 When a planet is retrograde when you're born, that planet is retrograde in your natal chart, and can have an impact on your personality and life. When it's Mercury, Venus, or Mars retrograde, that tends to be a *really* big impact! Venus is the planet of love, relationships, but also rules your values, what you take pleasure in, and your approach to money. So, this planet is pretty important for big matters in your life, and when you have this planet retrograde in your natal chart, that can be tricky. About Retrogrades:A planet is called retrograde when it appears to be moving backward in the Zodiac when you were born; it's not actually moving backward, and just appears that way. The normal motion for planets is forward, so the retrograde planet operates a little differently. In the case of Venus, a lot differently! Often, a retrograde Venus operates in the sign that is opposite the sign it's actually located. You almost reject the sign it's in, in favor of its opposite. But you have to learn to embrace the sign of your Venus, otherwise you usually have problems all your life with love, relationships, money, values, ethics, and confidence. (btw, this is also often true for natal Mercury and Mars) So, the opposing signs are: Aries - Libra Taurus - Scorpio Gemini - Sagittarius Cancer - Capricorn Leo - Aquarius Virgo - Pisces It'll also manifest the opposing house from where it's located, however this article will just cover the signs for now, but for your reference, the opposing houses are: 1st - 7th 2nd - 8th 3rd - 9th 4th - 10th 5th - 11th 6th - 12th So, let's say your natal Venus retrograde is in Libra and the 4th house, that means you likely operate as if it's in Aries and the 10th house. Say your natal retrograde Venus is in Aquarius and the 9th house, you likely operate as if it's in Leo and the 3rd house. The biggest issue is that not only do you tend to operate as if it's in the opposing sign and house, but you also tend to play up the negatives of that opposing sign and house. Every sign and house has higher (positive) and lower (negative) energy and potential uses, but your natal Venus retrograde gets pulled to the negative. Natal Venus Retrograde in the Signs:Natal Venus Retrograde in Aries: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Libra, so instead of being more independent and take initiative for yourself, you may look to others to do that for you quite a bit. You may struggle with being alone, and always find yourself with someone or dependent on someone else. You need to learn how to rely on yourself and not look to others to fulfill your physical, mental, or financial needs. Natal Venus Retrograde in Taurus: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Scorpio, so instead of playing the calm and collected one, you're a bit more extreme and intense. You may be a bit obsessive in love and have difficulty letting go of anyone. You may share too much with others, and not have enough for yourself at times. You need to find the calm center within, and make yourself more of a priority. Natal Venus Retrograde in Gemini: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Sagittarius, so you may keep people at arm's length, always demanding lots of space, and run pretty easily when it seems like others want to get closer to you. You may be a risk-taker financially, but don't actually think it through fully. You need to learn how to connect on a smaller scale and not be afraid of everyday connections, and think things through better. Natal Venus Retrograde in Cancer: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Capricorn, so you may keep your feelings to yourself and not really let others in. You may take care of everyone else, but leave yourself depleted and uncared for. It can be extra hard for you to ask for help. You may give more attention to the external than the internal, wanting to avoid the internal. You need to learn how to embrace your emotions, let yourself feel and connect emotionally, and develop a support system you can rely on. Natal Venus Retrograde in Leo: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Aquarius, so you may surround yourself with lots of people but rarely let anyone really get to know you in a personal way. You may be more detached and afraid of exposing your heart. You may seem above it all even when it's killing you. You need to learn to make your heart a bigger priority, and let it lead you more in life so you can forge closer connections. Natal Venus Retrograde in Virgo: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Pisces, so you might make too many sacrifices for others, and it can be way too easy for you to stay quiet and let everyone else walk all over you. You may be very insecure and feel like you deserve that, and are way too hard on yourself. You need to work on self-worth and see yourself as a separate entity that doesn't have to get lost in others, pay more attention to yourself, cut yourself a break, and take better care of yourself. Natal Venus Retrograde in Libra: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Aries, so instead of being very open with others and to commitment, you can run away from it. You may display loud independence, but