The weekend’s signature event is the Sun-Mercury conjunction in Leo Saturday, and then the workweek begins with this month’s Moon-Pluto occultation in Capricorn. We’ve been tracking the Moon-Pluto events, which began in April and repeat for 19 straight months (here in a subscriber issue, and also on this blog). If you’re curious about what’s slowly working its way up from the depths in your emotional life, check your journal around these dates. The Sun and Mercury may lend your mind a little extra perceptive juice if you do.
As of this writing, the waxing Scorpio Moon is opposite the Black Moon Lilith (a hypothetical point related to the Moon’s orbit) in late Taurus. It may be lending some interesting undertones to your Friday along a sensual, sexual and at times possessive, at other times transformative, axis. Feel around in those shadows for which emotions are actually motivating you, and how deep they reside in the less-accessible (or acceptable) reaches of your feminine side. Is your mother in there somewhere? With the Moon not making any other major aspects before it enters Sagittarius, it’s a good moment to do the spelunking with less chance of emotional backlash.
That clears the way for Sun-Mercury. Effective now, it is exact Saturday at 3:57 pm EDT. Yesterday Len Wallick explored this conjunction’s participation in a grand fire trine, with the advice to add awareness and discipline to our spiritual, imaginative fire. That configuration starts shaping up tonight into Saturday, when the Moon enters Sagittarius just before 1:18 am EDT and makes trine aspects with Uranus in Aries and Sun-Mercury in Leo.
Eric noted the potentially questionable facet of the Sun-Mercury conjunction in today’s subscriber issue, in the context of a horary chart for the Olympic Games. The Trickster may indeed play games with the proceedings — he certainly raspberried Mitt Romney, who’s visiting London. So you may want to keep an eye on your thought processes and conversations, making sure your mouth doesn’t run ahead of your mind.