Today at 2:55 pm EDT is the last quarter Moon — the halfway point between the Aquarius Full Moon and the Leo New Moon, when the Leo Sun and Taurus Moon square each other. The next week is traditionally the time to move projects toward completion. It’s also the first full day of a newly direct Mercury, moving ever so slowly through the second degree of Leo. How was yesterday’s station direct for you?
Did you get over-eager and try to rush things too soon? Or did you relax and get your bearings? Mercury stations often come with a sense of the truth coming to light. With that truth beaming through Leo, which is ruled by the Sun, did any new information feel especially potent or valuable?
I ask partly because the last few weeks have been pretty intense news-wise. For some, the emotional pressure of the last nine months of continual inner planet retrogrades has felt relentless. Yet at the same time, I’ve read many comments in this space from readers who have discovered and embraced many beautiful — and even deeply profound — insights about themselves.
I count myself in that group. As much as miscommunication and disjointed thinking can dog me during a Mercury retrograde, overall I feel incredibly grateful for the things I have learned about and begun to heal within myself as Mercury, Mars, Venus and then Mercury again have danced backwards since November. I have a feeling many of us have set processes in motion that are only beginning to unfold within us — and ripple out to those we relate to socially and intimately.