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<\/dt>\nBehind the potentialities for both deeper understanding and bolder expression are the powerful objects Mercury will emblematically merge with upon ingress to Leo — Jupiter and the Sun.<\/p>\n
The Sun dominates the solar system with its gravity, and your daytime sky with its light. The Sun also rules Leo. The Sun’s power while traversing Leo (as it is now) is thus symbolically enhanced.<\/p>\n
That’s how any other objects moving through Leo with the Sun (as Jupiter is, and as Mercury is about to do) might implicitly be interpreted as being overwhelmed by the Sun.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, there’s another way of looking at the situation. You have a choice. You can choose to perceive the implicit as only the apparent.<\/p>\n
As if to emphasize its apparent hegemony, the Sun’s dominance also extends into the explicit. Jupiter even now remains out of unaided sight in the solar glare after passing behind (conjoining) the Sun on July 24. Mere hours after Mercury enters Leo, it too will vanish into the Sun’s rays as its orbit eventually takes it behind (and into conjunction with) the Sun on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
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Nevertheless, Mercury and Jupiter have not and will not actually disappear. Both are up there in the Sun’s company whether you can see them or not, and it’s empowering to know that.<\/p>\n
Eventually you will be able to see Jupiter again, rising in the pre-dawn East before the second week of August has concluded. Mercury will next be visible in the West after sunset toward the end of August.<\/p>\n
Until those reappearances, however, and during most of Mercury’s brief tenure in Leo (concluding Aug. 15), both Mercury and Jupiter will in essence be expressing through the Sun. Hence, you can choose to perceive the situation one of two ways. You can interpret Mercury and Jupiter as either being overwhelmed or empowered by the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the Sun represents (among other things) the light of consciousness that illuminates your waking life, you will be the primary means through which Mercury and Jupiter are expressed in the near future. That’s quite a responsibility. Nevertheless, simply being aware will be of immense help to you.<\/p>\n
Versatile and multi-tasking Mercury, among other things, correlates with mind. Mind expressed through consciousness is inherently insightful because it is self-aware. Self-awareness sounds good on the whole, but it comes with inescapable consequences.<\/p>\n
Living in self-awareness means doing without the buffers of denial and distraction, being fully conscious of your situation. It can be overwhelming to face up to the realities of your life. Living in the constant glare of mortality, cause and effect is a challenge, but also a potential source of power.<\/p>\n
Insight into yourself as a mortal being can empower you to act while action is possible. By the same token, insight into cause and effect might also empower you to be more bold in your actions so as to maximize your intended effect.\u00a0Of course, other people facing the same choices you are, but less boldly, might consider you audacious.<\/p>\n
Being audacious may overwhelm some people. That’s a risk. On the other hand, you might also know the reward of being effective.<\/p>\n
Empowering any choice you may make to be among the audaciously effective will be Jupiter. That’s because (among other things) Jupiter manifests in your life when you expand your capacity to take the world on and into yourself. Such an expansion, however, can only take place if you choose not to be overwhelmed by what is only apparent. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Mercury will conjoin with expansive Jupiter on Saturday. You won’t see them, but they will be there, behind appearances. Know that and be empowered.<\/p>\n
What’s more, Mercury and Jupiter will be for all practical purposes conjunct the Sun. Indeed,\u00a0the functional alignment (or conjunction) of Sun, Mercury and Jupiter will begin as soon as Mercury enters Leo and extend on past next week. During that time you will have a choice.<\/p>\n
You may choose to allow the implicitly overwhelming events of the world to dominate your life.<\/p>\n
Or you may choose to perceive the implicit as only apparent, knowing that other potentials exist unseen. Who knows? It could catch on. Someday, a new light on the horizon might emerge from behind the glare because you braved insight and risked audacity now.<\/p>\n
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