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| The Shaman, or Magician is Mercury's card. This depiction from "The Wildwood Tarot"© by Mark Ryan, John Matthews and Will Worthington |
Mercury in Scorpio had mind like a scalpel. It makes clean incisions to expose hidden thoughts and agendas. A Mercury/Scorpio mind loves to investigate the inner workings of a process, human, or bureaucratic. It’s a mindset with a notoriously short fuse, but is balanced by brilliant insights that are capable of transforming any situation according to intention. The people most strongly influenced by this transit are people born under the signs of Scorpio, Gemini, or Virgo (the last two planets are ruled by Mercury), and those who have Mercury in Scorpio predominantly in their birth chart. (See Blog: “Mercury Retrograde, Tarot and You," for tips on dealing with the great mangler of communications and timetables)
I told you all that to tell you this: Mercury Retrograde begins on October 4th in the sign of Scorpio. Luckily, this Mercury Retrograde doesn’t remain in testy Scorpio, but slip-slides back to Libra on October 10th. We get to breath a sigh of semi-relief then because Libra is a much less volatile position for Mercury and we already have more than enough combustable energy to go around this month. Mercury in Libra is a balanced mind that analyzes all sides of an issue as it continually looks for the perfect solution. Nothing is ever perfectly balanced, but that doesn’t keep Mercury in Libra from trying. If we follow Mercury Retrograde’s sacred rules, (re-visit, re-analyze, re-work) rules that are second nature to Mercury in Libra, we will have a relatively unobstructed path this month. Of course, we still have to traverse the rest of October’s volcanic terrain, don’t we?
October 8th we also have the Moon conjunct Uranus in fifteen
degrees of Aires. This is part of the ongoing September/October Grand Fire Trine between Uranus in Aires, Jupiter in Leo and Mars in Sagittarius. This is a massive amount of fire, or wand energy to handle. It’s also a highly creative and industrious energy as well, and should nicely counter-balance much of MR’s impact. However, remember to channel that fiery trine power, or risk being caught by an energetic ‘sneaker wave.’
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| Fiery Aires rules Uranus and stirs up the energy between the Moon and Uranus on the 8th. Depiction from "The Wildwood Tarot"© |
October is month for the intrepid, astrologically speaking. What we seek, we are bound to find, good or bad, but never indifferent. This weekend I’ll be looking at FullMoon in Aires, coupled with trine forces and garnished with – wouldn’t you just know it – a full lunar eclipse. Plot your course, dust off your surf boards and prepare to shoot the energetic curl for this one, folks!
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