Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde

September 17  2:09pm EDT

Well, this is certainly humorous.  As we plot out our daily life and look and see what works and doesn’t work in our schedules we will get to experience that most noble of adventures, a “Mercury Retrograde.”    Blech.  Yeah, I know.   But listen I’m over here just like you, a wee bit nervous about broken phones, technology and miscommunication.  And yes, please dear lord, let’s all becareful about our emails!!!!!   Advice to all:  No snarky emails for three weeks during the retrograde.  Do you want to hit reply all by accident?  No.  Do you want your email forwarded?   No.     Mercury retrograde is at 16 Libra so this is focused on relationships and balance and partnerships.    Can you see how a stupid comment could hurt all of the above?  

Just to go over the dates.  

August 28 we crossed shadow point

September 17 Mercury retrograde

October 9 Mercury Direct

October 24 Mercury exits shadow point

Yes, we all know Mercury is not really going backwards (thank you astronomers who always like to point it out) but the appearance of going backwards is good enough.    Optics really is everything, talk to politicians.  Anyway, Mercury crossed its shadow point at the end of August. It goes retro on September 17  (16 degrees Libra) where it stays in CRUNCH time until October 9^th  (Zero Libra) when it turns direct and we all breathe again and then it clears the window on the 24^th and the whole mess will be a distant memory.  Or at least we hope. 

Just remember, Libra Mercury is all about relationships, fairness, equality, balance, playing nice, indecision versus decision, nice manners vs phoniness.  Honesty versus Passive Agreessiveness.   And given we have this retrograde taking place in Virgo Solar Eclipse lunar cycle where we are getting a handle on our daily life I would say this one bears repeating……

Honesty versus Passive Agreessiveness.   Honesty versus Passive Agreessiveness.   Honesty versus Passive Agreessiveness.  

See how that all works out for three weeks.   Just sayin’.

Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse

I just put up Virgo New Moon with a few hours to spare.  How very UnVirgo of me.   You will find the whole article HERE. 

Yes, it is a solar eclipse and yes we best be getting on Virgo on!   Can you do it?  I will try if you will.  

Here is some of it...but go to link for the whole magillah. 

Virgo New Moon

Solar Eclipse

September 13, 2015

2:41am EDT

20 Virgo 10

The last time we had a Virgo Solar Eclipse was in September 2007 & 2006.   Can you remember what was going on then?   Can you remember what was going on with your health?  Your diet?  You schedule?  Your calendar?  Your daily plans?  Your exercising?   How did routines play in your life?   How was your hygiene?  

How about that for an opening paragraph?  Not often you read the word ‘hygiene’ in a blog.   Oh, yes, Virgo the queen of hygiene.    Okay, so let’s get into this Virgo eclipse which for some reason I am hearing about more from friends than other eclipses.  I am confused why this one has got people hot and bothered since there are two solar and two lunar eclipses every year and occasionally some years there are six (2011). I’m not sure this one is exceptionally more potent than others but maybe that just speaks more to the circle of friends I keep. Virgo is a challenge for them!  Lol.

With a Virgo Solar eclipse we have got to look at what makes up our daily life.    Where are we going and what we are doing is important.  I don’t mean it is important because you are delivering a speech at the UN or important because you throwing a 50^th party for your best friend.  I mean what you are doing and what is on your To-Do list is a reflection on who you are and what you are about.    So, how are you spending your day?   Are you taking care of a lot of people?  Are you spending a lot of time on the phone or texting trying to keep relationships going?  Are you obsessive about health issues?  Are you a hypochondriac?   Are you working every day on something that makes your heart sing?  Are you defending yourself with others?   Are you zoning out on the web or TV?   Are you getting lost in fights?   With a Virgo eclipse we need to look at our time and how we spend it as a reflection of our self-esteem.      When Virgo is misbehaving it thinks everything should be perfect or logical.   Ha!   And when things aren’t logical or perfect, then Virgo becomes a nervous wreck.  This is funny because what is really going on is Virgo is born a nervous wreck and then spends the rest of its life looking for imperfections so it has a ‘right’ to be nervous.   Yeah, read that about a jillion times.   Instead when things happen that are not logical or are not perfect, Virgo should calm down, find its center and look around at what can be improved upon but not get lost in making it ‘perfect.’      For 29 days watch the OCD!   No matter how much you justify that obsessive stuff, it is not helping your daily life.

