Read your horoscope for Mercury in Virgo
Life Hacks Galore
Mercury, the planet of communication, flits through detail-oriented Virgo from July 28th to October 4th. Excel is our love language and productivity hacks overfloweth over the coming weeks. So automate your way through more tedious tasks. Plant that windowsill garden of medicinal herbs. Alphabetize your bookshelf. A fresh beeswax candle and jar of homemade incense can honor Mercury’s crash course in practical magic too.
Mercury Retrograde Again
With Mercury retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th, it’s time to parse the finer points of our communications with others and sift through the data. But not everything needs to be disassembled for parts. If you find that you’re missing the forest for its deep cuts of moss, tune into the bigger picture again. Remind yourself of the larger missions, goals, and learning quests that your spreadsheets are serving. Embrace life’s margin of error as the space where the real learning occurs. The systems we establish are not ends in themselves. They are tools that free up more space in our lives for laughter, curiosity, and joy.
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The following horoscopes were written by Stephanie Warner.
Aries & Aries Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, systematize your work with crisp stationery, color-coded spreadsheets, and alarm bells. Being organized starts with feeling organized. Permission to delay your work day so that you can deep-clean your desk.
When you’re ready to take on other tasks, try dismantling them into smaller parts so your to-dos feel less daunting. Celebrate each portion completed, no matter how minor it may seem.
The coming weeks are all about greasing the cogs and wheels of your daily toil. By experimenting with all the efficiency hacks you can Google, you’ll find a groove that’s as fun as it is satisfying.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, replenish your crafting supplies. Raid the thrift store for their stack of old magazines. Or create a new filing system for your creations, so your progress is beautifully sorted and displayed.
In the coming weeks, your passion projects will sparkle with your idiosyncratic wit. And your eye for detail too. Though perfectionism could lurk, a willingness to incorporate your misfires into the work is liberating now. Write poetry to jazz music. Draw your friend’s portrait upside down. Bring your Polaroid camera on your road trip.
By reframing creation as play, you defang your inner critic.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, brandish your witch’s broom for a ritual sweep of your abode. Alphabetize your spice rack or buy shiny new bottles for your herbal tinctures. Allow this proverbial spring clean to be as cathartic as it is practical.
If conversations with roommates or family have felt prickly, Mercury will help you parse through the disgruntlement and clear the air. Just remember to give each other a little grace between August 23rd and September 15th, because Mercury retrograde has a way of sowing confusion.
Mercury retrogrades are also ripe times for personal reflection and review. If patterns from childhood have gathered their own cobwebs, pull out your journal or schedule a talk therapy session to gently blow them away.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, your daily rhythms are ready for a tune-up. Make your immediate environment your mental muse. Streamline your socials. Organize your channels of communication. Tweak your daily commute to include that secret garden or park. All these seemingly small adjustments will get your synapses humming.
Your daily exchanges will have your mind sparking as well. Your daily barista banter will provide you with exactly the intel you need for your next scoop, poem, or podcast. Lean into the impromptu conversations with the neighbor who always sits on their front porch. Or start a photo essay documenting the exploits of your neighborhood cats.
Writing fodder, blog inspiration, and synchronicities glimmer from every street corner.
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Leo & Leo Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, be honest about what still sparks joy. And what objects are gathering dust. Dare to plunge into the wilds of your junk drawer and see what can be recycled. Take inventory of all of your trinkets and treasures, then throw a garage sale. And make it a party with your homemade kombucha.
Now’s a good moment as well to assess where there are spending leaks in your life. And to actually cancel those lingering subscriptions. On a deeper level, journaling through your relationship with material security could bring crucial insights. If a scarcity narrative has been given too much airtime, consider changing to another station.
The composting of old money stories clears the way for more adaptable and fertile narratives.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, a boost of seamlessness finds your personal projects. And your sharp wit is turning many a head. Polish the multifaceted gemstone of yourself over the coming weeks. And celebrate your raw edges as further opportunities for learning and growth.
If your wardrobe no longer reflects how you feel deep inside, brandish your scissors and sewing needle. Deconstruct your look into exciting new lines and forms.
Remember that your identity is never a finished product, but a delightful work-in-progress. Your practical magic is the ability to loosen the grip of control on the complex process of individuation. Whether you’re live streaming your first tattoo appointment or ironing witchy appliqués to your jean jacket, celebrate all the self-alterations — major and mundane.
And a little self-deprecation doesn’t hurt either.
Libra & Libra Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, your psyche’s filtration system will be working overdrive. It’s time to bring some extra mental energy to everything that’s quietly processed behind the scenes. To rake the sand garden of your subconscious and see what crucial intel surfaces.
Interrogate the subliminal habits that derail your day. Confront the inner critic that’s overstayed its welcome. Self-reflection and meditation bring solutions in the coming weeks.
And keep a journal on your bedside table. You’ll be able to put even your most unruly thoughts to bed before your REM cycle does its thing.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, your clubs, co-working spaces, collectives, and knitting circles will be the ideal venue for your ideas to bubble over.
Your attention to detail isn’t lost on your friends. Over the coming weeks, sprinkle your sharply-observed anecdotes and zingers through every gathering. Start a punk radio hour with your crew. Offer to emcee your community’s puppy talent show.
The more you spread your wit and weave your word magic, the more your audience grows. By bouncing ideas off your fans, and cross-pollinating with other thinkers, your mind’s web will stitch itself into exciting new spaces.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, parse through your public roles and polish the trophies of the wins that got you here. Make lists, mission statements, and action plans for the mark you want to make on the world. Organize your ambitious goals and pitches into specific tasks. Then strike even the smallest victories off your list. Celebrate yourself at every stage of this journey.
By leaving this trail of career breadcrumbs, you’ll never lose track of the progress you’ve made. Instant morale boost.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, it’s time to back up your research project-in-progress. To renew your library card. And to wrangle your bucket list items into actionable plans. Send off that wisdom retreat application. Or register for that mushroom foraging conference. Do the detail work that will help your loftiest schemes materialize.
But remember to give this new adventure a chance to unfold organically too. By opening yourself to the detours in this journey, you’ll gather delightful insights that stray from your usual curriculum.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, robust communication is your binding agent in all collaborations and financial mergers. In the chemistry experiment between you and others, Mercury will help you get the measurements and calculations just right. As long as you actively adjust your joint hypothesis.
Tag-team your project’s mind map and edit your mission statement together. Ask all the questions. Comb through the small print with your finest-tooth comb. Set up a schedule of check-ins to keep your collaborative cauldron bubbling over. Remember that nobody’s a mind-reader.
And dare to occasionally stir the pot with moments of self-advocacy, especially if your voice is getting lost in the mix.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
As Mercury enters Virgo, the time is ripe for clarifying your most important relationships. For the coming weeks, acts of service are the trending love language and it’s truly the small things.
Help your bestie with their grant application. Surprise your beloved with a hand-written note listing their most idiosyncratic charms. Offer your business partner a cutting from your spider plant in a hand-painted mason jar.
Devotion is in the details and commitment is in the moments of recalibration. Use the coming weeks to tune in to the ever-shifting desires and needs in your relationship.
Active communication will ensure your bonds are supple enough to weather any storm.
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