Merc rx in Aquarius — connecting the inner self with the outer world

In an earlier post, I summarised Eric Francis’ themes for Mercury retrograde in Aquarius as a reminder to ourselves ‘to get in touch with our own humanity that we may thus get in touch with the collective’. Robert Wilkinson expresses it in more grounded terms, but the main themes are there.

 

Battle of the techno titans

It is perhaps no coincidence that the biggest news in the technological world is announced while Mercury (news) is retrograde in Aquarius (technology), at the point of Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn.

 

Merc rx ++

Pat Paquette of Pisces Chronicles posts an article explaining why she thinks this Mercury retrograde is not going to be an ‘ordinary’ one.

 

Merc rx in Aquarius — challenging norms, exceeding boundaries

Aquarius is a fixed sign, but I’ve always viewed it as the nominal mutable, just like Virgo can seem like the nominal fixed sign. This is because the energy of Aquarius is inventiveness, but it is an inventiveness focussed on individuality, yet expressed in relation not so much to ’society’ as defined by the institutional structures of Capricorn, but to the more fluid sense of a collective humanity. (Famous Aquarians include Virginia Woolf, Abraham Lincoln, and Yoko Ono.)

 

Mercury from the other side

The first pictures of the other side of Mercury, which have never been photographed before, were revealed today. On each of the three occasions space craft had flown past the planet before, ‘the same hemisphere was in sunlight’ ( NASA MESSENGER website).

I can’t imagine more appropriate news on the eve of Mercury retrograde in Aquarius. Uranus rules space travel, as well as technology, which makes space travel possible. Uranus is also the modern ruler of Aquarius. The fact that the new pictures revisit a hitherto unseen part of the planet on previous occasions also resonates with the retrograde, during which events from the past may resurface and be reassessed.

This is the link to other information on the flyby. MESSENGER is a team at NASA dedicated to research on Mercury. I’ll post their link on the Resources page for future reference.