Heading into the weekend following a long holiday season, you might be thinking “down time.” The sky, however seems to have another theme for you — perhaps: “group activity.” Indeed, that’s just one phrase through which to interpret a rapid and complex series of events beginning with Venus entering Aquarius at 9:48 am EST (14:48 UT) tomorrow.
Less than 36 hours after Venus makes its Aquarian ingress, Mercury will do the same — at 8:08 pm EST Sunday (1:08 am UT Monday), bringing the number of sign-ruling planets moving through Aquarius (including Mars) to three. That’s a lot of activity.
Given how Aquarius correlates with groups that distinguish themselves by how they differ from other groups as much as by what their members have in common, tripling the number of major planets in Aquarius implies a lot of group activity.
Yet, the rapid and complex series of significant astrological events over the next three days will not end with Mercury’s Aquarian ingress. More is in store to fill out and define how the theme of group activity applies to you.
Less than four hours following Mercury’s Aquarian entrance, a Cancer Full Moon (at 11:53 pm EST Sunday / 4:53 UT Monday) will reach exact opposition from the Sun at mid-Capricorn.
Spotlighted by this particular Cancer Full Moon is the potential for further realization of how the established order’s infrastructure (one of many Capricorn correlations), is not holding up its end of the bargain with you.
In return for participation with groups you somehow default into through no choice of your own, the default group (nations are just one example) may not sufficiently honor your values (Venus) or respect your thinking (Mercury) in return for your participation and/or supporting contributions.
With this Full Moon, it may well become even more clear how the intimate and personal issues (corresponding to the sign Cancer and its ruler, the Moon) that make group activity attractive to you in the first place will ultimately be addressed only by collective efforts you consciously find and/or co-create for yourself.
Some of you may already have elected to participate with others somehow this weekend. If so, you are ahead of the game, and should make note to stick around with that group and give it a chance for at least a few months.
If, on the other hand, you are not among those who have group activity planned for the next two or three days, don’t worry. You will almost certainly get another chance over the next few months as indicated by one more significant astrological event in store before Monday is behind you.
In both cases, whether you are or are not set up for group activity this weekend, the astrology has you covered. That’s because Mercury will enter the echo (or “shadow”) phase of its next retrograde shortly after 4:30 pm EST (21:30 UT) on Monday.
That means Mercury on Monday will pass the degree of Aquarius where its next period of apparent retrograde motion (beginning Jan. 21) will end with a resumption of direct motion again on Feb. 11.
The beginning of its first echo phase also means Mercury will be sticking around in Aquarius for awhile (until March 12), implying the same protocol for those of you who already have a new year’s group activity in motion.
For those of you not yet “grouped” (or “re-grouped,” as the case may be), Mercury has good news for you on Monday as well.
That’s because Mercury will appear to be going back and forth three times over the first half of Aquarius until March 3 (when the second echo phase ends), implying at least three chances to group-up and move on with your group of choice after all is said and done. Also indicated is that you need not miss the bus even if you do devote this weekend to solitary down time and holiday recovery.
Nonetheless, don’t be surprised if even your best laid plans for down time this weekend are at least interrupted for a little while by earthly manifestations of astrology’s impending rapid series of significant events.
You might be spirited out of isolation by hearing a flock of birds overhead. Perhaps it’s the sight of busy ants underfoot that will bring you back down to Earth. Maybe even the smells of a potluck get-together will get you to thinking about abundance and the surest way to bring it about — group activity.
So think about it for now, if that’s what works for you. Take care of your needs as the Cancer Full Moon would support you doing, but also consider how none of us can always care for our needs alone.
Each of us belongs here, and you find that out best by finding out for yourself who you belong with. It’s a great way to begin a year.
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Thanks for your New Year guidance, Len. Venus and Merc will be lighting up natal Venus at 0AQ (7th house if I look at natal chart with whole houses), I’m visiting my daughter just now; my kids make up my most primary group. Other than than, I’m an open door for meeting new friends aka group members as I settle into my new environment “up north”.
Astro dot com threw up Saturn sextile Venus as my New Year’s Day personal daily horoscope–“real relationships” will be Saturn/Venus agenda through this entire year. Let’s hope so as the unreal ones don’t work out so well.
Merc retro feels well timed as well, a chance to meet’n’greet new peeps then take a second look/feel at whether I’m meeting people based on old relationship patterns or forming new ones.
All good. Thanks again Len and Happy New Year.
Another delicious weekend!! We are so blessed, by it and you, Len.
Perhaps this scientific simple genius breakthrough is a sign of our Aquarian times –
“Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated” (I love the part where he says “We were guided by a gut feeling, and only a gut feeling, that there should be a connection”)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/cfqt-qpj121814.php
I’m hoping this will lead me to a group that’s interested in saving the planet in some way. With Ceres conjunct the GC, retro Sedna just changing her degree and Eris getting ready to station direct – super potent – in her long held quincunx with the U.S. Sibly Neptune, something is in the air (or water or both!)
With Venus and Mercury reaching that 11th degree of Aquarius, the one that’s highlighted in all 3 outer planet ingresses, just as transiting Juno in Leo makes a running yod to the sextile between Chiron and Pluto (exact between Jan 11 and Jan 14), there could be some long range plans simmering. Venus and Mercury will both oppose Juno on the 14th as she completes that 3 1/2 day yod with Chiron and Pluto. That means a Boomerang is coming!
Mercury and Venus will also sextile Uranus during that period and with Mercury returning for a total of 3 passes with Juno, Chiron, Pluto and Uranus, there could be some very important adjusting (Juno at the apex of the yod with Chiron sextile Pluto) taking place.
What if it’s about ditching the Canadian oil pipe line, or cleaning up the Great Lakes or even a Monsanto debacle? Now that’s a group I’d like to be part of. Maybe when the Sun opposite the Full Moon is conjunct Pluto he will give us a clue come this Sunday. Thanks Len!
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aword: Thank you again for sharing how your amazingly interactive nativity is being transited. It’s as if you are “in time” with the world as a whole on some level. Hence, when relating your experiences to us we find our own relation. Wherever “up north” is, may the new year there support you getting settled in with groups of abundant choice.
Mandy: Thank you for your kind words, generous wishes, and for the link to what could be a very substantial and widely applicable scientific realization about the world’s workings and our place perceiving them.
Barbara: Speaking of the world’s workings, thank you for keeping us focused on some astrological indicators of same. Your continued observations of how the 11th degree of Aquarius keeps on correlating even after the outer-planet ingress patterns have settled into outer-planet aspects may very well result in the formation of a new group – those of us whom you have made more aware and appreciative of the holistic picture astrology is painting. For this, your authoritative knowledge of the US (Sibley) chart, and for your master of the yod aspect (including the variety of yod known as “boomerang”) we are deeply indebted to you.
This is moving, I’m touched. The idea about the “established order” “not holding up its end of the bargain” is a reality for me these days, on two levels that merge, career & social. This creates potential for me to feel hurt, and excluded. I’m using this weekend to observe, analyze, and readjust my energy. Thanks for the nudge to focus some energy on group-activity in the near future, because although my pride tells me the opposite, it feels like good advice.
Always good to read your insightful words, Len. Happy New Year!