Mer­cury sex­tiles Sat­urn today. Mer­cury rules our thoughts, intel­li­gence and com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Sat­urn rules our real­i­ty, respon­si­bil­i­ties, struc­tures and lim­i­ta­tions. The sex­tile between them pro­motes the work­ing out, or more sub­stan­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion, of our ideas, plans and con­cepts that we have been try­ing to bring to fruition.

What were mere­ly hunch­es, con­cepts or ideas have now tak­en on a real­ized form or con­crete real­i­ty. What­ev­er plans, ideas or inspi­ra­tions that were first devel­oped at their last con­junc­tion, (Octo­ber 8, 2010), have now reached a point of clar­i­ty and objec­tive real­i­ty. Sol­id progress can be seen now. We have not com­plet­ed the project or endeav­or, but real progress is visible.

The shap­ing of our thoughts, ideas, plans or a project at this time requires the appro­pri­ate pre­sen­ta­tion of long-dis­tance com­mu­ni­ca­tion and plan­ning, cul­tur­al aware­ness and beliefs. These sen­si­bil­i­ties are being shaped and lim­it­ed by the real­i­ty of the agree­ments, part­ner­ships or rela­tion­ships involved in the mat­ter. Our men­tal life is stead­ied now, though we are rang­ing far, we are also ground­ed by Saturn.

We must pre­pare for Mer­cury and Sat­urn’s next sig­nif­i­cant align­ment, which is the wax­ing square on Jan­u­ary 26, 2011. At that moment we will face a choice and deci­sion about which path to take in the fur­ther devel­op­ment of the idea, project or issue.

The rea­son the next moment in the cycle is so delayed is because Mer­cury will go ret­ro­grade on Decem­ber 10 until Decem­ber 30. That peri­od will pro­vide us with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to reex­am­ine many of our thoughts, plans and ideas before mov­ing for­ward in the New Year. It will, hope­ful­ly, help us to pre­pare for the choic­es we must face at the end of January.