Each year I honor the sacred day known as "The Day of the Dead," consecrated to honoring those who have passed before us and a true celebration of life. It is an incredible experience to enter into, and helps our inner nature remember that it's okay to celebrate the dead as well as those of us in a body. I picked it up through living in Texas, where it is one of the most amazing celebrations of the year. Already started many places from here to everywhere, take a moment to honor and thank your dead for being there for you to love. What follows is last year's post, with much to ponder.
It's been quite a period, from the sublime to the horrendous! I finally got home to the high desert after a perfect Mercury retrograde of driving out of burning Southern California only to break down in the desert east of Indio and have to be towed back into the thick haze of an Armageddon-like fiery inferno where the Sun and sky were literally blotted out in a dense fog of gray-brown particulates too thick to see the mountains burning out of control just a few thousand feet away.
As I told you in the related article "What is Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio Good For?" there are always many things that we can do in a Mercury Retrograde period that will turn out favorably. Now that Mercury has gone back into Libra, I thought I should offer you a few insights about what this time is good for.
In Part 1 we examined how the coming Saturn opposition Uranus will set up a clash between old systems and the transformative process. In Part 2, we took a look at the dances Saturn and Pluto have been doing for the past century, and offered hints as to how these may manifest in the future given what happened in the past. Today we look at the major square between the two heavyweight Transpersonal planets, Uranus and Pluto, in order to find ideas how to position ourselves to take advantage of the upheavals and not be caught off balance.
Yesterday we explored the power struggle (or dance!) between Saturn and Uranus as we deal with their opposition over the next few years. Today we add Pluto to the volatile mix about to engulf the entire world in dynamic transformation. The future stands revealed, and by noting what seeds are sprouting beginning January 2008 we can plan accordingly to reposition ourselves and become conscious participants in the larger changes taking place.
We know the years approaching 2012 will be strange and challenging due to the squares and oppositions between major planets, along with the on-going Grand Irrationality not cutting us any slack for the next decade. In the past I've offered some things about the squares and oppositions, and today we'll explore some of the qualities of those tension producing, breakthrough aspects.
"Inferior conjunctions" only occur when Mercury's apparent backward retrograde motion brings it to a conjunction with the Sun. Mercury symbolizes our Mind and the Sun represents our Life as it progresses. Each year they do a unique dance, conjuncting 3 times in a "Superior" conjunction, when Mercury is faster than the Sun, and 3 times in an "Inferior" conjunction, when Mercury is retrograde. These each have importance in the relationship of Life to Mind in our yearly affairs.
Though I've offered you these three Truths before, it's always good to remember them, as these eternal realities can provide us all comfort when we're wondering why things are so weird, or seem to be unfair.
A brief note on some important configurations happening the past few days that may help fit some things into perspective. We have had Mercury in the Scorpio zone of the Grand Irrationality the past few days, and the Sun in Libra septile Saturn and septile Jupiter, illuminating and integrating transformational elements in our lives. Perhaps we've all "seen the light" in some important way, and shifted balance or perspective. These have both been happening simultaneously.
Now that we've been living with Saturn conjunct the South Node for a few weeks and will be until mid-December around the time of Saturn's retrograde station, I thought I'd give a reflection on what I've seen so far. Seems like a perfect Mercury RX thing to do, especially since Mercury is the dispositor of Saturn and thus has something to do with how we view it.
From time to time I figure it's a good thing to reintroduce some articles to readers who may not have had the patience to comb the archives for these gems. Today we have some good ones.
There are many things that are favored while Mercury is retrograde, despite the general opinion that it leads to massive confusion, miscommunication, and things going everywhere and nowhere all at once. Usually the week just before and after the beginning of the period is most difficult for people, and yet if you know how to adjust your sense of timing, you'll see things fall into place in ways you never suspected.
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