Mercury square the conjunction

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Dear Friend and Reader:

Mercury, moving direct in late Taurus, is now square (90-degree aspect) the alignment of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. This is the last of Mercury’s three squares to the Aquarius alignment, and the one that happens with them at their most precise. Try to visualize this without a chart. Imagine the Earth at the corner of a right angle. Off in one direction is a string of three planets; exactly 90 degrees away, closer to the Earth, is Mercury.

At the same time, Mercury is also making a sextile (60-degree aspect) to Uranus in Pisces. So today Mercury is involved in four aspects, and it’s also close to a square with the Galactic Center in Sagittarius. This is called an aspect structure, where a group of planets aligns from different points in the celestial wheel to create one geometrically precise pattern; this one is taking place at 26 to 27 degrees of various signs (Taurus, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces are involved).

It’s difficult to understand or even feel an aspect in the context of itself. Human perception generally requires contrast to function at all. For that contrast we need to utilize memory, particularly emotional memory. This can be selective; let’s use something really obvious. Consider how you felt in February, about four months ago. Scan back over some of the events of that month and see if you can get a sense of where you were at, so you can feel where you are today.

I have said repeatedly and feel just about all the time that the alignment we’re now in is about creating your reality. If this is true, it’s going to be more meaningful and more noticeable to those who are actively involved in such a process, rather (for example) than cruising along or struggling to maintain some version of the status quo. There is a big difference, though the distinction is not made often enough for my taste. Wanting to change is not the same thing as committing oneself to the progress; creative process is a path of both thought and of action. It is not necessarily convenient. There are no guarantees of success; to the contrary — one almost never comes out where they anticipate they will on a creative project, commitment or intention. It’s almost always a matter of (as Patric Walker said to John Lennon once) “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

Yet we all know there is something unusual invoked in making the attempt sincerely and seeing the work through to some conclusion or at least an interesting place.

Speaking to those working their way to a new level of energy or awareness, pay attention to where you’re getting information about your progress. Notice who you are encountering; what your relationship to groups of any kind is; and the way in which your mental and emotional patterns are changing. Most and I do mean a large majority of people are hung up mainly on their way of thinking, literally, the method; that method involves deliberate use of ignorance; and on a strange attachment to not changing.

Aquarius itself is being totally rewritten by this conjunction; and then we have Mercury, moving through Taurus (a sign where Mercury does not, according to most systems of traditional astrology, do particularly well), leaning into the conjunction today, as if to push us into focusing our minds, and to get something into the physical realm of the body and the senses. Part of what this alignment promises is the experience of not being alone; not feeling alone, and in reality, not being alone either. However, it involves four slow-moving planets (Jupiter, Chiron, Uranus and Neptune) and a fixed point (the Galactic Core).

Today, an inner planet and one of the most personal planets (Mercury) is picking up the alignment, granted mostly with a tense square. Squares between Mercury and Jupiter or Neptune are prone to fogging over, deception, denial and exaggeration. Mercury square Chiron can feel like having a broken mind, but then something creative can come out of that experience of debility. There is a crisis of focus right now, but if we are paying attention it can actually get us to focus.

So, my questions for you are: what are you sharing, and with whom? What are you being offered? What are you receiving? Who do you want to connect with? How are you confronting your mental patterns and do you see how they tend to dictate the course of tour life?

And what is your mind creating these days? What is your experience of your use of time? Are you wedged into your date planner, or are you actually flexible to be spontaneous and allow some of the synchronicity factor to work for you?

We have a lot and I do mean a lot of potential that we are not tapping right now. Vast oceans of energy are being consumed by the Internet and cable television, without which I am pretty sure we would have the feeling of a revolution in progress right now. We can take some of that revolution to the Internet itself. I suggest we get it into the flesh; into the same room; into what we think of as reality. Yes this can be cumbersome, but you cannot dance with an email — and this is coming from someone who adores email.

Yours & truly,

Eric Francis
quite early Tuesday morning, in Kingston

10 thoughts on “Mercury square the conjunction”

  1. Thanks Eric. Loved the ‘broken mind’ metaphor. Here’s how it manifested in my world in Sydney:

    Worked the weekend shift solo at the funeral parlour. Had to place a body in the chapel of a man who had been murdered by his schizophrenic son for the widow to have a viewing. Had shivers and funny feelings – this often happens when I am with the dead – you can feel some of them haven’t left yet for the next stage of their journey. Spent almost 2 hours with the widow – she came alone – as she poured out her story. My heart was breaking for her but since she had a strong faith in her God, we both found solace there together. I am not too fussy about how the divine is presented – the important part is the connection.

