Astrology Forecast for Week of June 24
On Wednesday, Mercury stations for his second retrograde of the year, which will last until July 20. All his retrogrades in 2013 are in water, which adds to the formless, uncontainable, hard-to-grasp aspects of this type of transit. When the confusions and misunderstandings of a retrograde pop up, the effect, impact or reactions will be heightened. We’re all crabs without our shells and will take things personally and recoil, as if someone is poking our tender, exposed skin with a stick. Thoughts, words and messages will become more emotional, nonrational and nonlinear. Concepts will be even harder to delimit with words. We’ll be even more susceptible to picking up each other’s thoughts and energies.
Where’s the plus in this? We could be a lot more tender, sweet, kind, sympathetic, empathic, caring and just plain nurturing. We could “get” each other wordlessly. We could understand the recent past or, more likely, have a feeling of understanding, whether our brains get it or not. And as for those brains, they will have no choice but to throttle back while some other navigational tool leads us. Read more in my June/July 2013 Mercury Retrograde Guide.
The week does usher in a saving grace amid all this water: Venus, ruler of all we love and value, moves into fiery Leo on Thursday. She’s livening the beach party with sparkle, glamour and an insistence on fun. She loves to take center stage, which requires an audience, which means not being alone, which means that the impulse to socialize will soar. Her beach gear has the glint of gold and pearls, or maybe a tiara, or both, depending on her mood, and that cooler that someone’s carrying for her (as if she would for herself!) likely has champagne on ice. All this spells fun in the sun, parties, dressing up, laughing, living large, making like reality TV shows and letting big warm hearts radiate through all that water.
