WEEK OF September 23 – 29, 2024
Trickster Mercury has been throwing off your inner compass ever since it entered Virgo on July 25 and then retrograded back into Leo. This Thursday, it’s about to wrap up its run in Virgo, your fourth house of home, family, and emotional foundations. Mercury’s movements are extra important for you, Gemini, because it’s your ruling planet. This week—in the last few days of lingering in Virgo—it makes intense aspects to three outer planets. It’ll form dynamic trines to both Uranus (Tuesday, September 24) and Pluto (Thursday), serving up fresh insights that could spark transformative changes. Uranus famously brings unexpected or innovative ideas, and with mental Mercury parked in your home zone, this could involve your physical abode, your living situation or family dynamics. Pluto is also a change agent, but its M.O. is about helping you take a deeper dive into emotional or ancestral healing. Stay extra cautious on Wednesday because Mercury will swing into a hazy opposition to Neptune, which could blur the lines between fantasy and reality—especially around home and family. Ground yourself in practical details, but trust your intuition when it comes to navigating sensitive situations.
Are you burning money faster than you’re earning it, Gem? That’s a surefire recipe for accruing debt (and stress!). True, it’s hard for your multipassionate self to stay focused on any one thing for too long, but minding your finances isn’t a “hobby.” You probably know how angst-inducing it is to surf the feast-to-famine wave pattern, which is why you will want to lean into the balancing influence of Tuesday’s quarter moon in Cancer and your second house of money and stability. If you already have a solid budget in place, focus on your top three financial goals and let those motivate you to tighten the purse strings for a couple months. If you’re flying by the seat of your cargo pants, then crunch some numbers. What bottom-line amount do you need to keep in your bank account to cover your monthly nut AND have a cushion? If you’ve been spending like there’s no tomorrow, check your calendar, which clearly shows there’s a lot of time ahead of you! If you’ve got no clue how much you have incoming and what your fixed expenses are, do a hard-eyed review all your purchases and outlays of the past three months. Patterns should emerge very quickly, and hopefully this exercise will shine a light on where you can cut back in order to bring things back to equilibrium. On the other side of the balance sheet, is it time to talk to your supervisor about a promotion or, if you’re self-employed, to raise your rates?
Build in a budgetary line item for discretionary spending because you’re probably not going to be able to rein yourself in (enough) starting on Thursday, when your cosmic custodian, Mercury, relocates to Libra and your fifth house of fun, flirting and creativity. If you hit a roadblock at work or on a passion project over the past two months (since Mercury went retrograde), this cycle, which lasts until October 13, can help you find a way around it. If you’ve been keeping a low profile, the expressive planet in your bold fifth house of fame may turn the spotlight directly on you. Pitch, perform, present—and strike a pose!
