by Robert Wilkinson
Today we explore the Superior Conjunction of July 16, 2022 at 25 Cancer and what it promises for July, August, and September. This “fusion of life and mind” will impact the rest of the Mercury direct period, as well as the first part of its next retrograde up to the Inferior Conjunction on September 22/23 at 1 Libra just a few hours after the Equinox during Mercury’s retrograde between 9 Libra and 25 Virgo.
All previous superior and inferior conjunction points, as well as Mercury’s retrograde and direct stations, are triggered by subsequent transits long after Mercury was there. This Superior Conjunction will be activated when Venus transits 25 Cancer on August 6/7, and again in a big way when Mars transits 25 Cancer in mid-May 2023!
What’s A Superior Conjunction?
As we covered in part 1, the superior conjunction occurs when Mercury (mind) conjuncts the Sun (life) when in direct motion, while the inferior conjunction is when Mercury (mind) conjuncts the Sun (life) when Mercury is retrograde. Each operates as a fusion of Life and Mind, but in each “Mind moves in a different direction.”
When either conjunction happens, it indicates that signals, messages, and ideas from either outer sources or subconscious sources will fuse with the life principle. This sets the tone for the lessons involving how our minds are relating to our lives during the weeks which follow the inferior conjunction.
Since its last retrograde, Mercury in direct motion has been moving faster than the Sun. It has now caught up to the Sun and making a “superior conjunction,” beginning a several week period when mind will race ahead of life, heralding things to come when the Sun transits the span Mercury will show us over the next few weeks. The degree of any superior conjunction shows how our perceptions have caught up with our lives, which can bring forth a new expression of our light.
The Sabian Symbol for the Superior Conjunction
The Solar-Mercurial degree symbol for the Superior Conjunction falls at 25 Cancer, and it is said that the third third (decan) of any sign deals with the individual and spiritual levels of life. Being the third decan of Cancer, it has a sub-influence of Pisces with an additional dose of the Moon. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.
The symbol for the 25th degree of Cancer is “A dark shadow or mantle thrown suddenly over the right shoulder.” In the original Jones notes published in The Astrology of Personality, Rudhyar says this is a degree of the “support of unconscious elements in every fearless and positive stand of the ego” and “restoration of strength; or self-discovery.”
We are told in the Astrological Mandala that this degree symbolizes “the response of spiritual forces to the integration of personality through positive will-full endeavors.” We are told that when we use “will and positive imagination” in facing our life issues, we are given “a pentecostal descent of power” in the form of grace or “Providential assistance” which can make us leaders of some sort in our society.
He states that this symbol shows us “a more transcendent expression of ‘success,’” which isn’t necessarily external success, “but a spiritual response, a sign of inner strength and uncommon endowment.” He says this degree falls in the Span of Ingenuousness in the Act of Stabilization, and is the ultimate degree in the Scene of Consolidation on the emotional, social, and cultural level.
Dr. Jones says this is a degree of “the irrevocability” of our obligation to our reality, with a focus on our “capacities of leadership as a revelation of racial stewardship” in a personal or spiritual way. He continues that “self-expression here is a release of (our) inner potentialities, and it becomes both an individual gratification and an expanding responsibility to all other individuals making up the social complex.”
He gives us the keyword DESTINY. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree is “some dramatic manifestation of genius vital to the general welfare of (everyone).”
Given the themes of this degree, we'll use the ”fusion of life and mind” through the next Inferior Conjunction to see the Light of destiny as a spiritual response to our willingness to accept a mantle of power in some way because we all are stewards of a spiritual promise to be fulfilled. This fusion of Life/Light and Mind requires that we become aware of “an expanding responsibility” of a spiritual nature in the house where we have 25 Cancer. Because of where it falls in the sequence, it is the culminative degree which consolidates our life so that our genius for leadership can come forth.
The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames
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And now, back to the Superior Conjunction!
Who Leads the Great Light Now That Mercury is Ahead of It?
At this conjunction, Mind is no longer following Life, trying to catch up to it. Now Mind races forward as herald, catching glimpses of knowledge, perception, and understanding that shows us where Life is headed in the near future.
When Mercury outraces the Sun and moves ahead of it, it no longer "leads the light." Now "Life" leads "Mind" even as Mind blazes the trail the Light will follow these next few weeks. This is the time when we stretch out into the future, with a period of looking back beginning mid-September at the next Mercury retrograde.
In this chart, since Mercury no longer leads the Sun, as noted we now have Venus at 29 Gemini as “the entry to the Light” This will last until the next Inferior Conjunction at the Equinox, except when the Moon is between Venus and the Sun. With Venus as the entry to the Light, take every opportunity to weave the various threads of your life and understanding into the structure of the unique song you are here to sing.
