Mercury in Taurus Squares Pluto in Aquarius: What to Watch For

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to take a look at Mercury in Taurus, squaring Pluto in Aquarius. Now, Mercury has just entered the sign of Taurus. And so it's at the very early first couple of degrees where it is making a square to Pluto, who is retrograding in the first couple of degrees of Aquarius.

So we're going to look at five different things to watch, given the Mercury-Pluto combination. Now, this is taking place in the midst of some other major transits, which we've already been looking at this week, and we'll continue to look at tomorrow.

Namely, Venus is going into a conjunction with Uranus at the exact same time that we will have Jupiter cazimi at the heart of the sun on Friday. So, it is a really big series of events, honestly, and an exciting time to be looking at astrology. So today, we'll focus on the Mercury-Pluto dynamic. If you're looking for content on the rest of those transits I mentioned, we will be looking at the rest of those tomorrow.

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So anyway, just on a side note, today, we are looking at five things to watch for. And those five things that we are watching for are directly correlated to Mercury and Pluto. So here we have Mercury in the sign of Taurus. I'm going to point this out right here. Here's Mercury. There's Pluto there, which is about a degree off. Let's fast-forward this. Tomorrow, they get into the square, so between today and tomorrow, May 16 to May 17, Mercury will square Pluto. And then you can see tomorrow we get into what we'll be looking at at the end of this week, this big series of events, which involves Venus conjoining, Uranus, and the sun conjoining Jupiter. So you go to Jupiter and cazimi, and at the same time, you have Venus, Uranus, conjunction, and a major planetary event right there that is pretty special. So that is what we're looking at over the weekend. And today, we're going to focus on the piece that is really perfect first, although they're all kind of happening at the same time, as you can see, which is the mercury square to Pluto.

So, I'm going to tell you five things that you can watch for with this particular square. Sometimes, it's hard to notice this little square between Mercury and Pluto that would otherwise take center stage, but when you place it alongside all these other events, it may be forced into the background a little bit. But yeah, these are these; it's still a strong archetypal combination. And I'm assuming that you're gonna be able to notice some of these themes.

So number one is we have Mercury, a planet that is associated with the mind with philosophy, speech, reason, and rationality, but also the kind of Mercury is also associated with the kind of the magic of the mind. So don't think of Mercury purely as rational because Mercury thinks of Hermes as if Hermes is a bit of a magician. And so insofar as the mind is magical and inventive, and, and not totally predictable and erratic, as well as rational and logical, that's kind of the full-mindedness of Mercury. When Mercury goes into an earth sign, Mercury becomes invested in things that are sensual, Venusian earthy, and feminine. And so it's a nice place for Mercury. Think about Mercury and Taurus, you think about people who have beautiful singing voices, or you think about people who might be, you know, a good poet or a singer-songwriter, maybe they have skilled playing an instrument or something like that.

These are just images, of course, but when you then take Mercury and square it with Pluto in Aquarius, remember that squares are the nature of Mars, so they tend to initiate action but also bring up challenging situations or circumstances that may require some effort. Some action is required. So when you put that earthy Mercury into a square with Pluto and Aquarius, one thing that happens is you get the kind of Galaxy brain of Pluto and Aquarius as a fixed Air sign that has lofty, grand, idealistic views of everything from science to spirituality to sociology. And you put them together, and it becomes like Mercury, which is sort of like a piece of clay. And being impressed upon it is the sort of fixed Saturnian air quality of Aquarius, where it's like, let's impress a new idea upon this fertile and receptive substance of the mind. And so new ideas, new thoughts, new paradigms are being impressed upon something that has the power to turn that idea into a shape or a form on Earth.

This is where, for example, someone might write you a macro plan, how to manage your calories and the split of the macronutrients in your diet, and so forth. And you take that plan, and you literally impress it onto your body, and you get into a rhythm with a new macro split or something, or you or maybe it's a, a meditation regiment that someone recommends, and you go, Okay, I'm going to take that picture of a meditation structure for my life, how often I meditate at what times, you know, how many days a week or whatever, and I break and I sort of set it down and I go, Okay, now I'm going to embody that plan.

So, if you think about Mercury in Taurus, you're thinking about a kind of piece of clay, and the power of Pluto and Aquarius, impressing itself upon the clay, brings about the power of new ideas to be molded and shaped into our lives materially physically, essentially, that's one thing to watch for.

