A common gaffe with modern electronic media (social media especially) is posting something too hastily. Not so long ago, the situation was reversed. When the most advanced form of communication was a rotary dial telephone, it was considered ungracious to terminate (rather than initiate) a conversation prematurely by abruptly ‘hanging up’.
The old telephone etiquette may very well be applicable to how the astrology next week and beyond manifests with and through you. This will be especially true with regards to two significant celestial events on Monday.
On Monday, the interior (or ‘inferior’) conjunction of retrograde Mercury with the Sun will be precise to the degree for both latitude and longitude as Mercury passes between Earth and the Sun. The result will be Mercury making a visible transit across the face of the Sun.
It will be the first Mercury transit in 10 years, and the longest since 1970. Please do not look for it without the proper eye protection. Regular sunglasses will not be enough. Consult with a local observatory or college astronomy department first if you feel it’s important to see it.
From an astrological point of view, seeing the Mercury transit will not be as important as what you do with it. For many astrologers, all of Mercury’s interior conjunctions represent a day of grace when the usual Mercury retrograde protocols do not apply.
To use a phrase made famous by domestic diva Martha Stewart, the implication is “a good thing.” Given how Monday’s interior conjunction of the Sun to Mercury will be an extra special case, the importance of your showing just a bit of grace yourself will essentially be doubled. The same can be said for what will be going on with Jupiter.
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That’s because Jupiter will conclude about four months of retrograde motion in Virgo on Monday. While Jupiter retrogrades should never be classified as necessarily a bad thing, the resumption of direct motion nearly always represents “even better.” Even so, Jupiter will not exactly be sprinting forward — not at first anyway. Any planet changing direction on the zodiac takes a little time to pivot and get up to speed.
Jupiter’s gradual turn-around, combined with with an unusually long solar transit by Mercury, implies that you should hang in there rather than hanging up. Give your efforts and hopes a chance.
Remember the admonition often credited to the late, great Yogi Berra: “It ain’t over `till it’s over.” Give the new lunar cycle starting with today’s New Moon in Taurus sufficient time to show all the promise it implies. If there is anything to astrology, patience with both the cosmos and developments taking place in your life will be rewarded.
For next week at least, it will almost certainly be worth whatever forbearance and restraint it might take to remain engaged with other people until your conversations can be completed politely, if not amicably. Indeed, for as long as two weeks, until the Full Moon in Sagittarius on May 21, it will almost certainly be advisable to give life, peace and love (among other good things) a chance to prevail — no matter how difficult any given moment may seem.
Hang in there. Amazing times are on their way.
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Cheers Len! Many thanks for the heads up. Will try and hang in there.
Well thanks Len, I’m glad to hear that amazing times are on the way. I believe I feel it coming already. Although not quite as dreary as a Venus retrograde, a Jupiter retro does decrease the apparent joy in life. However, once the station-direct took hold I could tell the difference. And so it was today; a feeling of relief and new possibilities have risen up and replaced those dreary outlooks.
As for the Mercury-occult-Sun aspect, I’ve got a feeling that it too bodes well for the USA as it occurs in the same degree as the U.S Sibly chart Vesta, 19+ Taurus. Although there will be a much shorter time span between occurrences, I’m hoping it will act similarly as the last Venus-occult-Sun has, by indicating growing consciousness whenever the degree where it happened is aspected by transit. With Venus it has been about becoming more aware of what we value and love, and with Mercury one would expect expanded mental awareness.
If so, then the U.S. natal Vesta will serve to guide Americans to focus their thinking on what really matters. Ariel Guttman and Kenneth Johnson in their book entitled Mythic Astrology remind us of Vesta’s association with the hearth fire saying “her fire is an inner fire, the fire which ultimately motivates us to live out our passions or, as Joseph Campbell said, to ‘follow our bliss’.”
So you must feel it too Len. . . those amazing times are on their way!
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