Starcodes Sept 9, 2022

Every year the Sun in Virgo encourages us to get healthy before the winter. Virgo encourages us to look at how we eat, tend our digestion. Let’s contemplate what we need to release and what to nurture for our health and the health of our ecosystem before the winter begins.

In this most mercurial season, with the Sun and Venus in Mercury-ruled Virgo and Mars in Mercury-ruled Gemini, Mercury turns retrograde tonight- Friday- for the next three weeks. Mercury is the symbolic ruler of our mental switchboard, out communication systems, and all transportation, so life may get strange for a while. But we can make this retrograde cycle work for us if we mobilize basic Mercury retrograde skills.

Let this be a month of review. Whether we are beginning a new semester, revising an old script, or thinking about the long story of the English throne. Assess the situation, prepare, and get ready to kick a new chapter into gear by mid-October.

Retrograde planets appear to back up against the zodiac as an artifact of the difference between our orbit and other orbiting planets. Mercury is the planet of movement, so all things mercurial are most uncomfortable when Mercury appears to hold still for a few days at the beginning and end of its retrograde cycle.

Keep schedules loose enough to accommodate delays, put safety first, and always carry a…