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astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic Calendar, Christopher Wrenstrom.

This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice and how you navigate and weave these energies into your daily life.

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Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope column list here on Astrology Hub. And this week I wanted to talk to you about the Mercury Pluto opposition

taking place on July 18th followed by the Sun and Pluto opposition taking place

on July 19th.

Now, oppositions to me are one of the most fascinating aspects

that we have in astrology,

because an opposition is literally when two or more actually we're talking about three planets in this case

are opposite each other in the sky in other words what that means is that they are as far away from each other as they can possibly be in the sky, and by transit, they are as far away from each other as they can possibly be in the horoscope that we read.

So in an opposition, you don't really have a confrontation like you do with a square.

Squares can be combative and confrontational

and struggle and fight and things like that.

That's not what's taking place in an opposition.

In an opposition, the planets are sitting

opposite each other in the sky and they are basically what are they doing they are staring each other down

They are polarized just like the South and North Poles are polarized. They are on opposite ends of of the earth.

They are polarized just like our American Congress is polarized, Democrats and Republicans. They see each other but there is no middle ground. There is no bipartisanship. They are polarized and they are absolutely opposite one another and this is what planets do when they are opposite. Okay, there's no need to talk to each other. There is no need to harmonize. There's no need to find common ground. They just sort of stay there in the sky staring at each other. And they're absorbed in each other. So there's this kind of like magnetic energy. I mean we all know the phrase opposites attract so it can be very sort of mesmerizing, especially when you have Pluto involved.

Although we know that opposites attract, we don't necessarily know that opposites are going to stay together.

Why? Because there needs to be some sort of common ground. So here we have

Mercury and the Sun, both in the zodiac sign of cancer, which is associated to the

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