Emotional Intensity: Mercury & The Sun in Cancer Opposite Pluto

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Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. It's nice to be back. Happy Monday, everybody. I had a very relaxing week off and got to spend some time with family and enjoyed my birthday well while my dad was visiting. And that's funny; the transits always feel very different to me when I'm not in content creation mode. It's like they're always there. And I always notice them in my personal life, but it's just it's really different experiencing transits when I'm not writing or thinking about how to talk about them on YouTube. It's like, so I always find it really refreshing to have like a week off. It really sort of resets me as someone who talks about astrology every day. Anyway, hope you guys were well. I missed all of you and missed interacting with you guys.

Today we're going to talk about Mercury and the Sun opposite Pluto and a lot of Cancerian energy in the air super Mercury opposite Pluto weekend. I wonder if you guys already experienced that I had a lot of good grabbed stories coming in. We're doing a grabbed episode this week, I think.

So today, we are looking at Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn. That is July 18, followed on the 19th by the sun in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn. We put this up on the real-time clock so that you can see exactly what we're looking at here. And I've got five themes to watch for this is definitely the transit of the week. There's not much as this, really. I mean, it steals the show this week. There's nothing that's really bigger than this one. So we're starting the week with it, of course. Okay, here we go. So you can see here the transits of Mercury and the Sun opposite Pluto. Mercury is going to slide past that opposition really quickly; you would have been feeling it already over the weekend. But then the sun follows that up right away. Venus is also entering the sign of cancer. So that could be pretty interesting watching Venus, change the mood a little bit around what's been happening with this Cancerian drama. Maybe Venus brings a little bit of an uplift. We're also pretty soon we're going to have our eye on Mars heading into conjunction with Uranus.

When I started off in 2022 talking about the astrology of the year, late July, especially the Mars Uranus conjunction, was one of the ones I had my eye on, like that's a huge transit. So it'll be interesting to see what comes up there. But five themes to watch for today with Mercury in the sun opposite Pluto and Capricorn. The first one is obvious. It's emotional drama, family drama, living environment drama; it is that volcanic explosion or expulsion or purgation of things that are caught trapped, repressed, stuck in the unconscious or the subconscious. It is all that comes up from the past or the history of the family and the roots. It's the darker currents or themes, the heavier, more emotionally challenging, or dynamic themes around things like your family or your living environment, that the place of nuclear emotional investment.

So you know the potential for Mercury in the sun opposite Pluto, for explosions, emotionally is very strong. That's probably one of the that's why I put it number one that can include family drama. It can include civil drama, like in your neighborhood, living environment could include your neighborhood. We've been, unfortunately, dealing with some very passive-aggressive and nosy neighbors. And you know, I just couldn't believe it like if you remember at the New Moon; New Moon in Cancer square Jupiter in Aries. I said this moon cycle feels like it could be real Hatfields versus McCoys. And I was just joking. I mean, I was not; I mean, it was just a funny way of putting it, I guess. But it was like, Wow, no, we're actually dealing with people who you know, we're just, I'll just put it that, just jerky neighbors. That's the only way I have some great neighbors around us. But we found out we have some real a-holes living around us to a well it's life, and I'm you know, on my worst days, I'm sure I'm the a hole. So you know, whatever. Anyway, that's the big one to watch for, though. Watch for that, that. It's not just drama. I mean that what I mean by drama is catharsis. It's the moment of peak dynamism within something happening around the home family emotional, mental, and psychological themes that were places where we feel more vulnerable. And it has some history behind it. And it's reaching that, that moment of transformational intensity. So that's the first one to watch for just this whole week, but especially the first two, three days of the week.

Number two, seeing a pattern, changing a pattern, and then feeling as though I've taken a big step in my motion, emotional, psychological growth, and maturity. It's when you level up as a parent, or a spouse, or a sister or, you know, a son or a daughter or something like that. It's the moment when you see a pattern very clearly in your family, and you recognize it within yourself. And suddenly, it feels like there's been a transformation of family karma because you've seen something, you've named it, and you've decided, this is how I'm going to respond as a way of not perpetuating the pattern. So watch for that as well.

I think that the potential to see deeply rooted patterns to have a real, emotionally palpable understanding of where and why something has been the way that it has been something with history tends to be very Cancerian Plutonian, as well, in the sense that it's heavy, it's dark, it's yucky, it's stagnant and stuck that, but now it's being released, and you know, toxin, it could be like toxins being purged emotionally or psychologically.

Three. Death of the Father. Now the Father is really an archetypal figure; sometimes, this could be literal, like literally dads or grandfathers could die. Or you could see real, real intense drama relative to fathers. You know, in that could look a million, that could show up in a million different ways. But when we say the death of the Father, what we really mean is, here's Pluto, lord of death and rebirth, coming into an oppositional, you know, form of tension with the sun, the planet that is often related to at least the archetypal ideal image of the Father, as a father, myself, for example, I'm the perhaps I go through a moment this week of realizing how I can change or improve or understanding a pattern within myself in terms of what it means to be a father to my girls, or, you know, you could see this as something that's happening. Something that a dad is literally going through, you know, a health crisis or a scare, a dramatic twist or turn of fate. You could see not just fathers, but also, let's extend this to any solar figure heroes, leaders, CEOs, executives, and people with some greater sense of authority or responsibility in your workplace. So solar figures may go through a real sort of transformational crisis.

