As you might expect, MERCURY RETROGRADE is responsible for what’s going on this week. And there’s a fairly significant whiplash that’s happening as it transitions to direct motion. On Monday, MERCURY RETROGRADE is aligned in two different ways — with the sun and Jupiter (misrule, failures of protection, lightning strikes) and with the moon and earth (general disarray, bad luck). However, as bad as things are going to be, that’s MERCURY RETROGRADE’s last gasp of this cycle. By Thursday, the skies look completely different. Those alignments have broken up and the new state of Aries is optimal for releasing some of that pent-up frustration. Things look pretty darn good to close out the week, unless you’re planning on running a shooting match over the weekend. Le sigh.



Taurus: The Fool – Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.

Gemini: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.

Cancer: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.

Leo: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, clouded joy.

Virgo: The Hierophant reversed – Society, good understanding, concord, overkindness, weakness.

Libra: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.

Scorpio: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

Sagittarius: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy.

Capricorn: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, sadness, heartbreak.

Aquarius: 6 of Coins – Presents, gifts, gratification, attention, vigilance.

Pisces: Knight of Swords – kill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.

Aries: Temperance reversed – Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.