are really just scared of losing yourself. You need to learn how to balance focus on the self with others, and be comfortable with healthy commitment. Natal Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Taurus, so instead of intimate connections, you may prioritize casual ones and sexual flings over anything lasting. You may focus on keeping more for yourself, and have difficulty giving to others, perhaps worried you won't have enough. You need to work through whatever may have given the fear of intimacy, and learn that sharing enhances your life, not steals from it. Natal Venus Retrograde in Sagittarius: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Gemini, so you may like to get to know everything you can about others, and get a little too invested. You may be great at surface-level conversation, but struggle beyond that. You may try to keep your world and thinking small, afraid of what broadening it would do or mean. You need to work on the blocks to opening up your life, expanding and evolving, and get beyond the surface. Natal Venus Retrograde in Capricorn: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Cancer, so you may get too emotionally invested, operate too subjectively with others, or try to avoid external responsibilities and just tend to your own personal needs. You may not be comfortable with asserting your goals or working to build anything for yourself, and instead only want to build for others. You need to embrace ambition and become comfortable with building for yourself. Natal Venus Retrograde in Aquarius: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Leo, so instead of a comfortable distance, you may get clingy and way too personal. You may struggle with anything casual, and may fall in love way too easily and way too fast, confuse other emotions or situations with love, and have a hard time with being alone. You need to learn how to be in a relationship with yourself and not be so quick to give your heart away or look externally for validation. Natal Venus Retrograde in Pisces: Your Venus may operate more like extreme Virgo, so you may be way too picky, have such high demands that neither you nor anyone else can live up to, and may find yourself constantly disappointed. You may do lots of work and pay lots of attention with others, but tend to keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself. You need to open up to more spiritual connections with others, and let things go and flow more without so many expectations. P.S.Venus retrograde in your natal chart often means you have some trauma or baggage associated with it. It may be from your early life, or past lives/karmic, but it's pretty much a definite that something is there.
Working through that block, that issue, that baggage, or whatever it is, helps you to start to feel comfortable with your natal Venus retrograde sign and house location so you're not running away from it anymore. But, the issues are often deeply embedded in your subconscious, and we may not even realize it's there. Being more honest with ourselves, our life experiences, and being more in tune with our innermost selves can go a long way. And once you do unlock your Venus retrograde and actually use it the right way, it can be a huge asset for you. Good luck with your natal Venus retrograde!  Venus is the planet of love in astrology, and when the transit (moving) planets are making a hard aspect (conjunction, square, opposition) to your natal Venus, this can have a challenging impact on your relationships in your life. Transit Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto can bring the most challenging energy with this. Hard Transit Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to Natal Venus:Hard Saturn to Venus: Lessons in Love
When Saturn is aspecting your natal Venus, you get the commitment-minded Saturn meeting with lover Venus. When Saturn is conjunct, square, or opposite your natal Venus, your relationships can come under the microscope, and issues you have in your relationships can become exposed. Any issues you have with commitment or love can become more apparent to you, and you may be challenged more by others. Some relationships and partnerships may break apart, and this can feel unsettling. You an be afraid of getting hurt by others, so you may keep more of a distance with others. You may feel more stuck in your life, and when you become stubborn, you may encounter more problems. It can be super important to ground yourself under these hard aspects, but not keep yourself from moving forward at all. When you’re dealing with Venus, you have to face love and relationship issues with the hard aspects. The hard aspects show you the issues you still have to deal with. Saturn is the commitment planet, and wants you to be committed to the people you care about, but wants you to make sure that your relationships are healthy and add to your life, and have a solid foundation. That starts with dealing with your own. issues before you can create the kinds of relationships Saturn wants you to have. You also have to be willing to let go of people who aren’t good for you, no longer serve a positive purpose, or you’ve outgrown. Hard Uranus to