Mercury Blazing with a Message as Morning Star

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

Today we're going to take a look at Mercury appearing as the morning star, not just the basal dynamic, which will last for a while, but the specific day or couple of days in which Mercury makes its first appearance. This was thought of as a very powerful window for Mercury and its symbolism or meaning in our lives. We're going to take a look at what might be appearing today, tomorrow, the next maybe two to three days at most. So that's that. That is our agenda for day. I think you'll find this really interesting if you've never learned about the traditional significations of Mercury making its very first appearance. This should be really interesting and give you some practical things to watch for in your in your life right now.

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Now it does depend a little bit on your location on Planet Earth. So mine's set to Minneapolis, but that first appearance you can always kind of guesstimate that it's like there's an average that was used around 15 degrees. It's much more specific than that. So this is a great tool in the software program that will allow you to see when Mercury is making its first appearance. But basically, the way you can see it is if I back this clock up just a little bit, you're going to notice that if I draw a line between the Sun and Mercury, that Mercury will rise above the horizon prior to the sun. That means that Mercury is appearing as the morning star. It's about 15 degrees away from the sun as a rough average that you start to see it. But for the exact day of visibility, which is a very powerful omen of change, you have to use a tool like this and get get the real specific day. But the appearance of Mercury as the morning star was a very powerful omen in ancient astrology. And if you were paying attention to Venus's appearance as morning star, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Now, Venus as the morning star appeared. Let's see here. Let's use this tool again, and we'll go this time to Venus, who is now visible. But that was the 29th of October. You can see in the little tool on Necepso here, morning first appearance, 2026, october 29. That was at 27 degrees of Libra. So if you noticed that. All of a sudden, things started really shifting around that time relative to Venus material. That's par for the course. That's that is Venus appearing as her morning star in her own bound, in her own domicile, moving into a sextile with Jupiter. Pretty powerful first appearance. What's really nice about this appearance is that we get the Scorpio period over with, and by that I don't mean that there isn't more forward movement to happen in Scorpio. But when things are kind of backlogged in Scorpio, meaning there's retrograde movement, there can be a very deep feeling of emotional stagnation and and like a lack of meaningful or a feeling of positive movement, it's kind of taking you down and in, down and in, down and in. And when it first appears as the morning star, it is just about to turn direct. If we take this forward, let's put Nechepso back up on the screen. If we take this forward just a little bit longer. We're going to see that by Saturday, Mercury and Venus both station. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. But that station direct right after the morning appearance, which is in the like today, tomorrow stretch it maybe into Saturday, where you get the really powerful Mercury moments. That's happening as Mercury turns direct and as Venus turns direct. Really powerful shift of momentum that's taking place here, and that concludes back-to-back retrogrades that spent a lot of time in Scorpio.

Now, before I get into my list of things to watch for with respect to Mercury's morning star appearance, which is really interesting. I want to say just a few things about Scorpio. First of all, I was working with someone recently who had a ninth house stellium in Scorpio. I was preparing a reading for them, and just generally speaking, anytime you have people with a ninth house stellium and Scorpio, one of the things that the ninth house signifies is is wisdom. It's a dharma house in ancient Indian astrology, which means we're learning about what is real and what is true, about reality itself, right? About the gods, about philosophy, religion. The dharma of the first house is more like what's true about me, like selfhood and individual nature. The ninth house is about like the nature of ultimate reality. When you have Scorpio in the ninth house, the wisdom is born of loss and death and impermanence. It's like saying I'm getting a Ph.D. in the meaning of impermanence, death, loss, decay, that kind of symbolic dark, dark autumnal quality. And when you go to Scorpio school, one thing is for sure: things will not remain the same. They will be forever transformed. And there's a a touch of venom in the scorpion's tail, the the stinger, right? There's like a venom, and the venom is also a medicine, and that's that's been. I'm not the first person to say this. This has been around for a really long time. This is why the caduceus has the snake wrapped around it. If you've ever seen that image before, the thing that kills is also the thing that heals.

