We are now just two or three days short of the New Moon and this will inevitably mean heightened moods and emotions with increased nervous tension and restlessness. It will also mean a period of raised apprehension and anxiety with challenging emotional circumstances that for some could verge towards extremes.

Under these conditions problems may be magnified and made to assume undue proportions. In addition there may be acute and forceful feelings with aggression, forcefulness and agitation.These will be made all the more demanding by the consumption of alcohol whose effects will currently be magnified so that alcohol fuelled incidents are a distinct possibility. There is also the potential for upheaval within the domestic setting so that even the most trivial of incidents may be capable of igniting confrontational moods and attitudes.

On the more positive side this atmosphere can lead to a galvanic sense of creative and constructive activity with high productivity. However there may be a tendency to become side tracked by petty issues, animosities and resentments, but provided one can rise above these more negative attributes there is the possibility for rewarding achievement with a high degree of personal satisfaction.

Likewise there may be an attraction towards creative and expressional activities with a corresponding desire for physical activity, if only to take the edge off the high degree of latent nervous tension.

It cannot be too highly stressed that this is a very complex emotional situation with the combined effects of the Mars/Jupiter opposition and the impending New Moon contributing to a volatile and combustible atmosphere. But as mentioned above, there is also the chance of rewarding activities whose benefits may be around for some time to come.

Alert is 7.5 Moon 17% illuminated.