![\"Astrology](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/astro-len-wallick-logo.jpg?resize=250%2C167&ssl=1\" "\\"Astrology"){kind=logo}
<\/dt>\nIt may seem paradoxical to jeopardize stability to foster creativity. It may appear contradictory for simplification to promote stimulation, but Mercury’s motion right now indicates just such an approach.<\/p>\n
First off, Mercury is all about motion. It’s the swiftest planet, often moving through the zodiac faster than any other object except the Moon. <\/p>\n
If you take retrograde motion into account, it travels a significantly greater distance through the signs (albeit some of that distance in reverse) than the Sun does in the course of a year. Even when it stations retrograde, Mercury is never actually stationary. It essentially turns on a dime and gives you ten cents change. Yet, all of that propensity for constantly moving clashes with Mercury’s affinity for Virgo.<\/p>\n
Virgo is the only sign where the orthodox ruling planet (Mercury, naturally) is also exalted. In other words, it’s paradise for Mercury. If it could choose, it might conceivably roam its Elysian Fields of mutable earth to forever be comfortable, happy, fat and sassy.<\/p>\n
\nIn fact, that scenario is inconceivable because it’s unnatural. The same holds true for you, especially when it comes to how you think and express your thoughts. When Mercury takes its annual leave from paradise, it’s a clue for you to somehow move on mentally as well. In addition, there is a special wrinkle to Mercury’s moving on this year — it’s slowing down.<\/p>\n
Once again, the paradox. In the material world, one does not customarily leave the ground and take to the air by decelerating. In the symbolic world of astrology, on the other hand, it makes perfect sense. Because Mercury represents the mind and its means of expressing itself, it makes sense to slow down the thought process and examine things more closely upon entering a milieu where less is given and more needs to be found, or made.<\/p>\n
Of course, the real reason Mercury has lost nearly 20% of its apparent velocity since entering Virgo on August 23 is because it is on a longer approach to its third watery retrograde of the year through Scorpio, beginning next month. In the meantime, however, it’s perfectly suitable that the journey’s theme should be consistent with the destination. For you, that means a fresh approach that will allow the journey to prepare you for the destination.<\/p>\n
You can do that by doing whatever it takes to slow down your thought process through the rest of September. Even if that seems to contradict a world where days appear to go by ever faster. Things will make more sense if you can examine your life more closely.<\/p>\n
If you take the time to examine both the relationships and conduct of your life more closely over the next three weeks or so, you will be able to see where it has become stultifying. If you can somehow refresh those areas while Mercury’s emblem of your mind is under Libra’s cardinal aegis to initiate and air things out, it’s a lot less likely that two months through Scorpio’s fixed waters will feel suffocating, and a lot more likely that the last Mercury retrograde of a special year will become an equally special experience that you would not want to miss.<\/p>\n
So, slow down to leave the ground, and go where it feels most uncomfortable. It might not make sense now, but it’s the fresh approach that will make your life a lot more sensible later on.<\/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":" Mercury takes off into Libra at 3:07 am EDT Monday. A fresh approach will suit the occasion, even (or, perhaps especially) if it feels uncomfortable. Begin by examining your life. Where there’s stagnation or obstruction in relationship, creative interaction will trump stability. Where your customary ways of thinking have become stale, it will help to … 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\/69948"}],"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=69948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}