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Mercury Rx Call
Welcome the final Mercury retrograde cycle of 2016. It officially begins December 19, 2016 and ends January 8, 2017, but see the larger zone below. We’ll be talking about this on the December Align with the Stars Call, and here, in the comments. For more depth on planetary retrograde cycles, check this short youtube tutorial.
The best approach to Mercury Rx is to review, reconsider, reflect, remake, rewind, redo, and reveal in alignment with the houses Mercury Rx is transiting. This means checking where 28 degrees of Sagittarius to 15 Capricorn lies in your natal chart. Are there any planets or points there? It may well cross two houses. Check that as well.
Out of Bounds
Mercury is Out Of Bounds for much of the Rx cycle. In what way will you push your communications, within yourself, and with others? For more on planets out of bounds of declination, check the post on Parallel Aspects.
By reflecting on the area(s) of life indicated by Mercury’s apparent backward motion, you can make the most creative use of this transit.
Here are some hints on what each house represents. Need help creating your chart and finding where Mercury is traveling? Put your hand up in the comments and we’ll take a look.
Mercury Rx through the houses
This is where you want to contemplate, rethinking your previous ideas, approach or beliefs.
1st house – Appearance, personality traits, outlook on life
2nd house – $$$, resources, talents, peace of mind
3rd house – Teaching, learning, writing, talking, connecting
4th house – Home, family, ancestors, emotional ground
5th house – Creative expression, offspring (books/kids etc), romance
6th house – Health, pets, daily routine, magic
7th house – Socially significant relationships, contracts
8th house – sex, death, taxes, shared resources, trust
9th house – New horizons, travel, beliefs, WWW
10th house – Career, mission, profession, public relations
11th house – Friends, goals for the future, groups
12th house – unconscious, dreams, giving and receiving, meditative states
Remember Mercury Retrograde is not a time to push forward until you reTHINK your goals and actions. AFTER the 8th of January, the energy starts to free up and move forward at a better clip, but the Zone is from December 1, 2016 to January 27, 2017.
Mercury Rx Zone
This starts on December 1st (EST). Of course you still move forward with projects, ideas and proposals, but you do it with more awareness. Think: willingness to change.
Remember Mercury Rx is Trickster energy.
The trickster comes along when we are stuck, feeling trapped, or out of touch with authenticity of SELF. When we get into such a state, sooner or later the Trickster will blow the doors and windows open so we can breathe fresh air again.
In the sign of Capricorn, the trickster turns our deepest, most powerful ambition upside down, so we can get ourselves correct.
Where is this happening in your chart?
See Align with the Stars December Call for details.
December 13, 2016
LA – Tuesday – 2pm
NY – Tuesday – 5pm
Lon – Tuesday – 10pm
SYD – Wednesday – 9am
We will be talking about Mercury Retrograde – December 19th to January 8th – between the degrees of 28 Sagittarius and 15 Capricorn. This is the area of your chart we will explore, finding the best ways to leverage this Rx energy.
Sorry to hear about the sore foot Quilly, is it healable?
(should totally be the response you are expecting right?) If someone is going to stop talking to you because of a gimpy ankle, then, you know …
Or, you could get him to wheel you around the gallery in a wheel chair and pretend the whole time you’re royalty? 😉
While my computer is letting me, I’ll take the opportunity to share a risky bit of communication I had with my friend Pete (his chart was on the old gva site) … We’ve been texting/talking for a long time and he’s been after me to visit a museum when he comes to the Bay Area. I have demurred, because of my gimpy ankle, which makes walking painful. But today I finally got up the courage to confess this disability and am now waiting to see if he will continue our daily conversations or suddenly disappear. If Mercury is fueling my urge to spill the beans is this influence benign or tricksterish? Did I shoot myself in my already injured foot?
This makes me think of your Mars in Aquarius, right? Aqua rules the ankles. I agree with Shell. If there is any skipping of beats because you have an injury, well, phft!
Sorry I didn’t transfer his chart. Send it to me and I’ll pop it into the gallery. I am remembering Gemini.
Here’s Pete’s Natal. 🙂
Looks to me like someone who might find wheeling you around a museum very amusing!
I’m still google eyes over his Jupiter/Sun/Mercury/Mars on your Venus, Quilly. What does that feel like? Yowza!
Merc is going retro in my 6th, but crosses back into the 5th. And I’m looking at buying a flat! Began seriously investigating a specific option when Merc entered the shadow zone, and have been doing a lot of due diligence and am now at the point where I need to decide or not, for my own headspace firstly, and also because I don’t want to lead them on anymore. So probably signing a contract right on the retro … oh well. It’s ticks all of my, some quite specific, boxes, and a couple other of things have come together that makes it work.
