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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nMercury entered Virgo conjunct a potentially smarter planet (primarily because she is about the application of intelligence<\/em>): Pallas Athene: the goddess of strategy and protection. Information — lifegiving, lifesaving, original, protective and quite specific — is coming through. Pay attention to what you hear and what you learn now. If you’re sitting around idly over coffee and you start to get ideas for how to solve your problems, improve your life, create a business or start a brilliant project, take note and take action.<\/p>\n
With Pallas, there is one little caveat: the growth theme to watch is daddy-pleasing<\/em>; especially if you are a woman. Every time you make a decision, ask yourself: am I doing this because this is what my dad would want, or to maintain my image in his eyes? Or am I doing it because I want to? Really<\/em> ask!<\/p>\n
Mercury joins Saturn in Virgo and this is going to be truly helpful. Mercury and Saturn are great friends. Mercury lends the nimble-footedness, the quick flow, the seed idea. Saturn lends the discipline and the structure to get it done, whatever it is. We need a little lift in our Virgo these days, and now we’ve got it: ideas need life and many of them stream out of Virgo; Mercury provides focus and a sense of voice. Yes, we look to Venus for that, in part, but at the moment she is in Cancer, providing some warmth and nourishment and perhaps a voice of affection.<\/p>\n
The two transits are related, in that Mercury and Venus will be forming a sextile, actually, they are already in one, and it’s strong and applying and it is a point of contact. I think that sextiles are the easiest aspects to work with; with is the key idea; we do part of the work and they do part of the work and this is about communicating real feelings and real ideas, from the distinct viewpoints offered by Mercury in its own sign and Venus in a sign she thrives in.<\/p>\n
Mercury in Virgo is great news for the Sixties generation; we have Uranus and Pluto in Virgo and Mercury will put us in touch with the revolutionary energy of this conjunction. It will move in a wave, as the conjunction peaked close to the midpoint of Virgo in 1965-66. This is like opening a treasure trove of information that came up in the Sixties and that we could be learning from now, but we’re not. Trust me on this, the Sixties are not a bunch of rock songs. This era, which spans Pluto in Virgo \u0412\u00a0(1957-1972) was one of the great watersheds in modern history.<\/p>\n
Though we have squandered most of what we have gained, allowing our petty fears, guilt and authority trip to take [most of] our minds back over in positively boring style, the Sixties are a treasure trove and [most of] the people born in them have yet to take up their voices. They do have something to say, but for the most part have forgotten the ethos<\/em> of the era, which was: we are all in this together. Service is not a burden; it is indeed our dharma. So let’s quit the petty self-obsession and get the job done.<\/p>\n
Hear, hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Len Wallick, whose comments to this blog I recommend you study because he’s a much better astrologer than he’s letting on, makes a good point: I haven’t mentioned this bit yet, Mercury in Virgo. It is past midnight and I’ve already written tomorrow’s fairly hefty morning blog, not mentioning any of this — I am … 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\/16807"}],"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=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}