What we do get is a lot of commitment, some respect, some love, and the opportunity to improve ourselves over time. Perfection? No. Daily life as a human? Yes. During the Moon’s opposition to Mercury, we will come to know this, as lessons will unfold for us in ways we did not expect.
During the opposition of the Moon to Mercury, we may feel the need to manipulate others; We don’t necessarily consider ourselves manipulative, but during this transit, we tend to set up schemes to get people in; what we want, today, is reaction to everything. We crave the drama of working on another person’s emotions and getting them to respond according to our expectations.
When they realize they’re being manipulated, which takes a second or two, they end up not giving us what we want, which was just a reaction. They close in on us, and there we are, fighting to fight. With someone, anyone will do!
During the Moon in opposition to Mercury, we will resort to saying something unpleasant to someone we love simply because they are not loving us the way we want them to.
We want our love to look and act a certain way, and today we will learn that we cannot have the love we want, nor can we make people act according to the scripts we give them. People are individuals and choose their own lives and destinies. We want them to be part of our destiny, and yet all they can give us today is less than what we want.
During the Moon vs Mercury on Saturday, August 13, 2022, three zodiac signs see their relationships turn manipulative.
1. Aries (March 21 – April 19)
Today hits you particularly hard when you realize that the person you wish would love you a little more than he loves you just can’t. Why? Because they are not interested. This is something that you find almost impossible to come to terms with.
During the Moon in opposition to Mercury, you will find yourself with information that you cannot deny: the person you want to love you is simply not inside you. Not in that way, at least. And this doesn’t automatically mean romance, it implies any kind of love that you demand and that they don’t feel obligated to feel.
It could be the love of your own child or the love of a father; this person just doesn’t feel the same way you do, and you will reach a point in your life where you will realize that there is nothing you can do to force this love into existence. It just is what it is.
2. Leo (July 23 – August 22)
Being that you have a flair for the dramatic, you like to paint your affairs with people as theatrical experiences that may or may not have been. Today you have experienced loneliness.
This loneliness will make you review the past, and it will be in that space where you will approach an old love of yours, only to discover for the hundred and fiftieth time that they do not have the same ‘affection’. ‘ memories like you, and who prefer you to live your own life instead of pestering them with endless memories of the past and fictional stories you want them to verify.
You are so desperate when it comes to pleasing people, that when you are not adored for your efforts, you turn on them as if they were your sworn enemies. You cannot handle the truth, Leo, and by doing so, on this day, you will make your past love, once again, your terrible enemy.
3. Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)
Today’s communication breakdown comes to you when you try to explain to someone that you are not interested in communicating. You don’t have a problem with that, per se, but you’re not cut out for long texts and endless monologues.
You have other things to do, and a life to live that has nothing to do with listening to someone spew their complaints, tantrums, or manipulations nonstop. You just want to live your life in peace, but there is someone in your life who cannot accept you as you are.
You want to love this person forever as they are a good friend of yours, but keep pushing and shoving yourself into becoming something that you just aren’t.
You are a simple and easy going person who wants the people in your life to back off and let the love you share go at an easy pace. You won’t get what you want today. Instead, you will be challenged and ultimately dumped like trash by the person you simply wanted to keep your peace with.