MERCURY.....CHARMING CHILD OF SOMA/MOON
Intellect, wit, cleverness, curiosity, relentlessness and restlessness...mercury worries and wobbles, chatters ceaselessy, connects and exchanges
Sooo…how’s it wobbling, folks? Fasten your seat belts, please, we call this ride THE WHIP
Let’s review the basics of this topic: Astronomy/Astrology, The Science of Light
Here we are, in this place, surrounded by space above; positioned upon earth, solidity, below. Here we are, embodied and experiencing through senses.
Here we are, not there. There we are, not here. We are positioned within an embodied perspective. One we can change at will when our embodiment supports and allows movement.
REPEAT AFTER ME, TEN TIMES A DAY:
IT’S ALL ABOUT PERSPECTIVE AND
PERSPECTIVE IS ALL ABOUT POSITION, AND
POSITION IS ALL ABOUT EMBODIMENT
There is she/he/it…not I. I..not other. Other..not I. When I and Other meet, morph, blend, connect, and exchange….I and Other become We. WE is an in betweener. A liminal ,shifting, time-qualified PLACE of beingness.
I am not a walrus.
Here we are. There is a seeing that makes us say: The space of sky starts and ends here, the place of earth starts and ends here.
There is a place, space, somehow, in between. There is a movement from here to there, from there to here. Over and across the Herm, the boundary, the doorsill. There is an inside, and an outside, and a movement from one to the other. There is a between place of transition which is neither one nor the other, but both and neither.
This is Mercury. The Psychopomp
From whence comes this chatter inside? Who/what is this chatterbox which only quiets when one focuses on the PRESENT? When one crosses over from thinking to being, and accesses the GIFT OF PRESENCE? The ultimate reality of NOW?
When our bright nights’ entertainment consisted of watching and speaking/communicating (Mercury) of the REAL STARS, SHINING POINTS OF LIGHT GLOWING IN THE NIGHT SKY, THE MYSTERIOUS INCLUSIVE NIGHT SKY, lifetime upon lifetime, generation upon generation , we noticed that ………..
SOME OF THEM MOVED!! ON A PATTERNED COURSE ACROSS THE FIXED LIGHTS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS… THERE…. WITHIN A NARROW BAND OF THE SKY!!
Like the neighborly sun and moon, their appearance in certain areas of this ZODIACAL / IMAGED AS A GROUP OF ANIMALS / BELT brought with it certain moods, growth opportunities, weather, instigation or continuance or transition of cycles, repeated over the centuries and millenia. Observed, repeated, remembered and recalled, with countless variations in the full dance of the Seven Visible Wanderers, those mysterious points of light which send sensation, energies, ideas, events, and imaginations pulsing throughout the creation.
We named them gods. Supreme forces. Far far greater than our ability to comprehend. Yet, we are inspired to meet them halfway.
There they are. We can name and locate them., but there’s more…there’s some kind of logic to their movements. We know to plant seeds when the Sun is here, not there.in that other place. Not …at…(location/place )…that…specific…time…in its perpetual dance around and around and around, again and again and again.
We can look at another human, and know …..from their size, strength potential, development of intellect, language, ; from their level of skill…How many seasons the Sun has danced around their embodiment.
We know the truth of the wanderers, we’ve simply lost the language, the skill. And there are reasons for this. The current discourse from the great manipulators goes that men must know control, be “in” control, never lose control, and must never ever be controlled. A solid oak. An iron stone. One must stand firm, never swaying to the paltry winds, stronger than any force of Nature. Impenetrable, singular, and solitary.
It’s a terribly lonely agenda, that one.
Mercury will have none of it. Mercury, the step child of Jupiter through his mother’s connection to Soma, Moon. Inconstant, unfaithful females, running off with the insistently romantic Moon, and coming back pregnant!! But after all, the child is so charming, so witty and clever. How can one reject such a being? Solid oaks, after all, get bored/pun accepted.
Apollo is Mercury’s step brother. All these “steps”!!
Apollo, the cutting and dividing and separating rationality of appropriation; the cutting knife of the surgeon, separating the embodiment into “parts” to be …”fixed”/”doctored” into the propriety of rationing.
One day, Mercury, bored with the “god’s” endless contrivances of dominance, decides to play a mercurial/perceptual trick on Apollo.
He steals Apollo’s cows!! And Apollo can’t for the godly glory of himself figure out what/how this went down!!
Apollo followed the hoof prints of his cows, which led to a simple end with no continuance! The tracks end here!! and go no further!! My cows must have disappeared into thin air!!
