Dear Friend and Reader:
Beltane season has at least two more turning points in store, offering us a mini-cluster of events over the next few days. One would be Mercury stationing retrograde in early Gemini overnight tonight; and the second would be the Scorpio Full Moon overnight Friday.
This combination together would qualify as interesting, given their respective movements: an emotional, deep Full Moon pushing pending matters to a head; and Mercury stationing retrograde in one of its own signs. This is about revealing information and doing its best to create some focus in our minds that is sufficiently removed from the emotional level that we actually have a clue what is going on in us or around us. I don’t see a conflict between these two dimensions of sensation — more like a gradual integration. We will need the perspective offered by this Mercury station in the midst of so much deep lunar energy.
One thing I’ve noticed many times about Mercury retrograde that I have never read anywhere is how it reveals thinly veiled truths. It’s almost as if a costume comes off of people, circumstances or events and we can see them for what they really are; this might be ‘bad’ or ‘good’ given the usual ambivalence of Mercury (and Gemini) but what I have noticed is that the information is just about always beneficial to those who need it. (This aspect would serve as a warning to those trying to maintain their anonymity for any reason.)
Mercury makes its station in a square aspect to Ceres in early Virgo. It’s an almost-near-miss; Mercury comes within 1 degree and 10 minutes of the exact square before stationing, suggesting that the mental contact point or awareness is working on the edge of an issue: and if you follow the basic sketch of Ceres, that issue will involve food, deep emotions, or a contact point with how you feel about your mother or powerful mother-figure.