Astrology for Monday, 3 February 2020:

Today Mercury moves into Pisces, the sign of both its antithesis and fall. Whereas Mercury is adept at managing and communicating detailed information and clear ideas, Pisces is the mutable water sign ruled by Jupiter: oceanic, expansive, never simply one thing, always flowing in other directions and possibilities. It can be a difficult sign for Mercury. Pisces is also where Mercury will station retrograde on February 16, so this area of our charts and lives will undergo review in the days ahead. Just as Mercury ingresses into Pisces, the Moon enters Gemini in an exact square to Mercury but with reception. In Gemini, the Moon stimulates our curiosities, our desires for social connections, and for exchanging ideas, but the square from a challenged Mercury may describe being overwhelmed by too many ideas or feelings, perhaps such an abundance that it’s difficult to follow any one direction well. Finally, Venus in Pisces makes a sextile to Saturn in Capricorn. Venus is in its exaltation and Saturn is in its domicile, so both planets offer one another considerable strength—effulgent love and the stability of commitment. Judith Butler writes, “Commitment would not involve inflexibility, but would entail an agreement to make oneself anew in light of the unexpected demands that challenge one’s commitment. If one is committing one’s love, one is not making the commitment once … if the commitment is to be alive, that is, if it is to belong to the present, then the only commitment one can make is to commit oneself again and again. ‘I love you and I choose you again and again.’” How might you commit your love again and again in ways that remain renewable, adaptable, and responsive—in agreement to make yourself anew in commitment to this love?