Mercury Stationary Direct Affecting June, July, August, and September 2015 Pt. 1 – Generating Efficient Ideas of Power

by Robert Wilkinson

Mercury goes direct in motion June 11, 3:33 pm PDT, 6:33 pm EDT, 11:33 pm BST, and speeds up for the next 10 weeks. This shows a quickening of the ability to coordinate, put things together, understand the whole and the parts, the process and the larger cycles. It is now stationary at 5 Gemini, affecting that area in our lives for 3 months to come.

Mercury, or Hermes, "the Guide of Souls," is also known as the Divine Trickster, as well as all lesser models. What does Mercury going stationary direct at 5 Gemini hold for us? Perhaps it would be useful to take a look back on what the last Mercury direct station brought us since February 2015.

You will recall that the last time Mercury went stationary direct, it was at 2 Aquarius, promising us all “Nature’s challenge,” and some have had a “cosmic visitation” that has galvanized them into action. That station featured a Moon at 17 Scorpio quintile Mercury, and Mercury septile Mars, sextile Saturn, and quintile Uranus. As Saturn and Uranus were Mercury in Aquarius’ dispositors, a look at the past few months should show some major productivity and more than a few radical turning points!

This Mercury station at 5 Gemini shows some very dynamic aspects! This one has Mercury sextile Venus, quintile Jupiter, semisquare Uranus, and square Neptune. Again, productivity, unique opportunities and openings, with a need to rein in eccentricity and willfulness, and a need to be clear about what roles we are and are not playing. This can bring reform wherever we have Gemini in our charts, and show us a way out of confusion, ambiguity, or ambivalence.

Stationary retrograde and direct points become “hot spots” set into motion by future transits. Interestingly, there are no inner planet conjunctions to this point until May 2016, though we should see significant developments when Saturn opposes this point in November 2015.

Following the usual pattern, this station at 5 Gemini trines the previous direct station at 2 Aquarius this past February. Looking back on previous retrogrades, the October 2014 SRX point at 3 Scorpio trined the June 2014 SRX degree at 4 Cancer, trine to the Feb 2014 SRX degree at 4 Pisces and the same degree as the Nov 2013 SD degree at 3 Scorpio. That entire period from late 2013 through January 2015 gave us opportunities to learn, adapt, and communicate, using the emotional intelligence we cultivated between Summer 2013 and Summer 2014 and facilitated by these Mercury stationary points.

Throughout the past two years, we've activated new responses to the feeling-knowing (emotional intelligence) awakened during the radical shift humanity went through at Winter Solstice 2012. This feeling-knowing was stabilized for good or ill in the Summer of 2013, and should now be a part of our emotional makeup.

Over the past 4 months, due to Mercury’s last direct station at 2 Aquarius, we’ve been glimpsing a greater, broader way to make a contribution to our world through some sort of direct action. We have had to mobilize in some way, rise to some occasion, and weave or re-weave something of our understanding so we could be guided to our Soul using the qualities of 2 Aquarius.

Now we face 4 months of being guided to our Soul using the qualities of 5 Gemini. Again, how we use those realizations to coordinate those into our lives over the next 4 months will show us our way to a deeper connection to our Higher Self and others over the next few weeks.

In any case, we should all start seeing, hearing, and understanding things that point the way to some Mercurial technique of how we have been and continue to be guided to our Soul. Given that it falls at 5 Gemini, it shows us that we’ll understand something about “social propaganda,” and find something we feels need efficient reform.

The Sabian Symbol for Mercury’s Direct Station

The Sabian symbol for the 5th degree of Gemini is “A radical magazine.” As I just mentioned, in the original notes from the Marc Jones class on the symbols, Rudhyar says this is a degree of “the compelling power of social propaganda,” “Exteriorization of emotional sympathy in organized reform,” and “efficiency.”

In the Mandala he goes on to say this is a degree of "the explosive tendency of repressed feelings and root emotions,” and states this symbol is about things being bound tending to explode after a period of time. This is a degree of moving from form into formlessness.

He says this is “the experience of a world of being so far unperceived by the everyday consciousness which starts the process.” He concludes this could lead us “to reach beyond established forms.”

