{"id":55355,"date":"2012-04-04T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=55355"},"modified":"2012-04-05T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:32:12","slug":"mercury-direct-and-mutable-grand-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/mercury-direct-and-mutable-grand-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Waves FM :: Mercury Direct and Grand Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-55355-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120404-podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120404-podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120404-podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM covers Mercury stationing direct at 6:11 am EDT Wednesday. This happens concurrently with a grand cross in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.light-weaver.com\/astrology\/astr1195.html\" target=\"_blank\">mutable signs<\/a>. (And here is an extra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngsm.org\/aabdk\/bk\/astrology\/astr1198.html\" target=\"_blank\">article about the mutables<\/a>.) That cross includes Venus in Gemini, the South Node, Mars in Virgo, the Moon (at the time of the recording), Juno and the North Node in Sagittarius and Neptune and Chiron in Pisces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55377\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/225+web-blog-photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55377\" title=\"225+web-blog-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/225+web-blog-photo1.jpg?resize=225%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"179\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your host, Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of planets &#8212; but there are even more. To help me sort them out I include a short interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/treehousemountain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Lang Wescott<\/a>, known as one of the most astute asteroid specialists in the world. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/serennu.com\/astrology\/ephemeris.php?inday=04&amp;inmonth=04&amp;inyear=2012&amp;inhours=10&amp;inmins=11&amp;insecs=11&amp;insort=deg90&amp;z=t&amp;gh=g&amp;addobj=&amp;inla=&amp;inlo=&amp;h=P\">minor planet list<\/a> set to a 90-degree sort. The mutables are the last group.<\/p>\n<p>The program begins with a brief reading of the natal chart of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wednesday is the 44th anniversary of his assassination. I will update this page soon with the charts involved, and by tomorrow morning the program will appear on the old player, as a download on our own page, and in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Note, in the course of my research today, I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandastrology.net\/mut-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">article on the mutable cross<\/a>. I&#8217;ve only scanned it, but it looks extremely interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/current_sky\" target=\"_blank\">Here is your program in the old player<\/a><\/strong>, where you\u2019ll find the full archives and a downloadable zip file.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for tuning in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planet Waves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" width=\"185\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"10\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55368\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/555+web-mercury-direct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55368\" title=\"555+web-mercury-direct\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/555+web-mercury-direct.jpg?resize=555%2C664&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/555+web-mercury-direct.jpg?w=555&amp;ssl=1 555w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/555+web-mercury-direct.jpg?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a simplified chart for Mercury stationing direct. You can see Mercury close to the horizontal line on the left. The Sun conjunct Vesta is below the horizontal line, also on the left. The grand cross is marked by the red lines in the middle of the diagram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Did you know that Planet Waves offers you a variety of astrological readings for every sign in audio format including birthday reports? You\u2019re invited to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/store\/audio.html\" target=\"_blank\">check them out in our audio store<\/a><\/strong>. If you\u2019d like access to Eric\u2019s weekly and monthly horoscopes, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/sales?product=1000\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link to access your free trial<\/a><\/strong> to our premium twice-weekly astrology service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120404-podcast.mp3 Today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM covers Mercury stationing direct at 6:11 am EDT Wednesday. This happens concurrently with a grand cross in the mutable signs. (And here is an extra article about the mutables.) That cross includes Venus in Gemini, the South Node, Mars in Virgo, the Moon (at the time of the &#8230; <a title=\"Planet Waves FM :: Mercury Direct and Grand Cross\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/mercury-direct-and-mutable-grand-cross\/\" aria-label=\"More on Planet Waves FM :: Mercury Direct and Grand Cross\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55355"}],"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=55355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}