mercury is direct!: the week of august 10, 2025
free for all!
The big news this week is that, as of today, Mercury is DIRECT. Thank fuck. Time to send those follow-ups and reminders!
Also, the big Cancer energy this week has me in my feelings and wanting to share with everyone, so this edition is free for all!
ICYMI
🌳 The Grove: Autumn/Winter 2025 is open! This 6-month container that blends spiritual and creative practice, with an emphasis on sustainability over production, has been described as “transformative” and “life-changing.” We start on August 29th.
🔮 My wife Meg Jones Wall of 3am.tarot and I don’t like the “traditional” (aka Order of the Golden Dawn) tarot correspondences, and so over the years, we’ve made our own. At reader request, we have turned it into a lecture, Stars & Cards: A Fresh Take on Tarot & Astrology Correspondences, available for download this Tuesday, August 12th.
all times are eastern
Monday, August 11
3:29am: Mercury stations direct in Leo (4*)
Catch up on your emails and texts. Sign the contract; send the pitch. If you, like me, were pitching during Mercury Rx, this is a good time to follow up.
11:31pm: Saturn Rx in Aries sextile Uranus in Gemini (1*)
Just as the East Coast is going to bed, a lightning bolt of inspiration as to how to re-structure (or revise) creative work may strike. Whether this has you back at it will depend on your time zone and sleep preferences — as well as whether that inspiration helps you break through barriers or have a Tower card-like collapse. If the latter, start re-building in the morning.
Tuesday, August 12
1:30am: Venus in Cancer conjunct Jupiter in Cancer (14*)
Some deeply needed astrology in this moment. The annual Venus-Jupiter arrives this year in Cancer, and so our ability to nourish our relationships and creative project is increased ten-fold (and come Thursday, those efforts will find purchase with some key assistance from a sweet sextile of a Taurus moon).
Things to do: eat comfort food, take a bath, write in a dream journal, call your best friend, take your kids to a children’s museum, go sit by a body of water, listen to Enya, cuddle your fur babies, work on a project of the heart.
Heart-centeredness is the key to creation this week.
Thursday, August 14
10:04pm: Mars in Libra sextile Mercury in Leo (5*)
Night writers, rejoice: this is an infusion of energy into the writing process. Even if you’re not actively drafting, you might have a moment of clarity as to an important argument, or otherwise feel more equipped to consider another’s position. A good time to make pro-con lists.
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