We are now just three or four days away from the Full Moon and this will lead to a corresponding rise in tense nervous restlessness and anxiety. It means that the next few days will be heavily influenced by direct and forceful emotions with a heightened element of volatile and confrontational behaviour.

Under these circumstances feelings may be very strongly expressed, with volatile and demanding emotions that may be hard to control. These may be made all the more forceful by the consumption of alcohol whose effects will be magnified at this time.

As mentioned in previous alerts we are now at the beginning of a two and a half week alignment between the Sun and Jupiter. This will add significant balance against some of the more strident effects of this Full Moon period.

Likely mood traits include expansive, exaggerated, and overtly emotional mood impulses with more optimistic, good humoured and generous feelings with the risk of careless, reckless, and over confident gestures. In turn this may lead to needless accidents, mishaps, or large financial expenditure on trivial or frivolous gestures that may later be the source of considerable regret. Essentially it means that decisions may be filled with an unreasonably inflated optimism so that major choices may not benefit from the best of consideration.

Also likely are feelings of conceit or false superiority that may lead to serious misjudgements and ill conceived plans and ideas.

Today also see the start of a seven day alignment involving Mercury and Neptune. This will lead to sensitivity of mental expression with easily disturbed emotions, though also contributing to intuitive, idealistic, and impressionable inclinations. Less agreeable will be a disposition to confusion and absent-mindedness with vague fears and imaginings.

Essentially this represents one of a series of highly complex mood atmospheres with widely fluctuating emotions that will swiftly alternate between one mood and another: Inspired as well as careless, it offers a unique blend of aggression and more tempered moods that open up routes to ideas and opportunities that may never have otherwise occurred.

Alert is 7.5. Moon 72% illuminated.