Quintile Mercury – Uranus

(Transit. Mercury → Natal Uranus)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mercury quintile: Mental flourishing hinders the blossoming of thought. This aspect grants in 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 backward forms. At a high 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 to Mercury brings difficulties in adequately verbalizing the natural quickness of thought, which will manifest in the person within the planet’s spheres; expressed ideas 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 assimilation, the quintile will carry a heavy burden, and 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 bestows great mental abilities within the planet’s spheres—when the person chooses to apply them, ideas are inventive and constructive, yet accompanied by general passivity that will gradually drown them out. Uranus quintile: If the mountain does not go to Muhammad, then praise be to Allah. This aspect brings in the planet’s sphere unexpected surges of vital expression, which may be merely an extraordinary exception, an artifact, but sometimes sound almost miraculous, revealing flashes of life in what seemed entirely lifeless forms. At a high level, this aspect may indicate brilliant mathematical or theoretical-physical abilities, the capacity to perceive life and development within the most complex and abstract structures and models; at a moderate level, the person should strive to recognize Uranus’s energetic-life manifestations in the planet’s sphere as signs of fate and learn to interpret them. This aspect signifies a certain protection of destiny—in difficult moments, an unexpected animation arises either within the person or in the external world, disrupting the backward program proceeding according to established plans, creating a spontaneous fluctuation and the possibility of an unconventional solution or way out. Working with this aspect involves consciously recognizing the meaning and significance of the vitality surge or unexpected developmental leap, supporting it and adapting it to reality, without which it usually quickly dies out and fades. Strong activation of Uranus may bring in the planet’s spheres the vitalization of life in unprecedented forms, placing the person in a dead end and causing great fear; yet hints about its true purpose and nature may be sought by recalling past Uranian flashes and manifestations of vitality within the planet’s sphere.