The next Mercury retrograde will be from September 27 to October 18. Mercury will station at 25 degrees Libra and will retrograde to 10 degrees Libra. As Mercury stations, it will make an extended aspect both to Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Aquarius. Both bodies are retrograde. Pluto is stationing and will turn direct…
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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…
Venus in Virgo and Mercury Direct
Venus is now in Virgo. In traditional astrology this is the sign where she is considered in her fall. This is often taken to mean that Venus doesn’t express Venusian traits as strongly in Virgo as she does in her opposite sign of Pisces, or in Taurus or Libra, where love is openhearted and given…
Mercury Retrograde in Libra 2015
When a planet apparently reverses direction in the sky it also symbolically reverses itself in our lives. When this planet is Mercury, the invitation is to tread more carefully in the realm of thought. The Mercury function turns inward during every Mercury Retrograde, which happens three times per year. This presents an alternative way of…
Distillation and Essence, September 10, 2015
There is an emphasis on the successive signs today, Leo, Virgo, and Libra. The dispositorship chain goes like Mercury Libra —> Venus in Leo, then all the planets in Leo funneling into the Sun in Virgo, which comes back through to Mercury in Libra. With that in mind, here we go. As the Sun is…
A Moon in Many Guises
Hi everyone, The Moon is in Aquarius and will make an opposition to Mars and then Venus Retrograde over the next 12 hours or so. Moon in the air sign Aquarius is good accompaniment for the cerebral Jupiter and Sun in Virgo, and Mercury which has just entered air sign Libra. Aquarius Moon benefits from…
Saturn doing new things, you do too
Saturn is now traversing new territory. In March of 2014 Saturn hit the farthest he had been so far, 23 degrees of Scorpio. Then, between March and November of 2014, Saturn was traveling over ground that he’d already covered in order to make sure that we received details of experiences and growth lessons that Saturn was…