It is interesting and I suppose a coincidence (if we believed in those) that this Virgo Solar eclipse takes place a few days after Venus turned direct.   Venus hit the shadow point in June, turned retrograde on July 25 at Zero degrees of Virgo and then turned direct on September 6.   And now here we are a handful of days later at Virgo Solar Eclipse.  What did Venus going backwards in Virgo and July tell us about what we value?  What did we learn about how we are valued by others?   What did we learn about our beauty, our money, our resources and our creativity.  What and you do we appreciate?  Take a moment and think about all of those questions.  And now think about this New Moon Solar eclipse in Virgo, which is reminding you that your daily activities and to-do list and calendar speak to what you are about.   So, the big question is, are you living a daily life that incorporates every thing you learned about your values in the last three months?   If you have not made adjustments since Venus turned direct,  now would be the time to start Virgo ‘fixing’ your calendar.     Everyone should have a ‘come to Jesus’ moment with their schedule and daily life and make the changes in their to-do list that is a life they really want and VALUE  If not, then start fixing it bit by bit.

Go to link for the rest.     Now I will find a nice candle to light in a few hours. 

This Week

We are in the final phase of the Leo Lunar month.

We take our final actions on last quarter moon and then we release during balsamic.  

Our next new moon arrives on September 12th/13th which will be a solar eclipse in Virgo.   

Last Quarter Moon Phase

September 6

5:54am EDT

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living  “The serenity prayer”

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

Focus on:

What actions are you taking that speak to you siblings and or neighbors? What actions are you taking that reflect on your communication style? What actions are you taking that show your lightness?  What actions are taking that support your cleverness?   How can you act and have fun?     

Special focus:

Balsamic Moon Phase

September 9^th

12:57am  EDT

   

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new. 

Focus on:  We let go of ego. We let go of being the center of attention.  We let go of pride.  We let go of being the life-of-the-party.  

Venus Turns Direct September 6

Venus

September 9
4:29am EDT

As we know Venus has been in retrograde since July 25 when it turned around at zero (and change) of Virgo.   It will go back to about 14 degrees of Leo and turn direct on September 6.    We pointed the launch of Venus Retrograde and the window on last month’s Cancer cycle.  Here are the dates once again:

Put these dates on your radar:

On June 21 Venus went into its shadow (14 Leo 23) – We will revisit some of the stuff that came up after this date.

On July 25 Venus stations RX  (0 Virgo 46) – We are on Value Patrol.  Especially what we value in our daily activities. 

On July 31 Venus returns to Leo (during a full moon no less) More Value patrol especially about unbridled love versus ego. 

On Sept 6 Venus stations direct 14 Leo 23 – Oh, boy what have we learned?  And how do we apply it?

On October 8 Venus returns to Virgo –what is my daily life looking like now? 

On October 9 Venus exits its shadow (0 Virgo 46) –Phew, how is my life different now than it was on June 21^st?

As Venus makes its backward journey we are processing what we value.  This happens once every 18 months.   If we believed in accidents and we don’t--- it is would be notable that Venus who is in retrograde just happens to be in conjunction with the Sun and Moon on the New Moon.   But since we don’t believe in coincidences we know that the Universe is asking us to figure out what (and probably who) we love this cycle.  Or how we are valued for twenty-nine days.    

Do people value us?  What do they value?   How do we feel about what people value in us?  Venus in Leo has a lot of pride. What and who inspires pride in our lives?  How are we being honored?  Who are we honoring?  What are we inspiring in others?  How are we inspiring other people’s pride?   How are people appreciating our creativity?   Take a look at the calendar of Venus events.   

When you get to September 6 take a moment and look back to June 21^st.  What was accomplished since that point and how does it speaks to love?  What speaks to appreciation?   How far have you traveled?   The next point to stop and take a look will be October 8 & 9^th.   Expect more changes between now and which could be even more profound.