Mercury enters Taurus at 18.05 UT

The winged messenger god loses some of his outspoken honesty and intuitive insight as he moves from fiery, forthright Aries into the more stable sign of Taurus.

In Taurus he gains a more thoughtful and thorough side to his nature. This is a Fixed, Earth sign which checks the details and gets things finished.

A patience and persistence now creeps into how we think and communicate as we understand that there is a process, that things must be mulled over and that not everything will necessarily be shared.

We may be more focussed on our finances and practical matters generally – these are ruled by Taurus. Or we could begin to obsess about food and how to create delicious meals to nourish our bodies.

Nature and the senses are important to Taurus as is the quality of our life on this planet. This could be the moment we decide to join Greenpeace or take practical steps to grow our own food and increase our food security.

Perhaps we start a cookery or gardening blog.

Whatever we do as Mercury enters this profoundly embodied sign, our ideas and communications first encounter a challenge from Pluto in Aquarius.

Pluto always insists we dig more deeply and we may need to rethink some of our preconceived ideas in the light of new information.

What ideologies or opinions need to be shaken up or reassessed? It’s worth a thought.

More globally, there may well be even more hidden stuff to be unearthed about financial institutions or the damage we are doing to the planet we live on. Mercury the Herald is confronting the god of the underworld and endeavouring to bring it to light.

Nightingale pic; Wikicommons

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