A Fast and Furious Weekend for Mercury!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Friday, everybody. Today we're going to take a look at a series of aspects that Mercury is making over the weekend. We have Mercury now in the sign of Leo and moving quickly through trines with both Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and then immediately into an opposition with Pluto.

Today I'm going to take a look at each of those aspects, map them out for you, so you know when they're occurring. Give you some things to watch for, generally speaking, and then, because of the big opposition between Mercury in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius, that is probably the most potent aspect of the weekend, I'm going to focus a little bit more on that one.

As I was doing yesterday, we're going to explore a little bit of the dichotomy between air and fire, the air and fire opposition, even though both elements were traditionally considered masculine or Yang, so to speak, the opposition between the two can show up in some really interesting ways. So we're also going to look at what a more dynamic, stressful, maybe even antagonizing relationship between air and fire could look like over the weekend.

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Okay, well, on that note, let's turn our attention over to the real-time clock, and let's take a look at these aspects that are forming in sequence. Now, yesterday, we had a Mercury-Uranus contact at those last anaretic degrees of Cancer and Taurus. Today, Friday, June 27, right away we see Mercury moving into Leo, into the trine with Saturn.

Whoa, the big arrows out. You know, it has been a while. It really has been a while since the big arrows made an appearance. I gotta feel pretty good about that. All right, so there's the trine: Mercury to Saturn. And then if we move this clock forward just a day, we're going to see that by Saturday, Mercury will move through a second trine to Neptune.

Did I say square? Maybe I said square. Mercury will trine Saturn today, trine Neptune today into tomorrow, and then by Sunday, the final aspect occurs. And that aspect will occur when Mercury gets to the third degree of Leo, where it will go through the opposition to Pluto.

So because these aspects are forming so close to one another, and in such a short period of time, what I want to say is that today through Sunday, any of the things that we talk about on today's episode will be potentially applicable. You could be feeling or noticing any of the things we're going to talk about with any of these aspects between now and Sunday.

Once we get to Monday, the two—the Mercury and Pluto cooling off, Mercury getting to about three degrees out from Saturn and Neptune—give it maybe till Wednesday of next week before the full opposition between Mercury and Pluto subsides. Interesting that Mercury, in the sign of Leo, later in July, is going to station and turn retrograde.

This is around July 18. Its retrograde will take it backward and bring it really close to the opposition to Pluto again, not exact, but by about August 11, Mercury is going to be back within the three-degree engagement range with Pluto. So this Mercury opposition is something that, in a way, is being retouched upon in the month of August, at the tail end of Mercury's retrograde in Leo.

So keep that in mind, because it does suggest there may be a little bit more weight, or that the process around, especially the opposition from Mercury to Pluto this weekend, could sort of be ongoing. All right. Well, let's talk about first of all, I want to talk about elements. I've been thinking a lot about elements lately, and I think here we move—get my notes up here, so when—oh my gosh, I think I'd be able to find my notes.

Okay, here we go. So when we think about Mercury, it's a fast-moving planet making fast-moving trines. Trines suggest elemental compatibility. Trines are always formed between whole signs that are of the same elemental family. So Mercury in a fire sign of Leo trining Saturn and Neptune in Aries. The major emphasis is on fire.

Mercury is the planet that is easiest to bring into our personal experience. Saturn, Neptune—both such big planets in terms of the sort of philosophical underpinnings of their archetypes. And so it really does become easier to ground things through the presence of Mercury in a delineation with planets like this.

So let's think about Mercury as the mind, speech, communication, intellect, the part of us that breaks things down in order to understand them, that conveys, communicates, exchanges, articulates, and understands through a process of differentiation. So that Mercury is the main planet we're looking at this weekend.

The way that I find that, like most of us watching this, will end up noticing or observing Mercury will be in terms of what's on our mind, how we're thinking, how we're perceiving, how we're communicating. Thoughts, words, and ideas will become a central part of how the weekend is experienced.

Now let's think about the contacts with Saturn and Neptune. Saturn—Mercury, excuse me—Mercury trining Saturn and Neptune. The trine is of the nature of Jupiter, and that typically means that you're building cohesion, or you're building consensus, or you're developing momentum, you're growing things, or you're finding beneficial resources or support that builds toward unity, coherence, develops, provides momentum, etc.

