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<\/dt>\nIn a rare confluence and overlap of their respective motions, the so-called personal planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) are symbolically transcending their usual limits together, with implications that you may now do the same.<\/p>\n
Mercury, Venus and Mars are considered ‘personal’ because of how they circle the Sun, and cycle through the zodiac many times in a human lifetime.<\/p>\n
Hence, the more familiar patterns of your life often resonate with cycles of the Sun and Moon, stitched together by the tracing and retracing of Mercury’s thrice-yearly regressions. These patterns are then bookended with Venus oscillating from dawn’s declaration (as the so-called morning star) to dusk’s diamond (as the misnamed but visually magnificent evening star).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The biennial span of the Martian cycle often sees longer personal endeavors to completion, and from there it is a long way to Jupiter’s cycle of about 12 years.<\/p>\n
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The cycles of the outer planets, from Jupiter on out, are conventionally more about the collective or generational manifestations of ‘we’ than ‘me’ or ‘thee’. Nevertheless, for Mercury, Venus and Mars all to be in the slowest part of their respective cycles at the same time is a message. The message is how your influence over the next several weeks may be stronger, and last longer than at any previous time in your life.<\/p>\n
Witness Mercury, which typically touches two (sometimes even three) signs in a single month, now about to make Aquarius home for most of what remains for this season.<\/p>\n
Notice Venus, which has combed through Capricorn for more than three months when three weeks would be more usual, and not still not done for three weeks more.<\/p>\n
Finally, behold Mars, which would have completed a routine two-month tour of Libra by now if not for an impending retrograde of its own, which will postpone any other field of expression until July has grown old.<\/p>\n
In other words, all of the personal planets at once are behaving more like outer planets for the rest of this month and through the first week of March. If you feel as though your personal life has gone away for the time being, you are feeling it right. The key is to also feel all right about it.<\/p>\n
If you feel as though daily duties have been overshadowed by an opportunity to do more, and by a responsibility to that which is more commonly conferred upon a generation, a tribe or a nation, you understand. The challenge is how to make the most of what most of your life has not prepared you to face.<\/p>\n
Life in general does not train or prepare us for such seldom-seen periods when we are stronger, and our actions last longer than seems possible. It begins by being aware, which astrology is doing for you now. Then, it’s a matter of stepping up and doing what you can, while you can, so that it really is all good so far as you can make it.<\/p>\n
You will not be required to achieve great things, but it would be a good thing to hold your head up proudly as if you had.<\/p>\n
You will almost certainly not be vested with power over many. Yet, you will want to be conscious of your power to make or break the day of the precious few you have contact with. For those few will carry their experience of you to many more.<\/p>\n
This period of your greater influence will not last forever, but what you do with it could last longer than any other mark you have ever made. So, look to maximize your impact as Mercury, Venus and Mars are doing — by combining your actions in coordination with others with whom you concur.<\/p>\n
Soon enough, the personal planets will return to their usual pace, and their rhythms will once again spread out so as to assume a more human scale in their respective correlations to your life. That will all be good as well, allowing you to resume a more modest influence, with more room to err and learn.<\/p>\n
Until then, gather to yourself all you have learned of your human failings to this point and work to transcend them until the comfort and familiar signs of a personal life signal their return. It’s all good, and you would not be here if you were not capable of making it so. Think of it as your own Olympics, and go for the gold.<\/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 Have you tried the Planet Waves premium membership? Planet Waves was built on Eric’s horoscopes, and our members swear by them as an essential tool for co-creating their lives. Sign up for a six-month membership<\/a> and receive weekly and monthly horoscopes, plus more.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Retrograde Mercury returns to Aquarius late tomorrow or early Thursday depending on your time zone. If your personal life begins to feel less personal at about the same time, remember — it’s all good. This will not be about loss. This will be about gain. In a rare confluence and overlap of their respective motions, … 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\/74173"}],"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=74173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}