So this degree is about going beyond the known and familiar to reach a state of discovery not perceived before now. He states this degree falls in the Span of Zeal, Act of Differentiation, and Scene of Discovery on the Actional level.

Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “the necessary element of change in human affairs,” and how the “remote” potential “will have its full and functioning part in any immediate reality.” Here we see our power “to give high exaltation and dramatic force to whatever succeeds in stirring (us) deeply within (ourselves.)”

He further states that “the supremacy of inner over outer compulsions” is emphasized here. He offers the keyword TANGENCY. He goes on to state that when operating positively, the degree is “personality in its highly effective capacity for putting its stamp on everything it touches.”

Of note is that this SD degree is the same as the Sun occupied during the Christ Fest Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of May 2013, so clearly the next 4 months will bring ideas, signs, signals, and messages related to that Lunar Eclipse! That also implies that the 2013 world teaching somehow will be front and center via Mercury’s influence these next 4 months, perhaps in some form of renewal of view or understanding. Another possibility is that we shall be able to see what was happening then in ways that show us how we will be moved to act in the near future.

Aspects in the Shadow Zone

We will also be re-tracing our Gemini lessons from now through June 26-27 due to Mercury still transiting its “shadow” span, ie, the span it’s in since it went retrograde at 14 Gemini. Of course there will be residual echoes for the next 14 weeks as well.

Mercury going direct will re-activate many of the aspects it's made over the past few weeks. At various times over the past three weeks, it's made an important conjunction, along with semisquares, noviles, septiles, sextiles, quintiles, squares, and biquintiles with other planets, showing we’ve been getting a full range of experience that has brought inner conflicts, spiritual realizations, turning points, gifts, unique experiences, and created some space in our lives that will be filled with new activities in the very near future.

It now begins to move forward. This direct period is interesting because Mercury immediately makes a strong semisquare to Uranus followed by quintile to Jupiter which continues through the Solstice occurring June 21 at 9:38 am PDT, 5:38 pm BST. The semisquare will put a hard edge on things, so don’t get too wound up or erratic, or thrown off by others being this way.

The quintile to Jupiter will bring high specialization and/or unique gifts and circumstances that bring together the houses where we have Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, as well as influence any planets we have in these signs. The next aspect Mercury makes is the square to Neptune just after the Solstice, but given the Sun and Mars are favorable to Neptune, that square should bring clarity, stability, precision, and vision.

That square will help us redirect the momentum of things, force us to grow or even become more ambitious, and give us the ability to get beyond the shadows created by our limited mental approaches. Just after that, Mercury makes a septile to Uranus, showing an emergent turning point in how we choose to generate and use power on a social level.

Mercury quincunxes Pluto between June 25 through 30 just after it leaves its shadow zone, and then triggers the Grand Irrationality when it triseptiles Pluto June 30-July 2. Major turning point involving all things related to Aries, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio, and Capricorn!! We’ve already tasted that energy in the week before this station, since the Sun and Mars have both made triseptiles to Pluto, as well as biseptiles to Neptune.

In the stationary direct chart, the Sun is exactly biseptile Neptune, so you can bet we’ll be getting information, signs, and signals when Mercury also biseptiles Neptune July 2-4. The 7 “hot zones” of the Grand Irrationality are approximately 13-18 Capricorn, 5-10 Pisces, 26 Aries-1 Taurus, 18-23 Gemini, 9-14 Leo, 1-6 Libra, and 22-27 Scorpio. If you have a planet or angle in any of these zones, the next 4 months will bring you to a turning point in your philosophy, your ultimate ideals, and/or your way of dealing with collective factors in your life.

The great news is that just as Mercury leaves its shadow zone on June 26, we have a very powerful productive and stabilizing energy in play with Mercury chasing a sextile to Uranus through July 2, a sextile to Jupiter through July 3, and a sextile to Venus through July 4. That should make for an extremely productive and harmonious time, since it splits the very harmonious and stabilizing Aries-Leo Fire trine into two productive sextiles. Adapt, learn, express, open, and be versatile in moving between points of view.

