January 8/9: Mercury makes its retrograde station conjunct star cluster M7, emphasizing truthfulness and justice with an enormous expressive power

     Mercury's changes of direction, although only apparent as seen from Earth, often coincide with changes of opinion, communication difficulties, flaws in everyday life, and other complications. Therefore, it is always useful to know with which celestial object each Mercurian station is linked. The point of the celestial sphere in which Mercury seems to stop can coincide or align with a celestial body, whose astrological characteristics are blended with the Mercurian station and tell us where the experience of this event comes from ...

     On this occasion, Mercury is stationary in ecliptic conjunction to M7, a stellar cluster in the constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion. M7 is a cluster whose very high temperature, type-B stars symbolize an emphasis on the intellect, ideas, convictions and knowledge. However, the character represented by M7 is far from objective: its brightest star is type G, similar in temperature to our Sun, which emphasizes will and self-assertion. So M7 needs to affirm, convince, motivate, and in some cases, impose, dominate...all through ideas.

     In this way, the difficulties associated with Mercury retrograde can be entangled in discussions whose motivation is to dominate and not necessarily to reach an agreement. If the priority is to be right above the evidence of actual facts, it is obvious that there will be problems. Even more so when Mercury is in Sagittarius, the zodiac sign opposite to the one that it rules, Gemini, and this symbolizes a certain weakness caused by an inability to see things objectively. The Mercurian mentality, used to seeing the two sides of the coin, has to conform to moral, ethical, academic, social or other codes, indicated by Sagittarius. The information must be truthful or falsehood will become more than evident, because there will be no ways to defend it against the evidence.

     It is clear that Mercury's direct station of is pointing out that we must work on the inconsistencies of our belief systems, whether spiritual, political, scientific or otherwise, as well as the laws associated with the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius. Personally, it is possible to direct this work towards ourselves, modifying erroneous points of view and avoiding useless confrontations. On the other hand, if there is a real conviction, the great willingness to be heard from M7 indicates a very good time to promote ideas and projects, although this also facilitates propaganda and fanaticism.

      From a global perspective, the combination of Mercury and M7 represents a vehement need to express. Demonstrations will abound in various parts of the world, and of course, the actions of fanaticism and ideological confrontations will be accentuated. But if voices are raised for righteous and truthful causes, this will have an impressive, perhaps somewhat strident effect. Those who lie will be exposed. It may be necessary to raise the volume so that truth and justice predominate, but also it is advisable to take care of excesses of fanaticism, whether coming from others  or ourselves ... We must take care of what we say: words will be as heavy as bombs! Or perhaps fireworks, if we opt for a constructive version of Mercury's visit to M7.Carlos DuarteResearch Astrologer 

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