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Hot Venus alert day (Friday) as she makes a steamy connection with Pluto, (ideal psychopomp for salvaging damaged relationships with nostalgic music in the background) but retro Mercury is still hung-up, communicatively glitchy, slowly getting back into first gear on the weekend. Ideal for clearing the static air gunk, relationship funk, and putting projects back on track.
Increased efficiency, practicality – get the job done – with SUN & VENUS in problem solving, analytical, refined taste enhancing – VIRGO, for the next few weeks. Plus retro-messenger Mercury (Virgo’s ruler) shifts into forward gear from Saturday giving better communicative traction: contacts and seeding, manifesting, new ideas.
The importance of collaboration. Venus/Mercury conjunction with regal Sun in Leo can elevate ego needs or florid amorous dramatics. But this egalitarian lunation reveals the importance of collaboration rather than hierarchal dominance. A face off between the intellect (head-Aquarius) and emotional passions (heart-Leo). The deeper issue: Love and approval.
Mercury the quicksilver messenger trickster has stopped dead and is about to go retrograde for 24 days, turning direct Aug 26. Nail down your data, grease up your agreements. Communication can become stressed, words misunderstood, deadlines are missed, plans unravel during this cycle. Attention to details are especially important, as Mercury commences retro from Virgo, which it rules – particularly techno gizmos.
Transiting backwards back through Leo where it has already been, Mercury’s backflipping can distort perceptions, especially around Aug 8 when it is opposite foggy, deceptive Neptune. There can be a tendency to invest ideas with more confidence than they merit which can lead to disappointment when these concepts are tested against reality. But can be effective for improving, revising systems and creative projects, as well as reviewing affairs of the heart, love, romance. The Sun and Venus are also in Leo, and associated with relationships and the arts.
