From Friction to Flow: Navigating Thursday's Astrological Energies

A rare celestial event unfolds as Mercury and Mars prepare to connect three times in rapid succession, creating a powerful push-pull dynamic that carries us through the weekend. This cosmic meetup is particularly significant because Mercury, though direct, has slowed its apparent motion, setting the stage for repeated 60-degree sextile angles with action-oriented Mars.

The Moon in Taurus grounds our experience today, bringing focus to material comforts and tangible results. This earthy influence creates a productive tension with the air-dominant energies currently shaping our collective experience. While the Taurus Moon might whisper "I want it now" like Veruca Salt, the wiser cosmic influences encourage patience and strategic thinking. The true magic happens when we resist immediate gratification in favor of measured, deliberate progress.

Mercury's Leo-influenced communication style meets Mars in relationship-focused Libra, asking us to balance bold self-expression with thoughtful collaboration. Rather than asking "what will I do?" Mars in Libra prompts "what will WE do together?" This combination creates the perfect environment for floating test balloons on new ventures—particularly side hustles or creative projects that benefit from both attention-grabbing presentation and balanced execution. Today earns a solid 7/10 cosmic rating, offering favorable conditions for those willing to work with these complementary energies. As the weekend unfolds, we'll have multiple opportunities to refine our approach before Mercury and Mars make their final connection on Sunday, bringing clarity and resolution to whatever we set in motion today.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Astrology time, shane here, dailyastrocatcom, and
today we're going to talk abouta couple of things.
We're going to focus on pushing.
We're going to push throughthis Thursday and into the
weekend.
This is going to be a veryinteresting weekend and this
particular Thursday we have Ihinted to it yesterday we have

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Mars.
Mercury is going to be sextileMars, and this is the once,
twice thrice.
This is a very curious thingbecause it's going to happen in
the space of two days, becauseMercury, even though it's direct
, has slowed down, because, asMercury gets ready to pass the
Earth, it's still not movingquite so quickly in the sky.

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According to our sky dome,right, mercury moves at the same
pace.
It's just the relative positionof the two planets.
Now, with that being said,there we go.
By the time Saturday rollsaround, mercury or Sunday, I
think it is.
Is it Sunday of this week?
Yeah, it is Sunday of this week.
So, by the time Sunday rollsaround, our only aspect in the

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sky is going to be Mercury andMars once again meeting.
So what is this going to do forus?
Let's talk about it, let'sthink about this, because a
sextile is a 60 degree anglebetween two planets.
I want to dig into this just alittle bit, because the moon,
the moon.
Let's just do our standardintro and then we'll dig into it

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.
Okay, the moon's in Taurus andwe'll enter Taurus at 8.22 in
the morning.
The moon in Taurus is livingyour best life.
How many times have we heardthat?
Okay, yeah, literally.
Well, you know today, you canreally mean that though.
You know today, you can reallymean that, though those changes,

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the details, the mechanicsbehind them, they're not
conducive to the way we'refeeling, because there's a
little bit of a friction there.
Today.
We've got just a touch offriction with the moon and
Taurus because we've got, youknow, there's air signs that are
highlighted.
So it tends to clash with thosethings and it clashes against

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that whole kite thing.
Right Now, the kite thing isusing those energies wisely,
using creative energies on thetop part of it and using that
equalization at the bottom right, that stabilization, mars and
Libra.
We're just doing things.
We're trying to do thingsfairly gracefully and in a very

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beautiful manner.
That's how we're trying to goabout bringing about the changes
that are out in those outerplanets right Now.
Let's talk about this positiveattitude is going to help share
the abundance that you'restepping into.
That's right.
So you, you are stepping intoabundance.
You can feel it today.
Don't let it get to you though.

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Okay, let it let it.
Don't let it affect the overallpresentation of what you're
doing, or the overall umpresentation is one word and the
overall effect of what you're,of what you're trying to affect
into the world.
Don't let that bother that.
Instead, what you got to do iswe're going to have a

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conversation with Mars andMercury.
How are we going to do this?
How are we going to fairly workon this and put it out there?
Right, we've got Mercuryexhibiting Leo energy, right,
and this is a second encounter,right.
So the first encounter withMars may have had with Mercury.
Now, they meet up lots of timesduring the year because Mercury

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makes three orbits, right, soMercury and Mars usually work
together.
Now we get back to that sextileright 60 degrees of energy.
Now we get back to that sextileright 60 degrees of energy.
Now, this is a complementaryenergy and I like to think of it
as the hardest working one ofthe zodiac, of our entire zodiac
, and the reason why is becausethose two energies have to have

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some sort of friction, but theyalso have an agreement, right,
the trines are that easy flow ofideas and connectivity between
the two points.
So think about it.
Mercury would be logical,mercury would be communication.
Mercury, mercury would be um,you know how we feel about
certain things, what we'resensing about it and how we are
going about expressing it.
It's, it's logical, it's, it's,it's the thought process, it's

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all the thoughts, all thethoughts.
Mars, on the other hand, isaction, and that action is being
taking place in Libra.
So we've got this measuredactions happening, because Mars
if Mars were in, say, like theopposite sign of Aries, mars is
all about moving ahead, right,moving ahead, taking credit.

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In Libra, it's much morecollaborative, much more willing
to just take a little bit of a.
You know how are we going to dothis?
What are we going to do?
What are, you know, we that's akey word there we.
So what are we going to dotogether?
Right, libra, now, balance itout.

