Sitting down to write today’s daily astrology, I checked my animated chart in Io Sprite and noticed the aspect I had been feeling: Venus in the last degree of Aries, the Moon in the last degree of Libra.
The last degrees of signs can feel edgy, unstable, uncertain and like there’s imminent change coming. There is: bodies are changing signs, but that’s a symbol for something else. Today the two making sign changes have a feminine resonance.
This suggests that their state or condition will harmonize with the feminine side that astrology reminds us we all have. Human is not a polarity but rather a complex mix of mental state, emotional state and gender. Note that the zodiac as we know it is a mix of six different shades of yin and yang — each of the different sign pairs (Aries/Libra, Taurus/Scorpio, and so on).
Mercury is close behind Venus, and will enter Taurus, where it will remain for about eight weeks (an unusually long time for Mercury through a sign) as part of its retrograde cycle (but normal for Mercury retrograde, which is another way of saying Mercury hangs out in a sign or narrow sector of the zodiac for a while). Mercury retrograde involves Mercury slowing down and changing directions. In Taurus, we have an image of becoming aware of and then loosening up thought forms that previously seemed intractable.