Two figures on a ridge at midday – packs shouldered, facing the same direction for once. The mesa edge dissolves into fog to the west. Behind them, faint twin shadows. The signal tower on the distant ridge is dark but its light is beginning to pulse – …
Twins on a ridge at first light,
the valley below still holding last night’s smoke,
they shoulder heavy packs.
A handwritten trail marker next to a stream points home.
The trail ahead is narrow and clear.
Mercury enters Cancer and all of the sudden, you’ve never wanted anything as much as you’ve wanted to be sitting in your own little home, with your own little family – secure and loved amongst people with whom you don’t need to say a word. You don’t have to make them laugh or entertain them with your stories. They love you even when you don’t speak at all.
The skies are pretty quiet this week, with no major lunation and only a few transits. Mercury enters the quiet sign of Cancer for a longer than usual stay. The Sun’s sextile to Saturn provides persistence for tackling serious projects, and Mercury squares Neptune for a clarifying dose of realism. We look at the week’s Void-of-Course Moon periods, and I answer a listener question about which are the best charts to use when you’re giving an astrology reading.