Mercury in Leo Moving into a square with Uranus in Taurus: What to Watch For

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Mercury squaring Uranus. This is happening for a third and final time due to Mercury's retrograde process. Mercury went through a first square to Uranus earlier in the summer; then, through its retrograde, it went through a second square. Now, through direct motion, it is going through one final square. This one is especially interesting because there's a mutual reception between the Sun and Mercury right now, and the square between Mercury and Uranus is perfecting as the Sun is also opposing Saturn.

We're going to talk about the Sun's opposition to Saturn tomorrow, and we will reiterate some of what we've said today in the context of that talk tomorrow because both of these transits are happening over the weekend. So we're just kind of breaking this up into two pieces, compartmentalizing a little bit, which I think will help us all to digest and understand what we're looking at here, although the two things are kind of inseparably bound together in the next couple of days. So that'll be the way we approach things.

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And on that note, let's shift our attention now to the real-time clock, where we can take a look at Mercury and Uranus and get some of the greater context that that aspect also participates in. So here you can see Mercury in Leo today, September 5, Thursday, at about 26 degrees; Uranus is retrograded about 27 Taurus. So we're looking at these two planets coming into contact between Friday, September 6, and by the end of Saturday, September 7, they will be they'll have parted. You could get the full effect all the way until Mercury enters Virgo, which is about September 9. So, between now and Monday. You might be feeling the effects of these two planets in their square, but the main, like the main action, is happening today, September 5, tomorrow, September 6, into Saturday, September 7.

Now, what's so interesting is that we have what is called mutual reception. Mercury Mercury is in the sign of the Sun, and the Sun is in the sign of Mercury.

So, these two planets are trading signs, which means that they are working cooperatively. Right now, Mercury in the Sun is working cooperatively. And look at what's happening with the Sun. The Sun is passing through a can of opposition, excuse me, to Saturn in Pisces, which is happening at the same time that Mercury is squaring Uranus. So this little combination of planetary aspects is powerful when you put them together.

Now, if we speed this up just a little bit, the Sun is going to go through the opposition to Saturn between Saturday, September 7, and Sunday, September 8. That is coming right on the heels of Friday, September 6, and Friday and Saturday, September 7, when Mercury heads through the square to Uranus. So they're happening back to back. Mercury hits the square to Uranus first, and then the Sun hits the opposition to Saturn. However, because the two planets are in mutual reception, these two aspects happen as the two planets work together cooperatively, which means the aspects are intimately tied together. So what does that mean?

Let's get some specifics. These are the five things that I would watch for. I think these are the most likely scenarios. That does not mean they're the only scenarios. These are just some of the things I don't know, like a textbook, the first line of entries in an astrology cookbook, or whatever. So these are the things that I would really watch for, given the combination.

Now, the first one is going to be that very typical Mercury-Uranus combination, which leads to a new thought or a new idea. Very common for Mercury-Uranus to be a light bulb. Moment, a lightning flash, a lightning contact, where suddenly there's an inventive or original thought, or a thought that deviates from the norm, or an insight, or an aha moment, an electrically charged inspired moment of clarity, action, excitement. This is very Mercury-Uranus.

I'm going to say some other things about Mercury-Uranus because this isn't all that Mercury-Uranus represents, but it's one of the big things that Mercury and Uranus are frequently associated with that original thought or idea.

Now, when Mercury is in mutual reception with the Sun, and the Sun is hitting an opposition to Saturn, what could happen is that a very original idea or insight is immediately met with a prohibition or some kind of obstacle.

The reason for that is that this light bulb moment happens immediately after the Sun, who is in mutual reception with that light bulb moment of Mercury-Uranus, through the mutual reception.

The Sun has with Mercury, the Sun will hit the opposition to Saturn, and then we might get something like a block or a limitation or a constraint that immediately comes up and says a good idea, but no, too bad you can't do that. So be aware that what might be like a truly exciting moment of insight could immediately be met with some resistance. So, just keep in mind that juxtaposition because it's one of the main ones.

However, what I love about this is that you could flip the same archetypal combination, look at it from a slightly different angle, and you could say that a problem is approaching, right? This is because the Sun is already within three degrees of opposition to Saturn. And so as the Sun is moving through this crucible of the opposition to Saturn, which will often be felt as the dawning realization of our limits or constraints, or the dawning realization that something isn't working or something is problematic, or that there's a feeling of weightiness or heaviness. And then, right as that is bearing down, we could think of Mercury and Uranus squaring one another as the idea or insight that offers us a way out and a solution.

