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Mercury Direct in Aquarius

  Mercury stations direct (at 1 degree Aquarius) on February 11th. Whatever Mercury Rx in Aquarius stirred up will now see forward momentum. If Mercury Rx was the time to reconsider or do the opposite of what was expected, Mercury … Continue…

Mercury/IC Aspects

You feel comfortable in busy places … places where you can observe people coming and going, and have the option to engage with them. Dead silence makes you uncomfortable … you’re likely to fill it with your own mental chatter … unless, your head is filled with the words you’re reading from the book you’re

Mercury/IC Aspects

Astrology of Now: The Disappearance of Manannan Mac Lir

A statue of the Celtic sea god Manannan Mac Lir was stolen from an Irish mountaintop on January 21, the day Mercury, the planet of thieves, went retrograde. Although Manannan is the “son of the sea” and a deity of storms, but he has more in common with Mercury than Neptune. Manannan is a trickster (sometimes appearing dressed as a clown), a musician (he plays a harp) and he moves with ease between this world and the other world, just like his Greco-Roman counterpart. If we understand myth, then we know that Manannan has simply slipped over for a short visit to the other world. That’s […]

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Saving Souls, Mars in Pisces

Life is constantly changing. This is an excellent reminder, especially for the new year, with the 2015 vibrations of the number 8. If we can remember that everything is energy and that nothing stays still, then allow yourself permission to change righ…

The Mighty Pen, Symbol of Reason

Twelve people at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were gunned down on January 7. In the same week, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his 1000-lash sentence for blasphemy, ironically, an echo of the Charlie Hebdo cover that caused such offense in 2011 — “1000 lashes if you don’t die laughing”. Not to mention the on-going incarceration of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayad in Saudi also, for blasphemous verses. Islamofascism (still apparently a contested term, but loosely defined as a political ideology based on Islam) has been gaining in strength for decades, but its […]

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Three Hotspots for Mercury in Aquarius

Further to yesterday’s post on Mercury in Aquarius, here’s a closer look at three aspects that will be repeated throughout its transit. Jan 5th: sextile Saturn at 1 deg Sagittarius Jan 14th: sextile Uranus at 12 degrees Aries Jan 15th: &#82…

A Different Point of View…

Mercury in Aquarius…one I prepared earlier… Remember school sports carnivals? I hated them- with an absolute passion. I loved the swimming carnivals, but that’s because I was good at it, and usually in line for age swimming champion, or a…