Merc’s Flaming Cazimi
Art by Pink-Prince
Merc's flary flexy rx-ing through Aries was sure to confound. In Venus' immediate wake operating as the haymaker of this very ramrod one two punch. Merc's retrograde redirection has been operating like a blunt force instrument. And in shuddering eclipse territory, its cauldera an unsteady place to stay still.
The first week of any Mercing whacks us off course, the trickster's mockery of sure things like control and planning. Changing the course of things suddenly, altering propulsion fast so we react in a clunky fever of problem and novel solution. It breaks any veneers cultivated to disguise denizens we slept on or banished. It raoses spectres and hard questions. The soundtrack of the first week and change is sirens.
Merc's cazimi marks the second phase with a blazing shift in perception as he today also* whirled across the face of the sun. Expect a similar eclipse of mental territories, pattern blindness and brutal realisation to follow, dropping like phoenix fire in the dark road to the solar eclipse. Its initiation sequence is baptism by fire that changes states through cascading points of no return. It's always better to know. It changes how you move. In cardinal territory dynamism is the trickster's secret weapon.
Watch carefully now from the crowded void as the great unsaid find its voice. Hear the thundering reversal of false fortune as excuses and lies turn to ash. What roars will not be unheard echoing through past and future dimensions. Doors will fly open and slam shut in rapid succession. Nothing will stay as it seems.
Now we run Merc's gauntlet back to the gate, winging it and weaving in another stitch to pull taught at the theshold. Tomorrow looping Pluto by sextile, licking his lips at the chaos and flame from Aquaria. And then lighting up the dark of the moon like a revelation that reorients time and space and knowing, as prelude to the eclipse.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2025