Astrological Overview: May 22 -28, 2023

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. MON: Mars square JupiterTUE: No major aspects are exact todayWED: Sun semisquare Chiron, Venus square ChironTHU: Sun semisquare VenusFRI: Venus sextile Uranus, Mars square nodal axisSAT: Venus sesquiquadrate SaturnSUN: Sun square Saturn, Mercury semisquare Neptune****SOLAR FLARES AND MORE: Over the past four days ‒ since the Jupiter-Pluto square on May 17 ‒ there have been an astounding 25 M-class solar flares, a moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm that gifted us with some beautiful auroral displays, and a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the South Pacific. While we cannot claim that the square caused" this dynamic activity, such events qualify as the kind of "cosmic coincidence" that often accompanies major planetary aspects. Continue Reading