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Sagittarius New Moon: Shift Your Holiday Energy
Every year around mid-November, it begins. It creeps upon me so slowly that I don’t even realize it’s happening. Like a frog being boiled alive in water, the temperature increasing ever so slightly. Holiday energy. Buzziness, wanting to jump out of my skin, the feeling that I should be doing something, waking up at night […]
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December 6th, 2018: Mercury Direct
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Mercury stations direct (27 deg Scorpio at 4:21 PM EST)
Mercury concludes its retrograde this afternoon, moving ahead and signalling progress in all matters of communication and information. Rx since November 16th, Mercury direct will reactivate 27 to 29 deg Scorpio and 0 to 13 deg Sagittarius. This reactivation (also known as the shadow period) will take you to December 24th, so you may still be discussing the same issues or looking (again) at the same truths/lies.
But Mercury is direct now, and that counts for something. There should be clarification. You can be confident that the repeat issue you’ve been chewing on is winding down.
Mercury direct in Scorpio will ask you to move forward with what you’ve dug up (secrets, taboos, the things no one else wanted to confront) and Mercury direct in Sag will ask you to take it further- expand on it, look at the bigger possibilities, apply what you’ve learned to the promise or story. Does the ideal still hold up now that you’ve done your research or glimpsed the underside?
Mercury direct may start off quietly, because it’s still in dark, private Scorpio (Scorpio’s power comes from holding back until the right moment). There may be whispers or unspoken confirmations – a pause before the strategic reveal. Once Mercury makes a jarring inconjunct to Uranus Rx in Aries on December 11th and re-enters Sagittarius on December 12th, things could get louder.
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Is Republican Party Policy Leaving People With No Choice?
Dec 5, 2018: Now here’s a very good question posed and discussed by progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann:
~:~And let’s remember a significant cosmic event arriving soon for the Republican Party for on December 29, 2018 comes the fifth conjunction in a series of five Neptune Return/s for the Party–with Donald Trump’s natal Neptune @6Libra at Midheaven in their December 29th Neptune Return
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Is Republican Party Policy Leaving People With No Choice?
Dec 5, 2018: Now here’s a very good question posed and discussed by progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann:
~:~And let’s remember a significant cosmic event arriving soon for the Republican Party for on December 29, 2018 comes the fifth conjunction in a series of five Neptune Return/s for the Party–with Donald Trump’s natal Neptune @6Libra at Midheaven in their December 29th Neptune Return
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Mercury retrograde revisited and something about the balsamic moon…
I told you last week about my Mercury mishaps this time around. There have been more… I’m off to Sydney this weekend for a 60th birthday party. I’m staying down into next week in order to show my face in the office, but hubby is coming home on Monday. When I booked his return flight …
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Pluto In Aquarius: Tracking, Manipulation & Killing Technology
Pluto will enter Aquarius in 2023. I started writing about the Dark Side of Innovation & the Internet in 2015. I track things that interest me so I’ve added to the topic since. See tag – Pluto in Aquarius I … Read More…
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What Is A “Snowflake”?
It’s common that people call each other “snowflake” back and forth, these days. I understand the term is insulting and dismissive. But it does seem to describe a certain kind of person, which I don’t think even existed thirty or even … Read More…
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Astrology of Now: Sorry!
If you have written to me in the last few months and have heard nothing in response, I apologise. Yesterday, I found that, for reasons too boring to explain, one of my email addresses has not been functioning for months! I am so sorry and I am endeavouring to respond to each of you this week. Now this is, of course, not brilliant, but on the other hand, thank you Mercury Retrograde, because it might have gone on even longer. When little Mercury is retrograde, he is excellent at finding lost things. And in my case, he had just slipped […]
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December 5th, 2018: Tensions to Consider
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Sagittarius Sun square Neptune in Pisces (13 deg)
Venus in Scorpio square Vesta in Aquarius (2 deg)
Sun/Neptune is a harbinger of the December 7th New Moon. A square is a crisis aspect, and here we have a crisis between future opportunities/truth (Sun in Sag) versus the dream/lie/wish (Neptune). The overall energy is that of expansion, as Neptune dissolves limits and Sag wants to keep exploring, but the direction will be the issue.
What are you moving towards? How do expectations and truth align? There is a strong escapist vibe here, so make sure that you’re putting your faith in something that’s about elevation rather than avoidance.
Venus/Vesta triggers tension between a deep want/craving (involving relationships, money or values) versus a detached focus on the bigger picture. There’s something different to consider, and the contrast with an area of obsession (or a fixed desire) can make you aware of what needs to change and what needs to remain private or protected.