Year: 2022

“Let the river rock you like a cradle
Climb to the treetops, child, if you’re able
Let your hands tie a knot across the table.
Come and touch the things you cannot feel.

Close your fingertips and fly where I can’t hold you
Let the sun- rain fall and let the dewy clouds enfold you
And maybe you can sing to me the words that I just told you
If all the things you feel ain’t what they seem.
Then don’t mind me ’cause I ain’t nothin’ but a dream.” Jerry Merrick

“Strength needs to be redefined not as power-over but as power with.” Matthew Fox

Mercury , the mercurial god of commerce and communication is now opposing Neptune, the planet of dreams and illusions. This can make linear thinking  and communications a bit  cloudy. Best to double check the details. It does provide an excellent time for creative work, meditation and spiritual studies. This will be an influence through the 22nd or so.

Mars is preparing to enter the busy sign of Gemini on the 21st. Mars has a retrograde transit every two years and will station retrograde at 25 degrees of Gemini on 10/30/22 and retrograde down to 8 degrees Gemini where it will station direct on January 12, 2023.

This transit will provide good timing to look at our use of personal power and to carve a better path forward if desired.

One of the Sabian symbols for this time is,”A prophet bringing down a new law from the mountain.”

“The Moon is a symbol for psychic energy or for the unconscious that holds the secrets of knowledge and wisdom. The wolf baying at the Moon  can symbolize the desire to connect with new ideas which are just below the  surface of consciousness.” Sams and Carson

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing  model obsolete.”  Buckminster Fuller

The week gets off to an interesting start after last week’s powerful Full Moon in Aquarius.  There is a saying in astrology that much can be revealed or come to light under the influence of the Full Moon and last week’s Moon was a good example of that.

This week starts off with a  harmonious alignment of Mercury with the Lunar Nodes.  With the planet of thought and communication trining the North Node, it bodes well to heed any information that surfaces that  clarifies your path towards the future. With Mercury in Virgo the information may reveal small steps  or provide a better framework through which to view your way forward.

At the same time Mercury is harmoniously aligning with Uranus – this indicates a good time to seek innovative solutions. It’s an alignment of brilliance in thinking – with ahead of its times ideas.

The Sun in Leo is moving up to a quincunx with Neptune this week exact on  Wednesday. The quincunx signals the need for adjustment and with these two signs, indicates a good time to make sure pragmatics are in the mix.

Venus  in Leo will be trining Jupiter this week exact on Thursday. Jupiter brings expansiveness and abundance to whatever he touches. This can open the door to new opportunities. It provides a good time to be out and about socializing and meeting new people.

Mercury will also be forming a quincunx to Saturn – exact later this week. This can indicate the need for attention to boundaries around thinking as things can seem more worrisome or worse than they are. Keeping a balanced perspective in mind this week will prove to be helpful.

One of the Sabian symbols for this time is,”A  teacher gives new symbolic forms to traditional images.”

Sabian symbol from Lynda Hill