The Planets this week

Well, the last few weeks have been a doozy, but you might be feeling a bit lighter this week as Venus moved into her own sign of Taurus on Monday, lightening our relations with others, making our lives more beautiful and harmonious, and reminding us to take time to enjoy and be Happy. The next good news is that Jupiter, the planet of our teachers and teachings, and of children (b/c who else teaches us more?), appropriately named Guru in Sanskrit, has been retrograde, and is turning direct Wednesday morning. Jupiter has been in its sign of exaltation, Cancer, since June of last year and is therefore helping us be more in touch with our teachings, spirituality (or religion)and beliefs, and carry a greater wisdom with regards to those things. When it's retrograde, a "backing up" occurs and we internalize that energy, creating a reflective nature surrounding our philosophies and higher beliefs and allowing us room to integrate them into our minds and bodies. Now that it's moving forward again, we can outwardly express that which we've hopefully been integrating by Doing our beliefs...otherwise known as walking the talk. Like a baby sea turtle who has finally hatched and now has to scamper to the surf, narrowly making it past predators and environmental hazards to find their dharmic way on to the sea they are meant to swim in.
But watch out! There are still some predators and hazards within yourself, standing in your way....
Mercury, the communication planet is still debilitated until Saturday, and then is moving into Aries, joined its ruler Mars, creating a fiery and direct manner of speaking, albeit more empowered and clear. So...speak carefully...now, so you say what you mean and come Saturday, so you aren't so mean;-)
The Moon, our mind (thoughts and feelings) and "inner self" is not only debilitated in the sign of Scorpio, but is joined retrograde Saturn, keeping us entangled in our fears, however irrational they may be. She will mosey on out of there on April 9th, so continue to nurture your baby turtle self 'till then. Finally, the Sun will join Mars in its exalted sign of Aries next Tuesday, moving our power and light out of the muck, where it's been hidden in our subconscious, in the otherworldly sign of Pisces joined with the south node, Ketu.
Whew! And then we can swim free, like the baby sea turtles we were meant to be!

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