{"id":36305,"date":"2011-03-29T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2011-03-29T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:18:17","slug":"inside-job-the-mercury-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/inside-job-the-mercury-you-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Job – the Mercury You Didn’t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mercury stations retrograde tomorrow just before 5 pm EDT at 24+ Aries. As was the case with yesterday’s opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, it is a big deal that is\u00a0a part of something even bigger.\u00a0That expanded picture involves\u00a0six major planets, both luminaries and the cardinal signs Aries, Libra and Capricorn.\u00a0The radiating locus of that larger something would seem to be the Aries New Moon\u00a0this coming Sunday.\u00a0The theme\u00a0is\u00a0moving from duality into unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Like a very large boat moving through the waters of time, the applying conjunction of the Sun and Moon has been creating a sort of wake for weeks on end. Mercury has been a part of that.\u00a0Indeed, Mercury may be said to have been part of the first wave, and on the leading edge of those that followed.<\/p>\n

Mercury entered Aries on March 9,\u00a0less than a week after the previous New Moon in Pisces and two days before the Sendai earthquake. It entered its echo phase shortly before the\u00a0Virgo Full Moon that some deemed ‘super’, but it was not the timing so much as the location that stands out.<\/p>\n

The echo phase of a retrograde\u00a0cycle is an arc bounded on two sides. On the front end, the boundary is\u00a0designated as the degree of maximum retreat — as far back as the planet will appear to go before moving forward again. Because that point is first crossed weeks before the object in question even begins apparent backward motion, it is an echo from the future. We get a preview, or first review of what is to come. This time, Mercury did that in spades.<\/p>\n

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That’s because the\u00a0location of the front-end echo’s boundary is also the location of the upcoming Aries New Moon, exact to the degree. That sort of synchronicity between a planet and the beginning of a lunation period does not happen every day. The Sabian symbol for this, the 14th degree of Aries, speaks to a complex and evocative image. It is that of a serpent coiling near a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

How you interpret that\u00a0particular Sabian symbol is not so simple or straightforward. It’s loaded. It depends heavily on how you feel about men and women as a set of beings. It also depends on how you respond to the volatile subject of snakes.\u00a0One could fairly say that there are very few symbols as emotionally\u00a0polarizing as this one. Which, not incidentally,\u00a0makes the point and reinforces the theme posited for our current tableau. That being, once again, the resolution of an old opposition into a new unity.<\/p>\n

While we are on the esoteric subject of Sabian symbols, it is also worth noting the subject of esoteric planetary rulers. That’s because Mercury is commonly considered to have that role for Aries. Largely as the result of Alice Bailey’s intuitive and psychic work outside the mainstream of 20th century astrology, the idea of an alternative to traditional rulerships opened up a whole new way of looking inside the workings of signs, planets and, by implication, ourselves.<\/p>\n

The traditional ruler of Aries is, of course, Mars. It works very well as an outer expression of the sign. Acting as an outer expression of self suits the initiative associated with the zodiac’s cyclical restart. It speaks to the fiery qualities of the Vernal Equinox. But is that all there is, the outer expression?<\/p>\n

That’s where the esoteric courageously steps in. And we do mean in: into the soul, the spiritual counterpart of the outer flame. It is the ‘equal’ in Equinox. Mercury, associated with thought and mind, would appear to be inside the stout and indomitable heart of Aries.<\/p>\n

There is also another quality of Mercury, from the Vedic perspective, that spills over into both the traditional western and esoteric systems, serving to forge a union of sorts. That is the idea of awakening. The external, martial approach would entail something abrupt, even shocking, and there are times when anyone must express gratitude and admit they ‘needed that’. It is not necessary for all awakening to be rude, however.<\/p>\n

There is also the sort of wake-up that comes not in response to a call, but rather that accrues naturally and gently without trauma. The only thing that is required is work: prolonged, consistent, disciplined and often repetitive inner work. Motivated by an inner flame of desire, the proverbial fire in the belly, this is the constructive expression of the highest potential of this particular Mercury retrograde. It is an inner awakening\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0outer\u00a0other, and\u00a0an\u00a0outer acknowledgment of the inner quality. It is a union of body and soul, will\u00a0and\u00a0spirit.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick Mercury stations retrograde tomorrow just before 5 pm EDT at 24+ Aries. As was the case with yesterday’s opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, it is a big deal that is\u00a0a part of something even bigger.\u00a0That expanded picture involves\u00a0six major planets, both luminaries and the cardinal signs Aries, Libra and Capricorn.\u00a0The radiating locus … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"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\/36305"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}