By Len Wallick
Mercury and Venus exact an unusual conjunction in Aries today only hours after both conjoin separately with Eris. The three planets occupy one degree of the zodiac. This is essentially a single, continuous aspect for the three objects involved. It begins an eventful week for the so-called personal planets. Their common and collective activity imply that we are somewhere in the midst of setting new patterns and starting new cycles in our lives.
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The term personal planet is reserved for the three with orbital periods around the Sun that repeat scores of times in a typical human life span — Mercury, Venus and Mars. For Mercury, that period of time is about 88 Earth days. A year on Venus is about 225 days for us. Finally, Mars, the third member of the group, takes about 687 of our days to make the solar round trip. The implication is that such short periods of time correspond to patterns and cycles you are likely to experience over and over again during a single tenure on Earth.
The current, long term weather report for the personal planets is that they will all have followed the Sun into Taurus by this time next week. Mars goes first, sometime early Wednesday (3:04 am EDT) for most of you reading this.
In the meantime, however, Mercury and Venus have some unfinished business. That business begins with today’s triple conjunction with Eris in Aries. This follows the pattern set when Mars and Jupiter conjoined with Eris, then each other, in one continuous aspect to end April and begin the month of May. According to the established order, Osama bin Laden ended his earthly residence about the time Mars and Jupiter were completing the final phase of that merger.