{"id":48296,"date":"2011-11-03T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48296"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:48:38","slug":"beyond-mercury-echo-phase-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/beyond-mercury-echo-phase-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond – Mercury Echo Phase Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercury is about to cross the point where it will resume direct motion in mid-December. We are thus entering the echo (or shadow) phase before Mercury stations retrograde on November 24. Whether you prefer the evocative term “echo” or the more orthodox “shadow,” there is validity to be found in both phrases. Over the next several weeks our opportunities will derive from consciously integrating the two characterizations. In your life that process will entail going beyond simply responding to your perceptions to considering how you may assume as much responsibility for your cognition as you do for your action. We can begin with a review of the corresponding physical reality. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mercury is presently catching up with our planet and will pass between Earth and Sun in a month or so, essentially lapping us from the inside lane. While that is going on, it will appear to us that Mercury is slowing down from one night to the next, eventually reversing its motion before it conjoins with the Sun. That will be a false impression. The misapprehension has its origin in how we are naturally inclined to perceive what we see in the sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our physical senses are attuned to the scale and nature of our physical existence. Eyesight, hearing and tactile sensations efficiently inform mind as body moves under its own power over ground. We are not so well equipped to detect the continuous motions of our planet. Earth seems to be a stationary surface. Hence, it is natural to assume that we are looking at the sky from a fixed center of reference. Intellectually, however, we know that Earth is moving. To reconcile that knowledge with what our senses tell us requires a conscious exertion. Fortunately, most of us have some experience we can apply to that effort.<\/p>\n

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Most of us have ridden in or on something that is larger and faster than our bodies. When you direct your attention to another conveyance overtaking and passing yours, what you observe is not the actual motion of the other relative to the ground, but rather the difference between that vehicle and the one you occupy. As the other car or train comes from behind, it appears to decelerate, stand still and accelerate again in the opposite direction from which it came. In fact, that apparent sequence is just the difference between the two vehicles playing out as perspective changes. The same is true when Mercury approaches to pass between Earth and Sun. We are in the deceleration phase now and it can be interpreted with validity as both the shadow of what is really happening and the echo of what is to come.<\/p>\n

In astrology, Mercury is an archetype for the part that mind and its expression plays in our lives. In Sagittarius, that archetype rides in the symbolic combination of fire and mutability that characterizes the sign. Mercury in that vehicle represents how thoughts and their declaration will gradually overtake us, propelled by an energy evocative of the flame, manifesting as a prelude for what will appear to be a change of direction. Intellectually, we know that change will in fact be an ephemeral illusion. Nonetheless, we also know the illusion is the shadow thrown by something real, echoing actual changes about to happen. It comes at an auspicious time.<\/p>\n

We live in a time when Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn are maintaining a unique and enduring geometrical relationship, 90 degrees of separation. That relationship is an aspect called a square and it represents an internal tension that only action can resolve. In the words of Richard Tarnas, that aspect between these planets coincides with a period of “historical change requiring Humanity to radically expand the scope of its vision.” Vision, as we all know, is a product of the mind and the square aspect between Uranus and Pluto reminds us that the imperative of expanding our collective vision begins with each one of us acting in anticipation of that which may come to be. The impending echo phase of Mercury is a good time to start by realistically discerning what is going on behind the shadow and integrating that expanded perception with the future’s echo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mercury in Sagittarius has the potential of energetically manifesting and passionately expressing an abundance of ideas. It also holds the peril of burning out before those inspirations can be realized in achievement. Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius can either widen the pitfalls or expand the promise, depending on what we do. What we achieve begins on how well we can conceive. What we conceive begins in turn with how proficiently we can perceive. As Mercury enters the territory that it is destined to cover three times, our own destiny will be determined by whether we begin taking responsibility now in discerning the origin of our individual perceptions while accepting personal ownership of the collective expression that will echo from beyond them.<\/p>\n

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Mercury is about to cross the point where it will resume direct motion in mid-December. We are thus entering the echo (or shadow) phase before Mercury stations retrograde on November 24. Whether you prefer the evocative term “echo” or the more orthodox “shadow,” there is validity to be found in both phrases. Over the next … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48296"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}