Rocket Ship Week – Forecast

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Uranus turned direct yesterday after being retrograde since the beginning of July. Finally, for a few precious days, every planet is moving forward. The new moon this weekend puts us at the beginning of a new lunar cycle, and this new moon was in Sagittarius– perfect for beginning new adventures.

Mercury turns retrograde early Friday morning (4:06am PST / 1206 GMT), so the best use of this energy is to generate awesome momentum for the next four days, then shift gears on Friday and either:

• look through your older ideas and projects for things you can incorporate and people you can recontact, or

• let your neat new thing incubate for a few weeks until Mercury goes direct, picking it back up at the end of the year and making a new push with the next new moon on January 4th.

If Mercury is retrograde in your own chart, you get a free pass and can make a lot of progress before the end of the year. I know, right? You may not be used to the idea of a natal Merc Rx being an asset, but these periods where everyone is running around fearing that the sky will fall? These can be some of your most productive times of the year.

Monday 12/6

Today is a busy transit day, plus we’re all getting our footing back after Uranus turned direct yesterday afternoon. Ideas are flowing, and so are opinions and half-baked thoughts. Don’t let other people’s stuff get stuck to you, and hold on to any money-generating, particularly creative, or make-things-happen ideas. Don’t act on them today, though, and you may not feel like talking about anything tonight. Don’t start any fights, just go to bed early if it’s getting to you.

If you had a particularly rocky week last week, either Uranus fell on a sensitive part of your chart, or you have a lot of Mercury/Gemini/Virgo being twanged by the approaching Merc retrograde. Ride it out today, and focus on using this week to get reoriented so you don’t get knocked off your feet over the next few weeks.

Tuesday 12/7

This is a great day for taking care of business. Sun sextile Saturn, three planets in Capricorn (plus the north node) and Mars also moves into Capricorn later in the afternoon. It’s a good day to evaluate yesterday’s new idea-sprouts and see which ones might turn into something realistic.

You may get more frustrated as the day goes on, so if that’s the case don’t get caught up in the “look out for number one” side of Capricorn.

Wednesday 12/8

This is a great day to ask for help with your (better) ideas, and a good day to offer other people help. You can cover a lot of ground today, but remember to knock off for the evening when the moon goes void of course at 5:07p PST. Reward your full workday by kicking back and watching a movie, going to dinner, or taking a bath. Or, since Capricorn is a conservative sign, you can don that old smoking jacket and break out the habanos.

Thursday 12/9

Today is a very light day, transit-wise, and you will be more able to see the long-range path of the new stuff you’re cranking along on. If you’re a Mercury-ruled person, you might feel like things are already going haywire today, so focus more on making sure you have your house in order for the next few weeks. Is your data backed up? Do you have task lists so ongoing projects can stay on track? Practice writing everything down- you’ll need it for the rest of the month.

Friday 12/10

Mercury turns retrograde early in the morning, but the aspects for today and tomorrow are all positive. Don’t let the doom-and-gloom interpretations get you down; use this time to revive old ideas, reconnect with people you miss (need an excuse? It’s the holidays!), revisit old materials, ebooks, and resources you might have bought but not used effectively enough, and recharge your internal batteries.

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As for me, I’m “lucky” enough to have Mercury retrograde by birth, but I’m in the last pass of Neptune (foggy/ethereal energy) opposing my Mars (action and capacity), so my projects will have to involve more imagining and less “making things happen” if I’m going to get anywhere. It’s important to work with your current situation instead of fighting it, else you’ll wear yourself out and have nothing to show for all that effort.

Happy rocket-ing!