Mercury-Venus Biquintile
(Transit Mercury → Natal Venus)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Mercury’s biquintile: When casting lines, bait usually bites. At low and medium levels, this aspect grants 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 the very least, the charm of their speech will not be wasted, and skill in organizing the functioning of lower life forms 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, however condescendingly, to treat natives humanely, striving to develop (to the extent accessible) their rational thinking and appealing to it. If Mercury is afflicted, this will initially fail, 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, forcing them to rely on intuition and innate humanity, which may suggest a behavior that is logically obscure but accurate in the most complicated situations. Venus’s biquintile: The philosopher goes deep, the politician rises up, while the commoner splashes in a puddle of irresponsibility. This aspect bestows in the planet’s spheres a socialized attitude toward lower forms of life—here, the individual is under strong influence of social stereotypes, which at a low level tends to have a rather positive meaning (for example, the principle “children and animals should not be harmed”), while at higher levels it may produce pronounced snobbery, that is, emphasized separation (for instance, the disdainful gaze of a city dweller toward provincial life or of an economically developed country toward a backward one). Deep processing, especially of biquintiles to third- and fourth-level planets, provides insight into social progress within karmic programs and the evolutionary development of humanity (which is not easy, as these processes often move in opposite directions); at the medium level, the person will be interested in the lives of various social strata, particularly lower ones, their characteristic problems and contradictions. humanity. In its harmonious form, this aspect grants tact, charm, and ease of communication when interacting with lower social classes, perception of the beauty in subhuman life forms (animals, plants, etc.), and natural joy in their company (within the planet’s spheres); when afflicted, various emotions—including love and hatred—toward lower life forms, during which, in any case, one should primarily seek expression of the humanity embedded within the individual.
