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<\/dt>\nThen extend to the role of awareness — your awareness — in determining the outcome. Awareness alone makes a big difference, but you can make an even bigger difference by how you act on it. Ultimately, how you build and act upon the awareness of Mercury’s ingress to Sagittarius will determine how you are inspired and what you inspire in others.<\/p>\n
The actual planet Mercury orbits the Sun on the inside lane of the solar system. That fact alone confers both the symbolism of Mercury as mind and its appearance to inhabitants of Earth as the fastest moving planet.<\/p>\n
When you consider that the actual Sun is most fundamentally day and light to inhabitants of Earth, it makes sense to interpret the Sun symbolically as the light of consciousness. Following from that, it also makes sense to interpret the closest planet to the Sun as your fast-moving mind.<\/p>\n
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That’s because consciousness and mind are never very far apart, just as is the case with the Sun and Mercury. By the same token, they are not the same. The light of consciousness is a requisite for mind, just as the Sun is the first requirement for the existence of Mercury and other planets.<\/p>\n
On some level you “get” that because you are part of the solar system, riding on one of its planets. That’s how the cycles and patterns of Mercury appear to act on you and others, but that’s not what is actually happening.<\/p>\n
What is happening is simply parts of a system moving together. Hence, your movements (in particular, movements of your mind) can be expected to be synchronized with the movements of another part of the same system that correlates with the mind: Mercury.<\/p>\n
The idea is to be more consciously aware that you “get” it and build on that step with the information astrology provides. In so doing, instead of being along for the ride, you evolve into being an active and empowered participant with the solar system. That’s where Mercury’s impending ingress to Sagittarius comes in.<\/p>\n
Shamanic astrologer Sheila Belanger\u00a0interprets planets as “archetypes” (another word for symbols that serve as patterns), and the sign a planet is traversing as the “costume” through which the archetype is expressed.<\/p>\n
The costume represented by Sagittarius is very different from the Scorpio raiment that Mercury (and emblematically, your mind) has been been wearing for about two months now.<\/p>\n
Mercury has cruised through the fixed waters of Scorpio that long because of a retrograde cycle. That cycle combined to make Mercury’s motion appear to slow while also apparently retracing part of its voyage three times as the actual planet passed between Earth and the Sun on the inside lane.<\/p>\n
The illusion of retrograde produced by Mercury effectively lapping Earth and its inhabitants corresponds to your own experience with slowing down and repetition. Both those actions facilitate examination and integration if you are patient enough to make the most of it.<\/p>\n
Assuming you have been patient enough to make the most of it, the last two months or so have afforded your mind the chance to examine its relationship to, and to integrate with, other things that are close to your consciousness but associated with water. Such things would include your emotions, your intuitions and your feminine traits.<\/p>\n
The fixed quality of Scorpio, in turn, combined with Mercury’s unusual length of time in that sign to support a deep and long-lasting impression on how you think; but that would depend on whether you were thinking in the first place. The consequences of having your mind express through the mutable fire of Sagittarius after being so long inured to Scorpio will depend on whether, and how, you are thinking as well. That’s where awareness comes in, because Sagittarius is opposed to Gemini.<\/p>\n
Gemini is one of two places in the zodiac (along with Virgo) where Mercury rules. In other words, Gemini is a costume through which the cosmic archetype representing your mind is most clearly, authentically and strongly expressed. In the estimation of astrology, the sign opposing a planet’s rulership is, by contrast, a detrimental costume.<\/p>\n
Hence, if you are just along for the ride rather than being a consciously aware participant, Mercury’s ingress to Sagittarius could correspond to some detrimental thinking on your part, which could lead to an outcome detrimental to you. Having read this far, however, you now know it does not have to be that way.<\/p>\n
Now you know astrology is not destiny. Now you are aware that the fiery elemental component of Sagittarius could serve to ignite your inspiration rather than contributing to your unwitting self-immolation through “stinkin’ thinkin'” (as Senator Al Franken’s Saturday Night Live character, Stuart Smalley, used to put it). Now you know that you can participate in promoting the inspiration to build on the last two months of wading through self-examination, swimming in deep impressions, and dissolving to integration, by extending the experience through to manifestation in a more highly evolved you.<\/p>\n
Now you also know that a short, swift three weeks through the mutable quality of Sagittarius can serve to make a new you, rather than undo you and at least two months of of your life. That’s the difference awareness can make. It can make for actual progress which, believe it or not, is actually possible — and you can prove it.<\/p>\n
You can follow your promotion of inspiration by employing it. You can employ it by simply thinking, and expressing your thoughts with awareness until Mercury enters Capricorn a few days after the Sun does. If you can do just that, you will have concluded this year as a palpably evolved being who inspires other earthly inhabitants to emulate your example: stepping up to co-create your own destiny as an active participant in the patterns and cycles of the vast cosmic system of which we have always been a part. If you think about it, that really would be an inspiration that everybody can “get.”<\/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 enters Sagittarius at 9:42 pm EST tomorrow promoting inspiration. It will not be the actual planet acting on you. It will be in how you act regarding Mercury’s symbolism and position. Begin with how Mercury’s symbolism, combined with the cycles and patterns of its real and apparent motion, manifest in your life. Then extend … 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\/72324"}],"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=72324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}