Over the years, I have come to the conclusion that astrologers secretly love Mercury retrograde. That phenomenon — which makes planning, communications, signing contracts, commerce, and such trickier and more prone to failure — is (when combined with a healthy dose of imagination) pretty much the perfect “get out of jail free card” for things not going right. Besides, Mercury is all about logic and stuff, and who needs that sort of thing when there’s love? This week the “love planets” — Venus and Mars — both get a lot of play. So you can be forgiven for the occasional lapse in logic. Give us love, not a contract!
Venus is strongly placed in Taurus, and spends the week under the influence of two of the Solar System’s heavy hitters. In the first part of the week Venus is sextile Neptune, with the exact aspect on Wednesday. A Venus-Neptune contact is always dreamy, and it’s hard to imagine a combination more dreamy than Venus in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces. You may find your heart all a-flutter over someone and, if not… find someone to get fluttery over you.
Meanwhile, Mars continues to press on forward through Libra. Although it doesn’t reach the exact degrees to be interacting with Uranus and Pluto this week, it’s certainly getting closer. Think back to what was causing you agitation in the last third of April, and don’t be surprised if those issues return in one form or another. This time though, Mars isn’t retrograde — so you may have a much better chance at finding a satisfactory resolution.
Since most of the planets are located in the first half of their respective signs, this week we once again encounter a couple of epic-length Void of Course Moons. This does not necessarily make Tuesday and Friday this week completely useless, but don’t expect to get decent long-term results with any new projects that are started or completed on those days. If possible, bump the important stuff a day back or ahead.
The weekend dating scene is a mixed bag, with Moon in Libra throughout, but Void of Course most of Friday and the second half of Sunday. Saturday’s the day that Mercury goes retrograde, but as previously discussed, don’t go blaming everything on that alone. You also have Moon square Mercury, Moon square Pluto and Moon conjunct Mars on Saturday upon which to blame any dating blowups. Then again, handled properly, that kind of passion can be pretty intense.