turns direct

Starcodes February 19, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

If we find ourselves just walking around in circle, forgetting what we were about to do, let’s just laugh and enjoy the journey. Expect strange rhythms, odd delays, and swirling misunderstandings as Mercury appears to hold still this weekend, often the most difficult time of a Mercury retrograde cycle. It’s a tricky time to coordinate recovery in a frozen southern state with a fractured infrastructure, Mercury likes to move — and would rather move backwards than hold still. Then feel the kinks iron out and plans begin to manifest as Mercury turns direct and moves forward through the week ahead.

While this change is occurring this weekend, we need to pay attention to our relationships and really treat them with extra kindness and care. The two emotional planets, Venus and Mars, square off in rather stubborn fixed signs and can and an extra layer to generalized communications and transportation issues, and make it challenging to come to an agreement. It’s a wonderful weekend to be quiet, to sit still, enjoying a good book, meander, or talk about things with no particular direction. Anything else may take extra patience and fortitude.

This is a year of deep, quiet, major shifts as foundational Saturn squares change-inducing Uranus. The tectonic plates of our existence, our foundations, security, electric sources, and…