7 posts tagged “mercury”
Perez Hilton and I have one, apparently. Yeah, wouldn't have figured I have anything in common with him, but...
Here's where I see his snarky attitude - Saturn and Neptune hooked up to Mercury and Venus. Neptune isn't mean, but it's imaginative, foggy, deceptive. Saturn can be mean and/or sarcastic when linked to Mercury as here - this is the circuit which feeds his writing style.
Yeah...people would agree with this about me too. I am one snarky biyotch. But without a gossip site.
This is great! Okay, not the bullying, but the analysis.
Anyone who really feels their power and prowess (MARS) has no need to batter people. That right there is a statement of fact. So I would say when you meet a bully they have a Mars problem.
Next, if you have self esteem, you’ve not reason to harm another person’s self esteem so my guess is Mars in hard aspect to one the personal planets, most like the Sun. But this does not mean everyone with Mars square their Sun is a bully!
Saturn in aspect to Mars is frustrating for the individual and may also create a bully but you cannot take this for granted. As an example, the soldier has Saturn in aspect to his Mars and he hunts bullies and tyrants.
I would say a person who gets bullied has similar aspects as the person who bullies, the lesson being you must learn to stand up for yourself.
I am a person who get bullied (to an extent) and when I stand up for myself I get bullied some more. I also get support so here again it smacks of Saturn / Mars.
As for how someone bullies, an internet bully would have Mars associated with Mercury (communication) or perhaps Pluto because they are anonymous. Mars in hard aspect to the Moon might attack women exclusively… etc. You get the idea.
Another one of those aspects I have...apparently, a quincunx here isn't too negative, for a change. The bolded stuff are issues for me lately.
- "Mercury mashed with Uranus is a signature of genius and while ideas are typically fleeting, you;d be well advised to pay them."
- "This aspect is an opportunity to become more conscious, to push your ideas beyond past limits. You realize that you can control your thoughts, and this helps to free your mind to think on your terms. Anxiety that surfaces now can be understood at its root level-- and seen from a more detached, objective perspective, it can be released.
If you take your identity from the groupmind and can only stick to their "talking points", you can find yourself stuck in a non-growth situation. If you find yourself constantly criticizing or feeling criticized, this could be a clue that you're preventing yourself from moving forward. It could be time to stop over thinking. Get out of your head! Find safe ways to open to your authentic self so you can be present and participate."- "Do you ever enjoy seeing the shocked looks you get from others when you blurt out something totally off the wall? You just may, with the planet of rebelliousness meeting your communication planet. Or, it's quite possible that this manifests simply as a lack of tact, which is not necessarily intended on your part. You can excel at anything where verbal skills and intelligence are necessary, although you may have to develop them."
- "The new and unusual things that occur to you may carry you far from the basic needs of your everyday life. Good ideas do not necessarily require you to act immediately to bring them about. Positive innovation will require you to alter yourself and your basic habits before you will see much change in the world or your environment."
- "Knowing what to incorporate what is unusual or different is into your intellectual development experiences can be difficult with Mercury quincunx to Uranus. It's like trying to keep up with the fast-paced changes in technology- you may feel that you're always a little behind. But you're not running a race! You're seeing ways to express your unique ideas and inventive concepts so that they are understandable, acceptable, and useful. Learning how to deal with your need for distraction is important, since you may never get anything finished if you changes horses in midstream too often."
What makes you worry? Virgo + Mercury conjunct Saturn.
And speaking of fear and Saturn, here's a really kickass piece on Saturn.
"If you want the nitty-gritty on someone, where they live, but prefer not to, you need to take a look at their Saturn points. Saturn in your natal chart, a planet in Capricorn, the house that has Capricorn on the cusp, are the places where we experience fear and loathing. Like a scary scene in a horror movie we hide our faces so we don’t get too freaked out.
Where the Taskmaster holds court is where Daddy didn’t love us enough, where we fear we don’t measure up. Because of the fear factor, it is also the place where we can fail to see important truths about ourselves.
