Djwhal Khul here. Tashi Delek.
Alright. Well, probably the most significant thing this week is the Mercury Retrograde on August 30 which will kind of boomerang a little bit with the Uranus Retrograde that is currently in place.
So I see maybe some troubles with electronics and that sort of thing and perhaps also just at the beginning of the retrograde a little more confusion in general. Things getting scrambled and what not.
Henry Seltzer – The astrology of April features Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Coming off the twin eclipses of March, this month’s astrology might seem a bit tame by comparison, being in large part about slowing down and taking stock. Those potent configurations of the previous month featured the active presence of the outer planets, most notably Uranus and Pluto, still in their storied square alignment and highlighted by the Jupiter-Saturn square that peripherally aspected them both.
In mid-April, both Pluto and Mars turn retrograde, to join in the recent retrograde motion of Saturn, while by month’s end we have the second period this year (out of four) of Mercury in its retrograde mode, still in Earth signs. This time it’s Taurus. Later this year, Mercury will retrograde in Virgo during September, and in Capricorn from mid-December to January.
With Mars, in mid-month, stationing to retrograde motion, and with Saturn also now in retrograde, both in close parallel to a stationing Pluto, April is a month of stop-and-go; mostly stop. Mars symbolizes forward motion, and when in retrograde, and additionally in connection with a relatively stationary Saturn and Pluto, there is loss of forward momentum and a corresponding increase in introspection. We might be inclined to dwell on the past, as well as on the potential to learn from our successes, and even more importantly from our mistakes; and these can be valuable lessons.
That is not the whole story, however. There is also in these April skies a strong presence of Jupiter and Uranus, and these two planets are all about leaving the past behind. The April 7th New Moon conjuncts Uranus, in close conjunction also with the new planet, Eris, which greatly emphasizes his presence.