More Mercury Rxing…and Jupiter-on-Moon…
A friend left me a message, a very angry message with enough venom that I assumed it must be a joke. I called him and it was no joke, though he didn’t have time to talk and said he’d call later.
A part of me was nervous that I had angered him, one of my dearest friends. But I didn’t anger him. I had nothing to do with it, even as he sees my actions as having caused it. Can I really anger someone? Can I anger anyone but myself? I might show him something he doesn’t want to see, or I might give his wife advice that doesn’t fit with how he hopes things go (what seems to have happened), but his anger is his choice. The truth is that what comes up for him is, in the best light possible, an opportunity to heal some old control fear.
Oh, did I mention that Mercury’s retrograding over his natal Rx Saturn in Cancer in the 4th, almost to the minute when he left that message? Of course he’s angry: There’s bound to be new information coming to him that stirs up all the fears of that Saturn, about security and stability, the viability of his emotional reality and the foundational things of pesonal life.
My friend is what I would call “evolved,” meaning that he’s open to learning new information and releasing outmoded stuff to find himself in more wholeness as a result of it (he many times presents an inspiring Sun-Neptune in Sagittarius). I just sent him an e-mail inviting him to listen to the part of him that’s speaking out so clearly, and to find the opportunity to heal an old fear from what he learns from it.
The Jupiter transit part is that I knew after a moment that there’s nothing actually wrong. And what I just now noticed is the benevolent attitude I’m taking here: Receiving vitriol from a friend and offering in response an invitation for him to see how to treat himself with compassionate awareness, which means love. That’s pretty cool in my book.
Now, how can I get Jupiter to stay on my Moon indefinitely?
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July 5, 2007 By Tom Jacobs