Mercury in Aquarius

[Ava]

This transit begins today. 

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Mercury enters the sign of Aquarius today, where it will transit until February 3rd. It will return (briefly) in March due to an upcoming retrograde. During this Mercury in Aquarius cycle, we're hungry for knowledge and open to new and original ideas. Our thinking is progressive and objective. Our communication and thought patterns are spontaneous, somewhat fragmented, and liberal. This is a time when inventive thinking is at a peak. The Moon spends the day in gracious Libra, and we're especially sensitive to areas of our lives (and especially our relationships) that have come out of balance.

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1/16/20 - Mercury Enters Aquarius

Maintaining neutrality is tougher now, even though the Moon is visiting diplomatic Libra. Our opinions become more important as Luna dynamically squares bombastic Jupiter. However, cerebral Mercury seeks factual objectivity once it enters conceptual Aquarius. Personal value judgments are set aside in the name of knowledge; beliefs give way to scientific proof. Nevertheless, we may harbor a bit of uncertainty while we are still gathering data.

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For anyone who likes to keep a mental note about when Mercury goes Rx next:

After leaving Aquarius on February 3, Mercury will enter Pisces. But then — you’ve got it — Mercury goes retrograde on February 16 in Pisces. During its retrograde period (when the planet appears to move backwards in its orbit, as seen from our perspective on Earth), Mercury will re-enter Aquarius on March 4. Then, the planet will end its retrograde transit and begin moving direct in Aquarius on March 9, before finally re-entering Pisces on March 16. As Mercury retrogrades through these two signs, “We may facilitate from hot and cold emotions as well as uncertainty about what to bring in our lives,” Stardust says. Be prepared!

www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/01/9201907/mercury-in-aquarius-january-2020-astrology-meaning

Proud to have the same Mercury sign as Jesus:

www.astrotheme.com/celebrities/mercury/aquarius/1.htm

[Electrode]

It's good to know that my Mercury will be in Aquarius this year for my solar return. I've had enough years with Mercury in Capricorn already lol. In fact, with my Solar Return I will have a small Pisces stellium with Moon in Pisces, and Venus conjunct Neptune in Pisces exact in the 4th house.

[Ava]

Interesting solar return Electrode. I hope you have good experiences with it. I wonder if anything special will happen when the sun transits there in Pisces season.

[Ava]

Today:

"1/18/20 - Mercury Square Uranus
It’s nearly impossible to keep our thoughts on track today while clever Mercury forms a creative square to wild Uranus. Our brains are sparking new ideas so fast that we’re unable to juggle them all. Although we can jump through intellectual hoops, we might have nothing to show for all our mental gymnastics by the end of the day. Thankfully, the emotionally intense Scorpio Moon gives us the ability to follow through as we put our plans into motion."

I guess that first part would also apply to my natal chart energy (Aqua Mercury square Uranus), except my Mercury opposes Saturn, which slows everything down. Still, I can relate to having nothing to show for the mental gymnastics.

[lumina]

I have pr Mercury in aqua, it turned retro not too long ago. It had been on 25 aqua for ages, but now its going to slowly speed upvto revisit my moon and pr sun in a fee years

Oh someones pr uranus squares my pr mercury with 0.00 orb. 😅

[lumina]

Mercury timeline


1996 into aqua
1997 square uranus
2008 conjunct n Moon, pr Venus, pr avx
2016 enter 25 aqua
Febr. 2018 retrograde
May 2020 exit 25 aqua
2027 conjunct pr sun 18 aqua
2028 conjunct n moon 17 aqua

[anela]

I wonder if that's what triggered my anxiety last night. I'd had a good week, except for Wednesday, when I couldn't sleep at all the night before, or that morning - so I gave up, showered, stayed awake until gone 10pm, took Tylenol PM, and slept well. Woke up feeling fine, took more Tylenol on Thursday night, slept well again, although not as well as the night before. Got up earlier, just as I hoped, had a good day, got out last night, because we had snow today, and I didn't know how bad it would be. I also needed to get out, because I hadn't left the house since Saturday.

Anyway, last night, the anxiety right in the middle of my chest, kept up, I had trouble sleeping, and got up later today. Since I've been gifted with a couple of zits, I wonder if it's hormonal - but Uranus square Mercury (and my ascendant/descendant) would also help with that.