Venus: Love Changes When Uranus is conjunct, square, or opposite your natal Venus, this can bring some unstable energy into your relationships, and you may deal with a lot of erratic people, or have to address issues in existing relationships. If the relationship feels stale, has gotten kind of boring, or you don’t have a completely solid connection, Uranus can make you want something else, something different. If you feel stifled by the other person, you may push back, wanting more independence. This is usually a time when you want more space from others, more freedom in your relationships to be yourself, and that can sometimes mean parting ways. But you don’t want to do that on a whim, because then you may regret it later. Uranus can just make us really impatient! The hard aspects can also bring some people into our lives who are radically different from the types of people you’d usually associate with, and sometimes they’re not great either. Sometimes they’re really erratic and can turn your life upside down. When you’re dealing with Venus, you should try to focus on making sure your relationships and partnerships have a solid connection, aren’t stuck in their ways, and give you enough space to be yourself. If there is a relationship or partnership you’ve been wanting to break free from but haven’t been able to, this can be a good time for it. Hard Neptune to Venus: Dissolving Relationships When Neptune is conjunct, square, or opposite your natal Venus, this is the ultimate time of falling for the wolf in sheep’s clothing, the Devil in disguise. How often do people fall under the spell of someone horrible under a hard Neptune aspect? Oh, very very very often! These aspects are ones where, when you see you’re under them, you absolutely have to be careful of who you trust. Your intuition about people can be on the fritz, and you may struggle with trying to figure people out. You may think you’ve met a soul mate, but it’s usually just a loser, but you don’t see that until the aspect has lifted and the fog has cleared. Then you’re all, hot diggity dog, what have I done?! These aspects can also be challenging for existing relationships, and can cause you to make some questionable decisions and actions. Affairs can be more likely, and secrets within relationships can be exposed. People may fade from your life as connections dissolve. But in that case, there usually wasn’t a very strong or healthy connection in the first place. When you’re dealing with Venus and Neptune, you have to work very hard at trying to be realistic with the people in your life with the hard aspects. It can be helpful to ground yourself - though that also can be more difficult since Venus rules grounding! But you want to try anyway, as well as set up boundaries in your relationships. The hard aspects tend to make us give way too much of ourselves away, and sacrifice too much for others, so solid boundaries are crucial. Always the case with Neptune! Hard Pluto to Venus: Transforming Relationships When Pluto is conjunct, square, or opposite your natal Venus, this usually spells trouble for your relationships. One or more of your relationships can undergo a trial, and issues that exist in relationships can become more difficult to ignore, and relationship issues you have can come to the forefront. Relationships can break apart if you can’t hold it together, while some may go in the opposite direction can get lost in obsession (sometimes more than stalker-like!). With the opposition, it may feel like the people in your life are the ones causing problems and you’re the victim, but you may be projecting on others and need to be more aware. With the square, issues that have festered for a while can bubble to the surface, and anything that’s been internalized leads to greater frustration. With the conjunction, incredibly intense Pluto energy can enter into relationships, and it’s important to find a way to use that energy to keep relationships together. When you’re dealing with Venus, it’s all about transforming relationships for the better. Pluto doesn’t want to settle, and with Venus, that means not settling in your relationships. The transformation that a relationship needs to undergo can be unsettling, and many relationships don’t survive them. The ones that do, can be around for the long haul (if you can get through Pluto together, you can get through anything!). For some, the issues may be of a personal nature though; your own relationship issues and your own issues in your attitude toward relationships, commitment, or deeply-held past issues impacting relationships now, and not an actual relationship you have in your life. In this case, it’s about transforming your own attitudes, beliefs, and releasing baggage and trauma. And for some, the issues may be focused more on your relationship with yourself rather than your relationships with others, especially if you’re someone who doesn’t know how to be alone and doesn’t really like yourself. Which exactly it is for you can usually be found with the houses your Venus rules, is located, or in your Venus sign.  