So considered a beneficial aspect on that level, where things tend to flow together. Now we're thinking about Mercury and Saturn. Very principled, very deliberate and serious, very structured, sometimes a little rigid. Mercury trining Saturn can be about taking thoughts and ideas and conveying them in a way that's strong, principled, mature—kind of has a gravitas, and there's a feeling of consequence behind it.

Can be a little authoritarian or rigid, mentally, verbally, intellectually. Add in Neptune, and we're thinking about something that now has an element of imagination, inspiration, and sort of otherworldly fantasies and longings behind it. That hallmark of the Saturn-Neptune combination is therefore about dissolving rigidities in terms of expanded visions or sort of enhancing principled, deliberate, intentional, focused, or structured things by—you know, sort of—they become more real somehow.

It's like things that have been maybe subtle or invisible become more tangible and structured and crystallized. So it's a fascinating trine when Mercury in Leo is sort of hitting these planets together where it feels like there's a fiery, very creative animating force that's coming through that could be, on the one hand, sort of fanatical and rigid and idealistic and stubborn and inflexible and sort of egotistical, and finding support between the planets.

On that level, might look like things gaining momentum that are a little heavy-handed or authoritarian—that kind of energy is sort of ramping up and gaining momentum behind it. On the other hand, you could see that, you know, maybe visions that require discipline and willpower and a sort of mature approach and even a degree of confidence and aggressiveness and assertiveness in order to work—like if you're going to start a business, you need to have a kind of a vision and a moxie and a confidence and a stick-to-itiveness and a discipline that you can apply with vigor and confidence—like that.

So that same energy, very visionary, very strong and confident and bold, but not necessarily bullying or authoritarian, could also be a part of how these planets connect in their trine. Yeah. Then it gets really interesting, because, of course, these planets are going to—as Mercury—after Mercury hits these planets, it moves right into an opposition with Pluto in Aquarius.

Let's talk a little bit about anytime that Mercury opposes Pluto. You have the potential for the mental and intellectual energies to become greatly empowered to speak or say things, write and articulate things, learn things, study things, convey things, teach things, express things, invent things, exchange things that have tremendous, fertile, transformative power behind them.

And the opposition between these two can be a really dynamic point of creative release for Mercury. At the same time, that dynamic opposition between Mercury and Pluto can express in terms of major ideological, mental, verbal, communicative conflicts and power struggles. And so the steam that Mercury is gaining by these fiery trines to Saturn and Neptune may immediately come into conflict with a kind of oppositional force that immediately implies a power struggle.

As this fiery momentum is gaining force, it would be like someone making a strong executive decision and then immediately facing, you know, kickback or opposition or resistance from someone or something who doesn't like the decision or who wants you to consider a different perspective.

I know, for example, sometimes I'm in dad mode. I sort of—I don't necessarily mean to be a jerk, but sometimes I just sort of make an executive proclamation. And sometimes, like, you know, both my wife and I take turns being leaders in the family. And sometimes, whether it's my wife or me doing that, it's like it's needed to kind of gather—okay, now we're in—we have a trajectory. We're going in a direction.

Sometimes, you know, when I do that, sometimes when my wife does that too, it's like, you're immediately met with, like, "Wait, thank you for, you know, trying to lead us, but that's not exactly what the rest of us want to do." You know, that's—there's pushback, and then there's negotiation, and if either of us are in a particularly bad mood, then there'll be a power struggle, right? It's like, "No, it's my way or the highway."

So, and frequently, when we have to make choices as parents, the kickback from our kids becomes like, "Well, I don't like that. I don't want to do that. That's not what I wanted. This is—this is—" And then there's like, you know, they're all going to be attorneys when they grow up, because the negotiations, you know, begin.

So I feel like this fiery momentum that's gathering with these trines today and tomorrow—on Sunday—may be met with a kind of crisis of resistance, oppositional tension or struggle, or, you know, like pushback. On the other hand, that moment—that fiery momentum that Mercury is gaining in terms of ideas, words, speech, plans, structures, exchanges that Mercury is designing or creating—very creative planet, Mercury—could immediately be empowered and supported by some other force that it we have to maybe accommodate but join with creatively.

Lot of different ways of looking at this sequence of events that's taking place this weekend. What I want to do to close as we go through all of this, and just to remind you, we have the Mercury trine Saturn today. We have the Mercury trine Neptune tomorrow, and the Mercury opposite Pluto Sunday. So it's like, boom, boom, boom, right, like that.

I want to talk a little bit about fire and air in ancient elemental theory, and how we might also think about the fire-air opposition, when the two antagonize each other or creatively work together, but through stress and oppositional tension—what does that look like?

