Mercury Quintile Chiron

(Transit Mercury → Natal Chiron)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mercury quintile: Mental flourishing hinders the blossoming of thought. This aspect imparts to the planet’s spheres a liveliness of mind and speech which, if Mercury is afflicted, can cost the person dearly, as their words may provoke sharply negative reactions from more backward forms. At a higher level, this is the aspect of the satirist; with major harmonious aspects to Mercury, it indicates the humorist who may not be particularly humane in expression (“for a sharp word, won’t spare even one’s father”)—this is how the quintile differs from the decile. Affliction of Mercury brings difficulties in adequately verbalizing the natural mental agility, which will manifest in the person within the planet’s spheres; expressed thoughts will initially appear inappropriate or outright foolish, though sometimes unconventional and amusing, which the person will find hard to bear, even if they don’t necessarily show it. If the planet is also afflicted, creating difficulties in its integration, the quintile will carry a heavy burden—either the person adapts their lively mind to difficult planetary issues and learns to resolve them, or their intellect loses inventiveness, freshness, and natural talent fades. In the harmonious variant, this quintile grants great mental abilities within the planet’s spheres—when the person chooses to apply them, ingenuity and constructive thinking emerge, but also a general passivity that may gradually drown them out. Chiron quintile: Life, unlike the person studying it, never reaches a dead end. This is a highly promising aspect, provided one undertakes its development, as it bestows upon the planet’s spheres the perception and materialization of life in those areas where it was previously almost imperceptible. For example, the Chiron-Moon quintile grants the ability to perceive the human biofield and organs; at a higher level, it may enable healing through “conversations” with various body parts and internal organs as living beings possessing distinct characters and rudimentary consciousness (according to yogic teachings, the liver is stubborn and responds best to gentle persuasion, and so on). The Chiron quintile may produce anecdotal manifestations of life in objects and the perfect moment (a hot frying pan, alive, slips from the hands and scurries under the cabinet), creating unimaginable chaos of uncontrolled life expressions that initially often sound humorous, but, when systematically repeated over a prolonged period, may deeply penetrate the subconscious or fundamentally expand one’s understanding of life and responsibilities toward it. For instance, Mercury quintile to Chiron in the fourth house may mean that the person will have to rationally recognize as alive certain family members who (as they initially believe) completely lack this quality, at least within the areas occupied by Mercury. Yet eventually, the Chiron quintile provides an exit from life’s developmental dead ends, including within the family.