Hahaha!! Mercury tricked you Apollo,and you are clueless!! You’re in Mercury’s dual fun house, Apollo, and Mercury has made an AIR HEAD out of ya!! Hahahahahahahaha HA!!
And so we reach our topic today, THE APPARENT RETROGRADE/BACKWARD MOTION OF MERCURY….and it’s LOGOS/MEANING.
Apollo’s rationality carries no meaning. As humans we seek meaning , for without meaning, the original “meet/meat” of sustenance….nothing ever satisfies.
So , when we see Mercury move in a perceived backward motion, we tell stories of how Mercury stole Apollo’s cattle, cows. What fun!! Mercury inspired, for sure and certain.
The electromagnetic/plasma field/energy signature of the Planet Mercury gifts us with intellect, thought, perception of detail, discrimination, the ceaseless self -instigated movement of air..mercury rules the air rashi of Gemini..and lungs to be inspired through, hands to channel our inspiration through. Hands and arms. The ability to image and design, to imagine a result and create the details as mental blueprint to move toward it in our transitions. The ability to develop skills. The ability to perceive and identify patterns, continuities, directions and rates, and discontinuities.
Connection, communication, exchange, and transition.
The ability in Virgo, Mercury’s “exaltation” (pumped up) rashi, to apply intellect to matter in a material way. Virgo is earth: work, goals, service.
And Mercury, most of all , is a Mimic. Whatever Mercury is NEAR, it will connect and exchange with such that Mercury will become more “like” “the other”. This is the dual nature of Mercury. Mercury is quick-silver. A slippery energy. Mercury is the second deadliest naturally occurring poison known to humans. Pretty, fun acting, sparkly and shiny, and deadly. Arms can morph from protecting life to destroying it. The split of duality. Unmended. Wholeness unrealized. Reality replaced by illusion.
Mercury’s game of dualities is meant to be just that…a game!! Did it trick you? Did you think it was real?
We’re in a major Mercury retrograde period. From our perspective, Mercury moves backwards against the fixed stars of the zodiac three times a year, a regularly scheduled performance. For some strange reason which seems to pop up everywhere like mushrooms, Mercury, though known to be a couple, male and female humans, is nonetheless always referred to as a “he”, even when he “trickily” shape shifts to his intrinsic female manifestation. Mercury is both, yet still referred to as “he”. Not “she” “he”. Why????
I know why.
What’s remarkable and unusual about this particular Mercury retro, which we’ve been in the shadow of for a week now, as Mercury retro projects a ten-day shadow to either side of its movement….is that it involves one of those three doube transition zones in the zodiac/nakshatra scheme called “Gandanta”. End Knot.
I suspected we were in the shadow of this retro motion the day last week when I put my wash in the machine, and returned to pick it up in more than an hour, only to find that it still had 45 min. to go. Oops!! I hadn’t started it, pushed the start place. Nicely, someone else noticed and had. Thanks, y’all. Over the next day or two, several Mercury retro -style events played through. I’m very accustomed to hearing of /seeing cars malfunction, registers in stores glitch; communications get lost or crossed or misunderstood; all kinds of shenanigans occur during mercury retrograde.
It’s funny!! Frankly!! Keeps us humble, if we’re still reachable and teachable.
One would assume that Gandantas and Mercury are intrinsically interrelated., given they are both very much involved in transitions. And one would be correct.
For every gandanta passage moves from mercury instigation to south node instigation, when referring to the Nakshatras, Moon Mansions, Lunar Mansions, because Gandanta is a Lunar Mansion affair.
Passing from one sign/rashi to another, we have a hinge, called a sandhi point. But the gandanta’s are both a rashi sandhi and lunar mansion sandhi, a double hinge if you life. A heavier turning. A more difficult transition.
Every Gandanta zone, the in-betweening of Cancer to Leo; of Scorpio to Sagittatius; and of Pisces to Aries,…is a moving from water to fire. Mercury’s primacy in the air realm assists transition. Ketu, the body without head, the memory and matter which remain from the past, what we already know, un-consciously, provides a familiar landing. Place.
TOMORROW; THE SCORPIO SAGITTATIUS INTERFACE ZONE : JYESTHA, THE ELDEST, TO MULA, THE ROOT.
Again, Mercury transited through this zone sometime between the 26-29/30 November, and will be transiting through it again twice, once in backward motion, once more forward. Three passes, and so these places are packed full of that planet’s info.
I’m a bit exhausted. A tourist town never sleeps. Sweet dreams.