Between eclipses, solar storms, cardinal crosses, and the build-up to world-changing clashes of cosmic energy, it’s been an intense week.  Tonight, the Universe brings us double sweetness  — boons to help us access blessing and grace we need as we head into the powerful energies just ahead —  the tightening of the Cardinal Cross over the weekend and Uranus’ and the 5th of Pluto’s 7 world-changing squares on Monday.

For most of the three days since two Tuesday’s total lunar eclipse, Luna’s been in Scorpio.  It’s been perfect energy for taking the energies of the Red Moon deep within to use as grist for the cosmic mill that’s transforming our lives, minute by minute. However, light and easy it’s not — especially in the days following a full moon, when Luna is still ripe.

You may have noticed a palpable lightening in the atmosphere at 1:45 UTC (5:45 EDT), when she moved into Sagittarius. If not, just wait.  Ruled by Jupiter, a Sagittarian moon throws an upbeat, optimistic vibe into the most intense and extreme dynamic.

In just four more months, Jupiter leaves Cancer — where he’s exalted — and enters Leo. That means we have just four more occasions to experience the underlying buoyance that spills over onto everything involving Jupiter when he’s in the state of exaltation.  With all the turbulence of the last year, it’s easy to discount the easy access we’ve had to the awareness of what the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Trogyam Chungpa RInpoche called “the basic goodness of life.  It’s safe to assume, though, that without Jupiter’s blessings turned up full strength since July 2013, more than a few of our individual and collective close calls would have been far more devastating.

So that’s Boon #1.  Moon in Sagittarius as we navigate the big waves leading from a total lunar eclipse to a Uranus-Pluto square in the middle of a Cardinal Cross.

Boon #2:  Light on the Karma Point

Tonight, the Sun begins its annual conjunction with the Moon’s South Node. This is the most karmic point in the sky.  It carries the accumulated energy of the past — the strengths we’ve developed as well as that energy that keeps us stuck in the destructive and self-defeating patterns from the past. The meeting between the Sun and the South Node gives star power to your choice to release old patterns.  Aries is where the Sun is exalted, and it brings illumination and clarity to the most karmic degree in the sky.

This is the choice the Universe wants you to make.  To facilitate the activation of this choice, an old issue may resurface in your life —  bringing you a very concrete opportunity to finally let it go.

Boon # 3:  Venus Trines Jupiter

Venus and Jupiter are the planets the ancients called the “two benefics.” They sweeten every picture they’re in — and tonight, that’s your life, as these two wax towards a a perfect, harmonious trine.  This strong, positive exchange of energy between the two “benefics” amplifies the magnetic charge of your connection to love in all its forms, from relationships to abundance.

Any trine of Jupiter and Venus is an energetic windfall.  This one is doubly so, because both of these generous, wise,  loving, pleasure-loving energies are in the signs where they’re exalted, and thus at maximum strength.  In fact, three planets are in states of exaltation at the moment — the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter.  If you had to pick only three, those would be the ones. 

it’s double cosmic rainbows — just when you’re likely to most need a reminder.

Whatever else you do in the next 24 hours, be sure you make time to tune out the distractions and the worries and tune in the wisdom, the bliss, the promise, and the sweetness.  The big waves are coming — you may need this to remember what a grand adventure we’re actually on..