Venus in astrology is one of the personal planets, along with Mercury and Mars. We feel the personal planets in a personal way, and they deeply connect with our personal lives. Natal Venus:There are ten planets in a standard astrology chart (I personally also add Ceres, and there are others, but we start with the ten). Each planet links to a different part of your personality and life. Your natal chart is a snapshot of the locations of the planets, other bodies, and houses in the Zodiac at the moment you're born and from the location you're born at. Venus is the natural ruling planet for two signs, earthy Taurus who is sensual and indulgent, and airy Libra who rules connections and relationships, Venus naturally connects with two houses, the second house of money and seventh house of commitment. For everyone, look to the Zodiac sign and natal house your Venus falls in. The energy of the Venus sign is how you connect and commit, while the areas of life ruled by the house your Venus falls in are where you need to come together and work with others. Also look to the natural planetary ruler of your Venus sign (the natural planetary ruler of the Zodiac sign your Venus falls in) as this can also connect to the Venus energy. Planets that are conjunct (aligned with) your natal Venus can be super important and have a direct impact on your relationships. They might be more dominant than the sign Venus is in since Venus is easily overtaken by other bodies. Transit (moving) planets aspecting your natal Venus can bring some temporary energy for Venus matters. This can impact your relationships with Venus, but can also impact the areas of life ruled by the house your Venus falls in, as well as the areas of life ruled by the houses your Venus rules (so the houses that fall in Taurus and Libra). The most challenging aspects to your natal Venus can be hard transit Pluto (since Pluto brings out power struggles, control issues, and old relationship baggage and trauma), hard transit Saturn (since Saturn restricts and can wipe people out of your life), and hard transit Uranus (since Uranus is change and can bring sudden breakups and betrayals). Some may have a more important natal Venus. This can be the case for you if you have: - a stellium (3+ planets) including your natal Venus - your natal Venus conjunct an angle - your North or South Node in your Venus sign - your 1st house ruler conjunct the natal Venus - your natal Venus anaretic (at 29 degrees) - natal Venus retrograde - retrograde Mercury or Mars conjunct your natal Venus If your natal Venus is in a stellium, this can make your relationships an important part of that stellium, and your connections with others can be super important for your life happiness but may come with a myriad of challenges to work through. If your natal Venus is conjunct a retrograde Mercury or Mars, or is retrograde itself, you may struggle with connecting with others in what you'd consider a "normal" way. There is likely something different about the way you connect with others, and you have to be accepting of being different with this. If you have Venus retrograde, make sure to check out THIS ARTICLE about it. An anaretic natal Venus can show you either are constantly with others and never alone, or constantly alone and afraid of others. That's the nature of the anaretic degree, and you need to find middle ground. Work on healthy connections with others that benefit your life, and don't be so afraid. Venus conjunct an angle makes your relationships more important for that angle; conjunct your North Node, and healthy connections can be the key to happiness in your life; conjunct the South Node, and you may rely on others too much and need to learn more interdepence; and conjunct the first house ruler, you can be more charming, pleasant, diplomatic, attractive, and able to connect Venus Themes:Venus in Astrology: Connections
In your natal chart, your natal Venus rules your relationships, how you are in relationships, who you gravitate toward, and the kind of relationships you're in. This is mostly found via your Venus sign, and the house in your natal chart natal Venus falls in can show areas where you deal with people a lot, need a more pleasant environment, make compromises, and want to keep the peace with others. Conjunctions (alignments by other planets to your Venus) tend to be strong, and can dominate your natal Venus and your relationships. You can feel surrounded by people and relationships who are ruled by that planet, and that planet can be most important for your connections. When it comes to transits, the transit (moving) planets aspecting your natal Venus can be felt in your dealings with others. They can impact your ability to connect and commit, to get along, and to be invested in others. Venus in Astrology: Attraction Venus is the planet of attraction, and this means what we attract and how we attract it. How we attract can be found via the sign Venus is in, and where this can occur can be found via the house Venus is in. Venus doesn't necessarily need to go out and take things itself, and rather lets things come to it. Attraction can also mean the attraction we have with others and with ourselves. What we find attractive in others, and what others find attractive in us, can be seen via Venus. Venus in Astrology: Sensual Venus is a sensual planet. Venus is ruler of the senses, and is one of the planets that connects to the physical world. Venus wants to experience everything via the senses, and can overindulge. This links to Taurus. Venus in Astrology: Grounded Venus in astrology is a grounded planet. Venus doesn't want to rush, and this is part of its attractive energy. Venus doesn't need to rush, and this allows Venus to be grounded and centered. This also helps Venus with maintaining peace, balance, and harmony. It's a blend of Taurus and Libra. Venus in Astrology: Charming Venus is a charming planet. This aids its attractive quality, and helps with getting along with others. Venus is pleasant, easy, and can understand how to win people over. It can turn up the charm in just the right way to get others on its side. Venus in Astrology: Feminine Venus is one of only two feminine planets in astrology, with the other being the Moon. If you also count Ceres as a main planet, then there are three, but the Moon and Venus are the OG's. This means the Moon and Venus are feminine energy, and with Venus, this can be an alter ego for women. It can link to the women in your life, and transit Venus can impact issues affecting all women. Venus in Astrology: Values Venus connects with our values, with what makes us feel secure and confident, and what brings grounding to our lives. Venus can show where our values come from and what we value most.  What are some good general rules to prepare? Let's dig in! 5 Ways to Prepare for Any Mercury Retrograde:1. Take stock of what the retrograde will do for you personally,
Research what are some positive ways you can make use of the energy (so see the house(s) being impacted, aspects he'll make, and how you can work with the energy). This is something you should do with every retrograde so you can emerge as unscathed as possible. Prepare yourself for the hard aspects especially, because these can be the most difficult to control. And know that while you can control your own actions and decisions, you can't control other people's, so try to have a LOT of extra patience. 2. Make sure you have an outlet for stress. Mercury retrograde likes to cause a lot of stress, so it's important with every Mercury retrograde to make sure you have an outlet for stress or some way to manage it that is healthy and positive. This tends to be what does all of us in. The stress alone slays us! So, before it even begins, make sure you have a stress plan in place. If you get stressed out, what is something you can do right away to mitigate it? Come up with various ideas for various situations so you're prepared whether you're alone in your car, at work with your boss, or at home at a family dinner. It may be as simple as learning a breathing exercise. 3. Give yourself extra time for the things you know you'll have to do. Mercury is ruler of daily life, so we often get thrown off with the everyday stuff. Another way to prepare is to give yourself extra time for the things you know you'll have to do during Mercury retrograde. If you leave anything to the last minute, you have a much higher chance of that blowing up in your face. You can't do this for everything since there's always something that comes upon you fast, but the things you can prepare extra time for, you should. 4. Do something good for your health. Mercury is also ruler of health, so one of the ways I like to deal with Mercury retrograde is to do something good for my health during every Mercury retrograde. This can be an excellent time for routine maintenance and making sure you're on top of everything. I like to do a round of EFT during every Mercury retrograde to clear out the energetic sludge that builds up; whatever you're into, go for it, and you can use the retrograde as a reminder to get routine checkups and shots and such. 5. Perform routine maintenance. Routine maintenance doesn't have to apply to your health either - you can also use Mercury retrograde to do maintenance on your car (great reminder to get your oil changed!), your home (clean out your closets, garage, fix that hole in the shower floor), and your technology (clear out your inbox, organize your files).  When Mercury is retrograde, it can throw a lot of things off, and one area of life that can be impacted is our relationships. Let's focus on how they can be impacted and the best ways to use the energy. Mercury retrograde is:A planet or body is called retrograde when it appears to be moving backward through the Zodiac from our view here on Earth. Normal motion is forward, so this can throw things off. Mercury retrogrades most often, 3-4 times each year, and is the shortest, only about 3 weeks at a time. Mercury rules communication, so we have difficulty understanding and expressing, as well as technology, which has major impact on our modern world. The impact on relationships is:Retrogrades can have subconscious energy and stir up what has been hidden or avoided, so Mercury retrograde can bring out existing issues in your relationships or in the way you deal with others. Any relationships that have problems can be more important to you, and you can become keenly aware of the problems that need to be fixed.
