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☿ mercury ☿

Aries mercury ~ the mind of mars learns through visualization; it is through action and motion that the senses are stimulated. mental explosions; ideas are immediately verbalized and the head is afflicted with pains from sensitivity and reactivity to the immediate environment; in extremity, this is war ravaging through the mental faculties. communicative abilities are direct, genuine, inventive, passionate, witty and immediate reactions are set-off in the light of the ego. a pioneering mind venturing onward inspirationally, pointing towards new beginnings

Taurus mercury ~ tree roots wrapped around the brain sprouting into blossoms; shows a grounded, firm, unchangeable, traditional, but obstinate mind like that of roots but also an artistic, poetic, youthful and musical kind of old soul like that of the angelic Venusian blossoms, that learns best through the worldly senses of taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing, savoring life experiences with underlying nostalgia. 

Gemini mercury (☿) ~ thoughts and words come and go breathlessly and as fleetingly as rapid heartbeats, matching the swift fluttering of butterfly wings and the quick godly travel of hermes. the mind is keen, curious, clever, intellectual, versatile and overly alert causing restlessness and inconsistency. The speech and approach to others is friendly, animated, humorous and lively, and the transmission of messages from this position reflects a mind driven by logic rather than intuition as well as an urgency for connectivity and an endless quest for learning. childlike wisdom rests here, where there is always a critical questioning of “why” and a constant activation of creative cerebral surges.

Cancer mercury ~ the mind is receptive, nocturnal, emotional, reflective, and is working through an instinctually subconscious level that reacts with immediate feelings. Reality is distorted in magical moonlight, casting nostalgia, moodiness, and nighttime paranoia but gifts the mind with imagination, mother’s comforting soul words and a psychic sense. the lunar mind learns well through absorbing and listening to others. the memories are coated with wistful and bittersweet emotions that come alive with every instant experience.

Leo mercury ~ the heart is intertwined with the brain, making the words true, lively, loving and passionate. solar flares endow the speech with golden words and the mind with creativity and a vivid perception of reality. The sun seldom has a shadow, yet it certainly does cast one; although this position is prone to being domineering, willful, and self-concerned, the solar spirit is proud, dignified, free-spirited, warm, idealistic and glistening with theatrical displays of creative radiance. 

Virgo mercury (☿) ~ the cerebral nerves become focused in this earthy domain, yet there is an nervousness over detail; the eyes are equivalent to magnifying glasses that see what another doesn’t. The trickster nature of mercurial hermes burdens this position with repetitiveness, nitpick, fret and hypersensitivity yet blesses the mind with a thought trend that is cleverly witty, practical, alert, investigative, intellectual, systematic and analytical. The maiden’s voice is kissed with medicinal messages, where healing powers drip  from their words and into another’s broken soul lining. The communication is swift and sharp yet shy and timid at first and the native learns well in any given environment if the concentration isn’t imposed with anxiety tugging at the nerves.

Libra mercury ~ the grasping of reality mimics the justice of the scales; there is an ability to detach oneself from emotional undertones, an internal urge to defend the weak-willed, and an ability to calculate the world through several perspectives. The judgment is clear, diplomatic, impartial and the mind is buzzing with dreamy idealism, aesthetic sense, and able to synthesize oppositions and disputes to middle ground if vacillation is overcome. Makes for a charming and witty chatterer, spilling Venusian sweet song for others to hear.

Scorpio mercury ~ the mind is powerful, sharp, and perceptive of all things unknown working as the master psychologist of the soul. thought course is intensely secretive, willful, intrigued, suspicious, fiercely acute, obsessive, over critical and possesses an intelligent sixth sense. holds unyielding convictions and uses interrogations and investigation to pierce through boundaries and delve into the matters of the psychological, metaphysical, occult and esoteric research. 

Sagittarius mercury ~ the spirit has direct contact to the Superconscious through cosmic wisdom, treading through the waters of the universe on a dreamy pilgrimage, the mind filled with shooting stars. The currents of thinking and communication are expansive, moral, skeptical, insightful, inspiring and knowledgeable. The mind is often directionless, impatient and disconnected from the world but sincere, honest and filled with infinite understanding.

Capricorn mercury ~ the messages of hermes are filtered through the child of time where one is reticent in sharing ancient knowledge held firmly in the mind. Saturn weighs heavy upon the perception causing one inclined to intolerance, criticism of the self and others, and sullen sternness as well as an unwilling awareness of one’s own mortality, anxieties and fears. and yet through Saturn the fashion of thought becomes methodical, efficient, logical, disciplined, dignified, concentrative and ultimately crystallized, where the seagoat’s unrest becomes definite and clear from reaching the mountain tops, in due course spawning entry into the sky and beyond.

