Mercury Cazimi — An Earthy Value Reset in Taurus — Horoscopes for All 12 Signs

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

Today we're going to take a look at Mercury cazimi, that is Mercury at the heart of the Sun, in conjunction with the Sun, that resets Mercury's synodic cycle. You can think about this as a great moment of transformation or empowerment for Mercury. And when Mercury is at the heart of the Sun, always, whether it's retrograde or direct, there's a phasal change taking place.

In this case, Mercury is going to start gradually emerging into its Evening Star position. So we're going to talk about some of those things today. I'll give you some thoughts on how you can interpret this overall. And then I'm going to do some kind of lightning round horoscopes, just some quick hitting reminders and bullet points that I've got down on each of the 12 whole sign houses.

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All right, you can see Mercury heading into a conjunction with the Sun, and that's what we're looking at today, Wednesday, May 13. Now, if I move this forward one day, you'll see the cazimi is technically coming through tomorrow, but it is within one degree. That is really when you notice a lot of the significations of the cazimi. Cazimi means at the heart, at the heart of the Sun.

And what happens after this is Mercury will move forward in its progression through the zodiac, out past the Sun. It moves faster than the Sun, and as it moves and progresses, it will become visible as an evening star. So right now, what we have is a rebirthing moment for Mercury. And wherever that rebirthing moment is taking place in your chart, you'll often feel a sense of renewal, a shift of mind, maybe a slight shift of purpose, a sense of shifting perception or momentum changes.

You ever get the feeling when you're living day to day that something's changed? I don't know what it is. It's hard to put my finger on it. A lot of the times, those are phasal dynamic changes, and planets that we can point to in terms of something that reflects that shift in our consciousness. This is a major phasal dynamic change for Mercury, which is why people get pretty excited about cazimi.

In general, it also means, because Mercury is at the heart of the Sun, sometimes Mercury becomes greatly empowered. For example, today, look at me. This is on my ascendant. It's on my ascendant, and I'm announcing the arrival of my book into the world. There's a sense of something coming through like a medium or something. The Sun is acting like a medium or a channel for the voice of Mercury symbolically. So we can look for that.

I'm going to do some horoscopes to help you illustrate it. But the main thing that I want you to think about for a reset in a synodic cycle is that Mercury is being reborn. Mercury is the mind. Mercury is intelligence and communication. It is the kind of cognitive, rational, mental and nervous level of our existence, our nervous system, how we communicate, how we perceive, how we cognize.

And also Hermes is how we interpret meaning, and how we communicate or convey meaning through the choices we make. It also belongs to all sorts of things like technology and inventions and inventors. Mercury is related with monies and marketplaces, places of exchange, whether that's words or commerce or dollar bills. Mercury was also associated with anything that goes back and forth, anything that is exchanged and kind of fluid and moves across spectrums.

So with a reset in Taurus, some of the things we're looking at right now would be things to do with Venus. This is a Venus ruled sign, and it's an earthy, stable, solid sign. And so we're talking about people often use the word value to describe Taurus. There's a problem with this, but let me just start by saying, insofar as the sign represents value, it tends to represent the kinds of values that we have materially.

So materiality, meaning our financial values, the things we value because we enjoy them. So your Taurian value is not the only kind of value. Any sign could really be talked about as value, which is the problem I have with calling Taurus the sign of values. But insofar as values are connected to pleasure, to material stability or security, to ease, to peace, to a kind of simple, tasteful, earthy sense of enjoyment, stability, luxury, even wealth, on that level, we can talk about values in Taurus.

So one way of thinking about this reset would be as a shifting sense of where your values lie, or a shifting sense of what you prioritize materially for the sake of ease, stability or pleasure. So think about those qualities right now. Especially the other thing that's interesting, let me bring the chart back up, is that we have the traditional condition of mutual reception in the air right now, with Mercury in Taurus and Venus in Gemini. They're exchanging signs.

So at this reset, there's also a very natural way in which Evening Star Venus, who's already up in the sky and headed toward a grand conjunction with Jupiter, you can see them starting to come together in the evening sky. If you look to the west, you'll see the two bright stars, wandering stars they used to be called (that's what planet means), moving toward one another. They'll conjoin in early June.

But anyway, the idea here being that this reset also may be a reset that facilitates some kind of exchange between Mercury and Venus. What kinds of exchanges come from Mercury and Venus? There are exchanges of things like ideas, technology, communication, business or marketing strategies. Sometimes the two exchange in terms of skills and the accolades or benefits that come from various skills. Venus can just be good fortune, and Mercury can be skill.

