Mercury entered Gemini, where it rules, earlier today. The smallest planet’s ingress to Gemini follows a quick trip through Taurus, lasting just over two weeks. Before Mercury was in Taurus, it took nearly three months oscillating between Pisces and Aries, as consequence of a retrograde cycle. Clearly, the innermost planet is demonstrating a pattern of acceleration. That pattern, taken with Mercury’s placement in Gemini, thematically echoes much of the current astrology. Symbolically it signifies Mercury’s potential to make the current astrology work for you through a regimen of being present and mindful when things get fast and furious.
Mercury expresses through your mind and its means. Gemini, domain of mutable air, is compatible with the fleetest planet’s archetype. Thus, Mercury’s annual tour of Gemini typically favors fast, flexible thinking and communication. This year, there’s an extra wrinkle.
This year, Mercury encounters a Gemini recently enhanced by the luminaries, Sun and Moon, with even more such activity yet to come. Just as this week was getting off to a start, the Moon entered mutable air less than eight hours after the Sun did. Literally minutes after its ingress, speedy Luna caught up with the Sun for a New Moon and a spectacular annular solar eclipse just inside Gemini’s threshold, and near the lunar south node. Such a precisely placed and timed beginning assures that both the current eclipse cycle (from solar to lunar) and lunation cycle (from one New Moon to the next) will be completed while the Sun is in Gemini. That sort of thing does not happen often. As rare and auspicious as the current luminary cycles are, Venus is giving them a run for their money, also from within Mercury’s realm.