This week’s skies are fascinating, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.  Things are in an incredibly dynamic, unstable balance.  Nudge it in any one direction and everything comes crashing along with it.  Use that to your advantage.

Last week saw the unlucky triad of Saturn retrograde-Jupiter retrograde-Mercury.  Because of Mercury’s orbit, it’s broken free once but lined up with those two again.  However, Mercury isn’t necessarily bad luck, just “luck” in the uncontrollable chaotic sense.  And while those two other planets are definitely bad luck, there is another alignment through Mercury and in both literal and figurative opposition to those three:  Mercury-Sol-Venus.  So you’ve got light/life/love/luck counterpoised with destruction/abuse/loss/failure.

Liminal places and situations are Big Deals in the various magical traditions (crossroads, seashores, dawn/dusk/midnight, etc) and even though astrology is (obviously) SCIENCE! that is much more concerned with definitive categorization of events (those of you who think you were born on “cusp” days — no, you weren’t.  That’s not actually a thing) even it has to admit that sometimes the act of a celestial transition does have the literal meaning of transition here in the terrestrial world.  All of that is a long preamble to this:  there are three planets shifting between signs this week:  Venus, Mars, and Mercury.  Changes are afoot.  This is a superb time to break bad habits, start good ones, upgrade the strapon harness or the like.  As that famous astrologer said, “Eppur si muove.”

Now it will be up to you to keep this week from collapsing into a shitshow… and the cards think you’re going to fuck it up.  Majorly.

Virgo:  4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

Libra:  The Tower reversed – This is the worst possible draw.  I’m not even going to describe it because it’s too depressing.

Scorpio:  Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.

Sagittarius:  Knight of Coins reversed –  Inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness

Capricorn:  The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness; inspiration

Aquarius:  Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.  But also because of how it was drawn in this particular case it means someone is going to say something nice about you.

Pisces:  The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet

Aries:  10 of Wands  – Oppression, fortune, gain, any kind of success, false-seeming, disguise, perfidy

Taurus:  King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence

Gemini:  Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, speedy intelligence, gold

Cancer:  7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, moreso if you are a lender

Leo:  8 of Wands reversed – Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married