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Starcodes January 28, 2022 Heather Roan Robbins
Let’s work on our bucket list. Our minds will tend to get morbid this weekend as retrograde Mercury conjuncts Pluto so we might as well use the time constructively. Pluto doesn’t want us to just get depressed but to be fully alive in the face of life’s challenges.
Eventually we will die, so what can we do first? What do we still want to accomplish, see, say, heal, and love in this wild and precious life of ours? That’s what Pluto really pushes us to do. Tend what matters and not to waste our time.
Hints of disaster can, however, hover in the headlights and the headlines; there is an opportunity for some truly momentous wrong moves this week but most hints will raise the specter and disappear in smoke. Mercury and Venus usually conjunct Pluto once a year for a few days, but this winter both do so three times. Mercury conjunct Pluto December 30, retrogrades back over it January 28, turns direct Feb 3rd and conjuncts Pluto again February 11. Venus conjunct Pluto December 1, retrograded back to conjuncts it again December 25, turns direct Jan 30th and conjuncts Pluto again March 3. This direct-retrograde-direct cycle brings up a problem, asks us to work it, and then helps us resolve it.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all now in serious, hardworking Capricorn, which imparts some sanity and encourages us to show and feel love by helping one another in…
