Mercury, empowered in its home sign of Virgo, opposes mysterious and idyllic Neptune (who is still traveling backward through Pisces) for a few days this week. An opposition is like two kids on a seesaw that try to both be off the ground at the same time, but inevitably if one is up, the other is down. With these two planets things can feel a bit frazzled, a bit murky, a bit all over the place. Mercury– the messenger, the merchant, the mathematician, the magician, the psychopomp, the trickster– is excitedly dialing in all of the details available in preparation for whatever possible thing may come next, while Neptune– the spiritual drive, the utopian dream, the seeker of saviors– in its retrograde state is reminding us that it’s not always advisable to believe everything that we think. Neptune’s “dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep”. It can be very unconscious. There is a lot of beauty and purity of heart in that. However, this particular retrograde agenda is giving us an opportunity to check in on our most unbounded desires, the ones that we keep close to the chest but somehow seem to permeate every action we act and every thought we think. Mercury sees this from all the way across the zodiac and wants to talk about it. Mercury believes itself an objective witness from its 180 degree vantage point. Mercury wants to tell Neptune its business. We may see:
- Vivid dreams, dream interpretation
- Tuning in with precision to different planes of existence, premonitions, psychism
- Observing someone going through a difficult time mentally or being observed by someone while going through a difficult time mentally oneself
- Rationalizing very heartfelt and tender beliefs or aspirations
- Mixed-up or muddled meanings, confusion, misunderstandings, dishonesty
- Writing or speaking about ideals, utopia, the collective energetic state
- Holding people accountable to their words or being held accountable to one’s words by others
- Believing oneself to be an objective witness though we all see through the lens of our own experience
- Calling people out for unrealistic beliefs and ideas about the world or being called out for one’s own unrealistic beliefs and ideas
- Fantasizing or daydreaming about travel
These are overarching themes. If you know what your rising sign is, you can easily figure out what houses the planets are moving through in your chart and what relevance that has. Here is some information on how to determine house placements and what they mean: House Placements and Meanings.
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