Soften

We're in the last 5 days of Mercury's apparent backward path through the sky. One of the manifestations for Mercury Retrograde is a sort of nostalgia - whether people return from your past, circumstances conspire to remind you of your past, or spring cleaning kicks up memories.

The opportunity, when faced with a recurrence in your life, is to complete (or re-complete) the cycle. Sometimes, the opportunity is to bring closure - when spring cleaning, you throw away or give away items that you thought you'd never leave behind. Sometimes, the opportunity is to repeat an experience, perhaps with more objectivity, perhaps with a better outcome.

What's also possible, is a reaction like "Why is this happening again!!". Anger, vulnerability, confusion - all of these emotions could erupt in response to returning experience. Frustration with a feeling of falling backward could create an impatient response, a possibility of a negative result.

Saturn and Uranus are continuing to generate tension between what is expected and what is possible. This configuration, depending on where it falls in your chart, could create a great deal of frustration.

The art of navigating to a positive outcome while structures fall and inspiration only barely suggests new opportunities is not easy to execute. Focus on what you want to see next year, it may help alleviate a tendency to react.