Guys, let’s tawk. How are you? For me, this last week has been ex-fucking-zausting! Mercury retro-shade, as the cool kids call it, has been fucking with literal lights and electrical shit in my life. I don’t have time (or the know-how) to troubleshoot an electrical panel and every single electrician I know is an ex boyfriend, or a friend’s ex husband. This Mercury retrograde lands in my 7th house of relationships, so that seems about right. Annoying AF, let me tell you. But with my darling Libra husband’s help, I got the fucking snowman lit up, along with the stupid light up reindeer that shed glitter all over hells half acre. I mean, I like the glitter part but it doesn’t alleviate the rage of assembling shit. The holidays are just a burden in my opinion. I tell people all year long that I fucking love the shit out of them. I buy fun shit all year. For that matter, I have twinkle lights and glitter all year! I don’t need this stupid holiday pressuring me! I don’t wanna bake cookies and make fudge and write Xmas cards. So yeah, I’m grinchy. Sue me.
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There’s a few things I could prattle on about in this week’s astrology but I know you all just want to know what’s up with the New Moon, and Mercury Retrograde, so that’s what I’m going to focus on. But first, as some background info, there’s a significant amount of Aries energy afoot. The North Node, Eris, Chiron are in Aries, and those energies mix with the New Moon and Mercury.
Ok so the reason you’re all here reading this… the New Moon. This lovely little respite in the season of shit is in Sagittarius at 20°. Sagittarius is a dreamer, so use this final New Moon of 2023 to dream big, shoot for the stars, let your imagination drive the bus. Sadge is expansive and inclusive and curious and contains a lot of innate wisdom. This Moon is trine Chiron, square Juno, quincunx Uranus, trine the North Node, trine Eris, square Neptune! And this Moon conjuncts Mars a few hours before it conjuncts the Sun. So there’s a whole lot going on here! Chiron and Mars offer motivation to heal; we can take our past wounds and make something good out of them. The trine to Eris helps us with emotional resilience and trusting our intution, and this is no small thing. You know the longer I work with the more maligned goddesses like Lilith and Eris, the more I love them, and realize how misunderstood, undersold, and cast off they are. And they both symbolize rejection so that’s appropriate. But many astrologers interpret these 2 badasses with just the rejection and scorn aspects, forgetting that they were scorned and ostracized for having a point of view that was contrary. Sorry, had to make that little tangential comment. Emotional resilience is a big fucking deal, and Eris can bring that to the New Moon party! Uranus does create some uncertainty with that quincunx, but if we want to be liberated, then we have to embrace the instability a bit, ya know? Neptune can bring some confusion and maybe insecurity to this soiree, but overall, this is a real beauty!
And then right on the heels of the New Moon, Mercury stations retrograde. Mercury will be still for 5 days, beginning his moon walk at 8° of Capricorn. Mercury in Capricorn is business-like and serious. You can REthink, REconsider, REstrategize your business plans during this time (retrograde ends on January 1st and begins direct motion on the 2nd). Right before Christmas, Mercury will back into Sagittarius. Opportunities might REvisit us. Our dreams can be REvitalized. We might also feels REstless…ok I cheated on that one, but its true. Overall this retrograde is a big picture thinker. First he’s practical, then he lets loose a bit and REminds us to dream. Despite my electrical issues, I feel good about this retrograde. So don’t be afraid to feel hopeful and optimistic! (This week’s scopes I will talk about Mercury in Capricorn. I'll talk about the 2nd half of the retrograde in a couple weeks, because about halfway through, Merc will slide back into Sagittarius.)
There is a lot of healing available to humanity between now and the end of this year. Lean into it! We all should!
I have to touch on some interesting numerology as well. Obviously we are in the 12th month, but check out these other 12’s:
- Moon conjunct Mars at 12° of Sagittarius
- The New Moon on 12/12
- Mercury Retrograde on 12/12 (Pacific time)
- Mercury Retrograde ends on 1/2 (1/2/24, and 24 is 12x2)
- Mercury enters Sag on 12/24
- The 12 days of Xmas…(ok maybe a stretch, but that does begin the day after Mercury enters Sag…)
- 12 according to DV’s Angel numbers is hope and faith and thinking positively. In traditional numerology defines 12 as positive changes, new beginnings, and harmony, as well as growth, creative thinking, clear expression, patience, open-mindedness, autonomy, independence, self-reliance, collaboration, hope, and energy.
- The 12th card in the Tarot is the hanged man, which challenges us to look at things differently and change our perspective.
So I think this planetary dance in December could be really good for us and bring us HOPE.
For Scopes, I will look at where both of these events land for each sign. Might call this week's scopes “GrinchScopes”. Like the Grinch, perhaps we can all experience an expansion in our hearts. So maybe they are really HopeScopes…hmmm. It is really offputting when I start out pissed off and then end up all optimistic and shit. Dream big, bitches.