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Gate 43, Mercury and Venus Turn Direct, and the Rent We Stop Paying

Somewhere in our businesses, an older version of us is still paying rent.

That version signed the lease for good reasons. The room held the spirited offer we were brave enough to try and the schedule that kept us afloat. We outgrew it, but the payment kept going out on the first of every month, an encore nobody asked for.

Venus has been retrograde since early October, and Mercury joined her a few weeks ago. Retrograde season did what it always does: it walked us through the paperwork. Venus read down the receipts for love, money and worth while Mercury read the fine print out loud, and some of us found a few juicy charges we forgot we were paying.

This season was for our highest good. We cleared space and came back to our hearts.

Now we get to move our calendars off the past and onto the future we are building.

The planets have changed the background music at the party. For weeks we kept dancing our familiar Two Step to a beat that no longer plays, and the whole dance floor can tell. Now Mercury and Venus turn direct, Jupiter lines up with the Nodes, and it is time to step away from the Two Step and start waltzing to a different rhythm.

The shift has happened to all of us. The people we love and serve have come through this season right alongside us, and we have all changed for the better.

One of the things that has changed is HOW we lead. Folks aren’t looking for celebrity experts any longer. We want real, relatable, connected… we are willing to trust a guide on our side more than a sage on a stage. We are all looking for a thought partner, a friend with whom we can walk through the changes ahead. That’s the task this week. Learn the new dance steps.

Here is a line of mine that fits this week: “The currency of the past is information. The currency of the future is a trust signal (brand) they can feel before they buy.” When we keep paying for a room that no longer fits, that signal gets muddy.

Here’s how the drama plays out. Curtain up. (All times Eastern.)

MONDAY: The Lease File Comes Out of the Cabinet

The Scorpio New Moon arrived at 2:02 AM and did not knock. She wears a dark coat with flair and a magnetic calm, walks to the filing cabinet in the back office and pulls out one folder. She sets it on the desk without a word: the old lease, with our names on it.

She also squares Jupiter and the lunar nodes, the points astrologers call our destiny axis. That can feel tender, because it shows us where healing is still in progress. Tonight she goes void at 8:52 PM and stays that way until 3:30 AM Tuesday, a good pause to sit with the folder.

Our first step this week is to make a list of everything we pay for out of habit: the standing meeting, the offer we stopped loving, the bio we keep rewriting and the gig we say yes to on autopilot. We do not fix anything yet. Just look at the list honestly. Eyes wide open.

TUESDAY: Venus and Mars Share a Table

The Moon slips into Sagittarius at 3:30 AM and the mood turns playful. Venus, still in her reading glasses and days from turning direct, sits down across from Mars. He sets a coffee in front of her and wipes sawdust off his gloves, and the two make a friendly angle called a sextile.

Across the room, the Sag Moon opposes Uranus, who rattles the window once, and we feel the pull from both sides. The plan on the calendar tugs one way, the sudden new idea tugs the other, and we stand in the middle with one foot in each.

This is a day to talk with one real person about one item on the list. It might be a client, a colleague, or a warm friend who also runs a business. We ask a question instead of pitching: “I wonder if…”

WEDNESDAY: Gate 43 Takes the Stage

The Sun walks into Gate 43, the Gate of Breakthrough, and the timing fits like a spotlight finding its mark. Gate 43 lives in the Ajna center, and its Gene Key moves from Deafness (we cannot hear our own knowing over the noise) to Insight (we trust it before we can prove it).

Insight cannot be scheduled. It tends to arrive while we are driving or in the shower, and then the offer that would not come together for months finally clicks.

Pallas Athene makes a dramatic entrance, helmet on, tapping her temple. She is our strategist and our inner wisdom, and she forms a triangle with Mercury and Uranus that astrologers call a yod, or finger of fate. Mercury, still retrograde, stands in the doorway checking his watch while Uranus snaps the lights on and off, zany as ever.

