Just a matter of two or three days after the Full Moon we are currently in the midst of one of the most massive planetary alignments of recent times. Virtually all of the planets of the Solar System are now in some way aligned with the Earth.

Of particular note is the massive alignment featuring Venus, Mars, Saturn, Earth, the Moon, Jupiter and Uranus. Also of note is the alignment involving Neptune, Earth and Mercury. It will be appreciated that making accurate predictions [1] (see below for likely mood traits) from such a complex variety of possibilities is no easy business. Suffice it to say that coming days and weeks will be subject to a bewildering variety of emotions; a veritable maelstrom of feelings with contrasting extremes that will inevitably pose significant challenges.

For the present time there will be a confusion of thought and feeling with strong emotions and the potential for explosive moods and feelings. There may also be a lack of concentration with increased nervous restlessness that could make it difficult to focus on the task in hand. As a result it may prove difficult to complete ones daily routine and important decisions are perhaps better left for a more favourable mood period.

Either way it may be far from easy to focus on more important choices and there will be a tendency towards escapism in its limitless guises. The vast complexity of this mood scene means there may be frequent changes of mind, so that decisions made only a short time ago may be changed and rechanged over and over.

All in all this is perhaps the most concentrated period of celestial activity since Mood Alert began. Without doubt it will influence highly colourful news headlines, with a heightened risk of natural disasters, as well as social and political turmoil of massive proportions.

This atmosphere also forms a time of pivotal change, so that ones personal life will be shaped and changed, either to a subtle or major extent, but either way emerge with an altered perspective.

Alert is 8.5. Moon 92% illuminated.