Moods and emotions will still continue to be tense and on edge as one of the years most concentrated periods of planetary alignments exerts its effects.

Currently we are at the peak of the alignment between the Sun, Mercury and Venus. As well as feelings of strong affection that may tend towards romance and intimacy this is likely to produce alert and vivid moods and feelings with increased awareness and perception. Indeed feelings will be highly intuitive with an almost psychic level of insight. For some this may be disturbing and lead to a raised level of consciousness with powerful moods and impressions together with a state of hyper alertness.

On top of this there is likely to be intense nervous restlessness with a strong desire for variety and change that amongst other things may turn thoughts towards travel or the experience of new and more exciting alternatives. Moreover this will be an atmosphere of heightened sensitivity where problems or pleasures will be experienced on a much more intense level than usual.

Under these circumstances problems may appear magnified and there may be subtle fears and concerns with notable apprehensions. In fact these may be made all the more likely by the fact that the Moon is now in alignment with Saturn. The two will remain conjunct until around 15:00 GMT (11:00 EDT). Likely mood traits to result from this include more reserved, disciplined, or restrained emotions that may be filled with caution or low self confidence. In addition there may be a deeply self conscious attitude with depressive moods and feelings that may be prone to doubts and misgivings as well as enhancing the fears and concerns mentioned above.

Mars is now also in opposition to Neptune, in a month long alignment, that is likely to see yet more heightened moods and feelings. More particularly this may lead to irrational fears with increased mental confusion, together with energetic and self refining impulses. On a more positive note this is likely to inspire creative or artistic talents or indeed all activities of an expressional nature.

All in all this continues to be a highly complex mood setting with feelings that have the potential to be highly unsettling or make one prone to nervous episodes or even panic attacks that for some may be of an intense variety. However with the right balance between mental and physical activity no small degree of satisfaction may be achieved in what may come to be seen as a pivotal time of thoughts and ideas that may lead to lasting changes.

Alert is 7.5. Moon 36% illuminated.