{"id":60144,"date":"2012-08-08T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=60144"},"modified":"2012-08-08T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T10:02:20","slug":"mercury-stations-direct-bring-your-creativity-to-the-collective-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/mercury-stations-direct-bring-your-creativity-to-the-collective-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury stations direct: Bring your creativity to the collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Mercury stations direct in Leo at 1:40 am EDT. This officially begins the last phase of a long spell of inner planet retrogrades dating back to November of last year. We still have Mercury\u2019s echo phase to work through before we\u2019re in completely fresh territory for all three personal planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars), but at least as of today, they\u2019re all in forward motion. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing Mercury (green glyph with horns) at its station direct in Leo. The bold ’01’ next to it means it’s the second degree. Also shown is the Sun in mid-Leo and Venus in the first degree of Cancer. Click here to see other planets that are talking to Mercury today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a personal level, this signals a time when we can begin moving plans and projects forward — though for a few days at least, it\u2019s still best to move slowly and carefully. To paraphrase Eric\u2019s metaphor from Monday, keep your headlights on at least through the weekend — and notice if someone has forgotten to turn on theirs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like what your mom always told you when you were still a young, novice driver and wanted to come home late on New Year\u2019s Eve: you may be sober, but what about the drivers out there who aren\u2019t?<\/p>\n

In other words, how do we deal with personal crises when they spread to other individuals and through groups and entire communities? The degree of today\u2019s Mercury station, which is at 2 Leo, has an apropos Sabian symbol given the news events that have marked the last few weeks. (The Sabians are a set of channeled symbols.) I\u2019m going to begin with the keynote Dane Rudhyar gives it in An Astrological Mandala<\/em> rather than the symbol proper: \u201cThe spreading power of individual crises through a collectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen how this works — or doesn\u2019t, depending on your perspective — with the two mass murders in the U.S. during this Mercury retrograde. With 12 dead in the Aurora, Colorado shooting a couple weeks ago and seven dead (including the gunman) in the shooting at the Sikh gurdwara (place of worship) in Wisconsin this weekend, we\u2019re seeing personal crisis ripple out many ways. For some, this is a time of grief and numbness. For others, a call to arms to protect the misinterpreted right to bear arms. Yet others take this repeated pain and try to have a different conversation — one about protecting life, or about creating peace.<\/p>\n

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However you react, individual experience finds a way to spread out. How you view it, whether it\u2019s your own experience, that of another, or something belonging to a seemingly \u2018other\u2019 collective, determines whether you are able to transmute its energy for the highest good or get sucked into further crisis. Either way, you are involved once you are aware.<\/p>\n

Rudhyar\u2019s symbol for this second degree of Leo is actually, \u201cAn epidemic of mumps.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to begin this post with a disease metaphor, but don\u2019t want to pretend it does not exist, either. Rudhyar notes in his further explanation, \u201cNow we deal with a process that affects the entire society; this obviously points out that the whole of mankind is potentially affected by, and thus, consciously or not, cannot help being involved in the critical situations faced by any individual or special group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

To everyone who recoils in distaste every time the subject of gun control comes up on the heels of one of these senseless mass shootings I say, \u2018We cannot help being involved. Do you want to be involved on the side of life, or of death?\u2019<\/p>\n

Rudhyar goes on to say that mumps, though a childhood disease, can also affect the testicles of adult men. He relates this association to Aries symbolizing the birth of the organism and Leo a rebirth on the level of consciousness and mind-based individuality. He describes this state as being a \u201cwould-be initiate, an infant in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Mercury turns around in this degree of the would-be initiate standing in the face of personal crises becoming collective, you have a choice. Leo is the sign of the Sun, the original life force for our planet. For the last three weeks we\u2019ve been writing about how this retrograde would point us in the direction of what we value most. How can you bring what you\u2019ve learned to bear on what is spreading through the collective? Surely personal crisis is not the only thing with spreading power. As Eric also mentioned Monday, today is a perfect moment for putting creative ideas into motion. Get to it.
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\nNote — Eric’s horoscope Friday will cover Venus in Cancer and Mercury stationing direct. This will be in the subscriber edition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Mercury stations direct in Leo at 1:40 am EDT. This officially begins the last phase of a long spell of inner planet retrogrades dating back to November of last year. We still have Mercury\u2019s echo phase to work through before we\u2019re in completely fresh territory for all three personal planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars), … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}