The day I published my last posts seemed to peak and exhaust the stunning thrust that was available for communication while Mercury transited through Gemini, it’s active sign.
I realized, as I finally laid my body down in that night, and began to “give up the ghost” one more time, that I’d been posting reviews. That made me recall that we are about to enter, at the end of July, the third Mercury retrograde passage of the past year through a gandanta zone. So, it makes sense that I am inspired to review.
To have Mercury retrograding through all three gandanta zones consecutively is quite rare, and to be paid attention to.
Why? Well, if for no other reason, because “THEY” DO.
Mercury, whose energetic emanations/electromagnetic and plasma fields structure our intellects, has two modes of action.
In it’s active display, it informs the rashi - “heap of things” - of Gemini. This is the intellect that gathers information. Gemini is an Air Rashi. Very flexible, easily influenced. A person with Gemini in Mercury will often unconsciously assume the accents of those around them, and their way of thinking and speaking. Mercury is a mimic, and will go the way of whatever planet it is close to.
Mercury in Gemini wants to play, and wants to play with both sides. It wants to flirt with all of the creation. It wants jokes, and tricks. While Mercury was in Gemini, there was a bit of a meme fest with some substacks.
The other aspect of Mercury is informed by the rashi of Virgo. Here Mercury enters the earth zone, and intellect is applied to materiality. This is where Mercury is considered strongest, “exalted”, because in Virgo the qualities of discrimination, detail, and discernment become active.
Gemini can be seen as intellect at play. Virgo is intellect applied to matter. The symbol of Virgo is a sheaf of wheat, and a maiden holding a cornucopia. The Sun is in Virgo during the harvest time of the northern hemisphere. It is the sacred duty of Virgo to apportion the harvest, with discernment and discrimination. So much for the feast. So much for storing. So much for seeding. So much for emergencies. Extra in case neighboring tribes suffer from a poor harvest. Making sure all the storage containers are sound, and the storage places. The tribe’s survival depends on this Virgo discrimination. And so persons with strong Virgo placements can become a bit “persnickety”, thinking only they have the “perfect way”. They can become overly discriminating, and the common expression for a person with an “exarcerbated” Virgo placement is …”anal”. This is the person who grabs your tea cup to clean if off the table before you’ve drank half of it.
This is the person who’s “housework” appears immaculate. As Pisces is the other side of this axis, don’t look into their drawers. You may see something very different.
Virgo is service oriented. It is an earth rashi, and earth rashis are work rashis. Virgo itself includes the matters of health and illness. Health is a goal oriented matter, work in service to one’s health is required. Discrimination and discernment is required for good health.
A person who speaks excitedly and glowingly of the two wheat grass juice enemas per day they’ve been doing for one month most likely has a strong virgo thing going.
Because of this dual quality of Mercury, this “mind to matter” movement, Mercury was also known as Hermes. The herm, the doorsill. This describes the movement of Mercurial energy from mind to matter, over and over during the days. We think of something we want to apply ourselves to, some material goal or some activity, and we then move into that, and then come back to mind and assess. Back and forth over Hermes’ herm/doorsill.
Mercury sits just now within one degree of conjuncting Venus. At 29 Gemini, in the nakshatra/moon mansion/asterism of Punarvasu.
My day began jinxed. With the usual suspects on the scene. Went well then until I was told this place by the river was about to be fumigated for mosquitos. It is monsoon season here, rains nearly every day some. Lots of green plants everywhere.
Unfortunately, I have a planet in Gemini that is excessively explosive, when it gets set off. And it did. You’ll have to stop the river and the rain, I said. You can’t get rid of mosquitos. I was actually yelling. Then I was given the message…via her translating phone app…that “someone has dengue” so we have to spray. That really set me off for the rest of the day.
Lovely evening tho, people very communicative and lively out on the walking streets tonight.
I want to meet the “scientists” who found the mosquito that carried the “dengue fever” blah blah blah. Make them prove it to me.
Here’s my “theory”:
First : Big Oil
Next: Petro (oil) Chemicals (poisons_)
Next: Factories spewing massive amounts of poisons into the skies for so many decades that the lakes were dying from acid rain
Next: Many new illnesses; “cancer” a regular thing, suddenly; and on and on. “Germ Theory” “Virus Particle Theory”
Next: Chemical “icides” - fungicides , pesticides, herbicides…all forms of “suicide”
Next: More and newer forms of “Cancers” and mutiple new forms of illness
Next: “It’s the mosquitos! /virus/genetics/neighbor’s bad breath/the night air/all in your head”: aka, “the enemy”
Next: PHARMA/CHEMICAL POISONS/MADE FROM PETRO CHEMICALS/”MEDICINES” TO KILL THE ENEMY
Next: MORE AND MORE NEW CHEMICALS/ ICIDES TO KILL THE MOSQUITOS;”GENE THERAPIES” FOR “BAD” GENES; “VIRUS” “ANTIBODY” “SHOTS” WITH “POISONS”/CHEMICALS
Next: More Illnesses. More new diseases. More viruses and “disorders” and “mental illnesses”
Next: More things to spray dead; more chemical medicines for chemical illnesses.
