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Astrology, Mercury, Neptune, Retrograde

Mercury and Neptune retrograde … flying with feet on the ground!

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I’ve been a little distracted for the last couple of months, so no posts.  It seems that the Grand Cross was even bigger than I was expecting!  Being an Arian, that might also have had something to do with the last weeks of Mars retrograde (Mars rules Aries), but the fiery planet has been forward again for two weeks now, and I’m feeling the energy back and ready to get writing again.  So many radical, transformative and expansive changes in my life; and I can’t help but wonder how the last few months have been for everyone else?

And what a week it is to get back into astro writing, with Mercury turning retrograde (7th June), Neptune also turning retrograde (9th), a Sagittarian Full Moon (12th or 13th, depending on where you are on the planet), combined with Venus opposite Saturn and Mars Square Pluto re-activating the T-square with Uranus. Huge!

Mercury turns retrograde

I’ve written about Mercury retrograde before, and I’m sure you have some idea of the effects (check my previous posts on Mercury retrograde).  Mercury rules things like thinking, organising, communicating, etc., so when it is retrograde, plans tend to go awry, things stuff up, equipment breaks down.  This is a time to take extra care when making arrangements, signing contracts, booking travel, buying IT equipment … double check that the details are right before you press the ‘send’ button!

Neptune turns retrograde

And when you put Mercury and Neptune retrograde together, oh dear!  Talk about vague and fluffy!!  Neptune will be retrograde from 9th or 10th June (again, depending where you are on this planet) until the middle of November, meaning that it’s energy shifts from being externalised to internalised.  Neptune is ethereal and otherworldly, it is spiritual and ideal, it blurs the boundaries of everything it touches, including the intellect and thought, and it both creates and shows that all is illusion.  So, this is a time when the subconscious mind takes over; a great time to take note of dreams and intuitive insights … they probably have something especially important to say at the moment.  But, Neptune is quite nebulous, and the risk when it’s in retrograde is that we can get lost in vagueness and delusion.  It is especially important to stay grounded during this time.  Just let me emphasise that … during Neptune retrograde, we have to do the work to keep our feet on the ground, otherwise we risk being lost in its dreamy clouds of elusiveness and self-delusion.

Hmm … I wonder how that’s going to work with me being on 25 odd hours of international flights while it turns around??  Seriously, whoever planned that hadn’t looked at the astro forecast!!

I’ll talk about the Full Moon, Venus-Saturn and Mars-Pluto aspects in my next post.  In the meantime … enjoy the intuition and be earthed!

 

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Surrender to the unknown

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I read with interest a couple of the astrology writers in the newspapers and magazines over the last few days, and I note that not everyone is gloom and doom about the current astro energies.  This might come as a bit of a surprise, given all the talk of radical upheavals during Grand Crosses and Eclipses.  But it’s true, it doesn’t have to be all upsets and tragedies, the next couple of weeks are perfect opportunities for growth, and the best way to deal with the challenges of the time are to allow the growth, no matter what.  Surrender.  Trust.

Sure, there is plenty of pushing and pulling, and sure we are being asked to be real, to be in truth no matter how uncomfortable it feels, and sure the demands of the time are that we let go with not only no attachment to an outcome, but with no knowing of what it is all about.

The Grand Cross peaks between the 19th and 22nd April (AEST), and it is right in the middle of two eclipses (a lunar eclipse today followed by a solar eclipse on the 29th).  The Grand Cross sees Uranus (radical change) opposite Mars (physical energy) and square to Pluto (transformation) and Jupiter (growth, truth).

It might feel like a struggle, with all those internal forces stretching us in different directions.  And no doubt there can be pain and discomfort, but there is more pain and discomfort from inaction.  The tension of the moment is there to highlight what needs to change, and it is only when we hold on too tightly that the stirrings become frustrations and anger.  Rather, go with the flow, work with the forces, trust that it is taking you where you need to be taken … even when you don’t want to let go.  For me personally, I can’t even tell why, I just know that I’m being asked to evolve.

This is a time to surrender to the unknown.

 

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Astrology, Jupiter, Pluto, Pluto-Uranus square, Uranus

The times they are a changin’

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These few days of the start of April are powerful and transformative. The Zap Zone, as Mystic Medusa has so eloquently described it, is peaking. This really is evolve or evaporate time.

On April 1 (AEST), The Sun squared Jupiter, on April 2 it joined Uranus, and on April 3 it squares Pluto. The Jupiter aspect was an urge to grow, and being a square, maybe it had a bit of enthusiastic impatience to it, which might have played out as an over-confident push for freedom. Yesterday’s Uranus conjunct added a radical, dynamic, unpredictable energy … an expect the unexpectedness. Plans will have turned upside down, what we thought was safe suddenly disappeared, and what we thought was out of reach sat in our hands. And then when Sun squares Pluto tomorrow, explosive and unpredictable power struggles abound, with unconscious forces at odds with ego drives.

The energy of this week is demanding change … the choice is between clarifying and transforming or holding on and withering. And this energy is building up to the two eclipses we have this month and the Grand Cross of the 22nd of April.

As Bob said, ‘Get out of the new way if you can’t lend a hand, for the times they are a-changing” … interestingly, this is a song from the mid-60’s, when Uranus and Pluto were last conjunct. Now is time for us to take up the challenge of the revolution that began then, and to get this transformative change back on track …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