Monday arrives with the Moon in Aries and enough planetary activity to make a quiet start to the week unlikely. The Moon first connects with Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, creating an unusual mixture of emotional depth, intuition, imagination and sudden insight, so an idea may appear very quickly and feel as though it has been waiting behind the curtain for exactly the right moment to make an entrance.

The Moon’s conjunction with retrograde Neptune can heighten instinct and creativity, although it can also blur the line between what you sense, what you fear and what you have actually confirmed. A feeling may contain useful information without being a complete set of facts, which is worth remembering before you cancel a plan, accuse somebody of behaving strangely or decide the universe has personally sent you an urgent warning through a delayed reply.

The supportive contacts with Uranus, Jupiter and the Sun make the middle of the day energetic, confident and inventive. This is excellent for creative work, technology, leadership, presentations, social plans and acting on an idea that genuinely excites you. The Aries Moon and Leo Sun understand one another beautifully, while Jupiter increases courage and generosity, although it may also encourage a person to promise the complete deluxe package when they currently have the time and budget for a respectable first draft.

Late in the day, the Moon meets retrograde Saturn in Aries, and the emotional atmosphere becomes more serious. A responsibility, limit or unfinished commitment may return to view just as you were enjoying the feeling that everything had become possible. Saturn is not cancelling the idea. It is asking whether the idea can survive contact with time, cost, effort and the fact that motivation occasionally goes missing without forwarding its address.

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