I don’t think we change as we age. I think we just become more comfortable being who we’ve always been. We don’t feel the need to be more cheerful, more accommodating than we feel. We become our Scorpionic selves, stripped of artifice and the comforting fictions of youth.

Relationships, desires, and money are put to the test as Venus squares Pluto and then meets the Sun at the dawn of Scorpio season. Venus retrograde retreats back into Libra just ahead of a Venus-ruled Taurus Full Moon, while Mercury stations for its final retrograde of the year.

You couldn’t ask for a more pragmatic and strategic First Quarter Moon to get the ball rolling on something important, than this one in Capricorn. This First Quarter Moon, ruled by determined Saturn, is perfectly designed to push us over that Saturn hump, and propel us in the direction of our Libra New Moon wishes. Don’t give up, not matter how difficult the challenge.