Starcodes by Heather Roan Robbins

Fight with a sense of humor, fight for a cause we believe in, fight against the soggy fields or dysfunctional basement, or the economic upheaval; just don’t waste time, energy and nerve-endings fight each other with mental Mercury retrograde in stubborn, earthy Taurus and Venus and Mars in feisty Aries. No matter how tempting or how high the stress levels, it pays to direct this fire carefully and constructively. Philosophical differences combine with soul fire and cheerful stubbornness; we can enjoy the debate, but just don’t expect it to get anywhere.

Mercury retrograde in Taurus is not a time of quick thinking or lightening fast reflexes; we plod, we garden, we reminisce with ease, but forget what we’re just doing. If we hurry, we may botch things up. Speak too fast and be misunderstood. Mercury in Taurus is turtle-like, slow and steady.

This would be easier if the emotional engines of Venus and Mars weren’t now in fiery Aries, shortening our attention span and our fuse. Aries gives us that now-or-never feeling, an urgency that wants action now and adds fire to any emotional direction. Our moods can be like a California forest fire, taking off with a spark and a puff of wind. Too bad our thoughts can’t quite keep up at the moment. These Aries planets can also make it harder for some of us to rest and sleep, just when Mercury in Taurus would like a nice long nap.

With this Venus and Mars we’ll tend to react to any emotional slight with a burst of independence, just as Mercury retrograde can make those slight proliferate accidentally. So let’s make sure we heard what we thought we did, before we pack our boxes and move across country.

Underneath this week’s personal paradox we may begin to see a hopeful shift on the world screen. Saturn, the planet of structure, authority and the working world, which has been retrograde since Jan 1, now turns direct. Saturn has retrograded back to where it was last October before the election. We have been deconstructing old methods of business and old systems of governing since it began its retrograde cycle, and as it opposed Uranus twice. As Saturn turns direct, we may feel some even deeper economic earthquakes, then begin to rebuild. This will be more noticeable after Mercury turns direct on May 30, and we have another few years’ rollercoaster as we adjust and refine the process, but this marks the astrological beginning of the upswing.

The week one day at a time continues: http://www.roanrobbins.com/starcodes/stathswk/thwkfmst.htm

I really like to start my new week with her starcodes.

I'm glad that I've gotten her warnings ahead of time.

:)