From now through Monday, we’ll be in a zone of heightened emotion and intuition about how you really feel about some matter. It’ll be key, however, to move slowly and carefully in thought, speech and action. The Sun, Moon and Mercury, plus planets in the Moon’s ‘home sign’ of Cancer, are all getting busy — with Mercury leading the parade.
Retrograde Mercury is in its storm phase, stationing direct in Cancer at 2:22 pm EDT Saturday (July 20). From now through early next week, you’ll want to observe all the typical Mercury Rx cautions about verifying information, communicating clearly and focusing when it comes to technology, money and travel (which includes just driving across town).
This retrograde has brought our attention beneath the surface of our feelings about safety. What makes you feel safe? Is it being financially stable or having locks on your doors? Is it having a physical ‘home’ or feeling ‘at home’ in your own skin? Is it holding your spiritual ground or knowing you are loved by family and friends? Do you need a sense of stability or of freedom in your relationships to feel safe?
Have you been questioning your assumptions about what ‘safety’ means and how to get it? When Mercury stations, there can be a moment of truth finally emerging. And that truth will likely be about how you feel.
Many people walk around without really knowing how they feel — or that they might be able to feel a wider spectrum of emotions than they tend to allow. Our inner compasses get corrupted and spun easily by obsessive thought loops, guilt, needless fears and ingrained parental messages.