{"id":15294,"date":"2009-05-27T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2009-05-27T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:02:12","slug":"mercury-retrograde-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-retrograde-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Be cool."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercury is slowing to a station in Taurus. With about four days to go, that puts in the Mercury storm phase; as of this moment Mercury is retrograde moving at less than one-quarter of a degree per day. Saturday night it will stop (relative to the Earth) and, instantaneously, commence direct motion. There is no actual station (i.e., the planet appearing stationary in the sky or in the chart). Something like Eris, which is currently 97 times the Earth-Sun distance, may station for a number of minutes, but even that is surprisingly brief, when you actually look at the math.<\/p>\n

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Mercury, slow and powerful, is currently square the Aquarius alignment of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune, which personalizes that aspect and brings it to the forefront of consciousness while it’s at peak intensity. Mercury retrograde, or a Mercury station, are challenging enough for most people, particularly if attempting to swim against the tide.<\/p>\n

When you add squares to a diversity of planets which are themselves in a tight alignment, the stage is set for revelations and for all kinds of psychological pain and confusion. Check your intuition against the known facts and give matters where there is an uncertainty factor time to work out.<\/p>\n

What can seem urgent during a Mercury station can disappear like a puff of smoke. What can seem trivial or like a mere clue can lead to a significant revelation or discovery. If unattended or handled poorly, small problems or misunderstandings can become serious ones.<\/p>\n

Particularly at this late stage in the retrograde cycle, it’s not the time to make investments, commitments or to push events or arguments forward. For the best value, it’s definitely time to avoid purchasing things.<\/p>\n

All of the above could be filed under ‘mundane astrology’ — the ordinary and the worldly. The triple conjunction itself defies easy explanation, though we can say for sure that it’s a collective spiritual event that may drop entirely below the radar for most people because it involves two points that have a tendency to disappear — Neptune and the Galactic Core. What we think of as the spiritual level of reality can hold surprisingly little sway over the affiars of the rational mind or the ego.<\/p>\n

Usually it takes some kind of a crisis to get us to change directions, revise our method of thinking or question our assumptions. The triple conjunction points to great things, but not if we are tied up in petty ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mercury is slowing to a station in Taurus. With about four days to go, that puts in the Mercury storm phase; as of this moment Mercury is retrograde moving at less than one-quarter of a degree per day. Saturday night it will stop (relative to the Earth) and, instantaneously, commence direct motion. There is no … 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\/15294"}],"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=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}