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This is a busy week in the Gemini sign! Mars is already in early Gemini, and Mercury in his home sign, Gemini, will retrograde this week. The Moon also saunters through Gemini for a few days and very importantly, Sun enters Gemini at the end of the week. Potentially productive activities this week include use of assertive communication, actively networking, and ambitiously gathering information. Mercury’s retrograde quality is nothing to be feared! He is saying a second or third effort might be worth the trouble, and even return a more favorable result than success on the first try.

The struggle between Mercury and Neptune, both in their home signs, continues this week. Mars’ drive, ambition, and will acts with Mercury’s logic and thought, and both are in tension with the planet of inspiration and imagination. Mercury additionally takes on some of the qualities of nearby Mars, as Mercury is a neutral planet. Thus a lot of willful energy for socializing and step-by-step problem solving is available. Neptune’s better qualities (creativity, for example) can be part of the Mercury-Mars theme, given the effort. Be wary of misunderstandings and expending energy in vain, however!

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So much chatter about the full Moon in Scorpio on May Fourth! Moon will just miss a conjunction to Poseidon as she goes completely full. A nice trine to Neptune and square to Jupiter give plenty of spiritual potential to the intense full Moon in Pluto’s sign. Perhaps Poseidon’s enlightenment and wisdom also acts in unity with the Moon a bit as well. Fierce determination in expanding into a new role regarding one’s own personal power and unconscious perspectives welling to the surface to be used to realize sharp insights are just a few of the possibilities at mid-week with the Scorpio full Moon. Planetary aspects suggest using the energy to “expand spirituality”. Definitely a potentially creative and uplifting energy, from the most intense part of the zodiac.

The quick, mischievous Mercury, in his home sign Gemini, starts to wrestle with Neptune, also at home in Pisces. The diffuse, transcendent Neptune in tension with Mercury’s love of information and socializing can be reconciled into many productive uses. Given the effort, consider themes such as “creative networking”, “imaginative thought”, and inspiration via siblings or those close enough to be considered siblings.

What might this week portend for you? Consider your Sun sign and rising sign/ascendant as well.

Sun enters Venus’ sign this year in a powerful manner. Looking at the ingress chart, Mercury (thought and communication) and Venus (cooperation and collaboration) are in mutual reception, in other words, in each other’s signs. Both aspect Neptune (creativity, imagination, the ideal) in his home sign, Pisces. Concrete communication meets with intellectual collaboration, with a spiritual element mixed with the two. Sun in Taurus signifies concentrating energy (the modality of Taurus is fixed), suggesting heightened endurance and a focus on the material that can be implemented to help complete projects. Mars is a bit out of place in the Taurus sign, but he is still Mars; the qualities of Taurus that fit Venus well are not overly suitable for Mars, but, he forms a nice aspect with his overlord’s (Pluto’s), linking energy to power. Neptune is also an overtone of Venus, and the ingress shows nice opportunities at the beginning of the month with energy and power in harmony; and given the work and effort, cooperating with individuals might lead to merging with a greater collective.

Mercury and Venus might also be in mutual reception towards the middle of the zodiacal year (Sun must be between Leo and Sagittarius, inclusive) when Mercury is in Libra and Venus is in Virgo. The advantage of planets in mutual reception is that they are always “bouncing off” of each other. Therefore, expect an emphasis on being social, people looking sharp, and exchanging more detailed information and intellectual type discussions than usual with Mercury-Venus. Mars-Pluto and Venus-Neptune create additional opportunities for relating to others and using energy and developing perspectives and personal power. Many variations and subthemes in the heavens this month.

Let’s see what the transits might portend…

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Transiting Sun continues to move through Aries this week and he edges rather close to the end of the first sign of the zodiac by the week’s end. Meanwhile, both Mercury and Venus change signs, in the midst of several long-standing themes among the slower moving planets. Opportunities abound! Venus in Gemini, Mercury’s sign, suggests a new emphasis on social networking (not necessarily limited to the internet), and Mercury in Taurus – Venus’ sign – is persistent and grounded, a solid basis for using logic and communicating. Mercury and Venus in each other’s signs create strong “cooperative commerce” and “collaborative networking” type themes this week.

Jupiter and Saturn’s trine in fire signs is slowly crawling to an end, but the “controlled expansion” theme and Saturn and Neptune’s “making dreams into a reality” through difficult work makes Saturn a popular planet this week and complements the Mercury-Venus theme well.

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We will experience Mars leaving his dominion, Aries, this week, and Vesta enters Pisces as well, creating an even greater lack of representation of the air element in the heavens. Mercury enters the Aries sign just before Mars egresses. Lack of air doesn’t necessarily imply lack of thought. Sun in exaltation draws closer to the genius of the zodiac, Uranus, and Mercury hints at a conjunction with his tutor, Uranus, by the end of the week. Feisty debates, active communication, and insights gained through actively seeking answers are all more dominant themes this week with Mercury and Uranus together in Mars’ sign.

Jupiter and Saturn still aspect in the other fire signs, continuing the “controlled expansion” theme this week. Jupiter and Saturn form fiery grand trines with Sun and Mercury, indicating ample energy for initiating projects and being an active participant in various areas of life.