Over the next handful of days, Venus and Mercury will be meshing with the outer solar system for a scenario reminiscent of gears in an auto transmission. Venus makes its applying Pisces conjunction with Neptune exact Friday.
Mercury will follow suit Monday in an Aries conjunction with Uranus while also precisely squaring both Jupiter in Cancer and Pluto at its Capricorn retrograde station.
Taken symbolically, the story conveyed is one of Mercury and Venus transmitting something from a distant origin to turn the wheels of your life going into next week.
Such a story would have the outer solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and more) in the a role of prime mover, representing the source or sources of the motivational “something” in question. The inner solar system (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and our Moon) would in turn correlate with gears transmitting that “something” to you.
Given how the outer planets have in common the appearance of slow motion and long cycles, the prime mover inferred is history. Your personal history with lifelong patterns, and your subjective awareness of same, would be included through Jupiter (and Saturn in Scorpio as part of a grand water trine with Jupiter and Neptune).
Because orbital cycles out past Saturn go to the edge of human lifespans and beyond, Uranus and more distant planets correspond for the most part with history before your existence.
For example, nobody now living has any personal experience with the previous time Neptune moved through Pisces, roughly from 1849 to 1863. Hence, Neptune in Pisces now may be perceived as revisiting a historical episode of which you and the living collective are not fully conscious — except possibly when the “personal planets” of the inner solar system mesh up.
Because the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars repeat their respective cycles many times during an average human life, they connect almost exclusively with the personal scale of events in your everyday life — except possibly when they mesh with the outer planets and make history immediate for you.
That’s how you can get an idea of what motivations are possibly being brought from the 19th Century to move you now when Venus merges with Neptune for the second in a series of 13 annual Pisces conjunctions (from 2013 to 2025) come Friday. Begin with how accessible Venus is.
Venus is the brightest planet, easily visible to the unaided eye. Venus is also expressed in your life by predominantly accessible experiences, among them love, attraction, receptiveness, creativity and values.
Therefore, in order to mesh with what Venus implicitly conducts from this year’s conjunction with Neptune, be receptive to the values of Abraham Lincoln. Feel the love expressed by Walt Whitman. Appreciate the creativity of Emily Dickinson, and note your attraction (or lack thereof) for Henry David Thoreau’s advocacy of civil disobedience as a personal responsibility.
If you can make those personal connections (or others) with historical Neptune through contemporary Venus, you will have recognizable access through your own experience this weekend to some of what the cosmos is symbolically carrying forward to move you in turn. Most of the rest will come through Mercury on Monday.
The movement being conveyed by Mercury’s Aries conjunction with Uranus on Monday will not be as accessible as the moment of Venus’ merger with Neptune this coming Friday. Nevertheless, you will have recent experience rather than history to draw upon as a clue. That’s because Mercury is only days behind the Aries Sun, and catching up.
It was only last week when the Sun made the same aspects to Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto that Mercury will mesh with on Monday. Hence, you will be able to compare consciously what last week offered with what Monday will bring. Through those comparisons of recent experience, you will be able to pick up on what is being transmitted through uncounted centuries. That’s a good thing.
It’s a good thing the Sun has imparted a preview of what Mercury will convey in condensed form on Monday, because Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto are moving into an unique grand cardinal cross configuration with retrograde Mars in Libra.
The impending grand cross is unique because it is without a recoverable historical precedent when considered in context with the concurrent water trine constituted by Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. There is no recoverable record of anybody having lived through precisely what the outer planets are doing now.
In other words, some big, slow cycles of immeasurably long duration are working their way down through a chain of shorter, faster cycles to you. That’s a good thing, too. It’s a good thing because you are alive to participate and make a difference as nobody else has ever been. It will not be over on Monday, either. On the contrary, your part of transferring long turns in the sky into traction here on Earth is just beginning.
