Feelin the BIG TURNAROUND ENERGY lately? Venus went direct a few days ago, and now Mercury has also stationed direct, in a very intense conjunction to Pluto. Things that felt stalled or uncertain during January are starting to rumble forward now. At the same time, the Sun is conjunct Saturn, highlighting our own limitations and the genuine reasons why we should take our time. It’s a really great time to get perspective on the bigger picture of our lives.
Mercury’s station direct means that the lessons of the retrograde are complete in their raw form, but not necessarily integrated. Because mercury is essentially conjunct Pluto for 2+ weeks in this station, there’s no getting away from a bomb like energy in the psyche. Something big is dying, mentally: the words “let go of what you think you know” couldn’t be more real right now. These next few weeks are like a leap of faith we all have to make, trusting that our own new, healed narratives will be there to catch us.
Although mercury is now in Capricorn with Pluto, it started the retrograde in Aquarius, and its station is pulling on the thread of some Aquarian themes. If you’ve been trying to stretch your imagination beyond the stifling boxes of racial colonial capitalism, leaning into interdependence and community, you’re hearing the Aquarian siren call that is the precursor to Pluto in Aquarius, 2024-2043. We KNOW there is something beyond this manifestation of our world, and the past few weeks of mercury rx might have driven that home for you.
But right now- it’s Saturn that’s in Aquarius, showing us where our limitations are and where we are too loose, where we need create boundaries and structure to manage our lives. These are powerful lessons if we don’t resist them. But sometimes we collapse under Saturn’s leaden weight, and today might be one of those times: the Sun’s conjunction to Saturn is making us particularly vulnerable to self-judgement. We may be fixating on our limitations, feeling like our personal light is being suppressed.
What I believe is: we have to learn the difference between self-judgment, and accurate self-critique from a place of compassion 👇🏻