These days there is a perfect opposition between Mercury and Pluto. This means that Mercury is on one side of Earth, whilst Pluto is on the complete opposite side. One can be clearly seen in the west at dust, and the other, not seen to the naked eye, is in the east when night falls. As this happens, a perfect alignment is created between Pluto, planet Earth and Mercury. And oh, how astrology loves alignments!

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and is related to our thinking, communicating and socializing. In mythology Mercury (also known as the Greek Hermes or Egyptian Thoth) is the Messengers of the Gods, and is connected to knowledge and wisdom.

Pluto is the most distant celestial body in our solar system that is included in astrology, and although we now know that thousands of other celestial bodies orbit the Sun and are much more distant,  Pluto is still considered as the “edge of the unknown”. In the Roman and Greek mythology we can find Pluto (Hades) as the lord of the underworld who can also easily travel from the bottom of the underworld straight to the top of mount Olympus, and therefore represents metamorphosis.

These two very different planets are now in a perfect alignment in the skies, and this unique configuration is a doorway to several things:

First – the alignment between Pluto, Earth and Mercury allows a special flow between the known (Mercury) and the unknown (Pluto), between the close (Mercury) and the far (Pluto).

Second – this alignment allows a bridge to be created between two ways of connecting to new knowledge: through the brain (Mercury) and by intuition or instinct (Pluto).

And last – it is a unique gateway for altering (Pluto) thinking patterns (Mercury).

So these are the days to take a good look at our thinking patterns. To identify thinking patterns that used to serve us in the past but now hold us back. This would be the best time to change these thinking patterns for the better. And the best way to do that is to see what you tell yourself, and create a new mantra instead.

If we think we will not succeed – this is the time to tell ourselves we are capable of doing anything we set our mind to.

If we think life is hard – we might want to start to tell ourselves that challenges are what make us stronger, or that life is actually quite fun.

If we find ourselves looking usually at the glass half empty, this is the time to practice seeing the beauty in everything around us.

And so forth…

These days we might find that changing our thinking patterns is much easier than usual, due to the help of the astrological combination of these times.

And as we know – thinking is the first step of actually creating our own reality…