angstoic.com Astrologer, Ang Stoic

Mercury turns retrograde in an air sign in all three instances this year, indicating that the dissemination of many ideas currently circulating requires critical rethinking and review. On each occasion, in January, May and October, our 'messenger god' dips back into an earth sign before turning direct into air again. Is Mercury trying to ground an idea before going ahead with it, or is he trying to bury it?

Of all the signs, the impact of a Scorpio lunation coincides with the most intensely personal, emotionally longest-lasting endings, deaths and transitions in our lives, for it is in this fixed-watery sign that the Moon is at its utmost detriment (fall), where emotional experiences are concentrated, condensed and intensified...

In this special pre-eclipse episode, Ang delineates how current energies are pressing us to determine the source of our most unpleasant emotions and how to work on bringing them to a manageable, neutral place...

Empowering Horoscope Messages for the Scorpio Lunar Eclipse - Monday, May 16, 04:16 UTC

JUPITER storms into Aries where, fanned by double fire through this constellation, he will wreak his self-styled quest for law and justice, sparing little or no mercy about what he feels is morally right. Regardless of where you stand, prepare to get into new territory, be it physically or intellectually or both...

On this first-quarter moon phase, we are squarely in the energetic slump between these two eclipses and while thoughts may stray to those less fortunate, runaway egos and enlivened spirits can make even the most depressed people come alive.

PLUTO is now retrograde, and in the next month MERCURY and SATURN too; JUPITER enters ARIES, tapping URANUS and a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE in Scorpio - all happening now and up for discussion. Join us here on the COSMIC BUS.

Eclipse time, and one can sense that our lives are all on the precipice of an emerging new world order. Or is it merely 'old world disorder'?

Eclipses are cosmic wildcards that often coincide with the introduction of new people and events in our lives capable of changing our fate dramatically...