Mars in Gemini

Mars in Gemini - Sharp Tongues

"Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities."

— Louise L. Hay

The flurry of intensity from last week's Virgo Full Moon begins to 'wane' this week and we may find that we have a great deal of propensity to drift or veer — or both — this week. We are dealing with the added awareness provided by last week's first of three exact Saturn-Uranus squares, which is slowing us down and demanding that we check and test our every move towards a 'better future'. Although we come into this week with some degree of commitment and determination, new elements are bound to arise that need to be further examined and may very well serve to inform our planning and approach. Mercury returns to make a final conjunction with Jupiter, expanding our perspectives but also potentially inflating our expectations. We begin to open up to possibilities of better cooperation and new alliances. Some new alliances may actually be born out of conflict. We can begin to see beyond our differences (although we may not actually resolve them) and find areas of common purpose. However, this may also lead us to raise our expectations a bit too high or fall back into some kind of complacent belief that we have made more progress than we actually have. As well, an expanded sense of possibility may lead us to divert too much attention to unworkable schemes and ideas, rather than staying focused on the 'Big Picture' goals that have been a bit more carefully planned and thought through. The arrival of Mars in Gemini on Thursday, tends to sharpen our tongues and may also lead to increasing impulsiveness and impatience. In essence, it may be very easy to become impatient with the pace of our progress, engaging in power plays, harsh words, and reckless actions. If we find some way to quiet our minds enough, we are likely to find that there are indeed some further elements to consider, some new lessons to learn, or some other reason why this week's seemly slow pace is actually a benefit. The challenge may be to avoid creating any wreckage through harsh words, or wasting too much time veering off-course in pursuit of wildly over-optimistic potentials that will never materialize.

The Libra Moon on Sunday leads to some general wavering of our commitments and some attempts to please others rather than follow our individual course. We should be careful to avoid being stampeded into unwise actions. Surprising opinions may surface on Monday. There is some temptation to veer off course and find ourselves heading in an entirely new directions. We should be careful to keep our eye on our past plans and be sure that we aren't 'falling down a rabbit hole' of unpredictable outcomes. We may find ourselves dealing with a significant amount of impatience on Tuesday. Our ideas may find a skeptical audience that leaves us feeling misunderstood or restricted. Intuition blossoms on Wednesday. We find ways to see past conflicts in order to build new alliances. However, we should guard against complacency. Power plays and uncomfortable revelations create a complicated environment on Thursday. The Mercury-Jupiter conjunction could lead to some reckless over-optimism that will need to eventually be unwound. We are prone to pushing too hard on Friday and we may see some reckless outbursts with Mars newly arrived in Gemini. The pace of progress and change may not seem to be fast enough but if we can quiet our minds, we will find that there are plenty of details that still need our attention. The VOC Moon for much of the day on Saturday leads to a significant amount of 'drift' but there is a slowly dawning recognition that new ideas are beginning to shift our trajectory significantly.

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