Why this Mercury Cazimi in Libra is So Important

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to continue our exploration of this week's biggest transit, which is the combination of Mercury and the Sun moving through a square to Pluto as they move across the south node of the moon but Mercury is also going to be cazimi this week and as promised, I told you guys we would take a look at Mercury's cazimi in a separate video because it really deserves one of its own.

This is not your average Mercury cazimi for a variety of reasons; not all Mercury cazimis are the same, just like not all eclipses are the same. Context is everything. There's a lot of really important context with this Mercury cazimi, and so we're going to take a look at that today and, as always, give you a sense of what you can anticipate.

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Alright, so a little lengthy introduction today, but here we are getting into it at last. So we have the transits of the week, and here they are, we have Mercury going into the heart of the Sun, and that's coming up; you can see it crosses Thursday the 19th, and it's just separating by Friday the 20th. So Thursday into Friday of this week is the cazimi.

Alright, so we have a pretty special signature to look at here, and the reason that it's so special is that we also have Mercury; as soon as it crosses over the Sun in the cazimi, we have it going into a square with Pluto. So, it's a very powerful sequence. You can actually line it up; from the perspective of today, Tuesday, October 17, we have, first of all, the Sun crossing the south node of the moon, Mercury crossing the south node of the moon, and right as it does so it goes into the cazimi Thursday into Friday, at which point it then squares Pluto and then we have Pluto squaring the Sun on Saturday, and kind of wrapping up like that.

So, what is so special about this sequence? Well, here are the things to watch for or just the details to be aware of that make this just not an average Mercury cazimi. Mercury cazimi, first of all, is the host of a fallen Venus. So, let's back this up just a touch here. Get into today, and Venus is in her fall in Virgo after having passed through an opposition to Saturn. Venus is debilitated right now.

So things for Venus can be just a little bit choppier because Venus is having to express herself in the earthy domain of Mercury, which requires a kind of compromise because there's a certain way in which Venus and Mercury are like opposites.

For example, one of the ways in ancient astrological texts explains it is that Mercury's sign of Virgo is a bit mental and, whereas the polar opposite sign, which is the exultation of Venus in the fall of Mercury, and Pisces is very sensual, and so Venus being sensual, finds it somewhat difficult to be in a sign that can be so analytical. So, mind and almost like, yeah, Mercurial. So that's a tension that Venus is dealing with right now, which doesn't make it bad or good. It just means that it's a tricky place for Venus to be, you know, sort of doing her thing.

But on the other hand, Mercury, who is as we come into this talk today, combust the Sun, under the beams of the Sun, and then combust, and that's a progression that happens for a planet as it gets closer to the Sun. Mercury is in Venus, a sign of Libra, which means that the two planets have mutual reception with one another.

Now, they don't see each other aspectually because they're in an aversion. They're in the adjacent signs that don't see each other through traditional aspects. So what's going on, though, is that their mutual reception is bringing Mercury, Mercurial, and Venusian things together more harmoniously. Now, that helps a great deal for debilitated Venus, and it also helps to a certain amount for debilitated Mercury, who's combust the Sun.

But the point is that because Mercury is the host of Venus and Venus of Mercury, that this cazimi marks a transition point where the condition of the two because they are joined in mutual reception greatly improves. The reason that it improves is that Mercury's status, as it is at the heart of the Sun and positively connected to Venus through mutual reception, means that they go from Venus goes from being hosted by a burnt up Mercury to one that is now being empowered and sort of rebirthed through the conjunction with the Sun.

So, in other words, and then, of course, Mercury will square Pluto, and we get to that in a second. But the point is that there's a reset happening from Mercury, which is actually positive for Venus as well. Now, I'll show you how this actually builds and develops in a second. But that's the first thing you need to know this week is that this Mercury cazimi is actually a turning point, positively speaking, for Venus as much as it is for Mercury, and that gives it a little extra pop because there are two planets in the sky.

One of them a benefic, Venus, who are going to get much more constructive in their significations after this transformation is complete. They can more easily grant the more positive things that one hopes that the planets will grant, for example, if Mercury in Libra grants a clearer sense of discernment.

Well, it's harder for it to grant a clearer sense of discernment when it's combust and going through the rebirthing process, and once it hits that cazimi, and it starts coming out on the other side of the Sun rising as the evening star very gradually, it's gaining power and so you could say that mercurial significations just get a little bit more easy, they get they get a little bit better, generally speaking.

Now, again, the reason that's really cool here is because that also means that Venus gets a little bit of that help, too, since Venus is debilitated in Mercury's sign but shares the mutual reception. Hope that makes sense.

Anyway, the next thing that happens that suggests this kind of rebirthing moment is that right after Mercury goes through the rebirthing of the cazimi, it hits a square to Pluto, given that Mercury is now recovering, and in this mutual reception with Venus, the Mercury square to Pluto suggests, again, a kind of Mercury, Venus rebirthing moment.

To me, that could mean a lot of different things. But one of them would be important conversations or topics coming up from the unconscious, things that aren't easy to look at but have to be looked at, and somehow the ability to do so in a way that is harmonious and easy and smoother and a little bit more productive or constructive is being granted.

That doesn't mean that things won't come up; you know there won't be some challenging material coming up. Mercury square Pluto is often a difficult conversation visiting darker or more challenging thoughts. Words that are that reveal deeper and more complicated intentions. You know, moments where you have to make hard decisions.