For our business, this means the best strategic call of the week may arrive as a soulful hunch that does not fit the spreadsheet. We feel a small yes about one item on the list, and our thinking mind immediately starts building a case against it. This is the day to notice that yes and write it down before we argue ourselves out of it.

Intuition runs high today, and it may feel funky, since the signal comes in unexpected ways.

Step two this week is to pick the thing. We look at Monday’s list and ask what our body says yes to: one item, not five. If the noise is loud, it is probably somebody else’s framework talking, so we turn it down and listen.

THURSDAY: Jupiter Switches On Every Light

Jupiter reaches the South Node at 25° Leo, exact at 25°32′, and opposes the North Node in Aquarius. The South Node is the room we know too well. The North Node is the room we are walking toward.

Jupiter stands in the doorway of the old one, keys jingling, and flips every switch on the wall so we can see everything in it, the pizzazz and the clutter. Leo is the sign of the heart, so this is the day to notice which parts of the old room still deserve a place in the new one. Bring the lessons learned with you.

The Moon goes void in Sagittarius at 6:29 AM and enters Capricorn at 3:27 PM, so the day dawdles along. This isn’t the best day to launch a new thing.

Step three this week is to name the next step: one sentence, small enough to finish in an afternoon. Send the email, book the call, fix one line on the page or block the hour, then celebrate.

FRIDAY: Mercury and Venus Turn Forward

Friday the 13th has a cheeky sense of humor. Mercury stations direct at 10:53 AM at 5° Scorpio, in a near-exact square with Pluto. He has been standing with his shoulder to the audience, looking back as if he is trying to find something or someone he left behind. Today he faces the lights and delivers one clear line that puts the scene in motion.

Pluto, still rearranging the collective’s furniture in Aquarius, slides a sealed envelope across the table to Mercury and doesn’t tell the audience what is inside. Mercury may deliver the clarity in a line or two… or he may reveal a secret or two.

Venus stations direct at 7:27 PM at 22° Libra. Elegant as ever, she sets down the heavy bag she has carried all autumn, takes off her reading glasses and sits at the table with Pluto and Mercury. Then she asks for a cup of coffee, too.

The Capricorn Moon waits in the corner with a pencil behind her ear while Saturn taps a ledger and Neptune dims the stage lights. The day feels slow and weighty, and that is OK.

Turning direct and picking up speed are two separate events, so we give the first one a weekend. Tonight is for gratitude: we thank that older version of us for signing the lease and give it a round of applause, because it got us here. Then we matter-of-factly inform the older version we aren’t renewing for another year. No emotions needed.

SATURDAY: Mars Picks Up the Pen

Mars, Jupiter and the South Node land together at 25° Leo, and the whole room gets big and radiant. Mars cracks his knuckles, uncaps a pen and holds it out, inviting us to sign the new lease on the new space. Leo wants a heart that is out in the open, so the step we take should sound like us.

Step four this week is to revisit the action step from Thursday, and make one baby step forward today.

The Moon turns warm toward the Sun and squares Venus. She goes void at 1:56 PM and enters Aquarius at 4:24 AM Sunday, so the afternoon is for finishing what we have started.

SUNDAY: The Calendar Faces Forward

The Aquarius Moon lines up with Pluto and squares Mercury, now direct. She walks to the wall, flips the calendar to December and picks up a marker.

She circles December 8, the Sagittarius New Moon, and writes one word beside it: Vision. Two days later she circles December 10, when Saturn turns direct, and writes another: Structure. First we see where we are headed, then we build a stage sturdy enough to carry us there.

Mars and Jupiter make their exact meeting Sunday into Monday, and the Sun begins to square the nodes, so pressure builds as the week turns.

The North Node is in Aquarius, which means the future is already on the wall. We put our pick on it with a date and an hour. Then we take one recurring block off the calendar, the one that belongs to the older version of us.

If this is resonating with you, now may be a good time to take a peek under the hood of your business and refresh your brand to align with the entrepreneur you are becoming in this next season. Book an Authentic Vibe Check, a personalized brand alignment review for spiritual entrepreneurs, and we will take that peek together.

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(((HUGS))) Sashya