Shocking Options
I’ve been fighting technical issues for weeks, and the tougher I resist them, the extra intractable they show to be. Which appears cheap, astrologically; Mercury in Leo just lately made a sequence of fractious sq. facets to Uranus (July 21, Aug. 18, Sep. 6), bringing collectively the lords of communication and know-how in a sequence of clashes, miscommunications, and blockages – with this Leo trapped of their crosshairs.
And so I’m pinning my hopes on this week’s Mercury-Uranus trine (Sep. 24, 2024, 10:27 am PDT), when the 2 kiss, make up, and (hopefully) ship dazzling breakthroughs of innovation and brilliance. Mercury is far more versatile and adaptable in Virgo than it was in Leo, an indication that’s, to place it mildly, set in its methods. And adaptability and adaptableness are usually not solely higher suited to cooperating with unpredictable Uranus, however to bringing shocking options as effectively.
Belonging
The Most cancers Final Quarter Moon (Sep. 24, 2024, 11:50 am PDT, 2º12’ Most cancers) is on the Sabian image 3 Most cancers, A person all bundled up in fur main a shaggy deer, and the Sabian image for the Solar is 3 Libra, The daybreak of a brand new day, every part modified. On the Most cancers Final Quarter Moon, we glance again at how we arrived at this new day, shaggy deer in tow.
Most cancers is a nostalgic signal, and it’s an indication about belonging – to a household, a group, a tribe. Do you’ve that sense of connection in your life proper now? Does it really feel essential so that you can discover extra of it? What do household and group imply in your life? Are there possibly relations who want extra assist or steerage from you proper now, and the way is that impacting different areas of your life, your partnerships, your work?
This Final Quarter Moon concludes a venture that started on the Virgo New Moon on September 2, or no less than the preliminary part of that work, which was one thing concerning the purification of our targets, about being more healthy and having a life that’s easier and extra helpful. And aside from the emotional advantages of belonging, research present that having a powerful social community is among the finest predictors of getting older robustly. In fact, we don’t obtain all of this in a single 28-day interval. This work will proceed. However at this Final Quarter, it’s time to no less than look at the position household and different social connections play in that imaginative and prescient of a more healthy, easier, and extra helpful life.
The Poppy Area
As I sat down to write down this weekly providing, I found that in final week’s column I had by accident swapped Mercury’s opposition to Neptune (which really occurs this week) for final week’s Solar-Neptune opposition.
If that isn’t an ideal instance of Mercury’s opposition to Neptune (Sep. 25, 2024, 4:04 am PDT), I don’t know what’s. Mercury, particularly in Virgo, prides itself on attending to info and particulars. However when sharp, rational Mercury comes nose to nose with Neptune (and even when an astrologer tries to write down about it), the impact is slightly like Dorothy and her mates strolling via the sector of poppies on the best way to Oz, and succumbing to their narcotic impact.
In different phrases, this isn’t one of the best affect for balancing your checkbook or attempting to get to appointments on time. Circumstances are cloudy. Particulars are obscured. And Mercury is apt to go to sleep within the poppy discipline.
Redefined
As Mercury trines Pluto (Sep. 25, 2024, 9:14 pm PDT), a portal opens for redefining ourselves. It’s like a youngster who goes away to school and acknowledges the chance to undertake a brand new nickname (or drop an odious one), and substitute their “slacker” label for a spot on the Dean’s checklist.
Names and titles matter. They’re Mercury’s manner of telling the world what to think about us.
Mercury in facet to Pluto calls consideration to the facility of names, phrases, and definitions to affect how we’re perceived. Often, that begins with how we consider and discuss ourselves. This week, take discover if you end up utilizing self-deprecating jokes or placing your self down. Word how typically you apologize reflexively, when no apology is required, apologizing for merely present. When Mercury connects with Pluto, it’s time to take management over our labels, names, and tales. They matter. So will we.
Refinement
Mercury enters Libra this week (Sep. 26, 2024, 1:09 am PDT, via Oct. 13). Mercury within the previous signal, Virgo, analyzed the knowledge at hand and sharpened crucial pondering abilities. In Libra, Mercury likes to make use of these abilities to have interaction others in debate, bargaining, haggling, and mediation. We’ll have till Mercury enters Scorpio on Oct. 13 to refine our negotiation techniques.
Libra is an indication related to good manners, however these with this placement whom I’ve identified effectively really love argument. They’re scrupulously truthful, although, and while you’ve gained the purpose, they concede with out hesitation. What’s essential is that the talk be truthful and the opponents equally matched, and that the reality and worth of what’s underneath dialogue be totally revealed.
Whereas Mercury is in Libra, be ready to take your concepts to {the marketplace} and have interaction in a spirited debate about them. You’ll quickly discover out whether or not they maintain water.
Feeding the Chickens
The Solar and Mercury are working as a bunch this week, and on Sep. 29, they tag-team the Moon’s North Node with a pair of oppositions (at 12:25 am and 5:19 pm PDT, respectively). The Solar and Mercury at 6º38′ Libra are on a Sabian image that’s about feeding and defending those that rely on us: 7 Libra, A girl feeding chickens and defending them from hawks. It’s a herald of the upcoming Libra Photo voltaic Eclipse (Oct. 2), which is near this diploma and sq. Mars in Most cancers. Who wants our safety – and do they actually want it, or are we utilizing them as a manner of avoiding different commitments?
This mix in Libra encourages us to let go of outdated narratives about {our relationships} – about who’s the great man and who’s the unhealthy man. The North Node is on image 7 Aries, A person efficiently expressing himself in two realms directly. Why does there even need to be a foul man or man in any respect? With the North Node in Aries, the best is to deliver all of the items of ourselves into one full particular person, impartial and complete, the great, the unhealthy, all of it.
The Technique
Like all of us, I’ve some planetary facets in my chart that I don’t love, and a few that I do. The trine between Mars and Saturn in my chart positively falls into the latter class. I’m not one of the best or brightest at every part I do, however I understand how to formulate a method and can cease at nothing to see it via.
As Mars trines Saturn (Sep. 29, 2024, 9:06 pm PDT) within the soulful indicators of Most cancers and Pisces, it’s a mixture of perseverance, uncooked instinct, and creativeness that can one way or the other get us to our objective. Mars is on the Sabian image 15 Most cancers: A gaggle of people that have overeaten and loved it. However fortunately, that hungry group are constrained by Saturn on 15 Pisces: An officer making ready to drill his males. When Mars threatens to overdo it, Saturn steps in to maintain us in line.
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