Astro cats, Warrior Queens, Kings of the Cosmos, Beautiful Babes and Unicorns of the Universe! I know you may be tired, weary and worn. I know that you may have been brought to the edge and have maybe even peered into the abyss. I know you want reprieve and restoration. But this is no time to let your gaze go gaga.
Because, Mercury.
By the time you read these words the trickster, the wordsmith, the unrelenting salesperson, the planet of communication will be stationing retrograde. From May 18th to June 11th we will be tried, tongue tied, and tempted to believe the fates are against us.
But fear not! Mercury retrograde is a mythical journey into the underworld as, visually, the planet disappears during the heart of the cycle. The ancients believed that this was when Mercury descended down under. Mercury is a psychopomp, leading us into our personal underworlds and offering many cues as to where to go and what to look for. Underworld journeys are important. They are part of our cyclical relationship to life. Underworlds grant us access to the riches that lay within, things about ourselves that we wouldn’t normally need to look for but when hard pressed we find there.
The main message here is to pay attention. See if all the Mercury retrograde glitches can bring you deeper into the moment not just in resistance to it. Use every snafu as a signal to become obsessively present, aware and available of what is, not what you think it should be.
This week not only brings Mercury retrograde but also an opposition between the moon/Venus (conjunct in Cancer) and Pluto (in Capricorn) on Thursday, May 21st. This situation provides us a depth of feeling, offers deep healing and requires a tenderhearted touch.
Venus will also square Uranus on Monday, May 25th thus completing her activation of the now declining Uranus/Pluto Square. Venus moving through this muck and mire is sure to dredge up some old feelings, resentments and revelations as to why some relationships simply cannot stand the test of time. Venus passed through a square to the moon’s nodes last Friday and is the ruler of the last new moon in Taurus so her terrain (relationships, love, intimacy, connectivity, erotic energy, creativity) has been testy but also full of useful information.
On Friday, May 22nd the sun will make it’s annual opposition to Saturn. Last week Mars opposed Saturn (read the New Moon in Taurus Post). Saturn oppositions are times of difficulty, delay and opportunities to practice our mindful meditations instead of indulging in chastising tirades. The sun/Saturn opposition, if we can stand it, can be a moment of alchemy, a moment to turn our internal lead into gold. It takes a sturdy container, a solid base and a firmly rooted sense of self to do so. Both the Mercury retrograde and the sun opposing Saturn happen in Gemini. This means that the house that Gemini falls in in your personal astrology chart is lit. Your horoscopes this week are focused on this house. If you know your rising sign read that horoscope as well. Both your rising sign and your sun sign horoscopes will be applicable.
The new moon is still very new. If you’d like some meditations on it I recorded an hour and a bit of them in this month New Moon in Taurus Intention Setting to help understand and utilize the energy more efficiently.
Aries & Aries Rising
Busy isn’t always best. Try to track which parts of your day get taken up with too many chaotic movements that don’t actually serve a bigger purpose. Streamline your days, get down to what is important and leave some wiggle room in your schedule.
Mercury retrograde has arrived.
It’s happening in your Third House of communication, travel, siblings and friends that feel like siblings. Mercury, Mars and the sun are all in this part of your chart. The Third House is a place of movement. Mercury retrograde here will demand your extra time. It will get taken up with backtracking and trying out different avenues of doing things. Try to make an adventure out of every mishap. Try to make an adventure out of dealing with every obstacle. Try not to take it personally when things work out the opposite from what you wished they would.
Especially on Friday. In fact it might be a good day to take a vow of silence and get extra simple and super minimal in everything you say and do.
A family situation or love relationship could also have you in a bind. You might not want to say too much about it as truth sometimes can appear to threaten the connective tissue between us, but in actual fact when truth isn’t present their can be no solid, lasting or safe connection.
Any relationship that has you feeling like you are being manipulated, played or pitted against anyone else that you care deeply about will be aggravated and outed this week. Stay true to your gut feelings and don’t question what you know to be true for you.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
Because so much action is taking place in your Second House of financial affairs this week (including Mercury retrograde and the sun’s opposition to Saturn), it’s a good time to remind you to spend wisely, consciously and without too much waste. Cute deals and downright steals might abound during this time but you’ll be happier to withhold your credit cards for the time being and put your energy into what matters most; with the other meaning that the Second House can hold.
