Please secure your safety harness – make sure you have pulled it all the way down until you hear the click. Please make sure your hands stay inside the car at all times…
Yes, the rollercoaster ride is about to begin.
If you felt like you’ve already been on one for the last few weeks…well…those were the kiddie rides. Mercury and Saturn conjunct exactly in Libra early tomorrow morning (Friday, October 5th at 2:44a PDT), giving you a chance to catch your breath and be present to where you are and where matters in your life stand right now, especially in regard to your relationships and partnerships of any and all kinds. Things should be pretty clear now, and you likely see how everything that has been happening is coming together or has come together to this point. Get a good look…
…because Mercury and Saturn will then move separately (but still very closely) into Scorpio within 10 hours of each other (Mercury at 3:35a, Saturn at 1:34p PDT). As they move into Scorpio, be ready for some major changes. This is bound to be a notable beginning for quite a transformational ride.
The word transformation gets tossed around a lot these days, so let me clarify something about it. Transformation is not just change – it’s more like a death of what you know to be and its rebirth as something completely different. Some things in your life are about to become, in some ways, completely unrecognizable to you.
Under Mercury in Scorpio’s influence, our ideas, thoughts, and communications have the opportunity to undergo a complete metamorphosis. Mercury thinks fast and talks fast. In Scorpio, it does both with an all-or-nothing mindset and with intense emotional energy as the basis for all that is thought and communicated. Scorpio deals in polarities and extremes. There’s no gray area here, only black-or-white. So with Mercury in Scorpio, there’s likely to be some extreme decision-making in the next few weeks, and you’ll probably want to or be pushed to make those decisions quickly and furiously with powerful intention and emotional intensity.
But before you get all worried about what emotionally impulsive decisions you may be about to make, remember that Saturn is also moving into Scorpio. Saturn is disciplined and very cautious. In Scorpio, it will be very aware of each side of the polarity, but it’s probably going to be very hesitant to jump into one extreme or the other along with Mercury. In fact, Saturn may curb Mercury’s enthusiasm…or at least give it some much-needed pause for consideration of the choices at hand.
However, don’t mistake Saturn’s caution for restriction or oppression in this placement. Though Mercury’s impulses may be delayed by Saturn’s firm hand of discipline, once your choices are made they will be explicitly clear and powerfully firm. Your mind will be made up, and there won’t be any looking back.
This is because Saturn in Scorpio will be in “mutual reception” with Pluto in Capricorn. Saturn is the natural ruler of Capricorn, while Pluto is the natural ruler of Scorpio, so the planets are essentially traveling in each other’s signs. This is an especially strong and influential bond of placement because this means that the decisions that are made will be very transformative, and the transformations will create new structures for your life and have very long-term effects.
If you are making choices in alignment with your goals and ambitions (especially profession and career decisions), you may find that things happen to move them forward with remarkable speed and ease. Your choices are also likely to have a remarkable stability and structure to them and feel very solid and binding…and they probably will be.
If you are making choices that are not in alignment with your goals and ambitions, you may find that you experience significant delays and/or setbacks. Your choices to move forward will seem blocked, deterred, or outright denied. Consider that these obstacles may be occurring to give you a chance to change course before you’re locked into a frustrating or unsatisfying path.
Those plans I’ve been telling you about over the last few months? Now is when you get to start implementing those plans by clearing out the old to make way for the new. And this clearing isn’t just thinking or talking – it’s doing. This is the beginning of the phase you’ve been planning for. And once you start the demolition process, there’s no going back.
Under Saturn in Scorpio’s influence, our authority figures, structures and infrastructures of all kinds (especially career and businesses), and control mechanisms (personal and professional, individually and collectively) are all about to transform profoundly. What we’ve known will gradually be cleared away for something very new and very different to come into their places.
Mars will also be in Scorpio for about 37 hours after Mercury and Scorpio enter the sign. This should make Friday and most of Saturday very interesting days as the general initiative to action will also be pretty intense and powerful and lend itself to extremes. Then Mars moves into Sagittarius at 8:21p PDT on Saturday the 6th, acting upon and learning from the experiences and adventures your choices bring forth (more about that in the next post).
Mercury will be in Scorpio until October 28th. It will then move into Sagittarius briefly, but then goes retrograde from November 6th through November 26th, dipping its toes back into Scorpio from November 13th until December 10th.
Saturn will remain in Scorpio until December 23, 2014.
Look to where Scorpio is placed in your personal astrology chart(s) for where you are likely to see the most transformation over these next few weeks and over the next couple of years. For a chart interpretation and more insights on how this cycle of evolution will affect you and your life, click here to schedule an appointment with me. I’ll be happy to show you through.
So as the moment approaches, remember to secure your harness and watch your hands…and do your best to enjoy the ride.
Thanks for reading and sharing. Until next post…
~Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