Well, one way of thinking about fire is through vision. It was the highest element in the spheres of the elements, with earth being the lowest, then water, then air, then fire, building its way up to the realm of the gods and planets. Fire, being the most ethereal, was associated with vision—like the image of an archetypal ideal. Not surprisingly, fire and the sun are related.

On this level, fire comes up with the image that becomes the focus of ambition or intention or activity. Air is the way in which that vision is articulated within a social realm. Or it's—it's you start to go from—how do I see the vision being articulated in terms of the plans that will allow for this vision to become something substantive, which eventually requires earth. Not surprisingly, fire and earth are opposites. The actual formal product of a vision is earth.

So air and fire, when they oppose, can be about the rational part of us saying, "I'm not sure that that vision is reasonable or practical, or I'm not sure what kind of plan can accommodate that vision," which can be like a dream killer or a buzz killer for the momentum and energy and passion of fire. It's like, "Why are you thinking so much? Let's just go with it."

You know, I think inspiration versus mental articulation of inspiration into feasible plans is another way of thinking about it. So you may find those things—you know, in a dynamic and maybe stressful conversation. Fire is very passionate and directed and sort of singular, whereas air tends to be multiple and dispersive.

And so where fire will come through with a strong passion, it can be a real dream killer in an oppositional tension with an air sign. All the fire and air signs can be sextile or opposed to each other. And so we—you know, we think about, "I'm passionate. I have a direction I want to go in," and air might say, "Well, why not this or that? Or why not consider multiple different options?"

So given the strong amount of fire that's coming together—the sense of there being a "where there's a will, there's a way," there's inspiration, there's focus, there's vision, there's drive, there's ambition, there's all of this charisma coming through—air can be very dispersive and antagonizing by saying, "Well, I don't know. Maybe this, maybe that, maybe something else."

That can also be naturally a very good thing for something that's coming through. Hallmark of fire being rigidity, there can be too much momentum and drive that you don't stop to think about, "Well, what's the smart way of doing this? Or have you considered other options?" Can we maintain passion and charisma while—you know—bringing in that curiosity?

I think you can see fire is going to be more intuitive and spontaneous, driven by will and passion. Air is going to be more rational, social, curious again. So how are those things dialoguing over the weekend? I often feel like in an opposition, there'll be one person that will represent one side of the opposition, and someone else you're working with—dealing with in your family or your love life, whatever—that will represent the other in the exchange while the aspect is happening.

So it helps to refresh on these things, because you can understand and appreciate the different perspectives. I think that one thing that is a very clear difference between fire and air is: fire is much more individualistic, air is much more social. And so the Mercury in Leo too—the Sun sign, a strong-willed individualistic sign; Aries, strong-willed individualistic sign—those energies coming through might be, "This is my will. This is my way. These are my thoughts. These are—this is my direction. This is my vision. It is part of what makes me a unique, independent, creative being, that I'm flowing in this direction right now."

And then the opposition from Pluto in Aquarius can be like, "Well, there is a social force that represents a different perspective, or a multiplicity of perspectives, or the force of conformity to act or behave according to some group or category, as opposed to individual," that can push in the opposite direction and be dispersive and deconstructive.

There's nothing worse, in some ways, to Mercury in Leo than you're coming through with a strong, clear sense of motivation, direction, individuality, creative vision and inspiration, and someone says, "Oh, I'm sorry, because if you act that way, you won't be in conformity with this or that group, and you better bend your knee to the group rather than your individual reality."

That's a tough thing to deal with, because on some level, we're social beings. Ignoring the social constructs, ignoring the social dimensions of life, would be stupid, but paying too much attention to them and getting involved in losing ourselves in social categories is also tremendously risky, right?

So the two together might be about—how does the—how do we bring together that fiery, fierce individual-driven visionary quality alongside some very important social level of feedback or concern or a more rational side of things that maybe has different ways of seeing something.

So anyway, like I said, I have lately been really deepening and refining my work with the elements. There's something new every year that comes in. You've seen me work in the past with the bounds, fixed stars—sometimes like something will always work its way in throughout the year, especially as I'm cultivating new master classes.

I hope that you found this level of working with the aspects this weekend and the elements, especially with Mercury and Pluto, useful—that it helps contribute to your ongoing process as a student, but also practically helps you understand the astrology of the weekend. All right, that's it for now. We'll see you again on Monday. I hope you all have a great weekend. Bye.