Nothing to see here, folks. It’s the mosquitos, all of a sudden thirty years ago.
PS How long you been spraying poisons everywhere before “dengue fever” showed up?
Most fevers: Waste products from living; various toxins and especially heavy metals are stored in the body mainly in two ways: first, in fat tissue. Secondly, in parasites.
When the body is overloaded with poisons, and waste products, and needs to cleanse, it will start a purifying fire. This will “melt” the fats which are storing the heavy metals, toxins, etc. The poisons are then released into the blood stream to be eliminated. The heat of the fever makes you want to drink a lot of water, which will cleanse the poisons and flow them out of the body. A fever is your body’s healing mechanism.
With a sudden diarrhea, the body wants to completely eliminate from the digestive system. These natural cleansing and healing mechanisms of the body need to be supported, not interfered with and “ended”.
The skin is the largest “organ” and the one with the most constant elimination, along with breath. The first signs of “dis-ease” in the body will most often appear on the skin. A rash; a pimple or other protrusion.
Vedic medicine keeps an eye on the surface of the tongue. The eyes are the windows to the soul, and also to the body’s health. Some people learn to “read” the condition of the body through the eyes. Many ways.
I’ve been wanting to display some of the “Birth of The Clinic” history. Illnesses and fevers used to be attended to with the greatest of delicacy. The physician did not want to interfere with the course of the illness, but only assist the healing when needed. They knew from experience to allow the body’s intrinsic wisdom to “run it’s course” while supporting the patient’s ability to do so safely. They did not attempt to “kill” the illness, but to facilitate the healing process while keeping it’s action within safe limits.
Getting back to the planets, we just had a New Moon today with Venus present in the nakshatra. Fortunately the Sun had passed 20 Gemini, had entered Punarvasu. Nonetheless, I made a terrible scene here, and disappeared for six hours. Well, it doesn’t smell of the nasty stuff, and it will rain tomorrow with the Moon in a water sign, Cancer. It’s own house.
So, we begin a New Moon Cycle in Gemini, which is ruled by Mercury, and by the end of July, Mercury will be entering it’s first gandanta passage before turning retro and going through this difficult transition zone two more times. AS this is the third time in the past year that Mercury does a retrograde through a gandanta zone, it will now go through the third zone and have done this through all of them. Very unusual emphasis on these transitory zones, and mercury is the planetary ruler of each nakshatra where the gandanta begins.
So, what we want to do first, is to look back at the two previous Mercury retrogrades, and notice the intensity of the time. It will be different for different people.
Then we need to examine these two particular moon mansions it will go back and forth in, and see what’s up with them in this time. What’s up with their instigating planets? All that.
Mercury retrograde periods occur for three weeks at a time, and occur three times a year. This is why we have the delightful story about Mercury stealing his brother Apollo’s cows, such that big bro could not for the heck of him figure where they’d gone. Their hoof prints just suddenly ended and that was that. No cows. Disappeared.
Mercury had got the cows to move backwards.
I suppose only Mercury could entice a bunch of cows to walk backward the same way they walk forward. Charming Mercury.
Mercury retrograde periods are those that even folks who do no astrological noticing or studying understand. Common things happen during Mercury retro grades.
Mercury rules communication: There can be a lot of miss communitcation, and missing communications. Letters and messages get lost, or misinterpreted. Car problems are very common. The register at the market will glitch, and I will announce, oh, Mercury is retrograde, and some folks will respond, Oh, is that what it is. So lots of people are familiar with this. It happens three times a year, and brings the same kinds of sheananigans.
The midnight hour approaches. Tomorrow, I’ll write about the last two Mercury retrogrades we went through, through the gandanta zones of Scorpio to Sagiattarius, and Pisces to Aries. This one will go from Cancer to Leo. Water to fire. Not easy.
These last nakshtras in the water signs are all places of fixation of one sort or another. “Places where poisons accumulate”. And Mercury rules these nakshatras. Interesting.
How timely. And as Saturn, which rules Time, just went retrograde at the end of June, we are very much in a time of review, a review of time.
And Saturn and the Moon have a special, little understood relationship. They both have cycles of 28. For the Moon, 28 days to a lunar month. For Saturn, 28 years around the zodiac.
From halfway around the globe, longing to be back home soon.
Sweet Dreams, y’all.
Very informative.
Stromboli is erupting.
Next eclipse in October means eruption in Nov Dec so yeh Pluto aquarius the world being poured by the water bearer back on to the earth. But yeh still got that Taurus algol mars conjunction 17th July