Funnily at the same time, potential date going AWOL. So focusing on due diligence in the 6th and relaxing about 5th house for now.
Shell, that’s so exciting! Really cool focus and expansion. Especially with the wisdom gained from Saturn having just been through your 4th.
Signing a contract isn’t inherently taboo on Mercury Rx. It just means you may be rethinking aspects of the deal, or their could be delays or changes. You do want to read the fine print though. Neptune heading for your moon could be the sanctuary of your dreams. Just have the financing (8th house) double checked by trusted legal genius.
Saturn in the 5th is ‘serious love’ making me think that you won’t want to waste time on anyone who doesn’t have potential. (When did we ever?)
I have this Rx in my 5th, just edging up to my NN at 15 (17 mean) Capricorn and back over Mars and to the 4th. I have a contract that may need signing before January. We’ll see! It’s a creative project … Of course. 🙂
I popped your natal chart in the gallery as I didn’t seem to have transferred it over!
How did I suddenly become EnchantedFalconKim in the above I have no idea!
Pretty excellent unintended rename though!
Yeh, it’s been pretty interesting to think through, and also realise how much I know about what I want in this space, what the risks are etc. The sales chick complimented me on all the questions I was asking, construction techniques etc – that they usually only get from lawyers.
It’s an off the plan situation – so plenty of time to rethink deals and for delays. Inherently I think there’s aways going to be some rethinking attached to this kind of purchase, so maybe merc retro is the perfect time to do it.
You’ll like that some of my quite specific boxes were enough space on the balcony for my pottery wheel and to sling a hammock. These are not easy to achieve! 🙂
Going into it with this vibe, I think you can’t lose. And I know Nico will love that spacious patio too.
I’m going to model your Zen approach for my upcoming negotiations/contracts. Anyway, it’s such a long time coming in this case that I am also fine to let things roll slowly and thoroughly.
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The entire event falls neatly in my 6th house and I will be on vacation starting 5PM on the 16th and not going back to work until the new year..A good time to finish the drywall and painting in the bedroom downstairs.
Sorry we didn’t look right at your chart on the call, Fred, but we did talk about this with a caller. 6th house routine repair, yes, and also body nourishment, food, exercise, mind-body-spirit. Ideas?
Haven’t quite figured this out, but the Rx zone began on my 28 Sag Sun/MC midpoint conj asteroid Fortuna — seems like something oughta be up with that! Merc travels back and forth over my 5 Cap Ascendant, meaning I should be paying attention there (rethinking how I present myself?) … It goes direct a couple of degrees before reaching my 17 Cap Venus … I would love it if I were the recipient of a Queen-for-A-Day cosmic makeover! …
On a more macro level, I’m interested in how the Trickster will affect the Electoral College vote on December 19.
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There are more than a few ppl with the Mercury Rx going across the Ascendant, or other angle. I do think some kind of redo is happening. Okay, Quilly, I’ve been in Aus for 35 years. what’s an Electoral College?
Probably time for me to re-watch The West Wing!
Talking points for the call:
1. Mercury OOB
2. The significants of 28 Sagittarius to 15 Pluto
3. Planets and progressions activation
4. Why the trickster?
5. Mercury Rx through the houses
We had a great question from ScorpioMoon which I’ll put in here so I remember to answer it on the call:
“How does a retrograde planet impact a progressed planet? Is there any
significant effect? Because 28° Sagittarius has been a hot zone for most
of the year, would having a progressed planet there and a retrograde
planet touching it = some kind of final message re how the matter unfolds?
A remnant maybe? Or are progressions more future oriented?”
Here is Jeannette’s Progressed Chart which will be relevant for this question.
Reckon this is going to be a significant Mercury retrograde… completing this year of endings, in preparation for 2017 ~ an exciting year of New Beginnings. As a Mercury ruled girl (Sun and ascendant)… and in the midst of house selling/inspections/contracts, I sort to find the gems… the pearls and diamonds ~ the gifts, the clarity, the total trust in the vision. This is going to be a very cool ride… feel it in my Capricorn bones ~ thanks Kim <3
I agree it’s a significant Mercury Rx. There’s an unraveling happening, when Mercury moves back through earth and into fire. The direction is very ‘counter clockwise’ for us and we’ll be talking about why on the call. (Align with the Stars, 13th/14th). Hope to see you there!