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Resolutions form in the mind, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. Among its many manifestations, Mercury appears in your life as mind and its expression. Right now, only the Moon, archetype of unconscious thought, is moving faster than Mercury. Also right about now, the Moon is entering Gemini where it will be under Mercury’s rulership for nearly three days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The symbolism of the two speediest objects in the sky working together, with the Moon ruled by Mercury, is your mind, consciously and unconsciously, running on ahead of everything else. Thinking ahead can be very good or not so good, depending on what form your thoughts take.<\/p>\n
Ahead, of course, is Pluto. For Mercury, it will be a square aspect from cardinal Aries to Pluto in cardinal Capricorn, yet another preview of 2012’s main attraction, the premiere square of Uranus to Pluto. With Mercury as the proxy for Uranus, your thoughts could even now be taking you in the direction of unconscious fear, getting you ahead of opportunities to explore and discover with awareness. Thinking\u00a0ahead with fear limits and confines your perceptions and responses to familiar patterns from the past. That’s no way to meet the future. Old patterns can only be overcome if you use your noggin to recognize and resolve not to repeat them, and beyond that, by acting in new and untried ways. Action is the first and most indispensable protocol for dealing with a square aspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Square aspects take place between planets in different signs that share the same quality; cardinal, fixed or mutable. Thus, objects in a square have a means to understand each other through what they have in common. Planets in a cardinal square have in common the initiative that cardinal energy represents. Initiative means starting a new pattern, just as the Sun initiates a new season when it enters cardinal territory. The best way for you to work with Mercury in Aries is, therefore, to look ahead to new solutions, not old fears. Pluto, for some, is a reason to fear.<\/p>\n
Pluto, like the square aspect itself, has a reputation as something to be feared. Surrendering to that reputation without thinking is like surrendering to fear without allowing your mind to examine whether there is actually anything to be afraid of. Consciously refusing to surrender to unexamined fear, and actively initiating a new way of thinking about Pluto is how to work with the astrology and step onto ground untrod, getting ahead of your past instead of getting ahead of yourself. The new way of thinking begins with realizing that Pluto is itself still very new to our awareness.<\/p>\n
Before 1930, no human knew about the dwarf planet we call Pluto. The name, however, goes back to antiquity, evoking an unconscious fear associated with death, dark places and the unknowable. Projecting that fear onto the object is like being afraid of a baby with a scary name, of which there seem to be many as of late. Instead of judging a baby by its name, an astrologer would look at its natal chart. So happens Pluto has one.<\/p>\n
According to the detective work of research astrologer Robert van Heeren, Pluto was discovered on a photographic plate by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930 at 4 pm in Flagstaff, Arizona. Using that data to make a natal chart reveals a lot to think about and very little to fear.<\/p>\n
Pluto was born to human consciousness while retrograde, moving slowly through cardinal Cancer. Pluto’s natal Mercury was direct, conjoined to both Mars (the action planet) and the asteroid Photographica while square to the lunar nodes from Aquarius, where the collective is conscious. The Moon at that moment of discovery was midway through Scorpio, where Pluto is now considered to rule. In sum, its discovery chart indicates Pluto is best revealed through cardinal energy and is resolved in the collective mind through an image created by human action, while simultaneously carrying an unconscious association with the mid-point of a transformative fixed sign. The mid-point of any fixed sign is, in turn, halfway between the points where cardinal energy begins, where together we approach and initiate new patterns and cycles, all at the same time.<\/p>\n
Mercury square Pluto is first approached as all squares are. To start with, by being aware that the tension you feel originates and manifests from inside your very being, then by consciously acting on that tension rather than unconsciously allowing it to act on you. Wednesday’s particular case of Mercury square Pluto is an opportunity for you to begin a new cycle in relationship to what both objects represent, consciously refusing to fear, and grasping the moment as your own to be resolved in an image of your creation, rather than somebody else’s idea of the past. You can begin by rapidly getting ahead of what you would be better off putting behind you. Then, you can follow through by learning from that experience and resolving to be slowly transformed from what you no longer need to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Mercury and Pluto carry through much of the astrology this week. Today, Mercury crossed the point where its retrograde began 40 days ago. Now direct on Aries ground untrod, the innermost planet is speeding towards a Wednesday square with Pluto. For its part, Pluto is grinding slowly backwards from its own retrograde station in Capricorn … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/56259"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}