Mercury at the Heart of the Sun, Cazimi & Temperance
Daily Horoscope Check-In for Thursday, April 11, 2024
Good morning, friends!
Today is an important day in the saga of this Mercury retrograde through Aries. Mercury stationed retrograde on April 1st and began his backward movement toward the western horizon in the night sky, where he was an evening star. Now, he has sunk below the horizon and is meeting up with the Sun today at 22°Aries 32’ at 7:02 pm ET, representing a brief time when Mercury is sitting on the lap of the king, the Sun, and thus is infused with a regal stature, authority, and illumination. He has bravely left the night sky and plunged under the horizon to bring messages to the Sun and receive messages from the Sun in return, which he will, starting tomorrow, begin to deliver.
Something else that is interesting is that during this conjunction between Mercury and the Sun, the Sun and Chiron are parallel, which is said to act like a conjunction. The Sun and Chiron were in a degree-based conjunction during the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024, and now they are parallel, meaning that their declination North of the Earth’s equator is equal. This is interesting and I think that it means that whatever wounds, vulnerabilities, or triggers that we have that need healing at this time will be spotlighted today in our personal lives and we may receive insightful information about how to heal them.
My teacher, Adam Elenbaas, put out a great video on YouTube about Mercury’s Cazimi, I will link to it below. In that video one of the things that he mentioned, and I am paraphrasing here, was that a challenging part of this Cazimi is that the Sun is exalted in Aries and so when Mercury conjoins the Sun and is imbued with this exalted, regal energy, it may represent someone behaving in a very arrogant way and this could even be ourselves. We may also receive messages from someone who feels like they are the exalted Sun, but in reality, they are just the messengers. I found this to be really amusing because this morning I received a chat request from “Kid Rock” on one of the social media platforms that I am on! Now, obviously this is a scammer, but “Kid Rock” is such an exalted-Sun-in-Aries type of person that it made me chuckle! He is not an Aries, but we don’t know his birth time and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he had an Aries rising. It doesn’t matter, the point is that it felt to me very archetypally Mercury-in-Aries-at-the-heart-of-the-Sun, someone postering to be someone important, and a “youthful,” outspoken, artist who writes opinionated lyrics at that! I appreciate Kid Rock’s authenticity, so don’t mistake me, I’m not cutting him down, but I just found it to be really funny, archetypally speaking.
Anyway…here is the video from my teacher if you’re interested in exploring the significations of this Mercury cazimi more.
So, Mercury Cazimi’s in general, signify a time of heightened mental awareness, understanding, and mercurial talents such as writing, speaking, and communicating. It could be a time when you have “Ah! Hah!” moments or receive important messages that shift the story a bit.
As I said in the post, Mercury Retrograde in Aries Deep Dive, Plus April Overview, Part One, this cazimi moment is an important part of the story because it is when we will gain some very useful information, understanding, and insight. After this moment, Mercury will meet up with Chiron on April 15, 2024, bringing a lot of what is going on to the fore as we get all the little details in order. Then on April 19, 2024, Mercury will meet up with Venus, which is a positive aspect that means our hearts will align with our minds, but it could also be in a Marsy-type way, since this conjunction will be in Aries, so that’s like, knowing what we want, feeling decisive, confident, and assertive through how we communicate, especially in our relationships.
Mercury and Venus meet up just one day before Jupiter and Uranus conjoin on April 20, 2024! The conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus is also intimately intertwined with Mercury’s retrograde because Mars rules Aries, the sign in which the North Node, Mercury, and Venus are in, and Venus rules the South Node, and Taurus which Jupiter and Uranus are in, so the two personal planets Venus and Mars are deeply influencing all these events. So, this brings up relationships, values, motivations, identities, actions, and goals and represents a sudden expansion, revolution, or disruption in the house that Taurus rules in your chart.
So, pay special attention to what takes place today as today’s events may give us clues as to what is coming up next.
Let’s see what the cards have to say…
What is the guidance for today?
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