{"id":45851,"date":"2011-09-22T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=45851"},"modified":"2011-09-24T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:29:18","slug":"the-sky-tries-mercury-enters-libra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/the-sky-tries-mercury-enters-libra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Tries – Mercury Enters Libra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mercury enters Libra on Sunday shortly after 5:00 pm EDT. There it will join the Sun, Venus and Saturn. That will be four major, classical, visible objects in one sign. Astrologers refer to such a collection as a stellium. If you think that term sounds familiar, you are correct. Think back about five months to the stellium in Aries. Admittedly, that was then and this is now. This is not a repeat performance. There are enough similarities, however, to make the next few weeks an opportunity to see how far we have come in our ability to find a common thread in a complex concurrence of events and act on it. In your life, it will be as simple and as vital as reading, and heeding, road signs.<\/p>\n

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Every planet is an archetype for a part of your life. Every sign is a garment worn by planets passing through it. Finding a common thread in a stellium, then, would logically begin with an analysis of the costume the constituents have in common. Libra, like Aries, is a cardinal sign.<\/p>\n

There are four cardinal signs. In addition to Libra and Aries there are also Cancer and Capricorn. When the Sun enters a cardinal sign a new season starts. The specific season beginning depends on where you are, but the fact of change itself takes place for all of us at the same time. It is therefore a new beginning and a concurrent experience for all, and is fundamental to the cardinal quality of Libra. What sets Libra apart from the other three cardinal signs is the associated element.<\/p>\n

The four Hellenistic elements, fire, earth, air and water, are attributed among the 12 zodiac signs so that each sign is a unique combination of quality (cardinal, fixed, or mutable) and element. That is how Libra comes to be the only cardinal sign that is also an air sign. Last month, Gary Caton correlated the ancient elements with Carl Jung’s four functions<\/a> and made air the equivalent of thinking. That works and furthermore gives us a final piece to work with in describing the Libra wardrobe.<\/p>\n

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The Libra costume is a bit like a uniform with something for all of us at once. It is also a new, or at least seasonal, fashion trend that appeals to reason and the intellect. The latter is right up Mercury’s alley, so we know right away the innermost planet will be comfortable in Libra duds come Sunday. Venus, of course, rules Libra, and is by implication sartorially satisfied. The Sun does its seasonal defining thing in the cardinal signs and Saturn is right at home with definition and uniformity.<\/p>\n

So in the common cloth we have found the common thread of the Libra stellium. All four major planets involved are comfortable there and it should be possible to harmonize all of that archetypal energy for practical, positive purposes and get something done in cooperation and partnership. There is only one catch. That ideal requires your conscious cooperation to become real.<\/p>\n

The fact is astrology does not happen to us, we make it happen. This stellium in Libra is like a road sign. It means nothing unless drivers see it and heed it. We are the drivers. Our free will is powerful enough so that it can and will overcome the combined and concentrated symbolic potential of half the major objects in the solar system if that is the way we choose to go. If we elect to focus on our differences, they will become the reality. If we are constantly present to what can go wrong, it will. If you get distracted, you will miss the turn, or worse.<\/p>\n

The sky tries. It gives us some very useful tools. The motion of the planets through the signs is the flow of our lives in and out of danger and opportunity. We are entering a time of opportunity as Mercury is entering Libra. The opportunity can be seized or squandered. It is a time to think. It is a time to do something together with others, all at the same time, and start a new season that will define our future.<\/p>\n

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