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Astrology for Healing and Transformation with Katie Sweetman
Virgo Season wanes and brings us to Libra Season and the equinox, equal light and dark. A Libra New Moon also marks a new lunar month focused on relationships and Venus and Neptune’s compassion.
Mercury in Virgo makes an electric trine to Uranus today, an aspect that can make for flashes of insight and helpful new perspectives — new perspectives that can help us organize our day differently or make positive changes in our health.
Mercury arrives in Virgo, embarking on a three week return home. In Virgo, Mercury finds its analytical side, taking ideas and information and running them through our critical thinking. Health and wellness, education and learning are a highlight, too.
Another Libra Moon day, another day to reach out, negotiate, and compromise. It may be a busy day, but one that also calls upon us to mediate and reflect. Mercury also reaches the end of Leo after a tumultuous run past Uranus, Saturn, and the Nodes.
Mars in Virgo crosses the Lunar Nodes, activating eclipse energies. Actions may feel fated. We have to make a decision or get clear about something. One area of our lives may be poised for a swift change.
Mercury arrives in Virgo and we’re starting to move closer to Virgo Season, a time to get organized and prepared for the harvest and the months ahead. Mercury is also at home in Virgo, where it favors analysis, critical thinking, and editing.
Get ready to be a busy bee. With Mercury now in Virgo and tomorrow’s Virgo New Moon, we’re ready to move forward, take action, and set our plans in motion. Virgo energy helps us to work and with Mars in Virgo too, we’re motivated to get things done.
With Mercury joining the Sun in Virgo plus Saturn turning direct in Capricorn, it’s all about element earth right now. And what is earth? The ground beneath our feel. It’s real life and the responsibilities that come with it. It’s money, resources, food, and the body.
Mercury moves out of Leo, a sign that it’s been in since late June, and we’re ready to get to work. This after a couple of months of everything and nothing happening all at once. Hopefully we’ve planned, we’ve reevaluated. Time to move forward.
Mercury turns retrograde tomorrow at 11 Virgo, drilling into the choices we’ve made and discernment needed to known right from wrong. With energy running high and fast, Mercury will help us take a step back, reflect, and be more thoughtful and conscientious.
As we move toward the solar eclipse on August 21, we can’t forget that Mars will be playing a staring role this month. Trailing the Sun in Leo, it will fall just a few degrees shy of the eclipse. Make no mistake, Mars agitates and heats things up.
Both the Moon and Mercury scoot into Virgo today, taking our creative Leo energy, fresh off the new moon, and giving it a dose of practicality. Virgo editorializes, Virgo crafts. Whatever is forming in our life right now needs our discernment — and some elbow grease.