Mercury Enters Aries

Mercury enters Aries today, our cue to begin mentally preparing for its upcoming retrograde. Typically, Mercury’s transit through Aries marks a period where our lack of a filter can get us into accidental arguments. We leap to conclusions. Our tone can be belligerent or offensive, provoking misunderstandings, even without a retrograde in the wings.

Now, there’s A LOT going on with this transit. Mercury will enter its pre-retrograde shadow on March 18/19, coinciding with its alignment with the lunar North Node, followed by Chiron. And its retrograde begins on April 1/2, when we will be at the mid-point between two eclipses. So, take the previous themes and crank them up about a dozen notches. Needless to say, we should be EXTRA mindful of what we say and how we say it now and even then, communication breakdowns are inevitable.

So…maybe we should hold our tongues? No. It is imperative that we make our voices heard. The key is to be intentional with our words, and not to leverage them as weapons if we feel backed into a corner or caught in a lie. Chiron’s influence exacerbates assumptions that others will perceive us as ignorant or foolish no matter what we say, which isn’t the case. Fight projections instead of your friends. Speaking from your heart is the entire point.

So…maybe being as honest as possible is the way to avoid blowback? Also no. There is logistically very little likelihood you will not encounter SOME conflict now. Anger and frustration are liberatory agents. Sometimes we have to get really mad with our reality before we become emboldened enough to make a change. The truth is *very much* the mechanism that will set us free here. Besides, we’re better off facing the music than hiding from everyone we know for two months.