{"id":73004,"date":"2013-12-31T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=73004"},"modified":"2013-12-30T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T00:53:48","slug":"what-do-you-know-mercury-on-the-new-moon-cardinal-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/what-do-you-know-mercury-on-the-new-moon-cardinal-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you know? Mercury on the New Moon cardinal cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many mutual aspects between planets in the Capricorn New Moon chart — even if you don\u2019t look beyond the grand cross in the cardinal signs — it can be difficult to find one\u2019s bearings, or to find a point of orientation. One that could be useful is Mercury since it signifies our minds, our thought processes and communication.<\/p>\n

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New Moon chart detail, showing Mercury conjunct Pluto, the Sun and the Moon in Capricorn. View the full chart here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a chart connecting four personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mars and Mercury), a transpersonal planet (Jupiter), and two generational planets (Uranus and Pluto) all in a grand cross with a New Moon, the message is clear that what is set to change within us and what is set to change around us are connected. (I just almost typed \u201cwithout us,\u201d meaning \u201coutside\u201d; it raises an excellent point: that the world will change without our participation whether we want it to or not. The choice to adapt and evolve is not automatic, but it is empowering.)<\/p>\n

On one level, Mercury in this setup represents news events that reflect the pressure and concentration of energy in the astrology. Consider recent news stories like the twin bombings in Russia<\/a> that killed at least 31 people Sunday and Monday; or the jobless benefits that have just been allowed to expire by the U.S. Congress, leaving 1.3 million people without a lifeline<\/a> despite unemployment being its highest since World War II. Or consider that a federal judge this week just ruled to uphold the NSA\u2019s<\/a> bulk collection of data, just days after another federal judge in a separate court called the NSA\u2019s actions \u201calmost Orwellian.\u201d <\/p>\n

Speaking of the NSA, on another level, Mercury — which is conjunct the Sun, Moon and Pluto — asks, what do you really know? Are you willing to delve into whatever material is coming up for you now to truly understand it? Impatience with any confusion or mystery could work against you. Can you tell the difference between going with the flow and pushing the river?<\/p>\n

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Mercury\u2019s respective squares to Mars in Libra and Uranus in Aries are separating, but still very much in effect. Together they suggest you act on your more inventive, inspired ideas, but that you take a moment to think everything through from multiple angles. Temper, dishonesty and exaggeration are not your friends this week (then again, when are they ever?).<\/p>\n

What is your friend is your awareness — both of any persistent intuitive tugs or sudden bursts of insight, and of what\u2019s happening in the world around you. The question is, what do you do once you are aware?<\/p>\n

Consider Mercury\u2019s opposition to Jupiter in Cancer. This opposition is still applying, meaning that it is not exact yet but will be in the near future, and therefore is growing stronger. According to Isabel Hickey, Mercury opposing Jupiter in cardinal signs means that right action must be backed by good judgment. <\/p>\n

So we have an equation here: ideally, awareness leads to right action backed by good judgment. With the era-defining Uranus-Pluto square in the mix, our awareness includes the wider world and very long cycles of time. With Jupiter in Cancer, there\u2019s an emphasis on, and expansion of, \u2018home\u2019.<\/p>\n

In other words, it all comes back to thinking globally, acting locally. Fear of the unknown may rear its head, but ask yourself: what do we ever really know before that moment when we finally know it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are so many mutual aspects between planets in the Capricorn New Moon chart — even if you don\u2019t look beyond the grand cross in the cardinal signs — it can be difficult to find one\u2019s bearings, or to find a point of orientation. One that could be useful is Mercury since it signifies our … 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\/73004"}],"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=73004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}