{"id":41786,"date":"2011-07-19T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41786"},"modified":"2011-07-19T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:59:04","slug":"floating-pisces-moon-void-sun-maximum-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/floating-pisces-moon-void-sun-maximum-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating: Pisces Moon, Void Sun, Maximum Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late Sun on Long Lake, Harrison, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Tuesday, July 19, 2011.<\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in Pisces all day, and the Sun is in the last few days of Cancer. We’ve been enjoying a fairly watery sky, but the astrological dew point average is about to drop a bit when the Sun moves into Leo July 23. You can see the shift beginning to manifest in the mood of the country, even if your interior landscape still vibrates with the wetter energy.<\/p>\n

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Outside, we have: a heat wave stretching across the U.S. and killing crops (Dallas, TX has reached 100+ degrees for 18 days); the stalemate over the debt ceiling (aka “big battle over nothing” according to Eric); religious zealotry clamping down across the country; the ongoing glare of a media scandal. In other words, the Sun’s heat and Leo’s impending sense of ego are beginning to take center stage, reflecting the spotlight off the water back at us, blinding many of us. It’s disorienting, which makes sense: The Sun is entering a rather long void of course phase before it changes signs. A Sun VOC imparts the sense of a lack of direction, but it can also feel like a door opening up to something unusual.<\/p>\n

You may be starting to feel this shift in ways you might not have noticed were connected, since that Pisces Moon is about forming a direct relationship with the intangible spirit world. Listen to your instincts, even if it doesn’t seem logical to do so. Unless it’s downright crazy, try it out and see how it feels. Getting some beauty into your life today is also really important, whether this is through social principles of loving-kindness or through direct contact with nature, like a vase of fresh flowers. <\/p>\n

Adding to the quiet receptive energy of Pisces — in contrast to the external chaos — is the fact that Mercury is now making its maximum elongation from the Sun<\/a> in the evening sky. This means that today Mercury is at its highest visible appearance after the Sun sets. Prior to this it was stretching the distance between the Sun and itself and getting higher in the sky each evening. After this it will be pulled back as if on a rubber band, getting lower in the sky each evening and closer to the Sun in each day’s charts. This also means it will be slowing down.
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Mercury is now not only in the degrees of the Zodiac it will eventually dance backward through, but it is also slowing down and will soon begin to appear lower in the sky before disappearing altogether. So we are at a turning point of sorts. This is essentially the “calm” before the “storm” of Mercury retrograde. See if you can feel this stillness inside you and allow you mind to hover or float over something without trying to move forward or backward over it. Perhaps you can let the Sun VOC assist in this sense of not pushing in any particular direction. And perhaps if you do, you’ll feel your way toward that big door to the unusual.<\/p>\n

The bright star that Mercury is hovering near is Regulus, the heart of the Lion. This is a royal star that can confer great benefits and success, but it also has a shadow side. The temptation to take revenge can turn these successes to dust; and Mercury in Leo can easily become a big ego trip. So with Mercury hovering near Regulus it is a time to be mindful of counting your blessings. Do not let greed tempt you to take revenge on, or engage in petty squabbles with, those who would seemingly keep you from further blessings or success. There will still be planets in water signs; dip in and cool off if you notice the heat getting the better of you.<\/p>\n

Gary Caton with Amanda Painter and Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Tuesday, July 19, 2011. The Moon is in Pisces all day, and the Sun is in the last few days of Cancer. We’ve been enjoying a fairly watery sky, but the astrological dew point average is about to drop a bit when the Sun moves into Leo July 23. You can see the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"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\/41786"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}