Today is Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Tomorrow Mercury ingresses Aquarius today just before 1:12 pm EST. Following the recent movement of the Sun and New Moon, Mercury is making the same aspects to slower planets, which you can review here. That means it’s almost time to open that envelope holding the list of thoughts and impressions Len suggested making on Monday, with regard to this same event.
We’ll come back to that. Today, the Moon is in Pisces, and this morning made a conjunction to Venus. It’ll make another to Vesta. These are subtle aspects, describing emotional sensitivity, a feeling of devotion and a sense of emotional and sexual contact. Because the Moon is involved, this is something that starts inwardly and is reflected outwardly. The Moon stays in Pisces till it ingresses Aries on Friday afternoon.
Mercury’s movement influences mental patterns. The move from Capricorn to Aquarius is an opening, where patterns become evident or at least visible, what was previously difficult to express can suddenly be put into words, and (whee!) you may want to take a more modern approach to your thoughts. Both Cap and Aquarius are Saturn-ruled signs, though of the two Aquarius is more the one that says ‘now’ whereas Capricorn is the one that usually points to the past.
As Mercury ingresses Aquarius, three other planets are also in the last degree of their respective signs. This is another way of saying that as Mercury moves, it has a dialog with all of them. Two of these will move to new signs (creating new patterns) within the next seven days: Juno (a fast moving asteroid now in late Scorpio) and Neptune (a slow moving outer planet, now in late Aquarius). The third, Saturn, will station retrograde on Feb. 7 and remain in Libra through October. The retrograde will help us review our Libran-ruled material in a new context: matters of coexistence; the viability of ideas; whether the world around you is comfortable, aesthetically pleasing, and otherwise in balance. Balance is the very theme of Libra, emphasized by Saturn, which has a resonance with this sign.