As Venus is at 29 Gemini, find techniques to externalize your “beautiful and valuable” discoveries, focus on the themes of the current Superior Conjunction at 25 Cancer, and don’t overthink things but rather just sing your song fragments until a whole song presents itself. This gives valuable ideas and communications, and marks a turning point in our Aries, Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio sectors through the powerful Venus septile Mars. Zones most affected include 6-10 Taurus, 27 Gemini-1 Cancer, 19-23 Leo, 11-15 Libra, 2-6 Sagittarius, 24-28 Capricorn, and 15-19 Pisces.
Add that Venus is novile Uranus and binovile Jupiter and this will be a highly spiritualized conjunction period with grace and power in the air! The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of the study of how the planets work in sequence.
What’s Ahead?
This Superior Conjunction can fuse foresight and life experience to see how new forms of light, life, and perspectives can come forth these next few weeks. Because this “fusion of life and mind” takes place at 25 Cancer, we enter a time of moving forward into a decisive future and fulfillment on the emotional and social levels of life leading us to spiritual power. Because Cancer is associated with the archetype of the Innocent/Primal, if there’s any question about whether a given experience is a granting of power, regard it as a new element of your personality learning how to reorient toward accepting divine power to utilize in a greater good.
This will give us a chance to articulate our Light fused with “the Guide of Souls” to find how we can become the leadership potential we ARE, expressed with a willingness to stand for what we believe in as we are bathed in Divine Light. The house this conjunction falls in shows where Mind now leads Life, and will open doors of perception wherever it falls, with many things “coming together in the Light of Mind.
We can now accept our leadership potential as part of our life tool kit, and see a new level of spiritual integration in our purpose. Our Higher Self is both a guide and a protection when we reference it rather than externals or inner fears and assumptions. We now begin a period of unifying the “emotional and rational elements of self” by accepting a “mantle of power” which can align our outer life with our inner purpose.
As mentioned before, we will experience manifestations of this “descent of divine power” after Venus transits this degree, with a huge activation when Mars crosses it early next year. For now, this “fusion of Life and Mind” at 25 Cancer sets a platform of new discoveries, new understanding, and new focus in the house where this conjunction occurs in our charts. In blending these principles we will see a shift in our affairs, attitudes, and understanding about those things symbolized by Mercury in Cancer. These will open us to a heightened feeling-awareness as part of the larger transfiguration process in play this year and next as we dance at the intersection of Fate Street and Freewill Street on Eternity Boulevard.
Summing Up
Because this is Life and Mind fusing in Cancer, see it all as the Guide of Souls having experienced the Great Light illuminating the need to accept that we ARE Divine Power here to take the lead in our own Self-realization. From here, even though Mercury will outrace the Sun for the next few weeks, it’s going to begin to slow down in speed, and will go retrograde on September 9 at 9 Libra, beginning a time of review and reflection related to themes involving a technique for re-identifying with that which inspires us emotionally or socially in our process of personal transfiguration. With the aspects in play right now, get clear about who you are and who you aren’t, see the potentials separate from the limiting conditions, and use your power of concentration to focus your Spiritual power., It’s clear we’re all at a fork in the road of our destiny, with many things quickening in the next few weeks.
All significant Mercury events give us a chance to check in with our inner Mercury to make sure we’re listening to its knowledge so we may be guided to our Souls. By how our Mercury works, we are led to the “Active Intelligence” of Divine Mind, or scattered confusion because of the inability of the lower mind to know anything.
As I explained in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, Mercury’s duality is “Life/Death,” so we can get a new look at how our consciousness and responses are either creative, destructive, or both, to cite the venerable Kabalistic Arhat Paul Foster Case. Mercury is where we learn if our mental processes are creating chaos and disorganized scattered conditions through ambivalence, and thus come to see how to use discernment to coordinate various functions to bring forth perfect knowing how to do whatever needs to be done. Understanding its influence as a factor for weeks to come is crucial to the smooth operation of what moves forward from here.
Because we’ll be dealing with Mercury retrograde energies beginning August 21 when it enters its shadow zone beginning at 25 Virgo, you should also take a look at the appropriate chapters in my book A New Look at Mercury Retrograde. You can find out all you need about the coming Mercury Retrograde in Libra and Virgo or any other sign, as well as the houses it occupies in your chart. Of course I'll give you a lot more about the coming retrograde in early September.
Here's the Amazon link to where you can order your paperback edition of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde. You can also find it on Kindle. It’s a great reference source where you can check out possible ways the coming Mercury retrograde effect could play out between September and October 2022.
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