In these tense, unsettling times of sacred passage, when outer planets appear to slow and retrograde, we prepare to stop, turn back and start facing some of the changes indicted and invited into our society since that fateful SATURN/PLUTO LUNAR ECLIPSE in January.

MERCURY in TAURUS can evoke remnants of the dinosaur mind, which is caught up with the most elemental or basic level of thought.

Outermost Pluto slows to a grinding halt, turning retrograde, and we at once feel an ominous force pushing us to deal with our most intimate, vulnerable, well-repressed secret.