So skill and good fortune can kind of come together. The other thing would be the ability to speak attractively, for something to be received well because it's attractive or it's charming or it's well spoken. Those are Mercury-Venus dynamics. So those are just a few things that you can think about as we go into these horoscopes. So what I want to do next is just run through what the cazimi horoscopes might look like for all of the signs.

Let's start by putting Aries on the ascendant. Here you can listen to these for your Sun or your rising sign, and we're going to bring the two planets together. We're going to keep them, you know what? I'm going to back this up and get this together for today. So if you are an Aries, Aries Sun or rising here, you've got a kind of reset taking place around money, spending, income, material assets and resources.

Maybe some important conversations taking place about resources or compensation or something like that. You may find that the mutual reception with Venus brings helpful allies or beneficial assets or exchanges with other people, and maybe new ideas accompany some kind of shift around money. So that's an idea. Those are some ideas that came to my mind if you're an Aries, but watch for that second house.

If you're a Taurus, this is in your first house, your voice, your image, your priorities, your sense of personhood, clarity arriving about what you're becoming or what's important to you. Venus in Gemini may support a kind of confidence that you're gaining in sharing something about who you are. I can't believe that this is the signature, by the way, of sharing my book and being all spazzy about it.

By the way, as soon as I say that word, I feel bad, because I think in different parts of the world, that word means something really bad. But growing up here, it just meant, like, sort of goofy. But I heard someone recently, a few years ago, someone told me it's like a swear word in another country, maybe the UK. Anyway, so I do apologize for saying that word. All right, let's go forward.

Isn't that funny? That's such a microcosm of a Mercury Venus at the heart of the Sun. Hopefully you'll be gracious with me anyway. Going forward to the Gemini in the first, so for Taurus risings, let me finish that thought, because I got anxious. The idea here, though, is about personal direction and a reset around your own personal nature, psychology and something maybe you're communicating or conveying.

All right, number three here on the list, the third sign, Gemini, we've got the 12th house reset. Maybe kind of quiet insights that you're having, or more private, or maybe even a little otherworldly coming up in dreams or meditation or quiet time or solitude. It could also be some kind of insight that you're having into something a little unconscious. There might be a time for healing conversations or journaling or prayer or solitude. They could be really clarifying right now.

So I think the 12th house idea here is to look for something very positive coming through a 12th house kind of conduit. The Cancer rising horoscope, this is the 11th house for you, Cancer. So friendships, groups, communities, collaborations, maybe long term goals or dreams connected to your career. Maybe some very meaningful dialogs happening around community or friends, and maybe some kind of interesting group space or group dynamics.

And maybe there's a sense of getting clear about a future direction for yourself, one that takes you out into the world or involves you with other people somehow. All right, so for Leos, we're putting this into the career house, career direction, visibility, public messaging. This is all really good stuff for Mercury and the Sun. The reason I would say public messaging is a good phrase is because what you say or what you speak into existence right here is being seen by other people.

So how you communicate or convey something of what you're doing or who you are to the world, interesting idea of what would be like a marketing campaign. But anyway, the idea here, as well, with the mutual reception with Venus, is that it could also be about beneficial people or connections professionally that are emerging somehow. All right, for Virgos, we are putting this into the ninth house, the cazimi.

Maybe there are kind of epiphanies or insights or realizations that are being had. This is a house of philosophy and spirituality, education, writing, publishing, study or travel abroad. And so I wonder what's getting reset here, beliefs or viewpoints or a process of learning or some kind of exchanging, conveying of ideas or meaning somehow becoming really important. Maybe some kind of breakthrough or insight in the process of learning or studying something.

All right, so for Libras, we put this into the eighth house. We think about financial arrangements with other people. On one level, it could be some very positive contracts that are being worked out with other people, or legal agreements that are being arranged or changed somehow or revised. There might be deeper conversations happening about trust, or what is going to be given and received in a relationship, what's needed, being really honest with one another.

Maybe a complex situation is becoming simpler because some different elements are coming together favorably. The eighth house is about things that are attachments that we have, that are a part of bonds that we create with other living beings. And it's about negotiating those with wisdom rather than ignorance. So think about that right now for the cazimi if you're a Libra.

