Mercury Moves Direct

A few sneak previews: Venus is heading toward a conjunction with Pluto, and the Sun is heading toward a conjunction with Mars. Both transits we’ll be keeping our eye on in the upcoming week or two.

Here’s what to watch for today and moving forward:

* A serious, concerted, timely effort (Moon in Virgo sextile Mars)
* Feeling motivated to clean or cleanse (Moon in Virgo sextile Mars)
* A helpful intervention for the sake of healing, cleaning, organizing, or accomplishing something (Moon sextile Mars)
* Expulsion or removing something that takes effort but it’s done quickly and effectively (Moon in Virgo sextile Mars)
* Devoting time and energy or time and resources to accomplishing something that isn’t fun but needs to be done (Moon in Virgo sextile Mars)
* Intense or hostile communication dynamics (Mercury/Pluto)
* Death, difficulty, explosions, setbacks related to technology, travel, and communication of all kinds (Mercury/Pluto)
* Healing, release, catharsis, through powerful insights and revelations (Mercury/Pluto)
* Speaking the truth, having it out, argumentation that exposes shadows or repressed material, transforms, burns, reforms (Mercury/Pluto)
* Ideological tension within groups building (Sun in Aquarius moving into a square with Mars in Scorpio)
* Standoffs between groups or different ways of thinking (Sun/Mars)
* The death of an important figure within a large community (Sun in Aquarius square Mars in Scorpio)
* Injury to someone or something brilliant (Sun/Mars)
* Sexual healing or catharsis (Venus/Pluto conj)
* Romantic love that burns, consumes, obsesses, transforms (Venus/Pluto)
* The dark side of the goddess (Venus/Pluto)
* The beauty of the underworld (Venus/Pluto)
* Sexual drama, hostility, crime (Venus/Pluto)

Remember that as Mercury turns direct, it’s like a sick person coming out of a fever. Mercury is slowly but surely regaining his ability to do things a little more easily or smoothly. Another way of putting it might be that Mercury turning direct is like a person coming out of an altered state or a deep healing ceremony of some kind. The integration begins! Watch for insights and recent communication issues to start rapidly resolving themselves as Mercury crosses Pluto one last time.