Mercury is direct as of Saturday night — we made it, more or less. This was a difficult one for a lot of people, I know. I’m going to speculate a little that the less Earth someone has in their chart, the more challenging it was. For those who know their charts well enough to know the composition of elements, can you please comment?
The Moon is now in Libra, square Pluto, and dancing with the Aries Point. Mars has made it out of Aries and into Taurus; the Aries alignment, including Venus and Mars, is part of what defined the psychic mood of winter and early spring.This included the Venus retrograde from Aries in to Pisces.
While Mars is not (traditionally) well placed in Taurus, I think this is good for personal economics, global economics, and that form of economy known as physical desire.
We have plenty to feed our souls, if that part of our biosystem is hungry: the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune-Galactic Core alignment is raining manna from heaven, but it’s not necessarily the kind you can collect in your pockets. I have not mentioned that Venus and Uranus are involved in exact aspects to the Aquarius alignment — Venus making a sextile from Aries, and Uranus making a semisextile from Pisces. Basically we have quite a few points vibrating with the Galactic Core right now.
Other asteroids are involved — Pallas in Cancer and Juno in Pisces is about to get into the act. This one is worth its own comment, another day — the conjunction of Juno and Uranus: a revolution in marriage. I have a phrase for this, which is monogamy reform, or an expanded notion of monogamy; for another day.
Worcester, MA
carecare7 & all . . Doesn’t this give weight to the “a balance of all” theory? You know, not too much of water (or fire, air, earth) and not too much of earth (or air, water, fire), so it’s good to know that earth representation will ground us, but too much of it leaves no escape from or outwitting of reality. You are here and it is you. On the other hand too much water leaves one unable to cope at all with the reality b/c of the emotional deluge. Too much air and you will ponder and observe realilty, but have little real contact with it.
What about too much fire? You have to ask? It’s possible to burn up all your energy before you can take care of real problems. Not always, but I’ve seen it happen and sometimes a person with little earth & a lot of fire/water can rant & rave, breathe fire then dissolve into sobs and then emotional depletion. Does nothing to solve a problem in “reality” unless it buys a little time to gather your wits (air) and deal with it (earth).
It appears though, that one can outgrow the fate of imbalance, as with any other handicap. Practice makes perfect, I suppose. Anyway, it’s rainy now but it’s senior day at Kroger (10 % discount) so must summon up some “earth” and get stocked up at the grocery store. be
Ha – I tend to emulate Patty –
all planets in Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Libra & Pisces; Sag rising; only Saturn in Virgo, for earth, and at 15 degrees, at that, finishing up the 2nd saturn return.
May has been actually better, for me. A feeling that a huge load has dropped away, and energy is moving. Feelings of joy, after a hard winter. Crying less. Stepping through some portal??
A very sensual time, and a realization that the universe IS taking care of me, and my needs ARE being met.
Surprisingly, no glitches in communication, all went smoothly during mercury retro. (With some help from y’all).
xxxa
Hi everyone,
I beg to differ, I have the following in Earth signs:
ASC (Virgo)
Pluto (Virgo 12th hs)
North Node (Virgo 1st hs)
Saturn (Capricorn 5th hs)
Moon (Capricorn 4th hs)
Mars (Capricorn 5th hs)
Pallas (Capricorn 4th hs)
Nessu (Taurus 9th hs)
Varuna (Taurus 9th hs)
In fact, Earth is the strongest element in my chart after water.
This Mercury Rx was a real mess for me so I think it is the opposite; people with predominent earth in their charts felt it in a bad way. At least the earth people I know had a lot of issues to clear up and delays as well as financial problems to handle. Lots and LOTS of stress.
I’ve got Uranus and Pluto in Virgo, and that’s all. I’m quite Watery and Airy otherwise… and this has been a calm, quiet period for me. Hopefully that is because I’ve got my ducks in a row (for the moment, anyway).
ok, i have these in Earth. the others are spread about the other elements.
Mercury + Venus in Virgo,
Mars in Taurus
Imum Coeli in Capricorn
8th House in Taurus
12th House in Virgo
the retrograde for me was horrible though while the previous retrogrades i didnt really notice anything different happening and all was generally copacetic. while my food/digestion issue has gotten better, my insomnia has gotten worse the past few days. this was my response to the “Be Cool” entry on May 27th:
the past couple months or so have been truly horrible for me. for a while it was insomnia, and as a result only got about 10% of my work done, and wasnt able to exercise much which led to more insomnia. then the day after i finally slept long and solid, i got insulin insufficiency disorder from not having the enzymes to digest grain properly which my body became more sensitive to from not sleeping. and then even though i was sleeping i was even more tired than when i had insomnia – unbelievable.
3 weeks ago (may 6th) Eric posted the �Mercury stationing retrograde, into the Full Moon’ article which specifically stated my grain issue and that blew me away. so after not having grain for 4 weeks now, then other health problems arose which also prevented me from really sleeping, working, and exercising. it’s extremely difficult to visualize and feel positivity in the midst of all of this. i really hope things will change after this retrograde.
