MERCURY IN CANCER — June 23 to August 30
Mercury’s journey by way of Most cancers this 12 months is prolonged, and notably, the final retrograde in Most cancers occurred in 2018. One of many more difficult features of Mercury in Most cancers is its dispositor, the Moon, which adjustments indicators each 2.5 days. This will create instability. For these born with an bothered Mercury in Most cancers, it could result in restlessness, nervousness, impatience, emotional constriction, an inclination to offer undue compliments, and susceptibility to nervous problems.
Mercury considers the Moon an enemy, and because the planet of mind, it feels uncomfortable within the emotional realm, which can lead to psychological confusion at instances. If you’re dominated by Gemini or Virgo, it’s a must to favor logic and the mind and never get caught up in emotion whenever you make selections.
Fortuitously, for probably the most half, this 12 months’s transit is unaffected by malefic features. In truth, useful Venus enters Most cancers on August 21. The Mercury–Venus conjunction helps inventive endeavors similar to writing, songwriting, and creative expression.
Mercury lingers in Most cancers this 12 months resulting from its retrograde movement from July 15 to August 11, transferring between Most cancers 20° and Most cancers 10°.
The top of the transit, nonetheless, is tougher. From August 29–30, Mercury strikes by way of the gandanta space within the constellation of Ashlesha. Throughout this time, one ought to be particularly aware of harsh or slicing speech, as it could simply create conflicts or enemies. It’s additionally a time to be cautious round poisons, toxins, or emotional triggers. Ashlesha gandanta is a karmically charged zone the place people might confront emotional residue from the previous and try to unravel previous, unresolved karmic knots.
Within the D-9 Navamsha chart, Mercury is debilitated between Most cancers 26°40’ and 29°59’, making it tough for the mind to operate optimally. Slightly than counting on logic, Mercury right here struggles to seek out religious solace, which isn’t its energy. In consequence, probably the most intense and doubtlessly destabilizing a part of this transit can be August 29–30.
Gemini and Virgo rising indicators (or Moon indicators) might expertise deep emotional and psychological challenges throughout this transit. Nevertheless, they might additionally discover the religious energy wanted to work by way of the psychological disturbances associated to house, household, safety, and nurturing—themes carefully tied to Most cancers. For these indicators, this transit happens within the 2nd and eleventh homes, which may in the end be productive and useful as soon as the emotional turbulence is addressed.
The silver lining is that Mercury transiting the 2nd and eleventh homes typically helps positive factors, particularly as soon as delays, arguments, or blockages are resolved. Conversely, Most cancers rising people might discover this transit extra mentally taxing, because it provides to their emotional and cognitive burdens.
Mercury typically performs nicely when transiting the 2nd, 4th, sixth, eighth, tenth, and eleventh homes from the Moon or rising signal. Subsequently, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Aries, and Taurus rising (or Moon) indicators are more likely to fare higher throughout this era—relying, after all, on particular person dasha cycles and chart elements.
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