MERCURY AND VENUS FOLLOW EACH OTHER INTO ARIES

From Water to Fire…from emotion to inspiration.

It’s time to wake up as Mercury and Venus both leave dreamy Pisces (where Sun, Neptune and Chiron are still transiting) for daring and wilful Aries, a Cardinal Fire sign. Empathy and dreams morph into intuition and action.

Mercury the planet of thought, ideas, pranks and motion moves onto more solid ground as he leaves the sign of his detriment and fall and enters the more wilful sign of Aries on the 6^th of March where he could act like an unruly child. Here, the planet will stay longer than usual since the Mercury retrograde period falls in Aries from 22^nd March to 14^th April.

Mercury in Aries is rather impulsive both in movement and speech, a great time for voicing your ideas but careful about quarrelling, acting irrationally or moving too fast because mishaps and accidents could occur especially when Mercury squares Saturn in Capricorn on the following dates: Mercury direct at 8° on 11^th March, Rx on 4^th April at 9° and again on 25^th April with Mercury direct and Saturn Rx. Even more caution will be required on the 12^th of May when Mercury, just before its conjunction to disruptive Uranus, squares Mars in Capricorn at 28°.

Other aspects with the outer planets are: Square Pluto Rx at 21° on 6^th May and conjunct Uranus at 29° on 13^th May.

The very next day (7^th March), Venus, the planet of values (what WE value and desire), love and finances, follows Mercury into the sign of Aries leaving the sign of her exaltation to enter that of her detriment where she is at least at ease in her surroundings to become the warrior goddess.

In Aries, Venus is in her mythical lover’s den (one of them, the other being in Scorpio). Venus in Aries is full of bravado, actually she always gets what she wants in any sign, but her she’s more open and adventurous in Aries, sexual, but perhaps not sensuous, and certainly not “comfy” here.

So, since Venus deals with values of some kind we might want to acknowledge that these include our self-esteem too. In fact, there is a lovely observation in the book “Planets” edited by Joan McEvers which quotes astrologer Robert Glasscock as stating:

“The glyph we use for Venus in astrology resembles a hand-mirror”

continuing “what you value is a reflection of who you are so what we love is a reflection of ourselves”. Isn’t that a lovely way of conveying one of Venus’s meanings?

During the stay in Aries, Venus will make the following aspects to the outer planets:

Square Saturn at 8° on 13^th March, square Pluto at 21° on 24^th March and conjunct Uranus at 27° on 29^th March.

“…our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes” T. Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Are you ready to defend yourself?

Bibliography

McEvers J., (1989), Planets, ‘Venus’, p. 129, Llewellyn Publications, St Paul, MN, USA

Images: Aries Fire, Istock, Post-modern birth of Venus by Flora Borsi, a Hungarian artist, Aries Zodiac Sign (Pintarest)

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