This Virgo Mercury Cazimi Is About to Prove You Wrong

I’ve always found changing your mind slightly embarrassing. It’s one thing to slowly lose interest in an opinion you once held. It’s another to have explained that opinion to everyone around you, made decisions based on it, perhaps even reorganized part of your life around it, and then discover that you no longer believe it.

The mind becomes attached to its own conclusions surprisingly quickly. Once we’ve decided why someone behaved a certain way, whether a relationship has a future, what kind of work we want, where we should live, or what a particular experience meant, the conclusion starts becoming part of the architecture of our lives. Other decisions get built around it. We repeat it to friends and explain it to ourselves. Eventually it begins to feel less like an interpretation and more like a fact.

And then something happens. Someone says one sentence you weren’t expecting. You learn a detail that had been missing. A plan changes. You reread an old message and understand it differently. You finally connect two pieces of information that have been sitting in front of you for months.

The facts may barely change, while your understanding of them changes completely.

This is the kind of astrology we are moving into.

Mercury enters Virgo on August 25. Two days later, on August 27, it meets the Sun at 4°27’ Virgo in a cazimi, which means in the heart of the Sun. Mercury is exceptionally strong here. Virgo is both its domicile and its exaltation, making this one of the places where the planet has the most resources to do what it does best: observe, compare, interpret, calculate, translate, sort, and decide.

Then, early on August 28, Mercury at 5°37’ Virgo squares Uranus at 5°37’ Gemini. Uranus is sitting in Mercury’s other sign.

The sequence is very literal. The planet of information reaches a moment of unusual clarity in the sign concerned with accuracy, then immediately encounters disruption from the part of the zodiac concerned with information itself.

I would keep a little room in your opinions this week.