Clear Thinking! Finally, Mercury Stations Direct & The Queen of Swords
Daily Horoscope Check-In for Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Okay, let’s get into…the astrology
Well, here we are, the day that Mercury in Aries finishes his retrograde! I always love it when Mercury stations direct because then all the electronics in my house stop glitching, LOL!
One of the random tech glitches that I experienced during this Mercury retrograde was my car alarm just suddenly going off whenever it felt like it! We would be minding our own business in the house and then we’d hear it going off in the driveway, for no apparent reason! This happened several times and since I’ve only owned my van for a little less than a year, it has never happened before.
Another day during Mercury’s retrograde, the automatic sliding doors on my mini-van just decided to stop working, but only for the one hour I was out doing errands. They worked when I loaded my kids into and out of the car at home, but while we were out they would not open automatically! It was the weirdest thing. They’ve been fine ever since that day, working with no issues.
Anyway, if you have any interesting or amusing Mercury retrograde stories, we’d love to hear them. Please feel free to share in the comments!
Today’s Transits
Mercury stations direct at 8:54 am ET (about ten minutes from when I am writing this!). Early this morning the Moon in Scorpio made two important oppositions, first to Uranus and then Jupiter, both in Taurus. She is also on her way to forming trines to Mars and Neptune in Pisces this afternoon and evening, after which she will ingress into the optimistic and hopeful sign of Sagittarius at 9:36 pm ET.
For today’s horoscope, I’d like to look at the Mercury stationing direct chart, but before we do that, let’s sort out the meaning of what the Moon is doing today.
The Moon in Scorpio is passionate, driven, and fixated on how she feels deep down. The Moon in Scorpio is a very fertile place, for even though she is in her fall, Scoprio is a fertile sign that through death brings new life. The opposition to Uranus and Jupiter could bring interesting, exciting, or surprising elements to us right now, that test our emotional strength. Jupiter and Uranus are building, creating, and nurturing things, but perhaps in a shocking way. We may have to surrender to the changes that are taking place.
The Moon making trines to Mars and Neptune reflect this physical, emotional, and spiritual surrender to the natural cycles of life and death, whether those are literally being expressed right now or metaphorically represented, we are being asked to release our hold on something and allow it to flow freely, like water flowing down a mountain, taking the path of least resistance, but at the same time carving and shaping as it goes.
Now, let’s take a look at the chart of Mercury’s station direct.
Mercury Stations Direct in Aries
You can see Mercury on the left-hand side of the chart at about the 10 o’clock position. He has met up with the North Node at 15°, refrained from a contra-antiscia to Saturn (which acts as a hidden opposition), and is now looking forward again. Forward to another conjunction to Chiron coming up on May 6, 2024 (thinking about wounds that need healing), forward to leaving the post-retrograde shadow period on May 13, 2024 (you can see this in the graphic below of Mercury’s retrograde in Aries 2024), forward to a conjunction to Uranus in Taurus on May 31, 2024 (surprising news!), and finally another conjunction to Venus on June 17, 2024 in Cancer (desires of the mind and body align). So, there are lots of things on the horizon for Mercury, as there always are! He is the fastest planet after all!
Mercury is stationing direct in the same sign (Aries), and therefore house of your natal birth chart, where he stationed retrograde back on April 1, 2024. You can revisit the Horoscopes that I wrote for this Mercury Retrograde to get an idea of the topics of your life that may have been activated.
It's also nice that for a few days we have all the planets direct again! This won’t last long, though, because Pluto is slowing down to station retrograde on May 2, 2024. That means that for the next week, we have a lot of forward-moving energy, so it is a good time to get things done! The next planet to station retrograde will be Saturn on June 29, 2024, at 19° Pisces, so we have a little bit more time before things start to slow way down.
What have you learned during this Mercury retrograde in Aries? What did you re-think, revise, rework, or reorganize? I would love to know!
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Let’s see what the cards have to say…
What is the guidance for Mercury’s station direct today?
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