If you're a Scorpio, this is taking place in your seventh house. So is there some kind of phase change happening in an important relationship, a very important conversation that has to be had, or some kind of harmonious exchange in relationships, maybe with things like money or agreements or contracts as well, especially given that Venus is in your eighth, but the reset is happening in the space of love and relationships, intimacy and the interpersonal sphere of life, the close relationships.

Let's go to Sagittarius. We're looking at the sixth house for the cazimi. That's the place of daily work, the daily grind, the daily adversities that we face, the sacrifice, the hard work, the labor, the various challenges that we have to overcome or face somehow. And I wonder about what's getting reorganized within that space, especially with Taurus in this house. How can you make life a little bit easier, a little bit simpler, a little bit more harmonious in the places that require a lot of work, upkeep, dedication, sacrifice or service?

And I also wonder about if you have employees, or you manage people that you're their boss, so to speak, there could be some kind of important communication taking place with respect to people that you hire, or you might be hiring someone for a very particular project. That would be something to think about. Here is finding the right people that can help you with some kind of project.

All right, let's go to Capricorn, where we have the cazimi taking place in your fifth house, a place of creativity and pleasure, pregnancy. This is a house where inspiration creatively needs to flow, and right now it's a good time for a creative opening or a creative reset, or a reprioritizing of creative objects or inspirations. Also a good transit for love, for romance, for getting really clear about what feels good and what feels satisfying or fulfilling, sensually and creatively.

Anything to do with parents, parenting, children, pregnancy could also come up, as always, in the fifth house. We go to Aquarius next, and we see the Taurus fourth house cazimi. So home, family, emotional foundations are the subject of this horoscope. You can think about those things going through a phase change. How are things being reset with respect to the home, the living environment, things happening in the domestic sphere of life, or parental or family karma that's changing or shifting somehow?

The reset and the nice exchange with Venus, to me, suggests that there could be a lot of warmth and good energy and good exchanges taking place to make the home more peaceful or happy or interesting somehow. Honestly, the first thing I thought was, Oh, family game night, especially with Venus in Gemini exchanging with Mercury. Or maybe you're getting a ping pong table or something. Anyway, I'm making this up, but you get what I'm saying.

There's a nice, easy flowing kind of, or a need for such things happening in the fourth house for Aquarians. Now, finally, we have Pisceans. That's the third house. And I think here about just communication in general, learning, skill development, expressing skills and ideas, conversations that have value, finding peace or flow with peers or siblings. New ideas that want to convey creatively feels loud here.

There's also maybe something to be said for ideas that could be related to things like business. You've got a lot of energy going on in your second house, Aries, so I do wonder about that also. Uranus just entered your fourth house. Big shake up around things like home and family taking place. So what kind of insights are you having about what will create peace or flow or ease in the home? That's a third-fourth house connection with Mercury and Venus and mutual reception.

So that's what I've got for you guys today. I hope that this was useful. These are admittedly lightning round horoscopes. There are days where I feel like this would be good for horoscopes, but I don't have the energy necessarily to do horoscopes off the cuff. Even if I write out bullet points, horoscopes, as you know if you watch my channel, are always a little exhausting for me.

Oh, they've gotten a lot better for me in the past year or two, especially if you saw me go on my unhinged rant about horoscopes. I think I made a video, if I'm remembering correctly, that was like, why I hate horoscopes, but I do them. But it's fun, right? It's fun to see where it's landing in your chart and be like, oh, I couldn't when I looked at mine, I was like, I can't believe this.

This week Mercury's cazimi while I'm going off about how excited I am about my book being released. So yeah, fitting. It's always interesting to see where things land in the horoscopes. They can be very accurate, by the way. Have you ever struggled with feeling like they don't hit or they don't land? Remember, horoscopes are sort of generic compared to actual transit tracking in your birth chart, which is always the most accurate.

So it's very possible that something going on in your life is due to transits hitting very specific points in your chart that are not necessarily dialed into a Mercury cazimi horoscope, which lasts like a couple of days. So anyway, just because I know sometimes people get a little like, oh, horoscopes, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Yeah, that's horoscopes. But anyway, on that note, I am going to sign off and tell you next about the year one program.

Come study, also, guys. My book is out. My book is out. This is an unbound copy. So it looks kind of dumpy, but that's because it's literally unbound, like I could just take the cover off. So I can't wait to get my own bound copy of it. Oh my gosh. I'm going to be selling it at NORWAC, the upcoming Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle. If you're there, I'll be signing it. Maybe I'll get to see you anyway. Have a great day. We'll see you again soon. Bye.

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