Mercury-Biquintile-Chiron

(Transit. Mercury → Natal Chiron)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mercury’s biquintile: When you cast a line, puppets usually surface. This aspect on low and medium levels gives a person, in the areas of the Planet, the appearance of rational understanding of lower forms of life and a mental interest in them. However, their thoughts in this direction will be marked by a certain liveliness, and with a harmonious Mercury, they may prove useful—at least, the charm of their speech will not be wasted, and skill in organizing the functioning of lower life for personal benefit may be extraordinary: this is the aspect of the colonizer. An afflicted biquintile of Mercury-Pluto may produce a ruthless slave trader, though this is rather an exception; at the medium level, the person still attempts, however condescendingly, to be humane toward natives, to develop (to the extent possible) their rational thinking and appeal to it. If Mercury is afflicted, this will initially go poorly, and someone with such a biquintile may seriously attempt to appeal to the logic and reason of a one-year-old child; if the Planet is afflicted, the person’s rational reasoning, despite being entirely correct, will be ineffective, and they will have to rely on their intuition and innate humanity, which may suggest a behavior that is logically non-obvious yet accurate in the most complicated situations. Chiron’s biquintile: A scoundrel is also God’s vessel—just with a broken handle. This aspect grants, in the areas of the Planet, an unconventional perception of lower forms of life and their problems, which on the low level may contain deeper significance than the person intends, though this is initially invisible to anyone. If the person begins to interact more closely with lower life, driven by purely human impulses, they will encounter serious problems both of that life itself and of their own involvement in it, placing them in a dead end surrounded by indescribable chaos, and finding a way out will prove very difficult; more precisely, it will require the person to reconsider their views not only on lower life but also on their attitude toward it, and possibly on the issue of humanity in general. Overall, this is a highly promising aspect, since working with it enables, through participation in another’s life, understanding the peculiarities of one’s evolutionary “tails”—that is, inadequately low programs of the subconscious—seeing them and changing them to make them more aligned with the spiritual ideal; however, first and foremost, this requires learning to see lower life in the areas of the Planet and its problems with objective and attentive eyes, overcoming corresponding social stereotypes: a cow may not be quite a microcosm, but is still closer to a human than to a milk factory.