The lesson with Mars retrograde in Cancer and Leo from 2024 - 2025 is to learn to keep calm in the face of perceived personal attacks. There’s no need to cut anyone out completely (flight), nor is there a need to bite someone’s ear off (fight), no matter how badly someone pisses you off.
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When it comes to Venus in Leo? There’s no such thing as gray areas when it comes to Love: you either want me or you don’t. So when Venus moves retrograde in Leo from July 22 - September 3, we’re prone to suffer undue feelings of insecurity in relationships. But if you want to get the most out of this Venus retrograde? Examine your fears or hangups when it comes to Commitment. It’ll be well worth it.
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Where are we being too selfish? Where are we not being selfish enough? This Solar Eclipse in Aries is extreme—but stopping to pause & answer these questions honestly is key, if you want to channel the impulsivity & restlessness of this New Beginning wisely. Otherwise you risk being like Tracy Flick—riding roughshod over others at the expense of doing/getting what we want for ourselves—or, if we convince ourselves our lives are perfect, ending up like Mr. M, rushing unwittingly toward self-destruction.
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Learning to sit with feelings of inertia and indecision that cause us to act out of restlessness, frustration or moments of defeat is the major lesson of Mars’ extra-long transit through Gemini. The trick is to realize that indulging compulsive tendencies to take on more than you can realistically handle will only leave you feeling drained. But if you find yourself constantly frustrated or restricted when it comes to how you spend your time, is it possible that your long-term goals and everyday dealings just don’t align?
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From December 19 - January 29, 2022, Venus will be moving retrograde through the Cardinal Earth sign Capricorn, prompting a compulsive need to deepen connections and, in the process, purge whatever pesky habit patterns, unconscious drives or materialistic expectations that may be sabotaging them.
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The goal here is to better understand the way we engage (or refuse to) when confronted with the pain or perceived neediness of others—and to question whether their neediness is really a projection of our own tendency to codependency. So even though it’s not about manifesting our Manifest Destiny? This Mercury Retrograde in Cancer is an extremely rare opportunity to—no, not manifest—but “do the inner work,” as they say.
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Venus is Retrograde in Gemini from May 13th until June 25th this year—the first time since October - November of 2012. So get ready for a return of not just exes but anyone from the depths of your social or romantic past. But Gemini has what you might call “Shiny Ball Syndrome.” In other words? Their constant mind-changing and chasing greener pastures often costs them, well, many a dime.
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Whether we’re utterly jobless or working remotely, quarantined alone or with significant others, Venus in Gemini + the recent illumination of the Libra Full Moon has turned up the volume, summoning all of our inner Bugaboos. The only question is: What type of Bugaboo are you?
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Astrologer Psychologer March 9th Virgo Full Moon Horoscope: Productivity and Reality (Virgo) versus Escapism and Fantasy (Pisces)…?
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“This too shall pass” is a good phrase for Mercury Retrograde—as neglecting this fact is typically what leads most of us to say or do things we later regret…
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Get rid of that Baggage, Get out of your Comfort Zone & Get Free At Last! But as impulsivity and mixed signals abound., keep in mind that Good Old “Golden Rule”…Oh, and watch out for those sex robots.
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Venus retrograde prompts us to rethink how it is we go about getting what we want, especially when it comes to “love and money.”
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How we express gestures of love and friendship to those you care about (or are interested in) is the dominant theme of this retrograde period. Is that “no one likes me” idea going around in your brain really true…?
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Mars is moving retrograde this Summer. Mars represents new initiatives, our enterprising abilities and overall energy levels. So for everyone, this summer might feel a bit, well, sluggish.
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