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Weekly Weather Report

by Britt Martin

Significant Planetary Aspects for:

Paying attention? When Mercury is retrograde, paying extra attention is what becomes super important. The snags, hiccups, detours, and all around mess-ups are wiley distractions of our lower self keeping us spinning into fear, unless we choose Love. This year is giving us powerful lessons in embodying the feminine aspect of being. From the feminine perspective “paying attention” requires an expanded definition. This year many significant events have happened inside the Moon void cycles – the quiet time between the Moon’s last aspect within a sign before it moves into a new sign and starts making contact with other planets again. The Moon void periods give us time to integrate experiences, but they have also trained us to use our senses in different ways. The Mercury retrogrades seem to me to have done the same: we are paying attention more with our hearts, which we could say requires us to utilize our peripheral vision more and more. If you relax your eyes a bit and expand your view to include the periphery, the sensation of seeing becomes very different. It helps connect you to your inner heart centered awareness. This week we make it to the half way point in the Mercury retrograde cycle and if you tune into your heart center through your “peripheral” senses we may get some important insight into the major theme of this cycle.

Now would be a really good time to ask yourself just how distracted you have let yourself get in the last few weeks. This is not the time to be hard on yourself, overly critical, or judgmental. It is simply an opportunity to get real and evaluate some, perhaps self sabotaging behaviors that have run amok. What are the classic retrograde complications of miscommunication, do-overs, and delays trying to get you to attend to? Utilize the next 12 days of the retrograde cycle to hone your peripheral observation skills. What is being whispered that is positive? How does your frustration shift when you relax your eyes and soften your gaze and see the space around the thing you are looking at. My husband is an artist and talks about the importance of negative space in a composition. That is similar to our peripheral vision. When we stop looking at something directly and take in the surrounding landscape, not only do we see more, but worlds of possibility can open up for us. I have heard it said that our true vision is in the periphery view, just as it is said that god dwells in the space between each breath. Take it on this week as an experiment in attention. Look at the shapes and stuff around a focal point (the negative space), use your softened vision daily, notice what you feel between each inhale and exhale of breath. Discover new practices in expanding your awareness.

Venus and Mercury catch up with the Sun Tuesday almost simultaneously. Mercury, The Messenger, is bringing back important information for our heart-centered awareness. It’s a feel good moment, a reunion of sorts and is certain to open us all up to grace and gratitude – the benefic side of Leo. Venus coming together with the Sun is a most grand kind of heart opening, too. Leo represents the part of our consciousness that works to bring us closer to the truth about emotional love. It is where we must clean and clear our emotional baggage that keeps us overly self-focused, playing small, being hard headed, and needing validation. When we clear these fear-based patterns we can then embody the noble, life-force energy of Leo that we all have within and we emerge as the Love we are rather than seeking the love we think we need. Look for a thread of this theme within and in the world at large.

Monday:

There is a very advanced martial arts principle that a warrior trains to embody, which is about being organized to move in mind, body, and spirit to move in any direction at any time without preparation. Think of the still center-point in the middle of a hurricane. Today starting at 4:21aEDT we will enter a 39.5 hour Moon void of course phase. Think of the most idealized Sensei and be like that as life comes at you from all directions. Imagine you easily divert all impact gracefully. Eris the planet of discord may cause disruptions today, but we will probably benefit from them, so just step to the side and go with the flow.

Tuesday:

The Moon is void in Pisces nearly all day, but Venus conjuncts the Sun, then Mercury, and then Mercury conjuncts the Sun. You may be feeling a little out of it, but a lot of insight is coming your way today. Pay attention! Any and all connections today will likely have meaning that will help you connect the dots with this Mercury cycle.

Wednesday:

After such a long Moon void experience you may be thrilled to feel the get-up-and-go of the Aries Moon. But the day calls for concerted conscientiousness. The Moon squares Mars and the way you direct yourself requires a new strategy – a different take. Mercury squares Sedna, the slowest and outer most object in our solar system (a title Pluto used to hold but Sedna’s discovery tripled the size of our solar system!) Not much is known yet about Sedna astrological impact, but with this aspect we may get the feeling of a huge, distant, and otherworldly presence at play in our lives. Expand to meet it!

Thursday:

The Moon continues to travel through Aries igniting your emotional body. It’s these kinds of days where your impulses and instincts propel you along without the usual hang-ups. Do practice engaging your intuitive vision to avoid overstepping subtle messages from your higher Self. Mars sextiles Jupiter creating opportunity and the constructive progress you have worked towards manifesting all week can take shape.

Friday:

The Moon goes void for under an hour in the morning before moving into Taurus. The practicality and diligence of Taurus helps you get down to business finally today – at the end of the work week. A trine to Pluto in the early evening also indicates rewarding progress. You can start the weekend feeling satisfied.

Saturday:

The Taurus Moon rules again today. Taurus helps you connect with the earth and your internal guidance mechanism. The more you dig your toes into the earth (literally and energetically) the more you may be able to open to higher wisdom. The Sun trines the Galactic Center supporting any desire you have to connect to the higher dimensions. Why not?

Sunday:

It’s an active day and evening with the Moon in Taurus, then Moon goes void for an hour moving into Gemini. The main event however is Venus entering Virgo and opposing Neptune. Relationships and connections may reflect an ideal rather than the truth. With Venus in Virgo you will focus on healing and aligning these things, so authenticity can eventually take over. Again, the day’s dynamic speaks to paying attention and looking with your heart not your eyes or head.

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Britt is available by appointment for Cosmic Astrology influenced natal chart readings or for Cosmic Path of Initiations sessions. All readings happen over the phone or over the Internet using Skype.

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