January 15, 2023

Astrological Overview: January 16 - 22, 2023

11 minutes

Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.

Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 8 hours.

MON: Retrograde Mercury quincunx Mars

TUE: Venus semisquare Jupiter

WED: Mercury stations direct, Sun conjunct Pluto

THU: No major aspects are exact today

FRI: Sun enters Aquarius, Mercury quincunx Mars

SAT: New Moon 12:53 p.m. PST, Mercury semisquare Venus

SUN: Venus conjunct Saturn, Uranus stations direct

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MERCURY AT STATION: The planet Mercury is completing its three weeks of backward motion this week, and will station direct on January 18 at 5:11 a.m. PST. This has been an especially complicated Mercury-retrograde phase since it coincided with Mars being retrograde in Gemini. The nervous energy has been quite high, and memories from the recent and the long-ago past have surfaced on a daily basis, giving us the opportunity to review and reflect. The mind has seemed to turn inward even more than usual, sometimes tumbling over itself in an effort to make sense of life events.

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