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June 25, 2013 9:40 pm EDT
Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer
June 26, 2013 9:08 am EDT
Mercury turns direct in Cancer
July 20, 2013 2:22 pm EDT
Thinking and feeling are sometimes said to be opposites. Emotions make thinking unreliable, murky, confused. And logic is cold, an enemy to the heart.
Is that true? Overwhelming emotion, especially in traumatic circumstances, can interfere with clear thinking and accurate memory. There's evidence, though, that emotion helps both thinking and memory: We don't solve problems we don't care about; we don't remember things of no importance.
More importantly, the combination of feeling and thinking leads us to personal insight. Bringing reflective thought to our emotions, while allowing those emotions space for expression and understanding, takes us to a place of greater understanding of our own character.
Why is this important right now? Because we've entered a time of deep emotion, and we're being offered the thinking chops to make something out of it, that's why.
Here's the astrologically geeky part:
Jupiter's been a good sport, but he's ready to make a shift. Which he will, on Wednesday, when he moves into the sign of Cancer. In this Moon-ruled sign of cardinal Water, Jupiter is exalted.
"Exalted" is astro-speak for very, very happy. Jupiter likes being in Cancer. He has scope there, the deep memory of the ancestors and the body. There is soul in Cancer.
When Jupiter steps into Cancer, he will add his expansive liberality to the Grand Trine in Water currently activated by the Sun himself. We will continue to have a Sun–Jupiter conjunction flowing lots of energy in trine with Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces.
Sometimes trines, even Grand Trines, get missed because all that easy flow is just, you know, there. Not this one! Jupiter will make sure of it. He wants to understand this confluence of emotional depth; he wants to make something of it.
Summer can be frenetic. Even when we're on vacation, we can feel impelled to cram as much as possible into every single minute so we don't miss any opportunities for fun.
This is an invitation to press the pause button and look within.
When we tune into our emotions instead of ignoring or repressing them, we find out there's a lot going on. It can feel scary, even overwhelming, to give space to all that stuff we've been stuffing. But not with Jupiter around. He's a very reassuring guy to have around, big enough to take in everything that comes along.
And Jupiter brings another gift: He's got big fire going on, good mojo in these watery times.
Classically speaking, fire and water don't mix. But I'm with the ancient Celts on this one, who saw the combination of fire and water as the ultimate in creative fusion. In Celtic myth, poetic inspiration and magical power are represented by a fiery energy hidden in, contained in water.
In this context, Jupiter offers great art as well as solid philosophy. In Cancer, Jupiter has the power to light the creative fire under us all. There's time to explore this, too: He doesn't reach the peak of his powers in Cancer until September 6, at 15 Cancer, the midpoint, and remains in Cancer until July, 2014.
All artists know that the greatest work reflects deep emotion. Jupiter is poised to usher in an time of emotional exploration that can result in creative flowering. Mercury's retrograde begins the process by turning us inward.
It's time to go with the flow ... allow yourself to be moved, to feel deeply, and to explore the meaning of the feelings that emerge, their substance, their power, and what they want to express. It won't all be pretty, but it will be beautiful.
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