Now, the other thing to watch for is the, we say death of the Father, remember that the Son, also, in addition to Father can be about What, what is our ideal archetypal image, and this is one that has some, probably some kind of history like us, What has my ideal been for throughout the course of my life, almost like the getting presented with like a biographical picture of your ambitions, your ideals, your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations, and seeing some of them die or realizing something about them has been unhealthy or recognizing that a certain path you're taking is not the one you want to take any longer and ideal that's changing, maybe it has to become more mature, it's been naive in some way or childish in some way.

Or on the other hand, maybe you've not been you've been overly realistic, or overly practical, or you've been too restrictive or, you know, kind of limiting yourself somehow, and the sun opposite Pluto, especially cancer Capricorn can be about letting that inner child and your dream or pursue something that has emotional, you feel emotional, emotionally charged about I love this, you know, this is really what I love. So sometimes it's also about letting the sun shine and seeing the sun come up through the darkness, kind of a dark night of the soul but almost like an Easter morning theme. Those would also be very, I just kind of camp them in with the death of the Father because I'm really talking about when I talk about death of the Father is Pluto in the sun, in the sun being an image of the Father.

So wounds with history. Sometimes you are visiting; it's like weird karmic mirroring. You're going to encounter something in the world, and it's going to give you insight into the history of a pattern, a wound, a hurt. So watch for healing, but also watch for coming to understand a wound or a hurt. And it's almost like its biographical depths. The Sun, Mercury, and Pluto can be like, deep, deep realizations or emotional breakthroughs, especially while understanding something that has history. I talked about that a little bit earlier with family karma as well. But this doesn't necessarily have to be rooted in the family; it could just be, this is how I've done relationships for 30 years, and I'm seeing the pattern reflected in this person's, you know, drama in my workplace, right now or something. So you can, you know, sometimes you can understand something about yourself, really, at a profoundly deep level by witnessing something that's happening that's like a carries an echo of it, in someone or something else in the periphery around you. So watch for that kind of effect, as well.

And number five, saying The difficult thing out of love, especially Mercury in the sun, it's like, I love you, but I have to leave you, I love you. And I have to tell you this, the need for emotional honesty, to not hide something, the need for the truth. Now, there's nothing worse in the world than telling someone you know, hey, I'm really upset with what you did or whatever. And their basic response is Sorry you feel that way. You know, this is maybe one of those transits where, you know, if people aren't able to have insight, self-insight, self-reflection as to the role that they've played in the history of a relationship or a family or a pattern, that, you know, if they're, if they're not able to do that, you're going to see things like divorces, or you're going to see things like, look, you know, this relationship can't last, or it's now it's no longer feasible for me. So, emotional honesty, emotional breakthroughs, emotional sincerity, saying the difficult thing, owning up to the difficult thing. Because love is more important than protecting yourself or being right, so I think about this as an opportunity for like a really sincere moment of emotional reckoning. Maybe again, it's focused on family with the Cancerian emphasis, but I don't think it has to be. I think it could be, you know, it could very easily be about just anything that has something that I should say, or have been wanting to say, but have been keeping inside out of fear or, you know, fear of what is what, that it might hurt to say something, or to, to allow ourselves to even start thinking something with this one.

Pluto tends to greatly empower those who are willing, to be honest at a very deep level. Honesty and authenticity, Pluto seems to reward somehow. So even if it's dark or heavy, it's, it's so relieving, to be honest. So those are some of the themes that I would watch for. I think to watch, also just Pluto sun in general, the theme of the dying hero, or the something bigger than ourselves that we might sacrifice for, because of deep concern and care. That's a very Cancerian thing. And when paired with Pluto, you could also see like, the, you know, the mother who cares so much about the son, that they'll check the son into rehab, you know, take them there. Trick them, you know, I'm not. I'm taking you somewhere. Where are you taking me? I'm not telling you. I don't know. It's like a movie. That's a picture of a movie that's in my head or something. So it's there's something heroic but potentially painful about the sun in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn. Okay, I've said enough for today.

I hope that that was useful. If you have any stories to share over the next few days, we are probably going to be doing a grabbed episode this week. And I think these would make for a nice addition, so use the hashtag grabbed in the comment section to tell us the mercury Sun opposite Pluto story that comes into your awareness this week; the planets were called Grahas by Indian astrologers, which meant grabbers. The planets tend to grab and direct our lives when we're not living with a kind of reflective awareness, which is what astrology is here to help us with. And if you have a story you'd like to share, but you don't want to share it in the comment section, but you don't mind it being used in a future episode or storytelling episode, email it to us grabbed at nightlight astrology.com We'll use it we'll we collect all the stories there. And we'll be sharing some of them soon. Lots of good ones have come in. Thank you all so much for sharing them with me. It's always an honor.

Alright, that's what I've got for today. Glad to be back and see you again tomorrow. Bye, everyone.