Mercury turns on a dime in Sagittarius on Tuesday at 8:43 pm EST. Mercury resumes forward motion in a fire trine with the Leo Moon as if to remind us of surrounding circumstances. The word “surrounding” is used advisedly as a reference to the recursive nature of the astrology right now. That is to say, the large number of significant events in the sky seem to be containing and referencing each other like Matryoshka nesting dolls or, in a more seasonal reference, the so-called Chinese boxes. In your own life you may want to be open to a similar experience where any reference to yourself also references the world at large and vice-versa, because such perspectives may help you to deal with complex problems that may have confounded you up to now.
The first and most obvious recursive phenomenon is in relation to the current eclipse cycle that concludes with an auspicious total lunar eclipse this weekend. Mercury stationed retrograde on November 24, about a day before the November 25 partial solar eclipse that opened the burrow we have been moving through for nearly two weeks. In other words, the eclipse cycle has been very neatly nested inside the period of time that Mercury has been in apparent reverse motion. That matryoshka effect has contributed to the ambient weirdness of recent days. One example involved Mercury itself.
Right in the middle of the retrograde period, when Mercury was passing between Earth and Sun (basically eclipsing it) some folks think they saw an alien space ship in a video from one of our solar satellites. The video shows Mercury being impacted by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. Some viewers thought they saw a large, planet-sized object right behind Mercury, supposedly ‘uncloaked’ by the CME. Those eager to see evidence of alien life did not note that it was a highly processed time-lapse video made over two days, hence the sensible official explanation that the mysterious image was Mercury’s position from the day before. Then again, how many official explanations have you believed lately?