Aye... This one snuck up on me... I was aware Mercury was going RX soon but time has been going so quick (busy as anything lately) that I totally forgot tonight is Mercury's retrograde station! It's main aspect in my chart is a sextile to Chiron, as well as a rollover of my Moon, so I suppose I should be watching for Chironic emotional stuff; especially since I just had the first hit of the upper Chiron/Chiron square last week, which is quite the major event.
Can't say I've had any MercuryRX-to-blame oddness yet, maybe I'll get a break this time.. The last 2 years or so of Mercury RX cycles have been quite potent for me, so I deserve a break. Heck, the last one retrograded right over my natal Mercury!
Since I'm going to check out this retrograde cycle, I'll do so now and keep typing...
The exact time Mercury flips RX is 04:37:39 GMT and does so at 10Pis13'45
Aspects at RX station:
Quintile Pluto (10 arcmin)
Sextile Moon (50 arcmin)
Semisextile Chiron (1'00 degrees)
Inconjunct Lilith (2'45 degrees, likely a week influence)
Conjunct Uranus (3'21 degrees)
Square Jupiter (5'46 degrees, probably a weak influence)
Major configuration at time of retograde: Saturn apex Venus/Mars yod (max orb: 19 arcmin) -- Limitations/lessons in intimate relationships? Contemplation (Mercury RX) of commitments (Saturn) in intimate relationships (Venus/Mars)? [thoughts of marriage/divorce?] Yod is at 21 degrees Leo(apex)/Cap/Pis.
Midpoints:
No major (0, 90, 180 degree) aspects from Mercury to transiting midpoints
Moon/Chiron midpoint semisquares Mercury (4arcmin)
Saturn/Pluto midpoint sesquiquadrates Mercury (20arcmin)
Some people use the 8th harmonic aspects with midpoints, some don't, and I've yet to decide exactly how important they are...
Sun/Mercury inferior conjunction: 4Pis11'01 @ Feb23 4:45:26 GMT
Aspects at inferior conjunction:
Semioctile Chiron (15arcmin)
Square Vesta (37arcmin)
Major configuration at inferior conjunction:
Pallas conjunct Neptune, Saturn/Neptune opposition at 35arcmin of orb, SA/NE&Pallas opposition tightly T-squared by Moon, max orb 1'07 degrees. A time to reflect (Moon) on the patterns (Pallas) we've encountered through the Saturn/Neptune opposition? T-square is at ~20degrees fixed signs.
Also lines up with one of the (many) hits of the ongoing Neptune/Pluto septile, NE/PL septile @ a single arcmin of orb.
Inferior conjunct falls at midpoint of Moon/Jupiter (51arcmin orb).
As always, but especially under Mercury RX,
Be careful on the roads, my friends