Read your horoscope for Mercury in Aquarius
A new paradigm and course reversal
On January 1, 2022, Mercury enters Aquarius. First up on the year’s agenda is setting up a think tank to build a brave new world. As the winged messenger enters Saturn’s day kingdom, a vision suddenly feels ripe for the taking. See in patterns and devour data for the purpose of architecting a fresh paradigm.
Yet, the fleet-footed one does risk over-intellectualizing matters in this fixed air sign. As Mercury in Aquarius grinds to a slower pace, the probability of deducing messy life scenarios into trigonometry problems is even higher.
Mercury stations retrograde on January 14th: the first of four Mercury retrogrades in 2022 that straddle both air and earth signs. Each time this occurs, ask yourself: how does the lab of the real world inform the vision for tomorrow?
When Mercury returns to Aquarius on February 14th, we will have properly broken in our hiking boots. Time to resume other interplanetary explorations. Make Valentine’s day a planning session to ponder, inquire, and challenge society’s mainframes. Solve a problem with your whole being.
On February 24th, Mercury squares Uranus and adjusts to the curveballs of wild intel. Then the messenger meets up with its all-business BnB host, Saturn, just before a dreamy New Moon in Pisces. The message is two-fold: you absolutely can hope with abandon after you’ve mapped out (and reviewed) a course of action.
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The following horoscopes were written by Thea Anderson.
Aries & Aries Rising
On January 1st, Mercury zips into Aquarius to rally your crew around shared principles. Form a club for your avid chess player pals. The planet of pondering is on a mission to organize zeal into purpose. Turn what-ifs into right now.
On January 14th, Mercury stations retrograde. Similarly, you may find yourself adrift in the twilight zone at social gatherings. Being on the outside, while looking in, can feel disorienting as team alliances shift and evolve. Listen to your gut on January 23rd, and you’ll gain perspective on how to best put your ideas front and center.
You regain your patrons’ rapt attention by your willingness to travel to the outer reaches of what’s considered routine. Go ahead and be a rabble-rouser. Rev up your people with your best and boldest ideas.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
On January 1st, Mercury enters Aquarius to conceptualize the castles in the sky when it comes to your profession. Want to make your mark on the world? Then imagine it anew. One brainstorming session leads to a dozen more. Before you know it, you’re weaving together radical new initiatives for everyone to see.
But utopias aren’t constructed overnight. Soon, you’ll be scrutinizing the details of a plan that needs reworking. Mercury will reverse course on January 14, and those new year career goals could feel less sparkly, or slower to come by. When Mercury returns to Aquarius on February 14th, reboot your mind musings with a clearer mission statement.
Why not thrust your wild card idea to the forefront? By now, it’s been properly beta-tested. You’re ready for your debut.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
Is the idea-mill humming louder than usual? Mercury gets lifted when it enters Aquarius, delivering you to higher planes of insight and knowledge. Register for an online course in sci-fi writing or study up on ancient languages for the sake of speaking in obscure tongues. In this part of your chart, the planet of understanding dabbles in the delightfully weird and far out.
If you deviate from your course through learning and wisdom, know that apprenticeship isn’t linear. Research spirals in toward truth, then back out to imagination. Getting lost is perhaps the best way to see the prism of how all the dots connect together.
By February 14th, Mercury returns to Aquarius, ready to usher in a new era on your wisdom traditions. You are questing towards a vision that isn’t fully formed, but that’s the mission you’re equipped for. You’ve become an expert on seeing the “not yet” and mapping it onto the grooves of the real world.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
You kick off the new year ready to map out areas of joint-resources and collaborations. As Mercury soars into Aquarius on January 1st, it parts the clouds on agreements, helping you parse out what belongs to you and what doesn’t.
On January 14th, Mercury stations retrograde, making for a dizzying round of conversations on these contracts. What have you penned your name to? Sometimes, laying claim to one thing means you can’t sample anything else. Does that leave you feeling limited? Come to the terms of your engagement by outlining them.
Using shared terminology to discuss the tricky stuff is a good way to proceed. So is only discussing entangled issues when you’re feeling resourced, rested, and ready to travel this sometimes potholed road. Mercury returns to Aquarius on February 14th, helping you gather your wits so you may proceed confidently with these collaborations.
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Leo & Leo Rising
On the first day of the new year, Mercury rides tailwinds into Aquarius to firm up talks around partnership. The planet of dialogue is putting air quotes around your primary back and forth. Quantum theory over tea, anyone?
Mercury stations retrograde on January 14th, prompting a review of all these intimate exchanges. Hold off on making decisions that involve you and your person. Rather, wait and see what facts and figures arrive once the winged messenger makes an encore appearance on February 14th.
