{"id":71689,"date":"2013-11-07T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=71689"},"modified":"2013-11-07T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T15:58:50","slug":"mercury-direct-and-other-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/mercury-direct-and-other-adjustments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Direct and Other Adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"

You got to move, child, you got to move.
\n— Mississippi Fred McDowell<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jupiter commenced apparent reverse (or “retrograde”) motion through Cancer just after midnight EDT. Mercury resumes direct motion Sunday afternoon, ending a Scorpio retrograde period of nearly three weeks. Other planets, major and minor, will soon contribute — through either changes of direction or sign — to what feels like the sort of adjustments you would make after assuming a new place or position.<\/p>\n

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One way or the other, in one sense or another, you probably have assumed a new place or position since the Scorpio solar eclipse last Sunday. It comes with the territory. Now, it’s a matter of adjustment, and how to make it.<\/p>\n

Indications are you would probably be better off feeling, rather than thinking, your way through adjustments for the next week or so. <\/p>\n

That’s because Mercury’s slowdown to direct station is holding it in an unusually long (for Mercury) water trine aspect with Neptune, and Neptune itself is in a prolonged pause before stationing direct next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Neptune’s trine from Mercury connects two of the most complex planetary energies through the auspices of symbolic water. Mercury was mythology’s jack of all trades: messenger one minute, mediator the next, and much more — from medic to murderer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tangibly, the element Mercury is a unique, useful, yet toxic paradox: liquid metal. Mercury is also the planet closest to the Sun, which makes it both\u00a0emblematically swift and inherently influential in astrology. Also, for astrologers, all of Mercury’s mercurial qualities go exponential whenever it slows down just before and after changing direction — a period known as the “Mercury storm.”<\/p>\n

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Neptune is new compared to Mercury, with a much slower apparent motion, but no less influential. Human consciousness evolved with the planet Mercury in plain sight. By comparison, the planet Neptune spent centuries leading astronomers on a merry chase, repeatedly being sighted and not identified or continuously being postulated but not found. For astrologers, it’s like food in a big city: everywhere and nowhere at once.<\/p>\n

A precise, prolonged, seamless and flowing trine connection through elemental water is slippery business anyway. Make that connection from Mercury to Neptune with both nearly stationary, and you have implied a period when necessary adjustments will reliably elude your intellectual grasp. Fortunately, Jupiter is sympathetic with its timing, already moving as if to meet you half way.<\/p>\n

Jupiter’s deeper advancement into Cancer precludes it from being in precise aspect to either Mercury or Neptune at their direct stations. Nevertheless, there is water and a relatively concurrent adjustment of apparent direction in common. Given Jupiter’s expansive, inclusive nature, that amounts to something.<\/p>\n

What it amounts to is an encouragement for you to be more open to what a period of adjustments, undertaken intuitively, could lead to. It could lead to you learning how to trust yourself better. It’s probably nothing new. It’s almost certain you have been here before. The only thing different now is the level of achievement you are being called to and the fact that it is apparently happening to everybody at once — as represented by the fact that it’s happening to so many planets at once.<\/p>\n

It first happened long ago, when you trusted yourself both to balance and move on two feet. Some years later, and more within memory, it happened again on the two wheels of a bicycle. It was not an intellectual achievement. It had to do with abandoning grasp, both literally and figuratively.\u00a0As a matter of fact, if you look back on your life, there have probably been other adjustments that amount to the same thing — trusting the feeling that the best way to deal with the situation is not to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n

This is about going with the flow in its highest sense. Not because it’s the path of least resistance. Not because you feel coerced or under pressure. Rather, because you feel called and now, perhaps for the first time in human history, we are all being called at the same time.<\/p>\n

It starts with feeling the need. it happens through feeling your way. It concludes with a feeling of having become something more, capable of being and going where you have never been before. You are not alone in this. You are in the most expansive and inclusive of company, but you really have to trust yourself as the first order of business. Long ago, somebody almost certainly spoke these words to you for the first time: “You can do it!” Do you remember? Can you hear it now?<\/p>\n

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

You got to move, child, you got to move. — Mississippi Fred McDowell Jupiter commenced apparent reverse (or “retrograde”) motion through Cancer just after midnight EDT. Mercury resumes direct motion Sunday afternoon, ending a Scorpio retrograde period of nearly three weeks. Other planets, major and minor, will soon contribute — through either changes of direction … 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\/71689"}],"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=71689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}