Those are all Mercury Pluto dynamics, especially with Mercury and Libra, the idea of having to make deeper, harder, more intense decisions or choices between different, you know, options or people or values or something. So you could say that it's a loaded moment for Mercury; it feels like a little bit of a diplomatic crisis for Mercury.

But because Mercury, again, is recovering from combustion, it has the mutual reception with Venus; as it hits the square to Pluto, you get this feeling of purification, of a moment of transformation that ultimately is kind of redeeming and uplifting, we can see that this is something that it hits a little heavier, but it transforms us.

Because Mercury, as it comes into all of this, will also be crossing the south node of the moon, where we sit here on Tuesday, it's a few days out. But what you'll see is that that happens Wednesday into Thursday of this week, the 18th and the 19th of October, and then the cazimi happens, the 19th into the 20th. So this idea of the Sun is crossing the south node. Mercury's crossing the south node, as it's sort of resetting.

You just get the feeling that we're about to clear out some old material, or that the crystallization of, you know, an insight or an understanding that's crystallizing within us, and now we have a new intelligence with which to operate by a new awareness, a new insight into the inner workings of ourselves or a situation, you get this idea of a penetrating deep understanding of something that maybe has been difficult, where you get the idea of getting to the bottom of something in relationships, especially where things are messy or hard.

By getting to the bottom of things and by allowing for grace, ease, and like diplomatic care or tact to sort of guide the situation, we come out with something very positive, I think. So, I'm trying to kind of walk us through the details of this little astrological transition that we have this week, which is quite powerful.

Number four. Why do I think that this is also a positive moment for Venus, look at what's happening by the time this little transition of Mercury in the Sun and the south node and Pluto is all completed, then by Sunday, but really Saturday into Sunday, the 21st into the 22nd. There, we have Venus training Jupiter. So Venus, right after all of this is done, Venus heads right into a trine with Jupiter.

Again, you get the feeling that this is a positive transformation for Mercury. Even if it's a little bit difficult. We're going through the south node and deep combustion and then cazimi and then a square to Pluto. It has a very powerful signature of rebirth around it or of a creative power that's coming through, but it also has to do with looking at deeper, heavier patterns or that soul history is really coming up strongly in this passage because of the south node emphasis.

But there are also insights that are crystallizing, and then boom, right away, Venus trines Jupiter, and you get this feeling of Venus also being lifted up. It's like, what does it say? What did they say, the high tide makes all boats rise. You know, that phrase, I'm getting it wrong, I think, but that's kind of what we're seeing. It's like, everything is rising up through this little transformational crisis that's really compact and tight this week, and then all of a sudden, everything sort of lifts up, Mercury's improved, its dignity, and the Sun is about to leave its fall in, in Libra. The mutual reception with Venus sort of lifts Venus up, and then Venus hits this trine to Jupiter.

So I really like the way that all of this is shaping up. I feel like whatever's happening this week is difficult but necessary, and we're going to feel better, and we're going to feel clearer in both mind and relationship by the time it's all done.

Another thing is that Mercury is also in the heart of the Sun. It's given the seal of the Sun, which means that Mercury is being granted temporarily this week a really tremendous power, the power to speak, the power to act, the power to understand, the power to come, You indicate, and then it's being doubly empowered by the depth and primordial sort of libidinal force of Pluto.

It's like we can look at hard things, we can make tough choices, we can look at our priorities, we can rearrange the order of things, and we can do so harmoniously smoothly, balancing different needs and concerns, and if we do so, like that, without being too perfectionistic, we're going to see that there's kind of like a very constructive light, easy energy that comes in.

It's a little bit like, just do this hard work, and things are gonna go well, really quickly, if you just put in a little bit of the effort this week, I think, with Libra with this heavy Libran emphasis, being the Mercury being given the seal of the Sun is probably something like being given the power and in the courage to make a hard choice, or to, to come to a resolution or compromise, that's fair, and that you can stand by.

But it's a balancing or weighing of different priorities, and we have to look at where our sort of like our loyalties lie, when our sole loyalty, what do I really care about and how is that guiding me to make hard choices, but you're being empowered. When Mercury's at the heart of the Sun, you're being empowered to make that kind of decision or to speak something.

Not everyone is always, you know, the classic Libran truth is that not everyone's going to like what you have to say or what you're thinking or the decisions you make; not everyone's going to be happy with it.

But this is the week that rewards being, you know, looking at where you stand and kind of coming to a place of inner discernment acting from that place, actually, it everything gets better, everything sort of becomes smoother and easier, and there's really a nice supportive energy that comes through if we look at the hard stuff, and make the true inner choice.

Well, I always feel when I get into the nitty-gritty of the astrological transits, I hope I'm not losing people, or I'm being clear enough because sometimes I don't feel super clear when I'm explaining it. But I hope it was clear enough to be useful. That's that's all I can really hope for.

I would love to hear your thoughts and reflections on this one as the week goes on. We'll probably be looking at this again, I think, from a slightly different angle. I was thinking of bringing the I-Ching in to take a look at this as well, but we'll see; maybe some tarot cards, something like that. It's a big week, and I can't wait to experience it. It should be interesting. I'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.