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<\/dt>\nAll told, that’s a lot to keep up with. Maybe you shouldn’t. Rather than racing around and breaking down, Mercury’s motion implies you may want to make the best, rather than most, use of your time.<\/p>\n
Let’s break it down so you won’t have to break down yourself. After blowing through conjunctions to Regulus and Transpluto, Mercury speeds on to its next conjunction, with the Virgo Sun, Saturday afternoon at 4:56 pm EDT. If you stop to think about it (which you should), it will blow your mind.<\/p>\n
Mercury’s solar meet-up Saturday will be what is called an exterior (or, “superior”) conjunction. That means the fastest planet will be on the other side of the Sun, about as far away from Earth as it ever gets. It also means we are approaching the halfway point between Mercury retrograde cycles.<\/p>\n
\nYou read that right. We are nearly half way between Mercury’s long sail back and forth through Cancer and a similar slog through Scorpio that begins a week after the Libra equinox. Betcha a cool bottle of water you still feel wet.<\/p>\n
Now is when the truth hits home about a year when all three Mercury retrogrades are entirely through water signs. This is when you get a feel for what it’s like for the innermost planet to spend literally half the year doing laps in the pool. Now is when you might want to make a resolution to abstain from spinning your wheels and chasing your tail this weekend, so as to make the best use of your time.<\/p>\n
Since Mercury manifests as your mind and its means of making itself known, the best use of your time this weekend would probably entail giving yourself time to think. If there is anything to astrology, time to think will be at a premium over the next month or so of Mercury’s movement through earthy Virgo and airy Libra. In spite of that, it’s a gift you can give yourself if you think now. The best gift would be to make time for thoughts about what you would prefer the rest of this year to look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to Mercury’s speed, there will be one other potential issue about making the best use of your time over the next four or five days: Neptune.<\/p>\n
After its conjunction with the Sun, Mercury races ahead to oppose Neptune Sunday evening at 7:12 pm EDT. The Sun follows up with its own opposition to Neptune, Monday night at 9:43 pm EDT. If you combine Mercury’s emblem of mind with the solar symbol of consciousness as both pass through early Virgo in succession, their oppositions to Neptune in Pisces may look to be problematic, given Neptune’s reputation for fogging the mind and instilling unconsciousness. It does not have to be a problem, however.<\/p>\n
Once again, it is a matter of time, and timing. In spite of its reputation for deception, delusion and other words beginning with a “d”, or ending in “ion”, Neptune is not all bad. As a matter of fact, a lot of good comes from Neptune’s expression in your life. A big part of handling Neptune’s big influence is to accord it its place.<\/p>\n
It is often better if Neptune is allowed to run the first leg of a relay so that its creative characteristics can be passed on like a baton. Hence, it would be making good use of your time until next Tuesday by making time to think tomorrow and Saturday as a first step. Then, it would be appropriate to follow up on Sunday and Monday by allowing your thoughts to be imaginative, visualizing what you want to manifest in the weeks to come before the season changes once again.<\/p>\n
There is plenty of work for your imagination. There are a lot of things to visualize. On some level, you know the ropes by now. Before Mercury plunges into watery Scorpio at the end of September, you have more than enough to do. For each of you it will be different, yet on some level in parallel with everybody else.<\/p>\n
Thinking about your best place in the scheme of things, and where it connects to support everybody else is a good place to begin making the best use of your time going into next week. Time flies; please don’t waste it by trying to to keep up with everything in the days to come. Rather, catch up with yourself.<\/p>\n
Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Time flies, but it’s difficult to imagine anything flying faster than Mercury is right now. Tomorrow, it enters Virgo at 6:36 pm EDT nearly a full day behind the Sun. Traveling at almost two degrees a day, Mercury will achieve solar conjunction Saturday, and oppose Neptune Sunday, nearly a full day before the Sun does. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}