The main event of your week is Friday: Mercury, your ruler, moves into an exact opposition with Saturn at 12:56. That is the conversation in which you are given a condition or a deadline. Unpleasant, and for the first time in a long while, specific.
The mood of the week
The Moon crosses three signs in seven days: Scorpio from Monday 09:45, Sagittarius from Wednesday 19:42, Capricorn from Saturday 07:56. For you that is the sixth, seventh, and eighth houses — from tasks and the body, through the partner, to what is shared and to other people's money.
The Moon waxes all week, from the third lunar day to the ninth. The first quarter comes on Friday at 23:45: Moon at twenty-six degrees of Sagittarius, Sun at twenty-six of Virgo. A first quarter is when the resistance of the material becomes visible.
The Sun runs through the final week of Virgo, from the twenty-second degree to the twenty-eighth. Mercury crosses Libra from six to sixteen degrees, Venus crosses Scorpio from three to six, Mars crosses Cancer from twenty-two to twenty-five.
Four planets are retrograde all week: Saturn at thirteen degrees of Aries, Neptune at four, Uranus at six degrees of Gemini, Pluto at three degrees of Aquarius. Uranus stands in your sign, and its retrograde motion means change is currently running inward rather than outward.
Where it lands for you
Mercury is in your fifth house — creativity, children, infatuation, everything done out of interest. Saturn is in your eleventh — the circle, obligations to a group, shared plans. Their opposition on Friday puts the question plainly: what you want against what you have already promised people.
Venus spends the week in your sixth house, and her square to Pluto on Tuesday arrives from the ninth. That is about routine running into conviction: you do what you must and at some point ask yourself what it is all for.
The Sun in your fourth house keeps the focus on home and family to the end of the week. Its sextile to Mars in your second house on Monday evening is a good moment to sort out domestic money.
Uranus in your first house has been rewriting your idea of yourself all year. This week it takes no exact aspect at all — a rare respite, and worth using simply to live without reinterpreting yourself.
Day by day
Monday the 14th. Before 09:45 the Moon is void — begin nothing. At 05:40 Mercury trined Uranus in your own sign: the thought that arrived this morning is correct. At 14:35 the Moon meets Venus in your sixth house, at 15:16 Pluto squares them. At 23:21 the Sun sextiles Mars.
Tuesday the 15th. At 05:46 the exact Venus-Pluto square — a hard morning. At 17:38 the Moon squares Jupiter in your third: an evening for over-promising in writing.
Wednesday the 16th. A steady day: the Moon trines Mars at 05:32, the Sun sextiles the Moon at 06:31. At 19:42 the Moon leaves for Sagittarius, into your seventh house — the evening turns toward your partner.
Thursday the 17th. The best background of the week: four soft lunar aspects — a sextile to Pluto at 01:25, a trine to Neptune at 02:08, a sextile to Mercury at 18:16, a trine to Saturn at 20:48.
Friday the 18th. A trine to Jupiter at 06:03, Mercury opposite Saturn at 12:56, first quarter at 23:45. The week's principal day.
Saturday the 19th. The Moon is in Capricorn from 07:56, in your eighth house. A square to Neptune at 14:21, a sextile to Venus at 18:29.
Sunday the 20th. The Moon squares Saturn at 09:01 and Mercury at 15:50. The ninth lunar day. Do not plan, do not litigate.
Love and closeness
Wednesday evening and the whole of Thursday are the best stretch of the week. The Moon moves into your seventh house and takes four soft aspects in a row: the conversation runs without resistance and both sides are audible.
Tuesday is the worst day. Venus square Pluto in your sixth turns a domestic complaint into a question of who owes what around here.
On Friday, do not confuse Mercury opposite Saturn with a break. It concerns obligations rather than feelings. If the conversation turns toward you never, bring it back to a specific deadline and a specific task.
Work and money
Monday before noon and the whole of Thursday are the most productive stretches. On Monday Mercury's trine to Uranus is working: the unusual move finds itself.
Friday is when terms get named. Mercury opposite Saturn rarely brings a yes, but it almost always brings definition: a deadline, a budget, a boundary. Write it down rather than argue.
Questions of other people's money — debts, shares, loans — move to Saturday, when the Moon enters your eighth house. Before that the conversation will be emotional rather than substantive.
Health and energy
Venus and the Moon in your sixth house early in the week point directly at the body: Monday and Tuesday are good days to book an appointment or start a regime.
The waxing Moon lifts you toward midweek. Wednesday and Thursday are the best days for load.
Friday and Sunday are the days of nervous depletion: Mercury's opposition and square to Saturn always hit a Gemini's sleep and head. Limit screens in the evening, especially on Sunday.
How this week differs from last
Last week ran on a waning Moon and ended at the new Moon: everything was closing and nothing was starting. This one is entirely waxing — what begins now survives to the end of the month.
The second difference is specificity. Last week had almost no exact aspects between planets; this week has three: Mercury trine Uranus, Venus square Pluto, Mercury opposite Saturn. A week with events rather than moods.
What not to confuse
Mercury's trine to Uranus on Monday gives a correct thought; the opposition to Saturn on Friday gives a hard condition. The temptation will be to decide that Friday cancels Monday. It does not: one concerns direction, the other timing. The direction is right; the timing will have to move.
On Mercury in your fifth house, specifically
Your ruler stays in Libra until early October, which means the whole month it is in your fifth house. A rare and pleasant placement: you are interested, you write easily, you meet people easily. The month's constraint is exactly what shows up on Friday: the fifth house wants to play, the eleventh wants the promise kept. This week shows where that line runs, and the next two weeks are about holding it.
What to do this week
Write down the thought that arrives on Monday morning. And on Friday, instead of arguing, write down the deadline you are given.