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Could be legal stuff, could beknown enemies, could be anything
right, but honestly, that'sjust the house connotation of
Libra.
What we're really looking at iswe're really looking at how we
can express what we're doing asbeautifully as possible.
Now, I've not done that verywell today, and that's because

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it's the second time around.
Now I've got two days to thinkabout this presentation, polish
it, and then two or three, rightSunday.
Sunday, I've got a chance to goback and revisit it and not
maybe be quite so awkward tryingto describe what this energy is
all about.
It should be just an easierexpression of it, especially if
the moon's going to be in Gemini.

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Then it's going to be mucheasier because the ruler of
Gemini is Mercury, right, solet's just keep on moving.
Collaboration, just said, seemslikely.
Today's keyword is push.
Told you that too?
Our color is a green candle.

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Now, green candles are usuallyassociated with money, right?
Well, that's a good thing,because that's what Taurus is
associated with, especially thesecond house connotation of it.
Now, sun and Leo loves thelimelight, just loves it.
Right, the drama, the attention, the flair, everything.
The attention, the flair,everything.
Now, lofty goals and thoughts,refined tastes and sensibilities

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are all awakened as Mercurybegins normal operations.
Yes, mercury and Mars, right,we're starting to awaken those
tastes because they're workingtogether.
This is how we're going to moveforward.
We're going to move forward ina fashion that's going to make
things much more, let's say,let's just the final sextile of

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Mars, and Libra confirms thepursuit of elegance.
That's going to be the themeuntil Mercury and Mars meet up.
So, basically, we're laying thegroundwork here between Mars
and Mercury to be able to worktogether and move towards some
kind of agreement.
Just pursuing the things andthat Moon and Taurus the Moon is

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going to help us be able to seewhat it is that we want as far
as materially, and be able tosee what it is that we want as
far as materially and be able toapply it to this Mercury and
Mars meetup.
Right, there's some things thatare happening.
There's some things that arehappening under the surface.
Got Jupiter and Venus still inCancer, so we've got things that
are happening with the house.

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Right, maybe you're taking onanother project, you're
considering taking on anotherproject.
It's going to beautify thingsbeyond belief.
Right, could be, could be quiteliteral like that.
Now, the moon in Taurus causesus to want this now.
Now, like Veruca Salt, right, Iwant it now.
We don't want to wait.

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Right, why would we want towait?
All the Verrucas in the worldare waking up saying, hey, give
me that now.
I want that, whether it's power, whether it's what it is that
they desire, whether it's morespace or something like that.
That's what they want.
They want to have that we're inthe house of Venus and being

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served on paper plates.
What's up with that, guys?
Look the wise moon, however,knows better.
Okay, this isn't about instantgratification.
There's a longer plan in place.
Just like I told you, mercuryand mars sextile, sextile again

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once well, that's twice thr.
And then coming to a perfectagreement during the conjunction
.
Right, that's how we're goingto express this energy.
It's not expressed now, it'sexpressed when we get into that
point.
And when we get to that point,mercury will enter the base of

(09:08):
that trine.
So that trine, the trine yeah,there's a trine the Grand Air
Trine that's at the base of thekite.
Right, the stabilizing point inLibra, the thoughts that go into
it, that tension between Saturnand Neptune in that apex point

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all of that will lead to thekite going higher.
Right, and the kite's going togo higher.
It doesn't resist the movementup, it stabilizes from the
bottom right.
Our ideas stabilize Right now.
Our actions are what'sstabilizing that?
Because our actions aremeasured and cautious.
We've decided not to go andspam everything we know although

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this can maybe feel like adeparture from that only because
Mercury's direct.
Okay, these are running over,these are running much longer.
There's a longer plan in place.
But one thing you have to do andyou have to really make sure
you do it, and it's been a themethat's been consistent with
this entire week is making spacefor that upgrade, and all I can

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tell you is that, later ontonight, just publicize a side
hustle, please.
You heard that, right, just putit out there.
Okay, you will find the balance.
You will find the measure, themeter and the timbre that will
make it resonate better, becauseyou've got that energy that's
working together and, like Isaid, you're going to have a

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chance to go back and revisethat come Sunday.
So just float a couple testballoons, right, take a chance.
That's all I can say.
Take a chance.
Moon and Taurus doesn't likechances, and that's quite
alright.
That guarantees you, with Marsand Libra, that you're going to
have a measured chance thatyou're going to take, and

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perhaps with uh, when the moongoes in this gemini, it'll get a
little bit wilder on sunday,right, okay?
In 1846, american naturalisthenry david thoreau is jailed
for refusing to pay taxes.
That's right.
He's not supporting the MexicoWar.
Why should he pay?
Sent to jail, all right, andour birth is in 1951.

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It's one, bob Dunlap, I guessthey called him Slim.
He's an American rock guitaristwho was with the Replacements
from 1987 to 1991.
He's born in Plainview,minnesota, and he died in 2024.
And that's all we have for you.
Just to recap, the color's agreen candle and the key word is
push, as in we're going to pushourselves to get through this.

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There's a push, right, there'sa push that we just need to try
to get through this week.
But don't rush things.
Experiment, do it gently, slowit down, avoid the push, avoid
the pull of the bush.
How's that?
What you want to do is you wantto do it measured and you want
to be deliberate about it.

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That's the Taurus way, that'sthe moon and Taurus mindset.
Longer view in mind.
Let's do this.
Appreciate and love everysingle one of you first of all.
Second of all, today is a seven.
Happy astrocatting.