Number two would be an emphasis on mind-body science. So if you suddenly find that you're watching a podcast on health and wellness and the connection between the mind and the body, you know, whether it's yoga or mindfulness or meditation, anything that suddenly says, Hey, here's a cool or interesting application of science that has a direct relation to things like happiness or sexuality or your health or beauty or your skin or You know, anything like that.

So the connection with Mercury and Pluto in these signs to the kind of abstract intellectual, scientific platonic realm of Aquarius, where there are sort of gold standards of human potential or higher understandings of how things work, very Aquarian, and then Mercury in the realm of the sensual Venusian earthy and feminine. And you get the idea of just the topic, broadly speaking, of the intellectual and the sensual, coming together for some kind of joint endeavor, and that can mean that you're just taking an interest in those kinds of subjects.

So, you know, like, right now, one of the things that I'm doing on the side is I meet monthly with a coach of mine who used to give me my programs for working out and diet and so forth. And he used to be a professional bodybuilder. And so I'm learning so much about the science of the body and how the different macronutrients work in your body around different times of day, and you're just so interesting to me, and it's just kind of, I guess, my hobby at the moment. The other thing that I do in my spare time is my other hobby; I have two. One is that I don't even know what to call bodybuilding fitness, broadly speaking, but the other one is guitar lessons.

So I take guitar lessons. Mercury, Pluto could be like, you know, learning the circle of fifths, or, like, learning your new musical theory that is suddenly directly translated into how you play or how you hear music or how you can, your ability to improvise or something like that. So, kind of the idea that there might be a connection between your fingers and a theoretical understanding of music, right? That's Mercury-Pluto in these positions. So, hopefully, that makes sense.

Number three powerful forms of communication erupt from the unconscious whenever Pluto and Aquarius touch. It really doesn't matter what signs they're in. One thing that can come up is when you get that bomb of an email in your inbox, or you say that thing that you weren't thinking was a big deal. And it ends up being a very big deal on social media posts, and you offend a friend or something.

Not that this has happened to any of us before. But you may find that the things you're saying are also just there. It's vulcanic that there are thoughts, words, ideas, streams of communication, announcements, letters, and correspondences that come up and release some kind of pent-up energy or serve as a vivid suddenly conscious awareness of something that had previously been unconscious is a very powerful part of the Mercury-Pluto dynamic in general. And you'll find that people born with mercury Pluto context are often very intense, passionate, deep, thoughtful, penetrating thinkers or communicators. They like that kind of material, even stuff that's more challenging and weighty and deep, philosophically or in the realm of ideas that can come up around this time.

Number four is ideas that shift plans or structures. Mercury is often associated with the organization of our lives; it's sort of like the daily neural pathways that expand out into our everyday coming and going. When Mercury hits Pluto, it is as though there is a death and rebirth to the way in which we are organizing thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, attitudes, plans, or pathways and activities that are habitual, suddenly, especially in a fixed earth sign, the habitual nature of our thoughts, ideas, patterns of activity or behavior, go through a transformation. So, ideas that shift plans or structures can also mean that powerful new ideas come in and serve as the means by which we suddenly alter the organizational pathways of our lives. And it could be a small thing, but it doesn't have to be the world's biggest event. But watch for that.

Number five, our transformation is transformation related to technology, media, or organizational methods. Now, I mentioned this last one, but what I mean is more like, you're going to use a new accounting software, or you're now going to use a new email server, or you're using a new app on your website, or any kind of transformation related to tech media. The use or application of various techniques or tools of craft or trade organization, and maybe finding some new powerful tool you can use or letting go of one that's not really working. But anything related to tech media. And broadly speaking, like the tools that you use to accomplish tasks, you'll also see that sometimes those go through significant changes.

Now, this could also translate into something as mundane, like literally my remote control on my TV. It doesn't work any longer, and I need to program a new universal remote. It can be so mundane, especially if it's not making big aspects of anything in our chart right now. You may find that the blip on the radar that you notice is something that simple. But anyhow, it gets us at least puts us into the headspace of what to watch for as this Mercury-Pluto dynamic comes through. This is just a short take today to give you a little taste of the Mercury-Pluto dynamic.

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