August 30/31: Mercury retrograde conjunct galaxy M100 emphasizes the critical sense, enhances clarity and favors insights

      No tropical zodiac degree symbolizes more clarity than the last degree of Virgo, a zodiac sign that places great attention to detail. In addition, Mercury is at the midpoint Mars / Pluto, suggesting that the critical sense and the pursuit of clarity can trigger discomfort and conflict in daily life as well as plenty of perfectionistic activity. However, it is possible to channel this trend in a constructive way: M100 is a very symmetrical galaxy, of "Grand Design", and thus encourages artistic creation, harmony, balance. Great idea may arise, as well as excellent strategies that can be structured during the next three weeks of the Mercurial backwards movement, which ends on September 21st ... Thanks to Mercury's station over M100, it is possible to materialize great artistic achievements, and bring harmony to internal and external spaces.

            M100 represents the possibility of great introspection, too, since it has 5 detected supernovae, whose intense X-ray radiation suggests looking beyond the surface... When galaxies contain many supernovae, as in the case of M100, they become an indicator of awakenings, insight, and mental growth, emphasizing curiosity and research. Thus, for  some, Mercury's station will represent the need to investigate, psychoanalyze, question, think deeply, while others will apply this trend in the practical sense to achieve greater harmony around them. It would be a waste to let this trend manifest through an exaggerated and aggressive critical sense ... If there is criticism, let it be constructive and harmonious! It's in our hands not to let our clarity be tarnished by aggressiveness during the next weeks...

      May you have a very constructive Mercury retrograde!


   Carlos Duarte
   Research Astrologer

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