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Константин Яковлевич Крыжицкий – Пейзаж
Constantin Kryjitski 1908 {{PD}}
The station of any body, as it prepares to take up apparent contrary direction to its previous path, fosters a lot of tension. Just as we must exert extra energy to stop something already in motion (extra, compared to what it takes to set it in motion in the first place), we find the same symbolic dynamic at work with a planetary station. We feel the drag and resistance, even though no such thing is physically occurring–we feel it grind on a particular natal spot and we wait, poised for the relief (because it will be relief, whether it’s considered ‘good’ change or not).
I don’t want to say we’ve gotten used to the monkey on our backs Merc retrograde has been over the past three weeks, but I think we have, as each day has felt like a week, courtesy of the Piscean placement that disconnects our minds from reality and plugs them in to fears, fantasies, deceptions, making it ultimately impossible to trace where messages and perceptions are coming from–and to be fair, hooking us into our creative potentials, as well. Now, we find ourselves asking, ‘What’s really the smart thing to do, the smart direction to go?’ Our answer involves some misdirection of our attention, a little contrary impetus of our own.
Will your unconscious choose the shock, the surprise, the revelation, to shake you out of your Merc retro doldrums? Or will it be the way relationships defy their usual contours, or finances take a sudden leap in one direction or the other? No matter, one of those options is what we need to jump start our minds, to put that creative energy under conscious control, to sort out just what the hell has been going on around here.
(Mercury stations direct, Pallas sq the Nodal axis, Venus contra-parallel and Mercury semi-sq Uranus)

John James Audubon’s “Carolina Parakeets” 1832 {{PD}}
Today’s word image is a boy who opens a parakeet’s cage, reaches in, grasps the bird, then removes it from the cage, closing the cage door, and releases it. Some might see this as an image of liberation–but how freeing is it to put something out into the world that isn’t equipped to live there? Everyone’s definition of what makes them free is different; just because it doesn’t look like it to you doesn’t mean that someone else’s ties, agreements, subjugation, cooperation aren’t exactly what they need to liberate some other part of themselves–and that suggests: withhold your judgment of someone else’s circumstances. Sometimes we cling because we want to, sometimes because we believe we must, but always in service to a genuine need, even if that need has become as distorted as a thoroughly domesticated bird’s, a creature concerned not about some nebulous freedom, but about surviving in an environment it can handle.

Setting the table for your year ahead. Art by Peter Ilsted {{PD}}
For those born with the Sun at 08 Aries (check your natal chart for your Sun degree!) Some tough emotional conditions this coming year, through to your next birthday, are slated, not to torment you but to shape you so that when the reality picture reshapes itself (which it will for you, relatively soon) you’ll be emotionally ready not just to handle it but to react quickly, appropriately, and to get a significant head start on others because of your newly forged, sturdy emotional nature. That doesn’t mean you’ll be hardened; quite the contrary, you’ll undergo some intuitive fine tuning that will offer you a distinct advantage in your chosen arena. The challenge, then, might be to get your head on straight about the reality situation in that arena, to sort illusion from the facts–a tougher proposition than the emotional one, but necessary if you’re to access the most ‘tuned in’, instinctively astute actions and choices possible.
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Your Mercury Rx–coincides with an article I just read…”New study concludes the brain may just be over-interpreting a lack of information.” The article was about hallucinogenics and the mind, but I can easily align this with Mercury/Neptune in Pisces… as well as alcohol or severe stress. “Understanding what’s happening in the world is a balance of taking in information and your interpretation of that information,” said Niell. “If you’re putting less weight on what’s going on around you but then over-interpreting it, that could lead to hallucinations.” Or perhaps misinterpretation, distraction or cognitive dissonance. The article has a link to the (technical) study, which has a PDF version for download.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/lab-mice-turn-on-tune-in-to-shed-light-on-how-and-why-we-hallucinate/?comments=1&post=37085129
John, an excellent way of describing Merc-Neptune in Pisces, especially considering, as Niell points out, that if we have a stronger inner reality, we collect less externally-derived info–and there’s nothing more human than filling in the blanks ourselves, rather than seeking solid realities–and when we are filling in, we’re fast on the road to over-interpreting, since we’re supplying it all. Thank you for sharing that, and for including the link. Have a great one, John S!
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Hi Julie, I felt the resistance and sought out your post for today to find out why I felt ill at ease. And bingo, there you are with a full description of how I feel. Like wanting to put on the brakes of whatever I run into today and feeling generally irritated. I get that’s on me, but it cleared up a lot when I read your description of today’s energies. Again, thank you! DD
Thank you, Donna–so glad it helped!
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