By Len Wallick
Yesterday’s conjunction of the Aries Sun with Eris reminds us that it was Venus that got there first, as part of a hero’s journey, on the day after the Vernal Equinox. Today Venus continues to be the theme setter, but first the big picture.
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Saturn is in the last degree of Virgo, in retrograde towards it penultimate opposition with Uranus in late Pisces. Pluto is also in retrograde back towards the first degrees of Capricorn heading for a concluding square with Saturn and the first of a long series of squares with Uranus. That will climax the long series of outer planet cardinal point aspects that will carry us up to and through the concurrent phenomenon known as 2012.
Mercury is slowing down as it cuts ever so deeply into the onion of of its echo phase. It will station retrograde in less than a week at 12+ degrees Taurus. Mars is slowly speeding up but has five weeks to go before emerging from the backside echo phase of its solstice retrograde. One into a dive, the other surfacing. Deep memory is implied, destiny is not.