“But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity. Where past and future are gathered.”
— T. S . Eliot
Mercury enters the fixed water sign Scorpio on Thursday. It is a crucial step in a gradual shift now taking place in the sky. All it takes to understand the transition is a few basic pieces of information. A grasp of the fundamentals will give you an idea of how to interpret the evolving relationship between a handful of planets. Once you have a handle on how one planet is trending, you can correspond it to archetypes in your own life. After you recognize the epitomes and their patterns you can be aware of what your options are. That awareness will allow you to make some intelligent and conscious choices. In your life those choices will come down to discerning between stamina and stagnation.
The zodiac circle is like a pie cut into 12 equal pieces. Those pieces are the signs. Each sign has a unique identity. One of the things that determines the identity of a sign is usually called its quality. The quality of any given sign is determined by where the sun is in relation to the surface of the Earth.
When the Sun is directly over the equator, apparently on its way North, that’s the first day of Aries. Six months later, when the Sun over the equator again, apparently heading South, that’s the first day of Libra. The first day of either Aries or Libra is an equinox, a word derived from the equator and the fact that day and night are equal when the Sun is directly over the imaginary line that divides our planet into upper and lower hemispheres.
When the Sun is directly over another imaginary line, the Tropic of Cancer, it’s the first day of Cancer. Amazing how that works. The same is true when the Sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. Geography is actually tropical astrology, something you probably were not informed of in school.