Starcodes October 9, 2020 Heather Roan Robbins

Batten down the hatches, stay cool, calm. and collected. Be ready to tie yourself to the mast if the storm picks up. This is a tricky week which just may be mildly irritating for some energizing for others, but could bring some real snafus.

Mercury, arbiter of communication, thinking process, technology transportation, all the modern attributes, is now in Mars-ruled Scorpio, where it imparts investigative brilliance and leaves us private, but suspicious and with our stinger always ready. This Mercury now opposes erratic Uranus which both electrifies our thinking and makes us more obsessive, ingenious, able to stay up all night and work on a project. But also making us a little twitchy, and for some can bring out real paranoia. Mercury is slowing down to turn retrograde on Tuesday, and so all things mercurial may get glitchy. Like thinking. Deal with difficult paperwork now. We could have very little patience this week unless we consciously make it a practice.

Mercury in a Mars ruled sign (Scorpio), gives Mars extra influence on it. Mars is now retrograde and very strong in its own sign of Aries where it’s residing into the new year, and so adds its own piquant impatient temper to that Mercury. This…