle to Jupiter, and those are the two benefics of the zodiac. These are very difficult times, but this is also the season to celebrate and have gratitude for what you do have. Venus in Aquarius can be quite gregarious; Jupiter in Gemini can bring a social flair. This is also a very creative synergy. It will inevitably be a wild weekend, so be prepared for some unusual stories. All you can control is yourself, and that is one of the lessons of Mars retrograde. Use this Full Moon weekend to journal your desires and to manifest dreams! #fullmoon #astrology #horoscope #zodiac
New Moon in Scorpio: Pluto transforms your life!
Hi, Everyone,
This is a particularly intense Scorpio season for multiple reasons. To begin with, both of the rulers of Scorpio are in combat and will peak on 11/3/24, which is just two days before the Election in the United States.
Mars is the Roman god of war and is the planet of action, drive, passion, desire, and anger. It is also can be connected with the masculine and with sexuality. Pluto is the higher octave of Mars. It represents power, alchemy, transformation, intimacy, death, destruction,rebirth, transcendence, joint resources, and unhealed wounds.
Mars and Pluto are building up to a HUGE opposition, which peaks on 11/3/2024 at 6:37 am EDT at 29 degrees and 45 minutes of the Cardinal signs of Cancer and Capricorn. This is very combustible energy, and it is highly combative. We always feel the onset of Mars’ energy before it becomes exact.
Mars starts to kick in 10/28/24 when it reaches 28 degrees of Cancer setting of Pluto in a bigger way we can all feel. Currently, there are five points transiting in water signs: Mars, the planet of action, in Cancer; the Sun, which represents ego and identity in Scorpio; Mercury, planet of perception, perspective, and the mind in Scorpio; Saturn, planet of karma, challenges, and restrictions, in Pisces; Neptune, planet of dreams, imagination, delusion, and deception, in Pisces.
With all of these points in water signs, this heightens intuition, psychic abilities, dreams, and messages. Pay attention to your dreams and all of the messages you may receive through music, clocks, birds, or however you get them.
Try to connect to your intuition and find ways to heal through getting more rest, journaling your anxieties or anger, meditation, sound baths, walking in nature, listening to music, and tapping into the healing modalities.
This is very sensitive energy, so people can feel both very vulnerable and triggered; but, also easy to anger. Mars is now in its shadow period, which means that it has already reached 17 degrees of the Cardinal water sign of Cancer, which is where it stations direct when it finally does go direct on February 23, 2025.
Mars is both slowing down to retrograde and also involved in combat with Pluto, which is about to change signs and re-enter the Fixed air sign of Aquarius. When Pluto ingresses back into the Fixed air sign of Aquarius, that means HUGE shifts on the collective level.
While Pluto finishes its sixteen year tour in the Cardinal earth sign of Capricorn, old systems are getting demolished in our lives and on the world stage. We are preparing for a whole new world and a whole new era of new beginnings!
Energetic shifts are real, and Mars activates the purging of the old to make room for the new. Pluto is the cosmic eliminator, and it is interesting timing that all of this occurs during Scorpio season, which Pluto rules.
As I write this article, Mercury, the cosmic messenger, opposes Uranus, planet of enlightenment and surprise. This could bring unexpected news and can make you think on your feet! It can also be very exciting energy that brings good brainstorming and innovative ideas that come to you out of nowhere.
The New Moon kicks off the month of November with a lunar opportunity to initiate new beginnings around purging, detoxing, healing, and empowering. This New Moon chart has the energy of Mars and Pluto opposite at the very degree and building up to that opposition on November 3rd. The need to detox and let go is real. The need for change and letting go of old systems, patterns, and relationships that hold you back is real. The need for change on the collective level is real.
The New Moon occurs on 11/1/2024 at 8:47 am EDT at 9 degrees and 35 minutes of the Fixed water sign of Scorpio. In this New moon chart, there is a kite, which brings a beautiful opportunity to work with healing, purging old painful memories, and connecting to your intuition.
Mercury, planet of thinking, forms a helfpul trine to Saturn, planet of structure, and the two both trine Mars, planet of action. This is a Grand Trine in water, which is a flow of energy and helps to connect to your intuive abilities and imagination to manifest.
This Grand Trine is involved in a bigger aspect known as a Kite, in which one of the planets involved in this lucky Grand Trine, which is when all three planets form the shape of a triangle. One of the planets is involved in an opposition, which is a pain point.
In this case, Mars in Cancer is opposite Pluto in Capricorn. Both are at an anaretic degree, which means that they are at the final degree of the sign. This is a degree of crisis, culmination, and finality. Old power structure are being released.
Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn, which rules time. Capricorn represents the old, and it represents leaders and people in power. Old hierarches and power structures are morphing with the times. The times, they are A-changin’.
This kite gives us a cosmic opportunity to work with magic, manifesting, and those fun cosmic tools right after Halloween and in a season that loves witchy things and those cosmic tools that we all have within us if we can suspend disbelief and connect to the source within us, which is unlimited. Part of this involves letting go of anger with the Mars/Pluto opposition; letting go of past resentment with Mars in Cancer, which could trigger old childhood resentments and things that hurt you.
Old memories could surface or the feeling of something you have experienced before. People are a lot more moody and touchy when Mars transits in the sign of Cancer.
The New Moon in Scorpio forms a helpful angle to Saturn, planet of responsibility, structure, accountability, and realization. Saturn stations direct on November 15, 2024 at 12 degrees and 41 minutes of the Mutable water sign of Pisces. Saturn will remain at 12 degrees of Pisces through early December, and this is an optimistic signature with this New Moon in Scorpio, that there are guides around us and cosmic protection if we open our hearts and minds.
I will not deny that this energy is very combative, and some people may really go off the deep end with anger, violence, and passion. Kim Jong Un launched a missile test designed to threaten the United States and is also deploying troops to help Russia.
This is just days before the presidential election in the United States and another sign of the Mars/Pluto opposition that bursts on 11/3/24 and just weeks of completing Pluto in Capricorn, that represents world leaders in power.
We have to use the energy of the Grand trine in water and of the Kite to manifest love, protection, and healing of hatred. We need to shield with love. Mars enters the Fixed fire sign of Leo on 11/3/24 at 11:10 pm EST. Mars retrogrades on 12/6/24 at 6 degrees and 11 minutes of Leo; therefore, try to get as much done now that you want to launch for the New Year if it is something new altogether.
Mars in Leo is passionate, fun, creative, and courageous. It is figuring out how to shine in what you do and doing what makes your heart happy. Use this New Moon to release fears, be couragous, use power and even anger in a healthy way, release resentment, and purge the toxic. I wish you much luck.
The New Moon is always an excellent time to write down intentions, do a manifesting ritual on your own or with others to magnify the energy, and to do the Law of Abundance.
To do the Law of Abundance, take a blank check and date it for 11/1/2024. Where it says, “Pay to the order of, ” write down your full name. Leave the small numeric box empty. On the following line, where you normally print out the amount, write, “Paid in Full.” Where you normally sign your name at the bottom of the check, print, “The Law of Abundance.” I wish you much luck in this time of transformation!