{"id":58452,"date":"2012-06-21T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=58452"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:06:03","slug":"plan-prevail-mercury-enters-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/plan-prevail-mercury-enters-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Prevail — Mercury Enters Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
\n— Marcus Aurelius<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mercury enters Leo Monday night at 10:24 pm EDT. Less than 36 hours after ingress to Leo, Mercury will enter the echo (or ‘shadow’) phase of its next retrograde, which begins on July 14, by passing the point where it will resume direct motion on August 8. Now is the time to plan ahead, and not with dread. Rather, now is the time to set your intention to make the most of great opportunity. That’s because Mercury’s tenure in Leo will offer both the time and energy to review and connect with some things that have frustrated your efforts for a long time.<\/p>\n

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The first connection you need to make is that between thoughts and outcome. Mercury’s cycles connect with, but do not control, how you think. You control how you think. You know negative thoughts assure negative results. What possible risk is there, then, in exercising some quality control over your thoughts during Mercury’s 11-week tour of Leo? It’s worth a try.<\/p>\n

The first thing you should try is ditching the stereotypes. Mercury traversing Leo is not always the same. Mercury retrograde cycles are not always the same. It’s important to look at the basics and the specifics. The basics begin with what a retrograde cycle really is. It’s an illusion caused by perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Real planets do not change speed or move backwards. Real planets pass each other on occasion as they follow their respective paths around the Sun. We are on one of those planets and our perspective is of being fixed in one place. Mercury is presently catching up with us and approaching to pass between Earth and the Sun. From our apparently fixed perspective, an object catching up to pass us has the appearance of decelerating. If we combine appearance with reality, what we get is a useful illusion that symbolizes slowing down while passing. With a little caution, slowing down to take a closer look can contribute to the quality of your thoughts. Mercury’s archetype of mind spending 11 weeks in the energy field ruled by the Sun can do that for you. When it initiates this year’s long tour of Leo, Mercury will also receive supportive energy from the signs of its own domicile.<\/p>\n

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Regardless of where it is, the condition of any ruling planet is subject to the conditions of the sign or signs it rules. Mercury enters Leo this year with ample and balanced support from Jupiter and Venus boosting Gemini while Mars and the Moon hook up from Virgo. That abundant and diverse combination of influences favorably connects Mercury’s Leo ingress to more than half of the zodiac. Once could scarcely imagine more auspicious encouragement. To make make Mercury all the more welcome, solar support will follow next month when the Sun comes home to play host. <\/p>\n

If ever there were reason to dispense with negative thinking and embrace a retrograde cycle, we will have the opportunity to do so, beginning next week. All it will require is that you replace conditioned, knee-jerk, fear-based thinking with thoughts of a higher quality. It will help if you have some objectives in mind. There is one objective we can all have in common.<\/p>\n

For all of us, regardless of our personal astrology, Mercury’s time in Leo will merge its model of mental acuity with the Sun’s emblem of conscious awareness in the light of day. That merger is the very image of quality, of clear thoughts quickly grasped and manipulated to the advantage of the thinker. It would be a shame to spoil such an opportunity by stubbornly clinging to adverse conditioning received without evidence and perpetuated without rational cause. With the beginning of a new week, Mercury’s ingress to Leo can symbolize a new life, an empowered life, dare say an opportunity to choose happiness by simply choosing your thoughts. Take the weekend to think about that and prepare to dare, plan to prevail. What have you got to lose besides unhappiness?<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius Mercury enters Leo Monday night at 10:24 pm EDT. Less than 36 hours after ingress to Leo, Mercury will enter the echo (or ‘shadow’) phase of its next retrograde, which begins on July 14, by passing the point where it … 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\/58452"}],"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=58452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}