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by Stephanie Azaria

Significant Planetary Aspects for:

You know how a big event can stay with you for days afterwards? You find yourself returning to certain conversations and actions and running them through your mind again and again. People who were part of it talk about who did what to whom, fill in the details for each other and pick them apart to make sense of (or prolong) the event. Sometimes you even ask yourself, “Did I really do that? Did I really say that?”

Watch for all of that this week. We’re in morning-after mode. All of last week’s developments — and some of them are huge — are sinking in. We’ll be thinking about them, talking about them, chewing on and analyzing them, then wondering what to do with it all. We’ll be seeing and understanding more as their ramifications and the fine print continue coming to light, too.

Think of it as a week to regroup and start to wrap our brains around where we are now. The skies are finally affording that luxury. The intensity of the cardinal t-square is fading for a bit, thank goodness, and giving us all some breathing room. The last two weeks, last one especially, brought some major, life-changing and long-simmering line-drawing and realigning. Significant shifts have occurred in the subsurface of all relationships, and likely some of the surface arrangements are quite different as well. You’ve come to your own bottom line in some way, and that clarity has pushed people into cutting their losses, demanding their due and terminating partnerships that have terms they can no longer abide. I saw a number of business divorces and suspect that an epidemic of marital ones is on the way in New York State, which finally joined the rest of the country and adopted no-fault divorce, on the day of the most recent Jupiter/Saturn opposition.

Keep in mind that every surface change — every ultimatum, every termination, every ground-rule revision and every newly forged union, too — is most important for what it reflects below the surface. No matter whether you can point to a special relationship moment last Friday, when Venus and Mars united in Libra, don’t you feel like you’ve reached a new state of inner peace between your active and receptive sides? Less at war with yourself? Each one of us has been developing a new rule book for interacting with the people in our lives and a new sense of inner balance and harmony. Now, it may certainly be that some of our outer circumstances aren’t yet as tidy and aligned as we would like them to be. Probably they could stand some tidying up. Incentive for that abounds.

Mercury, ruler of communication and movement, has lots of important activity this week. He takes charge of the Sun when that luminary moves into Virgo on Monday. The will portion of our masculine nature fused with the heart on Friday, with the Venus/Mars conjunction. Now two other aspects of our masculine nature are lining up with each other, our mind and our mission. Keen analytical abilities are at our disposal, ready to do our heart’s bidding. The trick is to use them for to discern and improve and not to criticize or belittle simply because you see a shortcoming. In fact, when you do see room for improvement, don’t stop with that; get to work and do what you can to better the situation. Your brain is not necessarily responsible for the fix, by the way. Let your heart take the lead and see (a) how your attitude about the perceived shortcoming and (b) where your heart takes you.

Your heart has information for your mind, too. That comes out of the darkness and into full view once the Virgo Sun opposes the Moon in Pisces Tuesday afternoon. The Pisces Full Moon is giving us some distance on the mergings and separatings that have happened lately. It takes us out of the thick of the action and offers a fuller view of what’s been transpiring. We have the possibility of perceiving, perhaps even feeling, the other person’s experience. We also have the possibility of seeing where or how we have taken on someone else’s business, responsibilities, emotions or energy and where it would be healthy to build some fences. Most of all, this Full Moon offers the paradox of fully immersing ourselves in the emotions these recent developments have stirred in us, while at the same time becoming aware of them and observing them.

It’s not an entirely comfortable experience, mildly disorienting at a minimum. Part of the edginess comes from tension between the Full Moon and Venus and Mars. We’re not yet ready to settle automatically and unthinkingly into the new constructs that are coming out of the archetypal lovers’ latest meeting. We are not yet to loose awareness of what’s happening. There’s a slightly out-of-phase shakiness within us, which prevents us from either sleepwalking or taking anything for granted at the moment. For more on the Full Moon, read the report on the site.

Keep your mind appropriately engaged — not steering, not controlling, but simply observing — and by midweek some of that shakiness will subside. As Mercury makes growth aspects to Venus and Mars, Wednesday and Thursday, pay attention to what you hear, learn and think. Data is available to you about your new rule book. It could come through conversations or messages. It could come from your mind finishing chewing on last week’s experiences and spitting out an insight or realization. You may also convey a message or a concept to another person in a way that’s different from your previous methods. We’ve changed on the inside. Our outer alliances have shifted to reflect that new harmony. How we communicate with each other is now reflecting that, too. So follow your heart’s impulses. Be bold. Speak your truth; speak your heart.

