This week's Starcodes - Heather Roan Robbins

Starcodes April 23 2010 Heather Roan Robbins

The past speaks to us this week. A client said: “Who knew that tripping down memory lane could be such a dusty, grimy process?”


Mental Mercury retrogrades April 17 until May 10. Mercury retrogrades three times a year for three weeks and makes it hard to progress but a great time to review. Sure is slows us down, snafus communications and transportation (a la Icelandic Volcano) and can be mightily inconvenient on the down side, but it also brings up the past to help us finish old work. It can be a really funny time if we’re not caught in the rubble, because it is laced with slapstick, but it can be a real pain if you’re writing on deadline or trying to stick to an agenda.

This time Mercury retrogrades in stable, earthy Taurus, which gives us some clues as the problem we face and how to handle them. The Icelandic volcano slows down travel precisely because it throws earth into the air, that’s not where it belongs, but can provide a very literal metaphor; our thoughts need to stay grounded and steady and we need to build rather get lost in the swirling flotsam.

The earth’s crust will probably continue to dance this week all around the ring of fire as Saturn perfects an opposition to Uranus, the fourth of five times they do so in this major era-shifting transit. Our complacently may be shaken for better or worse. Work that began in November of 2008, when this transit began, now cranks up a notch. We are asked to break out of routines and question our assumptions, question structures of authority, but may feel insecure as we let go of old ways before we feel a new form take shape. It’s not that the old form has changed, but that we have grown and changed shape and need to shift in relationship to it. Just like the shifting tectonic plates.

The Sun and Mercury both trine Pluto this week, and encourage us to look at the hard stuff and be inspired to make our life and world better. Some bittersweet or sad perfume, a lingering aura of loss or struggle can either just depress us, entrench us, or help us let go of inconsequentialities and get back to what matters. By assessing what really happened in a past experience we can learn ad make improvements for the future. This could encourage efforts towards a major financial systems reform. It nudges us to drop our pride and stubbornness, because it won’t solve any problems, and step into the place beyond right and wrong.

Delays pile up when we wait for the last minute; if a situation snarls up, slow down ever further, unknot the problem and keep a steady rhythm. If it’s hard to express oneself, get poetic and use tactile metaphors. Mercury in Taurus needs beauty as well as practicality. If longing stirs the soul, move the body and feed the senses in a healthy way, Taurus is tactile. If an argument starts, hold ground if needed but don’t push, nothing moves a mountain or Mercury in Taurus; instead seduce with a shared vision or plant seeds that will ripen later into a healthy crop.

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