Starcodes Sept 24, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Slow down, get centered, and connect with the heart. Anything we do to clear the air, calm ourselves and our surroundings, and dwell in the moment furthers. It’s a wonderful week for meditation and visioning, for listening deeply to the soul. Everything else may take some extra effort.

The planet that symbolizes our thinking, our communication and our transportation, Mercury, is now friendly Libra, dealing with one supportive aspect and one truly trying aspect. A supportive trine to expansive Jupiter encourages us to be optimistic and think big. But Mercury also forms a tough square to intense Pluto and brings up all our oldest issues around whether or not we feel heard, and a tendency to imagine the worst-case scenarios. While this attitude hits the stock market, we don’t have to be so volatile. Mercury turns retrograde on Sunday, as it does three times a year for about three weeks each time, will run back and forward over those aspects twice more by November.

Mercury retrograde is one of the best-known astrological phenomena because it’s so clear and tangible in its results. Technical snafus can pile up, misunderstandings proliferate as our thinking can slow down or get circuitous, though it’s a wonderful time to reconnect, revisit, and restore and catch up on our work. Mercury challenges us most when it appears to hold still as it turns retrograde and then again when…