We have quite a week of astrology upon us, with two distinct themes coming from two different sets of planets. Planets in water signs (particularly Mercury and Neptune) are running one set of messages, while Venus contacting the Uranus-Pluto square has her own story. As you might guess, they compliment each other.
Let’s start with Mercury, which finally stationed direct in Scorpio yesterday. Mercury is still moving very slowly and will take a while to get up to cruising speed. Likewise, you may find it’s helpful to continue taking your time with thoughts, communications and travel this week, as things that got ‘interesting’ during the retrograde sort themselves out. Keep your antennae up for echoes of themes/issues/questions/events from the retrograde and the first shadow phase for the next couple weeks.
Feeling the implications and overtones of these echoes will be heightened by Mercury’s longer-than-usual trine to Neptune in Pisces, active now. There was one exact contact between Mercury and Neptune Saturday, and another one today at 3:46 pm EDT.
Mercury-Neptune trines are known to enhance things like intuition, clairvoyance and creativity; put the two planets in Scorpio and Pisces, and that power is heightened and deepened. Mercury’s station direct magnifies the potential to shift your perspective — especially on recent insights.
If you agree with the idea of collective unconscious, or that there isn’t really such thing as a secret thought (or you’ve been noticing how the Internet functions like a great big viewfinder showing us what used to be hidden to ‘everyone else’), Mercury trine Neptune raises questions. Such as, what if everyone knew those truths you’re so careful to conceal? What if not only the veil between the living and dead, but also the veil we throw between each other, is thinner than we think it is?