On Monday the 15th, Mars-Uranus and the fixed star Algol are conjunct at 26º Taurus.
We’re in the suffocating grip of a heatwave this week so I walk forest paths in the evenings where Douglas-fir and Redcedar offer shade. In the high sun hours, the birds hide under bushes. My neighbour’s tuxedo cat prefers sleeping under the stairs where we keep our bicyles.
In his poem, The Ridge, Robert Bringhurst writes “heat, like water, earth and air is a thing we have to have. It’s also, like wealth, a thing we mustn’t have too much of.”
Mars conjunct Uranus in Taurus is free roaming fire. The kind that begins with a lightning strike and then grows hungrier for more grass, wildflowers, fir and pine. This feral combo warns us not to act on our impulses.
I asked the cards for guidance for the collective…
The Emperor, the card associated with the zodiac sign of Aries, seeks greater independence and freedom but must wait for the fruit to ripen on the vine or risk failure.
Consider the ways in which you are impatiently reaching for something that is not ready for the taking at this time or,
consider how your compulsions - behavior that is repetitive and difficult to control - prevent you from sitting in the present like a cool-headed monarch.
Mars-Uranus conjunction brings something unexpected or surprising. Look to your Taurus House for clues.
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There are two ways to counter or balance out this incendiary and provocative energy over the weekend. You can dedicate yourself to Venusian things - dancing, decorating, gardening, socializing, poetry, arts and crafts… (Mars and Uranus in Taurus are ruled by Venus) and/or you can do some night gardening under the waxing moon (the Moon currently in Libra also answers to Venus).
Wishing you a weekend of cooling waters, moonlight and music!
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