We are talking self-worth. Reworking, rewording and reorganizing your way through this terrain is of top priority in the coming weeks. When do you feel unworthy of love, of sympathy, or of connection? Do you value your contribution to the situation? Do you place yourself in the situation? Are you even a factor?
Put yourself in the scene, whichever one you are in.
Even if it means that you need to speak up. Have the difficult conversations, both with yourself and with your loved ones that you know you need to have. When our heart breaks it reminds us that we have one. The tenderizing nature of situations that render us vulnerable remind us that our power lies in how well we fall down. Our power lies in how well we refuse embittered battle gear after being touched by life. Our power lies in remembering that being connected to those we love requires that we be connected to all of the parts of ourselves that we might not love enough.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
You need all of you, both of you, the many faces of you to get on board for this Mercury retrograde round up. Happening in your sign and in your First House of self, body, vitality and the you of you, it could very well be wonderfully weird and fascinatingly freaky as long as you don’t expect things to be normal or neat or tidy. Mix-ups, messy endings, mayhem and creating chaos to get out of situations that no longer hold your interest are all in a days work for you.
Too bad this week’s aim is to pin you down.
Too bad this week wants answers. Too bad this week comes bearing consequences to any of your flightier faux pas. Too bad this week exposes some truths about your relationships or your part in your relationships that you’d rather not deal with. Actually, it’s too good.
This week is a lesson in real talk from real-life loves. The more you care about the people that you may have problems with, the more information you’ll be able to extract from any run-ins. There’s no point in hiding this week. There is also no point in assuming that you understand what another is doing, why they are doing it or what they feel about you when they are doing it.
Making someone’s actions mean something personal about you is the fastest route to misunderstanding. If you want to know what’s up with another, just ask them. Straight up and with no chaser.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
Take it all in your stride. It can be a little tumultuous with all the inward pulling and all of the external tugging. Your relationships, your way of being intimate, and your needs and desires for connectivity all get heightened this week.
And so does your need for clarity. It’s good to see who people are and how you relate to them. We are different depending on who we are spending time with. Different relationships trigger different patterns in us. This week will tease out a few blueprints and you’ll have the opportunity to see if you like them or not.
There is so much happening for you subconsciously right now, what with Mercury, Mars and the sun in your Twelfth House, that you don’t want to get too lost in what others might need from you. The Twelfth House demands that you have some time to come undone. The Twelfth House needs you to take care of some behind the scenes business. The Twelfth House has many secrets up its sleeve that you need to make space for.
Give the time that you can and then keep some for yourself. You need it to sort through the information at hand. This is a time when your deepest ingrained responses are highlighted. This is a time to do some major cleaning out of your psychic closets. This is a perfect time to be taking note of all of your hidden expectations that you have for yourself especially in regards to who you are partnering with.
Do you think that you are supposed to save them/fill their emptiness/find their purpose for them/fill in for the mother they never had? Spend some time meditating and contemplating the agreements that you have made in your relationships and see if you need a new set of rules.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Leo & Leo Rising
A commitment to yourself has just solidified in your chart, can you feel it? It is something that I have been mentioning on and off for a while now. It is something like a passionate embrace of you. Something along the lines of being your own Divine Consort. Something to the tune of committing to loving yourself in sickness and in health.
Saying I do demands that we say I don’t to something else. Saying that you do and deciding to choose you means that you need to deny the appetites of martyrdom, self-loathing and self-sabotage.
This comes at an interesting time as Mercury is stationing retrograde in your Eleventh House of good fortune, friends, groups, collectives hopes and meaningful movements. Mercury’s moves through this domain may have you reorganizing your time with friends and collective engagements. It may have you reconsidering how you interact with certain folks. Reviewing your expectations of others is always a good use of this kind of transit. It can also call you to the aid of your loved ones in need and can be a time of nostalgically reviewing the beloved friends you’ve had and held so dear.