Of some importance is that between now and when Mercury leaves its shadow zone, Venus tredeciles Uranus and semisquares Mars, and the Sun and then Mars septile Jupiter, quincunx Saturn, and quintile Uranus. All of these fall in the time span when Jupiter makes an exact trine to Uranus and biquintile to Pluto at the same time Venus biseptiles Saturn. These are extraordinarily powerful aspects that will involve Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto, influencing every sign in the zodiac in very important ways.

Even though Mercury is now direct and not retrograde, the retrograde we’ve just experienced will affect the coming months until the next Mercury stationary retrograde at 16 Libra in mid-September. If you haven’t already gotten your copy, if you want to know more about the qualities of Mercury retrograde in Gemini, Libra, or any other past and future retrogrades in all the other signs and houses, you may want to go over to Createspace.com for a paperback copy, or to the Amazon or Barnes and Noble ebook websites, and get the new 2nd edition of my book A New Look At Mercury Retrograde.

The first major work on Mercury retrograde ever written, it offers in-depth information about Mercury retrograde people, Mercury retrograde in the various signs and houses, and what the entire Mercury Retrograde phenomenon is about.

By knowing more about 2014's Mercury retrograde periods in Pisces/Aquarius, Cancer/Gemini, and Scorpio/Libra, as well as 2015’s Mercury retrograde periods in Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra, you may see patterns in what was going on in your life, what you were taking a new look at and why, and how this "looking back" influenced your choices as you moved through past events.

Here's the link to where you can order your copy of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde to check out possible ways this Mercury retrograde effect could play out over the next 4 months.

In part 2, we'll continue to examine what we can expect over the next 4 months now that Mercury is direct.

© Copyright 2015 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Christy]

Hi Robert,

my solar return is coming up July the 4th and so I wondered, if you choose a Solar Return ascendant that happens to be a Grand Irrationality hot zone... will it make you subject to the Grand Irrationality all year long because of solar return ascendant?

I just wondered as I'm trying to choose a place but I may not go anywhere else.... because it seems like when I try and choose another place all I'm really doing is "trading squares"

thanks!

Christy

[ale tarallo]

Thank you Robert for putting it all in perspective. I just bought the ebook version of 'A New Look at Mercury Retrograde', something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and have to say I love it! Thank you once again for all that you do to help us better understand and navigate these cycles. Saving up for a reading. :)

[j clark]

Hi Robert.

While I was reading your fine article - just at the place in which you talked about the Sabian symbol for a "radical magazine"- I thought of the new ACLU app for I phones; it lets you take a picture of any police brutality going on and transmit it directly to the ACLU...Thanks for everything j

[Robert]

Hi Christy - Well, to me it could mean that sign/decan/degree is a primary quality of the year, and that the year to come would be one of important choices and changes. And of course, subsequent transits to any of the hot zones would trigger that SR ascendant. Changing location doesn't change the aspects, only what houses the planets are in.

Hi Ale - Sure. Glad you got a copy of the book, and thats you're pleased with it. Just email me whenever you want a session. That said, I'm usually booked 4-6 weeks out, so plan accordingly.

Hi J. - Yes, with citizen media and our ability to generate a record of an event in real time, it should stop a lot of the "he said, he said" nonsense when it comes to police shooting innocent people.

[Christy]

hi Robert,

thanks for the reply- and yes I do understand that changing places doesn't change the aspects

That said. my understanding is that when you move the aspects from various houses to another ( by traveling) they then play out in different arenas then they would have originally -

So do you subscribe to that theory?

for example and in the natal chart that I have now I have to angular T squares in houses 1, 10 and 7 ,....but if I travel I can move those squares to 11 2 and 5 I think it is.

But then I still end up with a couple of squares from the 7th house to the Midheaven and one of them's the Sun and the ruler of my 6th house

so it's more a matter of trying to puzzle out which is the lesser of the concerns---

but I just wondered if you subscribe to the theory of switching them to another house can lessen their impact

thanks!

[Robert]

Hi Christy - You don't lessen the impact. You merely change the focus of the impact. And you cannot change anything in the natal by going anywhere. You can change how you learn the lessons of the SR chart, but you cannot avoid those lessons. All SR charts must be looked at with an eye to the SR planets as they rule natal sectors. Also, T squares are integrative. Use them wisely!

[christy]

Thanks, Robert!