Transit Lab: Mercury Conjunct South Node, Full Moon in the 4th house
If you know me and my Mars-Uranus square the nodes in the 1st, you’ll know that I abhor violence, overaggressiveness, yelling and all related things. To reflect the karmic things this configuration represents, I’ve drawn much conflict to me to teach me appropriate uses of aggression and self-defense, and I haven’t always responded with more that utter fear. You’ll forgive a little past-life PTSD, I’m sure.
As I write, my neighbor is yelling at the person whom she regularly calls to yell at, and I am calm.
Ridiculously calm.
Unbelievably so.
But I mean c-a-l-m.
Whatever could have happened? A healer called me this afternoon to ask if I might want to trade bodywork for an astrology session. In the first few seconds my intuition said “Yes!” and he after a few minutes asked me if I have had any trauma in this life. I said I’d had a few vehicular accidents of various kinds, and that I’d hit my head pretty hard a few years ago in a bad fall. But I realized that it was a great opportunity to talk about the feelings surrounding the old karmic grudge I released the other day.
As a sample, he walked me into the work he does. I think I’d asked just how he gets where he goes with it. It was probably more than a half hour of putting me back in the scenario while having me feel what I felt, and then switch to the position of the person hurting me and speak a sentence reflecting the energy he was showing me - that I took on and carry with me now. I was a little confounded at first, and then got into it. For your reference, it was a torture scenario at the end of which I died - you know, standard stuff.
When I thought it was over, he had me come back to the present and asked me how I felt. I said there was a ball of energy in my throat, so we went back in and found the place in the story when I first felt that. And after feeling the feelings that me had and speaking sentences refective of the other person’s energy, he had me come back to the present. He asked me again how I felt and I said tired, so we went back in and found out where in the story I felt tired. And so on.
[She is totally reaming this guy out. I think he's the father of her child, and has a lot of trouble working with him re custody. She also called his mom between bouts with him, which seems to have made him super mad. And I'm not sure she could be madder, to tell you the truth.]
After those few re-entrances into the story, when he asked me how I felt, I felt awesome. I had some doubt that I had actually just released some of that, but the proof is in my total calmness for the last fifteen minutes as my neighbor screamed her head off out her back door, next to mine. Even a few weeks ago that made me so unhappy, so nervous, and it made me want to run away. To be fair, not as bad as the yahoos setting off fireworks in the street in front of my house, which I worked through on July 4th.
So, Mercury transits the South Node of the Moon: You may get a chance to release emotional detritus from the past by admitting it into your consciousness and talking through it. And the full moon in Aquarius in y 4th house - at the exact time of the full moon I was releasing old emotional trauma, fitting perfectly with the symbolism of Aquarius/4th house.
3 Responses to “Transit Lab: Mercury Conjunct South Node, Full Moon in the 4th house”
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July 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
July 29th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for sharing these interesting insights on such a potent signature. Do you mind commenting on how your Mars square the nodes is actually reflecting skipped steps?
On another note, I’m wondering why this comment option doesn’t show up when I access your blog via your website……
July 30th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Interesting! I have noticed a lot of screaming by the neighbours lately, I thought it had something to do with Mars in Taurus (I have Mercury/Sun in Taurus in the 4th). A lot of ‘I’m going to kill you’ and ‘you ruined my life’ and on and on…various people over and over.
I hope it ends soon.
I love your site, thank you!
July 30th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Oh, and this doesn’t wake my partner up at all. Usually I sleep like a log, and he is a light sleeper. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Mars is transiting his 12th House..