{"id":66985,"date":"2013-05-16T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=66985"},"modified":"2013-05-16T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T04:05:43","slug":"mercury-square-neptune-first-quarter-moon-and-jello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/mercury-square-neptune-first-quarter-moon-and-jello\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury square Neptune, first quarter Moon… and Jello"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you noticing difficulties concentrating? Kind of fuzzy headed? Dreaming about all sorts of things besides the actual, on-the-ground tasks you need to accomplish? You might not be, but if you are, chalk it up to Mercury, newly in Gemini, making a square to Neptune in Pisces (exact Saturday at 3:19 am EDT).<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart for Mercury (green glyph with horns) in Gemini square Neptune (blue trident) in Pisces. About three hours earlier, the Sun in Taurus squares the Moon in Leo and Nessus (aqua ‘N’) in Aquarius.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019re actually in the midst of several planets making or getting ready to make squares to Neptune, since all those faster-moving personal planets that have been in Taurus are in direct motion and heading for Gemini (Venus is the other planet that has already arrived; the Sun is next, on Monday). <\/p>\n

What this spells for most of us is a phase of time when the solid feeling we\u2019ve enjoyed with planets in Taurus loosens up and — thanks to Neptune — gets a little slippery, squishy and dreamy before the lighter mental quickness of Gemini arrives full-force. <\/p>\n

This is extra challenging in square format. With an aspect that emphasizes flow, you might find it easy to surrender to your imagination and creativity and just go with it. But squares ask us to take action to resolve tension. You can think of them kind of like using a lever to push against a fulcrum, thereby moving yourself past an inner obstacle.<\/p>\n

A square to Neptune is kind of like trying to use a lever against Jello: you have to get creative and really pay attention to what you\u2019re doing, and you have to be honest with yourself about what you\u2019re actually trying to accomplish. Your usual type of \u2018push\u2019 might not get you anywhere.<\/p>\n

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In terms of Mercury in Gemini squaring Neptune in Pisces, this could translate to: instead of \u2018making\u2019 yourself concentrate, can you \u2018trick\u2019 yourself into focusing in some playful way? (Mercury being the trickster, after all.) Gemini is famous for being able to see (and live) two sides of an issue. Can you simultaneously see your dreaminess and some logic to work with it? Or in some cases, your self-deception and the truth?<\/p>\n

Deception and truth might actually be the biggest theme all these squares to Neptune have in common. We\u2019re in a moment of \u2018integrity check\u2019; question and reassess your integrity. Notice what some of the bigger news stories (especially in politics) have to show about integrity, deception and honesty. <\/p>\n

This matters even more than usual because we are still in a period between eclipses. We\u2019ve had two on the Taurus-Scorpio axis, and next weekend (May 25) we get a third on the Gemini-Sagittarius axis. This is a time to set patterns consciously; easier said than done for anyone living a busy and digital 21st-century life. Facebook can just as easily undermine your desire to release old patterns and set new ones as Neptune can, if you let it.<\/p>\n

Still, we\u2019re nearing a useful turning point before that third eclipse: the first quarter Moon on Saturday, May 18. This is the midpoint between the Taurus New Moon solar eclipse, and the Sagittarius Full Moon lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting about that chart is that the centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius turns the Sun-Moon square into a T-square. It will be opposite the Moon (which will be in Leo) and square the Taurus Sun. In fact, the Sun is square Nessus now (about three degrees from being exact). <\/p>\n

If Mercury-Neptune is providing the broader theme of detecting lies, speaking truth and knowing the difference, Sun-Nessus represents \u2018the thing to lie about\u2019. Nessus in Aquarius can be interpreted as \u2018abuse by or within groups\u2019. In other words, social conditioning that\u2019s at odds with who you really are; peer pressure. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see it in politics, often harder to see in our own lives. We\u2019re very, very good at convincing ourselves we want things we don\u2019t want, or believe things that are not true for us, especially to \u2018belong\u2019. The messages start coming in very early in life. But that does not mean we can\u2019t learn to see them for what they are, call them out, and \u2018stop the buck\u2019 of their influence on us. <\/p>\n

Sometime near Saturday\u2019s first quarter Moon (exact at 12:34 am EDT), do a little integrity check in the honesty department. Then see if you can discern anything in your life that is at a turning point since the New Moon, especially if it feels like it wants to gather momentum. This span of time between eclipses might feel a little \u2018different\u2019, but it could also be incredibly useful — kind of a cosmic lever. Just save some room for that Jello — Neptune is square the next eclipse, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you noticing difficulties concentrating? Kind of fuzzy headed? Dreaming about all sorts of things besides the actual, on-the-ground tasks you need to accomplish? You might not be, but if you are, chalk it up to Mercury, newly in Gemini, making a square to Neptune in Pisces (exact Saturday at 3:19 am EDT). We\u2019re actually … 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\/66985"}],"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=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}