I just recorded a Podcast on the upcoming Mercury Retrograde which looks to be a DOOZY!
Mercury Stations Retrograde on June 26th but he entered front end shadow THIS MORNING. So from now until June 26th we want to PAY ATTENTION- the Universe always gives us previews about what the Underworld phase incoming is going to ask of us ;)
From June 26th to July 2nd we have Mercury Station Retrograde (on the 29th) in DOUBLE SQUARE TO ERIS- the Goddess of Discord and Chaos!!! Put a big red circle around this time on your calendar. Not a great time to travel- but also all manner of other things can be impacted (listen to the Podcast for the full download).
Earlier today I posted my Lunar Insight on the New Moon in Gemini exact this Sunday. This New Moon is Unaspected by any traditional Planets- and the only aspect it does make is a sextile to Eris! Gemini is ruled by Mercury- so both the Lunar Cycle and the Mercury Retrograde Cycle have Eris acting as Threshold Gatekeeper !!!
Dates and Sabian Symbols for Station degrees are below.
Tune in in Podcast player above :)
Blessings…
~Harmony
ART- made for me by Suzy Farmer <3
MASTERCLASS ON ERIS- https://divineharmony.com/eris-the-guiding-archetype-of-the-21st-century/
MERCURY DATES-
ENTER FRONT SHADOW- 6/12 (around 6:32am when hits 16’18 Cancer)
RETROGRADE- 6/29- 26’15 Cancer
DOUBLE SQUARES TO ERIS- 6/26 and 7/2
SUN MERCURY RX- 7/12- 20’42 cancer (7/12-18 sun triggers mercury RX, then eris)
DIRECT STATION- 7/23- 16’18 cancer (sextile venus 7/24- 16’20 virgo)
EXIT BACK SHADOW- 8/6 around 9:30pm (last square to eris is that day 4:04pm MDT)
MAJOR ERIS THEME-
6/26-7/2- Mercury Stations RX 6/29 in double square to Eris
7/22 Eris stations Retrograde, 7/23 Mercury stations Direct - luckily Mercury sextiles Venus in Virgo
8/6- last Mercury square to Eris 4:04pm - literally 5 hours later Mercury exits shadow!!!
So we have strong Eris themes at the Station Retrograde, at the midpoint Sun/Mercury conjunction, at the Station Direct and on Solar Lughnasadh when the last square happens and hours later we exit back end shadow
SABIAN SYMBOLS
by Dane Rudhyar
RETROGRADE STATION DEGREE (6/29)
PHASE 117 (CANCER 27°): A VIOLENT STORM IN A CANYON FILLED WITH EXPENSIVE HOMES.
KEYNOTE: A confrontation with a social upheaval demanding the reconsideration of static values.
The deeper implications of the scene depicted in the symbol are that the socio-cultural elite can always see its position and security challenged by forces beyond its control, even if it may be successful in protecting itself from destruction. The individual may not be able to depend on the standards and values he has acquired through education and through a relatively sheltered and rich life. He has to rise to the occasion, and perhaps to undergo an inner metamorphosis as a result of the crisis he has been able to accept as a personal challenge.
The contrast between the two first phases of this twenty-fourth sequence is evident: peace in luxury and intellectual development in terms of collective cultural values (reading books), then the challenge to meet a crisis situation produced by uncontrollable karmic forces that could lead to a successful CATHARSIS.
DIRECT STATION DEGREE (7/23)
PHASE 107 (CANCER 17°): THE UNFOLDMENT OF MULTILEVEL POTENTIALITIES ISSUING FROM AN ORIGINAL GERM.
KEYNOTE: The life urge to actualize one’s birth potential.
What is pictured here is simply the process of germination. As it unfolds from the sundered seed the plant pierces the crust of the soil and reaches up toward the light. This is a dynamic process turned outward, in contrast to the more static or introspective process of integration-through- understanding depicted in the preceding symbol.
Germination is the crucifixion of the seed. The seed becomes the germ, just as the Tibetan student meditating silently and peacefully on the Mandala is followed by the Christian Crusader - and, at a materialistic level of productivity, by the engineer-technologist intent upon transforming the globe for the greatest possible enjoyment of the greatest possible number of human beings.
As usual, the second stage of the five-fold sequence establishes a contrast with the first. Action polarizes meditation. The expanding process of self-actualization — which may mean nothing more than ego-expansion through conquest — contrasts with the introspective study of the structural relationship between, and the meaning of, the various energies and potentialities of one’s nature (svarupa in Sanskrit).
The Keyword is GROWTH.
