Mercury – Venus Quincunx

(Transit. Mercury → Natal Venus)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mercury’s quincunx: Every word has its true meaning. This aspect provides a cosmic direction of thought within the planet’s spheres, but this means not only an interest in science fiction, but also certain difficulties in earthly ways of comprehension, which can bring a person many minor inconveniences, since the usual, socially accepted way of thinking will seem to him dull, insufficient, and unsatisfying. His own thoughts and reflections may seem to the person objective and witty, sometimes even an absolute universal truth, but in reality they will most often turn out to be an eclectic mixture of weak earthly reasoning with an unmastered cosmic mind, from which extracting rational or healthy mystical seeds will be quite difficult. During periods of strong activation of the quincunx, the person will experience an inhuman flow of thoughts and may either fear them or, conversely, welcome them, depending on the major aspects of the quincunx and the chart as a whole, but learning to adapt to the cosmic nature of one’s thoughts and constructively relate them to earthly circumstances will be a challenge. If Mercury (and the chart in general) is afflicted, this may even lead to personality dissociation, delusions of cosmic grandeur, or persecution mania. Working through this requires, first, abandoning anthropocentric and geocentric views of the planet’s spheres and developing a cosmic ethics within them, and second, carefully aligning cosmic-oriented thinking with earthly concerns—a task that will not be simple, but ultimately can yield extraordinary creative abilities and a cosmic orientation. Venus’s quincunx: A good artist strives to convey divine love to people, a bad one—to himself. This aspect produces a significantly more painful awareness than the semi-sextile, highlighting the difference between social and generally earthly ethics and aesthetics versus cosmic ones, while both will be independently present in the person’s subconscious within the planet’s spheres, and their karmic task will be to reconcile them, which requires the person to first be able to detach from the planet’s sphere from a cosmic perspective and only then judge earthly matters. At a low level, the person lacks the strength and wisdom for this, and in their ethics and aesthetics there is a strange mixture of earthly and cosmic elements, which they cannot sort out themselves, sometimes causing them partial confusion. At a medium level, however, strong inner conflicts are possible, since earthly obstacles appear to be bypassed only with the help of cosmic skiing poles, which may seem to the person insufficiently correct or even impossible from the standpoint of social ethics, whose boundaries now appear clearly restrictive, yet abandoning them seems premature and unsettling. For example, the Venus-Mars quincunx will bring specific social problems related to aggression—external, internal, and hidden—and the person will encounter situations where, according to earthly ethics, evil must be resisted with force, but not the kind the person possesses, rather one of much higher vibrational level, which they will need to develop throughout life.