From Right here to Eternity
Collectively, Venus and Mars inform a narrative of ardour, the place magnificence and pleasure meet bodily want. This week, Venus in Scorpio meets Mars in Most cancers in a rapturous trine side (Oct. 8, 2024, 3:22 am PDT). When this side is precise between two planets, it means they’re in indicators of the identical aspect, which in flip implies that their natures emerge from the identical high quality and disposition. Their attraction to one another appears inevitable, like the connection between the top cheerleader and the captain of the soccer crew.
On this case, Venus and Mars meet within the water aspect, soulful, imaginative, and deeply empathetic. Right here, two lovers give themselves to one another on a seaside, rolling round within the pounding surf, ala Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Right here to Eternity. Is that this the start of a larger love story, or just an evening of erotic pleasure? It hardly issues; one night time of ardour can appear to be a lifetime between lovers who really feel as deeply as Scorpio and Most cancers.
Phrases Have Wings
When Mercury in Libra meets Jupiter in Gemini in a convivial trine (Oct. 8, 2024, 5:23 am PDT), phrases have wings, the present of inspiration, and probably even prophecy. To have Mercury, the wordsmith, working within the service of Jupiter, keeper of the Huge Image, is the very best of all doable worlds. It’s simpler simply now to place grand ideas into easy-to-understand, usable language.
A phrase of warning, although: Mercury and Jupiter collectively in air indicators can get so engrossed in speaking about issues that they don’t all the time fairly get round to doing them!
The Church Inside
What do you consider? What’s your creed, your set of deepest convictions? And the place did they arrive from – your mother and father, the spiritual custom by which you have been raised, the books you learn?
Jupiter is the planet that awakens questions on the best way the world works; and this week, as Jupiter enters its 4-month retrograde interval (Oct. 9, 2024, 12:05 am PDT, by way of Feb. 4, 2025), the solutions to these questions should be sought from inside. Consider this as attending the church inside you.
For 9 months at a time, whereas Jupiter is direct, we go to church, research with a guru, take programs to assist us pose higher questions on life and solutions about what comes after it. However throughout this treasured third of the yr, whereas Jupiter is retrograde, it’s necessary to give attention to the beliefs that emerge organically from inside you. Of all of the issues that you just consider, what has been given to you by others, and what comes from your individual sense of what’s true?
Attending to the Prime
Has a matter been resolved, or is there nonetheless house for negotiation? Will depend on whom you ask this week. The First Quarter Moon in Capricorn (Oct. 10, 2024, 11:55 am PDT) favors unilateral, govt determinations about which plan of action to pursue – which locations it in direct battle with the Solar in Libra, which prefers to discover all sides of a matter earlier than making a choice.
The Solar and Moon are in a sq. side on the First Quarter Moon. Planets in a sq. side have to determine easy methods to work collectively to make every of them stronger, and that’s doubly true at this First Quarter, when each the Solar and Moon are in side to feisty Mars in Most cancers. In our quest to take govt motion, we additionally have to hearken to the Solar in Libra’s aspect of the story, which is that no one will get to the highest on their very own. No person. When the chips are down, we now have to depend on others to assist us get additional alongside on our path, and to acknowledge their contribution in getting us there.
The Dormant Volcano
A volcano can keep dormant for 1000’s of years and nonetheless be able to great harm. Roman writers described Vesuvius as having been coated with gardens and vineyards earlier than it erupted in 79 CE, destroying Pompei.
When Pluto is retrograde (on this case, since Could 2, 2024) for half of every yr, it’s like a dormant volcano. Evidently forces of energy and management have receded and that peace and pleasure are the regulation of the land. However beneath the floor, damaging energy is constructing. And a day or two across the day that Pluto stations to maneuver direct (Oct. 11, 2024, 5:32 pm PDT) is when it’s almost certainly to blow.
The Man Who Is aware of
Simply hours earlier than coming into mesmerizing Scorpio, Mercury connects with penetrating Pluto in a compelling sq. side (Oct. 13, 2024, 7:03 am PDT). Magician Claude Alexander Conlin, billed as “Alexander: The Man Who Is aware of,” was born with these two planets in side. Conlin was a well-liked stage mentalist of the early twentieth century, providing non-public psychic readings and authoring self-help books with a spiritualist theme.
I used to be launched to Alexander in an Ocean Seashore consignment retailer, a long time after his loss of life. A print of one among his promotional posters, possibly 5 ft tall and that includes his trademark, penetrating gaze, stared down at me from the wall. Mesmerized, I virtually took the poster dwelling with me and was deterred solely by the value tag and an absence of sufficient wall house.
Such is the compelling energy of Mercury with Pluto. At present, use this mix’s mesmerizing powers of focus, focus, and persuasion to make long-awaited breakthroughs in your work, and the rest that requires willpower.
No Extra Idle Chatter
Once you’re interacting with the UPS supply individual or a checker on the grocery retailer, nice chit-chat is simply the ticket. Since Sep. 26, Mercury in Libra has favored simply that: being what the individual in entrance of you wants you to be, mirroring them again to themselves.
However as Mercury enters Scorpio (Oct. 13, 2024, 12:23 pm PDT) that’s now not the best way the conversational wind is blowing. Bored with idle chatter, we lengthy to dig deeper, ask probing questions, and maybe name out hypocrisy while you see it.
Virtually talking, Mercury on this signal is great for analysis, writing, modifying, and cleansing up monetary affairs, amongst different issues. Magically talking, Mercury transiting by way of Scorpio is richly inventive, with a strong expertise for remodeling uncooked emotion into one thing that deepens and enriches the soil of the soul.
Luck
Why do some folks appear to be so fortunate? Astrologers affiliate Jupiter with luck, and definitely there appears to be a component of excellent fortune within the lives of these with Jupiter or its indicators, Sagittarius and Pisces, outstanding of their delivery charts.
I don’t notably consider in destiny, however I do consider in luck. There are some individuals who appear to have a miraculous skill to deflect dangerous fortune and appeal to wealth and assist. Then once more, I believe that will come all the way down to an accepting, cheerful angle.
We get a few days this week to place that to the check. Because the Solar in Libra trines Jupiter in Gemini (Oct. 13, 2024, 8:52 pm PDT), luck asserts itself; see should you can seize a chunk of it because it flies by. These with the strongest will and the best confidence will doubtless do greatest, however this cosmic windfall is accessible to everybody. The week ought to convey luck to our Leo planets and homes, dominated by the Solar; and in case your birthday falls throughout this week, you possibly can most likely anticipate somewhat one thing further in your stack of cosmic birthday presents.
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