By Len Wallick
“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, we transition out of the storm phase following Mercury’s recent forward station. Jupiter entered Pisces overnight, and the Moon made a conjunction to Jupiter welcoming him home. Venus comes out from behind the Sun to ingress Aquarius. Like the planets, we are now in a different place, a different time. A time to stop and look around. A place to take a conscious breath. Ahhhhh…how long ago 2009 seems to be.
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Appropriate to Capricorn, where the Sun remains for a few more days, is topography. Mercury retrograde started pragmatically enough. In his blog on December 15th “Five Minutes of Astrology” Eric launched the echo phase with an emphasis on integrity. On Auld Lang Syne, Mr. Wing-foot, also known as Mercury stationed concurrent with Mars and the opening created by a partial lunar eclipse. A week later in his blog “Weird but not too bad, so far” Eric observed that “..it’s been pretty mellow, at least in public life.” A few days after that…
Your clock can tell you when sunrise is going to occur, but your clock does not cause the Sun to come up. Carl Jung called synchronicity, an alternative to cause and effect, to account for events that occur together in a meaningful manner. In one famous incident, a large knife in a drawer spontaneously shattered into pieces when Jung and Sigmund Freud were having a tense conversation. Jung called this ‘catalytic exteriorization phenomenon’ – a physical release of non-physical tension.
In astrology, squares (planets and/or events 90 degrees apart on the zodiac circle) and oppositions (180 degrees apart) are commonly interpreted as expressions of tension. Lately, we have had a lot of that from the eclipses to the Venus exterior conjunction and the ongoing square between Saturn and Pluto (just to name the big ones). It may well be that the most recent eclipse cycle, closing as it opened with a Mercury station, found its physical release in the suffering inflicted on the people of Haiti.