This sign of Scorpio is a sign of cosmic soul medicine. You know that's why Scorpio is so alluring. It's like a death rattle, and also the shaman's ability to resurrect old bones and put them into, you know, new form or something like that. It's the crows picking you apart and putting you back together. The scorpionic process that we have been through with two retrogrades in Scorpio. Many of us, some of us, you know, we're maybe coasting by and things haven't been super eventful, and that's normal too. It really depends on what's getting activated. If Scorpio is angular in your chart, if there's aspects happening with these retrogrades or station points, you know what transits are. It's very contextual, but for a lot of people right now who've really been touched by these retrogrades, the experience is one of being taken down and deep into something that feels like poison. It feels like, oh, just yuck. And then, but then what happens is it starts to work on you when you're pulled so deeply down and in. In time, it works on you. And this, what starts to happen around the stations, direct in this, and then the forward movement back through the signs, is the medicinal side comes through, where this venom drew out, like almost like homeopathy, like treats like it. It sort of drew out something toxic within you, but you had to taste or touch.

Now I know this very well because I worked with ayahuasca for 10 years, and my wife is an herbalist, and she's always feeding me all sorts of gross twigs and. Leaves, and it's but it's it's like I know it's good when it tastes really bitter. You know things that are really good for you often taste bad going down, feel good coming out. You've heard that before, I'm sure. These are all scorpionic ideas. So with the morning star appearance, there's this feeling of clearing, of clarity, and of starting the process of the resurrection. the The resurrected form is sort of fully present. Now that is has been happening since the Cazimi. Okay, so we had a Cazimi. Let's put this back up on the screen, and let's go backward and talk about that Cazimi just a little bit. So the Cazimi was Wednesday, november 4, okay? And Venus and Jupiter were together, and Venus had just made her Morning Star appearance. That this is Wednesday of last week. That was the previous weekend. Venus had made her Morning Star appearance. Mercury and and the sun get together, and Mercury begins the process of rebirth, delivers its final insights, and then is is sort of, and this is where the poison becomes the medicine. It's really in the heart of the sun, right there. Then we go forward, and here we are on Thursday, November 12, and Mercury appears as the morning star.

So here's what you can expect, with the idea in mind that we have been through a long kind of first stage of poison, now emerging into medicine. If that is helpful, you know, if that's too heavy, just forget that I said it and don't tell me that it upset you. I'm just kidding. Okay, so the first one on my list of five things to watch for, and this is pretty true for any Mercury Morning Star appearance. But I've seen them a little scorpionic here. One is the arrival of news. What happens when we have been we've gone into the darkness and we're now emerging into the light, poison to medicine? Sometimes that will coincide with an important message or announcement, a phone call you receive, a text message, a document, a conversation, something that breaks the silence or starts dramatically shifting something, and that shift is the poison to medicine, the death to rebirth. So the the other thing is that something may have been developing behind the scenes, and now it finally becomes clear what's been happening, and you get news about it. The news could be relatively small in in size, but huge in significance. That's not uncommon for something like this. It's one small detail that sort of changes everything. It's very Mercury. Now, the messenger's appearance.

Mercury as the morning star was thought of as the appearance of a messenger, a person who can bring some kind of useful information or news or idea or an answer or some some Proclamation, even now in Scorpio, the idea is that that may involve something that has you've been waiting on or that's been in process because of the retrograde. It's pretty private. It has a lot of deep emotional charge, and that you have the feeling of emotional clearing that comes with the news. And that news, I'm not saying it's positive or negative. It's just clearing, it's healing, it's moving. Number two on my list would be revelation. So, revelation is sort of similar, but it's about when something is I can see it. It's now perceptible, and it was previously hidden, or overlooked, or somehow difficult to say or speak or articulate. Okay, so now I can I can reveal what's been concealed or hidden. This is also Scorpio is like an investigative journalist. So if we're able to suddenly articulate a pattern or make sense of something that we've had to probe and think very deeply about. There's been a sense of things are scattered and hard to understand, and now they're coherent. And there's this feeling of ah, revelation. Um. And and and the other thing is discovery in general. Like Mercury was a planet assigned to inventors and inventiveness, and the Morning Star appearance can be like a discovery that comes through research, or like I was saying, like an investigative journalist making a discovery. The first appearance of Mercury can also be like a clue, a very powerful one. Sometimes it sneaks under the radar a little bit because its first appearance is like, wait, is that? Oh wow, right? But at first you kind of go like, it can almost slide by you, slip under the radar. That's what I'm trying to say.

