Planet Waves FM :: Mercury Direct and Grand Cross

Today’s edition of Planet Waves FM covers Mercury stationing direct at 6:11 am EDT Wednesday. This happens concurrently with a grand cross in the mutable signs. (And here is an extra article about the mutables.) That cross includes Venus in Gemini, the South Node, Mars in Virgo, the Moon (at the time of the recording), Juno and the North Node in Sagittarius and Neptune and Chiron in Pisces.

Your host, Eric Francis.

That’s a lot of planets — but there are even more. To help me sort them out I include a short interview with Martha Lang Wescott, known as one of the most astute asteroid specialists in the world. Here is the minor planet list set to a 90-degree sort. The mutables are the last group.

The program begins with a brief reading of the natal chart of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wednesday is the 44th anniversary of his assassination. I will update this page soon with the charts involved, and by tomorrow morning the program will appear on the old player, as a download on our own page, and in iTunes.

Note, in the course of my research today, I found this article on the mutable cross. I’ve only scanned it, but it looks extremely interesting.

Here is your program in the old player, where you’ll find the full archives and a downloadable zip file.

Thanks for tuning in.

Eric Francis

Here is a simplified chart for Mercury stationing direct. You can see Mercury close to the horizontal line on the left. The Sun conjunct Vesta is below the horizontal line, also on the left. The grand cross is marked by the red lines in the middle of the diagram.

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3 thoughts on “Planet Waves FM :: Mercury Direct and Grand Cross”

  1. PS: I had only one photo on my wall growing up of the extraordinary man himself, Martin Luther King. I love hearing more about him and am thrilled he and I have planets in common. One of a kind, MLK. I am off to search his chart.

  2. I was in Memphis in early November 1984 for my 19th birthday with my little sister and we stayed at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated – this was in the days before it was turned into an elaborate memorial site years later. At the time my sister was 14 years old. On the drive from Memphis airport to the motel, which I believe at the time was owned by Days Inn-Lorraine, the cab driver kept opening up the glove compartment of his cab to reveal his handy revolver. My little sister started crying because he kept referring to the fact that MLK had been shot at the motel we would be staying in…my little sister was so focussed on the revolver that she didn’t pay attention to whom exactly he was metioning had been shot there and thought we might be next. When we got to the motel, we found that we had been booked into the room right next to the one where MLK had stayed. There was a wreath hung on the balcony and the staff told us that they never rent out the room he had stayed in to anybody after his death. That night it was unmistakeable. There was a presence around that motel that I can’t put into words even if I try. It spooked me to the core and my sister picked up on that same spooky energy field. To this day I can recall it with a sense of trepidation mixed with awe. Maybe when a light as bright as his is extinguished well before it’s time, it continues to burn somehow, someway in another sphere of existence that leaks back into this one.

    Sorry for the way off topic little side story…but just decided to share it on a whim….

  3. Gosh, Eric, this is such a minor element in your piece, I hesitate to mention it. But let me say how incredibly helpful this was — I scribbled down notes like a banshee!! (?) … and I am so grateful for the edification.

    what I noted at the beginning of the piece, in your mention of MLK, you mentioned Obama and his oration skills. What I must say is that I agree with you re: his oratory skills. But, if I may, this man is an extraordinary writer and unlike the others in the field he is sharing his own thoughts that are very well organized and ultimately delivered. I am still a little shocked by his first book, how well written and how deeply moving his resolution of the past.

    mm.
    ps: off topic, please forgive me, Eric. You know I’m a fan.

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