(Tidy Up) Queen for a Day
Moon is in Virgo + it's Mercury's day: It's a double-good day to increase Mercury's superpower of discriminating intelligence & love of details by using them like we meant it.
it's wednesday, july 2, & moon is in virgo, in the starspace (pie slice of virgo sky) called hastā. virgo is where we get real about our finances & health & home, take inventory & make to-do lists to wrest order out of the chaos, tidy up our lives. virgo is ruled by detail-oriented & logical mercury. perhaps not surprisingly, marie kondo, the tidy-up queen, has both sun & mercury in virgo (where he is exalted)* & her mercury is tightly conjunct the sun—i.e., combust, which both hones her mercurial superpowers & intensifies them. ya think?
is your gym routine useful or beautiful—i.e., is it giving you the results you desire &/or do you love it? do your finances need a tweak? is your desk a sea of scraps & scribbles, piled with notebooks & legal pads & books, littered with papers that need filing or tossing? (yes, gotta cop to that!) are you long overdue for acupuncture, the dentist, a skin check?
with thinky mercury in feely cancer for the foreseeable future, we will have to work harder to be discriminating, not get emotionally waylaid as we try to separate the wheat from the chaff, check to-dos off. marie also has an exalted saturn, giving her steadiness of purpose, & a powerful venus, hewing her toward beauty. you can too!
hastā gives us the power (shakti) to gain what we are seeking & place it in our hands (our hastas). to literally &/or metaphorically use our hands as vehicles for the divine. to write, give massages, paint (tidy up!). to heal ourselves & others through our creative expression.
it's the eighth lunar day (tithi), the eighth phase of the waxing moon, which means the moon looks like a black & white cookie & we may feel like we're toggling between our bright side & our dark side, showing one then the other. we are not one or the other, but both/&. how can you accept & thus harmonize the complexity that is you?
wednesday is mercury's day. mercury, planet of communication & discriminating intelligence, likes to use his brain & is a fun guy. if you want more of that, give mercury what he wants:
• do a jigsaw puzzle
• play wordle (or go old school with scrabble)
• solve a crossword
• tell jokes &/or watch a comedy
• journal
• learn a new skill
TL;DR
your mantra for today: is it useful or beautiful? • get hand-y. • accept & harmonize what you think is the good, the bad & the ugly about yourself—in truth, it’s all beautiful, it all informs the uniqueness of you. • build your mercury muscle by solving puzzles & cracking jokes.
* i couldn't find an accurate birth time for her, so don't know what her rising sign is, thus not which house virgo is for her, but sun & merc in virgo says it all (not to mention exalted saturn & powerful venus)!
& that’s your daily bliss! IN-joy! 🌓🙏✨
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