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...