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Yes Len a mercury in Aries intense sandwiched in the large square, but also the Moon that will create a lot of movement I feel on my forum, I just beat my previous record of visitors
On the road to freedom, excellent Lunar Eclipse at all 😀 <3 -:)
Amazing perspective,Len, you have provided in this article, on the cosmos made personal, and your teaching of this is found in words that infants such as myself may be able at some point to comprehend and profit thereby–metta in full be yours
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P. Sophia: Thank you for your artful comment. Even though you may feel like it, you would appear to have as good or better a grasp of Neptune’s evident hegemony as anybody at this point. In answer to your question (about what dates the Sun aspected Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto): The Sun squared Jupiter on April 1. Then, the Sun conjoined Uranus on April 2. Finally, the Sun squared Pluto on April 3. Of course, with usual orbs of influence taken into account, it was rather simultaneous. Please, does that work for you? If not, or if you have any other questions, please say so.
Hi Len:
Regarding: “It was only last week when the Sun made the same aspects to Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto that Mercury will mesh with on Monday.”
…if you don’t mind Len, can you please remind me exactly when last week? To be honest so much information and changes are transpiring so quickly these days, time is all jumbled up and seems unreal.
In the last week or so, it’s a heady mix of emotions and messages swirling in and out in conscious and unconscious to manesfest, overlapping paterns from so many different spheres, or maybe better put, as you describe, cycles.
Resulting, I find myself hardly knowing where I am, or the least of all headed for that matter. I am guessing this is the Neptune influence? –What a fog. Still, in the next moment every thing is all connected and crystal clear. The only refuge, or sense of security it seems at this ‘time’ is complete surrender. Well, today it was anyway…
I wish I could offer a more coherent perspective in thought to your article, but it feels the particles lack cohesion, so this is my contribution at this point. Along with, my thanks to you as ever.
Yes, thanks for this great piece, dear Len! And for this, “Feel the love expressed by Walt Whitman. Appreciate the creativity of Emily Dickinson, and note your attraction (or lack thereof) for Henry David Thoreau’s advocacy of civil disobedience as a personal responsibility”.
Len, together with last Thursday’s post about the Sun & the Grand Cross, this is an amazing set of guideposts to the coming energies. I went back through my journals, & could see definite patterns showing up, notably when my magnanimity was being compromised because I was stuck in fear. I’m not sure I learned that lesson, but, combined with the epiphany & depth investigations of last week, I at least know what my options are. Thank you, as ever for the perspective.
be and Shelley: Thank you for being so kind in your words and so generous in contributing to the subject matter.
Len, great advice to look to the last time Neptune was in Pisces.
Thoreau and Whitman also put a great deal of effort into description. Song of Myself and Walden, their most known works, both inquire into our physical relationship with our surroundings, something we are struggling with today.
And all of those authors present ways to creatively express oneself and challenge social norms without ignoring the emotional turmoil this can stir up. And they still do so despite the turmoil.
I also couldn’t help but think of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. It’s chock full of eloquent description of his native Normandy and contains a challenge to be active in one’s life choices.
These writers ask us what our relationship is to the earth, the individual people in our lives and our society.
How splendidly you ‘splain it all Len, I can see it already what with all the recognition of the historical civil rights movement going on, celebrating the bill signing 50 years ago, which connects us to and with Abraham Lincoln’s time.
The other day I did something I never do; I drove in the rain. It was then that I realized that I needed new windshield wiper blades because one of them was flapping in the breeze rather than wiping the water off the windshield. I became conscious of how limited my visual perspective was and it was pretty scary. Yet we all have limited vision don’t we? We just aren’t normally conscious of it. As Venus and Mercury expand our perspectives and our perception when they make contact with the outer planets of Neptune and Uranus and Pluto, it could cause one to become anxious in these volatile times. Therefore, it’s a good thing you are here preparing us for increasing consciousness (through increased perceptions and perspectives) in the coming days and just how to utilize it for the greater good. We are grateful and appreciate your sharing with us.
As ever,
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