Mind, Body and Emotions: Mercury and Venus

We are a society of people who live in our heads. There are a few people left who are in touch with their bodies (dancers, musicians, some craftspeople and artists, a few fortunate others) though for the most part Western society exits in a fantasy bubble. We saw an image of that in yesterday’s New Moon — Moon and Sun in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces. That is the perfect illustration of what you might call the delusion of glamour — of believing that image is real, that we can live up to advertisements and that we can relate intimately to one another by text message. The result is profound alienation that nobody wants to admit to because it’s just not cool. The discussion that has erupted following the Isla Vista incident actually touched on some of these points. In the past few hours, Mercury and Venus have changed signs. Mercury has ingressed Cancer (it was in Gemini) and Venus has ingressed Taurus (it was in Aries). Mercury’s change of signs represents a shift of energy from mental and theoretical (Gemini) to emotional and instinctual (Cancer). Note that Mercury will be slowing to a station, and will spend twenty days in the first three degrees of Cancer — a very unusual pattern that is calling for actual focus on the realm of feeling and self-care. Venus, for its part, describes more grounding in reality rather than image in its new sign, calling for an investment in physical reality. That means tactile contact with other living creatures, some actual experience of the natural world, eating real food and experiencing one’s senses, not merely the frontal lobe.

Join me for a community discussion of Mercury retrograde at 8 pm EDT this Sunday, June 1. The event is free, though it requires pre-registration. Later this week we’ll be distributing the June monthly horoscope to our free horoscope subscribers. There’s still time to sign up and get it by email.

11 thoughts on “Mind, Body and Emotions: Mercury and Venus”

  1. Contact with Venus and mercury helps to round the corners in the communication, to make more sympathetic unlike Mars which may prick of anger, but that oblivion very quickly
    Sign change, we change grade, in art remain pleasing to the eyes of those that we love; on oblivion defects and we take the best of what the other will deliver
    Merci Eric 🙂

  2. I often drive through my local patch of forest thinking how nice it would be to go for a walk in the area some day.

    Maybe soon I will begin remembering to STOP the CAR. 🙂

  3. The emotional and instinctual (Cancer) first degrees I can relate to easily and I am following. My NN is at 1+ degrees in 10th. Glad to know the Mercury placement and this energy will be in play for a bit longer during stationing.

    As far as grounding of Venus in Tauras Regarding natural world and contact with animals Jupiter and Saturn are trining each other at their Sabian degrees both show that messages are coming through to be interpreted carefully. I am also thankful for the potential and willingness to come more fully in-to the body of conscious awareness. I notice what I become more open to, lets in further manifesting and receiving of support. Being open to creative power, light and the recieving and expression of the expanded wholeness in me.

    Thank you –

  4. I am grateful for the entry of Venus into Taurus, a week of traveling has left me frazzled. I am currently curled up on an overstuffed chair with my cat and a cup of tea after walking my property. Mercury will station retrograde on my 9th house cusp ~ Do I really have to do that 8th house thing again???

  5. This is interesting. I feel like most of what I’ve done the past few months is deeply experience my emotions and ground myself in my body and senses. The point it seems has been to have a deeper relationship with them and also bring them out into the world.

    To put it a different way, I feel transformed, but as a result of my own internal processes and subtle outward actions.

    I’m excited about Mercury retrograde in Cancer; the recent Pisces one felt simultaneously safe and expansive and I think that is when my internal process really started to open up.

  6. I’m looking forward to some grounding out and settling in, for sure. The past month or so has felt so fast paced. There’s nothing like a good dose of Venus in Taurus and Mercury in Cancer to slow things down a bit and bring us back to earth 🙂

  7. UCSB student Kevin Tym, was playing with his assault rifles and handguns the day after Rodgers fateful night and almost shot his neighboring student through the wall. I wonder what (the hell) Kevin Tym was thinking, no less feeling. Isla Vista is primarily an off-campus neighborhood for UCSB students (the majority of the 23,000 residents) and known as the place to party. I can’t begin to understand how assault rifles and handguns play into the equation of college and partying.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seven-guns-1-000-rounds-seized-ucsb-student-n116976

  8. Wow, guess it’s the season of slow moving inner planets… first Mars crawling forward at 9 Libra, then Mercury slowing to a halt in early Cancer.

    Good advice about getting in touch with our physical reality. I think the cardinal cross energy of last month may have gotten me focused on external reality, rather than what’s going on in my little microcosm. Sort of nice for these personal planets to be slowing down the pace, allowing for a little more introspection.

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