Starcodes September 18, 2020 Heather Roan Robbins

After a few busy, and potentially frustrating last few weeks, the stars now give us an opportunity to build momentum if we can corral our energy and stay on target. Retrograde Mars in feisty Aries adds fuel and keeps the heat simmering under all the major world events, political confrontations, disease, fires in the West, all the joys of 2020, throughout the next few months, but we can also use this fuel to further our work.

It’s important that we talk over all major issues as mental Mercury forms challenging aspects to the three heavy planets, Pluto, Saturn, and Mars this week; we’ll want our words to matter. We need to catch our self if we start to fall into the illusion of hopelessness, or feel so entangled in complexities that we can’t stay on target. Step out of the illusion of hopelessness or frustration and use that mental determination to take a step forward. We also need to consciously take a step back from the entanglements and be gentle in the face of harshness.

Gentleness is what we need and it may not be easy to find. The winds and weather are not gentle, neither are the fires or the headlines, but with Venus now in heart-centered Leo, Mercury in balance-loving Libra, we deeply need some gentleness. We need to know when it is safe enough to feel our feelings. Let’s practice radical acts of kindness, and occasionally take a break from coping to rest and…