Mercury-Saturn Biquintile

(Transit Mercury → Natal Saturn)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mercury’s biquintile: When casting lines, one usually catches puppets. This aspect at low and medium levels gives the individual in the planet’s spheres an apparent 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 Mercury-Pluto biquintile may produce a ruthless slave trader, though this is rather an exception; at the medium level, the person still attempts, albeit condescendingly, to treat natives humanely, 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 obscure but accurate in the most complicated situations. Saturn’s biquintile: Either the person is ahead of their time, or time steps on them with its gray foot. This aspect gives a subconscious desire to deeply understand the lowest forms of life in the planet’s spheres and to take substantial part in them, through which the individual may express their humanism. Yet initially, especially with an afflicted Saturn, the person perceives lower life very primitively, and their interaction with it is extremely awkward, potentially creating an inferiority complex or, conversely, awakening and activating sadistic tendencies from the depths of the subconscious. In areas of the inner world responsive to the problems of lower life, the person will feel vulnerable, and it is fortunate if they extend this sense of vulnerability to the lower life itself. Generally speaking, this sensitivity is inherent at first, but over time it may be repressed into the subconscious, after which compassion often turns into overt cruelty—though in this case, it is more an exception than the rule. Here, integration proceeds through deep study of lower forms of life and careful, unhurried search for adequate contact and interaction with them; temptations include frustrations due to the slowness of this process, overly rigid and primitive notions of life, and outwardly cruel behavior, which should gradually give way to gentle, though restrained, human expressions; at the high level, wisdom and profound human expression are achieved.