“Once Mercury enters earthily-pragmatic Taurus next Wed May 9, he forms a weeklong grand trine (or benevolently flowing triangle) with now-direct Mars and transformational-agent Pluto in Capricorn. This harmonious convergence of earth-sign energy succeeds a similar grand trine (with Jupiter, rather than Mercury, forming the third point to Mars and Pluto) which occurred in mid-March, while Mars was still at the height of retrograding. As such, it provides an ideal ‘follow-up’ opportunity to wrangle and review the practical strategies necessary for integrating and sustaining the perspectival gains reaped during the past few months.
Despite its corresponding challenges, Mars retrograde served an important purpose by essentially freezing our assertive attentions in one certain area of our birthcharts-and-lives, insisting (through protracted delay and/or unforgiving urgency) we do our damnedest to ‘get it right’ before allowing us to proceed to the next step. Of course, no planetary god will ever force us to strive for such impeccability, to refine our approaches beyond ‘whatever gets the job done’ into sleeker schemes that reserve more of our juice for innovations, expansions and evolutions. We have to do the work ourselves, voluntarily signing on for extra hours on the front-end, in order to rescue our future from the otherwise-squandered time and effort.
The week of May 9-15 offers an excellent window for stability-focused habit-resetting… a time for grounding conversations that reestablish basic goals and values, set clear results-oriented priorities, and turn abstracts into concretes. Take advantage of it, please—you might not get another chance this good to calmly reason things out for quite a while.”
