{"id":72120,"date":"2013-11-26T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=72120"},"modified":"2013-11-26T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:31:21","slug":"rapid-transitions-mercury-a-comet-and-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/rapid-transitions-mercury-a-comet-and-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Transitions — Mercury, a Comet and a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it didn’t really have to stop, it just kept on going.
\n— Jimi Hendrix, “Castles Made Of Sand”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The astrology of the next few days correlates with the rapid transitions that define the essence of Mercury, a comet named ISON, and a man who could have been 71 years young tomorrow — James Marshall (Jimi)\u00a0Hendrix. At 3:35 am EST tomorrow, Mercury moves past the Scorpio degree where it appeared to reverse its motion on October 21. That’s another way of saying that Mercury will have emerged from the shadow (or “echo”) of its final retrograde this year.<\/p>\n

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At the same time Mercury enters new Scorpio waters, comet ISON will be near its closest approach to the Sun, which will take place Thursday. You could say both Mercury and ISON are moving on, but in very different ways.<\/p>\n

Mercury will continue to move around the Sun and through the zodiac; of that we can be reasonably sure. That is not to say, however, that Mercury will merely be going through the same motions you may have become accustomed to.<\/p>\n

After taking nearly two months tracing and re-tracing the first two thirds of Scorpio, Mercury will zip through the final third in about a week, entering Sagittarius on Dec. 4. That’s a big transition, and it’s probable that there will be some correspondingly swift movement in your life as regards the nature of Mercury and its correlation to how you think, communicate, or receive and process information. So long as it does not mean that you will be driving too fast, it’s probably all to the good — your good.<\/p>\n

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Mercury is transitioning back to its old self after spending about half of this year swimming, sailing or slogging through the three water signs — Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio. Looking back, it has probably been time well spent for you, like slowly going through the motions of learning something new. Don’t be surprised if the proficiency to execute those slowly practiced moves precisely, and with great speed, is one of the transitions you experience soon after tomorrow, and as Mercury continues to accelerate into next year.<\/p>\n

Even though Mercury is undeniably swift (both in apparent and actual motion), it pales in comparison to the comet currently called ISON, which is rapidly approaching a speed of 248 miles per second<\/a> as it nears its closest encounter (or perihelion) with the Sun. Along with its higher speed, ISON is also associated with a higher degree of uncertainty as compared to Mercury.<\/p>\n

By making what is probably its first (and perhaps last) conjunction with the Sagittarius Sun during the United States holiday of Thanksgiving, ISON has the potential to rapidly transition into a spectacular, and auspiciously timed, celestial phenomenon that would far outshine Mercury (or any other planet) and inspire people for years to come.<\/p>\n

Yet that potential comes with the possibility of ISON transitioning out of existence altogether (for having flown too close to the Sun), and the probability of being a phenomenon as short in duration as it is swift and spectacular, never to be seen again. Lending a poignant and provocative edge to the comparisons and contrasts of Mercury and ISON during their nearly concurrent rapid transitions this week is the fact that both together and separately they symbolically evoke memories of James Marshall Hendrix on the 71st anniversary of his birth tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Those of us who were fortunate enough to see Jimi Hendrix perform know how he manifested the astrology of the late 1960s. It is astrology we are both revisiting and expanding upon now on several levels.<\/p>\n

In 1967, when Jimi burst onto the scene to outshine all his peers, Mercury was having a year very much like this one. The three water sign retrogrades of 1967 correlated to the long years when Hendrix practiced, polished and learned to play faster and more fluidly than anybody else. That long development quickly culminated in a career transition that finally started moving as swiftly as Jimi’s playing — much as Mercury is finally and quickly getting back up to speed now.<\/p>\n

The acceleration of Jimi’s career in turn corresponded to an acceleration in the thinking, communication and information processing of his generation, inspiring people (musicians and otherwise) for generations to come.<\/p>\n

In addition to being the product of long practice, Hendrix’s technique was both innovative and integrative. He combined mastery of respected traditional performance modes with audacious showmanship, like playing his guitar behind his back, or with his teeth. On top of that, he went where no guitarist had gone before by systematically weaving the devalued “straw” of electronic distortion and feedback into melodic gold.<\/p>\n

By the same token, the Mercury retrogrades of both 1967 and this year have served to encourage people (perhaps including you) to synthesize intellect (Mercury) with emotions (water signs) into a sum greater than the previously separated, and unequally valued, parts.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Hendrix did not apply his musical proficiencies to his life. Instead of integrating and synthesizing his rapid success into a new period of artistic and personal development, he transitioned from earthly existence at the age of 27, leaving us with a valuable lesson — a teaching that ISON now evokes in the form of both individual and collective questions. As usual, the collective answers will derive from the greater sum that your personal answers will contribute to.<\/p>\n

After having devoted so much of this year to the arduous but productive process of advancing your individual growth, to what purpose will you turn it? Or will your apply it at all? Or go back to being your old self?<\/p>\n

Facing a world as uncertain as ISON’s fate, can you integrate its teachings after it is long gone, probably never to return? Beyond that, will you be able to take inspiration from the rapidly transitional, no matter where and how you find it, and apply it so as to advance the cyclical beyond repetition?<\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix is gone, never to return as he was. One way or another, the same will almost certainly be true of ISON. Mercury, on the other hand, will return. It will return to Sagittarius in about a week. It will return to Scorpio in about a year. One day, it will even return to another year of exclusively water sign retrogrades.<\/p>\n

If humanity is to survive beyond those returns and avoid rapidly transitioning out of existence altogether, you and each of us together must begin now to assure that the perpetual cycles of the sky do not correlate to a repetition of mistakes.<\/p>\n

It will mean integrating the cyclical certainty of Mercury with what ISON is about to teach us through their mutual proficiencies for rapid advancement. You can do that. This year has prepared you to advance rapidly yourself. Further, you can weave what you have integrated into a synthesis of your own, as a fitting remembrance of what Jimi Hendrix both succeeded in achieving and fell short of doing. He would have wanted somebody to take up where he left off, not necessarily in music, but in life. That somebody could be you.\u00a0<\/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":"

And it didn’t really have to stop, it just kept on going. — Jimi Hendrix, “Castles Made Of Sand” The astrology of the next few days correlates with the rapid transitions that define the essence of Mercury, a comet named ISON, and a man who could have been 71 years young tomorrow — James Marshall … 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\/72120"}],"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=72120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}