Warn­ing! …Triple Con­junc­tion ahead. Sun­day evening into Mon­day evening could prove to be one of the more intense peri­ods of this month. Three plan­ets are lin­ing up with one anoth­er. All three effects will be felt simul­ta­ne­ous­ly as they align with­in min­utes of one anoth­er Mon­day night.

Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade and so is com­ing back over Plu­to as it did on Decem­ber 5th. Mer­cury is like­wise align­ing with Mars again as it did on Novem­ber 20th. Look back and see what was hap­pen­ing on those dates, there will prob­a­bly be a con­nec­tion with what hap­pens now. At this time, with the ret­ro­grade influ­ence, each con­tact is turned inward and inten­si­fied. The les­son is more per­son­al, the effect more deeply felt.

The Mer­cury align­ment to Plu­to helps us to have much more insight into our own think­ing and that of oth­ers. But the con­trol issues of Plu­to will have to be con­front­ed now as regards our way of think­ing about author­i­ty. We should always see these times as oppor­tu­ni­ties for greater self-aware­ness and per­son­al growth. But that often comes about through some chal­lenge thrown down by oth­ers. The chal­lenge here will con­cern some­thing to do with Author­i­ty; we can­not force an idea mere­ly because our posi­tion gives us pow­er to do so. And like­wise, those in a supe­ri­or posi­tion to our own should not try and force their ideas upon us.

The Mer­cury align­ment to Mars speeds every­thing up. We might say some­thing, or say it in a way, we will lat­er regret. Fast and agile think­ing is admired, hasty and angry speech is not. An intel­li­gent mind is agile, with a facil­i­ty to chal­lenge assump­tions, (includ­ing one’s own). But with Mars spurring Mer­cury, we might become eas­i­ly hurt and angered, and pass on our pain by being mean or curt to anoth­er. Instead, we should turn the “thought­less” ener­gy around and impart to it a true sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty; and, that what we must respon­si­ble to is how we care one another.

Mars con­junct Plu­to com­pletes our triple play and reveals the deep­er lev­els of what is mov­ing us now. Plu­to rules our willpow­er; Mars rules our desires and actions. Com­bine them togeth­er and we can (by will­ing) do any­thing. The impos­si­ble is pos­si­ble now. We will win the competition.

But what might be the price? We might win the bat­tle but lose the cause. Our wield­ing of any pow­er must be in ser­vice to its source. If we become too full of our­selves, too full of our pow­er, we will prob­a­bly mis­use it and bring about unwant­ed reper­cus­sions. We will fail and fall.

Mars and Plu­to in Capri­corn com­bine now to illus­trate that we must acknowl­edge our duty; that our use of pow­er must be exer­cised in order to serve and ful­fill our respon­si­bil­i­ties. By so doing, the exer­cise of pow­er is guid­ed by hon­or­ing what we stand upon with one anoth­er, our cul­tur­al and spir­i­tu­al her­itage. We will and must use our pow­er to cre­ate, not destroy.

We are here to act with regard for one anoth­er so that we might ful­fill our des­tinies with each oth­er. We must wield pow­er so as to pro­tect and pre­serve what has been passed down to us by those who came before, as we must now pass it on to those who fol­low. Act now in order to hon­or the val­ues and tra­di­tions that form the foun­da­tion of your life. It is your duty.