Starcodes Oct 1, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

This week may not go quite as planned. We can feel the best and worst of moods, experience lovely moments of flow and patches of great technical difficulty as Mercury, symbolic arbiter of how we communicate, think, and transport, retrogrades, squares difficult Pluto and trines hopeful Jupiter.

Mercury square Pluto has us look at the worst-case scenarios. Mercury trine Jupiter can help us see our situation from a larger perspective and optimistically free ourselves from old patterns. The truth of our situation may lie between these two extremes. Those conflicting aspects can neutralize each other and leave us just puttering along. But many of us may need to face a challenge with the potential for a major or minor liberating breakthrough. But many of us will have an interesting challenge to deal with, haunted memories or personal doubts resurface with the potential for liberating breakthrough, or some agenda outside our usual mundane routine to wrangle. We may need to work with patience through discouragement and technical snafus to think bigger and find the path forward.

This challenge may have begun about two weeks ago and will run through ups and downs as we work it out now through the end of October. Mercury formed these aspects before it turned retrograde last weekend, now Mercury retrogrades back to hit these again this week, and then Mercury turns direct on October 18…