Breaking News: Obama Rethinks his Vision of America
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.