{"id":14393,"date":"2009-04-29T06:16:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T11:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2009-04-29T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:05:08","slug":"mercury-regrograde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-regrograde\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual and collective growth, here and now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revised. Non-collige virgo rosas.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good Morning,<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Moon is in Cancer now, making a sextile to the Taurus Sun today. This water-to-earth combination should provide a little relief over yesterday’s scattered mental energy of the Gemini Moon with so many Aquarius planets in the scene; i.e.,. for a couple of days we had an Airy Overload.<\/p>\n

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Venus in Aries, just done being retrograde, is currently leaning into her third square to Pluto: I’ll come back to that in a second.<\/p>\n

Mercury is doing something pretty interesting: he\/she\/it is in the last degree of Taurus, moving slower than one degree a day. This is a shift in consciousness, as Mercury slows to a station, which will occur in about one week in Gemini. The ingress to Gemini is Thursday afternoon\/evening in USA time zones.<\/p>\n

The forthcoming Mercury retrograde involves a series of transitions of Mercury between Gemini and Taurus, which will provide a useful and interesting contrast between airy Mercury and earthy Mercury.<\/p>\n

Mercury in Gemini can be pretty gosh darned slippery and tricksterish, and now we’re going to have him\/her\/it slow to a station there, making a quincunx to Pluto and a trine to the North Node. Given the surge of vital force (i.e., sex energy) that is spouting at this time, and the way we are trained to convert that to fear, we may be in for an interesting ride on the back of a pig. Note, this is not the normal time of year to be talking about death. It is springtime here in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s time to be frolicking in the fields and forests, flirting your head off and sniffing the pretty people as they walk by.<\/p>\n

Then again it was T.S. Eliot who said that April is the cruelest month, breeding memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. What he was saying is that if you’re feeling dead inside and springtime calls you to life, that will be painful.<\/p>\n

With Venus moving into this square to Pluto, we have a perfect symbol of carpe diem<\/em>. This could be seen as a sign of the imminent transience of all things, particularly those we love; and our own awareness of them. Venus in Aries square Pluto can be loosely translated as: do we love ourselves enough to really live? To take the opportunities we have?<\/p>\n

Or are we going to obsess over loss, death and the struggle of specialness? Is love about having someone to grow old and die with, or is it about celebrating your existence while the flowers of your life are on the vine?<\/p>\n

This morning Dr. Joseph Mercola, a guy I’m convinced loves life and loves being a doc, spoke up about why a swine flu pandemic is highly unlikely<\/strong><\/a>. I am not sure where I picked up on Mercola, but I really like him and his approach. He’s an osteopath, not a conventionally trained allopathic doctor. He’s a bit nerdy and his slightly boring approach to video conceals that he’s actually quite a subversive who understands radical dangerous subjects like nutrition and politics. His article today gives interesting statistics and analysis comparing several flu pandemics and debunks the 1918-1919 pandemic as not being about flu but rather being about strep.<\/p>\n

There is a good bit of skepticism going around about this current flu “news.” True enough, plenty of people will gladly herd themselves into boxcars to get some kind of flu shot, so this is an excellent exercise in why it’s a good idea to think for yourself.<\/p>\n

However, something else is going on, which is we are getting a sense of how frail the world can seem, and how intense the lurking threat of death is just below the veil of normal waking awareness. Combine that with someone’s agenda to make a killing off of a new vaccine and you can get a dangerous combination, but it’s only dangerous when we don’t think for ourselves.<\/p>\n

It’s fair to call this whole episode an emergence of the shadow of death. Most of us don’t want to consider death consciously, so then when something happens that threatens us (terrorism, a sneezing pig) the result can be pandemic panic. Oh Pan, oh Pan, wherefore art thou?<\/p>\n

We have to have this conversation; we need to give death a voice, but not some haircut on CNN freaking us out about the flu.<\/p>\n

The alignment of Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune is saying that it’s time to change our mind collectively. In other words, there is collective momentum that we can tap into if we want to, to do growth work that we would normally have to do individually. The individual progress we make contributes to the whole; the whole contributes back to us; that is my nutshell interpretation of this stunning event taking shape in late Aquarius.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your many exciting, insightful comments. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying reading what you have to say.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly, quite early on a spring morning (I don’t even see Aunt Pat down at Dominick’s making coffee).<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

Cam Hassard will be up next with a flu news roundup.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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