Whatever the circumstance, balance the need to be there for them with the new found commitment to self. Your creativity is at an all time high and so is your capacity to catch it and manifest it. Don’t miss out on it just because your friends aren’t in the same swing of things.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
Stay open. Receive information. Don’t worry about knowing exactly which way to go, how to get there or what to do when you arrive. This is a magical, mysterious process and you are going to need every ounce of your curiosity to make it a success.
Mercury retrograde slides backwards through your Tenth House of career, social standing and what you wish to be known for. If you aren’t quite sure what that is or if you aren’t quite sure you want to be known for the same old thing you always have been then you are in exactly the right position to make the most of this astrological set up.
Imagine that you have a myriad of possibilities open to you, that you have a bevy of options at your doorstep and a spotlight of sweet light shining down on you. Imagining is half the battle. Don’t be befuddled if things go a little wonky and appear to be a little wobbly. Just think of it as room for more possibility. Remember that, at the end of the day, you really have no idea how everything is going to turn out. May as well make like Willy Wonka and spin chaos into creative gold.
Try not to take on more than you can handle this week. A situation at home may call you there. Leave some wiggle room for unexpected needs that may arise.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Libra & Libra Rising
If there were ever a time for you to make time to take a different route, go astray or deviate from the plan, this might just be it. Just make sure that you haven’t overpacked your schedule, overextended yourself or turned into a complete control freak about how things must be, need to be, or worse, are going to be goddammit.
This Mercury retrograde aims to get you lost on arrival. Why not plan on less than precise timing, GS mishaps and getting the right directions to the wrong place? Why not assume that there will be mischief and therefore get in on the trickery. It’s a kind of go with the flow or face the consequences kind of Mercury retrograde.
It’s happening in your Ninth House of far off places, truths yet to be unravelled and revelations yet to be revealed. This place deals with psychic dreaming, big-time scheming and finding your way to and through grand adventures. Follow the magic, mistrust the conventional and when all else fails make friends with a stranger. Remember that Mercury retrograde is so much more than lost emails and wrong turns. Those lost emails and wrong turns are keys to secrets you need to know.
This can help you to work out any deeper dealings and feelings that may be effecting your career or work situation. You may be publicly challenged this week. You might be challenging. You might just need to except that there are a few losses that you can’t and don’t want to recoup. At least not right now.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
How you experience this week’s astrology depends, in large part, on how well you faced last week’s stand off between your ruling planet, Mars, and the stern and stately Saturn. It was ass-kicking astrology to say the least.
If you tried to skate around difficulties or remove yourself from the situations that were yours to deal with, it most likely didn’t go so well. This week there are many more opportunities for you to understand just how well you share yourself with others. This week will also provide you opportunities to see how you handle the more volatile emotions that erupt when others tend to fall short. We can’t bottle our rage and then pretend to be shocked when the pressure pops the cork and fury finds it’s way onto our streets. We can’t feign ignorance about our internal landscape and if we do we can’t get out of facing the consequences.
Especially this week.
Be it in our conscious life or in the liminal spaces we also inhabit we will all be stalked by unresolved guilt and wrongs not yet made right. None of us can escape our truth. Our subconsciousness is like an account of all we have done well and have not done with dignity. If you do anything this week I suggest that you do it with integrity. Call yourself out, refuse to lie, be unwilling to skip the truth and be very weary of short cuts especially when they help you skirt around the most difficult issues that arise between you and another. You don’t have to come to definitive answers, especially about grand lofty topics, and you don’t have to know how to heal your deepest darkest demons. All you need to do is just acknowledge what is there, how it makes you feel and what you need in the moment.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
You’ve got more than one reason to lay down the law this week. You’ve got more than one reason to say that this is the last time you’ll put up with this, that or the next thing. You’ve got more than one reason to believe your gut when it says enough is enough.
Especially when it comes to being in partnerships. Especially when it comes to people telling you that they care and then they turn around and do something that illustrates they really don’t. Especially when you’ve tried and tried and to try again would just be foolish.
It’s just that you really don’t have all the information yet.