[Ava]

Jan 18, 2020 15:35:56 GMT lumina said:

Mercury timeline


1996 into aqua
1997 square uranus
2008 conjunct n Moon, pr Venus, pr avx
2016 enter 25 aqua
Febr. 2018 retrograde
May 2020 exit 25 aqua
2027 conjunct pr sun 18 aqua
2028 conjunct n moon 17 aqua

I had to copy your idea, I just had to.

I made a more extensive and precise list but this is the basic skeleton of my Mercury progression:

1983 Pr Mercury turns Rx @ 9 Aqua
1992 Pr sun conjunct pr Mercury @ 2 Aqua
1994 Pr Mercury enters Capricorn 
2000 Pr Mercury enters the 23-24° Cap range, where it stays for over 7 years
2015 Pr Mercury re-enters Aquarius 
2019 Pr Mercury conjunct natal Mercury -- this summer 

In a few years, pr Mercury will finally be out of the shadow zone, where it's been my entire life. Then its first major aspect is a trine to pr Pluto in 2025 (11° Aqua Mercury, trine 11° Libra Pluto), while my pr moon is exactly on my natal sun. 

Your pr Mercury and mine should be conjunct in about a decade. 

2038 My pr Mercury enters Pisces. That seems so far away, but in that time period, the transiting nodes will return to where they are now.

[lumina]

Ava

that sounds nice about the conjunction of our Mercuries.

Well mine is sextile my natal Mercury at the moment. Never sure how much importance a sextile has, but it sounds nice.

My Mercury also seems to be rather fond of being in Aquarius. It will only make it back to 9°37 Aquarius and in summer 2039 it will become direct again. LOL So if I live that long, it will pass over my Moon a THIRD time in 2052. lol
It will never see Capricorn again though.

[Ava]

lumina ,

Your Mercury has gone sixty degrees forward, and here I am celebrating that I'm almost back to where it was at birth. "Hooray, almost at the starting point!"

Just waiting for my brain to get switched on. It's gonna be awesome. 

[lumina]

Ava

that is true but since it has come to Aquarius, it made itself comfy there it seems. But there could be worse signs for Mercury.

[asterova]

This transit makes it difficult to forget that I'm too genius for this world. Too bad I'm stuck on this planet. 

[vg]

I didnt even realise merc rx was coming up soon. Over the past week I've had some weird money things happening:

-Got a taxi(ordered via an app), for payment the taxi drivers machine that puts the card payment through wouldnt work so ended up paying cash. That night i checked my bank balance and saw the payment had gone through. So had to get a refund from the taxi company
-We had a take away delievered but they were really late and food was cold so we got a refund.
-Ordered a coat online for myself and i noticed two sums had been taken from my account(it looks the subtotal and the total(which is subtotal plus delivery), waiting to hear back from them, my statement doesnt say who took the payment but this is what it looks like so if they come back saying it wasnt them i'll need to go to the bank to see. Usually have no issues with them so im not that worried.

Mercury is going through my natal 4th but in my LR it is in my 2nd house, so thought that was weird

Pls dnt quote

[Violets]

We already have so many Uranus and Chiron transits happening in our household, we can do without Mercury square Uranus hitting us all too, lol. It does help to explain some of the broken electronics lately... 😬

[anela]

Jan 23, 2020 16:43:12 GMT Violets said:

We already have so many Uranus and Chiron transits happening in our household, we can do without Mercury square Uranus hitting us all too, lol. It does help to explain some of the broken electronics lately... 😬

Our washing machine, that we've needed to replace for a while, is now leaking water. Dad is finally looking for another one. 

[anela]

Oh, no. I've just realized that he's looking for a washing machine, and Mercury is retrograde. I hope this will fall under something we should have done a long time ago. He's been having trouble, because he'll think he's settled on one, and then he'll find more negative reviews about the appliance, or the company. At least for as long as he's looking, I'll know where to find him, if I lose him in a large store that sells appliances.

[Violets]

anela I didn’t realize it had already gone retrograde, dear lord...I just dyed and chopped off a good four inches of my hair yesterday! I was wondering about Mercury, because I didn’t do a very good job of it, lol. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