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I learned something recently from a friend who is an astrological programmer. When you plot the movement of Mercury on a table and watch second by second in a spreadsheet that goes out to several decimal places, Mercury turns directions on a dime. It’s not “standing still” relative to the Earth even for a second. When you look at something distant like Eris, the relative motion of the Earth and Eris produce an event where Eris “stands still” relative to the Earth for about 50 seconds.<\/p>\n
During the station, if you look in the ephemeris, Mercury will occupy the same degree<\/em> for about three days (currently 21+ Capricorn). But if you look closer than the ephemeris (which lists daily positions) can go, you see that it does not stay still at all. Remember — Mercury is not changing directions, but its apparent movement, relative to the Earth, is what changes. And this produces real effects on Earth. One of them is a sense of information coming out. Another is communication issues resolve, or are seen for the real issue that was lurking below the surface.<\/p>\n Without being too superstitious here, leave your computer alone. Wait till Mercury is moving at least a degree a day (by midweek) to do any important changes that cannot wait;\u0412\u00a0 longer for those that are not really necessary.<\/p>\n Saturday is the fifth night of the Moon, which is in Aries. the Moon will be exactly square Mercury when the station direct happens. Also, at around 11:11 pm tonight EST, the Moon will make aspects to Mercury, Mars, Eris, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. It’s actually making more aspects than that; I am using a short list at the moment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Approximately every three days, the Moon is jumping into an existing aspect structure with numerous slow-moving planets at 20 degrees or so of their signs. Today is one of them.<\/p>\n The next time the Moon will reach the 20 degree mark will be Feb. 3 (which is also Imbolc or Midwinter holiday, by the way). Imbolc<\/strong><\/a> is when the Sun reaches the exact midpoint of Aquarius; which is the midpoint between winter solstice (summer in the Southern Hemisphere) and spring equinox (autumn in the southern hemisphere). These cross-quarter days as they are called mark 1\/8th of the year having passed by. They are the mini-seasons; and related to the semi-square aspect of 45 degrees, because they cover 45 days of time. For those of us here in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the the tipping point of winter. We might feel that spring is beginning — but not quite yet. That’s in six weeks, at the equinox. For the moment you could say that winter is starting to lose its tight grip. I’ve been feeling this psychically for a few days now and the spring feels really amazing from my vantage point.<\/p>\n As Imbolc happens next week, Venus will ingress Aries (where it will stay for quite a while, due to the upcoming Venus retrograde), and we will revisit an exact Saturn\/Uranus opposition — that would be the second of five, exact Feb 5. I’ll be watching all these developments for you as the week unfolds.<\/p>\n If you’re curious about something, pull down the “About” menu and drop me an email. If my desk is less than six inches thick with charts, tarot cards, asteroid glyph tables, scattered Compact Flash cards and the ephemeris, I will write back. I’m also taking short, sweet questions in this space as well. If you can keep it clear and simple, I may be able to get to it.<\/p>\n Hey now. Short reminder today that Mercury is switching directions (called ‘stationing direct’) at the moment, and making its precise station overnight Saturday to Sunday (2:10 am EST Sunday). This can be a strange time; often enough experienced as annoying for those not accustomed to the energy and as interesting (or a relief) for those … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Eric](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&ssl=1\" "\\"Planet")
\nCold sunny day in Kingston, NY<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"