{"id":18408,"date":"2009-10-12T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:30:55","slug":"mercury-shadow-ending-jupiter-stationing-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-shadow-ending-jupiter-stationing-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury shadow ending; Jupiter stationing direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next 48 hours, Jupiter stations direct and Mercury enters new territory since beginning its most recent retrograde in Libra and Virgo. Together, these planets are associated with a lot of signs, and this represents both progress and new adventures.<\/p>\n

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Jupiter stations direct Tuesday at 12:34 am EDT, that is, overnight tonight. It turned to retrograde motion in Aquarius on June 15, with the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune within one degree of precision. Jupiter retrogrades last about four months (coincidentally, enough time for the Sun’s longitude to advance 120 degrees, a perfect trine).<\/p>\n

Jupiter has a 12-year orbit. Compare that to Mars, which\u0412\u00a0 has a two year orbit; followed by most asteroids, which are in range of four years (including Ceres, now technically a ‘dwarf planet’). Saturn, the next planet beyond Jupiter, takes about 28 years to go around the Sun, and was for eons considered the last planet out. Jupiter has properties of both an inner planet and an outer planet, and is one of the more tangible energies we experience. So this station direct is significant, and we’re likely to notice both the ripple and how certain elements of our lives that seemed stalled start to move forward. Moving forward comes with its own sense of challenges, things we haven’t quite experienced yet, but at least it’s a new adventure.<\/p>\n

Glimpsing into the future, Jupiter will cover the last half of Aquarius and ingress Pisces on January 17. It will move swiftly through Pisces, entering Aries on June 6 in a triple conjunction with Uranus and the Moon — exact on the Aries Point. So, from the time of the station direct, Jupiter is on a direct course for its every-14-year conjunction to Uranus, and this will occur on the Aries Point. That’s to say, Uranus changes signs at around the same time, and this is up there in the biggest astrological news of the decade. I will have a lot more to say about this in Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves.<\/p>\n

As for Mercury. Retrogrades of this planet are more routine, coming three times a year (as opposed to annually for Jupiter) and they do tend to mess with our heads. (Here is a complete listing<\/strong><\/a> for this year and next.) Mercury went retrograde Sept. 7 at 6+ Libra; it went direct on Sept. 29; and as of Weds., Oct. 14, it is back to 6+ Libra and enters new territory for the first time in five weeks. The phase between the station direct and taking new territory is called the Mercury shadow or echo phase; it covers the same degrees three times: once direct, then retrograde, then direct again. So, to repeat, Mercury leaves that degree range on Wednesday and enters new territory — put that metaphor to work for yourself and see what you get.<\/p>\n

The interesting synchronicity here is that Mercury and Jupiter rule two pairs of opposing signs — Gemini and Sagittarius; and Virgo and Pisces — that’s a lot of signs among them; and Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, so we have an association with a fifth sign as well; nearly half the zodiac is directly affected by this turn of events.<\/p>\n

Mercury is always a trickster, but when it’s direct, it’s a little less tricky. That lasts for about three months from this point. The next retrograde is Dec. 26, though the echo phase for that one begins Dec. 9. I would suggest that the time to make your major purchases and signing significant contracts would ideally be during Mercury’s run through Libra, between now and Oct. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the next 48 hours, Jupiter stations direct and Mercury enters new territory since beginning its most recent retrograde in Libra and Virgo. Together, these planets are associated with a lot of signs, and this represents both progress and new adventures. Jupiter stations direct Tuesday at 12:34 am EDT, that is, overnight tonight. It turned … 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\/18408"}],"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=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}