I have:
Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto, & true node in Earth
Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, & ascendant in Water
Venus in Fire
Sun in Air
The month of May has been a grounding, integrating time for me in many ways, and also a time of growing awareness on many fronts. Strong sense of trying to overcome inertia. Feels like I’m headed up. This retrograde has been easier than many for me, except that I’ve been without a printer since it started ’cause I didn’t want to buy a new one till it was over.
Hey y’all,
I surfed through it pretty well and I’ve got Mercury, Sol, Pallas, Juno, Ceres, Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn and Mars in Taurus with my Mars return coming up in a few days (4 degrees). This weekend 2 of my friends got married and one of my best friends went to South Africa for an unknown amount of time who was also my Kung fu practice partner and teacher. This weekend and last I started going to kung fu in a local park (Laurelhurst in Portland, Oregon) where his teacher does push hands. The first 3 times I practiced with him he didn’t push me around much and taught me some breathing stuff. I think he was getting a feel for how I’m stuck cause yesterday he really started throwing me around and a couple of times twisted my arms into locks that when I relaxed into them broke loose sticky spots and now everything works more smoothly.
Next in my elemental make-up is air with Ascendant, Uranus, Pluto and Vesta in Libra, Venus (retrograde) and Jupiter in Aquarius, with Luna and her south node in Gemini. It seems like the more rooted I become in my Earth the less my air is reactive and flighty and the more it works as reliable intuition and clarity. I had some moments yesterday where the winds of my mind were calm enough while walking Bagua circle style around a tree that the world around me came through unfiltered as possible while still existing as an embodied life form…what I mean is pure senses unfiltered by words tying up a dynamic process into tree, bird, pond, wind, grass…all those things without the noise of words to divide them up into discreet bits. Then a kung fu master threw me around a bit and I realized that it’s one thing to keep your cool while standing serene by a tree, and quite another to keep your cool when moving like a tiger and getting thrown on your ass.
oops, i have virgo south node, but aries on the descendant. Twin spirit is aries exact on my descendant, and we are conjunct jupiter, mercury, venus and some other stuff. My black moon lilith is in Gemini.
I’m all hot air and boiling water. Ha. Spread evenly between aries, pisces, cancer, aquarius, libra and gemini. Only have saturn in Virgo, that weighty bastard.
Ceres is in Aquarius, as is Juno. Libra rising, aries south node, aries mars, mercury and venus. The mercury transit was on my first house, actually, and also on the twin spirit’s. We usually connect mentally quite nicely, but this time we were way off.
Phall – Homeopathic remedy Cocculus for balance too – might even be useful to try with Nat Mur (sea salt). Best wishes, H.
phall:
try popping some grains of Sea Salt. for balance (literally).
xo
It’s a bit of an even spread here for me – but I still had a real doozy of a merc retro, one of the worst I can remember. Though I suspect there are other (fairly dominant and curmudgeonly elements in my own chart at play right now…
BTW,
Some of the Earth deficiencies I’m fixing within my personal physical system are as simple as dietary mineral deficiencies. (Which in turn affects physical, mental and emotional functions.)
With Love and Magnesium,
Linda
Hi Eric!
Of the 4 elements, Earth is the least represented in my natal chart. i have one major planet in an Earth sign (Jupiter 12+ degrees Taurus). So far as i can tell, two minor planets in Earth signs (Chiron 17+ degrees Capricorn and Lilith 4+ degrees Virgo). i helped to teach a 9-hour Reiki class on Saturday (with 5 hours of commute). It was a long day but a very rewarding one. Sunday i worked six hours mowing a very large lawn (1/3 acre) with a push mower to make extra money – it was hot, drank two gallons of water during and slept very well after. i’m grateful for those activities because i think they grounded me (each in their own way). Now, if i can make it through to the weekend for some down time to cat nap, catch up on my reading or just do nothin’, i’lll be even more grateful.
Len W
Eric,
On Earth signs and Current Experience
Earth in Natal Chart:
Mars in Capricorn (5th house)
Pluto in VIrgo (1st house)
MC on Taurus:
Jupiter Opposition MC
Neptune Opposition MC
(Natal Jupiter in Scorpio 3rd house)
and Natal Neptune in Scorpio 4th house)
Venus Square MC
(Natal Venus in Aquarius 6th house)
Uranus Square MC
(Natal Uranus in Leo 12th house)
Mars Trine MC
(Natal Mars in Capricorn 5th house)
Saturn Trine MC
(Natal Saturn in Sagittarius 5th house)
Pluto Trine MC
(Natal Pluto in Virgo 1st house)
Sun Sextile MC
(Natal Sun in Pisces 7th house)
I’ve been living something I named the “Taurus Syndrome” wherein is seemed for the past decades (my entire adult life) that everyone I met who was a “challenge” (and whom I could classify) turned out to have natal sun in Taurus. The harder I look/ed for a pattern or meaning the more elusive and frustrating the whole thing became. Rather than continue this fruitless search, I turned to focusing on what in myself was missing of Mother Earth. What I Need to Nurture in Me.