You’ve got reasons aplenty perhaps or situations that look like they might not pan out in the ways that you want them too, but the whole story is yet to be revealed. When you are up against situations that may feel like a no go this week just remember that the race is far from over.
Pay attention to your initial responses to people. Validate the signals that you are receiving from your systems. Gather information about possible partnerships and possible adversaries. Know that there are influences that may make you want to rush forth and proclaim a union or a break-up but there are also influences that proclaim a need for a greater assortment of approaches.
With Mercury retrograding through your Seventh House of partnerships you are in a process of reviewing who you literally and figuratively get into bed with. You are also more apt to see the many reasons why your partners need you and why you need them. You are also more open at this point to see why showing up in all your partnerships with curiosity, interest and your boundaries intact is the best way to proceed.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Work it out. Talk it out. Schedule it out. And then if and when it all goes awry, laugh it out.
Your chart is positively brimming with a good day’s work done. But delays do abound, especially this week. Especially on Friday. So play hooky if you can. Expect the devils that derail. Make fun of momentary set backs and lead the way in experimental work-on-the-go environments. Be unconventional in your approach this week and you’ll be rewarded. Life is ridiculous. Celebrate the absurdity of it by refusing to judge your accomplishments with timetables and stop watches. Your success lies in your ability to master the fine art of seeing the obvious hidden in plain sight.
Mercury retrograde in your Sixth House of employment, health issues and the conditions of your everyday life, wants you to look for the gifts that your daily life brings you. It won’t rest until it wakes you up to the important events that you might pass by as uneventful mishaps. Take a closer look.
Especially when it comes to your relationships. Venus, Goddess of Love, is touring your Seventh House of intimate affairs that you choose to commit to. She’s testing you, taunting you and teasing you into revealing what you really feel. Try not to let harmful feelings fester. There will be less mess to clean up that way.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
With Mercury retrograde, Mars and the sun all in your Fifth House of playful pleasures, expressive endeavors and dearest darlings, there is no shortage of ways for you to badly behave, in all the right ways, this week.
Fun, my friend. You need to get some.
Of course, a Mercury retrograde through your house of lovers could dredge up a couple of passionate past-life encounters. Scenarios where you may run into old-flames, old romantic paradigms and all kinds of past partners abound now. Such reviews can leave you wondering what about that type of experience was so alluring. Such reviews can leave you wondering how you can get back in touch with such juicy life energy.
But I can also see you in all kinds of scenarios that help you better understand how you interact with your creativity, your passion and how you might allow a freer expression of love in your life. What, where and how you make merry, experience pleasure and let yourself play are paramount now. When are you allowed off the hook anyway?
Besides, fun (especially this week) aims to help you be productive. Certain situations in your circles of friends, allies and co-workers may lead you to understand the wonderful world of professional and personal boundaries and may have you saying no, thank you. You might be sitting with and cultivating more than a couple of creative children at the moment. Be protective of them, especially if they are in the early stages of development. No one knows these little beauties like you do, so keep them close, feeling loved and cared for.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
Time is never wasted when it is spent deepening our relationship to ourselves. Time is never wasted when spent making ourselves feel more at home in our own lives. Time is never wasted when used to remind ourselves of what is essential to our happiness. The core of our lives is the most important part of it, for without it nothing can last for long.
It’s time to work on your core.
Mercury retrograde moving through your Fourth House of home, family and foundation demands it. It’s time to turn inward and make sure that you feel comfortable here. It’s time to make the adjustments that your soul craves and that your heart demands. It’s time to address the needs of those that you live with or if you tend to overdo that, it’s time to put your own needs first, for once most likely.
Doing so will help you deal with any romantic endeavors that might have you wanting to revert to old behaviors. Behaviors you might not be so proud of. Behaviors that you learned long ago from people that did their best but didn’t do as well as you know how to. We do better when we know ourselves better.
Please join me for another new moon intention setting class. This one-hour recording is be full of astrological insights, practical exercises to anchor your new moon intentions and helpful tips on the upcoming Mercury retrograde cycle! This is a pre-recorded call. A link will be sent to you after purchase. The link never expires and you can listen to it whenever you like.