Aquarius mercury ~ the mind proves to be on a futuristic wavelength where one thinks outside the box, through the box, behind the box, between the box and so forth. There is a inclination to progressive societal matters, making the character good-natured, equal and universal. Uranian electrical currents presents the mind with surges of innovative concepts, intelligent comprehension, brilliant analysis, quick thinking, witty remark, and resourceful intuition yet may destabilize the mind with the spirit of the mad scientist, where ideas and perception are incomprehensible, offensively shocking, temperamental, fleeting and willfully intuned with one’s own perception as opposed to others. 

Pisces mercury ~ perception of reality is seen through a dewy gaze beneath the sea’s surface, where the thought shift is molded into a beautiful mist of imagination, empathy, sensitivity, psychic receptivity, and adaptability of environment. The way of speech is poetical, wistful, and mysterious yet conversely, it is paranoid, misunderstood, vague and unclear. Reasoning abilities are not strong here as the mind works through the emotions and extreme instinctual receptors. Neptunian waters can fill the mind with wakeful dreams where one is inclined to escape into the subconscious womb and yet also creates a visionary trend, where one is inclined to hopefulness, compassion and unlocking healing powers. 

In the golden light, I wait for you….

Pleinairpril 9/30. I really love middle eastern architecture. This is Ispahan in Iran, the photo I used as a reference is from  Mohammad Reza Tavajjoh

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

Václav Jirásek - Infection, 2002

Royal Greenhouses in Laeken.Brussels /Belgium.by  P.S. Mildred

Salvador Dalí Tarot Deck Artworks

How to Interpret a Transit

So, when it comes to transits, I recommend you start with the outer planets. In particular, if you want to know what’s going on in your life right now, check Saturn. Then Jupiter, then Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. You can look to the inner planets for info on your mood, or fleeting effects that don’t make a fundamental impact on your life. Mars is sort of in-betweener that it is worth paying attention to just in case it’s up to something.

Step one: The moving planet. I’ve talked a bit about each planet’s transiting effect here so I won’t repeat it in this post. In general, you know when you have a Pluto transit that something transformative will happen. You know with a Jupiter transit that something expansive will happen. This is the nature of the action that will take place. 

Step two: The natal point. This is the point that the transiting planet will share its energy with. It is your natural proclivity that will be challenged or lend its aid to the transit. This is the part of your inner world that is resonating with the transiting planet.

Step three: The natal houses. Where are the planets involved in your natal chart? If the transiting planet is Pluto, for example, in what house is your natal Pluto? In what house is the natal point being transited, as well? Things are not necessarily happening in these houses, but they generally hold the cause or the foundations of the action that will take place. Circumstances in these houses usually lead to the action of the transit.

Step four: The transited house. Here is where the action takes place. The transiting planet will cause a thing to happen in the area of life ruled by this house. The thing that happens, will have the energy of the transiting planet and the natal point. Tough to get more specific than that in a general post, but for example may you have Pluto transiting your Venus. Pluto will cause a transformation to the things ruled by this house, which will be closely related to your loving and aesthetic energy.

Step five: The ruled houses. This is a commonly misunderstood concept. For ruling planets, check the sign of each house. The planet associated with that sign, is the ruling planet of that house. For example, my 2nd house cusp is in Gemini. Mercury rules my second house, though it does not sit there in my chart. Anyway, these houses are where you will see the effects of the transit. When the action is completed in the transiting house, you will see the results in these houses.

Step six: The aspect. Took me long enough to get to this one, huh? In short, a conjunction indicated a change that is personal, that deeply concerns your identity. It also represents both the culmination and the beginning of a cycle. A sextile represents an opportunity that it is up to you to take advantage of. A square represents a challenge that will force you to take initiative, or prove yourself. It may show that your previous course of action was incorrect, or show you areas in which you require change and adaptation. A trine represents the removal of obstacles, a time when things move quickly because the energies involved are so in tune. An opposition represents a confrontation between you and the transiting energy, often in the form of a person. During an opposition, you will be forced to make a decision.

Step seven: Timing. I just wanted to do some quick notes on this that I may expand on later. First of all, with Uranus through Pluto especially, transits will be marked by a direct motion over the point, then a retrograde back, then one last direct motion over it before it moves on. The first direct motion will set up the issue, the retrograde back will be when it becomes most personal to you, then the last direct motion over will be the wrapping up of the issue, the introduction of the conclusions.

Times of contact with the same natal point involving both an outer planet and an inner planet may also be flashpoints for the overall lesson of the transit. Definitely keep your eye out for these, as they may indicate very significant moments in your life.

Well there you have it! As always, feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Remember not to worry about your transits. They just represent life experiences that help us to grow!