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Monday, Aug. 22, 2005

THE WEEK AHEAD looks a little calmer than we've been used to, with the Full Moon having passed. Assuming you still have your job and still have some friends, you ought to be getting along better with them now. However, we are still under the lingering influence of what seems like the longest Mercury-Mars square in galactic history, as Mercury is still stationing in early Leo square Mars in mid-Taurus. If I recall correctly, that aspect is exact on Aug. 26, with Mercury opposite Neptune in Aquarius.

Mars is now in shadow phase -- that is, it has entered the degrees where it will be retrograde later this year. This commences events surrounding its once-per-two-years retrograde. Interesting to note that Mars stations Rx on Oct. 2, just before an eclipse of the Sun on Oct. 3 at the Libra New Moon. That first week of October is super duper interesting, and October itself will have all the properties of the "venturi effect" that comes with eclipses. But we're a little ahead of ourselves.

Today the Moon is in Aries, and reaches last quarter Friday, Aug. 26 -- the same day that Mercury and Mars make their last exact square.

The Sun enters Virgo later today, or very early Tuesday, depending on your time zone -- anyway, about 12 hours from now, and it's about 1 pm in Paris.

Here's my article on Virgo from last year to get you started contemplating this unusually interesting sign of the Goddess.

http://planetwaves.net/astrology/virgoastrology.html

Carry on, cousins.

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