    Anyway, the next morning I came to work and the front window of the parlour had been smashed in – glass everywhere but nothing else disturbed. Except me. Very busy day – I barely kept up with the ringing phones. It was like waves on the shore. That evening I was late to an offering practice for Wheel Day (Buddha’s birth in the Tibetan calendar system where one’s actions on this day are multiplied 1 million times)

    I walked into the Tibetan Buddhist Centre harried and feeling ‘off’. Removing my shoes at the front door (the symbolic equivalent of dropping your ‘stuff’) didn’t help. The place was packed with folk who had been practising all day – I felt even more out of synch because the environment was suffused with peace and contentment. My mind struggled the rest of the evening with the transition of having been in the equivalent of hell and then suddenly being transported into heaven.

    The next day I sought counsel from some of the wise ones in my life and a completely new understanding emerged: The Buddhist representation for human beings is the lotus. We are of the lotus family. In a nutshell, the lotus grows from the bottom of the pond in the muck but its flower is pristine and unstained by the environment from which it grows. This represents who we really are – pure awareness unstained by the difficulties, negative thoughts and obstacles of our daily lives.

    I realised that the lesson being given was that I needed to grow a longer stem!

    Reconciliation of opposites is the first step to a unified view. Equanimity is the goal. I could clearly see that once this art is mastered, we can handle everything and be of even greater benefit to ourselves and others in the face of the most difficult situations.

    For me, the broken mind metaphor morphed into a lotus.

  2. My somatic signals have been so strong lately I’ve had a hard time focusing on anything else. A friend with whom I’d been practicing kung fu since last fall recently left for a journey to the other side of the planet of indeterminate length which lit the fire under my butt to go and learn from his teacher who teaches at Laurelhurst Park in Portland Oregon every weekend it’s not raining or otherwise utterly miserable. It’s as though my armored personality knew this teacher would be deadly to its structure and continually found lame excuses to not go learn in the park even when I lived a mere 3 blocks away. I’ve known about this kung fu in the park for about 2 years and just started going regularly a couple of weeks ago.

    This has resulted in an extreme acceleration of my self healing project where for the last 10 years or so I’ve been undoing myself and unravelling the muscular armored bits that are the densest manifestations of the thought patterns that dutifully recreate emotional responses I learned in my childhood and young adulthood. I find that even when I show up in the morning to warm up on my own, the mere presence of a kung fu master enhances my awareness. Trying to manifest art out of this I get lost in thoughts and I can’t seem to do much more than a blog post. Right now it seems better to let my art be expressed in body movement as I learn my way around a physical form that’s so different from what I knew 10 years ago it’s like being reborn.

    Then there’s the extreme need to find paycheck work and fast. Ha ha. Hey Obama, where’s all those green jobs you talked about? Instead of bailing out failed polluters…er auto makers why not fund a green revolution? Oh yeah, the status quo and institutionalized ignorance. Le fuck. At least the kung fu rocks and it doesn’t take any money to practice in the park.

  3. With commando planet Jupiter as part of the grouping, to this Sagg – life nares resemble anything but the landscape of February.

    February was merely rocket fuel. However, and I am committed, it has presently taken a course most unpleasantly unexpected. That often happens with change and who’s to say what follows ?

    Jupiter is Santa Claus , non ? Or is he the Pilgrim ? Aboding with Neptune and a cousin Centaur, there’d be no telling ? Except this time we may in fact be guiding the ship..

  4. My menu for today appears to involve breathing:

    In – Spirit
    Outward – Sex
    Inward – Senses
    Out – Structure based manifestation – as in Story/Myth/Religion etc.

    Focusing on Spirit, I find that it is within me
    Sex is something I give outwardly
    Use of my senses is a grouping of tools I use to take information into me
    And from these things I manefest outwardly:

    And a whole new Being emerges. (Ha! Well, we shall see to that, eh?)

    Love
    Linda

  5. Eric, you once told me over email that you would wash my hair on the beach. It was lovely. We haven’t met in person, but it was a spiritual, sexy and funny exchange. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you, but thanks!

    Like most written media, the internet has vastly affected the way I communicate- I’m more quickly forthright in this way (much in the way many people are when any kind of writing is involved) and consciously try to incorporate that bravery (trickery?) into my daily exchanges in the (er) corporeal realm. It’s been interesting!

    xo,
    n

  6. You phrase “but then something creative can come out of that experience of debility” regarding the Mercury/Chiron square part of the configuration, is where I find myself today. Thanks for clarifying it for me and for your perfect timing! Thank goodness for Chiron too. Enuf of the delusion and denial; bring on the focusing and healing.

  7. Mmmmm, sounds like it’s time to open the windows, open the doors and open our creative hearts to all that IS. Don’t be afraid.

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