I think my experience of friends/family/community this past week defines a milestone in my life journey so far – one in which I have spent very much underwater – trying to surface and making small headway usually to get pushed back under by horrid people – but I have focused diligently this past year on GETTING WELL and to do that, of course, necessitates figuring out what the hell is “wrong”. Much of the “wrong” is founded in extreme sensitivites to food that I have only just been discovering.
I had an opportunity this weekend to speak out for myself to family – family who never tells the truth (to me) nor communicates appropriately (to me) (In a word: abuse). I am finally able to “hear differently” and then experience differently and then to act differently. All totally amazing stuff.
And then, on Saturday night – May 30th into 31st – I had an almost exhilarating moment – although I find myself far more “matter of fact” than that. I’ve been almost “hibernating” for the last year or two – and last night was revelation that my hard work is beginning to pay off – I am alive! Not only am I experiencing the world differently but (of course) the world is experiencing me differently. I was out for a night with friends and had MANY people seek me out and comment on how I’ve “always had a ‘glow” but now I am virtually “vibrant” and they’ve not seen me so “alive” for a long time (if they only knew that they’ve NEVER seen me truly alive!!)
My hard work has been mostly about letting go of everything I can think of to let go of – and then to search my Being for more. This isn’t only material things, but habits, conditioning, ways of thinking/perceiving. A waking up process perhaps. I’ve studied nutrition and dis-ease from many perspectives – and helped a few others along the way – but that has always been easier than helping myself. Helping and nurturing mySelf has been the biggest challenge, but the payoff is already visible and I know will become profound at some point down the road (profound when I look back to THIS moment and remember.)
I have reached no goal – only a marker along the way – I believe that for me this work will be LIFElong — that it is a lifelong piece of work/creation/art for me. At least now I have breached some sort of glass ceiling/awareness factor that has kept me down until now.
I could try to get more specific with more stories, but wanted to try to summarize that this is indeed A Moment in time – when Earth and I are coming into being at Peace with each other in a way that hasn’t seemed AVAILABLE to me before. A long way to go – but now at least it feels like I’m actually on my life’s journey, not just trying to get out of the gate.
Linda
Feb 21, 1958
Detroit 4:32PM
Eric:
I’ve got one planet (Venus in Taurus) in Earth, 4 in air, 3 in water, and 2 in fire. I’ve been nauseous and dizzy on and off for the past week. . . as have some of my less- than-grounded friends here in LA.
I almost hate to say it, but as a Taurus/Taurus/Capricorn the last few weeks have actually been an improvement. Venus in retrograde has been a challenging time for me, so over the past couple weeks I’ve really felt much relieved and less ‘out to lunch’.
Of course, I’m sure I’ll get drowned, burned or aerated at the some phase in the near future, so I’m not going to celebrate too much about it…
With an abundance of fire and water in my chart i felt the turbulence of the shift. Things are feeling a lot smoother today, but yesterday was not a good time. Anxious, nervy, restless and unsettled.
Certainly felt the shift in motion from Saturday to Sunday, however it felt full on and without warning, no teething stage to make the leap from one energy to the next. Clunky, but as i said, the flow is here on this sunny Monday Queens morning.
um, yeah. Here’s what I got in earth: Sedna in early Taurus. That’s it.
Normally retros don’t bug me – I know what to expect & I do pretty well at dealing with it with equanimity, but this time felt more like taking a cross-country road trip on a Catherine wheel. I have never been so grateful for a day to come and go, and it has never felt so long in coming. Sure, all the territory covered was good and important and necessary for my continued growth, but DAMN! It was hard and fast and painful and kept me sitting in all my most primal territory for just about the whole time.
Please tell me that us un-earthly folk get a break now! Please?
Eric, your theory makes sense to me . .the more earth you got (chart-wise), the more grounded you are, the more water (or fire) the more turbulant. As for my chart, I have two majors in earth, but they are outer planets. Fortunately, I’m old and have a very seasoned Saturn, so am still intact.
That Saturn of mine is also trine the GC, so am guessing that this aspect is also a grace point in that it seems to open up my mind to future “happenings” possible, which takes some of the sting out of the immediate challenges.
You mention the Juno-Uranus conjunction as a revolution in marriage (& not just “gay”, right?) and I look forward to hearing more on that. My intuition (or whatever) honed in on the sign, Pisces, and led to the feeling that the revolution would be in prison reform and/or healthcare reform. I suppose it isn’t too much of a stretch to have all three of ’em at one time in these wild and crazy times!
(Aqueerius moons just love a good revolution, huh!?)
I disagree. I have lots of earth in my chart, and this last mercury retrograde was very difficult.