Now in Scorpio, I would be wondering about this revelation involving like, what is the hidden motive, or can I? Trust something, or what is my attachment or investment in something emotionally, or what am I afraid of, or yeah, the the reality underneath some what somebody is saying or what's being presented, um. And and can I trust what I'm seeing? So those are all archetypal elements that may be present. Number three on my list is what I call voicing, because there's a variety of ways we could talk about this. One is some someone that hasn't been saying something finally says something. They just voice something, and then the conversation can move forward. But it can also be about finding your voice or finding confidence in your voice where previously didn't have any. It's kind of like if someone's been giving you the silent treatment, they might start talking with you again. If someone has been hiding something, they might confess. If someone has been lacking confidence, they might find it. Whatever that looks like, finding words or language and being able to articulate it, even if it's just internally, very powerful example of Mercury appearing as the morning star. Sometimes there's a question that emerges, but it's a really meaningful one that will shape the future because you're asking it. Also, the idea is that speech around the appearance of Mercury as a morning star is it just carries a lot of weight. It's there's a gravitas and a there's something of great consequence around what's being spoken or said that will shape what happens next in an undeniable way.

You can see why with all of these powerful significations, those first couple of days of Mercury's Morning Star appearance was considered so powerful. Now, in Scorpio, I think of this voicing as about discretion or privacy or vulnerability, intimacy, kind of more vulnerable emotional territory, or again something that's maybe hidden or or unconscious. All right. Let's move on to the next one on my list, which is understanding. Often we are going through something, and it's not that we. It like how can I articulate this? You just want to understand why you're going through it. You're like, I can go through it if I just understand why. Why am I meant to go through it? Usually, in a retrograde, two retrogrades back to back, we've gone through some things, and it's usually at this phase, Morningstar appearance phase, turning direct phase where we start to go. I understand why I had to go through that. I understand what that was about. Now it's it makes sense. That's the emergence into clarity that the morning star position brings. But it could also be that something appears as an idea or like as an astrologer, morning star appearances I've tracked many times as the emergence of a new understanding of something astrological. Oh my God! I finally understand something about a house, a sign, a planet, an aspect that I've never understood before. At least not quite this way.

It's emerging into the light of my conscious understanding. Thank you. Wow, that's really a breakthrough. Sometimes morning star Mercury will show up as a teacher or a dream or some kind of synchronicity that puts you on a track of learning or thinking in a different way, or something that is appearing as something you want to go further with and like investigate it. Now, in the sign of Scorpio in particular, I I wonder about the difficulty emotionally and having emotional intelligence and understanding around something that's been really heavy, that to me would be very Mercury Morning Star Scorpio. All right. Well, finally is opening, and I really have to think. I really think that for a lot of people, this is going to be the one that feels the best, because when Mercury appears as that morning star, you know where there has been delays or rerouting or frustrations or flipping of circumstances, you can feel like momentum is moving forward again, and an opening is appearing where there has been stagnation, decay, loss, lack of clarity, just an opening, an opportunity, movement forward. That's what a lot of people are going to enjoy the most. It just feels like ah, things are getting back on track again. Um. Yeah, the appearance of morning as morning as a Mercury star, Mercury as a morning star, would be that this appearance of an some kind of omen that you receive around this time.

Omens can come in people, they can come in animals, they can come in dreams, they can come in synchronicities, they can come internally. But watch for a sign that is is almost like the the first sign or indication that a door or a new path. Is opening now in Scorpio. This may require some deep or subtle investigation emotionally, psychologically. It might have to do with what you can trust or what is most real, and it might have to do with squaring up to accept some difficult lessons that have been a part of the last month or so, month and a half, really. Something that's been stalled, movement, all of these things. Now, about opening, there's one final idea that I want to impart today before we leave. I was, I've been, you know, I I love the game of chess. It's a hobby of mine. It's fun. I taught my girls how to play chess, and they were they were playing they were playing chess against each other in the other room, and they've been you know honing their skills, and all all of a sudden I heard the chessboard flip, and I was like, okay, yeah, and then crying, so we we had to have a conversation about being a good winner and being a good loser, and everyone has had this conversation before, right?

