Starcodes August 13, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

This week we learn just how many of our plans are now in flux as Uranus turns retrograde and the Perseids meteors showers down. We may feel thrown back to some old systems, have to adapt on the fly to changing circumstances, or find out changes we thought were about to fall into place are not ready. While the new phases may work for us eventually, we cannot run on autopilot this fall. We need to keep all plans loose and mobile and regularly check all the variables through into the new year.

Saturn squares Uranus three times this year, and the final one isn’t until December; this aspect shifts tectonic plates and changes the cultural and work landscape. While these tremors can bring us to a better, more evolved and adaptable place in the long run, we need patience and presence. And this week a series of minor but uncomfortable aspects keep us guessing, but these challenges can stretch us into more competence than we ever knew we had.

The Perseid meteors peak this week, they shower down every summer from the end of July through the end of August and have for the last few thousand years. This shower has appeared to pour out of the constellation Perseus for thousands of years, remnants of a comet’s tail which circles the Sun, then heads out around Neptune every 133 years. Our planet receives material from the far reaches of our solar system, which we can take as a symbol…