Hang onto your hat!
Mercury + the US Presidential Election = confusion and possibly chaos. Definitely some anxiety.
This week, everything astrological focuses on communication and quick-thinking planet Mercury. Specifically, Mercury’s three-week retrograde finally ends, but he clashes in the sky with “law and order” Saturn both two days before AND three days after.
Mercury butts heads with Saturn on 11/1 AND on 11/6:
Chatty and inquisitive Mercury forms a nasty square with serious, traditional Saturn today (Sunday). Only—because Mercury is still moving backwards right now, and in a couple days will start forward motion again and retrace his steps—Mercury will AGAIN clash with Saturn on Friday.
In our personal lives, expect to have some difficulties with your communication on these days. For example, you might be met with confrontation when you share something authentic to you. (Ahem, that seems to be par for the course these days!) You might also be your OWN worst critic, censoring your own words and not letting your ideas flow, for fear of how they’ll be received.
Another way this cosmic clash might affect us in the “micro” is with our thinking, which Mercury rules. We might find that our take on an issue might be outdated and doesn’t serve us anymore, and this square offers us the chance to upgrade our trains of thought and evolve! We just might have to move through the mucky feeling first, though, which is never pleasant.
On the “macro” level: it doesn’t appear that anything involving communication (having your voice heard), scheduling (polling lines), logistics (making sure your vote gets counted), or clear thinking (I’ll let you interpret that how you will!) will go smoothly on these days, unfortunately. That likely means this US Election Week will have a lot of hiccups, which we already kinda knew.
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Mercury Retrograde Ends on 11/3:
You’ve heard all about Mercury Retrograde from my Weekly Cosmic Forecast a few weeks back…as well as from every astrology source known to man! You already know that since October 13th, it hasn’t been the best time when it comes to scheduling, making agreements, traveling, or even making big and/or electronic purchases, like computers or cars.
And you probably all know how to navigate a Mercury Retrograde by now: if you can, postpone signing contracts or purchases until the retrograde’s over, triple-check your emails/posts/tweets, try to think before your share, and expect things to take longer than usual, or for people to reschedule/cancel/not get back to you in a timely manner.
You also know the beauties of a Mercury Retrograde: reconnecting to projects and people from the past, researching, revising, and revisiting!
Yet, despite the good parts of the Retrograde, most of us still desire for it to end already, and that’s exactly what happens…ON ELECTION DAY!
Before you applaud, do remember that Mercury can act up the WORST at the beginning and end, so it might not exactly FEEL like relief quite yet. And also keep in mind that it’ll take the chatty planet until 11/20 to feel like it’s back to his regular, quick-witted speed. But we all will start to feel relief, especially in one certain area of our lives that’s felt held back lately. (And on a “macro” level, though it may take a while to feel relief, we eventually will.)
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