Silversong
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Hello AstroWeekly! I am going to try hosting a look at my chart in terms of what it says about my mind! So yes, I will be talking about Mercury a lot, but that's not all I aim to bring to this thread! I'm calling it Nuance Practice because I'm trying to look at a planet (Mercury in this case) in light of more than just the sign and house placement! It's gonna be long, but please consider helping me out!
I was reading the newest book in my collection: Planets in Youth by Robert Hand, and I found myself nodding along a lot at some of his statements regarding the way elemental dominance can affect the perspectives and actions of people, for pretty much all of it except for Air. But that is my weakest element...
What currently stands out to me most, though, is that, even though I am certainly Water/Earth dominant, my Mercury stands up for himself just fine! And really, I am probably much less consciously in-tune with my emotions and physical body than I would be expected to be, because I focus a lot on my thinking and how well I understand things and other cerebral things like that. I typically have the "how do I figure this out? how do I solve this conundrum? I want an answer so I can move on to the next one" and so on and so forth- kind of attitude. Not really good for info retention, though, I'm afraid.
So I wanted to try interpreting my mental process again (because that's not a weird eternal loop, right?! ) with looks at my Mercury's aspects and positioning as well as the weird split between my Mercury's orientation and my Needs (as well as what I gravitate toward- since my Venus and Mars are in Water as well!)
For one, my Mercury occupies one of only two shots of fire in my otherwise very Earth/Water chart (check the house distributions, too! Merc's the only one in a fire house unless you count my Jupiter on the line between 8th/9th). And in light of that, I would like to create a bulleted list of what I know about my Mercury:
In Aries
In the Fifth House
He's my Leading Planet (the one that rises right before the Sun in my chart)
And so, obviously, he rises before the Sun
He's the Apex of my Cardinal T-Square
Mercury only has tense major aspects (no reprieves! )
Mercury is Square Mars in Cancer
And Square my Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn
He's my only Personal Planet in Fire (unless you count all of the Visible Seven as Personal)
And as far as I see myself, and the way I think, I do feel like I'm in my head way more than my heart (even though I'm completely untrained in Formal Logic and I am way more emotive than I used to think I was)
So, what does all that mean?
One of the things I've always related to (and felt surprise from) was the idea that Mercury in Aries makes for a personal identification with one's ideas. I did take ideas and opinions very personally when I was younger, but I've grown to be able to separate myself a bit more from my ideas. I'm still no good at debate though, because I can't separate myself *that* much. So that part of Merc in Aries is out for me (see also: my Merc/Mars square). Thanks to the few times that I've been made to engage in debate in school, I've gotten a bit further along in being able to separate other people's ideas from I perception of them than separating my ideas from myself.
Also, I definitely like to pick up everything I can, as fast as I can, too. Details are a thing I've struggled with in school, but when I force myself to slow down (Sun power!), it's not as much of a hurdle as it used to be. Though, the fact that I'm trying to get into computers... yea, I am probably going to get very frustrated from time to time!
But then, there's the square to Aries' ruler himself! My Mars is hardly amused at being in Cancer, even though he is the 8th house. And with what I understand of Squares, his frustration will tug against my Mercury- meaning that my Martian nature (for well and ill) pulls at my very Mind whether I control/direct it or not. And let me tell you- I fear conflict (despite what my Moon-aspects and all the rest might say), so I am not the one for arguments and the rest! I get mad quickly (Taurus Sun or not!), but I will seethe and stew by myself rather than be upfront about it. So that unhealthy expression (verbal aggression to others) doesn't manifest.
There's more to come (depending on public interest, I suppose), but I'll stop here since this is really long already.
I was reading the newest book in my collection: Planets in Youth by Robert Hand, and I found myself nodding along a lot at some of his statements regarding the way elemental dominance can affect the perspectives and actions of people, for pretty much all of it except for Air. But that is my weakest element...
What currently stands out to me most, though, is that, even though I am certainly Water/Earth dominant, my Mercury stands up for himself just fine! And really, I am probably much less consciously in-tune with my emotions and physical body than I would be expected to be, because I focus a lot on my thinking and how well I understand things and other cerebral things like that. I typically have the "how do I figure this out? how do I solve this conundrum? I want an answer so I can move on to the next one" and so on and so forth- kind of attitude. Not really good for info retention, though, I'm afraid.
So I wanted to try interpreting my mental process again (because that's not a weird eternal loop, right?! ) with looks at my Mercury's aspects and positioning as well as the weird split between my Mercury's orientation and my Needs (as well as what I gravitate toward- since my Venus and Mars are in Water as well!)
For one, my Mercury occupies one of only two shots of fire in my otherwise very Earth/Water chart (check the house distributions, too! Merc's the only one in a fire house unless you count my Jupiter on the line between 8th/9th). And in light of that, I would like to create a bulleted list of what I know about my Mercury:
In Aries
In the Fifth House
He's my Leading Planet (the one that rises right before the Sun in my chart)
And so, obviously, he rises before the Sun
He's the Apex of my Cardinal T-Square
Mercury only has tense major aspects (no reprieves! )
Mercury is Square Mars in Cancer
And Square my Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn
He's my only Personal Planet in Fire (unless you count all of the Visible Seven as Personal)
And as far as I see myself, and the way I think, I do feel like I'm in my head way more than my heart (even though I'm completely untrained in Formal Logic and I am way more emotive than I used to think I was)
So, what does all that mean?
One of the things I've always related to (and felt surprise from) was the idea that Mercury in Aries makes for a personal identification with one's ideas. I did take ideas and opinions very personally when I was younger, but I've grown to be able to separate myself a bit more from my ideas. I'm still no good at debate though, because I can't separate myself *that* much. So that part of Merc in Aries is out for me (see also: my Merc/Mars square). Thanks to the few times that I've been made to engage in debate in school, I've gotten a bit further along in being able to separate other people's ideas from I perception of them than separating my ideas from myself.
Also, I definitely like to pick up everything I can, as fast as I can, too. Details are a thing I've struggled with in school, but when I force myself to slow down (Sun power!), it's not as much of a hurdle as it used to be. Though, the fact that I'm trying to get into computers... yea, I am probably going to get very frustrated from time to time!
But then, there's the square to Aries' ruler himself! My Mars is hardly amused at being in Cancer, even though he is the 8th house. And with what I understand of Squares, his frustration will tug against my Mercury- meaning that my Martian nature (for well and ill) pulls at my very Mind whether I control/direct it or not. And let me tell you- I fear conflict (despite what my Moon-aspects and all the rest might say), so I am not the one for arguments and the rest! I get mad quickly (Taurus Sun or not!), but I will seethe and stew by myself rather than be upfront about it. So that unhealthy expression (verbal aggression to others) doesn't manifest.
There's more to come (depending on public interest, I suppose), but I'll stop here since this is really long already.