Mercury in Aries
Our resident astrologist at Confluence, Wella (the star guide) Tuls offers humble guidance. Even non-believers can benefit from this human view of the stars.
As of the evening of April 14th, Mercury enters Aries, and many planets have already activated within this fiery sign’s arrival. This follows a Mercury retrograde and a collective Piscean vision which gave some people (especially those with strong mutable placements) the ability to interpret the signs and symbols in your immediate landscapes. Some of you may feel you know what to do. Some of you are frustrated, energy laden, and the hangover of retrograde and watery vision still clouds your outlook, even as fire has arrived. In whatever case, now, the potential for turning, for burning, is here.
In the Cardinal, Fire sign of Aries, Mercury teaches us to be courageous in our thinking and direct in our communications. The sign of the Ram is all about action, initiation, and forward movement: the Messenger’s ingress into Aries energizes our minds, inspiring us to say what we desire out loud and go for it without second thought. - moonomens.com
We should be, naturally, concerned, alert… but unafraid. People with heavy Cardinal and Fire placements will do what they do best: speak quickly and act
(oh lord, and what action will it be?). They will be inclined to engage their desires with confidence, and unfortunately some of them who burn crosses (unconsciously or not) will also seek to displace or destroy vulnerable living bodies in our world. That is, if we let them. And too often we have let them.
But you live here too, heroes of fiery conscience, in this web of earth and cosmology. You burn as well.
If you are mutable, or have water in your personality, you have likely interpreted the symbols and may be ready, waiting to offer quenching solace for the victims of an unconscious violence which has already shown itself, but you must also burn, even as you puddle and/or flow.
Be most concerned now regarding the blank checks of well-to-do men, those blank pages people with no good guides, other than an AI rendered delusion of an obese Jesus. The unconscious, who move and buy and move and absorb lies like they are food, quickly become colonies. Quickly, no-one is able to name the plants or remember the water.
They will be compelled. There will be an impulse in some, perhaps this week especially and in the coming months, spurred by a renewed sensitivity to their personal delusions and the ripe atmosphere of destiny, to act in impulsive and direct, negative ways upon ecosystems and people. Watch them and get in their way. The stars demand it.
Furthermore, I would encourage you to keep an eye on any self-confident or pioneering husbands or co-workers you have in your midst. Confuse them with food or playthings if you must. Certainly do not allow them to operate heavy machinery until the stars change a bit.
My final recommendations: we should all be calling now on the fire signals throughout our charts and communities to defend us in this moment, to draw us forward but also, especially, to protect the vulnerable with controlled burns of word and action.
The bold will burn, and willful ignorance ignites like dry leaves. Let them burn, but let it be your relationship with fire, a renewal that you and your families and friends have asked for.
This is to remind you dear reader: The shadow of an immediate response in blazing self-assuredness can be (and often is) unconsciousness. You will need the trust of those who are not unconscious in their relationship with land and communities. However, it is also time for you, fire suns and moons, to speak the truth.
Those of us with other planets in Aries may have to use our bodies.
The willfully unconscious, the dull and self-assured, will have an inkling to start their engines, just as you will be given the means to cut their fuel lines. The saws will rev. The building heads of men will gather in architectural delusion. Light will be shown in our beloved dark, where migrations of birds and bugs have been disturbed, rerouted. You are being asked to cut the lights with projectile stones.
Small creatures have been rendered out of their nests by teeth, which, by the way, have never been considered sharp by those who possess them. You are being asked to hold these predators by the scruffs of their necks until they are shamed. Now is time to call the unconscious out, even from within their stupor. It is now your responsibility to confront these terrible dead.