This can be an opportunity for improvement with those relationships, and if you do, you can strengthen the relationship. You may need to go about it in a different way though, and take a side route to fixing it. Communication in relationships can be quite disastrous during Mercury retrograde, so it may not be the best time for big conversations with loved ones or big commitments in your relationships. One area that can be improved on is listening, and Mercury retrograde may show how much we haven't been paying attention, and how much we need to be more receptive. If you can't fix communication, and can't address issues, then you may see relationships come apart during Mercury retrograde. Many can come to an end, and this may be long in the making. It can also be messier than usual, so if any do end, we have to take care that we're not burning everything down on our way out. Retrogrades can be introspective and reflective energy, so Mercury retrograde can help with reflecting on old relationships, addressing relationship baggage, and releasing relationship karma. It's ideal to emerge from Mercury retrograde with less weighing you down so you can move forward when it's over at a greater pace. This can also be a time when we reconnect, with people from the past or even within existing relationships that have simply been ignored. People often come back around during Mercury retrograde, and this may be fleeting, or it may be for a reason. It may not last once the retrograde is over, so make the most of it while it's around. In general, Mercury retrogrades that occur in the relationship signs - Leo, Libra, or Aquarius - have the biggest impact on our relationships. Leo rules love relationships, dating, and children; Libra rules committed relationships and partnerships; and Aquarius rules friendships and casual relationships. You may have the same effect personally if the Mercury retrograde occurs in your 5th house (which connects to Leo), 7th house (which connects to Libra), or 11th house (which connects to Aquarius). Mercury retrograde often conjuncts transit (moving) Venus, the planet of relationships, so this can be a time when we're all focused on your relationships. It just doesn't last long, usually only a few days. If Mercury retrograde occurs in your natal Venus sign and conjuncts your natal Venus, this can be big for you personally and give huge retrograde energy for your relationships. Mercury retrograde square or opposite your natal Venus, the hard aspects, may bring out more of the challenges (also Mercury retrograde square or opposite your 7th house ruler). Mercury retrograde sextile or trine your natal Venus, the beneficial aspects, may help with improvements and reconnections (also Mercury retrograde sextile or trine your 7th house ruler). For reconnecting with yourself, this may be most important when Mercury retrograde occurs in your 1st house (ruling the self), in your Sun sign (your true self), or aspecting your natal Sun.  Mercury in astrology is one of the personal planets, along with Venus and Mars. This means we feel these planets in a personal way, and Mercury connects to your minds and ability to express ourselves. Natal Mercury:There are ten planets in a standard astrology chart (I personally also add Ceres, and there are others, but we start with the ten). Each planet links to a different part of your personality and life. Your natal chart is a snapshot of the locations of the planets, other bodies, and houses in the Zodiac at the moment you're born and from the location you're born at. Mercury is the natural ruling planets for two signs, airy Gemini who rules the mind, and earthy Virgo who rules the details, and naturally connects with two houses, the third house of education and the sixth house of work. For everyone, look to the Zodiac sign and natal house your Mercury falls in. The energy of the Mercury sign is how you communicate and use your mind, while the areas of life ruled by the house your Mercury falls in are where you need to communicate and express yourself. Also look to the natural planetary ruler of your Mercury sign (the natural planetary ruler of the Zodiac sign your Mercury falls in) as this can also connect to the Mercury energy. Planets that are conjunct (aligned with) your natal Mercury can be super important and have a direct impact on your communication style and mode of thinking. They might be more dominant than the sign Mercury is in. Transit (moving) planets aspecting your natal Mercury can bring some temporary energy for the Mercury matters. This can impact you mentally with Mercury, but can also impact the areas of life ruled by the house your Mercury falls in, as well as the areas of life ruled by the houses your Mercury rules (so the houses that fall in Gemini and Virgo). The most challenging aspects to your natal Mercury can be hard transit Pluto (since Pluto wants to wreck your mind, and you have to work to transform and empower your mind), hard transit Saturn (since Saturn restricts and can bring a more depressive mood), and hard transit Neptune (since Neptune obscures and can make it difficult to see reality) Some may have a more important natal Mercury. This can be the case for you if you have: - a stellium (3+ planets) including your natal Mercury - your natal Mercury conjunct an angle - your North or South Node in your Mercury sign - your 1st house ruler conjunct the natal Mercury - your natal Mercury anaretic (at 29 degrees) - natal Mercury retrograde - retrograde Venus or Mars conjunct your natal Mercury If your natal Mercury is in a stellium, this can make your mind an important part of that stellium, and you need to make sure you're communicating and expressing yourself well. If your natal Mercury is conjunct a retrograde Venus or Mars, or is retrograde itself, you likely have an alternative way of communicating and using your mind, and this may be perceived as you being stupid or having a disability when young (even when you don't). There is power in this position but it usually comes after tearing down your self-esteem when it comes to your mind. If you have Mercury retrograde, make sure to check out THIS ARTICLE about it. An anaretic natal Mercury can show you either are a super communicator and can't shut up, or you never speak up about anything and have no confidence in your ability to do so. That's the nature of the anaretic degree, and you need to find middle ground. Having confidence in your ideas and mental abilities, but also be a good listener and receptive to others. Mercury conjunct an angle makes communication and your mind more important for that angle; conjunct your North Node, you can connect with your potentially mentally and realize your potential via your ideas; conjunct the South Node, you may fall back on bad habits mentally, and have to work on taking control of your mental abilities; and conjunct the 1st house ruler, you can be more expressive and comfortable with sharing your ideas. Mercury Themes:Mercury in Astrology: The Mind
In your natal chart, your natal Mercury rules your mind. It shows how you express yourself, your communication style, as well as how you learn and share knowledge or information. This is mostly found via your Mercury sign, and the house in your natal chart natal Mercury falls in can show areas where you communicate a lot more, need to express yourself, or have a lot of knowledge. Conjunctions (alignments by other planets to your Mercury) tend to be strong, and can dominate your communication style and knowledge. But, you also feel the other major aspects the planets make to your natal Mercury, and they can show how you connect with them mentally. When it comes to transits, the transit (moving) planets aspecting your natal Mercury can be felt mentally. They can impact your ability to express yourself openly and authentically, and impact your connection to your mind. Mercury in Astrology: Active Mercury is a fast-moving planet, second only to the Moon, and Mercury likes to be quick on its feet and ready to move. This means Mercury is a planet that is quite active, and wants to have plenty to do. We tend to keep busy with our Mercury and whatever it rules, and we generally don't want to sit around and wait for very long. We can feel that staying busy helps more. Mercury in Astrology: Variety Mercury in astrology loves variety. This is because it connects to the mind and it wants to be active, so variety helps with giving plenty to focus on to keep it interesting. Whatever Mercury is doing, we usually want some variety with it. Mercury in Astrology: Immediate Environment Mercury in astrology is an active planet, but it's one that doesn't go far into the future, so it governs our immediate environment. It's local, it's what's around us. It's siblings, neighbors, communities, schools. We tend to want to build community with our Mercury and whatever it rules, and we generally don't want to disconnect much. Mercury in Astrology: Thoughts and Ideas Transit (moving) Mercury brings mental focus to whatever it's touching. We tend to think a lot about the areas of life ruled by the natal house transit Mercury is touring and the planets being aspected by transit Mercury. We can come up with lots of new ideas as well, especially under conjunctions. Mental energy can be easy to use with sextiles and trines, and focus might be a challenge with squares and oppositions. Mercury in Astrology: News Mercury in astrology governs communication, thoughts, and ideas, so it also governs news. Our natal Mercury may show how we get news and what do we get most news about, and how we give news. Transits with transit Mercury to the natal bodies or by transit planets to natal Mercury can stimulate energy for news, and important news can be shared by you or with you at the time it occurs. Mercury in Astrology: Duality Mercury in astrology is dual in nature. It rules two Zodiac signs and two houses, and it's seen as a planet that can flip around. Remember that it's an active planet that loves variety, so it makes sense to be dual in nature. This means Mercury can connect with two of whatever it's doing. Mercury in the professional houses (2nd, 6th, 10th) can show having two jobs or careers; Mercury in the relationship houses (5th, 7th) can show two great loves/relationships; Mercury in the 11th house of friends can show two best friends at a time, and on and on. |
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