This Galentine’s day, forgo the bouquet of roses and offer up a mindmap of what your future together looks like. Sign your names to it and go forth with your out-of-the-box ideas. Your appetite for a world of you two together puts you firmly in your own utopia.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
On New Year’s day, Mercury sweeps into Aquarius to tidy up your work and health realms. It’s a refreshing shift to have the messenger planet zipping around in the sector of your life that pertains to system maintenance. Go ahead and leverage metrics and analytical tools to shift your daily tasks into high gear.
On January 14th, Mercury stations retrograde and backs out of Aquarius. This is a holding pattern while you circle around the clouds of improvements and data reports. At times, you could feel caught in a thought loop, but once Mercury returns to this part of your chart on February 14th, you’ll have the crucial intel to resume your plans.
You are perfectly positioned to spot any mechanical malfunctions and to build a better operating system at that.
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Libra & Libra Rising
Welcome 2022 with an invigorating rush into creativity and play when Mercury zips into Aquarius. Download a scrabble app; solve math problems for fun. Any puzzle you have to muse your way out of brings gust-winds of pleasure.
On January 14th, Mercury prompts you to revisit the territory of creation when it stations retrograde. If you thought one way about a pursuit, you may find that it’s not quite so or needs to be edited. Pause on the project until February 14th, when the winged messenger returns with a letter for you. Check your inbox for news.
If you have to make radical adjustments to your pastimes, know that it’s for a more gratifying alignment between you and how you spend your time. You’ll be back to buzzing with the joy and satisfaction that comes from delving into the great unknown of creation.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
On the first day of the new year, Mercury will throw open the shutters of your domestic arena for an exhilarating breath of fresh air. If you’ve ever wanted to draft blueprints for an against-the-grain home space, now is the time to envision your earth ship. Wherever your abode, Mercury will set to mind mapping the ideal space that has you feeling cozy. Hint: it may be a design that the world has yet to see.
When Mercury stations retrograde on January 14th, conversations among your cohabitants are up for review. You may feel like a visitor among our own kin. By February 14th, the trickster planet will be direct once again and ready to move forward with integrating your forward-thinking propositions into dinner-time conversation.
Don’t be afraid to ruffle feathers with your fresh takes.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
On January 1st, Mercury breezes into Aquarius, and your communication centers buzz with out-of-this-world ideas. In Saturn’s day home, the messenger planet is all too happy to distribute the vision from your mind hive. Speak to folks in niche digital hangs or simply your garage. Grassroots orgs and tech apps have to start somewhere.
Sometimes offering up new ideas puts you in a league of your own. On January 14th, Mercury stations retrograde, and you might want to edit your words after they’ve already left your mouth. Your message just needs a little more time. In a month, Mercury will return to this part of your chart, and it’s back to broadcasting your ideology.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
It’s a new year and a new day for your possessions and essentials. On January 1st, Mercury zips into Aquarius to sketch out what financial freedom means to you. What logical threads connect you from point A to point B on your expenses and earnings? How do you wrap your head around the nuts and bolts of true abundance?
These questions are asked but not immediately answered, as Mercury stations retrograde on January 14th. Be willing to suspend action and remain in the place of wait and see. The inner vision will clarify once Mercury returns to this realm of value a month later.
You can always tap into your ability to manifest with your imagination and new ideas. Ultimately, your brand of prosperity is one that the people have been waiting for.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
On New Year’s day, you get a preview of your season when Mercury swoops into Aquarius. In your 1st House of self, the planet of communication gathers a wide array of personal insights and articulates them for all to know. Now your inner-world can have the proper attention it deserves outside of Comicon.
Speaking your ideas out loud always comes with a degree of bravery as you step onto the proverbial stage. When Mercury stations retrograde on January 14th, you may want to walk back some of what you confessed publicly. It’s okay to press mute until Mercury returns a month later and you can regroup.
Really, the world really needs your weird. Trust that others will catch your drift in due time. They’ll be grateful they did.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
On January 1st, Mercury enters your inner chamber of Aquarius. In this part of your chart, ideas get cryogenically frozen and stashed to be revived at a later time. That time is now as Mercury takes the passive route to uncover what mental gems deserve some sussing out.
On January 14th, Mercury stations retrograde to resume this meticulous inventory in a month’s time. When the planet of thinking returns, it will be moving direct and eager to shake things up. Sometimes, you’d rather press snooze, and that can be educational too. See what wisdom you glean from those moments between REM cycles.
Just beneath a still surface, there’s some major reorganizing going on in your mind’s eye. Discover what brilliant visions break through.
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