Today is Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. It’s quite a day astrologically: not only are we graced with the Aquarius New Moon just before 2:40 am EST, but Mars stations retrograde in Virgo at 7:54 pm EST – and the Chinese Year of the Dragon begins today. Listen carefully for the days’ messages: you may hear them again at the end of the week.
In the last week, we’ve scratched the surface of several of the messages offered by today’s sky as they’ve been coalescing. Len Wallick took a look at the Aquarius New Moon; Daily Astrology has considered the Year of the Dragon, Mars retrograde and the Sun’s sextile to the Ceres-Uranus conjunction on the Aries Point.
Now Mercury is poised to play courier with these astro-memos, perhaps even more obviously than usual. The reason is that Mercury, currently in late Capricorn, is about to make all the same aspects at the end of this week that the Sun has made with its ingress of Capricorn and conjunction with the Moon (New Moon).
It’s as though the messages are being repeated in a slightly different form to be sure we really get them. Think of it like calling someone to reiterate the email you sent so that they get the benefit of hearing the emotion in your vocal inflection. Or perhaps it’s more like the other way around: in order to make sure emotion and ego don’t obscure the message, you send an email after the phone call outlining the main points.