I recently had a conversation with someone about their Saturn. I made a comment about their Saturn qualities, that they were an important resource. “Can you explain that? the person said, “I feel like I’m missing something here.”
Exactly.
Its not as if we don’t get the point, we don’t want to look at the point in the first place. The first messages we receive from Saturn are filled with so much pain we avoid then as much as possible."
I love it when they say, "Don't start anything in MR!" We start SCHOOL here during MR.
My transit at that time was transiting Saturn conjunct Mercury in Pisces and I had a big decision to make about a liquid. My little sister had just been born, too. It was 1965. The Vietnam War was gaining more and more momentum, Bob Dylan had just released "Like A Rolling Stone", the Beatles had just performed the first stadium concert at Shea Stadium, and I was sitting at a Catholic kindergarten deciding between chocolate and white. I was very aware I was too young to grow up, but I had to.
The nun finally got to me. I said white out of terror. I could not imagine a world where I would be allowed to drink chocolate milk every day.
Tomorrow, Mercury will conjunct Saturn at 9° Virgo. If any nuns come up to you and try to force any long term, high impact, life decisions, I say pour yourself a glass of chocolate milk. It may be that we will make some long term decisions tomorrow and I suggest we decide with love instead of fear.
Persephone's Ransom. (I don't think this is a permalink, so I'm gonna copy and paste a lot of this.)
Living in the Mother’s Shadow
Everyone’s got to get out on his or her own eventually, no matter how well-meaning mom or a maternal figure might be in trying to protect us.Betrayal by the Father
Sometimes, a father or father figure arranges circumstance for us that feels like a betrayal. This usually manifests as one of those “They believe they know what’s best for us” deals about which we get pretty miffed.The Necessity of Abduction
No one grows up if they never grow up.
A. What Happens if You’re Not Abducted
Life gets boring and you have to do abduct yourself to save yourself from wasting away in the least exciting kind of life you can imagine.
B. What Happens if You’re Abducted
Everything changes…forever. You’re more mature, whether you welcomed the circumstances that got you there or not.
Oh lord, this not abducted thing is a big issue for me right now....
Yeah, I hear that out of people ALLLLLLLLLL THE TIME.
What We’re Learning When We Play Persephone
We-as-Persephone are learning about maturity, both in what is perceived to be mature and how one goes about being mature. Other people’s opinions, hopes and dreams about the development of the courses of our lives cease to matter when we begin identifying as adult agents in charge of our own lives. Living a Persephone story means at times finding out that what others opine, hope and dream about and for us just won’t cut it, and we have to figure out how to strike out on our own.
What you want for yourself is highly likely at least moderately more exciting and interesting to you than what a protector figure could have in mind for you. But the real point is that your idea of yourself and your life, and what you’d like to do with each, is yours. We can persist in doing what the protector figures would for whatever reasons prefer we do, and yet we’re not then living our own lives.To Persephone’s Aid
So, then, with the Persephone chapters in our lives, we’re talking about becoming self-determining adults, or self-reliant in a new way or to a greater degree. For some of us it’s harder than for others, and when we see the harder kind of story being lived by someone, it’s important to let go of judgments we might have about where they should be and what they should be doing. Part of assisting anyone to reach new levels of maturity is in becoming grounded in a healthy understanding that sometimes the best help we can give others is to limit the assistance we offer either in type, range or availability.
Since Persephone stories are about self-determination and embracing new attitudes of self-responsibility and -reliance, we can sometimes wonder how to help someone get through a sticky Persephone story. We can watch people linger a few inches before taking much-needed steps into self-reliance and maturity, with that foot into the future hovering hovering hovering…and it can drive us nuts to watch them do what we think is waste time and energy by not moving into the kind of future they clearly would rather be living.
For me, it's in Aries 16, 6th house, conjunct Mercury/Eris and opposite Pluto (hah hah).
