Merc’s Mad Dash Through Taurus
Mercury pinball machine by Jack-Bot, designed by Barry Oursler and Larry DeMar
Merc has spent the week pinballing through Taurus and this weekend our fleet footed messenger gets all the bells dinging. Making multiple aspects, synchronising impact and playing fast and loose with our hammering headspaces.
Merc's charge through Taurus on his way to his next adventure has unearthed where our minds may have got stuck in the mud of the old world and its inhumane tenets. They never worked for us, just for them. As revolution moves us all ready or not, Merc makes us play catch up fast. Deftly bouncing off the big players and dinging the eclipse bell.
This long weekend Merc's holy trinity will see him careen quickly between aspects, his winged heels flipping us from one state to the next. Moods chop and change, states come and go, our fingers twitch by the button. The veils are thinning as the wheel creaks eternal progress and our next sabbat moves into our field of feeling, just beyond the first eclipse on the horizon.
Merc squares Saturn in Aquaria sighing, the lights flicker and dim. We feel the work and its weight, the limits of our relationship to time and tides. The pall casts a long shadow over narrowed minds. Isolation nips at its heels. The bells continue to clang.
Merc sextiles Neptune in Pisces and our senses shimmer. We feel the veils wafting about us, dreams in our bellies and stars in our eyes and our ancestors' fingers in our hair. Intuition whispers codes into the old stories and hides the keys in plain sight. Communication basks in deeper perceptions.
Merc wins the race to the eclipse as he hits the jackpot on the north node. Our synapses crackle and reach forwards. Thinking shifts towards the future in your grasp as purpose blinks on the scoreboard. Tickets pour from the slot.
Everything all at once or nothing at all, darkling? This weekend Merc is playing games and taking bets, payable by the first eclipse.
I believe in mystery and multiplicity
~ Richard Rohr
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2022