{"id":62421,"date":"2012-11-22T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62421"},"modified":"2012-11-22T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T21:21:21","slug":"comeback-mercury-stations-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/comeback-mercury-stations-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Comeback — Mercury Stations Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: between last-minute, pre-holiday work for Planet Waves and being in a rush this morning, I completely forgot to prep Len’s article for today. Apologies, and enjoy! — Amanda<\/em><\/p>\n

Mercury resumes forward motion at 5:48 pm EST on Monday. The stormy period that predictably accompanies days when Mercury appears to slow down and change direction may currently have you feeling as though you have hit bottom. As you approach Monday, the key will be to push off the bottom and come back from where Mercury’s retrograde has taken you, possessed of the treasures you have found there.<\/p>\n

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Because Mercury’s direct station will oppose a Taurus Moon, one treasure you will want to come back with is compassion. Because both Mercury and the Moon will be in square aspect to the asteroid Damocles in Aquarius, the other treasure will be humility.<\/p>\n

An opposition of Mercury and the Moon invokes the subject of compassion both physically and symbolically. Physically, opposition means Earth is between the two objects in question. If you see the waxing Moon on Monday, point at it with one hand and point down through the Earth in the opposite direction with your other hand to the approximate position of Mercury. When you do that, strive to both feel and contemplate yourself between two principles of your consciousness, intellect and emotions.<\/p>\n

Mercury corresponds to the intellect, the Moon to emotions. Compassion walks between the two, seeking to serve the positive side of both, while avoiding the negative. The intellect is distinguished by detachment. The strength of detachment is good judgement; the downfall is lack of understanding. Emotions are open to understanding, but are often more concerned with demanding than giving it.<\/p>\n

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Compassion strives to balance selfless empathy with impartial judgement. The endeavor is both supported and complicated by the symbolic meaning of an opposition, that of a reflection.<\/p>\n

Oppositions imply reflection more than conflict. The long experience of astrology is that opposing signs are more alike than different. Hence, Mercury pushing off the bottom of Scorpio’s murky waters will have much in common with a Moon growing ever more full in the safe background of its Taurus exaltation. Mercury will know the lunar characteristic of vulnerability when it stations direct, while the Moon will feel an assurance commonly associated with the intellect. Seeing yourself reflected in another puts you in their shoes, supporting compassion. It can also put you in your place, which may give rise to some inner discomfort.<\/p>\n

Inner discomfort is often indicative of a square aspect. When Mercury opposes the Moon at its direct station on Monday, both will be square to the asteroid Damocles. Like most asteroids, Damocles functions for astrologers in a manner serendipitous with its name.<\/p>\n

The name Damocles refers to a story. It is the legend of a would-be king who traded places with a real one, only to be humbled by the perils that go with privilege, represented by a sword suspended over his head by a single hair. From an Aquarius position suspended between Mercury’s direct station and the Moon, the story of Damocles symbolically becomes yours in common with everybody else. The meaning is that you need to have the courage to ‘go there’ as it were, and come back humbled.<\/p>\n

Humility is not humiliation. Humiliation is the disgrace you allow others to bring upon you. Humility is the grace you have the courage to bring onto yourself. To do that, you first need to get to the bottom of your own being and find everybody else already there, equal both in privilege and in peril, but concealed from one another in the murky depths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It will not do, however, to remain at the bottom. Following your discovery you must resurface to share it at the level where we do see each other, but are concealed from ourselves. If you can do that, you will be invested of humility, and informed of compassion. You will be prepared to move forward, even as Mercury does. You will be ready to grow, even as the Moon does. Most of all, you will be capable of helping others to do, and be, the same.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em><\/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":"

Editor’s note: between last-minute, pre-holiday work for Planet Waves and being in a rush this morning, I completely forgot to prep Len’s article for today. Apologies, and enjoy! — Amanda Mercury resumes forward motion at 5:48 pm EST on Monday. The stormy period that predictably accompanies days when Mercury appears to slow down and change … 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\/62421"}],"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=62421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}