Astrologer YASMIN BOLAND gives reading of celestial alignment that occurs once

Yasmin Boland is a journalist-turned-astrologer and best-selling author 

If you gaze up into the early morning sky this month, you may witness one of the rarest astronomical events of your life.

For the first time since 2004, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are aligned in heavens and visible to the naked eye.

Moreover, this extraordinary planetary parade won’t occur again for nearly 20 years.

While professional and amateur astronomers are excited about going outside with their binoculars and telescopes to see if they can tick off all five planets, astrologers will see it all from a very different point of view.

As the planets fall into line like beautiful soldiers on parade, the astrological meaning of this line-up is largely about getting our lives back into alignment.

Astrology is the ancient study of the Sun, Moon and stars and how their alignments impact human life.

The word has two Greek roots: Astra, which means a star, and Logos, which means a logic or reason.

Effectively, astrology is the study of the stars.

For more than 2,000 years, astrologers have made notes about how celestial events correlate with what is happening on planet Earth.

In fact, it was the mysterious so-called Father of Astrology, Hermes Trismegistus who coined the phrase ‘as above, so below’.

Astrologers claim that – for example – the rare Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto alignments in 2020 had a lot to do with the global chaos of the last few years. But of course, no one was listening!

As the planets fall into line, like beautiful soldiers on parade, the astrological meaning of this line-up is largely about getting our lives back into alignment

Astrology is practiced mainly by looking at the stars, and comparing their current positions to an individual’s birth chart, which is a map of the heavens set for the moment and place that they were born.

Two people born at the same time on opposite sides of the earth will have very different horoscope charts. And no chart – including your birth chart – will be repeated for 26,000 years.

Your birth chart is as unique as you!

But while we are all different — there are still common signs to take from this celestial event.

To understand this, let’s break down the meaning of each planet involved.

MERCURY – THE MESSENGER OF THE GODS

The planet Mercury, named for the Roman God, is the planet of communications.

In Greece, he was known as Hermes, the messenger of Mt. Olympus, the home of the Gods.

As such, Mercury is often known as the messenger of the Gods and Goddesses.

It’s the planet that we employ when we talk or listen. And right now, it’s in the zodiacal constellation of Gemini.

Mercury in Gemini as a part of this planetary parade exhorts us to: communicate, express ourselves clearly, stay mentally agile, listen as much as we talk and let others have their say.

The Solar System – (Left to right) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

VENUS – LOVE AND ABUNDANCE

Next in the line-up is Venus, the planet of love and abundance.

Venus was the Roman Goddess of love. The Greek Goddess Aphrodite is her counterpart.

Astrologically, Venus represents our ability to love ourselves and others, to relate…