And through all this, Mercury is not only retrograde, but also barely beginning to move. Nothing needs to happen quickly. Nothing is written in stone yet. We have plenty of time to mull, to chew, to think and to observe the aftermath of last week’s events, and everything that comes up under this Full Moon. As Mercury inches his way back through Virgo. U-turns and comes this way again, more information about all of them will surface, and we’ll have ample opportunity to revisit the issues, dynamics and people that are in focus now.

Monday: The long morning-after begins. The world is a very different place than it was even a week ago. Look around you and take in your circumstances. Some of them haven’t completely settled in; some are going to require getting used to. The Sun enters Virgo and has a minor dust-up with Mars. The Moon isn’t too comfortable with her post-dawn contacts, either. If you don’t feel quite comfortable in your skin, you are right on target. There are no major aspects after 12;21 PM EDT and none at all after 4:43. Don’t block or medicate or rationalize your reactions. Just sit with them. They have info for you. Put pen and paper by your bedside; dreams are going to be sweet.

Tuesday: If you remember your dreams, write them down. The script came straight from your new relationship rule book. Your co-stars may be as important to you in the waking world as they are in last night’s dreams, or they may be representatives of the new relationship dynamics you’re employing. If you don’t remember your dreams, simply take note of how you feel. Your heart is open, calm and settled, isn’t it? Ride those feelings into the day’s main event, the Pisces Full Moon, just after 1 PM EDT. Your heart knows that you are not alone, even if your head tells you that you are (or that you want to be). Let your heart lead you through everything that’s surfacing. Take it all in and be with it, for now. Your mind will have weeks to sort it all out.

Wednesday: The first returns come in of what your mind is making of everything that’s been happening. Mercury hits a growth aspect with Venus (relationships, finances, desires) and joins Saturn by declination. You know what you have, want and value, and you’re willing to commit. If you doubt whether that is going on, look for clues in your conversations, from the topics to the people involved. You’ll see themes. More are coming in tonight’s dreams, so put pen and paper by the bed again.

Thursday: Processing and assimilation are well underway. They’re all over your dreams; write them down or notice the fragments that bubble up as the day begins. The overnight hours usher in a new depth and comfort level in personal empowerment. Personal responsibility is locking in, too. Your heart and mind are in agreement with both developments, though your heart moves from this common agenda to taking a hit from a lightning bolt or two. If none of this is immediately apparent, simply take stock of your emotional state in the first few hours of your day. The nighttime activity reverberates quietly, without interruption, throughout the morning, which has no aspects at all. Your actions later in the day show that you’re catching on and walking your talk (or at least your thoughts), when Mercury makes a growth aspect to Mars, while the Sun does the same with Saturn. Take note of how much has shifted and solidified by the end of the day. You’ve settled in enough to embrace spontaneity and a shakeup in your plans. Just don’t toss that pen and paper near the bed.

Friday: Two-thirds of the day’s aspects occur by 7 AM EDT. What happened in your dreams? If you don’t consider that question any other morning this week, ask it today. Your dreams pulled you out of the middle of your current sagas and gave you an alternative perspective. Likely there’s a startling message, and you may have seen an important person in a different light. You awaken changed in some way; think about why. The remainder of the day gives a few pointers back to this question. They occur every time you realize that a thought or encounter doesn’t feel comfortable or right.

Saturday: It’s another day of few aspects, none of which are comfy-cozy. Yesterday the dreamworld brought a new vantage point. Today a few come while you’re awake. Be an observer to your own actions, motivations and angry impulses. Monitor your reaction to the same coming from other people, but remember that you do not have to engage with any of it. People are just plain at cross purposes today, and no one can force anyone to agree to their agenda. In fact, forcing will simply increase the interpersonal static. Whatever may happen later in the day, look at it as giving a different perspective on a relationship, a person or a situation you’ve valued.

Sunday: The overnight bring a burst of adventure and excitement as Jupiter meets Uranus by declination. The impact may jolt you into consciousness, but it doesn’t matter whether you physically wake up. You’ll do it on some level. See if you don’t feel in the morning as if you’ve stepped out of chains or into a looser, bigger, broader view of what’s possible in your life. Embrace that view and allow it to widen even more. Take the untried route. Be generous where you don’t have to be. Being your own person, standing in your power and taking care of yourself do not have to have any detrimental effect at all on anyone else (unless they choose to interpret it that way, in which case it is not your business, or your problem, either).

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