Starcodes August 30, 2024

Labor Day weekend is the Virgo holiday where we acknowledge and respect hard work by taking time off and enjoying the summer’s last hurrah, and maybe do some work for ourselves. Virgo is industrious and encourages us to notice what needs fixing.

Mercury just turned direct last Wednesday after three weeks retrograde, the confusing and delay-filled mercurial dust will begin to clear over the weekend and clear room for us to launch forward next week.

Retrograde planets appear to back up against the zodiac because of the differences between their orbit and ours, they symbolically send us back to review. Mercury just turned direct after three weeks retrograde, so the confusing mercurial dust will begin to clear over the weekend and clear room for us to launch next week. But not quite yet; be patient through this weekend, work around the flotsam, drive safely, and look for strange stories as people change their minds or new information surface.

Mercury direct does not mean all is calm and clear. Over the next week Uranus, the planet of change and chaos, retrogrades and joins Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto, all still retrograde. Pluto backs out of Aquarius and into Capricorn (Pluto turns direct mid- October and returns to Aquarius for the next few decades at the end of November). All these patterns remind us both- there’s a breath of fresh air coming into our…