Mercury approaching Jupiter in Leo · Mercury opposition Saturn ℞ in Aries

Mercury's day, mostly. The applying sextile to Jupiter, still fast in Leo, is the useful piece: conversations opening outward, the right person answering the email, a proposal that sounds more plausible today than it did yesterday. Meanwhile Mercury is pulling away from an opposition to Saturn retrograde in Aries, and though the aspect is separating, its residue is worth naming. What saves it is reception: Saturn exalts Mercury, which means the criticism, if it comes, arrives from someone who actually respects the work. That is a very different weather than plain opposition, and I'd trust the correction.

Venus in Scorpio, in detriment, is walking out of a square to Pluto. Whatever the intensity was earlier this week, negotiation, jealousy, a conversation that got denser than intended, it is losing pressure now rather than gaining it. I'd note it and move on.

The Moon is in Capricorn, also in detriment, but held in mixed reception with Mars in Cancer, which is itself in fall. This is the kind of arrangement I used to underweight and have learned to take seriously: two uncomfortable placements propping each other up by trading offices. Emotional life today gets done through work, and work today carries more feeling than usual. It functions. It isn't graceful.

She sits in the Dipper mansion, which is the mansion of measurement and officialdom, and conjunct Vega inside a fifth of a degree. Vega on a Capricorn Moon at first quarter is a strange sweetness inside an austere container: refinement reaching into a day otherwise concerned with ledgers.

The nodal axis is grinding through the last degree of Leo and Aquarius, with the South Node sitting on Regulus. I'll say only this: something long carried as authority is being asked to be set down. The background Neptune-Pluto business I'll leave to the almanacs.