It’s all about close relationships and you being tolerant and patient with the most self-absorbed nutcases – it feels like! – most notably siblings, cousins, old pals, and would be neighbors. Shared resources and finances beg to be overhauled when Mercury is retrograde July 18 to August 11, and it behooves you to give discussions time, and play the peacemaker. As much as you love to travel, stay in town for this. Partners both in love and in business, as well as certain contracts require this. You are needed.
And this means review time as well. Going over old ground, forgiveness, and making up. This will be important to you long term and to your soul, although you may feel too hurt or proud at this moment to even consider it.
You might also explode and totally blow it, so be careful. Would it kill you to admit you may have made an error? To err is human, you know. To forgive, divine. So, no, it wouldn’t kill you.
Retrograde is all about going backwards, right? Going over stuff from the past. Over and over. Re-examining. Every step, every action. Rewind the video of your life. Over and over. What really happened. Rewind as many times as you need. You must catch every detail. Can’t miss, nor skip, a beat.
What you’ve done. What you can do better. How you can make your life better.
Backwards means past, so old lovers, spouses, exes appear in your life now.
With your important friendships you must be meticulous. No short cuts. Saturn, AKA Father TIME, hates short cuts!! So give it TIME. Do it right. That’s it.
I’m such a psychic nag…but seriously, you will be SO glad you did this. The most positive part of this is that you name the friends with whom you feel most comfortable. Those you can really be yourself with. Your true self. Putting on a show, or trying to keep up with the Whomevers, is so deeply exhausting, isn’t it? This is true freedom. And it’s priceless. Can’t be bought.
Work-wise, brilliant new deals are ahead and a fork in the road presents itself. Complete clarity is not yours until September begins so best to concentrate on what must be done before that time.
Also on the loves you do have in your life, for you are adored!
In your seventh marriage house you have:
Awesome, life-giving Sun
Brilliant thought and word planet Mercury (in retrograde July 18 to August 11)
A generous new Leo Moon on Thursday, July 24
And your seventh house, traditionally ruled by partnership-oriented Libra, covers these areas of your life:
Marriage
Love and work partnerships
Soul mates
Business partners
Best friends and peers
Professional joint partnerships
Contracts
All collaborations
Relating and relationships
Bitter enemies in the open
Art and beauty
Co-operation
Discussions, debates
The conflicts come in the actual communications because you have 5 planets in retrograde, or going into retrograde, in your third communications house: Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, and the asteroids Chiron and Ceres.
Remember, Icarus was punished by the gods for hubris, for flying too close to the sun. The fire of the sun melted his false wax wings, and he fell from the sky. Just as a certain Gemini politician’s hubris will cause him to fall. What better illustration than looking defiantly at the sun during its sacred union with the moon? The reality – his blindness – will be glaring. And just as sometimes you are accused of being proud or aloof when it comes to old friendships…
This will be a time of reckoning for those who have allowed pride and greed to take over to the extent that they are no longer healthy. Forcing the eyes open is a painful surgery! So don’t be surprised if, prior to your deeper vision, you are in agony.
The planet of reckoning is wise Saturn, which rules Capricorn, which rules foundations.
As the sun’s power is eclipsed, the moon’s power brightens. Revealing unconscious drives, the inner movement of the world, the energy of the water on the earth: All that is ruled by the moon.
A fascinating point about the moon: It rules need.
When does need become greed, and when does addiction take over?
When does addiction become so powerful that other beings are disregarded?
When does a sociopathic disorder begin?
For the world, this will be overwhelmingly positive. After much doublespeak, the truth – no matter what it reveals – will be a great relief. August’s last week will be an eye-opener, in every sense of the word.
Every country has its secrets, but the two most highlighted during this time will be America (higher ups coming off their pedestals) and to a lesser extent Britain (the royal family.)
Shocks keep coming into your love life – when will this ever stop? – and I advise you to stay away from risque love affairs for now. Also this month would be an excellent month to patch up old friendships which you may have neglected recently.
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In the mute August afternoon
They trembled to some undertone
Of music in the silver air; Great pleasure was it to be there
Till green turned duskier and the moon
Coloured the corn-sheaves like gold hair. — August by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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