{"id":16377,"date":"2009-07-13T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2009-07-13T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:17:07","slug":"mercury-conjunct-the-sun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-conjunct-the-sun-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury conjunct the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The compersion series continues on Book of Blue<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today is a meaningful day in the Mercury-Sun cycle. Mercury and the Sun form their exterior or superior conjunction, meaning actually that Mercury, the Sun and the Earth align with the Sun in the middle. There are two ways that there can be a Mercury\/Sun conjunction; one with Mercury between the Sun and Earth and one with Mercury to the outside. The first kind happens during Mercury retrograde; the second kind, currently occurring, happens with Mercury direct.<\/p>\n

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Valencia, Spain. Photo by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each time it happens, whether retrograde or direct, it’s the marker that we’re at the midpoint of the Mercury cycle. Mercury conjunct the Sun tells us either that Mercury retrograde or direct is half over. Here is a Mercury retrograde calendar<\/strong><\/a> that you can use to figure out where we stand in relationship to that particular cycle.<\/p>\n

As for interpretation (and by this article so far you can see how much technical work and\/or understanding has to go into having enough data to make an interpretation). Sun\/Mercury direct is always an interesting day. I’ve said before that it’s one of those few aspects that hints at positive news. I recognize that it’s difficult to think of the words ‘positive’ and ‘news’ in the same thought, and I think we’re desperately longing for some external validation that life on the planet is going to get better. Like you, I deal daily with the fact that people who are bent on making chaos have such an easy time of it, while the people who are creating a semblance of stability and productivity face so many obstacles.<\/p>\n

It will indeed help when more of us are available to contribute to the collective in a conscious way. I’m not sure what’s going to create that slack; we are constantly under the demand for more output, and we have fewer opportunities available to go inside for nourishment and contact; to find the place from which we would find intimacy. And “the world” is in such chaos that few of us can feel a connection or like we can even have an impact. There are a lot more people than we think whose mantra is, why bother with anything?<\/em><\/p>\n

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There are other issues associated with the sense of disconnect we feel, among them the tendency we have to disconnect from our own lives, or rather, from ourselves. This is in part due to the demands of our current life, which so often leave us with only minimal time and energy to develop and seek inwardly. It may be that we have to go back to Tim Leary’s theory of turn on, tune in, drop out. We do seem to have a little of all three to do, and personally I am not so sure about the drop out part: I think at that point it’s more about drop in; to participate consciously. We are driven less by material rewards as we are by a sense of survival, and also a sense of personal responsibility that somehow denies ourselves.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is at the essence of the personal crisis that we’re facing, and again and again I come up with fear and alienation. There are a lot of scared and hurt people out there. Meanwhile we are constantly conditioned to be afraid of everything, though without consciously reckoning the toll that this takes on us, or how little sense it really makes.<\/p>\n

I am at a point where I can do very little without a sense of personal connection. This includes with everyone from the UPS guy to my readers and clients to the people I photograph to the people I find who are interested in me socially. If the personal connection is not there, there’s very little place that I feel I have.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how much this yoga is helping. After years of building organization and international social networks I still find that the world, meaning the people I meet in my physical environment, feel more distant than ever. It may be that my sensitivity has developed to the point where I can feel the sense of alienation that was always there; the hesitancy; the fear of contact. Maybe we are just beginning to see rampant social and sexual phobia for what they are, and the corresponding social decadence for what it is. The result of the two forces, which are part of the same process, seems to be a chilled interpersonal environment where trust and the opportunities to trust are constantly being shrunken down to microscopic size. Trust takes time, space and willingness to create.<\/p>\n

Today the Sun is conjunct Mercury in the sign Cancer, which is the sign of mother. I will leave a longer commentary on Sonia Sotomayor<\/strong><\/a> for another time, or maybe another writer, but I will say that this astrology fits perfectly and it bodes well for her approval by the Senate.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with something more personal, which I received in an email on Friday from a friend, a mother of two, age 39, who is deeply involved in alternative education. She has commented to me about how scared kids are now: go out in the Sun and you get cancer; lean on a tree and a tick bites you; parents inflicting a fear of sex into their kids to an extent that makes the 50s seem like a joke. She writes, and I would love to hear back from you on this:<\/p>\n

“i’ve been wondering exactly why i’ve needed to be the eternal mother for a whole bunch of men, who not only do not appreciate the gifts they receive, but toss the giver after they’ve made progress in healing. this has left me too often humilated and depressed, before i could detach and survey more objectively the devastated landscape we find ourselves in (and\/or create). these men DO see and nervously, secretively value what they’re getting — my love for them — but i haven’t yet raised my own level of giving enough, or they are married to lilith, or love is so foreign, if sweet, that it has to be held most times at a distance, because of its sheer, brilliant intensity.”<\/p>\n

Remember, we are in a time of eclipses. This is a time for pattern setting. What we do, how we respond, who we choose to be with, how we feel and what we create: all of these things lay the foundations for the patterns of our lives for the next six to 12 months.<\/p>\n

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