Anoth­er Triple Play! This time you have Mer­cury, Mars and Plu­to danc­ing with one anoth­er. That’s a potent com­bi­na­tion, Mind-Action-Will, so how do you make the most of this energy?

Mars in Tau­rus com­bined with Plu­to in Capri­corn favors great accom­plish­ments along mean­ing­ful lines. You are not the­o­riz­ing here, you are build­ing some­thing strong, some­thing sub­stan­tial and, of course, it has to be prac­ti­cal. Mars, who is act­ing for mate­r­i­al man­i­fes­ta­tion now, is here shaped by the will of Plu­to and so guid­ed towards achieve­ment that is trans­for­ma­tion­al. What­ev­er seemed impossible…well, now you will make it hap­pen! Today is the day you make a breakthrough…so go for it!

Mer­cury in Tau­rus comes along next. Now it’s your mind that is being mold­ed by the Will of Plu­to. You have a more laser-like pow­er of per­cep­tion. Nor­mal­ly, you accept the sur­face appear­ances of the mat­ter at hand, and why not; today you are strip­ping away the appar­ent to dis­cov­er the under­ly­ing lay­ers of real­i­ty (or truth). The ques­tion then becomes, now that you know that inner truth, that hid­den secret, what will you do with it?

You will be very pow­er­ful in your com­mu­ni­ca­tions today, but will you be wise too? Some­times a dis­cov­ery, or an insight, or secret, is for you to know. The oth­er par­ty may not be ready to receive it just yet. As in all things, con­sid­er whether it is wise to offer up your new under­stand­ing; always remem­ber, first do no harm.

Which brings us to align­ment num­ber 3, which is Mer­cury com­ing across Mars. Okay, you bet­ter watch out, take a deep breath, and con­sid­er what you should say, (and how you should say it). Your mind is eager, excit­ed and burst­ing with ener­gy. Yes, you are think­ing faster, but that does not mean you are right or that you should just let it out. Do not allow excite­ment and eager­ness to lead you into “foot in mouth” syn­drome. And remem­ber, oth­ers are just as eager and excit­ed as you are, so do not let things spin out of control.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is not a com­pe­ti­tion, it is about under­stand­ing; it should not be seen as a win/lose sce­nario. That is not how you advance your aware­ness or raise con­scious­ness. Just look at that word, “con­scious­ness”. It real­ly means Togeth­er (Con), Know­ing (Scious­ness). The growth of your under­stand­ing and con­scious­ness is depen­dent upon you com­bin­ing your thoughts with oth­ers so that you can cre­ate a more com­plete viewpoint.

The com­bi­na­tion of Mer­cury and Mars will cer­tain­ly speed up your mind and speech. Just make sure that the eager­ness to com­mu­ni­cate is rec­i­p­ro­cal; the most impor­tant fac­tor in being a great com­mu­ni­ca­tor is in being a real­ly good listener.