Persephone Astrologically
Houses
Where your Persephone (asteroid 399) falls is where this dialogue plays itself out. In what arena of life will (should) your abduction occur? What are you hoping to be initiated into so you can feel more real, alive and fulfilled? Where could you use a self-love kick in the pants into maturity? Check yours out by house, sign and aspect. The house will indicate the arena of life one part of you may tend to remain perpetually puerile, the part of life you may perceive you need someone else to abduct you into a rich, full and more relevant experience.
See, this to me is part of the problem. What ties me here, to my mother, is responsibility, duty, and service. Feeling like to some degree I am (and am supposed to be) "in charge" of her. That I am obligated to her. And don't forget that I got raised to serve, serve, serve her. I'm not good at it, mind you, but in my family, WOMEN SERVE. That's why you're here. I've never fit with this at all (my feminine planets are all hammered), but I feel like I should WANT to sacrifice myself because "I love you soooooooooo much." Because supposedly my mother would do that for me, right?
6th house- Responsibility, duty, service, analytical awareness and related action
(Her behavior of late isn't acting like that, mind you...)
Blech.
I don't see this as wanting to be initiated into responsibility. I have too much of this. I want to be abducted FROM it.
Not sure what to say to this. God knows I'm being more direct and assertive with her...it just doesn't get anywhere. Especially when she forgets or "forgets" the argument you had and then things go back to the way they were. I don't know what the hell it is- she never had a fabu memory, could be early Alzheimer's (we don't get it early in the family, but dementia is around big time in a few more decades), could just be "menopause brain" (which is what it currently gets chalked up to). But one way or another, the reset button sure gets a smackin'.
Signs
Your Persephone sign shows the method and motivation of this part of you. It’s the mode of being into which you might be waiting to be abducted and, if no one shows up, you’ll eventually see that you have to take responsibility for on your own.Aries- directness, assertiveness, protective, boldness, bravery
So mentally I'm merging with chaos...well, that's a constant :P
The last bit is aspects. Aspects to your Persephone tell of the dialogues in your psyche she’s engaged in with other energies in your consciousness. Conjunctions indicate merging, sextiles trigger and stimulate, squares apply friction and pressure needing release, trines support and boost, and oppositions confront and challenge to face-offs.
I'm amused that Persephone is opposite Pluto. Doesn't sound good for the love life, does it? Or maybe it's fitting, given that historical pairing. Or fitting that every time I have a boyfriend, I'm stuck in the middle between a mother/boyfriend faceoff.
Back to the astrology...um, yeah, that pretty much amounts to opposing sides and war. Oh, there's that Eris again. Hah hah. Sometimes astrology is so literal.
The Ceres-Persephone Dialogue
For kicks: Understanding the dialogue between your Ceres (asteroid 1)
I guess technically mine are square (Ceres is at 22 Cap, 3rd house). Oh, wait, that puts it at square Pluto too...ASTROLOGY IS SO LITERAL!
Not sure what to make of this part.
and Persephone will also shed light on how your internal wiring related to this story is configured. The statement that Ceres makes is one of protection of others at the expense of risking living a rich, full life. The statement that Persephone makes is of wanting to be launched into new ways of being, those that provide her with opportunities to function as her own agent and thereby live with and from a greater feeling of wholeness. Look at the symbolism of each asteroid in your natal chart to uncover a new level of dialogue between these two parts of you, even if they’re not in aspecting each other. Hint: Your Ceres is where you might look after others before yourself, and your Persephone is where you might hope someone else might show you how to become self-determined.
In astrology the asteroid Persephone is listed as being number 399 in the asteroid scale. Where she shows up in our natal chart can be a place we look at to see and discover for ourselves where we feel taken captive and where we feel we have not been allowed to be ourselves.
Persephone’s placement in our houses can show us where we are afraid to take charge, and afraid to assert ourselves. It is where we give our power away to others, or it was taken from us by force. It is where we ask others we consider more powerful than we are to make our decisions for us and take care of us. In essence it is where we hoodwink ourselves and allow ourselves to be taken underground.
Sixth House: we may not stand up for ourselves in the workplace;
