{"id":18361,"date":"2009-10-07T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2009-10-07T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:33:09","slug":"mercury-saturn-and-the-galactic-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-saturn-and-the-galactic-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury, Saturn and the Galactic Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re now at that point in the Mercury retrograde cycle where it’s working its way back through the degrees where it was just retrograde. Some call this the shadow phase; I prefer the less eerie term echo phase. It’s among the enhancements I am making to astrological language. Another one is to stop saying “hit” when we mean “transit.” You know, “Saturn return, third hit.” If you stop saying “hit” and start saying something like “phase” or “contact” you might notice how violent the original language is; and we take it pretty casually. (Thank you Dale O’Brien<\/strong><\/a> for pointing out that one to me.)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of contact, Mercury is about to make its third conjunction to Saturn in Virgo, which is a direct part of this retrograde process. The first was Aug 17, just as Mercury went into echo phase. Saturn was way back at 21+ Virgo at that point, and is now in direct motion heading for Libra. The second contact was with Mercury retrograde, on Sept. 22, right on the equinox (and coincidentally the birthdays of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins). Finally the third contact is today. Aren’t you glad I’m not saying “hit”? Then you might believe that something was about to hit; you know, incoming<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This morning I picked up The New York Post<\/em> (as usual) to read Sally Brompton’s daily horoscope. For Pisces, she interprets Mercury conjunct Saturn in the opposite sign (solar 7th house) as the conspiratorial fantasy that the world is out to get you; but if you look for the best in people you will find it. I’ll skip a personal anecdote here about an unnamed member of the Kingston city council who finds me particularly aggravating. Being either Sicilian or an investigative reporter, one is inclined to think: okay, what can this person do to me? But I think he’s basically just angry and harmless (to me) and an archetypal representation of my pissed off, horny but hated himself for it grandfather.<\/p>\n

For Cancer, she takes this aspect (in the 3rd solar house) as being concern about how much something costs. Mercury is generally considered the planet of money, and conjunct Saturn in Virgo would be a bit of anxiety, accented by the 3rd house of what we think, small concerns and local matters. She suggests taking the necessary action and worrying about the financial side later. She can be confident because planets are starting to move into Libra, which suggests that things that are pending now will work out in a just<\/em> or adjusted<\/em> way. Planets ingressing Libra suggests that the results will be balanced, which is usually helpful, particularly in our society based on 48-ounce cups of sugar water.<\/p>\n

Mercury and Saturn are compatible planets (particularly in Virgo) though my \u0412\u040875 copy of the collected astrological writings of Aleister Crowley is sitting in storage in Belgium and I cannot look up why he thinks so. Generally, classically trained astrologers give Saturn good placement in signs ruled by Mercury; it stabilizes the mind and, if Mercury is there, allows for expression at the same time. (Saturn rules an air sign and an earth sign, as does Mercury, a definite point of harmony.)<\/p>\n

What you won’t read in Sally’s horoscope is that both of these planets today are square the Galactic Core. That would be three signs away, in Sagittarius. When you do the math on Mercury, Saturn and the GC, you get a conversation about our god concept or god complex; which ties into a sense of our parents and at the same time makes us yearn for something cosmic. Now, we don’t usually think there’s anything too cosmic about our parents; we don’t think of them as being part of a galactic lineage (we can barely think of them fucking, which actually created us). Therefore, we tend to make up a lot of stories, both about our parents and about god\/goddess, which in turn cloaks all of the above in unnecessary mystery.<\/p>\n

Basically, our parents act as god and take the place of god, which does us the disservice of blocking the opportunity to get to know either. If we take the additional step (usually taken for us) of mixing religion into the morass (note Christianity’s obsession with mommy-daddy-baby), we can be truly confused and forget something as simple as ethics: the question of, under these circumstances, what’s the right thing to do? How can I help?<\/p>\n

Because that can be a challenging question (prying us out of self-obsession), we tend to substitute the much harsher concept of morality<\/em>: supposed absolute right and wrong, which is generally used to control others rather than being a useful tool for making practical decisions.<\/p>\n

One last thing. Mercury recently opposed Uranus; Saturn in Uranus are in an opposition and Mercury passed trough the opposition, from the Virgo side. There are a lot of ways to take that setup, but I would propose that it’s suggesting that we get real about our good ideas. That’s advice I try to give myself every day.
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We’re now at that point in the Mercury retrograde cycle where it’s working its way back through the degrees where it was just retrograde. Some call this the shadow phase; I prefer the less eerie term echo phase. It’s among the enhancements I am making to astrological language. Another one is to stop saying “hit” … 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\/18361"}],"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=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}