Mercury-Uranus is very much about breaking from constraints and limitations mentally. And if the Sun is in mercury sign opposing Saturn. While this is happening, even if it isn't perfect, it's sort of like saying, look, as you're starting to feel more and more hemmed in by difficult circumstances, a light goes off, and suddenly you have an idea about how you could create some space or some greater freedom. Or, you know, it's a solution where there's a problem, innovative, original thinking, that kind of necessity is the mother of invention. Signature is because of the opposition from the Sun to Saturn and mutual reception between the Sun and Mercury, with Mercury square to Uranus. Hey, look, the constraint generates an idea about how to get out of a constraint like Houdini.

Three would be an unexpected piece of news or information. The unexpected piece of news or information is the textbook Mercury Uranus. You get an unexpected email. You blurt something out unexpectedly. You say something that maybe you've been waiting to say, but you finally have the kind of moxie or confidence or even just the bucket. Excuse me to just say it. And so you do, and then what do we do with that? Well, pair it with the Sun opposite Saturn, and you get something like an unexpected piece of news or information that helps you deal with a conflict or a problem, an unexpected piece of news or information that comes right alongside a big constraint or a very serious issue, right?

For example, I would not be surprised to see unexpected news or information about these two things at all. I'm going to go with the case scenario here. So plug your ears if you don't want to hear something a little dark. You get a piece of news that maybe a grandfather thinking of a paternal figure with the Sun opposite Saturn has had a stroke, and it doesn't look like he's going to make it; that unexpected piece of news or information is Mercury-Uranus, but the impending death of the solar figure is the Sun opposite Saturn. And so a sudden piece of news or information about an elder or paternal figure, a leader or something like that, some unexpected piece of news or information about them, an announcement followed by a death, a resignation, something like that could very well fit the bill for this combination.

Now, that's really dark, right? But I'm not saying that that's going to be for someone that's probably going to happen, but because that's just, it's so I've, I've seen this kind of thing so much. How many times have I seen fathers and grandfathers pass when Saturn opposes someone's son? Hundreds.

So it's a very common kind of thing. That's why I use it. That doesn't mean it's going to happen for everyone. What I am trying to say, though, is that when you think about the shocking news met with the immediate Sun-Saturn's opposition, this could be the kind of shocking news that kind of casts a temporary shadow over things. It's a little bit of a rain cloud passing through the unexpected news is the news of a bit of dark weather.

Okay, so that wouldn't be surprising. However, the unexpected news could also be something that helps you to pass through a little rain cloud or storm, you know, something, it's like, oh, this is exciting. That's this. This is going to help me through the difficult times I'm in here. It's nice to get a breath of fresh air. It's nice to get an idea or a piece of news or information that can give me a little space or make me, you know, give me, help me, give me a little medicine to get me through. See what I mean? Okay, so just different ideas here.

Number four is the need for intellectual freedom, the classic Mercury-Uranus combination. Or excuse my expression; Mercury-Uranus is the need for new ideas, new thinking, original concepts, and original language, and then all of a sudden, there is what comes with it. Is the prohibition someone telling you how to think?

So you see, if the Sun is opposite Saturn, and there's a block of ignorance, then Mercury-Uranus is the original idea that frees you from some kind of ignorant assumption or judgment or understanding. So, Sun Saturn can mean a dimming of intelligence because the Sun was seen as the source of intelligence, illumination, and enlightenment. Sun opposite Saturn can mean a cloud of ignorance, a veil of ignorance covering the solar sense of illumination.

Well, Mercury-Uranus with the mutual exchange, mutual reception, with sun Saturn. That kind of putting them together could mean that there is a great sense of intellectual freedom and clarification coming during a period of confusion or, deception or ignorance that suddenly something is revealed. And also, just broadly speaking, the need to break free from limiting ideas or doubts, to radically question or challenge a conventional form of authority, you know, with a radical kind of break from the status quo, intellectually or philosophically, that all come to mind for this combination as well.

And then, finally, a new idea leads to a new structure. Basically, Mercury Uranus is a new idea. And Sun Saturn, with the reception that it has with Mercury, could immediately be the need to crystallize insights into form. The crystallization of insight is very Sun, opposite Saturn, you know it. It brings things into form.

So, forming, taking insights, and forming them into structures or systems could be something that happens when these two things come together. And. And it might be pretty mundane, but you have to look at all the sign houses. You know, looking at Leo and Taurus would be a good thing to do, as well as looking at where I am, oh, as well as Virgo and Pisces.

Sorry, those whole sign houses are all working together. And four topics are not easy to put together. So, if that overwhelms you, just take some of these basic ideas and see how far you get with those. That's a good place to start. Anyway, I'm going to leave it there for today. Uh, short and sweet, we'll be back tomorrow with more on the Sun opposite Saturn.

A few separate things to say about that, in addition to this sort of mercury Uranus dynamics that I focused on a little bit more today; all right, don't forget the archetype of the astrologer, The Magician's Apprentice.

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