Virgo full Moon combined with a Mercury-Mars trine … this is a fine weekend to clean up the mess! Whatever mess is left hanging around, be it filing and taxes, the house, the garden or things that should have been communicated. Virgo Full Moon is early on Monday morning. The best way to prepare for it is to create a clean slate, and with the organised, constructive energy of Mercury-Mars, there should be the energy to get it done. Watch for all the happy (clean, tidy, organised) Virgos!!
This year started with a period of Venus retrograde (relating was internalised) followed by Mercury retrograde (communicating and thinking was intenralised) which ended yesterday. And just when it seems like all is about to be forward moving, and the flow is going to return, we are about to get a 3-month dose of Mars retrograde (assertiveness and physical energy internalised) and a 4-month dose of Saturn retrograde (form and the constructed self is internalised).
Mars retrograde will feel like road blocks, delays and hesitations. This is not the planning and communication stuff-ups of Mercury retrograde, but more that there just isn’t the energy there to get stuff done, or that some conflict gets in the way of desire and intention happening. Be especially mindful of the Mars ruled beings (ie, us Arians), as we’re unlikely to feel our usual energetic selves, especially towards the end of this retrograde, which finishes late May. Interestingly, we (ie, us Arians) are all going to have a retrograde Mars in our birthday charts this year, suggesting it will be a slower, less expressive or active year for us.
Generally, during Mars retrograde, the things that Mars rules, like passion, motivation, sex, will experience delays and obstacles, that divert proactiveness to frustration. This is a time that demands patience, and appreciation for the slowness; qualities which we can actually acquire in times like these.
More on Saturn turning retrograde in my next post …
In the meantime, enjoy the slowness … some things are just better when you take your time!!
Venus retrograde (21 December – 31 January)
More on retrogrades
…. On Saturday Venus turns around, and it will stay in retrograde motion till the end of January. And again, when a planet is retrograde its energies are more inwardly
focussed rather than outwardly expressed. So, things Venusian are likely to become more internalised, more subjective.
Venus energy is experienced in the way that we relate with another. So, when this energy is retrograde we tend to feel our relationships on the inside better than we express them on the outside. Our perceptions about connection and intimacy are subjective, so we are feeling relationship within the context of our own past and pre-conceptions of what relationship means.
This is a great time for getting in touch with our own feelings about our relating, for understanding our own journey on the path of intimacy. The challenge is that it tends to leave us in such a subjective space that we can’t easily see the other’s perspective, and we are likely to project our own Venusian stuff onto the other. Depth of personal understanding of how we relate will be heightened, while true connection and intimacy is likely to require a bit of effort during this time.
Of course none of this is causal, but it does give us an insight into the fundamental interconnectedness of all things!
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