{"id":40685,"date":"2011-06-24T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40685"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:42:28","slug":"moon-or-mercury-who-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/moon-or-mercury-who-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon or Mercury: Who to Believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Friday, June 24, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. The Moon is in Aries all day, and enters Taurus on Saturday at 4:53 pm EDT. Before it gets there, it will make a square aspect (90 degrees) to Mercury in Cancer. This brings up an old question: when you have a thought, how do you know it’s your intuition speaking? How do you know you’re not being paranoid, or just wrong? And what if your ‘mind’ says one thing and your ‘intuition’ says another thing? How many times do you have to check that your door is locked before you figure out that it’s not your intuition telling you that it’s still unlocked (the official answer is 14-1\/2 times)?<\/p>\n

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Moon square Mercury is one of those aspects that seems to put the feeling body into a tense relationship with the thinking mind. Yet with a square, it’s not a question of either\/or — remember that in case you’re bugging out over one. It’s a question of working with each side of the equation until you have an answer that satisfies both. This goes for the squares in your natal chart, and it goes for the squares that are cruising by in the transiting sky. I think rather than have a theoretical debate with yourself, it’s better to assess the facts, then see what they add up to logically and then see what they add up to when you ‘feel’ their implications. Then if something is really important, check the facts again. I can tell you this, with both Venus and Mars in Gemini, there are a lot of different opinions in there; a lot of opinions buzzing around. Heck, even your opinions have opinions, and some have an attitude.<\/p>\n

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The thing with personal planets in Gemini is that it makes excellent fodder for conversation. Venus and Mars, though both in Gemini, are in decidedly different moods, or maybe it’s modes. Venus is moving into a square with Juno; she may may be willing to confront her own jealousy, which is really insecurity. Venus is not just jealous, she can be in conflict over it. Who better for a jealousy therapy session than the great Queen of Heaven? Meanwhile Mars is moving into a square with Chiron. Mars is creeping along, and that square is not exact till Tuesday, June 28 — however, while the aspect is forming, the inner pressure is building, and that pressure seems to be about a question over masculinity. Here is a positively brilliant slab of bullshit<\/a> I came across, or rather, discovered, a few hours ago that excellently perpetuates all of the usual misunderstandings of the whole male-female thing. I mean, switch or knob? Iron or light bulb? People are people; we all have our questions, our doubts, our hungers. Meanwhile as I write this on Thursday night, the New York State Senate is quibbling about marriage equity, with the Republicans heaping on lots of amendments that they can purchase for the bargaining power of this law.<\/p>\n

Look around and there will be all kinds of Venus and Mars discussions over the next few days — particularly as the Sun continues to make aspects all weekend. Remember all of them? Sextile Jupiter, square Uranus, opposite Pluto, and on and on? If you’re burning with curiosity about this, check out Planet Waves FM from this week (I will put the little ‘play’ arrow below). It’s all very interesting; just remember, all talk and no action makes both Jack and Jill rather dull.<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110622podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

PS, hey, for Planet Waves FM podcast fans, please don’t miss the letter below about helping us out with iTunes reviews. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday, June 24, 2011. The Moon is in Aries all day, and enters Taurus on Saturday at 4:53 pm EDT. Before it gets there, it will make a square aspect (90 degrees) to Mercury in Cancer. This brings up an old question: when you have a thought, how do you know it’s your … 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":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40685"}],"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=40685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}