You know, and we we just talked about how the the cool thing about the game of chess is that if you don't think about it so much in terms of winning or losing, but in terms of learning how to see patterns, then chess is always interesting because even when you lose, if you can take a minute to understand why you lose, why you lost, or where the mistakes happened and how they compounded and turned the game against you or whatever, then it becomes interesting because every game you get better specifically because you treat it like learning, learning about what about patterns. I think that astrology is a bit like helping us to see life like a game of chess. That is to say, a play. There's a play with patterns on a board that has so many possibilities, but still some parameters. There's choices you make, but the choices are bound by different laws. The pieces have to move in certain ways, and there's only a certain number of squares, and so on and so forth. Now, when I consider that astrology is a lot like that, right? We we have certain laws of nature, of karma, of fate that are mysterious to us, but we sense they're a real part of the the board. You know the the parameters of life. We have something that feels like choice, but there's still parameters around it. You know, and it's really easy when you win to gloat, and it's really easy when you lose to flip the board. You know, you know what I mean.

And what I'm thinking about is these planets turn direct. Is if things are clearing and feeling good again, and a feeling of movement is coming back, just how important it is in those moments to be a good winner, right? Not forgetting that at some point not too long ago you had to be a good loser and chances are you will again. I played 1000s of games of chess on Chess.com and I think I don't know I'm I I probably lost about as many as I've won. You know what I mean? And that's probably how life is too. We had someone who made you know made made an offer on the house and then sort of disappeared, or they were saying they were going to make an offer on the house and then they sort of disappeared, and I everything in me was like fuck this game I quit you know like flip flip the chessboard, and what I told my what I told my girls to is what I had to figure out how to do, which was not easy. Which is to reach across the board when you lose, shake the hand, and say good game. I learned something. What did I learn? Consult an astrologer before try to sell your house for all these fucking retrogrades. I'm just kidding. You know what? I'm I'm surrendered to the process at this point, all the way up until I'm not, and then I have to surrender again.

It's a never-ending hamster wheel, but reaching out my hand to the universe and being like, "Well played," is one of the things that happened. Was when that news came in, I really started just assuming, you know, well, this will go through. Our troubles are over, and then they sort of disappeared. Maybe it'll still come through. I don't know, but the point is that because I was able to sit down and think about the retrograde during this process when that happens happened a little while ago now, but when that happened, I was able to say, "Okay, there's a way I can learn about astrology and stay interested, and stay a good loser. A loser meaning I just didn't get my subjective self-interest. You know what I mean. But if I can stay interested in something more than winning and losing, in learning and paying attention and listening and taking an interest in things in the. Way they play out, regardless of whether or not they're exactly what I want, and if I stay the same when I win, that's really important because as things turn direct, it's going to be easy for us to feel like ah, my my worries are gone. The medicine feels a lot better going out than it does going down, right? But don't forget how it felt going down. That's not to say live in fear. It's not to say live in in anxiety all the time. It's to say don't forget because this will come back. We're all gonna die. That's a medicine. You know what I mean?

We we all have to keep that medicine in our hearts because that medicine, if we keep it in our heart, both the light and dark of it, the poison and the medicine, we keep that scorpionic wisdom within us. It's protective. It that's the one of the most beautiful things about the sign of Scorpio is how deeply protective the sign is. Protective of what? Protective of a well-being that is not rooted in light conquering darkness because this sign teaches us that darkness conquering light is just as meaningful. Darkness and nightfall and the sunset and old age and disease and impermanence are medicines for an infinite eternal soul journeying from lifetime to lifetime. I don't want that, do you? That's why we stay respectful. So even if there is an opening, remember bow, stay interested, be a good winner, and don't flip the board. All right, that's my thoughts for the day. I hope that they're useful and interesting for you. I hope you're having a beautiful, great day today. I'm going to tell you about the year one program. We start this weekend, so consider it. Need-based tuition is available. Hope to see some of you all this weekend. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Bye.