The compersion series continues on Book of Blue.
Today is a meaningful day in the Mercury-Sun cycle. Mercury and the Sun form their exterior or superior conjunction, meaning actually that Mercury, the Sun and the Earth align with the Sun in the middle. There are two ways that there can be a Mercury/Sun conjunction; one with Mercury between the Sun and Earth and one with Mercury to the outside. The first kind happens during Mercury retrograde; the second kind, currently occurring, happens with Mercury direct.
Each time it happens, whether retrograde or direct, it’s the marker that we’re at the midpoint of the Mercury cycle. Mercury conjunct the Sun tells us either that Mercury retrograde or direct is half over. Here is a Mercury retrograde calendar that you can use to figure out where we stand in relationship to that particular cycle.
As for interpretation (and by this article so far you can see how much technical work and/or understanding has to go into having enough data to make an interpretation). Sun/Mercury direct is always an interesting day. I’ve said before that it’s one of those few aspects that hints at positive news. I recognize that it’s difficult to think of the words ‘positive’ and ‘news’ in the same thought, and I think we’re desperately longing for some external validation that life on the planet is going to get better. Like you, I deal daily with the fact that people who are bent on making chaos have such an easy time of it, while the people who are creating a semblance of stability and productivity face so many obstacles.
It will indeed help when more of us are available to contribute to the collective in a conscious way. I’m not sure what’s going to create that slack; we are constantly under the demand for more output, and we have fewer opportunities available to go inside for nourishment and contact; to find the place from which we would find intimacy. And “the world” is in such chaos that few of us can feel a connection or like we can even have an impact. There are a lot more people than we think whose mantra is, why bother with anything?