Are you a Gemini or Virgo or have major planets or angles in those signs? Just a heads up — Mercury will be passing through a rocky part of the zodiac over the next week and a half.

If you recall, Mercury has been retrograde in Capricorn since early January. During this time we’ve had to reassess our word, our commitment, our vows. Mercury in Capricorn takes ideas and what it has to say very seriously. What happens when we go against our word? Take back our commitments? Realize our ideas won’t last in the long run? Or, what have we not been saying at all?

Mercury passing through Uranus tomorrow and Pluto on Friday is jumpy, angsty energy. And if you’ve been paying attention of late, you know that both Uranus and Pluto are planets that demand total change, authenticity, and transformation. If you are a Gemini or a Virgo, you’ll feel the pressure into next week, especially when Mercury stations just off of Pluto on January 25.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, don’t forget to step up your self care game this week and into next. If Mercury is communication, who can you talk to? Who will help you make sense of what you are feeling and experiencing? What can you release? Shed? Transmute? Yes, this is intense, but this is a great opportunity to work through karma and release the old.