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First off I want to mention the Mercury phase change – yes, it’s here again!! It happens every 4 months, but does seem to come around somewhat faster than that. For further information on Mercury stations and apparent retrograde motion, please see my archive for the explanatory article which will clarify it for you.

This time, Mercury, ruler of the market place and communication sits at the mid-twenties of Libra and refuses to leave until beginning November.

When Mercury is retrograde, instead of the usual 3 weeks zip through each sign, it concentrates and focuses the energies of the particular sign he spends his sojourn. This then impacts through all the other signs, particularly his own Gemini and Virgo, by both position and rulerships, which I will take into account for each sign below.

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Libra, the flavour of this next year is marked by Venus, planet of beauty and love and incidentally, your ruling planet (could you guess?) changing her mind and deciding to stay put in Aries from February until June 2009. As she does, she has an on/off relationship with Mars that started just last September and which will continue throughout the summer months. These are THE relationship planets, Venus doing the attractive desire stuff and Mars providing the oomph. And Aries is the sign of relationships of all kinds for Libra, so when Venus takes up a long term residence there, then all thoughts turn to love. However, these two planets are all fire and air – hot words and passionate communicating. It’s not until they meet again in solid Taurus mid- June, that things can be put on some kind of firm footing.

Now Libra – come back to earth- that’s for the future! Here in October – Mercury is in your face for the next 6 weeks – communications, deals and negotiations of all kinds are the order of the month for you. It really is a case of now it works, now it doesn’t – with a lot of uncertainty around your effectiveness both socially and financially. During this time there will be possible opportunities to study or travel that may impact on your longer term future – and it’s your choice. However, some of the opportunities may make more demands on you than you would wish. This is the tricky aspect of Mercury – it really gets you wavering – decisions, decisions!! Just bite the bullet and do it anyway.

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NB – The readings below can either be read from your Sun Sign – ie your birthday – or your Ascendant sign, which is calculated from your birth time. Try also reading it from your Moon Sign, as Hindu astrologers suggest. 

Please note that this year is a Leap year, which means that a day has been added to the calendar. So, you may notice that the beginning and end dates in some cases are a day earlier than usual.  

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Aries : 21st March – 20th April With Mercury occupying your house of relationships it is an interesting proposition for you as you are not usually so focused on other people. The see-sawing of this position brings people in and out over this next few weeks – and you will have to make choices about who you want in your life and who you can let go of. The pressure is put on by the New Moon in the same area of life – relationships could really give you headaches as you will be trying to keep too many people happy at the same time – and you know it can’t be done. You have to put yourself in the mix as well and get some kind of routine going before you are snowed under. One way of relieving the pressure is to  take a few days out – a weekend break with someone special, for example. This will regenerate all your energies and give some attention where it’s most needed.  

Taurus: 19th April – 20th May Mercury’s rulership of both your house of personal finances and your house of creativity brings these two themes together. One way of reading that is to suggest that you may earn money through some creative project that uses your gifts and talents. Another is to warn against being too creative in how you spend your money – Mercury changing direction can take as well as bring financial rewards.  It’s up to you. The New Moon in your house of coworkers and office routines can possibly put you under some stress as you will be head down fulfilling deadlines. Just make sure that you take time out to eat properly, sleep your full complement of hours and do some exercise as well. You may decide to let go of one of your projects in order to claw back some quality time – this will inevitably improve your attitudes to life – luckily it’s just for a few weeks. 

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