During this Mercury Retrograde the opportunity arises to reflect on the ways the mind wavers and falters and how words can fail and inflect various forms of violence. Mercury is romping backwards to understand what romping means. But the same stellar configuration that reflects this harmful potential also provides its remedy. Mercury is moving in…
Detriment
Exploring Venus in Aries in the Natal Chart
Venus spends 96 days in Aries in 2017, due to her retrograde in Aries/Pisces. This is about three times as long as she normally spends transiting a sign. Since Venus will be spending such a long time in the sign, I thought it would be fitting to explore the charts of people with…
Exploring Reception in the current Mercury in Libra square Mars in Capricorn planetary alignment
Exploring Reception and Non-Reception in the current Mercury in Libra square Mars in Capricorn alignment. After Mercury moves on beyond its conjunction to Jupiter it will be applying a square to Mars in Capricorn. This perfects at 11 degrees of both Libra and Capricorn in the evening of October 13th Eastern time. There is an…