{"id":76658,"date":"2014-05-14T21:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=76658"},"modified":"2014-05-15T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:34:54","slug":"mercury-chiron-know-when-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-daily-astrology\/mercury-chiron-know-when-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury square Chiron: Know when you don’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"225+web-new-saturn\"<\/a>Though the exact Sun-Moon opposition passed by Wednesday, the Full Moon is still vibrating the emotional pool of humanity. As this happens, aided by much else resonating in the water signs (Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Neptune and an outer planet called Borasisi, among others), Mercury — the original planet synonymous with mental<\/em> — is in Gemini. On one level that is the very symbol of smartness, though since Mercury is approaching a square to Chiron (exact Saturday), there are questions. The first is described by Mercury approaching the depth and full-spectrum sensation of Chiron in Pisces, and involves recognizing how superficial most communication is. Yet the mind that may be caught in that superficiality has a deeper question, which is about its own capacity for emotional intelligence. Who hasn’t had the notion, “I’m not smart enough for that”? Yet with Mercury-Chiron aspects this can be a debilitating obsession. This aspect seems capable of bringing lurking doubts to the surface. The opposite of this is another prevailing state, that of being cocksure, absolutely certain of something with no basis in fact or experience. I would describe Mercury square Chiron as the aspect of “know when you don’t know.” My first words of training for young journalists, knowing when one does not know is the first step to finding out. It is the essence of intelligence. Yet in this illustration, with Chiron in Pisces, the superficial mind, the one that might be entertained by TV commercials, is encountering something on a different order of reality. So this is not really about facts or ideas; the encounter is more along the lines of one of those spiritual awakenings when someone one day realizes that everything they know is wrong. That would be a real point of beginning. Read yesterday’s post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You are invited to the first Planet Waves community forum. Morphing a teleconference and a live edition of Planet Waves FM, this event will be held at 8 pm EDT on Sunday evening, May 18 — the night before Mars stations direct. Participation is free, though pre-registration is required. Here is the link to sign up.<\/a><\/strong>. Then watch your email for participation instructions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who hasn’t had the notion, “I’m not smart enough for that?” Yet with Mercury-Chiron aspects this can be a debilitating obsession. This aspect seems capable of bring lurking doubts to the surface. The opposite of this is another prevailing state, that of being cocksure, absolutely certain of something with no basis in fact or experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1767],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76658"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}