Weekly Hello

Half-way through October, and are we having fun? The astrology has been far from easy and has presided over some truly shocking and concerning developments on the world’s stage, and judging from my mailbox, it’s been hard going for a lot of you too. It is sometimes very difficult to see the purpose behind events that derail us, but, sure enough, as time goes by, we understand them and almost always realize we have benefitted from them.

Pluto continues to be the main story. On Tuesday, Venus (in retrograde) squares Pluto, an aspect that inspires passion and all-or-nothing actions. Venus may be the planet of love and all things that make life worth living, but she isn’t afraid to go to war to right the balance. Venus squared Pluto on 15 September, so you may be able to trace some of this week’s developments back to that time.

On Friday, the Sun enters Scorpio and the following day, Mercury heads into retrograde. While we cannot change our fate, so to speak, we can make things easier for ourselves, and in retrograde Mercury’s case, that means getting as many tasks as possible that require communication in the bag. As for travel, you don’t always run into a roadblock, but delays and detours tend to happen more often. On the plus side, we almost always discover something of value while Mercury takes us back over old ground.