September 28th – October 4th
The Messenger Arrives
Synopsis
Two big events straddle the week. After crazy weeks retrograde, Mercury stations direct on Tuesday, condensing the confusion into actionable insights. While Mercury’s direct address dominates the early and mid week, the Full Moon brings things to a frothy boil this Saturday night.
Mercury Station Direct:
Important communications are delivered. Key conversations occur. A point of clarity and order after weeks of uncertainty. Distance is bridged. Forward movement into uncertain territory.
Mercury’s direct station represents the planet at its height of power, ready and able to move things forward. Mercury is in top form in Virgo, and especially powerful in the decan where the direct station takes place. Such clarity and brain power is needed, for although Mercury is in prime condition, he stations direct amidst a mess of other planetary placements. Mars in his Fall in Cancer aspects the swift planet tightly, and the powerful axis of the Saturn Uranus opposition lurks only degrees away.
The tight sextile to Mars in Cancer highlight and clarify problematic emotional problems. Mars in Cancer provides a challenge- to work through and let go of disempowering emotional patterns or to reaffirm them. The aspect between Mercury and Mars takes a scalpel to these issues, laying them bare. There is a both a fear and lust for intimacy hiding in the obscuring cloud of feeling the red planet wears. The fear hiding beneath the layer of unpleasant feelings, if released, can be converted into an ability to connect and bond with people.
Mercury stations direct in the degrees that lie just before the Saturn-Uranus opposition. Although Mercury has already crossed the axis of the opposition twice, the swift planet has one more walk to make between the clashing rocks. Mercury will oppose Uranus late Sunday night and oppose Saturn next week. Here the key maker unlocks the reality gate, making possible the quantum leaps dreamt of in weeks and months previous. With Mercury’s coming pass, we fire up the time machine and attempt a leap into the near future. But time machines are notoriously difficult, so don’t be too surprised if you end up 10 years in the past, or in some bizarre, alternate future time line. Go ahead and try it anyway. There’s only one way to know if these things work.
Full Moon in Aries
The Full Moon in Aries brings the week’s events to a crescendo on Saturday night when it opposes the Sun in Libra by degree. It highlights the tension inherent in the Libra-Aries axis, which exists between going after and getting what you want and making nice with everyone.
In Libra, the Sun is ruled by Venus, and in Aries, the Moon by Mars. The Sun and Moon enact this drama at a time when neither Venus nor Mars is terribly well disposed. In fact, both are considered to be in their “depression” or “fall,” meaning that transmit the least effective energy and inspire the least impressive behavior. Mars in Cancer brings out whiny, passive aggressive tendencies when he should be stimulating courage and spurring accomplishment. Venus in Virgo brings out the critical, miserable side of people when she should be lubricating social situations and bonding people. It’s not a wonderful combination, but it will pass.
The Sun and Moon bring the negative tendencies of these energies to the forefront on the Full Moon, likely triggering problem areas in relationships both personal and professional. Understanding and untangling these type of dynamics are the roots of effective relationships, and should rightly be taken as an opportunity.
Both Venus and Mars are approaching the axis of the Saturn-Uranus opposition, meaning that these fallen dynamics are due for a powerful set of changes. The Full Moon, used correctly, can help alchemize an intense reconfiguration of these difficult energies.
Parting Shot
We’ve almost made it through one of the most challenging periods of 2009. Make the necessary changes over the next few weeks and by the Libran New Moon in mid October the winds of change will be considerably more favorable.
Aries: The Ram
Mercury’s direct station in Virgo on Tuesday triggers forward movement in your financial situation. Problems that have nagged your through out the month likely come to a place of answers. You’ll be working out innovative solutions to problems over the next couple weeks. This weekend the Full Moon in your sign highlights your living situation, as well as the emotional underpinnings of the present. It is an excellent time to examine what and who supports you.
