{"id":31325,"date":"2010-11-30T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=31325"},"modified":"2010-11-30T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T14:42:13","slug":"of-mercury-and-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/of-mercury-and-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Mercury and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Way back on November 8 Venus and Mars changed signs within hours of each other. Now, they duplicate that feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It is an accumulation and culmination, an amazing example of synchronicity and symmetry that attracts our attention as surely as yesterday’s relationship between Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n

Yes, there is a lot going on. The tenor of our times pervades the astrology as the Sun and a host of other objects have crowded their way into and through Sagittarius. It carries over to the political as wars and rumors of war compete for our attention even as a new release of documents by WikiLeaks threatens to undermine duplicity as the cornerstone of modern diplomacy.<\/p>\n

These things also have their counterparts in our personal lives. Even as the established order strives to contain the untenable and constrain the unthinkable, many if not all of us are feeling as if we are engaged in a rapid oscillation from pillar to post and back again.<\/p>\n

Therein is the key. In order to engage with the world at all, we must first be in touch with ourselves. It is important to prioritize what it takes to attend to our physical health. Our mental health is part and parcel of our physical bodies and will likewise benefit from the decision to be selective and simplify. If social pressure is compelling you to act otherwise, pause to remember that most of the busy social whirl could go on without you, but you can’t. If you feel yourself to be important — and you are — try pulling back a little. Summarize and focus.<\/p>\n

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It is this spirit that your faithful correspondent is striving to exemplify. Thus it was that a meaningful conjunction of the Sun with the centaur Amycus and a compelling sextile between Saturn and Pholus were left off yesterday’s blog<\/a>. This in spite of the fact that both aspects inform the established order’s attempts to contain and constrain. This in the hopes that the selected focus would be powerful and applicable enough to open new possibilities in your personal lives. Such an approach, of necessity, continues today and for the foreseeable future as we strive to select and simplify to best meet our goal of service to you.<\/p>\n

That being said, we now return to examine the second simultaneous sign change of two personal planets.<\/p>\n

As October drew to a close, there had developed an impressive stellium in Scorpio. The Sun was last to join Mercury, Venus and Mars, the three personal planets. The asteroid Vesta was a vital part of the mix as well. Sol initiated its tenure in the sign with the first of two consecutive oppositions to the Full Moon in Taurus. But by the time Luna came around two weeks later to conjoin for the Scorpio New Moon, the collection had already begun to come apart.<\/p>\n

During the short days of the Scorpio stellium we were visited with questions that echoed our experience earlier in the year. What unexplored potential is there in our individual ways of being and in relationship? How could we discover and evaluate these potentials? What do we want to be? How would we change our relationships if we could? True to the energy of the sign of transformation and metamorphosis, it was not always easy to imagine what those options would look like because they were not always easy to look at.<\/p>\n

Then Mars, never one for self examination, picked up the asteroid Eros and fled to Sagittarius. Mercury soon followed and as it did, retrograde Venus simultaneously made its way back Libra, a sign that it rules. Which brings us to today, from a echo left behind to two contrasting echoes adding further depth to this simultaneous sign change. For both Mercury and Venus are in echo, or “shadow” phases of their own.<\/p>\n

While in the late degrees of Libra, Venus stationed forward and is now in the echo phase that follows a retrograde. It will remain so until just before the Capricorn solstice. It means covering the same territory for a third time and is fittingly called an echo for the reiteration that often takes place during the period in question. While in Libra, that reinforced review seemed to take place on at least two levels. There was the unimpaired expression of balance and and equity in relationships — whether we chose to avail ourselves of it or simply be aware of the principle. Then there was what seemed to be an inquiry towards balance over time, lifetimes even. As Venus approached but did not achieve a second set of air trines to Chiron and Neptune, we may, in recent weeks have experienced dreams of those whose names we may have forgotten and with whom closure was never quite complete. We may find those dreams fading.<\/p>\n

Now, entering a third review of the first third of Scorpio, the shift is towards the more recent past. Just weeks ago, as a matter of fact in the brief heyday of the Scorpio stellium. Venus was the only member to conjoin the others before their collaboration dissolved. This was back when our current season was approaching its crescendo, an entirely different time already. So the final echo is distorted and faded from the original call, though the original voice can still be identified.<\/p>\n

It’s a different Scorpio now than it was when Venus backed away three weeks ago. Vesta, which lent depth of meaning to the stellium of personal planets is in the last minutes of the last degree, about to accompany the centaur Chariklo into crowded Sagittarius. But Venus is and always has been enough, just as you are, to carry on a creative process of metamorphosis and transformation.<\/p>\n

Mercury, meantime, is entering Capricorn while experiencing the front end of its own echo phase, that which precedes a retrograde station. It started when Old Fleet Foot crossed the point in Sagittarius where it will turn direct as our year comes to a close. This period is a little more difficult to grasp as an echo because the planet in question is still direct, albeit slowing down. It is more an anticipation than a reflection of the “sound”. For the more sensitive, however, it is a period of augury, when the nature of the upcoming retrograde period can be foreseen. Its something like the paradox of remembering the future.<\/p>\n

Immediately upon its ingress to Capricorn, Mercury will conjoin with the centaur planet Crantor and that greeting is significant. Crantor is currently at a sextile to its discovery position, the first degree of Scorpio, where Venus is today. It is one of the few Centaur planets not named after a centaur. Rather it was named after a Lapith, that tribe of mortal super-humans with which centaurs formed a rivalry and met their match.<\/p>\n

Philip Sedgwick interprets Crantor as representing a cathartic, emotional declaration, which seems fitting in its current position as the gatekeeper to a cardinal earth sign. Mercury will station retrograde in less than a week and will find occasion to conjoin with Crantor on the cusp three more times. It will be interesting to watch the anticipation become the call, then the recollection to see if Mercury’s echo is in Crantor’s voice.<\/p>\n

So to meet our objective simply and in summary, Venus and Mercury have a lot in common today. There is the timing of changing signs on the same day. There is the fact that this quite literally re-collects a day just weeks ago when the same two planets simultaneously changed signs. This re-collection is also reflected in the phenomenon of both planets being on opposite sides of a retrograde station. One is echoing the recent past. The other possibly conveying the sound of the near future, for those who can hear it. Venus is returning to the creative darkness of Scorpio and Mercury is about to enter the realm of Pluto with creative energy all its own.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is Crantor. Discovered where Venus is today, currently situated where Mercury is today. It is separated by a supportive sextile, encouraging us to develop the idea. In this case it is oddly but appropriately mis-named, symbolizing the centaur and human reflected in each other’s mortality. Not to be ignored, this gatekeeper to Capricorn and December begins its tenure mediating the reflection of Mercury and Venus.<\/p>\n

Its a passionate voice from the creative darkness that we may hear many times. Indeed, today, if we have occasion to discover ourselves reflected in another person, place or time, we may find that voice to be ours, heralding not an inflicted trauma but the determination to begin anew. We may be able to heed our own call.<\/p>\n

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