Thursday: Mercury opposite Admetos

Dear Friend and Reader,

Today Mercury is opposite Admetos in Taurus. It’s a very interesting relationship having to do with the mind (Mercury) and a Uranian Point called Admetos.

Photo by Danielle Voirin.
Photo by Danielle Voirin.

This aspect finds Mercury in Scorpio. Hickey describes this energy as being swift, sharp and aware of weakness, knowing precisely where to strike. My other sources concur that Mercury in Scorpio is on an inexhaustable search for the truth, and delves into the heart of the matter on this quest. This is not the kind of Mercury given to letting things lie for the purposes of an illusion.

Some famous people with Mercury in Scorpio include Pablo Picasso, John Lennon and Deepak Chopra: with these men, the intense, delving, philosophical mind is highlighted.

Simply put, Mercury in Scorpio is that FBI agent obsessed with finding the truth, nothing but the truth, so help you god if his eye falls upon you.

Trans-Neptunian Points, TNPs or Uranian Points are not bodies in space, but rather sensitive points in the fabric of the Universe. If you were to jump into a rocket ship and try to find Admetos, you wouldn’t be able to — it’s not there in the sense of something you can stab a flag into.

Here at the Planet Waves bat cave, we prefer to call them Uranian Points to keep clear of any confusion between TNOs and TNPs. I will save the TNO talk to a time when there’s one being aspected, but to keep it clear, the TNPs (Trans-Neptunian Points) do not exist in the sense of a planet or a comet that can smash into a planet.

The Uranian Points were first established by Alfred Witte, founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. The purpose of Uranian astrology was different from that of more traditional methods of astrology, in that it is more precise compared to traditional astrology’s evocative tendencies.

Martha Lang-Wescott writes that Admetos is about “facing blockages…encountering delays…taking inventory…storage.” For a more detailed definition of Admetos from her website, click here. There are quite a few sites devoted to Uranian astrology interpretations. One of the better ones I’ve found is here at this site. Eileen Naumann, Uranian astrologer from the tripod site linked above, suggests that Admetos is about blockages, as well as sludge, seeds, the origins of problems and the beginnings of growth in a medical or earthy sense, as well as soul recovery and extraction.

Admetos is in Taurus today, further highlighting the earth-bound, bodily sense of this Point. I would suggest that this aspect has to do with searching for the heart of an ailment, or understanding in a holistic sense the problems and illnesses of the self and others. Scorpio-Mercury slices down to the heart of the matter on its quest for the truth, while Admetos presides over seeds and the beginnings of things. It seems to me that this is about the Truth and about Origin and our relationships to them.

The Moon is in Virgo today: adding emphasis to matters of health and maintenance.

Merry Met,

Genevieve

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