Taurus: The Bull
Mercury’s direct station brings a number of positive arrangements into a coherent shape. You’re making important changes in your lifestyle that are not only likely pleasant, but important for your pursuit of the good life. The Full Moon in Aries this weekend shines a bright light on the invisible corners of your mind. The deep foundations of your motivations glow in the silent silver light. Using the weekend to explore these areas is highly recommended.
Gemini: The Twins
Mercury’s direct station will begin to set many things right, like your the way your brain works. Key communications between your own synapses as well as with other people get things moving. Big changes to your living space and professional direction will likely be triggered within the next week or so. The Full Moon in Aries lights up your contacts, illuminating financial possibilities burrowing their way out of dormancy.
Cancer: The Crab
Mercury’s direct station in Virgo this Tuesday lights up a variety of contacts, continuing to change the shape of your network. The Full Moon in Aries lights up your professional switchboard as well, highlighting emerging prospects this weekend. The realization of these passions depends of your ability to effectively channel the energy of Mars, which sits in your sign. There is a struggle with feelings of powerlessness in which you must triumph.
Leo: The Leo
Mercury’s direct station in Virgo this Tuesday shines a clear light on the numbers of your balance sheet. Financial chaos or no, Mercury’s direct station will provides some facts and figures you can work with, allowing you to plot a course rather than twist in crosswinds. Make the rearrangements and go forth. The Full Moon in Aries over the weekend spotlights your aspirations, and will likely bring cause to reflect on the path from this point onward.
Virgo: The Virgin
Mercury’s direct station in your sign this Tuesday provides quite a bit of clarity, and will likely oversee the condensation of the last month’s events into a coherent form. The kind you can make sense of, and work with. The clarity provided will be necessary to make the rather large changes you’ve been flirting with on and off for a while now. The Full Moon in Aries this weekend highlights the degree to which your energies are entangled with others. There may be cause for some separation in these affairs, in order retain independence.
Libra: The Scales
Mercury’s direct station sees you lit up with the electricity of formerly obscure energy. The new understandings of the concealed mechanics of your mind are the key to dealing with ever changing tasks you’re being confronted with. The Full Moon opposite you this weekend shines a strong light on partnerships in the light of professional developments.
Scorpio: The Scorpion
Mercury’s direct station brings a number of ideas about the proper course of your life, as well as the life style it entails, in a more coherent form. Changes long in the making are taking shape. This weekend the Full Moon in Aries shines a light on your care of your bank account as well as your physical body. It’s a time time to check in and make sure that your not burning through what you’ve so carefully accumulated.
Sagittarius: The Archer
Mercury’s direct station sees a cluster of important professional communications and conversations move forward. The Full Moon in Aries lights up your love life, and desire to have fun. The weekend makes a nice time to go out and play. Try not to work, unless its creative.
Capricorn: The Goat
Mercury’s direct station this Tuesday likely sends messages across a great distance. Travel is not unlikely. Perhaps more importantly, Mercury’s direct station will help you pull together the facts that have emerged over the last month into a coherent map, one that, read correctly, will yield a route through the chaotic configurations of the changing times. The Full Moon in Aries this weekend shines a bright light on the very ground beneath you, highlighting what sits beneath you and supports your work. The answer is no doubt relationships, and the weekend will likely provide you with an interesting set of insights onto this topic.
Aquarius: The Water Bearer
Mercury’s direct station in Virgo this Tuesday resonates throughout the week, sending clarifying waves through the arrangements between yourself and others. Clear ideas of whats yours and whats shared emanate throughout the week. The station will clarify your obligations to others in terms of both money and energy, as well as theirs to you. The Full Moon in Aries that shines down over the weekend is a social one, stimulating communications and likely triggering new contacts.
Pisces: The Fish
Mercury’s direct station in Virgo this Tuesday creates an abundance of social activity in your life, and likely triggers key insights into the structure of your more intimate relationships, as well. The Full Moon in Aries this weekend highlights yer finances. You need to get creative if you’re going to get rich, goddamnit.
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