Mercury in Scorpio -- until October 31 -- It's time for some serious truth
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Mercury, Astrology's metaphor for the workings of your left-brain, conscious mind, has moved into dark, mysterious Scorpio where it will travel until October 30. It helps set the stage for Halloween, but doesn't stick around for the party. Interesting.
Your Mercury energy gives information about your intellect, your ability to learn and study, analyze evidence, reach conclusions and share what you know with others. It shows how you form ideas and opinions, how you handle facts and process information.
The sign it occupies will show the attitudes that color your beliefs and opinions, the intellectual lens that filters the way you work with real life sensory data, the interpretation you're apt to give to experience and the kinds of subjects that interest you.
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As it travels through the sky, in close companionship with the Sun, the sign Mercury occupies shades the way we all think and see the world ... at least temporarily.
When Mercury is in Scorpio, ideas are intense and resourceful, but there is a secretiveness about them, because this sign does not like to talk a lot or reveal everything it knows.
Thinking shows resolve, passion, determined beliefs, and a willingness to make improvements and major changes by doing "whatever it takes." That attitude, believe me, can cover a lot of frightening ground!
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This blend of energy is determined, even ruthless, in its insistence on creating its own vision of "how things should be" out in physical reality.
There may be obvious emphasis on dealing with emergencies or managing crises -- even though the one doing the coping may be the very one who instigated the problems in the first place ... again for the sake of "creating something better."
Ideas are endowed with an unmatched strength and boldness -- and the underlying "aim" of this energy is to combine assets from different sources in order to build something finer and more valuable than either partner could have accomplished on his own.
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When Mercury in Scorpio is under stress, opinions and the presentation of ideas become overbearing, willful, and extreme. People dig in behind unreasonable, calculating positions.
Rhetoric becomes fanatical, abusive, unscrupulous and even immoral in the drive to dominate and succeed in the goals that have been set.
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I've always been a fan of little Mercury since I read about the struggles Einstein had offering a proof of his General Theory. It had to do with photographing the transit of Mercury across the face of the sun during a total eclipse. The challenge led to 4 continents, unseasonable clouds (thus no photographs) and a World War until the deed was finally done and Einstein had his physical proof and the Nobel prize. Over 10 years was involved.
It turns out that there was much more to the story, which looks to be also the case with Mercury in the horoscope. Thanks for another great post explaining something mysterious to me.
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Hmmmmmmm.... Food for thought. That Scorpio energy, I tell ya. Married a Scorpio for a handful of years in my 20's. Fun for a while, but didn't work out, and I drove off into the sunset. ;)
You ... married the control freak of the Zodiac. Yeah ... I can see why that was a problem. (OMG ... what were you thinking?? Was the sex really that good?)