Astrological Overview: January 16 - 22, 2023

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 **** 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. Continue Reading